After coming out of the bathroom, Li Wenhui went straight to Wang Yueyue, who had just entered, and snatched the child from her hand.
"Ah, stinky baby, let aunt hug you quickly. Good guy, I haven't seen you for a few days and this little guy has gained weight again."
"That's when our bodies grow."
After the child was carried by Wen Hui, he stared at her for a long time. Maybe he recognized her, and started to giggle.
"Oh, Smelly Bao recognized my aunt."
"Hello, brother-in-law."
"Yueyue, where is Wenxuan?"
"He's making sesame paste in the kitchen. He'll be right over."
"I'm going to help him."
"Xiaoyi, there's no need to go, come and sit." Li Chu, who had already sat at the dining table, said.
"Wenhui, Yueyue, please come and sit down first."
"Come on dad."
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"Mom and Dad, I heard Huihui say that grandma and grandpa will move away after the New Year? She also said that we would move here then."
While eating and chatting, Shen Yi remembered what his wife said some time ago, and he asked.
"Yes, that's right. As for whether or not to move here, you two will decide by yourself." Ding Qiunan nodded.
"Grandma and grandpa live well, don't they? Why do you want to move away?"
"Who can understand the old man's thoughts? Your uncle and his company have already handed over the house they built with funds raised. They just need to find someone to make the furniture to celebrate the New Year, so they will move in then."
"It's so inconvenient for five people to live in one house." Shen Yi couldn't figure out why he couldn't live in such a spacious yard.
"Your father bought the house across the street from your uncle's house. When the time comes, the old couple will live across the street, and it won't have any impact on their lives."
"Bah!" As soon as Shen Yi put a piece of meat into his mouth, he was so shocked by his mother-in-law's words that he dropped it on the table.
He was speechless for this domineering father-in-law.
Wenhui and the other three didn't know about this, so they all looked at their father in surprise.
"Eat quickly, there's nothing good to see."
Li Chu tapped the edge of the pot with chopsticks.
"Dad, after grandma and grandpa move out, you can also help us tidy up the house over there." Wen Hui said with a smile.
"How to clean it up? Re-paste the roof? Paint the walls? Do you need to change the furniture? Make a new set of large cabinets, or just use the same old furniture as at home?"
The furniture Ding Ma and the others are using now were all moved from home before. They will definitely not want these old furniture when they move to a new home.
Li Wenhui was shocked when he heard this, and said quickly: "Dad, I just listen to you. I can clean it up as you say. As for the furniture..."
"Shen Yi, do you think it's better to use old furniture like this at home, or find a carpenter to make furniture again?"
Shen Yi's mind was full of questions. He just wanted to make furniture. Do I agree to move here?
The reason why Wen Hui wanted to move here was that she had lived in the unit building enough in the past three months. It was a bit exaggerated to say that you could hear farts there, but there was a loud noise when walking upstairs. Walking around, or pulling up a stool or something, would annoy her to death every day.
Also, the space at home was too small, which made her feel extremely suffocated as she had been used to living in spacious places since she was a child.
"Hui Hui, Shen Yi can move if he wants to, or if he doesn't want to move. It's convenient for both of you to commute to and from get off work. Such a big matter must be discussed between the two of you. You can't just take whatever you say."
"Oh, I understand, Mom." Li Wenhui responded obediently.
She can act coquettishly with her father, but this trick doesn't work well with her mother.
"No, Mom." Shen Yi saw his wife's aggrieved look and said hurriedly: "I just didn't react at the moment. It's okay to move here when the time comes. I don't care, it's not far away, and Huihui I’m really not used to living in a unit building.”
He actually really wanted to live in a private courtyard. When he lived at his grandfather's house, he also had his own small yard, and he even helped grow vegetables in the yard.
It's just that men in this era are a bit chauvinistic anyway. Moving here is equivalent to living in the father-in-law's house, which makes him a little unable to accept it for a while.
Li Chu, who was eating meat, raised his head and glanced at his son-in-law. He was also a man and he could understand Shen Yi's thoughts.
"Xiao Yi, that yard is Hui Hui's dowry. It originally belonged to her, but her grandparents have always lived there. Now that they are moving out, if you two move in, it will just return to the original owner. You don't have to think too much about it. .
Didn’t you also tell me that you wanted to raise a dog? Now that you are in the second and third year of junior high school, you are pregnant. When you move here, you can just grab one. It is not easy for you to raise a dog when you live in a unit building."
dowry?
So what else is left in his wife’s dowry? Why does he feel like he married a rich woman?
"Dad, after the Chinese New Year, when grandma and grandpa move out, I'll find someone to clean up the house."
"You're not needed." Wen Hui touched him lightly with her arm.
"The work team my dad hired is working in another yard. Just ask them to come over and do it when the time comes. It'll be easy."
And a yard?
Shen Yi simply stopped talking and buried himself in eating.
After eating a lot of meat, Li Chu took the child from Ding Qiunan's hand so that she could eat more comfortably.
He took the child and ran to Liu Dazhuang's place for a walk.
They asked him to come over and eat with them just now, but Da Zhuang didn't want to, so Li Chu made him a separate pot and ate alone in the room. Now he came over to see if he had enough meat.
After dinner in the evening, Shen Yi and Li Wenhui wrapped themselves tightly and pushed their bicycles towards home.
"Hui Hui, at the dinner table just now, you said that our dad still has a yard?"
"Well, we are cleaning it up. No, no, there is not one yard, but two yards. The one in Shichahai seems to be almost done, and there is only a little finishing work left. The east yard has just started to be worked on. It is still early. It will be available next year. It’ll be quick once it’s done.”
Shen Yi swallowed hard: "Why did our dad buy so many yards?"
"He said that in the future, even if you want to buy a courtyard house like this, you won't be able to buy it."
Shen Yi really believes this, but aren't there rumors that this kind of courtyard house will be demolished?
This is what he thought and asked.
"No, no," Wen Hui waved her hand: "My dad said he wouldn't dare say anything else, but the place where our house is now will definitely not be demolished."
"Why?"
"Why else? Why demolish it? Build a building?"
"Yes, aren't there buildings being built everywhere now? There are also high-rise buildings like that."
"Are you stupid? Do you think a high-rise building can be built where my family lives?"
"Why can't we build it? Isn't that Beijing Hotel outside so high..."
As soon as he said this, he suddenly remembered what his grandfather told him before, about the Beijing Hotel.