Siheyuan: My wife is Xu Huizhen

He Yuzhu then said: "Don't go for work for now. Although that position is no longer available, I have left other jobs for you."

"What job?" the aunt asked curiously.

He Yuzhu said: "There is a new machinery factory on the street, which now has 400 to 500 employees. When the children are older and you can get away, you can go to work in the canteen."

Starting this year, we will have to control various materials including grain and oil. In the future, the best jobs will be those related to food.

As a factory, the most important thing is the canteen, where employees can eat more, which is a good location.

The aunt smiled and nodded: "Thank you, I will definitely work hard next time."

The marriage has ended, and Yi Zhonghai has remarried, so there is no possibility of remarriage.

Besides, the child she gave birth to was actually He Daqing's son. Even if Yi Zhonghai and Widow Bai divorced, she would never return to Yi Zhonghai.

"We'll talk about this later. Don't worry, there will definitely be a job. Just take care of the kids first."

He Yuzhu came out from the backyard, returned to the middle yard, said something to Yu Shui, and then went to cook. After a while, he heard the sound of quarreling in the east wing.

He Yuzhu came out with a kitchen knife, and the sound of quarreling became clearer. Yu Shui also came out holding her sister, and He Yuzhu and his wife also came out to watch the fun.

He Yushui said: "Why are they quarreling again?"

He Yuzhu asked, "Do people often quarrel here?"

He Yushui nodded and said, "They quarrel every other day. That Bai guy is no good. He is always looking for trouble."

He Daqing was very embarrassed standing nearby. After all, Widow Bai was his previous wife. After the divorce, she married Yi Zhonghai and they became neighbors. It was really annoying every day.

He Yuzhu just said "oh" and didn't ask any more questions. Jia Dongxu in the west wing was a few minutes late and just opened the door and came out. He was not surprised to see He Yuzhu there.

He greeted He Daqing, ignored He Yuzhu, and then walked into the east wing with some helplessness.

Others could just come out to watch the fun, but Yi Zhonghai was his master, and he would come over to act as peacemaker every time there was a quarrel.

He had suffered so much from the White Widow, but he couldn't say anything, because she was his master's wife.

He also secretly complained that this master's wife was far worse than the previous Aunt Jiang. The previous subsidies had been cut off, but he still had to be Yi Zhonghai's grandson.

After Jia Dongxu went in, the noise of the quarrel did not decrease, but instead became louder.

He Yuzhu vaguely heard the word money, and Yi Zhonghai talked about his son.

There is no need to guess, it must be that Bai Guafu found out about Yi Zhonghai giving money, which led to the quarrel.

After listening for a while, He Yuzhu guessed what happened almost exactly.

After a while, the noise gradually became quieter, and He Yuzhu went back to continue cooking. After all, Yu Shui liked to eat what he cooked.

He Yuzhu thought that he would start pest control soon, so he put the rats in Yi Zhonghai's and Jia Dongxu's homes into the space.

You have to know that many tasks now need to be quantified. It doesn’t mean that the matter will be over once the superiors have publicized it. Every household needs to have tasks.

Taking rats as an example, rats must be caught every month and their tails handed in. The specific number of tails depends on the street requirements and will fluctuate.

He Yuzhu caught the mice from both families into the space in advance, otherwise his task would not be completed. After all, He Yuzhu had always paid great attention to the hygiene at home and would never allow mice to reproduce and survive in his home.

Just enough to complete my task.

When Aunt Jiang brought the child back, many people talked about it. Everyone took turns to see the child, and the matter passed.

Two days later, the loudspeaker started to promote the campaign. Although it was about pest control, flies and mosquitoes only appear in summer, so the current target was mice and sparrows.

In addition to calling for pest eradication, the next step was to promote how to eradicate pests and introduce various methods.

He Yuzhu didn't think much of it, but he and Xu Huizhen were worried: "Zhuzi, we have never seen a mouse in our house, how can we complete the task?"

It has been announced on the broadcast just now that every household must hand in five rat tails before the end of this month, and those who fail to complete the task will be severely criticized.

Xu Huizhen was immediately worried. She had never seen any mice in all these years of marriage, and the food in the house had not been eaten.

He Yuzhu said: "These are all trivial matters. We don't have any at home. I will borrow a few tails from others and hand them in when the time comes."

"Well, I didn't think much of it before, but our house hasn't had any rats in the past few years. This is incredible."

"What you said is that it's a good thing to have no mice. Why do you want mice to exist?"

Xu Huizhen laughed, and just said it casually and then didn't mention the matter again.

Arriving at the factory, He Yuzhu entered the workshop and saw many people fiddling with steel bars with pliers, so he asked, "What are they doing?"

The worker looked up and saw that it was He Yuzhu, and said embarrassedly: "Director, you are asking us to get rid of pests, so we will make a mousetrap."

Only then did He Yuzhu recognize it. It turned out that the workers were quite skilled.

It was very difficult to catch mice at that time. You either had to use rat poison or mousetraps. Of course there were no sticky mouse boards, and there were not even any mouse cages.

It’s not that it can’t be made, it’s mainly because there is little iron and they are all used to make mousetraps, so the cost is low.

"Why don't we organize more people to do some more, which will also be a benefit for everyone."

He Yuzhu arranged some apprentices to make mousetraps, with each employee getting two, and then making a few more to send to the street.

This is no longer free of charge, it is all recorded in the account book and is a public-to-public account.

With the in-depth publicity on the streets and in the neighborhood committees, a craze for pest control has swept all the courtyard houses, and every family has been assigned a task that must be completed.

A few days later, He Yuzhu saw several trucks suddenly coming on the street, followed by a parade of people, each holding up a slogan to promote pest control.

He Yuzhu smelled a foul odor from a distance away and found that the car was piled high with sacks and emitted a real stench. The handlebars were also hung with rats strung together with ropes.

He Yuzhu shook his head and walked away.

In fact, pest control is not a separate matter, but an integral part of the Patriotic Health Campaign.

A few years ago, we launched the Patriotic Health Campaign.

Not drinking raw water, paying attention to hygiene, taking frequent baths, and cutting nails frequently are all part of the patriotic health campaign.

He Yuzhu returned to the courtyard carrying the net bag, went to the backyard first, and gave all the children's clothes he brought to the aunt, saying that there would be more in the future and the children would not be short of clothes.

After saying a few words in the house, he came out and saw the two brothers Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu, who were still children, squatting on the ground together.

There was a squeaking sound of mice on the ground.

He Yuzhu walked over and saw that the mousetrap had caught a mouse, but it was not dead yet and was still chirping.

He Yuzhu asked: "What are you two doing? Why don't you kill the rat?"

Liu Guangtian looked up and said, "Brother Zhuzi, it's you. This is what I learned at school."

"Does your school teach playing with mice?"

"It's not playing with mice, it's a way to catch mice."

Liu Guangtian said this, then took out a handmade knife to cut off the mouse's tail and took out a paper bag from his pocket.

After opening it, take out some lime and sprinkle it on the mouse's tail, then take out some soybeans.

Ask Liu Guangfu to hold the mouse down and then stuff soybeans into its anus.

He Yuzhu asked: "What are you doing?"

Liu Guangtian said: "First put the soybeans in, and then sew it up."

He Yuzhu has always been fearless, but suddenly he got goosebumps. It sounded very creepy.

"Who told you to do this? Isn't this disgusting?"

Liu Guangfu didn't mind the dirt, he covered the mouse with newspaper, and then pressed it with both hands. Liu Guangtian stuffed soybeans into the mouse's anus and said:

"Stuff soybeans in it and sew it up. Then the mouse will be unable to defecate. It will become heartless and can bite a whole nest of mice to death."

He Yuzhu was surprised: "Is it still possible?"

"Yeah, that's what my classmate did, and the mice were bitten to death."

He Yuzhu thought for a moment and asked, "Then how do you get the dead mouse out of the mouse hole?"

Liu Guangtian paused as he stuffed the soybeans in his mouth, then looked up and looked at He Yuzhu blankly: "We didn't think so much before."

He Yuzhu said speechlessly: "Wouldn't the mouse stink after it died in the mouse nest?"

"This." Liu Guangtian was stuck and didn't know how to answer.

Then he lowered his head to look at the mouse, hesitated, and continued to stuff the soybeans into it.

“You have to try it anyway.”

Boys just like to play around, so He Yuzhu didn't ask any more questions. However, he didn't leave either. He just watched Liu Guangtian stuff a handful of soybeans into the mouse's anus.

When it couldn't be plugged in any more, he took needle and thread and sewed up the mouse's anus.

Make sure that the stitching is done well and the soybeans will not fall out, then release the mousetrap.

The trapped mouse felt freed from its restraints, and coupled with the pain from its previous wounds, it immediately ran away. It must have been feeling lucky to be still alive.

He Yuzhu shook his head. Who came up with this stupid idea? Catch a mouse, stuff it with soybeans, and then sew it up to prevent the mouse from defecating. Then it will bite his family to death.

"If you do this, you won't have any clues. If you fail to complete the mission, you won't get the reward."

Liu Guangtian chuckled. The reward was not a big deal. After all, a mouse tail could only be exchanged for a box of matches, which was not very attractive to children. It would be better for him to play by himself.

After watching the fun, He Yuzhu left the backyard and went to the front to tell his family what happened.

He Yushui said: "I have heard about this from others. They all said this method is very good. The mice can bite their own children to death. Not only that, they will also run to other mouse holes to bite other mice."

He Yuzhu said: "There are a lot of bacteria on mice. You must not do this. It is easy to spread diseases when catching mice, and some diseases are difficult to cure."

"Yeah, I know about this. The teacher told me about the plague, which was spread by rats."

In fact, the way to catch mice at that time was not only to use mousetraps and rat poison, because He Yuzhu also saw various methods during this time.

Some people just dig out the rat's nest directly. This is very simple. Just take a shovel and dig it out.

There are also people who use water tanks to catch mice. They put some food to attract mice at the bottom of the sand tank. After the mice climb onto the sand tank, they move down along the inner wall and cannot climb up anymore.

At first, He Yuzhu thought that there were no mouse traps at that time, but later he saw people using ink to trap mice. However, few people used this method because ink was not easy to get.

There is also the method of catching mice by setting traps, which is derived from the method of trapping rabbits in the mountains. There is also the method of using bowls, buckets, and basins to catch mice. It can be said that in order to catch mice, everyone racked their brains to complete the task of catching 5 mice from each household.

The Jia family in the west wing were all worried. Jia Dongxu used the convenience of his work to make a few mousetraps, but after such a long time, he didn't catch a single mouse.

Mrs. Zhang cursed when she remembered: "There were so many rats before. Every year, my clothes were destroyed by rats. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't catch any rats. I couldn't hear any rats moving anymore."

Qin Huairu asked, "Is it because the food we use is not good and doesn't attract mice?"

"Who knows!"

Jia Dongxu said worriedly: "Master's family has never caught a mouse, how can we complete our mission this month!"

Qin Huairu sighed, everything in her life was going wrong.

He Yuzhu hasn't bothered his family in the past two years. After just a few days of good days, he couldn't even catch a mouse. He felt like his life was as miserable as drinking cold water.

If He Yuzhu knew about this, he would only applaud. Of course, he also knew that he was just giving them a small obstacle. There were no mice at home, so he could find them somewhere else.

There is always a way to get a few more mice.

The next day at work, Director Shen found He Yuzhu and said, "The street asked our factory to set up a youth rat-catching team."

"Youth Rat Catching Team?" He Yuzhu asked back.

Director Shen nodded and said, "Yes, originally this matter should be managed by the street, but the situation in our street is different, so there are not many young people unemployed at home."

After saying this, He Yuzhu felt particularly proud, because all the machinery and equipment needed by the factories on the street were obtained by He Yuzhu.

If it weren't for He Yuzhu, there would still be a lot of unemployed young people on the streets.

"What to do?"

Director Shen said: "Pick out 30 young people from the factory and take turns to go to the front line to eliminate rats."

He Yuzhu nodded and said, "No problem, just let those apprentices go."

There have been various movements in recent years, for example, the most common one is the militia. There is a militia organization in the factory, and they have to take 30 days of off-site training every year.

You can train for 30 days at a time or you can complete it in several sessions.

The training of the militia is similar to that of soldiers joining the army, practicing marching exercises and shooting.