The prosperous era of courtyard houses

Chapter 42, Borrowing Food

Early the next morning, Li Weiguo woke up early.

After washing and dressing, he was getting ready to go to work, when he suddenly remembered that Zhou Can and Zhao Guobing were still at home.

So I walked over to see how they were doing.

When I walked to the cubicle on the left, I saw that half of their quilts had fallen to the floor.

Looked at the bed again.

Good guy. I almost blinded my eyes.

I saw the two of them, your legs were on mine, my hands were holding you, Zhao Guobing’s head was leaning on Zhou Can’s chest, Zhou Can was also holding Zhao Guobing’s head, and they slept in each other’s arms.

"Pfft~~hahaha."

Such a wonderful scene was so unbearable that Li Weiguo laughed on the spot.

Zhou Can and Zhou Can were awakened by sudden laughter in their sleep. They looked up in confusion and looked around, only to find that they and Zhao Guobing, two grown men, were hugging each other.

Zhou Can woke up instantly, quickly pushed Zhao Guobing away, and jumped out of bed.

"Oh, let me go. Zhao Guobing, you are such a bastard. I thought you were a serious person, but you actually took advantage of me while I was sleeping."

Zhao Guobing also woke up, jumped up from the bed in an instant, pulled the quilt over and covered himself.

"You still have the nerve to say that. It's obviously you who hugged me and took advantage of me. I suffered a huge loss."

"Fart. It's obviously you holding my waist." Zhou Can said with eyes wide open.

"You farted because you were holding my head." Zhao Guobing glared back, not to be outdone.

"Pfft~~ Hahahahaha." Li Weiguo was already laughing. These two live actors were just like cross talk, and they performed a scene with him early in the morning.

Zhou Can looked around and found that he was in Li Wei's country. He quickly found some clothes from the stool next to him and put them on.

While getting dressed, he said, "Zhao Guobing, I'm a young lady. If you sleep with me, you have to be responsible, you know?"

Zhao Guobing rolled his eyes at him: "Get out of here, I haven't asked you to take responsibility yet." After saying that, he also got up from the bed and looked for clothes.

"Weiguo, what time is it now?" Zhou Can asked.

Li Weiguo: "It's eight o'clock."

"It's bad. I just told my family that I was going out to eat yesterday. I didn't say that I wouldn't go back. It's over. If I don't go home at night, I will be beaten if I go back." Zhou Can felt something was wrong and quickly lowered his head to look for shoes on the ground.

Li Weiguo joked: "It's okay. Just tell me you slept with your partner last night. I'm sure it'll be okay."

"Go away!!" x2

"Hahaha"

Zhou Can and Zhou Can were arguing for a long time before getting dressed. It was past eight o'clock and they had to go to work quickly. The young man who was just assigned to work was always late and left early when he came in, which made him easily suffer.

Zhou Can: "Wei Guo, Guo Bing, come to my house for lunch on weekends. I'll find some good stuff for you. I've been saving up stuff for a long time."

"Okay, no problem. It's time for you to lose weight. We'll help you eat more." Li Weiguo teased.

Zhou Can rolled his eyes at him: "Fuck you, I don't call you fat, I call you plump!"

After seeing Zhou Can and the two off, Li Weiguo also rode directly to work.

As soon as I sat down in the picket unit office, I felt that the atmosphere in the unit was not right.

He raised his head and looked at everyone in the office. Everyone had their heads shrunk and remained silent.

Just as he was about to ask what was going on, Wang Fen came over to find Li Weiguo.

But not for work, but to borrow food.

There are eight people in Wang Fen's family. Originally, the family had two earners, and life was pretty good.

But her husband fell ill and passed away last year. The elders and younger ones in the family are temporarily unable to take up their posts. She can only support her four sons, one daughter, her father-in-law, and her mother-in-law by herself.

The five children are growing up and have huge appetites. The food ration is enough to feed the family every month.

The reason why Wang Fen was in the situation of borrowing food from everywhere was because her parents from the commune came a few days ago.

This year's summer harvest in the hometown of the commune is not enough to meet the needs of the farmers, and the food provided by the production team is getting worse and worse.

In addition, my mother's family had many children and they didn't have enough to eat, so I came to her house to borrow food.

After pleading hard, Wang Fen couldn't bear it. She couldn't watch her parents starve.

So I gave my parents some food to take back, but in the end my family had nothing to eat.

I originally thought that if I didn't have enough food, I would go to the Pigeon Market to buy some high-priced food, so that I could wait until the ration was issued on the 25th of the month.

Unexpectedly, the situation has changed so quickly these days. I have been to the Pigeon Market a few times, but I can no longer buy high-priced grains. These resellers are just waiting for the wind to stock up, and basically no longer sell food for takeout.

It was the middle of the month, and there were still ten days until the ration would be distributed on the 25th. She was so worried that she got angry.

But these days, food is rationed, and every household is not rich. She borrowed a lot of money, but she didn't get much food. Everyone in the group shrank their heads and didn't dare to look up at her. They were really helpless.

So she begged Li Weiguo. Li Weiguo was single and would definitely have enough money from his monthly salary and ration.

"Captain, I really have no choice but to come and ask for your help. It doesn't take much, just ten kilograms of stick noodles is enough. I will pay you back when the quota is paid at the end of the month." Wang Fen, who is in his thirties, was worried. I walked around, holding my tears, and choked with sobs.

Zheng Shan and the others in the office all lowered their heads like ostriches, wishing they could bury their heads in the ground for fear that Wang Fen would beg him again.

It's not that they are cold-blooded, it's just that they are weak-minded. Everyone present is not a big family. Basically, one person supports the whole family, and there are basically no dual-income families.

Li Weiguo glanced at everyone in the office and roughly understood everyone's situation. He smiled and said to Wang Fen, "Hey, why am I taking this so seriously? Just wait here and I'll come as soon as I can."

"Thank you, Chief. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't know what I would do. Thank you." Wang Fen was so excited that he bowed and thanked him repeatedly.

Li Weiguo stopped Wang Fen and asked her to wait in the office with peace of mind. Then he walked out of the office quickly, got on his bike and headed outside.

Li Weiguo was in a very heavy mood along the way. Ten kilograms of food was not enough for Wang Fen's family to survive ten days.

For a family of eight, even if they are a little more frugal, each person would need nearly 40 jins of food per day to survive.

Even if the family borrows a little bit, what will she have to pay back? With that little ration every month, she might end up having to eat a lot of food every month.

With only ten kilograms of grain, no one in the office dared to help. It seemed that every family was in difficulty to a certain extent.

After thinking about it, Li Weiguo turned around and rode towards the small courtyard with its own courtyard in Dongzhimen.

When I arrived at the small courtyard, I opened the door and went in. I walked to the east wing, waved my hand, and put out 9 sacks of sweet potatoes. I also took out two net bags of eggs, each weighing 5 pounds. I put the things in them and closed the door.

After leaving the courtyard, I locked the door and rode to the steel rolling mill. When I rode to a deserted place, I flipped my hand and took out a cloth bag containing 10 kilograms of stick noodles from the space, and also put two more into the bag. egg.

Originally, Li Weiguo could have given her more grain, but it was not appropriate. Shengmei grudges and rice enmity. Since she asked for 10 kilograms, it would be best to give her 10 kilograms. If you want to help her, you can find another way.

Back at the picket unit office, when Wang Fen saw this bag of stick noodles, she burst into tears. She kept saying thank you to Li Weiguo, "Head of the unit, thank you. Thank you so much. If you have any help in the future, just let me know." I won’t say anything about it.”

"Okay, Sister Fen, let's not talk about this anymore. Send the food home quickly. The family is still waiting." With that, he put his car keys in Wang Fen's hand.

Wang Fen took the key and bowed a series of thanks before finally riding away in a hurry.

Li Weiguo looked at Wang Fen's hurried away figure and shook his head helplessly.

Wang Fen is just a microcosm of ordinary people in this era. There will be countless families like hers in the next two to three years.