The couple made a living in the 1950s.

Chapter 22: Closing the Grocery Store

Li Ze couldn't help but curl his lips when he saw Bai Ye asking him in a pretentious manner.

"We have visited and checked the surrounding area before, but there has been no new progress."

"Later, there was a new case in the institute, and we were too busy for a while."

Bai Ye reached out and picked up a handful of peanuts and stuffed them into Li Ze's hand. He looked at him but smiled without saying anything.

Li Ze raised his eyebrows, glanced at Bai Ye, then started to eat the fresh flowers, not forgetting to feed his wife from time to time.

Bai Ye and Lin Manyu watched as Li Ze and his wife walked into the fourth courtyard of the main courtyard before locking the moon door and going home.

In the living room, Bai Ye sat on the sofa and watched Lin Manyu knitting a sweater.

"Wife, I will go to Li Ze's house tomorrow morning. They will be back from Master Li Ze's house in the afternoon."

"Yeah," Lin Yuyu continued to move his hands, "Have you seen Li Tiezhu, whom Meimei mentioned today?"

"I haven't seen it," Bai Ye took the pillow and leaned against the armrest of the sofa, allowing himself to lie on the sofa.

"I asked Li Ze to help transfer the money for the firecrackers."

The New Year’s Day is easy, but in the blink of an eye it is the fifth day of the New Year, commonly known as “Po Wu”.

Today, all the closed stores in the streets and alleys of Beijing have reopened, and Bai Ye also arrived at the grocery store early.

He symbolically stayed in the grocery store for two hours and then strolled to the home of Master Zhao, the furniture maker.

This time they are going to ask Master Zhao to do it. Together with the furniture and wooden boxes, there are quite a lot of things.

When Bai Ye returned home, as soon as he entered the back house, he met a man coming out of the moon door of the back house in the east courtyard.

Neither of them stopped.

Bai Ye pushed the door open and entered the room. The three babies were just eating milk powder. He quickly changed his clothes, washed his hands, and started to get busy with Lin Hanyu.

Time passed quickly, and on the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, the purchasing power of one hundred French francs changed from a fish to an egg.

The people cried out in complaint.

On the afternoon of the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, Bai Ye put the last few goods in the grocery store into the space, locked the door with the old lock of the grocery store, and then went home.

He made an appointment with the landlord to collect the house tomorrow afternoon.

By the time Bai Ye finished dealing with the grocery store's affairs, it was already the evening of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month. He strolled home in a good mood.

The family's legal currency had already been spent, so there was no need to worry about the remaining silver dollars.

As soon as Bai Ye walked to the back house of the main courtyard, he heard a lot of hustle and bustle in the second courtyard.

He walked through the hanging flower gate and saw a group of people gathered together. Li Ze was leaning on the porch of his house, watching the fun.

Turning around, he saw Bai Ye coming in and quickly waved to him to come over.

Most people in the yard have never spoken to Bai Ye.

When they saw him coming over, some people sighed in their hearts at how good-looking this man was.

Everyone's attention was on the woman sitting on the ground.

Bai Ye is 1.85 meters tall, and Li Ze is slightly shorter than him. When the two of them stand together, a natural aura is formed.

He took a few steps towards Li Ze and lowered his head. "What happened? You are watching so intently."

"Hehe" Li Ze's expression was gentle.

"This woman in the underground brought an eight-year-old child to me and said that the child was left behind by Aunt Liu's son."

"It led Xu Zhaodi to have a fight with her."

"These two women are fighting, really..." Li Ze said and shook his head.

At this moment in the Bai family, Lin Hanyu and Zhang Mei were sitting on the sofa in the living room talking.

Zhang Mei looked at Lin Hanyu, unable to hide the smile in her eyes.

"I have to thank you. Fortunately, I saw you buying beautiful gold jewelry and fabrics before, so I couldn't resist the temptation and bought them with you."

"My Aze also lets me do what I want. Otherwise, if we keep those French currencies at home now."

"We both don't know where to go to cry."

Lin Hanyu smiled but said nothing. Her efforts in tempting Zhang Mei to spend money to stock up on gold goods were not in vain.

When Bai Ye got home, Zhang Mei had already left.

He went back to the bedroom, changed his clothes and came out. Lin Hanyu had already placed dinner on the round table.

Braised pork, scrambled eggs with green onions, Chinese cabbage and tofu soup with barley porridge.

Bai Ye did the same as before, picking up a piece of food for Lin Manyu with his chopsticks before starting to eat.

Lin Yu smiled and picked up the extra braised pork in his bowl and put it into his mouth with satisfaction.

"Aye, I want to make Babaisan tomorrow."

"After dinner, remember to take out the Angelica dahurica, White Clove, Bletilla striata, White Poria, White Aconitum, White Caulis, White Ampelopsis, Kaempferia galanga, Cimicifuga heracleifolia, White Bombyx batryticatus, and Tribulus terrestris that you have stored in your space."

"Each of you should take out five pounds."

Bai Ye nodded, "Isn't the stone mill at home a little too big? I'll go buy a small stone mill tomorrow and keep it specially for you to make skin care products."

"Okay," Lin Hanyu swallowed the egg in his mouth.

"I was in our yard today and heard faint crying coming from the front."

"Well, a woman with a child came to Liu Cuihua's house and said that the child was left by Liu Cuihua's son, and then..."

Bai Ye looked at Lin Yu who was looking at her in confusion, and reached out to rub the top of her head, "Why do you have that expression?"

Lin Hanyu looked at Bai Ye seriously, "Aye, who is Liu Cuihua?"

Bai Ye was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "Auntie Liu is Liu Cuihua.

He thought for a moment and added, "I heard it from Li Ze."

Lin Hanyu nodded, "What happened next?"

"Aunt Liu has been staying in the house with the child and has not come out." Bai Ye

At night, Lin Hanyu lay on Bai Ye, too tired to move, and finally had to let Bai Ye carry her to take a shower.

Today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and Bai Ye's biological clock woke up on time in the morning.

He looked down at the little woman with a rosy face sleeping in his arms, and a flash of heartache appeared in his eyes. He was too much last night.

While Lin Hanyu was still sleeping, Bai Ye had already ground all the ingredients needed to make Babai Powder into powder in the kitchen.

Just wait for Lin Hanyu to mix it according to the recipe proportions.

In the bedroom, Lin Hanyu opened his eyes drowsily and turned to look at the three treasures sleeping soundly beside him.

He stood up and kissed them each on the forehead before lying back down.

When Lin Hanyu woke up again, she was awakened by the crying of her three babies. When she opened her eyes, she saw Bai Ye making milk powder.

After they fed the children and put them to sleep, Lin Manyu went to the bathroom to wash up.

Today's breakfast was made by the two of us together.

Bai Ye came out of the kitchen after washing the dishes. Lin Manyu was sitting at the round table practicing calligraphy.

Every few days she would sit down and write seriously, just like she did at home when she was a child.

She has a beautiful hand in calligraphy of small characters with hairpin flowers, which was taught to her by her mother herself.

Bai Ye sat down next to Lin Manyu and looked at her quietly.

He waited until Lin Hanyu finished writing before he spoke.

"Hanhan, I'm going to go out and buy a small stone mill. I've already ground the ingredients for Babaisan and put them on the dining table."

"Okay." Lin Yuyu put her little head on Bai Ye's shoulder, "Aye, I want to eat Men Ding meat pie."

Bai Ye turned around and put his face against her cheek, "Okay, I'll bring it back later."

Lin Hanyu sent Bai Ye out, went back to the bedroom to check on the three treasures, and then turned to the restaurant to prepare Babai San.

She likes to use Babaisan as a facial mask.

Lin Hanyu came out of the restaurant again, holding a wooden box containing Babaisan in her hand.

After placing the wooden box on the dressing table, she was just about to climb onto the kang and lie down for a while when the moon door of her house was knocked again.

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