Siheyuan: Grassroots Counterattack

The lively New Year passed quickly and the country entered 1960, which was also the year with the most serious natural disasters.

Just after the Chinese New Year, before work started, the subdistrict office received a new batch of disaster victims, all of them looked pale and thin. The subdistrict office was helpless and Director Wang was extremely worried.

When they were paying New Year's greetings before, Li Tianyi and Director Wang talked about this matter. Li Tianyi asked about the resettlement policy of the street office, and it turned out that they had to find a vacant house to live in first. If they had relatives, the office could help find them first. If they didn't have relatives in the old city, the street office would arrange a temporary worker for them first.

These are only temporary. Li Tianyi gave Director Wang an idea, asking her to count how many young people are still unmarried on the street after the New Year, and then arrange blind dates for them, so that young girls among the disaster victims can go on blind dates with these unmarried boys.

Director Wang understood Li Tianyi's meaning immediately. As expected, after the Chinese New Year, Director Wang asked people to count the number of young people on the street who had not yet married.

Director Wang thought a lot when looking at the list. The names on it were all young men of marriageable age, including He Yuzhu. Director Wang had learned from the matchmaker before that He Yuzhu was a difficult man in the street. He was already in his twenties. The matchmaker had arranged marriages for him before, but they all fell through for inexplicable reasons. Later, it was rumored that he had an affair with a married woman in their courtyard, so He Yuzhu was put on the matchmaker's blacklist.

Afterwards, Director Wang led the staff to talk to them one by one. Many of them were willing to do so. The reason they couldn't get married was because their families were poor, the girls in the city didn't want to be with them, and there were no suitable girls in the countryside. So they were naturally happy to have the street office arrange a blind date for them.

But things got troublesome when it came to Sha Zhu. After Director Wang told Sha Zhu about this matter that day, Sha Zhu reacted strongly. He said that with his conditions, it was more than enough for him to marry a girl who had a job in the city, so why should he marry a refugee?

Originally, Director Wang couldn't force the person involved to do so if he didn't want to. However, Sha Zhu spoke in a condescending tone, as if he looked down on those who fled to the city to escape famine. This made Director Wang, who came from a poor family, very angry.

"Comrade He Yuzhu, please pay attention to your attitude. Do you look down on the vast number of poor people?" Director Wang's stern reprimand frightened Sha Zhu.

He was just satisfying his desire to talk, and he didn't even know how much trouble this mouth had caused him.

Sha Zhu was so frightened by this big hat that he kept explaining, "Director Wang, that's not what I meant, I...I..."

"Okay, you don't have to explain. Since you don't want to, forget it." After saying that, Director Wang left without listening to Sha Zhu's explanation.

From then on, no one introduced anyone to Sha Zhu anymore, but Sha Zhu was not in a hurry. He hypnotized himself into the dream he had created and licked Qin Huairu willingly.

This situation made several families in the courtyard very happy. Yi Zhonghai had always been worried about Sha Zhu getting married. Now that no one arranged a blind date for him, he was naturally happy to see it.

As for Qin Huairu, Sha Zhu brings back a lunch box every day, and the Jia family's money comes from here, so naturally they don't want Sha Zhu to get married.

The only people in this courtyard who really cared about Sha Zhu were the deaf old lady and He Yushui. But they had no choice because there was no matchmaker nearby to introduce anyone to him.

Time passed quickly and the steel mill had been in operation for two months. These two months had been very peaceful. Li Tianyi went to the steel mill to clock in for work every day. When he had nothing to do, he would draw blueprints in his office. When he had something to do, he would go to the workshop to repair machines.

Wang Xue's due date was getting closer, and everyone in the Li family was getting more and more nervous. At this time, Wang Xue had already asked for leave to go home. At home, Li's mother was always with her daughter-in-law, for fear that she would go into labor suddenly and there would be no one at home.

As for Hu Zi and Xiao Mei, Hu Zi will graduate from technical secondary school in June this year, and Xiao Mei will also take the high school entrance examination this year.

Li Tianyi also talked to his younger sister and asked her to choose a technical secondary school. If she wants to continue her studies, she can study and work in the future.

The younger sister had been used to listening to her older brother since she was a child. She knew that her older brother was doing it for her own good, so she agreed to his suggestion without hesitation.

Wang Xue also said that after Xiaoxue graduated from junior college, she would find a way to transfer Xiaoxue to her hospital, and Xiaoxue was very happy about this.

On this day, Li Tianyi was drawing blueprints in the house when suddenly a security officer came to the office to inform him that his neighbor wanted to see him at the gate of the steel mill.

Li Tianyi put down the work in his hands and came to the gate, where he saw the three aunts circling anxiously. Li Tianyi panicked and hurried forward.

"Third Aunt, are you looking for me?"

"Oh, Tianyi, your wife is about to give birth. Your mother asked me to come and inform you. They have already gone to the hospital."

Li Tianyi's head buzzed, and he was very panicked. "Thank you, Third Auntie, I'll go right away. You go back first and be careful on the road. I'll come to see you when I'm done."

The third aunt was happy. Her family had always had a good relationship with the Li family, and now she could help Li Tianyi, so she was naturally willing to do so.

Li Tianyi didn't care about anything and hurried back to his office, picked up his briefcase and went to Section Chief Zhang's office.

After explaining the situation to Section Chief Zhang, she rode her bicycle to the hospital. In the hospital, Wang Xue had not yet entered the delivery room, and Li's mother stayed by her side, comforting her softly.

When Li Tianyi arrived at the ward, Wang Xue was still in labor pains. Although her amniotic fluid had broken, the width of the birth canal had not yet reached the standard.

Another hour passed like this, and the contractions became more and more frequent. Li Tianyi quickly called a doctor, who checked and said that she could go to the delivery room.

So Wang Xue was pushed into the delivery room, while Li's mother and Li Tianyi waited outside. Li Tianyi paced back and forth anxiously, making Li's mother dizzy. Unable to bear it any longer, Li's mother scolded, "Can you be quiet? I'm dizzy."

Li Tianyi had no choice but to squat against the wall, like a punching bag, staring fixedly at the operating room.

The time was torturous. After 5 hours of hard work, Wang Xue finally gave birth to the first grandson of the Li family in the evening. At this time, Li's father had also arrived at the hospital. Seeing the nurse carrying the baby out of the operating room, Li's mother excitedly stepped forward to take the child. Li's father also smiled from ear to ear and followed behind Li's mother with a silly smile.

Only Li Tianyi rushed to the bedside and asked about Wang Xue's condition. At this time, Wang Xue was tired and wanted to sleep, but she was worried about the child until she saw her brother Tianyi.

Li Tianyi held Wang Xue's hand and comforted her softly, "Xiaoxue, thank you for your hard work."

Wang Xue shook her head happily, "Brother Tian, ​​I'm going to sleep for a while, you keep an eye on the kids."

Li Tianyi naturally knew what Wang Xue was worried about, so he nodded heavily, indicating that he would definitely keep a close eye on the child.