Back to 1979: Sending the Educated Youth’s Wife Back to the City

Chapter 37 Happy Colors
Fang Mingche saw that Ayan was still so happy that she forgot that she was hungry.

Even Yanyan was infected by her mother and was very happy. In addition to sitting and playing, she ran around nearby and was very happy!

The little guy knows that money can buy things and making money is a good thing.

Fang Mingche smiled and said, "Okay, let's eat."

He moved the tin pot aside and continued to boil water on the stove.

Then wrap the lunch box in a cold towel and take it out, "Eat it while it's hot!"

The lunch box was filled with white rice and meat.

There are tables and stools here, and the family of three can eat together. It feels very warm.

As long as there is money to be made, one is not afraid of hard work.

When guests came to drink tea, Fang Mingche asked them to pour water and pay coins by themselves.

Customers nowadays don't have any concept of "customers are God". They just do things on their own efficiently and have enough food and clothing.

Also, there is no need to tamper with the change.

However, when the People's Liberation Army nearby changed shifts, Fang Mingche would pour some hot tea and bring it over to them for them to drink.

It's not easy to stand in the cold wind for several hours.

It was a slow period from 11:30 to 1:30 and I sold it for more than one dollar.

From 1:30 to 5:00, he sold more than 11 yuan. During the period when the market was relatively quiet, Fang Mingche went back to get some water.

After doing this two more times, you will be able to determine what time of the day is the slow and what time is the busy time.

"Let's go home!"

Seeing that there were no more tourists coming, the couple packed up their belongings and moved them into the tricycle.

After returning home, Fang Mingche felt his arms were a little sore!
It's not surprising, as I lifted the kettle hundreds of times, and then moved the bucket full of water and the small stove up and down.

Lin Yan was counting money with her daughter again.

Straighten out the curled banknotes one by one, then arrange and count them according to size.

She was so excited today that she was smiling while mixing tea for guests in the afternoon.

"Oh, it's only nineteen dollars and eighty dollars, not even twenty."

Fang Mingche said, "If it hasn't arrived yet, then it hasn't arrived yet. Let's assume the cost is 1.8 yuan. Can you calculate how much we have earned?"

One dollar and eighty cents is enough to cover the costs of honeycomb coal, tea, water, etc.

In fact, they should also share the money for purchasing tricycles and other tools, as well as the labor costs of the couple.

However, this way of calculating is more profitable and will make A-Yan happier.

"Eighteen yuan! That's half a month's salary for you." Lin Yan's eyes lit up.

No one told her that setting up a stall could make so much money!

The subdistrict office just asked them to help the organization solve its problems without waiting or relying on others.

However, if it wasn't for the three of them being together, she would have had a lot of psychological barriers at the beginning. She wouldn't have thought of setting up a stall!

We cooked dinner together. We bought a lot of vegetables at the black market that day, so we didn't have to go to the vegetable market for a few days.

Lin Yan thought that she should be friendly with her neighbors and ask someone to bring some vegetables or something.

She would ride her bike to the black market once a week to buy mainly meat, eggs, milk, etc.

My daughter is still growing, and she and Mingche need to work and review, so they both need to pay attention to nutritional supplements.

First, find out which day has the least traffic in the square.

Well, if there are so many people every day, let her retired mother go. The old lady will definitely be happy to earn more money.

After eating, Lin Yan cleared the dishes and washed them.

After sitting for a while, Fang Mingche started reading again. Lin Yan also sat down and picked up the book. She could go home in half an hour. Yanyan started spinning the top again with great energy, and waved to a little sister who was looking over from the nearby courtyard to come over and play.

The little girl shook her head, saying that someone had been hanged in this small courtyard.

After a while, Yan Yan came back and asked, "What is hanging?"

Fang Mingche's expression changed slightly, "Yanyan, don't worry about so much. With daddy here, you don't have to be afraid of anything."

He wondered how this small courtyard could be preserved so well.

Lin Yan frowned and stood up, "What should we do then?"

Fang Mingche said, "There's no choice now. How many people have died in the Forbidden City? Didn't the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties live in it? By the way, do you know where Marshal Nie lived in Beijing after the liberation?"

Lin Yan shook her head. She really didn’t know.

He asked tentatively: "ZhongXhai?"

"No, at that time the five major secretaries of the Central Committee were still in Xibaipo, and Marshal Nie was the first senior leader to come to Beijing. He was definitely allowed to choose where to live. As a result, he looked at the empty houses near the city center in Beijing and chose the most simple Forbidden City Ji'an House."

Lin Yan's eyes widened, "Ji'an Office?"

She is an old BJ, so she must know what Ji'anso is. It's a morgue!
Marshal Nie lived in the morgue of the Forbidden City, which was indeed the most simple house in the Forbidden City.

"It is said that before Marshal Nie moved in, there were still many cadaver teachers inside. He asked his secretary to call Union Hospital and ask them to pick him up. He also asked someone to disinfect and clean the room for him, and then he moved in. He still lives there today."

I have lived here for thirty years.

(Historically, he lived there until his death in 1992)
Lin Yan was actually somewhat uncomfortable before, but she had no choice due to the situation.

After listening to Fang Mingche's story, she felt relieved.

"For someone like Nie Shuai who has come out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, what kinds of monsters and demons has he not seen? He is not afraid of anything."

Fang Mingche nodded, "That's right, we have studied materialism. But I have to go talk to Grandpa Gu."

It's not like I'm going to ask the old man to lower the rent. He doesn't really care and isn't afraid of ghosts.

Who would be afraid of ghosts after being reborn?
Even if someone really died in this house, it wasn't him who killed him.

Instead, you have to control the old man a little.

This way he wouldn't casually say that he is his nephew and then start putting on airs as an elder.

So Fang Mingche went straight to the main room, "Uncle Gu, you are so dishonest!"

"What's wrong?" Uncle Gu said with a guilty look on his face.

"Someone just told my daughter that someone hanged himself in the house where we live."

"Tell your daughter, who is so bad?"

Isn't this just to scare Yanyan?

"That's what a child said. A child wouldn't make up such a rumor."

Grandpa Gu waved his hands, "It's not your side, it's not your side. It's my wife, who lives in this main room. A few years ago, I heard that my son who was in the cowshed died, and I was very upset. You see, I have lived here for a few years, and I am fine."

At that time, he even resorted to some trickery to save the four rooms in the small side yard.

Fang Mingche said: "But if you didn't tell me beforehand, it would be suspected of deceiving me. Fortunately, my Yanyan doesn't know what hanging is, otherwise she would be scared!"

"So, what do you want to do?"

Fang Mingche snorted, "If you had told me earlier, I wouldn't have felt cheated."

"Then, shall I lower your rent?"

It is indeed difficult to rent this house to someone who knows the background.

"Two or three dollars a month, no need. But you know I don't have a household registration. If there's something that needs to be covered up in the future, you can cover it up for me."

Grandpa Gu nodded, "Don't worry. Yanyan will be in kindergarten in the second half of the year. I have an acquaintance who can get her in. You just need to pay a high price."

(End of this chapter)