The train driver in the courtyard

Chapter 422 Shaking briquettes, Wang Dakui was arrested

After returning from Zhao Gang's house.

Li Aiguo returned to his familiar job.

The ordinary days passed like this.

It is now approaching the end of 2006, and the weather is getting colder day by day.

The temperature in winter in these years was much lower than in later generations.

In Li Aiguo's memory, people could be seen freezing to death on the streets of Beijing before liberation every winter.

For the old Beijing residents who have lived in hutongs for generations, coal is indispensable for cooking, boiling water, and heating in winter.

Every winter, piles of briquettes are piled in the corners of the yard.

The weather is cold, and residents in the compound have begun to purchase coal for heating in the winter.

After carrying the coal back to the backyard, Li Aiguo knew that Chen Xueru had not returned yet when he saw the door was closed.

Before buying coal, be sure to prepare various tools such as shovels, sacks, and trolleys in advance.

She looked at this scene with regretful eyes that were heartbreaking.

"You rely on Dongxu for everything. You are young but stay at home all day long. Do you want to tire my son to death?"

Seeing that the residents were starting to buy coal, Mrs. Jia Zhang sat on a chair at the door, holding her shoe soles in her hands and sighing.

The Jia family's house has been repaired and the whole family has moved back.

These days, the Zhengyangmen Street Office is busy distributing coal stamps to residents. Chen Xueru is busy until six or seven in the evening every day.

Because the painkillers were confiscated by Li Aiguo, Jia Zhang stopped taking them these days. When she became addicted, she became a little short-tempered and started to snarl at Qin Huairu.

"If Shazhu is still here, we can ask Shazhu to buy it for us. He will definitely be embarrassed to ask for money."

These two were team members who had participated in the exercise. They had seen the power of Li Aiguo's Red Star RPG. They were full of admiration for him and were naturally willing to help.

Minister Niu happened to get off work and saw it, so he sent a jeep to bring it back for him. At the same time, he sent two comrades from the Armed Forces Department, Chen Dongfang and Zhao Shan, to help.

But Jia Dongxu couldn't count on it, so she had to find a way to buy coal in the suburbs of Beijing.

Qin Huairu was busy cleaning up the stove in the kitchen and answered: "Mom, Silly Zhu has been sentenced to seven years and won't be released soon. When Dongxu comes back, ask him to borrow a flatbed truck from the compound next door and drive him to Beijing. Just take a trip to the suburbs and it’ll be fine.”

Today is the day when the locomotive depot distributes winter coal.

After the new house was built, whether it was borrowing money to buy furniture or cleaning, Qin Huairu did it alone.

Li Aiguo also saw Qin Huairu and Jia Zhang, but he didn't pay attention.

Amidst the noise, Qin Huairu bit her lip, her face turned pale, and her mood dropped to the bottom.

Residents purchase coal at designated points, and the sub-district office issues coal stamps on a monthly basis, with coal stamps doubled in winter.

What she cared about was that those in uniform were willing to help Li Aiguo move coal.

His lips trembled slightly, as if he were saying something, but no sound came out.

"Come on, come in, wash up, drink some water, and I'll prepare some dishes."

Jia Dongxu is now a hands-off shopkeeper.

A sales department corresponds to households within one or two kilometers of the surrounding area.

Qin Huairu looked out of the window and saw Li Aiguo walking into the courtyard with several comrades in uniform.

Whenever the supply of coal begins, the coal factory is like a big gathering. At least two people from each family come out to pull coal, and in some cases, the whole family goes out.

This thing was so heavy that Li Aiguo originally wanted to ask Zhou Ke to help him bring it back.

"Driver Li, you live in this compound. My home is not far away. We can have a drink together in the future."

In order to facilitate transportation and sales, almost every street office in Beijing has a coal factory.

"The relationship is good. Let your sister-in-law cook some good dishes tonight, and we brothers will have a drink."

Those comrades all carried linen bags on their shoulders. The outside of the bags was dark and angular, and the inside should be coal.

Buying coal is a physical job, and pulling it back from the coal store is impossible if you don't have enough strength.

Mrs. Jia Zhang also stretched out her head mischievously, glanced outside the Xizhi Gate, and snorted coldly: "This guy Li Aiguo must have gotten the coal from the locomotive depot, and he didn't want to give it to those of us who didn't buy coal. The residents really have no conscience at all.”

Residents can use their coal stamps to purchase coal lumps at the sales department.

However, most residents borrow flatbed trucks and travel more than ten miles to the coal plants in the suburbs of Beijing to buy coal blocks directly. Each kilogram of coal can be as cheap as 1 cent.

She is just a woman, and she also wants to find a strong shoulder to lean on.

At this time, there was a noise outside.

According to regulations, each employee can receive 2 tons of winter coal.

Qin Huairu had long been accustomed to Jia Zhang's weird brain circuits, so she didn't answer.

Each coal plant has three or five sales departments.

"The east, the mountains, just pile the coal outside."

After coming back from get off work every day, I would wander around with those street kids.

After the coal was piled up, Li Aiguo invited the two people into the house to prepare for cooking.

"Driver Li, this is just a small favor, no need for it. Besides, we both have work to do and have to go back."

The two of them were determined not to stay. Li Aiguo had no choice but to send the two of them out of the courtyard in person after clearing the smoke.

Return to the yard.

Yan Bugui strolled out of the room, quietly came up to him, took Li Aiguo's arm and asked, "Aiguo, your locomotive depot has distributed coal, will my family also have a share in the solution?"

The small eyes behind his tortoiseshell spectacles blinked.

"Third uncle, Yan Jiecheng is still a temporary worker. According to regulations, he cannot get coal."

Generally, temporary workers who enter the locomotive depot will have the opportunity to become regular workers as long as they work conscientiously for three months and pass the exam.

Now Yan Jiecheng has been working as a temporary worker for half a year.

Li Aiguo looked at Yan Bugui, who was a little sad, and said with a smile: "I know you are in a hurry, but don't worry. I heard that Yan Jiecheng has performed well these days, and by the end of the year, he might be able to become a regular employee."

After returning from Weizhuang, Yan Jiecheng became much more honest. This month he also exceeded the transportation capacity, which was noticed by the locomotive depot.

"That's so patriotic. You need to worry more about this child."

Yan Bugui said a few words of gratitude, turned around and was about to enter the house, but suddenly stopped again.

"Aiguo, now that you have coal from the locomotive depot, you don't need to buy coal. How about you give me all your coal tickets? Don't worry, I will never lose you."

Good guy, my old habit of scheming has happened again, and I am ready to resell coal tickets.

"Third uncle, I still have a lot of use for those coal stamps, I'm sorry!"

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Li Aiguo left with his hands behind his back.

Looking at Li Aiguo's back, the third aunt came close to the third uncle and whispered: "Li Aiguo must have given the coal stamps to the old Zhou family. He is really a fool. He doesn't know how valuable that thing is."

Coal stamps are allocated based on household registration. Households without grain books do not have coal stamps.

There is only one member of the Zhou family who has a grain income, but there are seven or eight people in the Zhou family. Every winter there is not enough coal.

In the past, when Li Aiguo's father was still alive, he often gave them coal stamps.

"What do you know? Coal tickets are not worth much, but Li Aiguo can get a good reputation by playing this trick." Yan Bugui also thought about it now and sighed: "If our Jiefang family has such a brain, maybe It’s become a regular job a long time ago.”

The second aunt's guess was correct. Li Aiguo did follow Li's father's previous practice and distributed the coal tickets to the old Zhou family.

"Patriot, this, how can this be so embarrassing! I get your coal stamps for nothing every year."

Aunt Zhou had gray hair and almost cried. She took the coal stamp with trembling hands and looked at Li Aiguo gratefully.

Only the eldest son in her family has a grain budget, which is not enough for cooking every month. He often has to go to the fields to collect firewood.

But in winter, everyone is short of heating fuel, and the firewood in the fields has long been cleared up.

"Auntie, we are all neighbors. What are you talking about? Don't freeze the children. I have some things to do, so I'll leave first." Li Aiguo sighed secretly when he saw that the little granddaughter of the Zhou family had frostbite on her hands.

In these days, this is all he can do.

Seeing that Li Aiguo was about to leave, Aunt Zhou quickly stopped him and took out a basket from the back room.

"Aiguo, I went back to my hometown yesterday and picked a lot of chicken and vegetables. You can take them home and try them."

Chicken greens are a wild vegetable that can grow all year round. They are used to make scrambled eggs and are extremely delicious.

Seeing the green wild vegetables in the basket, Li Aiguo accepted them without politeness.

"That's up to you."

After leaving Zhou's house and returning to the house, Li Aiguo began to prepare dinner.

Wash the chicken and vegetables and take out seven eggs from the cupboard.

Turn on the fire on the stove, break the eggs into a bowl and add an appropriate amount of salt. Add the cold oil to the hot pot and stir-fry.

I shoveled out the bright yellow eggs, added chicken vegetables into them, and finally stir-fried for a while, and a plate of fragrant chicken vegetables came out of the pan.

Then Li Aiguo fried another plate of tofu.

Two dishes, the main dish is stick noodle porridge, paired with white flour steamed buns, the quality of this meal has exceeded 90% of people.

As soon as the meal was ready, Chen Xueru came back. She hung her coat and canvas bag on the hanger, sniffed and said, "It smells so good!"

"Of course, the chef is cooking today." Li Aiguo put the food on the table.

Chen Xueru turned around and closed the door, put her arms around Li Aiguo's neck, and took a bite on his lips.

"Man, you are so kind~"

"That's it?" Li Aiguo pinched his waist with both hands, expressing dissatisfaction.

Chen Xueru's little face suddenly turned red with embarrassment. She tugged at the corner of her clothes and said, "It's bad. If you want anything else, you have to wait until night. Today happens to be the ovulation period."

Hearing this, Li Aiguo sat down, picked up his chopsticks, and ate happily.

We have to have dinner quickly so that we can work hard for the cause of creating humans.

Night falls.

The kang was burning so warmly that it was almost as if the heater was on in the room.

"I'm sweating again."

Chen Xueru leaned on the messy quilt, raised her delicate face, and let out a long sigh of relief.

There was still a slight blush on her face, and her slender hands were still shaking a little.

Li Aiguo smiled, rubbed her cheek gently, and said softly: "How have you been at work these days?"

"It went very smoothly. Since I became a full-time employee, Director Zhang has asked me to be responsible for literacy work. However, I need to issue coal stamps these two days, so I will get off work later." Chen Xueru felt the man's concern and held the man's face tightly. Big rough hands.

Holding her big hand tightly, she felt particularly calm.

"By the way, Brother Patriot, where is the cannon you made now?"

"Sent it up." Li Aiguo said.

"Send it up. So you are going to make a meritorious service again?" Chen Xueru's eyes widened with excitement.

Li Aiguo slowly withdrew, turned over and lay down next to Chen Xueru, nodded and said: "It doesn't matter if I make a meritorious service, as long as I can make a small contribution, I will be satisfied."

"Yeah, yeah, I think so too."

Chen Xueru put a pillow under her buttocks and leaned on the man's chest: "Don't worry, I will definitely be the woman behind you and always support you."

Li Aiguo has no doubt about this.

There was a very important reason why he chose Chen Xueru in the first place, and that was because this woman had upright views and a smart mind.

The two chatted for a while, went to the bathroom, took a hot shower, and went back to bed.

"I'll have a rest tomorrow, so I can take advantage of this time to shake out the briquettes." Li Aiguo said.

Chen Xueru nodded: "There are only two people in Mrs. Liu's family, she and He Yuyu, and there is no strong labor force. We should also help."

"Don't worry, the locomotive depot will provide you with plenty of coal this time," Li Aiguo said.

Chen Xueru said with a smile: "I knew you would do this. By the way, I met Wang Dakui yesterday. He seemed to be arguing with Wang Tingting. The wedding banquet is scheduled for the sixth day of next month. He asked me to tell you."

"Dakui is getting married, which is a good thing."

Li Aiguo sat up with his back bare, took the calendar and turned it over.

The sixth day of next month happens to be a Sunday, so we have a break.

You will have to prepare a big gift when the time comes.

Thinking about these things, Li Aiguo held Chen Xueru in his arms and fell into a deep sleep.

Early the next morning.

Chen Xueru went to work early. Li Aiguo had eaten and was preparing to shake briquettes.

As soon as he walked out of the house carrying the flowerpot and sieve, he met Zhang Gangzhu.

"Patriot, shake the briquettes." Zhang Gangzhu saw the tool in Li Aiguo's hand and knew what he was going to do.

Li Aiguo said: "Yes, with such a large amount of coal, I will be very busy today."

Zhang Gangzhu pointed to the pile of coal in front of his house.

"My family has to do it too, or we can work together."

Shaking briquettes is not an easy job. It usually involves the cooperation of several people, and Li Aiguo agreed immediately.

Zhang Gangzhu found a flatbed truck and went to a ditch not far away to pull back the loess.

Li Aiguo took advantage of this moment to pound the coal into powder with a hammer.

Powdered coal and loess are mixed together to form a pond.

He Yuyu also came to help. She brought clean water from the central courtyard with a bucket.

Aunt Liu couldn't sit still, so she picked up a shovel and came to help.

"Ouch, my old grandma, you must not do it. If you crumble and Brother Tianquan and the others come back, I won't be able to explain it." Li Aiguo was startled when he saw her trembling appearance and hurriedly stepped forward. Stopped her before.

Seeing that the shovel was taken away by Li Aiguo, Aunt Liu was a little disappointed.

"I think back then, I was raising two children by myself, and I had to do all the work."

"That's right, who doesn't know that you are a hard-working person, aunt? But now that you are older, it is the turn of us young people to make a difference." Li Aiguo said with a smile.

Xu Damao and Zhang Gangzhu also praised Aunt Liu for being a diligent wife when she was young.

"You guys, you know how to make my old lady happy. Okay, I won't cause trouble with you here. You guys get busy first, and I'll cook salted duck eggs for you."

Seeing that she couldn't help, Aunt Liu decided to do some logistical work.

The deaf old lady saw this scene through the window and rolled her eyes in anger.

She was supposed to be the most respected ancestor in the compound. When did it become Aunt Liu's turn to overpower her?

More importantly, her coal is almost running out.

Looking at the black coal stove, the deaf old lady thought of Silly Zhu.

"My poor Silly Zhu, when can you come back?"

After pouring water into the powder pile, Li Aiguo picked up a shovel and stirred it to make coal strips. He then used the shovel to cut the coal strips into small squares, and then cut them into smaller squares again, a bit like cutting a cake.

Shaking briquettes is a laborious job, so naturally it was Li Aiguo who did it.

Taking a sieve and placing a tall, thin and sturdy flowerpot underneath, Li Aiguo squatted on horseback, grabbed the edge of the sieve with both hands, and shook up the wet coal briquettes shoveled in. The dry coal surface leaked from the sieve, and the briquettes shook. It's round.

This is such a busy job, even if it is Li Aiguo, his arms are full of strength, and he is very tired after practicing all the tendons.

But just wait until next year. The authorities will start to advocate the use of briquettes, so there will be no need to shake the briquettes.

Zhang Gangzhu also found a sieve at this time and helped shake it.

It took a long time to shake most of it.

Li Aiguo just stood up and was about to stretch his sore waist when he saw Wang Erpao running over in a hurry.

"Brother Patriot, it's not good. Brother Da Kui got into a fight with someone and was taken to the police station." Wang Erpao seemed to be in a hurry. He didn't even have time to wipe the snot hanging from the corner of his mouth and said in a hurry.

Wang Erpao is still just a teenage boy. When encountering such a thing, he is so frightened that he almost bursts into tears as he speaks.

Hearing this, Li Aiguo reassured Wang Erpao not to panic, and then handed over the job of shaking coal to Wang Gangzhu.

"Patriotic brother, don't worry, this job won't be a problem for me!" Wang Gangzhu assured, patting his chest.

"Second Artillery, let's go to the police station."

Li Aiguo got on his bicycle and ran towards the police station with Wang Erpao.

I figured out the cause and effect on the way.

The boy who fought with Zhang Dakui was named Wang An'an, and he was Wang Tingting's younger brother.

This guy has always been dissatisfied with Wang Tingting marrying Zhang Dakui.

He felt that Zhang Dakui was not worthy of his sister in any aspect.

It's just that Wang An'an has no say in the Wang family. Seeing that the wedding is approaching, the boy can't suppress his anger and comes to the scrap yard to trouble Zhang Dakui.

When his brother-in-law came to his door, Zhang Dakui naturally entertained him with lots of smoke and wine.

Who thought Wang was safe but took action first, threatening Zhang Dakui and preventing him from marrying Wang Tingting.

Zhang Dakui was also a gay man. After being beaten several times, he could not hold back his temper, so the two started fighting.

Those people who came to sell scrap products saw that the matter was getting serious and quickly reported it to the police station, whereupon the two of them were arrested.

Good guy, he's already having sex with his brother-in-law before they get married. Zhang Dakui is really good at it.

In these days, the folk customs were fierce and the force was abundant, so fights could be big or small.

If no one holds on to you, even if you are in the bureau, you will be let go as long as you give him a few words of education.

Li Aiguo didn't care at first.

When they entered the police station, they learned that Zhang Dakui had been detained.

(End of this chapter)