The door of the courtyard house has been welded dead

"Aunt, aunt~!"

The next day, Li Hui, who had just returned from school, couldn't wait to return to the yard.

Seeing Li Nan taking off her military uniform, she rushed over to him like a young swallow returning to its nest, hugged her waist and rubbed her cheek against her neck.

"Oh, whose girl is this? It's Li Hui. Huihui has grown taller again~!"

"Don't rub it, don't rub it, it's itchy, haha, why are you like a big cat~!"

The aunt and niece seemed to have a very good relationship, and were laughing and joking. Liu Yin, who was in the room, watched this scene and wiped her hands with her apron while smiling.

Li Nan felt that his niece, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, was not that distant from him. He stroked Li Hui's hair like he was stroking a kitten.

"Yes, I've grown taller. I'm 1.54 meters tall now. I'm here with my aunt~!"

After standing up straight, Li Hui gestured with her right hand above her head, and it was at the level of her aunt's nose. The fourteen-year-old girl was almost as tall as her aunt before she joined the army.

There is some of her mother Huang Yaqin's expression in Xiao Huihui's eyebrows and eyes, especially her eyes. Li Nan still remembers her sister-in-law's eyes.

She is 1.54 meters tall now, and she can still grow taller, at least to 1.6 meters. My niece inherited her brother's height, which makes Li Nan feel more relieved.

"It's not enough to just grow taller, you have to study harder as well. Your dad and your aunt didn't have the financial resources at the time, so at least we should have a college student~!"

"Aunt, whether I am a college student or not, you have to wait until I finish high school. But my father and grandma have talked about your situation more than once. Didn't my uncle bring it back?"

What a tit-for-tat. Li Nan was concerned about his niece's studies, while his niece immediately became concerned about her uncle's movements. They went back and forth, and neither was at a disadvantage.

Li Nan was somewhat amused by her niece's scapegoating behavior. The 14-year-old girl was so smart that she could even lead her aunt into a trap.

"What a sharp-tongued girl! I'm going to tickle you!

"Haha, Auntie, I was right, wasn't I~!"

Li Hui noticed that her mother was looking behind her again. She knew that as she grew older, she knew that girls had to save face. Her mother and brother were no longer willing to ask about it. But she knew without thinking that they must be very anxious.

I guess this seemingly joking question from my eldest niece might have been taught to her by her brother or mother in private.

"Mom, look at what you are saying in front of Huihui. She is so young. If you have anything to say, why don't you just tell me directly~!"

After the two of them finished making a fuss, Li Nan walked up to Liu Yin with a speechless look on his face, nudged his mother with his elbow, and complained in a low voice.

Liu Yin looked straight ahead and stirred the rice porridge in the pot with a spoon. It was not that she didn't want to ask, but she didn't want to embarrass her daughter.

"I'm not urging you. This is your niece's own idea~!"

Liu Yin was stubborn and unwilling to admit at first that she and her son Li Feng had deliberately told Li Hui about this matter.

But after she finished saying this, the mother couldn't pretend anymore. She put down the spoon in her hand, held Li Nan's hand, and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes became deeper.

After a long sigh, he patted the back of Li Nan's hand and said worriedly.

"As for your brother, I have completely given up. No matter what, he doesn't want to look for another one, so I have already paid the price. When I was 23, I had Li Hui~!"

"Mom doesn't want to put too much pressure on you. At that time, you said Liu Feng was going to the military academy to study and couldn't get married, and Mom accepted it. He is indeed a good boy. It has been seven or seven years now, and you are almost thirty."

"Liu Feng, you are not young anymore. It has been three years since you graduated from the military academy. You should have settled down by now. You two are separated from each other now. I don't care how you can't communicate. He should at least give me an explanation~!"

Liu Yin expressed her true feelings, and she felt somewhat resentful towards the young man she had favored at the beginning. In the eyes of the elders, things couldn't be done this way!
The man can delay, now that he is a military cadre, he will be able to find a wife no matter what. But my daughter is getting older, and if it really doesn't work out, it will be difficult to find a wife in the local area at her age.

"Where's my brother?"

"He didn't come back?"

Li Nan listened to what his mother said, but he still didn't give her an answer. He avoided the subject and talked about other things.

"I'm on a business trip, I'm out of town. Don't try to change the subject. He Yushui is only two years older than you. Her child with Jia Haijie is old enough to help with cooking~!"

Every family has its own problems. At this time, Liu Yin actually hoped that her son was not on a business trip. It would be better to have him by her side to assist her than to be alone.

"Grandma, don't worry about my aunt. Good things take time. They have a good relationship. It's just that the situation in the army is different from that outside~!"

"Besides, my aunt has good taste. Your taste is not bad either. Everyone says that my uncle-in-law is not a bad man. He must want to be with my aunt. But aren't they both in the army?" Li Hui, who had started the fire, came running over and started to play the good guy again. Anyway, the words that needed to be said had been said, and she didn't offend either side, my aunt and my grandmother. The change of position was very smooth.

"He's not a bad person, but people can change. I haven't seen him for so many years, so how can I know what he thinks now? Your father and your aunt are both troublemakers."

The family gathered around the table and started eating. Li Nan didn't say a word, and the matter ended in vain again.

"Xu Damao has changed a lot since he was released. He is thin and dark, like a farmer. Compared with the impression I had, he seems like a different person. Qin Jingru is the same. She didn't even let him in~!"

Liu Yin was unwilling to argue. She didn't care at all about any changes in Xu Damao. He had teamed up with Yi Zhonghai and reported her own Li Feng. In her eyes, he was a bad guy. At least there was no place for him to live in the courtyard.

Otherwise, the courtyard house, which had been peaceful for ten years, would be thrown into chaos again by this person.

"Did they really find so much money in his house? I heard there were even gold bars~!"

Liu Yin ignored this, but Li Hui was very interested. Unfortunately, she was just born at that time and had never seen this scene. She heard from adults that the square table was piled with valuable items.

"Not only gold bars, but also a bag of dollars and all kinds of jewelry. I, your aunt, have never seen so much money in my life~!"

"It's those gold bars that got his family into trouble. How do you think he was imprisoned for more than ten years? It was all blackmail. He blackmailed his father-in-law's family away. The Red Star Factory that your father was in charge of was originally owned by someone else~!"

These events of the past have been gradually forgotten with the passage of time. In the 1960s, valuables worth tens of thousands of dollars were unearthed from the cracks in the Xu family's wall. It is hard for ordinary people to imagine that kind of scene.

On the grasslands of Neimeng, a primary and junior high school only cost a few thousand yuan to build. The money confiscated from the Xu family was enough to build ten such schools.

Li Hui's father, his own brother, has an eleventh-level salary of two hundred yuan a month. He has to work for twenty years to earn that much.

and many more?

Although it has not been twenty years, it has been quite a while since his brother went from level 12 to level 11. There has not been much change at home, but the savings should be considerable.

Li Nan raised his head, put down the chopsticks in his hand, and began to count on his fingers, calculating how much savings the family had. He was very excited.

The allowance from the art troupe was just so-so. After Liu Feng graduated from the military academy, his monthly salary was only over 50 yuan. The combined salary of the two of them was less than half of his brother's salary.

He is his own brother, can he spend it all?

"Mom, I'm getting married, what is my brother going to give me?"

Feeling that the family savings must have exceeded five figures, Li Nan was eager to make a move. He blinked his eyes and asked his mother tentatively.

"Girl, you should ask Liu Feng about this problem. Your brother has given you the house in the community, and your mother has also bought you furniture. Who else can do what your brother does?"

"Then I'll wait a little longer. There's no rush anyway~!"

Liu Yin almost choked when Li Nan said this. The girl has really grown up and her elbows are starting to become unruly. She hasn't even gotten married yet, but she's already thinking about getting things from her parents' home.

"Aunt, you guys don't need money in the army~!"

Li Hui tilted his nose, feeling that something was wrong. His aunt was starting to covet his father's secret stash of money, which was not acceptable.

"You can ride a bicycle to go to school now, but when your father and I were young, we didn't have the same conditions as you. When your father came back from the army and took me to the street, he didn't even have money to buy a string of candied haws~!"

"Your aunt had a hard life back then. She lived in the school dormitory and couldn't get enough steamed rice. All she brought with her were pickles and pickled peppers. Look at your situation now."

Li Nan's righteous PUA niece was so intense that even Liu Yin couldn't stand it anymore. She waved her hand in annoyance and spoke directly.

"Alright, alright, why are you arguing with your niece? If you two really get married and you want a bicycle, I'll ask your brother to buy it for you. But, this matter can't be put off any longer~!"

"When Sister Lili got married, she also had a watch~!"

"Did she bring that from her parents' home? That was bought by Old Liu's family. Okay, I won't say any more. If you two can get married this year, I'll buy it. I'll buy it. Okay~!"

"Then it's a deal, a Plum brand ladies' watch~!"

Liu Yin and Li Hui looked at each other, and finally, almost at the same time, they both looked at Li Nan.

Is this, a confirmed fact? (End of this chapter)