Siheyuan: Banggeng and I are classmates

The house where the Ma family lived used to be a landlord's house. Later, during the period of cracking down on landlords and land reform, Ma Decai and several other families took the opportunity to move in.

Later, as Ma Decai became the team leader and continued to operate the business, several other families gradually vacated their rooms and built separate houses outside. The eldest son of the Ma family got married and had children, and the family flourished. Gradually, this small courtyard was occupied by the Ma family and became the Ma residence.

But he was, after all, just a small landlord in a remote village. His house was built in a simple and elegant style. From the outside, there were only white walls and gray eaves, and the stone carvings on the hanging flower gate were smashed to pieces.

After passing through the gatehouse, there is a sun-shaped patio, which means water flows in from all directions to bring wealth.

The decoration inside is different from the simplicity of the outer wall. There are layers of buildings and courtyards. Except for the central hall on the first floor, the three sides are all narrow lotus doors with intricate patterns engraved on them.

The second floor was lined with long and narrow stained glass windows. Li Muhua felt a little depressed the moment she entered the mansion.

This house is very different from the Siheyuans in the old city. The Siheyuans in the old city emphasize openness and closing, with a spacious center and single-story side rooms, most of which are not high.

Standing in the patio of this courtyard, one feels as if the entire second floor and the eaves are pressing down on one. The door panels and window sashes are all carved with intricate patterns, which makes one feel stuffy.

"No wonder other villagers have to move out!" Li Muhua guessed secretly: "This house is indeed not spacious, let alone several families living together, it is even more inconvenient."

But the good thing is that there are many rooms. What the landlord wants most is to have many offspring. This courtyard has seven rooms, which is more than enough to accommodate the six educated youth.

A group of people carried the luggage they found from the ruins and walked into the yard.

Zhao Qingshan walked around the house and thought it was pretty good. At least he couldn't find a better one in Xiaowang Village.

Li Muhua didn't say anything bad. Now that he could live in the landlord's house, he naturally wouldn't make trouble by saying anything about rebuilding the educated youth site and going back to live in a mud house.

As for Aunt Ma, Ma Li and six or seven other people, they were moved to the team headquarters to stay temporarily.

The affairs in the village came to an end. Zhao Qingshan found an excuse to keep Li Muhua and followed Secretary Wang and others to the commune. There were some things he couldn't say in front of so many people, so he could only deal with them in private.

Even the villagers who were watching at the door were driven away by Director Wang, leaving only Li Muhua and six others in the room.

Looking at Li Muhua, Hu Lai asked somewhat unsatisfiedly: "Is this the end?"

He still felt that today's scene was a little too small. Only a few people including Ma Decai were arrested, and there was no criticism or public trial.

Li Muhua shook his head and said, "This is just the beginning. In a few days, all the people from the Ma and Li families will have to go to support the Third Front construction and settle down in the Northwest. It will be even worse than us going to the countryside."

"Sigh~~"

Thinking of the sandstorms in the northwest, Hu Lai took a deep breath and asked, "They haven't been sentenced yet, and you know they're going to be sent to labor camps?"

Li Muhua nodded and said, "This is my idea. After all, we can't just shoot all of their families. If they continue to stay in the village, they will be in trouble. They may even take revenge on us in the future."

"It's best to just send them away. It will keep things clean and no one will be able to cause trouble for us in the future."

Hearing this, Hu Lai nodded in agreement. It made sense.

But there was one thing Li Muhua didn't say, that is, Secretary Wang and Zhao Qingshan were in the same group, and the order to force the revolutionary couple to be together might have been given by Zhao Qingshan.

So when they met, Zhao Qingshan took all the brigade cadres to the commune without saying a word, without giving them any chance to argue, for fear that the matter would be exposed and offend him.

He estimated that this was most likely the case, but Li Muhua did not blame Zhao Qingshan in his heart. Instead, he felt that he was a good person and had helped him a lot this time. He prepared to write another letter back to thank Director Wei and him.

There are sufferings everywhere in the world, and even he is suffering here and is almost buried alive. Even if he is cynical, it is useless. It is better to be in the dust.

People always say that it is not good for everyone to mind their own business, but in fact, only those who don't want to mind their own business and want to take advantage of others will criticize this idea.

As for Li Muhua, he felt that it was good enough for everyone to take care of their own business, so he only asked him to do his best.

Seeing Li Muhua's face in deep thought, Zhou Ru asked softly, "What are you thinking about? You look so absent-minded."

Li Muhua was awakened by her. He thought for a moment, looked around and said with a smile: "I'm wondering where we should live. Should we live next door or opposite?"

"Pooh!"

Zhou Ru spat, pulled Dong Shuwan and Han Lu and said, "We still live together."

Han Lu shook her head and said, "We couldn't live together before, but now that there's an empty house, I'd better live alone!"

Dong Shuwan also said: "I also think it's better to live alone. If you like someone to live with you, go and get the marriage certificate with that bastard Li Muhua. I won't live with you."

After saying that, Dong Shuwan took the new bedding distributed by the Youth League Office and ran to the second floor to be the first to choose a room.

"What are you talking about? You should sew your mouth shut!"

Zhou Ru cursed Dong Shuwan, then looked at Li Muhua with some interest in her eyes.

Li Muhua's heart warmed when he saw her eyes. The two of them met at dusk. He not only kissed and hugged her, but also took advantage of her in a lot of ways. However, it did not reach the last step.

He thought that there were many houses now, so there was no rush to live together openly, and it would be easy to sneak in at night.

Li Muhua swallowed his saliva, suppressed his burning thoughts, and calmed himself down. He picked up his bedding with each hand and asked, "Let's go. Please choose first, and I'll move to the room next to yours."

Zhou Ru gave him an unpleasant look and walked upstairs.

There are five rooms upstairs, arranged in a "口" shape around the patio, and a study located at the back of the central hall. There are only two rooms, east and west, downstairs.

Han Lu glanced at Hu Lai and Zhao Quan and said, "I don't want to climb the stairs, so I'll just live downstairs!"

"You're right. Living downstairs saves me the trouble of climbing stairs." Zhao Quan suddenly realized, "Then I'll live on the first floor too."

The two of them went out one after another to pick up the side rooms, leaving Hu Lai alone to climb upstairs to find a house to live in. At this time, Dong Shuwan had already chosen the side room on the roof of the gatehouse.

Zhou Ru chose the study room at the back because it was large and had a window at the back offering a view.

In order to make it convenient to sneak into her house after becoming her neighbor, Li Muhua had to choose the central wing room. It had a view of the courtyard in front and the living room in the back, which was not bad.

The house was kept very clean by the commune militia, and the few of them could just move in with their bags, without having to do much cleaning.

After cleaning up the place, Li Muhua remembered that they had not had lunch yet, so he went downstairs to the kitchen behind the main room. The kitchen was also clean, not to mention firewood, rice, oil, salt, or even a piece of firewood was left. There was only half a bag of rice in the corner.

The rest of the place was so clean that all that was left was to pry the pots out and take away the cupboards and table along with them.

"Damn it, if you have this ability, why do you want to be a militiaman? Just go and start a moving company!" Li Muhua couldn't help but curse out loud, worrying about how to solve the dinner problem for several people.

The commune leaders paid them a large sum of money as compensation, nearly one hundred yuan per person, and Li Muhua took more than two hundred yuan, which included the money that the warehouse manager had extorted from them before.

But no matter how rich they are, they still have to buy these daily necessities themselves.

It was almost dark outside, and I guessed that by the time I went to the supply and marketing cooperative, it would have been closed.

There were no restaurants, and Li Muhua was at a loss as to what to do. He had no choice but to go out and look for his fellow villagers, thinking that even if they had no friendship, it would at least be okay to spend money on a meal with them.