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

Chapter 97 I am confident
Fang Mingche quickly said, "Thank you, Aunt Yuan!"

Fortunately, this is just a corner, so the noise won’t get out and be seen by people in the nearby tenement.

Yanyan also quickly said, "Thank you, Grandma Yuan."

Aunt Yuan looked at Lin Yan and the three large wooden boxes they were carrying. "Are you moving in?"

Lin Yan and Fang Mingche showed her their marriage certificate to prove that they were living together legally.

Aunt Yuan looked at it and nodded. "Okay, as long as she's not an adulterer. Anyway, they've already bought the house."

She had something else to do, so she just said "congratulations" and walked away.

Song Quan, Mr. Gao, Zhu Dahai and others also said: "Congratulations, congratulations!"

Fang Mingche said, "I'm tired today. I'll give everyone some candy tomorrow."

Everyone helped to carry the three boxes in, and they met Uncle Gu who heard the noise and came out.

Uncle Gu's face was originally stern, but he smiled a little when he saw the Fang family of three. "Are you back?"

"Yeah, I'm back."

"Hello, Grandpa Gu—"

Grandpa Gu touched Yanyan's head and said, "Okay."

After entering the house, Fang Mingche discovered that Zhu Dahai and his companions went out from the door of the small courtyard and then went around to the large courtyard and entered.

Turning around, I saw that the half-moon door in the middle was locked.

He looked at Song Quan and Teacher Gao, "What's going on?"

Song Quan said, "Didn't you build a private toilet here? Everyone comes here for convenience, so it must be as dirty as a public toilet. If it were just like that, it would be fine. But that day, Gu Zhiguang was in a hurry to use the toilet, so he pushed his wheelchair down the smoothed steps. It turned out that someone else was using it. He has difficulty walking, so going to the public toilet is very troublesome. He has to push himself up the steps, and it's also difficult to get into the house to use the toilet. He almost peed in his pants. When Grandpa Gu came back and found out, he was furious and locked it with a big lock."

When Fang Mingche heard what was going on, he thought: Well locked, well locked!

He had no intention of taking a turn cleaning the dirty toilet.

Besides, there are dozens of people living in the compound! When you need to use the toilet, there's a high chance it's already occupied.

One of the important reasons why he bought these two rooms was that Uncle Gu promised to build a toilet for the courtyard.

However, "Uncle Gu is getting serious!"

Didn’t we all live in fear in the past?

Teacher Gao said, "I heard that Gu Zhiguang's leg can be cured. He has been sent to the Union Hospital for hospitalization and will have surgery in a few days. It's worth it that Grandpa Gu sold two houses to you."

Grandpa Gu was willing to sell these two houses just to raise money to treat his son's legs.

If I have to do the surgery, the cost will definitely be high. If I don't sell it, I definitely won't have that much money.

Fang Mingche said: "That's great!"

My son's condition can be cured, and he can stand up and walk around like a normal person. As a landlord, Mr. Gu can really stand up again.

"So everyone paid the rent honestly?"

Song Quan said, "Some people tried to drag it out by crying poor, thinking that an old man like Uncle Gu couldn't kick them out. The policy didn't allow him to kick them out either! Uncle Gu didn't argue with them and went straight to the government. He even bypassed the neighborhood office! When overseas Chinese returned to Beijing those days, someone immediately took care of the matter. Those with employers would have their wages deducted if they didn't pay. After that, those who were still waiting and waiting finally paid."

Fang Mingche nodded. This was also one of the reasons why Uncle Gu was so proud.

No wonder the old man smiled as soon as he saw me. I was the one who gave him this idea! Maybe he went there specially because he heard that some overseas Chinese were returning to Beijing. In the past few months, overseas Chinese have been returning to visit their relatives. This is good, private property and rights can be protected. It's not like the poorer one is right, and whoever grabs it owns it.

Otherwise, not to mention overseas Chinese, even those setting up stalls on the street would feel uneasy.

Knowing Fang Mingche was exhausted from the journey, the two of them didn't stay long and left quickly.

Also go around to the outside and then go in through the door over there.

Lin Yan took Yan Yan to the restroom and came back happily, saying, "Ming Che, it's so convenient to have a restroom right in your yard. And it flushes cleanly. There's also an open space next to it where you can bring hot water in for a shower."

The toilet is only a little over two square meters, but it's very clean. You can flush it without seeing anything.

There was a wooden barrel next to the squat toilet, with water in it. It should have been brought in by the educated youth who took care of the Gu family father and son. Whoever needs it can go and fill it up later.

Fang Mingche also went in to take a look. The open space was only big enough for two or three people to stand, but it was enough for a shower. The key point was that the drainage was quite good.

At this moment, only Grandpa Gu was at the Gu family. Gu Zhiguang was in the hospital, and the educated youth went to stay with him.

Fang Mingche went back to the kitchen and picked up a piece of unused honeycomb coal. He exchanged it for a half-burned one from Mr. Shanggu and prepared to go home and start a fire.

"Uncle, the three of us will take a shower in the bathroom. Do you want to go to the toilet?"

Uncle Gu waved his hand and said, "I don't need it."

He was actually in a good mood because his son's leg could still be cured.

I just don't want to pamper the group of people next door anymore. I finally have the confidence to stop pampering them!
"I heard that you and Xiaolin finally completed the procedures for remarriage?"

"Yes, Yan took the train to my hometown to get it done after taking the college entrance exam. When she was admitted to the university, it would be difficult to get marriage certificates, letters of introduction, etc. So she simply got the formalities done before entering the university."

Grandpa Gu laughed, "You can't wait any longer, right?"

Fang Mingche chuckled, "That's true!"

After saying this, he returned the antimony pot and walked back with the burning honeycomb coal. When he got to his own place, he put it in the stove, added a new coal on top, and boiled water for his wife and daughter to take a bath.

Before, at Lin’s house, I just wiped it and then had dinner.

There were more than two hundred honeycomb briquettes neatly stacked against the wall. They must have been delivered just two days ago, and Zhu Dahai had paid for them.

Just as the water was boiled, Zhu Dahai came over again with an account book.

Fang Mingche had been back for a month, and he had been running the stall. He had just heard a noise at the door and had gone out, but he hadn't taken anything.

Come over now to settle the bill and pay.

Fang Mingche asked, "Why did five or six people just come out?"

He has good relationships with others, but the ones he is familiar with are Song Quan, Teacher Gao and Zhu Dahai.

It's good enough that other people didn't bother to report him and expose him. They even came out to support him. How enthusiastic!
And they probably all ran out when they heard him calling Song Quan.

Zhu Dahai said, "They are all educated youth who have returned to the city from this compound. I heard you want to start a business, and I want to follow you."

Fang Mingche was slightly stunned. "You didn't tell anyone how much I make per day selling food, right?"

If Zhu Dahai were to take over the stall, the income level of his tea stall would definitely be controlled by him. But it didn't matter, it was only the last 40 days anyway. And he would continue to work with him.

But if this person is so loose-lipped, then we won’t dare let him know many things in the future.

(End of this chapter)