Although no one has lived in this courtyard house for a long time, Zhou Yi comes to clean it every once in a while, so it is very clean inside and out.
The mattresses and quilts prepared for Zhou Chen are also new. Zhou Yi has already laid them out, and even the family's money, rice, oil, and salt are all ready.
"Xiaochen, I have prepared all the things at home for you. If you think it is too troublesome to cook at home alone, then come to my place. I live with your brother-in-law. Your brother-in-law is usually very busy at noon.
Xiaoya and I will eat together."
Zhou Yi also works in her husband Sun Dapeng's factory, but after giving birth to her child, she was unable to go to work.
The reason is also very simple.
That is, Sun Dapeng is not the only son of the Sun family. There is an older brother above him and a younger brother below him.
Although the Sun family is not as partial as other families, in any case, as the brother in the middle, he is definitely not as valued as the eldest son, nor as favored as the younger brother.
This was the case for Sun Dapeng. His parents took care of the children at his parents' house, and Zhou Yi had no parents, so in the end Zhou Yi had to take care of the children by herself.
Naturally, Zhou Yi couldn't go to work to take care of her children, so she left it to others to take care of her. Zhou Yi felt uneasy, so she had no choice but to take care of her daughter by herself.
Fortunately, even if Sun Dapeng works alone, he can still support the two of them.
It is now 1975. Although food is still distributed in rations, Sun Dapeng, as a leader, can still get some preferential treatment. The food stamps are enough, but it is not that easy to eat meat.
"No need, sister, I'm an adult now. I can take care of myself, so don't worry about me."
Zhou Chen didn't want to have to run around just to have a meal, it would be too much trouble.
He didn't do housework before, not because he couldn't do it, but because he was too lazy to do it when someone did it for him, but he still knew how to cook.
Zhou Yi said: "How can you cook? I used to cook for you. No, I think it's better for me to move back. It just so happens that I don't go to work now, so I can take care of you and Xiaoya at the same time. Anyway,
It doesn't matter if Dapeng is alone."
"Don't."
Zhou Chen quickly refused: "Sister, I know you are good to me, but now that you are married, you can't ignore your brother-in-law. You should live your own life well."
He was frightened when he heard Zhou Yi say that she didn't even care about her husband. Is Voldemort's skills really so powerful in this system?
But Zhou Yi had such good intentions, but he didn't dare to accept it. Feelings were all relative, and he couldn't really do anything excessive just because Zhou Yi was Voldemort.
Zhou Yi looked hesitant: "But I really can't worry about you being alone. How about you move in with your second uncle and the others?"
"I said, sister, please spare me. It's really okay for me to be alone. I've been alone all these years since I jumped in line."
"That's different. You couldn't do anything before. Now that you're home, I can't worry about leaving you alone."
It's nice to be cared about, but Zhou Chen would rather live alone than live in someone else's house. His second uncle and sister are both relatives, but they all have their own families, and he doesn't want to get involved.
In order to quickly dispel Zhou Yi's thoughts and prevent her from coming up with any more ideas, Zhou Chen quickly found a legitimate reason.
"Sister, just let me live alone. You see, I'm twenty-four years old. I'll be able to find a partner soon. It's so inconvenient for me to live with you."
He knew very well that a Voldemort like Zhou Yi would definitely put his younger brother's affairs first, and he would definitely be diverted when he heard this.
As expected, Zhou Yi's eyes lit up when she heard Zhou Chen talking about finding a partner.
"Oh, Xiaochen, what you said makes sense. You are already twenty-four this year. If it weren't for jumping in line, you might have gotten married and had children."
"Yes, the top priority now is not only to find you a job, but also to find you a partner."
The more she talked, the more anxious Zhou Yi became. Married women seemed to be more interested in this kind of thing.
"Xiaochen, tell your sister what kind of girl you like, and she will go find her for you right away. My brother is so good, so he must find a good one."
Seeing Zhou Yi being so impatient, Zhou Chen immediately wanted to look for her, and was dumbfounded.
He is still in the grief of losing Zheng Juan. How can he think about finding a wife? This is just to find an excuse.
"Sister, you really don't have to worry about finding a partner. I like free love and don't like blind dates, so I can handle finding a partner myself."
Zhou Yi was not at ease: "Sister Free Love has no objection, but you are a boy, where can you find a partner? Is it possible that you already have a girl you like? Is it the educated youth who jumped in the queue with you, or is it someone from the production team?
female?"
As soon as she mentioned this, her expression immediately became serious.
"Xiao Chen, it's not that I won't find you a girl from the countryside, but the current policy is like this. If you find a girl from the countryside, you won't be able to get your child's household registration in the city in the future. Don't make a mistake."
"Sister, where are you thinking? I don't have a crush on anyone, and I'm not looking for a local girlfriend, so stop thinking about it."
In today's era, urban household registration is very rare. When a woman from the countryside marries into the city, it is not easy to transfer her household registration. If she raises children in the future, her household registration will have to follow her mother's.
Without urban household registration and without the rationed food provided by the streets, life would be too difficult.
This is also the biggest reason why men in the city today are unwilling to find women from the countryside.
But Zhou Chen knew that in the future, urban hukou would no longer be valuable, but rural hukou would begin to be valuable, and many people would like to move their hukou back to the countryside.
We can only say that society is changing and policies are constantly changing. No one can tell what it will be like in the future.
Others don't understand, but Zhou Chen understands.
He doesn't object to finding rural women at all, but now he really has no idea of ​​finding a wife.
"Really?" Zhou Yi asked worriedly.
"Really not."
After getting the affirmative answer, Zhou Yi was completely relieved. She was afraid that her precious brother would get hot-headed and she couldn't stop him even if she wanted to.
In the evening, Zhou Chen rode Zhou Yi's bicycle and drove him to his second uncle's house.
Speaking of my second uncle Zhou Liangping, he was also a poor man. During the war that year, he witnessed the death of his eldest brother and younger brother.
Later, after I returned from the army, my official career was fine, but my family faced big problems.
After he married his wife, they gave birth to three children, a son and two daughters. However, due to various accidents, two of the children died young, and now only one daughter is with him.
Among the descendants of the three Zhou brothers, Zhou Chen is the only male, so Zhou Liangping and his wife are particularly kind to Zhou Chen.
Because Zhou Liangping is a fighting hero and is also very reliable and smart, he has not been affected in this special era. Now he has become the deputy director of the branch, which can be regarded as a high-power position.
When Zhou Chen came to his second uncle's house, he had not returned home from get off work yet, so he met his second aunt Mi Wen and his cousin Zhou Qingqing first.
"Second aunt."
"Xiaochen, come here quickly and show Auntie."
The second aunt Mi Wen was very excited when she saw Zhou Chen. She pulled Zhou Chen closer and looked at him carefully.
Zhou Chen obviously discovered that there was something wrong with Mi Wen's eyes, and she squinted a little when she looked at him.
But he knew what was going on. It was because the early death of his two children made his second aunt Mi Wen miserable and cried all the time. Over time, this led to eye problems.
Mi Wen looked at Zhou Chen carefully and then breathed a sigh of relief.
"Fortunately, our Xiaochen hasn't lost much weight, but has become a lot darker. It seems like the production team is really having a hard time."
Zhou Chen said with a smile: "It's not too hard, it's just work. I'm a big man, and that kind of work is nothing to me."
Mi Wen immediately smiled and said: "Our Xiaochen has grown up and knows how to comfort aunt. That's great."
Because she only had one daughter left, not only did Zhou Liangping regard Zhou Chen as her biological son, she also regarded Zhou Chen as her biological son.
"Brother."
Zhou Qingqing ran over with a smile and looked at Zhou Chen happily: "Brother, you haven't been back for several years. I miss you so much."
Zhou Qingqing is only a teenager this year and has just entered junior high school. She is cute and beautiful, with big blinking eyes.
"Our Qingqing family has grown so tall."
Zhou Chen gestured. In his memory, Zhou Qing was still small, but now he almost reached her shoulders.
Zhou Qingqing said with a smile: "Brother, are you having fun in the countryside? Can you see many small animals?"
Because she was the only daughter left in the second uncle's family, Zhou Liangping and his wife paid close attention to her, fearing that something might happen to her. They had never left Sijiu City, so she was particularly curious about the countryside.
"If you want to hear it, bring me something to eat. Brother is already hungry."
Zhou Qingqing immediately jumped up and said: "Okay, brother, come with me. There are a lot of delicious food in my room. Let's talk while eating."
She was controlled too tightly by her parents and had almost no friends. Her favorite thing in the past was to follow Zhou Chen, because only when Zhou Chen took her with her would her parents feel relieved and she could be more indulgent.
But since Zhou Chen jumped in line and left, she didn't have such a good chance.
Seeing her daughter pulling Zhou Chen away, Mi Wen didn't say anything. She knew how much her daughter missed Zhou Chen.
To be continued...