Rebirth of Siheyuan: Starting from escaping famine in 42

Li Qingshan led Qin Huairu to Qianmen Street, in front of his courtyard gate.

He took the key to open the door, entered the yard first, and said to Qin Huairu, "Huairu, come in!"

"Hmm!" Qin Huairu walked into the yard and looked at the yard and the house. It was much better than her own home. She said, "Qingshan, your yard is really nice."

Li Qingshan scratched his head and replied with a smile: "This yard was bought for me by my brother when I first came to Sijiu City. It looked nice, so my brother bought it for me. The title deed is in my name."

After hearing this, Qin Huairu said, "Your brother is really good to you."

"That's Fang Ran. My brother is very good." Li Qingshan continued, "Huai Ru, let's go into the house and take a look. This is where you will live in the future."

"Yeah." Qin Huairu responded shyly and followed Li Qingshan into the house.

The two looked at the furniture in the house and found it was well preserved, with only a thin layer of dust on it.

Qin Huairu asked: "Qingshan, find me a rag so I can wipe the furniture."

"Okay." Li Qingshan walked out of the house and soon came back with a basin of water and two rags in it. He smiled and said, "Let's work together. This way we can finish faster."

As he spoke, he brushed the rag, wrung out the water, and handed one to Qin Huairu.

The two of them cleaned the house inside and out, then locked the door and went home.

 …

After eating and drinking, Qin Desheng and Li Chengman discussed the wedding date of Li Qingshan and Qin Huairu. The wedding date was set for the day after tomorrow, and Li Qingshan would go to deliver the betrothal gift tomorrow.

After Qin Desheng, Qin Huairu, father and daughter, and Wang the matchmaker were sent away.

Li Chengman called Li Qingfeng into the room where Li Qingshan was sleeping, took out two small yellow croakers from his bag, handed them to Li Qingfeng, and said, "Qingfeng, take these two gold bars and exchange them for money to buy more food for your brother's wedding."

Li Qingfeng declined and said, "Dad, take it back. I have money."

Li Chengman said loudly: "Qingfeng, if you have money, it's yours."

"I, your father, am not dead yet! How can your brother still ask for your money for his wedding?"

"Besides, you've already bought him a yard, which is quite good. They can't use your money for the marriage anyway."

"Take it."

"Okay!" Li Qingfeng put away the two gold bars and asked, "Dad, do you have any money on you? Do you want me to give you some?"

Li Chengman waved his hand and said, "No, I still have some money on me."

"Qingfeng, have all the money in your home been converted into cash? What's the ratio?"

Li Qingfeng lit a cigarette and replied, "No! I only exchanged 1000 yuan."

"One dollar can be exchanged for 400 yuan."

"Yeah!" Li Chengman waved his hand and said, "It's okay, you can go back to the house first!"

Early the next morning.

After finishing his meal, his younger brother Li Qingshan took ten dollars, one hundred kilograms of coarse grains and five kilograms of pork belly, and went to Qin Huairu's house with matchmaker Wang to deliver the betrothal gifts.

Not long after his brother left, Li Qingfeng also went to work.

After arriving at the police station, Li Qingfeng first walked around the various offices in the station, giving cigarettes to those who smoked and two pieces of candy to those who did not smoke, in order to deepen the relationship between them.

I visited Deputy Director Zhao Benquan, Instructor Dong Zhiqiang, Security Team 2 Liu Meng, Household Registration and Personnel, and Finance departments in turn.

It took him two hours to go around the circle. He went to say hello to Liu Chuanzhi, and finally came to the Security Team 1 under his charge.

There are 12 people in the team. The captain is myself, the deputy captain is Ma Ziqiang, and the team members are Sun Youcheng, Bai Fei, Xie Youtian, Li Xiang, Sun Youcheng, Fan Debiao, Liu Chengze, Wang Li, Jin Sheng, and Wu Qiang.

Most of them are retired soldiers, and only a few are police officers left over from the police station.

After getting acquainted with the deputy captain and team members of Team 1, I had a pretty good lunch at the station at noon.

There was nothing to do in the afternoon, so Li Qingfeng and Ma Ziqiang each took five team members and went out to patrol the streets.

Really, before liberation, Li Qingfeng was patrolling the streets.

Unexpectedly, after liberation, Li Qingfeng was still patrolling the streets.

The work has not changed, but its nature has changed. We are now working openly for our Party.

 …

Time quickly came to the day of my younger brother Li Qingshan's wedding.

In order to help his younger brother get married, Li Qingfeng even borrowed the only Type 3 motorcycle in the police station.

This three-wheeled motorcycle captured from the Japanese on the battlefield was obtained by Liu Chuanzhi from the police station after much effort.

Early in the morning of that day.

Li Qingfeng and his group, carrying the child, came to his brother's yard on Qianmen Street.

Looking at Li Qingshan with slight dark circles under his eyes, he was wiping the three-wheeled motorcycle meticulously.

Li Qingfeng jokingly said: "Qingshan, did you not sleep well last night?"

"And don't wipe the motorcycle. If you do, the paint will be wiped off."

"Be careful that Lao Liu is looking for you."

"Dad, brother, sister-in-law, you are here!" Li Qingshan smiled brightly and said, "It's okay, brother, Lao Liu is not that stingy."

Li Weiguo looked at his uncle who didn't say hello to him, pouted his lips, and said in a baby voice: "Come on, Weiguo is here too, why didn't you say hello to me."

Hearing this, Li Qingshan smiled and said, "Uncle is wrong, Weiguo, you are here too!"

"Yeah!" Li Weiguo nodded, like a little adult.

Seeing the people in the courtyard burst into laughter, Li Chengman picked up Li Weiguo and said with a smile: "My eldest grandson has really grown up."

After a while, Matchmaker Wang arrived. Amid the loud sound of firecrackers, Li Qingshan took Matchmaker Wang on a three-wheeled motorcycle to Qinjia Village to pick up Qin Huairu.

Li Qingfeng held his brother's wedding banquet in the restaurant owned by his master. He asked He Daqing to prepare the wedding banquet. He and his son, as well as a few helpers, had already arrived at the restaurant in advance to prepare the ingredients.

The marriage process has not changed and is still the same as before.

It is not like the wedding process that takes one or two years, where you have to bow to the teacher's portrait and the newlyweds sing revolutionary songs.

Li Qingshan took Qin Huairu back, there was another round of firecrackers, and then the old wedding process began.

A worship of heaven and earth.

Two worship the high hall.

The couple bowed to each other and entered the bridal chamber.

Finally, Li Qingfeng, the older brother, invited relatives and friends who came to congratulate his younger brother on his marriage to a banquet at the restaurant.

Not many people came to congratulate him, mainly because Li Chengman's hometown was in Henan and he had no relatives in the old city.

Most of them are Qin Huairu’s maternal relatives, her second uncle’s family, and her maternal family.

On Li Qingshan's side are his father Li Chengman and Liu Chuanzhi's family of three, Li Qingfeng's father-in-law and his family, plus Li Qingfeng's family and his master Quanfu.

Including He Daqing and his son and their helpers, there were three tables of banquet in total.

Since some of them had to work in the afternoon, they didn't drink much.

After eating and drinking, Li Qingshan and Qin Huairu stood at the door of the restaurant with flushed faces, seeing off the guests.

Li Qingfeng stood at the kitchen door holding Li Weiguo and chatting with He Daqing. After they had almost finished cleaning up, he handed a small cloth bag of food to He Daqing.

After some arguing, He Daqing asked He Yuzhu to carry the kitchen utensils while he took the food and left.