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

Chapter 80: Spend the Holidays Together
Yanyan was very happy today. This was her first trip with her parents after she had been in the capital for more than three months.

She had been out to play a few times before, and her mother had always taken her there. Dad had to watch the stall!
After Fang Mingche went to buy two tickets, she walked between them, holding her father's hand in one hand and her mother's hand in the other.

After walking for a while, Fang Mingche said, "No, there are too many people. Let daddy carry you."

There are so many people! There are so many people visiting the Forbidden City every day.

Besides, Yanyan's short legs made it too hard for her to walk all the way. It was much easier to hold her in my arms!

"Oh." Yanyan also felt that her view was always blocked like this, so she obediently let her father hold her up.

She actually couldn't understand the splendor of the Forbidden City. She wasn't even interested in going into the Treasure House because she didn't know what was in it.

Fang Mingche watched very attentively and slowly.

When he came here in his previous life, many places were not allowed to be visited.

Yanyan saw that she was not interested, so she leaned on his shoulder and watched the tourists.

Lin Yan would feed her some prepared snacks from time to time, and she would be happy.

When he reached the Nine Dragons Spouting Water and the Zhengda Guangming plaque, Fang Mingche stopped to take a closer look.

Lin Yan asked: "What are you looking at?"

Fang Mingche raised his chin towards the plaque, "The will to succeed the throne."

"I heard that Emperor Yongzheng came to the throne illegitimately. Did he change 'passing the throne to the fourteenth prince' to 'passing the throne to the fourth prince'?" Lin Yan said with interest.

"That's not true. The Forbidden City contains the Emperor Kangxi's will written in Manchu, Mongolian and Chinese. If Chinese characters can be changed like that, how can Manchu and Mongolian be changed? Such a major event would not be so careless. This is purely a fabrication by the novelist."

At this time, the image of Emperor Yongzheng was still very bad. He made the gentry work and pay taxes together, which offended all the scholars in the world.

'If you want to leave a legacy in history, you may be cursed after your death.'

If we want to overturn his verdict, we have to wait for Er Yue He's Qing Palace Trilogy to come out.

It’s a pity that as soon as Qianlong came to power, he abolished all of Yongzheng’s reform measures.

When a person dies, his politics cease. Yongzheng and the Thirteenth Prince worked in vain. Otherwise, the Eight Banners would not have been corrupted and degenerated like in the late Qing Dynasty.

Arriving at the Imperial Garden, Lin Yan whispered, "I don't see anything special here."

Fang Mingche said, "I can't really tell. I guess it's because we don't recognize these precious trees."

To be honest, he actually liked the back garden of Prince Gong's Mansion, which was designed by Heshen himself.

He could see that it was good.

Yanyan on his shoulder asked, "When are you leaving?"

Fang Mingche said, "Didn't you always want to come in and have a look?"

"Not fun."

"Okay! Today is Children's Day, and you are the oldest. Let's go out now and take a look at Jingshan Mountain."

Anyway, I've seen enough.

When they went up Jingshan Mountain, Yanyan was naturally carried. Standing here and looking down, she was very interested.

“The house is so short!”

Fang Mingche said: "This is called the visual effect of near being big and far being small. If this were the feudal era, as soon as you said this, I tell you, all three tribes would be gone."

Going down from Jingshan, there is an authentic BJ restaurant, so the family of three naturally went there.

If you have money in your pocket, you don’t have to stare at the prices and calculate carefully when you go to a restaurant.

It is naturally very comfortable to live like this. This is the meaning of making money!

After they finished eating, seeing that Yanyan was still not satisfied, Fang Mingche went to get a tricycle and took the mother and daughter for a ride along the central axis.

After coming to the capital for so long, I finally fulfilled this long-cherished wish.

Although the weather is hot, there is still some wind when riding like this. And there is a parasol above.

Yanyan was happy this time. She sat next to her mother in the car and laughed a lot along the way.

A-Yan obviously had a lot of fun today.

"Mingche, this is such a good day!"

"Yeah." After they finished playing and returned home, Zhu Dahai came to settle the bill for today.

He was obviously shocked by his daily income. 20 yuan a day!

Fang Mingche said: "This stall will be owned by the cooperative in September."

Zhu Dahai's face darkened. He didn't have the ability to ask the cooperative to give him a place to set up a stall.

He couldn't translate for the craftsmen to attract foreign tourists, let alone teach them English.

"However, I plan to continue to deal with unsaleable products for the supply and marketing cooperative."

Zhu Dahai asked, "Or should we set up a stall next to the cooperative?"

Fang Mingche shook his head. "How could they be willing to do that? They won't be able to use me by then. This is not something that Old Song can decide on his own. But selling unsold goods from the supply and marketing cooperative is a good business. I wonder if you are willing to ride your tricycle and act as a peddler?"

Zhu Dahai is a nice person, hardworking and down-to-earth.

Since he still wants to do business, he naturally wants to keep this person.

"Why not? I can't make any money and I feel bad eating at home. Besides, I haven't married yet. Mr. Fang, as long as you are still doing business, I am willing to follow you."

Teacher Fang was generous in paying wages, and he was also widely recognized as a capable person in the compound.

Zhu Dahai felt that he would be right if he followed him.

"Okay, besides this business, I will also look for opportunities to start other businesses."

"Okay, then I won't worry."

After sending Zhu Dahai away, Fang Mingche and Lin Yan started reading again. After playing with the children for a whole day, they couldn't fall behind in their own review progress.

As for Yanyan, she was tired from playing. She rubbed her eyes and felt sleepy on the way home, and fell asleep when she got home.

A few days later, Gu Zhiguang was sent back.

To everyone's surprise, he came back in a wheelchair. His legs were broken by the young players!
Grandpa Gu looked at his son and felt dizzy and unsteady on his feet.

"Dad——" Gu Zhiguang was anxious, but there was nothing he could do as he was sitting in a wheelchair.

Fang Mingche was the closest, so he quickly reached out to help him. The old man had fallen once before, but he was not seriously injured.

But what the elderly fear most is falling.

The young one is already in a wheelchair, so the old one must not fall again.

Teacher Gao, Song Quan and others also rushed to help.

Everyone worked together to bring Grandpa Gu and his son back to the house and settle them down.

When going up the stairs, several young and strong people from the slum carried Gu Zhiguang's wheelchair in.

No matter what the reason is, they can be considered as friends who grew up together.

Fang Mingche said to Teacher Gao, "I'm afraid we need to find a mason to make the steps smooth."

Otherwise, how can this wheelchair be moved in and out? Everyone can lift it once, but we can't always ask for help.

Teacher Gao said, "I'll go to the alley and call Zhu Lao Er later."

Zhu Laoer is a famous bricklayer in the neighborhood. Looking back, he can bring cement to the door and do the job.

Neighbors and fellow villagers will not charge a high price.

After drying in the sun for two days, it can be used.

Fang Mingche didn't know Gu Zhiguang, so he helped him settle down and then went back to his own place. He had no past to talk about with him.

As for Mr. Gu, there were so many people around. Even if his son was disabled, there were people to take care of him.

He went back with peace of mind.

However, he originally thought that with Gu Zhiguang's return, Mr. Gu would have someone to rely on. He didn't expect it to turn out like this!

Uncle Gu came over that night.

"Xiao Fang, weren't you looking at houses before? What do you think of these two rooms of mine?

(End of this chapter)