Li Weidong rode his bicycle back to the courtyard.
As soon as he reached the middle courtyard, he saw the wife of the Wang family coming over with a bench, stopped in front of him, and said with a cold face: "Young man from the Li family, you are doing something evil!"
That angry look and stern tone made Li Weidong afraid that she would hit him on the head with the bench.
What evil have I done?
What made Li Weidong even more confused was that the old women and young wives under the big camphor tree were all staring at him with the eyes of class enemies.
It seemed like the next second, he would be dragged to the street to fight.
Damn it, who did I offend?
Fuming, she returned to the backyard. As soon as she opened the door, she saw Yu Li eating black steamed buns with boiled water.
That pitiful little appearance makes people feel a little painful in their hearts.
Li Weidong understood everything, and the crux turned out to be here.
"Brother Wei Dong, you are back." Yu Li swallowed the last piece of steamed bun into her stomach, and stretched out her little tongue to lick the dregs of steamed bun near her mouth.
"Why are you just eating this? Isn't there something in the cupboard..." Li Weidong said mid-sentence and suddenly patted his forehead.
Inadvertently, in order to prevent the Thieves from coming, he put the meat and refined flour into the space warehouse.
"...Didn't I leave you five yuan last night? Why don't you go out to eat?"
Li Weidong held Yu Li's little hand, which was bright red from the cold, and felt distressed for a while.
"Eating out is too wasteful. A bowl of noodles at the street corner costs a dime. We should live our lives carefully." Yu Li's face turned red and she felt sweet in her heart. Being praised by the man she likes is the greatest happiness in the world.
...Isn’t this girl too caught up in the drama and taking the fake poverty for real poverty?
However, diligence and thrift are the main theme of this era, and Li Weidong really can't refute it. It seems that he will have to prepare some food in the house in the future.
"I will buy some vegetables and food to store in the house tomorrow. If you come, you will cook by yourself. You cannot wrong yourself. After we get married, you have to hurry up and continue the family lineage of our old Li family."
"Yeah." Yu Li nodded seriously.
The two chatted for a while, and Li Weidong suddenly remembered and asked, "Did you walk to the courtyard?"
"Yes, we only have one bicycle at home, and my father has to ride it to work."
"Tomorrow is the weekend, I'm going to buy you a bicycle."
"Really?" Yu Li's eyes widened suddenly.
What she looks forward to most is a bicycle.
In the original work, Yu Li went through a lot of hardships in order to get a bicycle.
"Of course it's true. I have to go to work, so please stop cleaning in the afternoon and have a good rest."
Li Weidong gave a few instructions and rushed back to work on his bicycle.
Just kidding, if Yu Li keeps doing what he does, the courtyard will soon hold a meeting to criticize him.
But Yu Li didn't know this, and thought Li Weidong felt sorry for her.
In fact, she was not tired at all, and she found cleaning the house very fulfilling.
After all, this is her little home, and she wants to raise her children here.
This is what women do. Once they identify a man, they start preparing for the reproduction of offspring.
Quilt covers, sheets, curtains... and a large basin was filled and brought to the faucet.
Seeing that Yu Li has been busy since yesterday without taking a break, the aunts and daughters-in-law who were basking next to her couldn't bear it anymore.
The aunt of the Zhang family said: "Miss Yu family, don't be deceived by Li Weidong. There is no family in our courtyard who is willing to use his wife like this."
"I do. Brother Wei Dong is so good to me, so I am willing to do this for him." Yu Li stared at Kazilan with her big eyes and answered sincerely.
The aunt and daughter-in-law immediately started gesticulating.
"Look, that boy Li Weidong is so bad. He didn't give out a penny as a bride price, and he let the older girl act like a bull."
...
"Ah sneeze!"
In the lounge, Li Weidong couldn't help but sneeze while drinking the high breakers handed over by Niu Meng.
Who is missing me?
He looked at Li Zheng, who was still calculating data, frowned, and said, "Engineer Li, doesn't your FAW plant have a calculator? Bring it over tomorrow, I need it."
Li Zheng raised his head from the tedious numbers, rubbed his temples in distress, and said: "There are three hand-operated calculators seized from the battlefield in the factory, but only the chief engineer is qualified to use them. I am a ninth-level engineer, and I can't use them."
I can’t apply!”
"So, your FAW plant is ready to have sex for nothing?" Li Weidong said with a straight face.
He discovered in the afternoon that he had underestimated the difficulty of designing the central support structure.
He already knows the principles and design ideas very well, but the key is that it requires a lot of data to calculate.
In addition, the precision coefficient of the support structure is very demanding, and there is no room for sloppiness.
"Free prostitution?" Li Zheng pointed at Niu Meng and said without tears, "You don't know how much money you, an apprentice, ate from me for lunch!"
It was Li Zheng's fault that the factory improved the food at noon, killed a pig, and sold meat and vegetables in the cafeteria.
Niu Meng has someone to pay for it, and it's someone she hates, so naturally she wants to eat it with all her heart.
The meal cost Li Zheng three yuan, but it made him feel bad.
"That's what you want! My master has worked so hard to help you design a support structure and solved your big problem. Shouldn't you show off?" Niu Meng didn't like Li Zheng and immediately responded.
Unable to defeat him, Li Zheng was a little scared of Niu Meng and could only hang his head and remain silent.
After a long while, he sighed and said: "I will go back in the afternoon and report the situation here to Chief Engineer Wang, hoping that I can apply."
He also knew that Li Weidong's request was not excessive.
Such a complicated data calculation would probably take two months to complete using an abacus.
...
At sunset, after the radio sounded, Li Weidong did not go back immediately, but got together with the veteran drivers returning from the car.
While puffing away smoke, they listened to their bragging.
In this era, the means of information dissemination were scarce, and even there were only a few radio stations.
Drivers traveling all over the country are the best sources of first-hand information.
Which town can be the most cost-effective to exchange national food stamps for local food stamps?
The price of food in that city has recently dropped.
There is also the issue of cargo delivery that Li Weidong is most concerned about.
Trucks that go out to deliver goods often come back empty.
Then the driver can buy some supplies locally that are scarce in the capital and go to the pigeon market to earn the price difference.
This is considered extra money for the drivers, and even if the factory knew about it, they would just turn a blind eye.
All because driving a big car these days is just risking your life.
Of course, in order not to be conspicuous, the supplies carried each time will not be too much.
But Li Weidong is different.
He also owns a spatial warehouse, and he can take advantage of the opportunity to transport goods to other places to build a larger one.
However, the problem that comes with it is how to sell it.
…
In this era of strict material control, the appearance of strange goods on the market will inevitably arouse the vigilance of the police station.
This is also the reason why Li Weidong no longer sells ore machines for the time being.
The ore machine is a niche gadget, usually only used by radio enthusiasts. Dozens of them appear at once, even if they don't want to be conspicuous.
But food and the like are different. Once eaten, they will quickly turn into dregs. Who can figure out where it comes from?
…
What disappoints Li Weidong is that the veteran drivers seem to have their own ways, but no one will say it openly.
It seemed that he still needed to go to the pigeon market to investigate on his own, so Li Weidong returned to the courtyard with a curse.
At the gate, I saw Mrs. Jia Zhang leading a young girl out.
Behind them, Yan Bugui, the third aunt and Yan Jiecheng kept waving to them.
Is this girl the one being introduced to Yan Jiecheng?
It was none of his own business, and Li Weidong didn't care at first.
When the girl walked beside him, he couldn't help but frown.
The girl is quite pretty. She is wearing blue and black overalls from a cotton spinning factory and has a good figure.
Although she is not as good as Da Li, she can still be regarded as a decent person.
If Yan Jiecheng marries her, he will get a big advantage.
The problem lies in her eyebrows.
Eyebrows are the first facial features.
A woman's charm is on her eyebrows, gentleness is on her eyebrows, coquettishness is on her eyebrows, and loneliness is also on her eyebrows.
The eyebrows of the little girl who has not yet left the palace are tangled together, and the tangle is very dense. The eyebrows are tangled layer by layer, like a flower without blooming.
After a woman gets married or has a man, the changes in her body are first reflected in her eyebrows.
The dense eyebrows suddenly spread out, they were fluffy, not as densely knitted together as before, like flowers fully blooming.
Yan Jiecheng's blind date's eyebrows were spread out.
Moreover, she still walks with a straight figure.
It seems that Jia Zhang is going to do something evil!