Zheng Wenjing said, "I came here on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month. I have 30 days of home leave and will be at the company before the 26th of the first lunar month. Excluding the three days of travel, we have to leave by the 23rd at the latest."
"Then buy a ticket for the train on the 23rd," Feng Juan said. "It takes nearly 40 hours to get from Beijing to Harbin. I'm afraid a hard seat won't be enough. I'm going to buy a sleeper. Give me the IDs of your companions, and I'll ask your Uncle Qin to help buy the tickets."
"Yes." Zheng Wenjing agreed and said that he would send the identity information of other people as soon as possible.
So after Zheng Wenjing left the Qin family, he went directly to Qi Chunqi's house.
Qi Chunqi's family lives on the edge of the Second Ring Road. Originally, the entire courtyard house belonged to her family. However, her great-grandfather, whom she had never met, was a complete playboy. He indulged in eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. He gambled away the two-story courtyard house and only had one story left. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the state implemented a policy of renting houses and carried out socialist transformation of private houses. The west wing, east wing and back house of the Qi family were also rented out and managed by the Housing Authority and rented out to nearby cadres and officials.
These houses were rented to several families, each with five or six people. In this way, more than 30 people moved into the huge courtyard. There was not enough room in the house, so they built a shed on the corridor and put a bed in it to make a room. The kitchen was also placed in the yard, with a wooden pillar planted and asbestos tiles covered on it, which became a simple kitchen. In this way, the once spacious courtyard suddenly seemed crowded.
But comparatively speaking, the Qi family's housing conditions were pretty good. A family of six lived in three main rooms. Qi Chunqi and Qi Bin had gone to the countryside again, so there were actually only her grandfather, her parents, and her younger brother at home. It could be said that everyone had a single room, which was at least much better than the situation where several people in the family had to sleep in a large bunk bed in the wing rooms.
When Zheng Wenjing came home, a group of children were playing hide-and-seek in the yard. Thanks to the messy sheds built in the yard, the children could hide in any corner and no one would find them.
Zheng Wenjing walked in along the small path left in the middle and was almost bumped into by a few children.
None of the kids said sorry to her. Instead, they glared at Zheng Wenjing, as if blaming her for wasting their time hiding.
Zheng Wenjing was too lazy to argue with these little brats and quickened her pace towards the main room.
At the door of the main house of the Qi family, Qi Chunyu's grandfather was lying on a bamboo rocking chair basking in the sun. There was a birdcage hanging on the clothesline tied in front of the door, and there was a yellow sparrow in it.
Zheng Wenjing politely called him Grandpa and asked him about his life.
Grandpa Qi Chunyu had a bad memory. He stared at Zheng Wenjing's face for a while before recognizing her: "It's Wenjing."
"Grandpa Qi, it's me." Zheng Wenjing asked, "Is my cousin home yet?"
Qi Chun said to his grandfather: "Go home, I didn't notice it, go upstairs and take a look yourself."
"Go ahead." Without getting any information out of her, Zheng Wenjing just went into the house to check.
The room was quiet and there was no sign of anyone inside.
Zheng Wenjing called out a few times tentatively: "Cousin? Cousin, is this your home?"
No one responded, probably because Qi Chunyu was not home.
Zheng Wenjing was just wondering whether he should wait for her at home or come back in the afternoon when she heard the door to the inner room open. Then she saw Qi Bin, with sleepy eyes and a messy mess of hair, walk out from the inner room.
He was wearing a military coat, his pants were wrinkled, and he walked out barefoot in cotton slippers without socks. He yawned as he walked, "Sister Wenjing, why are you here so early to see my sister? I haven't even woken up yet."
The subtext is that coming here so early woke him up.
Zheng Wenjing couldn't help but roll her eyes and pointed at the wall clock: "Please look up and take a look at the time. It's already 10:40. It's almost time for lunch. Is it still early?"
"It's already half past ten!" Qi Bin touched his stomach and said, "Why am I so hungry?"
"..." Zheng Wenjing glared at him angrily, "Where were you last night? Why do you look like a monster has drained your life force?"
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