◎First update◎
Zhou Yun took the family calendar and looked for an auspicious date for moving. Although it was feudal superstition, some things still had to be adhered to secretly, otherwise she would not feel at ease when moving.
After calculating the date, half a month later is not a bad time. It is suitable for moving according to my grandson's birth date. It will also bring good fortune to the family in the future, and the family will live in harmony.
Xu Shengjie and Liang Baozhen naturally had no objections and just listened to grandma on this matter.
Before moving, Liang Baozhen temporarily ended her internship at the TV station, said goodbye to Song Wenjing, and also said goodbye to all the seniors she knew at the TV station. Feng Xiuxiu asked her to work hard after graduation and she would be waiting for her.
Song Wenjing also asked her to go back and study hard, and come to Taiwan again next year if she has the chance.
After returning to school, Liang Baozhen had some different feelings when she looked at her work at the radio station. No one could see her when she was reporting at the radio station, so she only needed to speak clearly and articulately. However, this summer, she saw a great news anchor on TV. When she was reporting on a chair where no one could see her, she unconsciously straightened her back and learned from those anchors to pay attention to her facial expressions and posture when she spoke...
As she was learning, Liang Baozhen smiled slightly, wondering who she was showing off to. She seemed a little silly.
As a result, when I returned home, there were two more spectators in front of me.
After closing the door, there was a major audience member Xu Shengjie, a minor audience member Shanshan, and even grandma, Xiaowei and Xiaoya were not among them. Her sense of shame only supported her to perform in front of her man and ladies, and she could not bear any more.
"Then just practice casually, don't be nervous." It was the first time that Xu Shengjie saw his wife so nervous, even a little at a loss.
Liang Baozhen saw that Xu Shengjie was leisurely, sitting on a chair with Shanshan in his arms. The father and daughter looked exactly the same when looking at her, with their movements and expressions completely synchronized.
Xu Shengjie leaned against the back of his chair, and Shanshan leaned against her father, both looking forward to seeing the excitement.
"Then shall I start?" Liang Baozhen clenched her hands and rubbed them back and forth.
"Let's get started."
"Hello everyone, let's take a look at the news from last week..."
Xu Shengjie and Shanshan watched very seriously. They didn't make a sound during the whole process and didn't even dare to breathe heavily, for fear of disturbing Liang Baozhen's performance.
Watching his wife imitating the news anchors on TV, Xu Shengjie felt jealous. Wasn't his wife too good? She was no worse than those professional news anchors.
"How is it?" Liang Baozhen was a little shy and nervous. She almost got tongue-tied and said the wrong thing, but fortunately she saved herself in time.
"Very good!" Xu Shengjie's usual style was to compliment others with his concise and to the point words.
Liang Baozhen was already used to it. This was already the highest compliment and she couldn't force it. But the next second she heard Xu Shengjie speak again.
“Not inferior to those news anchors on TV.”
"Don't give me that." Liang Baozhen still knows her own limitations. How can she compare to those professional hosts now? "You haven't seen how amazing they are. I've watched many recordings. They are really amazing. They have good postures, speak well, and never get stuck when reporting the news."
"You can reach that level if you practice more." Xu Shengjie has too much confidence in his wife.
Shanshan nodded vigorously and clapped her hands, "Mom is so awesome! She's even better than the auntie on TV."
She has read the news and thinks her mother is amazing.
"What's so great about Mom?" Xu Shengjie wanted his daughter to praise Baozhen. "Tell Mom about it."
"Mom's clothes are blue, and the aunt on TV always wears black clothes. Mom is amazing!"
Liang Baozhen: "..."
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The news that the Xu family was moving spread quickly, and the first person to come to them was Cheng Caili.
She couldn't bear to leave Liang Baozhen. When she came to her house, she looked reluctant and said, "If you move away, who will I find to go shopping in the department store in the future?"
Even Chuchu, who came with her, was reluctant to leave. "Auntie, where are you going?"
Liang Baozhen was busy comforting the mother and daughter. She first said softly to little Chuchu, "Auntie is moving to another courtyard. When we have packed up, your parents will bring you over to play."
He turned around and took Cheng Caili's hand, reluctantly saying goodbye to her, "Sister Caili, we both have 28-bar cars, so we can take the bus, which is convenient. I don't want to leave you, but you can see that our family has more and more people, and it's really crowded."
Cheng Caili naturally understood, not to mention that who could afford a courtyard house? "It's a deal, I'll be the first one to visit you when your new home is ready."
"OK!"
As the two adults were talking, the two little ones beside them were holding hands, reluctant to leave. Shanshan was one year younger than Chuchu and a little shorter than her, and the two little heads were put together.
Shanshan looked at sister Chuchu and comforted her, "It's okay, you can come with us. We have many rooms at home now, I can give you one."
Chuchu looked at her good friend and then at her mother, and hesitated.
"Mom, can we give Sister Chuchu a room? Then we can play together again." Shanshan asked her mother with her head raised.
Before Liang Baozhen could reply, Cheng Caili laughed first, "What's wrong with you, my daughter? Are you trying to steal someone away?"
"Let Sister Chuchu come over to play in the future, okay? Sister Chuchu has her own parents too, so how can she go with you?"
"Okay." Shanshan took sister Chuchu's hand again, "Then you have to come over and play."
"Okay!" Chuchu agreed to her.
Shanshan lived in the large compound every day, watching her family pack their luggage and take it to their new home one by one.
Anyway, there was no rush, so Xu Shengjie and Xu Shengwei rode their bicycles, tied the luggage bags to the back seat, and moved them to Chunri Hutong.
The two alleys are quite far apart, and going there once is quite a workout. Xu Shengwei has become much stronger after playing table tennis over the years, and has now joined the city team and become a member of the second team.
Xu Shengjie looked at his younger brother who had been scared for several seconds and whose head had reached his chin. He felt that this man had grown up. "Xiao Wei, you go light the firecrackers for the New Year this year."
Lighting firecrackers is the backbone of the family. Xu Shengwei feels that the burden on his shoulders seems to have become heavier!
The clothes, beddings, pots and pans in the house were moved to the new house one by one. Xu Shengjie and his grandmother took Shanshan to clean up the house. Liang Baozhen and Xu Shengya usually went to school, and Xu Shengwei was busy with training, and now he only came back once a week.
After the new house was basically packed up, they waited three days to move in according to the auspicious day selected by Zhou Yun.
I have been living in a large courtyard in Yueya Hutong these days. All the furniture in my house has been moved out, and the small house actually feels a bit empty.
"Mom, can we take a picture on moving day?"
Ever since Shanshan created a bunch of masterpieces with the film, Liang Baozhen put away her camera and now she has to apply in advance if she wants to take photos.
Look, the little girl is now showing off her skills.
"Okay, we can take a family photo here then."
Zhou Yun thought the suggestion was a good one. After all, she had lived here for decades. Although the house was small, crowded and closed, it contained the memories of three generations of her family. How could she not be sad?
After dinner, she took Xiaoya and Baozhen aside to talk, all she talked about was how she had raised the children over the past few decades.
"Before, Xiaojie fell down while running in the yard. His knee was broken and bleeding a lot. I was really scared, but he was patient and didn't cry, make a fuss or yell in pain."
"Xiao Wei always likes to go out and play with Binzi, Xiaolong and the others. After dinner, they like to squat in the corner and play marbles. They are a bunch of young boys who are always making a lot of noise and are really annoying."
"I remember when Xiaoya was ten years old, she and Song Xinhe from next door were playing shuttlecock by the stove. They accidentally kicked the shuttlecock into Luo Hongmei's vegetable basin. Fearing that Luo Hongmei would scold them, the two girls ran away. Later, I took them to admit their mistake."
Zhou Yun looked at the compound and thought of the past. This place was not only where he had lived for many years, but also held many memories.
"Grandma, we can come back anytime in the future. Aunt Li and Aunt Zhang have already told you to come back more often. They can also visit our new home when they are free."
"Yeah, yes."
"By the way, why haven't we seen Wang Xiaocui from Luo Hongmei's family recently?" Liang Baozhen came home after school every day, and spent less and less time in the courtyard. However, she had never seen the pregnant Wang Xiaocui. "She probably hasn't given birth yet, right?"
"No, she's said to be giving birth soon, but." Zhou Yun looked around to see if there was anyone around, and then whispered, "I heard that the Family Planning Office has been spreading the word recently, and some places are even really going to stop people from having children. Luo Hongmei arranged for Wang Xiaocui to go to the countryside to give birth secretly, and she won't come back until she's done."
“Is it so serious now?”
"Who knows? Anyway, I'm at home every day and I hear propaganda every now and then, and there are big-character posters posted on the walls."
"It would be so lonely to have only one child." Xu Shengya thought about herself and her two brothers. It would be great to have three people.
Liang Baozhen smiled and said, "Do you think Shanshan is lonely?"
Xu Shengya looked over at Shanshan who was playing with Chuchu outside. The little girl was playing hide-and-seek with a friend of similar age. The two of them were running around and chattering happily.
"You don't seem too lonely." Xu Shengya glanced at her sister-in-law.
The three of them were talking in the house, Shanshan and her friends were running in the yard, and Aunt Li, Qian Jingjing and Cheng Caili came out with stools and sat under a tree in the yard to talk.
In the evening, the setting sun sits on the treetops, dyeing the sky an endless orange.
"What are you doing? Aa ...
Suddenly, a burst of screaming and cursing came from the west ear room. Zhang Rong's voice was hoarse, as if she was scolding someone.
The courtyard suddenly became quiet, and everyone looked towards the west wing.
"I don't agree! Is this what you have been thinking all these years? Zhou Qingdang! Are you crazy?"
When Liang Baozhen heard Aunt Zhang scolding her son, her heart skipped a beat and she felt something was wrong.
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