Break out of the courtyard

Sunday, noon.

Her mother, Ma Xiuzhen, was restlessly guarding the earthen bed. From time to time she would touch the big bamboo cabinet next to the earthen bed. There were two pieces of cloth in it. She waited until 3 o'clock in the morning last night and took them from her son who had returned from tiredness. The two rolls were heavy. green cloth and white cloth.

Because she didn't know the origin of this cloth, and her son was still sleeping soundly in the right ear room, which made her think about the present day.

Suddenly, there was a screeching sound of a bicycle braking suddenly, and then Xu Damao was heard shouting, "Zhang Heping! Brother Heping! Brother, where are you?"

Zhang Bing, who was sitting on the armchair under the window, put down the rag shoes he was mending, pointed to his right ear room, and said, "He is still sleeping in the room."

Hearing this, Xu Damao hurriedly knocked on the door of his right room and called Zhang Heping.

"What are you doing!" Zhang Heping was a little angry, but when he saw that it was Xu Damao, an outsider, he suppressed it.

Xu Damao asked anxiously: "What battle was that painting you painted yesterday?"

"Didn't I tell you?" Zhang Heping speechlessly pushed away Xu Damao's hand grabbing his shoulder, turned around and walked back to the bamboo bed, and said impatiently: "Changjin Lake! Battle of Changjin Lake!"

"It's not the one in the restaurant, it's..." Xu Damao followed and said anxiously: "Little one! The one you drew at the beginning!"

Zhang Heping lay down on the bed and asked in confusion: "Why do you ask?"

"Hey! Tell me what the battle is called first. They're still waiting for my call back. It's urgent!"

Seeing that the other party was so anxious and angry, Zhang Heping put aside his curiosity, sat up and said seriously:

"Fly to seize the Luding Bridge!"

"This is a..." Zhang Heping also wanted to educate Xu Damao about the importance of this battle, but he didn't want Xu Damao to run away.

Zhang Heping lost his sleepiness after Xu Damao made such a fuss, and his mother, Ma Xiuzhen, brought him all the face wash, which made it even more difficult to sleep.

Ma Xiuzhen closed the door, moved closer to Zhang Heping, and asked in a low voice: "Xiaosan, where did that cloth come from?"

Zhang Heping washed his face, then frowned and thought for a while, and simply explained: "Mom, I earned this cloth from Xu Damao through my labor. I did nothing illegal."

"Where did Xu Damao get so much cloth? Also, what did you do..."

"Mom!" Zhang Heping interrupted Ma Xiuzhen, "Xu Damao will get married in two days. Then you will know where he got so much cloth! Also, don't tell grandma and the others about the origin of the cloth, otherwise it will get spread. trouble."

"Trouble?" Ma Xiuzhen frowned, thinking of Xu Damao's anxious look just now, and her doubts increased instead of abating.

She wanted to ask again, but Zhang Heping pushed him away impatiently, "Such a simple question, think about it yourself!"

Zhang Heping didn't want to talk about Lou Bancheng. As long as his family didn't know about it, he could deny the oil painting yesterday.

After lunch, Zhang Heping carried a small medicine box and rode a bicycle to Huang Xuemin's house.

I left in a hurry yesterday and didn't go to Uncle Zhuang to maintain the relationship. This relationship must be maintained. After three years, he must ask the other party to help his two sisters find a good apartment.

When leaving the dealer, Zhang Heping said hello to the round-faced Director Wang next door who was taking care of his grandson.

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When I returned to the courtyard, I saw my father Zhang Bing and my cousin Zhang Cuishan studying a pair of rag shoes on the small coffee table.

Seeing Lao Zhang's concentration on hooking up threads with an awl and sewing the holes at the front of his shoes, Zhang Heping even helped him think of a name for the shoe repair stall: Veteran Shoe Repair.

The stall is located outside the south wall of the two wing rooms of his house. When the time comes, he will set up a small bamboo shed, assemble two small bamboo chairs, and a bamboo weaving tool box, and the shoe repair stall will be erected.

In fact, if Lao Zhang learns tailoring, his business will be better, because he has a sewing machine at home and several female helpers at home.

However, Zhang Heping did not say his suggestion, which was Comrade Zhang's retirement life, let him play slowly, it doesn't matter whether he makes more or less.

Zhang Heping wanted to enter the east wing, but he didn't open the door and the bamboo curtain inside was closed.

When his mother Ma Xiuzhen let him in, he realized that the two sisters' new clothes had been made and they were trying on clothes by the kang.

"Mom, are you sure you want my two sisters to wear these clothes to school?" Zhang Heping clicked twice in front of himself, and then pointed at the two silly sisters who were so happy that they couldn't find anything to say. The little buns were all bulging. Don't know yet.

After Ma Xiuzhen came to her senses, she kicked Zhang Heping out, "You brat, go play outside!"

Then, there were exclamations and embarrassment in the room.

Then, they began to discuss the issue of changing clothes. The chattering was really not suitable for the talkative old Zhang to participate, and Zhang Heping didn't like it either.

He brought his slingshot and hatchet and asked his cousin Zhang Cuishan, who had nothing to do, to be the driver. Zhang Heping went out on his bicycle to look for bamboo.

I heard from those Banners that there is a big bamboo forest in Hongluo Temple in the north, which was the former Imperial Bamboo Forest. There are many bamboos there, but it is a bit far away. It would take two or three hours to get there by bicycle.

Skipping the small bamboo forest that had been harmed by the two brothers before, they found Kunming Lake and found a few bamboo forests in the garden. However, they did not dare to cut them down because they were specially brought from the south to be planted.

Zhang Heping picked up pebbles and walked westward along the lakeshore. There were fewer tourists and more water birds there.

There were more than a dozen white and black geese wandering in the lake. They would be delicious when stewed, but it was a pity that they were beyond his shooting range.

Ignoring the egrets that spread their wings and flew away, Zhang Heping took his cousin to a patch of reeds in the west and stared at the mallards swimming among them with a wicked smile.

The little mallard he shot yesterday morning had no flesh on it, and its feathers were short and boring.

In addition, Zhang Heping also plans to get some feathers to make arrow feathers, and then slowly accumulate some down to make vests, so it is more cost-effective to buy bigger ones!

puff!

A pebble as big as a finger hit the duck's head accurately!

The wild ducks around were so frightened that they dived underwater.

While Zhang Heping was looking for the next wild duck, his cousin Zhang Cuishan had already taken off his shoes and socks and started to take off his clothes and pants, preparing to go into the water to pick up ducks.

puff!

Another shot of a mallard duck hiding in the reeds!

Seeing that the wild ducks nearby were running away, Zhang Heping directed his cousin to pick up the second wild duck. After he landed on the shore, Zhang Heping ran to the other side of the reeds.

When he shot two more mallards, all the mallards in the reeds were frightened and flew into the lake.

There were four mallard ducks in total, the largest one weighed more than two pounds, and the smaller one weighed more than one pound.

In order not to attract attention, Zhang Heping asked his cousin to cut some reeds with a woodcutter and made two green grass bamboo poles on the spot and hung them on the back seat of his bicycle.

When they went out, Zhang Heping remembered that the sacks had been used up.

The key is that he didn't expect to ride all the way to Kunming Lake, and then he was lucky enough to catch four wild ducks.

Now, there are two mallards for Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e's wedding!

After giving away this mallard, I will make a bamboo carving of a family portrait and a picture of Xu Damao going to the countryside. Can I order more cloths?

After the two brothers rushed past the two red-sleeved aunts who were watching eagerly at the gate of Kunming Lake, Zhang Heping asked his cousin to ride to Xu's house first.

When Zhang Heping gave two mallards to Xu Damao, he heard bad news and Lou Bancheng was angry!

He doesn’t want oil paintings anymore, and he won’t let the Xu family find Zhang Heping to make bamboo sculptures!

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Thanks for the reward from heaven to hell when I passed by the human world