The courtyard: the atmosphere of human life

Zhong Yunxing stood up straight immediately when he saw a little boy calling out to Ruyi at the school gate. Although Ruyi had never suffered any harm since childhood, the old father's desire to protect him still surged up.

"Um, what about that? Just tell me what it is?" Ruyi frowned and looked at Song Jinyu who was dithering, and urged her impatiently.

The teacher in Ruyi's class always gives free tutoring to the students every night, so when Ruyi gets out of school, there are not many people in the school.

"Here you go..."

After Song Jinyu stuffed a small envelope into Ruyi's hand, she ran out of the school gate. When she saw Zhong Yunxing at the gate, she was frightened and turned around and ran out towards another road outside the school gate.

Zhong Yunxing understood the boy's little thoughts at a glance, and stared at Xiao Ruyi who was still standing there in a daze with a wry smile on his face.

"Why don't you open it and take a look?"

When Ruyi walked to Zhong Yunxing, she was holding the small envelope given to her by Song Jinyu. Being such a clever little girl, she knew what it was at a glance.

Ruyi did not shy away and opened Song Jinyu's love letter in front of Zhong Yunxing.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk... Such poor handwriting... Tsk, tsk, tsk... I could even make mistakes when copying... Dad, your son-in-law is not very good!"

Ruyi read the letter while shaking her head. Her mature look and weird comments made Zhong Yunxing burst into laughter.

"Little brother-in-law, don't be shy! Get on the bike!" Zhong Yunxing got on the bike and patted Ruyi on the forehead. The father and daughter talked and laughed as they rode towards Ruyi's grandmother's house.

"Dad, don't tell my mom about this. She's narrow-minded and will nag me again." When they arrived at the gate, Ruyi jumped off the bicycle and followed Zhong Yunxing's instructions very seriously.

"Then you must not fall in love too early!" Zhong Yunxing also warned Xiao Ruyi very seriously.

"It depends on my mood!" Xiao Ruyi raised her eyebrows and looked at Zhong Yunxing provocatively with a slight smile.

Zhong Yunxing was also very helpless with his precious girl, and the father and daughter walked into the yard happily.

The next day, when Ruyi arrived at school, he saw Song Jinyu playing football on the playground from a distance.

Song Jinyu didn't see Ruyi at first, but his friends probably knew what he was thinking. When they saw Ruyi coming over, they all started laughing.

Song Jinyu thought her love letter had worked, and walked towards Ruyi amid the laughter of several little boys.

Ruyi was not shy at all, and it seemed that the idea of ​​premature love was not something she had too many thoughts about in her little head.

"Do you like me?" Ruyi asked openly as she looked at the little boy who had once been chased and beaten by her around the playground.

Song Jinyu was so shy that she didn't dare to look at Ruyi. She lowered her head, looked at her toes and smiled foolishly.

"When you surpass me in performance, I will give you a chance."

Ruyi's personality is actually more similar to Darong's. She is always considerate of others, so she did not embarrass the little boy with a single word as she did in the past. Instead, she assigned him a task that he could not complete, which simply widened the gap between them.

There were twelve classes and more than five hundred students in the Third Middle School that year. Although Ruyi's grades were not very good, they were always within the top 100. For Song Jinyu, going from the bottom to the top was an almost impossible task.

"Why did you agree to Song Jinyu? There is no way a bad student like him can surpass your grades."

During lunch break, Jindan and Ruyi sat on the corridor next to the flagpole, eating sausages and chatting.

"What is a bad student? What is a good student? My teachers have never said that I am a good student since I was a child. I think he and I should be classified in the same category."

Ruyi sat on the horizontal railing of the corridor, swinging her legs casually.

"You're different. You have good grades." Jindan retorted without thinking.

"I have finished reading the latest issue of Reader. Please think about bringing me Youth Digest tomorrow."

Ruyi did not respond to Jindan's words, but asked him to bring her the magazine.

At that time, Ruyi and Jindan's families were not very wealthy, so the two agreed to buy a copy of each magazine after it came out and take turns reading it. This was the most extravagant hobby for Ruyi and Jindan throughout their junior high school years.

"I have talked to Aunt Yunxiang about this. After the new year, please sign me up for a job. I will go and work with her."

Yunxiang is Zhong Yunxing's younger sister. She has been working in a factory run by Koreans for a few years and is now a small supervisor in the factory.

Darong didn't have any special skills, so she had to ask Yunxiang to find her a job.

"What kind of factory is it?" Although Zhong Yunxing had heard that Yunxiang worked in a Korean factory, he had never asked what specific job she did.

"Her aunt said that they produce electronic parts and supply them to the Star Factory in South Korea."

"Xingxing Factory? That's quite large."

The products of this Xingxing factory are still very well-known in China. Since the establishment of the electronics factory in Yutian, the treatment there has always been unmatched by other private factories.

"What's the use of Xingxing being so big? I'm not going to work there," Darong said with a sigh.

That Spring Festival, Mother Zhong and Father Zhong had already moved into Wu Meifeng's apartment, and the whole family gathered in the new house to celebrate the first Spring Festival.

At that time, Ruyi no longer set off firecrackers, Jixiang and Xiangrui no longer fought, and the family seemed to be in harmony, but the lively atmosphere of the bungalow courtyard could no longer be found.

After the New Year, private factories began recruiting on a large scale. With the help of Yunxiang, Darong successfully got a job in the electronics factory and was assigned to the assembly line in the materials workshop.

Darong has been doing physical labor in the crushing workshop in recent years, so the work in the electronics factory is not too tiring for her. It’s just that she sits for too long and she always feels sore in her back and can’t sleep well.

The community where Mother Zhong lives now is only separated by a wall from Jixiang's school, so Wu Meifeng's calculations were very careful. After the laid-off Darong was no longer able to help her take care of Jixiang, Mother Zhong successfully took over.

Fortunately, Jixiang is grown up now and no longer needs to be taken to and from school. Mother Zhong only needs to serve him three meals a day and she doesn't have any burden at all.

That year, Zhong Yunsheng opened his first accounting firm in the southern suburbs, and Wenying stayed at home to take care of the children.

Ever since Darong started working in the electronics factory, she has basically had no time to rest. The electronics factory only provides two days of rest every month. Taking more than two days off means earning one day less in wages, so Darong never dares to ask for leave to rest.

As a result, she spent less and less time at Mother Zhong's house.