"Ouch, Little Hui's back."
Song Mother, busy at home tending to her daughter, saw Song Yunhui and Cheng Kaiyan following behind him. "This is...?"
"Mom, this is Cheng Kaiyan, my girlfriend. When she heard my sister had a baby, she came back with me to visit." Song Yunhui explained with a smile.
"Hello, Auntie. I'm Cheng Kaiyan. You can call me Little Cheng or Kaiyan."
"Oh, Kaiyan!"
Song Mother smiled. "Look at all that sweat—you must be baking. Put those things down. Why are you still carrying them? Hurry and rest. I'll cut you some watermelon. I bought it just this morning."
"Oh..." Cheng Kaiyan hurriedly set down the things in her hands, not knowing what she should do next.
"Mom, Kaiyan and I are going to see my sister and the baby."
"Go on, go on. I'll bring the watermelon over in a bit." Song Mother nodded with a smile.
Song Yunhui took Cheng Kaiyan by the hand and crossed the front courtyard to the neighboring unit.
The building had been designed with seventy-square-meter, fifty-five-square-meter, and eighty-five-square-meter units side by side. The seventy-square-meter unit was on the inside, the fifty-five-square-meter one in the middle, and the eighty-five-square-meter unit on the end. It happened to suit Wang Yan's family perfectly, and the small ground-floor courtyard had been expanded accordingly.
He had principles. He had not taken even a scrap of space from the employee family living in the seventy-square-meter unit. Given the circumstances at the time, he could easily have claimed all three units on the floor, and no one would have said a word. But he had not done so. Instead, he allocated them to the factory's outstanding veteran employees. Whenever he had time, Wang Yan would invite them over for a few drinks and chats with the old