Siheyuan: Survival Guide for Courtyard No. 95

After paying thirty yuan and giving Village Chief Zhao two packs of Daqianmen and the seven-inch cloth coupon, the deal was completed. This also made Zhao Shanhe have a deeper understanding of Zhao Desheng's greed. He knew that taking both sides would not satisfy the other party's appetite, and he would not let go of the kickback fee.

When giving out cloth coupons, he asked if there was anyone raising ducks in the village. The answer he got was that there really was no such person, so Zhao Shanhe said goodbye and rode back to the city.

As for the five chickens, they were thrown directly into the small world in a deserted place not far from the village. At this time, they were happily eating grass on the hillside.

When he arrived in the city, he was already starving. He found a restaurant and had a bowl of shredded pork noodles. Only then did Zhao Shanhe have the energy to start thinking about how to quickly and effectively realize the value of the small world.

When he was in Wang Lizhuang Village, he looked at the chickens in Village Chief Zhao's house and asked how long it took for a chicken to grow up. The answer he got was 11 to 12 months. This reminded him that the chickens at that time were all local chickens from farmers, not meat chickens of later generations. Therefore, his dream of eating chicken quickly was basically shattered. With just his few chickens, it was still too early for him to build a chicken farm.

So how to get meat is the first problem that needs to be solved now.

In the end, there was only one solution that came to mind, which was a recurring routine in all courtyard novels - fishing.

There are already quite a few fish in the small world. The fish he caught in the Ming Tombs Reservoir last time weighed over a thousand kilograms. He can just pretend to fish and then hang the bigger fish on the hook. There are always people fishing in Beihai Park and Shichahai. There are many witnesses, so no one can blame my luck, okay?

But this also needs to be done in moderation. After the autumn fishing, the big fish in Shichahai, Beihai and Houhai have almost been caught out. If one frequently catches fish weighing several kilograms, anyone would know that there is a problem.

After paying the bill and leaving, I rode my bike to Shichahai to try some fishing. When I got there, I saw that there were quite a lot of people fishing. In the 21st century, Shichahai had not frozen over in early December, but in this era, the ice would have frozen over long ago due to the cold weather.

Zhao Shanhe walked around these fishermen. Most of the fishing rods were DIY, and there were only a few crucian carps of different sizes in the buckets beside them. This made him feel disappointed again.

It's obvious that these people fish here frequently, and even they only catch this much. How can I catch a big fish as soon as I get here? Isn't this a case of trying to cover up one's mistake?

Walking up to a person who had gained a lot, this person had a scarf wrapped around his face and a hat on his head, and it was hard to tell how old he was. Zhao Shanhe asked casually.

"Comrade, you caught a lot of fish, but they are all a bit small. Are there any big fish in Shichahai?"

The man looked up at Zhao Shanhe, and seeing that he didn't even have a fishing rod, he replied lazily.

"Of course there are big fish in Shichahai Lake. I caught one some time ago, but fish don't like to move around in winter, so what I caught today were all crucian carp."

As he was speaking, the man suddenly lifted the rod. Zhao Shanhe thought he had caught another fish, but when he looked back, there was no fish at all.

He nodded and thanked the other party, then prepared to leave. You only have to believe three-tenths of what the fishermen say. They all claim to have caught big fish. Yan Bugui even said that he had caught a turtle. I've lived in this yard for so many years, why do I always see him come up empty-handed?

On a winter afternoon, the weather started to get colder after three o'clock. Zhao Shanhe thought that there were still too few types of crops in the small world, so he went to the vegetable market to buy some potatoes and sweet potatoes. These two things are also very troublesome to grow, and they need to be cut into pieces for germination, but fortunately they mature quickly, potatoes need 12 days, and sweet potatoes only need 9 days.

After he finished working in the small world, it was already dark. He roasted some sweet potatoes for himself on the stove for dinner. He had finally left cornmeal behind. Before he traveled through time, he would hardly touch sweet potatoes because they would make him burp and fart after eating them. When his father was alive, he saw that he didn't like them, so the family rarely ate them.

Only now does he know what it means to be hungry and eat sweet food. If he could choose between cornmeal and sweet potatoes, he would definitely say, I can eat sweet potatoes for the rest of my life.

While they were eating, they heard Jia Zhang's wailing voice coming from a distance, followed by the voices of Liu Haizhong and Xu Damao.

"Second uncle, what happened in the front yard?"

"Da Mao, I just heard it too. Guang Tian and Guang Fu, please come out quickly and come with me to take a look."

Zhao Shanhe knew without guessing that it must be Aunt Sun's family eating meat that was smelled by the Jia family. Jia Zhang relied on three things to make a living: shamelessness, tough guy, and Yi Zhonghai, which made her invincible in the yard.

Archdemon

Zhao Shanhe took the half-eaten sweet potato, put on his hat and went out of the house. He had to go to such a lively place so that he could have first-hand information in the yard at any time so that he could live comfortably. If something happened one day and he was not there, he would have no place to complain if the hat was put on his head.

Following Liu and Xu, we arrived at the front yard, which was already full of people. There were also many residents from other courtyards standing near the Guangliang gate. The Chinese people's love for watching the excitement is truly ingrained in their bones.

At this time, Aunt Sun was standing at the door of her house. Her husband Zheng Heping was confronting Jia Zhang outside the house. The two maids in the family did not show their heads. They were probably frightened by Jia Zhang. After all, her face full of flesh was still very lethal.

The focus of the whole audience was on Banggeng, who was a little over three years old and was practicing rolling on the ground, crying and yelling.

"Grandma, the Zheng family's losers pushed me, hurry up and help me beat them up, losers don't deserve to eat meat."

Zhao Shanhe saw Yan Jiecheng also standing at the door selling orders, so he walked over and asked.

"Jie Cheng, how is the singing style of today's play? Why is Bang Geng also on stage?"

When Yan Jiecheng heard what he said, he burst out laughing.

"You have such a mean mouth, don't let the Jia family hear it, or they will blackmail you to death.

I only know roughly that the Zheng family cooked meat dishes today, and the dog of the Jia family smelled it. They thought it would be easier to get meat from the children, so they let Banggeng come out to get a bite. Unexpectedly, he didn't get to eat the meat, but was pushed down by the Zheng sisters. Jia Zhang was not happy about this, and she came to ask for an explanation."

The cause and process of the incident were roughly the same as what Zhao Shanhe had expected, except that he thought Qin Huairu would come to ask for it, but now it has become a joke. It should be because Qin Huairu was pregnant and it was inconvenient, right?

As the old saying goes, if you are not from the same family, you will not enter the same door. How old is Banggeng, but he has been educated so "excellently". You can tell a child's future from that of a three-year-old and his future from that of a seven-year-old. This child is considered useless.

Just as I was thinking about it, Jia Zhang spoke over there.

"Mr. Zheng, your two girls are so much older than my Banggeng, and they beat people up. Isn't this obviously bullying an honest person? You must give me an explanation today, or this matter will never end."