The couple made a living in the 1950s.

After my eldest brother supervised the construction of two old houses in Yang City, he returned to Beijing to be with his wife and children and never went to Yang City again.

However, every summer vacation, she would bring her grandchildren there to stay for a few days.

In 1981, the Children's Palace added an opera course, giving children at home another talent.

Because they were going to take the college entrance exam this year, my two granddaughters stopped all their classes at the Children's Palace during the winter break before their senior year of high school.

Beijing’s high schools still have a two-year academic system, and the relevant departments have already issued documents.

After 83, the high school system was changed to a three-year system.

Today is Monday. Aye and the children at home go to work and school as they should.

She spends her free time at home reading, practicing calligraphy and painting, feeling quite comfortable.

As the tickets had not been cancelled yet, she had to go out every day to bring back some meat and eggs.

The courtyard No. 21 where I live now is planted with flowers, plants and trees, and my family still grows fruits and vegetables in the flower beds in the small yard.

Every week, I send meat, eggs and vegetables to the three babies in my family.

I have the key to their house, and every time I go there I just drop off my things, leave a note, and leave.

She just thought of it as exercising.

In the past two years, the old house in Yang City has received more and more letters from overseas.

The elders in her and A'ye's families have all passed away, and the brothers and sisters have a friendship that they grew up with, so they are very willing to communicate with each other via correspondence.

He also specifically wrote his home address in Beijing in the letter.

From then on, all letters to myself and Aye were mailed directly to Beijing.

My bedroom and Aye's are in the main house in the fourth courtyard of the main yard, and the living room is in the middle of the three main rooms.

The east room is used as a bedroom, and the east wing is a bathroom with a shower.

The west room is a study, and she designed the west ear room into a cloakroom.

Unlike other courtyards, the four rooms in the east and west of the courtyard where they lived were filled with furniture she took out from the space.

These pieces of furniture were dowries from my mother and mother-in-law, all made of top-quality small-leaf red sandalwood.

Although, the east and west wing rooms are also built with bathrooms and showers.

But she would not use it for living. The doors of the east and west wing rooms were usually locked, and the furniture passed down for hundreds of years was not suitable for daily life.

The furniture in all the rooms in the house are made of huanghuali wood.

Aye used a lot of connections to buy these rosewoods.

"Hanyu."

"You are here, come in."

Lin Hanyu did not bring Zhang Mei and Meijia to the reception room in the main house of the second courtyard.

He greeted the two of them and walked into the living room of the main house in the fourth courtyard.

The three of them sat on the sofa. Lin Hanyu picked up the magic lamp pot on the coffee table as usual and poured Longjing tea into the Begonia cups in front of them.

"I went back to my old house and picked this tea from the tea garden in Hangzhou."

"I'll bring some back for both of you later."

"You are truly retired. Zhixu, the youngest in the family, is eight years old."

"Unlike those naughty kids in my family."

Meijia lowered her head, took a sip of tea, and put down the Begonia cup in her hand.

Lin Hanyu and Zhang Mei smiled at each other and said, "Don't always think about your grandchildren."

"Ruchen is about to graduate from college next year. Will he go straight to work or take the postgraduate entrance exam?"

"It's his decision, whether to take the postgraduate entrance exam or work, his family supports him."

"It's up to him to decide whether to return to Jing City or stay in Shen City."

Meijia looked at Zhang Mei who was talking, smiled and picked up the sachima on the coffee table and started eating.

"Yanyu, you are obviously from the south, and this sachima is really good."

"My mother married to Yangzhou from Jing City. She was a bannerman, and the furniture and eating habits in her home were mostly in accordance with bannerman rules."

It was the first time that Zhang Mei and Meijia heard Lin Manyu talk about her mother. Knowing that she died on the battlefield, they did not ask any further questions.

Fang Xu, Fang Jun, Ruyang and Mingyu are all section-level cadres after graduating from university and returning to their original units.

Mingyu was transferred to the Shen City Education Bureau last month for his daughter's sake.

They are all living their lives according to their own ideas.

"Ayun and Yiyi University, what major do you want to study and which university do you want to apply to?"

“These two sisters, they said that they would not be wronged if they changed their minds every day.

"After changing so many things, Ah Yun is determined to study accounting."

"Yiyi hasn't made up her mind yet. I'm thinking of waiting until the test results come out before deciding."

"They both wanted to apply to Beijing University, but they were too proud to let us know because they were afraid they wouldn't be admitted."

"Don't worry, Meimei and I won't tell anyone else."

"I heard that you want to buy the two houses in Fu Guoqing's house in the west wing?"

"You all know this?"

Lin Hanyu looked at Meijia and then at Zhang Mei, with a smile on her face.

"How do you know all this? Word spreads so fast."

"We also heard that their family wants 20,000?"

"Well, I was thinking that if I could buy the west wing of our courtyard, I would open a door leading to that side on the wall of the east wing of my courtyard."

"Their asking price is so high, I suddenly feel it's boring."

"When state-owned factories sell houses, they will give priority to employees living there."

“Instead of spending a lot of money to buy the west wing of our yard one by one, it is better to look for an opportunity to buy a complete yard somewhere else.”

"It's good to think so. You don't know how many families in our courtyard are waiting and waiting to make a fortune from you."

"Am I a bit stupid in everyone's eyes?"

Lin Hanyu looked towards Zhang Mei dimly.

“Hahaha…”

Zhang Mei couldn't help laughing when she saw this.

"What do you think? In their minds, people who can spend a lot of money to buy a nice house and leave it empty are just behaving in a way that is incomprehensible."

"Whatever they say!"

"But then again, don't you two want to buy it?"

"How could I not have thought about it? I wanted to buy a house before."

"There are only two side rooms in the house. Although Ruyang and Ruchen don't have to live together, the grandchildren are gradually growing up."

"Since the Railway Bureau allocated a three-bedroom, one-living room, one kitchen and one bathroom to Ruyang last year, I have stopped thinking about buying a house."

"The Public Security Bureau also allocated a three-bedroom, one-living room, one-bathroom, and one-kitchen house to my Fang Xu and Fang Jun. Their father and I will take a break and think about buying a house."

"It's all thanks to your Bai Ye. The layout of the house he designed is really great."

"It's comfortable to live here."

“It’s all part of the job.”

Lin Manyu smiled and nodded, without saying anything more about buying a house.

Houses are never cheap. You can save money and buy the house allocated by your company at the internal employee price if you have the opportunity in the future.

The three of them were retired and at home when Lin Manyu was in Beijing.

We gather at her house to chat every day, and friends often chat together and don’t feel bored staying at home.

Meijia: "During this period, does Grandma Mingbo still often go to the compound to visit him?

"I have to go there once a month. I ask Sanbao to treat me with good food and drinks."

"There's no shortage of food for her at home. The old lady can take some home when she leaves."

"Since Lin Ai is not in Beijing, Mingbo will be considered as fulfilling his filial duty on behalf of his mother."