Siheyuan: Bringing Warehouses to 1959

As the year draws to a close, Director Qian is in a lot of trouble. Like Director Zhang from the street office, he has no choice but to do what he wants. Too many people ask him for help with things.

What are you doing?

Food, drink, clothing and daily necessities, especially the former, almost every day someone would use his connections to ask him for help.

If it is just an ordinary relative, you can refuse it, but there are some people you really cannot refuse.

This is a society based on favors, and free favors are the most expensive things.

So, when Director Qian heard that Zeng Wangcai had supplies again, he was so happy that he personally brought a trusted subordinate from the unit over early in the morning.

"Wangcai, this is Xiao Wang, you've met him. He's usually not in the store, but today he's following you. He'll do whatever you tell him to do!" When Director Qian saw Zeng Wangcai, he introduced the young man next to him.

Zeng Wangcai had some impression of this young man as he had seen him the first time he went to the purchasing station to sell fish.

"Uncle Qian, it's just a small matter, but you came here in person..."

"This is no small matter!" Director Qian said solemnly, "You have helped me a lot. I am very proud of you in the eyes of the leaders of our supply and marketing cooperative. With your help, I can live a stable life this year."

He was telling Zeng Wangcai that he would remember the favor.

Zeng Wangcai did not continue to be humble, as being more humble would be pretentious.

"Okay, let's put it this way. Xiao Wang will follow me today." Zeng Wangcai said the plan he had made long ago, "He will be mainly responsible for collecting money and keeping accounts. As my friend, the purchasing station will settle the bill for me based on how much is sold later."

"No problem!" Director Qian agreed readily, then wondered, "Wangcai, do you really have that kind of thing in your hospital? You got the benefit and you still want to report it?

"If you ask me, this is like eating your own food and ruining the pot. At this time, the police station turned a blind eye. If it happened somewhere else, you would be thanked for your deeds for the rest of your life. It's not easy to get a bite of meat these days."

This statement coincides with Director Zhang's, which shows what kind of existence those dirty guys in the courtyard are.

Therefore, no matter how he deals with such people, Zeng Wangcai doesn’t feel it is excessive, and he won’t have any psychological burden.

When he read novels and watched TV dramas before, he didn’t feel it as an outsider, but now this sense of immersion is simply amazing, and no novel author can write about it.

"It's better to be prepared!" Zeng Wangcai didn't say anything final. "You should be on guard against others. I went to the army, and right after I left, my father was beaten up."

"Is there such a thing? Who did it?" Director Qian said with emotion.

"He's the second uncle's kid in our courtyard," Zeng Wangcai replied. "But luckily I had a few brothers with me, so nothing serious happened. Later, my wife beat up the guy who did it. So, I guess I did a good deed this time to prevent them from taking revenge."

"Well done, well done!" Director Qian nodded repeatedly, and then asked, "A second uncle is so arrogant. There is also a first uncle in your hospital. Doesn't he care?"

"The uncle is the mastermind behind this!"

"Ah this..."

Director Qian couldn't digest this information all at once. He felt deeply that the courtyard where Zeng Wangcai lived was like the emperor's harem, full of chaos.

After a while, Director Qian said with empathy: "People like this should not be in charge. You should talk to Director Zhang and remove them."

"I thought so too, but they are usually decent people who don't do bad things. Without evidence, I can't cause trouble for Aunt Zhang. If they are good at selling fish this time, then it's good. If not, hehe..."

"That makes sense. You're very thoughtful."

After talking for a while, Zeng Wangcai told Director Qian the basic situation and asked the director of the purchasing station, who had a close relationship with Director Zhang, to be a witness.

He had said almost the same thing to Director Zhang.

Now everything is ready, only the east wind is missing. Let's see the situation. Will Yi Zhonghai and the others come in? If not, then everything will be over. If they do, then one thing after another will be set in motion, and all his disguises will be exposed.

The alley gradually became more lively, and young wives and old women from each family came out to empty their spittoons. Seeing this, Director Qian left.

Zeng Wangcai went back and took his mother's notebook, on which Zhang Xiuzhi had helped record the purchases of fish and meat by each household.

He stayed up too late in his space last night, practicing drawing the structural diagram of the Type 95 automatic rifle, and didn't have time to look at it.

Now, when he looked at them one by one, he found that most of the families in the courtyard had registered, except for three. The Jia family in the middle courtyard would definitely not come, and the Liu family in the backyard had just been beaten, so they didn't come either. Yi Zhonghai also didn't register.

"It's strange, Yi Zhonghai didn't ask Auntie to come over? This shouldn't be the case. Even if he himself is not greedy, how could the mother and son of the Jia family not be greedy?" Zeng Wangcai said to himself while looking at the notebook.

I washed my face before going to work and had a cup of tea out of habit.

He roughly knew what his son was going to do, although he didn't know the details, but he knew he was going to deal with Yi Zhonghai.

"puff!"

Zeng Youqian opened his mouth and spat out a chewy tea stalk: "Yi Zhonghai is not here, but we still have Sha Zhu. You can tell how much Sha Zhu wants to buy by looking at it."

"Oh, that's right!" Zeng Wangcai's eyes lit up when he saw the number Sha Zhu registered. "Wow, thirty kilograms of fish and five kilograms of meat. Can the two of them finish it? Dad, you are really the old fox!"

"Get lost, how can you talk like that?" Zeng Youqian scolded with a smile, "Hurry up and do it, and go back to the village after you're done. If Lailai knows that you don't go back after you come back, she will find a rope to hang you, do you believe it?"

"Uh......"

Zeng Wangcai had planned to go back tomorrow, but when he thought about what his father said, it was true. Now his second uncle had already gone back, and if he was a step late, grandma would really cry to death.

"In the afternoon, I'll go back in the afternoon. Half a day should be enough. I'll come back in the evening." Zeng Wangcai agreed.

If Sha Zhu bought the fish and meat, as he guessed, there would definitely be a share for Yi Zhonghai, but not for the Jia family, because the entire Jia family hoped to eat for free and would not be willing to pay.

In this way, Sha Zhu would give Yi Zhonghai's share to Yi Zhonghai, and Yi Zhonghai would give the share prepared for the Jia family to the Jia family.

As expected, Yi Zhonghai gave things in the same way as before, secretly giving them in the middle of the night.

According to the practice of the Jia family, the most likely person to go to pick up the things is Jia Zhang, followed by Qin Huairu. No matter which of them goes out, Zeng Wangcai's plan will be successful.

Seeing that his son agreed, Zeng Youqian stopped talking nonsense, had a simple breakfast, put on a hat and gloves, and went out to work alone.

Zeng Wangcai tucked his notebook under his arm, called Zhang Xiuzhi, and went out to the yard, shouting, "Fish for sale, registered neighbors, fish for sale..."

Middle courtyard, Jia's house.

There are many people in this family today, including Yi Zhonghai and Sha Zhu.

Hearing Zeng Wangcai's shout, Jia Zhang was extremely excited: "Little beast, you really dare to sell it..."

"Grandma Banggeng, do you really want to sue?" Sha Zhu asked as if to confirm.

"I can't sue him to death." Jia Zhang said with hatred, "I have been imprisoned for so many days, I can't be imprisoned in vain."

Yi Zhonghai felt a little guilty when he heard this, but his expression didn't show any flaws. He changed the subject and said to Sha Zhu, "Sha Zhu, just do your job and buy the fish and meat. Don't worry about anything else. Zeng Wangcai's family is too much, especially his fiancée. She is simply too much. Zeng Wangcai came back yesterday and beat up the eldest and second sons of Second Uncle's family. If this continues, our courtyard will have no peace."

Sha Zhu nodded, stood up, patted his butt, and went out to buy fish.