Twenty minutes by bike from Jiuchang Street, it is the old donkey alley. He Yunsheng's courtyard is at the mouth of the alley.

Although the closed gate and the high walls of the courtyard are obscured, it is impossible to see the inside of the courtyard from the outside.

But from the winged eaves on the high place, as well as the carved window lattices on the wall, and on the old bricks, you can still vaguely see a little bit of the grandeur of this courtyard.

Standing at the gate of the courtyard, Yang Zhenneng heard the sound of men and women talking in the courtyard. However, Yang Zhen did not enter the house directly, but first prepared to go to his grandmother's uncle's house to have a look.

The purpose of doing this is not only because although his family was poor in the past, his two uncles Ren Yushan and Ren Yuhai hated their own family.

Every time I come over, the two uncles intentionally or unintentionally let the two aunts Li Huaying, You Limin, and a few children scold Huai at their own house, saying something The debt collector came to the door again...... But his grandparents have always loved him very much.

Yang Zhen clearly remembered that there was really no rice at home to cook, and Ren Yuhua took him over to his grandparents to borrow some food.

Because Li Huaying's scolding is too ugly. Ren Yuhua, who really couldn't stay, was ready to take him home without borrowing anything.

My grandparents scolded the two families and sent some rice noodles from afar, not to mention, and I didn't forget to boil an egg for him, so that he could fill his stomach on the way back.

Although later because of the death of her grandfather, her grandmother Zhong Cuixia not only retired, but also became weak and sickly. Not only does he no longer have much ability to support his family, but in many ways, he still relies on the care of Ren Yushan and Ren Yuhai.

In order not to cause trouble to the old lady. In addition to the New Year's holidays, even if it is difficult at home. Ren Yuhua not only didn't run here himself, but even strictly ordered several children not to come.

But even so, Yang Zhen's memory of his grandparents is still very profound. Even now, he seems to be able to feel the hot temperature on the egg that his grandmother Zhong Cuixia stuffed for him back then.

Originally, I wanted to wait for everything to stabilize before coming over to see Zhong Cuixia. But now that they've all been here, they haven't seen each other for years.

It is reasonable, Yang Zhen feels that he should go and see it first. It's more because He Yunsheng's family doesn't get along very well.

The face of his life should be rashly visited...... Yang Zhen was afraid that he would be blasted out before he could open his mouth, let alone rent a house.

If you have an old lady to bring it over, then the situation will be different. After all, even if they all live in the same alley because of their composition and class.

Not only are the people in the hutongs not very happy to associate with the He family, but the He family itself is not too rare to be in the company of the people in the hutongs.

Therefore, the relationship between each other cannot be very familiar. But in the end, in an alley for decades, how is it also a familiar face.

So Yang Zhen's idea was to go see the old lady first, and then ask the old lady to help lead the way. has a familiar face, I believe that even if the He family doesn't give face, at least they will let themselves finish speaking.

As long as there is an opportunity to speak, then the next step is simple. Due to the lack of electricity and energy, the work and rest of Sijiucheng are not arranged according to the way of working on weekdays and weekends, but in the form of wheels.

That is, how many pieces of the city are divided, and then a certain area is closed on Mondays, a certain area is closed on Tuesdays, and so on.

In this way, the limited power source can be concentrated and production can be facilitated. It will not cause everyone to go to work together, the electricity and energy are not enough, everyone rests together, and the energy is wasted.

It may be because it is the turn of the wheel to rest in the old donkey alley area. Therefore, when Yang Zhen walked into the miscellaneous courtyard where Ren Yushan, Ren Yuhai and others lived, he saw that the courtyard was full of people.

The men were playing chess and poker, while the women were in groups with shoe soles and torn clothes, gossiping about household chores and mending at the same time.

Seeing an unfamiliar face coming in, someone turned around and shouted at Yang Zhen: "Hey, young man, what are you doing, is there anything wrong with running to our hospital?" ”

"I'm coming to see my grandmother and my second uncle!" Yang Zhendao.

"Look at your grandmother and uncle?" Several people were stunned when they heard this, and looked Yang Zhen up and down: "Are you sure that your grandmother and uncle live in our hospital?" If so, why haven't we seen you? "I've rarely been here since I was sensible.

In addition, after going to the countryside for two years, his height and appearance have changed greatly, and he rushed home and didn't even recognize Ren Yuhua, who was his own mother.

These people didn't recognize themselves at once, and Yang Zhen was not surprised at all. explained with a smile, saying that Zhong Chunxia was her grandmother.

"Your grandmother is Mrs. Zhong?"

"Then you should be a child of the old Yang family, your mother is Ren Yuhua, right?" Hearing this, some people suddenly laughed and said that it was no wonder that they looked familiar, and said in a voice that Yang Zhen had seen it when he was a child, but he didn't expect it to grow into a guy in the blink of an eye.

Some shouted at Ren Yushan and Ren Yuhai's two sons, saying that relatives had come to the family and asked the two families to come out quickly.

came out and saw that it was Yang Zhen, Zhong Cuixia trembled and looked for a bench for Yang Zhen to sit on, and wiped her tears happily, saying that Yang Zhen had grown up, and her hard-working daughter could be regarded as a little hopeful for the future.

Compared with the old lady, Ren Yushan and Ren Yuhai's attitude is much worse. After a perfunctory greeting, the two said dryly: "Didn't you hear that you made a fortune in the countryside, and you sent money and meat to your family during the Chinese New Year last year?" - What are you doing in the countryside where you don't have stubble? As soon as he heard this, Yang Zhen knew that something was going on, and hurriedly turned his head to look at the old lady.

"It's not because of the stuff you sent!" Zhong Cuixia explained in a low voice, saying that Yang Zhen sent money and things last year.

With these things, Ren Yuhua paid off debts everywhere and paid off favors, and also took a smoked pheasant and two catties of wild boar meat for her.

It can be said that almost everything I can think of has not been forgotten. Only Ren Yushan and Ren Yuhai didn't say anything, they just came to bring Yang An and Yang Lanlan to come over to pay New Year's greetings, but they didn't enter the door of the two families.

"I guess it's because of this, your uncle and second uncle are holding their breath in their hearts!" Zhong Cuixia said.

"Why don't they want to think about what they did to my mom all those years?"

"They are holding their breath in their hearts, but my mother is not holding their breath in their hearts?" Hearing this, thinking of those piercing memories, and then looking at the attitudes of the two brothers Ren Yushan and Ren Yuhai at the moment, Yang Zhen couldn't help but feel a wave of evil fire running around in his heart.

However, thinking that these two families were indeed not very wealthy in those years, and their own families were indeed a little poor and difficult to take care of.

Maybe now that the conditions have improved, everyone will still have the opportunity to be relatives. Therefore, Yang Zhen pretended not to listen to the resentment in Ren Yushan and Ren Yuhai's words, and explained to Ren Yushan and Ren Yuhai with a smile, saying that he did not run back this time, but was transferred back to the city.

"So you were transferred back to the city?" Li Huaying and You Limin, who had been talking with a cold face since they entered the door, heard this: "Look at your dress of five people and six people, I'm afraid that you are arranging for you to be a big official when you come back, right?" If you are Xiao Zhen, you can't be like your mother, a little money will look down on people, and you can't recognize us poor relatives......" Hearing the elongated tone of the two, the courtyard was embarrassed.

Some people couldn't stop stabbing Ren Yushan and Ren Yuhai with their elbows. said that everyone knows that there are many educated youths who have returned to the city this year.

If you don't have enough background and meritorious service, then it's good to be able to arrange a job smoothly.

As soon as the two concubines opened their mouths, they asked if they were big officials, and they would help them in the future, obviously they wanted to embarrass people...... In the end, it is his own nephew, let Ren Yushan and Ren Yuhai take care of their own mouth, don't let people see jokes.

"They just care about Xiao Zhen's work!"

"It can't be that he has made a fortune, and we who are uncles and aunts can't even care about it, right?" Ren Yushan and Ren Yuhai didn't pay attention to the crowd at all, just looked back at Yang Zhen and said: "Your mother came to us for the New Year, that can praise you a lot, what is the future and ability-so Xiao Zhen, when you come back this time, no matter what, you have to let the boss give you an official!" ”

"Otherwise, I'm afraid your mother's face will be embarrassed!" Listening to this son and daughter-in-law singing and squeezing Yang Zhen in harmony, Zhong Cuixia was trembling with anger.

It's just that I'm old now, and if there is any illness or pain, I still have to rely on two families. Therefore, even if she was angry in her heart, the old lady didn't dare to attack, but just dragged Yang Zhen and said: "Xiao Zhen, don't bother with them, go back to the house with me, I haven't seen you for a few years, you accompany your grandmother to talk for a while......" If it was just Li Huaying and You Limin, Yang Zhen might not care.

After all, the two are outsiders in the end. But Ren Yushan and Ren Yuhai not only did not stop the two, but sang and harmonized with the two.

Even if he really wanted to ease the relationship in his heart, Yang Zhen was a little unbearable. However, on the face, Yang Zhen was unmoved, and pretended to comfort Zhong Cuixia with an expression that he couldn't hear the good words: "They are my own uncle and aunt!" ”

"They also care about my work!"

"Why did you say this, grandma, as if your uncle and aunt were holding back their bad intentions and wanted to harm me?" Hearing this, the surrounding people burst into laughter.

Li Huaying and You Limin were angry. It's a pity that they encountered such a soft knife, and the way they usually splash and roll is not easy at all, because although their faces are full of blood, they don't know how to pick up Yang Zhen's stubble for a while.

Ren Yushan hurriedly coughed twice, took enough of his uncle's shelf and said, "Xiao Zhen, what are you doing with a hippie smile?" I asked you, what kind of work was assigned to you from above, did you hear? ”

"Sister, the New Year's praise of you is like there is nothing in the sky and there is nothing in the earth, don't say that you are still a flat-headed common man when you come back, but it turns out to be nothing!" Hearing this, Ren Yuhai hurriedly said to the side: "I've been humming and chirping for a long time, I'm afraid that the boss won't let him be an official, don't even leave him a bowl empty, right?" "Seeing that the two brothers are talking more and more, the more they don't talk.

Thinking that Yang Zhen's work was really not arranged, the surrounding neighbors hurried to round the field and comforted Yang Zhen: "There are many educated youths who have returned to the city now, and many of the work that has been back for a year and a half has not been arranged, and you have just come back, so if you really don't have a job, you don't need to worry, after all, there are so many people and you are not the only one, I believe that sooner or later they will be ......arranged."

"Thank you, Uncle Li!" Looking at a neighbor who was still a little impressed, Yang Zhen said with a smile: "The eldest uncle and second uncle asked me that I didn't say it, not that I haven't been arranged to work when I come back, nor that I have a bad job or that I haven't become an official......"

"The main thing is that my official is too young, and I'm afraid to tell my uncle and second uncle to laugh at them!" Hearing this, Ren Yushan, who was still aggressive, suddenly changed his face, and his voice was broken: "Don't say that you have only two years of service since you went to the countryside, ...... your age."

"You can't do things well without hair, but you dare to say that the boss really arranged for you to be an official?"

"That's it!"

"At his current age, it's okay to say that there are people in the family!"

"But their old Yang family counts up to eighteen generations, and they are all poor peasants!"

"The most promising thing is that his grandfather is an eighth-level worker, and he has a bad relationship with their family!"

"Even like that, he wants to be an official!" Li Huaying You Limin pulled her voice on the side, saying that Yang Zhen's virtue dared to say that the top really arranged for him to be an official, and he was not afraid of the wind and flashed his tongue even if he bragged.

These words are unpleasant, but in a way they make a lot of sense. Therefore, although the neighbors also persuaded the two families to say something well, and not to shout and lose face everywhere, they did not forget to persuade Yang Zhen at the same time, saying that the most important thing for this young man is to be down-to-earth.

After all, as long as you are steadfast and willing to work, there will be opportunities in the future. But if you don't learn other skills, you will learn to brag and give people the impression that you are not sincere.

Even if it's really ruined for the rest of your life! In short, there are people all over the yard, and almost no one believes what Yang Zhen said.

Only Zhong Cuixia knew Yang Zhen's character, and said excitedly when she heard this: "Xiao Zhen, you honestly tell your grandmother whether the matter of arranging for you to come back as an official is true or false - I can tell you, you don't even lie to your grandmother!" ”

"Grandma, what am I lying to you for!"

"If you don't believe me, can't I show you a work permit?" Yang Zhen said, and showed Zhong Cuixia the work permit he had just received in the vegetable market.

"Show her!"

"It's not like you don't know that she doesn't know how to read!" Ren Yuhai snatched his work card and shouted: "I went to the countryside before graduating from elementary school, not only have I not yet reached the age of eighteen, but I also only have a high school education - I really don't believe who is blind and can let you be a ......" just said in the end, the official word was like being stuck in his throat, and Ren Yuhai couldn't say it anyway.

Because at this moment, he had already seen that not only did Yang Zhen's name be written on the work card. Seeing the word section chief again, Ren Yuhai's brain was buzzing.

After all, he is also an employee of the state-owned plant. How can you not know that although the section chief is only one of the lowest-level cadre titles in this level sequence, it is not so easy for ordinary people to become this section chief.

When Ren Yuhai saw this, the surrounding neighbors also saw the work card clearly and the word section chief above.

"It's easy to say anything if it's the head of the unit or something!"

"After all, except for the clerk who runs errands, that's the head of the unit!"

"But this section chief ......"

"Without a five-year or ten-year qualification, ordinary people don't even think about it!"

"Even how many people have not been able to become a section chief after half their lives because they have no background, there are many people!" Looking at the word section chief on the work card, a group of neighbors were talking about it, and they all felt that this was unlikely.

However, there is not only a big sticker on the work card, but also a steel seal, which is obviously impossible to fake. Relying on a little familiar affection, Uncle Li said puzzledly: "People may not be able to be the section chief after half a lifetime, Xiao Zhen, you are the section chief - what are you doing?" "I don't want to mention it, though.

But in order to dispel everyone's doubts, Yang Zhen also had to tell that he had saved people in the countryside and helped 504 repair equipment.

"I just said that I could become a section chief as soon as I came back!"

"It turns out that you not only saved people's lives during your trip to the countryside!"

"And he has also helped the national defense unit repair equipment and recovered major economic losses for the country!"

"These are all major meritorious performances!"

"Then it makes sense for you to be the section chief as soon as you come back!" Hearing this, Uncle Li and the others looked at Ren Yushan, Ren Yuhai, Li Huaying, You Limin, and said, "Didn't you keep asking people what kind of officials they were just now?" Why is Ren Xiaozhen not only an official, but also a section chief now-why are you talking instead? ”

"That's it!" When the surrounding group heard this, they immediately began to coax the seedlings and said: "In the end, it is my uncle and aunt, this is the nephew's interest, even if you don't say something, then you can't all stretch your face, this is going to be spread, I'm afraid that people still think that your uncle and aunt are not happy to look forward to their own nephews......" Ren Yushan, Ren Yuhai, Li Huaying, You Limin, heard this, and when they heard this, they really wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into.

Zhong Cuixia held Yang Zhen's work card and looked at it again and again, wiping her tears and laughing at Yang Zhen while looking: "You said that you are a child, such a big happy event as a section chief, why do you even hide it from me, a grandmother?" ”

"It's not that I'm hiding it from you, grandma!" Yang Zhen said: "I really think that there is nothing to say at all...... Anyway, if it weren't for my uncle and aunt who asked, I would be really embarrassed to say it! ”

"Others may not be able to mix with the section chief for half their lives!"

"You've done it all!"

"And you'll still have to turn eighteen in a few months!" Uncle Li and the others all beat their chests when they heard this, and said in their hearts that you are still embarrassed...... Then those of us who have been working for half our lives are still flat-headed ordinary people, so don't we really have to find a urine bucket to drown ourselves?

Of course, if you want to say the most panicked person on the scene, it still has to be Ren Yushan and Ren Yuhai. Seeing that Yang Zhen was saying that he was embarrassed, he didn't leave his uncle and aunt in two of his three sentences...... In addition, Uncle Li and other neighbors were coaxing the seedlings next to him, and he couldn't even run the two families if he wanted to, and he really even wanted to die.

Although she didn't want Yang Zhen to be wronged, seeing that her son and daughter-in-law had such big eyes, Zhong Cuixia was also a little unbearable, so she quickly diverted the topic and asked Yang Zhen if there was anything else to do besides coming to see her.

"It's really something!" Yang Zhen said, and told him that he had no place to live now and wanted to find He Yunsheng's family to rent a house to live in.

"In the past few years, there have been a sea of people who want to rent He's house!"

"But people are not bad at all, and no one rents it!" Thinking that Yang Zhen had made his own family so ugly, and asked Yang Zhen to live on the side in the future, he was afraid that he would have to change Fang Er's eyes all day long.

Ren Yushan and Ren Yuhai hurriedly interrupted, saying that Yang Zhen still didn't think about the He family's house.

"Someone else is someone else!"

"I'm me!"

"What's more, there is also a grandmother's face!" Yang Zhen said a few times, indicating that Zhong Cuixia was there, and the He family's house could be rented by himself.