Back to the past: Spring and Autumn Siheyuan

Chapter 4
It was less than ten o'clock when I came here in the morning, and it was already four o'clock in the afternoon after I cleaned up the house and washed all the things that needed to be washed.

During the period, many people came out from the backyard of the middle courtyard and saw the movement here, and the three mothers always came out to introduce them to them just in time.

The first aunt, the second aunt, Jia Zhang, Qin Huairu, and the old lady in the backyard should be an aunt of Xu Damao's mother.

He has seen all those who are not working at home today.

What impressed me the most was that Qin Huairu, who was said to have just married, looked at Qin Huairu who was about twenty years old.

Young and beautiful, with a hot body, I don't know what to eat at home, so well developed.

Just a few glances made Li Heng, who has been single for 28 years, feel a little parched. Fortunately, Jia Zhang might also be on guard against him, and walked away with his daughter-in-law just to say hello.

After a day of tossing and tossing, the house has changed a lot. The bed where the younger brother lived was removed by him and moved to the south, where it was put together with another bed to become a big bed.

When conditions permit, he likes to sleep in a big bed, which can let him roll around randomly.

Move the cabinets used as partitions on both sides to this side, and move to the north, so that his separated bedroom will be much more spacious. Three cabinets are used as partitions, and the privacy in the bedroom can be better. Standing You can't see in from the other side of the living room.

And the functional area is also larger, sitting here no longer feels cramped when I first came in in the morning.

If we can get another sofa here, tsk tsk, that would be cool.

But now, should I get a bicycle first? The place to work is far away, and it takes a full 10 minutes to walk there.

This made him scratch his head a bit, bicycle tickets are not easy to deal with.

When I came back from the recovery, the army leader didn't say how many cards to give, how stingy.

Li Heng cursed in his heart.

By the way, isn't there a ticket in the compensation I received this morning? I haven't read it yet.

Forget it, let’s check it out when we get to the unit later, it’s not possible to live here tonight, there’s no bed cover, and the cotton net cover has to be taken out and re-flicked, and the single-person room has to be changed to a double-person room of.

As soon as he said it, he picked up the cotton net cover that had been packed, closed the door, and walked out of the yard.

……

When he returned to the unit, it was already past five o'clock, and the cotton net cover and the belt had to be changed, and he could not pick it up until three days later, which meant that he had to live in the unit for another three days.

In the waste pile at the back of the recycling station compound, several people are still working there in full swing. They need to sort the waste that has been delivered into different categories, and arrange everything that needs to be bundled, so that it will be convenient when the returning car comes to pull.

He shared an office with the stationmaster, and the stationmaster Lao Zhang was sitting behind his desk drinking water while flipping through newspapers that he had read countless times.

"Er Heng is back, are you done?"

"It's done, it's in our office, so I went to the civil affairs department for nothing in the morning."

There was no fire in the house over there, and there was no water to drink. After a busy day, he was thirsty, so he picked up the jar on his desk and drank it all in one go.

"What are you doing to be so thirsty?"

"Oh, I cleaned up the house all day today, and I didn't drink or eat. I'm thirsty and hungry right now."

"Clean up the house? Did the street office allocate a room for you?"

"No, it was the house my father and my brother lived in before. The street office has never taken it back, and now they let me continue to live in it. It's been a few months since no one lived in it. It's so dirty that it doesn't look like it. I worked there all day .”

"Well, you are a cadre, or a battalion-level cadre who came back from the army. The street office must give you priority in solving the housing problem. It is not a problem to let you live in the office. This is just right. I guess they didn't take back your house at that time. house, there may be considerations in this regard."

Stationmaster Zhang nodded and said after listening.

"Whatever he thinks, as long as I have a place to live."

"Hehe, you're easy to talk, so wait for dinner, it's being done on the stove."

Their waste collection station is small and complete.

In fact, it is not small, the unit occupies a large area, and the number of employees is more than 60.

Of course, there are only five official employees, and only two of them are cadres. The rest are temporary workers. If they want to become full-time workers here, they can only wait for the three regular employees to retire.

There is also a cafeteria on the station, and the meals are very cheap, five cents for a meal, and you can eat as much as you want.

But if you want to take it away, it can only be served for one person, that is, half a lunch box of vegetables and two big steamed buns.

That's cheap enough.

Now these units are relying on the mountain to rely on the mountain, and they provide some small benefits for their employees. The leaders above know it, but they all turn a blind eye, as long as you don’t put it in your own pocket.

Every day at their buying station, many ordinary people come to look for things, whatever they want, just give them money, there is no ticket from the finance department, and the guard Lao Zheng will not let you go out.

Oh, the doorman Lao Zheng is the last official employee besides the accountants and cashiers in the financial office.

Don't look at him as a gatekeeper. That's because his leg was injured in the war and he couldn't walk easily, so the higher-ups arranged this way. He is 50 years old, and he just sits leisurely in the guard room every day. The station master is also comfortable.

Their buying station is to sell some scraps privately in order to get some benefits for the big guys.

Calculated every year, it’s actually quite a lot. After Li Heng came here at the beginning of the month, when chatting with the station manager, he heard that last year’s New Year’s bonus was two catties of octopus and one catty of meat per person, which was very generous.

"Er Heng, now that your job is settled and you have a house, you're 28 this year, shouldn't it be time to find someone?"

"No rush, no rush." ​​Li Heng quickly waved his hand. He was single for more than 30 years in his previous life, and he has been single for such a long time in this life. He has long forgotten how to deal with girls.

"Don't be in a hurry. There are several children in the same class as you. Don't be in a hurry. Look at that Xiaodong we are standing on. He is only 26 this year. The eldest is five years old, the second is three years old, and his wife is pregnant again. up."

Li Heng grinned when he heard this, he was too capable and cruel.

However, people are really needed in national construction now, so I encourage you to give birth at this time.

If there is no such wave of births in the past 20 years, there will be no demographic dividend decades later.

"Hey, Uncle Zhang, I just settled down, I have to take a breather and take my time."

Stationmaster Zhang looked at the young man sitting opposite him, smiled and shook his head.

"Sigh~ I don't know what you're thinking. People are worried about finding a wife, but you still want to take your time, but that's true. With your current status and salary, you really don't have to worry about finding a wife. , It’s good to pick slowly, but don’t be picky.”

"That won't!"

(End of this chapter)