Xu Damao's Thirty-Six Stratagems in Siheyuan

With the arrival of spring, Xu Damao started his journey to the countryside again.

While Xu Damao was collecting grain, antiques and showing movies, he actually found out around May that Xu Damao's grandfather's home was in the countryside of Huangzhuang.

He knew the names of his grandparents: Xu Guanwen and Xie Yumei.

He also knew the names of his first uncle, second uncle, and third aunt. The first uncle, Xu Yunfei, was seven years old, the second uncle, Xu Yunxiang, was four years old, and the third aunt, Xu Yunfang, was only one year old.

It must be this family. Xu Damao even went to Xu's house to have a meal because he was showing a movie in Huangzhuang. Although the village paid for Xu Damao's meal in the end, Xu Damao and the Xu family were connected.

Xu Damao really didn't find it. Xu Damao's grandfather was also very powerful. There were three brothers, Xu Guanwen, who were farmers and scholars. The eldest brother was Xu Guangu and the third brother was Xu Guanzhi. But Xu Damao's memory seemed to be missing this part. After asking around, he found out that there were two aunts who married into other villages.

Although Xu Damao and his grandfather in later generations were a few years apart in age, the age difference was not too great and they were actually of the same age.

As the saying goes, if you have the same surname, Xu, you are one family for five hundred years. During this trip to Huangzhuang, I bought nearly 100 kilograms of rice from the Xu family and brought it back to the city. Of course, the price was definitely beyond my expectation. The first-grade rice at the grain station was only 24 cents, but Xu Damao offered 40 cents, without giving any grain coupons.

This week's trip to the countryside was the most lucrative. Not only did we harvest 50 kilograms of grain, we also brought back kilograms of new potatoes, which we immediately moved to the basement on Yandaixie Street and hid.

During this period, Xu Damao spared no expense to collect a lot of corn, unmilled wheat grains, and rice. The amount of rice was small, so he collected as much as he could. The disaster has not yet appeared, but it does not mean it will not come.

As expected, it finally came. Xu Damao heard on the radio that in July, the grain-producing areas of the Yangtze River Basin began to experience severe floods, which meant that the main grain-producing areas in the south, the Jianghan Plain, and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain would have poor harvests or even no harvests.

Fortunately, he had already stockpiled both coarse and fine grains in Yandaixie Street, and together with the antiques he had collected, they almost filled up the ten cubic meters.

Lou Xiao'e was also very surprised that Xu Damao brought back coarse grains and fine grains every time he went to the countryside, especially the wheat grains and corn grains.

"Da Mao, why are you carrying my unprocessed food?"

"Ezi, it's better to be prepared. You haven't been to the countryside, so you don't know that the crops are generally poor this year. Haven't you heard the radio broadcast about the severe flood in the Yangtze River Basin? This has flooded the two major grain-producing areas of our country. You will see that within three months, our Kyoto City will react, and everyone's ration will be reduced. There will even be a day when the grain station can't buy food even if it has a ration. By then, our family has wheat grains and corn grains, and there will always be a way to process them. With grain in hand, there is no need to panic. You know, your belly is so big now, how can I watch you starve? Make arrangements early and feel at ease early. But don't tell others about this. It's not a good thing to let others know that we are hoarding grain."

"Oh, oh, okay." Lou Xiao'e then remembered that this news was indeed broadcast on TV a few days ago.

I never expected that Xu Damao would reduce the ration after three months, but he issued a notice in August that starting from September, the ration for each resident would be reduced by a large margin. Xu Damao originally had a ration of 8 kilograms per month, but now it is only 30 kilograms. Five kilograms of food is 25% of the ration.

The number of people not working has decreased even more. Lou Xiao'e used to weigh 28 kilograms, but now she only weighs 22 kilograms.

In fact, Xu Damao didn't know what other residents thought. He knew that this situation would last for three years. Kyoto was okay. After all, it was the capital. It wouldn't let the residents starve to death.

In other places, especially in the rural areas affected by the disaster, the situation is extremely miserable.

Xu Damao said he had no choice but to take care of his own people first.

So, when he went to Baishui Village in Haidian, he gave Gu Meifang fifty yuan and asked her to secretly stock up some corn at home, and not to worry about having too much, and just say that she was helping to harvest.

Gu Meifang now almost treats Xu Damao as her own man, so naturally she listens to him.

While urging his son and daughter to study hard in school, he also farmed his own land and went to the next village to harvest some corn and wheat and hid them secretly at home.

Xu Damao had said that as long as his son Chen Zhiyong and daughter Chen Zhiyu graduated from high school, he would definitely bring the two children to the city, and Gu Meifang as well. Chen Zhiyong was thirteen this year, and in four years, he would graduate from high school. If there was no suitable position, Xu Damao was absolutely confident that he could get him into the propaganda department of the Red Star Factory to learn how to project movies from him.

Chen Zhiyu looks like Gu Meifang, very pretty. He now intends to match Chen Zhiyu with Zhang Zhigang, the eldest son of his senior brother Zhang Tengyun. Zhigang is eleven years old, one year younger than Chen Zhiyu.

In fact, Xu Damao has a big chess game in his mind. He wants to connect all the people close to him together, so that if something happens in the future, everyone can move together to better protect his own people.

It was not Xu Damao's impulse to treat Gu Meifang. He now recognized this widow, and the most important thing was that this widow trusted him, Xu Damao, 100%. Since he recognized her, he must be able to protect her, although in general, Xu Damao himself thought he was immoral. There was no way, I am a time traveler, I am also familiar with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, I admire Prime Minister Cao, just kidding: the Seven Sages of the Jian'an Period, they were all good at civil and military affairs, they were capable ministers in a peaceful era, and heroes in a chaotic era. He didn't like Liu Xuande, who got the world by crying. Although there was the friendship of the Three Brothers of Peach Garden, in Xu Damao's opinion, he was still not as generous as Cao Cao.

Therefore, Xu Damao still needs to accumulate confidence, at least to ensure that the people who follow him have enough food and clothing. This is what he is thinking now. In the next few years, he will definitely protect Lou Xiaoe and come back when the ice and snow melt. This is also his biggest investment.

He may not get married in the future, but he cannot be left alone with no one to love him.

If you want stability, you have to wear shackles. If you want freedom, you have to take risks. In this world, nothing can be perfect. You can only gain if you give up. In the end, life is a science of making choices.

Wild beasts usually walk alone, only cattle and sheep travel in groups. Whether he is Xu Damao or Xu Damao, he wants to be a strong man.

He wanted to be a different person. He had changed Sha Zhu and Qin Huairu, and he wanted to change Gu Meifang even more. Even if he had a safe base in the countryside, Baishui Village was a very good choice.

The village chief is also a member of the Chen family. He also wants to have a way out in the city, hoping to change the fate of his children.

This opportunity was just as the village chief had expected. Before long, Xu Damao found him a huge opportunity.

In August, Xu Damao sent Qin Huairu 50 kilograms of sweet potatoes and asked her to give kilograms to Director Wang of the Street Office. Although they are sweet potatoes, they can also fill the stomach. Although Director Wang is an official and should be fair, his family will also be short of food. Orphans and widows still need to find a backer to rely on. kilograms of sweet potatoes is actually one yuan, but it is not easy to get them now. Scarcity makes things valuable, and a small gift is more valuable than a sentiment. This thing is most suitable for Qin Huairu to use as a favor now.

Qin Huairu now regards Xu Damao as her backbone.