The train driver in the courtyard

Chapter 7

After sending Zhou Tiehu away, Li Aiguo glanced at the room.

It was originally a wing room in a courtyard, divided into three rooms, the middle used as the main room and the kitchen, and two kangs were built on the east and west sides, with mats on the top of the kang, and holes in the bottom of the kang.

The kang hole is about the length of one brick, and the height is about five or six bricks thick.

For each kang, an ash pit should be built at the kang head and at the joint between the kang hole and the kiln. When there is a lot of soot, it is convenient to dig out the ash by planing the kang board.

Now it is the turn of spring and summer, the heated kang has long been out of use, and the firewood ash in the ash pit has not been raked clean.

Li Aiguo took out the 150 yuan, rolled it into a ball, wrapped it in old newspapers, stuffed it into the kang hole, and covered it tightly with firewood ash.

Waiting for no traces to be seen on the outside, he covered the Kang hole, patted the ashes on his hands, and breathed a sigh of relief.

This money is his future wife's money, so naturally he has to hide it well.

A line of sunlight filtered through the tattered newspaper on the glass and fell on the darkened walls in bright spots.

Li Aiguo was lying on the bed, holding his head in his hands, staring at the spots, lost in thought.

The top three in the test scores can directly drive in the car.

The news provided by Zhou Tiehu is crucial.

The Railway Academy has two to three hundred graduates every year, and there must be at least 100 people who can pass the train test.

In this era, most of the domestic locomotives were old locomotives before liberation, or steam engine trains assisted by Big Brother.

There are also a small number of liberated freight steam locomotives manufactured by the Sifang Factory imitating the Mikadu 1 steam locomotive.

The operating mileage of railways is only 2.67 kilometers, and the number of passenger and freight trains combined is less than [-].

Most novices who have passed the driver's license need to work as a fireman for several years before they can sit in the driver's building.

Steam trains run entirely on coal.

To convert water into steam as power, if you want the train to run fast, someone needs to keep adding coal.

Being a fireman is a tiring and hard job.

A shovelful of coal weighed forty to fifty catties, and the cotton cloak was blackened by soot and cinders, which made the clothes lose their original color.

After a shift, my waist is sore and my back hurts. Except for the white teeth, my whole body is black...

Not only is it tiring and bitter, but the salary and treatment of the fireman are far inferior to that of the train driver.

It is the wish of all graduates of the Railway Technical College to be able to drive a train with a driver's license.

It's just that there are two to 300 people taking the exam every year globally, and it is not easy to become the top three.

It seems that you still have to rely on your own efforts.

Li Aiguo is not a person who likes to rely on external forces. He decided to study hard to win the final victory.

He took out the textbook and looked at it for a while, rubbed the space between his brows, pondered for a moment, and then his eyes fell on the system panel.

Steam engine driving: 21.

Cooking skills: 15.

Skill Points: 0
Two flowers bloom, one branch each.

After Li Aiguo left, Jia Zhangshi squinted and scolded Qin Huairu.

"If it wasn't for you, would our family have lost 50 yuan?"

"You caused the disaster, and you have to pay for it."

Qin Huairu wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said pitifully, "Mother, I'm a rural girl, where can I make money?"

"I don't care, anyway, if you don't get the money back, I'll let Dongxu divorce you!"

Jia Zhang looked proud: "I divorced you, our family, Dongxu, can find a regular employee."

Thinking of this, Jia Zhang became angry, and turned her head to look at Jia Dongxu viciously: "At first you were told to listen to your mother, but you didn't listen. Now that you've married a rural girl, you can't even get your food. Beautiful? Can she be eaten as a meal?"

Jia Dongxu didn't dare to argue with Jia Zhangshi, so he secretly winked at Qin Huairu and changed the subject.

"Mother, today is the day of sticking to the week, and the big guys are still waiting."

Qin Huairu wiped away tears, forced a smile: "Yes, mother, today is your grandson's big day, we can't be angry."

It's strange to say that there was such a commotion in the house that Bang Jian sat on the kang without crying or making a fuss.

Only then did everyone think of the stick, and they all turned their heads to look.

This look.

Huo, that's amazing.

At some point, Bang Geng took all the gadgets on the kang into his arms, and was stuffing them into his underpants one by one.

Seals, red cuffs, pens, coins. The underpants are full.

The ledger is too big and the stick is too small.

He couldn't grasp it, screamed in frustration, and stretched out his little hand to tear the ledger into pieces.

Everyone had never seen such an arrogant child before, and they were stunned for a while.

"My eldest grandson will do great things in the future!"

Jia Zhang laughed twice, picked up the stick, held it high, and circled in the air.

"That's right, you don't want to see whose seed it is!" Jia Xudong was so excited that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear, and leaned over to praise him loudly.

Clap la la.
A pale yellow liquid came out of the faucet.

grunt
vomit~
Jia Dongxu was almost choked, suppressed the discomfort, and swallowed.

Thumbs up: "My son, amazing!"

There was a burst of laughter in the room.

Zha Zhou was supposed to hold a banquet.

At noon, Jia's family did not see any fire cooking, and the residents didn't think it was strange, so they could only go back to their homes with their hands behind their backs.

Walking on the road, the big guys were still amazed by the miraculous performance of the stick.

It is unanimously believed that stick stems will definitely become talents in the future.

"Jia Zhang is blessed!"

Just as he was admiring, Liu Guangtian's howling ghosts and wolves could be heard in the distance.

You don't need to ask, you know that the Liu family is currently performing a big drama of father's kindness and son's love.

The big guys have become accustomed to this, and have no intention of eating melons at all.

Xu Damao came home humming a ditty.

As soon as he entered the door, he was pulled into the back room by Xu Jixiang.

"Da Mao, what do you think of today's incident?"

"What do you think? Of course I saw it with my eyes!"

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If it weren't for the fact that the Xu family only had such a son, and they were expecting him to carry on the family line, Xu Jixiang's big bully would have been called out long ago.

Xu Jixiang took a deep breath and let it out slowly: "In the future, don't provoke Li Aiguo. Today I understand that that kid didn't intend to send all those people in, just to extort money. In addition, this kid might be able to join the railway in the future. We have to ask others for help."

Xu Damao didn't think so. In terms of small tricks, he was much better than Li Aiguo.

Just thinking of Li Aiguo beating up Shazhu so helplessly, begging for mercy on his knees, I felt a little envious.

Where did this kid worship a famous teacher, and he had to ask for a lesson if he had the opportunity.

"One more thing, you have to be more honest recently, your mother has already mentioned it to Lou Tan.

Although Lou Xiaoe is not a prostitute, she is deeply liked by Lou Zhenhua.

If you can marry her, you will definitely improve in the future. "

Xu Jixiang paused and continued to explain.

"Lou Zhenhua agreed?" Xu Damao's eyes lit up.

He had seen Lou Xiao'e before, and although his appearance was not as outstanding as Qin Huairu's, he was quite handsome, with a plump figure and a perfect cannonball.

And the aura of that wealthy family is far from what those firewood girls in the country can compare.

"Ninety-nine is not far from ten, Lou Zhenhua has a fancy for three generations of poor people in our family."

Xu Jixiang nodded: "When you and Lou Xiao'e have an idea, Dad will apply for early retirement and let you take over. During this period of time, you have to get familiar with playing movies."

Xu Damao is now also a film projectionist in the rolling mill.

It's just a temporary worker, and he can only get a salary of 15 yuan a month.

Hearing this, he nodded hurriedly.

At the same time, Yan Bugui returned home.

The third mother hugged Yan Jiedi, stood up, handed him a mug of herbal tea, and asked with concern: "Xie Cheng's father, what's going on with the middle court?"

"Yi Zhonghai failed to fight the geese, but was pecked in the eye by the geese."

Yan Bugui took two gulps, burped comfortably, and said triumphantly:
"The matter is very simple. Seeing that Li's family is in ruins, and Li Aiguo is shy, they became malicious and wanted to plot against Li's house.

Just in the name of standing up for Jia Dongxu, he wanted Li Aiguo's life.

There is a famine these years, and there are many fleeing famines from outside the city. In which month, a few people are not allowed to be carried away on the streets.

Li Aiguo was alone, with no father or mother, no relatives, and no work unit. Even if he died in the house, Yi Zhonghai could still cover it up.

At that time, Lao Yi also approached me, and asked Xie Cheng, my family, to do the same.

At that time, the Li family's cotton-padded jackets, kettles, thermos bottles and other miscellaneous things will be distributed to our family.

I know what Lao Yi is thinking.

Don't you just want to use this small favor to block the mouth of my third master.

"

Speaking of this, Yan Bugui became excited:

"I didn't expect that kid Li Aiguo to play everyone.

He pretended to be seriously injured, lay down at home for a few days, contacted the people on the railway, and asked our family to be liberated in advance to call Director Wang of the street office.

Fight back, you weren't there at the time, that little mouth is amazing!
Yi Zhonghai was so angry that he spoke incoherently, not only earned 200 yuan, but also sent Sha Zhu to the police station.

This kid is really brave and resourceful.

From now on, people in this compound will never dare to provoke Li Aiguo lightly. "

"It's a good thing you didn't agree to Yi Zhonghai at that time, otherwise our family would have paid 50 yuan." The third mother was as happy as picking up 50 yuan.

Yan Jiedi, who was in her arms, also giggled excitedly, stretched out her chubby little hand, and touched the third mother's chin.

Yan Bugui adjusted his glasses frame, with a smug expression: "I am also an old teacher after all, and a man of culture, how can I do such unconscionable things."

He paused and looked at the third mother: "You still have to take care of Xie Di, otherwise, I want you to wash the bedding for Li Aiguo. When you were born Xiecheng, our family suffered from famine, thanks to the ten catties of bean dregs given by Brother Li."

"Hey, what's the matter, isn't it just washing clothes, I can't be tired, our Xie Di is good, she can play for a while by herself." The third mother agreed.

When she was born, there was a famine, so she could only go to the suburbs to collect wild vegetables with Yan Bugui with her big belly.

Before picking up a basket of wild vegetables, my stomach hurts too much.

Yan Bugui panicked and found an ox cart.

The third mother gave birth to Yan Jiecheng in the bullock cart.

The scar on the back of Yan Jiecheng's head was the result of being injured by the ox's tail.

It's just covered by hair so outsiders can't see it.

Compared with giving birth on a bullock cart, this kind of work is really nothing.

The two were chatting when Yan Jiefang came in bouncing around.

"Liberation, what about the dime Li Aiguo gave you today? Turn it in quickly." Yan Bugui stood up and stopped him.

Yan Jiefang: "."

(End of this chapter)