The Great Era of Siheyuan

The third uncle cleared his throat, walked out of the house, and saw Sha Zhu carrying a small bag of potatoes and dried sweet potatoes with a puzzled look on his face.

"Silly Zhu, what's the matter with you?"

Sha Zhu quickly handed the bag over and looked at him with a smile on his face.

"Uncle, this is what I am thinking about these past few days. I was not careful when I spoke last time and offended you. I have been feeling a little sad these past few days. Look, this is a little gift from me. I hope you can accept it without holding a grudge and not hold it against me."

Uncle San was completely confused. Did this idiot Zhu take the wrong medicine today? How long has it been? Why did he come to apologize only now?

"Silly Zhu, please explain clearly first, what do you want to do?"

The third uncle looked at him very seriously.

"Look, you can tell at a glance that old ginger is still spicy! This is what I heard. There is a new female teacher who returned from overseas in your school. Can you find a chance to introduce her to me?"

Sha Zhu looked at him expectantly.

The third uncle looked at the things in the bag, then looked at him and nodded slightly.

"Well, I did hear about this. But I don't know much about this female teacher. I have to go to the school to ask around."

Sha Zhu said hurriedly: "Then you have to hurry up and ask for me. You can see how anxious I am. Don't worry, I will definitely thank you after the matter is completed."

The third uncle looked at him carefully and then spoke vaguely.

"Silly Zhu, I can ask for you. But it's not 100% certain that this introduction will work, so don't hold out too much hope."

Sha Zhu nodded repeatedly.

"I understand. I understand. As long as you are willing to help me, I will be very grateful. Wait, I will send you two kilograms of flour later, how about that?"

"It's genuine, or else I have to say that you are capable of doing things! Just wait and wait for my good news later!"

The third uncle perked up, a smile appeared on his face, and he looked at him cheerfully and said.

"Okay then. I'll be waiting for your good news! Please keep these things, and I'll bring you the noodles later!"

After saying this, Sha Zhu handed the thing in his hand to him and walked away with a smile.

The third uncle looked at the thing in his hand and the smile on his face turned into ridicule.

"Boss, didn't you say you would introduce Teacher Ran to our eldest brother? Why did you agree to that with Sha Zhu again?"

The third aunt held his hand and asked nervously.

"That's right, Dad, you promised me that Teacher Ran is mine. How could you just promise someone else so easily?"

Yan Jiecheng was also very angry.

The third uncle smiled mysteriously.

"Who said I promised him? I told him very clearly that there is no such thing as a guaranteed success."

"Boss, what do you mean?"

The three aunts immediately understood what he meant, which was that he just wanted to take things without doing anything.

"Hey, I didn't ask him to come. He came willingly. It has nothing to do with me."

The third uncle was unwilling to admit that he had cheated others.

"Dad, now that Shazhu has brought so many things over, can I be exempted from paying the two dollars?"

Yan Jiecheng asked expectantly.

The third uncle rolled his eyes and looked at him as if he were a fool.

"What does the stuff Sha Zhu gave me have to do with you? I tell you, you must give it to your mother after paying two dollars. If you don't want to, I will introduce it to Sha Zhu. I believe he will be willing to pay five or ten dollars."

"No, I'll go. Isn't it okay for me to go?"

Yan Jiecheng was very helpless and could only acquiesce to this matter.

After a while, Sha Zhu came over with two kilograms of flour, handed it to the third uncle, and left with a smile, his mind full of fantasies about getting married.

At the same time, Li Wenqiang came to the street, bought fried dough sticks and steamed buns, and walked home humming a little tune. Along the way, many people cast envious glances at him, after all, his current life is quite comfortable in the eyes of everyone.

Only the wealthy families could afford to buy food. Ordinary people could not even think about it. Because fried dough sticks also require food coupons, two food coupons for two taels, plus four cents. Money is a small matter, the important thing is the food coupons.

The price of a kilogram of food coupons on the black market has soared to more than three yuan, so you can imagine the value of this food coupon. Moreover, Li Wenqiang bought ten of them at once, which was enough to make people look at him sideways.

The same is true for meat buns. Two fragrant meat buns cost 1 cents, two liang of grain coupons plus one liang of meat coupons, a large bowl of soy milk costs 4 cent, and two large fried dough sticks cost cents. You need to bring your own bucket of soy milk, and the large fried dough sticks have their own special fried dough stick coupons. Only excellent employees can occasionally be rewarded with this kind of coupons, because the fried dough sticks contain oil, and it is so delicious when you bite into them.

When he got home, Liu Yuhua had already cooked the porridge. Li Wenqiang returned home carrying a large pile of breakfast amid the envious gazes of others.

"Why buy so much? How much will it cost?"

Liu Yuhua felt a little distressed. Although the family's grain book was in her hands after she got married, she had never spent the money. Many of the tickets were about to expire and had not been used.

But it doesn't mean she doesn't know the prices and conditions outside. You have to know that before she got married last month, she had been living on poverty at home. If it were an ordinary family, it would take at least ten days or half a month to buy so many things. How could she afford to spend so much?

"I make money to spend. Why keep it if I don't spend it? Take some of the rest to mom, Wen Ting, and Wen Yi. Our family's food coupons and non-staple food books are useless. Do you think you can give some food coupons to mom?"

Li Wenqiang picked up a meat bun and took a big bite. The bun with pork and green onion stuffing was so fragrant that it made people drool.

Recently, I get up very late every day. I don't have the chance to eat breakfast. I just eat a bowl of porridge and some leftovers, and then go back to get lunch and dinner.

"I don't think my mom will need it. The amount of food you gave her is enough for her and Ergou to eat until next month. She can't even use up her own tickets."

Liu Yuhua thought for a while and said.

Although these tickets can be used to buy food, Li Wenqiang had already said that the family would not need these meal substitute powders and coarse grains, and only keep a little for show.

"Then you can give them to Wen Ting and the others. I'll only leave some food coupons for you to buy some snacks with. Don't waste them!"

Li Wenqiang said casually.

The grain relationship between him and Liu Yuhua was personal, and they would directly purchase grain at the grain station with coupons every month. However, there was no shortage of grain or vegetables at home, so there was no need to go out and buy some.

"You're really willing to give them up. Don't you really want them?"

Liu Yuhua sounded somewhat resentful as she spoke.

"What are you thinking about? Have breakfast, I have something else to do today!"

Li Wenqiang tried to change the subject by talking about something else, tasted the breakfast quickly and left in a hurry. The jealous woman couldn't stand it.