Siheyuan, my new life

The reason why Xue Yongli sold his work quota was because the three chiefs and deputy chiefs of the Beijing branch of the Bureau of Secrets had planned to manufacture more than 30 mortars. After they were fully prepared, they would launch a large-scale attack on the core area of ​​the capital, and then all the main personnel would evacuate the capital and leave the mainland via the Tianjin sea route.

Xue Yongli knew very well that after leaving the mainland, he and his wife and children would need a large sum of money. Although the job quota of a warehouse keeper at the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill was only four or five hundred yuan in the market, every penny counted. He planned to exchange the money he had saved over the years for small yellow croakers on the black market. He was old, and even if he returned to Taiwan, he would not be able to work for the Security Bureau anymore. It would be great to live a peaceful retirement life on the island.

According to Li Meng, or more precisely Xue Meng, he and his mother originally lived in the countryside of their hometown in Shanxi Province. They had six or seven acres of land, and the little harvest from the land was enough to barely make ends meet. Xue Yongli was unwilling to face the earth and work hard like his ancestors, so he left his hometown alone with his luggage.

When Xue Meng was thirteen years old, his father Xue Yongli, who had been away from home for four years, suddenly came back in gorgeous clothes. The main purpose of Xue Yongli's return was to take his wife and children to Sijiucheng.

After selling the family's land, Xue Meng and his mother followed his father to Sijiucheng, where they lived in the current courtyard house with its own entrance and courtyard, and were sent to school.

Since Xue Meng had only attended a private school for a few years in his hometown, he could not keep up with the learning progress of his classmates in school. Moreover, he often suffered ridicule from his classmates because of his Shanxi accent. However, Xue Meng was tall, which was completely inherited from his father Xue Yongli. In addition, he had learned martial arts for several years from an old man in the clan who knew kung fu. Therefore, after a conflict with several classmates, he severely taught those guys who looked down on him a lesson. From then on, Xue Meng became the little bully in their school.

Xue Yongli also knew that his son was not cut out for studying, and he sent him to school only to help him learn a few more words. From the second year Xue Meng arrived in Sijiucheng, he began to secretly train his son. Later, he directly joined the Sijiucheng Military Control Station and became a small spy paid by the Military Control Station. He also got his wife into the Military Control Station, and she usually paid attention to various news from the mouths of housewives chatting on the streets.

At this time, Xue Yongli's official identity was the warehouse keeper of Lou's Steel Rolling Mill. Of course, the person he was impersonating was Li Youfu, who was also from Shanxi Province.

Xue Meng was arranged to work in a slaughterhouse as an apprentice at the age of seventeen. The following year, he married a seventeen-year-old girl from a nearby rural area named Xue Xiaohong. After the marriage, Xue Yongli arranged for him to work in a textile factory through his connection with the Sijiucheng Military Control Station. The following year, he became an external member of the Sijiucheng Military Control Station. Since then, Xue Yongli's family of four have all been spies of the Sijiucheng Military Control Station.

Because Xue Meng was strong and skilled in Kung Fu, he soon became a member of the secret operations team of the Military Control Station in Sijiu City, and participated in several operations against the Sakura people.

As Xue Yongli repeatedly obtained accurate intelligence that the Lou's Steel Rolling Mill provided steel to the Sakura people, the Sijiucheng Military Control Station carried out a sabotage operation, intercepted a lot of high-quality steel, and resold it to the Taiyuan Arsenal in Shanxi Province, making huge profits. Xue Yongli not only received a lot of bonuses, but also received repeated promotions. He was soon promoted from lieutenant to major. Later, the Bureau of Secrets ordered Xue Yongli and his family to continue to lurk in Sijiucheng, and appointed him as the colonel deputy station chief.

At this time, Xue Meng was promoted to the rank of captain due to his participation in many secret operations.

With the peaceful liberation of the capital, Xue Yongli's family also went into hiding, except for Xue Meng who participated in several sabotage operations in the beginning. However, because his size was too conspicuous, he was later responsible for protecting the property and weapons hidden in the underground secret room of the Xue family.

Everyone else goes to get off work and comes home on time every day, but Xue Yongli's wife is still the same as before. Apart from doing some housework, she spends the rest of her time chatting with the street aunties she has become familiar with. Of course, she will also summarize the gossip she hears every day and report to Xue Yongli in the evening.

In the third year of his marriage, Xue Meng gave birth to a big fat boy, who is now thirteen years old. After Xue Yongli retired from the Red Star Steel Mill, he announced to the public that he would take his wife and grandson back to his hometown to live for a while. In fact, they secretly came to the Security Bureau base outside the city, waiting for the success of this operation before evacuating together.

Xue Yongli had accumulated a lot of wealth over the years, most of which he had exchanged for large and small yellow croakers and some US dollars on the black market. The valuables in the basement of his home were all the operational funds for the Beijing branch of the Bureau of Secrets and some antiques and cultural relics obtained through various channels.

However, Xue Yongli, his wife and grandson had no way of carrying too many things. In addition to leaving six small yellow croakers for his son for emergencies, he also left most of the cash at home, asking his son to find an opportunity to exchange it for gold on the black market when the Spring Festival was approaching.

As for the valuables in the basement, according to the plan, they were to be transported away together with the scrapped special steel parts to the secret base in the mountains. The rewards would be given out after the operation was successful. In fact, the bulk of the money would be pocketed by several main leaders.

According to the original plan, the Beijing branch of the Bureau of Secrets had arranged a truck to transport these valuables and scrapped special steel parts away in the days near the end of the year, while ordinary people were busy preparing for the New Year.

However, Xue Yongli never expected that the young man who had bought his work quota and took over as the custodian of the scrap special steel parts warehouse, out of his serious and responsible attitude towards his work, soon discovered that there were serious problems with the scrap special steel parts in the warehouse. There was a huge gap between the number of warehoused parts on the account and the actual inventory. In other words, the scrap special steel parts warehouse where he was the custodian had been tampered with.

The young man's family spent so much money and finally bought a work quota, and he got a formal job as he wished. He had just been working for a few days when the warehouse was stolen. If he did not actively report the problem to his superiors now, once the factory discovered the theft in the warehouse in the future, he would not only lose his job but might even go to jail. In order to avoid getting himself into trouble in the future, he reported the matter to his superiors.