Break out of the courtyard

After Zhang Heping borrowed the money, grandma pulled both mother and son back to the left wing and asked the eldest sister Zhang Zhaodi to close the door.

"Mom, it's my fault for yelling at you!" Zhang Heping looked at Ma Xiuzhen who was sitting on the earthen bed, "But you are also at fault!"

Ma Xiuzhen wiped away her tears silently, turned her head to the left, and looked at the wall.

"As long as one of you and my dad is tighter and can keep a little money, we won't have enough to drink on New Year's Eve!" Zhang Heping's words can be said to be a bit heartbreaking.

However, he wanted to make the other party remember. The key was that he had to take over the financial power of the family and could no longer leave it to his lavish parents.

"Let me put it this way!" Zhang Heping took a deep breath and calmed his tone as much as possible, "When you go back to your parents' home to change your household registration, grandpa and the others will borrow money and food from you. Do you want to borrow it? What do you want to borrow?"

"In addition, our family's life has improved recently, and you have to admit that I am the one who deserves the most credit!"

"Your behavior of paying back the money just now shows your distrust of me! It's disrespectful!"

"You only want to feel better for yourself, but you have never thought about why I borrowed money, why I borrowed so much money, and why I asked the third uncle to borrow money. The third uncle is so calculating and even stingy. Why is he willing to lend me money? !”

"Do you think I borrowed money?"

Zhang Heping stood behind the door, looking at Ma Xiuzhen who was confused by the question on the kang, and sighed in his heart, "From now on, I will take care of the family's money!"

"No!" Ma Xiuzhen looked at the wall stubbornly.

"The money notes can be kept by grandma, and the eldest sister or second sister can keep the accounts. All household expenses must be approved by me before they can be spent from grandma." Zhang Heping said calmly:

"If you don't agree with this, you and dad can use your salary as you please from now on. The money I earn, I give it to you, you can use it as you wish. If I don't give it to you, you can't take care of it."

Ma Xiuzhen turned her head and looked at Zhang Heping. She suddenly felt that this son was so far away from her. He was no longer the heartless and stupid son before.

"Grandma, what did you say?"

"Xiuzhen, Heping has grown up, has his own opinions, and is not as reckless as before." Grandma Xie Ermei reached out and patted Ma Xiuzhen's thigh and advised:

"If you can trust me, my mother-in-law, just listen to Heping. I'll keep an eye on the money note for you. Let's see how Heping arranges it first. If he doesn't care about the money, you can take the money note back."

Seeing that his mother Ma Xiuzhen stopped talking, Zhang Heping took it as her acquiescence, called them out, locked the door and went to the canteen to buy steamed buns and pickles.

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Backyard, Xu family.

"Liu Guangtian, are you not full? Smash it hard!"

Xu Damao sat on the threshold of his house with his hands in his sleeves, teasing the boy opposite who was smashing the stove under the window with a hammer.

That was the stove that the Zhang family used before. Now that the Zhang family has moved, the Liu family doesn't plan to keep it, lest the next resident cook under his window again.

"You misjudged me!" Xu Fugui walked out and kicked Xu Damao who was blocking the door. "You are 24 years old, and you haven't even shown up yet."

Xu Damao moved to the side, giving way to half of the way, and asked in confusion: "Why did you make a mistake?"

"I asked you to give Yan Bugui the old hen before, originally because I wanted to see how much the Zhang family boy meant to Yan Bugui." Xu Fugui put his hands in his sleeves, leaned against the door frame, stood with his son, and blocked the door. It's tight.

"Dad, do you want to see if Yan Bugui will give the old hen to Zhang Xiaosan?"

"I guess you're a little smart!" Xu Fugui looked at the small wing in the northeast corner and laughed at himself: "The afternoon before yesterday, when I entered the yard, I smelled the Yan family simmering chicken soup. I thought the Zhang family was just like that. ”

"Unexpectedly, Yan Bugui took the Zhang family to be his direct neighbor, which shows how much he values ​​the Zhang family's boys."

"That's it? You want me to give away an old hen for free?" Xu Damao looked at his father like a fool, with doubts in his eyes.

"You know nothing! If you encounter the Zhang family girls in the future, stay away!"

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After dinner, on the way to the hospital, Zhang Heping took a hand-drawn map from the courtyard house to Xuanwu Hospital and kept teaching his grandma how to find the way. He used characteristic buildings, roadside shops, and big trees on the roadside as reference objects. It was difficult to teach her in a short time. I can only rely on my second sister Zhang Pandi.

When they arrived at the special needs ward of the hospital, they saw Zhang Pandi in a daze guarding a large cake, a bowl of soup, and a bowl of porridge.

After the girls finished feeding their father Zhang Bing, and the second sister Zhang Pandi also had the big cake as she wished, Zhang Heping took out the 50 yuan of cents he borrowed in the afternoon and the 16 kilograms and 6 taels of national food stamps he had received from selling fish before. .

Then, Zhang Heping gave his mother 2 yuan, collected 5 yuan for travel expenses, and also gave 5 pounds of national food stamps.

I also gave the eldest sister 5 yuan and 3 pounds of national food stamps as emergency travel expenses home.

After that, I gave another 20 yuan to my mother, Ma Xiuzhen, so that if my grandfather and the others borrowed money, I would borrow it.

Finally, they were asked to divide the money notes into several parts after they went back and hide them in the lining of the sleeves and trousers.

When they left the ward, Zhang Heping gave 1 yuan each to his grandmother and second sister Zhang Pandi, asking them to take a human-powered three-wheeler to the hospital or go back to the courtyard if they couldn't find their way.

On the way back, the second sister Zhang Pandi took the map hand-drawn by Zhang Heping, studied it with her grandma, and successfully returned to the courtyard.

Early the next morning, Ma Xiuzhen and Zhang Zhaodi drove to Baoding with dry food and two bags of pastries given by the factory.

Zhang Heping continued to hang up in the hospital, and asked his grandma and second sister to get food from the canteen of the steel rolling mill, and then came to the hospital to eat together, and also fed Zhang Bing in the hospital bed.

As for why we didn’t ask the full-time nurse in the special needs ward to help, it’s hard to explain...

After a day like this, the second sister Zhang Pandi told Zhang Heping that the third uncle Yan Bugui sent a message saying that Yi Zhonghai asked their family not to lock the door.

Zhang Heping thought for a while and decided that there was no need to be tough with Yi Zhonghai over such trivial matters. After all, the household registration had not been finalized yet, so he asked his second sister to go back and lock it down.

The third day, February 2th.

Because the old Chen family was moving out today, it was the day to take over the east wing of the front yard. After the second sister Zhang Pandi came to the hospital, Zhang Heping rushed back with his grandma.

Back in the courtyard, I saw the third uncle helping Lao Chen move his luggage and load his bicycle. Zhang Heping ran over and helped tie the rope.

After all the luggage was tied up, Lao Chen took Zhang Heping into the east wing and walked around, explaining the precautions inside and outside the house.

For example, the vents on the roof are covered with barbed wire to prevent rats; the sink at the door is close to the vegetable cellar in the left corner of the east wing, so be careful not to use water into the vegetable cellar, etc.

Farewell to Lao Chen at the gate of the courtyard, and watching the third uncle go to see someone off, Zhang Heping suddenly felt that Yan Bugui was actually a pretty good neighbor. He would at least give the neighbor a ride away, unlike other people in the courtyard who only stayed there. Watch from a distance.

"Third uncle, you help me sell the old furniture to the Zhang family and get 5 yuan from it. This is what we agreed in advance, so I won't say anything about it. However, you took the initiative to send me to the train station and still wanted to charge me Money, it’s not authentic!”

Perception: Mastery (24%).

"Damn it!" Zhang Heping turned around speechlessly, thinking that the third uncle is still your uncle, if there is no benefit, you can't afford it!

The grandfather and grandson worked hard all morning and finally cleaned up the corners of the east wing. It was noon. Zhang Heping took his lunch box and went to the canteen of the steel rolling mill to prepare meals. Grandma was packing clothes at home.

Zhang Heping held two lunch boxes and ran all the way back from the phone. He happened to see his mother Ma Xiuzhen and eldest sister Zhang Zhaodi walking empty-handed to the entrance of the courtyard.

In the new home in the east wing, a family of four sat around the square table in the living room, eating a box of rice and half a box of cabbage with smiles on their faces.

Then, grandma and elder sister Zhang Zhaodi went to the hospital. Zhang Heping was grateful for the 5 yuan commission from the third uncle's old furniture, so he got him to work as a young man. He accompanied Zhang Heping and Ma Xiuzhen to the street office to apply for household registration.

The relevant procedures were complete, and the third uncle was there to smooth things over. As soon as I got the new household registration book, I successfully processed the grain book and non-staple food book.

While Ma Xiuzhen was talking to Xiao Lin, the clerk who was responsible for handing out matchboxes, Zhang Heping said to Yan Bugui, who was thinking wildly:

"Third uncle, there is one more thing. I have to trouble you to transfer the rental contract of the two wing rooms to the names of my mother and my eldest sister, and ask you to help our family pay every month. It is not appropriate."

When it came to money, Yan Bugui stopped guessing whether the Zhang family had any connections. He took Ma Xiuzhen, mother and son, and hurriedly changed the rental contract.

However, just when Ma Xiuzhen paid for this month's rent of 2 cents to the third uncle Yan Bugui, Zhang Heping stopped Ma Xiuzhen and shamelessly said that giving money would hurt her feelings.

Yan Bugui's cheeks twitched, and he forced a smile and refused "that little" rent.

On the way back, Ma Xiuzhen took her household registration book, grain book, and non-staple food book and looked over them over and over again.

The third uncle, Yan Bugui, suddenly and mysteriously said to Zhang Heping: "There has been a riot at Kunming Lake! Many people don't go fishing there now."

"What's going on?" Zhang Heping immediately became interested.

"I heard that the day after we exchanged fish for national food stamps, a pigeon market spontaneously formed there." Yan Bugui said in a low voice, as if he was guilty of treason:

"I heard that several people were found stripped naked under the ice yesterday, but the murderer has not been caught yet."

"So fierce?" Zhang Heping looked surprised. Just when Yan Bugui thought Zhang Heping was frightened, Zhang Heping suddenly said, "Next time we go there, we must bring a knife to defend ourselves!"

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