Early that morning, before anyone woke up, there was chaos in the courtyard.
Several street workers rushed into the courtyard and soon announced a meeting.
The courtyard was in a mess, and everyone was pushing and shouting for a long time before all the residents of the courtyard arrived. After they arrived, they kept mumbling.
"What are you doing? It's so noisy early in the morning."
"I don't know. I was still cooking on the stove, and it got burnt in a while."
"Who isn't? I'm cooking and I have to go to work soon. I don't know when the meeting will be open. I'll deduct money for being late."
"That's right, if you have something to do, we can't talk about it at night."
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"Quiet! Quiet! Listen to me." It wasn't until the staff at the subdistrict office lost their temper that they stopped talking.
When the staff at the subdistrict office passed by, it turned out that someone had reported that many people in the courtyard were privately occupying state property.
To put it bluntly, because the floor height of the courtyard is relatively high, most of the homes in the courtyard that lacked rooms were partitioned off by a second floor. Some people were jealous and reported it to everyone.
"Who is this? We can't even repair our own house." The tall and imposing boss of the Feng family in the yard yelled: "If you let me know who it is, I will twist off his head and stuff it into his butt."
It's no wonder that the boss of the Feng family is angry. There are only two rooms in their family of seven, and they are all of marriageable age.
But without a house, how can a woman be willing to go on a blind date? Even if a woman is willing, where will she live after she gets married?
The children in his family are in trouble. To put it bluntly, the matchmakers avoid his family for fear of introducing them to a blind date.
Now I finally took advantage of this opportunity to divide the two houses into upper and lower floors. Just like Zhang Yu's upstairs, it is even smaller than his upstairs. There are five rooms separated and four rooms below, except for one.
The parents lived outside, and after the remaining rooms were used as dining areas, the brothers shared a room each. When they grew up, this was the first time they had their own room.
Now that he has a house and a few people who are good-looking and tall, matchmakers come to his door and take the initiative to introduce him to blind dates.
"Everyone be quiet! We are not here to cause trouble this time. We are just here to check. What is the specific situation? Does the separated building meet the standards?" A young man from the subdistrict office subconsciously asked when he saw the seven brothers of the Feng family.
He took a few steps back.
I remembered that I was a street clerk, with so many people watching me, and I couldn't back away.
Only then did he gain the courage to encourage himself. There were so many people here, so it was impossible to come up and beat him. Besides, it was not his fault.
"We are here this time because someone reported you for embezzling state property. Is this true?"
"If there is no such thing, who is talking nonsense?" It was rare for the residents of the courtyard to say the same thing, even those who had not implemented partitions disagreed.
After all, just because they don’t need it now doesn’t mean they won’t need it when they have more children in the future.
After inspection by the staff of the subdistrict office and discussions with the leaders above, they agreed to the idea of adding a second floor.
However, the second floor added must pass street inspection and the building strength meets the requirements before it can continue to be lived in.
Although the matter passed afterwards, many residents of the courtyard discussed together: "Uncle Zhao, this matter cannot just be left like this."
"That's right, that's right, once this is started, whoever has something good in the future will have to report it?" Everyone agreed beside them.
After all, they sometimes buy some good things in the pigeon market. These are all tacit things, and no one will report them.
But this report is a bad start. If you think about eating something good in the future, someone will be watching from the dark.
I couldn't help but shudder. No, we can't let it go. We must find the person who reported it.
Then the residents of the courtyard started looking for the whistleblower, each with their own methods and channels.
Uncle Zhao and other stewards in the courtyard contacted their friends and apprentices and used official channels.
The middle group used their interpersonal relationships to contact their relatives everywhere to try to find that person.
And those young people who don't have jobs take advantage of their social status and ask their brothers everywhere.
And many women took advantage of their gossip and tried to grasp the key points from clues.
Anyway, everyone in the entire courtyard took action. Snakes have their own ways, and rats have their own ways.
Just like this, someone actually found some clues.
No, a gangster brother in the front yard hurried over from outside: "Brother Feng, I got some news from a brother from the street office. The night before, someone in the courtyard next door took a letter
Xin spent a long time sitting next to the subdistrict office."
"It's just that my brother doesn't hang out much in our neighborhood. I just saw him entering the courtyard next door when I went home. It was a bit dark, so I couldn't see the person's specific face. I just roughly knew that he was a young man wearing a uniform.
Blue clothes.”
The boss of the Feng family patted him on the shoulder: "It doesn't matter, it's enough to have this little bit of news. With a little bit of news, you can grasp this nod, and then move on from one o'clock to one o'clock."
"Thanks to your brother this time, I will treat you to dinner another day."
Zheng Gouzi touched his head and smiled sheepishly: "Brother Feng, what are you talking about? Aren't the affairs in the courtyard also my business? When I came here, if the people in the courtyard hadn't given me a
If I don’t have food to eat, I’ll have buried it in the ground a long time ago.”
"Okay, it's the person in charge." Then he took him to find the aunts in the hospital. When he told the aunts about this clue, they immediately started chatting.
This one said: "There were a lot of people coming in and out of the courtyard next door last night, but not many of them were wearing blue clothes."
The man continued: "I noticed yesterday that Uncle Yi next door wore a blue top, and Wang Laoshi, his eldest son in the backyard, wore one, and your girl's blind date in the front yard wore one.
Son."
"I saw it too, and Silly Zhu also wore one."
"Is that all?"
"No, no, there's one more. I came back late. Yesterday, my girl got off work early, and she cooked the food. I thought it was too hot in the room, so I sat at the door and stayed for a while. I saw the son of the Jia family wearing all the clothes.
New blue clothes." One of the slightly richer aunts added.
"Uncle Yi, it's impossible. He's too old. Besides, Uncle Yi is not that kind of person. Wang Laoshi, his eldest son's blue clothes have been worn for a long time, and there are many patches sewn on them. The patches are too conspicuous.
Yes, so it can't be him. As for the blind date, he has nothing to do with our hospital, so he wouldn't go out of his way to report this to our hospital." Aunt Zhao analyzed one by one, and several people around her nodded.
"The only ones left now are Shazhu and the Jia family. Who are they?"
"I don't think it's Silly Zhu. I heard someone said that someone was holding a wedding in the front street yesterday and asked him to be the banquet party." Another aunt who was more well-informed proudly told the news she knew.
"Now it seems that if there are no outsiders, then 80% of the people who reported us were that kid from the Jia family."
Zheng Gouzi rolled up his sleeves and was about to go out. The boss of the Feng family quickly stopped him: "What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to skin that kid," Zheng Gouzi said with no anger on his face.
"You peeled off someone's skin. How do you do it? What if something happens to you and you go to jail?" The boss of the Feng family can become the leader of this generation in the courtyard, relying on more than just his tallness and strength.
His physique is as well as his steady character.
"Then, Brother Feng, let's forget it." Zheng Gouzi said with a look of dismay.
"Forget it, how is it possible? Forget it this time, people will think that we are easy to bully, and we will be more unscrupulous next time." The boss of the Feng family sneered: "It's okay, we have a long time to come, and we will find it back sooner or later."
"Start signing in today."
"Ding, congratulations to the host for successfully signing in. You will receive two yuan in cash, a flashlight, and a pair of adult rabbits."
Take out the rabbits from the sign-in reward, they happen to be one male and one female.
According to his only knowledge, rabbits have very strong reproductive capabilities. They can breed once every two months, and can generally give birth to 6-8 litters a year, and they can give birth to many cubs at a time.
The most important thing is that rabbits grow very fast, and they can usually grow into adult rabbits in four months.
He said he had found another way to hide the system's daily check-in rewards, a new way to eat meat openly.
It just so happened that the matter reported yesterday came to an end, and the subsequent handling was handed over to Boss Feng.
The tasks for this week have been completed, and the work is not so busy anymore. All that is left is to make reports.
So I got off work extra early today, went out for a walk, and then brought the rabbit back from outside.
Zhang Yu wants to take advantage of the relatively loose policies in the past two years to raise rabbits for a few years and dry some wax rabbits. After six or five years, the management of this aspect will be stricter. By then, meat can be used
Bacon to cover up.
Uncle Zhao was enjoying the cool weather at the door. He saw him coming over with a rabbit and said, "Hey, Xiaoyu, where did you buy the rabbit? It's quite fat. How do you plan to eat it?"
"Uncle Zhao, I just saw an aunt selling rabbits there, so I bought them. I saw that they happened to be a male and a female, and I plan to keep them. They grow fast and give birth to a lot of rabbits."
"You young people still have ideas. I will buy a pair another day." Uncle Zhao agreed very much with Zhang Yu's idea. The supply has been reduced recently, and the meat is even less. Raising two rabbits can give you more meat.
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When I got home, I found the leftover boards and nails from the house repairs, sawed the boards into pieces, and drove the longer ones into the soil to make the walls of the rabbit cage, and the shorter ones were used to build the bottom of the cage.
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However, the bottom is raised a little higher, and when the wood is laid, a gap is left in the middle. When the time comes, the rabbit excrement will be flushed down with water, making it easier to clean.
The top of the rabbit cage was made of oil paper from the last sign-in. I nailed two more layers to avoid water leakage, and put a layer of used raincoat on top of the oil paper.
After finishing, I clapped my hands and looked up at the sky. I don't know when the sun moved to the west.
As the sun sets in the west, bathing in the colorful afterglow, the children search for something in the woods in twos and threes. The evening breeze slowly brings bursts of fragrance of flowers and plants, which makes people feel relaxed and happy, and the sunset is infinitely better.
After taking a closer look, I realized that they were catching cicada monkeys. Seeing the cicada monkeys in their hands, I couldn't help but feel a little greedy.
I found tools at home. When later generations caught cicadas, they used plastic bottles to hold them. There were no plastic bottles in this era, so I simply found the remaining screen windows, cut off a small piece, sewed it with a needle, and made a net bag.
, a rope is used to close the mouth. When the time comes, you only need to tighten the rope to close the mouth.
I found a slender bamboo pole, took a flashlight, and prepared to search in the nearby woods.
When he was going out, he happened to run into his sister-in-law. Seeing his equipment, Zhang Guifang had already guessed what he was going to do.
"Xiaoyu, be careful when you go to catch cicadas. The grove has been pruning branches recently, and there are some scattered branches on the ground that have not been removed. Please be careful when you walk, don't fall, and be sure to use a flashlight to shine on your feet?"
"I know, sister-in-law, I will be careful with me, and the battery of the flashlight I brought has just been replaced, and it is brighter."
Zhang Guifang was still worried after hearing this: "Your brother is at home today, how about your brother accompany you?" After saying that, he turned around and shouted from the house: "Xiao Liang, accompany your brother to the grove to touch the monkey.
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"Sister-in-law, I'm not young anymore." Zhang Yu was a bit dumbfounded that his sister-in-law treated him like a child.
"Xiao Liang, hurry up." Zhang Guifang didn't seem to hear Zhang Yu's words, and her ears automatically filtered them out.
"Come on, come on, Xiaoyu, wait for me, I'll change my clothes and go over right away."
"Brother, I can do it by myself. You can rest at home..." Seeing that Zhang Guifang could not be persuaded, Zhang Yu turned to persuade Zhao Liang.
"If you tell my mother this, I won't go if she agrees."
When it came to this point, he could not convince Zhao Liang, let alone Zhang Guifang, so he had to go with his younger brother.
It is said to be a small forest, but it has been growing for so many years. Now that the sun has set, it looks a bit eerie.
The two of them divided the work and cooperated. You looked at this side, and I looked at this side. Two of them were found on the first tree, and they were pinched and placed in the net bag.
Since he found two monkeys in the first tree, he was full of confidence that he had caught cicadas tonight. He believed that the two of them could fill the net bag.
In later generations, due to environmental pollution and the reduction of resources, there were very few cicadas, and many people could only eat them in restaurants.
And the price is very expensive. A plate of thirty or forty fish costs nearly 100 yuan, and you can't eat fresh ones. Most of them are caught, washed and frozen in the refrigerator.
Now that he had this opportunity, he had to catch more of them, eat them all at once, and put them into the secret space for later consumption.
There are so many cicada monkeys in this era. Sometimes, I touched several monkeys in the tree just now, and when I come back, I can touch several more.
And not only in the trees, there are also many in the grass. Occasionally, a few of them climb to high places. At this time, the bamboo poles in their hands become useful.
Look at the correct position, tap it lightly, and the monkey will come down.