Siheyuan: I am Du Shouyi

Chapter 21

When eating in the morning, Du Shougui said: "Brother, you have to leave some money for me. I will have lunch at home. I have to buy some food."

"Why don't you eat at school?"

"Go to school in the morning to get the admission ticket, and then I will be on vacation. I will take the exam on Friday and Saturday."

"Do you want my brother to accompany you in the exam?"

"No. In Eleven, I can do it myself."

"Well, don't cook by yourself for the next two days. I will come back to eat with you at noon. You can get something vegetarian, make some steamed buns or whatever. What do you want to eat at noon?"

"Big shrimp!" Du Shougui replied without thinking.

"And at night?"

"Prawn."

"Are you crazy, are you? Change to another at night. Meat and fish are fine."

"But people say that eating shrimp is smart. I want to make up for it so that I can do better in the exam."

"You're smart enough, you don't need to make up."

"Oh."

Du Shouyi thought about it. Exams are a major event in life, so there is still a sense of ritual.There are still four and a half servings of braised prawns in his space, a total of 45. After a simple calculation, he said, "Do you eat with the rainwater at noon?"

"It's not settled yet."

"Then call her. I won't eat at home. At noon, I will give you two prawns, four for each of you. Let's also try to make a good mouth, and hope that everything goes well and the exam passes. Until Saturday, I will deliver it to you at noon every day for five consecutive days."

"Huh? Really?"

"When did brother lie to you?"

"Brother, where did you get so many prawns?"

"Shrimps are cheap, but ice storage is expensive. During the fishing season, we can buy a lot of prawns for [-] yuan. Isn't the prawns going to be on the market again now? They have to clean up last year's inventory, so you are fishing. We're catching up."

Du Shouyi made up a half-truth and half-false nonsense, and Du Shougui accepted it all.Said: "I'll talk to Yushui later, that little girl will be so happy."

"Okay, I'm going to work." Du Shouyi said as he took the satchel, took out two dollars from it, thought for a while, added another two dollars, and said, "This is the money for vegetables this week. If you feel hot, go buy it." A popsicle, you don’t need to save these two days.”

"Hey, I won't waste money."

Seeing that there were only four yuan left in the space, Du Shouyi sighed inwardly, and went out to work.

Du Shouyi came very early today. After collecting the materials, the people in the Publicity Department had not yet gone to work, so he could only sit by the flower pond in front of the administration building and wait.

At this moment, Section Chief Deng of the security department came to work, and seeing him greet him, "Du Shouyi, why are you here?"

"Section Chief Deng, do you still remember me? I'm waiting for the people from the Propaganda Section to go to work and pull the wires for them."

"Then sit with me for a while?"

"Don't tease me, I dare to go to the factory director's office, but to yours, hehe, I really dare not go casually."

"Haha, what did you say about our security department?" Chief Deng was obviously amused by this sentence. "Then you continue to wait, I will go in first."

"Hey, go slowly."

After waiting for another 5 minutes, Gong Xiaobei came to work, still wearing a white village shirt, blue skirt, and a pair of black leather shoes, looking elegant.

Du Shouyi watched her approaching from a distance, and only smiled when he got close: "Congratulations, you are No. 1 in your department, and the reward is to clean the table for the leader and fill the thermos bottle for the colleagues."

Gong Xiaobei smiled and said: "I don't need to do those things. If I rush to do it, I will complain."

As soon as Du Shouyi heard it, she understood that this was a girl who had no requirements for progress.Very good, just like myself.

He picked up the roller and wanted to follow Gong Xiaobei into the building. Gong Xiaobei walked slowly and suddenly asked, "Is this how you usually are?"

"What kind?" Du Shouyi was a little confused.

"Get to the workshop earlier, then wipe the table and pour water?"

"No! Just like you, I can't stand in the way of other people's progress? Besides, we are already so good, we must leave a way for others to survive."

Gong Xiaobei looked at Du Shouyi with a 'giggle' smile, as if he had found his kind.

Just last night, Gong Xiaobei vaguely saw the shadow of his father in him.This is even more so now, "Isn't he the kind of 'good-for-nothing person' who lives through life?" Gong Xiaobei said to himself in his heart.

The work of arranging the cables was quite tedious, and it was very lively as Du Shouyi climbed up and down. Gong Xiaobei wanted to help, but Du Shouyi refused.If it weren't for Gong Xiaobei standing behind him, he would have driven them away.Some people saw that he couldn't use many methods.

Gong Xiaobei became bored and asked, "Du Shouyi, how is your courtyard? Is the courtyard big?"

"It's okay. It covers an area of ​​about one and a half acres. There are three entrances. There are more than 20 families. It's not crowded when a hundred or so people from the whole courtyard come out for a meeting. Have you ever lived in a courtyard house?"

"I lived there, I was born and raised in a courtyard house."

Du Shouyi stopped what he was doing and looked at her for a while.

"What? You don't believe it?"

"I believe, I believe."

"Then what do you see me doing?"

Du Shouyi said while working: "I think you may have misunderstood the courtyard house."

"What misunderstanding?"

"The place where the fairy lives should be called 'Yuan'. The 'Yuan' with the cursive prefix is ​​not called 'Yuan'. The place you live in is the 'Garden' of Sihexian."

Gong Xiaobei was stunned for two seconds to understand.She had never been teased so bluntly before, she blushed and said softly, "You're talking nonsense again!" But she felt very sweet in her heart.

Du Shouyi stopped talking and continued with the work in hand.

The weather was a bit stuffy, and Gong Xiaobei sweated a little even standing still, but Du Shouyi acted as if nothing had happened, without a drop of sweat on his forehead.

Gong Xiaobei looked at it for a long time, and asked curiously, "Du Shouyi, aren't you hot?"

"hot?"

"Then why don't you sweat?"

Du Shouyi was silent for a while, then suddenly turned his head to Gong Xiaobei, and then stuck out his tongue like a puppy 'hahaha'.

Gong Xiaobei was taken aback, then couldn't help covering his mouth, and turned his back with a smile.After laughing for a while, she patted Du Shouyi lightly, and said angrily, "Why are you doing this? It's working time now."

"Isn't there no one here? How can I be like this when there are people? What do you usually do after work?"

"Stay alone. Read a book."

"From now on, if you're bored, you can come to me, and I'll accompany you for a stroll." He didn't dare to look back after he finished speaking.

After a while, Gong Xiaobei softly agreed behind him: "Yes. Okay.".
At ten o'clock, the system checked in on time.

"Ding, the host's reward for signing in today is 'Bianyifang' Roast Duck x10." Du Shouyi looked into the space, and there were ten more good ducks in it.

"System, where's the duck? I can exchange it for money?"

Seeing the duck in his hand flying away, Du Shouyi couldn't help but wailed in his heart.

Gong Xiaobei has agreed to 'date' with him, but he only has four yuan left with him, what should I do?

'Why don't you ask the richest man in the courtyard to borrow some money? '

Before Lou Xiaoe got married, the uncle was definitely the richest man in the courtyard.The old couple earns a salary of 99 yuan, and they don't need to buy a car to repay the mortgage. Now that the average monthly expenditure is less than [-] yuan, they are definitely big local tyrants.

However, Du Shouyi was not used to asking people to borrow money, so after much deliberation, he could only find a way from the ghost market or the black market.

He didn't quite know how much a catty of Kyoto food stamps cost in the black market now. The Du family ate less rice and noodles this month and saved more than ten catties of food stamps. He could think of ways to do this first.Even if it can be exchanged for five yuan, it is good to marry a daughter-in-law now, and the bride price is only five yuan.

(End of this chapter)