Early in the morning, Su Changshun pedaled his brand-new Flying Pigeon bicycle, carrying Li Xiaomei to work at the Rolling Mill. Li Xiaomei sat sideways on the back seat, gently wrapping one arm around Su Changshun's waist as she felt the morning breeze brush against her cheek. Su Changshun pedaled with extra vigor, pressing the bicycle bell even more crisply and cheerfully than usual, as if announcing his good mood to the entire lane.
Ah, now this was life! A life with a wife to ride to and from work with—it felt wonderful!
The courtyard was dead silent. With Yi Zhonghai toppled, the Deaf Old Lady's true colors exposed, and the Jia Family thoroughly suppressed, the entire Quadrangle Courtyard seemed to have entered hibernation ahead of schedule. Shazhu alone became a regular visitor to the front courtyard's east side room, running over to Su Changshun's new home on every pretext imaginable. One moment he delivered some scallion pancakes accidentally made in excess by the canteen, and the next he asked if he needed help applying varnish to the newly built cabinet. The eager expectation in his eyes was impossible to hide; he might as well have carved the words "looking for a wife" right onto his forehead.
Chapter 46