Break out of the courtyard

In July, Zhang Heping paid special attention to the situation of Zhou Chengwen, the eldest son of the Zhou family. Since this boy was assigned to the Capital's No. 7 Cotton Spinning Factory in the eastern suburbs, and it was reported that he could earn the salary of an eighth-level clerk before becoming a full-time employee, many matchmakers came to propose marriage.

However, most of the girls introduced by the matchmaker are unemployed girls who have no jobs nearby. They are the kind who are eager to get married to reduce family expenses. Chen Liqin, the Zhou family's daughter-in-law, looks down on them.

Zhang Heping once sensed that Zhou Chengwen and his mother Chen Liqin were talking in the house, saying that most of the female workers in the Third Cotton Mill were farmers near the factory and had high school education.

Listening to Zhou Chengwen's tone, he didn't like the factory guy.

Chen Liqin saw Zhou Chengwen's little thoughts about Ma Lili, and after knowing that Ma Lili had food rations, she also had an idea.

However, she called Zhou Chengwen's father to discuss Ma Lili's matter, but Zhou's father did not agree because he looked down on the country girl.

Zhou's father finally asked about the situation of the two Zhang sisters, but Chen Liqin said no.

In Chen Liqin's opinion, although the two sisters from the Zhang family are usually easy to talk to, they don't even talk to their elder brother.

The reason may be that three years ago, after her eldest son Zhou Chengwen received the admission notice from a technical secondary school, he became arrogant and proud in front of the two sisters, which made them unhappy.

The key is that when Zhou Chengwen learned that the two sisters had higher graduation scores than him and that they were assigned to a popular railway technical secondary school, he was embarrassed and made a joke.

Therefore, every time Zhou Chengwen saw Zhang Zhaodi and Zhang Pandi smiling, he always felt that they were laughing at him.

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Zhang Heping didn't know about Zhou Chengwen's parents' twists and turns. He asked his three sisters to tighten their belts and find the one they wanted. He was only responsible for the final check.

Moreover, the income of the three of them is managed by themselves.

According to Zhang Heping's original words, "If a woman can't even control her money, how can she control her man? Xu Damao is a ready-made example!"

As Zhang Heping gave up looking for a job and the summer vacation passed quietly, he reluctantly returned to New Capital School No. 11 and began a high school career that was destined to be fruitless.

On August 8st, during the military training for new students, Zhang Heping discovered that there were many unnamed soldiers on the playground... patched clothes and trousers, cloth shoes, and green rubber shoes.

In previous years, among a group of students wearing military uniforms at No. 11 School, only Zhang Heping was dressed differently than ordinary people.

However, Zhang Heping's clothes were clean and unpatched, and he had good grades and knew how to play, so he was able to play with his brother from the big courtyard. As for now...

At the beginning of the summer vacation in July last year, the so-called high-ranking cadres' schools in Xicheng were required by the "maximum" to be fully liberalized and no special practices were allowed.

Schools such as Yuying School, Peiying School, and No. 8 Middle School all admitted many students from ordinary families in August and September last year.

Only Zhang Heping and his new Capital Eleven School, because of the strict military management, not many ordinary students are willing to come.

This year, it is probably because of the forced separation of students from above that so many ordinary students stood on the playground of School 11.

Zhang Heping's current high school is divided into four classes.

Thanks to Zhang Heping's previous sports competition organization structure, among the 2 students in the original group of Class 48, Class 2, except for 46 male students who went to serve as soldiers, the remaining 18 students, plus 2 newly recruited ordinary students students, forming Class () of Senior High School.

As for the other students in Class 2 of Grade 1 and the students in Class 3 next door, they were disrupted and scattered among the other three classes.

On Saturday, August 8, the nearly month-long military training at School 28 ended, and Zhang Heping was able to go home for the holidays.

It takes more than half an hour to ride a bicycle from No. 7 Courtyard on the North Shore of Houhai to Capital Station, with the eldest sister Zhang Zhaodi carrying the second sister Zhang Pandi. The round trip takes more than an hour.

Therefore, when they usually go to work, they always have lunch in the Capital Station cafeteria.

Today, because Zhang Heping had to go home, the two of them rode their bicycles back for lunch. After a brief chat, they rushed to work.

According to the two sisters, they will be taking turns to work as conductors on the train on August 8, and they don’t know if they will be able to go home on time.

Zhang Heping went to Uncle Zhuang's house in the afternoon. This relationship must continue to be maintained. You can't use people to go forward and don't use people to go behind.

The next day, Zhang Heping fished for a while in the sea in front and behind the door, then said hello to his mother, Ma Xiuzhen, and went to the Western Restaurant of Xinqiao Hotel.

Counting Zhang Heping, there are currently 2 people in Class 46's sports meeting group.

They had dinner at the Xinqiao Hotel, discussed the class committee election in the evening, discussed the clothing for the sports meeting, and then rode back to school.

The head teacher of Zhang Heping's class is named Yang, a short and fat male teacher who teaches physics. He is in his early thirties, but his hair is cut very short. If you don't pay attention, you would think he is bald!

After a month of military training, the head teacher, Teacher Yang, has a rough idea of ​​the situation of the students in the class.

In particular, for the 46 students who were promoted from the junior high school of the school, he even went to the teachers of the junior high school to learn more about their pasts.

Therefore, during evening self-study, Teacher Yang directly named Zhang Heping and asked him to organize the class committee election.

When Zhang Heping walked onto the podium with a smile, Teacher Yang sat in the corner of the last row and flipped through the red book of quotations that Zhang Heping had just read.

Zhang Heping took the chalk and, as before when selecting the class committee in the first grade of junior high school, from left to right, he first listed the duties of the squad leader, deputy squad leader, league branch secretary, 8 committee members, representatives of each subject, 8 group leaders, and dormitory chiefs. , written in beautiful block letters.

"Let me introduce myself first. My name is Zhang Heping!" Zhang Heping said, writing his full name just to the right of "Organizational Member:" in the eighth row of the second column from the left.

"In the past three years of junior high school, I organized my classmates to be shortlisted for two National Day performances. Although we failed, last year we were directly selected as the amateur choir for the National Day large-scale song and dance performance 'The East is Red'."

"In addition, I am organizing students to participate in the sailing and aviation model competitions of the second sports meeting. The competition is expected to be on the 11th of next month."

"Tonight's class committee election, I will give everyone a try. The person with the most votes will be elected."

"I am running for the organizing committee. If you agree, please raise your hands. Thank you."

As soon as Zhang Heping finished speaking, there was a brush below and dozens of hands were raised.

"Just raise your right hand. Those who raise both hands and feet will only count one vote!" Zhang Heping glanced at the six boys who did not raise their hands with a smile, and then wrote 6 votes to the right of the three characters "Zhang Heping" on the blackboard.

Zhang Heping raised his left hand and pressed it towards everyone, signaling to put down his hand.

"So, is there anyone running for the position of organizational committee member now?"

Zhang Heping looked at the classmates with a smile. There were 13 more votes from new classmates, which made him feel that these new classmates were quite discerning.

"Me!" The boy who didn't raise his hand just now was encouraged to stand up by the other five boys who didn't choose Zhang Heping.

"Okay, please invite Li Zhiwei to come on stage and introduce yourself to help everyone get to know you better." Zhang Heping said, writing the other person's name on the blackboard, under Zhang Heping's name.

Li Zhiwei said with a smile: "I want to be the monitor!"

His words caused a burst of laughter in the class, which made Li Zhiwei a little proud.