Siheyuan: Start with a Truck Driver

At the door of the courtyard, Yan Bugui was dumbfounded. His little eyes were blinking desperately, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and his brain was almost frozen.

Xu Damao's experience was really bizarre. When he went to the countryside to play a movie, he encountered a wild wolf and then fell into a ditch. It took him four or five days to be rescued.

It sounds like a fabricated storyline, but Yan Bugui has no evidence.

After all, there are still many wild wolves in the countryside these days, and those wild wolves often go down the mountain to cause trouble. He originally had a younger brother in Zhangjiashan in the compound.

As a result, one night a wild wolf sneaked down from the mountain and sneaked into the village. At that time, it was harvesting crops in summer, and the adults were busy harvesting grain in the fields. Only Zhang Jiashan and his younger brother were in the house. After playing for a while, they all fell asleep in bed.

When Zhang Jiashan woke up again, he found that his younger brother was missing. At first, he didn't care. He thought that his younger brother had woken up in the middle of the night and ran out to find an adult. But when he saw blood-stained clothes and his younger brother's shoes on the ground, , I suddenly felt something bad.

Zhang Jiashan suppressed his fear and hurriedly ran to the grinding yard, shouting for help. The busy adults stopped working, holding various farm tools and lighting torches to look for Zhang Jiashan's brother. Shadow has been busy all night, but has achieved nothing.

The next day, villagers from surrounding villages learned of the incident and joined the search team. After searching in the mountains for three full days, they only found a pair of blood-stained pants. From then on, Zhang Jiashan never saw his younger brother again.

Every time he was drunk, Zhang Jiashan would hold his head and cry, hating that he slept too hard that night. If he had been more vigilant, maybe such a tragic thing would not have happened.

Zhangjiashan's experience is not isolated. Yan Bugui knows that there are four or five people who have encountered wild wolves, so Xu Damao's experience can be justified.

Although Yan Bugui wanted to crucify Xu Damao, seeing this situation, he had no choice but to give up.

Besides, he had to go fishing quickly. If he went late, the good spot might be taken away.

"Okay, Damao, the third uncle is still busy, let's talk back!"

Yan Bugui picked up the tin bucket and looked at it carefully. He was relieved when he saw that the tin bucket was not damaged.

"Are you going to fish in the smelly ditch to the east again?" Xu Damao was about to leave, but suddenly stopped and asked.

"Where I go fishing has nothing to do with you!"

Yan Bugui became a little unhappy when he heard this. He rolled his eyes at Xu Damao and left in a hurry.

Xu Damao spat at his back: "Old fellow, you are ready to harm people again!"

In Beijing at this time, the drainage system was not perfect. There were many drainage channels around the alleys. The drainage channels were connected to Haizi. On weekdays, residents' domestic sewage would be poured into the drainage channels. There are a lot of catfish in the ditch.

Residents in the capital dislike it because it's dirty, so they won't go fishing for catfish.

But Yan Bugui regards it as a geomantic treasure. It's not that he doesn't care about cleanliness, but every time Yan Bugui catches a catfish, he takes it to Zuojiazhuang and exchanges it for food with the villagers there.

Everyone in the compound knew about this, but they didn't blame Yan Bugui because he was the third uncle.

Xu Damao cursed Yan Bugui a few times and seemed to be in a much better mood. He returned home humming a tune and holding his hands behind his back.

Qin Jingru was feeding her children in the house at this time. When she saw Xu Damao coming back, she said in surprise: "Da Mao, you are back."

"Hey, don't mention it. It's unlucky this time!" Xu Damao picked up the thermos and poured an enamel jar of tea. After taking two sips, he told Qin Jingru what happened, then frowned and said, "Jingru, should I Go tell Factory Director Liu?"

Qin Jingru said: "Are you stupid? Without Factory Director Liu's help, would you have been able to come out?"

Although Qin Jingru didn't know what happened in Yijiazhuang, she was sure that Wang Weidong had some influence in it.

Xu Damao was surprised at first and didn't know what this matter had to do with Wang Weidong, but after listening to Qin Jingru's description, he suddenly understood.

He felt a sense of frustration in his heart. For him, after being caught by the people in Yijiazhuang, he was like a little mouse, with no room to fight back.

But Wang Weidong didn't show up at all and rescued him from the cellar. The difference between the two was really huge.

"Does Director Liu go back to the courtyard often recently?" Xu Damao asked after taking a breath.

Qin Jingru shook her head: "No, I heard that their car factory is working on some high-tech abacus."

"Abacus? Aren't they just some abacus beads? What's good to study? Yan Bugui's family has many in our compound." Xu Damao felt a little strange: "Even if Yan Bugui is stingy, he is unwilling to lend the abacus For automobile factories, there are also many in supply and marketing cooperatives, two yuan a piece, don’t tell me, Lanhua Automobile Factory can’t even bear to spend two yuan?”

Hearing Xu Damao's words, Qin Jingru couldn't laugh or cry: "You are just uneducated and incompetent. The abacus of Lanhua Automobile Factory does not require anyone to fiddle with the beads. You only need to turn on the power and press a few times on it to get the answer." , it’s tens of thousands of times faster than using an abacus!”

"Ten thousand times?" The enamel jar was brought to his mouth. Xu Damao was stunned. He was a little confused about the concept of being able to go tens of thousands times faster.

"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!"

After Xu Damao got the answer, he no longer struggled with the problem. Of course, he had more important things to do, which was to buy two kilograms of pork and have a good meal at night.

In the past few days, Xu Damao could still drink porridge while staying in the cellar. After the guy who delivered the food disappeared, he couldn't even drink porridge. He was hungry for four or five days, and he was still in the militia. When the captain rescued him, he gave him a black nest.

Xu Damao felt as if he had lost several pounds due to hunger.

This guy wasn't fat to begin with, but was as skinny as a stick, so losing a few pounds almost killed him.

At this time, Qin Jingru was able to go to work. She handed the child to the neighbor's aunt, and paid the aunt two yuan a month for care. Then she picked up the canvas bag and went to the steel rolling mill.

After Xu Damao bought a piece of meat from the vegetable market, he changed into clean clothes and went to the Publicity Department of the steel rolling mill. He had been missing for several days and it was time to go to work.

The Publicity Department had nothing important to do today, and there were no screening tasks. Xu Damao bragged and spanked there for a while, then wandered back to the courtyard.

He wanted to stew the meat early, wait for it to become tender, and then make braised pork in the evening.

Thinking of the fragrant smell of braised pork, Xu Damao couldn't help but sip his saliva, and the pace of his steps accelerated a bit.

He took out the key and noticed something was wrong as soon as he opened the door. The window in the house was open.

Generally speaking, the windows of the Xu family are not closed, so as to allow air circulation inside and outside. But today, Xu Damao bought some meat and put it in the kitchen. He was afraid that wild cats would sneak in, so he closed the windows.

The window made a squeaking sound under the breeze. Xu Damao's heart skipped a beat and he quickly rushed into the kitchen.

After a while, a sound of ghosts crying and wolves howling came from the Xu family's house.

"Oh my god, that damn little thief stole my pork. That's pork I spent nearly four yuan on. I'm still waiting to make braised pork for dinner at night!" This voice It was like a sledge hammer that shattered the tranquility of the courtyard.

The residents of the courtyard walked out of their homes one after another and gathered at Xu Damao's door.

Among them are Jia Zhang and Qin Huairu.

Because Qin Huairu has not succeeded, the Jia family has been living a very difficult life recently. Their daily diet is stick noodle porridge, and the only side dish is rotten cabbage.

Jia Zhang was so greedy that she could dream of eating meat at night. Now that she heard that Xu Damao had lost the meat, she jumped with excitement.

"That damn guy Xu Damao didn't give my wife a piece of meat after he bought it. He deserves to have it stolen."

Qin Huairu looked at Jia Zhang's excitement, frowned and asked, "Mom, you didn't steal the Xu family's meat, right?"

"Ah, Qin Huairu, what are you talking about! How could I steal meat!" Jia Zhang quickly denied: "I think so. The key is that I didn't know that Xu Damao bought the meat."

Hearing this, Qin Huairu was half-convinced. She hadn't seen Jia Zhang all this afternoon, and she didn't know what the old woman was doing.

At this time, Xu Damao had already rushed out of the house, looking at the onlookers and complaining: "My house has lost its meat. It was such a big piece of meat, and now it's all gone."

Liu Haizhong had just gotten off work at this time. When he saw so many people gathered in the courtyard, he originally had no intention of coming forward to join in the fun. After all, his prestige in the courtyard was getting lower and lower now, and he might be humiliating himself if he came forward.

But when he heard that Xu Damao had lost his meat, Liu Haizhong suddenly realized that his opportunity had come.

"Let me go, give me all!"

Liu Haizhong walked into the crowd with his hands behind his back, looked at Xu Damao and said, "Da Mao, what's going on?"

"It's the second uncle." Although Xu Damao didn't like Liu Haizhong, the matter concerned his own flesh and blood, and he couldn't care less about it at this time.

Xu Damao looked at Liu Haizhong and explained the matter again.

Liu Haizhong slapped his thigh suddenly: "Xu Damao's meat disappeared inexplicably, it must have been stolen.

Thief, there is a thief in our compound! "

The word "thief" woke up the residents who were watching the excitement.

Materials are scarce these days, and every household is having a hard time. Even if you have a piece of rag, it is precious and cannot be stolen.

Now there is a thief in the compound, which is not bad.

"It's serious. There is a thief in our compound. We must be more careful in the future."

"Be careful. It's not like you don't know that the doors of every house in our compound are hundreds of years old. Even if they are locked, they might be knocked down with a gentle push."

"I think we have to find this thief quickly, otherwise we won't be able to sleep well."

"Yes, yes, my family just bought five kilograms of rice and stored it in a jar for my little son's birthday. What if it is stolen?"

"It's the same at my house. It's just five pounds of apples. I'm going to visit my father-in-law in a while."

Hearing the residents' comments and seeing their fearful expressions, Liu Haizhong became even more excited.

Recently, he was so suppressed by Wang Weidong and Xu Damao that he almost lost his position as the second uncle of the courtyard. If this continues, he may have to leave his position as the second uncle of the courtyard in less than two months.

The position of the second uncle of the courtyard is not a formal position, and it does not receive a salary. He has to be responsible for all kinds of messy things. In the eyes of others, it is useless.

But in Liu Haizhong's eyes, he is a piece of cake. His biggest dream in life is to be an official. However, because of his relatively low cultural level, his inability to unite workers and his love of drinking, even the seventh-level forge Even though I have given out many gifts over the years, I have received nothing.

Although the second uncle of the courtyard is not an official position, he is still an official, which is different from ordinary residents.

So Liu Haizhong must defend his position.

To do this, he must re-establish his prestige in the hearts of the residents.

Nothing accomplishes this better than catching a thief.

Liu Haizhong puffed out his belly and said: "Don't worry, guys, there is no one in the whole capital who knows how to catch thieves better than me."

As soon as these words came out, the residents all looked at Liu Haizhong.

"Second uncle, who is that thief?"

"Yeah, get him out quickly!"

"We must not spare him!"

Liu Haizhong looked around the crowd and said with a smile: "Everyone knows that cooks like to eat good food the most, especially those who used to be cooks. They are used to eating good food on weekdays, but now they are The cook who was fired from the steel rolling mill and can only live in the dark all day long is even more willing to take risks for something good."

Among the crowd, Shazhu heard that Xu Damao's family had lost meat. He was so excited that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear. Hearing this, he was stunned for a moment and then frowned.

Those bangs seem to be talking about him.

Silly Zhu has been relatively honest recently, but that doesn't mean he can be bullied.

"Hey, second uncle, what do you mean? Why did our cook offend you, and you arranged for us like this?" Silly Zhu strode out of the crowd, staring directly at Liu Haizhong.

He's anxious, he's anxious

Liu Haizhong felt a little more convinced when he saw Sha Zhu's anxious look.

He said calmly: "Silly Zhu, am I wrong? Don't you cooks like to steal things? When you were a cook in the steel rolling mill, you often brought back leftovers. Of course, the leftovers were yours. Everyone knows what I said. Our steel rolling mill is short of supplies and the workers barely have enough to eat. There will be leftovers everywhere. Those leftovers must have been left by you in advance. What if this is not stealing!

Not to mention that every time the factory leader invites someone to dinner, you will find a way to hide half a chicken. That half chicken is the property of the factory. Your behavior is still stealing!

There are security guards guarding the factory, so you dare to do this. Don't you still dare to steal Xu Damao's meat? "