The couple made a living in the 1950s.

The Bai family's courtyard was quiet at night, and Lin Manyu snuggled in Bai Ye's arms.

In his hand he held a small box containing ten oriental pearls.

This Dongzhu was found by himself and Aye at another scrap collection station in Dongcheng District.

Ever since the last time I found golden pumpkin seeds at the scrap collection station.

Every Sunday, the two of them would put on makeup in their space and then go to the scrap collection station to take a look.

In addition to the Dongzhu, they also found two red gold hairpins with kingfisher feathers and a silver-plated gold-plated kingfisher feather hairpin.

Back then, the kingfisher jewellery and boxes of oriental pearls that my mother and mother-in-law brought as dowry were not exchanged for the big goldfish.

Now, it is still placed in the wooden box in her space.

However, the wealth she had picked up for free made her feel particularly good.

She hasn't gotten over it yet, so when she has time in the evening, she wants to take it out of her space and admire it.

Lin Hanyu lowered his head slightly again, trying to get a clearer look at the Dongzhu in the box.

They are round and large in texture, with natural textures on the surface, and they are crystal clear and shiny like metal.

There is a hint of nobility.

The quality of these ten Dong pearls obtained for free is comparable to the Dong pearls in his own space.

She admired the Dongzhu and took out a kingfisher hairpin from the space.

She fell in love with the style of this peony at first sight.

The two sets of kingfisher feather headdresses that my mother left for me also included a peony hairpin.

She looked at the peony flowers and felt a sense of familiarity in her heart.

Bai Ye saw that his wife had a smile on her face and did not urge her to go to bed.

Instead, he picked up the newspaper on the bedside table and continued reading.

On the other side, in the bedroom on the second floor of the east wing.

Erbao put his eldest son, who had just been coaxed to sleep, into his little bed to continue sleeping.

He turned around again to see if the two little girls were covered well with quilts.

In April, our family stopped using earth heating.

The windows are double-glazed and the room is not cold at all.

No matter what the temperature is, children’s bellies should be covered when they sleep at night.

He first turned off the light beside the desk, then walked to the bed with the kerosene lamp and lay down on the bed.

"Leilei."

Erbao turned sideways and looked at his wife who had her back to him.

He reached out and wrapped his arms around her slender waist.

"What to do to be happy."

Li Fanglei felt the big hand stroking her waist.

On the way back, she was reluctant to think of how to punish this man.

Because he knew in his heart that the nurses in the hospital had nothing to do with him.

"Hey."

Li Fanglei sighed softly, turned around and hugged Erbao's neck with both hands.

"Brother Qingxiang, will those two nurses suddenly lose their minds?"

"It's up to you."

"Well, no."

Erbao raised his hand and gently touched his wife's black hair.

"My partner Wang Juan is going to be transferred to work in Jinshi."

"When she is transferred, we can still make sure that Niu Xiaoyun is not transferred to join my team."

"In our clinic, there are two groups of doctors and nurses who see patients every day. These two groups are not fixed groups."

"With Wang Juan transferred, Niu Xiaoyun and I won't be working in the same clinic for many days."

"And during normal working hours, there is another doctor and a nurse in the clinic."

"I don't have to spend time with her alone, and we don't have any real intersection at work."

"It's just that I won't rest in the company dormitory from now on."

"Niu Xiaoyun, she just submitted an application to live in their dormitory building. Her employer should approve it."

"The dormitory in our unit is a tube-shaped building with bunk beds."

"The male and female dormitories in the building are mixed together. There is a dormitory for lesbians right next to my dormitory."

"If Niu Xiaoyun is assigned to our building, she will really rely on me in the dormitory if she is upset."

"It will really cause some unnecessary trouble."

Li Fanglei heard that after getting off the night shift at midnight, the man would ride his bike home to sleep.

Deep down in my heart I am filled with reluctance.

The arms around him tightened.

"Is there no other way?"

"This is the simplest and most effective method at the moment. I won't have any contact with her when I'm not at work."

"Don't give her the chance to rely on me."

"It would be nice if I could rent a house next to your hospital."

"After get off work at twelve o'clock, you can go to the rental house to sleep and come back the next day."

"Otherwise, you will suffer too much in winter."

When Erbao saw his wife soften, he breathed a sigh of relief.

If possible, he didn't want to go home at midnight.

He could imagine the scene where he hadn't returned home by 12:40 in the middle of the night, and his parents, brother, and wife were standing at the gate of the courtyard waiting for him.

Besides, he gets home from get off work at twelve o'clock.

Uncle Li Erbao lives in the back house and is in charge of the gate of the courtyard.

I have to get up in the middle of the night every few days to open the door for myself.

Li Fanglei didn't think too much about it. She just thought that it would be difficult to rent a house near the hospital.

Most of the houses in the old city are one-story courtyard houses, covering a large area but with a limited number of rooms.

Every unit is short of houses.

The houses near Xiehe Hospital are either newly built dormitories and family buildings for various units.

Or, it could become a courtyard house for dormitories of various units.

There are not many truly private residences nowadays.

In their courtyard, there are only fifteen private houses, including her mother's family, her husband's family, Grandma Jiang's family, Aunt Meijia's family, Zhu Lili's mother's family, and Aunt Lin Zhaodi's family.

The remaining houses in recent years have been gradually requisitioned as public housing and turned into dormitories for various units.

It’s a public property, so where are the houses to rent?

As Li Fanglei thought about it, she became so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes.

Erbao wished that she could fall asleep earlier.

He reached out to tuck in the quilt for her and closed his eyes as well.

The next morning, when Lin Hanyu went downstairs, she saw her second daughter-in-law sitting at a round table, pinching string beans and looking at her.

She felt strange and turned her head to look at A Ye who was walking straight into the bathroom.

Go up and sit next to her.

"Mom, Qingxiang said he would go home and sleep after get off work at 12 o'clock..."

Before Lin Hanyu opened her mouth to ask, she heard Lei Lei's voice ringing in her ears.

At first, she didn't take it seriously and thought that her second son wanted to go home and live with his wife and children because the weather was getting warmer.

But the more she continued to listen to her second daughter-in-law, the more she felt that something was not going on.

Li Fanglei looked at her mother-in-law in front of her, who had fallen silent since she finished speaking.

I feel a little more at ease.

Deep down, she really felt that with her parents, parents-in-law and brother Qingxiang around, she didn't have to worry about anything.

"Mom, I want to see if there is a house for rent near Qingxiang's workplace."

"It's better to be a little further away."

"Well, let's ask around."

Lin Hanyu did not give her second daughter-in-law a definite answer. She got up and went into the bathroom to wash up.

For her, it is better for Niu Xiaoyun to live in her second son's dormitory building than to rent a house on her own.

In the bathroom, Bai Ye saw his wife wiping her face carelessly.

Raise your hand to help her squeeze the toothpaste.

"What are you thinking about?"

"Just now Leilei said Erbao wanted to..."

"I'll go to Zhang Qiulan's workplace to look for her at noon."

"Her brother-in-law was assigned to work in the logistics department of Xiehe Hospital a few years ago."

"See if he can assign Niu Xiaoyun to live in another dormitory building."

"Xiehe Hospital is not the only dormitory building where our son lives."

"She insisted on living in the same building with our son."

"It's really annoying."

At noon, Zhang Qiulan followed the guard out of the unit’s gate and saw Lin Manyu standing there.

When she saw the person coming, the smile on her face became more sincere.

Zhang Qiulan put her arm around Lin Manyu's shoulders and took the opportunity to touch her smooth little face.

"Sister Yu, we still have about ten days to eat with Guiying and Lanyu this month."

"You don't come here for no reason?"

"Come and try your company's cafeteria."

"Okay, our canteen chef is a descendant of a famous Shandong cuisine chef and his dishes are delicious."

"That's great. I haven't eaten the food in your Finance Bureau cafeteria yet."

The two of them talked as they walked towards the cafeteria hand in hand.

"Qiulan, I suddenly came to see you today because I really have something to ask..."

"Okay, that's not difficult."

"It's not like we won't give her a dormitory."

"But why do you care which dormitory building a young nurse is assigned to live in?"

"This Niu Xiaoyun..."

After hearing her words, Zhang Qiulan showed a brief shock on her face, but then she regained her composure.

"Our second baby is good-looking and excellent."

"For young girls, being attractive is a must."

"If this girl can't figure it out, there will be some trouble."

"This is not difficult for my brother-in-law. I will go to my mother-in-law tonight and tell him."

"I won't tell him why the young nurse named Niu Xiaoyun was assigned to a different dormitory building."

"it is good."

Lin Hanyu tilted his head to look at his side, then turned to look at Zhang Qiulan with a smile.

It seems like I see again those energetic young girls on the university campus those years.

After the reform and opening up, houses will be allowed to be bought and sold freely.

She must remind her friends to pay more attention to real estate.

Although, in her previous life, the price of the house had dropped significantly before she and A Ye had the car accident.

However, in this life, their generation happened to catch the real estate bonus period, and everyone made a fortune.

In Beijing, it would be nice to just buy one more house and leave it to my children to collect rent.

In the cafeteria of the Finance Bureau, Lin Hanyu looked at the nine-turn large intestine and first-class tofu in the window.

He smiled and handed the aluminum lunch box he had brought to the chef.

Then he handed the bill to the master who was collecting money next to him.

She waited for Zhang Qiulan, who was standing behind her, to prepare her meal.

The two of them found a seat and sat down together.

Lin Hanyu picked up a piece of nine-turn large intestine, put it in his mouth and started eating.

I couldn't help but give Zhang Qiulan a thumbs up.

She waited until she had swallowed the food in her mouth before she spoke.

"This Shandong cuisine chef's dishes taste really good."

"If you guys want to eat Shandong cuisine, you don't have to go to a state-owned restaurant where a Shandong cuisine chef is in charge."

“Is it possible that none of us in our unit eat Shandong cuisine during our breaks?”

Lin Manyu was slightly stunned, and then started laughing along with Zhang Qiulan.

This afternoon, I went to the Finance Bureau to find Zhang Qiulan.

I didn't even go to see my two little granddaughters.

She parked her bicycle in the company shed and headed towards the kindergarten.

The two little guys were in the room, listening to the teacher telling stories with other children.

Lin Hanyu stood at the door and looked at them quietly for a while.

Then he turned around and went back to the office.

When she entered the office, there were still ten minutes left before work.

It’s almost the end of the month, and I’m afraid someone will come in and talk to me about work.

She deliberately stayed in the office for half an hour, drinking jasmine tea before entering the space.

When Lin Hanyu entered the master bedroom, she saw a note left by Aye on the bedside table.

She sat on the bed, reached out and picked up the note to read.

I saw the note saying that you couldn’t come into the space to accompany me at noon today.

She put the note down and rolled around on the bed.

Don't stop until you are tired of rolling.

Since Aye was not in the space, she didn't dare to sleep too deeply.

If Aye hadn’t woken her up last time, she didn’t know how long it would take before she heard the knock on the door.

Sunday came in a blink of an eye. Today, Lin Hanyu and Bai Ye were going to the department store to buy bicycles.

Dabao was sitting on the sofa with a newspaper in his hand. He looked soft-hearted when he saw his mother coming downstairs so early.

He thought about what his father told him last night, that his mother wanted to buy a bicycle.

A look of understanding flashed across his eyes.

"Son, what do you want to eat for breakfast?"

Lin Hanyu sat next to her eldest son and picked up the sachima on the table and started eating.

This Sachima is a special Manchu pastry that originated from the offerings at the three tombs outside the Great Wall.

Later, when the Manchus entered the country, Sachima became popular in Beijing.

It has become one of the Beijing-style four-season pastries.

When she was a child, her mother often cooked it at home.

Later, she lived with A-ye because she found the frying step too troublesome.

She doesn't often make this pastry at home unless her children ask for it.

Recently, I have particularly loved the crispy, soft and sweet sachima.

This pastry is always on the coffee table at home.

Seeing his mother enjoying the meal, Dabao raised his hand and picked up the pot with a handle next to the hawthorn cake.

Pour your mother some jasmine tea.

Lin Hanyu didn't bother to be polite with his son. After finishing the glass, he signaled him with his eyes to pour another one quickly.

From time to time, he should be fed a sachima.

Sachima wanted to drink water after eating too much, but the mother and daughter had not had breakfast yet.

Just sit on the sofa, eating and drinking.

It was not until Erbao came back from his late night shift that Lin Manyu realized it was already time for breakfast.

When she sat at the dining table, she looked at the egg custard, first-grade tofu, stir-fried pork ribs with green onions, and stir-fried rapeseed on the table.

Some can't eat.

Lin Hanyu glanced at her two granddaughters who were eating seriously with their heads down.

He raised his hand, picked up the chopsticks, and slowly started eating breakfast.

Erbao took a look at his mother who would not swallow the food without chewing it fifty times.

She tilted her head and glared at her brother. How could her mother's appetite compare to her brother's?

At this moment, my brother was gnawing on the ribs with great enthusiasm.

After breakfast, Lin Hanyu and Bai Ye walked leisurely towards the bus stop.

They first had to go to Dongcheng District and take a look at the scrap collection station that they had never been to before.

See if you can find any antiques worth collecting.

Then, go to the department store to buy a bicycle.

The two of them got off the bus near the scrap collection station.

I asked people along the way and finally determined the exact location of the scrap collection station.

All waste collection stations in Beijing are the same, and the staff keep them clean.

Lin Hanyu and Bai Ye greeted each other at the gatehouse as before.

He walked through the door and headed into the scrap collection station.

The two of them walked around inside and finally decided to look in the wood storage room first.

Author: My dears, thank you for reading my novel. Before, I was not familiar with the Tomato System.

I found out that I didn’t have permission to post pictures, and I didn’t expect that I could post pictures in the comments.

Now the structural diagrams of the male and female protagonists' families will be posted in the chapter reviews of Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, and Chapter 8 respectively.

Those who are interested can go back and take a look.