Siheyuan: I Raised Ten Thousand Wild Boars

"Little Erlang, I carry my schoolbag to school. I am not afraid of the sun or the wind or the rain. I am only afraid that the teacher will scold me for being lazy!

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Humming all the way, Li Guohua returned to the courtyard at around three in the afternoon.

The main reason was that this guy was curious about everything he saw. Whether it was a luxurious building or a dilapidated courtyard house, he wanted to take a look around, so he wasted a lot of time.

At this time, most people are working in the factory, and the laughter of children in the yard can be heard from far away.

"Hello, Brother Guohua!" Grandpa Fang's grandchildren shouted hurriedly when they saw Li Guohua coming in.

"Fang Hua, Fang Fang, why didn't you go to play in the yard?" Li Guohua asked curiously.

Seeing the two little brothers and sisters sitting at the door, I felt very sorry for them. Because Grandpa Fang watched them too closely, the two little guys rarely went out to play with others and did not have the joy of their peers.

"Grandpa doesn't let us run around!" As the older brother, Fang Hua is obviously much more sensible.

"Let's go eat watermelon with my brother!" Li Guohua pointed at the watermelon in his basket and said with a smile.

He bought this at the supply and marketing cooperative at the entrance of the alley, thinking that eating a watermelon would help him cool down in the hot summer.

The brother and sister jumped up when they heard this. They thought that their grandfather always said that brother Li Guohua was a good person, and their grandfather would definitely not blame them if they listened to him.

The two men locked the door and followed Li Guohua into the yard.

The front yard was quiet, with only a few women sitting there doing needlework. However, from the middle yard came the buzz of conversations and the screams of children.

"Fang Hua, Fang Fang, who let you into the central courtyard?" a sharp child's voice came.

Li Guohua said that he had never hated a voice so much, so harsh and unpleasant. Turning around, he saw that it was none other than the Jia family's beloved grandson Banggeng.

No wonder the two kids always stayed at the doorstep and never came to the backyard to play. It turned out they were being bullied.

"Brother Guohua asked us to go to his house to eat watermelon!" The two children quickly grabbed Li Guohua's clothes and said in a soft voice.

The two of them are about the same age as Bang Geng, but they are obviously much less courageous.

"Humph, what's so delicious about watermelon? We have rabbits at home, and we'll have meat to eat when they grow up!"

Banggeng heard what they said, looked into Li Guohua's basket, and swallowed his saliva. He looked like he was craving for watermelon, but he was being stubborn.

Only then did Li Guohua see clearly why there were so many people gathered in the central courtyard.

It turned out that there was a big bamboo cage at the door of Jia's house. There were two little gray rabbits in the cage, and a group of people were gathered outside the cage watching the rabbits.

This rabbit looks familiar. It is a common wild rabbit. It might have been caught by Qin Huairu's family and sent to the city.

"Let's go, don't be afraid of them!" Li Guohua said with a smile

This guy is only six years old and he just said a few words casually. It is not appropriate for me to bully the weak, so I can only comfort the two children.

And there are the little wild rabbits. In my previous life, I and my friends from the same village caught so many of them, but none of them could be raised.

Let this kid have a sweet dream for two days, he will cry someday.

"elder brother!"

Just after entering the Moon Gate, Camellia came out to greet Li Guohua before he even got home.

"Camellia, how did you know it was me who came back?" Li Guohua asked curiously.

"Haha, I won't tell you! Oh, watermelon, I want to eat it!" When Camellia saw the watermelon, her eyes narrowed.

After a long time, Li Guohua finally realized that he and Xu Damao were the only ones with bicycles in the backyard. Xu Damao said that he had to go to the countryside, and sometimes he would not be back until the next day.

So the girl guessed that she was back.

"You take Fang Hua and Fang Fang to play first, I'll go get some water!" Li Guohua said with a smile.

The running water in this courtyard is a bit magical. The running water in other courtyards is very hot at noon, but the running water in this courtyard is cold. This makes other people very envious.

I fetched a bucket of water and put the watermelon on ice, and then my mother Chen Lan's scolding began to come.

"You said you've only had enough food for a few days, and you've already started spending money recklessly. If you keep spending like this, I don't think you'll have a penny left from your monthly salary by the end of the month."

"Mom, don't worry. I know what I'm doing. I'll give you thirty on time when I get paid."

Li Guohua naturally knew what his mother meant, and quickly said with a smile.

As he spoke, he took a cloth bag from the back seat of the bicycle and handed it to his mother Chen Lan. Chen Lan opened it and saw that it was actually white flour, which looked whiter than Fuqiang flour. She weighed it and found that it weighed at least five kilograms.

Chen Lan quickly stretched her head to look around to see if anyone was noticing, then came to her own rice jar, picked up the bags of corn flour, put the cloth bag underneath, and covered the corn flour bags before she breathed a sigh of relief.

The main reason was that there was a limited supply of white flour these days. The courtyards were all poor families, and everyone's main food was corn flour. Or they mixed some white flour to make steamed buns, pickled vegetable water to make salty soup noodles, corn flour and vegetable steamed bread, corn flour and vegetable dumplings, corn flour and batter cakes, and corn flour was almost used up.

Only during the Chinese New Year and other festivals, or when people come to visit, would we get some white flour to make dumplings for a luxurious meal.

Of course there are exceptions. For example, the food of the first uncle, the second uncle, Xu Damao, and Sha Zhu is definitely not bad.

Let’s not talk about Sha Zhu, a cook in the steel rolling mill, who brings back a lunch box every day. If the boss eats meat one day, it would be strange if he doesn’t get one portion for himself. Also, when he goes out to prepare a banquet, the boss will not let the chef down.

The second uncle, a sixth-level fitter, ate quite well to regain his strength. He would fry some hard-boiled eggs and drink some wine from time to time.

The Xu family, a film projectionist, would bring home seasonal vegetables and mountain products every now and then, among other things. This was just the superficial food, and the food was not bad either.

Yi Zhonghai was one of those people who made a fortune quietly. Li Guohua had been in Siheyuan for a while, but he had never seen what his family was eating.

On two occasions, he brought a large bowl of corn porridge to the yard to chat with everyone. Who knows if he was just pretending.

The stupidest family is the Jia family. Every time they eat white flour, Jia Zhang wants to make a fuss so that everyone in the courtyard knows about it. It really fits the old saying that a full bottle does not make a sound, but a half-full bottle makes a mess. They are afraid that others will look down on them.

"To tell you the truth, I am now a purchasing officer in the logistics department, and I am mainly responsible for the procurement of materials!"

Seeing the inquiring look in my mother's eyes, I quickly took out the shopping list and showed it to her. Alas, I had wanted to hide it from my family, but now I can't hide it anymore, so I have to confess.

"ah!"

There were several purchase orders, the largest amount being over a hundred yuan. Chen Lan exclaimed in surprise, but when she thought that this was a purchase for a textile factory, she didn't take it seriously.

She heard from Sha Zhu that the canteen procurement of the steel mill costs several thousand yuan every month. Although the textile mill does not have as many people as the steel mill, it is still a large factory with several thousand people, so this amount of money is nothing.

"Keep it to yourself. You are already grown up. You should make your own decisions in the future. When you go to the countryside alone, be careful not to get into conflicts with others and don't lose your money!"

I wanted to say something, but after seeing so many purchase orders and the flour that was brought back, it was obvious that this kid did a good job, so in the end I could only give him a few words of advice.

"Don't worry, he won't get lost. Your son is not a fool!"

"Stinky boy!"

Seeing Li Guohua's unruly look, Chen Lan was about to come up and pull his ears.

Avoiding his mother's loving touch, Li Guohua picked up the almost frozen watermelon and cut it in two along the pattern on the rind.

There are no seedless watermelons now, so you have to be careful when cutting. Watermelon seeds basically grow in the pattern of the watermelon. If you cut from this position, the seeds on both sides of the watermelon will be fully exposed.

You can easily remove the watermelon seeds and eat it in big mouthfuls without having to spit out while eating.

"Come on, one for Fang Fang, one for Fang Hua, and one for Chahua! All the watermelon seeds are spit out here, and brother wants to keep them as seeds!"

I cut some watermelon for the kids and put an old newspaper on a stool nearby.

Now that I have this magical artifact, the small space world, I must really make good use of it.