After 1978, the spring breeze of reform blew across the land of China.

The Republic, with the joy of having just been freed from its bondage, is bathed in the glory of a new era.

It's just that the general social environment is constantly improving.

But not everyone's life can reverse the decline at the first time and run towards the broad road to happiness.

Because there is a good saying, all the happy people in the world are the same, but the unfortunate people have their own misfortunes.

Don't forget, five fingers aren't even long on one side.

There are always a few people in the world, who are outrageously exceptional.

Obviously they didn't do anything wrong, but their days were soaked deeper and deeper in the bitter water of sourness, and there was no sign of improvement at all.

It's impossible not to feel sympathy.

But even such a poor person is still not the worst case.

For what is even more desolate than a poor man is that two such poor people have come together.

And between these two poor people, there is also a fundamental conflict of interest related to survival.

To put it bluntly, it's like the "miserable" joke in the movie "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance", that's what is called creation and making people!

This is not nonsense, in real life, there is such a thing.

Don't mention it elsewhere, let's talk about the old and young people in the No. 2 courtyard of Fan'er Hutong on the coal market street in Beijing.

They belong to two unlucky people who meet in such a narrow way.

The old one is called Kanshude.

Born in 1918, his ancestral home is Jinghai, Jinmen.

When he was a teenager, he fled the famine and came to the capital, and later took "playing small drums" as a career.

In the old days, there were only two industries in the capital that made the most money.

One is a tile eater, and the other is an antique shop.

Kangshude not only married a daughter-in-law in the capital, but also bought a house.

In fact, he is the landlord of No. 2 Courtyard of Fan Hutong.

It's just that the times have changed, but it is difficult to grasp the direction of people's lives.

After liberation, Kangshude's family returned to their hometown.

Then, after more than ten years of vicissitudes, he became alone.

In 1979, the house in his hometown collapsed due to rain again, and Kangshude ran back to the capital.

When they met again, these old tenants in the courtyard were sympathetic to Kangshude.

Because in terms of his poor appearance, it is not worse than the description of him asking for food to go to Beijing back then.

So under the words of several tenants, it was approved by the street and housing management department.

Kangshude moved into the two small north rooms where he had lived before, and temporarily accommodated him.

Due to the process of applying for a household registration, Kangshude's food book is temporary, and the monthly oil, salt, sauce and vinegar have to rely on the help of neighbors for the time being.

As for the economic resources, Kangshude can only live by chatting with the Tongrentang paste box that was renamed "Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Store" during the movement.

Such a situation, for such a large number of people, is it pitiful?

Don't look at him pitiful, there are more pitiful than him.

It's also evil, and there is no such coincidence.

It wasn't long after Old Man Kang barely settled down.

Another owner, who also had the right to live in these two small houses, also ran back to the capital in the winter of 1979.

This is the return to the city to know the youth and the people.

Speaking of this kid, he is even more bitter.

Ning Weimin was born in 1961, and his father, Ning Changyou, was a tricycle driver of Dashilan Crane Company.

When he was two years old, he suffered from cerebral congestion due to excessive smoking and drinking, and died early.

The Ning family is down-to-earth and has no relatives or friends.

So this child, who lost his father at a young age, did not even have a good day.

It was all raised by his widowed mother, who worked in a street sewing club.

As for the two of them moving to No. 2 Courtyard of Fan'er Hutong, of course, it was after Kangshude's family moved away.

The main reason is that the street cadres take care of it, and it is not easy for the poor Wei Min's mother and widow to be unemployed.

I think if they move here, they will be close to work.

And after moving here, they obviously live well, why did the Ning family let these two small rooms vacant?

That can only be said to be a trick of fate.

After graduating from junior high school, he went to Fangshan on the outskirts of Beijing to join the queue.

But in 1977, because he went to Fangshan to see him, his mother was in a traffic accident on the road and died.

However, Ning Weimin did not have the sewing skills to take over his mother's work, and it was not until two years later that he could move his household registration back according to the policy.

Kening Weimin didn't expect it again.

When he finally returned to the capital, he found that he didn't even have a place to stay.

His home has been inhabited by a strange bad old man.

What a grievance is this?

No wonder people say that if people carry it, they can't wait to stuff their teeth when they drink cold water, and jump on their heels when they fart.

In short, two desperate people are pointing to these two small rooms for the rest of their lives, and this matter is twisted all at once.

Whether it is Kang Shude or Ning Weimin, everyone wants the other party to leave.

For this reason, they not only let the neighbors in the small courtyard judge, but also had a fierce dispute, and suddenly made trouble in front of the street cadres.

But to put it honestly, in the face of such a situation, the street cadres and neighbors are also in a dilemma, and it is difficult to judge.

Whoever deserves to be sympathetic and get help.

Whoever is there is a legitimate reason to claim power for themselves.

How to solve this problem is really difficult!

Not to mention the two unfortunate people, they themselves feel troubled and troubled.

Even these people around them shook their heads and sighed on their behalf, snorting in embarrassment.

So after a lot of total and discussion, the solution finally given by the street cadres can only be a way out of the way - divide it equally!

Since it is not appropriate to let anyone move out.

Two small rooms, just one for each person.

To be honest, for this kind of result, whether it is Old Man Kang or Ning Weimin, no one can feel comfortable.

Because this is not a kindergarten child sitting in a row and sharing the fruit.

First of all, this room is inside and out, and that's a problem.

These two small rooms are actually the easternmost of the five north rooms in front of the courtyard.

It is equivalent to a suite with a door inside and a door outside.

It is certainly not realistic to break down a door on the fly.

Money is not money aside, just for the sake of warmth, then you have to wait for the spring flowers to bloom before you can do it.

So who's inside and who's outside?

Both of them want to live inside, and they both know that living outside is disturbed.

For this, you have to fight first.

Old man Kang's reliance on the old and selling the old played a role.

He said he was too old to stand the wind.

With this, I won a game and moved into the inner room.

But within two days, he took the initiative to change out of the back room again.

Not for anything else, all because Ning Weimin hung the portraits of his parents on the west wall of the outer room.

Every day when Old Man Kang comes out and goes in, he has to take pictures of the dead man in the photo.

After a long time, he couldn't stand it anymore.

I'd rather eat the wind with my own old bones than let Ning Weimin's parents stare at him anymore.

And this is just the beginning, and there are more disputes later.

For example, Ning Weimin hated Old Man Kang's snoring.

Kang Shude, and dislike Ning Weimin for having no rules and not knowing how to be polite.

For another example, Ning Weimin blames Kang Shude every day for making the outhouse a cardboard box, and the smell of stinky paste can't be dispersed.

As for Old Man Kang, he also resolutely refused to let Ning Weimin smoke in the house, for fear that he would lead the cardboard box.

And he sneered at each other, saying that he went to bed without washing his feet, and the smell was bigger than paste.

What's more, Ning Weimin has no income, but he also has to eat and drink.

He unceremoniously used Old Man Kang's rice noodles and coal fire.

How can Old Man Kang be willing to do it?

Of course, he has to cover it, and he is not willing to be wronged.

But Ning Weimin also said that the furniture, stove, pots and pans in this house belonged to theirs.

If you don't give you food or drink, don't use it.

In this way, the two quarreled so much that they alarmed the neighbors, and only under the persuasion and witness of everyone negotiated another way.

That is, Ning Weimin has to help paste a certain number of cardboard boxes every day, and he has to take out the non-staple food book and share it with Old Man Kang.

This old man Kang can provide free food and drink, coal fire.

In short, the old and the young, from the beginning of meeting to compete for a house, have not had a good impression of each other.

With personal emotions and living habits, there is such a big difference, so naturally we can't live together.

For them, anything can become a contradiction, and it's good that people's brains are not beaten into dog brains.

And this is also a problem for the entire small courtyard.

A few neighbors are annoying, and when it comes to persuading these two people, they all have a headache.

The difficulty is that it doesn't work to favor this one, and it doesn't work to do this or that, so it's all wrong.

But don't say it, just when everyone thought that Old Man Kang and Ning Weimin would go farther and farther on the road of cannibalism between the weak and the weak.

There will never be any other possibility than to hurt each other.

This guy fate arranged another very wonderful twist of the plot, and the situation changed from bad to good in one fell swoop.

That is, around the Spring Festival in 1980.

These two people, who can be called enemies in the past life and rivals in the present life, not only have the old contradictions been completely resolved, but they have also become like a family.

What happened?

The answer is actually very simple, just five words, adversity sees the truth!

The cause of this transformation occurred on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month.

The old man feels less, so he gets up early.

When Kangshude got up that day, he found that the smell of coal fire in the house was wrong.

Wearing a piece of clothing, he found Ning Weimin's door after looking for taste.

followed by a knock on the door to call someone, but there was no reaction in the house.

The old man was in a hurry, and knew that something was wrong.

decisively smashed the window of the inner room with a stool, which saved Ning Weimin's life.

But after the New Year, it was Kangshude's turn to have an accident.

At noon on a weekday, Ning Weimin rushed back from outside to eat.

I didn't see the food, but I found that the old man was holding a cardboard box in his hand and lying on the table with his eyes closed.

I can't wake up no matter how much I scream.

When I touched it again, my head was hot.

Come on, Ning Weimin was not ambiguous, and hurriedly put on Kangshude.

I also greeted the neighbors who were at home next to me, the retired Uncle Bian, and the old couple of Aunt Bian, the director of the neighborhood committee.

Several people sent the old man to the Friendship Hospital together.

Unexpectedly, the situation was not very optimistic, not only did I have to take an intravenous drip, but I also had to be hospitalized for observation for two days.

The problem is that Kangshude must pay for his own medical treatment, who will pay for it?

Just when Aunt Bian was grinding with the hospital and asked if she could let the neighborhood committee make a guarantee.

No one expected that this Ning Weimin would go out for a while.

When he came back more than half an hour later, it was like a trick, and he sold sixty yuan on the spot.

What's even more unexpected is that he paid the money with a white face.

didn't let Aunt Bian and Uncle Bian ask, and Ning Weimin fell to the ground.

There was a lot of chaos at the scene.

The old couple of the Bian family were also frightened, and hurriedly called the doctor passing by to see what was going on.

Then the mystery was completely revealed.

Where the hell did the money come from?

Dare Ning Weimin was in a hurry, he went to the blood drawing room to donate blood just now.

The list in his pocket is clearly written.

Pumped 300CC from him in exchange for this life-saving money.

And, don't forget, when was this?

Ning Weimin hadn't eaten until this time.

He carried people to the hospital, and after drawing blood from hunger, he had fire in his heart, and he didn't even drink a sip of water, how could he not faint?

Then think about it, when Kangshude is rescued and knows what happened, what will it be like in his heart?

People's hearts are flesh and blood, even in daily life, no matter how much dirt there is, it can't be worth the friendship of life, right?

Speaking of which, no one expected that the other party would do this at a critical moment.

So after this toss, they both felt that each other could rely on each other to share weal and pain.

Thinking of each other's goodness, they naturally become harmonious.

After that, it will definitely be different.

The cannibalism of the weak has become sympathy, Ning Weimin respects the elderly, and Kangshude loves the young.

Even if there are any contradictions between the two, they can tolerate each other.

They never moved their hearts and whistles when they spoke, but they often laughed and chatted to amuse the boring people.

People who don't know think that these two men were originally a family.

In this way, the street cadres finally relaxed, and even wanted to merge the old and the young into the household, so that they could really become a family.

And the neighbors of Fan'er Hutong are also smiling, taking this incident as a model of "the world has its own true feelings", and they talk about it endlessly.

But here, there is a sentence that must be clarified first.

This seems to be a happy outcome, but it is not the end of the story, but only the beginning of the story.

Because fate has played this trick, its unbelievable degree is far beyond the scope of people's imagination.

No one can perceive that the Ning Weimin in their eyes is actually no longer the Ning Weimin of the past.

This kid's body has been replaced by a brand new soul......

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