Siheyuan, Me and the Yu Sisters

Zhang Renkang had an extremely painful life these past few days. He went to comfort Qin Jingru every two days and took a trip to the Santong Road. He didn't know why. Was Qin Jingru what later generations called an M-temper? Ever since Zhang Renkang developed a new route to drive, Qin Jingru was more obsessed with new ways of playing than Zhang Renkang. She even created her own way of ice and fire. She used local materials to break the icicles dripping from the eaves into small pieces and added a bowl of warm water. Her cherry lips alone almost sent Zhang Renkang to see his mother.

Every night, after feeding Yu Li at home, he would go to Lou's house in the middle of the night to talk to his son and experience Lou Xiao'e's oppression. If it weren't for the tonic pills and homemade Wubian wine that he signed in for, Zhang Renkang would have seen his great-grandmother long ago.

Zhang Renkang turned over and yawned, glancing at the sky just beginning to brighten outside the window. He had to wake Yu Li up early. Today was the day he and Yu Li were going to prepare for the feast, so he had to get up early to get ready. In order to be busy today, Zhang Renkang did not dare to go to Lou's house last night.

Zhang Renkang and Yu Li got up and quickly washed and tidied up. Yu Li and Zhang Renkang had already cleaned up the house thoroughly yesterday. The wedding characters on the window were also posted with the help of the first and second aunties. Of course, it was not free. Zhang Renkang gave 30 cents to each of them to help cut out the wedding characters and post them.

Zhang Renkang had just finished cleaning up and cooked a big pot of lean meat and rice porridge when Lu Yong, Gao Ying, Song Gang and Li Shouren entered the compound. On Tuesday, Zhang Renkang asked them to help organize the wedding banquet. Li Shouren, a level 6 chef, was enough to set up the banquet in the compound. Especially Zhang Renkang urgently trained him in a few Qilu dishes. With the essence of Shandong cuisine taught by Zhang Renkang, Li Shouren would have no problem becoming a chef and running a restaurant in the future.

In the middle courtyard, Liu Haizhong was excitedly directing the four young people from the Liu and Yan families, as well as Liu Donglai, Wang Shunfu and other factory workers to sweep the floor, sprinkle water and set the tables. Today was Liu Haizhong's day as the chief supervisor of the courtyard. Although he was already the deputy leader of the ideological group in the factory, after all, he still had the workshop director as the leader, so he was the first person in the courtyard.

Except for Xu Damao, maybe Liu Hai knew in his heart that he couldn't afford to offend Xu Damao now. Who knows what this kid can do now? In the past month, Xu Damao and Gao Jun have been staying at home and basically don't interact with people in the courtyard. Everyone knows that Xu Damao has become a eunuch. Maybe his brain is stimulated and abnormal, so no one dares to stimulate him anymore and tries to avoid Xu Damao.

Zhang Renkang is getting married today, and Xu Damao took Gao Jun back to his parents' place last night. Because Xu Damao went back to work at the factory a while ago, Liu Xuan from the Propaganda Department asked him to rest for a while, and asked him if he could still go to the countryside to show movies. If not, they were going to let the current projectionist replace Xu Damao and find him a miscellaneous job.

Xu Damao came to Zhang Renkang and wanted Zhang Renkang to help him find Li Huaide to smooth the relationship in the factory and get a job as a leader. He was willing to give Zhang Renkang 500 yuan for this. However, Zhang Renkang was not willing to help Xu Damao. He lied that he had an average relationship with Li Huaide, which made Xu Damao hate him.

Yan Bugui had asked Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang to take out the square table from home and cover it with a red cloth. This table was taken from the school warehouse by Yan Bugui. It had a broken leg and was waiting for repair. Yan Bugui secretly put it on the back seat of his bicycle and took it home when the principal was not paying attention.

There was also a cardboard box underneath for receiving gift money. At Yan Bugui's self-recommendation, Zhang Renkang had to hire him as an accountant at a high price of 50 cents, and also agreed to let Yan Bugui pack up the leftovers.

Soon, the sound of a jeep came from the alley entrance, and soon Zhang Renjia and Wang Anan came in first. Their date was set for the 25th of the month. Now that the two of them had obtained their marriage certificate, they could legitimately attend Zhang Renkang's wedding as a new family.

Zhang Renjia is wearing casual clothes today. Recently, the higher-ups have been considering whether to abolish the current military rank system to ensure equality between officers and soldiers. All three services will wear liberation shoes and green military uniforms with liberation caps. In order to avoid trouble, Zhang Renjia has stopped wearing military uniforms and military ranks since this month except when he is in the army.

Yan Bugui recorded and called out the names aloud

"Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Renjia presented a gift of 100 yuan, record it."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Bugui was stunned. It was less than eight o'clock and the number was already one hundred. As soon as Zhang Renjia entered the room and Wang Anan was helping Yu Li change her clothes and put on makeup, I don't know if it was discussed in advance, the sound of engines at the entrance of the alley became more and more.

Yan Bugui was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth and kept singing

"Zhang Yuhua, fifty yuan, account book"

"Zhao Jianjun, one hundred yuan, account book"

"Yang Weiguo, one hundred yuan, account book"

"Li Huaide, one hundred yuan, account book"

"Chen Gang, fifty yuan, account book."

"Li Chunhua fifty yuan, account"

"Director Wang from the Street Office, fifty yuan, for account keeping."

"Police station XXX, XXX, etc. fifty yuan, record"

……

Except for a few directors and deputy directors, all the cadres of the steel rolling mill, including the directors, section chiefs and deputy section chiefs of each workshop and department, Director Wang of the street office, and comrades and colleagues of Zhang Renkang's father in the police station, all sent gifts through others. Maybe they had discussed it privately and the amount was all 50 yuan. Just for this item, Yan Bugui's eyes were red with tears. It was more than 6,000 yuan. He had never seen so much money in his life.

This allowed the people in the courtyard to see Zhang Renkang's current network of connections, which was beyond their reach. Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui were even more surprised. They would never provoke Zhang Renkang in the courtyard in the future. This guy was really not to be messed with now. He had connections everywhere in the street office, police station, and factory.

A little after nine thirty

Seven or eight large tables were set up in the middle and back yards. Everyone sat down in the middle yard in turn. The residents in the yard also consciously gave up their seats and gathered around waiting for Yu Li and Zhang Renkang to come out and give their speeches. At this time, an unexpected guest suddenly appeared.

Yan Bugui lowered his head and saw a white hand handing over a few black bills. He just raised his head and said with a smile:

"What's your name? What's your name?"

Suddenly exclaimed

"Lou Xiao'e? Why is it you? Why are you back?"

Yan Bugui looked at the short-haired beauty in cheongsam in front of him in surprise. Lou Xiao'e dressed up specially today, wearing a jade necklace and the bracelet (left by Sun Xiuyu) and ring given to her by Zhang Renkang, to attend his wedding. She also came to see Yu Li to swear her existence, so that Yu Li would not disown her in the future.

Lou Xiaoe said with a smile

"Uncle, what are you talking about? I passed by here today and saw people coming and going in the courtyard. I didn't expect that Zhang Renkang got married. After all, I was once a member of this courtyard, right?"

"I got along well with Zhang Renkang before, so I came to give him a gift. Remember, I have to go to the back to see what the bride looks like."

Yan Bugui was surprised and remembered Lou Xiao'e's name and deliberately sang loudly

"Lou Xiao'e, the gift money is 100 yuan, please record it in the account."

The busy residents in the courtyard looked at the noble Lou Xiao'e who came in with disbelief. This side of Lou Xiao'e was something they had never seen before. Before, the Lou family had deliberately dressed her in ordinary clothes so that she could not be distinguished from other women in order to prevent her from getting into trouble in the future. But today, this was the real aura and demeanor of the eldest daughter of the Lou family, the Western-educated Miss Lou.

Zhang Renkang heard Yan Bugui's name being called out from the front and gave a bitter smile. This young lady is here after all. But I hope these two jealous people won't cause any trouble today. Both of them are pregnant now, one is four and a half months pregnant, and the other is more than a month pregnant. If anything goes wrong with the children, he can't afford it.

Yu Li also heard Lou Xiao'e coming, and said with a smile without changing her expression

"Renkang, who is this Lou Xiao'e?"

Zhang Renkang had no choice but to pretend he didn't care and said

"She was a neighbor in the courtyard before, and we got along well. But she moved out after divorcing Xu Damao. I don't know why she's here too?"

"Wait a minute, I'll go take a look."

Zhang Renkang was about to leave when Yu Li stood up and took Zhang Renkang's arm and said with a smile

"Since he's my neighbor, I'll go meet him and get to know him."

There was a murderous look on Zhang Renkang's neck. Yu Li smiled and took his arm and walked towards the middle courtyard. Wang Anan was still wondering why Yu Li's eyes suddenly became so sharp.

Yu Li took Zhang Renkang's arm and just walked to the moon gate in the middle courtyard and into the backyard, she saw Lou Xiao'e coming in wearing a cheongsam and small leather shoes. Seeing Zhang Renkang, Lou Xiao'e smiled coquettishly and said,

"Renkang, you didn't even bother to send me an invitation for your wedding. Didn't I scare you by showing up uninvited?"

Zhang Renkang said with a wry smile

"How would I know where Miss Lou lives? I don't know where to send this invitation."

Then Lou Xiaoe saw Yu Li holding Zhang Renkang's arm tightly and said with a smile:

"This must be Yu Li, she is so pretty. Renkang, you are so lucky."

Yu Li also said with a smile

"You must be Renkang's former neighbor Lou Xiao'e, right? Sister Lou is welcome to attend Renkang and I's wedding. This is the first time I've met Sister Lou. Sister Lou is very beautiful. No wonder Renkang said he had a beautiful neighbor before."

"I was wondering where the neighbors were after I moved in, but I never expected that my sister would be such a beauty when I saw her today."

Lou Xiaoe smiled

"Sister, after all, I have lived here before you. It's normal that you don't know about this, so if you don't mind me coming to your house, please stay with me."

Zhang Renjia had just walked out of the door with Wang Anan in his hand. He was confused by the conversation between the three of them and asked in a low voice:

"Brother, is this girl also your friend?"

As a woman, Wang Anan probably noticed that Yu Li and Lou Xiaoe were on the verge of a fight. In addition, Wang Anan had seen the office building of the textile factory before. The clerk Qin Jingru who took her to Zhao Jianjun's office seemed to have some relationship with Zhang Renkang. She understood something and pulled Zhang Renjia to the front yard to find Zhang Yuhua.

Seeing that there were no people in the backyard, Zhang Renkang said in a low voice

"Two aunts, please stop making a fuss and be careful with your children."

Yu Li pinched Zhang Renkang's waist with the hand that was holding his arm, causing him to grimace in pain. She smiled and let go, pulling Lou Xiaoe forward and saying

"Sister Lou, let's go inside and talk."

Lou Xiao'e smiled and glanced at Zhang Renkang and followed Yu Li into the house. When she passed by Zhang Renkang, she also hit him, making Zhang Renkang laugh and cry.

Zhang Renkang, who didn't know what the two women were talking about, came to the front yard first to entertain the guests. He was inevitably teased by everyone. Today, Zhang Yuhua was here, and some people, big and small, who were qualified to sit at the table, such as Yang Weiguo and Li Huaide, also had guests to accompany them. They surrounded Zhang Yuhua, flattered her and carefully reported something.

At around ten o'clock, after hanging the portrait of the great man in Zhang Renkang's room on the door of the main room, Yu Li also pulled Lou Xiao'e into the middle courtyard. Under the auspices of Zhang Yuhua, Yu Li and Zhang Renkang swore to the great man that they would be new youths who contribute to the country, etc., and then sang a song of praise together, which was considered a marriage.

The ceremonies of that era were very simple, but the arrangement of Zhang Renkang's banquet was not bad. These leaders might not find it too amazing, but it made people in the compound drool. Except for Yi Zhonghai and his wife, the deaf old lady, and Qin Huairu who took the three children of the Jia family back to her parents' home early, the eyes of other families, especially Yan Bugui's family, were red. They only gave gifts of one or two yuan each, and ate a lot of candy and melon seeds. Moreover, there were four hard dishes on the table.

Zhang Renkang didn't arrange anything extravagant. He just had a plate full of scrambled eggs with plenty of ingredients, plus shredded potatoes and fried meat. Each table also had a pot of stewed chicken, a plate of fried meat with peppers, six vegetarian dishes, a soup, and a candied sweet potato. Twelve dishes in total, it was considered a good banquet these days, at least the people in the courtyard had never seen one before.

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