Daily life in the courtyard

Chapter 114

The first day after the festival.

Zhou Zimo went to school early with his schoolbag on his back, Zhou Wen went to work by bike, and the old lady strolled to the entrance of the alley.

Wei Ping'an and his son Wei Dabao are left in the family, big eyes to small eyes.

Dabao had just woken up, still staring in a daze, leaning on Wei Ping'an's lap, yawning from time to time.

Today is Wei Ping'an's first day with a baby alone.

Zhou Wen also said before leaving that Dabao is very good, as long as someone is with him, he can play anything.

don't pick.

In fact, children these days don’t have many toys, they can play with two glass balls for a whole day, and put a few Maza small stools in the yard, just like training a dog so that Dabao can be fooled by turning around.

But Wei Pingan wants to go out for a walk.

After leaving the capital for so many years, those old guys who have dealt with before don't know how they are doing.

After several years of difficulties, Wei Ping'an also wanted to go and have a look as he was about to overcome the difficulties.

"Dabao, Dad will take you out."

When the child heard that they were going out to play, they immediately became energetic.

Wei Pingan took off the Barbie rabbit thermal underwear that Dabao was wearing at home, and put on grandma brand tiger-head cotton shoes, a tiger-head hat, and a "bloated and cute" cotton-padded jacket and cotton trousers.

Children don't need to wear autumn clothes when they wear cotton-padded clothes and trousers, because they are warm enough and they are worn empty.

But Wei Ping'an had convenient conditions, and thoughtfully used a diaper for Dabao.

The main reason is that it will be troublesome to wash the cotton pants if you urinate on the road.

After going out, Wei Pingan first took Dabao to the waste collection station.

Old Li's son and daughter-in-law have already returned, and they are on the same team as Wei Ping'an.

Later, when Wei Ping'an went to play the second big firecracker, Old Li's son and daughter-in-law came back.

As a teacher at the university, the school allocated a building.

Old Litou is already the most envied old man in the courtyard.

The son and daughter-in-law are promising and live in a high-rise building, that is, he is too lazy to move, otherwise he would have followed him to enjoy the blessings.

Old Li no longer has any psychological burden, and still goes to work as usual. Now he has more leisure time to soak in the bath and drink a little wine. When his son comes back, he no longer has to worry about pension issues, and he dares to spend the little money he earns happily.

The waste collection station in Beixinqiao is actually not the closest to the courtyard house, but who let Lao Li put his head here.

"Uncle Li, you are basking in the sun."

"Hey, isn't this safe and sound, are you back?"

"Yes, I just came back yesterday. You were not in the yard. I have nothing to do today. I came to chat with you."

Old Li went to spend the winter solstice with his son and daughter-in-law.

Their school work is heavy and they are too busy. Old Li is not willing to let his son run to the courtyard, and the conditions are not good, and his daughter-in-law is still pregnant, so he just went to live there for two days.

Otherwise, according to the character of Wei Ping'an's family, a plate of dumplings from Lao Litou's family was indispensable yesterday.

"Come in, come in, Dabao is here too, Grandpa Li happens to have something interesting here..."

Grandpa is the same as uncle, it is a kind of respectful title, which does not involve seniority.

"Where are Ming Chao and Xiao Tan, are they at work?"

Li Mingchao and Tan Li are the son and daughter-in-law of Mr. Li.

Although they were not in the same group as Wei Pingan at the beginning, they have talked about Wei Pingan's "big name" and "beautiful deeds" all the year round.

Whenever we overcome difficulties, we must ask Lao Wei for help, because it is safe to come.

Break the homonym.

But the truth is that it works really well.

Li Mingchao and Tan Li also benefited and returned home several years in advance.

Of course, this advance is only clear to Wei Pingan.

Without his intervention, the first cannonball would have exploded a year later, and the second cannonball would not have exploded until more than two years later in 67.

Now, it is only 1964 after the year.

"They are busy with work, and Xiaoli has been pregnant for several months. There is no need to come here with a big belly, so I went to deal with them."

Old Li is open-minded.

As soon as Wei Dabao entered the room, he got a green leather toad toy. Although the paint was a little faded, it was very vivid. Dabao liked it very much and had a great time playing with it.

"Uncle Li, please help me take care of it. I'll go to the backyard to do some shopping and see what I can make some toys for Dabao..."

"Hey, the chief engineer who asked you to make cannonballs with one hand makes toys for children, isn't it overkill..."

"My son's toys, how can they be compared like this."

While talking happily, Wei Pingan went to the backyard.

In the backyard piled up like a hill, Wei Pingan sorted out a lot of waste wood, and found a children's tricycle with a distorted seat and missing right hind leg.

Shanghai Honghua brand children's bicycle, the blue paint is mottled, and the peeling parts are rusted.

Probably sold for scrap metal.

Using space projection skills, Wei Pingan found the "missing" wheel with a section of broken cylindrical bracket on it.

There are also some good old furniture under the piled hill. They are not expensive items, but you can use any wood you choose.

Wei Pingan took into account the practical problems and directly took it into the space.

Wei Pingan is probably the only one who is capable of such an upright cultural person like Wool from the waste collection station.

"You have been digging for a long time, and you just found these three wheels?"

"What else can children play with, such as picture books, you don't have any in your backyard."

"Just take it away, and let Grandpa Li give it to Dabao, okay?"

"Thank you, Grandpa Li."

Wei Pingan was not polite either, picked up his son and left.

"Uncle Li, let's have a drink tonight, don't start the fire, just wait for me..."

People in the capital are angry, as long as they have the right eyes and become friends, they will definitely give people a thumbs up when they do things.

Take Lao Litou and Wei Ping'an as examples, no one is short of this little money, and that's what they care about.

You respect me a foot, and I respect you a foot.

There are comings and goings, and this kind of favor will come out even more.

Coming out of the waste collection station, Wei Pingan took Dabao to Ju'er Hutong by bicycle.

Lei Lao Wu was not at home.

Wei Pingan left a message, thinking about getting together someday.

Seeing that his family is in good condition, his wife and children look pretty good.

After two rides in the car, Wei Dabao got used to sitting sideways on the crossbeam. He got on the car very skillfully, holding the front of the handlebars with his little hands in woolen gloves, squatting and squatting happily.

This dad is amazing, I have never had such an experience before.

Except that his mother took him to Beihai Park once, he never left the alley of the courtyard.

Today, he ran a lot of places, and Wei Dabao was surprised by everything he saw.

I couldn't be happier.

Back in the yard, Wei Pingan settled Dabao, washed his hands, and changed into warm long-wear and long trousers. There is an earthen heater in the house, and it is easy to catch a cold when entering and leaving the house if it is too hot.

The elderly don't care about this when they bring their children, but they are worried about catching cold, so Dabao often has a runny nose, which is an external manifestation.

One day yesterday and half a day today, Dabao's runny nose is much better.

Well, I went for a few rides on the bike, and when I got home, my snot-nosed baby showed signs of recovery.

Wei Pingan called Laifu, and accompanied Dabao to make trouble in the house, not letting him go out.

The intelligence of the spirit dog is unimaginable to others.

But only Wei Ping'an can understand the greeting with his arms and fingers.

He plans to make a child seat installed on the bicycle first.

I found out the disadvantages when I went out for a trip. I took the child to ride a bike, and I was worried that the child would suffer from sitting for a long time.

The seat is relatively simple to make, and Wei Pingan intends to make two.

The first one is designed on the front beam of [-] bars, the triangular support is fixed on the beam, the seat and backrest are laid on it, and a softer mattress is laid on it.

The matter of the small mattress is left to the old lady at night.

The older they are, the less they are afraid of you arranging things. What they are afraid of is that young people will gradually lose their "sense of existence" because of their deliberate care.

Anyway, there is a sewing machine in the room over there, and the old lady sits on the cushion, which is not tiring and can reflect its sense of value.

Arranged perfectly.

The second one is not complicated. It is designed on the back seat and is designed for Zhou Wen's bicycle.

Her car has no front beams, and the child seat in the back has a "seat belt" to prevent the child from falling out of sight.

Although Zhou Wen is not like the kind of parent who doesn't care about five or six, Wei Pingan has experienced the era of short video bombing, and has seen too many strange scenes of abandoning the child or kicking the child out of the car and walking away.

Take precautions before they happen.

The old lady opened the door and entered the yard with a set of things.

The old lady's things are just like that, today it's Maza and sewing dustpan, sitting in the sun and chatting about the soles or insoles...

Then there is Maza with a cardboard box, a small jar, and a matchbox.

Just now I heard her greeting the other old lady in the yard.

Obviously, the popularity of the old lady in the courtyard was incomparable to that of Wei Ping'an.

This is also good, the living environment of Zhou Zimo is relatively better when the old lady integrates into the courtyard.

Although Zhou Wen didn't care, it would be good to have less gossip.

As for Wei Ping'an, his reputation has long been rotten on the street.

There are medals for meritorious service in Wei Pingan's space. If he really cares about it, many people will have to go in to eat "public meals".

"Grandma, I made a seat for Dabao. It will be more comfortable to take him out in the future. You can measure it and make a cushion..."

"Okay, let me see...it's really nice, it's very comfortable to sit on. Where's Dabao?"

"I was playing with Laifu in the house. I was afraid that he would catch a cold, so I didn't let him come to the yard."

"Then I'll go in and take a look. It's time to cook in a while."

"Grandma, fry some peanuts in a while. I'll ask Uncle Li to have some drinks. I just went to the waste collection station to dig out some things. Uncle Li gave Dabao a toy."

"Okay, fried peanuts, I'll make them for you right now."

Wei Ping'an came back, there was more oil in the house, and the old lady began to be willing to spend a lot of money again.

"Old Wei, is Old Wei there?"

A familiar voice came from outside.

No one said anything in the courtyard.

In the entire courtyard, only Wei Ping'an's family was named Wei, and whoever didn't know when someone called him that.

"Old Yu, why did you come here? You have just been home for two days, and you don't spend much time with your wife and children, so why are you wandering around here by yourself?"

A big head wearing glasses, with a chicken coop on his head, is in a hurry.

"I thought of a way to increase the effect of laser detonation, old Wei, if we arrange multi-point and multi-channel lasers symmetrically..."

In Wei Ping'an's courtyard, a disheveled comrade was talking about his ideas and theoretical principles.

In fact, Wei Ping'an is quite admirable for this kind of dedicated person.

His dedication and attitude made Wei Pingan even a little ashamed.

"...Understood. In the end, rely on the inertia of concentrating and compressing to let the target core disperse before it has time to disperse..."

"Fusion occurs!"

"Old Wei, do you think this idea..."

"Well, use the particle's inertial effect to constrain the particle itself... This idea of ​​inertial confinement fusion is wonderful, but Lao Yu, we are on vacation now, we don't want to work, and spending time with our wife and children is also a task, don't you forget? gone?"

"Hey, I was just playing with my child today, and I suddenly thought of it, hey, it's broken... child..."

Wei Pingan didn't have time to let Lao Yu into the room, this guy jumped up suddenly, and ran out in a hurry.

"What's wrong, where did you lose the child?"

Old Yu's voice came from a distance: "Beihai Park..."

Wei Pingan, with black hair all over his head, hurried back to the house to get his coat, and ran out with the cart.

Losing a child is a big deal, and at a time like this, you have to look for it anyway.

Arranging for some scientific researchers to bring their babies is no different from walking a tightrope.

Maybe which muscle is not dealt with, and the child will not know which corner to throw into.

Fortunately, the old Yu's child had grown up, so he just stayed where he was and didn't move.

Frozen, terrified, and presumably starving.

Seeing Lao Yu running back from afar, he burst into tears.

No matter how old Yu is clumsy, he can't coax him well.

In the end, it was a piece of Taibai Rabbit milk candy that Wei Pingan handed over to solve the problem.

"Old Yu, I'm not talking about you. No matter what, you can't waste sleep and food like this. It's a trivial matter to scare children. If you really lose it..."

"Yes, yes, it's all my fault."

"Okay, it's getting late, let's go back quickly."

As Wei Pingan said, he stuffed another handful of Taibai Rabbit toffee into Lao Yu's pocket.

"Hey, by the way, how is your stomach trouble?"

"After taking the medicine you gave, it's really much better. I feel that nothing is wrong. Is there anything else? Remember to ask me for it after you finish taking it. I'll prepare it for you."

"Understood, thank you."

"Let's go, bring it to my sister-in-law."

Back home, Zhou Wen has already arrived home.

In the afternoon, there was a story about a "crazy" who lost her child for work, and the old lady learned it all from Zhou Wen.

"How is it? Did you find the child?"

"I searched for it, but the human child didn't move at all, but it was too frightening."

Zhou Wen didn't know what to think of, and burst out laughing.

"Dabao, you have to remember. Dad will take you out again in the future. If you forget to bring you back, you just stay where you are, you understand?"

"I see, but Dad, why did you forget to take me home?"

"Dad will never forget, Dabao reminds Dad all the time, how could Dad forget to bring Dabao home?"

"What if I really forgot?"

"Then stay where you are, Dad will definitely find you and take you home."

Wei Pingan said solemnly.

At this time, neither of the father and son thought that after 72 years, this promise would really be fulfilled one day.

When Wei Jingzhou, who suffered from severe dementia, was lost in a high-rise building, when the police comrades and well-meaning onlookers kept advising him, Wei Jingzhou was so stubborn that no one could take him away. …

Until Wei Ping'an appeared...

　My friend's "Siheyuan, I, a silly column, picked up the script of Qinman", is said to be quite interesting...

　　
　
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