Break out of the courtyard

July 1963, 7, morning.

When the three sisters were preparing to set up shop in Courtyard No. 95, their eldest cousin Ma Lili kept telling Zhang Heping that people had been coming to her sewing stall recently to ask for needles, threads and rags, and whether she could bring her grandma Xie Ermei back to the market.

Regarding the matter of bringing grandma Xie Ermei back, her parents and two sisters mentioned it to Zhang Heping and wanted him to go to the Houhai Subdistrict Office to issue a letter of introduction for the pick-up, but Zhang Heping never went.

The old lady turned to her eldest grandson, which made no sense.

However, the old lady took Zhang Heping's canteen meal tickets and stayed at her eldest grandson's house. Her rural rations were left at his eldest son's house. In the end, she did not listen to Zhang Heping's advice, which made her upset.

It's just that compared to the messy things at the sewing stall, the old lady's things are nothing.

Zhang Heping accepted the matter, locked the door and went to the Houhai Subdistrict Office, and then sensed a little trouble.

"Director Qi, one more thing, I heard that you went to No. 7 Courtyard for a hot pot meal at noon yesterday?"

"Director Geng, why do you ask this?"

"There are still some doubts about Lao Er Lin's case!"

"Didn't you put him in Su Laoba's nest and close the case together? Why, you guys are still doubting Zhang Heping?"

"I just want to ask, is there anything of unknown origin in Courtyard No. 7?"

Boom!

"Director, Zhang Heping is looking for you!" After a clerk learned of Zhang Heping's purpose, he enthusiastically ran to help Zhang Heping knock on the door.

"Speak of Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here!" Director Qi stood up and opened the door, smiling: "Why don't you just go to his house to see him?"

"This……"

After Director Qi put Zhang Heping into the office, he smiled and said, "You're bound to be up to no good if you come here so early!"

Zhang Heping glanced at the middle-aged man in uniform at the desk, then looked at Director Qi and said, "Director Qi, you called Zhang Cuishan's hometown commune in No. 6 Yard last time, right?"

When Director Qi heard that it was about Courtyard No. 6, he immediately thought of Lin Laoer's case and said seriously: "Yeah! It's such a fucking fuss. I asked their hometown commune to send someone to pick him up, but they didn't. Come."

"The township commune deceived Zhang Cuishan's mother and my grandma into returning home. My grandma is now being taken care of by my father. However, neither the township commune nor the village issued a letter of introduction to my grandma. My dad went back to pick her up in person, and did not take my grandma back to the city. ." Zhang Heping said with a smile: "You have to be responsible for this!"

"This... is a bit troublesome!" Director Qi thought of the few phone calls he made before, and his tone was not good at that time. If he is asked to call now, he is afraid that he will be made things difficult.

Suddenly, Director Qi's eyes lit up, "I remember, your grandma seems to be the Red Sleeve Aunt from Nanluogu Lane?"

"Ok!"

When Director Qi saw Zhang Heping nodding, he immediately went to the door and called a female clerk over. After explaining a few words, he asked the female clerk to call Zhang Cuishan's hometown commune and urgently recall Xie Ermei, the grandma of Hongxiu, to learn the latest instructions.

After Xie Ermei's matter was settled, and seeing that Zhang Heping was about to leave, Director Qi took Director Geng out with him.

"Heping, this is Director Geng of our area. If you encounter any trouble in the future, you can ask him for help." Director Qi gave a brief introduction.

"Oh! Hello, Director Geng!" Zhang Heping greeted politely, but he was thinking, thank God if this guy doesn't cause trouble for me.

At the same time, Zhang Heping sounded the alarm in his heart!

There was a conflict that day and someone was killed that night. It was too easy to implicate oneself.

Next time you do something bad, think twice before you act!

It would be best to kill someone with a borrowed knife like Lou Bancheng did, and find a gangster to do it under other names.

Seeing Director Qi and Director Geng follow them to Courtyard No. 7, Zhang Heping opened the door and asked in confusion: "Director Qi, why are you following me?"

"I'll take Director Geng to your house to gain some knowledge, so that his people can pay more attention to your safety when patrolling." Director Qi said with a smile: "So, you have to make a pot of Longjing tea. Entertain Director Geng."

"Tea is not as good as soda." Zhang Heping muttered, pushing the door open and walking in first.

As soon as Director Geng entered the door, he frowned and said, "Zhang Heping, who painted this oil painting on the wall? How much did it cost to hire someone to paint it?"

"He drew it himself!" Director Qi didn't wait for Zhang Heping to answer, but already patted Director Geng on the shoulder and pushed him in.

"What about these paints? Where did they come from?" Director Geng obviously suffered from an occupational disease.

"Lou Bancheng, have you heard about it? The one who sponsored the renovation of public toilets in our sub-district office, the paint was given to Zhang Heping by his daughter Lou Xiao'e!"

Seeing Director Qi explaining to him, Zhang Heping simply went to the kitchen on the left, opened the bottom fire door of the small briquette stove on the right near the door under the north window, and prepared to boil water.

Director Geng followed the kitchen and looked at the kitchen with white tiles on the walls, countertops, and cupboards in surprise, "This kitchen must have cost a lot of money!"

"This guy not only spent money to build this gatehouse; in order to get our street office to agree to his repair, he also donated two big wild boars to our street office!" Director Qi took Director Geng to visit the kitchen and briefly talked about Zhang Heping Can hunt and fish.

Zhang Heping scooped two ladles of water from the antimony pot on the small stove into the large iron pot on the left side of the wood stove to make the water in the antimony pot boil faster.

Then, he went to the main room, grabbed a handful of Yuqian Longjing and put it into a large white porcelain teapot, and then took the teapot into the kitchen.

Director Qi had already taken Director Geng to the east gate room on the right for a tour. "This is the guest room. The sewing machine under the window was bought with the sewing ticket awarded to his father by the steel rolling mill. Those wooden The furniture was all made by Zhang Heping himself."

"This is the bathroom next to it. Zhang Heping's father had difficulty moving, so he designed a toilet made of bricks with tiles on it. I was curious about how to use it in the cold winter. As a result, the boy didn't tell me."

"This is the staircase next to it, above the Tongmen Building. Let me take you up to see the fur that the kid has hidden up there."

Director Qi said as he walked up the concrete stairs from the east wing.

Director Geng glanced at the wooden doors under the stairs, frowned and opened one, only to find several pairs of fur shoes inside.

Director Qi shouted from the top of the gate, and Director Geng suppressed the doubts in his heart and went upstairs in three steps at a time.

Then I saw furs of different sizes standing next to the chimney of the kitchen on the west side.

Looking closer, each fur is pulled by an iron hook on a thin wire, tied to a square wooden frame, and stretched out. The wooden frame is hung under two long bamboo poles through two thin ropes.

"These prey were all hunted by Zhang Heping, and his parents are both working. Therefore, Zhang Heping's family is not short of money." Director Qi pointed at the fur and explained in disguise why the kitchen was so well repaired, and then took Director Geng there. In the courtyard.

"Where did so many curtains come from?" Director Geng stood in the middle of the small courtyard. After looking around, he frowned again.

Director Qi pulled him into the main room, grabbed the gray curtain next to the door, handed it to Director Geng, and said with a smile: "Rehabilitation cloth, he has a neighbor who works in a textile factory, and he asked the neighbor to buy it through internal channels. "

Director Geng glanced at the interior decoration of the house, then pointed to a large pile of bottles and cans on the low cabinet on the west side, "What about these things?"

"They should all be the door-to-door gifts from the hot pot meal yesterday." Director Qi said, pointing to the iron box of biscuits and two bottles of canned fruit on the right side of the low cabinet, and said with a smile:

"The ones on the side are gifts from me, the ones on the left are gifts from Director Wang and several leaders of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Nanluoguxiang, and the ones on the left are probably gifts from the guests at the table that night."

Just at this moment, Zhang Heping came in carrying a big teapot.

Director Qi said slightly excitedly: "This Longjing tea is also a gift from their family. If you are looking for something, ask directly. Maybe it is a misunderstanding."

After Zhang Heping poured two cups of tea and invited them to sit at the east and west ends of the rectangular table, Director Geng asked him the ultimate purpose of his trip.

"Zhang Heping, I heard that you have two guns and a lot of bullets. Where did you get them?"

Zhang Heping stood in the first place on the north side, put his hands on the high-backed chair, and said hesitantly: "I exchanged it for prey at the Qianshan Village Supply and Marketing Cooperative on the other side of Xishan. I didn't fire a single shot in the city. You don't want to confiscate it?" !”

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