Scholars in the courtyard

Chapter 405
In the afternoon, before Xu Damao had time to rest, Sha Zhu came over with an enamel jar.

"Xu Damao, go to the warehouse to carry two bags of potatoes."

"What, why is it me again?"

"Not who are you?"

"You~ I can't move it by myself. Come and help me."

"No one, everyone is busy, just you."

"You..."

Xu Damao knew that Shazhu would make things difficult for him, but he knew it was bullying.

He left angrily, and managed to bring back two bags of potatoes in the middle of the afternoon.

Then I saw a group of old men and women in the back kitchen chatting there, is this what the hell is wrong?

Xu Damao was about to explode.

"Xu Damao, take a rest and clean up later."

Silly Zhu was cheerful when he saw him, and Xu Damao sat directly on the potato.

This silly column is really not a fucking thing.

During off-duty hours, Sha Zhu smiled at Xu Damao who was still mopping the floor, "Simao, work hard, and leave after you finish."

After speaking, he walked out with figure-six legs.

"Silly Zhu, I'll go to your uncle."

bang
Xu Damao threw the mop aside, stared at the raised curtain, and roared.

After a while, he sighed, and played a monkey punch with a sad and indignant expression.

Finally picked up the mop and continued to work.

After tidying up the hygiene, Xu Damao dragged his exhausted body back home.

As soon as I left the gate, I tightened my collar, and within three or nine days, I froze to death.

"Damn it, you can't do this anymore, if you continue, you will be played to death by silly Zhu."

"Projectionist, projectionist!"

Thinking about the benefits of being a projectionist, Xu Damao's heart immediately became hot.

At this moment, Xu Damao suddenly saw a figure in front of him, under the dim street light, lowering his head and swaying, walking casually.

Lou Xiaoe?
Xu Damao recognized at a glance that it was his ex-wife, Lou Xiao'e!

Yang Xiaotao came out of the office and checked that it was past six o'clock.

I forgot the time while reading this book.

Still thinking in my heart, Lou Xiao'e didn't say hello when she left.

impolite.

After leaving the office building, Yang Xiaotao rode his bicycle and walked towards the courtyard.

Not long after they left, they heard a fierce quarrel.

The voice is still a little familiar.

When I took a closer look, it was Lou Xiaoe and Xu Damao.

"Get out of the way, don't get so close, it doesn't matter between us."

"Ezi, I will change it, I swear to God that I will change it!"

"Get out of the way, if you don't get out of the way, I'll call someone."

"Ezi, you don't care about the love between a couple for a night and a hundred days?"

"You're playing hooligans, come here..."

Lou Xiaoe's arm was pinched by Xu Damao, and she shouted loudly.

Xu Damao panicked, "Ezi, I..."

bell bell
Before Xu Damao finished speaking, he heard the bell of the car, and then saw Yang Xiaotao coming by on his bicycle.

Xu Damao immediately let go of Lou Xiaoe, and subconsciously wanted to hide behind Lou Xiaoe.

Unexpectedly, Lou Xiaoe dodged deftly and stood beside Yang Xiaotao, glaring at Xu Damao.

Yang Xiaotao stopped the car and looked at Xu Damao.

"Xiao'e, is he playing hooligan? Do you want to send him to the security department?"

"Yang Xiaotao, don't talk nonsense, who is playing hooligans?"

Yang Xiaotao asked Lou Xiaoe, Xu Damao was so frightened that he hurriedly said, looking left and right, ready to run away.

Seeing that it was Yang Xiaotao, Lou Xiaoe let go of her nervousness for no reason, and seeing Xu Damao's cowardly behavior made her feel even more at ease.

Perhaps this is Yang Xiaotao's reputation.

Calm down, Lou Xiao'e doesn't want to cause any more trouble.

"Need not!"

Then he said seriously to Xu Damao, "Xu Damao, we have nothing to do with each other anymore, and we won't have any in the future."

"Don't disturb my life in the future, otherwise, don't blame me for being rude."

Xu Damao listened, looked at Lou Xiao'e, then at Yang Xiaotao, stretched out his hands and tapped on the two of them.

"Okay, okay, you two, fine..."

砰

Before Xu Damao finished speaking, Yang Xiaotao kicked him over. Xu Damao was kicked to the ground, and he clutched his stomach and couldn't speak anymore.

"Dogs bark."

"Get out now!"

Yang Xiaotao squinted his eyes, not knowing why he was so angry.

Perhaps, because he is Xu Damao.

Xu Damao got up from the ground, didn't dare to say harsh words, turned around and ran into the night.

Seeing Xu Damao leaving, Yang Xiaotao pulled the car and looked at Lou Xiaoe, "Go home early after get off work and avoid going out at night."

Lou Xiao'e nodded.

"Thank you."

"It's okay, is your house near here?"

"Well, just around the corner."

"That's fine, I won't see you off, go back early and see you tomorrow."

After Yang Xiaotao finished speaking, he rode his bicycle and left.

Lou Xiaoe looked at the looming figure under the street lamp, and whispered, "See you tomorrow."

Back in the courtyard, Ran Qiuye was preparing dinner.

Just as Yang Xiaotao sat down, the food was already on the table.

Two dishes, one fried cabbage with pork, one fried bean sprouts, and two salted duck eggs on the table.

This kind of salted duck eggs are all pickled by themselves, and there are quite a few in the jar.After peeling off, the egg white is gray and the egg butter is bright. It is salty and fragrant, especially with rice.

Ran Qiuye knew Yang Xiaotao's appetite, so he always cooked too much.

"The Jia family is making trouble again today."

Ran Qiuye ate some, and put down his chopsticks when he had a bad appetite, "Ms. Jia Zhang said that the family lost money and beat Qin Huairu."

Yang Xiaotao was taken aback, "Did her family lose money?"

"Well, I also looked for a big mother, but I couldn't find it after searching the house."

"Call the police?"

"No."

Yang Xiaotao suddenly thought in his heart that the one who could steal money from Jia Zhang must be an inside thief.

And in Jia's family, there happened to be a rising thief saint?

However, this is a family matter, and Yang Xiaotao doesn't bother to take care of it.

Sure enough, when Yang Xiaotao was reading after dinner, there was a sharp cry and howl in Jia's house, and then through the window, he could see Jia Zhang's thieves chasing him with a rolling pin, screaming.

"Little bastard, if you dare to take money, you, come here."

"Woo~ No, I won't go. If you don't give me money, I'll take it myself."

Stick was crying while running, but he couldn't outrun Jia Zhang at all, and was caught after a while.

Qin Huai Ruyi was at the door, watching the commotion in the courtyard, feeling indescribably bored.

"Qin Huairu, are you dead, hurry over here..."

Jia Dongxu's voice sounded again in the room, Qin Huairu could only bow his head and return to the room.

In the yard, the wailing of the sticks continued.

Jia Zhang's hands were also ruthless, and the red marks on the buttocks of the stick were all connected together. If it weren't for the aunt who couldn't stand it anymore and came out to stop it, it is estimated that the stick would have to sleep on his stomach tonight .

Then I heard that Banggen bought candied haws with the money, and it was a big black ten, and bought two bunches of candied haws...

When Jia Zhang heard this, she fainted again from heartache...

After the people in the courtyard heard about it, it became a topic of conversation after dinner.

After hearing this, Yang Xiaotao could only say that the upper beam was not straight and the lower beam was crooked.

The stick stem is like this, which is inseparable from Jia Zhang's teaching.

However, things took a turn for the better after dinner.

People from the sub-district office came to the yard, found the stick and asked about the situation, and then returned the remaining nine yuan to Jia's family.

It turned out that after Banggen took out the money, the candied haws seller asked him to wait there and find someone to spend the money on his own. When he came back, Banggen had already run away.

The person couldn't be found, so he found the street office, told the matter, and the street office asked around before finding Jia's family.

Lost and found again, Mrs. Jia and Zhang almost knelt down to the comrades of the street office, she looked closer than meeting her own father.

Qin Huairu didn't expect it to be a turn of events, the ten yuan is an important wealth for their family.

When the people from the sub-district office left, Bang Giao was naturally educated again.

But what they didn't know was that Bang Giao only bought one candied haws, but got back two...

Under the night, with hot water burning on the radiator, Ran Qiuye leaned against the bedside and read a book, stroking her abdomen from time to time, as if she was giving prenatal education.

Yang Xiaotao took out the blueprint of the pressure cooker and looked at it carefully.

As for why it was a pressure cooker, it was apparently used as a cover for Ran Qiuye's confinement, but in fact it was to stew chicken.

Of course, this is Yang Xiaotao's personal wish. If it rises to the national level, it will be another level.

After all, the pressure cooker is more helpful to people in high altitude areas.

Originally, Yang Xiaotao thought that the pressure cooker was a very simple thing, but when he checked the system rewards, he realized that the pressure cooker was not a picture, but a whole set.

There are simple pressure cookers here, which can be used only by heating with fire, but manual operation is required.

There are also advanced ones, the mode can be set after power on, the same as those used by later generations.

Of course, what Yang Xiaotao is looking at now is a simple pressure cooker.

Or, simple pressure vessel.

But this simple pressure cooker also needs to spend thought.

Like the sealing ring, it is a big problem in China at the moment.

At least find qualified rubber to manufacture.

The processing of the parts also needs to be carefully built, otherwise, if the pressure cooker explodes, the power will not be as simple as scalding.

Yang Xiaotao pulled out a blueprint, and then began to re-engrav it, preparing to complete each piece.

Ran Qiuye didn't take it seriously when she saw Yang Xiaotao's writing and drawing. After all, this is the job of an engineer. As an elementary school teacher, it's normal for her not to understand.

In the backyard, Xu Damao was watching the table talking to Xu's father.

"Father, I've suffered a lot from Shazhu today. This guy is out to retaliate. He was late in the morning and hung up two baskets of potatoes by himself. This is not a fucking human job."

Xu's mother listened and spoke for Xu Damao.

Xu's father put down the pipe and pot, "Have you heard about the new projectionist?"

"The one from the branch below, his surname is Li, and his name is Li Quan."

"Li Quan? Could it be from Li Kangzi's family?"

Xu Damao heard this, and hurriedly inquired, "Father, do you know this person?"

"I don't know him, but if his father is Li Kang, then he knows him. I was trained in the same batch as his father back then, and we can talk to each other when we meet."

"However, I heard that this family lives in the military compound."

"That…"

Xu Damao was a little disappointed. Since he was an acquaintance, he couldn't use some cheap tricks.

The brat who originally thought it was, has no skills at all, as long as he fiddles with the projector, he can drive people back.

But who would have thought that there was still such a relationship, no wonder he dared to bring an apprentice, he was not afraid of stealing his job at all.

"You, just do it. If you lost your good job, how many people are staring at you, don't you know? Prodigal stuff!"

Xu Damao lowered his head, and Xu's father didn't say much when he saw him.

"The house is ready for you. After the new year, your mother and I will go back. There are still a lot of things at home. We also need to move around in the village."

"Father, I..."

"Okay, you do it first, you can't lose the job in the rolling mill. For the rest, let's talk about it after the Chinese New Year activities."

Xu Damao looked sluggish, there is still half a month before the Chinese New Year, and it is unknown whether he can last until the Chinese New Year if he is tormented by Sha Zhu all the time.

Moreover, it's Chinese New Year's Eve, if you go to the countryside and show a movie, it will be more nourishing, scraping potatoes in the back kitchen is enough.

"Father, aren't you familiar with the people in the movie theater? Or, I'll go to work there?"

"One radish and one hole, if it's so easy for your father, I can go back to the countryside? Take good care of the rolling mill, don't think about anything else."

"Also, hurry up and find a woman. The boss is not young, hurry up and leave a root for the two of us..."

Xu's father was talking, Xu Damao lowered his head, full of what to do in the future.

In the middle courtyard, Qin Huairu came out of the house and knocked on the silly pillar door.

In the room, Sha Zhu was splitting his legs, trying to recover from his injuries.

This time he took revenge on Xu Damao in the rolling mill, but the fight was still not enough.

Only when the body recovered and beat Xu Damao hard, did the breath come out.

Otherwise, wouldn't the title of God of War in the courtyard be gone?

There was a knock on the door, and Shazhu wondered who came so late.

"The door isn't closed."

After hearing this, Qin Huairu opened the door and walked in, then closed the door smoothly.

In Jia's house, Jia Zhang's family lay on the window watching Qin Huairu close the door, stomping their feet in resentment.

(End of this chapter)