Qin Lingxiao originally wanted to welcome their family and book a table at a restaurant, but was rejected by Pei Tingyu.
"Let's do it another day! Time is a bit tight these two days, and I need to hurry up and clean the house..."
Pei Tingyu will report to the army the day after tomorrow. Before that, he has to settle his wife and children.
Qin Lingxiao did not force it and agreed with Si Yang to get together again after they were settled.
Pei Tingyu held Yubao, took Si Yang and Aunt Wu back to the courtyard where he had lived in his childhood.
"Kids, go home."
He has called more than one place home in recent years, but this is the only place he has roots in.
Pushing open the slightly heavy courtyard gate, a carved screen wall comes into view. On the left side of the door is the moon gate leading to the front yard.
At the end of the front yard, there is an open space of about 20 square meters, which has been abandoned as no one has lived there for a long time.
The front yard is usually used to entertain guests. There is a special banquet room. According to the rules of feudal society, this is the area for entertaining those who are not very popular with the host.
Opposite the banquet hall is the hanging flower gate leading to the central courtyard, inside which is a square traditional courtyard.
There is also a pomegranate tree planted in the middle of the yard. Although no one trims and takes care of it, it is still lush and green.
The middle courtyard is much larger than the front courtyard, and this is the courtyard where the owner lives.
Pei Tingyu and Si Yang lived in the main house and arranged the east wing with the best lighting for Aunt Wu, but Aunt Wu refused. After taking a walk around the backyard, she fell in love with the room in the backyard.
Si Yang also went to take a look at the backyard and saw that the area of the backyard was about the same as that of the middle yard, and there was a well in the yard.
Moreover, the row of houses at the back had obviously been renovated, and there were actually large terraces on the roofs.
In the future, it will be a great place for drying clothes, planting flowers and drinking tea.
Yubao was responsible for looking after his younger siblings under the pomegranate tree, Pei Tingyu was responsible for checking the electrical circuits in the yard, and Si Yang and Aunt Wu cleaned up the bedroom first so that they could live there at night.
Although this yard has not been lived in for a long time, Pei Tingyu recently hired someone to renovate it. Although it was not a major renovation, it looks brand new.
Before moving in, you just need to clean up, wipe off the dust and sweep the floor.
Pei Tingyu checked the electrical circuit in the yard and made sure that the lights in every room could be turned on. Then Si Yang asked him to take Aunt Wu and the children out for dinner.
Aunt Wu was very efficient. She not only cleaned up the room she lived in, but also tidied up the kitchen.
After Si Yang sent everyone away, she moved all the furniture out of the space and asked Annie to help her arrange each piece of furniture as required.
Pei Tingyu knew Si Yang's intention. After dinner, he took Aunt Wu for a walk in the alley to let her familiarize herself with the surrounding environment.
When they came back, Si Yang had already made the bed.
Aunt Wu was stunned when she looked at the wardrobe, bed, tables, chairs, cabinets, etc. in her room.
Si Yang explained that the furniture delivery person arrived just as they left.
Aunt Wu didn't think much about it and quickly urged Si Yang to eat first.
Si Yang sat at the small square table in the kitchen eating the food they brought back, while Pei Tingyu was changing the kitchen faucet.
Si Yang suddenly became curious and asked, "How did your grandfather manage to save such a big house during the crackdown on feudalism, capitalism, and revisionism?"
According to Si Yang, during this special period, many large compounds like this one will be confiscated, some will be turned into dormitories for state-owned enterprises, and some will be used as factory housing.
In the end, many of them will become slums anyway.
Although this yard of more than 700 square meters is much more low-key than those large yards of thousands of square meters, it is impossible for only one family to live in such a yard without special circumstances.
Pei Tingyu had heard about how his grandfather had saved this house, and it was said that it was related to his father.
In order to preserve this "root", my grandfather took the initiative to hand over all the valuable items in the house, leaving only the most basic daily necessities.
Even so, I am still worried that disaster will come.
The period when the inspection was the strictest happened to be when Pei Tingyu's father brought a group of co-workers from the mine back to recuperate.
The people who came to search and seal off their house found that their yard was full of injured people, and the house was really simple, without any of the extravagance of capitalists.
Just like that, I passed another level, but it was far from over.
Soon a group of people shouted slogans of "Down with the capitalists" and picked up hammers to smash the screen wall, but they found that the screen wall was written with big words "Serve the People" and quotations from great men.
Now the person swinging the hammer is completely helpless. It’s not right to hit it, and it’s not right not to hit it.
It was not until my grandfather walked out in military uniform and with military medals, neither humble nor arrogant, that this real hero of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression finally won another victory in silence.
Being passive all the time is not a solution, so grandpa decided to take the initiative to contact the relevant departments.
His Pei family had been a family of three generations, all of them businessmen who made many good friends, but by the time of his grandfather's generation, they had fallen into decline.
Despite this, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Pei family donated most of their wealth to participate in the national salvation movement.
My grandfather had no intention of going into business, and instead chose to give up business and join the army.
He handed over the evidence of the Pei family's donations to support the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and save the nation, including his own military medals.
The Pei family has devoted their lives to the country through their actions, and now they just want to leave a "root" for their descendants.
Finally, through layers of reporting and review, my grandfather and father protected this family in their own way.
To sum it up in one sentence, a family that accumulates good will surely have good fortune.
If ancestors accumulate virtue, their descendants will benefit from it.
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