Rebirth of Siheyuan: Starting from escaping famine in 42

Li Qingfeng was smoking a cigarette and sitting in the yard with his brother, waiting for his father to come out of the shower.

After finishing a cigarette, he saw his father walking out of the bathroom with two handfuls of washed clothes. He quickly took the clothes and said to Li Chengman, "Dad, you and Qingshan should go back to the room and go to bed first! We can talk tomorrow if we have anything to say."

"Okay." Li Qingshan took his father's rough hand and walked into his room.

Li Qingfeng hung up the clothes and went back to the room to sleep.

Early the next morning.

Li Qingfeng got up early. As soon as he opened the door, he found his father practicing boxing in the yard. Li Qingfeng couldn't tell what kind of boxing this was, but it looked familiar, so he asked, "Dad, why did you get up so early? And what kind of boxing are you doing?"

Li Chengman stopped what he was doing and said to Li Qingfeng, "I'm used to getting up early in the army." He wiped the sweat off his head with a towel and continued, "I practice Shaolin Changquan. There is a monk in my team. I saw that he practiced well, so I started practicing with him."

Li Qingfeng returned to the room, took out Baguazhang and Youlongbu, handed them to Li Chengman, and said with a smile: "Dad, you can practice these two books when you have time, and you can practice Youlongbu more."

After saying that, he taught Li Chengman two sets of exercises.

Li Chengman read the book while watching his eldest son's actions, nodding from time to time and smiling: "Not bad, better than me."

Li Qingfeng stopped what he was doing, washed up beside the water tank, and said to Li Chengman, "Dad, I'm going to cook. You can read a book first. If you don't understand something, just ask me. I'm also a half-witted person."

"Well, don't worry about me, just go and do your work!" Li Chengman waved his hand, sat under the grape trellis, lowered his head and looked at two martial arts secrets books seriously, and put the book down from time to time, gesticulating with his hands and feet.

Breakfast is ready.

Li Chengman said to Qingfeng who was eating, "Qingfeng, go to the police station and ask for a day off today, and take me to your master's house and visit your in-laws. Otherwise, if they find out, it will be bad for our family."

"Qingshan, you should go to school when you need to."

Li Qingshan nodded and replied, "I understand, Dad."

Li Qingfeng said, "Dad, let's go to my old man's house after dinner! He has to go to work during the day."

"Okay, buy two bottles of wine and two packs of snacks, and then go to your master's house first." Li Chengman took out two silver dollars from his pocket, put them on the table in front of Li Qingfeng, and said, "Qingfeng, take this money first. When you come back from your leave, bring back the wine and snacks."

Li Qingfeng pushed the money back and said with a smile: "Dad, take the money back first, I have a lot of money."

Li Chengman pushed the money back and said, "You have money, so it's your money. Using your father's money has a different meaning."

"Okay!" Li Qingfeng put the money away and continued to eat with his head down.

After Li Chengman finished his breakfast, he remembered that there was one thing he hadn't said, so he said to his eldest son, "Qingfeng, is there a tablet for your mother at home?"

After hearing what his father asked, Li Qingshan looked at Li Chengman with red eyes, and no one knew what he was thinking in his heart.

Hearing this, Li Qingfeng nodded and replied, "Yes!"

Li Chengman nodded and said, "Well, bring out your mother's tablet later and I'll burn some incense for her."

"I got it, Dad." Li Qingfeng quickly finished his breakfast and went back to his room. He placed his mother's tablet and incense burner on the altar in the side room.

Li Chengman and Li Qingshan followed them in. Li Qingfeng handed them three incense sticks and struck a match to light incense for them and himself. The two brothers knelt in front of their mother's tablet, lit incense for her, kowtowed three times, and then left.

After his two sons left, Li Chengman held up the incense sticks with both hands and whispered, "Lihong, my sons and I are fine. Don't worry about us down there..."

After saying some more words of missing her, Li Chengman put the incense in the incense burner and walked out of the side room with red eyes.

After Li Qingfeng came out, he told his younger brother that he would go to his master's house for lunch at noon, and then went out to the police station to ask for leave.

Li Qingshan waited until his father came out, told his elder brother to go to the police station to ask for leave, and then he went to school with his schoolbag.

When Li Qingfeng arrived at the police station, he first went to the logistics department, found his father-in-law, handed him a cigarette, and said to him: "Uncle, my father came last night, and I thought about going to your house tonight."

Wu Chenggui lit a cigarette. Hearing this, he also knew that Li Qingfeng's father fought against the Japanese in our party's team and now the Japanese surrendered. He also knew that Qingfeng was going to get married, so he was not surprised that Li Qingfeng's father came. So he smiled and replied, "Okay! Let your father come to our house for a drink in the evening."

Li Qingfeng nodded and said, "Okay, uncle, I'll go ask for leave first, and then go to your house in the evening. I'll cook and you two can have a good drink."

Wu Chenggui waved to Li Qingfeng and said, "Go!"

Li Qingfeng came to the second team and asked for a day off from Bai Guangquan's team. He also told Ma Baofu about his request for leave.

Afterwards, Li Qingfeng left the police station, lit a cigarette, went to the snack shop, bought two packs of mung bean cakes and two packs of preserved fruits, and then went to the grocery store to buy two bottles of Lotus White and two packs of Hardman cigarettes. The cigarettes were for his father to smoke, and he would buy more when he left.

He returned to a dead end near his home and took out a hen, a carp, a piece of pork belly, and some mushrooms from the space.

Li Qingfeng returned home with these things in both hands. He looked at the time and felt it was still early, so he asked, "Dad, when are we going to my master's house?"

Li Chengman said: "Let's go now!"

Li Qingfeng put down the things in his hands and said, "Okay, Dad, I'll get you two good things first." Then he went into the house and took out a watch and a pen from the space, handed them to him, and said, "Dad, take these watch and pen!"

Li Chengman took the watch and pen and asked his eldest son, "Where did you get them?"

Li Qingfeng lit a cigarette and said with a smile, "Seized."

Li Chengman then asked Li Qingfeng: "Why didn't you hand in the seized items?"

Li Qingfeng replied: "Dad, when these things were seized, I hadn't joined the organization yet!"

"Yes! That's what happened!" Li Chengman nodded after hearing this, and then he put the watch on his left wrist and put the pen in his trouser pocket, and said, "What else was seized?"

Li Qingfeng nodded and said, "Dad, you can't use it now, and I have no place to put it. I will give it to you when you leave."

Li Chengman heard this and thought, what is this captured thing? You have to wait until I leave to give it to me.

Li Qingfeng locked the door, carried the food, wine, meat and preserved fruits in his hands, and led his father slowly towards the master's house.

On the way to his master's house, Li Qingfeng introduced to his father everything about the alleys and streets they passed by.