The couple made a living in the 1950s.

The next morning, Lin Hanyu went downstairs and saw him sitting on the sofa.

The eldest daughter-in-law with a gleam in her eyes.

She blinked slightly and met her gaze.

"Xiaoou, do you have anything to say?"

Lin Manyu walked towards the sofa while talking.

Meng Xiaoou saw her father-in-law walk into the bathroom.

Thinking about the house, my father-in-law will find out sooner or later.

She smiled and looked at her mother-in-law who was sitting next to her.

"Mom, I want to submit an application for housing allocation to the bureau."

"Your bureau is allocating houses?"

Lin Hanyu stopped pouring hot water and turned to look at his eldest daughter-in-law.

"There's no word outside that your bureau is going to allocate housing."

"The new family compound was designed and constructed by my dad's institute."

"Our bureau is also afraid that the housing allocation issue will cause a lot of uproar."

"The bureau wants to decide where to live by drawing lots."

"Well, if you have decided in your heart that you want to submit an application for housing, then submit it."

"Housing is becoming increasingly scarce, and there is no certainty whether there will be an opportunity to get a house in the future."

"Don't miss it if you are of high enough level."

"Ah."

Meng Xiaoou nodded silently. She saw that her mother-in-law didn't care about the division of the room.

For a moment, I was a little confused.

What she thought was an important matter like dividing the house did not seem to be a big deal in her mother-in-law's mind.

Lin Hanyu didn't hear what his eldest daughter-in-law said. He turned his head slightly and caught a flash of surprise in her eyes.

After thinking about it, I understood what she was struggling with.

Nowadays, people attach great importance to the allocation of houses. In their minds, that is where they will live for the rest of their lives.

The eldest daughter-in-law thought so too, which was why she was always bothered by the fact that she could only be assigned to a tube-shaped building.

Little do people know that in the eyes of many people, living in a tube-shaped building is also a good place to live.

At this time, the living standards of people with rural and urban household registration were very different.

Town residents have a fixed supply of food unless they encounter a natural disaster as severe as the one in the previous three years.

They live in the city and will never go hungry.

Rural residents not only have to grow food for their own consumption, but also have to supply food to urban residents.

There are also half-households in the context of rural reform and urbanization.

One of the couple is a rural resident and the other is a urban resident.

Most of the time, the men have the opportunity to work in the city because of their education.

The woman stays in the village to earn work points, but she doesn't earn many work points.

At the end of the year, there was not enough food at home, and food coupons were needed to buy food. This was a problem for half of the households.

Seeing her eldest daughter-in-law sitting there without saying anything, she reached out her little hand and held hers.

"There is no need to hesitate about this matter."

"You feel it's a pity that you didn't get a cadre housing unit."

"Little did you know that when you are a cadre."

"The bureau may no longer have any houses, so we will allocate new ones to you."

Meng Xiaoou stared at her mother-in-law in a daze, unable to react.

Lin Hanyu ignored her and got up to go into the bathroom to wash up.

She has to go to work in a while.

At this time, all items were distributed by the government and the government had the final say on everything.

Ordinary people would never consider that many of their families live in government-allocated houses.

Several generations have to live together for more than ten or even decades.

"Grandpa, isn't my grandma up again?"

Bai Ye had just come out of the bathroom when he heard his two little granddaughters asking him questions.

He smiled and raised his hands to touch their two little heads.

"Grandma is washing her face in the bathroom. Have you two washed your faces properly?"

"If you haven't washed it, go find grandma."

After breakfast, the whole family was there, except for Li Fanglei, who was still on maternity leave at home, and her newborn grandson.

They all rode their bicycles to work.

Fang Jun rode the family tricycle with his two little granddaughters on board.

Lin Hanyu followed behind, riding his bicycle which was almost new.

Today, like yesterday, she did the job at hand.

He stood up, locked the office door, and entered the space.

She pushed open the door of the master bedroom and saw Bai Ye lying on the bed with his eyes closed.

Smiling, she climbed onto the bed and snuggled into his arms.

Bai Ye took the opportunity to hug the person in his arms.

"Hello, I want to tell you something."

"Ok?"

Lin Hanyu raised his head slightly and looked at Bai Ye.

Looking at his somewhat serious face, I suppressed my curiosity and waited for him to speak.

"what happened?"

"Sun Jianguo may have someone outside."

"I'm not sure yet. Something just doesn't make sense."

"We should be careful to avoid dealing with their family frequently in the future."

"What if one day, we discover his secret?"

"More or less, it will cause some unnecessary trouble."

"what?"

After hearing his words, Lin Hanyu was stunned for a long time.

In this age where hooliganism can be punishable by death, is there anyone who still dares to mess around outside?

Bai Ye thought about what he saw this morning and fell into reminiscence.

This morning, he rode his bicycle to work.

He was thinking about himself and Hanhan, who would have to live in the staff building with their two little granddaughters at night.

I specially brought some vegetables from my home in the courtyard, just like I did before.

When he returned to the family building to put away the vegetables, he happened to see Sun Jianguo hurrying out from the family compound of the silk factory next door at the gate of the compound.

This was not the first time he saw Sun Jianguo coming out from there.

He was not the only person who had seen him coming out of the silk factory’s staff quarters.

As everyone knows, they have a distant relative who lives in the silk factory's staff quarters.

But when he locked the door just now, he clearly heard Zhao Huandi muttering to their eldest son in the house that Sun Jianguo was on night shift again last night.

You know, the security department of their unit is on night duty and doesn't get off work until eight o'clock in the morning.

Their working hours are also the security department's shift change time.

"Ugh……"

Lin Hanyu listened to Bai Ye's whole story about how he discovered that Sun Jianguo might have someone else.

I couldn't help but sigh softly, this matter was probably not a misunderstanding on Aye's part.

She nestled in Bai Ye's arms again and found a comfortable position.

I couldn't help but stretch out my fingers and draw circles on his chest.

"In this case, we really need to stay away from his home."

"If one day, someone really discovers what Sun Jianguo is doing."

"This person cannot have anything to do with us."

"I guess even though Zhao Huandi is a hateful person, she also has her own pitiful side."

"Men are so heartless that they don't even care about their children or family."

"If someone catches this and puts up a big-character poster, Zhao Huandi can just divorce him and walk away."

"Her and Sun Jianguo's children will have hard times ahead."

"I thought I'd tell you what I think, so we both know what to do next."

"It's just that I can't figure it out."

"The silk factory's staff quarters are all tube-shaped buildings."

"Every household lives next to each other, and the bathroom and kitchen are shared."

"If Sun Jianguo really has something fishy going on, he should have done it somewhere else."

"Ah."

Lin Yu nodded and stopped thinking about Sun Jianguo's abnormality.

As a couple, they didn't pay too much attention to other people's affairs.

After a while, they both fell asleep.

The arrival of spring in Beijing is like a flowing picture scroll, with crabapples, lilacs, white magnolias and peonies blooming in the Bai family courtyard.

These days are the due date of Zhang Mei’s eldest daughter-in-law.

Just in mid-April, their family arranged for her to be admitted to the obstetrics and gynecology ward of the Erbao Hospital.

Zhang Mei works as a nurse in the obstetrics and gynecology department. Just like when Fan Xiaojuan, Fang Lei and Xiaoou gave birth, everything in the hospital had already been arranged.

At this moment, Lin Hanyu and her two daughters-in-law had just returned home from visiting Fan Xiaojuan in the hospital.

The free time on Sundays is always short, so she lies under the arbour and looks at the flowers in the yard.

I feel extremely calm in my heart.

As for the matter of the granddaughters' schooling, Fang Jun volunteered himself and said that he would be the one to pick up and drop off his two nieces from school in the future.

A'yun and Yiyi are still studying in the school of their bureau.

When Lin Hanyu thought of this, the smile on his face deepened.

Fang Jun felt sorry for his sister and was afraid that Lei Lei would suffer, but he also couldn't bear to see her suffer the pain of separation from her daughter.

Ruo's two granddaughters are attending primary school in the school where A Ye works.

I really wouldn't go back to live in the courtyard at night when my children are in school.

If the second son and his wife don’t go to the family compound to see their children.

It would take a week before I could see my two daughters again.

From then on, Fang Jun took the two little ones to and from school, and he and Aye were happy and comfortable.

She lay in the rocking chair and rocked herself until she fell asleep.

When she opened her eyes again, she found herself lying on the double bed in the bedroom.

She sat up and turned to look at Bai Ye who was writing at the desk.

"Aye, what are you doing?"

"I'm awake now. I have nothing better to do than to practice calligraphy."

"I haven't written calligraphy for a long time, and my hands always feel rusty."

"I've left dinner for you in advance and warm it up in the pot. I'll go downstairs and bring it up to you."

"After dinner, go back to sleep if you still want to."

Lin Hanyu looked at his back as he walked out the door before she reacted and looked up at the clock on the wall.

Seven-thirty.

I have been sleeping since 2pm until this time.

Now, I feel very energetic.

She saw Bai Ye coming into the room carrying a lunch box, and he walked to the sofa and sat down with a smile.

I watched him take out the dishes one by one from the lunch box and place them on the corner table in front of the sofa.

"The chili scrambled eggs my daughter-in-law made tonight were a little salty."

"Be careful not to hurt your throat."

"it is good."

Lin Hanyu glanced at Bai Ye who was sitting next to him, smiled and nodded.

Focus on the food.

Stir-fried pork ribs with green onions, scrambled eggs with cucumber, stir-fried meat with peppers and fried tofu.

Add the polenta.

She couldn't help but reach out and touch her hungry stomach.

She smiled and picked up her chopsticks to eat.

After dinner, wait for her to finish washing and come out of the bathroom.

Bai Ye had already washed the dishes in the kitchen.

Late at night, Lin Manyu and Bai Ye snuggled together and slept soundly.

I don’t know yet, but Bai Ye’s unit’s staff quarters are not far away.

It's in the silk factory's family compound next to it, in a small courtyard in the alley behind it.

Sun Jianguo was sleeping soundly while holding a delicate and tender woman.

The woman gently opened her eyes and looked at the man lying next to her with an unhappy expression.

If a man doesn't have a job, he will die early.

Her husband's family disliked her because she was an eyesore at home, and her elder sister-in-law and younger brother's wife on her own side couldn't tolerate her either.

When she met Sun Jianguo, she got a lot of benefits from him.

Lin Hanyu and Bai Ye, they agreed to meet in the space after they finished work.

The working days of both of them have become more relaxed and leisurely than before.

On this day, Lin Hanyu came home from get off work and was pushing her bicycle but had not yet reached the downstairs of her house.

Then I heard a noise coming from nearby, mixed with the sound of things being thrown.

Nowadays, most families have many conflicts, including conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, husband and wife, sister-in-law and sister-in-law, and sisters-in-law.

When everyone lives together, small conflicts accumulate into big conflicts over time.

Most people would not smash or damage household objects even if a fight develops.

She couldn't help but wonder which family was willing to take out their anger on others by using their own things.

How serious is this problem and it cannot be solved.

"Hanyu, wait for me."

As Lin Hanyu was walking, she heard Liu Chunqing calling her from behind.

She smiled and turned around, standing there waiting for her.

The two of them walked side by side downstairs to their home, neither of them spoke.

The noise became clearer and clearer as they walked.

Until the two of them stood downstairs of their own building, and some people from the nearby residential buildings gathered at the entrance of the corridor.

Everyone was looking inside, as if they could really see and hear clearly what people were arguing about.

It is now time to get off work, and Lin Hanyu sees more and more people gathering around him.

She took Liu Chunqing's hand and the two of them squeezed in from the crowd.

Hearing the voice of a strange man coming from upstairs, Lin Hanyu couldn't help but stop.

He turned his head and looked at Liu Chunqing.

They didn't say anything else and continued walking upstairs together.

But my steps couldn't help but quicken.

Lin Hanyu saw Bai Ye standing at the door of her house with his arms folded, watching the fun.

I finally felt relieved.

She walked and looked towards the source of the sound.

Although, Aye, the neighbor in the residential building, had briefly told her about it.

In fact, she hadn't really met many people.

At this moment, she saw Zhao Huandi standing in front of a young man at the gate of Sun Jianguo's house.

This should be her son.

Lin Hanyu's gaze shifted to the woman standing opposite them.

Wait for them to continue talking.

Bai Ye smiled and tilted his head to look at his wife standing next to him.

He leaned down slightly and spoke slowly in a low voice into her ear.

"Hanhan, go back to the room and put your handbag away before coming out."

"When everyone dispersed, I noticed that you didn't even send your handbag home."

"It affects your image in the family compound."

After he said that, he looked at his wife with her beautiful eyes wide open.

Laughed silently.

Lin Manyu looked through the crowd and looked at Liu Chunqing who was standing next to Wang Changjing.

She hadn't had time to send the textbooks in her hands home yet.

She withdrew her gaze, turned back into the house, put down her handbag and turned out.

Standing at the door of my house with Bai Ye.

Lin Hanyu looked at Zhao Huandi, staring at the woman in front of her without saying a word.

I felt a little anxious.

"Sun Zhaodi, you must give up your job at the silk factory to Jiajin."

"Jia Jin can't continue to go back to the countryside in Northeast China. He must find a job in this city to stay."

"You are lucky. You are old and have the advantage."

"After graduating from junior high school, the state will directly assign you to work in a silk factory."

"Otherwise, even if you divorce for eight lifetimes, you will never be lucky enough to find a man with a job like your eldest son-in-law."

"Now, you have a man and a child."

"There is no job, and there is no need to go to the countryside to farm."

"You should let your brother live a good life. In the future, you will have someone to support you in your husband's family."

"Otherwise, you don't have any brothers to help you in your mother's family."

"Look at your sisters-in-law. They are going to bully you to death together."