Break out of the courtyard

After lunch, Zhang Cuishan was too embarrassed to put away the alarm clock. Zhang Heping said he would lend it to him, so he took the alarm clock to the backyard to sleep.

Afterwards, Zhang Heping took out the White Rabbit candy and told his mother, Ma Xiuzhen, his suspicions about the candy coupons issued by the kindergarten. She asked Ma Xiuzhen to recall whether other nursery workers in the kindergarten had given candy to the children.

The mother, Ma Xiuzhen, thought for a while and then said that she had seen the principal take a crying child aside and give him something to eat, maybe candy.

For this reason, Zhang Heping peeled off a toffee each for his grandmother, mother, and Lao Zhang, who had not spoken much in the past two days, and stuffed them into their mouths. Then he gave each of his two sisters and two little girls a candy. The remaining sugar was put into an empty glass jar and handed over to mother for disposal.

Well... Ma Xiuzhen fed her son one first.

Zhang Heping laughed and told his mother, Ma Xiuzhen, about the price of the toffee. When she looked distressed, Zhang Heping reminded her that if you are reluctant to part with this candy, your salary will never increase.

Afterwards, Zhang Heping asked his mother, Ma Xiuzhen, to put away the watch on his second sister's wrist to prevent her from looking at the watch all the time and not reading seriously.

In view of Lao Zhang's recent abnormality, Zhang Heping went shopping outside but failed to buy a silver needle. He also went to the state-owned drug store to inquire to no avail, so he had no choice but to ask Huang Xuemin to borrow it.

Huang Xuemin knew how to work hard, and immediately took Zhang Heping to the state-owned drug store to borrow a medicine box, filled it with gold needles, silver needles, cupping pots, and a bottle of disinfectant alcohol, and then took Zhang Heping to Uncle Zhuang's home.

After Zhang Heping gave Uncle Zhuang a massage, Comrade Huang sent Zhang Heping and a bunch of tools back to Zhang's house.

Looking at Huang Xuemin who said hello to Zhang Bing and left, Zhang Heping realized that Huang Xuemin and Lao Zhang were two different people. Although they were comrades-in-arms, their personalities were not compatible. Comrade Lao Huang was too good at digging into the camp.

After Zhang Heping washed the golden needles and silver needles, he put them in a large pot and boiled them in boiling water.

Then he added a few pieces of firewood to the earthen kang burning port on the left side of the stove, and heated the earthen kang in the east wing first.

Then, he went to say sorry to the group of people in the courtyard who were listening to the radio and chatting with his grandmother Xie Ermei and his mother Ma Xiuzhen, then unplugged the radio and closed the window behind the radio.

Let grandma and mother work together to carry Zhang Bing onto the earthen bed, and then let them take the two little girls to wait outside the door.

Zhang Heping put away the needles in the pot, shook off the water droplets one by one, inserted them into the alcohol bottle, and entered the room.

The second sister Zhang Pandi ran to the radio, took a look at the window, then ran away with a blushing face, calling the eldest sister Zhang Zhaodi, one person guarded the eaves of the house, and the other guarded the door of the east wing to prevent others from approaching.

In the house, after Zhang Heping stripped Zhang Bing naked, Comrade Zhang asked uncomfortably: "Xiaosan, what do you want to do?"

"I've taken off my clothes, what do you think I can do?" Zhang Heping joked, rolled up the quilt and placed it on the kang.

Then he turned Lao Zhang onto the quilt and let him face down. His head went beyond the quilt and fell outside the earthen kang. His head faced the living room to the north and the back of his head was facing up.

After pushing the palace to activate blood circulation, Zhang Heping gave another silver needle to help.

"Don't move around for a while, especially your head!" Zhang Heping warned, then he picked up a few long golden needles and poured alcohol from the tip to the end.

……

While grandma Xie Ermei, mother Ma Xiuzhen and others were waiting anxiously outside the door, and a few aunts with strong gossips were waiting inexplicably, the door to the east wing of the front yard opened with a creak.

"Alas..." Zhang Heping carried the medicine box on his back, lowered his head, shook his head and sighed as he went out.

"Mistress, what's wrong?" Ma Xiuzhen's heart tightened, and after grabbing Zhang Heping and asking, seeing that Zhang Heping didn't speak, she hurriedly rushed into the room.

Then, a voice of embarrassment came from the room, "Get out!"

Then, the two sisters ran out with blushing faces. Grandma Xie Ermei followed him out with a smile. Mother Ma Xiuzhen stayed in the room, covering his vital parts and dressing Lao Zhang who looked angry.

After Zhang Heping cleaned and sterilized the needles, he put them into the medicine box, wondering whether to return them.

After his mother Ma Xiuzhen said hello, Zhang Heping locked the medicine box in the right ear room, took out the two crutches inside, and asked his second sister Zhang Pandi to put them in.

He was worried that if he sent it over, Lao Zhang, who had just been pranked by him, would slap his cane. Hehe!

Lao Zhang went out with two crutches. Although he didn't look as agile as when he used crutches and had to be supported by two people, he was indeed able to walk!

"Mom, please give Comrade Zhang a sweater. He is still a wounded soldier. Be careful of catching a cold!" Zhang Heping reminded him, then opened the window behind the radio and connected the plug.

News Hour: "Stressing the importance of uniting them to work together. He once again pointed out that the vast majority of intellectuals already belong to the intellectuals of the working people..."

Ignoring the congratulations to Zhang Bing from outsiders, Zhang Heping returned to the house, took two sacks, and began to select gifts, preparing to visit the old company commander and Huang Xuemin to thank him.

If the old company commander hadn't helped contact Huang Xuemin, her mother Ma Xiuzhen wouldn't have been able to work in a place as good as Lantian Kindergarten.

It's not as tiring, dirty, or complicated as a factory.

Although Ma Xiuzhen's current salary is not high, as time accumulates and she slowly improves her interpersonal relationships, she will be able to move up the level of a childcare worker.

……

In the evening, the familiar mule and horse cart was called. The driver kept praising Zhang Bing for his good fortune. Talking about the cold weather in February, the family wrapped him up tightly for fear of losing his past memories in the cold. …

The military compound where the old company commander lived was the same one where the second and third sons of the Huang family took Zhang Heping last time. Those boys were so stingy that they wouldn't even let them touch their guns.

The driver was waiting outside, guarding another sack of gifts.

Zhang Bing, leaning on crutches, took his family to the gate and reported their names. After the guard called to inquire, he checked the sacks they brought before putting them in.

"I remember you. Last time I went hunting, you helped me carry the rabbit!" Zhao Jianguo, the sixth son of the old company commander's family, immediately recognized Zhang Heping who had just entered the living room.

When Zhang Heping went hunting, he learned Zhao Jianguo's identity from the two brothers of the Huang family. Only then when he was hunting, he saw that the little fat man was exhausted and helped him lift the rabbit.

"My name is Zhang Heping."

"Oh, my name is Zhao Jianguo. Let's go! My brother is not here, I will take you to play with his gun!"

Zhang Heping didn't expect that Zhao Jianguo would let him play with a gun. It was probably the last time he went hunting, when he wanted to touch someone else's shotgun but was rejected, and Zhao Jianguo saw it.

The two of them sneaked shotguns in the room of the fifth child of the Zhao family for a while, and then were called out by the adults to say goodbye.

"Zhang Heping, where do you live? Next time I go hunting, I'll call you!"

……

After leaving the home of old company commander Zhao Ziliang, the five members of the Zhang family took a mule, horse and cart to the family building where Huang Xuemin lived in the next street.

As Zhang Heping expected, after Lao Zhang exchanged a few polite words with Huang Xuemin, he started the awkward chat mode, which was not as good as Zhang Heping's chatting with the second and third sons of the Huang family.

Finally, Zhang Heping saw that the atmosphere was really awkward, so he took the initiative to say goodbye, "Uncle Huang, I still need to use that medicine box. If you need me, just ask Brother Yu and Brother Xuan to call me, so as not to delay your work. .”

"The two of them know how to play. We, the uncle and nephew, have to do this."

"Okay, I'll be on call at any time!" Zhang Heping promised with a smile and changed the subject, "Uncle Huang, we won't bother you tonight. When you are free another day, we will invite you to our house for a casual meal. "

Huang Xuemin stood up and said goodbye with a smile: "Then you have to think about what to treat me to!"

"Zhang Heping, don't forget our brothers when you treat us!"

"With two more mouths, I have to think carefully about what to eat!"

"Whatever you want to eat, I want to eat too!" When the fourth sister of the Huang family heard about the food, she suddenly came forward and asked, making everyone amused.

……

At nine o'clock in the evening, when Zhang Heping and others returned home, the third aunt and several aunts in the courtyard were sitting in the living room of the east wing of Zhang's house, chatting with grandma Xie Ermei and listening to the radio rustling.

"Sanwazi, why isn't the radio talking?" When grandma saw everyone coming back, she quickly pulled Zhang Heping to the radio.

Zhang Heping tried switching channels, and there was another station with sound, but he was doing his closing remarks for the evening, and the sound soon went silent again.

"The radio station is off duty!" Zhang Heping said, turning off the radio and removing the plug.

Her mother, Ma Xiuzhen, found a piece of blue cloth and covered it with the radio to protect it from dust.

After the aunts left, the Zhang family gradually became quiet. Except for the two little girls, everyone was paying attention to Zhang Bing's actions. He stood in front of the cabinets where the gifts were placed for a while.

"Mistress, can I get some gifts..."