Siheyuan: I am different He Yuzhu

After Uncle San's family helped He Yuzhu move the furniture from the utility room back to the house, Aunt San was shocked by the exquisite decoration of He Yuzhu's house. Looking at the neat and smooth floor and snow-white walls, Aunt San couldn't help but ask, "Zhuzi, did you spend a lot of money to build this house?"

He Yuzhu said casually: "It didn't cost much, just half a year's salary in total."

The third aunt was surprised and said, "That's half a year's salary, it must be 500 or 600 yuan, Zhuzi, you are too willing to spend it, right?"

He Yuzhu did not correct the third aunt after hearing what she said. After all, his salary was no longer the 65 yuan when he was a chef. His salary plus various subsidies added up to nearly 100 yuan. "Third aunt, you have to spend money when you should. After all, the decoration will be used for many years. What if some things are not installed properly because of saving money, and there are problems in the later use, then you have to spend money to hire someone."

After helping He Yuzhu move, Auntie San asked mysteriously while chatting with the women in the courtyard: "Do you know how much it cost to renovate Zhuzi's house?"

Jia Zhang asked, "How much money can that stingy guy Shazhu spend on decoration?"

The third aunt glanced at Jia Zhang and said unhappily, "Zhu Zi is not stingy. The money he spent on decorating the house is almost as much as your son's two-year salary."

Jia Zhang said in disbelief: "My son earns more than 20 yuan a month. I don't believe that Sha Zhu would be willing to spend or yuan to renovate the house."

The third aunt smiled and said, "Jia Zhang, don't be unconvinced. Yesterday, when I helped He Yuzhu move, I asked him how much he spent on the renovation. He said it cost him half a year's salary. He Yuzhu makes 65 yuan a month, which is almost as much as your son's two-year salary. You haven't been to He Yuzhu's house. You will know after you see it. The floor of his house is paved with big bricks. The bricks on the floor must have cost a lot of money, not to mention that the windows in his house are all double-layered."

After hearing what the third aunt said, Jia Zhang was silent and angry. She silently said to He Yuzhu in her heart: "You are such a fool. I was embarrassed to ask you to tell the workers to help renovate my house, but you were unwilling to do so. You are so reluctant to renovate your own house. You really have no conscience at all."

Thanks to the publicity of the three aunts in the front yard, the whole courtyard knew that He Yuzhu's house was decorated very exquisitely. After hearing that He Yuzhu spent so much money on decoration, many people had many thoughts in their minds. For example, Jia Zhang was thinking about whether she could find an excuse to borrow some money from He Yuzhu in the future and then drag her feet on paying it back.

Before Jia Zhang could plot against He Yuzhu, the government issued an order on the interim measures for the rationed supply of grain in towns and cities. After the interim measures for the rationed supply of grain were issued, the street office held a policy briefing in each courtyard in order to publicize the policy to the residents in the jurisdiction. After reading the policy, the people from the street office left in a hurry. They had to rush to the next courtyard to read it, and later the managers of each courtyard would give a more detailed interpretation.

After Liu Haizhong and other street office staff left, he coughed and said, "Did everyone understand the food ration policy just announced by the street office leader? If there is anything unclear, please speak up."

Yi Zhonghai looked at Liu Haizhong who was sitting in the middle and watching his performance silently. He thought to himself that Liu Haizhong was becoming more and more presumptuous. Before he even opened his mouth to speak, he actually spoke before him.

Jia Zhang asked with a bitter face, "Uncle, Xudong is the only one in my family who has a city hukou. How are we going to live in the future?"

After hearing what Jia Zhang said, the other residents of the courtyard couldn't help but laugh in their hearts. When the household registration was determined, Jia Zhang was smart enough to get land in her rural hometown and did not want an urban household registration. She even found a rural wife for Jia Xudong so that she could let others farm the land and collect rent. It was no use regretting it now. If one wanted to change from a rural household registration to an urban household registration, one had to have a job.

Yi Zhonghai said slowly, "Don't worry, Xudong's mother. Although Xudong is the only one in your family who has a ration, don't you and Huairu still have land in your hometown? Besides, doesn't the policy say that if there is any surplus from the rations purchased by town residents according to the ration standards, they can be transferred, donated, exchanged with each other, or sold to the state grain store. There are so many residents in our yard, and some families must have more than enough rations. When the time comes, you can buy some from them, but make it clear in advance that you can't speculate when transferring."

After hearing what Yi Zhonghai said, everyone's eyes lit up. If their family didn't have enough food or couldn't finish it, they could trade it privately. Jia Zhang sat down after hearing what Yi Zhonghai said. In fact, her family was not in a difficult situation at all. The reason why she said it in front of so many people was to create an image that her family was in a difficult situation, so that she could borrow things from others. With the food that others paid to her every year, her family was not short of food. In order to cover up, she asked her brothers from her natal family to sell the food directly and exchange it for money for her. Anyway, as long as she had money, she could buy it at the grain station. But in the future, she couldn't buy food at the grain station without food coupons, so she had to think of a way.

He Yuzhu sat in the crowd and said nothing, because no matter what he did, he couldn't starve. This was the benefit of the Fudi Dongtian plug-in. Seeing that families with many children were all worried, He Yuzhu experienced the joy of plug-ins. If there was no Fudi Dongtian, He Yuzhu's current monthly ration of 29 kilograms of food would not be enough for him to eat for half a month.

Just as He Yuzhu was daydreaming, a resident of the front yard, Passerby A, quietly came up to He Yuzhu and said with a friendly smile: "Zhuzi, you work in the cafeteria, how much is your monthly ration? Can you give me some of the extra food? I have many children at home, and they are growing up, so it's not enough for them to eat."

As soon as Passerby A finished asking He Yuzhu, the people around him couldn't help but feel annoyed. Why didn't they think that He Yuzhu worked in the cafeteria? He shouldn't have to pay for his lunch in the cafeteria. Just when everyone was annoyed, He Yuzhu said, "I'm sorry, my monthly ration is only 29 kilograms, which is not enough to eat. I'm still trying to figure out where to get some food when the time comes."

At this time, the people around him said, "Aren't you the chef in the cafeteria? You cook, but do you have to pay for the food?"

He Yuzhu said seriously, "Although I work in the cafeteria, people in our cafeteria also have to pay for food coupons, just like the workers in the workshop. If we don't pay for food coupons, what will we do if there are so many people in the cafeteria and there is a shortage of food?"

After hearing what He Yuzhu said, everyone stopped asking He Yuzhu to borrow food coupons. He Yuzhu continued, "If anyone in your family has extra food coupons, you can exchange them with me. As you can see from my height, I have a big appetite and I eat a lot." After saying this, He Yuzhu touched his nose embarrassedly.

The group of people then realized that they had overlooked the fact that He Yuzhu was tall. Yes, He Yuzhu was so tall, and his appetite must be bigger than that of normal people. He Yuzhu's life would be difficult in the future. It seemed that He Yuzhu would have to buy food secretly at a high price in the future.

He Yuzhu looked at the crowd and saw that they were fooled by him. After he said that, no one would ask him to borrow food. Then it would be much quieter. The hams in his cellar were almost ready to eat. He didn't know if the people from the Jia family would come to borrow from him. After saying that, He Yuzhu looked at the Jia family in the crowd. He Yuzhu found that Jia Zhangshi didn't have the sad face when she stood up to speak just now. Instead, she looked very relaxed. After thinking about it in his mind, He Yuzhu suddenly remembered that the people's commune had not started in the countryside yet, and the land was still owned by individuals. That was to say, if others helped Jia Zhangshi and Qin Huairu to plant their land, she would still have several hundred kilograms of food every year. It seemed that Jia Zhangshi was just pretending when she said that her family was having a hard time.

Thinking of this, He Yuzhu looked at Jia Zhang and shook his head silently. Jia Xudong was the only one in the Jia family who had a city hukou. The monthly grain ration for the family was only 32 kilograms. With the land owned by Jia Zhang and Qin Huairu in the countryside, their life was better than that of many families with only one worker working. Life seemed good now, but when the work-point system was implemented in the countryside, the land would not belong to individuals but to the collective. At that time, the Jia family would not have subsidies for rural grain, and would have to rely on Jia Xudong's salary alone, and the Jia family's hard days would begin. If Jia Xudong and Qin Huairu did not have any more children after giving birth to Banggeng, their life would be okay. If they continued to have children, the more they had, the harder their life would be.

He Yuzhu then looked at Jia Xudong, who was sitting in the crowd chatting with others, and looked at him with sympathy. Today, He Yuzhu finally understood why Jia Xudong was destined to die in 61 in all the novels. During those three years when there was not enough food, it was good enough for Jia Xudong to survive until the third year with his own rations. Jia Xudong's accident was probably related to his long-term lack of food and malnutrition. You know, people with long-term malnutrition are prone to drowsiness and confusion. It is estimated that this is why Jia Xudong died tragically in the machine accident.

If he wanted to change Jia Xudong's fate, he had to let Qin Huairu give up her rural household registration and change to an urban household registration when he first married her, so that the children in the family would also have urban household registration. Only in this way would his family's food rations not be so tight. In short, He Yuzhu could only think about everything in his heart. If He Yuzhu dared to tell Jia Xudong that he would die in an accident in a few years, Jia Zhang would definitely block the door of his house and scold him. Just look at Jia Xudong's three children who are all ungrateful, and He Yuzhu will not care about his family's affairs. In this life, He Yuzhu has drawn a clear line with the Jia family, and no one can let him have anything to do with the Jia family. If Yi Zhonghai still wants to plot against him after Jia Xudong's death, then let's see who will plot against whom at that time.