Siheyuan: All the birds want to die, I enjoy happiness

After hearing what Zhang Qingqing said, Xu Damao was even a little touched. Was it really that he did something wrong? People would rather not get married for the sake of their children. Nowadays, if you don't get married and have children, it's not much different from social death. Being able to make such a decision, Xu Damao didn't know what to do for a while.

He began to think that he was a little too selfish, but he didn't know that if Zhang Qingqing didn't do this, she might have a harder time in the future. It would be better to say this, on the one hand, it would make Xu Damao feel guilty, and on the other hand, it would force Xu Damao to seriously consider this issue.

"Well... okay, I will think about it seriously during this period of time. Take good care of yourself recently, and I will come to you when I have thought it over." Xu Damao thought for a while and said.

"No, I'll come find you then." Zhang Qingqing shook her head. She didn't dare to let Xu Damao come find her, mainly because Zhang Dashan would be back soon. If her father knew about this, she would be finished. Her father would definitely ask her to get out if he knew she was pregnant, but if Xu Damao agreed to marry her before that, then there would be no problem.

She knew her father very well. He was a typical Beijinger. He was a small leader. What would happen if others knew about this? But, if you told him before he knew that although I was pregnant, I was already planning to marry someone else.

Don't worry, Zhang Dashan will definitely agree. After all, it's not too embarrassing. It's not impossible to get on the bus first and buy the ticket later. The main reason is that many people do this these days. Zhang Qingqing has already grasped her father's character, so she is not in a hurry at all.

Because the Chinese New Year is coming soon, everyone in the city is busy preparing for the New Year. Of course, everyone in the courtyard is busy preparing New Year's goods and cleaning the house to prepare for the New Year.

Let's start from the front yard. Because of Yan Bugui's change, the third uncle's family no longer only bought two taels of fat meat every year for the New Year, and mixed some cabbage and vermicelli to make dumplings. This year, they bought three pounds of pork and prepared to eat a real meal of pork dumplings. The children in the family were also very happy. Su Xingchen did not expect that his unintentional actions would actually change the third uncle. He also didn't know whether the children would treat him the same as in his previous life. After all, the children were already quite old. I'm afraid they still remember the things Yan Bugui had settled with them before, but this matter has nothing to do with Su Xingchen.

Of course, the third uncle still hasn't completely gotten rid of his stingy character. Even though the New Year is almost coming, he still takes Yan Jiecheng fishing early every day. Of course, it is not ruled out that he really likes fishing, but in Su Xingchen's opinion, if you like fishing, you can wait. It's not that cold and you don't need to stay that long, right?

In fact, the main reason was that he saw the third uncle secretly exchanging things with people in the yard after fishing. He didn't dare to take money and food coupons, but he still dared to barter.

Moreover, he was not afraid of being reported by others. What were they reporting him for? If they really wanted to report him for speculation or something, he could just say that it was the friendship between neighbors, and that it was normal for everyone to give and take. It was also normal to give gifts to each other these days, right? So Yan Bugui had been exchanging gifts with everyone in the yard during this period. After all, they had a lot of fish at home, and he was just wasting time.

Isn't there a saying? The least valuable thing for the poor is time. They have nothing to do every day anyway, so they might as well go fishing and exchange things to supplement their family income. Of course, the people in the courtyard were also happy to do so. After all, Yan Bugui didn't want money or food coupons. If you want fish, look at what you have at home and then talk to him. If you can exchange, just take it directly. No matter what kind of firewood, coal or something else at home.

After all, the year-end bonuses issued at the end of the year are likely to be things from their own factories. Cloth factories may issue some cloth, and shoe factories may issue a few pairs of shoes. There are often a lot of these things, and they certainly cannot use them all at home. Moreover, it is not safe to sell them on the black market. At this time, when they heard that Yan Bugui could exchange these things, they were of course happy. On the one hand, these things would be left there anyway, and on the other hand, buying these fish for the New Year would mean buying fewer vegetables. Why not?

Su Xingchen's family basically did not make any much preparation. On the one hand, it was because they didn't have many relatives here. On the other hand, Su Xingchen had already prepared a lot of dishes. If there was anything missing, Liu Lihua would just go and buy them.

Even Xiang Xiaobei went to buy a lot of things to prepare for a good New Year, although he was not in a good mood because of the deaf old lady's matter during this period, and he wondered every day if he was just dreaming. But this possibility was too real, but the deaf old lady was dead and this was an inevitable fact. No matter how sad he was, he had to live well. He decided to spend a good New Year here to let his mother know that even if he was the only one left, he would live well.

Not to mention He Yuzhu and He Daqing. They are cooks and are very particular about this aspect. They prepared various dishes early in the morning to entertain their fellow brothers and relatives who came back.

Yi Zhonghai was the only one in the courtyard who hadn't prepared anything for the New Year, because it was always prepared by Auntie in the past, and now Auntie had passed away, so Yi Zhonghai didn't know how to prepare anything. He simply bought some pork and Chinese cabbage and kept them at home. He didn't know how to cook, but he could make simple things like pork stewed with vermicelli.

At most, he could just eat this every day. After the New Year, he would go back to work, eat in the cafeteria at noon, and go out to eat at night. He was alone, so why save this money? He could find a partner after a while. However, Yi Zhonghai had already made up his mind. He must find a healthy partner who was at least 10 years younger than him. He couldn't have children, so he might as well find a younger partner who could accompany him. Then he wouldn't have to worry about retirement.