Daily life in the courtyard

Chapter 3 Choices
It was an absolute surprise that Wei Pingan passed the fitter assessment and was promoted to a first-class fitter.

It is normal for Jia Dongxu to fail the assessment of the second-level fitter.

I took the exam three times in two years and failed every time.

With his head drooping, Jia Dongxu followed master Yi Zhonghai into the courtyard.

Only in this courtyard can he have dignity.

It is Jia Dongxu's pride to have the most beautiful woman in the courtyard as his daughter-in-law.

Originally, he was ahead of Wei Pingan in terms of work skill level. Although the level is the same now, when it comes to family happiness, Jia Dongxu thinks he is far ahead of Wei Pingan.

Sleeping alone on the cold kang, how can there be a beautiful woman to warm the bed and be happy.

The neighbors in the yard are busy with dinner.

The old men in the family have worked hard all day, and they go home to eat some warm food. After resting, they can continue to work hard for the family the next day.

When Wei Pingan came back with half a bag of stick noodles, a group of people gathered in the open space in the front yard.

After work, he stopped by the grain station to buy grain, and used up the remaining quota for this month.

Fortunately, the salary is about to be paid, so I will only last another three to five days if I keep my stomach.

Li Weidong, the director of the Street Office, and a film policeman are dealing with the dispute in the yard.

Siheyuan is a courtyard with three entrances, and each courtyard has a faucet, and the faucet in the front yard is next to the steps on the west side of the corridor.

The street office came to collect the water fee today. A few days ago, the middle and back yards were all collected, leaving only the front yard.

Unexpectedly, there was a conflict in the front yard today because of the water problem.

A middle-aged family surnamed Wang lived in the south household of the east wing. This month, the whole family went out of town due to work reasons, and they came back only two days ago.

It is equivalent to not being at home and not using water for a whole month.

Siheyuan is usually apportioned to each household based on the total amount, but this month happens to use a lot of water, and the cost is the highest this year.

Wang Haixing's family was not happy about it.

And the third master Yan Bugui, who came back from get off work, must argue hard.

After all, with his calculated personality, if the Wang family gets less, he has to get more from Yan Pugui.

Three cents and five cents are also money. If you can't figure it out, you will be poor. You must not understand what he meant.

Once this hole is opened, if there are imitators, there will be endless troubles.

Therefore, the dispute was too fierce, and on the spur of the moment, the third mother and Wang Haixing started fighting.

If it was left as usual, Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong would have solved it internally.

But today, Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong didn't show up in time while guarding the street to do errands, so they easily called the police to coordinate and deal with it.

According to the saying of this era, today is an embarrassment to the courtyard house.

Wei Pingan didn't care, stopped and listened a few words before going home.

Just as he was about to leave, he heard Jia Zhang, who was watching the fun, complaining: "Oh, it's the same in our middle courtyard... that little bastard uses water every day, and we don't even recognize it, we are all neighbors..."

Who in the entire courtyard doesn't know that Jia Zhang's family can't finish washing clothes all day, and Wei Pingan has the face to say that Wei Ping'an wastes water every day.

It's just that Wei Pingan, who has traveled through time, still retains the habit of taking a bath before going to bed.

When it comes to himself, Wei Ping'an will not leave.

Stand by and wait.

Disputes over three or five cents are easy to resolve in this era.

Especially when the local police and the street office came forward, Wang Haixing took most of it, and the rest was shared equally among the rest of the households.

After resolving the dispute, Li Weidong, the director of the street office, was about to leave when Wei Pingan, who was taciturn, stepped forward.

"Officer Li, I would like to ask, can I still apply for household registration for tap water?"

"Okay, do you want to apply?"

The matter of running water into households has been promoted for almost a year, but there are very few responders.

To get tap water into households, you need to install a water meter and connect the water pipes. Both the water meter and the consumables are free money, and ordinary people are not willing to spend more.

Anyway, the water tap is at the gate of the courtyard, it's a matter of three or two steps.

"Officer Li, I'm applying for tap water connection."

There are residents in the jurisdiction who take the initiative to apply for tap water to enter the household, which is also a performance reflection, and Director Li is also very happy.

They made an appointment tomorrow to arrange someone to come to the door to survey the terrain and quote, and the two went back separately.

Officer Li is not afraid of Wei Pingan's repentance.

This era is very simple, and when it comes to functional departments, they will not contradict their promises, and Li Weidong is not afraid that Wei Ping'an is a fool.

Or don't think about it at all.

Wei Ping'an was not worried that Li's words were unfounded and he would forget about it.

The grassroots personnel in this era are still very responsible, and they are doing practical things in a down-to-earth manner.

Everyone in the courtyard saw that there was no more excitement to watch, so they went back to their homes.

But Wei Ping'an's silent request for tap water to enter the house has successfully become another topic of discussion among the courtyard houses tonight.

"You said that he is a big boy, and he wants to integrate the tap into the house. It's not a waste of money."

"Hey, old man, do you know that Wei Ping'an's family will provide tap water to enter the house?"

"This kid is so lazy, he spends money in two steps..."

"You little bastard, if you have the money to fix the tap water, you don't know how to be filial to me, an old man, and save the money to buy meat for the elders..."

Needless to say, the last one must be the old godly woman Jia Zhang.

You can imagine her ugly face through the screen.

Life is not static.

If Wei Pingan wants to improve his quality of life, it will inevitably affect the neighbors around him.

Knowing that there is a moral kidnapper and a dog licking gangsters in the neighborhood, and there is an unreasonable and mischievous old woman Jia Zhang, how could Wei Pingan not plan ahead.

"Speaking of it, it's because of Jia Zhang's mouth. How much water does her whole family use, and Wei Ping'an just uses as much water as a young man. Just now the old woman said...it seems like Wei Ping'an got a lot of money... "

There is no shortage of sensible people in the courtyard, but most of the time they like to pretend to be asleep.

For Wei Ping'an, on the one hand, it is to compromise and live in a low-key way;
On the one hand, he is a maverick, simplifying his life and simply breaking away from it.

The choice depends on oneself, Wei Pingan decisively chooses the latter.

Silent all night.

The next day, Wei Ping'an has become a first-level fitter, with his own workbench and the processing tasks that a first-level fitter should have.

Because Sun Dahai didn't learn from a teacher, but simply brought him along, so there was no mention of being a teacher.

Sun Dahai also lost his apprentice reward.

Both sides barely counted their own injuries.

Wei Ping'an's strength is real, and he even has the ability to complete some ordinary secondary parts, so the work is relatively easy.

He has enough energy to plan his future life.

The workload of a first-level fitter is not only to mark the machined parts, but the technical content is relatively high, so Wei Ping'an has accumulated a lot of points in a day.

At this rate, within half a month, you can upgrade two levels in a row.

According to Wei Ping'an's reasoning, only 300 points.

Ten points for the first level, 100 points for the second level, and 200 points for the third level.

At most it was nothing more than that.

When I went home to cook porridge, I ate a Erhe Noodle Wotou with pickles, and dinner was settled.

Wei Pingan, who was once worth more than [-] million yuan, is also a down-to-earth ordinary person in his bones.

If you can eat sea cucumber wing belly, you can also swallow pickled vegetables and steamed buns.

People need to work hard for their own quality of life, but they can't overindulge themselves in seeking pleasure and forgetting the style of hard work and plain living.

In this regard, Wei Ping'an and his two generations were very well-mannered.

After turning off the lights and pulling out the wax, Wei Pingan lay on the bed, sketching out the renovation plan of the house in his mind.

After waiting for running water to enter the house for two days, he considered solving the two biggest problems of living in a courtyard house: toilet and heating.

Although the act of defecating is vulgar, it also has a soul.

Squatting in a latrine in the cold, not to mention the soul, the butt is not willing to show for a long time.

And heating is a problem that seriously affects Wei Pingan's living habits.

According to Wei Ping'an's preliminary plan, the second half of the small room on the east side will be used as a bathroom with dry and wet separation, and the south part will be used as a kitchen. The large room I live in now can only be repainted after spring.

As for heating, Wei Ping'an needs to upgrade his fitter skills as soon as possible, and learn about heating furnaces.

(End of this chapter)