70s Island Couple

Chapter 1-10

Chapter 1

Going around the winding alleyway, turning around a few alleys, and finally drilling into an alley, you arrived at the courtyard where the Meng family was located.

Gray courtyard houses with thin bricks and fine tiles, narrow alleyways, and small sheds built illegally everywhere, making the passageway narrow and crowded. There are stoves, boilers and coals for cooking on both sides of the road. Passing by, the soles of your feet are Wipe a layer of black ash.

"I'm back."

Pushing open the door and entering the room, Zhang Mei was looking for dirty clothes to be washed in the water room. Behind her was a wooden table that had been painted black with time, and behind her was a bed hung with a mosquito net. Such two large items filled the entire room to the brim.

A family of six squeezed into a room of more than ten square meters. Because of the large population, one room was divided into two.

The back room is for four children, and the outer room is for two adults. The kitchen and toilet are shared, which is extremely inconvenient, but it is the daily living environment of most urban residents these days.

When Meng Yan first transmigrated, he suffered from insomnia for a day and a night because of the poor living conditions, and he finally forced himself to accept that going to the bathroom was still a hurdle he couldn't pass.

"Are you back? Do you have any clothes to wash? Take them off and I'll go to the water room right away."

Putting down the army green messenger bag, Meng Yan took off his coat and handed the white shirt to his mother.

After stuffing the dirty clothes into the wooden tub, Zhang Mei said, "Yanyan, the coal at home has run out. When Xiao Yu and Lei Lei come back, let them pull coal."

Meng Yan's movement of changing clothes stopped suddenly: "No, I can go by myself. I remember that we only have 20 catties of coal tickets left, so we can't pull much."

After finishing speaking, he went into the house and took out the last two coal tickets in the drawer.

"Okay, be careful on the road, the rain at noon has not dried up, and the road is slippery."

"Yeah. I know."

As the evening approached, bicycles passed by on the street, and pedestrians gradually increased in the alleys.

Meng Yan borrowed the old flatbed cart from Aunt Gao's house across the street to pull coal at the coal yard. It was the rush hour for off-duty, and the coal buying team snaked at the entrance of the coal yard.

When it was Meng Yan's turn, he waited for an hour.

A normal household needs to consume 300 catties of coal every month, and sometimes the coal yards run out of coal, and the supply exceeds demand, so residents buy a big truck every time they buy it. Few of them buy only 20 catties like Meng Yan.

Twenty catties of coal is not as heavy as two hundred catties, but it is not easy for her. Before leaving, the workers in the coal yard helped her to lift it up smoothly.

"Thank you."

Under the strange eyes of everyone, Meng Yan pushed the old cart and slowly left the coal yard. It was easy to walk on the smooth road, but it would be a crime to walk on a section of green brick road.

"Meng Yan! Meng Yan!"

The sound was like a magic voice filling his ears, Meng Yan stopped and then accelerated, but a flatbed with two legs and a dead weight was faster than a bicycle.