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While Yan Jiecheng was going through the entry procedures at the steel rolling mill, Wang Ping in compound No. 95 also welcomed an unexpected guest.

Those two!

Wang Ping was startled when he saw him outside the gate.

Wang Ping thought that the old man had given away all his food and then came to him to ask for food.

But that was not the case.

When asked what brought him here, he smiled mysteriously and just said that he had something good to offer to Wang Ping, and asked him to find a place where there was no one so he could talk to him in private!

OK! ... Isn't it easy to find a place where no one is? My own home!

When he was leading Na Er towards his home, Na Er suddenly stopped.

"Pingzi!..." The second man pointed at the two empty back houses in the front yard and said, "Before, you told me that the two back houses you were eyeing were these two, right?"

"Yes!" Wang Ping nodded and replied, "These are the two rooms."

"These two rooms aren't that great, are they?" The second one curled his lips and said disdainfully, "They're small and shabby, what do you like about them?"

"Hehe... Lao Na, you are right." Wang Ping said with a smile: "These two rooms are indeed not very good, and they are indeed small and damp.

Each room is about a dozen square meters.

But ah! ...

If I could take these two back rooms and build two walls, I could enclose the two back rooms and the two side rooms."

As he spoke, he gestured with his hands.

"In this way, my four rooms and two walls can become a small courtyard."

"I can apply to the street office and open a door myself, that's not impossible!"

"Oh!..." The second man nodded in sudden realization, "So this is what you were thinking!

You have a really good brain, boy!"

After the two entered Wang Ping's house, Wang Ping was about to make tea for him, but he grabbed Wang Ping, waved his hand, and said, "Okay, Pingzi.

Don't bother, I'm not here to drink tea with you.

Besides, it was me who gave you that tea!

I have something urgent to tell you...

Um!...

I have a relative, he's my cousin!

It turns out that when the Qing Dynasty fell, their family was similar to ours, with both owning properties in one or two alleys.

Of course, there are also many other gold bars, antiques, calligraphy and paintings.

The difference from our family is that their old man is always there."

Having said that, he curled his lips in disdain, and his tone unconsciously added a hint of mockery.

"Because their old man is still alive, their family will fail faster."

"I remember..."

"By the 20th year of the Republic of China, their family business had almost completely collapsed."

"Their old man is a straightforward person!"

"Seeing his family business go bankrupt, he just threw up his legs and left!"

"The remaining family is helpless."

"At that time, I had to give them a hundred dollars to help them get through that difficult time."

"Later, my cousin started pulling a rickshaw to support his family."

"I also paid for his rickshaw."

"No matter what, if you have your own rickshaw, you won't have to pay for it, so you'll have more money, right?"

"It was also because of pulling a rickshaw that after entering the new society, the government arranged a coal delivery job for my cousin at the Sanhua Coal Factory in Dongcheng."

"Although this job is a bit hard and tiring, it is also a legitimate way to make a living."

"Later, my cousin's son grew up... and his family began to worry about his son's marriage."

"Well!... A few years ago!... My cousin found a girl from the countryside to be his son's wife."

"On the day of the official ceremony, I even went to have a drink at the wedding."

"This country girl!... She's hardworking, able to endure hardships, and takes care of her family... She's good in every way. The only bad thing about her is that she doesn't have a city hukou, so she can't eat the city's food rations!"

"In the past few years, my cousin has spent all the remaining family assets for his daughter-in-law."

"To be honest..."

"My ration!...I have helped their family for quite a while in the past few years."

"There's nothing we can do!...After his daughter-in-law came into the family, she gave birth to three sons in a row."

"We can't just watch the four of them starve!"

By the time Na Er finished speaking, Wang Ping already understood what he meant.

"Lao Na, do you mean to exchange food with me?"

"Yes!" The second nodded, "My cousin's family has not had anything dry to eat for half a month.

Yesterday, my cousin went out to deliver coal and was so tired that he almost vomited blood.

If this continues, one or two people in their family will die.

He came to see me last night!

That means they still want us to give them some food.

But my 1,000 kilograms of grain is my last food for retirement.

I don’t dare to go out like I did before.

So I came to find you!

You are the only person I know who can get food."

"Hmm!" Wang Ping pondered for a moment and nodded slowly, "Lao Na, what does your cousin want to exchange for food from me?"

The second raised his hand and pointed to the south, saying, "South of your alley, across two alleys, there is a large compound.

My cousin's family has a room in that yard, which is about thirty-six or thirty-seven square meters.

This house was originally occupied by their great aunt.

The old lady never married in her life, and her funeral was taken care of by my cousin.

My cousin wants to exchange this room and two small yellow croakers for food."

"How much does he want to exchange?" Wang Ping asked.

The second one hesitated for a moment and said a little embarrassedly: "He wants to exchange that house for 800 kilograms of corn flour.

He wanted one hundred kilograms of flour for those two small yellow croakers."

This exchange condition made Wang Ping stunned.

He looked at Na Er with amusement, and said jokingly, "Old Na, you only exchanged the treasures of your four rooms for a thousand kilograms of corn flour from me.

Do you think your cousin can meet this requirement? "

Na Er's face slightly turned red, and he said hesitantly: "Pingzi, I...I also think that my cousin's condition is too high.

I also advised him.

But...but he bit it hard and wouldn't let go!"

Wang Ping pondered for a moment and then said, “Old Na!... It’s not that I don’t give you face, nor am I bargaining here.

Let’s do the math and we’ll find out.

Your cousin's house in the tenement is worth only seven or eight hundred yuan at most.

Maybe there won’t even be five or six hundred.

Let's call it seven hundred.

In previous years, seven hundred yuan could buy eight hundred kilograms of grain on the black market in East City.

But in this year, let alone 1,800 kilograms, if he can buy more than 200 kilograms of grain with 700 yuan, I will take his surname!"