Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

Although Yan Fugui is gone, Yu Li is always in his mind, thinking about how to marry this girl to his family as his daughter-in-law.

The eldest child in the family is already in his twenties.

Although he had previously stipulated that he would not find a wife for the other party unless he found a job of his own.

But he is his own son after all.

Looking at other children getting married and having children, many of my peers already have grandchildren, but I don’t even have a daughter-in-law. It would be a lie to say that I’m not anxious.

It was not easy for a girl to appear in Siheyuan that he liked, so he had to keep her for his eldest brother no matter what.

And the matchmaker just said that she brought the girl to the courtyard for a blind date, which means that the other party doesn't have a partner yet.

Even if the blind date is successful, they are not married yet, so the boss in the family has every chance to snatch it away.

When he got home, he told the second son, "Did you see Matchmaker Wang just now? Go out and watch him to see where he took the girl to a blind date."

After saying that, he turned his attention to the third brother: "Hurry up and go out to find your brother."

"Ask him if he still wants a wife. If he does, come back immediately."

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When Yan Fugui started planning to find a wife for his eldest son, matchmaker Wang had already brought Yu Li to Tang Dashan's house, and they heard knocking sounds from a distance.

"Dashan... come out quickly, I've brought your blind date..." the matchmaker shouted into the house through the door.

"Hello, Aunt Wang..." Tang Dashan had obviously just been helping out in the house and ran out in a hurry without even having time to change his clothes.

Matchmaker Wang frowned and replied, "Kid, don't you know you're going on a blind date today? We've gotten into this situation without even changing our clothes."

Yu Li couldn't help but frown. Her first reaction was that Tang Dashan didn't value her.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to be so sloppy when he knew he was going on a blind date.

Tang Dashan is a very honest and shy person.

Looking at Yu Li standing next to Matchmaker Wang, her face immediately turned red.

He scratched his head and hesitated for several seconds before answering: "Aunt Wang..."

"The clothes are ready..."

"I want to finish decorating my house quickly, otherwise I won't even have a place to live after I get married, so I helped the craftsmen."

"Please wait with this girl for a moment. I will go change my clothes now..."

"If you are bored, you can come in and take a look..."

After saying that, she went back to her room with a red face to change clothes. She was very quick and came out in less than five minutes.

Tang Dashan, who was sloppy just now, seemed like a different person. He was wearing clean steel mill work clothes and even had his hair combed. He looked particularly energetic.

But Yu Li raised her head from time to time to look into the house, and was obviously very interested in the decoration of the house, but out of politeness she did not go in, so Tang Dashan quickly invited her.

"If you're interested, you can go in and take a look."

After that, he stood beside Yu Li and led the way: "I originally just wanted to separate three small rooms in the house for sleeping, one for grandma, one for my younger brother and sister, and one for me."

"My master thinks this is too simple."

"She said that after I get married, I can't let my wife go to the toilet outside in the cold weather."

"There happened to be a sewer behind my house, which led directly to the public toilet. The master let me build a small room next to the kitchen for toilet and shower." "Can they also let me build a small loft above my head to store household sundries? This way, my home will become much bigger."

"When I have money and children in the future, I can open two skylights on the roof and separate the attic into two small bedrooms."

The house Tang Dashan lives in now was allocated to him before his parents passed away. At that time, there were four or five people in the Tang family, so they divided it into two large rooms, which is not smaller than the house Yu Li lives in now.

After the renovation by the decorator, a suite with three bedrooms, a living room, a bathroom and a kitchen with a loft appeared in Yu Li's mind like a movie.

Because the attic can be used to store miscellaneous items, Tang Dashan's home will definitely not be cluttered with things like his own home, but will be very tidy and spacious.

Just seeing this, Yu Li couldn't help but reveal a satisfied smile on her face.

While watching, he asked: "Brother Tang..."

"Even if we don't add a bedroom to the attic, it would cost a lot of money just to renovate the bathroom and kitchen, right?"

"I heard from Aunt Wang that you are only a level 10 chef in the steel mill, earning 27 yuan a month, and you have three people to support at home. Is that enough?"

Tang Dashan answered quietly, "My salary plus the money I usually make from going out with my master to serve dinner, I have saved about a hundred yuan in total."

“It wasn’t enough.”

"But I listened to my master and secretly stored some flour at home. I sold it when the price was the highest and made 70 or 80 yuan."

"After the renovation is finished, there will be at least 60 or 70 yuan left, so getting married won't be a problem."

"My master also said that if my family doesn't have enough money, I can ask him for a loan first."

"When I get married in the future, I can find a way to get him to work as an apprentice in the kitchen of a steel mill."

"Then there will be two people earning money in the family."

"Although the salary of a kitchen apprentice is not high, the food is good and I can have two meals with very little money."

"I would often be asked by the chef to stay and help the factory leaders cook for them. The leftovers were basically taken home by Long Fei and I."

"Before the shortage of supplies in the city, when there was a small kitchen in the factory, if you were lucky you could bring leftovers home for a week."

"Grandma and the others only need to make some steamed bread. They don't even need to buy vegetables, oil or salt."

"Every time I go out with my master to serve food, he pays me one dollar. Sometimes he also gives me some of the pork, fish, chicken, etc. that the host family hasn't used up."

"Although my salary in Siheyuan was not high, when supplies were most scarce in the city, my grandmother and my brothers and sisters could eat meat once every two weeks, and it was free meat."

"Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to save more than a hundred dollars in just a few months."

"When I get married, my wife will work as an apprentice in the kitchen of a steel mill and pass the ninth-level chef exam next year."

"Even if I'm not the kitchen supervisor, my family can still earn 50 to 60 yuan a month."

"If I become a team leader and my wife gets a job at the steel mill, she can earn 60 or 70 yuan a month without any problems."

"These are all secrets. Master forbad me to tell anyone else. You must not tell anyone."

Although Tang Dashan is honest, it doesn't mean he is stupid.

He fell in love with Yu Li at first sight.

But he was not very good at talking. In order to win the girl over as soon as possible and not let her down, he could only pick out the good things to say, even telling her about the apprenticeship job that his master Wang Dong had promised him, so that the other party could see his advantages and confirm the relationship with him as soon as possible, and then the other party would not be able to escape. (End of this chapter)