Chapter 426: The warmth of the maternal family

In mid-December, the second snow of '84 fell, covering the earth thickly, dyeing the ancient Beijing into a white world.

Yang Yang Yuqiao lowered her head and came out of school, habitually turning right to the bus stop, but found that there were at least two hundred people crowded around the station.

The little girl's heart immediately began to beat like a drum. She was most worried about this situation.

Usually, everyone queues up in an orderly manner to take the bus, and there are not so many people, but today it snowed, there are fewer people riding bicycles, and there are definitely not enough buses for normal shifts.

Then what to do?

Squeeze! Whoever has the ability gets on.

Several times before, in the process of squeezing the bus, Yang Yang Yuqiao was scolded: "Don't you understand the rules? Just came from outside?"

Everyone is squeezing hard, why do you think I'm wrong?

Maybe the other party didn't mean to despise Yang Yang Yuqiao, and didn't have much malice, just emotionally irritable because of the oppressive air at the bottom, but the soft-tempered Yang Yang Yuqiao always felt that she had done something wrong.

So today, seeing this situation, Yang Yang Yuqiao only hesitated for a second, tightened the strap of her schoolbag, and accelerated her pace to trot along the snow on the side of the road.

She was going to run home in the snow.

Because Yang Yang Yuqiao's Beijing household registration hadn't been solved yet, Yang Yang Yumin entrusted a classmate of the '78 class of Beijing University to arrange for Yang Yang Yuqiao to study in a middle school in Haidian, which was six or seven kilometers away from the home in Zhongguancun, and it would take nearly an hour to run fast.

Yang Yang Yuqiao wasn't afraid of the hour-long journey. When she was in elementary school in her hometown, she also had to walk an hour of mountain road, and Yang Yang Yuqiao often didn't take the bus and walked back, which could save bus fare.

But recently, her mother Yang Yang Huaihua gave Yang Yang Yuqiao an order to help her sister-in-law cook during this time, and absolutely not let her sister-in-law get tired.

Sister-in-law Li Xia Yue would get home at 5:30, so if she ran back by herself today, wouldn't she be "eating ready-made food when she got home?"

What kind of talk is that! How can there be such a lazy sister-in-law?

However, Yang Yang Yuqiao had only run two steps when she heard a familiar horn sound behind her.

"Beep, beep, beep~"

"Yang Yuqiao, where are you looking? You didn't see me!"

Yang Yang Yuqiao turned her head and saw that her sister-in-law Li Xia Yue's car was parked on the left side of the school gate. She habitually turned right out of the school gate and didn't see it.

"What are you looking at? Get in the car quickly."

Seeing her sister-in-law Li Xia Yue waving at her in the car, Yang Yang Yuqiao ran over and opened the door to get in.

Getting into the car, she finally experienced the comfort and superiority of a car-owning family in such bad weather. Outside the car, she was frozen with snot, but inside the car, it was warm as spring, completely two different worlds.

Li Xia Yue, as the channel person in charge of the Beijing-Tianjin area of the Pengcheng Seventh Factory, and with Li Ye's relationship, her treatment in the unit was definitely first-class.

The Volga from before had been transferred to Wang Wang Jianqiang, and she was driving a brand-new Santana, which was not much different from the sedan of later generations in terms of ride comfort.

Yang Yang Yuqiao said enviously: "Sister-in-law, your car is really good."

Li Xia Yue smiled and said: "It's good, right? In the future, if it rains or snows, just wait obediently at school for sister-in-law to pick you up."

"No, no," Yang Yang Yuqiao shook her head hurriedly and said: "Sister-in-law, your work is important, I don't matter. If it rains, there is an umbrella; if it snows, there are leather boots. Mother said, a person shouldn't be dissatisfied."

Li Xia Yue looked at the somewhat uneasy Yang Yang Yuqiao and could understand her "satisfied" mood.

Just a few years ago, wasn't she, Li Xia Yue, the same as Yang Yang Yuqiao before?

Leather boots when it snows? Forget it! In Qingshui County, most of the time when it snows, people wear a kind of shoe woven from cattail grass, which is warm and practical, but it can't compare to boots.

As for umbrellas when it rains? How many umbrellas are there in the family?

A little kid can have a piece of thin plastic film that isn't too dirty on their head, and that's enough for you to show off. Many people just put a fertilizer bag on their head to avoid the rain.

So, suddenly arriving in Beijing and receiving all kinds of love and care from her brother and sister-in-law, Yang Yang Yuqiao instinctively felt a sense of being flattered.

The road was slippery with snow, and the Santana didn't go fast, but after looking at it and going north not far, Li Xia Yue turned left and headed straight for Zaojunmiao.

Yang Yang Yuqiao blinked in surprise, and then heard Li Xia Yue say: "Your brother has a reception activity at his unit today, and Mother will be busy until seven o'clock in the evening. We two won't go home and toss, let's go to my brother's place for a meal."

"Ah?"

Yang Yang Yuqiao said embarrassedly: "Is that appropriate?"

"Why is it not appropriate?" Li Xia Yue said unceremoniously: "I just called and asked. They are eating hot pot there tonight, and Liu Xiaohui and the others are also going. It's not like we are adding two pairs of chopsticks."

"Oh~"

Yang Yang Yuqiao was very envious of Li Xia Yue, being able to go to her brother's house for a meal at any time after getting married, and doing it in a justified manner.

In this era, in the consciousness of many people, don't go back to your maternal family if you are a married daughter, let alone go back to your brother's house.

The Santana returned to Zaojunmiao, and just happened to see Li Ye and Li Li Dayong swinging big brooms, sweeping snow with several neighbors.

This is the tradition of the hutongs in Beijing. Once it snows, everyone at home has to come out to sweep the snow. Although no one urges or shouts, everyone is very conscious. Even the laziest man has to work hard at this time.

Seeing Li Xia Yue's car coming, Li Ye stopped the work in his hands and waved his hand to signal her to hurry up and take Yang Yang Yuqiao in.

"Liu Xiaohui and the others are preparing dishes inside! You wait a moment, we will finish sweeping soon."

"Okay, let's go help."

Li Xia Yue led Yang Yang Yuqiao in to find Pei Pei Wenhui and Wen Watching Wen Leyu. Although the Yang family treated her very well, living with her mother-in-law all day was not as comfortable as being with her best friends.

Li Xia Yue felt that the happiest time in her life was the two years she spent with Wen Watching Wen Leyu and Pei Pei Wenhui in front of the TV, enjoying unlimited watermelon drinks and chatting and laughing.

And seeing Li Xia Yue return, several aunts smiled and said: "Alright, young man, don't sweep anymore, hurry back! Sister finally came back once, the maternal family must serve her well, and can't let her think she is disliked by her maternal family."

Li Ye also smiled and said: "No, and there isn't much left. Looking at the skillful sweeping of these uncles and brothers, it will take at most a few minutes."

Hearing the uncle's praise, an uncle proudly talked: "Hi, if you want to say something else, I dare not say, but if you want to say sweeping snow, our Beijing people want to say second, no one dares to say first,"

"That year when that person came to Beijing, he wanted to see the Great Wall, but it had just snowed heavily at that time. Guess what? I participated in that activity at that time. The snow was swept amazingly..."

Beijing talkers are talkers, talking in a reasonable way, and not talking nonsense.

Hearing this uncle say, twelve years ago when that president of the lighthouse visited China, I don't know if he wanted to "not be a hero if you don't reach the Great Wall," or wanted to see how big the gap in Beijing's snowplows was, he suddenly wanted to see the Great Wall,

Then Beijing mobilized 800,000 people overnight, sweeping all the way from Diaoyutai to Badaling.

It is said that the person woke up the next morning and was stunned for a long time. After returning to his country, he said: "A country with such mobilization ability, I will never be able to defeat it in my life."

And the uncle beside Li Ye was one of the 800,000 people. He could brag for a lifetime after participating once.

Anyway, Li Ye was both surprised and envious after hearing it.

After Li Ye finished sweeping the snow and returned home, the charcoal hot pot was already burning red and prosperous.

The weather in Beijing is getting colder and colder, and there are fewer and fewer fresh vegetables on the dining table.

In the winter of '84, there were no sufficient supplies of greenhouse vegetables. Most people's dining tables relied on the three heroes of potatoes, radishes, and Chinese cabbage to support the scene. No matter how you change the tricks, there is a day when you get tired of eating.

But if you cut a few jin of beef and mutton, and match these three heroes to eat hot pot, it is completely different.

"Hurry up, hurry up, can't let sister go hungry! Must let her feel the warmth of the maternal family."

"Sister, don't move your hands. You can't move your hands today! You used to cook for us, today we will serve you..."

Pei Pei Wenhui, Wen Watching Wen Leyu, and Fu Fu Yiruo were chattering and setting up seasonings and tableware, not allowing sister Li Xia Yue to move, and she really enjoyed the care and care of the maternal family.

Only Yang Yang Yuqiao was at a loss, especially when Fu Fu Yiruo put a can of Pengcheng Red Bull in front of her, she was even more constrained.

Li Xia Yue pulled Yang Yang Yuqiao's sleeve and smiled: "Don't be constrained, they are all our own people. If you are a man, call him brother; if you are a woman, call her sister."

Yang Yang Yuqiao then shyly called brother and sister one by one.

The charcoal hot pot boiled quickly. A table of young people didn't have so many rules, and soon started shabu-shabu and eating.

After a few bowls of beef and mutton, even Yang Yang Yuqiao's little constraint was completely gone, and everyone was happy.

In this small courtyard of Zaojunmiao, there were never any broken rules, just a sense of freedom. Otherwise, how could Li Xia Yue, who was married, like to come back for a meal?

And what Yang Yang Yuqiao didn't notice was that another girl at the table, Fu Fu Yiruo, also had the same eyes as her.

Fu Fu Yiruo, who had been living under someone else's roof in Malaysia with her mother since she was a child, had a stronger desire for family affection than anyone else.

The Fu family in Malaysia is Fu Fu Yiruo's maternal grandmother's house, which can be considered the maternal family of her mother Fu Fu Guiru, but the treatment Fu Fu Guiru received in the Fu family is really hard to describe.

And the sister in front of Fu Fu Yiruo is very good, the brother is very good, and the sister-in-law is also very good, so she thinks that her future encounter will definitely be ten times, a hundred times better than her mother Fu Fu Guiru.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 427 =====

A daughter married off is like spilled water; in the future, Yang Yang Yujiao will also have to marry. If she could return to her brother's house at any time like Li Xia Yue, and be welcomed at any time, that would be such a lucky blessing.

And what Yang Yang Yujiao didn't notice was that the other girl at the table, Fu Fu Yiruo, had the same look in her eyes as she did.

Fu Fu Yiruo, who had been living under someone else's roof with her mother in Malaysia since she was a child, had a stronger longing for family affection than anyone else.

The Fu family in Malaysia was Fu Fu Yiruo's maternal grandmother's house, which could also be considered the maiden home of her mother, Fu Fu Guiru, but the treatment her mother, Fu Fu Guiru, received in the Fu family was truly hard to describe in a few words.

And the sister in front of Fu Fu Yiruo was very good, the brother was very good, and the sister-in-law was also very good, so she believed that her future encounters would definitely be ten times, a hundred times better than her mother Fu Fu Guiru's.

(End of chapter)