Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 158 The feeling of home (Subscription required)

"Director Xu, there's no need to do this!"

A month later, when Yang Ning finished technical training for technical personnel in Shanghai and was ready to return to Beijing.

The technicians who studied under Yang Ning were much more hardworking than most students in later generations.

Every day when Yang Ning entered the research institute, they would surround him and ask questions. Some technicians even made a model of a seam welding machine out of wood and practiced privately after returning to the dormitory after the training.

It is because of this that they were able to complete the seam welding technology training in just one month.

Before he went back, Mr. Wu and Director Xu prepared many Shanghai specialties for him and even sent a guard to escort him, which made Yang Ning feel embarrassed.

"Why not?" Old Wu glared at Yang Ning and said, "You've been a great help this time, just keep these things."

"That's right, keep it well. When we need your help in our research work in the future, just don't refuse!" Director Xu also said with a smile.

"Okay then!" Seeing that both of them said so, Yang Ning no longer refused: "If you have any problems in the future, just give me a call!"

"Ha, Old Xu, you heard it. He said that himself. We didn't force him!" After hearing Yang Ning's words, Old Wu said to Director Xu beside him with a smile.

After hearing what Mr. Wu said, Yang Ning looked at him helplessly: Are you trying to trick yourself?

"I've been away for more than a month, and I miss Yang Hu and the others." Hu Yinghong sat in her seat, heaved a deep sigh of relief, with a trace of longing for home on her face.

"Yes, I remember the last time we went to Hongdu, we were there for half a year, but that half a year was not as difficult as it is now."

Hearing Hu Yinghong's words, Yang Ning also spoke with deep emotion.

"Thank you for your hard work during this period!" Yang Ning leaned back in his seat, turned his head and looked at Hu Yinghong beside him and said softly.

During this period in Shanghai, not only Yang Ning was busy, but Hu Yinghong was also busy.

During this period, as Yang Ning's assistant, she followed Yang Ning around every day, and after returning to the guesthouse, she also needed to take care of Yang Ning's daily life. Her work was not much easier than Yang Ning's.

"Why are you saying that!" Hu Yinghong rolled her eyes at Yang Ning, then carefully brushed the dust off his clothes.

When I came, it was still a desolate early spring. When I left, new green leaves had grown on the branches outside.

"Sorry for the trouble, comrade!" After sending Yang Ning and Hu Yinghong back to the special building, the soldier said goodbye. Yang Ning thanked the soldier and watched him leave.

"No one has lived in the house for more than a month. I don't know how dirty it is now."

When Hu Yinghong and Yang Ning were carrying large and small bags upstairs, Hu Yinghong suddenly said.

"It's okay. We still have a day off tomorrow anyway. We just need to clean the house later."

Yang Ninghao said nonchalantly: "It's just a little dust, just clean it up a little."

"You're really good at making do!" Arriving at the door, Hu Yinghong put down the things in her hands, took out the key and looked at Yang Ning with disdain.

When the two opened the door, they found that the house was not as dirty as they had imagined. Instead, it was cleaned thoroughly.

"Looks like we don't have to clean up."

Yang Ning knew without guessing that it was his mother who came to clean. When Yang Ning and the others left, he left a key for his mother in case the weather was bad while she was cleaning.

Hu Yinghong walked around the house and found that it was clean inside and out. She put the things she brought back on the sofa and said to Yang Ning, "Since we don't have to clean the house in the afternoon, let's go to my parents' place later and take some of these things with us."

"Okay, you decide!"

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"Boss, Yinghong, when did you come back?" Seeing Yang Ning and his wife carrying things, the mother who was washing clothes in the yard hurriedly stood up, wiped her hands on her apron, and asked in surprise.

"Mom!" Seeing his mother, Yang Ning also called out affectionately.

"Mom, Yang Ning and I just came back!" Hu Yinghong put down what she was holding, walked forward, took her mother's hand and said.

"Oh! Look how thin you are. Have you eaten?" The mother looked at Hu Yinghong for a while and said with a smile.

"Not yet. We came here as soon as we got home." Yang Ning said with a smile before Hu Yinghong could answer.

"Virtue!" The mother rolled her eyes at Yang Ning and said with disdain, "You're like a starving ghost reincarnated."

Hearing his mother's words, Yang Ning just smiled and didn't care. Instead, he felt a lot more at ease and the familiar feeling returned.

After helping her mother wash the clothes, Hu Yinghong asked, "Mom, where are Grandpa and Yang Hu?"

"Them, the old man took the two little brothers out, didn't you see them just now?"

"No." Yang Ning and Hu Yinghong looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time.

"Not in the alley? Then where could the old man take the two brothers?" After hearing this, the mother became a little anxious and asked herself in confusion.

"Mom, don't worry, the old man is with him. I'll go out and take a look."

Yang Ning comforted his mother and ran out in a hurry.

"Qiangzi, do you know where your Grandpa Hu went?"

As soon as Yang Ning went out, he saw a group of children catching sparrows at the entrance of the alley.

Sparrows, which have survived the whole winter, now fly in groups on the tree branches in search of food, and become a staple food for ordinary people's families.

At this time, the children who have nothing to do take out net bags and slingshots, and each child can hit about five or six.

After returning home, let your parents prepare it, and it will at least be a meat dish.

Of course, some children didn’t want to take the sparrows home, so they wrapped the sparrows with their feathers in mud and roasted them themselves. Of course, most of the time they were wasted.

"I know. Uncle Lian just called Uncle Hu away. I don't know anything else!"

Qiangzi is also a child from this alley, one or two years older than Erguai. He is not in school yet. Erguai often plays with Qiangzi when he comes here, so he also knows Yang Ning.

"Okay, take these candies and share them among yourselves. Be careful not to hit anyone." Yang Ning was no longer in a hurry when he heard that Mr. Hu was called away by Mr. Lian.

He took out a handful of candy from his pocket and handed it to Qiangzi.

"Thank you, Brother Ning!" Qiangzi looked at the candy in Yang Ning's hand, swallowed, said softly, and then took the candy.

So in the original book, Banggeng’s behaviors have nothing to do with age.

At this time, if any child dared to do the same as the one in the original book, in any normal family, the parents would have beaten their shoes to pieces long ago.

The other children also thanked Yang Ning and then ran aside to share the candy.

Yang Ning looked at the happy child, smiled and shook his head, then turned and walked towards Uncle Lian's house.

　I've been warned. I have to be more restrained when writing next time. I think I even deleted some of the previous content. I'm speechless!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)