Chu Miaohong had just finished cooking when she heard a quarrel coming from the third floor of the unit next door in the tube-shaped building.

It seems like a young man is arguing with his parents.

"I told you to stop being so arrogant, don't be so arrogant. Are your ears just ornaments?"

The young man retorted unconvincedly, "Why don't you just stay home and starve? Otherwise, can you let me go back to the countryside?"

"What are you talking about? Don't mention going back to the countryside. If you can stay there, will you come back?"

The smoke from the chili peppers rose slowly from Chu Miaohong's pot.

Many people started closing their windows.

Chu Miaohong said loudly.

"Excuse me, uncles and aunts from the neighborhood. I'll be fine soon."

An old man on the fourth floor opened the window with a smile.

"Doctor Xiao Chu, I'm from Hangzhou, why would I want to date someone from Hunan Province?"

"If you cook a dish without adding sugar, is that dish edible?"

A group of people around were laughing.

"That's right, that's right. I think the family of Xiao Gu ahead is pretty good. He's also a deputy department head. Xiao Chu might also consider him."

"Oh my, who doesn't know what your family is planning?" someone scolded through the window. "Oh, Xiao Chu is going to be with Xiao Gu. How old is Xiao Gu? Twenty-eight already!"

"Then you can introduce your daughter to Xiao Zhang, right?"

As the neighbors deliberately joked, the young man from the third floor stopped arguing with his parents.

But soon the only sound in the alley was Chu Miaohong cooking quickly - several people wearing armbands walked into the alley.

These people were all irritated by the smoke from the fried chili peppers.

"Doctor Xiao Chu, are you helping us with our rhinitis? Cough cough cough cough."

The leading aunt laughed and coughed, thinking that the people upstairs must have heard her voice, so she pretended to shout to the third floor of the next unit.

"Old Hu, and Old Hu's lover, are you here?"

He shouted three times in a row.

A weak voice came from the family who had been arguing before.

"Director Liu, w-what's going on?"

"Hey, you're still playing dumb, what else could it be?"

Director Liu stamped his feet.

"Where is your Chunsheng? Why hasn't he returned to the team that joined the queue yet?"

"It's been half a year since I came back to visit my family. This won't do..."

"The higher-ups have been urging us to do so..."

Chu Miaohong put the chopped meat into the pot, added oil and stir-fried it together without even looking up at Director Liu and his group.

She guessed what had happened.

Every family has its own problems.

It is estimated that the boy from the Hu family has been staying in Shanghai and was seen and reported when he went out to look for a job.

But she didn't notice that the man with a pen stuck in his chest behind Director Liu was secretly looking at her.

Bluestone alleys, the hustle and bustle of residential houses, and a peerless beauty without a single touch of makeup.

The man who appeared serious on the surface but actually had the "New Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School" view of love in his head, felt like he was struck by lightning at this moment, and suddenly felt half numb.

......

Shanghai's crispy candies are very famous.

As Zhang Hongcheng walked along, he already had four or five portions of time-honored crispy pastries in his hands.

Food stamps?

Haha, Shanghai is the place with the largest inventory of various old bills in later generations.

In addition, his adopted son also settled here, so he had no shortage of votes.

He and Chu Miaohong had an agreement today to buy each other some snacks that would suit their taste.

Zhang Hongcheng, who has a strong desire to win, has already walked through three streets.

The street in front of him was once the site of a famous movie - The Sentry Under the Lamp.

This was Zhang Hongcheng's first visit to Nanjing Road in this time and space.

The unlucky yard he was in charge of should be not far away.

Zhang Hongcheng and Chu Miaohong have been in Shanghai for more than a week. The reason why he agreed to Chu Miaohong's opinion to move out was mainly because he didn't want the Corps and the Wei family to know what he would do next.

After asking for directions several times, Zhang Hongcheng arrived in front of a four-story building.

The facade of this building was quite grand for that era, with twelve wide steps leading up to it.

This is a fairly large state-owned shopping mall, with two queues stretching from the door all the way to the bottom of the stairs.

“It seems to be quite effective!”

Zhang Hongcheng smiled, turned a corner and went to the back of the building.

This is the area between the main street and back street of Nanjing Road.

There are all kinds of self-built houses and tube-shaped buildings, big and small.

At a glance, you can see dozens of windows of different sizes.

The various wires between buildings are like a spider web.

You can only pass sideways between some buildings.

And even in such an environment, the flow of people is not much less than that on the streets outside.

The sound of "excuse me" is everywhere.

Zhang Hongcheng searched three times in this area of ​​randomly arranged buildings before he found the courtyard under the Corps.

There is a narrow "crack in the wall" that is only about one foot wide. About five meters inside, there are piles of residents' belongings.

Behind one of the piles of junk, there was a moldy old wooden door.

Zhang Hongcheng speechlessly patted the self-built house that was only a foot away from the gate of his yard.

Well, they built their house so that it hits your face.

There was a lock on the wooden door, which was covered with rust. Zhang Hongcheng dripped some vegetable oil into the keyhole and opened the gate of the yard without much effort.

All I could see were green weeds.

Deep in the weeds are several magnificent garbage dumps.

Zhang Hongcheng covered his nose and shook his head.

No wonder the garbage pools in this area have no smell. It turns out they were all given to the Construction Corps for free...

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