Siheyuan: starting from prying the corner of the silly column

Chapter 5
"Hit you because you don't know how to live!"

Ma Hua's father, Ma Chengde, answered Ma Hua's question with a stick: "How much money do you have a month? Do you go out for a drink?"

"Have you still made friends who are neither good nor bad?"

Ma Hua explained: "It's really not true. Today the leader is entertaining guests in the cafeteria. When he saw me, he asked me to go over and help the leader hold the wine."

"I'm not messing around outside."

Ma Chengde looked at him suspiciously: "Really?"

"Really!" Ma Hua nodded and walked out,
Ma Chengde saw that he was not guilty at all, and he didn't seem to be talking nonsense, so he put away his stick in doubt: "You can still serve drinks at the table? Didn't you offend the leader?"

"No no."

Ma Hua responded, seeing his eldest brother Ma Zhong and his sister-in-law Cao Juhua standing at the door of the main room, he didn't bother to say anything to them, and went directly into his hut.

As the alcohol surged, Ma Hua became dizzy and sleepy.

Before going to sleep, I vaguely heard someone muttering: "Who knows what he said is true or not... Maybe he didn't follow the right path..."

"Dad, be careful, our family's money has been collected..."

It's boring, it's really boring to live together like this.

Ma Hua thought to himself, then fell asleep.

When he woke up again, it was already dark, and Ma Hua's stomach was rumbling.

hungry.

After turning on the dim electric light, Ma Hua walked towards the door of the main room.

"Dad, Mom, are you all resting?"

"Well, rest."

"Have you eaten yet?" Ma Hua asked again.

"have eaten."

Ma Hua went to the kitchen to take a look. The pot was cold and the stove was cold, and he didn't even save water for washing the pot. It was clean...

Ma Hua was silent for two seconds, then went to the main room and knocked hard on the door: "Mom and Dad, you all get up, I have something to say."

Then he shouted to the side room: "Brother, sister-in-law, get up too! I have something to do!"

Ma Chengde put on cotton trousers, put on a sheepskin jacket, and ran out of the house with a stick: "Stinky boy, you deserve a beating, don't you! You don't sleep at night, what are you doing!"

Ma Hua said calmly, "I'm going to move out."

Ma Chengde was stunned for a while, and forgot to hit him with a stick: "Huh?"

After a while, Ma Hua's mothers Ma Liushi, Ma Zhong, and Cao Juhua were also all dressed up, breathing the cold air of the winter night, and came to the main room.

Ma Chengde was smoking a pipe, and the whole room smelled of smoke.

"Ma Hua said, is there something wrong with him?" Ma Zhong asked.

Ma Hua nodded: "Yes, there is something."

Cao Juhua curled her lips: "Tch, what can he do?"

Ma Hua didn't go around in circles, and said directly: "I'm going to move out soon, and it's only a few days."

Ma Liushi and Ma Zhong were stunned, and only then did they understand why Ma Chengde kept smoking his pipe without saying a word.

"Moving out? That's a good thing!"

Cao Juhua was blunt, and immediately blurted out.

Ma Zhong tugged at her arm hard, and she didn't react until she finally stopped talking.

After a silence, Ma Chengde said in a hoarse voice, "Ma Hua, how much money have you saved?"

"Didn't it be said that at the end of the year, buying a bicycle is convenient for finding a wife?"

"Moving out at this time is just paying for others, which is not worthwhile."

Looking at the performance of this family, Ma Hua has gradually dispelled the depression in his heart.

Again, the family relationship is not fake, but everyone has their own considerations; Ma Hua does not leave, which is a bit of an eyesore, but when Ma Hua says he wants to leave, Ma Chengde, Ma Liushi, and Ma Zhong are obviously worried that he will not live well outside.

Ma Hua responded to Ma Chengde's words: "I have been in the rolling mill for two years. I don't spend much money on food and drink, and I don't spend money on living at home. I spend a little bit here and there. I have saved 120 yuan so far."

"If you want to get an industrial ticket, it's enough to buy an ordinary bicycle. There's no need to buy a bicycle that costs [-] to [-]."

"Still, the money that was saved with great difficulty is broken, and it will be difficult to save it later."

Ma Liu said slowly: "It seems that the New Year will be one month away, what's the matter, let's talk about it after the New Year?"

The implication is to advise MCA not to move out in a hurry.

Although everything is left to the Ma and Zhong couples, we can’t drive our youngest son out during the cold winter months and when the Chinese New Year is approaching, especially renting a house outside. That would be a waste of money and even more worthless.

Cao Ju said cheerfully: It's better to move out——

But her husband Ma Zhong kept staring at her, so she had no choice but to stay silent for the time being.

Ma Hua said: "That's not true. Today I helped the leader hold back the wine, and the leader asked me a few questions."

"I said I'm getting married soon, and I'm short of a wedding house."

"The leader said that I will go to work tomorrow to help me solve this matter, that is, I will allocate a not-so-good house and live in it for [-] cents a month, and the money will be deducted from my salary."

"Ah? That's great!" Ma Chengde, Ma Liushi, and Ma Zhong were all overjoyed.

"Did you get the room allocation? This is the way to go!"

"The house should not be very good. It's all left over by others." Ma Hua said, "I guess it will take a lot of trouble."

"That's better than renting a house outside!" Ma Chengde looked happy, stood up and paced back and forth, "This matter must be done quickly!"

He patted Ma Hua on the shoulder again: "Do well in the future, and don't go in crooked ways!"

Ma Liushi also told Ma Hua that if he really wanted to get a house, what taboos, what should be paid attention to, and what should be prepared first.

Ma Zhong also came over and said something nice to Ma Hua, congratulating him on getting the house.

For a while, Ma Hua changed from a neglected kid to the most concerned person in the Ma family.

Ma Hua answered a few words with them and asked, "Is there anything to eat? I'm a little hungry."

Mrs. Ma Liu brought two cornbreads from the cornbread basket in the main room - food is so precious these days, even the cornbreads are not willing to be put in other rooms, but they are placed in the main room with the owner so that the mice will not eat them.

This is why Ma Hua saw that there was no rice left in the kitchen pot, so he knew that he would not be able to find anything else to eat.

Ma Hua broke the cold and stiff corn buns, soaked them in boiled water, and barely fed himself. After eating, he greeted his parents, brother and sister-in-law, and went back to the house.

He went back to the room to rest, and Ma Chengde, Ma Liushi, and Ma Zhong were too happy to fall asleep.

A big problem for the family has been solved, and Ma Hua will not be wronged outside in the future. What a happy event!

Cao Juhua said "Who knows if it's true or not", but the cold water was not poured, and was scolded by Ma Zhong and Ma Liu, and went back to the house to rest angrily, staring and stamping her feet.

Early the next morning, when MCA arrived at the Red Star Steel Rolling Plant, instead of going to the canteen first, it went to the small three-story building where the factory leaders were.

The leader of the agricultural machinery factory who came to visit as a guest left yesterday. Deputy factory director Li did not seem to be a reliable person. MCA felt that the person at the table yesterday who really counted was the hot-tempered and difficult factory director Yang. .

Director Yang came out of blood and fire, and a spit is a nail.

He came early, but Factory Manager Yang was quick to come with a car. After waiting for a while, Factory Manager Yang's car arrived.

When he got out of the car and saw Ma Hua, Director Yang didn't say much, and told him to follow him to the office, and asked him the specific situation for confirmation.

(End of this chapter)