Siheyuan, don't mess with me

After the efforts of the two second generations of the Chen family, the New Year’s Eve dinner officially began!

Chen Dahu first led the three Chen sisters outside to set off a string of firecrackers, and then ran into the room with a strong smell of gunpowder, but was glared at by the old lady, "Get out, get rid of the smell before you come in!"

Chen Dahu didn't understand what was going on. The clever Second Aunt had already pulled him out and stopped the three Chen sisters who wanted to enter the room. "You said the child was ignorant, but you are so old and you are still ignorant!"

"What's wrong with me?" Chen Dahu still doesn't understand why his old lady was angry?

"I'm so angry, you have a pig-head!" Second Aunt was also furious, "You said you wanted to set off firecrackers, so you should just set them off properly, but you had to hold the firecrackers and set them off, are you showing off?"

"So what? My clothes weren't damaged by the explosion!" Chen Dahu carefully checked his clothes and found no signs of damage from the explosion.

"Is that what I meant?" Second Aunt tapped Second Uncle's forehead in anger. What a fool he was.

"Don't you know there's a pregnant woman at home? Can't you set off the firecrackers a little further away? Also, smell the smell on your body. Is it choking? What do you want to do?"

Chen Dahu finally understood the reason and laughed naively, "Then I'll go in later and get rid of the smell on my body!"

"You! You are such a grown-up, but you don't have any sense at all!"

This was just a small episode. The sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner began. Grandpa and grandma sat in the middle. Originally, Chen Dayong and Chen Dahu were on the left and right, but now it became Chen Xueru and Jiang Xiaohua. The two men in the family sat at the bottom! However, this is not a big deal!

No one was very hungry. Except for the three sisters who were very full, the others didn't eat much, especially the women. Their mouths were busy the whole afternoon. In the end, only three men were left at the table drinking!

Seeing Chen Xueru, Jiang Xiaohua led the three sisters of the Chen family to sleep in the east wing. The second aunt kept telling them to be quiet when they slept at night and not to touch her belly. "I'm dying of suffocation!" Chen Dahu took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it for the old man and the eldest brother.

"Where have you come from? I have to go to the yard to smoke every day!"

"I'm not saying anything bad to you, Dad, but you should stop smoking your pipe. Not only is the smell too strong, but you also cough if you smoke too much. Zhiguo also told you not to smoke, so why didn't you listen? Didn't he leave you a lot of cigarettes before he left?"

"I was thinking, there's still some tobacco left, so I'll smoke it all up. Don't waste it!" Grandpa was a little embarrassed.

"You are just looking for excuses, complaining that cigarettes are boring. Just wait, wait for my eldest grandson to come back, and see how I will sue you! Don't you know how strong the smell of your pipe is even in the yard? I think you really want to smoke my great-grandson to death!" The grandmother sitting on the chair snorted coldly.

"No more smoking, no more smoking, is this okay?" Grandpa gritted his teeth and slammed the pipe on the table, "I will never smoke any cigarettes again!"

"What? I told you a few words and you can't say anything! You're angry! You're so old, how can you still be so angry! Am I wrong? My eldest grandson said that smoking is bad for the body! You didn't listen!"

"Listen, listen. Didn't I tell you that for the sake of my great-grandson, I will quit smoking starting today! I won't smoke anymore!" After saying that, the grandfather threw the half-smoked cigarette in his hand to the ground and crushed it hard with his foot!

"This is what a grandfather should do! And you two, starting tomorrow, no smoking is allowed in this yard. Anyone who wants to smoke, get out. Do you hear me?" Grandma's eyes moved back and forth between Chen Dayong and Chen Dahu's faces. If anyone dared to complain, the old lady wouldn't mind beating the children on the night of the 30th!

"I'll listen to you, Mom!" "I promise I won't smoke anymore!" Chen Dayong and Chen Dahu also quickly put out the cigarettes in their hands and made a promise!

"Also, Lao Er, you have to stand guard at the gate tomorrow. When your brothers come to pay New Year's greetings, tell them in advance that they are not allowed to smoke in the yard!"

Chen Dahu didn't expect that his mother would assign him such a difficult task, but how could he dare to refuse? He agreed repeatedly, "Got it, Mom, I'll be waiting outside early tomorrow morning!"

Grandpa is the oldest elder in the old Chen family. Tomorrow is the first day of the Lunar New Year. All the nephews and nieces will come to pay New Year's greetings. The Chen family courtyard will be very lively and crowded. When the men get together, they drink and smoke. In order to give Chen Xueru and Jiang Xiaohua a fresh space, the old lady has issued a strict order! Otherwise, more than ten or twenty people will smoke even if they stand in the yard. Just think about it, the yard will be filled with smoke!

Chapter 361 Shopping on the Second Day of the New Year

At the same time, in a courtyard in Yanjing City, Jiang Yuechen was walking home with his parents. Today's New Year's Eve was spent with his uncle's family like in previous years, but because Jiang Yuehua was away on a business trip, the atmosphere tonight was a bit deserted, so this family gathering ended quickly and hastily!

"Yuechen, what happened to your sister? Why didn't she come back for the New Year? What is she busy doing?" Jiang Yuechen's mother Pei Yueqin asked her daughter softly while she was holding her arm.

Jiang Yuechen's heart tightened, and he said carefully, "Sister Yuehua went to a steel plant in another place to guide the equipment transformation. I guess she can't make it back because of the heavy workload!"

"I see that elder brother is not happy at all tonight. Yuechen, does your sister have other things to do? It is impossible that she will not come back during the New Year!" Jiang Yuechen's father Jiang Jie Qiang also felt that elder brother and sister-in-law were in a bad mood tonight. It was just a business trip and it shouldn't be like this!

Jiang Yuechen's heart was filled with alarm bells, but he quickly reacted, "I only know that Sister Yuehua is on a business trip, I don't know anything else! But Dad, do you know how amazing the experiment we participated in some time ago was? Now many manufacturers are coming here and asking us to carry out technical transformation of their factory directors!" Jiang Yuechen successfully changed the subject.

"Didn't your experiment succeed? Isn't it enough to teach them the experimental data and experimental procedures? Why do you have to guide them one by one?" Father Jiang is also in a high position and can see the problem directly!

"Our section chief, Chen Zhiguo, was sent to the third line to support construction work. The people who remain in the section can only provide some simple guidance on site, but if they are asked to explain the specific principles involved in detail, it is simply a pipe dream, because they can't explain it clearly at all!"

"You can only work, but you can't teach students, right?"

"Yes!"

"Your leaders are really reckless. They let such an important talent go. This wastes a lot of time. This one person can be equivalent to countless people. If we spread the word, we can save a lot of time and allow many steel companies to start work at the same time! This is really stupid!" Jiang's father was a little annoyed.

"Okay, Mr. Jiang, this is just a family chat. Why do you bring the same things from work into your life? Relax!" Pei Yueqin hurriedly advised. Father Jiang also knew that his attitude was wrong. He smiled awkwardly and did not continue talking. The three of them soon returned home!

Father Jiang is a workaholic. As soon as he got home, he went straight to the study, while Pei Yueqin went to the kitchen to work. Jiang Yuechen looked at the two busy figures and really didn't know how to tell them about his own affairs. After hesitating again and again, Jiang Yuechen thought, let's wait a little longer! Let's talk about it on the evening of the third day of the Chinese New Year after the New Year is over!

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On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Chen Zhiguo's courtyard was very quiet. In the study, Chen Zhiguo was writing a lesson plan at his desk. The white fox lay quietly on the big table, curled up, watching Chen Zhiguo writing furiously!

Ma Huihui was lying on a recliner holding Red Fox, reading a book. The two of them were doing their own things without disturbing each other. Occasionally, when they were tired of writing or reading, they would turn around and look at each other. The whole study was filled with warmth, and it seemed that there was sweetness in the air!

After lunch, the two stood in their yard, hugging each other and looking at the living area at the foot of the mountain. It was very lively there, with children in new clothes playing and frolicking in the streets! The adults were greeting their co-workers and chatting. In the small square in front of the cinema, countless young people gathered, whether they knew each other or not. This was the only gathering place in the living area. Apart from this place, the only place to go was the supply and marketing cooperative!

"Do you want to feel it?" Chen Zhiguo asked Ma Huihui in his arms.

"No, there are too many people and there's nothing to see! It's better to stay at home in peace!" Ma Huihui shook her head and rejected Chen Zhiguo's suggestion. In fact, Chen Zhiguo also felt that there was nothing to do, but he was afraid that Ma Huihui would miss home as it was her first time to celebrate the New Year away from home, so he wanted to find something to distract her!

"Let's go! Let's go back and read!" Ma Huihui was tired of standing and wanted to go back and continue reading!

"Let's have some tea! It's a good opportunity to chat and talk!"

"Okay!"

Each person had a cup of hot tea, and two reclining chairs were placed side by side. Ma Huihui was holding a red fox, and Chen Zhiguo had a white fox crawling on his body.

"I'm just wondering why it doesn't like me to hold it, but it always sticks to you!" Ma Huihui looked at the white fox that had always been very arrogant to her, but behaved very docilely around Chen Zhiguo, and she was very puzzled!

"This is a physics question, the relationship between the positive and negative poles of a magnet!" Chen Zhiguo said seriously.

"But the red fox and the white fox are the same, so why not it?" Ma Huihui obviously didn't believe what Chen Zhiguo said, but she had no reason to refute his reason!

"Maybe the white fox has good eyesight and is good at discovering things!"

Chen Zhiguo's words confused Ma Huihui. Could it be that this white fox had become a spirit? "Discovered? What did you discover?"

"You found me more handsome!"

"You're so annoying! How can you be so narcissistic!" Ma Huihui was completely broken by Chen Zhiguo's answer. She curled up in the recliner and laughed. Chen Zhiguo was just talking nonsense in a serious manner!

After Ma Huihui's laughter stopped, "Huihui, we will get our marriage certificate on the tenth day. Is there anything else we need to prepare?" Chen Zhiguo asked seriously. This was a big event in his and Ma Huihui's lives, so of course they had to treat it seriously!

But Ma Huihui's answer was very casual, "I don't think there is anything to prepare, everything should be simple! As long as I can be with you, I don't care about other material conditions! Besides, we have everything we need at home, so what else do we need to buy?"

Ma Huihui's words touched Chen Zhiguo. In the era of love and water, people did not pay much attention to material conditions. Young people of this era almost all started from scratch. Their parents had nothing to give them, so they had to work hard for everything! Chen Zhiguo was not good at expressing his feelings for Ma Huihui's understanding and indifference to material demands. He could only say, "Huihui, I'm sorry for what you have done!"

"Zhiguo, I am willing to do all this. I am so happy to marry you, how can I feel wronged? If so, don't say it in the future!" Ma Huihui thought of the three sisters in Yanjing City. She should be very satisfied that she can get it first, so why would she ask for material conditions?

"Okay! I get it! But, do we need to buy two new clothes and a new set of bedding when we get married?"

Ma Huihui agreed with Chen Zhiguo's proposal, but her suggestion was even more precise. "That's fine. How about we buy a sewing machine and do it ourselves? As for the bedding, isn't your bed new? Is it necessary?"

"Huihui, that's great. You can make clothes now? I think we should buy a new quilt. After all, we are getting married, so let's make a new one!" Chen Zhiguo really didn't know that Ma Huihui had this skill. She is really a treasure girl!

Who knows, Ma Huihui replied with a little embarrassment, "I don't know how to do it, but between making clothes and building engines, which one is harder?"

Chen Zhiguo was delighted when he heard this. "It seems you are planning to learn it on the spot, but it's really not that difficult! Drawing a blueprint for clothes is much easier than drawing a blueprint for an engine!"

Since they had things to buy, the two of them drove down the mountain. It wasn’t a long way, and if they hadn’t wanted to buy a sewing machine, walking would have been quite romantic!

During the Spring Festival, the supply and marketing cooperatives here did not have a holiday. Countless young people who had nowhere to go came in to hang out. Chen Zhiguo and his partner followed the crowd and first bought some candy, melon seeds, etc., which they had to buy anyway! Then they bought cotton, cotton cloth, and a bright red quilt cover! They also bought fabric for making clothes. Fortunately, Chen Zhiguo had a lot of fabric coupons, so he didn't have to calculate how much fabric he needed. He just had to choose the color. He chose blue for Chen Zhiguo, and Ma Huihui of course chose bright red fabric!

Finally, we had to choose a sewing machine. Such expensive and large items were placed at the back of the supply and marketing cooperative. "Do you think we should buy a radio?"

Chen Zhiguo took a look at the tickets in his hand, and there was no ticket for the radio. "No ticket, how about I assemble one later!"

"That's okay too!"

Chen Zhiguo and Ma Huihui thought that this was a simple conversation, and Ma Huihui also believed that Chen Zhiguo had the ability to do it! But to the salesperson standing at the counter who heard their conversation, it was just a couple who were getting married, and the boy couldn't afford a radio, but he was still shamelessly pretending to be awesome!

However, the girl actually believed his boasting and didn't force it at all. What a pair of fools! The salesman couldn't help but show contempt on his face and looked at them with disdain! At the same time, a feeling of resentment rose in his heart. How could his brother not meet such a beautiful and obedient girl? What a person's fate is!

Further inside the radio counter is a booth selling sewing machines, and next to it is a booth selling bicycles. Chen Zhiguo and his friends came at an unfortunate time as there was only one sewing machine left!

Chen Zhiguo and the other man looked at each other. It seemed that today was really unlucky and they had no choice. Thinking about waiting for the supply and marketing cooperative to get more goods, and not knowing how long that would be, Chen Zhiguo decided to take a look at this sewing machine. If it was really the one left over by others, then he would take a look at the structure inside. If not, he could make one himself. It shouldn't be difficult!

So Chen Zhiguo handed the things in his hand to Ma Huihui, and went forward to study the sewing machine. Just when he was about to open the head of the sewing machine, "What are you doing? Don't move!" A loud shout rang out behind Chen Zhiguo.

"Who told you to move it? What if you break it?" The saleswoman who was standing at the radio counter ran over and shouted loudly at Chen Zhiguo. Hearing the noise, the bored crowd who were wandering around quickly gathered over!

Chapter 362 Sewing Machine (Part )

"What's wrong? Why don't you let me see the precious things? It will be ruined if I just look at it, it's made of paper?" Chen Zhiguo didn't spoil her. If she spoke nicely, Chen Zhiguo would be polite. However, some sales clerks nowadays look down on people and are very arrogant! They won't speak nicely to ordinary people at all. Anyway, they have a stable job and can rely on others, so they are not afraid of being fired! The one in front of Chen Zhiguo is like this. Although she is very beautiful with delicate features, the words she says don't match her appearance at all. They are vulgar and dismissive!

"Who told you to do it? Can you afford it?"

"How can I not afford it? If I don't want to buy it, why would I look at it?" Chen Zhiguo immediately took out a handful of bills and money from his pocket, looked through the bills, took out the sewing plane ticket and shook it in front of the salesperson, "See, I have both the money and the tickets. Now you can look at it!"

But what I didn't expect was that the salesperson sneered, "You think you're so great just because you have a ticket? I won't show it to you today!"

Chen Zhiguo was furious. He had never met such an unreasonable salesperson before. "You are so unreasonable. I can't look at the things I buy. How can this be justified?"

"Reason, what I said is the truth, I won't show it to you today!"

Ma Huihui was furious when she saw the salesman's arrogant attitude. She wanted to go up to him and argue. Chen Zhiguo was a man, so some things were not easy to say. Regardless of winning or losing, Chen Zhiguo would be affected. If he won, people would say that he, a man, bullied a weak woman. If he lost, it would be even worse. People would say that you, a man, couldn't even beat a woman. It was really shameful! So, Ma Huihui wanted to go up and replace Chen Zhiguo!

At this time, the sewing machine booth was already surrounded by people who came to watch the show. They had nothing to do, so they chose to come to the supply and marketing cooperative. They didn’t expect that there would be something fun to see!

"How can you talk like that? How can you sell things like that?" Ma Huihui stuffed the things in her hand back into Chen Zhiguo's arms and rushed forward.

"What's it to you what I say? Who do you think you are?" The female salesperson expressed disdain for such a change of personnel. In her eyes, young people, regardless of gender, are not her opponents. Only when she meets those aunties will she be alert. Young people like Chen Zhiguo and Ma Huihui are green hands and not challenging!

"What do you care who I am? I'm asking you, why don't you show me? What is this, is it made of paper? Will it break if you touch it? Besides, we told you we were going to buy it, why didn't you show me?"

Ma Huihui went up to the saleswoman but failed to suppress her arrogance. Instead, she became even more unreasonable. "No matter what I say, I won't show it to you. I won't sell it to you today. What can you do to me?"

"You!" Ma Huihui was directly angered by the saleswoman's arrogance. She was about to step forward and slap the saleswoman. The Yanjing girl's temper of fighting back came up, but as soon as she moved, she was grabbed by Chen Zhiguo. They could quarrel, but she was right. If he started fighting first, then she would not be right!

Just as Ma Huihui was about to rush out, Chen Zhiguo quickly reached out to hold her back, then strode forward with an angry look on his face, and shouted loudly: "The supply and marketing cooperative should be a unit that provides services to the people wholeheartedly, but you people treat customers who come to shop with such a bad attitude, especially those hard-working workers and peasants! Is this what you call 'service'?" His voice was filled with indignation.

Obviously, Chen Zhiguo's words had worked, and some people in the crowd couldn't stand it anymore and started shouting, "That's right, isn't he just a salesperson? Why are you so arrogant?"

"That's right. They have money and tickets, so why shouldn't we sell it to them?"

"This is too unreasonable. Go talk to their leaders!"

Just as the crowd was noisy and everyone was filled with righteous indignation, a fat middle-aged man squeezed in and shouted loudly, "What are you arguing about? This is the supply and marketing cooperative, not your home. If you want to argue, go outside!"

"What do you do?" the middle-aged man said to Chen Zhiguo in a very arrogant manner.

"Who I am is none of your business. Who are you then?" Chen Zhiguo has this temper. If you speak nicely to me, I will be polite. If you are rude and unreasonable, I will not tolerate you. Who is afraid of who?

"What's with your attitude? Why are you so arrogant? I'm the director of the supply and marketing cooperative. Why can't I ask you?" Obviously, Chen Zhiguo's words angered the middle-aged man!

"You are the director, so you came at the right time. I just want to ask you, why don't your salesmen sell things!" Chen Zhiguo shook the money and tickets in his hand.