Siheyuan, a comfortable life under Zhengyang Gate

"Oh, I'm eating."

"Uncle Kun, Auntie, Sister Xiao Zongzi, Pingping, and Xiao Yumi."

"Brother Xiaowu, when did you come back?" A family of five was having dinner when Han Chunming and his son (and daughter) suddenly appeared.

Yesterday, to celebrate the success of his disciple and Wu Zhanlang, Yang Yukun called Han Chunming and others to come over to eat roasted whole lamb. At that time, Han Chunming was still out of town.

"Just got home."

Han Chunming returned home an hour ago. After dinner, he had nothing to do, so he went to chat with Yang Yukun about the New Year.

"Uncle, please sit here. Feifei, Mengmeng, you guys sit too."

Without being told by his parents, little Zongzi ran to get bowls and chopsticks for his uncle and Feifei Mengmeng.

"Fei Fei, Meng Meng, have a chicken drumstick."

"Thank you, aunt."

"Brother Xiaowu, let's have a toast." Yang Yukun filled Han Chunming's glass with wine, and the two brothers clinked their glasses: "Let's eat."

"I just had dinner at home and I haven't digested it yet."

"Eat less. By the way, are Brother Jian and Brother Tu back?"

"No, they went to Hong Kong Island to look for Lao Ao. They said they wanted to play in Hong Kong Island for a while."

This time, Han Chunming was on a business trip to the neighboring Yanzhao Province to discuss an engineering project, and he was not with Yang Huajian and Mao Ditu.

When he came back from Yanzhao Province today, he called Yang Huajian and Mao Ditu.

Yang Huajian and Mao Ditu are currently in Pengcheng, Nanyue, and they will go to Hong Kong Island for a few days tomorrow.

"Lao Yang and Di Tu asked us if we wanted to go to Hong Kong Island. If we did, they would wait for us in Pengcheng."

"I'm not going."

"I'll call Lao Yang and Tutu later and ask them to go."

"You're not going either?"

"I don't have time. There are so many things going on in the company."

If he had time, Han Chunming would really like to stroll around Hong Kong Island with Yang Huajian and Mao Ditu, and have a drink with Aofeng.

He has been very busy recently. He has brought you to Yongjian Real Estate Development Company, where a new property has started construction and there are a lot of things in the company that need his attention.

As for Yang Yukun, he simply didn't want to go out.

He is actually quite lazy. When he has nothing to do, he likes to stay at home, drink tea and read books.

Even though he spends several months a year hanging out outside, it's because he's accompanying Xu Jingping.

If he were alone, he would not be interested in running around and would rather stay at home.

After dark, Han Chunming and his son (daughter) left for home. Yang Yukun carried a chair into the house, washed up, and went to the living room to watch TV with Xu Jingping for a while.

"Little Zongzi, Pingping, Little Corn, it's time to go to bed. We have to go to school tomorrow."

Yang Yukun came to the study and called Xiao Zongzi, Pingping and Xiao Yumi who were reading in the study to go back to the room to sleep.

"Good night, Mom and Dad."

"Mom and dad, see you tomorrow."

"Dad, I want to eat egg noodles tomorrow morning."

"Okay, go back to bed, it's already past nine o'clock."

"okay."

"Black Panther, go back to your own nest too." Yang Yukun patted the black panther and asked it to go back to its own nest.

The black panther wagged its tail, ran out of the house and went into its den in the corner of the yard.

Yang Yukun went to close the front door, then closed the door of the main room and returned to the bedroom.

The children wanted to eat egg noodles, so the next morning Yang Yukun made egg noodles for them, steamed some buns and steamed dumplings, and cooked a pot of tea eggs.

Feifei, Mengmeng, Hou Li and a group of little kids came over to call Xiao Zongzi, Pingping and Xiao Yumi to go to school. Yang Yukun stuffed a tea egg into each of them.

"Xiaokun, Jingping."

"Hey, Mr. Niu, it's you, old man. Have you had breakfast?"

"Just ate at Cai's Snack Shop."

"Have a tea egg."

Seeing Mr. Niu coming, Yang Yukun hurriedly invited the old man to come in and sit down.

There are still a few tea eggs left, take them out and let Uncle Niu eat them.

"This tea egg is so delicious. Only you are willing to use such good tea leaves to cook tea eggs."

"Master Niu, you know me well. I don't have many hobbies, and eating happens to be one of them. I will never mistreat my own mouth and stomach if I mistreat anyone else."

"That's right. You are the best eater and cook in our alley."

"Thank you for your compliment. I still have a lot of tea here. You can take some back to drink later." "Then I won't be polite to you, kid."

"You're welcome." Yang Yukun has plenty of tea. The two tea trees planted in his portable planting space can be used to pick tea all year round. He can't drink all of it by himself. In addition to using it to cook tea eggs, he will also give some to his master and others: "Uncle Niu, how come you have time to come to my place today? You didn't bring your great-grandson today?"

"His grandparents took him out to play, and they haven't brought him back yet." The Marquis took out two keys from his pocket: "These are the keys to Pian'erye's house. I'm taking care of my great-grandson at Huafengyuan now, and I rarely have time to come to the alley. Please help take care of Pian'erye's small courtyard."

"Okay, no problem."

After his granddaughter-in-law gave birth to his great-grandson, Grandpa Niu and his family moved into a villa in Huafengyuan community.

My son and daughter-in-law have to go to work. My grandson graduated from college this year and is also working. My granddaughter-in-law took a year off from school because of pregnancy and childbirth and is now in her fourth year of college. My great-grandson is left to be taken care of by Grandpa Niu.

When Pian'erye went to Northeast China, he gave the courtyard to him to help manage.

Now he lives in Huafengyuan Community and rarely has time to come here.

After Madaro and Mu Linai moved out, Pianerye no longer planned to rent out the courtyard.

It would be bad if no one took care of it for a long time. It just so happened that Pianerye's courtyard was in the same alley as Yang Yukun's house, with several courtyards in between.

Uncle Niu thought of giving the key to Pianye's house to Yang Yukun, and asked Yang Yukun to go over and clean it from time to time, and open the doors and windows to let in some fresh air.

In response to this, Yang Yukun said that of course there was no problem, these were all trivial matters.

Anyway, he has nothing to do all day, so let him help Pianerye manage the yard.

He would go over to clean it every week and open the windows to let in some fresh air. He would never let Pian'erye's yard become decayed and dilapidated.

Putting aside the relationship between Pianerye and his master, father-in-law and mother-in-law, every year Pianerye brings them mountain products such as red pine nuts, hazelnuts, mushrooms, etc. from the Northeast.

"Then I'll be leaving first. I haven't seen Master Guan and Master Hou for a few days. I'll go have some tea with them."

"Uncle Niu, please have another tea egg."

"I'll take two to Uncle Guan and your master."

"Uncle Niu, please wait a moment, I have some tea." Yang Yukun went into the house and brought Uncle Niu a box of Zhiwei black tea produced in his portable planting space.

"I'm leaving."

"Master Niu, please take care."

"it is good."

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Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping stayed at home all day without even leaving the house.

In the afternoon, Xiao Zongzi, Pingping, Xiao Yumi and Black Panther came back from school. After dinner, they stayed at home.

In the blink of an eye, another week has passed.

After breakfast on this weekend morning, Xu Jingping took Xiao Zongzi, Pingping and Xiao Yumi to the zoo for fun.

Yang Yukun went to clean Pianerye's yard. Less than ten minutes after he returned home, he received a call from Peng Tao, who said that they would have hotpot together at the Zhiweilou Hotpot chain headquarters in the evening.

He first prepared some food for Black Panther, and then at five o'clock in the afternoon, Yang Yukun came to the Zhiweilou Hotpot chain's main store for a banquet.

"Teacher Peng, Teacher He, Yiheng."

"Uncle Kun, you are here. Where are Xiao Zongzi, Pingping, Xiao Yumi and the others?"

Peng Tao saw that Yang Yukun was alone: ​​"Yes, where are Jingping and the children?"

"They have a date today."

Xu Jingping, Xiao Zongzi, Pingping, Xiao Yumi and others went to the zoo today with Su Meng, Meng Xiaoxing, Meng Xiaozao, Feifei and a group of other little ones.

They had already made arrangements in advance to go to the Wangfujing branch of Zhiweilou Restaurant to eat Cantonese cuisine tonight.

"Is that so? Let's go in then." Peng Tao said, "Old Wang hasn't come back yet. He's still on a business trip in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province. He said he'll stay there for another week."

Yang Yukun said: "I called him before, and he was also in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province."

"Come on, don't be polite, it's my treat today, order whatever you want."

After sitting down, Peng Tao handed the menu to Yang Yukun.

"Teacher Peng, are you rich?"

"I didn't get rich, but I got transferred to a new job."

"Then I won't be polite to you today. I have to give you a good beating. Should I call you Director Peng from now on?"

"Deputy, and I still prefer the title of Mr. Peng."

"Teacher Peng, congratulations."

When Yang Yukun heard Peng Tao say that he had been transferred to another job, he immediately understood what was going on. He was transferred to the District Education Bureau.

Although in terms of administrative level, Peng Tao's current level is not higher than his previous level as high school principal.

But the prospects of this position are different. According to Peng Tao's age, as long as he does not make any mistakes at work, he will have a great chance to work in the city in the future.

No wonder this kid treated us to a meal today, we have to celebrate properly.

Yang Yukun ordered some dishes, then handed the menu to Peng Tao and He Hua, and asked Peng Yiheng to order some of his favorite dishes, including a Guizhou-style sour soup base and a Chongqing-style beef oil base dandelion pot. (End of this chapter)