In the early morning, the faint morning sun shone all over the capital city.
The courtyard that had been frozen all night came to life again, with smoke rising from every household.
Residents were busy making breakfast, spanking their children, washing their faces and brushing their teeth, and the air was full of life.
Suddenly a voice broke the tranquility of the courtyard.
Silly Zhu was about to go out to buy fried dough sticks. When he walked to the front yard and saw Aunt Zhou's door, he saw two street office workers squatting on chairs and guarding both sides of the door, like two door gods.
He was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth: "You, you guys stayed here all night, what happened?"
The quilts worn by the two street office workers were covered with frost, and their hair and beards were all white. When they heard Si Zhu's cry, they woke up with a yawn.
After a difficult night, the two of them rubbed their eyes and were about to stand up and stretch. When they saw Silly Zhu getting closer and closer, their expressions suddenly became tense.
"Shazhu, stop!"
His expression was like seeing a person holding a bomb. Silly Zhu was startled and the basket in his hand almost dropped to the ground.
"What, what's wrong? Is there a bomb inside?" Silly Zhu looked around and found nothing unusual, and returned to his usual carefree appearance.
"There's no bomb, but it's about the same." The older street office official named Zhou Xingming has a better relationship with Shazhu. When Shazhu's father, He Daqing, abandoned his siblings and fled, it was Zhou Xingming who mobilized the people in the neighborhood to help find He Daqing.
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Worried that the two brothers and sisters could not think about it, he took them to the street office and comforted them for the whole afternoon.
Silly Zhu was also a person who remembered his gratitude. Although He Daqing could not be found during that search, he often helped Zhou Xingming's family cook in the following years.
Zhou Xingming happened to have no son, so he treated Si Zhu as half a son.
Of course, Zhou Xingming's approach was different from Yi Zhonghai's. He had no intention of wanting Sha Zhu to support him in his old age. He just admired Sha Zhu and was willing to help him.
Everyone has a steelyard in their heart, and Shazhu also has special respect for Zhou Xingming.
"Uncle Zhou, it's you, what happened?" Silly Zhu recognized Zhou Xingming at this moment and greeted him honestly.
Zhou Xingming waved his hand at him: "Silly Zhu, don't come any closer. The things in this room are similar to bombs."
"Is it similar to a bomb?" Silly Zhu was startled, jumped away quickly, and looked into the room with a fearful look on his face: "Is there Dieter?"
"What Diet!" Zhou Xingming was amused by Silly Zhu, but then he straightened his face and said coldly: "That thing is much more powerful than Diet. Have you ever heard of whooping cough?"
By this time, the residents had been alarmed and gathered around.
"Whooping cough... Ertuanzi in the compound next door had it once last month, but it was so bad that it took him more than half a month to recover. He lost a lot of weight. He was originally chubby.
My face is dry and yellow, and my whole body is wilted."
"I heard that this thing is contagious. I'm surprised it's also found in our compound."
"Isn't this obvious? If not, would Lao Zhou from the street office be here to guard it?"
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These days, whooping cough is almost like a terminal disease. Even if the child recovers from the disease, his health will be much worse than before, so the residents were a little panicked when they heard the news.
Everyone looked at the Zhou family's house with fearful eyes, and at the same time they were silently worried about the eldest grandson of the Zhou family.
Everyone knows that Aunt Zhou regards her eldest grandson as a precious child. If something goes wrong, how will Aunt Zhou live?
At this time, Director Wang from the Subdistrict Office rushed over just after he got to work. Seeing the residents surrounding him, he took this opportunity to hold a short meeting with the residents.
Her eyes found Liu Haizhong in the crowd and said loudly: "Liu Haizhong, it's still more than half an hour before going to work. Please call all the residents of the courtyard over here. I want to hold a meeting."
As the second uncle of the courtyard, Liu Haizhong had no chance to show his face in the courtyard these days. After his name was called, he immediately became energetic.
He threw away the cigarette butt, ran home quickly, found a broken gong, and called people from door to door.
Ding Qiunan had just woken up and was greeting Wei Dong and Wei Guo to wash their faces and brush their teeth.
The two little ones had just slept for a while, and now they were full of energy. They were fighting with each other, splashing water from the basin on each other, and not washing their faces honestly.
Ding Qiunan was angry and anxious, and wanted to teach them a lesson with a slap in the face, but looking at the two cute little ones, the slap was raised, but it never came down.
She could only say with a straight face: "If you two keep messing around, I will ask your father to deal with you two."
In the past, this was Ding Qiunan's tried and tested method. Li Donglai was more severe. As long as Li Donglai was mentioned, the two little cats would obey him obediently.
But things are different today.
Wei Guo raised his little head and wrinkled his nose at Ding Qiunan: "Mom, you lied to us, dad is not at home."
Wei Dong also pouted: "Yes, yes, dad went out at midnight last night."
Ding Qiunan frowned when he heard this. Although Director Wang of the Street Office came to the house last night, he told Li Donglai that he had returned to the laboratory to avoid the children because of whooping cough in Lao Zhou's family.
But what is the situation at Lao Zhou's house and whether it will be transmitted to the children in the compound? Ding Qiunan has no clue.
At this moment, Liu Haizhong stood outside the door and shouted into the room: "Master, Master, are you at home? Director Wang of the Street Office is going to hold a meeting. It's in the front yard. Go quickly."
Ding Qiunan ordered the children to wash their faces quickly and said with a smile: "It's the second uncle. My Donglai went to the laboratory last night and hasn't come back yet. I will take his place in the conference later."
"Okay, okay, then go quickly."
When he heard that Li Donglai was not at home, Liu Haizhong's face suddenly lit up with joy.
Recently, he, the second uncle, has been overwhelmed by Li Donglai. Everyone only knows that Li Donglai is the first uncle, but they don't know about him, the second uncle.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Even the day before yesterday, that naughty kid from the Wang family actually called him Liu Haizhong instead of calling him second uncle.
The center of bangs was worried, but there was nothing that could be done.
This opportunity finally came.
You, Li Donglai, are active in your work, right? Let me, Liu Haizhong, manage the courtyard.
Liu Haizhong felt that as long as the conference was held well, he would not only regain the trust of Director Wang, but also the respect of the residents of the courtyard.
So he worked harder than ever, going door to door to check.
Even those residents who usually didn't like to get involved in the affairs of the compound were grabbed by him.
Yan Bugui, the third uncle, is naturally no exception.
Liu Haizhong knocked on the door of Yan's house, raised his head, and said proudly: "Yan Bugui, Director Wang of the street office is going to hold a courtyard meeting today. Is it appropriate for you, the third uncle, to hide at home and sleep in?"
Looking at bangs, Yan Bugui almost cried.
Liu Haizhong was drinking at Yan's house last night and kept staring at the bottle of wine. The wine was cheap, costing only one yuan and fifty cents a bottle, which was far inferior to Maotai liquor which cost three yuan a bottle.
But that was the first bottle of wine Yan Bugui had sold in so many years.
Seeing Liu Haizhong pouring wine, Yan Bugui was very anxious, but as the master, and Liu Haizhong was his invited guest, he could not stop Liu Haizhong from drinking.
So I thought of a way, which was to compete with Liu Haizhong for a drink.
The neighbors next to them were all concerned about their dignity, and no one would compete with them when they saw the two of them blushing.
The two of us drank a glass of wine, one for you and one for me.
Liu Haizhong drinks alcohol all year round and has a large drinking capacity. After drinking half a bottle of wine, he can still walk in a straight line.
Yan Bugui is an old teacher. He is so stingy on weekdays that he is not willing to drink. After half a bottle of wine, he was dumped on the table.
No, he didn't get up in the morning. It was the third aunt who called him several times before she woke him up.
"Old Liu, you just like to play tricks." Yan Bugui was teased for a while, but now he understood and yawned before going to the conference.
Liu Haizhong frowned and stopped him: "No, Lao Yan, Director Wang of the street office said that this meeting is related to the safety of all residents of the courtyard, and all residents must participate. The third aunt, Yan Jiecheng, Yan Jiefang, and Yan Jiekuang
, Yan Jiedi, by the way, and Yan Jiecheng’s newly married daughter-in-law, none of them can be missing!"
Hearing this, Yan Bugui frowned: "Liu Haizhong, why should you convene such an important meeting instead of Li Donglai, the great man in our compound?"
"That's because Director Wang of the Subdistrict Office thinks I'm reliable!" Liu Haizhong raised his head triumphantly.
Yan Bugui rolled his eyes: "Did I go to the laboratory to work overtime again, so you took advantage of it?"
The bangs that exposed her thoughts suddenly turned red.
"Are you in charge? You, hurry up and call your children. I have to call the other residents, and I don't have time to chat with you here!"
As he spoke, he walked away with a square step, his belly bulging out from his bangs.
Looking at Liu Haizhong's back, Yan Bugui had no choice but to go into the house and call some children.
The three aunts, Yan Jiefang, Yan Jiekuang and Yan Jiedi are easy to talk about.
The third aunt was making breakfast. Yan Jiefang also got up and got ready to go to work. Yan Jiekuang was a class cadre in the class and always wanted to make progress, so he got up early.
Yan Jiedi fell into a relatively deep sleep, shook a few times, and finally woke up.
After telling the story, Yan Bugui sent the children out and hesitated when he walked to Yan Jiecheng's door.
Logically speaking, last night was the wedding night of Yan Jiecheng and Huang Yanling. As a father-in-law, it was really inappropriate for him to wake up the young couple early in the morning.
But thinking that today was the meeting held by Director Wang, Yan Bugui had no choice but to knock on the door.
Last night, Yan Jiecheng and Huang Yanling played for most of the night, and now they fell into a deep sleep.
Hearing the knock on the door, Huang Yanling yawned: "Whoever knocks on the door early in the morning really has no rules. Bangge, go and drive them away."
When she was at Jia's house, Qin Huairu often liked to knock on the door and shout jokes, and Huang Yanling, who was still confused, said it smoothly.
Yan Jiecheng had already woken up and was planning to get out of bed. When he heard this, his face suddenly turned cold.
"Huang Yanling, I knew you were still thinking about BangGeng."
"Oh, Jie Cheng, you heard it wrong. What a joke, did I say it?" Huang Yanling was startled and quickly denied it.
It’s just that Yan Jiecheng is not as easy to fool as Banggeng.
He said coldly: "Huang Yanling, don't think I'm a fool. If you don't explain to me clearly what happened today, then we're not done!"
Huang Yanling didn't expect that just saying the wrong thing would cause such a big trouble.
She suddenly became unhappy and said in a loud voice: "Yan Jiecheng, even if I said it, it was just a moment of confusion. Do you need to yell at me? You are still not a man."
"Just because I am a grown man, I cannot tolerate you doing this!" Yan Jiecheng was not to be outdone.
Yan Bugui didn't expect that just after knocking on the door twice, there would be a quarrel inside.
He stood at the door, hesitating for a moment, wondering whether he should call the two of them out.
At this moment, bangs came back again.
He just checked the residents and found that Yan Jiecheng and Huang Yanling were not there.
Seeing Yan Bugui standing at the door, Liu Haizhong suddenly became angry: "Old Yan, what are you doing! Director Wang is waiting outside now, and everyone is waiting too. You are still here in a daze, right?
You only have Li Donglai as the first uncle in your eyes, not me as the second uncle, and you don’t take Director Wang of the Street Office seriously!"
As soon as the big hat was put down, Yan Bugui suddenly woke up.
Although he didn't know what was being discussed at today's meeting, but seeing Director Wang of the sub-district office making such an aggressive move, he also knew that this matter was not going to be simple.
"Bang bang!"
Yan Bugui couldn't care about so much anymore. He knocked hard on the door twice and shouted loudly: "Yan Jiecheng, Huang Yanling, you two hurry up. Director Wang of the subdistrict office has now held a meeting and asked every household to
Gotta show up.”
Inside the house, Yan Jiecheng and Huang Yanling were arguing vigorously. When they heard that a meeting was about to be held, they instinctively wanted to curse.
But when I heard that the meeting was convened by Director Wang of the sub-district office, I had no choice but to stop.
"Huang Yanling, I won't argue with you today. If you bring up sticklers in front of me again in the future, don't blame me for being rude."
"Hey, Yan Jiecheng, I just said the wrong thing, do you need to be so angry?"
The two of them quarreled, got dressed, opened the door and came out.
Seeing the anger on the young couple's faces, Liu Haizhong laughed.
He looked at Yan Bugui and said: "Old Yan, your Yan Jiecheng is really amazing. He quarreled with his wife on the first day of marriage. He is worthy of being a child taught by an old teacher like you."
Because Liu Haizhong was resented by several children, he was often scolded by Yan Bugui, saying that he only knew how to educate with sticks, and now he was reaping the consequences.
Now that Liu Haizhong had an opportunity to vent his anger, he naturally couldn't let it go.
Yan Bugui was so angry that he almost rolled his eyes, but there was nothing he could do.
After all, there is really no young couple in this compound who starts quarreling on the first day of their marriage.
Yan Bugui was originally unwilling to marry Yan Jiecheng and Huang Yanling, but now that he sees this situation, he regrets it even more.
If he had been firmer and refused to marry the two of them, there wouldn't have been so many troubles.