Chapter 130 Housekeeping
Wang Deming brought his family into the yard and saw a man wearing a double-breasted cotton jacket standing next to Zhang Ma. Wang Deming nodded to him.

Aunt Zhang smiled enthusiastically and explained, "Master Deming, this is our husband, his surname is Zhao."

"I'll do some cleaning work in the yard from now on."

"Hello, Uncle Zhao!"

Old Zhao replied sullenly, "Hello, Master!"

Aunt Zhang greeted Wang Shuqin and Yan Baozhen enthusiastically: "Hello, old lady, hello, Grandma Baozhen." When she turned to Qin Huairu, she instantly understood the latter's identity, turned her eyes slightly, and shouted with a smile: "Hello, Second Grandma!"

Qin Huairu lowered her head and said "hmm" softly.

"Old Zhao, please close the gate. I will show the young master around."

"Master Deming, please come this way."

The courtyard house of Xiaojingchang is the most common two-courtyard house; behind the gate is a screen wall, on the right is a one-room gatehouse, and on the left is a row of three back houses.

Passing through the hanging flower gate, there are three rooms in the north with two side rooms, and three rooms each in the east and west wing rooms. There is a stone table and stone bench under a pomegranate tree in the courtyard.

Aunt Zhang led Wang Deming to open the three main rooms and introduced them, "Master, the furniture you moved from Qinlao Hutong has been arranged. Take a look."

He continued to flatter her, "You have a sharp eye, young master!"

"The five-fold folding mirror stand with carved phoenix pattern on huanghuali wood," the bed with black lacquer inlaid mother-of-pearl and flower-and-bird pattern," the arhat bed with a single huanghuali board fence," as well as the antique display stand and table are all exquisite. These huanghuali furniture can be exchanged for a nice yard!"

"Is it better than what the Third Master is going to buy for Miss Shouchun at Longxucheng?"

Wang Deming casually replied, "It just happened to happen."

After walking around for a while, I nodded with satisfaction. The floor tiles and ceiling were all new. The three main rooms were divided by wooden walls, one bright and two dark. The unique Luohan bed and matching tables and chairs were placed in the main hall, as were the desks and antique shelves.

The east and west rooms are divided into different functional rooms by floor-to-ceiling covers: the back room is a bedroom with a heated kang, and the front room is equipped with a mirror table, a desk, a wardrobe, etc.

"Master, the bird-patterned bed has been placed in the main hall of the west wing."

Wang Deming then went to the east and west wing rooms, as well as the side room that was converted into a toilet.

"Yeah, it's pretty good." After coming out, Wang Deming turned around and asked Wang Shuqin: "Mom, what else do you think we can add?"

The old lady was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling. "Okay, okay!"

"Deming, this house is better than the one we lived in Changping!"

“Especially the furniture in the house, it’s so magnificent!”

"Mom wants to buy you something, but she can't afford it!"

Wang Deming was stunned when he heard this, and asked Yan Baozhen, "Sister, didn't you tell mom that the five-story house at No. 18 Qinlao Hutong belongs to us?"

Yan Baozhen, who was watching Renchun and Yichun running back and forth playing hide-and-seek in the yard, was also stunned when she heard this. She covered her mouth and laughed, "I didn't remember."

"We didn't even move there, and we forgot about it a long time ago."

Old Madam Wang Shuqin recognized what was going on and was shocked. She asked hurriedly, "Deming, when did you get a big house?"

Wang Deming winked at the old lady and said, "Mom, have you forgotten how many scrolls I had on me when I was at the doorstep?"

"It turned out to be very valuable. I exchanged it for that."

"Oh!" Wang Shuqin was very clever, "Luckily I can read, haha."

"My son is really promising!" Everyone was satisfied with the visit. On the way back to Nanluoguxiang after leaving, Wang Deming suddenly asked Qin Huairu: "Xiaoru, do you want to ride in a red sedan too?"

"Ah" Qin Huairu's heart suddenly started pounding when she heard Wang Deming ask this. She looked at Wang Deming in panic and then lowered her head. She didn't know how to answer for a moment.

If you say you haven't thought about it, you'd be lying. Which girl hasn't thought about riding in a red sedan before getting married?

This is just like renting a luxury car for your future wedding.
Seeing this, Wang Deming smiled slightly and said in a gentle voice: "Shouchun, you will marry us on the 29th day of the lunar year, and then spend the New Year with us; on the second day of the lunar year, you will go back to your parents' home and stay there for another month before coming back."

"When Shouchun got married, I asked the Zhang family to send an extra sedan chair, and you two came in together at 9 o'clock in the evening. Of course, she went in first."

"I've already asked Uncle Yin Changrong to make the clothes for you. It's the one I told you to wear during the Chinese New Year."

"Originally, I was thinking of making clothes for both you and Shouchun myself, as a token of my appreciation, but who knows I'm too busy now."

Qin Huairu burst into tears. She rushed forward and covered Wang Deming's mouth, choking with sobs: "Deming, I know! You have to write novels until late every night! You are already very tired!"

Wang Deming gently grasped Qin Huairu's hand and said, "I will try my best to give you the best."

"Well I believe you."

Qin Huairu burst into tears.

Qin Huairu was very emotional, and after overhearing her thoughts, Wang Deming finally put his mind at ease and prepared to be the groom!

If I accidentally have an accident in this era, it would be much more serious than in my previous life, okay?
There is no other way but to run away!

Yan Baozhen looked at the true feelings expressed by Wang Deming and Qin Huairu, smiled knowingly, and raised her eyebrows slightly at Wang Deming. Wang Deming pretended to blink innocently.

After returning home and coaxing the children to sleep, Yan Baozhen took Wang Shuqin to the study and said slowly and firmly: "Deming, I have been thinking over and over again recently, and I still cannot move to the small factory with you."

"What's wrong?" Wang Deming put down his pen, flexed his wrist, and asked in confusion: "Sister, didn't we agree on this at the beginning?"

"Living in a slum is really troublesome."

"Especially the courtyard we live in now. Take a look: the front courtyard is okay, there is just a calculating and taking advantage person; He Daqing in the middle courtyard, even if the street office doesn't find any other problems and changes his class status to a small property owner, how can he be a good person if he leaves two children for a widow?"

"Yi Zhonghai is the same, he has a gloomy face all day long, and he has not taken any action to adopt a child;"

"Don't even mention the backyard. Ever since I lost my title of uncle, you can see how Liu Haizhong beats the kids. They are howling like ghosts every day."

Yan Baozhen still shook her head slowly and firmly, and sighed as she expressed her concerns, "Deming, if my family were to go to the small factory, we would have come to you; but what about your brother-in-law and his two daughters who have returned from the labor camp?"

"Sis already relies on you for food and drink, you can't have them rely on you too, right?"

"Besides, I think what you said to the Cha family and that family before: you must participate in labor and support yourself with your own hands. That's right."

"You have to ask your brother-in-law to take the initiative to participate in the labor after he comes back."

Wang Shuqin also persuaded Wang Deming: "Deming, listen to your sister."

"Mom knows that my son has a promising future and doesn't mind supporting your brother-in-law's family; but things can't be done this way!"

"Let them work hard to make a living. We know how to save them in times of emergency, not in poverty!"

Wang Deming hesitated for a moment, nodded, and said seriously: "Sister, if you have any difficulties, please tell me in time."

“Haha,” Wang Deming suddenly laughed, “Let’s talk about the future after my brother-in-law and the others come out. It’s okay if you don’t want to move there.”

"Just help me look for a house!"

(End of this chapter)