Sunday.

Lin Yan was busy in the house.

With the deepening of reform and opening up and the arrival of the end of the year, Lin Yan's work has become increasingly busy.

The country is now extremely short of foreign exchange. The main source of foreign exchange lies in commodity exports. As a ministry of national management and guidance, the Ministry of Foreign Trade's work in this area is a top priority.

Especially last year, due to the needs of national construction, the country's huge foreign exchange expenditures caused the foreign exchange reserves to reach an unprecedented negative level of 1.296 billion US dollars. Therefore, filling the deficit from this year and reversing the poor situation of foreign exchange reserves is the focus of the work.

This was the case when Lin Yan went to Tianjin on a business trip some time ago. These days, she participated in the negotiation of a project in Yanjing. The progress of the negotiation was pretty good. Through Mr. Du's help, she reached an agreement with several Xiangjiang companies to export a batch of handicrafts.

, now the order has been placed, and the next step is subsequent production and export.

Lin Yan, who was in a good mood, was humming a song and cleaning quickly. Song Yuanchao was also busy, carrying water, twisting cloths, wiping furniture and glass. His forehead was covered with sweat in the winter, and steam was rising from his head.

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After struggling for a long time, several rooms were finally wiped spotless. By this time, Song Yuanchao was so tired that he could hardly stand upright. But when he looked at the other areas of the huge yard that had not been finished, Song Yuanchao smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"Yanzi, please take a rest today and stop doing this." Song Yuanchao panted heavily as he sat down on the steps of the eaves.

"Don't sit here. It's easy to catch a cold if you're sweating in the cold weather. Go inside and wash your face quickly." Lin Yan pulled Song Yuanchao up and the two of them entered the room. After washing their faces, Song Yuanchao felt much better.

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After lighting up a cigarette and taking a puff, Song Yuanchao looked around and secretly complained in his heart.

This courtyard is very good, especially after being carefully and meticulously restored by the team entrusted to Professor Yao, the entire courtyard has basically restored its original appearance, showing its former style and layout.

Song Yuanchao was very satisfied with this. In addition, Song Yuanchao also bought a lot of furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties and decorated it all in the yard. In addition, he added the calligraphy, paintings, antiques and other things he had obtained from various places in the past two years, adding even more to the yard.

It adds a lot of aura of wealth.

But the problem is that this courtyard is really too big. After all, this was Mu Zhang'a's other courtyard back then. It is different from the original courtyard in Song Yuanchao where Lin Daoyuan's family lives now. It is larger in terms of area and number of rooms.

It's bigger and bigger, and Song Yuanchao lives alone on weekdays. Even if Lin Yan comes here often, it's not easy for the two of them to keep such a large yard tidy.

Just like today, the two of them have been busy since early in the morning and have only cleaned less than half of the area. The weather conditions in Yanjing have never been very good. Every autumn and winter, the wind blowing from the north is mixed with sand and dust.

, if you leave the doors and windows open for a day, a thin layer of dust will fall on the furniture, let alone a week.

A big place has its own difficulties, and cleaning is a problem like it is now. Moreover, Song Yuanchao and Lin Yan are only free on Sundays on weekdays. They finally have a day off, but they have no time to go shopping and enjoy their world together.

More time and energy are spent on this.

"Yanzi, what do you think if I hire someone to clean it?" Song Yuanchao asked.

"Hire someone? Yuanchao, are you not dreaming?" Lin Yan was stunned for a moment, then reached out and touched Song Yuanchao's forehead, and then her own forehead.

"What are you doing? You don't need to touch your forehead even if you're dreaming. I don't have a fever." Song Yuanchao rolled his eyes at her angrily.

"You are very clear-headed. I thought you were dreaming and had a fever." Lin Yan said with a smile: "You are still hiring people? Who do you really think you are? A capitalist or a landlord? Or Mu Zhang back then.

Ah? There are a lot of women and maids at the gate of the big house. You can act like a master behind closed doors? With clothes on your hands and food on your hands, you can open your mouth? You don’t even think about the possibility of this? Let’s not talk about whether we can invite people. Even if we can, we need to spread the news.

What is the nature of going out?"

"I know, aren't I discussing this with you? We can't keep working on such a big yard, right? Look, we've been working on it for a long time and still haven't finished half of it. If we finished it, it would probably be dark today.

And it’s not just a day or two, we have to live here forever, we can’t always be like this, right?” Song Yuanchao sighed, raised his finger and pointed around.

"Have you come to your senses now? Who told you not to consider this in the first place? You deserve to have such a big yard to show off!" Lin Yan cursed with a smile. Although she said so, Lin Yan was happy about this yard in her heart.

Very, especially when Lin Yuhang and Luo Lin got married, the banquet was held here. When the wedding attendees came to see this courtyard, who wouldn’t praise it non-stop?

But as Song Yuanchao said, the place is too big and there are too many rooms. Just cleaning it makes me exhausted every time.

Listening to Lin Yan's words, Song Yuanchao also smiled bitterly in his heart, and at the same time felt helpless.

After all, it is only the end of 1981, and it can be said that there is no such thing as hiring people, especially hiring people to do this at home. This has already been reformed and opened up. If it were not mentioned a few years ago, I think

I can't even imagine that the consequences of such an idea are extremely serious. It oppresses and exploits the working class and is the dregs of feudal society.

It would be better to wait until after 1985. With the gradual opening up of social atmosphere and the birth of migrant workers, many farmers began to move to cities to find jobs, thus giving birth to a special profession called "little nanny".

The emergence of the profession is similar in nature to the previous servants, it just changed the term.

Later, formal housekeeping companies appeared correspondingly, thus forming a new industry.

At that time, Song Yuanchao only needs to make a phone call directly, and someone who specializes in doing this will come to help clean on time. You can make your home spotless without having to do it yourself.

But it's still too early to get to 1985. Song Yuanchao can't keep waiting like this for the past few years, right? It's a waste of time, and he's exhausted every time. It's a rare day off, but he can't spend a beautiful time with Lin Yan.

Instead, the world spends all its time and energy on this.

"Yanzi, what do you think of inviting Aunt Gao and Brother Zhuzhu to your home?" Song Yuanchao asked tentatively after thinking about it.

Lin Yan was stunned. She didn't expect that Song Yuanchao suddenly mentioned Gao Auntie's family.

Speaking of Aunt Gao, the relationship between her and Lin Yan is not simple. Aunt Gao worked in the Lin family as a servant when she was young. Later, Aunt Gao left the Lin family because of changes in social customs and changes in the current situation. But even so, the Lin family and Aunt Gao's family

Their relationship is still like that of family members, especially during the years when Lin Daoyuan and his wife were in decline. If Aunt Gao hadn't come to protect them, Lin Yan would have suffered even more.

Seeing Lin Yan's hesitant look, Song Yuanchao said: "Yanzi, you also know the situation of Aunt Gao's family. The uncle left early. There are only Aunt Gao and Brother Zhuzi's family of four. Auntie doesn't have much retirement salary, and Brother Zhuzhu's job is not very good either.

Like this, most of the time

You can't make much money by doing odd jobs or anything like that. And my sister-in-law, I remember she works in an enamel factory, right? The salary is only in her early thirties after a month. I heard that the efficiency of their factory is not very good now, and the elderly and children at home are all

We have to spend money, and our life is very tight."

"Auntie Gao and Brother Zhuzhu are not outsiders. I know you have always wanted to help them, but it's not appropriate to give money directly, and they won't want it. It's better to let Auntie Gao and Brother Zhuzi come here to help. Firstly, they can be trusted, and secondly

We can also help them in this way, what do you think?"

"This..." Lin Yan hesitated for a moment. She had not expected this, but Song Yuanchao's suggestion made her a little tempted.

It's not because he and Song Yuanchao don't have much time to take care of things, but Song Yuanchao's suggestion is indeed feasible. Not to mention that Aunt Gao used to work in her own family, and Aunt Gao would not have left the Lin family if it hadn't been for the reasons back then.

And as Song Yuanchao said, Aunt Gao didn't have much retirement salary, and the family's expenses depended on Wang Dazhu and his wife. But the problem was that Wang Dazhu and his wife's work was not very good either.

Although they were poor, Aunt Gao's family never reached out to the Lin family. Instead, they took Lin Yan directly back to their own home to protect her for several years during the unlucky years of the Lin family, and they regarded her as their own. From this point of view, Aunt Gao's family is the Lin family.

It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a benefactor, but neither Aunt Gao nor Wang Dazhu and his wife have ever mentioned this matter, let alone made any demands on the Lin family.

In Lin Yan's heart, Aunt Gao is no different from her mother. As for Wang Dazhu and his wife, they are no different from her brother and sister-in-law. There is also the lovely Wang Xiaoxiao. Every time she sees this lively little girl, Lin Yan will imagine

How wonderful it would be if I had a daughter as cute and lively as Xiaoxiao.

In the past two years, Song Yuanchao and Lin Yan often visited Aunt Gao's family. At first they would bring some money or something, but every time they brought money, Aunt Gao would refuse, and would even scold them unhappily, saying

Treating her as an outsider, how can there be any reason for her family members to keep stuffing money into her when they go around?

Because of this, Song Yuanchao and Lin Yan stopped giving money after a few times, but they never went empty-handed every time. Sometimes they would carry a few kilograms of meat, or a bag of rice on their backs, a barrel of oil or something, and use this

A way to express your feelings and provide some help.

"Do you think Auntie and Brother Zhuzhu will agree?" Lin Yan asked hesitantly.

"Just ask, don't you? Besides, our place is big, and you and I are not very popular if we live together, so why don't we just bring them over to live together? By the way, I remember that Brother Zhuzhu has a good skill in taking care of flowers and plants?"

How much money can you make from riding a scooter every day?

It's really not possible for Shenghua Company to sign an employment contract with him. As an employee of Shenghua Company in Yanjing, his salary and bonus will go from Shenghua. He usually helps us take care of the yard and does other things when he is free.

Isn’t it better than working part-time jobs now?”

"This sounds good... But I have to ask, let me think about how to tell Auntie and the others first. Is it okay?" Lin Yan is indeed moved. This is a good thing. If Auntie Gao and her family can move in with them,

This is the best place to stay, in Lin Yanxin

Aunt Ligao's family is no different from her own relatives. After living together, he can provide for her in old age and provide some help to Brother Zhuzi's family. No matter what, Lin Yan will never treat them badly. What's more, living here is better than living here.
Chapter completed!