In Courtyard No. 95, several tables were placed in the front courtyard and middle courtyard, and they were full of guests.
Today is a big day for Zhou Chen’s wedding in the courtyard. Everyone in the courtyard has attended, as well as many neighbors and colleagues from the steel rolling mill, so courtyard No. 95 is very lively today.
Zhou Chen and Chen Lin were both wearing festive new clothes today, with smiles on their faces, and they were toasting table after table.
Everyone who attended the banquet looked at the talented and beautiful newcomer. Many of them were envious and jealous, but they still kept smiles on their faces.
If we want to say who is the most unhappy in the courtyard, then Xu Damao and He Yuzhu each occupy a seat, and there is also Liu Haizhong.
These three people all had grudges against Zhou Chen and had even taken action. Among them, He Yuzhu was the one who was beaten the worst, and Liu Haizhong was the one who was beaten the most humiliatingly, so they hated Zhou Chen deeply.
But Xu Damao was suppressed by Qin Jingru today, preventing him from making trouble. The same was true for He Yuzhu. Although his relationship with Qin Huairu was tense these days, he still had feelings for Qin Huairu and would listen to Qin Huairu.
As for Liu Haizhong, he is old and has suffered many blows, and his mental strength has long been exhausted.
Although there was no trouble, they were still very unhappy when they saw Zhou Chen's beautiful appearance, and kept talking about it in private.
After Zhou Chen and Chen Lin got married, Chen Lin moved into the courtyard and lived with Zhou Chen.
The three rooms were also renovated by Zhou Chen. He separated the original room near the central courtyard and used it as their new bedroom, while the other two rooms served as the kitchen and living room.
The practical area of three rooms is fifty square meters. They just got married, so it is definitely enough. Even if they have children in the future, they can still separate another room and it will be enough to live in.
At night, Zhou Chen and Chen Lin hugged each other.
"Because there are more people in our hospital, it may be more complicated. The environment is different from the one you lived in before. There will be more trivial things, which may require you to adapt."
If it weren't for the mission requirements, Zhou Chen would definitely have left the courtyard with Chen Lin, but in order to complete the mission, he could only stay in the courtyard.
Chen Lin smiled gently and said: "It doesn't matter. When I lived in the work dormitory, the environment was no better than here, and I think the neighbors in the courtyard are pretty good."
Zhou Chen said: "Most people are good, but there are some people..., forget it, don't talk about these unhappy things, sleep, sleep."
"Ah, weren't you talking about sleeping? What are you doing?"
"Yes, just sleeping, sleeping with meat..."
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Time flies so fast, and it’s the autumn of 1978 in a blink of an eye.
"Doctor Zhou, you're back."
Zhou Chen was riding a motorcycle, and Chen Lin in the back seat hugged him tightly. When he came to the alley, his speed had become extremely slow.
Along the way, everyone they saw greeted Zhou Chen warmly, and Zhou Chen responded politely.
He is now a famous person in Nanluoguxiang. It cannot be said that everyone in the surrounding area knows him, but at least 70% to 80% of the people know him and know him.
Arriving at the entrance of Courtyard No. 95, Zhou Chen supported the car and helped Chen Lin carefully get off the motorcycle.
Chen Lin is now seven months pregnant and has difficulty moving around. He has to pick her up and drop her off at get off work every day.
But Chen Lin's physical fitness is good. Although she has been pregnant for a long time, her physical fitness is still good, and the reaction during pregnancy is not too big.
Chen Lin walked cautiously into the courtyard and watched Zhou Chen put the motorcycle into the courtyard again.
"It's really troublesome to have to get the car in every day."
Zhou Chen smiled and said: "There is no way. It's just more troublesome to live in a place like this. It's safe to put it in the courtyard."
After locking the motorcycle at the front door, Zhou Chen helped Chen Lin into the front yard.
"The young couple are back."
The third uncle who was watering the flowers in the courtyard greeted him with a smile.
Chen Lin responded: "Third uncle, you are busy."
"What are you busy with? I'm just watering the flowers. There's nothing else to do."
Yan Bugui is already quite old at this time and has long been relegated to the second line, so now he has nothing to do all day long. Watering flowers and fishing have become his main occupations.
Chen Lin said hello and went back to the house, while Zhou Chen and Yan Bugui continued to chat.
"Zhou Chen, I heard that your steel rolling mill seems to be recruiting workers recently? You have a good relationship with the leaders of your factory. Can you rely on your relationship to get our family Jiefang Xiekuang to join the factory?"
When Zhou Chen heard this, he immediately laughed: "Third uncle, you think too highly of me. You really think I run the steel rolling mill, let alone two steel rolling mills. Even one, I can't do it this time."
Our recruitment is internal, not external.”
Yan Bugui said anxiously: "I also work at Hongxing Primary School. How can I be considered an internal employee of the steel rolling mill?"
"What's wrong with this? You, it's better not to think about it. The current factory director is no longer the former factory director Yang. I have no face at all now."
If it's other things, he can help if he can, but in this matter, he really can't do anything. Internal recruitment, the number of places is limited, and it's not much different from the unofficial appointment. If he wants to squeeze in one person, then
He didn't want to do such a thankless thing if there was one less spot.
And he won't be able to stay at the steel rolling mill for long. After Chen Lin gives birth to the baby, he will start preparing to be transferred to the hospital.
"Zhou Chen, you are too modest. You are no better than Silly Zhu. He can make a fool of himself in the cafeteria and the kitchen, why can't you?"
"Did He Yuzhu bring the stick into the factory?"
Zhou Chen was very surprised, he really didn't know about this.
Ever since He Yuzhu asked the boss to help Banggen find a job, the relationship between He Yuzhu and Qin Huairu has become more subtle. Not to mention Banggen, they haven't spoken to each other for ten years.
Even during the Chinese New Year these two years, He Yuzhu didn't go to Qin Huairu's house.
Yan Bugui said: "Yes, Silly Zhu got the stick in the kitchen of the canteen. This Silly Zhu really worked hard for Qin Huairu. I don't know what kind of relationship he is looking for."
Zhou Chen was surprised, but it wasn't surprising after thinking about it. Although Shazhu was stupid about Qin Huairu, he still had some tricks. It wasn't too strange that he could help Bangge get into the factory.
What's strange to him is that Banggan is willing to be a chef, and he doesn't know how Qin Huairu and He Yuzhu persuaded him.
Bangge's development trajectory is completely different from that in the TV series, but thinking about it, Bangge seems to have no choice. Xu Damao already has a son, so naturally he will not build a good relationship with Bangge and find a job for Bangge;
The job of leading the driver has also become obsolete. If Banggeng doesn't want to sweep the streets all the time, going to the steel rolling mill to learn cooking from He Yuzhu seems to be the only option.
"Zhou Chen, my two sons really can't be brought into the factory?"
"Third uncle, it's not that I don't help, it's that I really don't have the ability."
Yan Bugui rolled his eyes: "How about asking your wife to help?"
Zhou Chen looked shocked, how dare you think about it.
"Zhou Chen, I know your wife's family is not simple, so it shouldn't be difficult to find a job. Don't worry, as long as you can help my two boys find jobs, I promise to be very grateful."
Yan Bugui pulled Zhou Chen in an attitude of help me and I won't let you suffer.
But Zhou Chen just rolled his eyes. With the way you act like Yan Lao, I believe you are the only one with a problem.
"Although my wife's family has some energy, it doesn't have much energy in the capital. If you can safely let your two sons go to other provinces, I can ask my father-in-law to help."
"Forget it, I'm staying well in the capital. Why go to other provinces? If I don't go, I won't go."
When Yan Bugui heard that he was going to other provinces, he immediately waved his hands and shook his head. Although he was not satisfied with his son, he did not want his son to stay away from him. Who knows what would happen if he went to other provinces?
Zhou Chen shrugged and said, "Look, this is something you disagree with. It's not that I won't help you."
"I understand, when will you take a break and let's go fishing together?"
"Looking at my wife like this, do you think I can have time to go fishing with you?"
"Yes, look at my brain, your wife should be giving birth soon."
"Soon."
When Zhou Chen returned to the house, Chen Lin had already put the rice into the pot and started choosing vegetables.
"I'll come, you have a good rest."
Zhou Chen took over the task of cooking.
While eating, Chen Lin suddenly said: "My mother called me today and said that she would come and take care of me when I gave birth to the baby."
Zhou Chen asked puzzledly: "Then the family doesn't care?"
"My mother said it was my father who asked me. My father is busy all day and has little time to accompany her. My elder brother and sister-in-law are also in other places and my mother does not need to take care of the children, so she said that she would come to the capital to help us take care of the children. My father will retire soon.
I will come to the capital after retirement."
"That's a good thing. I was worried that I wouldn't have time to take care of you after you gave birth to the baby. I wanted to find a nanny. Your mother came just in time."
"Then we have to tidy up the house recently and make room for my mother."
Zhou Chen shook his head and said, "I don't think your mother is suitable for living here. Our yard is more complicated."
Chen Lin frowned. She understood what Zhou Chen meant, because she had lived here for more than a year and had seen the complexity of this yard.
It wouldn't be too troublesome, but her mother was the leader's wife after all, so it was very difficult for her to get along well with some people in the courtyard.
Zhou Chen continued: "Furthermore, the measures in our yard are not good in all aspects. Even going to the toilet is troublesome, and we have to walk a long way to buy groceries. It will definitely be inconvenient for my mother to live here."
"What do you mean?"
"What I'm thinking of is that you didn't live here when you gave birth to your child."
"Don't live here?"
"Yes, I've been shopping around recently and found a nice single-family house. I'm going to buy one so that your parents can have a place to live when they come to the capital in the future. What do you think?"
"buy house?"
Chen Lin was very surprised. She really didn't expect Zhou Chen to actually plan to buy a house, but she agreed with this decision with both hands.
Although the house I live in now is not bad, after all, it is in the same courtyard as others. There are many people coming and going, and there is no freedom. It is better to have a separate house.
"House prices in the capital are not cheap, let alone a single-family house. Do you have enough money? If not, I can borrow some from my parents and eldest brother."
"Don't worry, I know what's going on, it should be enough."
Zhou Chen has a habit of not liking to borrow money from others, because borrowing money from others will always make him think about it and make him very uncomfortable.
Of course, borrowing money from a bank and "borrowing money" in business are different concepts.
Zhou Chen moved very quickly. It didn't take long for him to buy a small bungalow with a single courtyard. However, the money he had saved over the years was almost spent.
But he doesn't feel a loss at all. Of course, the sooner he buys the house, the better. Whether he sells it or waits for demolition in the future, he will get back the money doubled or ten times.
More than two months later, with more than a month before the Chinese New Year, Chen Lin successfully gave birth to a boy, named Zhou Chen, who had already been named Zhou Chen, and handed over the naming rights to Chen Lin. Chen Lin was even better, and handed over the naming rights to Chen Lin.
Gave it to her dad.
In the end, Chen's father named the child Zhou Pengcheng, hoping that the child would spread its wings like a big roc and have a bright future.
Zhou Chen naturally has no objections. To him, a name is just a title, as long as it is not particularly unpleasant. As for the Five Elements Feng Shui and the like, he doesn't care much about it now.
Several years have passed, and a lot of things have happened in the past few years.
First of all, He Yuzhu and Qin Huairu finally made it right after helping Bangge enter the canteen of the steel rolling mill. However, there was a small episode in the process.
That is, Xu Damao didn't know that they had obtained a marriage certificate. After discovering that the two were living together, he found someone to trick them, but in the end it was himself who was embarrassed.
In order to vent his hatred, He Yuzhu even revealed the fact that Qin Jingru had faked her pregnancy.
But Qin Jingru didn't panic at all. Instead, he reasoned that it was Qin Huairu and He Yuzhu who gave him the idea, and they were the ones with bad intentions.
Xu Damao was naturally very angry at the time, but Qin Jingru gave birth to a son for him, and he was so old. Of course, he couldn't fall out with Qin Jingru just because of this.
She scolded Qin Jingru a few words, but who knew that Qin Jingru would not give in, started fighting with him, and threatened him that if he dared to treat her badly, she would divorce him and live alone with her son.
Xu Damao, who regarded his son as his life, immediately gave up. He didn't care about anyone, but he absolutely couldn't let go of his cute and smart son.
This is the son he has waited for many years to have, and he may never have one in the future. He does not want to become extinct like Yi Zhonghai and Silly Zhu, so he will not do anything that is detrimental to his son.
Xu Damao, who had nothing to do with Qin Jingru, could only hold grudges against He Yuzhu and Qin Huairu. In the past few years, he had fought with them many times, but he had not gained any advantage.
One year, Auntia suddenly suffered a heart attack. Zhou Chen happened to be living alone in a courtyard at that time, and then he saved Auntia, so that she did not die like in the TV series.
Chen Lin and her children had already moved out, and now Zhou Chen was the only one living in the courtyard, and he couldn't even live there for half a month.
Chen's father also retired a long time ago, and now lives with Chen's mother in a small detached house bought by Zhou Chen, helping the couple raise their children.
Zhou Chen and Chen Lin also dared to give birth to another son before the birth control plan, and now both sons are taken care of by the old couple.
As for Zhou Chen, through his own efforts and some connections, he was transferred from the steel rolling mill to the Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and became a deputy chief physician.
The reason why he went to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital was because the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital was close to Nanluoguxiang. He could usually find an excuse to stay in the courtyard. Otherwise, he would not be able to complete his main mission if he kept living in that small courtyard.
After another night shift, Zhou Chen arrived at the courtyard early in the morning. As soon as he entered the front yard door, he saw the third uncle watering the flowers again.