Break out of the courtyard

Since Zhang Heping had no time to go hunting from September to December last year, there was not a single piece of bacon at home.

However, he still has a lot of dried fish at home.

They were all small fish he usually came back on Sunday afternoons and took time to catch in the sea in front of and behind the door.

He removed the bones from the small fish and left two halves of the boneless fish meat, rubbed it with salt and hung it to dry. He usually ate the remaining meat on the backbone of the fish to satisfy his cravings.

Therefore, he served his classmates for lunch, in addition to Chinese cabbage stewed vermicelli, steamed dried fish dipped in soy sauce, and a steamer of steamed buns.

In the afternoon, Zhang Heping carved four drone casings and propeller blades out of wood. After helping the students assemble one drone, he asked them to go back and make the remaining three drones by themselves.

After sending his classmates away, Zhang Heping went outside the door, picked up a stone and threw it into the ice of Houhai.

Snapped!

The ice surface shattered in response, creating a hole, revealing the thickness of the ice layer, which was about 1 centimeter.

It was a warm winter. Zhang Heping made a decision in his mind and gave up the idea of ​​going fishing in Kunming Lake. He thought of going into the mountains to catch some prey tomorrow morning before the heavy snowfall.

"Mistress, come back and move the sewing machine!" Mother Ma Xiuzhen shouted at the door of the hospital.

After Zhang Heping returned home, Ma Xiuzhen began to complain, "The sewing business here is very deserted, so I still have to go back to No. 95. Invoices will be released tomorrow on the 3rd, so I have to move the sewing machine there to attract the clothes business."

"It's a rare trouble. I'll bring some dried fish to Xu Damao and borrow their sewing machine. Didn't you say that Lou Xiao'e was pregnant last night? This is my credit!"

As Zhang Heping spoke, he went to the main room to find a square bamboo gift box, and then went to the kitchen to pack 8 pieces of dried fish.

Then, I asked my mother and three sisters to get their lunch boxes and meal tickets, locked the door and went to Courtyard No. 3.

When Zhang Heping and the others arrived at the gate of No. 95 Courtyard, they happened to see Banggan running out with his two younger sisters holding the chicken that was not completely hidden under his cotton coat.

"Banggeng stole the chicken?" Zhang Heping was stunned for a moment, then looked up at the gray sky, secretly thinking that the plot inertia is not that big!

By the way, he has brought down the three uncles. Could it be that something strange happened in this courtyard while he was away, causing them to stand up again?

To clear up the confusion, Zhang Heping took the gift box and walked straight to the second door.

In the middle courtyard, Mrs. Jia Zhang saw the tall Zhang Heping walking in and hurriedly hid in the east wing of her house.

"Am I that scary?" Zhang Heping cursed.

Giggle...

A burst of hen crows attracted Zhang Heping's attention. He looked around and saw that at the corner between the main room and the east wing, under the window of He Yuyu's side room, a thin wooden fence was erected at some time. got a hen.

"Silly Zhu raises chickens? Did Banggeng steal his chickens?" Zhang Heping walked towards the Moon Gate on the left with doubts.

"Oh...Mom, put the chicken soup over there, I'll drink it later!"

"Xiao'e, drink it while it's hot, it will taste better!"

"Mom... I ate a big bowl of chicken and drank two bowls of chicken soup for lunch. It's only 3 o'clock, how can I drink it!"

Zhang Heping couldn't help but feel happy when he heard the conversation between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. He walked to the door of the west wing of the backyard and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, you are so blessed that you don't know how lucky you are! I haven't had chicken soup in months!"

"Mom! Give Heping a drink!" Lou Xiao'e seemed to have met a savior. She hurried to the door and pulled Zhang Heping in. "If Heping hadn't cured Damao, how could I have been pregnant with him!"

Xu's mother was not stingy. She handed a large bowl of chicken soup to Zhang Heping and said with a smile: "Heping, help our Xiao'e check her pulse and find out whether she is pregnant with a boy or a girl."

"Auntie, you are looking down on me now. I am not a miracle doctor. How can I tell the difference between men and women?" Zhang Heping took the bowl and smelled it, "I put too much tonic!"

Zhang Heping drank the bowl of chicken soup in one gulp without hesitation, and smashed it in his mouth, "After drinking this soup, you will easily get angry while sleeping on the fire bed! Next time you stew half a chicken, just put four jujubes and twenty-four wolfberries in it." .”

With that said, Zhang Heping handed the gift box to Lou Xiao'e who had not yet shown her pregnancy, "Sister-in-law, congratulations! Here is the dried salted fish I made myself. You can steam it and try it."

"Thank you! Sit down wherever you want!" Lou Xiao'e was not polite, took the gift box, collected the bowl, and put it on the dining table.

"No, I'll borrow your sewing machine and put it in the east wing of the front yard so that my eldest cousin can use it for a few days."

Lou Xiao'e pointed towards the corner, "There, use it as you like!"

Zhang Heping went over to move the sewing machine and said to Xu's mother as he walked: "Aunt, just make chicken soup twice a month. You can make some radish bone soup, winter melon and pork ribs soup, and white fungus and peanut soup to drink on a daily basis."

"Peace, check your pulse before taking it again. Auntie will bring you a bowl of chicken tonight." Xu's mother was obviously very concerned about the child's gender.

"Aunt, it's not like you can only have one child. Why should you care whether the first child is a boy or a girl? You have taken good care of your daughter-in-law, and I will help you conceive one next year! Two the year after that!" Zhang Heping smiled and went out.

There were no chickens outside the Xu family, so Zhang Heping was relieved. He thought the plot could not be changed!

After moving the sewing machine to the east wing of the front yard, Zhang Heping went out to buy blank paper.

To participate in navigation and aviation model competitions, you need to produce design drawings, and you have to involve other students in doing it together. It is easier to obtain materials when you have more people.

Zhang Heping went out for half the afternoon, and when he returned to No. 95 Courtyard for dinner with a roll of rice paper, he was shocked to find that Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, and Yan Bugui were holding a hospital-wide meeting in the Central Courtyard. His family and the Zhou family next door did not go.

Zhang Heping had no interest in going there without provoking him.

As a result, Lou Xiao'e came over angrily and tried to pull Zhang Heping to go to the middle courtyard, but failed.

When Zhang Heping asked about the reason, he learned that Sha Zhu was looking for the chicken thief. When he saw Xu's mother bringing chicken to Lou Xiao'e, he said that it was stolen by the Xu family.

Zhang Heping walked to the middle courtyard and glanced at everyone, and found many unfamiliar faces. Even Yan Jiecheng was married to Yu Li, and it seemed that he had not paid attention to the situation here for some time.

"I saw someone stealing the chicken this afternoon. It wasn't the Xu family. As for who it was, I won't say more."

Zhang Heping finished speaking calmly and was about to leave, but unexpectedly a young man stood up and yelled: "Stop! Who are you! You came to our courtyard and acted nonsense!"

Zhang Heping looked at the strange man who was only about 1.6 meters tall indifferently, and said with a smile: "Both Yi Zhonghai and Silly Zhu dare not speak to me like this, please try again!"

The young man subconsciously looked at Yi Zhonghai, who was sitting at the square table. Yi Zhonghai awkwardly touched the bridge of his nose with his right hand, covering his eyes and pretending not to see.

The young man looked at Silhu again. Silhu was sitting on the bench, with his hands in his pockets and looking down at his cotton shoes.

Seeing that the man was timid, Zhang Heping walked out on his own and ignored the farce in the middle courtyard.

After Yi Zhonghai experienced the half-closed door incident and was enlightened by the deaf old lady, he discovered that Zhang Heping would indeed ignore him as long as he did not provoke Zhang Heping, so he took the initiative to ignore the existence of the Zhang family.

As for Silly Zhu, he can't beat him, he really can't beat that grandson... It's better to give in than to be beaten!

Lou Xiao'e proudly took away her bowl of chicken from the square table, and then sat back on her long bench, next to Xu's mother, waiting to catch the chicken thief.

"Banggan, that's what you have to do! There is another one in Shazhu's family..."

"Ahem!" Zhang Heping coughed, glanced at Xu Damao who had just walked to the door of the compound, signaled the guy to stop talking nonsense, and then went back to the east wing on the left.

Xu Damao was reminded by this and immediately discovered the group of people in the middle courtyard.

Then, Shazhu rushed out of the second door and went straight to Banggeng next to Xu Damao, "Banggeng, did you steal my chicken?"

"Silly Zhu, do you want to bully us orphans and widowed mothers?" Qin Huairu pretended to be pitiful, but quickly pulled the stick behind her with her right hand.

"Silly Zhu, I didn't!" Banggeng appeared from behind Qin Huairu and refused to acknowledge it!

Silly Zhu deceived, "Zhang Heping said, he saw that you stole it!"

Banggeng's expression was stagnant, but Xu Damao reacted quickly, "Impossible! It's impossible for me, Brother Heping, to help Silly Zhu."

Silly Zhu saw Banggeng's frightened expression, and pointed at Banggeng with his right index finger, "It doesn't matter if you don't admit it, as long as I know it was your kid who stole it, we'll see!"

Si Zhu put down his harsh words and was about to leave, but was dragged to the middle courtyard by Yi Zhonghai. After Qin Huairu entered the middle courtyard with her three children, the whole hospital meeting started again.

Not long after, Lou Xiao'e angrily entered the east wing of the Zhang family and said depressedly what had just happened.

Yan Bugui used words to induce Sophora japonica to say that they would eat chicken in the afternoon, and then took advantage of the situation to steal the chicken.

As a result, Xu Damao paid 5 yuan and compensated for the chicken money.

Lou Xiao'e didn't care about the money, but she felt very depressed. After all, it was her family who had to pay.

She would rather Qin Huairu pay the money first and Xu Damao give Qin Huairu 5 yuan afterwards.

"I'm going to pay the money first because I want to disgust Silly Zhu. If I give Qin Huairu money afterwards, will you suspect me of having an affair with Qin Huairu again?" Xu Damao explained at the door, greeted Zhang Heping and the others, and said hello Lou Xiao'e went home.

On the 3rd of the next day, Zhang Heping took Laifu out hunting early in the morning.

The mountains on the West Mountain side are covered with snow, but the snow on the mountains is so thin that when you step on it, the uppers of your shoes cannot even cover it.

After Zhang Heping returned home with the sack, marinated the prey, and dried the fur on the roof, he went to No. 95 Courtyard to say hello to his mother, Ma Xiuzhen, and the others, and then returned to school.

He was still planning to go hunting on Saturday and Sunday if there was still no snow next week and prepare the New Year's supplies first.

Because New Year's Eve this year is February 2st, time is tight.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the classroom, Huang Wenli in the front row called him to the door and relayed her father's words:

No gifts for the holidays this year!

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