Siheyuan Back to the 1950s

“Boom, boom, boom…!”

The endless sound of firecrackers outside made it impossible for Ning Xiaowei to sleep any longer. She had no choice but to get up early.

Outside the house, Sun Zhengguo did a set of boxing as a warm-up. Just as he was about to stand in a stance, he saw his wife getting out of bed.

"Xiao Wei, why did you get up so early today? Why don't you sleep a little longer?"

"Hey! I want to sleep, but the sound of firecrackers has been going off since I woke up early. It's too noisy. I can't sleep at all. I might as well get up early and move around."

"Squeak!"

As the two were talking, the door of the room next to them opened, and Sun Zhengdong and his wife were also unable to sleep because of the noise.

"Brother, sister-in-law, Happy New Year! I didn't expect you guys to get up so early?"

"Happy New Year! Brother, sister-in-law."

"I also wish you two a happy new year!"

"Zhengdong, Aifang, I wish you a happy new year too!"

Everyone congratulated each other first, and then started to wash up. Sun Zhengguo stood on the stake for a while, then quickly ended the ceremony and started to wash up.

After everyone finished their work, they both rode their bicycles towards the courtyard.

This was agreed upon yesterday. Today, Sun Zhengdong and his wife will also go to the courtyard to celebrate the New Year, so that the two of them won't be bored in the small courtyard.

The courtyard was also filled with joy at this moment. When Sun Zhengguo and his companions returned to the compound, many children had already gathered in front of the Sun family's door, and everyone was vying to come over to wish them a happy new year.

The reason is very simple, because the Sun family is the richest family in the compound and is also the eldest uncle, so every child gets a red envelope.

Although there wasn't much in the box and it only cost two cents, it couldn't stop the children's enthusiasm and they went to buy a string of firecrackers to play with.

What's more, the Sun family gave each of these children two pieces of candy, so these children rushed over early in the morning to wish a happy new year.

"Happy New Year, uncle! Happy New Year, aunt!"

"Happy New Year, Auntie! I hope you'll give birth to a big fat boy this year."

"happy New Year everyone!"

"Hehehe!"

Seeing Sun Zhengguo and his group coming over, the children all congratulated them enthusiastically.

Sun Zhengguo also responded happily.

One of the little girls, not knowing who taught her, directly congratulated Ning Xiaowei on giving birth to a big fat boy.

Ning Xiaowei was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling. She took out the only two pieces of candy in her pocket and stuffed them into the pocket of the little girl, making the group of friends around her envious.

How could Sun Zhengguo not know what was going on when he saw the looks in the children’s eyes?

"Okay! Follow uncle into the house, everyone will have one."

"Thank you uncle!"

After entering the house, Sun Zhengguo saw the red envelopes and candies that had been prepared on the table. He gave one to each child. The children thanked him one after another and then left.

At this time, Sun Dajiang and his wife also came from the kitchen. Everyone congratulated them again and then started to eat breakfast.

After dinner, Sun Zhengguo took Ning Xiaowei with him and visited every household in the courtyard to wish everyone a happy new year.

When Sun Dajiang saw his son coming back from paying New Year's greetings, he took Lin Wencui with him and went door to door, thus ending the New Year's greetings.

On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Sun Zhengguo accompanied Ning Xiaowei to her mother's home for a day.

On the third day of the New Year, a group of people went back to the countryside carrying food and gifts to pay New Year's greetings to their grandparents.

When the grandparents saw that both of their grandchildren's wives were pregnant, they were so happy that they couldn't stop smiling. They were very caring and concerned about them.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Sun Zhengguo, who had just returned home from the countryside, visited Professor Wu and several other teachers who had been kind to him to express his gratitude.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Sun Zhengguo went to work at the steel rolling mill and did not go anywhere. He just stayed at home with his wife for the day.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Ning Xiaowei also had to go to work. Early in the morning, Sun Zhengguo sent his wife away first and then rushed to Tsinghua University.

At school, Chen Lianshan arrived at the university early, but he didn't expect that Professor Wu arrived earlier than him.

The two congratulated each other, and Chen Lianshan picked up the water bottle and prepared to go to the boiler room to fetch water.

"Brother Chen, Happy New Year!"

Chen Lianshan, who had just gone out, ran into Sun Zhengguo.

"Jungguk, Happy New Year to you too! Please go in first! Professor Wu is here early. I'll go get two bottles of water."

"okay!"

After saying hello, Chen Lianshan walked towards the boiler room.

When Sun Zhengguo entered the room, Professor Wu was taking something out of the locker.

"Mr. Wu, Happy New Year!"

"Yo! Jungkook is here, I wish you a happy new year too!"

Professor Wu put down the work in his hands and said with a smile.

"Jungguk, have you finished writing the paper I told you about before the New Year? School is about to start in a few days, so you need to hand it in quickly. We need to hurry up and get this done."

"Don't worry! Mr. Wu, how could I forget what you told me to do? I finished writing it before the New Year."

"Oh~!"

Seeing Professor Wu's disbelieving look, Sun Zhengguo said nothing and said, "Let's let the facts speak for themselves." Then he took out the paper he had prepared long ago from his bag and handed it to Professor Wu.

Professor Wu was very surprised. He didn't expect that Sun Zhengguo had actually finished writing the paper after just a few days of vacation.

He quickly took the paper, put it on the table, then took out his reading glasses from his pocket, put them on, and began to read the paper.

It didn't take long for Professor Wu to finish reading the paper and he was very satisfied.

"Zhengguo, this article 'On the transformation and sustainable development of machinery' is well written. It is not too ambitious. It is not like previous graduates who always talk about manufacturing machinery. It is all empty talk. Are machines so easy to manufacture?"

"Thank you, Mr. Wu, for your compliment. I'm afraid that the seniors of the previous years were also influenced by some doctrines and don't know much about our national conditions. With our current industrial capacity, it is impossible to manufacture machinery. Therefore, we can only start by modifying the machinery."

Professor Wu was pleased to see that Sun Zhengguo had a clear understanding of himself. It seemed that letting him graduate early and help transform the rolling mill was the right move.

"Zhengguo, I've calculated this paper, and I don't think those old guys will object. So, I'll help you get it done once school starts. You should be mentally prepared, right?"

"Don't worry! Mr. Wu, ever since you told me about graduation, I have been ready to get to work at any time."

"Okay! Be ambitious."

"Hey! What are you talking about? Judging from Professor Wu's expression, it must be something good, right?"

Chen Lianshan, who had just fetched water from outside, came into the house and saw this scene, so he asked.

"Lianshan is back, come and take a look. This is the paper that Zhengguo just handed in. Isn't it better than the empty and pretentious ones you wrote back then?"

Chen Lianshan didn't expect that he had something to do with this, so he could only take the paper awkwardly and read it quickly.

After reading the paper, Chen Lianshan was deeply moved. Thinking back to when he graduated, he felt really naive.

He was so shameless that he looked down on the modification of machinery and even wanted to manufacture machinery.

But after graduation he found that reality had played a joke on him.

At that time, even making a screw was a hassle, so how could we make machinery?

Eventually, reality defeated his dream, and he had no choice but to return to school. He then followed Professor Wu and began to learn how to transform machinery.

But even so, after working for five or six years, there was still no achievement.

Only then did he realize how difficult this road was.

It is not easy to transform machinery.