bullyxtreme Chapter 231 "He Yuzhu" 35
Chapter 231 "He Yuzhu" 35
Jia Dongxu and Qin Huairu are both good-looking, and Xiao Dang inherited the best features of both of them. She was very popular in high school, and many boys liked her.
She would subtly extract information during casual conversations, gathering a general understanding of the family backgrounds of the two boys in her class who seemed to come from relatively well-off families. She would then eliminate the younger ones, as they were too young to get a marriage certificate after graduation, which would be pointless.
The remaining few who meet the criteria, when they meet, they talk more. Nowadays, "raising fish" is not as complicated as it is in later years. Nowadays, when men and women talk more, they will feel in their hearts that "our relationship is different from others".
As graduation approached, she chatted with several friends and found out which family had already secured a job for her. Then, she launched her offensive on a guy who had feelings for her and came from the best family. First, she expressed her feelings to the boy, then sighed that she would be going to the countryside soon after graduation, so she had to confess her feelings to him and didn't want to have any regrets.
After all this, the boy who already had feelings for the girl was completely confused, looking at her with tears streaming down her face. He was first surprised that his crush also liked him, and then saddened because she was about to go to the countryside.
But he quickly realized that he could have his family propose marriage right now, and they could get married after graduation. That way, the person he liked wouldn't have to go to the countryside. That's what he thought, and that's what he told Xiaodang. Xiaodang appropriately showed her joy at learning that the boy also liked her, and then shyly said that she would wait for his family to come and propose marriage.
The boy kept his word and went home to tell his mother about it. His mother also suspected that Jia Dang wanted to marry her son to avoid being sent to the countryside. Moreover, she was a little dissatisfied that Jia Dang didn't have a job. She originally wanted to wait until her son had a job for two years before finding someone to arrange a marriage for him, to find a daughter-in-law of equal social standing.
She also told her son about her concerns and plans, but her son was just beginning to fall in love and was deeply in love. At school, Jia was also constantly encouraging her son. In the end, she couldn't persuade her son otherwise and still found someone to go to Jia's family to propose marriage.
It's unclear whether Jia Dang spoke to Jia Zhangshi privately, but the meeting between the two parties was harmonious, and the bride price was set at the market rate.
The groom's mother felt that the family seemed reasonable and easy to talk to, and that Jia Dang was indeed good-looking. Apart from not having a job, he was alright in other aspects, so her anger subsided a lot. After the boy graduated and started working, they got a letter of introduction from his workplace and registered their marriage.
At the end of 74, the deaf old lady who lived in the backyard passed away. It was Yi Lei who broke the basin. Everyone in the yard helped with the funeral arrangements. After all, the old lady was almost 90 years old when she passed away, which would be considered a happy death in any era. Everyone praised Yi Zhonghai and his wife for their kindness.
Since she never plotted to get rid of He Daqing, and Yi Zhonghai adopted a child, the deaf old lady had no choice but to openly and publicly become Yi Zhonghai's godparent.
Yi Zhonghai values his reputation, and he doesn't want to do any of the work of taking care of the old lady. He will definitely urge Li Cuilan to take good care of her. When she passes away, Yi Zhonghai will be able to get a house and her private property. Even if it's just to set an example for his adopted children, Yi Zhonghai will take good care of her.
Li Cuilan was a kind and considerate person. She always put herself in others' shoes, and she hoped that Yi Lei and the others would treat her and Lao Yi the same way she treated the deaf old lady. So she truly devoted herself to the deaf old lady. This old lady was really good at scheming; she passed away in her sleep without suffering any pain.
After the old lady passed her seventh term, Yi Zhonghai renovated her house. He and Li Cuilan moved to the backyard, leaving the house in the middle courtyard for Yi Lei to use when he got married.
In 75, Yan Jiedi got married, and Yan Jiekuang also returned to the city to take over the business. Yi Zhonghai retired, but Bang Geng took over the business. They had lived in the same courtyard for so many years, and he and Jia Dongxu were still master and apprentice. If someone in his own family had taken over the business, that would be fine, but no one did. It wouldn't be right for him not to give something to the Jia family. As for how much money Jia Dongxu gave him, only the two families knew.
At this point, all the children from the courtyard who had been sent to the countryside returned to the city, and the rest would no longer need to go to the countryside after graduating from high school.
In 76, a few months before the earthquake, He Yuzhu still managed to scatter notes all over the sky one night. Now that he had the mental power to cheat, he really wouldn't leave any traces.
Upon receiving the news, the government dispatched geological experts to investigate the area early on. The guards in Beijing also increased their patrols, partly to find the person who spread the news, and partly because the public was somewhat panicked and was rushing to stockpile food and supplies, causing some chaos on the streets. In addition, the final stage of crushing the "Gang of S" was underway, so the guard force in Beijing was greatly strengthened.
In the past two years, the children in the courtyard who were of marriageable age have all gone through matchmaking and gotten married one after another, making the house in the family more cramped. With the birth of the next generation, the courtyard is noisy every day.
Those who have started working and are eligible to apply for housing through their employers have done so. Couples like Yan Jiecheng and Liu Guangqi, who are now living separately with their child, are eligible for housing allocation since they both graduated from vocational school and were just promoted to full-time employees. Their wives are also different from those in the drama; they both have children now. Those who don't meet the eligibility requirements and can't apply still have to live with their parents.
Fortunately, two members of the He family went to serve in the army, and both girls got married; otherwise, the house wouldn't have been big enough to accommodate everyone. Like the Jia family, Banggeng didn't get married until 1976 because their house wasn't finished until then.
Although Jia Dongxu applied for housing replacement after being promoted, there were no houses available for him at that time. In the end, he could only follow Wang Dahe's example and ask for the back house next to Teacher Yan's house in the front yard.
However, his family did not spend a lot of money to repair the back room at that time. They just tidied it up and used it as a sleeping place for Xiaodang and Huaihua. Jia Zhangshi did not want to live in the back room and continued to live in the middle courtyard with Banggeng and Jia Dongxu until Banggeng went to the countryside.
Now that Banggeng is back, after he gets a job, he has to think about getting married. To get married, he needs a house. It's impossible for everyone else in his family to move to the back house and leave the house in the middle courtyard for Banggeng to get married. In the end, they had no choice but to spend a lot of money to renovate the back house for Banggeng to use for his wedding. As for Huaihua, she moved back to the middle courtyard to sleep with her.
In the hutongs, every family struggles to find housing. Almost every family has three generations living together. Just hang in there a couple more years, and the houses will be available for sale. Then, families with savings can find other solutions. However, most families are still waiting for their work units to allocate housing. This is the influence of an era, and this mindset is hard to break.