The couple made a living in the 1950s.

"We have to buy another room in the yard while we still have some money."

"Otherwise, when the children grow up, it will be inconvenient for them to live at home."

Liu Meijia nodded and said, "Let's tidy up the house like Meimei's family did."

"This annex is 30 square meters. Now you can see the whole house clearly at a glance."

"Cooking in the house with a coal stove creates a lot of dust."

"We set up the house with two bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen."

"The bedrooms should be large and small, and the kitchen doesn't need to be too big, it should be able to fit in well."

"Okay," Ding Qiang nodded.

"Then let's see who can sell their house this year, and then renovate the current ear room in our house in the spring of next year."

In the bedroom on the second floor of the Bai family, Lin Hanyu took the new property certificate and land use certificate handed over by Bai Ye.

Carefully pack them into a rosewood box, and then place the box into the bedside table in the master bedroom.

"Aye, are there many people going to replace their property certificates today?"

Bai Ye didn't stop changing into his pajamas. "The government has just issued a document asking people to go to the police station to apply for a new certificate to replace the old deed."

“Now is the time when there are many people.”

Lin Hanyu nodded when she heard this, "Has anyone said that our house is not small?"

"No one paid attention to our house. Ding Qiang helped us get the property certificate and land use certificate himself."

After changing into his pajamas, Bai Ye lay down next to Lin Manyu and held her in his arms.

"Besides, our house is of medium size. There are many courtyard houses with larger specifications and areas in the city now."

"If a house has two or three rooms, the area is not small."

"We bought our house before the liberation, when there were many houses with their own doors and courtyards."

Lin Hanyu thought for a while, then nestled in Bai Ye's arms with peace of mind.

"When the three of us get married and have children, our family will grow larger."

"Our house really can't be divided into a particularly large category. It's just enough for us."

Bai Ye opened his mouth, wanting to say that he would never let Sanbao marry a man who had to live in his father-in-law's house.

After thinking about it, he swallowed the words back.

At the end of January in the New Year of 1955, Lin Hanyu and Bai Ye did not let their children study at home just because they were about to take the high school entrance exam.

Just like in previous years, their family went out for fun on the 27th day of the 12th lunar month, the 5th day of the 1st lunar month, and the 15th day of the 1st lunar month.

In addition, every year when the three babies have their birthdays, they sometimes make a birthday wish to go out for a meal.

Over the years, their family has visited teahouses, theaters and restaurants of all sizes in Beijing.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, at Zhang Mei's home in the second courtyard of the main courtyard, Lin Hanyu, Zhang Mei and Liu Meijia gathered in the living room to chat.

Ding Ruyang is more than six months old and was put on the sofa by Liu Meijia to sleep.

Fang Jun will be three years old in a few months, and now he is sitting in Zhang Mei's arms eating egg custard.

There are no children of his age in this yard.

Usually at home, his brother Fang Xu and Jiang Mingyu from the Jiang family take him out to play.

Wait until the two older kids start going to school next year.

This little guy had to wait until he went to the hospital nursery with his mother before he could play with other children.

Liu Meijia swallowed the red dates in her mouth and looked up at Lin Manyu and Zhang Mei.

"Our Yangyang's eldest aunt has been here since she found out that we bought the west wing of the second courtyard of Xu Zhaodi's house a few years ago."

"Every time you see me you have a sullen face."

This year, when we were having New Year's Eve dinner in the old house, the two sisters-in-law worked together to bully me.

If Qiangzi's face hadn't been looking worse and worse, they would have continued endlessly.

Lin Hanyu and Zhang Mei looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

Lin Manyu's father, mother, father-in-law and mother-in-law all died on the battlefield.

Zhang Mei and Li Ze's parents also died during the war.

They don't really have these worries now.

Fortunately, Liu Meijia didn’t really miss them and didn’t give herself any advice.

"Didn't Yangyang's aunt say that she wanted her eldest son to join the army?"

After Zhang Mei fed her little son a mouthful of egg custard in her arms, she turned to look at Liu Meijia.

"This matter was widely circulated in our courtyard some time ago."

"We took Qiangzi to visit a comrade who had his eyes injured by a bomb on the battlefield."

"After he came back, he said he would never join the army."

Liu Meijia picked up the teacup on the coffee table and took a sip of tea.

"Qiangzi and I both came from the battlefield. Swords and guns are blind. If anything goes wrong, it will be a disaster."

"Given the behavior of his eldest brother's family, they will definitely blame us when the time comes."

"That kid from the Ru family wants to use my relationship with Qiangzi to join the army, but that's absolutely not allowed."

"They only want the benefits of the jobs that Qiangzi and I are assigned now, and they don't want to bear the responsibility for our previous efforts."

At this moment, the atmosphere in the Zhu family's main house in the second courtyard was a bit solemn.

Zhang Huijuan sat alone on the sofa with a gloomy face.

The team she and her child's father were in was after the September 18th Incident.

They had to secretly move from Yang City to Shaanxi Province to join other anti-Japanese forces.

My daughter was born in Shaanxi Province in 1932 and is 23 years old this year.

She didn't get much education during her years in the countryside, and entered Huazhong University as a transferred student.

After graduation, my daughter will return to the Beijing Municipal Hospital of the Ministry of Health and continue to work as a medical record keeper.

She happened to have a comrade-in-arms whose son worked as a doctor in the hospital.

She and her comrade-in-arms discussed it and arranged a blind date for them on the morning of the third day of the New Year.

She has also met her comrade's son, who is a very nice young man.

But her daughter didn't even go.

When Lin Hanyu returned home, Bai Ye was already making lunch.

The three treasures are studying in the living room.

When they saw their mother come back, they all gathered around and sat on the sofa.

Lin Hanyu looked at them with a smile in her eyes, "Are you tired today?"

Sanbao nodded his little head and leaned against Lin Manyu.

"Dad said we'll have pickled cabbage hotpot tonight as a reward for our hard work today."

After dinner, Lin Manyu and his family sat in the living room chatting.

Lin Yuyu went there specially and made a new pot of jasmine tea and placed it on the coffee table.

She and Aye have lived in Beijing for many years, and they have gradually fallen in love with the scent of jasmine.

The family is enjoying the relaxation after dinner together.

Then I heard quarreling and cursing coming from his front yard.

Bai Ye took Erbao's hand off his neck, stood up and walked into the yard.

When Lin Hanyu saw Bai Ye going out, he turned around and told the three treasures to stay at home, and then he went out too.

In the Bai family's small courtyard, Bai Ye stood under the south wall of the courtyard with a deep look in his eyes and no emotion revealed.

Seeing Lin Hanyu coming to him, he reached out and held her hand.

When Lin Hanyu and Bai Ye returned to the house, the three treasures were sitting together with solemn expressions.

When they saw their parents come into the room, they smiled, stood up and walked over to them.

At this time, in the old house of the Ding family in the fourth courtyard, the whole family was sitting solemnly in the main hall.