There is Room for Rebirth in the 1950’s

As the sun slanted westward, after more than an hour of scraping, a family of five finally returned to the Hutong courtyard with satisfaction, pushing the garbage.

"Dad, I want a wooden stool."

"The rocking chair is good."

"you sure?"

"Hehe, it's still a wooden stool."

"It's okay, first store the materials in the inverted room, and wait for a long vacation to see if I can make a rocking chair. I don't think it is too complicated."

"My Lao Tzu will do it, and I will give you a hand at that time."

"Forget it, spend some money to let the insider do it. If you have this time, it's not as good as Dad, take us out for a walk, and try our three brothers by the way."

"You can have to wait for autumn to hunt. Now the weather is hot and there is no meat. In autumn, I will take your mother to pick wild fruits and make some snacks to relieve your greed."

"Mom, did you hear that? My dad promised to take us out hunting."

Zhou Jiao smiled and nodded.In a few days, certain things should be over, autumn is here, and she should be back anyway.

Ping patted May 1st, "Grandma may come over, don't be too happy too early."

"Come on, just take them out. With Dad here, it must be okay to issue a certificate or something. Dad, are you right?"

Zhang Guoqing shook his head, "I can't come. Your Xizi brother and Cousin Ziwen are going to get married at the end of the year. They won't come here, but will let our family go back."

"How did you know if you didn't reply?"

"Ask your elder brother, you can figure it out."

"No, I can guess it too. I miss my wife."

"Hunboy, how old are you, do you know what you mean to be a wife?" Zhang Guoqing laughed happily.

"I know a lot. My grandmother told us a long time ago that when my cousin gets married, there will soon be the fourth generation of the old Zhang family, and we are all elders."

After Liu Yi waited for him to finish, he said softly, "They are all married. Grandpa asked you and my mother when you have a holiday in the letter. They want to arrange time, right?"

Zhang Guoqing smiled approvingly at him, "Smart!"

"Then do you have time with my mother? Didn't you tell my mother that you were busy at the end of the year and probably couldn't leave?"

Zhang Guoqing glanced at his younger son unexpectedly, "Have you heard all this?"

"Well, I lay in bed and didn't take a nap."

"If I don't have a holiday with your mother this time, how about you going to represent us?"

Ping An frowned, "Do I have to go?"

"The last time Yinsuo got married, there was no one in our family. This time Xizi and the others should arrange to get married before and after. Your grandma will be sad if you don't go back."

"Well, then, I'll do it alone then." Ping An nodded and asked thoughtfully, "How can our family behave this time?"

Zhang Guoqing looked at him amusedly, "When my hometown announces the wedding date, we will discuss with your second uncle, and our family will pay a gift with him. Your grandpa will give a gift at that time."

Ping An looked at Zhou Jiao again and again, and then approached Zhang Guoqing, "Auntie's family is so casual, it's okay, but aunt will not be upset?"

"Do you mean I have to be generous for her?"

June 1 and May 1 shouted in unison: "She is so beautiful."

"So what does it matter to us that she is unhappy? Your mother and I have limited wages. In addition to supporting your grandparents, you have to feed your three brothers. Where does the money come from?"

The three Ping An brothers suddenly covered their mouths and laughed.

"Happy, are you? Dad knows this in his heart. I don't say these things outside, so as not to lose my tolerance. Your grandma has been telling me long ago to save the emergency but not the poor."

Ping An nodded, "It's still my grandmother who makes sense. I looked at a few in our compound. Whenever there are weddings in our home, they will swell their faces and fill up the fat, and say why they can't live in love.

Last year, Xiaojie's mother had a fight with his father, just for some nephew in his hometown to marry a daughter-in-law. His grandma actually wrote to him that his family had two wages. This would make the eldest nephew get married, and if they were uncles and aunts, they would have to buy Taiwan. Sewing machine."

Liu Yi smiled sarcastically, "This is the moral kidnapping my mother said."

"I know about this. Later, the sewing machine he just bought was secretly sent back to his hometown by his father. His mother was so angry that he bought a bicycle for his grandma's house. They were all fools."

Zhou Jiao didn't have much interest in these things.

Seeing the four father and son talking about gossip in front of her cheerfully, she shook her head speechlessly, and could only step forward quickly, "Okay, go back to the courtyard, we have to go home."

Especially when she left the waste station, she wanted to see the “trash” selected by the children for the first time, considering whether she should find someone in her spare time to learn some cultural relic restoration crafts.

Those torn calligraphy and paintings, those smashed porcelain...These are precious cultural heritage left by the ancestors, no matter what they really will disappear in the long river of history.

Walking all the way, thinking all the way, with Zhou Jiao's reminder, everyone speeded up a lot this time, walking alleys and alleys, and it didn't take long to return to the hutong courtyard.

There are still many groups of tourists and children who go down the river to swim and fish in the nearby park. The place is still a good place, but it is a pity that you will never see street snack bars, popcorn in the corner, desserts to cool off the heat...

Seeing them coming back, the mute aunt put down the buttons on her hand to do manual work, stood up happily and faced the three children, comparing her direction to the kitchen.

Zhou Jiao smiled and asked, "My master hasn't come back yet?"

The mute aunt nodded, it was getting darker.

Zhou Jiao didn't need her to answer, and she guessed the same.When the old man is interested, he might go to the countryside to visit the doctor.Not traveling far this year was enough to make him panic.

Over there, Zhang Guoqing pushed the cart to the inverted house, stored all the wood he likes in, and put two sacks at the door, and finally moved the garbage to the wood house.

After a busy day, after dinner, Doctor Hu still didn't come back. Zhou Jiao had to say goodbye to the dumb aunt and the family left.

The summer night came late, and the family walked in the hutongs with the afterglow of the setting sun. If there were no two obstructive sacks, Zhang Guoqing really wanted to take his wife and children to go shopping.

The bus staggered and stopped all the way, and before it reached the terminal, many acquaintances came up, all of whom were military members in the compound.

Among them is Yi Shumin.

Each nodded to say hello, Yi Shumin squeezed between them, and when she saw two sacks near her feet, she curiously kicked lightly with her feet.

"What is this? Dirty."

Zhou Jiao wouldn't worry about showing her stuff if she could be brought into the compound.Before she could speak, Liu Yi and Wu Yi twins looked at each other. Liu Yi looked at her and said, "Bought broken logs."

Wu Yi immediately followed with a smile: "We want Dad to teach us how to make small benches."

Yi Shumin joked, "I don't want to be a soldier, but I want to be a carpenter?"

"We are still young, so we won't worry about not getting married after we learn more."

Yi Shumin was amused by May Day and laughed with the neighbors.

One of the lesbians laughed and said, "I have a cute little sister in my family. You don't need to learn your skills and be your little daughter-in-law, do you want?"

Wu Yi shook his head, "No, no, I'm still young now. I have to wait until I grow up to work before I can get a salary to marry a good wife."

Yi Shumin pushed Zhou Jiao, "Your son is fine, he understands at such a young age."

Zhou Jiao: "..."

"By the way, why is Uncle Zhou traveling so long?" There is room for rebirth in the 1950s