The couple made a living in the 1950s.

Lin Yuyu gently held Erbao in her arms and asked, "Have you eaten?"

"I've eaten it." Erbao nodded and lay on Lin Manyu's shoulder.

After lunch, Bai Ye washed dishes in the kitchen as usual.

Lin Manyu brought her three children to study at the round table in the living room.

The light from a kerosene lamp is limited, and reading for a long time at night will damage your eyes.

She always thought about helping the children learn more during the day.

"Knock, knock, knock. Is Hanyu home?"

Lin Hanyu heard Zhang Mei knocking on the door in the yard and got up to open the door for her.

In Erbao's bedroom, Zhang Mei coaxed her youngest son to sleep, then laid him on the kang and covered him with a quilt.

Then he sat on the sofa in the living room and chatted with Lin Hanyu.

"We are unloading coal briquettes in our yard. Everyone is busy. I will bring the children to your place to stay for a while."

Lin Yuyu put the freshly brewed Tieguanyin on the coffee table and looked at Zhang Mei with a smile, "Then shouldn't I give you a warm welcome?"

She raised her hand to help Zhang Mei pour the tea, "Who in the yard will order the coal briquettes this time?"

"Everyone ordered the coal briquettes together this time. Li Ping's family and Zhang Guiqiang's family in the west wing of our courtyard did not order."

"Also, the Zhu family, who had just moved into the main house, missed the time when the courtyard ordered coal briquettes."

Zhang Mei picked up the magnolia cup and took a sip of tea.

"Sanjinyuan was a little unhappy just now because of the coal briquettes."

"Aren't there two families living in the east and west wing rooms of the third courtyard?"

Lin Hanyu nodded, "I remember there were four cousins ​​living there."

"Yes, there are four cousins ​​living here," Zhang Mei put the magnolia cup in her hand on the coffee table.

"In the east wing, there is a wing room, a wing room and an east wing ear room. Li Guicheng and Li Guiguo live there."

"In the west wing, there is a wing room, a wing room and a west wing ear room. Li Guipeng and Li Guili live there."

"Li Guiguo just sold the side room of his house to Ding Yunli's family who live in the east wing of the fourth courtyard a few days ago."

"When I came here just now, the other three brothers refused to let Ding Yunli put the coal briquettes in the third courtyard, saying that there was no room in the third courtyard."

After seeing Zhang Mei finish her hawthorn cake, Lin Hanyu pushed the osmanthus cake on the table towards Zhang Mei, signaling her not to be polite.

"I've been going to school early and coming back late recently, so I haven't been home much. I feel like there have been some changes in the residents of the courtyard."

When Bai Ye came out after washing the dishes, he saw Zhang Mei in the living room.

He greeted them with a smile, and knowing that the unloading of coal briquettes had already begun, he went out to the main courtyard.

Zhang Mei watched Bai Ye go out, swallowed the osmanthus cake in her mouth, and looked at Lin Manyu.

"The original owner of the main house in the fourth courtyard has just sold the house."

"There are four new owners living in the main house now. The man who lives in the middle house is called Liu Haiyang and works in a steel factory."

"The hostess's name is Liu Guixiang."

"The west room and the west wing are occupied by Wang Chengren and his family. Wang Chengren works at the coking plant."

"His wife's name is Li Guiqin, and she works in a textile factory."

"The family of Li Zezheng lives in the east room. Li Zezheng works at the flour mill and his wife is Wang Xianggui."

"The person living in the east wing is Li Dazhu, a single young man who works as an apprentice at the Emei Restaurant."

Seeing how serious Zhang Mei was, Lin Yu couldn't help but laughed with her hands covering her mouth.

"Meimei, how do you know so much? Don't you usually have to go to work?"

Zhang Mei touched her nose embarrassedly and said, "I just chat with Aunt Jiang when I'm at home on my days off."

"Aunt Jiang is now retired and at home. She knows everything about this hospital."

"You just haven't sat and chatted with the people in the yard."

"I was not used to it at first, but later I found it quite interesting. It was the fun of life in the compound."

Lin Yu reached out to refill Zhang Mei's tea, "Are there any new people moving into the east and west wing rooms of the fourth courtyard?"

"When I came back that day, I saw a woman washing clothes at the door of the east wing. She was pretty."

Zhang Mei picked up the magnolia cup and took a sip of tea before speaking.

"What you saw should be Ding Yunli's second daughter-in-law. She and his second son Ding Qiang just got their marriage certificate and will hold a wedding banquet next week."

Lin Hanyu saw Sanbao and Li Fanglei, and led Li Fangxu back from the yard.

He quickly got up, brought them some more apples and osmanthus cake, and asked Sanbao to put them on the round bamboo table in the yard so that everyone could eat together.

Lin Hanyu sat back down next to Zhang Mei and looked at her, "Then my family has to give a gift?"

Zhang Mei was amused by her tangled little face and laughed, "This is the first happy event in the yard in recent years."

"He is the owner of the house, and you are also the owner of the house. If he sends you an invitation, you really have to think carefully."

"Our family has to go and give gifts. Ding Qiang is Aze's colleague. He just retired from the army and completed the employment procedures the day before yesterday."

"Now, no one in our yard knows about this."

Lin Yu nodded and said, "If his family sends us an invitation, we will go and give a gift. This is a hero's happy event."

"If he is a good person, it would be a good thing to have more contact with him in the future."

"So his family bought the annex of the three-courtyard house because it wasn't big enough for them to live in after their wedding?"

Zhang Mei thought for a while and said, "I think it should be that Ding Yunli's family is the same as mine. The entire east wing of the four-courtyard compound is his family."

"But he has many children. He has five sons and two daughters."

"My two sons are married and still live together, but my daughter is still unmarried."

As for the west wing of the fourth courtyard, it is still empty.

There was news a couple of days ago that Xu Zhaodi wanted to buy it, but I don’t know if the news is true or not.

When Lin Hanyu heard this, he stopped eating the apple.

"It feels like I haven't heard from her for quite some time. Is she still working as an accountant at Qizhen Pavilion?"

Zhang Mei nodded, "I think she did a pretty good job."

"Originally, the first happy event in this courtyard should have been Xu Zhaodi."

"She and Lin Ping'an, who moved into the back house a few days ago, have known each other for a long time. They got their marriage certificate earlier than Ding Qiang."

"Aunt Liu had a stroke a few days ago and is still lying in bed unable to move, so they didn't have their wedding..."

Before Zhang Mei finished her words, they heard voices coming from the yard.

The two of them stood up and walked to the corridor.

Then I saw Bai Ye and Li Ze helping the coal briquettes unloading master and carrying the coal briquettes to the side room of the east wing.

In the kitchen, Lin Hanyu looked at the pork, eggs, leeks and cucumbers that Zhang Mei brought from her home, and she didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

When she and A-ye first moved into their new house, she was in confinement after giving birth.

After that, there was no suitable opportunity to invite Zhang Mei and Li Ze to dinner at home.

She had eaten the wedding dinner with roasted hot pot at Zhang Mei's house, but Zhang Mei had never eaten at her house.

This time, under the pretext of unloading the coal briquettes, she wanted to invite Zhang Mei's family to have dinner at her home.

As a result, Zhang Mei moved so much food into her house.

Lin Yuyu turned around silently and walked towards the second floor of the kitchen.

She felt relieved when she saw the carp and prawns that Bai Ye had bought this morning swimming around in the water.