Siheyuan: How many worlds does the system integrate?

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is the important traditional festival of the Spring Festival.

During these days, Lou Xiao'e and others visited various scenic spots around the capital. After having a great time, they decided not to go out for fun, but to stay at home and chat with their elders to relieve their boredom.

The children were divided into two groups. The older ones helped with housework such as cleaning and putting up Spring Festival couplets; the younger ones happily took candies and firecrackers, held incense sticks and set them off everywhere, making "ping pong, ping pong" sounds from time to time.

The women were busy preparing a variety of delicious dishes. Since the hired staff had gone home for the New Year holiday, they had to do all these things themselves.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the whole family, led by brothers Li Xuewen and Li Xuewu, gathered in the courtyard to wish the elderly in the family a happy new year.

Mr. and Mrs. Li as well as Li Xiangxiu had smiles on their faces as they distributed red envelopes to everyone and wished everyone a happy new year.

For the elderly, they don’t care how many wives Li Xuewu or Li Xuewen has married. Being able to marry is your ability. As long as you don’t do bad things, it’s okay. The more people there are, the more children there are. With so many grandchildren around them, they are happy every day. They wish they could have a few more. Being surrounded by children and grandchildren is the happiest thing.

After paying New Year's greetings at home, the door was opened and people came to pay New Year's greetings in an endless stream. People like Liu Guangtian, Sun Wenliang, Han Chunming, Bai Zhanyuan and others also came to pay New Year's greetings to the old man.

Brother Li Bowen naturally couldn't sit idle, they also had to visit their master and the Siheyuan.

It was soon dark after all the busy work.

When the family sat together in the evening, Li's mother asked, "Big brother and his family will go back to your eldest sister-in-law's house tomorrow. Whose house do you plan to go to first to learn martial arts?"

There are only a few days to go back to my parents' home during the Chinese New Year. This is the disadvantage of having too many people. When it comes to festivals, we have to queue up, and we can't let a few people have any complaints. Li Xuewu looked at them with some embarrassment: "How should we arrange it?"

As the eldest sister, Chen Xueru took it upon herself to make arrangements, saying, "Don't worry about Ladi and I. You and Chunyan will go back tomorrow. We'll go to Guoying on the third day, Haitang on the fifth day, and finally Jingru's house on the sixth day. That's how we'll arrange it!"

"Okay, let's do this." Someone came to the rescue of Li Xuewu, and he quickly agreed.

With Chen Xueru's arrangement, Li Xuewu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and others also expressed their agreement.

In this way, the order of New Year's greetings was determined. On the morning of the second day of the New Year, Li Xuewu and Han Chunyan returned to the Han family happily with carefully prepared gifts.

Today, the Han family is especially well-represented. The eldest, second and eldest sister have all returned with their families. The house is bustling with people and filled with a festive atmosphere. The old lady of the Han family looks at the scene in front of her with a happy smile on her face.

In the past few years, the Han brothers followed Li Xuewu's advice and started to trade in houses. Although they didn't make much money, they lived a pretty good life. Therefore, after this gathering, everyone couldn't wait to share their gains and experiences in the past two years.

In the lively atmosphere, only Han Chunming seemed a little lonely.

Others already have lovely children, some of whom are about to enter college, but his own marriage has not yet been settled.

Sure enough, the topic gradually turned to Han Chunming.

Mother Han looked at the family members in the room and said, "It's great that you all live such a good life. I am relieved and happy. Now I only have Xiaowu's affairs to worry about. When he gets married, I can rest assured and take care of him in his old age!"

Han Chunxue immediately said, "Yes, Xiaowu, when are you going to get married? Mom has been waiting for so many years!"

Han Chunming smiled helplessly and replied, "Soon!"

Han Chunxue didn't believe it. She asked doubtfully, "Is it true or false? We have heard too many stories like yours about 'crying wolf'!"

Han Chunming patted his chest and assured: "Of course it's true, don't worry, I will solve this matter as soon as possible!"

However, Han's mother poured cold water on him mercilessly: "Don't believe him, this kid always says this, but in fact he never does anything. This time is the same, they broke up again!"

Everyone looked at Han Chunming in disbelief: "What does this mean? What's the reason?"

"It's nothing, just a little awkwardness," Han Chunming replied embarrassedly.

"You two are born incompatible. I think it's better for you to separate. What's so good about Su Meng that makes you so devoted to her that you have to marry her?" Han Chunxue shook her head helplessly.

Not only did Han Chunxue not understand what was being said, but everyone present also shook their heads, indicating that they also could not understand.

Seeing Han Chunming bowing his head and not saying anything, Li Xuewu quickly came out to smooth things over. He smiled and said to everyone, "Alright, alright, don't talk about these unhappy things during the New Year. Chunming is already this age, he knows what to do! By the way, sister, how is the performance of your factory now?"

Hearing Li Xuewu's question, Han Chunxue couldn't help but sigh: "It's much worse than before. The current production task is only the amount of the past 20 days!"

Li Xuewu frowned slightly and asked, "Can the salary be paid on time?"

Han Chunxue nodded, but there was a hint of dissatisfaction in her tone: "The salary can be paid, but do you know what benefits our factory gave us this year? Just ten kilograms of meat per person, nothing else. This is not even half of last year's!"

"Really? The things our factory distributes are a lot less than last year! Why do you think that is?" The second son of the Han family also responded.

"Why else? The factory has fewer orders, so they earn less and naturally pay the workers less!"

Then, Han Chunsong looked at Li Xuewu and asked, "Xuewu, have you heard any rumors?"

Seeing everyone's inquiring eyes, Li Xuewu sighed: "The rumors are nothing, but judging from the situation of each company, I'm afraid this problem will become more and more serious in the future. If things go wrong, I'm afraid it will be difficult to even pay wages in the future!"

"It shouldn't be that serious. After all, it's a state-owned factory. How can it not be able to pay wages?" Several people asked in surprise.

"What's impossible about this? With the deepening of reform and opening up, the market economy has gradually replaced the planned economy, which requires everyone to be open-minded and bold in innovation.

Under the planned economic system, all enterprises produced according to the tasks assigned by the higher authorities. However, some enterprise leaders still held on to the conservative ideas of the past and were unwilling to try innovation and change.

As a result, the market competitiveness of these enterprises will naturally be inferior to those of private enterprises, and the orders they receive will naturally decrease, which may eventually lead to the inability of the enterprises to maintain normal operations or even to pay wages. "