Siheyuan: Qin Huai Ru, Dong Xu Qing You

This guy has been with her for decades and has extraordinary skills.

He could easily jump over a four or five meter high wall.

But even for him, it was impossible to jump so high with a person who was about to fall unconscious.

After Lou Xiao'e narrowly escaped the burning of the courtyard house, the deaf old lady was also feeling uneasy.

She lost her status as a five-guarantee household and was in a daze all day long.

So, when she heard that Lou Xiao'e could still run after taking the medicine, she ran away immediately.

When Yang Lei saw Sha Zhu running back to the backyard, he jumped down from the roof, picked up Lou Xiao'e, and ran quickly to the front yard.

He jumped onto the wall again holding Lou Xiao'e.

In broad daylight, it would be too conspicuous to run down the street holding Lou Xiao'e, after all, they were not husband and wife.

Yang Lei didn't let Lou Xiao'e touch the ground, and he took her on the roof and used light skills to travel.

Fortunately, after running around the roofs of several houses, he found the window of a three-story building open.

He jumped in holding Lou Xiaoe.

At this time, Lou Xiao'e had taken effect of the drug and had fallen into a coma.

"Lou Xiao'e, Lou Xiao'e, you are such a weirdo.

Being cheated once wasn't enough, but you cheated me twice by that old deaf guy! I'm really impressed by you!"

Yang Lei saw a bed on the small building, so he put Lou Xiao'e on the bed and let her rest.

It was unclear how long Lou Xiao'e would sleep, and Yang Lei didn't know when the owner of the house would come back, so he could only stay by Lou Xiao'e's side.

After about two or three hours, footsteps were heard on the stairs.

"It's over! Someone's back."

Yang Lei quickly jumped down from the building.

He walked quickly to the front door of the small building.

"Dong dong!"

Yang Lei reached out and knocked on the door.

"Who? Coming, coming."

The people upstairs heard the noise and did not come up, but went back.

A woman's voice came from the room.

"Who?"

The woman seemed quite cautious. She didn't open the door first, but asked through it.

“It’s me, just passing by.

I'm thirsty and would like to have a cup of tea."

Yang Lei made an excuse and answered with a smile.

The woman looked out through the crack in the door.

Yang Lei is very handsome and has an outstanding temperament.

Sure enough, being handsome has its advantages.

When the woman saw how handsome Yang Lei was, she thought he was probably a good person.

"Squeak."

The woman reached out and opened the door.

"Xu Huizhen?"

Yang Lei recognized the woman in front of him at a glance.

The woman was in her twenties and was very neat and tidy.

She is also beautiful and looks gentle and virtuous.

"How do you know me?"

Xu Huizhen was also surprised. She was sure that she had never seen Yang Lei before.

Yang Lei smiled and said, “When Manager Huizhen opened a pub, I went to your place to drink.

Maybe Manager Huizhen was too busy and forgot about it."

Xu Huizhen was half-believing and half-doubting.

She has a good memory and can usually remember all the guests who have visited her tavern.

Not only does she remember people, she also remembers the guests' preferences clearly.

Most of the people who come to the tavern to drink are rickshaw drivers, street vendors and the like who make money by their physical labor.

Some people drink a dime worth of wine and leave immediately, while others are more picky and will get some peanuts or spiced beans to go with their wine.

Xu Huizhen quickly recalled it in her mind and was still sure that she had never seen Yang Lei.

Yang Lei smiled kindly, without any harming look on his face, which made Xu Huizhen's tense nerves relax.

"May I ask your surname?"

"My name is Yang Lei, and I work in the cafeteria at the Red Star Steel Mill."

When Xu Huizhen heard that Yang Lei was a worker at the Red Star Steel Mill, she felt more at ease.

"Oh, it's Comrade Yang Lei. Please come in."

Xu Huizhen welcomed Yang Lei into her home.

Yang Lei looked around the small building. Although it was simple, it was well organized.

Xu Huizhen picked up the big teapot on the table and poured a bowl of tea for Yang Lei.

"Comrade Yang Lei, we only have coarse tea. Please make do with it."

"Manager Huizhen, you are so polite. It's great that we can have tea."

Yang Lei had been busy since early morning. He had just run for a distance while carrying Lou Xiaoe, and his throat was almost sore.

He took the tea handed to him by Xu Huizhen and drank it all in one breath.

"This tea is really thirst-quenching. Is there something added to it?" Yang Lei pondered. This tea couldn't be pure old tea leaves. There must be something else.

Otherwise, how could it be bitter first and sweet later, leaving people with an endless aftertaste?

"Comrade Yang is really an expert. He added licorice and honeysuckle to this tea. I came up with these myself when I had nothing to do." Xu Huizhen said with a smile.

"Manager Huizhen is really capable!"

"I'm not a manager anymore, Comrade Yang. Just call me Huizhen."

The two of them chatted and laughed, and the atmosphere soon became harmonious.

Yang Lei and Xu Huizhen had a very good chat because he knew this woman.

Xu Hui is such a miserable woman.

In 1955, He Yongqiang, who had just gotten married, abandoned Xu Huizhen and pursued her cousin.

On a snowy day, Xu Huizhen went to the hospital alone in the snow to give birth to her child.

Soon after the birth of the child, the public-private partnership began.

Xu Huizhen was the first in Zhengyangmen Street to respond to the call and invite Manager Gongfang to move in.

Later, Xu Huizhen, as the private manager, had to withdraw from the tavern.

There is also a reason for Fan Jinyou.

When Fan Jinyou saw that Xu Huizhen was beautiful, he became interested in her.

After Xu Huizhen got divorced, he kept pestering her.

But Xu Huizhen never paid any attention to him.

Xu Huizhen was very surprised. Yang Lei's words hit the nail on the head.

"mom!"

Xu Hui really wanted to continue the in-depth conversation with Yang Lei, but she heard her daughter Xu Jingli calling her mother from inside the room.

"Yang Lei, sorry, Jingli is awake."

"It's okay, Sister Huizhen, you go take care of Jingli."

Yang Lei can't leave Xu Huizhen's home now.

The silly girl Lou Xiao'e was still sleeping soundly in the attic on the third floor.

If it were at night, Yang Lei could still take Lou Xiaoe away.

But it's broad daylight now.

A grown man walking down the street holding a girl in his arms will definitely attract attention.

When Yang Lei arrived, he saw people wearing red armbands patrolling the streets. If they saw him, they would definitely come over to question him.

Yang Lei and Lou Xiao'e are not a couple, so isn't he asking for trouble by hugging her like this?

Hey, even if Yang Lei said that Lou Xiao'e was drugged, who would believe it?

Yang Lei could only stay at Xu Huizhen's house for the time being and wait until the effect of Lou Xiaoe's medicine wore off before taking her away.

"Sister Huizhen, this is Jingli, right? She's so pretty.

Jingli, come here, uncle will give you some candy."

Yang Lei saw Xu Huizhen holding a little girl who looked like a porcelain doll in her arms.

The little girl had two pigtails on her head and looked like she had just woken up. Her face was as red as an autumn apple, which made her particularly endearing.

Yang Lei took out a few candies from his pocket and handed them to Xu Jingli.

"Wow, it's White Rabbit Milk Candy! Thank you, uncle!"

Four-year-old Xu Jingli's eyes lit up, and she stretched out her little hand halfway and then retracted it.

The little girl turned her head and looked at her mother Xu Huizhen who was holding her.

It seems that Xu Huizhen has her own way of educating her children.

"Yang Lei, this is so embarrassing.

Such good candy, you should keep it for your children."

Xu Hui is really an intelligent person, of course she knows how rare White Rabbit Milk Candy is.

In the 1950s and 1960s, children from ordinary families could not afford to eat this kind of candy; they had never even seen it.

It's nice to be able to eat a piece of sweet and chocolaty Cuban candy every now and then.

"Sister Huizhen, I'm still single, how could I have a child? I didn't buy these candies with my own money, I won them in a lottery."

Yang Lei didn't lie. He really won the White Rabbit milk candy in a lottery and didn't spend a penny.

"Yang Lei isn't married yet? Does he have a partner?"

Xu Huizhen suddenly felt that she was a little gossipy. How could she be interested in someone she just met? This was really uncommon.

Xu Huizhen is not the kind of person who only looks at appearance.

She didn't like Yang Lei because he was handsome, although he was indeed quite handsome.

But this is not the point.

The most important thing is that Yang Lei speaks with depth, and the topic they just talked about touched her heart.

"Li'er, thank your uncle quickly."

What Xu Huizhen meant was that she tacitly approved of her daughter accepting Yang Lei's candy.

Xu Jingli was so upset that she used her two little hands to grab all the candies.

But her little hand was too small, and a piece of candy remained in Yang Lei's hand.