Xu Damao's Thirty-Six Stratagems in Siheyuan

The next day, Xu Damao took three copies of movies: "Taking Huashan by Strategy", "The Battle of Shangganling", "When the Grapes Are Ripe", and the news documentary "For the Health of the People", and left the factory before 9 o'clock. Today, he also specially brought a pound of brown sugar and a pound of fruit candy from home for Qin Huairu.

Just as he predicted, he rode 70 miles in two hours. It was really tiring. If he hadn't insisted on exercising, he wouldn't have had the physical strength to do so.

I arrived at Changping Bus Station on time at 11.30:, and sure enough, I saw Qin Huairu looking around with a cloth bag in her hand.

"Sister Huairu, are you getting impatient?"

"Hey, Xu Damao, you're here. Let's go. I'm starving. I came out without even having breakfast."

"Then I'll treat Sister Huairu to lunch tonight. I know there's a shop that makes delicious meat-filled sesame cakes and mutton offal soup. Let's go."

"Da Mao, I don't have any extra money."

"With me here, you can still spend money. Even though I'm a temporary worker, I still get 22.5 yuan a month. I can still afford to treat you to lunch. Let's go. We can still have time to go back after lunch. I'll just put on a movie tonight. No rush. Oh, you don't have to go back to the city today, do you?"

"That's not the case. I'm just afraid of spending too much money."

"It's okay. Didn't Sister Huairu treat me to meat before?"

"When?" Qin Huairu hadn't reacted yet, but suddenly she thought of it, "Xu Damao, you are such a bastard."

Xu Damao was still so talkative, "Sister Ru, I'm just joking with you. Let's go eat some meat-filled pancakes and drink some mutton soup."

Without further ado, he pushed the cart forward. Qin Huairu wanted to eat meat, of course. She couldn't even remember the last time she had eaten meat. As for Xu Damao, she now seemed to have feelings for him, and she wished she had married Xu Damao instead of Jia Dongxu.

It only takes five minutes to get to this pancake shop, which was originally a private store. Now it has been jointly operated by the public and private sectors and is owned by the government. The original owner has become a formal employee of the county catering company.

"Two bowls of mutton soup and five meat-filled sesame cakes."

"One dollar and three cents, half a pound of grain coupons, and two ounces of meat coupons." Xu Damao paid the bill, and then he heard the cashier shouting to the back, "Two bowls of mutton soup, five meat patties, dine-in."

In less than a minute, someone called out at the window, "Pick up five mutton soup buns."

Xu Damao went over and brought some mutton soup and five cakes to the table.

"Huai Ru, eat. The mutton offal soup here is very good. You can have more soup if it's not enough."

Qin Huairu was already starving, drinking the mutton soup with oil and fresh onion flavor, biting the sesame seed cake with a large piece of pork belly, she felt that this trip back was not in vain. She had never eaten such delicious food before.

"Da Mao, I'm sorry for the expense. Thank you."

"Hey, this is just the beginning. I'll take you to eat roast duck when we have the chance."

Xu Damao ate two sesame cakes and drank a bowl of mutton soup, which was enough. Qin Huairu added another spoonful of mutton soup, drank it, and ate a meat-filled sesame cake.

"Da Mao, there are two more sesame cakes. Can I take them back for my parents to try?"

"Sure, is it enough? If not, I'll buy a few more."

"That's enough, that's enough money."

Xu Damao thought about it and went to the cashier to buy four more meat-filled buns. He asked the counter to wrap them in paper, returned to his seat and stuffed them into the cloth bag that Qin Huairu brought. He then asked the counter for a piece of wrapping paper to wrap the other two.

After eating and drinking, the two set off together and began to walk towards Qinjia Village. In fact, Qinjia Village was more than three miles away from the county town, at least five miles away, and most of the way was uphill.

Xu Damao didn't feel tired along the way. He walked and rested. During the break, he took out a pound of brown sugar and a pound of fruit candy from his bag and gave them to Qin Huairu.

"Sister Ru, I guess Jia Dongxu only gave you a little more for the round trip fare, and then asked you to bring food back to the compound from your parents' home. He really isn't afraid of making things difficult for you. I prepared these two bags of candy for you, so that you don't have to go back to your parents' home empty-handed and lose face."

Qin Huairu was really a little shocked now. Not only did she buy six meat-filled buns, but she also bought two kilograms of sugar.

This is comparable to the gift Jia Dongxu gave her when he married her. A meat-filled sesame bun costs 20 cents each, and you need one liang of grain coupons and half a liang of meat coupons. There are also two bags of sugar. A pound of brown sugar costs 70 cents, and most importantly, you need a pound of sugar coupons. Fruit candies cost one cent each, and there are dozens of them in this pound.

This Xu Damao is really generous. Qin Huairu felt that being bullied by Xu Damao last time was worth it, too worth it. It was really a great honor to go home this time.

Before the conversation was over, Xu Damao took out another dollar from his pocket and gave it to Qin Huairu.

"Sister Ru, I don't earn much. I know you can't bring back any food this time. Your lazy mother-in-law will definitely scold you. Life in the countryside is not easy now. I suggest you go back and complain to Brother Dongxu. Say that you were kicked out by your parents' home for a little food, and you insisted on moving your household registration to the city, so that you and Banggeng can have a monthly ration. Money is easy to talk about. What we lack now is the ration and various tickets. Don't you think so? You can ask your parents' home to buy you some sweet potatoes with this dollar. I think you can buy 50 to 60 kilograms and take them back to deal with your mother-in-law. Sometimes I hear your old woman scolding you in the backyard, and I feel sorry for you. Take it." Without saying anything, he stuffed the money into Qin Huairu's cloth bag.

Qin Huairu stared at Xu Damao blankly, not coming to her senses for a moment. Suddenly, she looked left and right, and there was no one around. Qin Huairu held Xu Damao's face and kissed him hard, "Damo, you sleep at my house tonight. I'll serve you at night. Let's go home."

Qin Huairu confidently pushed Xu Damao's bicycle and went to Qinjia Village together.

On the same day, the Qinjia Village Committee approved another RMB 1.50 for Qin Huairu's parents' home as public entertainment expenses for the movie screening.

In the evening, Xu Damao played documentaries and the films "Taking Huashan by Strategy" and "After the Battle of Shangganling" that were specially shown by the villagers, and then stayed at Qin Huairu's house.

Qin Huairu let go of her attitude and warmly entertained Xu Damao. The two people howled like pigs being slaughtered that night, almost shaking down the Qin family.

After Xu Damao had breakfast and packed his luggage to head to the second village, Qin Huairu's parents took the lead and rushed into their daughter's room.

"Huai Ru, why are you like this? Fortunately, the villagers don't know about what happened yesterday, otherwise, how can your mother, your brother and sister-in-law and I survive in the village!"

Qin Huairu said slowly, "Dad, Mom, what do you think a woman wants in this life? The old saying goes: Marry a man to get clothes and food. You know that I came back to my mother's house this time because your uncle forced me to come, just to bring back some food from our home. Your uncle said that my household registration is in Qinjia Village, and my mother-in-law must let me bring enough food back to the city, so that I can have a good life. Otherwise, I will be whipped. Dad, Mom, I don't want to hide it from you. I have been in the city for three years and my life is hard. This time when I came back, your son-in-law gave me three yuan, in addition to the round-trip ticket, there was one yuan and forty cents. They dreamed of letting me bring 14 yuan of food home. If I hadn't come back to see my parents during the Spring Festival, I really didn't want to come back. Xu Damao, That projectionist lives in the same courtyard as us. The six meat-stuffed sesame cakes I brought back yesterday were bought by someone else. A pound of brown sugar was also bought by someone else. Although there is not much left after distributing it to the children in the village, a pound of fruit candy was also bought by someone else. In addition, he gave my daughter one dollar, and the village gave me one dollar and fifty cents for hospitality, which was also someone else's money. When you add it up, it is more than my wedding gift. What's wrong with my daughter serving him once? He is just better than Jia Dongxu. Dad, Mom, I have thought about it. This time when I go back, I will use the one dollar given by Xu Damao to help you buy 50 kilograms of sweet potatoes for me to take back, so that the Jia family won't have any trouble. When I go back, I will tell Jia Dongxu clearly to transfer my household registration to the city. Maybe our family will have less land. Dad, Mom, do you have any objections?"

After hearing this, Qin's father and mother remained silent. When they thought about it carefully, it was indeed the case.

It was still Qin's father who made the final decision, "My daughter, Dad supports you to change your household registration. It's really unfair. If you come back, you can't let the urine car die."

Qin Huairu looked at her father's determined eyes and felt more at ease.

Since last night, she felt that it was unlikely that Xu Damao would marry her, but as long as she left the Jia family, Xu Damao would not treat her badly. The most important thing was that Qin Huairu had fallen deeply in love with this pair of fifteen and could not extricate herself.