Traversing the courtyard

Chapter 9 Cleaning
"Okay, Second Sister, I'll send it back."

Yi Weidong turned around and went back into the Westinghouse, sent the single knife into the space, and came out to close the door, while silly Zhu was still soundly asleep.

Walking up to He Yushui, he said:

"Let's go, second sister."

He Yushui said: "Sister Qin, I'll take my brother around and play."

"Go quickly!"

Yi Weidong also waved goodbye, waving to maintain the basic politeness.

When I went to the front yard, I met the uncle again and chatted a few times. The uncle also praised Yi Weidong for being very brave. He was so thin and small that he killed a wild dog himself.

After saying goodbye, Yi Weidong asked, "Are those two black dogs wild dogs?"

"Yeah, I often encounter them, and now I can't afford to eat, and few families have puppies." He Yuyu replied.

Yi Weidong wondered if he should buy a harpoon head, he could go to the reeds to shovel fish, and if he encounters a wild dog, he will kill it again, so as to save the trouble of harming others.

On the street, there is Beixinqiao Department Store on the left, and there is a state-run hotel on the opposite side. I didn't expect that there is a Wenji Photo Studio next door.

It turns out that this place belongs to Beixinqiao Street. Go north to Lama Temple Bridge. The north of the bridge is now a suburb, and then north is Ditan Park.He Yushui said that there is a pigeon market nearby.

It's not the place that sells pigeons in the name, it's the place where some people buy and sell.

Yi Weidong also remembered that there was a large pigeon market outside Deshengmen from Xiangxi.

Only then did He Yushui remember to remind him: "Don't go, don't get caught again."

"Don't worry, sister, I have nothing to sell." Yi Weidong replied.

After walking not far, he walked into a barber shop in Beixinqiao. Yi Weidong wanted to pay for it, but He Yushui took the lead and paid five cents.

He Yuyu glared at Yi Weidong and said, "If you are polite to your sister again, I'm really anxious for you!"

"Sister, don't be angry, I'm the most obedient."

The hair-cutting master asked, "Yu Shui, why do you have an extra brother?"

He Yuyu smiled and replied, "This is my cousin, and he will live with us in the future."

He Yushui was chatting with the haircutter, and Yi Weidong was pressed by the apprentice to wash his hair with soap. At this time, he used laundry soap commonly known as stinky soap to wash his hair. Yi Weidong could only endure it. In the countryside, he still used plant ash to wash his hair. Thinking about it this way, the barber shop is still much better.

After washing his head, the master looked at the head, which was uglier than a dog's bite, and said:

"I cut it myself, I can only keep a little short hair."

Yi Weidong replied: "Your old eyes are so good, I cut it myself."

The master tapped the fader a few times to push off the excess hair. Hey, this head shape is similar to that of a monk, with short hair.

Now when I walked out, no one looked at me with surprised eyes anymore.

After leaving the barber shop, He Yuyu took Yi Weidong around in a large circle to see the Beixin Bridge built on the flat ground. He Yuyu vividly told the legend of Suolongjing.

Go east along Dongzhimen Inner Street, pass the Beixinqiao Police Station and turn to the Nanguan Park to sit for a while.

Yi Weidong looked at the pond in the park and asked:

"Sister, is there any fish here? Can you fish?"

He Yuyu smiled and said: "There are no big fish anymore, and people have already caught them. How much does a pound of ordinary fish cost more than two cents?"

Yi Weidong's eyes lit up and said:
"Sister, I had fish in the reeds before. I'll catch the fish in two days and let us eat it."

"Can you catch fish? Forget it, don't go by yourself, it's too dangerous to fall into the water."

Yi Weidong said: "It's okay, sister, I stand on the shore and use the bayonet I made to stick fish, not go into the water to catch fish."

"Nowhere, I won't worry about you when you go together on Sunday." He Yushui said.

"Okay, wait for the big brother to go with you."

Yi Weidong agreed in his mouth, but he thought that it was more important to go around and insert a few more fish to make up for his body.

After playing in the park for a while, He Yuyu saw that it was getting late and said:

"Weidong, let's go back, I have to go to work in the afternoon."

"Okay lady."

When the two returned to the courtyard house, Yi Weidong rushed to cook, but He Yushui refused to let him go, and Yi Weidong was not idle. He took the tap water from the washbasin and asked He Yushui to find a rag and went into the Westinghouse Clean up.

He Yuyu quickly followed and said:
"Weidong, don't touch the small cabinet to the left of the desk, it's all my sister's own."

"Okay, I understand." Yi Weidong said with a smile.

"Understood, little devil, don't open it." He Yuyu said.

"Yes sister, I don't want to read it."

He Yuyu then went out to cook again.

There are no sanitary napkins these days, how can there be anything good-looking.

Westinghouse only wiped it halfway, and He Yushui shouted:

"Weidong, come out for dinner."

"Come on," Yi Weidong asked as he walked out of the Westinghouse:

"Aren't you coming back at noon, eldest brother?"

"Brother is a chef. He eats in the cafeteria at noon every day. From now on, you cook and eat by yourself at noon. Our cotton spinning factory works in three shifts, and I usually live in the dormitory."

"Okay, I know."

He Yushui fried a plate of spicy radish slices, but the white flour steamed buns were gone, probably because he ate the extra steamed buns yesterday.

Burnt small yellow rice porridge, steamed wowotou, Yi Weidong's first time eating wowotou, the taste is really incomparable to the food of later generations, the aroma of the food itself is full.

It's just that the grinding is not as fine as that of later generations, and when swallowing, it will scrape the throat, which is a little uncomfortable.

After lunch, Yi Weidong washed the bowl, He Yuyu went out and borrowed a meter ruler, asked Yi Weidong to stand up straight, measured the shoulder width, arm, waist and other data, and wrote it down on a piece of paper with a pencil.

Pointing to a bag of clothes on Shazhu's bedside, he said:
"This is the old clothes that big brother found for you yesterday. I'll change it for you in the factory dormitory. Can you be at home by yourself?"

"Thank you, sister, I'm at home and won't go out and run around." Yi Weidong said.

He Yuyu entered the Westinghouse again, took a key and a few gross receipts and said:

"Here is the key to the door, and there is fifty cents left for your pocket."

Yi Weidong took the key and said:

"Sister, I have money."

He Yuyu put the money into Yi Weidong's hand and said, "Sister will give it to you, you can continue, and I will give it to you after spending it."

Yi Weidong had no choice but to put the money in his pocket.

He Yuyu picked up the cloth package containing the clothes and went out and put it on the back of the bicycle.

Yi Weidong said to Yi Weidong who came out: "I'm going to work, you watch at home, brother gets off work at four or five o'clock, you don't need to prepare stir-fries, he will bring leftovers most of the time."

Yi Weidong said: "Okay sister, I know."

"Go back, my sister is gone."

Yi Weidong went back to the house and plugged the door.

When entering the Westinghouse, first wipe the outside of the furniture twice and put it back into the space.

Then clean up the cobwebs on the walls of the empty Westinghouse, and the dust in the corners can also be cleaned.

Two mouse holes were also found, and there was no way out, put the bed, desk, wardrobe and other furniture back in place.

Looking at the neat Westinghouse, it is much cleaner and brighter.

Opened the door and poured dirty water, took another bucket of tap water, rested for a while, closed the door again, and cleaned the main room and the east room.

He opened the door and sent the garbage to the trash can outside the courtyard, came back and washed his hair, closed the door, went into the Westinghouse and picked up the primary school textbook He Yushui left behind to read.

Fortunately, they are all simplified characters at this time, and there is no obstacle to reading. It's not that I don't know them in junior high school, but I just told He Yushui that I only read the third grade. , Answering the text content of later generations by yourself, isn’t it just cheating?

Before reading dozens of pages in the textbook, I heard the door slowly being pushed open. Why didn't I hear the voice of silly Zhu?
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