Break out of the courtyard

Noon on the 19th.

Zhang Heping rode his bicycle back to the entrance of the No. 95 courtyard, gave a sack to the second uncle and second aunt who had been waiting for a long time, and told them not to bring prey into the courtyard. Zhang Heping pushed his bicycle back.

There were three skinned gray rabbits and four pheasants without tail feathers in the sack.

At home, her mother, Ma Xiuzhen, gave three shoe tickets to Zhang Heping, saying that the second aunt had sent them over in the morning.

This amount of votes is definitely not enough money!

Summer shoe tickets are worthless, so I need at least 6 more to make sense.

However, the second uncle's family cannot afford so many shoe tickets in a short period of time. It depends on whether his apprentices are left, otherwise they will have to wait until the beginning of next year.

The second uncle Liu Haizhong asked the third uncle Yan Bugui to ride a bicycle and send the prey to the cold storage.

Then, Liu Haizhong and his wife came to the Zhang family and said thank you to Zhang Heping, who was drying rabbit skins on bamboo sticks under the eaves of the neighboring house. They also promised to send 10 more shoe tickets next month and invited the Zhang family to the wedding banquet.

This was originally a good thing that was mutually beneficial. It not only won over the second uncle's family, but also solved his own needs.

What's more, the second uncle also wanted to give 10 more shoe tickets, which made Zhang Heping even more satisfied.

That afternoon, Zhang Heping took his three sisters to the department store and bought each of them a pair of black leather shoes.

The three girls' first pair of leather shoes cost 3 yuan each. When they returned home, the three of them learned how to oil and shine leather shoes from their mother, Ma Xiuzhen.

As for grandma's leather shoes and the whole family's big-toe fur shoes, they have to wait for the second uncle's tickets.

However, at noon the next day, there was a scream like a slaughtering pig in the backyard.

Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu were beaten!

This was the first time since Zhang Heping traveled through time that he heard the two of them being beaten.

You know, Liu Guangtian failed both subjects in the primary school graduation exam this year, and he didn't even get beaten on the day when his results were distributed.

Now...listen to the sound, it's a bit miserable!

As the king of children in the courtyard, Zhang Heping ran over to dissuade Liu Haizhong, but Liu Haizhong had already put down his belt and was pushed back home by Yi Zhonghai.

Zhang Heping called the two brothers Liu Guangtian to the front yard. After questioning, he learned that their eldest brother Liu Guangqi had left a letter at the new house and took a train with a woman last night to support border construction.

The key is, that woman is not the one who is going to marry Liu Guangqi on July 7, emmm...

Looking at the pitiful appearance of Liu Guangtian's two brothers, Zhang Heping couldn't help but think of the TV plot of Siheyuan. Is the tragic childhood of these two guys about to begin?

In the afternoon, Liu Guangqi's fiancee, her parents and others went to the Liu family in the backyard and smashed the Liu family to pieces.

At dinner time, the screams of Liu Guangtian's two brothers could be heard again in the backyard.

However, they yelled twice and then stopped, leaving no chance for outsiders to dissuade them.

After several days of continuous beating, everyone in the hospital got used to it and became numb.

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On the morning of the 25th, the second aunt brought the sacks containing 3 frozen rabbits and 4 frozen chickens to the sewing stall, and asked Zhang Heping for three shoe tickets, which caught Zhang Heping off guard.

Zhang Heping hurriedly pulled the second aunt to a deserted place next to him. While taking the sack to inspect the unfrozen meat inside, he asked in a low voice: "Second aunt, given the friendship between our two families, tell me the truth. This meat is Didn't Yi Zhonghai ask you to come back to punish me?"

Zhang Heping's first reaction was that if something goes wrong, there must be a monster!

Because this meat is not given for free, there is a gray transaction.

Moreover, the meat in the sack cannot be exposed, otherwise he will not be able to deny it even if he wants to!

Because there are not many people on this street who can produce so much meat now.

"No! My Lao Liu asked me to return it to you." The second aunt shook her head hurriedly, "Our house was damaged and we needed money and tickets to hire someone to repair it. A carpenter asked for shoe tickets, so Lao Liu asked me to return it. Meat, I want my shoe tickets back."

Zhang Heping frowned and said: "The second uncle is such a decent person, but he still wants to take back the things he gave away?"

The second aunt held the corners of her clothes tightly with both hands, opened her mouth, and finally sighed, "Alas..."

"Second aunt, our two families are decent people. There is no reason to take back the things we gave away. You will take me to the carpenter and I will use the meat to ask him to help you repair it. Do you think it will work?"

Zhang Heping didn't fully believe what the second aunt said. He wanted to see the carpenter in person to confirm the shoe tickets.

The key is, he has already used 3 shoe tickets, what a waste!

"This……"

"You don't need to give me the 10 shoe tickets I mentioned before." In order to confirm the authenticity of the carpenter and whether Liu Haizhong had colluded with Yi Zhonghai to set a trap for him, Zhang Heping would not care about this small profit.

At the same time, Zhang Heping also secretly warned himself in his heart that he could not fall into passivity just for a small profit in the future.

If today's meat and shoe ticket incident gets serious, it will be a violation of the monopoly on purchasing and marketing, and the consequences will be disastrous. He may not be able to go to No. 11 Middle School, and his mother Ma Xiuzhen's work may be affected, and even affect his two sisters...

Zhang Heping stared at the second aunt who looked embarrassed, thinking that if she didn't agree, the meat would be destroyed and all traces of it would be destroyed!

"Oh well!"

Hearing the second aunt's compromise, Zhang Heping greeted his mother Ma Xiuzhen and followed the second aunt to the next alley. Finally, he used a frozen rabbit and a frozen chicken to invite the carpenter to work.

After leaving the carpenter's house, Zhang Heping breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Second aunt, are we already in the clear?"

"It's settled." The second aunt nodded and sighed again, "Heping, we didn't do this properly, please be patient. Ever since what happened to my family, your second uncle seems to have become a different person. well……"

"You go back and persuade the second uncle more. Don't beat away the other two sons. You still have to rely on Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu to support you in your old age!" Zhang Heping exhaled and said, "Okay, I will send these meats to the street office. , so that others in the courtyard won’t worry about it.”

Zhang Heping deliberately told the whereabouts of the meat to prevent Second Aunt from having other ideas.

"groove!"

"I will never exchange things in Nanluogu Lane again!"

"The risk is too damn high! It's better to go to the pigeon market with a mask on, and then they break up after the exchange, and the devil knows who is who!"

Zhang Heping cursed in his heart, walked into the subdistrict office, placed 2 frozen rabbits and 3 frozen chickens next to Director Wang, said that the meat was not salted, and ran away... too lazy to explain, and didn't want to chat.

On the way back, Zhang Heping was a little worried. Their family's cloth and shoe stamps would have to wait until early next year before the street office would issue them according to the number of registered residents.

However, in just over 3 months, winter will begin!

During this period, he still has to study, so where should he go to get tickets...

After returning home, Zhang Heping took off the three rabbit skins hanging under the eaves. When he felt that they were almost dry, he took a basin to collect water, soaked the rabbit skins in it, added a green brick to press it on the rabbit skins, and placed it on the wood stove. Boiled water.

When Zhang Heping went to the Chinese medicine store to buy Glauber's salt and came back, the water in the pot was already boiling.

He moved the bath bucket into the right room, added the plant ashes under the firewood stove, then poured boiling water into the bath bucket and mixed it with the plant ashes.

By the afternoon, the rabbit skin had been soaked until soft. After repairing the remaining fat with a skinning knife, he put the rabbit skin into the bath bucket and began to rub and wash away the oil. Then he completely immersed the rabbit skin in it and soaked it until the afternoon of the next day.

Zhang Heping took an iron box of malted milk, added equal weight of Glauber's salt and water into it, and then used Zhou's briquette stove to boil the liquid in the iron box. After boiling off two-fifths of the water, he got a 50-degree salt solution. water.

This saltpeter is corrosive and will cause blisters on human skin if it comes into contact with it.

In order to save tanning time, Zhang Heping did not use the pickling method of soaking in plant ash and used chemical methods instead.

I saw him placing a bamboo frame with a 45-degree slope next to the sink, and then hooked the edge of the rabbit skin with a small iron hook tied with a string. The string was fixed around the sloped bamboo frame, and the rabbit skin was facing up. The hair is facing downwards and unfolded.

Finally, he used a bamboo stick wrapped with a small cloth, dipped it in leather salt solution and applied it evenly on the rabbit skin.

Not long after, blisters began to form on the rabbit skin.

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