The train driver in the courtyard

In the central courtyard of the quadrangle.

"Selecting households that are short of food is the responsibility assigned to our managers by the Street Office. It has nothing to do with your neighborhood patrol team. Comrade Aiguo, I know you care about the affairs of the compound, but you must also be clear about your identity."

The afterglow of the setting sun shines on Yi Zhonghai's face.

His face was reflected in a bright red, and coupled with the angry expression, he looked quite scary.

The residents rarely saw Yi Zhonghai behave like this and were all shocked.

This is what bluffing is all about.

Li Aiguo simply glanced at Yi Zhonghai calmly and said, "Yi Zhonghai, it is indeed the task assigned to your uncle in charge by the street office to screen the food-deficient households, but we, the residents of the compound, also have the right to supervise.

Do you think you are the county magistrate before liberation? You can just slam the gavel and the matter is settled?"

Xu Damao in the crowd had already begun to think about quitting, but when he heard this, he immediately became motivated.

"Yes, after liberation, the people are in charge. Let alone the manager of the courtyard, even the leaders of the street office and the district, we have the right to supervise. Yi Zhonghai is playing tricks."

"Yes, yes, yes. If Yi Zhonghai doesn't make the criteria for selecting households with food shortages clear today, we will never let him go!"

"If that doesn't work, we'll go find Director Wang from the Street Office tomorrow and ask him to explain it to us."

The residents also began to murmur.

Yi Zhonghai's face turned from red to black, and finally to green, almost like a red light.

However, he was actually very excited.
After all, he had long anticipated that Li Aiguo might resort to this trick, and had already discussed countermeasures with Jia Zhang in advance.

Yi Zhonghai coughed twice and said slowly: "Since everyone wants to know the standard of food-deficient households, I won't hide it.

According to the regulations of the Street Office, only families whose family members' income is less than seven yuan and who have experienced famine for more than two days are eligible to be selected as food-deficient households.

In practice, since there are many families in need in our compound, the standards are stricter.”

After saying that, Yi Zhonghai winked at Jia Zhang.

Jia Zhang immediately stood up, stumbled into the crowd, and began to cry out to the sky.

"Life is so hard for our family! Dongxu is the only one who earns money, but there are four people to feed, and Huairu is pregnant.

We haven't had a full meal for several days.

Now we are just waiting for the food to be distributed from above. If anyone dares to stop us, they will kill our whole family!"

As she said this, Jia Zhang sat down on the ground and began to curse: "Some people in our compound just can't bear to see others have enough food, and they don't know how to respect the elderly and love the young. God, please open your eyes and take these people away quickly..."

The sharp and piercing curse echoed in the courtyard, while Yi Zhonghai raised his chin triumphantly.

He first showed weakness, and then set a trap to lure Li Aiguo into the game.

They just wanted to take this opportunity to undermine Li Aiguo's prestige.
Unexpectedly, things went so smoothly and Li Aiguo really took the bait.

Now, Yi Zhonghai is ready to reap the benefits.

"Sister-in-law, let's talk about the matter at hand. This is a civilized compound, don't curse!

Even if some people do things wrong and don’t consider their neighbors, we, the elders, should guide them to correct them.”

After Yi Zhonghai pretended to stop Jia Zhang's crying, he raised his head and looked at Li Aiguo triumphantly.
"Aiguo, I am not the one who is blaming you this time, but you did something inappropriate.

The Jia family might have often eaten white flour buns in the past, but they indeed only had one person who received a salary.

Jia Dongxu's salary is 27.5 yuan, which averages out to more than 6.8 yuan per person, just below the poverty line of 7 yuan.

Therefore, this time the Jia family is listed as a food-deficient household, which is completely in line with the regulations."

After Yi Zhonghai finished his explanation, the residents who had been making a fuss just now suddenly fell silent.

Regardless of whether Yi Zhonghai had any selfish motives in choosing the Jia family.

But on the surface, the Jia family did comply with the regulations, so this does not seem to be a violation of regulations.

The third uncle looked at Li Aiguo and sighed helplessly, thinking that this kid was a good person, but he was too young and lacked experience.

Li Aiguo didn't even think about the fact that all the residents in the compound were watching this time when they were screening for households short of food.

Even if Yi Zhonghai had a hundred guts, he wouldn't dare to do anything blatantly.

Jia Zhang also got up from the ground and shouted at Li Aiguo: "You misunderstood me, apologize to me immediately!"

"Hey, sister-in-law," Yi Zhonghai waved his hand magnanimously towards Jia Zhang, "Sister-in-law, we are all from the same compound, there is no need to make a big deal out of it.

Patriotism is also a good intention, wanting to supervise the work of our manager.

The three of us are always thinking about the residents of the compound and are never afraid of being supervised."

When the residents heard this, they almost laughed out loud, but no one could refute it.

After all, Li Aiguo did seem a bit careless this time and was caught by Yi Zhonghai.

Uncle Niu did not expect this situation to happen.

After hesitating for a moment, he walked into the crowd and held Li Aiguo's arm. "Aiguo, this is my family's business, it has nothing to do with you.

It doesn’t matter if I can’t become a food-deficient household. At worst I can take on a job as a coal carrier.

Now some large courtyards have started using honeycomb briquettes. I heard that you can earn one cent for carrying 100 kilograms of briquettes to the fifth floor. "

After Uncle Niu finished speaking, he bowed to Yi Zhonghai.

"Uncle, I'm so sorry. This has nothing to do with patriotism. He was trying to help me. I apologize to you on his behalf."

Uncle Niu is only in his forties, but the pressure of life has turned his hair gray and his face full of wrinkles. He looks even older than Yi Zhonghai.

When Yi Zhonghai saw Uncle Niu apologize, although he did not make Li Aiguo bow his head, he felt satisfied.

This time, Li Aiguo "misunderstood" the Jia family as being up to something, and was caught red-handed by him.

If Li Aiguo wants to give orders to him, the older man, in the compound again in the future, he can bring up this incident.

Yi Zhonghai nodded arrogantly: "Old Niu, let's forget it this time. I'm not a petty person. I won't be like some people who care about every little thing and take revenge.

As the eldest uncle of the Siheyuan, I have a much higher level of ideological awareness than ordinary people, so I will forgive you this time..."

"and many more!"

Just when Yi Zhonghai was about to publicize how he, as the boss of the courtyard house, cared about the residents of the compound.

Li Aiguo, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke.

"Aiguo, stop talking. Let's just let this matter go." Uncle Niu was afraid that Yi Zhonghai would get angry, so he hurriedly grabbed Li Aiguo's arm tightly.

Seeing that Li Aiguo dared to confront him, Yi Zhonghai immediately perked up and smiled: "Aiguo, you are still not convinced? Well, if you have any other reasons, just tell me.

But I advise you to think it over before you speak. Our manager was also elected by the residents and is considered a leader in the compound.

If you slander your leader, you will be held accountable.”

Yi Zhonghai was very proud. He had fought with Li Aiguo so many times, but was always trampled under his feet.

I finally managed to stand up this time, so of course I want to enjoy it for a while longer.

At this moment, Li Aiguo patted Uncle Niu's arm and said, "Uncle, don't worry, black will never turn white."

After saying that, he shook off Uncle Niu's hand and walked forward with big strides.

Uncle Niu stretched out his hand to pull him, but his hand stopped in mid-air, his eyes full of worry: "This child, how come his temper is as stubborn as his father? You can't beat Yi Zhonghai..."

The residents in the crowd were also worried about Li Aiguo.

They thought that if Yi Zhonghai suppressed Li Aiguo this time, their lives would be difficult in the future.

"Li Aiguo, if you have anything to say, you can say it in front of everyone!"

Yi Zhonghai secretly signaled to Jia Zhangshi and Jia Dongxu, asking them to be ready to attack at any time.

Jia Zhang rubbed her mouth and prepared her fighting tools.

Jia Dongxu rolled up his sleeves, waiting for Yi Zhonghai's orders at any time.

War is about to break out.

Li Aiguo seemed not to notice their little tricks. He just looked at Yi Zhonghai calmly and said, "Yi Zhonghai, the poverty line in our neighborhood is indeed seven yuan, but the income of the Jia family members is actually far above the poverty line."

Yi Zhonghai thought Li Aiguo had some good ideas, but when he heard this, he almost laughed out loud.

He pointed at Li Aiguo and said to Liu Haizhong: "Haizhong, look, anyone can be a train driver now, but his calculation ability is far worse than yours."

Bangs: "."

Yi Zhonghai looked at the third uncle and said, "Old Yan, you are an old teacher and the most educated one in our compound.

Tell Li Aiguo how much of Jia Dongxu's 27 yuan salary should be distributed to each family member."

The third uncle sighed, looked at Li Aiguo and said, "Aiguo, the first uncle has already calculated it. I know you have good intentions, but it is meaningless to dwell on this matter."

"Uncle, I want to know the criteria for judging the family members of our compound." Li Aiguo asked with a smile, his expression unchanged.

"What are the standards for household members?" The uncle was stunned by the question, and after a moment of hesitation, he said, "As long as they are members of this family, they are family members.

In my family, your third aunt, Yan Jiecheng, Yan Jiefang, and Yan Jiekuang are all considered family members, and with me, there are six people in our family in total.”

Li Aiguo then asked, "Your family can get food coupons, match coupons, and salt coupons for six people every month. Why can the Jia family only get food coupons for one person?"

"Isn't this simple? Jia Zhang's household registration is in the countryside, and Qin Huairu doesn't have a grain certificate.

Bang Geng and Qin Huairu also don’t have a food allowance. The three of them are registered as rural residents, so naturally they can’t enjoy the welfare of the city.”

The third uncle didn't care at first, but halfway through his words, his face suddenly changed and the rest of the words choked in his throat.

Li Aiguo continued, “Since Jia Zhangshi, Qin Huairu and Bang Geng cannot enjoy the welfare of the city.

Then they cannot be counted when calculating the number of poor households!"

When reading the original novel, Li Aiguo was always puzzled. In the 1960s, the poverty line in Beijing was five yuan.

Jia Dongxu's salary is still 27.5 yuan, and there are six people in the Jia family.

Logically speaking, everyone’s monthly income is already less than five yuan.

Why are Banggeng and Xiaodang still having to pay tuition fees when they go to school even though they are not rated as a poor household?
Now I think it’s because their registered residence is in the rural areas and they have nothing to do with the welfare in the city.

Li Aiguo's statement was a bit complicated. It took Yi Zhonghai a while to react. His face suddenly turned ugly: "Li Aiguo, don't talk nonsense!"

Although Jia Zhang didn't understand what was going on.

But he also knew that according to Li Aiguo, he had no way of getting food, and he became anxious at the time.

Jia Zhang jumped up and down and cursed, "Li Aiguo, you are such a wicked thief.

It’s fine if you don’t help me, but now people on the street want to help my family, but you’re stopping them. Do you want to watch me starve to death?”

Jia Zhang wanted to continue scolding, but Li Aiguo had already raised his hand to slap her. The rest of her words were choked in her throat and she could no longer utter them.

At this time, Jia Dongxu was also anxious. Although he didn't know why he was the only one in his family, when he saw Yi Zhonghai's expression, he knew that what Li Aiguo said was true.

If it were Xu Damao, Jia Dongxu would have rushed up by now.

But Li Aiguo would start fighting if he disagreed with someone, and he was afraid. "Wife, you have to think of a solution quickly, our family still depends on the relief food from above to survive." Jia Dongxu approached Qin Huairu and urged her.

Qin Huairu looked at Li Aiguo in the crowd and felt bitter in her heart.

Li Aiguo is now a train driver. He earns more than 100 yuan a month and can often eat white flour steamed buns.

What about her? Now she has to rely on relief food to survive.

Qin Huairu regretted it a little.

"Wife, hurry up! Our mother can't hold on any longer." Seeing that Jia Zhang had already started to retreat, Jia Dongxu couldn't help but urge her again.

Qin Huairu put away her depressed mood, sighed deeply, and walked forward.

She bombed as soon as she opened her mouth.

"Li Aiguo, I know you have something against my family, but my mother, me, and Bang Geng, the three of us are standing here, you can't say we are not human, right?"

When these words were spoken, the residents' eyes widened.

Yes, these three people all eat and live at Jia’s house, so why are they not considered human beings?

"From the perspective of household registration regulations, you are indeed not considered living people." Li Aiguo folded his arms and said lightly.

Qin Huairu: "."

Jia Dongxu: "."

Bang Geng: "Ah!"

Xu Damao scratched his head and said, "I thought so. I always felt that Jia Dongxu was a nobody. It turns out that he is not even a living person."

There was a burst of laughter from the crowd.

Qin Huairu and Jia Zhang wanted to get angry, but they had no way to refute.

After all, they did not have food tax certificates and no household registration in the capital.

Jia Zhang's eyes turned, and she pointed at Li Aiguo and complained to Yi Zhonghai: "Uncle, look, Li Aiguo deliberately insulted the residents in the compound."

Yi Zhonghai frowned: "Qin Huairu, Jia Zhangshi, although Qin Huairu and the others don't have a city household registration, they are also residents of the Jia family and live in the city all day.

It would be inappropriate for us to watch them fall into hardship without offering a helping hand, right? "

"Just because Yi Zhonghai, Qin Huairu and the other three are not from Beijing doesn't mean they don't have a source of income." Li Aiguo straightened his chest and said loudly, "Their household registration is all in the rural commune, and according to the regulations, they are members.

They were supposed to work together with the other members and eat from the same pot.

Now they are staying in the capital, dividing up the few benefits that the residents of the capital have, and snatching away Uncle Niu’s place as a food-deficient household.”

Just now, the residents thought that what Yi Zhonghai said made sense. After all, they couldn't just watch Qin Huairu and the other two without a source of income.

After hearing what Li Aiguo said, he suddenly came to his senses.

"Yes, their household registration is in the rural commune, so they are members."

"As long as members participate in labor, they can have enough food to eat. Why should they waste their time in the capital?"

"Why else? I'm just lazy."

"Jia Zhang has always looked down on members, but she never expected that she herself is a member."

Jia Zhang was furious when she heard this. She glared at Li Aiguo and shouted coldly, "I am already old, and I still want to go to the countryside to work with those peasants?"

"Hey, Jia Zhang, your thinking is wrong. What's wrong with working? Working is glorious!" Li Aiguo said coldly, "You are less than 50 years old now, why can't you go to work?"

"I" Jia Zhang was still making trouble, but Yi Zhonghai had already realized that this plan had completely failed.

He stretched out his hand to stop Jia Zhangshi: "Old sister-in-law, stop making trouble, look at the big guy."

Jia Zhang turned her head and saw that the residents were all looking at her with contempt. She was so scared that she shrank her neck and dared not say a word.

The status of farmers is still very high these days.

There is a saying that workers are big brothers and farmers are brothers.

What Jia Zhang said just now, "peasant", was an insult to a large group of people.

"Ouch, my stomach hurts, I can't stand it anymore." Seeing that she had angered everyone, Jia Zhang turned around and ran away.

This old woman annoyed all the residents and ran away.

Yi Zhonghai sighed helplessly, turned his head and looked around: "I really didn't consider the situation of the Jia family carefully.

This was just a minor technical error. Now that it has been clarified, I suggest that the Jia family be removed from the list of food-deficient households and replaced by the Lao Niu family in our compound. Haizhong, Lao Yan, what do you think? "

Liu Haizhong nodded quickly: "I agree."

The third uncle took out the list, erased the name of the Jia family, and replaced it with Uncle Niu's family.

"Okay, that's it, everyone go to bed early." Yi Zhonghai was not in the mood to talk too much at this moment, he turned around and left angrily with his hands behind his back.

When the residents saw that there was nothing exciting to watch, they dispersed.

Uncle Niu walked forward, took Li Aiguo's hand and said gratefully: "Aiguo, thank you so much this time."

"Uncle, your family deserves to be a food-deficient household. It has nothing to do with me."

Li Aiguo chatted with Uncle Niu for a while and then went home.

The night was quiet.

The night is dark.

The lights in the Jia family's house were bright.

Jia Zhang's face was so gloomy that ink could drip from it, and her teeth were chattering. "The quota that was about to be obtained was lost just like that. Li Aiguo, this thief, is really abominable."

Yi Zhonghai took the enamel pot from Qin Huairu and sighed helplessly: "Sister-in-law, stop making trouble. You are no match for Li Aiguo. Fortunately, I saw the situation was not good and changed my words in time, otherwise Li Aiguo would have spared me."

"What about our family's food? How can we survive without relief food?" Jia Zhang yelled.

Jia Dongxu also looked at Yi Zhonghai and said, "Master, please think of another way."

The so-called way is to borrow food, right? Yi Zhonghai complained in his heart and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, there is a handmade job of pasting matchboxes in the street office now. Deputy Director Ma and I are old friends. I can help you take it over."

The words have not yet fallen.

Jia Zhang stood up suddenly.

Lift your feet.

踹。

Yi Zhonghai was kicked out of the Jia family's house and turned around twice like a gourd.

"Yi Zhonghai, you old man, do you want to tire me to death so that Dongxu can take care of you in your old age? You are just dreaming."

boom!
The door is closed.

Yi Zhonghai touched the back of his head which was in great pain, raised his head to look at the bright moon, and was a little confused: Why was he trying so hard to help the Jia family?
The next day, Yi Zhonghai appeared in front of everyone with gauze on his head.

A curious resident asked Yi Zhonghai if he had gone to steal other people's vegetables. Yi Zhonghai said that he accidentally bumped into a tree when he went to the toilet at night.

As for why the person was walking forward but was hit on the back of the head, only Yi Zhonghai knew the reason.

After the list of food-deficient households in Siheyuan was reported, the subdistrict office quickly approved it, and the food-deficient households in the capital began to look forward to the food arriving in the capital as soon as possible.

At this time on the high seas, a 10,000-ton ship was sailing against the wind and waves, heading towards the port of Tianjin.

On the side of the giant ship, a young man in a suit looked at the rough sea, thinking about what he had experienced in the past three months, with a lot of thoughts in his mind.

Three months ago, the Runhua Yang family received an urgent task, which was to use Hextech technology to purchase large quantities of food from abroad.

At the beginning, Yang Jizong thought this was an almost impossible task.

Because life is not easy here, the relationship between our family and those big producers is not very good.

Especially since Xiaomei's family was watching nearby, if the grain was sold, Xiaomei would scold them.

Unexpectedly, our comrades established a relationship with the Maple Leaf family through special channels.

It just so happened that the Maple Leaf family had a bumper harvest this year, and those farmers put tremendous pressure on Alvin Hamilton, who was in charge of agriculture for the Maple Leaf family, because of the plummeting grain prices.

With the mediation of Alvin Hamilton, the Maple Leaf Wheat Bureau agreed to sell a large amount of grain to our family.

Originally, we planned to use bamboo and pig hair to make brushes, and the farm tool factory and hardware factory to produce hoes, shovels, hammers, etc. to export to Maple Leaf in exchange for precious foreign exchange, and then use the foreign exchange to buy food.

But now Hextech has accumulated tens of millions of foreign exchange through the sales of instant noodles, automatic umbrellas, and large electronic tube computers, which is enough to purchase this batch of grain. Therefore, in order to save time, foreign exchange cash transactions were used, which brought the entire transaction process forward by a full six months.

After completing the first batch of 35,000 tons of grain transactions, Yang Jizong faced another major problem.

That is, there is no means of transportation.

At that time, the two ocean-going freighters, Yuejin and Dongfeng, were both under development in China, and there was a shortage of ocean-going freighters in China.

Because of Xiaomei's surveillance, major ocean shipping companies in the world are unwilling to undertake the transportation of this batch of grain.

Fortunately, our comrades at Maple Leaf were really helpful and contacted this 10,000-ton ocean-going freighter named Amazon.

The Amazon is currently the most advanced ocean-going cargo ship, and it can reach the port of Tianjin from Vancouver in just seventeen days.

"Once the 10,000 tons of food on board arrives on shore, the domestic food shortage will be alleviated. The train driver will probably be very happy."

Yang Jizong thought of Li Aiguo and couldn't help laughing out loud.

In his mind, Li Aiguo was a greedy person, and if he asked him for help, he would definitely be blackmailed for a large sum of money.

But it was this person who agreed to take out such a large amount of foreign exchange without hesitation.

As he was thinking about it, the captain of the Amazon came over.

"Dear Yang, we will arrive in Tianjin in a week. I hope you can prepare the unloading work at Tianjin Port."

"Don't worry, I will contact the Tianjin Port right now." Yang Jizong nodded.

He knew what the captain meant.

The unloading of a 10,000-ton cargo ship is very time-consuming, usually taking more than ten days. The sooner the grain is unloaded, the sooner we can return to Maple Leaf to transport the next batch of grain.

In addition, there will be strong winds and waves on the waterway for another month.

If it is impossible to return in time, the freighter will be delayed in the wind and waves for at least three days.

At this time, time is life.

At this time, a comrade in a gray Zhongshan suit ran out of the cabin in a hurry.

He leaned close to Yang Jizong's ear and whispered, "We just received a telegram from the ministry, saying that it is possible to transfer this batch of food to the Tie family in the bunker, so we should be prepared to change the route."

Yang Jizong's face changed drastically: "What! We are so short of food, we have to send food to other people's homes?"

"The specific situation is still unclear, and the ministry has not made a final decision." The man in the gray Zhongshan suit also looked a little unhappy.

Yang Jizong turned his head to look at the rough sea and let out a long sigh.

(End of this chapter)