Siheyuan: I am Du Shouyi

Chapter 80 Black Market
After dinner, Du Shouyi opened a big watermelon and gave Erha half of it.Erha loves to eat fruits and eats a lot. Du Shouyi did not treat him badly in this respect.

When he and Gong Xiaobei took the melon to the house of the deaf grandma, they found that the old lady was cutting red happy characters for Shazhu.

He Yuzhu's wedding date was set on the 24th of this month. Du Shouyi had been focusing on the Ning family some time ago, so he didn't ask much about this matter.

"Grandma, do you still know how to cut this?" Du Shouyi put down the watermelon and asked.

"I learned it when I was young. Back then, life was tough. Cutting window grilles and the Chinese character "Fuxi" could make up a lot of money. Where did you get this watermelon? It smells really good."

"The farmer uncle planted it?"

Hearing his mischief, the deaf grandma put down the scissors and made a gesture to beat him.

Du Shouyi smiled and avoided it and said, "You are busy first, I will bring Xiaodang over to play for a while. She should have finished eating by now."

"Xiao Dang is a blessed child." The deaf grandma looked at his back and sighed.

"He really cares about girls." Gong Xiaobei twisted his handkerchief, wiped his hands for the deaf grandma and said with a smile, "When he sees Xiaodang and Huaihua, he smiles. He said, girls are father's." Little padded jacket, my son is a debt collector. Hehe, I don’t know what he is thinking about all day long.”

The deaf grandma also laughed after hearing this: "He's right." The old lady now likes Du Shouyi a hundred times, and everything he says is right.

While the couple were talking, Lou Xiaoe came, still holding a pair of cotton shoes.

Gong Xiaobei stood up with a smile and greeted him: "You are here, there are melons."

The two of them are getting on well now, and even Lou Xiaoe and the deaf grandma are getting close.But Xu Damao never went to the backyard, let alone this house, he knew that the deaf grandma didn't want to see him.

"I gave grandma a pair of shoes. She was reluctant to wear the pair you gave her, and said she would keep them for the new year."

"That's a coincidence. I'm preparing to make new clothes for the old lady. When the time comes, the new clothes will match your new shoes. Shouyi also said that he will find a red hat for the old lady so that she can show off when He Yuzhu gets married." .”

The deaf grandma laughed angrily, and said, "Why do I get the limelight when I get married? These two grandsons are really more stupid than the other. No, one is stupid and the other is bad."

Gong Xiaobei tidied up the paper-cuts on the table, and said, "Leave him alone and let him do what he wants. Otherwise, those who stay in the room reading and writing every day will be bored."

While the three of them were talking, Du Shouyi came in with Xiao Dang in his arms.

"Sister Xiao'e is here too? Xiao Dang, call someone quickly."

"Hello, madam, hello Aunt Xiaobei, and hello Aunt Xiao'e."

"Oh, Du Xiaodang is good." Lou Xiaoe joked.

This turned out to be He Yuzhu's prank, and now the courtyard has begun to call the little girl 'Du Xiaodang'.Being pampered by Du Shouyi, 'Du Xiaodang' gradually became cheerful, and now she is a little pistachio in the courtyard.

The watermelon was too cold, so Du Shouyi only let Xiaodang eat a few cores, and then brought almond tea to replace the watermelon.

"Is this watermelon from Hainan?" Lou Xiaoe asked with some doubts.

Du Shouyi was having fun with Xiaodang, so he said something nonsense:
"I don't know, anyway, I eat the same flavor as Panggezhuang University."

Lou Xiao'e was confused and didn't ask further questions.Now she is no stranger to Gong Xiaobei's wonder.

There are too many watermelons in winter, good coffee that you can’t drink in the folk alleys of the eastern suburbs, imported furniture, custom-made leather shoes, etc.

Now she believed her father's words more and more.Director Lou said more than once: This is the great hermit in the city.

Hiding quietly in the factory and living in a courtyard, only in this way can I live like a fairy.If it is in the compound, in those high places of the government office, where are there not dozens of pairs of eyes staring at it?

Not to mention high-ranking officials, Lou Dong himself gets [-] dividends every year, do you dare to use it like this?Even if you dare to use it, are you capable of doing this?In the current environment, money doesn't count.Therefore, the people behind Gong Xiaobei not only have strength, but also brains, and they are by no means ordinary people.

It took Du Shouyi all night to pack the three cylinders of sesame sauce into small glass bottles, mainly because it took a lot of time to find a suitable glass bottle.At noon the next day, he took a few bottles of sesame paste to Li Jixiang's house.

Li Jixiang confiscated any good things in the past two days. After the weather turned cold, Du Shouyi strictly ordered Li Jixiang to shorten his working hours.You can only go out when the sun is good at noon, and you can't go out for more than two hours at a time.Li Jixiang is older than the deaf grandma, it's not a joke if something goes wrong.

Li Jixiang and Li Lianying are both from Hejian, so they are somewhat related.In a long time ago, Hejian was poor, and her husband paid a lot.Wei Zhongxian, Li Lianying, An Dehai, Xiao Dezhang, etc. are all from Hejian.

Speaking of Li Lianying, there is another interesting anecdote.It is said that Li Lianying's coffin had only a head but no body, so he did not die of illness, but may have been killed by Xiao Dezhang or Queen Mother Longyu.This is pure nonsense.

According to Li Lianying's nephew, after retiring, Li Lianying was extremely bored and learned to smoke. She died of abdominal distension not long after.In [-], Li Lianying was dug up by several school teachers, and her body was intact at that time.

Later, a few kids in that school were so good that they kicked his head as a ball on the playground.When I wanted to bury it again, the body was thrown away because it was too smelly, and only a head was found in the sewer.
After leaving Li Jixiang's house, Du Shouyi made a detour to the black market in Daliu Hutong. He heard that the black market seemed to be open again.

Sure enough, the street was very clean, but there were still some people in the nearby alleys.From time to time, there will be scenes where two people make eye contact, and after two or three sentences, they will walk into the depths of the alley. Now the black market has begun to turn underground.

Those who came out during the day were all from Kyoto, and most of the outsiders were repatriated, and those who escaped by chance also moved to the ghost market.

Kyoto now has a population of 740 million, which refers to those who have household registration and receive food stamps every month.But there are at least hundreds of thousands of people like Li Jixiang who do not have a residence permit in Kyoto but have lived in Kyoto for a long time for various reasons. These people really cannot live without the black market.

Throughout the 70s and [-]s, black market activities have never stopped, and the crackdown has never stopped.But a super-large-scale strike is only once in [-].This blow also completely changed the way of survival of the entire underground market.

Du Shouyi came this time to buy some cloth tickets.In order not to let herself continue to be 'lazy', Gong Xiaobei is now working hard to learn tailoring. The padded jacket she made for the deaf grandma is the first 'work'. There are still many follow-up plans. The cloth tickets at home are definitely not enough. used.

In fact, Du Shouyi felt that he could sew and mend, just nail a button, and just cut it.Since you can buy it, why do you have to force yourself to do it?

But after two rounds of persuasion, seeing that Gong Xiaobei was quite persistent, he also began to support him.This is someone's wish, and it can be used as a boredom entertainment.

The purchase of cloth tickets was quite smooth, and the transaction was light after the crackdown. Now the prices of various tickets have fallen sharply, but the "hands-on-hand bargaining" that was often seen in the past is now completely gone.Everyone is more alert, buyers and sellers try to avoid physical contact, for fear that one will be accidentally taken by the other party
After coming out of the 'black market', Du Shouyi went to Lao Zhou and Master Ding's house again and gave them a few bottles of sesame paste. He and Master Ding were now working two separate classes and couldn't meet each other for a month, so they just took this opportunity. see meet.

But he didn't expect that Master Ding told him a piece of 'good' news during this meeting.

(End of this chapter)