passionate youth

Chapter 53 To Li Wen'an's House

Saturday afternoon.

After the last class, Jiang Pingan returned to the dormitory and saw Zuo Peilin packing up his things.

"Peilin is going home?" Jiang Pingan asked with a smile.

Zuo Peilin nodded and smiled, "It's been a while since I went back, if I don't go back, I'll be scolding my mother."

"Is there still a bus to go back so late?" Jiang Ping'an asked doubtfully.

Zuo Peilin waved his hand and said, "I can't afford to sit on the bus. I'll walk back. I'll be there in an hour or two, but it's not far away."

"Okay, take care of my sister-in-law for me, and be careful on the way." Jiang Ping'an smiled.

There are very few students here who are not married, and there are even fewer unmarried people at Jiang Pingan's age.

In the dormitory, some other people were packing up their things, they were going home, while others were lying on the bed watching them busy.

Although I have a holiday on Sunday, I don't go home every week.

Staying in school, in addition to learning homework, you can also eat, save some food for the family, and save a meal is a meal.

Most of the students, even if they are close to home, usually only go home once a month.

"Ping'an is going home too?" Seeing that Jiang Ping'an was also packing up, Zuo Peilin asked suspiciously.

Jiang Pingan chose a few textbooks and picked them up, smiled and said, "I won't go back, I'll go to a friend's house for a while."

Zuo Peilin was stunned and didn't ask any further questions. After packing up his things, he waved goodbye to the people in the dormitory.

Jiang Ping'an didn't stay at school too long, took his books away, bid farewell to his roommate, and walked out of school.

It didn't snow today, but the weather was still gloomy and bitterly cold.

There are people coming and going on the street, and the working people are off work, rushing home in twos and threes.

Looking around, most of them are sallow, emaciated and malnourished, but their mental state is very good, and all of them are high-spirited.

"Today, let's go to Xiuzhen's house first. Don't stay too long, so as not to cause misunderstanding." Jiang Pingan said in a deep voice.

The few times before when he went to Chen Xiuzhen's house, he chose to go there in the dead of night.

But going to Li Wen'an's house today, and staying there for dinner will definitely delay a lot of time.

It's better to go and tell Chen Xiuzhen first, lest she wait anxiously.

"I just gave Xiuzhen a few eggs to eat, and she will come out after sitting for a while, and then go to Teacher Li's house."

"After the dead of night, I will return to Xiuzhen's house...that's the arrangement."

"I'm going to Xiuzhen's on vacation this week, and I have to go back to Shangshui Village next week."

"Sister-in-law Miao's land is likely to grow grass soon, so I need to pluck it and water it regularly so that it doesn't dry up."

"Now that we've entered the city and quietly returned to Shangshui Village, we can bring some delicious food to Mrs. Miao. Don't make too many excuses."

Passing by an alley, there is no one around.

Jiang Ping'an's heart moved, so he carried ten eggs in a cloth bag containing grain, and sent them to Chen Xiuzhen to eat.

In the tube building, the smoke is lingering, the smell of food is overflowing, and every family is busy making dinner.

Seeing that Jiang Ping'an was unfamiliar, a few elder sisters asked casually, and Jiang Ping'an only said that he came to visit a friend.

He didn't chat with those people, he came here openly, as long as he didn't stay in Chen Xiuzhen's room for too long, he wasn't afraid of what others would say.

"Why are you here so early? Aren't you afraid of other people's gossip? Aren't you afraid that I'm a widow?"

After entering the room, Chen Xiuzhen closed the door, pursed her lips and said with a smile.

Jiang Pingan handed her the eggs, and said with a smile, "I'll give you some eggs, and get the bag out quickly, I'll have something to do later."

Chen Xiuzhen curled her lips, leaned forward, stretched out her hand, raised her eyebrows meaningfully and said, "I don't want eggs, I want this!"

"Don't worry, I'll come over tonight and feed you well." Jiang Pingan pecked her and chuckled.

Chen Xiuzhen withdrew her hand, nodded in satisfaction, and said, "It's not too bad, I'll wait for you tonight!"

Then he took the cloth bag and turned around to clear the eggs.

"By the way, you haven't said where you're going yet?" She asked with her back to Jiang Ping'an.

Jiang Pingan replied, "I'm going to visit the teacher's house, so I'm not sure when I'll be back."

"If it's too late, you should go to bed first, anyway, I will definitely come over tonight."

Chen Xiuzhen nodded, put all the eggs in one basket, then turned around and returned the cloth bag to Jiang Ping'an, saying:
"It's important. Last time I heard you say that your teachers are not simple, and you should spend more time trying to curry favor."

After saying a few words, Jiang Ping'an didn't stay long, and after making out with her for a few minutes, he said goodbye and left.

Come out from the tube building.

Jiang Pingan glanced back and said in his heart:

"There are so many people here, it's very inconvenient! When I start working in the future, I'll find a safe place."

Stepping away, Jiang Ping'an went straight to Li Wen'an's house.

Passing by the back.

Jiang Pingan took urea sacks and filled them tightly with [-] catties of crushed space hay, which is equivalent to fodder.

A chicken can eat two to three taels of food a day in winter, and it can eat nine catties of food a month.

Sixty catties of hay is enough to feed a chicken for six to seven months.

After the hay was prepared, Jiang Ping'an looked at a cage of bamboo planted in the corner of the space forest farm. It was planted at the beginning of the month and had already grown into a fruit.

With a thought, a few green bamboos rose from the ground, flashed a few times, and turned into a delicate and simple golden bamboo chicken coop in the blink of an eye.

"This chicken coop is like a handicraft, tsk tsk, it's comfortable to look at." Jiang Pingan thought, and nodded in satisfaction.

Put a layer of hay in the chicken coop, then throw a rooster and a hen into it, take it out from the space, and hold it by hand.

It was getting late, and Jiang Ping'an didn't delay. With the chicken coop in his hand and the urea bag on his shoulder, he walked to Li Wen'an's house.

Li Wen'an's family lived in a small courtyard house in an alley, and most of the neighbors nearby were cultural people.

Outside the courtyard.

Jiang Pingan tapped the door cymbal lightly twice, then waited quietly.

Not to mention, the crisp sound of the door cymbals is very pleasant.

After a while, the door was opened from the inside, and Jiang Ping'an was stunned.

The person who opened the door was a woman in her twenties, with a beautiful appearance, a slender figure, and an elegant temperament.

"Excuse me, is this Professor Li's house?" Jiang Pingan asked with a smile.

"Yes, may I ask who you are?"

Jiang Ping'an said: "I'm a student of the Accelerated Middle School. My name is Jiang Ping'an. I made a special trip to visit Professor Li."

"Wait a moment, I'll go talk to my father-in-law."

Jiang Pingan nodded and smiled, "Please."

The woman smiled slightly, and slowly closed the door.

"I guess I'm going to ask Teacher Li to confirm my identity." Jiang Pingan said in his heart, not in a hurry, and waited slowly and patiently.

Soon, the door opened again, and it was still the woman who opened the door. She had a gentle expression and said with a smile, "Please follow me."

"It's troublesome." Jiang Ping'an smiled and walked in.

Walking into the gate of the house, you can see that the gable of the east wing is directly opposite.

Below the gable, there is a shadow wall.

The layout of courtyards in Beijing can be said to be ever-changing, and once you enter a courtyard, it is the most basic prototype of a courtyard.

The characteristic is that the main room faces south, usually three rooms, with one side room on each side of the main room, three front rooms and two side rooms, totaling five rooms.

If the courtyard is narrow and only the width of four rooms.

On both sides of the three main rooms, half of the side rooms can be placed on each side, showing a pattern of "four breaks and five".

The wing rooms stand symmetrically in front of the main room, the ones facing east and west are called "east wing rooms", and the ones sitting west facing east are called "west wing rooms".

The habit of people in the capital is to call a house whatever position it is located in.

Instead of calling them according to the orientation of the doors and windows of the courtyard.

Opposite the main house is the south, also known as "inverted house", with the same number of rooms as the main house.

Such a house surrounded by houses on four sides to form a courtyard is called a courtyard house.

If there is no south room, it is called a courtyard house.

Li Wen'an's family lived in a typical courtyard house.

Jiang Ping'an was brought into the yard by Li Wen'an's daughter-in-law, and saw Li Wen'an standing in the corridor in front of the main house, smiling at him and saying:
"Here you come? Put your things down quickly, sit in the living room and have a cup of hot tea to warm up."

(End of this chapter)