Break out of the courtyard

"Xiao Zhang, come and sit!"

As soon as Zhang Cuishan entered the office of the security section chief of the steel rolling mill, section chief Xie enthusiastically poured him a cup of tea and asked kindly: "Hasn't your cousin Zhang Heping gone fishing in the past few months?"

How many times Zhang Heping caught fish, Section Chief Xie didn't know; but how many times Zhang Heping sold fish to a canteen, Section Chief Xie still knew.

"I'm going fishing!" Zhang Cuishan sat at the small coffee table and replied honestly, then he held the teacup in both hands to warm his hands.

When Section Chief Xie saw that Zhang Cuishan was not on the road, he said more bluntly, "Today is New Year's Eve. Our Security Section has no business this year. Can you tell your cousin to help us get some fish for the New Year?"

"It can't be done! He went to celebrate the New Year in the countryside of Baoding." Zhang Cuishan hurriedly shook his head, thinking that Zhang Heping had ignored him for most of the year, so he couldn't help but add, "Section Chief, why don't you tell him before he comes back?"

"Should I tell him?" Section Chief Xie was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay, when he comes back, I'll tell him, you go on patrol!"

After Zhang Cuishan heard that the section chief agreed to go to Zhang Heping to ask for fish, he went out carelessly.

……

Zhang Heping played wildly in the mountains and forests near Majiatun for a few days. Everyone was quite happy at first, because the prey brought back by Zhang Heping made the people in the village live a prosperous life.

However, on the evening of February 2, Zhang Heping dragged a big tiger weighing more than 16 kilograms back to the village. Ma Xiuzhen was so frightened that she went back to the city early the next morning.

As a result, Zhang Heping could only leave the recipes of tiger bone wine and tiger whip wine and let his grandfather and others make the medicinal wine themselves.

Because there are dozens of yuan rewards for hunting tigers these days, and the medicinal materials needed to make wine are relatively expensive, Zhang Heping did not ask for the tiger skin, but only tasted some tiger meat.

On the afternoon of the 18th, Zhang Heping and his family returned to No. 7 Courtyard carrying mountain goods sent by the folks in Majiatun. Grandma Xie Ermei brought her cousin Zhang Cuishan to the house to apologize to Zhang Heping.

Don't get me wrong, they're not here to get you.

It was because Zhang Cuishan was assigned to work the night shift to guard the warehouse on New Year's Eve.

Zhang Cuishan originally didn't mind working the night shift to guard the warehouse, and grandma Xie Ermei didn't take it seriously either. She thought it was good to sleep in the warehouse at night and be at home during the day.

However, when Zhang Cuishan went on a blind date with three girls one after another, but the girls refused because they were working night shifts, the matchmaker quit, and the day shift they had agreed to before became night shift. Isn’t this a lie?

Grandma Xie Ermei finished explaining, and then looked at Zhang Heping hopefully, "Sanwazi, can you go fishing and send it to Chief Xie of the Security Section and ask him to change your cousin to the day shift!"

"No!" Zhang Heping walked to the firewood pile under the window, rolled up the bamboo curtain of the south window, opened the curtain, opened the window, and said coldly: "You go outside the window, and I will tell you what the problem is!"

Zhang Heping's indifferent attitude towards his grandmother Xie Ermei and his enthusiasm towards his grandfather Ma Changming formed two extremes, which made his father Zhang Bing very uncomfortable.

Zhang Heping is not a stingy person, which can be seen from the fact that he slowly understood and forgave Lao Zhang's four comrades.

Therefore, Zhang Bing, Ma Xiuzhen and others blamed Xie Ermei more.

However, it was rare for Xie Ermei to relent today, but Zhang Heping clearly resisted and refused!

Facing Xie Ermei's look for help, Ma Xiuzhen persuaded her and Zhang Cuishan to go out and stand outside the window.

"Others use people to face the front, not people to face the back. You are the eldest grandson, and the others stay behind." After Zhang Heping mocked Xie Ermei, he looked at Zhang Cuishan outside the south window and sneered:

"The night shift is just an excuse the matchmaker makes for the woman. You go back and think about your own problems. If you don't believe me, just ask the matchmaker to introduce you to some night shift nurses. They will still reject you for another reason!"

When she heard the word night nurse, Xie Ermei's eyes lit up and she glanced at her grandson Zhang Heping who was returning to the kitchen to deal with the mountain goods. Xie Ermei did not go back into the house to please Zhang Heping, but took Zhang Cuishan to find a matchmaker.

If you accept her bacon and fail to get things done, you have to spit it out. If you can't spit it out, you can only continue to do things for her!

As soon as Xie Ermei left, Ma Xiuzhen and the others started gossiping.

Mother Ma Xiuzhen asked first: "Xiaosan, what do you think is wrong with Cuishan?"

"Ask my sister!" Zhang Heping didn't want to talk. He felt like he had just eaten a fly. He wanted to vomit but couldn't. It made him feel sick after swallowing it.

What the hell!

She said she wouldn't come in if I didn't apologize!

As a result, for the sake of her eldest grandson, she came in shamelessly and wanted me to catch some fish for her eldest grandson. Why didn't she let her eldest grandson get on the scale to weigh whether it was her eldest grandson who weighed more or Zhang Heping gave it to him? The fish is heavy!

Ma Xiuzhen looked at her eldest niece, "Lili, what do you think?"

"Me?" The eldest cousin Ma Lili was stunned for a moment and said hesitantly: "I think he is too selfish. My cousin has helped him so much, but he doesn't even know how to help persuade his grandma. He didn't think of it again until something happened to him. Ask your cousin for help."

"My cousin looks honest on the surface, but in fact he has no opinion. He will do whatever his parents say." The second sister, Zhang Pandi, thought for a moment and added: "Mainly because he is selfish!"

"I think it's because grandma and my cousin slept on the same kang." The eldest sister Zhang Zhaodi said and looked at Zhang Heping.

Zhang Bing and Ma Xiuzhen also looked at Zhang Heping, obviously thinking of going together, and wanted Xie Ermei to live here.

"Don't even think about it!" Zhang Heping said extremely resolutely, "If you dare to let her live with me, I will set fire to the main room and the side room and sever ties with you!"

"When nothing happened to her eldest grandson, she dragged her around like the Empress Dowager Cixi. She even asked me to apologize to her and promise to raise her grandson before she would enter my house!"

"Now something happened to her eldest grandson, and she needs me. She has no shame in coming in and begging me...it's too late!"

Zhang Heping became angrier as he talked. He pushed Zhang Bing aside who was blocking the kitchen door and went straight to the main room.

boom!

The glass door, which was usually cherished, was slammed shut by Zhang Heping, shocking everyone.

The atmosphere in the kitchen was a bit depressing. It took a long time before I heard Ma Xiuzhen sigh, "Don't mention this matter anymore. Even if you want to live there, we will move back here and let your grandma live in the east wing of Courtyard No. 95."

The second sister, Zhang Pandi, said somewhat reproachfully: "Sister, grandma favors my cousin, and you speak for grandma. What do you want my brother to think? Also, did you see the watch on my cousin's left hand just now?"

"My brother doesn't even have a watch, why should he?"

After this day, the family did not mention the issue of grandma’s food and housing again.

When they see grandma Xie Ermei come in, Ma Xiuzhen and the others will greet her as usual, but when eating, they will wait until Xie Ermei leaves before bringing the food to the table, and then wait for Lao Zhang to bring Xie Ermei's share back before they start eating.

As a result, the relationship between Zhang Heping's family and grandma Xie Ermei is not as good as last year. Who is to blame?

After Zhang Heping and the others opened school, Xie Ermei naughtyly mentioned to Zhang Bing once that she wanted to live in No. 7 Courtyard.

Because the matchmaker couldn't bear the annoyance, she told her clearly that it was Zhang Cuishan who slept on the same kang as her grandmother Xie Ermei. The woman couldn't accept it, and she couldn't just tell her to go back to the countryside. It seemed unfilial.

For this reason, Zhang Bing let his wife Xie Ermei live in No. 95 Yard. He and Ma Xiuzhen moved back to the east wing of No. 7 Yard. They usually take their eldest niece there to set up and close stalls, just like when they get off work.

As for Zhang Cuishan's blind date, he also used his crooked ideas while Zhang Heping was not at home...