◎First update◎
When the sweet Shanshan woke up, there was no one in the bed. Her father had not been seen for several days and said he would be back in a while. Her mother also got up.
"Mom~" Shanshan couldn't dress herself yet, so she lay on the bed rubbing her sleepy eyes and waited obediently for her mother to come.
"Is the lazy bug awake?"
Suddenly a familiar voice was heard, and Shanshan turned around and saw her father standing at the door.
"Dad!" Her voice was bright and clear, and when she called him "Dad", Xu Shengjie felt that these were the two most beautiful words in the world.
Shanshan used her legs to stand up on the bed and threw herself towards her father.
"Dad, you're back?" She hugged her father's neck, leaned on him, and said in a baby voice, "Dad, I missed you so much."
"I miss Shanshan too." Xu Shengjie kissed the young lady's face, with the little baby in his arms. The thought of traveling all night was gone.
He returned from two days of train travel and arrived at the compound at around eight in the morning. He took a shower and ate a bowl of noodles cooked by his grandmother. Then he heard the voice of his daughter calling for her mother in the house.
After putting Shanshan on the bed, Xu Shengjie dressed her and carried her out.
"Look at the lady, have you grown taller?" Liang Baozhen took her for a walk in the park yesterday, and when she came back she felt her arms were sore. "You were so tired yesterday."
Xu Shengjie smiled. He was very strong and could carry the girl no matter how heavy she was. "I'll do it next time."
"I'll take her to wash up, you go back to your room and get some sleep."
It was unbearable to sit on a hard seat on the train for two days. It was a torture. Liang Baozhen looked at the unshaven man who had just gone out for a trip and urged him to go back to the house.
Xu Shengjie took a shower and had breakfast, then slept until three in the afternoon. His family members did not disturb him and let him sleep until he woke up naturally.
Before I opened my eyes, I heard the bedroom door trembling.
"Dad is sleeping." Influenced by her girlfriend, Liang Baozhen also likes to talk to her in overlapping words.
Shanshan knew, of course. She lowered her voice to a low hum, "Then I'll just take a look, so as not to wake Dad."
While speaking, he looked at his mother with his big black pearl-like eyes, as if there was a clear spring in his heart, making people unable to refuse.
The mother and daughter entered the house together, both very cautious, especially Shanshan, who almost held her breath.
She couldn't wake Daddy!
The next second, Shanshan was carried by her mother to the bed. She looked at her father sleeping peacefully on the bed and reached out to touch his cheek.
"Mom, what should I do? Dad has thorns on his face!"
She had seen it before. The trees at the entrance of the alley had thorns that could prick your hands.
My father is so pitiful, Shanshan was a little anxious.
"That's Dad's beard." Liang Baozhen suppressed her laughter and replied softly. She looked at the man on the bed. Although he looked a little haggard after going out, he still had a strong brow bone and looked handsome even when he was asleep.
However, don't think you didn't notice it, this person has already woken up and is still trying to hold back a smile.
"Shanshan, go over and touch Daddy's beard."
Shanshan was curious, so she stretched out her hand towards her father's chin. Hey! It was a little prickly, but she touched it again, and it didn't seem to be very prickly?
There are many more trees than at the entrance of the alley.
Xu Shengjie felt a soft little hand playing with his face. He opened his eyes and grabbed the girl's hand.
"Ah!" Shanshan was startled by her father's sudden awakening. Seeing her father awake, she immediately became happy, "Dad, wake up! The lazy pig is awake!"
"How dare you say that daddy is a lazy pig?" Xu Shengjie sat up and put the girl on the bed. "Do you want to be spanked?"
Shanshan completely ignored her father's threats. She was not afraid at all.
She has a lot of flesh on her butt!
"Are you still pretending to sleep?" Liang Baozhen sat down and questioned the man.
"I had just woken up when you came in, and I just kept my eyes closed when I heard the noise." Xu Shengjie was full of sleep and was talking to his wife and daughter-in-law.
"Has Xiaoya filled out her application?"
"It's done. She should have no problem getting into Peking University." Liang Baozhen told him what had happened in the past few days. "I bought Xiaoya two pairs of blouses, a shirt, a pair of trousers, and a pair of small leather shoes."
The money in the family's savings account was getting more and more, so she spent it more generously. In addition, Xu Shengya was good-looking, so when she went to the department store to try on clothes, everything looked good on her.
Liang Baozhen didn't take Xiaoya to Xu Shengjie's store. Why? There's no joy in shopping in your own store!
There is always a feeling that everything is attributed to Xu Shengjie.
"That's great. Xiaoya is a big girl now." Xu Shengjie couldn't help but sigh. The little girl from before is now going to be a college student soon.
Speaking of older girls, Liang Baozhen thought of her younger sister, "I wonder if Baoling can pass the exam."
Liang Baoling is a freshman in high school in town, and will be a sophomore in the second half of the school year. She was the last one to pass the junior high school entrance examination, which was beyond the expectations of her family. It can only be said that the plan Liang Baozhen had made for her younger sister was useful.
However, Liang Baoling complained bitterly in the letter she wrote to her, saying that high school was very difficult.
The last time she went home to buy food, clothes and daily necessities for her family, she was caught by Liang Baoling and started crying. She almost didn't want to study anymore.
"Why don't you go back and take a look?" Xu Shengjie had no experience in tutoring his younger siblings in their studies, so he just let Xiaowei and Xiaoya do what they wanted.
"Okay, I'll find time to go back and take a look." Xiaoya also prepared exam preparation notes for Baoling.
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Xu Shengya's admission letter was delivered on a sunny afternoon. The postman came to No. 59 Yueya Hutong again. He had an impression of this place. After all, only a few people could receive the admission letter from Peking University.
"Comrade, is this your girl again?" The postman still remembered Liang Baozhen. That female comrade was young and pretty and was admitted to Peking University. Who couldn't remember her?
Liang Baozhen called Xu Shengya from the room and turned to the postman and said, "Yes, this time it's our little girl's acceptance letter."
Xu Shengya took the admission letter, opened it and saw that it was indeed Peking University!
"Sister-in-law, I passed the exam!" Xu Shengya was rarely excited. She grabbed Liang Baozhen's arm and her voice was full of excitement.
He turned around and went back into the house, telling his family loudly.
The Xu family now has two students from Peking University. Not only the whole compound, but the entire Crescent Moon Alley is jealous of them.
Many people brought their children to the Xu family, wanting them to see if their children had this talent.
The house was bustling for a while. Xu Shengjie specially picked a night when the moon was dark and the wind was strong. His grandmother took out the old enamel basin from home and quietly asked Lai Fengxia to get some paper money.
During the previous campaign to destroy the Four Olds, all sacrificial activities were stopped. Although many things are showing signs of revival now, everyone is still doing it in secret.
While no one was around, Xu Shengjie lit a match to burn the paper money, and piled up a ball of fire in the enamel basin. Two pieces of paper money were lit one after another and put into the basin.
Xu Shengjie and his two siblings silently burned paper money for their parents, while Zhou Yun whispered to the side.
"Mingyuan, Huacui, don't worry. Everything is fine at home now. Xiaojie has made a name for himself. He runs his own business and makes money. He has a wife and children. Xiaowei is also doing well and has joined the table tennis training team. Xiaoya received an admission letter from Peking University today." Zhou Yun seemed to see the faces of her second son and daughter-in-law through the fire. They were both young when they passed away, and the two young faces were forever fixed in her memory.
Xu Shengya picked up the paper money and burned it in the basin, whispering, "Dad, Mom, I got into Peking University, don't worry."
Liang Baozhen silently watched the family members and helped burn paper money. Shanshan had gone to bed early at this time and no one woke her up.
The paper money burned up, leaving only black scraps. Zhou Yun took the children back to the house to sleep. In the cold wind, Xu Shengjie took out a cigarette, and when he saw his wife's eyes drifting towards him, he said in a hoarse voice, "Just smoke this one."
Xu Shengjie has seldom smoked in the past year, but tonight he felt indescribably complicated and his urge to smoke came back again.
"You smoke it."
Liang Baozhen stood by and did not stop him. She watched him silently as he took a puff of cigarette and exhaled a white circle until the spark on the cigarette butt went out.
"Let's go back to the house." Liang Baozhen extended her hand to him.
Xu Shengjie put out the cigarette butt and threw it into the basin, then checked the paper money to make sure it was burned out, then he held his wife's hand and went back to the house.
After the summer vacation, Liang Baozhen returned to campus, and Xu Shengya, who was reporting on the freshman season, also went with her.
The aunt and sister-in-law became alumni of the same school, and soon became a legend in Yueya Hutong.
Xu Shuping had been to Xu's house for dinner several times and had met Xu Shengya several times, so they were naturally acquaintances. The two of them took Xu Shengya to the school cafeteria for dinner.
The food in the Beijing University cafeteria tastes good and is cheap. Students receive a 10 yuan subsidy every month, so life is generally pretty good. "Xiao Ya, that's great. You and your sister-in-law are classmates now."
This is Xu Shengya's second day at Peking University. Yesterday she had lunch with her roommates. Today at noon she had lunch with her sister-in-law and her sister-in-law's future sister-in-law. She applied to live on campus and was assigned to a six-person dormitory. She will go home every Sunday.
"Yes, people in our alley are so jealous and say our family is amazing." Xu Shengya has a sister-in-law who is an alumnus of hers, and the people in the dormitory were also surprised, but there was an even more exaggerated thing happening at their level.
"I heard from a classmate today that there is a boy in our class whose father is from the class of 1977."
Liang Baozhen was eating spareribs and forgot to chew when she heard this. "Then the father and son are even more powerful. This is a father and son fighting together."
"What will the relationship be in the future? Should I call him Dad or classmate when I meet him in school?" Xu Shuping laughed when she thought of this question, as if she heard that male classmate calling her Dad - classmate, which was quite interesting.
Liang Baozhen thought about it and said, "Let's talk about it separately. At school, I call him classmate, and when I get home, I call him dad. Hahahaha."
After dinner, Liang Baozhen and Xu Shuping took Xu Shengya around the school, from the tower to the lake, from the library to the teaching building. Liang Baozhen also introduced the clubs to Xu Shengya, "In a week, the clubs will recruit new members. Don't just study like you did in high school. Now that you are in college, participate in more group activities and see if there are any clubs that interest you."
"Okay." Xu Shengya was quite interested. She was curious, "Sister-in-law, what club did you sign up for?"
Liang Baozhen is doing her old job, "radio station."
Liang Baozhen had worked as a broadcaster for more than a year before entering the school. Now that she is studying Chinese, it seems that joining the radio station is a natural thing for her.
She and several other students at the radio station took turns to conduct the school broadcast.
The familiar radio station and the familiar loudspeaker, but in school, broadcasting is freer. Poems and literary works can be read, and students can submit their own poems.
The school radio station focuses on interaction and has a mailbox on the wall. Every week, the mailbox is opened to see what people have submitted for the radio content they want to hear.
After lunch, when the nap was over, Liang Baozhen's clear and pleasant voice could be heard through the loudspeakers all over the campus.
"Hello, fellow students of Peking University. I am Liang Baozhen, a student of the Chinese Department, Grade 78. Today I will bring you Bei Dao's "Strange Beach". Please enjoy:
The sails are down. The masts, the winter trees, bring unexpected spring light...①"
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① From Bei Dao's "Strange Beach"
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