The couple made a living in the 1950s.

Because they had to go to the department store to buy a refrigerator, Lin Hanyu and Bai Ye did not stay long at their second son's house.

After sitting for a while, he left with his two grandsons.

By the time they returned to the courtyard with the refrigerator, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.

The quiet courtyard became lively with the arrival of this refrigerator.

When Lin Manyu's family was building the house, they left many power sockets at home.

Now refrigerators are placed directly in the dining room, which is convenient to use, beautiful and not crowded.

The Bai family’s refrigerator caused a sensation in the yard, but after a while no one paid any attention to it anymore.

Fortunately, no neighbors came to our house to refrigerate or freeze leftovers.

In the blink of an eye, it was 1978 and universities began to start classes in March.

Shortly after the New Year, Mingyu, Fangxu, Fangjun and Ruyang, the only four people in the courtyard who were admitted to universities, also packed their luggage and went to study in the universities they had been admitted to.

For those candidates who failed the exam, it seems like it was just yesterday that they were so crazy about the resumption of the college entrance examination.

Now I am starting to worry about finding a job.

Time always passes slowly.

Today is Sunday, and Lin Manyu is sitting in the examination room as an invigilator.

This recruitment is the first time that Corey has recruited formal employees from outside since she started working for many years.

The educational requirement is not high, just high school or above is enough.

As the head of the Finance Department, Lin Manyu not only has to set the test questions but also serves as an invigilator.

She glanced at Li Huiying and Wang Baosheng, who were sitting next to her to supervise the exam, and lowered her head to take a sip of the jasmine tea in the magnolia cup.

Li Huiying and Wang Baosheng started working a few years earlier than her, and the three of them are of similar age.

It's time for both of them to go through the retirement procedures and let their family members take over.

The reason why he hasn't moved is simply because he is waiting for me.

If she doesn't go to apply for retirement, Li Huiying and Wang Baosheng won't go either.

Many staff members in the bureau who have reached retirement age do not want to apply for retirement.

I always think that I can get more pension when I retire at the next level of length of service. Besides, the salary at work is much higher than the pension.

Normally, working in the bureau is not tiring.

She knows better than anyone that retirement cannot be changed.

If I were in my fifties, I could retire in 75 or 75.

It just so happened that it was the dark night before dawn, and it was the most chaotic.

There is no place to retire.

By the time the news came out that retirement procedures would be resumed, she was still a few months away from reaching 21 years of working experience.

She would be unwilling to accept the pension based on fifteen to twenty years of service.

Lin Hanyu pulled his thoughts back to his senses and sat at his desk, drinking tea intermittently.

What she didn't know was that the candidates answered the test questions well.

They couldn't help but glance at her, the famous head of the Finance Section of the Public Security Bureau.

In Beijing’s government agencies and large state-owned factories, there are few people who have not heard of Lin Manyu.

The whole family is college students, and they are all famous for their good looks.

How could Lin Hanyu pay attention to these things? His family bought two more courtyard houses with three entrances in January.

One is in Beiluoguxiang and the other is in Wudaoying Hutong.

These two courtyard houses were also built according to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty, and officials from the previous dynasty once lived in the houses.

The Guangliang gate is located in the "Xun" position, and there are five rooms in the courtyard beyond the third back room.

Plus the patio area.

The two courtyards are 356 square meters in size and 348 square meters in size respectively according to the property deeds.

From then on, neither she nor A Ye met the seller of the courtyard house again.

Now, Courtyard No. 21 of our house and the three courtyards that we bought later are being rebuilt.

This time I used materials bought from the market.

The people invited to build the courtyard were all skilled craftsmen who specialized in building ancient courtyard houses.

It is still built the same way as before, with reinforced concrete structures inside.

The exterior walls are built with blue bricks.

All the beams and columns in the house are covered with solid wood, creating the four styles of ancient architecture.

However, this time they used the relatively rare red toon wood.

The new furniture in the four courtyard houses is also made of it.

The exam is over and it's time for lunch.

Lin Hanyu and the others did not let go of the papers they collected and started grading them directly.

Finally, a young girl named Huang Xing, who graduated from the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, was recruited.

She had good test scores, although the situation of students at the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University was somewhat mediocre after the college entrance examination was resumed.

But these do not affect Lin Hanyu and his department's decision to recruit the person with the highest score in the written test to work.

Lin Hanyu, arranged for the newcomers to report to the bureau at work.

I rode my bike and strolled home.

She pushed her bicycle and walked into the Jiang family yard behind the main courtyard.

I saw a group of people gathered in front of their house.

I couldn't help but stop and walk home.

Lin Ai saw her and squeezed out of the crowd.

"Jiadong got a color TV ticket and bought a color TV for the family. The technician is installing the antenna now."

"You can watch it once it's installed. You can bring your children home to watch TV in the evening."

"Well, the little ones at home will definitely like to watch it."

"Color TVs cannot be mass-produced yet. Many of the parts need to be imported and are hard to find."

"It's hard to buy, so Jiadong asked someone to help me get this TV."

When Lin Ai heard Lin Manyu's words, she felt relieved.

She has since learned that the Lin family where her parents used to work was Lin Manyu's second uncle's family.

Whenever she thought of this, she felt like there was a wall in her heart.

Now that I see that my family has a color TV which the Bai family doesn’t have, I feel a little relieved.

Lin Hanyu noticed her expression and lowered his head slightly to hide the smile on his face.

My daughter's mother-in-law doesn't dare to do anything bad, but she has a lot of small thoughts. Just let her do as she pleases.

Lin Hanyu pushed her bicycle into her yard. When she heard a commotion coming from the fourth courtyard, she subconsciously turned around to look.

Until I saw A Ye and his second son walking in from the hanging flower gate.

There was a square box on the back seat of the bicycle pushed by the second son.

His father was walking beside him, holding it with his hand.

Lin Yu parked his bicycle and stepped forward.

When she got closer, she saw that there was a TV on the back seat.

"A new TV?"

"Erbao won a ticket for a color TV to attend the seminar, so I asked an alumnus who works in the Foreign Trade Bureau to help me reserve a color TV."

Bai Ye met his wife's inquiring gaze and spoke slowly.

The neighbors who had gathered to watch the Jiang family install the TV antenna heard that the Bai family had also bought a TV, and they followed to the courtyard to watch the fun.

Jiang Jiadong saw that their family had also bought a TV, and turned to look at Bai Ye.

Have you made an appointment with the engineer to come to your house to install the antenna? My engineer here hasn’t left yet.

In this way, the TV antenna installer installed the Jiang family's TV antenna.

They came to the Bai family to install it, and Lin Hanyu and his friends no longer had to go to the street office to find an installation master.

Lin Yuyu directed her husband and second son to lift the sealed cupboard that had been placed against the wall of the bedroom on the first floor and place it in the living room.

She sat there, looking up at the TV that was placed on top of the cupboard.

The cupboard was facing the sofa, and she stood up only after making sure that her vision would not be uncomfortable while watching TV.

The neighbors in the yard watched the Bai family install the TV antenna again, and as they walked home they discussed whose house to go to watch the news broadcast tonight.

On the other side, in the Jiang family’s living room.

Lin Ai looked at He Baojie sitting on the sofa eating peanuts. She decided not to see him and not to be annoyed, so she got up and went back to the bedroom.

She lay in bed, feeling a little uneasy.

The Bai family said if there is a color TV, there is a color TV.

It made her momentary sense of superiority seem ridiculous.

The Lin family is a big capitalist, and the Jiang family is also a big capitalist.

I don’t know how much money my parents-in-law left to my husband.

For the first time, she regretted not having taken the trouble to manage the family's wealth.

Lin Hanyu naturally had no idea what she was thinking.

She was sitting on the sofa in the bedroom with Bai Ye, calculating how much money the family had spent during this period.

I bought a pipa for A-Yun for 700 yuan, and pianos for Yi-Yi and A-Heng for yuan.

Yu Bai's piano was owned half by his family and half by the Jiang family, and the price was RMB 100.

Yu Ming bought a violin and his grandfather was responsible for it.

Ajin’s violin costs 200 yuan.

There is also the Yuan courtyard house in Nanluoguxiang, and the two courtyard houses in Beiluoguxiang and Wudaoying Hutong, all of which were bought with two large yellow croakers.

In addition, there is the 2200 yuan spent on the refrigerator before and the 1200 yuan spent on the color TV now.

She and A Ye spent yuan, plus the money they used to buy the 21 yuan flower next door.

After more than 20 years of savings, the two of them only had 50 yuan left.

Lin Hanyu touched the five lonely ten-yuan notes in the cash box and was stunned for a moment.

It couldn't hide the upturned corners of her mouth.

It is a good thing to be able to spend money without wasting it.

She closed the cash box, stood up and put it back on the top shelf.

He sat next to Bai Ye again.

She put her arms around his and leaned in gently.

"It's okay, we will earn another 432.5 yuan after we get our salary next month.

"Hehehe..."

Bai Ye saw that he was caring about his wife and held her tightly in his arms.

"You won't feel uneasy if you can't see the cash and passbooks in the box."

"I can go into the space and look at the gold bars."

Bai Ye looked at the back of the person in his arms as he stood up to tidy up the top cabinet, a smile flashed across his eyes.

My family is still in need of a washing machine. I wonder if I can find someone willing to exchange a washing machine ticket for me.

They haven't saved enough money yet, so there's no rush.

The news broadcast started at 7 o'clock in the evening, and the neighbors in the courtyard had already split into two groups.

One group of people were waiting in front of the TV at the Bai family, and another group was at the Jiang family.

At this time, the temperature is just right, neither too hot nor too cold.

There were people sitting in the yard, and many families in the alley came to see the novelty.

After a week, everyone gradually felt embarrassed to come to my house to watch TV.

The Bai family courtyard finally returned to its former tranquility.

It’s almost mid-August.

At this moment, Lin Hanyu was sitting in the personnel department of his unit, waiting in line to complete his retirement procedures.

Her length of service is 21 years and a little over one month.

Next month, I will receive a monthly pension of 82.875 yuan.

No longer receiving a salary of 110.5 yuan.

After she has settled her retirement here, she will have to go to Yang City to reclaim her ancestral home.

The renovation of their two ancestral homes will have to wait until next year, as there may not be enough time this year.

No matter what the house looks like, she and A Ye are going to tear down the Bai family's ancestral home and rebuild it.