😊 The Sweet Couple in the Alley of the 1980s

Chapter 1-10

courage.

　　Chapter 1 Chapter 1

　　◎Glorious bus driver, iron rice bowl, high salary◎

　　In 1983, in Beijing, in a large courtyard in Yangshan Hutong, which is very close to Houhai and Prince Gong's Mansion, the cold wind made the window lattice paper rustle. Before four o'clock, a house had already turned on the lights.

　　"Get up quickly, don't be late for work." Mother-in-law Jiang Tiemei called in a low voice from the door.

　　Fang Jian turned over and pressed the tip of his wife's nose with the pad of his index finger.

　　"Mom, get up." Chu Ying stretched, sat up straight and started to put on clothes. Next to her, Fang Jian moved much faster than her. He put on his clothes and pants in a few clicks, walked to the door and opened the door.

　　"The snacks Chu Ying gave you are on the table, and I've also made you some tea." Jiang Tiemei said.

　　"Thank you, Mom." Chu Ying said.

　　The conversation was the same every morning.

　　In the outer room, Jiang Tiemei has prepared face wash for them. The water in the basin is neither cold nor hot and the temperature is just right. In winter, coal stoves are used for heating, so coal ash will fall more or less on the face. The face wash water is slightly black. First welcome It still took two basins of water to wash my face.

　　Fang Jian was not so particular, so he washed his face with the second basin of water.

　　After applying the cream, Chu Ying sat in front of a palm-sized mirror and combed her hair. Her long hair reached her waist and was glossy black. But for the first time, she felt that the two thick braids were full of earthiness and made her look very simple.

　　After Fang Jian finished wiping his face, Chu Ying stood up on tiptoes and forcefully applied a layer of cream on his face. Then he put on his coat, carried a military green crossbody bag, and stuffed snacks and water bottles into the bag.

　　In less than ten minutes, the couple had packed up and were getting ready to go out. They heard their mother-in-law complain as usual: "Why do you guys put on cream? Now that life is better, you are used to messing with things. You don't need coal to boil water! You don't have to buy cream." ."

　　Holding his hand on the door bolt, Fang Jian said to his mother: "Mom, please go back and sleep for a while."

　　Jiang Tiemei complained: "If you hadn't always remembered to seal the stove, I would have started using it so early!"

　　The cold wind seemed to be waiting outside. As soon as the door opened, it rushed in, making Chu Ying shiver.

　　In the corner was the bicycle shed and kitchen built by their family. Fang Jian unlocked the door of the shed, unlocked the car, and pushed the bicycle out.

　　"Chu Ying, you can take off work tomorrow. Your cousin is here and I'll buy a fish." Jiang Tiemei said.

　　Chu Ying is a bus driver, working two shifts, and her off-duty hours are not fixed. It depends on the month's shift schedule. This month she is off on Sundays.

　　"Mom, I won't go to work tomorrow." Chu Ying's heart sank slightly.

　　My mother-in-law is generally a nice person, and I miss her even when I eat a piece of fish.

　　Fang Jian pushed the cart, and the couple walked toward the gate together in the dark.

　　The courtyard was originally a two-in-one courtyard, but now it is home to more than a dozen families. The housing conditions of each family are relatively crowded, and they have opened up their territory one after another, building a kitchen here and a coal shed there, especially after the earthquake. Seriously, the materials used to build earthquake shelters were used to build private houses in the courtyard, so the courtyard looked crowded and messy.