Siheyuan: I just want to live

The next morning, the sun shone through the window into a corner of the room, illuminating the room, but Chen Feng did not get up early to go to work as usual. Nowadays, many people live in the scrap yard, and he no longer needs to get up early to open the door.

Time passed slowly. At about seven o'clock, Chen Feng got up from the bed, stretched his body, and slowly opened the bedroom door. Then, he picked up the toiletries placed by the door and prepared to go to the middle courtyard to wash up.

When he walked to the kitchen door, his eyes happened to fall on Sun Xiaojuan who was busy inside. Perhaps because she heard the sound of Chen Feng walking, Sun Xiaojuan subconsciously stretched her head to look outside.

When she found out that the person coming was Chen Feng, a natural and friendly smile appeared on her face, and she casually said, "Are you up? Go wash up quickly, breakfast will be ready soon." Her tone was relaxed and easy-going, as if this was a very ordinary conversation, and people felt a warm atmosphere in the air.

Chen Feng nodded, took the basin and continued to walk to the middle courtyard. He came to the pool and quickly washed up, then returned to the backyard.

When Chen Feng returned to the room, Sun Xiaojuan was serving breakfast on the table. Seeing Chen Feng coming back, she quickly arranged for him to sit down first, then went into the room to call out her father-in-law and the children, and the four of them ate breakfast together.

After dinner, Sun Xiaojuan was busy clearing the table. Chen Feng did not go to help, but pushed his bicycle out of the house and prepared to go to work.

Chen Feng leaned on his bicycle and shouted to Sun Xiaojuan who was busy washing dishes in the kitchen, "Accountant Xiaojuan, do you want me to wait for you for a while and take you to work on my bicycle?"

Sun Xiaojuan replied in the kitchen, "No, I'll be done soon. It won't delay my work. You don't have to wait for me. You can go first!"

Chen Feng didn't think too much when she said no, so he pushed the cart out of the yard. When Chen Feng walked to the middle yard, he saw Sha Zhu and Qin Huairu chatting by the pool.

The workers from other steel mills in the yard thought they had already walked the long way, but Sha Zhu was still washing up. Now he was the chef in the canteen and didn't have to get up early to prepare food in the canteen like before.

Qin Huairu was washing clothes. No one knew why the Jia family had so much clothes to wash. Anyway, every time Chen Feng saw Qin Huairu, she was mostly washing clothes.

When Chen Feng got closer, he heard Sha Zhu say to Qin Huairu, "Sister Qin, have you seen the aluminum steamer in my house? And the table, benches, etc.? I don't know why, but a lot of things are missing from my house after I slept for a while."

When Qin Huairu heard Sha Zhu's question, her hands in the water suddenly stopped, and the action of washing clothes also stopped. Then Qin Huairu sat up straight and used her little finger with water drops to push the scattered sideburns behind her ears.

Then he said, "I borrowed the steamer and the table and chairs yesterday. I will return them to you when your brother Dongxu buys new ones today."

Qin Huairu looked very tempting under the water vapor. The people who were watching were stunned. After he sobered up a little, he stammered, "No... you don't have to return it... to Sister Qin... It's just a pot, I... can just buy another one! Well, I... I'll go first, you are busy."

Then Sha Zhu hurriedly carried the wash basin back home, his steps staggering a little, as if he was frightened by something. At the same time, Chen Feng also quickened his pace to leave, his heart beating violently, fearing that Qin Huairu would open her mouth and ask him for something. He couldn't be firm enough to agree to any of her requests easily.

After walking out of the courtyard, Chen Feng finally breathed a sigh of relief. He couldn't help but sigh: "This Thirteenth Aunt's charm is really powerful! No wonder Sha Zhu couldn't resist it. Even someone like me who has read countless pictures and has several GB of study materials in my computer, seeing her like that, it's hard not to be a little distracted." As he thought, he patted his chest, trying to calm himself down.

After adjusting his mood a little outside the courtyard, Chen Feng got on his bike again and headed towards the scrap yard. Along the way, Qin Huairu's figure kept appearing in his mind, but he tried to put these distracting thoughts aside and focus on the road ahead.

When Chen Feng arrived at the scrapyard, the door was not closed. The two security guards in the message room had already changed shifts. Chen Feng walked into the message room and just put his things away when he heard the security guard Li Jun say

"Chen Feng, why didn't you return the gun after get off work on Friday? Didn't you take it with you? It was left in the reception room. How dangerous is that?"

Chen Feng then noticed the gun next to the table. He took out the bullets and turned to Li Jun and said embarrassedly, "I forgot! I don't usually carry a gun, and there were a lot of things to do on Friday. I didn't pay attention and forgot it!"

When Li Jun heard what Chen Feng said, he said in a speechless tone, "Fortunately, we have been on duty in the communication room these days, otherwise if your gun was lost, it would be troublesome!"

After hearing what Li Jun said, Chen Feng felt a little scared and quickly said to Li Jun, "Thank you, Brother Jun! I will pay attention next time!"

Li Jun waved his hand and said, "It's okay, just be careful next time. If you don't return the gun after get off work, you must carry it with you and don't throw it anywhere."

"Okay, we're going to go out on patrol, you stay here by yourself!"

After saying that, he took Liu Baotian out, leaving Chen Feng alone in the message room.

In fact, Chen Feng didn't understand. The scrapyard was such a small place. Why did they need four guards, divided into day and night shifts? It seemed that Station Master Li could handle everything by himself with just a gun.

Chen Feng stayed in the communication room for a while. Stationmaster Li rode his broken bicycle into the scrap yard. Chen Feng quickly called him.

"Stationmaster Li, don't leave in such a hurry. I have something to talk to you about!"

Seeing Station Master Li stop his bicycle, Chen Feng picked up the gun beside the table, grabbed the bullets and put them in his jacket pocket. He quickly walked out of the communication room and trotted towards Li Guotao.

Li Guotao stopped his bicycle, looked at Chen Feng who was running over and asked, "What's wrong? What do you want from me?"

Chen Feng handed the gun and bullets to Stationmaster Li and said, "Stationmaster, please take this gun back. I don't need it now."

Li Guotao took the gun, put it on his back, put the bullets in his pocket and said, "Okay, I'll take it back. I'll leave if there's nothing else."

As he was about to push the bike away, Chen Feng quickly grabbed the back seat of the bike and said, "Don't go! Stationmaster! I have something to ask you."

Li Guotao stopped pushing the cart and turned around to ask, "What else do you want to say? Tell me quickly. I have something else to do. I'm very busy today!"

Chen Feng said a little embarrassedly, "I just want to ask, when will the houses of the employees affected by the disaster be repaired? It's not that I don't want Sun Xiaojuan and others to live in my house!"

"I've only lived here for two days, and Jia Zhang from our compound has spread rumors everywhere, saying that Sun Xiaojuan and I have an abnormal relationship! Isn't this defaming someone's innocence? I was so angry that I smashed her house yesterday!"

Chen Feng complained just to show how wronged he was and to get some benefits. If you don't tell the boss, how can he know your contribution? So if there is something wrong, you have to speak up!

Li Guotao frowned after listening to Chen Feng's words, and then said, "It will take about a week. I will hurry up and send more people. How about this, the station will give you an extra ten yuan at the end of the month, as compensation for Sun Xiaojuan and the others staying at your house."

Then, Li Guotao changed the subject and said, "Is there anything else? If not, let go of your hand. I have to get busy."

Chen Feng quickly let go of the hand holding the back seat of the bicycle, and then said with a playful smile, "It's okay, you go ahead and do your work."

Stationmaster Li glanced at Chen Feng expressionlessly, then slowly left with his bicycle. Chen Feng didn't care at all, he just shrugged his shoulders and secretly rejoiced in his heart: Isn't this a good thing? I made ten dollars for nothing!

Afterwards, Chen Feng returned to the reception room and picked up a novel to read out of boredom. Time passed by minute by minute until the person responsible for delivering newspapers arrived. Chen Feng stretched himself and slowly picked up the newspaper and walked towards the office.

When he pushed open the door of the office, he saw that the two desks of Station Master Li and Sun Xiaojuan were put together. The two sat opposite each other, lowering their heads and seemed to be writing something. The whole room was filled with a serious and focused atmosphere.

Chen Feng walked to the table, put the newspaper on Stationmaster Li's desk, and said, "Stationmaster, this is today's newspaper."

Chen Feng was about to turn around and leave when Li Guotao said, "Don't leave in a hurry. You are the only one free at the station now. I have a document here. Please give it to Director Wang of your street office."

Chen Feng took the document and saw that the envelope was sealed with the official seal of the waste station. Chen Feng asked in confusion, "What's the matter? Do you need to write a document? Can't I just pass on a message after get off work?"

Li Guotao looked up, glared at Chen Feng and said, "If you are asked to go, then go! So much nonsense! Can an official document be the same as a verbal message? Go quickly! And don't open it halfway!"

Chen Feng was glared at by Li Guotao, and he quickly said, "Okay, okay! Stationmaster, don't be angry, I'll go right away, and I promise not to open it and peek on the way."

After he finished speaking, he turned around without hesitation and ran out of the office at the fastest speed. Li Guotao looked at his departing back, shook his head helplessly, and then continued to lower his head to deal with the documents on the table. At the same time, Sun Xiaojuan never raised her head to look at them, but her slightly trembling shoulders revealed the fact that she was laughing secretly.

Chen Feng returned to the communication room, quickly put on his coat, gloves, shouldered his schoolbag, and carefully stuffed the documents into the schoolbag. Then, he got on his bicycle, left the waste station, and rode slowly towards the street office.

Chen Feng rode his bicycle and came to the street office slowly. This time, he did not rush in rashly like before. Instead, he parked his bicycle steadily at the door, then walked calmly to the gatehouse and knocked on the glass gently.