"Brother Huang, hello, I’m troubling you this time."
"It’s no trouble at all, it’s my honor to help comrades, especially Sister Lin. Sister Lin has helped us a lot, quickly load the things onto the truck, Sister Lin might get cold."
Han Yi nodded, tightened Lin Wan’s scarf, and let her get into the car first.
He and Huang Dashan quickly loaded the luggage onto the truck.
"I won’t keep you for drinks at home this time. Brother Han, whenever you have time, be sure to bring your wife to our house to play."
Han Yi smiled and shook hands with Huang Dashan. "It’s cold outside, Brother Huang, hurry back to warm up. I wish Brother Huang a happy new year in advance, next time we have a chance, we’ll have a drink, I’m not staying longer, I’m taking Xiao Wan away now."
"Sure, sure, take care on the road."
Even after Han Yi’s car went far away, Huang Dashan was still smiling foolishly over there. "The Liberation Army is truly different."
Han Yi held the steering wheel with one hand, held Lin Wan’s hand with the other, warming her. "It’s not as constantly warm here as it is there where you are from. After staying a few more years, you’ll get used to it. How’s Grandma?"
"She’s in good spirits, but her leg always hurts. I want to take her to the hospital, but she doesn’t want to go."
"Grandma’s condition is an old one. The medicinal wine from a comrade of mine is quite good. Fortunately, he’s visiting family now, so I asked him to bring some back for me."
Just like that, Han Yi held her hand and drove all the way to the military family complex.
At this time, the tallest buildings in the county area were their office building and the five-story tubular buildings in the family complex.
There are three tubular buildings, with two somewhat old, and one looking relatively new. Behind the tubular buildings, two more floors were under construction.
To the left of the tubular buildings is a row of five bungalows.
The house they were allocated was in the left building of the last row of bungalows, next to the high wall of the family complex.
"Why does this house have a little courtyard while others don’t?" Lin Wan asked curiously.
"This house used to belong to Captain Zhang of the team. It didn’t originally have a courtyard. His wife was not very sociable and often quarreled with the people in the courtyard. One time, she broke her head, and since then Zhang’s wife has been a little confused, often entering the wrong homes, causing many complaints from families. Later, Captain Zhang applied to the team and built a small courtyard himself. Captain Zhang transferred this summer. The courtyard was left empty. Because it’s in the last row, next to the wall, the team didn’t plan to demolish it. Everyone in the team is waiting for the new building to be built to be allocated new houses. No one cares for the bungalows here. Xiao Wan, would you mind applying for a house ?"
Lin Wan shook her head and walked around the courtyard. There was a bedroom and a kitchen. In the courtyard, next to the wall, two bricks had been removed, with many withered flower stems inside. On the opposite side of the kitchen, under someone else’s back wall, a rectangle about sixty or seventy centimeters had been built with bricks, filled with lots of coal and wood. Besides these, the courtyard was still quite clean. It seemed Captain Zhang’s wife knew how to enjoy life. "I really courtyard, it’s much better than the apartment buildings over there."
"Don’t worry, we won’t live in this house for many years. After you graduate from night school, I’ll strive to earn us an apartment," Han Yi thought Lin Wan was comforting him and promised while holding her hand.
Lin Wan burst out laughing. "What’s so good about apartments? Many families on a single floor, shared kitchen, shared water room, and importantly, a shared bathroom. My classmates say that the bathrooms in those apartments often get clogged, and it’s unbearable in the summer. I really don’t want to live in that kind of apartment. If we ever can live in an apartment, it should be one with its own kitchen and bathroom."