The train driver in the courtyard

"Driver Li, here are some dried sweet potatoes, dried dates, wild chestnuts, and pecans. Things produced in the mountains are not valuable. They are all the wishes of the villagers."

"These wild hawthorn fruits are a great treasure. Zhaodi's gang of children picked them from the mountains."

Inside the Li family house.

After village chief Wei took a sip of hot tea, he opened the sack.

There was a bag full of souvenirs inside.

What attracted Li Aiguo most was a pile of bright red hawthorn fruits.

Each one is about the size of a thumb, and they are obviously carefully selected.

In addition to the souvenirs, there are a dozen sweet potatoes in the bag.

"Wang Stutters brought these sweet potatoes from the cellar. There aren't many. I'll give you a taste."

These souvenirs may seem worthless, but they are the best things for the folks.

The rich man's gold, silver and jewelry are far inferior to a poor villager's shabby home.

During his trip to Wei Zhuang, Li Aiguo only helped the villagers a little, but the villagers actually remembered it.

People in these days are really simple.

"This is too much and too valuable. Brother Patriot, we can't accept it." Chen Xueru also felt that this gift was a bit heavy.

Li Aiguo patted her shoulder gently, motioning her not to speak, and then said with a smile: "Village Chief Wei, you have posed a problem for me. You also know that I am in the organization and in the maintenance section." Employees, according to regulations, are not allowed to accept gifts from others at will."

"This, this, these are given to you by us, I know the rules." Village Chief Wei became anxious.

If Li Aiguo hadn't caught those two Dieters in Wei Zhuang, who knows what trouble those two people would have caused.

Village Chief Wei clearly remembered that his comrades in the county later found many grenades and explosives from the cave.

This visit to Li Aiguo was the intention of all the members. As long as they owed others a favor, they felt panicked.

Facing the red-faced Village Chief Wei, Li Aiguo waved his hands and said with a smile: "I see, you gave me a gift, and I accepted it. Then I gave you a gift, and we evened it out. This way it doesn't count as a violation of the rules." ”

Talking.

Before Village Chief Wei could refuse, Li Aiguo asked Chen Xueru to take out twenty kilograms of rice from the house.

These rice were obtained from Xiaozhan Rice from Jincheng through Little Hei Fatty, and were originally intended to be used during the Chinese New Year.

Now Li Aiguo has new plans for the New Year, and naturally he won't be able to use them now.

"Driver Li, this is too expensive."

Seeing a bag full of rice, Village Chief Wei subconsciously wanted to refuse.

Chen Xueru smiled and said: "Village chief, you also understand the patriotic temperament. If you don't accept rice, he will definitely not accept your local products."

".Take it."

Village Chief Wei felt a surge of warmth in his heart, nodded gratefully, and let Wang Stutter take the bag.

Subsequently.

While several people drank tea, Li Aiguo asked about the situation in the village.

"Driver Li, our village is having a great time this year."

Village Chief Lao Wei was smoking his pipe and talking about the affairs of the village.

This year the weather in Weizhuang has been good, the crops have been harvested, and the commune's warehouses are full of grain.

In order to celebrate the Spring Festival, the commune also slaughtered a big fat pig with the permission of the food station.

With food and meat, the villagers can have a prosperous year.

Also, Wang Shiba's daughter-in-law was pregnant and was unhappy, so she didn't come with her this time.

Mengzi and Erhu in the village just got married.

"Also, a while ago, doctors from the city went to the countryside to conduct free clinics. They treated Dabao Niang and gave her medicine. Her health is much better."

"It is only now that we are liberated that people will think of us. If it were before liberation, people would be seriously ill and would have to lie in bed and wait to die."

Mentioning these trivial things in the village, Village Chief Wei's cloudy eyes shone with hope.

For the old village chief, Wei Zhuang is both his home and his child.

"Driver Li, those two women are the kind with big butts that make it easy for them to have children. When you go to our Weizhuang again next year, the population of our Weizhuang will increase again."

Li Aiguo was also happy for the young man from Wei Zhuang to get married.

People of this age especially like to get married in winter.

On the one hand, this is a leisure time, so I have time to organize the wedding.

On the other hand, the Spring Festival is just after the wedding banquet. If you eat well at the wedding banquet, you can save some meat and vegetables for the Chinese New Year.

In hard times, saving limited resources is one of the standards for people to behave.

Chinese culture has a long history, and there are many seemingly strange customs. In fact, those customs do not come out of thin air, and they all have objective and realistic reasons.

Chat for a while.

Seeing that it was getting late, Village Chief Lao Wei said goodbye.

Li Aiguo didn't keep them. After sending a few people out of the house, he returned to the house with his hands behind his back.

Chen Xueru looked at their backs and asked doubtfully: "Brother Patriot, Village Chief Wei brought so many people today, isn't it just to give us souvenirs?"

Li Aiguo picked up a wild hawthorn and stuffed it into his mouth.

Gaba, hiss, this thing is really sour.

"Of course not. They should be here to collect debts from Jia Zhang."

A while ago, Jia Zhang was supposed to pay village chief Wei 200 yuan, but she only paid 100 yuan back, and she bought painkillers for the remaining 100 yuan.

Jia Zhang wanted to cheat, but was whipped and could only write an IOU.

"Why didn't Village Chief Wei ask you to come forward?" As soon as Chen Xueru said this, she felt stupid.

Li Aiguo and the Jia Zhang family were neighbors. If Village Chief Wei asked Li Aiguo to blame, wouldn't it be embarrassing for him?

Village Chief Wei is not the kind of person who likes to trouble others.

Chen Xueru said worriedly: "Brother Patriot, Jia Zhang is not an easy person to deal with. I'm afraid that Village Chief Wei will suffer a loss."

"Hahaha, don't worry. Village Chief Wei is an old man who came from before liberation. What kind of people have I never seen? I'm afraid Jia Zhang will kick the iron plate this time."

Li Aiguo chuckled, picked up the enamel jar, and took a sip of hot tea, "Let's wait and see the show."

At this time, a melodious sound came from the radio box.

[What’s the use of a monkey? Why? Monkeys can play, hey, they can play! With a pretty face and little red clothes, she beat the gong and said, "Have fun...". 】

Li Aiguo suddenly became interested.

This is "Buying a Monkey" by Mr. Zhang Shouchen, a famous cross talk artist, which is particularly interesting.

the other side.

Village chief Lao Wei led the members out of the backyard.

Wang stuttered and said as he walked: "Village, village, village chief, patriotic brothers are not cadres, why can't they accept our gifts? Besides, we don't ask him for help."

Thinking of Li Aiguo's operation of exchanging rice for local specialties, Wang stuttered and found it difficult to understand.

Village Chief Lao Wei said: "He just doesn't want to take advantage of us. Twenty kilograms of rice, if we get it to the market, we can sell it for at least five or six yuan."

Hearing this, the expressions of the club members behind him changed slightly.

"Okay, okay, good man." Wang stuttered and gave a thumbs up in his heart.

What does it mean to show kindness without repaying it, this is it!
Several people chatted and came to the middle courtyard.

Village Chief Wei wanted to find the Jia family, but he was a little confused looking at the intricately arranged houses.

"Which Jia family is it?"

The last time they came to the courtyard, the Jia family was still living in Yi Zhonghai's house.

The IOU was originally issued at Yi Zhonghai's house, so Village Chief Wei couldn't find the place for a while.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and every household is doing a lot of shopping, and Xu Damao's family is no exception.

At this time, Xu Damao bought a bag of white flour at the grain station and hurried back happily.

In order to grab this bag of noodles, he got into a fight with three aunts and five young wives. He kicked two aunts, pushed one young daughter-in-law away with his elbow, and finally with the buttons of his clothes pulled off, Success comes home in vain.

With this bag of noodles, you can make white flour dumplings during the Chinese New Year.

The dumplings are delicious!

Pour another glass of wine, it's called dumpling wine, the more you drink, the better.

Xu Damao was thinking about good things and became excited. He hummed a tune and walked in from the front yard.

I bumped into a few people face to face.

The members of the commune were tall and powerful. According to the principle of action and reaction, Xu Damao suffered a big loss.

He staggered and the dough bag almost fell out of his hands. In desperation, he flew to the ground and finally hugged the dough bag.

"Who the hell doesn't look at the road? I want it today."

Xu Damao stood up and rubbed his sore butt, just about to get angry.

Looking at the aggressive club members, the rest of the words were choked in his throat.

Xu Damao was so frightened that he took two steps back and hid the dough bag behind his back.

He looked at the commune members timidly and asked, "What are you doing, do you want to grab food?"

"Comrade, we are good people and we do not steal food."

Village Chief Lao Wei motioned to the members to be more gentle and not to scare the city dwellers.

Xu Damao breathed a sigh of relief, hugged the dough bag tightly in his arms and was about to leave.

After taking just two steps, he suddenly stopped, pointed at Village Chief Wei and asked, "You, are you the old man who whipped Jia Zhang last time?"

"Yes, it's me." Village Chief Wei took the opportunity to ask: "Comrade, where is Jia Zhang's family?"

"You are here to ask for an account from Jia Zhang, right? Come on, come on, I will show you the way."

Seeing that the Jia family was about to suffer disaster, Xu Damao suddenly became energetic and did not care about going home. He led several people to the door of Jia's house.

"Did you see it? This new house belongs to the Jia family. Do you want to demolish the house? I have a hoe at home."

Members: "."

Village Chief Lao Wei: "."

Village Chief Lao Wei took a deep breath and said: "This comrade is not a bandit. He is just here to collect an account."

"Really?" Xu Damao smiled awkwardly.

He felt pity in his heart.

If all these people rushed into Jia's house, it wouldn't take long for the house to be demolished.

Ever since Jia Dongxu moved to his new home, he has been snarling in front of him a lot, and his face is really annoying.

at this time.

Qin Huairu and Jia Zhang are making dumplings at home.

Hearing the footsteps and voices, Jia Zhang stuck her head out and met the eyes of Village Chief Wei.

Jia Zhangshi: "."

Village Chief Wei: "."

After their eyes met, there was silence for a moment.

Mrs. Jia Zhang was so frightened that she screamed and hid in the house. "What's wrong? Mom, why don't you make dumplings?"

While Qin Huairu was still looking confused, Village Chief Wei walked to the door and said loudly: "The one-month period has come, Mrs. Jia Zhang, you should pay back the money."

Qin Huairu finally understood and rolled her eyes in anger.

The old woman ran away on her own, leaving her to bear the thunder.

But Qin Huairu has nothing to do now. After all, she is also a member of the Jia family.

I could only wipe the flour on my hands, step forward and say, "Uncle Wei, my mother is not at home, why don't you go back first, and when she comes back, I will definitely return the money to you."

She flipped up her hair, her eyes dimmed, and the corners of her lips raised slightly. This pitiful look made people feel pity for her.

With this level of performance, it will definitely not be a problem to win an Oscar for a leading actress in future generations.

However, with more performances, the audience has developed a herd immunity effect.

Especially with Xu Damao next to him!

"Qin Huairu, I just saw Mrs. Jia Zhang putting shoe soles in the house!" Xu Damao first carried the stainless steel pot on his back, and then said in a strange tone.

Qin Huairu: "."

This guy is really a troublemaker!

If Xu Damao hadn't put on a turtle shell and his defense power had skyrocketed, she would have been waiting with a rolling pin now.

"Girl, we are here to ask for an account from the Jia Zhang family. It has nothing to do with you." Village Chief Wei's tone was unquestionable: "Please ask the Jia Zhang family to come out."

Seeing that the lie was exposed, Qin Huairu had no choice but to turn around and shout to the back room: "Mom, the debtor is here, come out."

"If you are celebrating the New Year, you don't have any eyesight when it comes to accounts."

Seeing that she couldn't hide, Jia Zhang came out of the house angrily.

She crossed her arms, rolled her eyes at first, then glared at Village Chief Wei and said, "You members really don't know any rules. The New Year is coming soon, can you ask for an account?"

Then spat again.

How disgusting that look is, how disgusting it is.

Village Chief Wei has seen many unreasonable old ladies like Jia Zhang.

His expression did not change, and he said slowly: "As the saying goes, if you don't come to the door on the 29th, you will have to collect the debt on the 30th. In fact, your debt was due a few days ago. I haven't come to collect it, just to save face for you."

The commune members made a lot of noise, and the residents in the compound also gathered around.

Because the Chinese New Year was coming soon, all the residents were on holiday, and the door of Jia's house was crowded for a while.

Everyone also knew the cause and effect, and they all agreed with Village Chief Wei's statement.

"Yes, it's the New Year's Eve. It's the New Year's Eve when we collect debts."

"Jia Zhang obviously wants to default on her debt."

"These commune members are really pitiful, having to deal with old pious women like Jia Zhang."

Jia Zhang had no intention of paying back the money.

Besides, she had already spent all that money.

The remaining part will be used as pension money and to buy painkillers!

If you give money to these poor people, isn't that an evil act?
Just letting these poor guys cause trouble here is not an option.

Jia Zhang decided to let them know the dangers of society.

"My family has no money. Even if I have money, I won't pay it back to you. What can you do?"

"A bunch of idiots dare to cause trouble in the city. They really think this is your country. They can shit anywhere."

As soon as these words came out.

Village Chief Wei's face darkened.

Several members behind him rolled up their sleeves.

The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense, and the residents held their breaths. The only sound in the air was the cold wind passing through the window lattice.

When Yi Zhonghai got the news, he hurriedly and slowly arrived.

Seeing that the situation was about to break out, he cursed Jia Zhang as a pig's head in his heart.

When someone comes to collect a debt, wouldn't it be enough if you have the money to pay, but if you don't have the money, just give them a few words of explanation?

Why bother to quarrel.

These club members are all simple-minded guys.

This kind of person is reckless, and if a fight really breaks out, the Jia family will definitely suffer.

Jia Zhang was beaten to death, but Yi Zhonghai didn't feel bad.

It’s just that Jia Dongxu is a good and filial boy!

Yi Zhonghai hurriedly stepped forward and stopped among several people.

"Village Chief Wei, misunderstandings are all misunderstandings."

Yi Zhonghai looked warm, pointed to the house and said, "The Jia family has just built a new house. We have no money now. I will definitely pay you back next year."

Hearing this, Mrs. Jia Zhang's triangular eyes were slanted, and her mouth was full of excrement: "Give your mother's legs back, Yi Zhonghai, if you want to pay them back, I will never pay them back. Besides, I don't owe them any money."

The more Jia Zhang talked, the more outrageous she became. Yi Zhonghai couldn't stand it anymore. He pulled the corner of Jia Zhang's clothes and whispered, "Sister-in-law, you wrote the IOU back then."

"IOU? Is the signature on it my name? It's obviously a few pigs!" Jia Zhang interrupted him and sneered: "I, Zhang Erhua, am not a pig. Since the name is signed by a pig, you go to the pig to ask for money. Bar."

The words came out.

Jia Zhang felt that she had scolded herself, and quickly changed her words: "It's not right for pigs to ask you for money. In short, I don't owe you any money. You get out of here, be careful, I will invite the comrades from the police station and arrest you all in the fence." Inside the fence, you won’t be able to survive for years!”

After Jia Zhang finished cursing, she raised her head high and looked down upon Yi Zhonghai.

Old man, look what a master is!
When I issued the IOU, I took precautions.

Yi Zhonghai was shocked by Jia Zhang's words. Isn't this old woman's lower limit too low? !

But at this time, he knew that Jia Zhang was shameless, but he had to help Jia Zhang.

"Ahem, as the master of the courtyard, I have always been fair, fair and open.

Now to be fair, there was indeed a pig drawn on the IOU, and there was no name of Jia Zhang.

So, Village Chief Wei, your IOU should be controversial.

Now that the Chinese New Year is coming soon, we should put aside our disputes and have a happy and peaceful Spring Festival.

If there is any matter, we can discuss it after the New Year. "

Upon hearing these words, the residents couldn't help but gasp.

Everyone felt that Yi Zhonghai's butt was tilted to the Zhengyang Gate.

Ahem, I just breathed in too much cold air today, and I feel a little nauseous.

"Master, you are the only one who is fair. I see, you can't wait to hug Jia Zhang into your bed." A strange voice came from the crowd, "Before, you just wanted Jia Dongxu to be your son, but now Fortunately, even my wife has taken a liking to it!"

The speaker was none other than Xu Damao.

Because Xu Damao sold counterfeit medicine to Yi Zhonghai, seven or eight pieces of glass in his home were smashed by a deaf old lady, and he was also beaten up. He had long been looking for an opportunity to deal with Yi Zhonghai.

Naturally, this opportunity cannot be missed now.

boom.

There was a burst of laughter from the crowd.

"Who in our compound doesn't know that Jia Zhang's signature is that of a pig."

"Yes, Jia Zhang's family is a pig, and a pig is Jia Zhang's family. There is no difference between the two."

"Yi Zhonghai is too partial to the Jia family."

"I don't want Jia Dongxu to provide for him in old age."

The residents' comments were particularly harsh, and Yi Zhonghai felt a little painful in his heart.

He decided to cut the knot quickly, walked up to Village Chief Wei with his hands behind his back, and said in a low voice: "Old Village Chief Wei, Jia Zhang is indeed wrong, but this is the capital, not a place for you to make trouble. If you really beat Jia Zhang Shi, there will definitely be trouble, you should go back."

"Hit? Why would we members hit someone?"

"Not hitting anyone? Then what are you going to do?"

Village Chief Wei looked at Yi Zhonghai deeply, then walked up to Jia Zhang and asked with a straight face: "You really don't want to pay back the money?"

"not return!"

"Have you thought about it?"

"Think about it!"

Facing the scoundrel Jia Zhang, Village Chief Wei, instead of being angry, burst into laughter.

"In fact, we came to the capital this time to give gifts to the Jia family."

Send a Gift? Yi Zhonghai instinctively felt something was wrong: "You members are also having a hard time. There is no need to give gifts. You can just leave as soon as possible."

"A gift? What gift? Yi Zhonghai, what are you causing trouble? Someone gave me a gift, are you greedy and want to snatch it away?" Jia Zhang's eyes gleamed when she heard the gift.

After so many years, no one has taken the initiative to give her a gift!

Besides, even though the members are poor, they are stupid enough to be generous.

"Of course it's a good thing, just wait!" Village Chief Wei turned to look at Wang and stammered: "Captain Wang, notify the militiamen on the oxcart to carry out the gift delivery operation."

"Yes!"

Wang stuttered and gave a crooked salute, turned around and ran out of the courtyard quickly.

At this time, the curiosity of the residents of the courtyard was also aroused.

A group of sub-community members actually gave gifts to the Jia family, and what kind of actions did they take? What exactly were they given?
After a while.

Along with seven or eight burly members walking in from the outside carrying barrels, the answer was revealed.

The poles on their shoulders were bent into an arc, which showed that the barrels were filled with heavy objects.

A curious resident stuck his head out, suddenly covered his nose and vomited.

The barrel is full of filth!

There were seven or eight buckets of cow dung and pig dung. The commune members walked over in a queue, and the onlookers hurriedly separated into a lane.

After all, no one wants to take advantage of this.

Mrs. Jia Zhang turned pale with fright.

She knew that in front of so many people, Village Chief Wei did not dare to hit her, otherwise wouldn't he become Huang Shiren?

But they never expected that they would attack Jia's family.

"Lao Yi, stop them quickly, my house is a new house!" Jia Zhang said anxiously, holding Yi Zhonghai's arm.

Yi Zhonghai also didn't expect that these idiots would come up with such a vicious method.

"Village Chief Wei, what are you doing? This is a courtyard house, not a place for you to run wild." Yi Zhonghai decided to show the majesty of a great man and stepped forward to stop the members.

Village Chief Lao Wei said: "Giving gifts, don't you know that this great man of the courtyard is in trouble?
In our rural areas, excrement is the most precious gift, and you can only get it with excrement stamps.

In order to express the friendship of our members, we decided to give the most precious gift to Jia and Zhang. "

Don't tell me, this reason is quite reasonable!

Xu Damao was so excited that he clapped his hands.

"Shit battle with the Jia family!"

(End of this chapter)