Siheyuan: I am different He Yuzhu

By October of the fall of 1947, He Yuzhu had grown to 10 cm tall. In the next few months, in addition to his daily knife practice, Wu Baotian also taught He Yuzhu food carving. Because He Yuzhu had a high level of comprehension and learned quickly, Wu Baotian finally decided to start teaching He Yuzhu how to cook Shandong cuisine.

He Yuzhu has already learned the twelve forms and eight-character skills of Xingyiquan, and he will have to polish them little by little over time. Shang Zhirong was amazed by He Yuzhu's talent for martial arts, so on September 9th, he officially accepted He Yuzhu as his disciple. From then on, He Yuzhu became the descendant of the Shang generation of Xingyiquan. Starting from the second generation of Feiyugong, Xingyiquan has used the cross of "Huabang Weiwu Shangshehui Tongqiangning" as the generation sequence. Shang Yunxiang's master Li Cunyi was of the Bang generation.

It was He Yuzhu's regular half-monthly rest day. After bidding farewell to his master Wu Baotian, He Yuzhu first turned to his house in Qudeng Hutong, and then entered Fudi Dongtian. Because of his rapid growth in height and his daily practice of Xingyiquan, He Yuzhu's appetite became very large. He Yuzhu never dared to eat to his heart's content at his master's house. He ate more than an adult man after eating only 2-3 minutes full. Fortunately, He Yuzhu had Fudi Dongtian. Every day, He Yuzhu would find an opportunity to enter Fudi Dongtian to get something to eat. Fortunately, when He Yuzhu's appetite was not so large, he planted a large area of ​​rapeseed and vegetables in Fudi Dongtian. After harvesting the rapeseed, he left a part as seeds, and found an oil mill to press 200 kilograms of rapeseed oil with the rest of the rapeseed.

The chicks hatched in Fudi Dongtian have already laid eggs. Otherwise, the eggs laid by the five hens before would not be enough for He Yuzhu to eat every day. The five hens hatched another brood of chicks last month, and this time they successfully hatched 5 chicks. He Yuzhu expects that when the hens hatched in the first half of this year start to hatch chicks, he will have more chickens than he can eat. He Yuzhu has added to the chicken coop in Fudi Dongtian four times, from the initial brick-built one to the later earth-rammed wall with straw stalks.

In the summer, He Yuzhu ran to the grass near Shichahai and caught a lot of crickets and grasshoppers and threw them into the Fudi Dongtian. In order to further improve the food chain in the Fudi Dongtian, He Yuzhu also dug up earthworms and caught some dung beetles.

During the second wheat harvest, He Yuzhu used a human harvester designed with reference to the horse-drawn wheat harvester. When harvesting wheat, he only needed to push the harvester. When the wheels on both sides of the harvester rotated, the cutters on the harvester's head moved back and forth to cut the wheat. The wheat fell into the silo behind the head. When the silo was full, He Yuzhu bundled the wheat and threw it aside. After testing, the efficiency was many times higher than that of using a sickle. It only took one hour to cut one acre of wheat.

After having a meal in Fudi Dongtian, He Yuzhu rushed to his home in Nanluoguxiang. When he got back to the Nanluoguxiang courtyard, he just entered the middle courtyard of the courtyard and saw that the Jia family was holding a funeral. He Yuzhu took a look and did not stay in the courtyard and went straight to his home. When he reached the middle of the courtyard, He Yuzhu found that the ear room next to his house was surrounded by a wall, with a door about 1.5 meters in the middle, and a lock was hung on the door.

"Dad, who is missing from the Jia family? What happened to the side room on the east side of our house? Who built a wall around it?"

"Old Jia is gone. The day before yesterday, a machine had an accident while he was at work. A part flew out and hit Old Jia directly in the stomach. He died before he could be rushed to the hospital." Before He Daqing finished his words, he heard a cry coming from outside the house.

"Old Jia, how could you be so cruel to abandon us, an orphan and a widow, and leave us so early? How are Dongxu and I going to survive?"

He Daqing waited until Jia Zhang finished howling, then continued:

"It's nothing. When you came home a few months ago, you mentioned the ear room. I kept it in mind afterwards. Then 10 days ago, I took the opportunity to ask Boss Lou to buy the ear room next door. After buying it, I asked someone to build a wall to enclose it. From now on, the two ear rooms are ours."

He Yuzhu didn't expect that his casual remark would have such a big impact on He Daqing, directly allowing He Daqing to buy two more houses. Doesn't that mean that he can inherit two more properties in the future? He remembered the Siheyuan fan fiction he read in Tomato Novel in his previous life. Most of the protagonists aimed to buy the entire Siheyuan. He had already bought half of the central courtyard of the Siheyuan before he even started. He definitely won at the starting line.

He Yuzhu looked at He Daqing sitting at home, and always felt that something was wrong. He thought about it and finally figured it out. Jia Zhang's husband died, and He Daqing did not go to help. I remember that in later novels, people in the courtyard would help each other when there was something wrong.

"Dad, Uncle Jia is gone, don't you need to go over and see if there's anything you can help with?"

"Why should I go? My family name is He, and his is Jia, so we are not related at all. He has relatives in his hometown, so why should we go? Besides, considering the character of Jia Zhang, if we go there, we will have to pay for it. We are just ordinary neighbors, and we just say hello on weekdays. We don't have a deep relationship. But now that your uncle Jia is gone, Jia Zhang will probably not use Uncle Jia's hometown anymore."

"What's wrong? Dad, Uncle Jia is gone, but he still has a son. Why don't you go back to Uncle Jia's hometown?"

"It was Jia Zhang who made the trouble. This woman is snobbish and short-sighted. When Old Jia was alive, she would always make trouble whenever he went back to his hometown to visit his relatives and bring some gifts. One time, a relative of Old Jia's hometown came to the city for work and stopped by to see your uncle. At noon, Old Jia was going to invite him to dinner. When Jia Zhang heard that he was going to invite him to dinner, she was very unhappy, but she didn't dare to embarrass Old Jia in front of outsiders, so she could only endure it."

"When Jia Zhang was cooking, someone went out to the toilet. When he came back from the toilet, he walked to the door and heard Jia Zhang muttering: How can this stinky beggar be so ungrateful that he is still eating here in the middle of the day? He must have starved to death in his previous life and reincarnated as a ghost. He is so shameless. The person was so angry that he left without eating. At that time, Jia went out to buy some wine, and when he came back, he found that the person was gone."

"I happened to be cooking at home that day and saw it. Later, your uncle Jia found out about it and gave Jia Zhang a good beating. But Old Jia couldn't hold his head up in Jiajia Village anymore. You have to know that Old Jia lost his father when he was young, and his mother, a widow, was able to raise him with the help of the villagers. When Old Jia was alive, the villagers could still maintain their relationship for Old Jia's sake. But after Old Jia died, who in Jiajia Village would care about Jia Zhang? This time, Jiajia Village came to send your uncle off as a last resort, and Jia Zhang didn't even want to care about his meals."

After listening to He Daqing's words, He Yuzhu exclaimed in his heart, "Wow!" It turns out that the widowhood of the Jia family is a tradition. In later generations, we only know from novels that Jia Zhang became a widow early, but we don't know when exactly. Judging from the situation today, Jia Zhang has started her destined widowhood. If we count from Jia Zhang's mother-in-law to her daughter-in-law Qin Huairu, it's three generations in a row. According to this tradition, when the thief Bang Geng gets married, Bang Geng's wife may also be a widow. He must stay away from the Jia family in the future. He wants to be the richest man. How can he become the king among the rich if he doesn't live longer?

As usual, He Yuzhu took Yu Shui out to play. He Yushui was now looking forward to He Yuzhu coming home to take her out to play. In her previous life, He Yuzhu particularly liked her brother's daughter. Every time she went home for the New Year, she would take her niece out to play. Yu Shui's age was about the same as her niece in her previous life.

He Yuzhu played with Yu Shui for half a day in the morning. After lunch, He Yuzhu left home as usual and walked towards his master Wu Baotian's house. However, before going to his master's house, he still had a few things to do.

He Yuzhu had previously ordered a bow and arrow from someone else through the introduction of Old Song. According to the previous agreement, it had been made and He Yuzhu could go to pick it up. After He Yuzhu picked up the bow and arrow and put it in the blessed land cave, he came to a store that specialized in selling game. He Yuzhu also knew about this store by accident. He originally wanted to go to the vegetable market to buy it from Mr. Huang, but now that he knew there was a regular store, he didn't need to look for Mr. Huang.

As soon as He Yuzhu approached the store door, the clerk immediately came up to him and helped him open the door curtain. When He Yuzhu walked into the store, the shopkeeper immediately came out from behind the counter.

"Hey, little brother, what are you going to buy in our store?"

"I heard that our store specializes in wild game. My master asked me to buy some live sika deer, roe deer, and yellow sheep. I wonder if we have them in our store."

"We happen to have all the things you want in stock in our store, but I don't know how many you want, and whether they're male or female?"

"I want 6 sika deer, preferably in pairs. I want 6 roe deer, also in pairs. I want 8 gazelles, if they can be paired, then yes. If they can't be paired, any male will do. If the store has them ready, I'll take them today. If not, I can wait. Can you deliver them directly to my house when the time comes?"

"My dear, we have all three of the things you want in stock in our store. We can deliver them to your door. But you want so many at once. You'd better be careful when you get home. Don't die before you can finish them."

"It's alright. My master was originally raised for the young master to play with. It's just right for us to eat his meat when he dies. Can you calculate how much it will cost first?"

"These are all grown. Since you want a lot, I won't give you any more. It took us a lot of effort to transport these things to the city during this chaotic time. 20 pieces cost 2000 yuan. We don't accept French currency."

He Yuzhu calculated that the average price of one was 100 yuan, which was not too expensive. The only problem was that he did not have that much money.

"The price is fine, but my master gave me a knife, and I can't carry so much money by myself."

When the shopkeeper heard that it was Dao Le, he was surprised. That currency was harder than the ocean, and its price on the black market was getting higher day by day.

"If you want to pay with Dao Le, I'll give you the black market price. You only need to give me 200 yuan for Dao Le."

"Okay, this is my address, and here are 200 yuan worth of daole. When can you arrange for someone to deliver it to my door?" He Yuzhu had inquired about the price of US dollars on the black market before coming. 2000 yuan is about the same as 200 yuan worth of daole. He Yuzhu took out the daole he had prepared in advance from his pocket and handed it to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper took the money, checked it and found nothing wrong with it. Then he wrote two receipts for He Yuzhu, stamped them and handed them to He Yuzhu.

"Just go back and wait at home. I'll arrange for someone to deliver the package right away. When the time comes, you just need to give this piece of paper to the delivery person. The other one is for you."

He Yuzhu took the receipt and took a look at it. It stated on the receipt that there were six adult sika deer, four adult roe deer, and ten adult yellow sheep. The total amount was two hundred yuan. He Yuzhu put the receipt in his pocket and walked towards his home.

He Yuzhu returned to his home in Qudeng Hutong, but he could not enter the Fudi Dongtian because he did not know when the deliveryman would arrive. He Yuzhu simply stood in the yard to practice Xingyiquan. He Yuzhu felt that he had not practiced for long when he heard someone knocking on the door. He Yuzhu opened the door and saw a man who looked to be about 40 years old standing on the steps at the door, and behind him were three people driving three carriages waiting below.

"Excuse me, but for the things you bought in our store, would you mind letting me see the receipt?" the man standing on the steps asked after seeing He Yuzhu open the door.

"My family placed an order from your store. This is the receipt your boss gave me. He told me to just give it to you." He Yuzhu took out the receipt from his pocket and handed it to the man.

The man took the receipt He Yuzhu handed over, glanced at it and confirmed that it was all right, then said, "The things you want are in the car. Where do you think I should put them after unloading them?"

Just when He Yuzhu was wondering why the other party said unload, the man signaled several coachmen to pull away the cloth on the carriage. He Yuzhu then discovered that the game he wanted to buy was tied up in a cage on the carriage.

"Just put it in the yard first, I'll deal with it myself later." He Yuzhu immediately opened all the doors and directed several people to unload the things in the yard. Two people in a group unloaded all the things He Yuzhu wanted in the yard in a short while. After unloading the goods, the four people left.

After the deliverymen walked away and He Yuzhu closed the door, he had time to look carefully at the animals placed on the ground in the yard. He Yuzhu found that all the animals had ropes around their mouths. Then he understood why he didn't hear any cries.

He Yuzhu took a look at the sky and felt that it was getting late, so he immediately gathered all the animals on the grassland inside the blessed land. After gathering them all, He Yuzhu immediately followed him in with a kitchen knife. He Yuzhu first cut the ropes on the mouths of all the animals, and then used the kitchen knife to cut the ropes tied to the animals. As soon as the ropes were cut, the animals immediately stood up from the ground and ran away.

After He Yuzhu cut the ropes on all the animals, he looked at the animals running away. After getting these three animals, he would no longer worry about the meat problem when the scale is up. He Yuzhu calculated the animals currently in the blessed land and cave. There were originally pigs, sheep, chickens, and ducks on the grassland, and grass carp, crucian carp, carp, loach, river shrimp, loach, eel, catfish, and turtle in the water. In addition to the sika deer, roe deer, and yellow sheep he got this time, the meat variety is already very rich. He will get a cow and a donkey later. After all, although his current physical fitness is the same as that of livestock, he can't really treat himself as a livestock.