The couple made a living in the 1950s.

In the back house of the main courtyard, Wang Youjia was lying on the bed with a bruised face and nose, and his original appearance could no longer be recognized.

"This man was really cruel. The doctor said he would need at least four months before he could walk again."

Zhang Daya sat on the other bed with her face drooping and her little eyes twinkling.

"Son, think about it again, maybe you can still remember what that person looks like."

Wang Youjia looked impatient, "If I had seen his face, I would have asked him to pay for it long ago, why would I bother recalling what happened?"

Zhang Daya opened her mouth and was about to speak when she saw her daughter-in-law Li Lanying pushing the door in. She rolled her eyes and said nothing more.

The courtyard becomes lively already during the day, and children always look forward to the New Year.

As soon as Bai Ye stepped through the moon gate, he heard the sound of children playing coming from the main courtyard.

He stopped at Li Ze's door with the lunch box and knocked gently.

Li Ze opened the door and saw Bai Ye standing outside, and stepped aside to let him in.

Bai Ye entered the room and put the food box on the table. "Here are some canned apples made by my wife. I'll give them to you to try."

"My Meimei said before she left home this morning that your wife was going to bring her canned food today."

The two of them sat at the table, and Li Ze poured chrysanthemum tea for Bai Ye.

"Are you not afraid of being seen?"

Bai Ye looked at Li Ze, his eyes calm and his smile evident.

"They've already beaten me, but the police department is not going to let this matter go."

Li Ze's elegant face showed an even bigger smile, "The wounds on Wang Youjia's body were clean and neat, and many of them were on the acupuncture points."

"In the past, few people in this city could do this. Those who could do it are basically not in Beijing now. You waited outside for more than 40 minutes last night. It was cold, wasn't it?"

"Hahahahaha"

Looking at Li Ze who was laughing so hard, Bai Ye also smiled.

At first, the two of them had the opportunity to get in touch because their respective wives liked to play together.

After spending such a long time together, I found that Li Ze is a pretty good person.

Bai Ye saw that he had laughed enough and said, "I didn't mean to hide it from anyone."

"Yeah," Li Ze nodded, "I know, otherwise, why would you do it right in front of the house?"

"You moved in late. There are a lot of gossips among the neighbors in our yard. Sometimes it's quite interesting."

When Bai Ye returned home, Lin Manyu was playing with the three babies. They now liked to look around following the sounds.

"Li Ze's wife is on duty at the clinic and is not at home."

Bai Ye changed his shoes and put them in the shoe cabinet.

He went back to the bedroom, changed his clothes, sat next to Lin Hanyu, and picked up the can of strawberries on the coffee table and started eating.

"When spring comes, we'll take the three treasures out for a stroll."

"Hmm," Lin Yuyu kept touching Erbao's little mouth.

During the Bai family’s New Year’s Eve dinner, the three babies were still sleeping soundly, so Lin Manyu put them in a stroller and pushed them out of the restaurant.

This was the first time Bai Ye and Lin Manyu had dinner in their home restaurant.

On the dining table, the "orchid fragrant charcoal" under the copper hot pot was burning brightly.

In the boiling hot pot, Bai Ye picked up a piece of tumbling pork belly and put it into Lin Manyu's sunflower-shaped plate.

"We haven't burned orchid incense charcoal for many years."

"Yeah," Lin Yu swallowed the meat in his mouth and nodded, "When I was a child, my family liked to use charcoal to keep warm."

Bai Ye picked up another piece of mushroom for Lin Yu and said, "I'll stock up on some coal for heating in the future."

Lin Yu nodded and said, "Except for hot pot, we should use less charcoal in the future. Good things should be used less and less."

Bai Ye looked at the sauerkraut, mushrooms, cabbage, potato chips, bok choy, rapeseed and cucumbers on the table.

The vegetables collected by Yangjia Village in the space are almost eaten up.

"He has to buy some vegetable seeds in the spring, clean up the vegetable patch at home, and then find a way to get some saplings to plant in the yard."

After dinner, Lin Manyu and the three treasures helped Bai Ye wash dishes in the kitchen.

At this time, not every household will buy their own firecrackers for the New Year.

In many courtyards, everyone pools their money to buy a few strings of firecrackers and then sets them off at the gate of the courtyard.

There are certain rules for making dumplings on New Year’s Eve in Laojing City. The dumplings must be eaten at midnight.

That is from 11 o'clock at night to 1 o'clock in the morning, which means Jiaozi, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.

Generally, eating vegetarian dumplings also means a peaceful and simple year ahead.

There are also some particular ways to make dumplings. The vegetarian filling is rich, with at least nine kinds of ingredients.

Lin Hanyu and Bai Ye were still making dumplings at the round table when firecrackers rang out from all directions outside.

Fortunately, the three treasures were sleeping soundly, so she brought the wrapped dumplings into the kitchen and put them into the pot quickly.

When everything was cleaned up and the family of five entered the bedroom, it was just past twelve o'clock.

Bai Ye and Lin Yu looked at the three babies sleeping soundly on the kang, their eyes full of smiles, "Happy New Year, babies."

On the heated kang, Bai Ye lay on the kang and gently hugged Lin Wanyu from behind, rubbing her hair with his chin.

"Happy New Year, Hanhan."

Lin Wanyu turned around and kissed Bai Ye on the chin, "Aye, Happy New Year."

The first ray of sunshine in the early morning welcomes the year 1946, which belongs only to the Chinese.

Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, a day for New Year greetings.

Bai Ye and Lin Yu also interacted with the Li family in this courtyard.

They haven't met many other people in the hospital yet.

Taking into account that the Bai family has three babies, it is not convenient for Bai Ye and Lin Hanyu to go out.

Li Ze and Zhang Mei knocked on the Bai family's moon door after breakfast.

In the Bai family's living room, the four tripod plates on the coffee table contained peanuts, melon seeds, persimmon cakes and millet flower candy.

Lin Hanyu specially brewed the pre-rain Longjing tea for Zhang Mei and her husband today.

Zhang Mei picked up the magnolia cup, took a sip of tea, and smiled with enjoyment.

She didn't stop moving her hands. "Most people in our yard can still interact with each other as normal neighbors."

"Li Tiezhu, who knocked on your door last time to collect money for firecrackers, lives in the main house in the third courtyard of the main yard. He usually helps everyone to arrange things when there is something going on in the yard."

Lin Hanyu looked at Bai Ye in confusion.

Bai Ye nodded, "Last time, we didn't have time to open the door, and then he went to find Li Ze."

Lin Hanyu turned to look at Zhang Mei, "The few times I encountered knocking on the door, they were all quite unique."

"Hahaha" Zhang Mei couldn't help laughing out loud when she heard Lin Manyu's words.

"You should pay more or less attention to these aunties in the yard. The ones I have come into contact with are all hard to describe."

"Normally, there aren't that many people in the yard, especially tenants, who come and go..."

Lin Hanyu nodded as she listened to Zhang Mei.

Bai Ye and Li Ze sat aside and listened, and no one disturbed them.

Bai Ye couldn't help but find it funny when he saw his young wife, who was so interested in gossiping.

When I turned around, I saw Li Ze sitting aside, drinking tea leisurely.

Li Ze saw Bai Ye looking at him, reached out to pick up the magic pot, and poured himself another cup of tea with a smile.

"I'll take Meimei to my master's house later. It's our New Year's Day to visit relatives and friends."

People in this period still attached great importance to traditional customs and always paid attention to old etiquette.

"Yeah," Bai Ye nodded, "How's the progress of the case I visited your house for?"