Siheyuan, the opening gun is aimed at Yi Zhonghai

Chapter 7: Installing the gate, Yan Fugui plots to stop it

Tony Leung's slingshot is in Zhou Zheng's hand. After all, Tony Leung is the most timid among the guys!

Zhou Zheng was holding a slingshot and fantasizing about shooting a pheasant. His mouth was watering at the thought of the fat pheasant.

The more you expect a miracle to happen, the less likely it is to happen!

This made Zhou Zheng suddenly realize that even in his own bgm, he was not invincible.

It’s not that easy to catch a pheasant. As soon as the slingshot was fired, the pheasant flew away.

No one was disappointed, after all, hunting pheasants was not the ultimate goal!

It wasn't a complete failure, at least I caught more than a dozen sparrows, because they were so dense that I could always catch a few of them in the morning.

By the afternoon, the nutritional value of the three buns did not last long, and everyone's stomachs began to growl in protest.

So it’s time to replenish your nutrition!

Fortunately, there was a wonton shop near the Third Steel Rolling Mill, which was a rare fish that escaped the company's joint venture.

The owner of the shop is an old lady in her 70s.

Maybe the organization saw that she was too old and had no interest in her shop.

The shop is not big, and there is only one table in front of the door. Whenever someone comes to eat wontons, the old lady will sit at the other end of the table and watch the guests eating wontons.

Anyway, it's quite weird, not many people come to eat wontons.

Some people say that what the old lady made was not wontons, but lovesickness.

Children don’t understand these things. They just know that the wontons made by the old lady are delicious, and they don’t care that there is an old lady staring at them while they are eating the wontons.

She sat down at the table. Maybe because there were too many people today, the old lady didn't sit opposite the table.

Zhou Zheng enjoyed the meal very much. It was much more delicious than the wontons he had eaten before. He didn't know where the old lady learned the cooking skills.

In fact, there is an even more terrifying rumor.

Rumor has it that the old lady is not actually a human, but a fox spirit. Many years ago, she met a scholar who was going to Beijing to take an imperial examination. The scholar was very poor, but the fox spirit fell in love with him. The scholar liked to eat the wontons made by the fox spirit, so he often came here to ask for a bowl of wontons. Until one day, the scholar left the capital, and the fox spirit had been waiting here for the scholar to return.

But a long time passed and the scholar didn't come back. The vixen felt that the scholar had hurt her heart, so whenever someone came to eat her wontons, she would ask the diners to take out their hearts to pay the bill, and the delicious wontons were wrapped with the heart of the previous diner.

This statement is just to deceive people from other places. There is another story circulating in this area.

It is said that the old lady and her lover made a living in Beijing, so they opened a wonton shop. Later, they were separated due to the war, and the old lady's lover never came back.

The reason why the old lady has been guarding the wonton shop is to wait for her lover. More than 50 years have passed in a flash.

Her lover didn't come back, but the old lady didn't dare to leave, because she felt that as long as she didn't leave, her lover would come back one day.

What if I can really find it back?

The table was not big enough for eight people to sit on, but the children didn’t care about that. They all held their bowls and ate the wontons, and soon their bellies were full.

This time it was Wan Jingliang who paid for the meal. A bowl of wontons cost 1 yuan, and the total cost for eight people was 2 yuan.

The old lady got back 4 cents in change and smiled kindly.

It was quite healing. At least at that time, Zhou Zheng seemed to have really forgotten the unpleasantness in the yard.

It was almost one o'clock in the afternoon. Zhou Zheng did not forget that he had other things to do during this trip. He told his friends what he was going to do next, and they all agreed to go with him.

The main door of the corridor was kicked into pieces by the beasts, which was very unsafe.

If there are adults at home and they want to repair the corridor door, all they have to do is buy the wood.

But the children didn't know how to repair the gate, so they had to go to the craftsmen's market in Houhai to find carpenters.

In fact, the children didn’t understand this at all, including Zhou Zheng who came from another time. After discussing with his friends, they decided that it didn’t matter whether to find a carpenter or a bricklayer, they could just act accordingly when they arrived in Houhai.

There is a workers' market in Houhai all year round, and odd jobs at that time were done here.

Fortunately, the distance was not far, and the children arrived at Houhai Market chatting and laughing.

At the head of the market is a bicycle repair shop. A bicycle with one wheel missing is lying upside down at the door. The repairman is holding a cigarette in one hand and fiddling with the front fork of the bicycle with the other. No one knows what he is working on.

Further in is a pot-mending shop. The pot-mender is guarding an iron pot with a hole in it. Next to him is a small stove. In the dry stove is a small iron bowl with a handle, which is filled with red molten iron. It looks very dangerous.

There are more than just shops in Houhai’s workers’ market. There are also groups of craftsmen sitting together in twos and threes, smoking, with a sign hanging around their necks with their various odd jobs written on it.

After searching around for a while, the friends finally found an old carpenter.

After telling the old carpenter about the matter, the old carpenter called his wife over, and then pushed the cart and followed Zhou Zheng and the others towards the courtyard.

There were wood and tools on the cart. It looked heavy, but the old carpenter pushed it with ease.

The young friends were also very considerate. When they encountered a difficult obstacle, they would help, which made the old carpenter very happy. He praised them for being good children and promised to make Zhou Zheng's gate well.

But then again, what good could a big door do? Zhou Zheng didn't take it seriously anyway.

Houhai Market is not far from Nanluoguxiang. We chatted and laughed all the way and entered Nanluoguxiang without feeling anything.

Seeing the entrance of No. 95 from afar, Zhou Zheng narrowed his eyes and felt a sinking feeling in his heart.

Yan Fugui was seen standing in front of the gatehouse looking at Zhou Zheng and the others. His expression did not reveal joy or anger, but gave people a very uncomfortable feeling.

Fortunately, there is an old carpenter here who can give Zhou Zheng some confidence.

If a fight breaks out, the old carpenter can also act as a witness.

When they got closer, Yan Fugui stopped the cart, raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and snorted: "Xiao Zhou, what are you going to do? You don't want to repair the gate of the corridor, do you? Your uncle said that people can't live behind closed doors. The third uncle is kind enough to remind you that it's better not to repair the gate, so as not to offend the neighbors."

Zhou Zheng frowned, not wanting to indulge Yan Fugui. He raised the corner of his mouth and looked at Yan Fugui with contempt, saying in a playful tone, "Haha, from what Teacher Yan said, you want to do this?"

Yan Fugui felt humiliated and a little annoyed, but then he remembered that Zhou Zheng still had a gun in his hand, and his tone softened a little.

"That's not what Third Uncle meant. OK! You can repair the gate or not. When First Uncle asks about it, you can explain it to him yourself."

But you can see that he is very unhappy!

Zhou Zheng didn't want to gain an advantage in the argument, so he snorted, "Humph, if that's not what you meant, why don't you get out of the way?"

Seeing that he had not gotten what he wanted, Yan Fugui unhappily stepped aside and muttered, "You don't know what's good for you!"

The old carpenter also understood the situation clearly. He knew that it was Yan Fugui who bullied the child, but he knew that it was not something he could do about it.

He was just a worker and would not stand up for the weak. After Yan Fugui moved aside, he smiled at Yan Fugui and parked the cart at the gate.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Zhou Zheng asked Xu Jianjun and others to help carry the wood and tools into the yard, which saved the old carpenter a lot of effort.

This made the old carpenter feel that Zhou Zheng was a sensible child.

The gate of the corridor is now empty. No one knows who took away the wooden debris from the previous gate. Zhou Zheng doesn't care about these things. There is no point in arguing about such things. It will only waste time. It is better to wait until the gate is repaired before settling accounts with them.

The repair of the gate went smoothly, and no one was so blind as to cause trouble, which made Zhou Zheng breathe a sigh of relief.

But if you think about it carefully, this is normal.

After all, beasts would not do such a thing that would bring bad reputation openly.

The old carpenter replaced the main door of the corridor with very strong wood, which cost Zhou Zheng a fortune in total. After trying it, Zhou Zheng felt it was worth the money.

This prevents the beasts from kicking the door down.

But what was frustrating was that as soon as the old carpenter left, the three uncles, Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong and Yan Fugui, blocked Zhou Zheng and the others in the small courtyard again.

Fortunately, He Yuzhu is not here this time.

Yi Zhonghai had a stern face, looking terribly gloomy.

He squinted his eyes through his bangs, looking unhappy.

Yan Fugui had an evil smile on his face, gloating over other people's misfortune.

But Xu Jianjun and his men would not tolerate these three uncles. They lined up in a row, as if they were ready to take action at any time, waiting for Zhou Zheng's order.

After a long time, Yi Zhonghai snorted.

"Humph! Xiao Zhou, you used to be a sensible and good kid! How come you have become so unreasonable now? Do you know what you are doing now? Are you destroying the unity of the compound? You are living behind closed doors! What's the matter? Don't you want to interact with the neighbors in the compound? You should know that our compound has always been an advanced compound. Children like you who are not conducive to the unity of the compound are not welcome in the compound!"

Zhou Zheng narrowed his eyes and smiled coldly. He didn't want to listen to Yi Zhonghai's nonsense anymore, so he took out his gun!

The gun was pointed at Yi Zhonghai!

Yi Zhonghai was so frightened at the time that he took a step back.

The other two uncles also looked unhappy, and looked ugly and embarrassed.

Yi Zhonghai gritted his teeth and forced a smile: "Zhou, don't pull out your gun all the time! The muzzle of the gun is pointed at the enemy, how can you point it at your own people! You are still young, it is normal that you don't understand, put the gun away quickly, can't the old man stop talking?"

Liu Haizhong frowned: "Let's have a meeting tonight!"

Yan Fugui smiled awkwardly and said nothing.

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