Rebirth He Yuzhu stays away from troubles

Entering the mid-1970s, the "Cultural Movement" entered a white-hot stage, and it was truly "you sing and he comes on stage." Director Li of the Red Star Steel Mill, relying on his own abilities and outstanding skills, plus the support of a backer, although he did not get a promotion, he firmly controlled the overall situation of the steel mill.

In the past few years, He Yuzhu's routine work in the factory was boring, but it also had its benefits. At least it made his family feel at ease and safe. He followed Director Li and lived in the dust, but he did not give up protecting a group of backbones of the steel rolling mill led by former Director Yang Aiguo who were transformed in the cowshed. When those who were transformed in the cowshed had no confidence, saw no hope, and were ready to give up, they always received care and help from He Yuzhu.

In his spare time, He Yuzhu used to wander around the steel mill. If he happened to meet someone who wanted to sell the right to use his house, he would buy it at a low price. Then, he would exchange houses with the residents of the courtyard next to He's by exchanging a large house for a small one or a new one for an old one. After several years of hard work and chatting with the neighbors around the courtyard, he deceived the residents of the courtyard next to the courtyard at No. 95 in Nanluoguxiang. Now the entire courtyard at No. 93 in Nanluoguxiang is owned by Liang Ladi, He Xiaoxiang, He Xiaolin, and He Xiaonan.

Liang Ladi was born into a good family and was very motivated. In recent years, she has grown into the director of Yuying Nursery School affiliated to Red Star Steel Rolling Plant. She is busy at work during the day, keeps an eye on the children's studies after get off work, and shows her tenderness to He Yuzhu at night, making him pay his dues.

The children of the He family experienced the school's recommendation-based enrollment from 1968 to 1970, the resumption of the examination and promotion and retention system after the summer vacation in 1972, and the implementation of open-door education in 1974, with teachers and students working in factories, mines and rural areas. With He Yuzhu's persistence, they have experienced twists and turns in their education, but they have always been on the road of learning knowledge.

He Yuzhu relied on his memories of his previous life and did not follow the social environment and think that knowledge was useless. He prepared several sets of textbooks for elementary school, middle school, and high school at home. With the textbooks and Ran Qiuye's continued tutoring at the He family, all the children in the He family were real elementary school, middle school, and high school students, not comparable to those mediocre workers, peasants, and soldiers.

As many schools "suspended teaching and classes", teachers were given the title of "stinking old ninth", and the situation of intellectuals fell to the lowest point in history. "Stinking old ninth" basically became the lowest class in society. Ran Qiuye was also affected like other teachers, but she had the endorsement of He Yuzhu, deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, so every day, except for going to He's house to find He Yuzhu for a long time to report and study, she did not need to participate in reform work such as sweeping the streets and cleaning public toilets like other teachers.

After Wu Shuangmu and Ran Qiuye got married, they had a harmonious relationship and had their own children. In recent years, he participated in the establishment of the Sijiucheng Wushu Team and served as the deputy leader and head coach of the Sijiucheng Wushu Team. The Sijiucheng Wushu Team has become the most desirable place in the minds of many children, where they can learn authentic Longguo Kung Fu. The Sijiucheng Wushu Team is located on the west bank of Shichahai, very close to the Siheyuan at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang. In their spare time, He Xiaoxiang and He Xiaolin would go there as assistant teachers.

With the encouragement and help of He Yuzhu, Yu Haitang was recommended to study at the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, and her son Yu Dongliang was taken care of by her parents. Because the house opposite the courtyard was so well-furnished, Yu Haitang's parents moved in, and never asked Yu Haitang and her son to return to the Yu family. Whenever they had free time, they would bring Yu Dongliang to the courtyard to play. However, in recent years, they often advised Yu Haitang: While you are young, hurry up and recruit a live-in son-in-law. Unfortunately, Yu Haitang always evaded the question.

In this era, chefs are one of the "eight major members", and He Yuzhu's fellow apprentices all have a good life, so they often visit each other. During festivals and holidays, they will bring their families to their master Luo Jianrong's home to get together. Luo Jianrong has participated in state banquets for so many years and has gradually gained a significant reputation in the industry. With the help of their master, their senior brothers Wang Sheng and Chen Kangnian have a tendency to take over their master Luo Jianrong's mantle. Whether it is at the Sijiucheng Hotel or the state banquets in the past two years, Luo Jianrong has less and less actual operation, and Wang Sheng and Chen Kangnian are mainly responsible for labor, while he is instructing on the side.

Most people in the courtyard, although they are in the special period of "literary luck", live a plain life, but they are happy because they can live a peaceful life. In ordinary days, everyone lives a plain life with firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. There is no great joy or sorrow, only firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.

During this period, He Yushui and Li Youcai still lived a mediocre life. For unknown reasons, He Yushui did not give birth to a child for Li Youcai. Although He Yuzhu ignored Li Youcai, it did not affect the fact that everyone knew he was He Yuzhu's brother-in-law. So although he was not promoted in the past few years, he still lived a very comfortable life in the factory, and his colleagues were very polite to him. He Yushui was always told by Li Youcai: let her get closer to the old He family and let her have a good relationship with the old He family. But every time she mustered up the courage to go to the He family, He Yuzhu and his wife basically ignored her, and they didn't even step into the door of the He family. So, she set her sights on the younger ones in the He family, but unfortunately, the younger ones were either busy with their studies and accompanied by Ran Qiuye; or they were in a hurry and had no time to pay attention to her. What the He family has, He Yushui's family doesn't have. What He Yushui and his wife can afford, the He family's children don't even look down upon. So even if He Yushui and his wife tried to plot against the He family, they never succeeded in reality.

In the past few years, Xu Damao held He Yuzhu's thigh, and his life was full of flavor. He took advantage of the "literary movement" trend, shouted the slogan of going to the countryside to do propaganda, and went to the countryside to show movies every few days. The corn fields, small rivers, firewood piles and other hidden places outside the city of Sijiu left traces of him, young widows, and vain young wives. Every time he came back from the countryside, the handlebars and the back seat of the car were full of big and small bags, which made people in the courtyard envious.

Liu Guangfu of the Liu family, burdened by his family's bad reputation, could not find a good way out in the old city, so he signed up for the "Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside" movement to participate in the "educated youth go to the countryside to receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants" movement, and worked hard for his own bright future. The Liu family had severed their relationship with Liu Guangtian, and the old couple Liu Haizhong, who had no children or third-generation companions, would only peek at their supposed grandson Yu Dongliang from afar, and would sigh at home thinking about their two sons who were far away.

Yan Bugui of the Yan family is a primary school teacher and the mainstay of the family. As teachers were given the title of "stinky old ninth", "stinky old ninth" became the target of reform. For the sake of the old Yan family, Yan Bugui struggled every day to support the reform labor - sweeping the streets, cleaning public toilets and other dirty and tiring work, and he never complained.

Yan Jiecheng still went out early and came back late every day, trying to find temporary work, but there were too many people without proper jobs in this era. When he couldn't find a job, Yan Jiecheng would take Qin Jingru to learn from He Yushui and go out to pick up garbage for money to make a living. Even though life was so difficult, Qin Huairu did not let Yan Jiecheng go. Yan Jiecheng's monthly filial piety and weekly ploughing of Qin Huairu's land were indispensable. Fortunately, Yan Qing'er was the only third generation living in the Yan family, so no matter how difficult the Yan family was, she had never lacked a bite of food, and was raised tenderly by the old couple Yan Bugui. Qin Jingru relied on her daughter and could always fool Yan Qing'er and shovel food from her bowl into her mouth. Yan Qing'er would pester the old couple Yan Bugui when she was not full or hungry. Therefore, although Qin Jingru's life was difficult, she was plump, unlike Yan Jiedi who was so skinny that she couldn't even eat two steamed buns.

With the Yan family in such a situation, Yan Jiekuang had no good future in the city. He saw Liu Guangfu joining the "Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside" movement to seek a better future, and soon he also chose this path. Yan Jiedi, the youngest sister of the Yan family, was also at the age of marriage, but unfortunately, the better working-class families did not look down on the daughter of the "stinky ninth".

At the same time, Yan Jie Di grew up in the calculating environment of the Yan family. She has never enjoyed a good life since she could remember. She didn't want to get married casually: she didn't want to live the life of the Yan family where she had to count grains even when cooking. Yan Bugui and his wife arranged many blind dates for her, but some of them either disliked the poor conditions of the Yan family or were not favored by Yan Jie Di. She was delayed year after year and became an old maid.

Every day, Yan Jiedi enviously watched the He family members coming in and out of the courtyard; she was jealous that Yu Haitang was single and living with Yu Dongliang, and still lived such a prosperous life. In order to take advantage of the neighbors, Yan Bugui would wait at the door of the Yan family whenever he had free time, pretending to tend to leeks; Yan Jiedi, who inherited the calculating nature of the Yan family, how could she not come up with her own way? She slowly approached Yu Haitang, who was not much older than her, starting from finding opportunities to chat with Yu Haitang, to stepping into Yu Haitang's house to play with Yu Dongliang, and then following Yu Haitang and her son in and out of the He family.

As Yan Jie Di entered the lives of the He family and Yu Haitang, she envied the good living environment of the He family and Yu Haitang, and even more envied their affluent life without calculation. Slowly, she became a member of the He family in her dreams, and in many nights' dreams: she even became someone close to He Yuzhu...