Chapter 1 Crossing
1961 years.

Snow day.

No. 95, Nanluoguxiang, Sijiucheng.

Low sobbing sounds were heard from the side room of the east wing in the backyard.

On the edge of the bed in the room, a pretty woman in her twenties was hugging a little girl, wiping her tears and coaxing the little girl.

Lying on the bed was a young man with a sallow complexion but handsome looks, struggling in pain!

It was getting dark.

The little girl looked up at her mother and said, "Mom, I'm hungry."

"Then Qiaoqiao take good care of dad, and mom will go cook."

"I'll take good care of Dad."

"So nice."

As the woman spoke, she stood up, walked to the door and pushed it open into the kitchen.

The man on the bed also opened his eyes at this time, staring at the wooden support on the ceiling in a daze.

Yu Zhiyuan tried hard to recall that he was taking a lunch break at his desk, but he somehow traveled from 2024 to 1961?

If you think carefully about the original owner’s memory, it’s still the famous Love in Courtyard!

I feel so dizzy that I don't even know what to complain about.

Fortunately, I learned from the original owner’s memory that the original owner had the same name and surname as me, also called Yu Zhiyuan!

There is also a virtuous daughter-in-law and a well-behaved and lovely daughter.

"Mom, Mom. Dad is awake!"

Yu Zhiyuan, who was feeling dizzy, was suddenly awakened by the child's cheerful cry.

"Qiaoqiao, are you cold? Come, take off your shoes and get into Daddy's bed."

"Qiaoqiao, don't be cold. Qiaoqiao needs to take care of daddy! Mom is going to cook."

As he was talking, his wife came out of the kitchen with a bowl of cornmeal. Seeing that Yu Zhiyuan had woken up, she said, "You're awake. Lie down for a while. We'll have dinner soon. I'll go to the vegetable cellar to get some cabbage."

Then he opened the door and walked out of the room.

Yu Zhiyuan sat up, picked up the cotton jacket from the end of the bed and put it on, then held Qiaoqiao in his arms, then continued to stare blankly at the furnishings in the room.

It is sad to say the least for Yu Zhiyuan. The most difficult days of the past few years were about to pass, but Yu Zhiyuan's mother did not survive the winter after all!
Looking back three days ago, Yu Zhiyuan was busy at the operating table in the second workshop of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill when he was suddenly called to the door of the workshop by the workshop director Guo Shougang.

"Sister Yi came to see you and told you to go home quickly. She said your mother fainted in your alley! She told you to go back quickly!"

Before Director Guo could finish his words, Yu Zhiyuan turned around and ran out like a madman.

I ran to the gate and didn't even see the old lady standing there.

When Yu Zhiyuan ran to his door breathlessly, he only heard crying inside the house.

When I pushed the door open, I saw the second and third aunts standing in the small living room, gesturing with white cloths in their hands.

Seeing Yu Zhiyuan coming back, the first aunt Meng Xinghua said to him, "Zhiyuan, I don't know how your mother fainted in the alley. When your third aunt saw her in the toilet, she called out twice but got no response. When she went over, she found that your mother was already dead! This white cloth was brought by your third aunt."

Yu Zhiyuan walked to the door on the left in a dull manner, pushed it open and saw his daughter-in-law Yang Xuemei kneeling in front of her mother's bed crying. His daughter Yu Qiaoqiao was holding her grandmother's hand and crying, calling her grandmother.

Yu Zhiyuan stupidly walked to the bed and knelt down, forgetting even to cry!
It was not until lunch time that I was awakened by the call of an old man named Yi Zhonghai.

"Zhiyuan, come out and ask your first and second aunts to help your mother change into some neat clothes."

Yu Zhiyuan followed Yi Zhonghai out dully and listened to him arrange the procedures and whose house he should go to report the death.

After the first and second aunts came out of their mother's bedroom, Yu Zhiyuan gave Yi Zhonghai a handful of money, then returned to his mother's bedside and knelt down woodenly.

After taking care of his mother's funeral, Yu Zhiyuan was completely exhausted.

Only then did Yu Zhiyuan arrive sixty years later.

Mother Wei Yajuan was also a miserable woman. She watched the years of famine pass by, but she left her son behind and passed away quietly!
Yu Zhiyuan, who was immersed in his memories, was interrupted by the sound of the door opening.

I saw my daughter-in-law holding a cabbage, pushing open the door and walking into the house, and then went straight to the small kitchen behind the living room.

Seeing my current wife reminded me of myself as an older bachelor in the 21st century. I didn’t expect that once I arrived at the courtyard, I would find myself having both a wife and a daughter.

What a magical world!

When I thought about it carefully, I broke out in a cold sweat again. It turned out that my wife and Qin Huairu from the Central Courtyard were from the same village.

Fortunately, it’s just one village, but that won’t do!
At this time, Jia Dongxu had not left yet. If he was about to leave, she would not bother him as her wife anymore, right?
No, I have to pay attention and find a way to communicate with my wife and ask her to stay away from Qin Huairu.

Tomorrow I have to go to Yan Bugui's house to get the favor account book back!
Thinking of this, I suddenly realized that don’t other people who travel through time have some golden fingers?
Yu Zhiyuan then closed his eyes and felt it carefully, and found that the Hetian jade peace pendant that his grandmother gave him before she passed away in his previous life had actually come with him. Then he discovered that there was a space inside that was three meters long, wide and high!
Then there is no more!

Having only this golden finger is better than nothing!
After thinking it over carefully, Yu Zhiyuan decided to put the "Nothing to Do" card aside for a few days, as his wife didn't know he had such a piece of jewelry.

I was thinking about this and that until my daughter in my arms called me, I realized that dinner was already ready.

Yu Zhiyuan sat at the small square table in the living room, looking at a plate of fried cabbage, a plate of pickled vegetables, a large porcelain bowl with a few steamed buns made of three-grain flour, and a bowl of cornmeal porridge in front of him.

Yu Zhiyuan was suddenly a little stunned. Although he was single before, he had never eaten such simple meals!
No wonder my wife and daughter are so thin!
It seems that the first goal is to let the family have a full meal first!
"Xuemei, I remember you went to junior high school, right?"

"Yes! I only went to junior high school and didn't get into high school." Yang Xuemei nodded and replied.

"Then I'll go to the street office tomorrow and ask Director Wang if he can ask you to take over your mother's job and be responsible for distributing food coupons to the neighbors."

After Yu Zhiyuan finished speaking, he ate his dinner in silence.

After dinner, the family of three washed their feet with hot water before going to bed.

As soon as it was light, Yu Zhiyuan got up, put on his clothes and went out.

The heavy snow has stopped.

He turned around and went to the small room next to the wing, picked up a shovel and a broom, and started cleaning the snow in front of the door.

Jiang Jiang piled the snow in front of his door together. Liu Haizhong, who lived in the backyard, also went out with his two sons taking tools.

Gradually, every household went out to sweep the snow.

Liu Haizhong waved his hand and said to Yu Zhiyuan, "Zhiyuan, you, Guangfu, Guangtian, and Damao, take the dustpan and clear the snow to the back of the public toilet. You don't have to clean the yard."

After I finished cleaning the backyard all sweaty, I heard an old man named Yi Zhonghai from the central courtyard calling out to me from the Moon Gate in the backyard.

"Young men, hurry up and clear the snow in the alley and at the gate of the compound. After that, we can have breakfast and go to work calmly!"

(End of this chapter)