Chapter 123 “Home away from home”

Outsiders feel at home when they come to No. 1304. The atmosphere there is relaxed and comfortable, and it is completely arbitrary.It’s not like visiting some people’s house: the host is very polite and serves tea and malted milk (serving coffee was only popular after the 1980s), so the guests sit down and chat carefully; sometimes the host invites you to eat, and specially adds more Two dishes, making you feel annoyed while eating - I forgot to buy some fruits and other gifts, I'm sorry.In No. 1304, there is absolutely no such pretense. When you go, you may not be served tea (especially when there are many people), but you can find a cup to pour water when you are thirsty. You can eat freely in No. 1304, the owner. Eat what you eat.

In the summer of 1971, after I returned to the urban area from the cadre school farm to "fight the high temperature", I often went to No. 1304 and did not need to be accompanied by others.If you go to work in the rain and there is only Aunt Hu at home (all the juniors are out of town), listen to the old lady tell anecdotes about old Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s.Only then did I realize that the old lady is a funny and talkative person, she knows a lot of things, she also knows quite well about Peking opera, and she is absolutely expert. Although the eldest sister Yu Zhongxing has never been married (I don’t know if she has been in love—it’s inconvenient to ask), she is very concerned about the lifelong events of her friends.At that time, I knew: Nannan and Qingyun, Charlie and Fenfen, and others were all naturally brought about by Xingxing in the Rain.Especially how Charlie got to know his wife is still fresh in my memory.When the Fenfen sisters came to No. 1304 for the first time, under the leadership of Yu Zhongxing, everyone "grandly introduced" to Fenfen an outstanding man Charlie (the outstanding man could not attend because he was teaching in a school in Baoshan), and I made a big deal out of it He told Fenfen carefully: Because of his high attainments in music, Charlie is known as the "Father of Baoshan Music".

One evening in the spring of 1972, I went to number 1304.Yu Zhongxing told me solemnly: They were going to arrange a meeting for me to meet a girl. "They" include Aunt Hu, probably thought of by Xing Yu, and Aunt Hu very much agrees. (Chatting with the old lady is rewarding—attention unmarried men) Yu Zhongxing told a little about the girl, and Aunt Hu made a long supplement, and she could tell that she liked this girl very much.