Break out of the courtyard

During lunch, Ma Xiuzhen helped Zhang Bing sit on a short bamboo chair with back and armrests. Then the family of nine sat around the long coffee table and began to use Hsinchu chopsticks.

Zhang Bing picked up his exclusive yellow bamboo cup and looked at it. On the surface of the cup was engraved a soldier lying down and aiming a gun. He opened the lid and found boiling water soaked in malted milk.

"Sanwazi, do you really not make furniture for other people?" Grandma Xie Ermei asked with some pity.

While Zhang Heping was eating steamed buns, he asked, "Grandma, what price did they pay you?"

Upon hearing the question, grandma Xie Ermei became excited, "A coffee table is 5 cents, a small bamboo cabinet is 8 cents, a large bamboo cabinet is 1 yuan and 2 cents, a bamboo bed is 2 cents..."

"Oh!" Zhang Heping responded casually.

Grandma Xie Ermei waited for a while, but when she didn't hear Zhang Heping's response, she shook her head and stopped asking. It happened again.

"The second aunt just came to me and told me that her eldest son was getting married. She wanted to order a set like ours, with family photos engraved on it. She offered 20 yuan for the whole set, but I refused!" Ma Xiuzhen frowned and said, "She also asked us to The family’s former stove tells the story.”

Zhang Heping took a piece of fried melon with chopsticks, finished the steamed buns in one bite, drank all the water in the bamboo cup, took out a handkerchief and wiped his mouth, and said with a smile: "I won't agree to anyone who talks to us about money!" That’s the reason why I need to read books to prepare for the exam.”

After finishing speaking, Zhang Heping went out and turned right, came to the aisle under the north window, sat in an armchair placed against the wall, and picked up an iron nail, cocktail tail, bamboo arrow and an arrow from the small square coffee table next to it. A skinning knife and start slowly polishing the arrow shaft with the knife.

Arrowmaking: Mastery (58%).

Last night, when he was using the remaining bamboo to make bamboo toys for the little kids in the yard, he made a crude bamboo arrow on a whim using bamboo strips, long iron nails, and feathers from a feather duster, and then he gained an arrow-making skill. .

Now, Zhang Heping has a lot more arrow-making skills and experience in his mind.

However, in terms of idle efficiency, no matter how good your arrow-making experience is, it is not as good as using this knife to sharpen the arrow shaft.

As the arrow-making experience in his mind increased, he increasingly felt that making bamboo arrows was his best choice at the moment.

However, after Zhang Heping gained the skill of making arrows, he was not in a hurry to make arrows. He also wanted to try his skill of making bows. After he had experience in making bows and arrows, he would decide how to make the best arrows under the current conditions. Bow and arrow, or crossbow.

As for the unstrung bow in the right ear room, it feels a little stiff in the hand, and it is very laborious to draw the full moon. The arm of the bow is too long, so it is not suitable for hunting in dense forests.

Not long after Zhang Heping sat down and hung up, Yan Bugui walked over with a smile, greeted the Zhang family in the east wing, and walked to the right armrest of the coffee table to the right of Zhang Heping.

After the old guy sat down, he twisted his buttocks to test the stability of the bamboo chair he sat on.

After that, he shook the small bamboo tea table between him and Zhang Heping, and then he boasted: "Heping, your skills are so good that you can even open the door to accept apprentices!"

"Yes!" Zhang Heping responded immodestly. He is a master in weaving and carving skills, so he has such confidence.

Yan Bugui came closer and said, "Do you want to make money from this craft?"

"Is your family short of money?" Zhang Heping smiled inwardly, the old guy took the bait.

This old guy's family hasn't had any big expenses recently. He has at least 400 yuan in savings. Coupled with his family's food stamp reserve, this savings is still increasing steadily every month.

However, Yan Laojie told Zhang Heping a few days ago that he and his eldest son were reported by other fishermen. The fish and fishing gear were confiscated and they were educated for a long time. Recently, they dare not go fishing.

Yan Laochao hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said, "That's not true!"

Zhang Heping said dissatisfied: "Your family is not short of money, and my family is not bad either. Why should I risk being arrested by the street office and sent to education to earn that little money?"

"Besides, if I have that free time, why don't I take my cousin on an adventurous fishing trip? It costs dozens or even hundreds for one round trip. If I get caught, the most I can do is confiscate my fish and fishing gear, and then give me a good education."

"This..." Yan Bugui was numb. According to Zhang Heping, this was the right thing to do, but he and his cousin went fishing and had nothing to do with Yan Bugui.

"Forget it! Then we won't make any money." Yan Bugui thought to himself, got up and walked directly down the aisle under the half-meter-high window, and went to the sink in front to wash the bamboo shavings on his hands.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that Yan Bugui was about to leave, and Zhang Heping dropped the bait casually, "Third uncle, if you encounter cheap cloth tickets, clothing tickets, etc., just tell me, you understand!"

……

After returning from school in the afternoon, Zhang Heping sat back on the left side under the north window of the middle courtyard and continued polishing arrow shafts with a skinning knife.

Not long after, Lao Zhang came over with a cane. Zhang Heping hurriedly helped him to the armchair where he was sitting, while Zhang Heping moved to the chair on the other side of the coffee table, near the middle courtyard.

Just when Zhang Heping was about to continue polishing arrow shafts, Zhang Bing said: "I went to get your cousin's household registration book in the afternoon, but I didn't get the food book and non-staple food book on the spot. Your mother said before that the last time you went there, The three copies of the household registration were obtained on the spot.”

Zhang Heping pointed the arrow in the direction of the Yan family and said softly: "Last time I took the third uncle there. He is the front yard steward appointed by the subdistrict office. He knows many people at the subdistrict office."

"In addition, the grain and non-staple food book information must be reported to the grain station and other units. It is useless to get it in advance. You can wait until next Tuesday to go to the subdistrict office and ask. If you still can't get it, I will ask the third uncle for help. Take it."

"Um..." Zhang Bing hesitated for a moment, then asked a little uneasily, "I would like to invite my four comrades over for dinner. Do you think it's okay?"

It's not a festival, and every household is short of food, so there's no way to treat guests casually.

This is the truth, but you can’t say it so harshly!

The key is that his family has had no shortage of meal tickets in the past three months.

"Dad, have you ever thought about it, we still owe them food!" Zhang Heping raised his head and glanced at his father Zhang Bing, then continued to scrape arrow shafts, "If you invite them to dinner, and they complain to you and ask you to pay back Food, what can you give in return? What can I give in return?"

"That's it!" Zhang Heping thought that he couldn't make Lao Zhang depressed. "You've almost done half of what I said before. Take 4 bottles of canned fruit and go to your four comrades to talk about old times. Next time something happens to you, none of them will come to see you."

"Although the four of them didn't visit you before because their family members blocked it, I don't agree with their choice, and I won't deal with their families. I would rather pay and pay for it and let you invite them to eat out. I don’t want to invite him to my home either.”

……

"He Yuzhu, will you give it to me?"

"No! Hey, I just won't give it!" He Yuzhu raised the lunch box in his hand high and teased Qin Huairu, "If you catch it, I will give it to you!"

Yi Zhonghai, who was walking in front, had a gloomy face, thinking about his pension plan and how to deal with Qin Huairu who had interfered. If Shazhu and Qin Huairu were allowed to become friends and Shazhu took care of Banggeng and the younger ones, he would Who should we turn to for retirement?

Three figures, one in front and two behind, walked into the courtyard. As soon as they looked up, they saw two people, one big and one small, sitting under the left window of the east wing.

The leisurely look of the Zhang family and his son sitting on the chairs on both sides of the small coffee table made Yi Zhonghai instinctively feel unhappy. Looking at the bamboo shavings on the ground, he shouted loudly: "Zhang Heping, pay attention to your hygiene and don't leave it all over the courtyard!"

"Yan Jiefang!" Zhang Heping opened his mouth and shouted without raising his head.

Then, a young man holding a bamboo airplane model ran out from the Yan family in the west wing, "Brother Heping, what's going on?"

"The uncle said that I didn't do a good job in sanitation here!"

"I'll sweep it right away!" Yan Jiefang took the broom and ran to the sink. While sweeping the floor, he asked with a shy face: "Brother, in addition to making tank models tomorrow, can you also make cars and trucks? "

"We'll wait until you get the bamboo back tomorrow."

"okay!"

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