"This is a collective place. Once you build it like this, leave it to me... Look, it's only wider than a bicycle. It would be difficult for three people to walk."
"Uncle Xiong, it's not like you don't know about my family's situation. My sister has just returned to the city. There are four people who came back all at once, including my brother's family of three, my father and my mother, plus the two of us. Look at Yu Hong. Yue is about to give birth, and there is Xiaoning. A total of twelve people live in two and a half rooms. You see... how do we live in this? It will get cold soon. If we continue to make do, someone will die. "
"I don't care if your house dies or not, it can't be built like this."
"Uncle Xiong, you are being unreasonable to say that. Look at the cabin outside your main house. It was just built at the beginning of this year, right? Also, our house is so much recessed than the surrounding residents, so they didn't build yours." You didn’t say anything, why didn’t you stop when it was my turn?”
"Our house was built early, and yours was built late. Don't blame other people. They built their own house, and it doesn't bother me. It's just you...you do this."
"..."
Listening to the voice coming from across the way, Zheng Juan thought for a moment and said, "Is it Qianchao, Guoqing, the others...and Debao?"
Lin Yue nodded: "Let's go and have a look."
After saying that, he walked over with Yueyue in his arms.
As the two of them were following the sound, Uncle Xiong's son, Daxiong, wore a torn cotton-padded jacket and walked up to his father with his hands folded.
"Dad, okay, stop talking. Uncle Gong is leaving it here, isn't it? Uncle Gong, you can see, you see, everything that Jiachao's house built was built for my house..."
Qiu Chao was anxious: "What do you mean by building your house? If you want to expand your house, you won't allow me to build a small house?"
"What's going on?" Big Bear waved to the two people behind him: "What are you doing standing there in a daze? Let's dig it up."
After saying this, he pushed with both hands and pushed hard against the brick wall that Sun Qunchao, Xiao Guoqing and Cao Debao had built in two days.
Wow.
A third of the half-man-high wall collapsed, and the wooden door collapsed.
Sun Qianchao and Yu Hong suddenly became anxious and stepped forward to stop them. The fight soon developed into a physical conflict. The big bear was tall, and with a stroke of his hand, he knocked Qiuchao's daughter-in-law back to stagger, and threatened her with his eyes. Fell to the ground.
In this cold weather, the ground was covered with bricks, sand and the like, and she had a big belly. She was about to get into trouble, but just when her butt was about to touch the ground, a hand grabbed her cotton-padded jacket and pulled her away. Lift it off the ground.
Sun Qianchao looked at his wife and saw that she was fine. Then he looked at the people behind him and was stunned.
I saw Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan standing behind Yu Hong. The niece Yueyue, who had been fostered in his home since she was a child, was holding her aunt's thigh and looking at them curiously.
"Bingkun? Why are you back?"
When Cao Debao and Xiao Guoqing heard this, they turned their heads together and were stunned when they saw the scene behind them.
"It's really you, Bingkun."
Counting the days, it’s not even winter vacation yet.
"Oh, I'll come back to see mom." Lin Yue agreed, looking at Da Xiong and his father with a smile: "Why did you see such a lively scene when you came back? Xiong family father and son, you are trying to demolish other people's homes. .”
"What's the matter with you? Go and cool down."
After Da Xiong finished speaking, he continued to push the wall. In his eyes, college students and so on were nothing, and he didn't even care about Gong Weize, let alone Zhou Bingkun.
How could Sun Qianchao let him dig at him? Just as he was about to go up and tear him apart, Lin Yuela grabbed his shoulders and shook his head.
"Kun'er, let go. We spent two days building it, and he dug it all up. Where will Yu Hong and the child live when the weather gets cold?"
Lin Yue said: "Uncle Gong is here, we have to give him some face, otherwise how can he be a film policeman."
Sun Ganchao said with a bitter look on his face: "Then my family..."
Lin Yue patted him on the shoulder: "Don't worry, I have a way." After finishing, he took two steps forward, looked at Daxiong who looked like a second-rate guy and said, "Is it possible to build a house here?"
"No."
Without even raising his head, the big bear kicked down a hole in the brick wall.
"According to your opinion, the land beyond the yard of Qianchao's house is collective land?"
"That's right."
"Okay, got it, push it."
After Lin Yue finished speaking, he stopped talking to him.
"Bingkun..."
Xiao Guoqing and Cao Debao watched the fruits of the three people's labor being destroyed like this, and they would be lying if they said they were not uncomfortable.
Yu Hong was dragging him to catch up, otherwise he would have gone up and whipped him.
"Listen to me. I have a way. Not only can you live in a house with Yu Hong, but I can also disgust the Xiong family for half your life."
"real?"
Qianchao was deeply suspicious of this. Everyone in the entire alley knew what the Xiong family and his son were. If it weren't for the fact that his family was in dire straits, he wouldn't have dared to build a house.
"Do not worry."
Lin Yue turned to look at the proud-looking Xiong family and his son opposite. These two people really deserved the words "I'm a scoundrel and my son is a bastard."
"Okay, let's all go home and have a rest. I'll treat everyone to a drink after catching up with Chao's family."
Cao Debao said: "What, are you going to stay at home for a while?"
Lin Yue thought for a moment and said, "About half a month."
Those few people didn't think much about it, because half a month is not too long, and it shouldn't be a problem after classes are over.
…
Lin Yue rushed home, opened the door and saw that Aunt Wang, the nanny Chun Yan'er had found, was eating melon seeds at the dining table in the outer room. He quickly got up when he saw them coming in.
"Zheng Juan is back? Is this... Bingkun?"
She came here in the spring, and Lin Yue didn't go home during the summer vacation, so she didn't see him.
"Yes, you are Chun Yan'er's cousin, Aunt Wang."
"Ah, yes, yes."
Aunt Wang said: "Every time our Chun Yan'er comes over, she tells me that you are very capable and your grades were average when you were a child. But after several years of study, you caught up with your brother and sister and went to Tsinghua University. Oops, The old Zhou family...are all talented people."
Zheng Juan smiled a little reluctantly. What would she think if she knew that the third child of the Zhou family had been expelled from school?
"Where's my mother? Are you feeling better lately?"
Lin Yue didn't say much to Aunt Wang, opened the door and walked into the back room.
The old lady was still lying unconscious on the kang, just like a year ago.
Why is he back now? Because according to the storyline in the TV series, the old lady should have woken up by this time, but the scene in front of her...
This only shows that the combination of Aunt Wang and Zhou Bingyi is not as good as Zheng Juan and Zhou Bingkun.
He rolled up the old lady's sleeves and trouser legs, looked at her, and sat on the kang without saying a word.
At this moment, I heard the sound of bicycles outside, the door opened with a "yeah" sound, and then Zhou Bingyi shouted in surprise: "Yueyue, why are you back?"
"Uncle."
The little girl sitting at the dining table in the outer room playing chess pieces replied obediently.
"Brother."
Zheng Juan leaned back and looked at the visitor with a smile.
"Where's Bingkun?" Zhou Bingyi just nodded to her, without the warmth he showed when facing Yueyue.
"Oh, it's in the back room." Zheng Juan pointed to Lin Yue who was sitting on the bed.
Zhou Bingyi took two steps forward: "Bingkun, come out with me."
Aunt Wang also noticed that he was looking bad, so she didn't dare to speak, so she obediently stepped aside and let Lin Yue pass.
The two of them came outside the house, and Zhou Bingyi took him to the alley diagonally opposite.
"My father advised you, my mother advised you, and I also advised you not to provoke Zheng Juan. You insist on marrying her. What happens now? Are you expelled from the school?"
Lin Yue knew everything and asked, "Do you know everything?"
"Feng Huacheng called me a few days ago and said that you caused heavy losses to the school because of your fight with Tu Zhiqiang, and they fired you."
"Oh, Cai Xiaoguang must have told him."
Zhou Bingyi really wanted to give him two slaps: "Does it matter who told him? He finally got into Tsinghua University, but he was expelled. What will others think when they find out? How will Dad react when he finds out? The most important thing is, you What is the future path? If I had known earlier..."
"What did I know earlier? If I had known earlier, you wouldn't have given me the chance to go to college, right?"
After learning the news from Feng Huacheng, he did have such thoughts, because although the Hao family didn't say anything, he could feel that his mother-in-law was very dissatisfied with her decision to give up going to college, but that was the first time. My thoughts for the past few days, now that I speak them out, I will only make my brother angry.
If this kind of thing happened to him and Zhou Rong, they would definitely be too sad to eat and unable to lift their heads in shame. However, Zhou Bingkun was not upset. Not only did he not feel annoyed, he also looked calm as if nothing had happened.
"You...are unreasonable."
"Brother, the matter has already happened. Is there any point in arguing about right and wrong? You don't want children for Hao Dongmei, and I don't want a diploma for Zheng Juan. We are evenly matched. Is it okay for eldest brother not to talk about second brother?"
Zhou Bingyi was speechless, because Zhou Bingkun's words were very heartbreaking, and he was powerless and unreasonable to refute.
He could pay a lot for Hao Dongmei, including promotion opportunities, children, and being like a grandson to his parents-in-law. Why couldn't Zhou Bingkun pay the price for Zheng Juan? After all, he felt from the bottom of his heart that Hao Dongmei was worth what he did, but Zheng Juan was not.
Click~
At this time, there was a soft sound from the alley.
"who?"
Zhou Bingyi looked sideways and found no suspicious signs, so he turned his attention back to Lin Yue.
He didn't know that there was a person, a woman, standing under the shack next to the alley.
Qiao Chunyan.
When she heard from Cao Debao that Zhou Bingkun was back, she wanted to come over to visit her godbrother, a talented man, before it got dark. Unexpectedly, she heard such shocking news before she even arrived at Zhou's house.
…
"Then what are you going to do next?"
"Go south for a while."
"Going to the south? What are you going to do in the south?"
"Take a walk, take a look, and explore. I should be able to come back before the Spring Festival next year."
"Bingkun, why have you become like this? You used to be...hey."
"How was I before? Honest? Upright? Honest? Still unmotivated and unmotivated?"
"You can't do this, how about... I can trust my connections and find you a job. By the way, I seem to have heard from Zhou Rong that you have a good relationship with the director of the tractor factory. The tractor factory is a key enterprise in our city. Can you If there is an establishment, it can be regarded as an iron rice bowl that guarantees harvest despite droughts and floods.”
"That was before."
"..."
The conversation between Lin Yue and Zhou Bingyi continued. He knew that Qiao Chunyan was hiding under the shed and eavesdropping, but he did not reveal it and pretended not to know.
Soon, the topic of the two brothers shifted to Li Suhua.
"Aunt Wang is very good at her job, but she is not careful enough in taking care of Mom, and her massage skills are not good enough. I have checked before. If Mom continues like this, the muscles in her arms and calves will atrophy."
"Is this why you want Zheng Juan to stay?"
"Can't you?"
"Bingkun, do you dislike Dongmei for not fulfilling her duties as a daughter-in-law, or do you blame me for not taking good care of my mother?"
"Both."
This is the truth. In the TV series, how Zheng Juan took care of Li Suhua, feeding her with water, food, feces and urine, even Zhou Bingkun was imprisoned for half a year, she took good care of her for months and days, and even the neighbors who gossiped later were embarrassed to talk about her. of bad words.
But the truth always hurts the most.
"Bingkun, what are you talking about?"
"Honestly." Lin Yue said, "Has Hao Dongmei helped her mother with water and food? No, I would like to come over during the holidays and have a meal with you before leaving. Don't say she doesn't have time, even if she has time, she Can you treat your mother-in-law like your own mother? But Zheng Juan can. What about you, you are her son, but you are not careful enough, and you are far behind women in taking care of people. And I suggest that Zheng Juan It’s also for your own good that Juan will take care of your mother for a while, so that you can move to the Hao family. Living apart for too long will affect the relationship between husband and wife. If I’m not wrong, your father-in-law and mother-in-law must have discussed this issue with your sister-in-law many times. Alright."
Zhou Bingyi found that in the past few years since he left, his younger brother has really become a different person. Not only has he improved his studies, but he also has more ideas, especially with his mouth, the words he speaks can choke people to death. The key is, right, it is reasonable and well-founded, so that You can't argue with that.
"You go to the south by yourself and leave Zheng Juan alone at home?"
"Tu Zhiqiang has gone in. No one will come to harass Zheng Juan. Moreover, she is pregnant for more than a month. It will not be good for her health to follow me in the south. Aunt Wang is here to do housework, as well as Chunyan, Yu Hong and others. As a support, she is responsible for helping my mother massage her body, talking and so on. It doesn’t matter whether it’s windy or rainy, she doesn’t need to be tired, she just needs to calm down and wait for the birth.”
Zheng Juan is pregnant?
Zhou Bingyi's expression changed. Hao Dongmei couldn't have children, so the responsibility of continuing the Zhou family could only fall on Zhou Bingkun's shoulders. Now Zheng Juan is pregnant. This is a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing is naturally because the Zhou family has children, and the bad thing is Well, Zhou Zhigang didn't know yet that Zhou Bingkun was expelled from Tsinghua University for fighting with Tu Zhiqiang. If he knew, this would definitely burn Zheng Juan's head, but she is pregnant now.
I have a headache, such a headache.
Why does his younger brother cause problems to others so much? Where is the steady brother who made his parents feel at ease and his brothers and sisters worry?
"Is there anything else? It's okay, I'm leaving."
Lin Yueming knew that Zhou Bingyi had been confused, but he still waited patiently for more than ten seconds before leaving because he wanted to give Qiao Chunyan time to leave.
…
Early in the morning two days later, Lin Yue knocked on the door of Sun Chanchao's house.
The Sun family was having a meal. Those who were working ate first, and those who were not working ate last. It looked really difficult.
Such a comparison shows that the conditions of Lao Zhou's family are not bad in terms of phototypes.
"Bingkun, why are you here? Come on, come in."
Sun Qianchao let him in, and his brother Sun Shengchao also greeted Lin Yue cordially. Yu Hong, who was lying on the kang, heard his voice and walked out of the room with a big belly.
There are 12 people, two and a half rooms, and there is no place to stay when guests come.
"No, I'm not going in. I'm here to inform you that your sister's family of four and Xiao Ning should pack their things and move to Taiping Hutong first. Zheng Juan will live in her original home for a while. I've already finished the work at Chunyan. , her two sisters temporarily went back to live with their parents’ family.”
When Qianchao heard this, he quickly put the tortillas in his hand back on the table. He stopped eating and ordered his elder sister and younger sister to pack their personal belongings and move to Taiping Hutong.
Twelve minus five.
The two and a half rooms can sleep seven people, so not only is it not crowded, it is also quite spacious.
Everyone in the Sun family didn't even eat anymore, so they hurriedly followed Lin Yue's words, as if they were afraid that he would regret it midway.
At this time, Sun Qianchao discovered that not only Zhou Bingkun was here, but also several people in the yard, pointing at their house and talking in low voices.
"Bingkun, what are these people outside doing...?"
He was a little guilty, or scared.
"Oh, don't be nervous. This is the guy I hired to build a house for your family. Let me introduce him to you." Lin Yue directly pulled Sun Qunchao out of the main room and said to the oldest man among the people behind him. : "Uncle Ding, this is Sun Qianchao, Qianchao, he is Uncle Ding from Wangcun."
"Hello."
"Hello."
After the two greeted each other, Lin Yue continued: "Uncle Ding used to take the neighbors to do some construction work in the villages around Jichun. This time your family encountered difficulties, so I invited Uncle Ding to come. , I’m going to help your family expand their house.”
"Expansion?"
Sun Qianchao looked at the bricks and sand piled in the yard, and then at the Xiong family across the alley, feeling a little embarrassed: "Bingkun, it's not like you don't know...the father and son named Xiong are extremely difficult to deal with. Recruit Uncle Gong again."
Lin Yue said: "Who said we should build at the original location."
"If you don't build it at the original location, then where can you build it?" Sun Qianchao couldn't understand his behavior.
Lin Yue pointed to the sky, or rather to the roof of the old house.
Sun Xiaoning, who had just entered high school, was coming out of the house. She followed his direction and her young face was full of surprise: "Second floor? Brother Bingkun, are you going to build a building for our family?"
Lin Yue nodded: "Young people are smarter than your brother."
Only then did Sun Qianchao come to his senses. He looked at his old house and then at the Xiong family, and he completely understood.
"Kun'er, can we just build the second floor of our house?"
"Don't worry, Uncle Ding is an old mason. He is no less skilled than my dad. He says he can do it."
There was one truth he didn't tell, not to mention that Uncle Ding from Wangcun was an old mason with rich experience in building houses. He himself was a professor of architecture. It would be difficult to expand a brick house into a two-story building, right?
"But in the next few days, the seven people left in your family may have to sleep in one and a half rooms, because according to the progress that Uncle Ding and I have agreed on, we need to build each room one by one, so that you don't have to move the whole family. gone."
"It doesn't matter. We've been living with twelve people in two and a half rooms for more than a year. It's not a big deal for seven people to live in one and a half rooms."
"In that case..." Lin Yue turned around and said, "Uncle Ding, it's almost winter, so let's get started."
"Sure, I'll arrange for someone to pull the tools right away."
Uncle Ding agreed and ordered his nephew to do things. Sun Qianchao stood by and thanked him profusely, said kind words, and asked Yu Hong to share candies with everyone.
…
Five days later.
Daxiong came out of the house with an expression as if his mother had died.
"Stop it, stop it, Sun Qianchao, who asked you to build the second floor? Isn't it blocking the sunshine of our house?"
Opposite, Sun Qianchao, who was throwing bricks to Ding Shutang's nephew, looked back. Before he could say anything nice, Lin Yue, who was sifting the sand, thrust a shovel into the sand, took out a pocket tape recorder from his pocket, and pressed the play button.
The tape head rotated, and the recording from the previous conflict came inside.
"Sun Ganchao built a second floor on his house, but it didn't occupy the collective land. Don't you agree? You can build it if you don't agree."
The thing in Lin Yue's hand was a rare object. Da Xiong was stunned when he saw it, but he quickly realized: "It won't work if it blocks the sunlight in my house."
"If you are not convinced, you can go to Uncle Gong."
Gong Weize was here when the two sides had a conflict last time, and I know what he said at that time. This time Sun rushed to expand on his own land, and it was useless to call people.
"Stop, I told you to stop, otherwise don't blame me for being rude."
"It's just a joke, isn't it?" Lin Yue pulled out a steel bar, put his foot on the end and broke it off, and then he walked towards the big bear carrying the steel bar.
"You...what do you want to do?"
"Bingkun, don't be impulsive."
Uncle Ding was really afraid that he would pull the steel bar over. Not to mention how he broke the thing, if it hit the head, it would kill someone.
The big bear stepped back step by step and stammered: "You...don't come over."
"roll!"
As if he had received an amnesty, this guy hurried back to the door. Just as he was about to open the door and enter the house, he heard a whine behind him.
Phew~
A black shadow flew in from the side and penetrated the outer wall of the hut.
It's that steel bar, and its tail is still buzzing and trembling.
The big bear's hair was numb and he was so frightened that he almost peed his pants. This thing could poke a hole in the wall. If it had hit him half a foot away just now, would he still have a chance to survive? I didn't know this before, but this guy's hand strength is simply ridiculous.
He opened the door tremblingly, plunged into the house and did not dare to come out.
Lin Yue dealt with this annoying guy, ignored Sun Qianchao's stunned expression, looked at Uncle Ding on the scaffolding and said, "Uncle Ding, how have you considered the matter I told you?"
"Think about it."
Uncle Ding used a masonry knife to smash a brick into pieces: "Do it!"
"okay."
Sun Qianchao looked at this and that, very curious about what the two people were talking about: "What are you doing?"
