Siheyuan: Banggeng and I are classmates

周六

Li family——

After reading Li Qinghua's letter, Li Muhua's face looked unhappy. In the letter, Li Qinghua had expressed his intention to come back. The Cheng family no longer talked about taking the two uncles' families with them, but bluntly stated that it was impossible for Li Qinghua and Cheng Qiaohui to divorce.

Now that the tide of returning home has passed, abandoning wives and children, husbands and daughters is not uncommon in the countryside. In addition, the Li and Cheng families have already had unpleasantness over returning to the city, so it is normal for them to be worried.

Handing the letter to Li Yujie, Li Muhua said directly: "I told him to come back earlier, but he didn't listen. He insisted on asking the Cheng family for a huge sum of money. Now that he has caused unhappiness and suffered, he wants to come back. They won't work for him, right?"

Li Muhua was very dissatisfied with Li Qinghua and shouted directly: "In my opinion, let them live in the countryside for a few more years. After the reform and opening up, the urban-rural restrictions will be lifted sooner or later. By then, it will be easy to let him and his brother-in-law and his family come back!"

Li Muhua really has this idea. If Li Qinghua returns to the city now, he can at most find an ordinary job and earn a little money to support himself.

After graduation, he started his own business and gave Li Qinghua some money from his pocket, which was more than his salary. In the future, he could directly support Li Qinghua's family or find some jobs for them.

It might not be a bad idea to let him temper himself and endure some hardships in the countryside for a few years!

Hearing Li Muhua say this, Li Haifu hung his face and didn't say anything.

Xu Yan beside him said anxiously, "We can't let him live in the countryside for a few more years. Now the country has stopped mobilizing people to go to the countryside, and the educated youth who went to the countryside are gradually returning to the city. I think the Educated Youth Office will be merged into other departments sooner or later. If Qinghua is still in the countryside by then, he will have a rural household registration, and it will be troublesome for him to return to the city!"

Xu Yan spoke anxiously, but Li Muhua looked at Li Haifu beside her.

"Mom, this is so prophetic, it must be Dad who told you that!"

After hearing this, Xu Yan also looked at Li Haifu, who nodded and said, "That's what I said. I still want to transfer Qinghua and Qiaohui back to the city as soon as possible!"

"The policy is not strict now. Anyone who opens a case can return to the city. It shouldn't be difficult for you to find some connections to transfer the couple back to the city. But you can't say for sure in the future!"

Li Muhua shook his head and said, "Dad, even if my second brother and sister-in-law got married and settled in their commune, it would be difficult to move their household registration to the local market town, let alone move to the city thousands of miles away. Even if you retire now, my second brother can't come back to take your job quota."

Li Muhua remained unmoved and continued speaking.

"Directly transferring the household registration is too conspicuous and will easily attract attention. Even if you don't want to think about my status, you should at least consider the status of my sister-in-law's family!"

Li Muhua's words made Li Haifu fall into deep thought.

Li Muhua added fuel to the fire, "Besides, it's just a fake divorce. Hongmei can already help out, so what is there for their family to worry about?"

"I haven't met Hongmei yet. In my opinion, they never believed in our second brother or our family!"

These words made Xu Yan's face, which was originally anxious, darken.

Seeing Li Muhua talking about this again, Li Yujie put down the letter and said, "Little brother, you can't say that. The reason why my second brother stayed in the countryside until now is mostly because of you."

"If it weren't for your special status, they would have stayed in the countryside for two years, and it wouldn't have been difficult for our parents to find them a job. They would have returned to the city long ago!"

"So you can't just walk away from this matter and just think about getting them to divorce so you can save yourself some trouble."

Li Yujie knew what Li Muhua was thinking, but she didn't say it directly.

Li Muhua could not refute after hearing this, avoiding Li Yujie's sight and muttering: "In the beginning, we did not allow him to get married in the countryside, but he did not listen. A few months ago, when the Cheng family was in a good mood, they asked him to get a fake divorce, but he did not listen. He also asked us to transfer more than a dozen people from his father-in-law's family to the city."

"Now that he has dragged you down like this, you blame me. What can I do?"

"I am not a high-ranking official, a relative of the emperor, or a high-ranking official. I was just praised by the teacher."

"Now even the old man has passed away for several years, and the leaders of many departments in the city have all been replaced. I hardly recognize any of them. How many people do you think will give me face and take such a big risk to transfer them back?"

Li Yujie also looked embarrassed when she heard this, knowing that Li Muhua was telling the truth. The four of them were silent for a while.

Finally, Li Haifu said, "It's useless for us to say anything. We haven't even met our in-laws in more than ten years. No wonder they don't trust us!"

"I think we should go to Xingqing someday to meet our in-laws and talk things over in person to see what they really mean and let the two children figure it out themselves!"

Xu Yan nodded and said, "Haifu, you are right. We should go meet our in-laws and have a chat with them. It is not a good idea to keep being so stubborn!"

Li Yujie also nodded, agreeing with what the two said.

Thinking of how she had just used justice to pressure him, Li Muhua said angrily, "Why are you nodding? You can't go!"

"Be careful to prevent any of his relatives from falling for you and forcing you to stay in the countryside in exchange for your second brother. This will cause even more trouble for our family!"

Li Haifu actually nodded and said, "Muhua is right. Yujie, you and Aihua don't have to go. Your mother, Muhua and I can go."

Xu Yan also nodded in agreement.

This time it was Li Yujie who grumbled, "The Cheng family is not the Zhou family. My second sister-in-law's two brothers are both married. How could there be such things as you are talking about?"

Li Muhua was choked by this remark. Li Haifu and Xu Yan both looked a little strange.

The Zhou family has never mentioned it, let alone the main reason for the breakup between the two families. No one has mentioned it in the past two years.

Xu Yan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly became interested again. She asked with a smile on her face, "Mu Hua, I heard from Old Yan that you brought a girl back to the yard last Saturday. Her name is Yang Xue, right?"

"Why did you take her back to the compound first, instead of bringing her home this week for us to see?"

Li Yujie's eyes flashed with surprise, and she looked at Li Muhua and asked, "Yang Xue? Did you take her back to see Teacher Yan?"

Teacher Yan——Li Muhua shook his head at Li Yujie, indicating that he did not reveal Yang Liu's identity.

Li Yujie understood.

Li Muhua smiled and said to Xu Yan, "I want to go back to see Banggeng and the others, and take her back to see the fun, and save money on movie tickets."

"You don't know, the drama we watched that day was much more interesting than the movie. Xu Damao stood directly at the door of Shazhu's house--"

Seeing that Li Muhua was still feeling smug, praising herself for saving money on movie tickets and that the show that day was interesting, Xu Yan became furious and looked around, trying to find something to wake Li Muhua up.

"How can you still be so heartless at the age of twenty-six?"

"Qin Huairu had an affair with someone at the steel mill and gave birth to a bastard. It's such a big scandal in the hospital, and everyone else is hiding it from their own company, but you're the one rushing to bring your girlfriend home to see her. Aren't you afraid that she will have a problem with you or our family?"

Xu Yan had already picked up the broom while cursing. Li Muhua stood up and shouted, "Okay, okay, you don't have to kick me out. I can go back to school by myself, okay?"

Without Xu Yan's further questioning, Li Muhua ran out of the door.

It's better to stay in school on weekends. No one cares, there are many people and it's lively. You can study, go out to play or just lie down. In short, you can do whatever you want.

So in the past two years, Li Muhua was basically not at home during the day on weekends. He often only came back on Friday afternoon to have a meal and sleep overnight, and then returned to school early on Saturday morning.