The Rebirth of the Rain Pillar of the Siheyuan

Chapter 21 Xiahe Village

(No draft, write and publish now, one or two chapters are not fixed)

"Silly Zhu, you go to the timber factory tomorrow and buy a five-meter kang edge, it's the only thing you need in your house."

Uncle Li told He Yuzhu the task for tomorrow.

Say hello to Chen's father and son and enter the house. The kang in the house is just short of the edge of the kang.

The weather was getting colder and colder. On the way back to pick up my sister, I saw a long line of vehicles entering the city for La Qiucai.

After seeing off the three of Chen's father and son, they returned to the house and found that the ground had been cleaned up. They took out the stick noodles they bought today and mixed them with the cornmeal at home. They were too thick to eat in the rain.

Yu Shui looked at the Wotou, stir-fried cabbage, held the chopsticks in resentment and didn't speak, looked straight at He Yuzhu, He Yuzhu didn't speak, just picked up the Wotou and ate it.

"Brother, I want to eat meat."

"No meat, why don't you eat brother! Brother is also very delicious."

Looking at the babbling younger sister, I feel a little headache.Can you fight?How many days has it been?She has learned all about acting like a baby, being cute and being a rascal, and she is going to develop on the road of being a prostitute, Yaoshou!
"Go to other houses in the courtyard to see what they eat. I haven't seen you not eating a big pot of food before. If you don't eat, you will be hungry!"

Seeing that his brother was angry, Yushui became anxious because he was afraid that his brother would ignore him like before.

"Brother, I was wrong, I won't make you angry anymore, don't ignore me, I will never eat meat again."

Pulled my sister to sit next to me, "Brother is not ignoring you. I told you that many people in the courtyard are not full. We always eat meat, which is easy to make people jealous. You only eat a little better than them. They It's just envious, it's so much better, they'll be envious, and they'll reject you and ignore you, then we won't be able to stay in the courtyard any longer."

Yushui nodded, "I understand. I wear new clothes and new shoes to school. If the class conditions are better, they will play with me. Some people who used to play with me now ignore me."

The siblings ate and chatted. Although Yushui was a little ignorant of her brother's teachings, she decided to listen to her brother. After all, he would not lie to her.

After the meal, He Yuzhu pretended to take out a bottle of canned oranges from his purse in Shanghai.

"Yu Shui, do you see what my brother bought for you?"

Looking at the can in He Yuzhu's hand, the rain was a little foggy.

"This is canned food? Aren't canned food all in tin boxes?"

"This is the canned food in glass bottles newly produced by our Beijing Cannery Factory. I bought it for you specially."

"Brother, you are too kind!"

Yushui hugged He Yuzhu's neck excitedly, and quickly put the can on the table to avoid falling to the ground and breaking it.

Yu Shui stood up, bit her finger and asked, "How do you eat this canned food?"

He Yuzhu looked at his sister distressedly. He has never eaten canned food at such an age, which is unimaginable in later generations.

He found a screwdriver and pried off the lid, poured the canned juice into a bowl, and said, "Taste the rainwater, it's delicious!"

Passing the bowl to my sister, Yushui took the small bowl like a treasure, looked at the crystal clear canned juice in the bowl, and took a sip.

~ Wow!It's delicious!Sweet, with a hint of orange.

He Yuzhu took the spoon and handed it to Yushui, watching her sister go into crazy mode.

Well!I'm a little stuck.It's over!I forgot to leave some for my brother.

Yushui looked at the empty cans, raised his head and said apologetically to He Yuzhu: "Brother, I'm sorry! I forgot to save some for you!"

He Yuzhu felt a little relieved when his sister looked very sorry for him.

The next day, He Yuzhu came to the lumber factory, bought a piece of smooth wood to make the edge of the Kang, and found a cart to go back.

On the street in front of the supply and marketing cooperatives of non-staple food stores everywhere, piles of cabbage are stacked neatly, one pile after another.One after another, various aunts lined up in front of the stamp.

On the way, I met a canteen buyer, "Silly, you didn't go to open the capital yesterday?"

"Ah? Damn! The family is busy with the kang! I forgot, I will go in a while. Thank you!"

The purchaser watched He Yuzhu leave, shook his head and smiled and thought, this silly Zhu is heartless every day, Director Wang has already filed a complaint, and he doesn't know how to deal with you when he is waiting to go to work?What are you talking about as a temporary worker who has not become a regular worker with the leader!
He Yuzhu sent the wood back home, sneaked to the office building of the rolling mill, and received his salary/17 yuan and [-] cents in the financial office.

He Yuzhu looked at the salary in his hand, and put it in his pocket, the master is also a rich man, how can such a small amount of money get into the eyes of the master.

After leaving the gate of the rolling mill, he rode out of the city and decided to go to the countryside to search and find things, because he had money in his pocket.

Not long after leaving the city, He Yuzhu saw several people driving a donkey cart approaching him. When he got close, he found a wild boar on the donkey cart. He Yuzhu stopped the donkey cart, and the drivers looked at him warily.

"Comrade, is this boar going to be sold?"

He Yuzhu looked around the wild boar on the donkey cart. This wild boar was very fat, and it looked like it weighed at least three hundred catties.

"Yes, this wild boar was hunted in the village, and it is going to be sold in the city."

"How much is a catty? If the price is right, I'll take it all."

He Yuzhu started the mode of local tyrants throwing coins.

Several people looked at each other, and an old man with a whip said:
"Pork is one yuan and five, and bones are not considered money. If you want it for one yuan, this wild boar weighs about 300 catties. Don't worry, we are famous for it."

A middle-aged man with a bit of a bag looked at He Yuzhu suspiciously and asked:
"Young man, this is a big wild boar weighing more than 300 catties. Do you have that much money?"

He Yuzhu took out a thick wad of money from his big black pocket and said:
"I'm the chef of the third rolling mill. I went to the countryside to purchase this time. Is there any game or poultry for sale in your village?"

"Yes! Yes! There are chickens, ducks, and geese in the village. It would be great if you could go to the village to buy them! The city is strict, and the purchase price given by the supply and marketing cooperative is too low. The village is worried about how to sell chickens and ducks for food. Woolen cloth!"

He Yuzhu looked at the excited uncle and lamented the simplicity of people in this era. This hasn't been interrogated yet, and he has confessed everything.

"Then let's go back to the village, sir. I'm collecting some mountain goods, and then you also dismantle the pigs for me."

"Okay, let's go back to the village right now. Tie Dan'er will go back to the village first and tell the village to prepare what can be sold."

"Comrade, take my car back faster."

Seeing the elder brother in his thirties still calling Tiedaner, He Yuzhu couldn't help laughing out loud.

"I, I don't know how to ride." Tie Dan'er embarrassedly scratched his head.

Uncle Dibaotian said, "Old Uncle Li, you are too. Tiedaner is 29 and has two children. How can you still be called Tiedaner in front of outsiders?"

"What's your name if you don't call it Tie Daner? Don't you call it too? You know how to ride a bicycle, so you can ride it!" The master whip replied with a slap in the face.

Uncle Dibaotian seemed to be supporting his pregnant daughter-in-law, took the bike and rode on, and left the crowd.

When passing by the supply and marketing cooperative in the village, He Yuzhu went in and pretended to make a phone call.

Following the donkey cart to the Xiahe Village brigade, the secretary of the captain welcomed He Yuzhu into the house, held his hands tightly and said:
"Welcome comrades from the rolling mill to come to our village to purchase."

"Originally, I didn't want to buy so much this time, but it is a rare opportunity, and I will trouble you to send it to the main road, and the factory will come to take it away."

He Yuzhu immediately said that he was afraid that something would happen.

The village accountant asked He Yuzhu, "Comrade, can I see your letter of introduction?"

"I'm sorry, this time I purchased it privately for Xiaozao in the cafeteria, so I didn't bring a letter of introduction, and I didn't expect to buy so much. If you are in trouble, then forget it. If it can be traded, I have three hundred catties of national food stamps. Look at this is my work permit."

He Yuzhu threw out the method of seduction.

Hearing that the food stamps were still three hundred catties, the captain of the secretary had seen He Yuzhu's work permit, and immediately decided to make a deal, but the accountant in the village still hesitated.

"This is a private transaction, what if something goes wrong?"

"What happened? Everyone in Beishi Village knows about the troubles, and nothing happened. Don't think about it. With this food stamp, we can take out part of it and exchange it for coarse grain to deal with this year. The remaining fine grain will be used by the village. Milkman also stutters."

The village secretary said this because he knew that the accountant's daughter-in-law had no milk, and the child was crying from hunger.The village accountant was speechless immediately after hearing this.

The captain went on to say: "So much meat can only be consumed by the factory. I know the steel rolling factory. A large factory with more than 1000 people is not enough for a meal. Don't even think about it. If you sell it in the city, I don’t know that it will be sold until the year of the donkey and the month of the horse.”

The village accountant and secretary nodded in agreement.

After paying more than 400 yuan for three hundred catties of food stamps, He Yuzhu followed the donkey cart and unloaded a cart full of meat on the side of the road.

The whip master got a pack of cigarettes, drove the car vigorously, and helped the village to solve the problem. It's not like the village cadres who were afraid of wolves and tigers. They have never seen anything at this age. This kid has a problem, but did we say a word more, don't care about our business.

He Yuzhu saw the donkey cart going farther and farther, and gradually lost sight of it. The driver was a sensible man, and he didn't say a word.

Putting away the wild pork, chicken, duck and geese on the ground, He Yuzhu rode away in a classic car.

In the afternoon, He Yuzhu returned to the courtyard with a knife of wild pork and two pork leg bones, and followed the courtyard's gaze into the backyard.

When I got home, I saw that the kang had been completed. Uncle Li and the others were busy working in the rainwater house. The furniture and beds in the courtyard had already been moved back into the house. Seeing that the house was cleaned up, there was finally no need to make the floor tonight.

Looking at the worn-out quilt on the bed, He Yuzhu looked at the time and decided to go to Wangfujing to see if there was any quilt cover for sale.

Nowadays, most people make quilts by selling cotton and making them themselves. After all, ready-made quilt covers are expensive.

Pull the cotton into small pieces, spread them layer by layer on the starched quilt lining, and finally spread the quilt surface and sew it around, from top to bottom, at intervals of one fist wide, and sew it well.Finally, the quilt cover is put on, and a quilt is made. It takes almost half a day for two adult women to make this quilt, which shows how troublesome it is.

Enter Wangfujing Department Store, go to the knitwear sales area, and find a cotton counter.

"Comrade, do you have ready-made quilt covers here?"

Without raising her head, the young saleswoman asked He Yuzhu, "Do you have cotton tickets? You need cloth tickets for the quilt cover."

Look at this era, you don't ask if you have money when you buy something, but first ask if you have a ticket.

He Yuzhu really wants to answer~ I can be a female ticket.

(End of this chapter)