Living in a Siheyuan

In a dark alley, a young man in plain clothes was lying at the entrance of a very imposing gate. It was the end of March and the city was still quite cold at night. If it weren't for the heaving of the young man's chest, people would have thought he had frozen to death.

Suddenly, the young man's eyelids moved, and his right hand, which was placed on the steps at the door, also moved. He tried to stand up, but his weak arm could not support his thin body. At this time, he opened his confused eyes, looked around, felt a little pain in the back of his head, touched his head, and looked confused.

The young man slowly supported himself with both hands and sat on the steps at the door. He felt all over his body, rubbed his eyes and looked around. There was a dim street light at the corner of the alley, and everything around him looked dilapidated and messy. He slowly recalled.

His name is Li Pingan, an older single man in the 21st century. He grew up in the countryside. When he was in elementary school, his parents, who were working outside, divorced and formed their own families. He went to school in the countryside with his grandmother. Fortunately, his parents gave him living expenses so that he could go to school all the time. Unfortunately, the changes in his family still affected his grades. After graduating from junior high school, he went to an ordinary junior college. His grandmother passed away when he was still in junior college, and his parents stopped giving him living expenses after he graduated. So Li Pingan began his own social training. He has screwed in screws, worked on construction sites, and set up stalls. In the end, he had no choice but to deliver express delivery. Because of his family situation and the fact that he was a "three-no" person (no money, no house, no car), he was still single in his thirties and lived in a rented house.

Li Ping'an remembers it very clearly. Today, he was delivering a parcel at the gate of a community. Suddenly, he saw a little girl running to the middle of the road to pick up a ball. A Prado car rushed towards him on the road. Li Ping'an had never done anything good in his life. He didn't know what he was thinking at the time, so he rushed out and pushed the little girl to the side of the road. However, he was hit and flew out by the Prado car because it didn't have time to brake, and he died.

Li Pingan couldn't understand it at the moment. He should have been sent to the hospital after being hit by a car. Why was he lying here? And the clothes and the surrounding environment didn't look modern. Not to mention the current city, even in the countryside, no one would wear such clothes. There was no one around. I didn't know where he had gone if I wanted to ask about the situation.

Just when he was confused, he suddenly felt a headache and a memory came to him. It took him a long time to accept the memory. Li Pingan traveled through time and space, and traveled to a world full of love in the courtyard. He had watched this TV series, and later he read many novels on Tomato, so he was quite familiar with the people and things in it.

Li Pingan had a rough memory at this moment. The weather outside had already made him feel cold all over. He first gently pushed open the door behind him, wrapped up his clothes, walked into the door to the left, pushed open the small door on the left, closed it casually, and locked it from the inside, and walked into his home. The house was also tattered. He anxiously found the thermos and poured himself a cup of hot water. As the hot water went down his throat, Li Pingan felt alive again.

Sitting on a stool in the living room, Li Pingan slowly began to sort out the memories of the original body. This year is 1958. The original body is 19 years old and graduated from high school this summer. The original body grew up in this courtyard since childhood. His father fled from the northeast during the war. At that time, he pulled a rickshaw for others in the city. Later, he met his mother who also fled. In this way, the two formed a family. The original father used all his savings to buy the leftmost back house of this courtyard. The back house was used by wealthy families for servants. There were no windows in the back and the windows in the front were also very small, so the ventilation inside was poor, cold in winter and hot in summer. The original father's little property could not buy a good house, so he could only choose this one.

The second year after Li Ping'an was born, his father encountered puppet soldiers on the street and refused to pay for the ride. Later, they had a disagreement and beat his father violently, breaking one of his legs. This made the family even worse. Later, he found the nearby Lou's Steel Rolling Mill through connections and worked as a cleaner in the factory. After liberation, the steel rolling mill was handed over to the state by Lou's, and his father continued to work as a cleaner in the cleaning department. Because he worked for a long time, he was paid 22.5 yuan a month. Just last month, when the factory was cleaning, the steel frame of the newly built factory building collapsed. At that time, several people were working below. Everyone else ran away and was fine. However, because of his inconvenient legs and feet, his father was hit by the fallen steel frame. It was too late to send him to the hospital, and he died.

The mother was a complete housewife. When the original owner was born, she had a twin brother. At that time, the conditions were not good, and the brother died of malnutrition due to poor diet. At that time, giving birth was like walking through the gates of hell. Because of this, the mother also fell ill and could no longer give birth. Therefore, the parents doted on the original owner, their only child. They had been frugal to support the original owner's schooling.

After handling his father's funeral, his mother's already poor health became even worse due to excessive grief, so Li Pingan had to take leave to continue to take care of his mother at home. Less than a month later, his mother also passed away a few days ago. The death of two relatives at once made the original owner heartbroken.

Looking at this simple home, Li Pingan walked around. Although he had the memories of his original body, he couldn't help sighing in his heart. It was really a bare house. Although these two rooms were not very tall, they were relatively large. I heard that they were used as large bunk beds for servants. One room was more than 30 square meters, and the two rooms together were 70 square meters. There was no hanging board for the floor, and you could see the wooden beams on the roof when you looked up. The bad thing was that dust would fall down.

There are two rooms, one for his parents to live in, and one separated by a curtain. There is a single bed inside for Li Pingan to sleep, and a square table outside for drinking water, doing homework, and eating. The stove against the wall is where he usually cooks, and it is very simple.

Outside, where the gate of the quadrangle courtyard leads to the small courtyard, there is a small hanging flower gate. My father pressed a wooden gate there to open and close. The small courtyard inside is L-shaped, and it is estimated to be more than 100 square meters in total. This was because there was a war at the time, and no one wanted the back house, so it was sold at a low price to my father. Otherwise, let alone in the future, the original owner's family could not afford it even now.

Li Pingan walked around the house and sat down again to pour himself a cup of hot water and continued to drink. His mind slowly recalled everything about the original owner. The original owner's family was not well off when he was young, and his father had difficulty walking. Other children would laugh at him and bully him when they met, calling the original owner's father "Li the Lame". So he seldom played with others. Like He Yuzhu in the middle courtyard who was about the same age as him, Xu Damao and Liu Guangqi in the backyard, Yan Jiecheng in the front yard, etc. The original owner had always been immersed in study. After returning home, his mother was in poor health and he had to help with housework. He was a bit withdrawn and a dull person.

The reason why he fell outside the gate tonight was because someone had done something shady to him. From the back of the original owner when he fell, it was not difficult to guess that it was the short-lived Jia Dongxu who did it. The reason was still his father's work position. Although the original owner's father had a low salary and was a cleaner, he was also a formal worker with a fixed salary. Now the grain production is low, especially the three-year disaster that will start next year. I don't know how many people have starved to death in the whole Longguo. But Sijiu City is the best place after all, and the status of workers is relatively high now, so life can be better.

Jia Dongxu's wife is Qin Huairu, the White Lotus of the Golden Age. Jia Dongxu is the only one in the Jia family who has a city hukou and a ration of food. He took over his father's job. But his mother, Jia Zhang, did not apply for a city hukou in order to rent the land she got in the countryside to relatives in her hometown to grow crops and get some food every year. The same thing happened to his wife, Qin Huairu. As a result, the rural land was later collectively owned. If you don't work in the fields, you won't have work points and you won't have food. Now you can't apply for a city hukou, so you can only buy expensive food after eating Jia Dongxu's ration. The price of food on the black market was high, and Jia Dongxu basically spent all his monthly salary.

Last night, Jia Dongxu came to the original owner and wanted to buy his father's workstation for Qin Huairu, so that Qin Huairu could transfer to a city hukou, and Banggeng and future children could also transfer to a city hukou. The original owner had thought about selling the workstation. The first reason was that the original owner would graduate from high school in a few months, and either go to college or the government would arrange a job for him. The second reason was that his father's job was a cleaner, and the original owner was a high school graduate after all, so it was impossible for him to take over as a cleaner. If he changed jobs, he would have to find people and connections, which was troublesome.

At the beginning of last night, the original owner was quite polite to Jia Dongxu, but when Jia Dongxu said that he would only give 100 yuan for this workstation, the original owner refused. Even if the original owner was dull, he knew that the workstation of a formal worker was at least 500 yuan, and the good ones were even higher (usually about two years' salary). In the end, he quarreled with Jia Dongxu, and after that, Jia Dongxu felt embarrassed and told the original owner to be careful in the future. This is what happened tonight. The original owner had lost both parents in a short period of time, and he was mentally exhausted after arranging the funeral. He died after being hit by Jia Dongxu, but Li Pingan could still feel that the original owner's resentment had not yet dissipated. So he said softly in his heart: "Go with peace of mind, your family can be reunited down there, and I hope your family can be reborn well. I will find a chance to avenge you in the future." After saying that, he felt a lot more relaxed, and it was probably because the original owner's obsession had dissipated.