Chapter 1358: Rabbits don't eat the grass around their own burrow... Damn!

How does Han Lu have the face to eat this heartless "recycled grass" named Nie Xiaoguang again? Could it be that she has already ravaged all the grass around the rabbit burrow?

The situation is actually just about that.

Scumbag readers all know that you can't buy a car with a defective fuel tank, and you definitely shouldn't touch a used car with a damaged fuel tank.

Even if the car is in new condition, has low mileage, and looks stylish, if the fuel tank is broken, it's broken; it won't get very far.

But who told the first owner of this car to be rich and capricious? They had the car re-wrapped and updated the interior.

Not to mention anything else, this car comes with a 60-square-meter luxury garage and dozens of yuan in maintenance fees every month.

More importantly, this car comes with a license plate quota; whoever gets this car can enjoy a bizarre life of having no descendants.

"You really must be starving to be able to eat anything."

Li Xuewu twitched the corner of his mouth and waved his hand to signal him to sit down and talk; this driver, his little brother, didn't have a very sharp brain.

"Even if she has a house, even if she has a car, even if she has money, even if she is pretty, you're moved just like that?"

"That... Leader."

Nie Xiaoguang hesitated for a moment, looked up at him, and said, "Given these conditions... shouldn't I be moved?"

Looking at his expression, he meant to say that with these conditions right in front of one's eyes, who wouldn't be moved? Especially a bachelor like him.

"Marriage is a major life event and a matter of fate; think it over yourself."

Li Xuewu glanced at him and reminded him: "Her teaming up with you before had one purpose; now, seeking you out is very likely to have ulterior motives."

"I know, otherwise she wouldn't have talked about money."

Nie Xiaoguang was actually quite clear-headed and said frankly: "What I can think of is that she wants to kill two birds with one stone—resolve her own situation and resolve mine, so that we have a bond between us."

"When she found me today, I also said that she doesn't love me; she hates me. She hates that I don't have descendants. Do you want to hear what she said?"

Without waiting for Li Xuewu to react, he continued, "She said everyone is an adult, and if you want something, you have to fight for it yourself."

"What does she mean by that?"

Nie Xiaoguang spread his hands, pursed his lips, and said, "Everyone plays their own game; she's not even afraid of me having ten or eight more kids outside."

"Heh—" Li Xuewu chuckled, "Is she certain you no longer have that ability, or does she really have her heart set on you?"

"She sold me out—" Nie Xiaoguang curled his lip, "I really admire her; she's more capable of crooked ways than I am."

Seeing the amused expression on Li Xuewu's face, Nie Xiaoguang felt helpless, but thinking about it, he couldn't help but laugh.

"I only figured it out on the way back. She sold herself for a good price and greedily put me on the scale as well."

"I'm actually a bit surprised you could think of that." Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows, "Looking at it this way, you might not necessarily lose to her."

"Six of one, half a dozen of the other—"

Nie Xiaoguang had grown very quickly in the last half year, thanks to his scheming and wits-battling with Han Lu.

He let out a long breath and said, "If she really marries me, she'll have me tied down, and she can still keep getting benefits from that side."

"My only use is as a threat to that person."

Nie Xiaoguang shrugged his shoulders and said amusingly, "But she still has a bit of conscience; at least she knows how to share with me."

"What are you thinking?"

Li Xuewu looked toward the foyer; Gu Ning had returned from work. Seeing them discussing matters, she nodded and went upstairs.

Because it was nearing the end of the solar year, the hospital was very busy, and coupled with her training, Gu Ning was so tired she didn't want to talk after getting off work.

Nie Xiaoguang looked back toward the stairs and instinctively lowered his voice, "Li Ge, I can't go to Steel City with you."

It seemed difficult to speak of, or perhaps he felt he was being too unloyal, so he added, "She really gave too much."

"Whether you go to Steel City or not doesn't matter." Li Xuewu picked up his teacup, took another sip, and said meaningfully, "I don't see you as someone greedy for money or lust."

"You're young, you can take some detours, but you can't take the wrong path. You can return to the right track from a detour, but if you go too far on the wrong path, you won't even be able to find the direction to turn back. When that time comes, no one will be able to save you."

These were heartfelt words. Nie Xiaoguang listened and was very moved, and a look of gratitude appeared on his face.

"Li Ge, I know you're looking out for me."

He nodded very seriously and said, "But I carry the blood feud of my father; I have to give him a taste of the hatred of having one's wife stolen."

"You're the one whose wife is being stolen—"

Li Xuewu really didn't understand this kid's train of thought. If he doesn't marry, he's still colluding; if he really marries, he'll be an outlaw hero.

Nie Xiaoguang, however, didn't take Han Lu seriously at all from the bottom of his heart, which is why he was willing to sacrifice himself to spite others.

Little did he know that once he jumped into this pit, he would be dirty and ruined himself.

"He didn't look down on me." Nie Xiaoguang curled his lip, "He wanted to ruin me and disgust you; I can't let this happen for nothing."

"I don't really care; it's only a month or two left anyway." Li Xuewu rested his hand on the sofa armrest and looked at him, asking, "You're really not planning to consider yourself and just waste away here?"

"I'm young, I still have opportunities to choose." Nie Xiaoguang's gaze was firm as he looked at him and said, "I have to keep an eye on him at all times."

"I want to make him keep one eye open even when he sleeps; otherwise, wouldn't I be letting him off too easily?"

"Hmm, that's fine, it's all up to you."

Li Xuewu wouldn't want to interfere in anyone's life; even with his own brothers, he only offered a helping hand.

Just as Nie Xiaoguang said himself, he is still young and has plenty of opportunities to choose. If this car can't be driven, just keep it in the garage and look at it for fun.

It's not like he's the one spending money to maintain it anyway.

"Li Ge, although I don't want to trouble you, I'm going to break my word." Nie Xiaoguang said very embarrassedly, "Before you go to Steel City, can you arrange for me to change positions? I don't want to work in the car pool anymore. Besides driving for you, I have no desire to serve others."

"Driving for me is actually a grievance for you."

Li Xuewu joked with a smile. Seeing him embarrassed, he waved his hand and said, "I know about your matter; just wait for news."

"Li Ge, thank you—"

Nie Xiaoguang stood up and bowed deeply to him, his eyes revealing a clear, naive stupidity.

Actually, to be honest, Li Xuewu didn't want to take him to Steel City either. This kid said he had no one to rely on, but his mother and brother were both there.

The significance of Nie Xiaoguang staying in the capital wasn't really a trap Li Xuewu had deliberately laid; he had also seen something and was just going with the flow.

As for this hurdle of Nie Chenglin, Old Li still had to get through it; there were people who didn't want Vice Factory Director Nie to die so quietly.

Since Old Li wanted to keep this time bomb by his side, why should he meddle in other people's business?

Since the call for "the vast number of cadres to go down to the grassroots for labor" was published in the editor's note of the *People's Daily* on October 5th, "May 7th Cadre Schools" had sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain all over the place.

This was to send the vast majority of cadres and teachers from original organizational organs and higher education institutions to cadre schools for labor and study.

Factories and enterprises were no exception; the Red Star Steel Group had already organized and prepared several cadre training classes in succession.

There were mainly several locations: first, the Red Star Village training base, mainly for political study and military training; second, the Yingcheng Shipbuilding Factory, mainly for professional technical study and production labor training; third, the Tianjin Foreign Trade Training Class, mainly for studying economic trade and basic service work.

Overall, the Red Star Steel Group strictly followed the spirit of the superiors' instructions and focused on the details of the cadre training content.

It could be seen from the several training locations and content that the group's training was not just a facade, nor was it "hanging a sheep's head to sell dog meat."

They had to study professional knowledge, ideological politics, service awareness, economic trade, and labor training, among other things.

Cadres from other units would be disheartened, full of depression and fear when sent down to cadre schools.

But after the first training class of the Red Star Steel Group began, the situation took a 180-degree turn.

Everyone wanted to get into the training class, partly for study and partly for advancement.

Director Li's personnel reform knew how to leverage the situation. It could be seen that this time he was again "borrowing a chicken to lay eggs," achieving both loyalty and righteousness.

The wind in October blew harder and harder, blowing so hard that people couldn't open their eyes.

It blew into November, and by December, it gradually formed a chain reaction, and the situation changed completely.

The change in the situation did not block the development of economic work; the organization internally still decided to adhere to the policy formulated on February 21, 1966, regarding increasing exports to capitalist countries.

Especially at the beginning of this year, the superiors proposed to solve the problems of foreign and domestic debt together and to comprehensively sort out economic development work.

Against this background, the Red Star Steel Group again organized and established research institutes with several special projects as the core in the joint school.

Aircraft industry, electronics industry, metallurgical industry, steel rolling industry, food industry, automobile industry, etc.

Here, the automobile industry was particularly popular and was a key economic project that the group internally and the system paid relatively more attention to.

Since the Red Star Steel Group began to focus on promoting the transition of the domestic automobile manufacturing industry toward integration and specialization last year, and actively promoted and realized the adaptation of the automobile manufacturing industry to assembly line and supply chain production models, in less than two years, the domestic automobile manufacturing industry had undergone earth-shaking changes.

The five major automobile enterprises had large volumes, and the risks and difficulties of reform were also great, but after seeing the situation where the automobile manufacturing industry was blossoming everywhere, the determination to actively realize production and technical reform was also great.

In the past two years alone, the Red Star Steel Group's technical output team had sent out no fewer than 10 groups, which meant that at least 10 automobile manufacturing enterprises were undergoing the Red Star standard assembly line and supply chain transformation plan provided by the group.

This kind of plan was accompanied by a comprehensive, three-dimensional technical and production revolution, requiring the redesign and calculation of production models.

Changing the past production tone of being half-mechanized and half-manual, forming professional factory areas, linking with supply chains to obtain parts procurement resources, forming automobile assembly line production workshops, and establishing a modern production pattern.

These all required a large amount of capital to maintain, and even more required policy support and help.

Fortunately, this era lacked everything, but as long as there was a path for development, there was no lack of drive and support.

Provinces and cities with an automobile industry foundation, such as the capital, Jicheng, Modu, Sichuan Province, etc., had already taken the lead in taking action.

The transformation plan given by the Red Star technical output team was targeted; it could not be a "one-size-fits-all" approach, and it could not be completely denied.

"Look, listen, ask, and feel"—formulating relevant transformation plans based on the basic situation of the reforming enterprises, and then deciding whether to split the parts production lines.

A relatively successful case, and also the unit closest to the Red Star Steel Group, which had a relatively close cooperative relationship, was the Capital Second Auto.

Capital Second Auto chose to cut off a portion of its parts production lines, and even merged units whose production quality and quantity did not meet requirements, planning overall integration, and some even directly stopped production and work.

However, this year, Capital Second Auto joined hands with the Red Star Steel City Automobile Factory to acquire a batch of parts production units shed by enterprises such as the Capital Automobile Factory and the Fengcheng Automobile Manufacturing Factory, doing resource integration.

The two sides joined hands to establish an automobile parts processing and manufacturing factory in Steel City, not doing planned production, but completely doing supply chain supply production.

The parts factory was mainly managed by Second Auto, with Red Star Factory providing technology and resources, as well as support in finance and other aspects.

After completing the preparation work for the automobile parts supply chain, Capital Second Auto began a drastic technical reform.

First, it innovated and built a complete vehicle assembly line, with mechanical equipment and technology coming entirely from the Capital Second Machinery Manufacturing Factory.

The Second Machinery Factory was not well-known, but it was the only cooperative enterprise of the Red Star Steel Group in mechanical equipment manufacturing.

The Second Machinery Factory was mainly responsible for the production and installation of Red Star standard machinery, serving standard output.

Since completely realizing the model conversion to assembly line and supply chain matching production at the beginning of this year, the monthly production capacity of Capital Second Auto's main product, the BJ130, had jumped from about 200 units in the past to about 600 units per month, with production capacity tripling, completely shocking the automobile manufacturing industry.

And just in the first half of this year, Capital Automobile also couldn't withstand the pressure, actively carried out resource integration, cut off a portion of its parts production lines, and contacted and connected with the supply chain system for supply.

Capital Automobile's road to reform was still long, but Capital Second Auto had already "kicked its heels" and was running forward behind the Red Star Steel City Automobile Manufacturing Factory.

At the end of this year, Second Auto and Red Star Factory jointly developed a three-box sedan; this was a confident cooperation following the stumble Second Auto had once taken, and the successful launch of the Gemini small sedan by Red Star Factory.

Influenced by the cooperative development of Red Star Factory and Second Auto, the pressure on the Capital Automobile Factory, whose main product was the 212, was not that great yet; the biggest pressure was on the Modu Factory, because their 760 production line was still doing planning.

If there were no accidents, the recognized fact within the system was that within two years, the sedan cooperated on by Red Star Factory and Second Auto would definitely become a competitor to the Modu Factory, which had just completed technical and production reform.

Because the Red Star Steel City Automobile Manufacturing Factory already possessed a complete production line that had been operating continuously for several years, and would not waste time on production and transformation, the Modu Factory had no advantage at all.

Most importantly, the Red Star Steel Group possessed special advanced technology introduction channels, and had a systematic education academy and vehicle factory research institute, which the Modu Factory could not compare with.

And Second Auto, far away in Sichuan Province, was also actively realizing technical and production reform, wanting to walk the heavy truck road to the end.

Among domestic units, how many had the qualifications to get automobiles and chassis from Second Auto? Yet Red Star Factory did.

No matter how large the load-bearing chassis, Red Star Factory could procure it back for the preparation and transformation of special vehicles.

Especially in doing engineering machinery equipment export, Second Auto was risking its life to continue the cooperative docking with Red Star Factory.

Similarly, Second Auto had a short factory establishment time, was easy to turn, and its development speed was also very rapid; the pressure on the First Seven Factory was rising.

The First Seven Factory was the largest automobile manufacturing enterprise in the country, possessing the most and most comprehensive automobile parts production system in the country.

Comprehensive meant reform difficulty, so other enterprises were actively taking action, while only the First Seven Factory's reform was still stuck in the meeting discussion stage.

It was just that people of insight were already reminding the First Seven Factory that the Red Star Factory's technical output trend and speed were fast; if they didn't take action, they would really be surpassed by competitors, and "Gao Daquan" would become a major problem.

Actually, the decision-making level of these car companies was also very embarrassed; on one hand, they complained about the Red Star Factory, this "catfish," not playing by the rules, and on the other hand, they felt the crisis, but were momentarily at a loss and didn't know where to start.

The Red Star Steel City Automobile Manufacturing Factory now possessed the preparation capabilities for motorcycles, jeeps, micro-sedans, buses, large buses, and special vehicles; it could be said that once the assembly line turned, it was firing on all cylinders.

In the past, due to parts supply pressure, automobile manufacturing factories rarely launched so many projects, but because of the transformation of the production model, Red Star Factory could be said to be the public enemy of automobile complete vehicle manufacturing enterprises.

The bus and sedan projects cooperated on with Second Auto, as well as the military and civilian high-end off-road vehicles that had already appeared but were still in research and development, suddenly pushed the enterprise's competitiveness to the extreme.

Fighting from the south to the north, from the east to the west, outputting technology and equipment; if there were no competitors, they would cultivate competitors themselves.

Being a "straight-A student" was boring; the Red Star Steel Group's automobile industry wanted to pull the country's automobile manufacturing industry partners into the exam room together.

When the exam results came out, they would know who was swimming naked in the sea.

This year, Li Xuewu was promoted to Secretary-General of the Group, and his work environment and content were complicated, but he did not slack off on related industrial development.

Going to Liaodong, he only did three things: engage in economy, engage in cooperation, and engage in the economy of cooperative partners.

"Yo, Leader, haven't seen much of you lately."

Seeing Li Xuewu enter the courtyard, Wang Laoqi, having nothing to say, teased and asked, "What have you been busy with lately?"

"At least I haven't been busy moving."

Li Xuewu pointed to the cabinet door in his hand and asked with a smile, "Seventh Brother, your family's cabinet isn't of one mind, are they going their separate ways?"

"Hi—" Wang Laoqi was used to joking, and didn't care about being teased by Li Xuewu, explaining with a smile, "Just moved out, the naughty eldest in the family bumped into it, that—damned kid—"

He was a few years older than Li Xuewu, and his way of speaking was the most interesting; usually, the couple's bickering was like performing crosstalk.

Seemingly muddled, but actually carefree, he was the most generous.

Li Xuewu was also willing to be close to him; they would tease and play in life, and every time they met when he came back, they would chat for a few sentences.

But it wouldn't work today; looking at the courtyard entrance, there was about to be a traffic jam, and there were several tricycles waiting outside the gate.

Don't misunderstand; it wasn't that they couldn't live anymore and were selling household goods to earn living expenses; it was that life was better, and they were moving upstairs to live.

"It's not that I'm talking about you, it's superfluous."

Li Xuewu stepped aside and teased him with a smile, "Moving to a new home, you could still use old furniture, but you should have put up a bit of a facade if you were going all out."

"Hmm, put up a facade, and lost the mixed flour." Wang Laoqi said with a smile, "Changed to this building, just the renovation cost me over a hundred and eighty, which really cost me my life; I'll save where I can—"

Saying this, he went out of the gate first to load the car neatly, and his mouth was still greeting Li Xuewu to drink together in the evening.

Li Xuewu had no time to drink with him; it was just teasing, so he smiled and continued to walk into the courtyard.

He really didn't come at a good time today; the whole weekend everyone was moving, and no one could chat with him for a few sentences when they saw him.

Starting in June this year, the factory organized everyone to declare building quotas; whether it was replacement housing, allocated housing, or commercial housing, they could grab the first batch of this year, first allocated first obtained, first renovated first moved in.

This half-year, the logistics department was organizing housing measurements and cooperating with the finance department and organization department to execute housing allocation, which was very lively.

The First Master, Second Master, Jia family, Yan family, Wang Laoqi family in the courtyard... the workers of Red Star Factory, except for Li Xuewu and Seeing Sha Zhu, all applied for the policy quota of replacing civilian housing with building housing.

Because they had been asking him about the ins and outs of this since the beginning of the year, as soon as the notice was issued, they had already made their decisions.

So, all at once, as soon as it opened in June, the people in this courtyard submitted their applications together, and their names were naturally at the front.

The further forward, the sooner they got housing.

Housing was delivered in November, and everyone was busy with renovation, very afraid of falling behind others by a day, watching others move into building housing first.

Renovation in this era was not like later generations; no one was digging up cement floors to lay floor heating or inlaying tiles; there were no such conditions.

Cement floors remained unchanged, four walls were brushed with white lime, or simply not brushed at all; anyway, the color of cement didn't delay eating, sleeping, or having children.

Renovation was mainly doors and windows, water and electricity lines, bathrooms, and kitchens; if one saved a bit, fifty or sixty yuan could get it done.

If there really wasn't that spare money, moving things in and making do was no problem; after all, the delivery standard was sufficient.

The heating in the house was ready-made, and heating had already started now; moving in didn't require building a fire kang, and sleeping on a wooden bed wasn't cold.

Of course, the delivery standards for replacement housing, resettlement housing, and commercial housing were different; the delivery standard for high-level talent apartments for experts, professors, and researchers was the highest, it was just that there were no property rights.

So, it could be seen that after a month of renovation, the people in this courtyard were about to move out, moving furniture, moving water vats, which was very lively.

Red Star Factory employees moving into new buildings actually allowed Shen Guodong to make a small fortune; furniture was really selling well.

"Yo, didn't bump into anything, right?"

When Li Xuewu entered the hanging flower gate, he happened to meet the Yan family moving; Yan Jiekuang had become the main force.

"It's fine, you go first."

Yan Jiekuang was not very tall, but after more than half a year of exercise, his skin was much darker, and he was much more spirited.

What had improved even more was that he was polite in speaking; he had lost the arrogance of his school days and didn't look stiff at all.

"Your physique is really good." Li Xuewu looked at the wardrobe in his hand and praised with a smile, "You can even lift this."

"You still think he's a child?"

Yan Jiefang followed from inside and reminded him with a smile, "My little brother will be eighteen after the New Year; he's a big guy now."

"Aiyo, in the blink of an eye."

Li Xuewu was really a bit surprised; looking at Yan Jiekuang again, wasn't he just a big guy?

Seeing Ge Shuqin and Yan Jie Di supporting the wardrobe from behind, he reached out a hand to help them move the large wardrobe out.

"Thank you, Li Ge, you go do your work."

Yan Jiefang had a problem with his leg and couldn't handle this kind of brute force, so he could only help from the side, his mouth still polite.

Li Xuewu only helped a bit, borrowed the space to enter the hanging flower gate, looked at the Yan family, nodded, and said, "Jiedi is also a big girl now."

"Isn't that so, she'll be 16 after the New Year." Yan Jiefang said with a smile, "Our Yan Fang will be three after the New Year; you tell me."

"Hmm, time really doesn't wait for anyone."

Li Xuewu replied and walked toward his home; the old lady was holding Li Tang's hand sitting at the door watching the excitement.

Seeing that his second uncle had come, Li Tang broke free from the old lady's restraint and ran toward him.

His little mouth was very sweet, much better than his father's; seeing his second uncle, he was very close, wanting hugs and actively pressing his face against him.

Li Tang was very clever; he also knew who in the family spoiled him. When Li Xuewu came home, he mostly took him to the supply and marketing cooperative.

"It's freezing cold, why did you come out?"

"He wouldn't stay in the room."

The old lady sat on a small stool at the door, watching the uncle and nephew with a smile, explaining, "Once he could walk, he couldn't be kept in."

"He had just played on the kang for a while, and seeing the excitement in the courtyard, he wouldn't stay in the room no matter what, so, I brought him out."

"Did you get heavy again?" Li Xuewu bounced his eldest nephew and teased him, asking, "What good food did Grandma give you?"

"Wotou—" Li Tang wouldn't lie, but he could talk nonsense.

Li Xuewu didn't know about other families, but in his own family, wotou had long ceased to be the staple food on the dining table; it was only when the old lady and his mother thought of it that they would make a meal to satisfy their cravings.

Li Tang ate wotou less, so he felt wotou was rare, so when Li Xuewu asked, he answered that the most delicious thing was wotou.

"That Grandma is really not close, why does she always give us wotou to eat." He joked, "Eating wotou doesn't make you grow tall either."

"Listen to him, he ate two eggs this morning."

The old lady glanced at her great-grandson with amusement, pointed to the courtyard, and said, "It's noisy right now, I was afraid he would bump into something, so I kept him in, and he was annoyed."

"Two eggs." Li Tang tried hard to stretch out two fingers from his sleeve in his second uncle's arms to gesture, "Eggs are really delicious."

"Little glutton—" Li Xuewu patted his eldest nephew's butt; the cotton pants were so thick he couldn't feel the flesh.

"Hee hee—"

Li Tang couldn't hold his temper; after watching the excitement in his arms for a while, he wanted to get down and play by himself.

Li Xuewu squatted opposite the old lady, considering it keeping him in, not letting him run into the courtyard.

The old lady had just said that the courtyard was noisy, which was really dangerous; moving house was never not dangerous.

Two had already been injured in the morning, although both were just bumping their hands and legs, they were still bleeding; the busier one was, the more mistakes one made.

Everyone had lived through bitter days, and they were reluctant to throw away things in the house, but there was only so much space upstairs, so they were trying hard to stuff them into the car.

The old saying goes, a broken home is worth ten thousand strings of cash; it's not a pity to throw away household items, but buying them again is money.

It was just that the old courtyard bungalow had a lot of space, and the courtyard was also spacious; where would there be space to put these rags in a building?

Corridors and stairwells were strictly forbidden; knowing that many fires occurred in later generations, Li Xuewu had given a preventive injection in advance.

Fire protection and building management had long posted notices, checking every day; anyone who dared to store items in corridors and stairwells would be cleared out.

Anyone who dared to go looking for them would also be fined.

It was to strictly punish and strictly manage, completely eliminating such fire hazards.

However, with this rule in place, the corners of this courtyard suffered; there was all kinds of junk.

Three-legged chairs, table legs without tabletops, water vats with holes in the bottom, rusted-out fire stoves, kang mats with eight hundred holes...

Several families still living in the courtyard came out to pick up rags, seeing if there was anything useful, and took them back to continue using.

No one should laugh at anyone; actually, the rags piled in the corners were real rags, but anything with a little value that couldn't be taken away had already been sent to the West Courtyard for recycling.

The First Master came out from the second gate, and seeing Li Xuewu here, walked over and chatted for a while.

Seeing him look at the pile of garbage in the corner, he explained that after moving was finished, he would organize people in the courtyard to clean it out.

They were all old neighbors, old neighbors; they couldn't leave a pile of rags to disgust the neighbors after they left.

Speaking of the few people he just met, Li Xuewu shook his head with emotion; in the blink of an eye, the children had already grown up.

"Isn't that so, Banggeng has become a big guy."

The First Master also echoed, and at this moment, Banggeng was walking out with a stack of enamel basins, and praised him with a smile.

But Banggeng's nature was not high; he had long asked, and the Workers' New Village did not allow raising chickens, and rabbits were not allowed upstairs either.

The few chickens and rabbits their family raised had long been slaughtered for the New Year, and at this moment, they were moving into the new building along with the furniture.

Seeing Sha Zhu joked that this was "not leaving a chicken or dog behind."

"Banggeng is fourteen this year, Xiaodang is eleven, Huaihua is already eight, in the second grade of primary school."

The First Master stood there talking about the children in the courtyard, and Seeing Sha Zhu chimed in, "I'm already thirty-two."

"Who asked you, are you a child?" Li Xuewu teased him.

"Whether you ask or not, I'm thirty-two." Seeing Sha Zhu was still covered in dust, walked over, and said with a smile, "My son is already two and a half."

"It can be seen that you are capable."

Li Xuewu looked up at him and asked, "Did you go help the First Master move?"

"Went three trips in the morning, now there are more people, will move when there's time, no rush."

Seeing Sha Zhu nodded, took the cigarette the First Master handed him and lit it, introducing, "The big items have already been moved over, will tidy up slowly later, it will take three or five days to get it organized, it's so messy."

"Moving house is never not messy."

The First Master stood with his hands behind his back, his face festive, and he was much more spirited; it looked like he was happy to move to a new home.

Seeing Sha Zhu, this godson, was capable; he didn't need to move at all, just help a bit.

A tricycle for a big cart, one round trip was an hour, because he still had to move into the building.

"And this is just the first floor." Seeing Sha Zhu widened his eyes and emphasized, "Moving furniture and such in isn't strenuous, look at those upstairs, it's strenuous to lift them up."

"People live comfortably too." Li Xuewu said with a smile, "Who doesn't want to be a cut above others? Upstairs and downstairs each have their advantages."

"The First Mistress's health is not good, and her legs and feet are not good either, she can't climb stairs, so the first floor is quite good."

Seeing Sha Zhu pointed to the backyard direction and explained, "The Second Master's family also wanted a first floor, the Second Mistress's legs and feet are even less convenient."

"Hmm, those who are older all wanted the bottom floor, young people are more willing to want upstairs, each takes what they need, no fighting, good thing."

"I'll go to your grandma's mouth—"

They were chatting about moving house, but there was a noise at the gate; it sounded like they were arguing.

Seeing Sha Zhu was a busybody and wanted to go out to see, but hearing it was Jia Da Da Ma's voice, he extinguished the thought of going out to watch the excitement.

"Don't think about it, it must be because of the car."

He seemed to know the truth, waved his hand and explained, "Today, all the tricycles in the city wish they could come to earn our money."

"The cars at the freight station that didn't get work today all came to this side of the alley, there are people fighting to use them, all moving house."

"Use the car if you want to use the car, what are you arguing about?"

The First Master frowned; he was most impatient with Jia Zhangshi's shrewish and noisy temper, so he muttered a sentence.

Seeing Sha Zhu laughed and said, "Nothing more than that little thing, good work is just this one day, who doesn't want to work hard, so they can run a few more families."

"You didn't see it, the Jia family wishes they could even take the coal ash, you tell me if people can wait this long."

He curled his lip and said, "Even if the car can wait, they don't want to pull so much junk."

The noise at the gate was quickly suppressed; it was Qin Huairu who came back from work, cutting the Gordian knot.

The "fast knife" Qin Huairu cut was not just the tricycle, but also her mother-in-law.

Jia Zhangshi was organizing things to take away, but she directed people to throw away more than half of them, and no matter what Jia Zhangshi said, she didn't listen.

The mother and daughter-in-law almost argued again at the gate; after all, Jia Zhangshi had no life skills and had to rely on her daughter-in-law, so she could only sulk.

"That water bucket is for Banggeng to fish and feed chickens, the bottom is already rotten, what can you use it for if you take it!"

Qin Huairu threw away a pile of things at the gate, and her mouth was still dealing with her mother-in-law's nagging as she walked into the courtyard.

Seeing this group of people at Li's door, she also knew that her family had made a joke, but they had been neighbors for many years, so she wasn't embarrassed.

Even if it was embarrassing, there was only this one day left, and who knows where they would be if they wanted to meet and talk later.

A smile appeared on her face; she greeted the old lady, and also greeted the First Master and Li Xuewu.

"Just off the night shift?"

"Isn't that so."

Seeing Li Xuewu ask, Qin Huairu sighed and said, "Really couldn't swap shifts anymore, had to just push through."

"No rush, it's all day, move slowly." Seeing Sha Zhu said happily, "If it really doesn't work, wait until the First Master's family finishes moving, I'll help you move."

"Why didn't you say so earlier—"

Qin Huairu rolled her eyes at him, but the anger in her mouth wasn't serious, and she had already gone to the backyard.

Not long after, Jia Zhangshi's crying and howling came from the second gate again, as if she had lost gold and silver jewelry.

But from Qin Huairu's loud voice, everyone heard that it was Banggeng's rotten wooden bed that Qin Huairu had thrown away.

"What has this become, and you're still taking it!"

Qin Huairu was really angry and helpless, "The family has already bought a new bed, who is going to sleep on this broken thing if you take it back?"

"I'll sleep! I'll sleep, is that alright!"

Jia Zhangshi was also anxious, holding that pile of broken wooden boards, arguing as if she were guarding a coffin lid.

Qin Huairu was too lazy to pay attention to her; she called people to help move, only saying what could be moved, and except for what she named, she didn't want any of it.

The people in the courtyard watched the excitement, but everyone's tone was different; some said that with a high salary, the vision was also high.

What were the conditions of Qin Huairu's family before? They wished they could cut a penny in half to spend; now, she didn't feel heartache at all when throwing things away.

Jia Zhangshi also felt it was meaningless to guard that pile of boards, because no one helped her move; from here to the new house, Seeing Sha Zhu would have to walk for more than half an hour, and if she carried this pile of boards over, it would really be used as a coffin lid.

Seeing Qin Huairu's impatience, she also extinguished her fire and didn't cause any more gossip.

Qin Huairu was generous; after the family finished moving, she told several familiar neighbors that there were still some rags in the house, and whoever needed them could take them.

This was open-minded; after all, what was in the house was different from what was on the rag pile, and there might be useful household items.

The neighbors in the courtyard got the first hand, and the rest would be scraped a few more times by rag pickers who heard the news.

After scraping almost everything, the logistics department would arrange for people to clean the houses and seal and register them.

Actually, moving house was urgent, not because the logistics department was urgent to want the houses, but because the employees were more urgent than each other, wishing they could immediately vacate the houses for the unit.

"What did you come for?"

Watching the excitement of the Jia family, Seeing Sha Zhu asked Li Xuewu again.

Li Xuewu looked up at him and joked, "Keep an eye on my home in the backyard, so it doesn't get moved away by someone."

"Hahaha—" Seeing Sha Zhu and the First Master both laughed.

If this wasn't a joke, what was it? Who in this courtyard would have eyes that didn't see and dare to go in and take things?

Not to mention in this courtyard, even in this alley, on this street, he was also famous.

The backyard didn't lock the door all year round, and he hadn't even lived here much this year, but who had entered the door?

Only Li family members used it, either to tidy up the house, or to light the stove, or to burn heating.

Otherwise, everyone said Li Xuewu was wealthy; even if he didn't come back to live, the house was often tidied, and the heating was never cut off in winter.

In the past, there were many people in this courtyard, so Li Xuewu naturally didn't have the patience to come back to live, and was even less willing to deal with the neighbors' nagging.

But now there were fewer people, and winter was just right for returning home for a reunion, and it was also good to put the two little ones here together with the children of the eldest brother's family.

Mainly, he wanted to sleep on a warm kang; this feeling was more comfortable than the bed in the villa, and the ground house had an experience that the villa didn't have.

Besides, the house in his backyard was also renovated with a lot of money before he got married, and it was originally prepared for marriage.

It was a pity that the marriage partner changed, and the wedding room also changed.

Joking was joking; coming home on Sunday was mainly to see the old lady and his mother.

He and Gu Ning were discussing that they would go to his father-in-law's house in Jin Ling for the solar New Year this year, and had already told his brother-in-law and brother-in-law.

There were still more than twenty days until the end of the month, so there had to be an arrangement.

Even at home, he had to entrust someone to look after it; he was still a bit worried about Er Ya alone.

"Should go once, it's been more than three years." Liu Yin was extremely supportive of her son's idea, "Your father-in-law and mother-in-law also miss the children."

He chatted at home for a while, and the courtyard was still noisy; when he went out, the neighbors said goodbye to him very enthusiastically.

This goodbye was not that they would never see each other again, it was just that it wouldn't be convenient to see each other again, and it wouldn't be a neighbor relationship anymore.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1359 =====