Siheyuan: I just want to live

Time flies, and May Day is here in the blink of an eye.

Ever since Chen Feng went to the street office to file a complaint against Jia Zhang, I heard that she was taken away by the street office staff before noon, and I heard that she would be detained for half a year.

When she was taken away, Chen Feng was not in the yard and could not see her expression.

In fact, Chen Feng could have demanded serious punishment for Jia Zhang, but Chen Feng did not do so.

It has been 59 years now, and Jia Dongxu doesn't have many good days left. When Jia Zhang comes out, Jia Dongxu will probably be dead too.

I wonder if Jia Zhang’s weak body can withstand the pain of losing her son.

Chen Feng went to Old Man Huang's house that day to see why he didn't go to work, so he missed the scene of Jia Zhang being taken away, which was a pity.

Old Man Huang’s house is a small courtyard with an entrance. It is located in the alley next to Chen Feng’s house, near the entrance of the alley.

When Chen Feng arrived, he discovered that there were five old men living in Old Man Huang's yard, and they were all veterans of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

The reason why Old Man Huang didn't go to work was that a group of old men got drunk the night before and didn't get up.

When Chen Feng entered the room, he saw them having breakfast. Chen Feng felt relieved when he saw that Old Man Huang was fine.

Chen Feng saw five old men sitting around the table, gnawing on multi-grain steamed buns and eating pickles. Chen Feng delivered 200 kilograms of white flour that night.

Old Man Huang looked at Chen Feng for a while, and finally accepted it.

After that, Chen Feng would send 200 kilograms of flour, some rabbit meat and soybean oil to Old Man Huang at the end of every month. Then he would chat with the old men.

Chen Feng has not been idle in the past two months. He has planted two crops of sweet potatoes in the space and has accumulated more than 50,000 kilograms of fresh sweet potatoes.

Chen Feng has recently started planting wheat again. He now consumes more than 200 kilograms of flour every month. If he doesn't plant wheat anymore, Chen Feng is afraid that he won't be able to keep up with the consumption rate.

Chen Feng had finished cutting all the stones in the space. The big saw blade was broken and the diamond sand had been worn away.

Chen Feng laid the slabs on top of the fish pond in five layers, with each layer one meter apart. The bottom layer was five meters above the pond.

Rabbits and chickens are now raised on the stone slabs above the fish pond, and the farmland is now used for farming by Chen Feng.

There were now thirty chickens, twenty-seven hens and three roosters. Chen Feng killed the rest of the roosters and ate their meat.

There are already more than 6,000 rabbits in the space, but most of them are baby rabbits, and there are only more than 1,000 adults.

They should be adults by the end of May. They have already eaten all the leaves and sweet potato vines that I plucked last time. Chen Feng is going to cut grass outside the city today.

The scrapyard was still the same as before, everything was so peaceful. However, Sun Xiaojuan would secretly buy food from him every month.

She spent her monthly salary of more than 30 yuan on cornmeal worth 30 yuan.

He started ordering food before he got his salary, and gave thirty yuan to Chen Feng as soon as he received his salary.

Then after get off work, four young men moved the food away from Chen Feng's communication room.

Chen Feng asked Sun Xiaojuan who they were, but Sun Xiaojuan just told Chen Feng that they were relatives. She was unwilling to elaborate, and Chen Feng was too embarrassed to ask any more questions.

However, a major event happened on April 4th, when the "Party Internal Newsletter" issued the highest instructions.

To sum up, we should save food and ration it according to the number of people. Eat more when busy and less when idle. Eat dry food when busy and half dry and half liquid food when idle. Mix it with sweet potatoes, green vegetables, radishes, melons, beans, taro, etc.

In short, we must save food! It seems that the top leaders of the country have keenly realized the severe situation of reduced grain production this year.

However, this did not have much impact on Chen Feng. After all, he was different from others, and he did not rely entirely on the rations to make a living.

Even without the rations allocated by the government, Chen Feng could still live safely because he had a magical space farmland that was enough to guarantee his basic living needs.

In contrast, other people in the scrap yard are not so lucky. It is foreseeable that with the reduction of grain production this year, the supply will inevitably be reduced accordingly.

By then, some of the employees in the station with large families will surely be in trouble. Once the food supply is insufficient, they will face great difficulties.

But this is not what Chen Feng needs to consider. Chen Feng just needs to make sure that he and the five old men don't go hungry.

Now, Chen Feng was ready to push his bicycle out of the courtyard.

Chen Feng rode his bicycle out of Xizhimen at lightning speed and came to the side of Shougang. Chen Feng walked along the Yongding River towards the mountainous area.

When he was about to enter the mountain, Chen Feng finally found a place with lush weeds. There was a big village not far away, but Chen Feng didn't know what it was called.

But what it is called has nothing to do with Chen Feng. He stopped here, parked his bicycle, took out a sickle from the space, squatted down, and started mowing the grass.

If Chen Feng doesn't take action, the rabbits in the space will starve to death.

Chen Feng was busy mowing the grass quickly. From time to time, he would look up at the bicycle parked next to him to prevent someone from stealing it.

Chen Feng cut two handfuls of grass and put one handful into the space. In order to avoid being seen, he cut two acres of grass, but there was no haystack behind him.

While Chen Feng was mowing the lawn, the bicycle parked next to him attracted a group of children to watch.

Chen Feng looked up and saw a group of children surrounding his bicycle and looking at it. Chen Feng smiled and didn't care.

At this time, one of the little boys, about six or seven years old, ran up to Chen Feng and asked, "Uncle, is that your bicycle?"

Chen Feng stopped what he was doing, stood up, stretched his body, and said to him, "Yes! That's my bicycle."

The little boy looked at Chen Feng and asked curiously, "Uncle, you already have a bicycle, why do you still need to cut grass? Do you also want to open up wasteland and plant crops?"

In his opinion, mowing grass is only done when clearing wasteland. But Chen Feng already has a bicycle, so he shouldn't need to clear wasteland.

Chen Feng smiled and said to him, "Uncle is not going to open up the wasteland, uncle wants these grasses to be useful."

Chen Feng looked at the child, then looked at the other children surrounding the bicycle.

Suddenly Chen Feng had an idea and took out a candy from his pocket. He handed it to the little boy and said to him, "Come here, kid. Uncle sees that you are well behaved, so I will give you a candy."

This candy was a gift from the scrap yard during the Chinese New Year. Chen Feng put it in his space and forgot to eat it.

The little boy timidly took the candy from Chen Feng's hand, peeled off the sugar coating and put it in his mouth.

Chen Feng saw him eat the candy, so he asked, "Kid, is the candy delicious?"

The little boy held the candy in his mouth and mumbled, "Delicious!"

Chen Feng asked again, "Do you still want it?"

The little boy nodded to show that he wanted it.

Chen Feng said again, "Kid, how about this? You give me ten kilograms of grass, and I'll give you two candies. Can we make an exchange?"

The little boy asked Chen Feng doubtfully, "Uncle, will you really give it to me? Do you have any more candy?"

When Chen Feng heard what the little boy said, he reached into his pocket and took out a handful of candy.

Then he said to him, "I still have so much candy here, I will definitely give it to you, don't worry!"

The little boy looked at the candy in Chen Feng's hand, his eyes suddenly lit up, and then he said to Chen Feng, "Uncle, wait for me, I'm going to find a sickle to cut grass!"

He said and ran towards the village.

The other children saw him running and started running after him.

When the children caught up with him and asked him why he was running, he told the other children that at Chen Feng's place they could exchange grass for candy.

Some people did not believe it, but a few children did, and went with the little boy to look for the sickle.

The unbelieving kids saw them taking sickles, so they went back with them to get sickles, just to give it a try. If there were no candies, they would just think of it as playing with their friends.

When Chen Feng saw that all the children had run away, he knew that his plan had succeeded.

Then Chen Feng took out the scale from the space, and then took out a few wooden sticks.

Chen Feng buried a wooden stick in the ground to make a simple rack, and then put the scale on it. This way, when Chen Feng weighed the items later, he wouldn't have to lift the scale.

After Chen Feng finished, he continued to cut the grass. About half an hour later, a group of ten or so children came to Chen Feng, carrying grass and holding sickles.

Chen Feng weighed their grass and then gave them corresponding candies according to the weight.

The children left with the candy, and half an hour later, they came back with the grass on their backs.

Chen Feng started to weigh and distribute candies to them again, but when he got to the last two people, he had run out of candies.

Chen Feng looked at the two children and said with some embarrassment, "Little friends, uncle's candies are all gone."

When the two children heard that Chen Feng had no candies left, their faces immediately turned from sunny to cloudy, as if they would burst into tears in the next second.

When Chen Feng saw their expressions, he immediately said, "Although uncle has no candy left, he can give you money!"

"How about this? One cent can buy two candies. I'll give you one cent for ten kilograms of grass. You can use the money to buy candies, okay?"

"Besides, money can not only be used to buy candy, but also small firecrackers and other delicious and fun things! What do you think?"

The two children were surprised when they heard that Chen Feng could give money and the money could be used to buy candy and other things.

The crying expressions on their faces stopped, and they nodded to Chen Feng and said, "That's fine, uncle!"

Seeing that they agreed, Chen Feng took out a few one-cent coins from his pocket and gave two to each of them.

One of them cut more than 20 kilograms, and the other cut 19 kilograms, but Chen Feng charged them both according to 20 kilograms.

The other children saw Chen Feng giving them money, so they asked one after another, "Uncle, uncle, can you exchange my candy for money? I also want money to buy firecrackers!"

Chen Feng looked at the group of children who were talking in a chaotic manner, and he raised his voice and said, "Be quiet! Listen to me!"

Only then did the children quiet down, so Chen Feng spoke again, "That's not good enough. Next time you bring grass, I'll pay you, okay?"

When the children heard Chen Feng say this, they shouted in unison, "Okay!"

Then they all took sickles and went to cut the grass.