As soon as Li Wenhui came out of the bathroom, she went straight to Wang Yueyue, who had just come in, and snatched the child from her arms.

"Oh, my little rascal, let Auntie hold you. Goodness, this little guy has gotten even fatter in just a few days."

"That's because we're at the age when we're growing."

After Wenhui took the child in her arms, the child stared at her for a long time, then, perhaps recognizing her, started to giggle and laugh.

"Oh dear, my little rascal recognized his auntie!"

"Hello, brother-in-law."

"Yueyue, where's Wenxuan?"

"He's mixing sesame paste in the kitchen, he'll be right over."

"I'll go help him."

"Xiao Yi, you don't need to go, come and sit down," Li Chu said, already seated at the dining table.

"Wenhui, Yueyue, please come and sit down first."

"Here you are, Dad."

...

"Mom and Dad, I heard Huihui say that Grandma and Grandpa are moving away after the New Year? She also said that we should move in with them then."

While they were eating and chatting, Shen Yi remembered what his wife had mentioned a while ago and asked about it.

"Yes, that's right. As for whether or not to move in, you two can decide for yourselves." Ding Qiunan nodded.

"Grandma and Grandpa are living comfortably, why do they want to move away?"

"Who can understand what the elderly are thinking? The houses built by your uncle's work unit have already been handed over, and the furniture they had made will be ready after the New Year, so they will move in then."

"It would be so inconvenient for five people to live in one room." Shen Yi couldn't understand why they wouldn't live in such a spacious courtyard.

"Your dad bought the house opposite the one your uncle bought. So the old couple will live across the street, and it won't affect their lives much."

"Plop!" Shen Yi had just put a piece of meat in his mouth when he was so shocked by his mother-in-law's words that he dropped it on the table.

He was speechless at his domineering father-in-law.

Wenhui and the other two were unaware of this, and they all looked at their father with some surprise.

"Hurry up and eat, what's there to see?"

Li Chu tapped the edge of the pot with a sharp object.

"Dad, after Grandma and Grandpa move out, could you please help us tidy up their house again?" Wenhui said with a smile.

The First Cause of All Realms

"How should we renovate? Should we completely renovate the ceiling? Repaint the walls? Should we replace the furniture? Should we build a new set of large wardrobes, or just use the old furniture we already have?"

The furniture that Ding's mother and her family are using now is all from their previous home. They definitely won't want these old pieces when they move to a new house.

Li Wenhui was completely bewildered upon hearing this and quickly said, "Dad, I'll do whatever you say. As for the furniture..."

"Shen Yi, do you think it's better to use the old furniture we have at home, or to find a carpenter to make new furniture?"

Shen Yi was full of questions. What? They're making furniture? Did I agree to move in?

Wenhui wanted to move in because she had had enough of living in the apartment building for the past three months. It would be an exaggeration to say that you could hear the neighbors farting, but the clanging and banging of people walking around upstairs or pulling out chairs was driving her crazy every day.

Also, the house was too small, which made her, who was used to living in spacious places since childhood, feel extremely cramped.

“Huihui, if Shenyi wants to move, he can move; if he doesn’t want to move, he doesn’t have to move. It’s convenient for both of you to commute to get off work if you live there. Such a big matter must be discussed between the two of you. You can’t just say whatever you want.”

"Okay, Mom," Li Wenhui replied obediently.

She can be affectionate with her dad, but that trick doesn't work on her mom.

"No, Mom." Shen Yi quickly said when he saw his wife's aggrieved look, "I just didn't realize it for a moment. It's fine if we move here later. It's not far. Besides, Huihui is really not used to living in an apartment building."

He actually really wanted to live in a detached house. When he lived at his grandfather's house before, he had his own little courtyard, and he even helped grow vegetables in the yard.

However, men of this era tend to be somewhat chauvinistic, and moving in here is essentially like living at his father-in-law's house, which he found difficult to accept at first.

Li Chu, who was eating meat, looked up at his son-in-law. As a fellow man, he could understand Shen Yi's thoughts.

"Xiao Yi, that courtyard was Huihui's dowry. It originally belonged to her, but it was always her maternal grandparents who lived there. Now that they are moving out, it's just returning the property to its rightful owner. You don't need to think too much about it."

You told me you wanted to get a dog, and now both your children, who are in their second and third years of junior high, are pregnant. When you move in, we can bring one with us. It's not easy for you to have a dog living in an apartment building.”

dowry?

So what exactly is in his wife's dowry? Why does he feel like he married a rich woman?

"Dad, after Grandma and Grandpa move out after the New Year, I'll find someone to clean up the house."

"I don't need you." Wenhui gently nudged him with her arm.

“The construction team my dad hired is working in another yard right now. We can just have them come over and do it. It’s a piece of cake.”

There's another courtyard?

Shen Yi simply stopped talking and buried himself in his food.

After quickly eating a bellyful of meat, Li Chu took the child from Ding Qiunan so that she could eat more comfortably.

He carried the child and ran over to Liu Dazhuang's place for a stroll.

They had asked Dazhuang to come and eat with them earlier, but he refused. So Li Chu got him a separate pot and he ate alone in his room. Now he's come to see if he has enough meat.

After dinner, Shen Yi and Li Wenhui, bundled up tightly, pushed their bicycles home.

"Huihui, at the dinner table just now, you said that Dad has another yard, right?"

"Yes, they're tidying up. No, no, it's not just one courtyard, there are two. The one by Shichahai seems to be almost done, just some finishing touches left. The one on the east side has just started, it's still a long way off. If it can be finished next year, that would be considered fast."

Shen Yi swallowed hard: "Why did Dad buy so many yards?"

He said that in the future, you won't be able to buy a courtyard house like this even if you want to.

Shen Yi believes this, but isn't there a rumor that these courtyard houses are going to be demolished?

That's what he thought, and that's what he asked.

"No, no," Wenhui waved her hand. "My dad said he doesn't dare to say anything about other places, but the place where our house is now definitely won't be demolished."

"Why?"

"Why else? Why demolish it? To build a new building?"

"Yeah, aren't buildings being built everywhere these days? And those high-rises too."

"Are you stupid? Do you think we can build skyscrapers where I live?"

"Why can't we build it? Isn't that Beijing Hotel outside just tall..."

Just as he finished speaking, he suddenly remembered a story his grandfather had told him about the Beijing Hotel.

"You've realized it now?"