Chapter 375

By eleven o'clock, the people from Yang Yumin's side finally came to the door.

There were not many people, just Yang Yumin, his mother, his sister, plus the matchmaker Li Ganshi, and a Li Huaisheng.

Li Ye felt funny when he saw Li Huaisheng, because he was already a bit dark, and now he was almost completely black.

"Old Li, you busy man, you came too. I haven't seen you since graduation. Looking at you like this, are you busy playing Bao Gong?"

Li Huaisheng curled his lips, and his resentful appearance made people laugh.

"Hey, don't talk about Bao Gong or Bao Mother. My brother has been fighting guerrilla warfare in the mountains to the west for a month and a half in these two months. This mountain valley today, that village tomorrow, the propaganda team is working!"

Li Ye hurriedly said: "Not bad, not bad. You have been reused just after entering the unit, with a bright future and great prospects..."

Li Huaisheng shook his head and babbled: "I can go to your great prospects! I had lice on me when I came back a few days ago.

I went to Yu Min's house to borrow a small bathroom to take a bath yesterday, and only then did I know that he was going to have a brother-in-law relationship with you. I must come to join in the fun today, letting Old Yang hide it from me and cross the sea in secret..."

Li Ganshi on the side smiled: "Hahaha, more than half of the people here are surnamed Li today. Yang Yumin, you have to be careful!"

Yang Yumin smiled and didn't speak, just followed Li Ganshi, leading his mother and sister into Li Ye's courtyard.

Li Ye fell behind and quietly pulled Li Huaisheng.

"Old Li, you are already working, why are you still speaking without restraint? What is 'go to your great prospects'? You have been annoying since you were in school with that big mouth of yours. Why haven't you changed it since you arrived at the unit?"

"I know! But isn't it not in the unit today?" Li Huaisheng looked at Li Ye unexpectedly and said: "Why, are we brothers gathered together? Do we have to wear a happy mask? Isn't it uncomfortable?"

Li Ye had to hug Li Huaisheng's shoulder and enter the courtyard.

"Sigh, in the future! Unless the three of us are alone, don't talk nonsense."

"Fine, fine, you have a lot of trouble."

Actually! It's not that Li Ye has a lot of trouble.

Because of the popularity of a "Looking at the Hometown Orphan Army," it caused a chain reaction, and finally the relevant sketches were performed in the Great Hall of the People.

So Mu Yunning once revealed to Li Ye that Li Huaisheng and Yang Yumin, as the initiators of the Orphan Army Literature Society, benefited from the distribution and would likely be assigned to the propaganda department.

It was indeed the case in the end, but Yang Yumin went to the top-level Central Selection Department, while Li Huaisheng went to the propaganda unit under Jingcheng. Although the two people's wages were the same, the future... benevolence sees benevolence, wisdom sees wisdom.

Whether this had anything to do with Li Huaisheng's love of arguing with people and his unyielding temper is unknown.

After entering the courtyard, Li Zhongfa naturally had to drink tea and chat with the matchmaker, Li Kaian caught Yang Yumin staring at each other, and Grandma Wu Juying chatted with Yang Yumin's mother Yang Huaihua, which was very lively and harmonious.

Li Ye saw Li Huaisheng turning around in the courtyard, so he walked over and asked: "What are you looking at? Are you envious? It's not like you don't have money, just buy one. It's easy to buy now, and there will be one less for sale in the future."

"Forget it, brother," Li Huaisheng said with a smile: "I've known you for so long, and this is the first time I've come to this courtyard of yours.

I thought you were deliberately hiding how luxurious it was! As a result, it's only a little bit better than Old Yang's courtyard! The location is so remote, and it's hard to go to work. What are you two thinking?"

In '84, Zaoju Temple and Zhongguancun were of course "remotely located," so it was normal for Li Huaisheng, this straightforward person, to dislike it.

Li Ye had to say: "Don't look at how remote I am here, but the literary spirit is prosperous. Look around you, isn't it all universities? What if my sister gets admitted to a university in Jingcheng in the future? Can't this house continue to be used?"

Li Huaisheng listened to Li Ye's words, turned his head left and right, pondered a little, and suddenly realized: "Hey, you don't say, it's really true! Then this courtyard of yours is quite good!"

"Since it's not wrong, why don't you buy one?"

"Can't buy it, I have no money."

"How much do you have? I'll help you scrape some together?"

"Thank you, Li Ye. I only have the wages I just issued, not a penny more."

Listening to Li Huaisheng saying "no money" so neatly and naturally, Li Ye was completely confused.

Li Huaisheng and Yang Yumin had always been the main force of the Orphan Army Literature Society, and the manuscript fee dividends had always been the highest share. Yang Yumin could save enough money for a house, so where was Li Huaisheng's money?

"Huaisheng, where is your money? Did you spend it all?"

"What do you mean by spending it all?" Li Huaisheng laughed: "Don't you know that I, Old Li, have the style of Meng Chang? Don't I have to eat and drink with colleagues after entering the unit? Repairing the house at home, relatives borrowing thirty or fifty, isn't the money gone?"

Seeing Li Ye somewhat speechless, Li Huaisheng affectionately hugged Li Ye's shoulder and said: "Oh, I'm not in a hurry, why are you in a hurry? Our unit will distribute houses in the future! What are you buying? Isn't it better to treat you to a few more meals with that money?"

"Sigh."

Li Ye sighed lightly, patted Li Huaisheng's back and said: "Then remember to tell me if you change your mind in the future. Don't be a stranger among us brothers."

"Not a stranger, not a stranger, definitely not a stranger, hahaha."

Li Huaisheng's open-mindedness is actually a portrayal of many people in this era.

After the reform and opening up, why did many workers scold their mothers? Because they felt that their "happiness index" had decreased.

Clothing, food, housing, and transportation are the four major needs of life since ancient times.

But ever since workers entered the unit, they had never worried about "clothing, food, housing, and transportation," and had never worried about how to live tomorrow.

Clothing: The unit issues labor protection clothes and shoes every quarter, and it's not shameful to wear them out.

Food: The unit has a canteen.

Transportation: The unit has shuttle buses.

Housing: The unit will distribute houses. Regardless of whether each person has one room or half a room, everyone is the same. If there are many people in the family, block it with a curtain, and you can still marry the girl you like and live a small life.

So workers in the 80s were indeed different from farmers, so many people spent money to handle urban household registration and waited for recruitment to become workers.

But after a few more years, these things that didn't need to be worried about were gone, and things returned to the old path of history.

Clothing: You can wear old ones. As long as there are no patches, you can still make do.

Food: You can eat "unhealthy" instant noodles. If it really doesn't work, three-yuan-a-handle hanging noodles can support you for a day.

Transportation: Squeeze buses, squeeze subways. If it really doesn't work, you can carry two steamed buns and walk. If you are hungry, take a bite to refuel and you can reach your destination.

But if you don't have your own house, you really have no confidence.

Even if it's a small nest of ten square meters! It can also give people the strength to "fall down and start over," resolving the hesitation of being homeless.

So this "housing" in clothing, food, housing, and transportation has crushed countless people since ancient times.

Later generations have those damned merchants who accurately calculated the psychology of people, emptying the pockets of six people, which is really hateful, hateful, hateful.

"Yu Min's mother, I heard from Xiao Yue that you live in Zhongguancun? That's quite far for Yu Min to go to work, right? Is it convenient to live?"

"Convenient, very convenient! Yu Min rides a bicycle for less than an hour, and it's even faster to squeeze on the bus. Besides, the unit has a single dormitory, so he lives in the unit when it rains or snows..."

Wu Juying and Yang Huaihua chatted in the inner room of the main house. Yang Huaihua, who was usually straightforward in dealing with people, was somewhat cautious.

After all, it concerns her son's lifelong event, and the last responsibility of being a parent has reached the pass. Distance to perfection is only one step away, how can she not be nervous?

What Yang Huaihua didn't know when looking at Li Yue was that she was ten out of ten satisfied! She is beautiful, capable, and helped her own family stand firm in Jingcheng, taking so much advantage. Would the woman's side despise and laugh at her?

Despising herself is fine, but she can't let her son suffer grievances!

But what Yang Huaihua didn't know was that Wu Juying was also ten out of ten satisfied with Yang Yumin!

Yang Huaihua, who had just come from her hometown, would not have thought that her son would be promoted so quickly.

But Li Zhongfa and Wu Juying had seen with their own eyes how the junior college student assigned to the county had jumped repeatedly in these few years.

And Yang Yumin's appearance was passable, his unit was top-notch, he was knowledgeable and polite, and Li Yue, who looked down on this one and disliked that one for being ugly, was actually waiting for this marriage!

So Wu Juying said: "Yu Min's mother, I think your Yu Min is pleasing to the eye when I see him today. The child is not young anymore. We are all honest people, so let's not hide anything.

You see what needs to be prepared, just say it. Although our family is not a big family, the dowry must be prepared for the child."

Yang Huaihua hurriedly refused: "No need, no need. Xiao Yue's grandma, you don't need to prepare. We don't lack anything at home. I also saved 660 yuan of bride price money, and I will give it all to Xiao Yue when the time comes. She can buy whatever she wants..."

"That won't do."

Wu Juying straightened her face and pretended to be unhappy: "Two families are holding a happy event, how can there be a reason to only tire one family? Your family prepared a house, and nearly ten thousand yuan was spent. If our Xiao Yue goes over empty-handed, wouldn't people laugh at us to death?"

"I'll make the decision. We Dongshan people like things to be smooth. You give 66 yuan of bride price to get a good omen, and we will give six pieces of dowry."

Wu Juying said unquestioningly: "Yu Min is too far from the unit, so our family will accompany a motorcycle,

Xiao Yue likes watching TV, so we will accompany a TV, and the rest are just basins and quilts to make up the number. Don't think it's too little!"

"This... this is too much!"

Yang Huaihua was really embarrassed, although Wu Juying said that her family prepared a house and spent nearly ten thousand yuan.

But in fact, it only spent five thousand yuan, and this five thousand yuan was the manuscript fee Yang Yumin earned by taking advantage of Li Ye. Are you ashamed?

But according to Wu Juying's statement, the Yang family is definitely not shameful. The Yang family produced a house! This is the major part of clothing, food, housing, and transportation, and even Li Yue's motorcycle and TV combined can't compare to the importance of the house.

"Hey, Xiao Yue's grandma, you..."

At this moment, Yang Huaihua was really ashamed. Xiao Yue was already good enough, but this grandma was thinking about her family everywhere and was too considerate!

A group of adults were "discussing major events" in the room, while Li Juan and Li Ying, who were acting as little servers in the courtyard, quietly found Li Ye.

Li Juan said timidly: "Brother, can we live in this courtyard of yours if we get admitted to a university in Jingcheng in the future?"

Li Ye widened his eyes and said: "Of course you can! Didn't I just say it? You can come anytime in the future."

"Hee hee hee, that's great!"

"Hmm, hmm, hmm, so good!"

They had just witnessed Li Ye's living conditions. If they could get admitted to a university in Jingcheng, wouldn't they be able to live a life of unlimited candies and snacks, and fruits and drinks as they pleased in the future?

Seeing her younger sister also overjoyed, Li Juan pulled down her face and said: "Did you hear that? We have to get admitted to a university in Jingcheng, you have to study hard."

Little sister Li Ying rolled her eyes several times and finally said softly: "I'll learn from Xiao Yue sister and get admitted to the night university in Jingcheng."

Li Juan was so angry that she kicked Li Ying: "What are you thinking? I'm asking you to get admitted to high school first, otherwise you won't even have a share in the night university."

Li Ying felt pain in her leg, pouted and said aggrievedly: "High school... can't high school be bought? I'll save money and buy it myself..."

(End of chapter)