Siheyuan: I Raised Ten Thousand Wild Boars

When he heard the sound coming from the outer room, Li Guohua finally woke up from his sleep.

For some reason, since coming to this world, he could only get a good night's sleep in the courtyard, or to be more precise, in this small half of the house.

Whether on the farm, in the textile factory, or in any commune, Li Guohua's nerves were always tense, half asleep and half awake.

Only when he came here could his heart be at peace and he could enter a deep sleep. Li Guohua sometimes wondered if the soul of his original body was still there and had not left, so it affected him?

Shaking his head, Li Guohua put aside these strange thoughts and walked out of the house.

It turned out that his eldest brother and father had returned. Camellia had also finished school and was doing homework at the big table. Seeing this, Li Guohua couldn't help but feel relieved.

"Dad, big brother, you guys are back. It looks like you've made a good harvest!"

The two of them came back at the same time, which meant that the eldest brother went to the countryside with Li Chuwu again today. Seeing the eldest brother carrying baskets and bags and putting them into the house, they were all bulging with fruit, and it was obvious that the harvest was good.

"That's right, with dad's help, it's twice as good!" said the eldest brother Li Guoliang with a smile, and did not forget to praise his father.

Li Chuwu smiled when he heard this, which showed that he was still useful. He was now the team leader of the station and didn't need to go to the countryside, but for his son, he still went there every now and then.

"Guohua, work is important, and you shouldn't overwork yourself. You're almost going to have a family, so you should take a break."

When he entered the house just now, he heard his wife say that the second boy came back during the day, didn't eat lunch, and slept until now.

He only took his eldest son with him and left all his connections to him. He never took the second son with him.

Even though he was able to get the stuff without his help, he still felt a little guilty.

"Second brother!" Camellia ran up and hugged him at this time, but her hands were dishonest and reached into her shirt pocket.

Li Guohua smiled, and suddenly a few candies appeared in his empty pocket. When Chahua touched them, her eyes narrowed with smiles.

The little girl's personality has become much more cheerful than before. She has become a bit playful like a little kid, so clever and lovable.

For dinner, we had steamed buns made of 200 grams of flour, millet porridge, scrambled eggs, dried pickles, and a plate of fried wild boar meat.

Li Guohua picked up the big bowl and took a sip. There was nothing he could do. After traveling through time for such a long time, he was still not used to eating pasta. What he liked most was this mouthful of millet porridge. It was so comfortable.

As for the scrambled eggs, they were laid by the old hens at home. I usually cooked one in the morning for Chahua to take, or saved them and scrambled a plate to serve as a side dish for my father to eat while drinking.

You know what, this little guy's young age does have its advantages, as he at least didn't steal the chickens to roast. Li Guohua was worried about this for a long time and reinforced the chicken coop at home again and again, fearing that some of the short-lived chickens would sneak out.

"Mom and Dad, the matter between Yunxia and I will be settled in the next few days. When do you think we should go to the street office to separate the household registration?" Li Guohua said this and looked at his eldest brother Li Guohua.

It's not that Li Guohua is unfilial, but he has to separate the family after marriage. Times have changed, and things are not the same. If you want the factory to give you a house, you must separate the accounts.

My eldest brother is old enough, and my family has been arranging blind dates for him. If he wants a house after marriage, he must live independently.

"Yes, Dad, I heard people say recently that there are fewer and fewer houses in the factory. We should act quickly. Otherwise, I will share it with you this time." As expected, the eldest brother Li Guoliang followed up on Li Guohua's words and proposed the matter of dividing the family.

In order to carry out large-scale production and construction, the superiors put forward the general line of "working hard, striving for the best, and building socialism quickly, efficiently and economically". In the past two years, all walks of life have made "great progress", a large number of workers have been recruited from rural areas, and the population in cities has expanded rapidly.

The increase in population has brought great pressure to market supply, and the welfare supply in the factory has naturally become tight, with housing being the biggest problem.

Workers are most concerned about matters related to their own interests. Influenced by others, Li Guoliang is also worried about this issue.

"In the blink of an eye, you have all grown up and are about to get married and start your own family. Time flies!" Li Chuwu glanced at Chen Lan and said with a smile.

Family matters are usually decided by his mother, Chen Lan. What he said means that he agrees, but it depends on his wife's opinion.

"Well, let's go to the street tomorrow and get it done! Your dad and I have no objection."

Chen Lan gently hit Li Chuwu, blaming him for doing this in front of the children at his age.

"Second brother, then we are not a family anymore from now on?" Camellia asked with a pouting mouth, a big piece of fat meat stuffed in her mouth.

Now that the family's life is getting better and better, she doesn't want to go back to the way it was.

"How could that be? We will still be a family then. And you will have another sister-in-law, one more person to love you. Isn't that good?"

Li Guohua rubbed Camellia's little head, unable to figure out what the little girl was thinking.

"Ah, then you give me candy, and my second sister-in-law also gives me candy, then I will have endless candy, right?"

Children are children, and their focus is still on eating.

"Well, yes, if you don't do well in the exam, your second sister-in-law and I will beat you together!" Seeing that the little girl was a little bit arrogant, mother Chen Lan immediately suppressed her.

Upon hearing this, Camellia's face suddenly became bitter. This was something she really couldn't learn. The knowledge in the book knew me, but she didn't know it.

Near Dongzhimen

Under the silvery moon, Li Guohua shuttled through the alleys in the night.

I saw him wrapped in a tattered cotton coat, with a dog-skin hat on his head and a mask on his face, and he kept breathing out white air.

The temperature in the capital city drops very quickly. It must be around minus ten degrees Celsius now.

When they arrived at the entrance of a remote alley, Li Guohua gave five cents to the two men hiding in the corner and let him in.

That's right, he was browsing the black market. As he had been doing purchasing for textile factories for a long time, he earned dozens of dollars a day, which he could not spend. He could not spend it all. There was still a large stack of white-edged black tens in his space.

If we wait for two years, it will be worthless because it was printed by the Soviets and it is only a matter of time before it is cancelled.

When the time comes to exchange the old item for a new one, you can't just bring a few thousand or even tens of thousands of dollars to exchange it. How can you explain your income to others? Wouldn't that be walking into a trap?

Although I usually spend money, I need tickets to buy things now, and the amount of tickets I have is not proportional at all.

I thought about buying tickets, but after thinking about it, I felt that it was unnecessary. Instead of buying tickets, I might as well go to the black market and see if there is a chance to exchange them for small yellow croakers or something like that.

He had heard from Wang San that in the black market, people often exchanged small yellow croakers for other things, and even large yellow croakers had appeared. He guessed that they were all the old people from the previous dynasty, or those big capitalists.