Siheyuan: There are seven fairies in my house, I am so busy

Some crop seeds can be purchased at supply and marketing cooperatives in the city, while some seeds need to be collected from rural areas. Seeds from supply and marketing cooperatives are relatively easy to buy.

If you want to go to the countryside, you need a letter of introduction. Now if you don't have a letter of introduction, you will most likely be detained when you go to the countryside. Usually, Zhang Jialiang only goes to the outskirts of the city and has never been to the countryside.

But this did not pose a problem for him. Xu Damao often went to the commune and the countryside to show movies.

The status of projectionists in this era is very high. It is not so obvious in cities, but in rural areas, they are like giant pandas.

Every time Xu Damao went to show a movie, the village cadres in the commune would treat him to good food and drinks, and asked him to help collect some seeds, which should be easy.

Besides, it's not for free. Just exchange it with some money and bills. Various industrial bills are popular in rural areas, and Zhang Jialiang has no shortage of these.

He made up a random excuse, saying that someone he knew wanted to ask him to find some seeds. Zhang Jialiang talked to Xu Damao about it, and Xu Damao patted his chest and agreed.

According to him, this matter was no big deal for him, Xu Damao, it was a piece of cake.

Sure enough, a few days later, Xu Damao came back from the countryside and brought back the seeds that Zhang Jialiang needed. It was a big bag full of seeds, weighing dozens of kilograms. Together with the seeds that Zhang Jialiang bought from the supply and marketing cooperative, the total weight was about 150 to 160 kilograms.

After that, Zhang Jialiang gradually scattered these seeds in appropriate locations in the two hunting spaces.

Since Xu Damao helped, Zhang Jialiang felt that he should treat Damao to a meal. He had no shortage of food, and Fifth Sister was also a good cook, so it would be very convenient to prepare a table of dishes.

As there are many people in his family, usually when Zhang Jialiang and Xu Damao drink together, no matter who treats them, the wine and food will be brought to Xu Damao's house.

Xu Damao is the only one in the family, so he can drink, smoke, brag and chat as he pleases without any taboos.

The fifth sister was cooking, and Zhang Jialiang and Xu Damao started drinking with a plate of peanuts. When the dishes were ready, the fifth sister would naturally bring them over, so Zhang Jialiang didn't have to worry about it.

"Da Mao, how have you been lately?

You seem to be quite busy recently?"

Zhang Jialiang casually exchanged a greeting.

“Hey, don’t mention it. I don’t know what happened recently, but I have so many tasks to show movies in the countryside.

You see, I spent 20 days in the countryside this month, which made me so tired.

Most of the time, it’s in some very remote places where no one lives, far away, and there’s not much money to be made. If it weren’t for the tight pressure from above, I wouldn’t want to go there.”

Xu Damao was full of complaints. He had indeed been to the countryside quite often in the past month and had only stayed in the compound for a few days. He felt much more tired, his skin had become tanned, and he had even lost a few pounds.

"It's good to be busy. The benefits are not much, but the subsidies are still worth it. If you go to the countryside more, won't you earn more?"

Projectionists who go to the countryside to show movies receive a daily subsidy, and Xu Damao's income does not just come from his salary.

He received a considerable subsidy every month, and the commune's delicious hospitality saved him a lot of expenses. They also gave him some supplies when he left. Xu Damao lived a very carefree life.

“That’s true, but it’s tiring, luckily this month will soon be over.

Although I earn more, I still want to be more relaxed. I don’t lack money to spend, so I don’t care about that. I’m not like Shazhu who is busy like a grandson all day long. ”

Xu Damao never forgets to show off and always acts like a Versailles person. Of course, he can't forget Sha Zhu.

"Shazhu has been quite busy lately, and whenever he has free time he goes out to take on jobs and cook for others.

He is also very busy and seems to have made a lot of money this month."

Speaking of Sha Zhu, it is true that since Yang Qingrou became pregnant, Sha Zhu has been busy and he doesn't even have time to fight with Xu Damao.

Now both of them are very busy, and they only meet occasionally, have a brief quarrel, and then deal with it like a ritual.

Now when the two of them quarrel, it seems that Sha Zhu has the upper hand slightly, because Sha Zhu always brings up his wife and children.

Xu Damao found it quite difficult to cope with this aspect. After all, he was far behind in this aspect. Now he didn't even have a wife, let alone children.

Because of Sha Zhu's wife's pregnancy, Xu Damao's pressure increased a lot. No matter in which aspect, Xu Damao didn't want to be worse than Sha Zhu.

The two of them have been fighting each other since they were young. In Xu Damao's opinion, being worse than others is forgivable, but being worse than Sha Zhu is hard to accept, so Xu Damao is also actively working hard behind the scenes.

In the past, he had always been happy to flirt with women, but when it came to getting married, he had never really thought about it carefully.

The current situation forces him to stop messing around, otherwise he will be trampled to death by Sha Zhu. Since he wants to get married, Xu Damao has high standards for finding a wife.

Xu Damao's standards are similar to Sha Zhu's standards back then in some aspects, but they are slightly different in others.

The first standard is to be beautiful, which is the same as Shazhu’s requirement.

The second criterion is to help his career development, which is different from Sha Zhu.

From a certain perspective, Xu Damao's standard is higher than Sha Zhu's, because according to Xu Damao's second standard, the woman's family must be powerful and influential, which can help his career development.

The two of them are truly enemies who love and hate each other. Even their standards for finding a wife are competitive, and each one is more outrageous than the other.

"Da Mao, you have been to the commune frequently recently. What is the situation in the countryside inside the commune?

I heard that since last year, the weather in many rural areas has been quite dry and there has been little rain. Is that true?"

Zhang Jialiang invited Xu Damao to dinner, and first of all he wanted to thank Xu Damao for helping him collect so many seeds.

Although it was not difficult for Xu Damao himself to do this job, it would not be so easy for others to do it.

Take Zhang Jialiang himself for example. It is not without a way for him to go to the countryside. Although now he must have a letter of introduction when he leaves the city, otherwise he will easily be caught and detained by the militia in the commune.

Of course, getting a letter of introduction was not a big problem for Zhang Jialiang. He just had to go to the street office to ask for money to do the work. He didn't even need to disturb Director Li and Director Zhao. He could just find an excuse that he was going to visit relatives and get a letter of introduction.

But when he arrived in the village, he had no relatives or friends and no one knew each other, so it was difficult for him to collect so many seeds.

These are seeds weighing dozens of kilograms. Seeds are also food to some extent, and they are more precious than food. So he still wants to express his gratitude to Xu Damao for helping him accomplish this task.