Siheyuan: I stand for Xu Damao because he is my brother

Xu Damao was surprised and delighted after hearing this: "So, my dad told you in person that he wanted you to drive a car in the factory?"

Xu Dacan nodded: "That's what my uncle said."

Damao was also happy for him, with his mustache curled up, and said proudly: "It seems that the ginseng has worked. Dacan, good job! Keep up the good work!"

Before traveling through time, Xu Dacan read about Xu Damao's comments from various experts on the Internet. There were at least 800 comments on him, and the most common conclusion was that he was a real villain. Some people also said that he was the most real and free-spirited.

But through a brief contact, Xu Dacan discovered that his cousin was actually a microcosm of an ordinary person in later generations.

He will take revenge on anyone who provokes him; he will secretly undermine anyone who is a bad guy; he is positive and motivated, but does not commit crimes; he loves his family, longs for kinship, and especially has a deep obsession with children.

Apart from anything else, just the fact that he always takes things home after watching a movie, he passes the test.

So when Lou Xiao'e came back, she asked him in surprise: "Xu Damao, what are those things you brought back? How come they are moving? I was so scared!"

Lou Xiao'e always addressed him by his first name, and Damao was used to it. Hearing this, he slapped his forehead and said, "Look at my memory! Lotus Commune gave me two old hens, put them in the cage quickly."

Xu Dacan thought that the famous scene had to be brought forward.

Sure enough, not long after, Lou Xiao'e called out from outside: "Xu Damao, come out quickly, why is there one chicken missing?"

When he heard that the chickens were missing, Xu Damao didn't even care about the sesame buns and ran out to check.

Xu Dacan also followed out. The two brothers arrived at the chicken coop and took a look. Sure enough, of the two old hens inside, only one was left!

Lou Xiao'e was still checking the cage: "That's weird, I locked it well."

Xu Damao gritted his teeth and pulled her up: "Don't look at it, it must be Sha Zhu who did it!"

Lou Xiao'e suddenly realized: "I was wondering why he didn't come to take revenge last night. I thought he had changed his personality!"

Xu Dacan was standing at the back, holding back his anger, the corner of his mouth raised harder than a bazooka...

Seeing that Xu Damao was about to cause trouble for Sha Zhu, he quickly stopped him: "Brother, who are you going to trouble now? We are all at work. Besides, it's just a chicken. Why are you so angry? I can buy you one later!"

Xu Damao was still arguing with him: "You make it sound easy. This is an old hen. I keep it for laying eggs. I plan to keep it for a year and use it when your sister-in-law is in confinement after childbirth."

When Lou Xiao'e heard about the confinement period, her face turned red. She seized the point and said to Xu Dacan, "You are a very nice person, right? When we were arguing with each other last night, I didn't see you being so easy to talk to."

Xu Damao wondered: "Debate with scholars?"

Lou Xiao'e rolled her eyes almost to the top of her head: "That's right, three uncles plus the deaf old lady and Qin Huairu are coming with great force."

Xu Damao stamped his feet in anger: "These bastards..."

A chicken costs one yuan in the vegetable market. Xu Dacan knows that with his brother's personality, he will not give up.

But it’s better this way. It’s rude not to reciprocate.

Without the chicken, Xu Damao no longer had the interest to show Lou Xiaoe the "local specialties".

After eating the sesame cake and drinking the rice porridge, I washed up and went back to the room to sleep.

Lou Xiao'e had a headache looking at the pile of things on the kitchen floor. What were they?

Eggplant, wild rice stem, spinach, lotus root, yam, taro, and a few sweet potatoes...

Lou Xiao'e sighed and looked at Xu Dacan, seeming to want to say something but stopping herself.

Of course Xu Dacan knew what was going on. Lou Xiao'e thought Damao was a bad boy.

He didn't even think about whether Lou Xiao'e needed the things he brought back.

These things are obviously not worth much money, but Xu Damao always makes a big fuss about them, thinking only of his family being one of the best in the courtyard. How could he not be hated?

No wonder Lou Bancheng also looked down on this son-in-law, thinking that he had too strong a small-peasant mentality.

"..."

During the day, Xu Dacan went to the telephone office to make a long-distance call.

The Telephone Bureau was later called the Post and Telecommunications Bureau. This name has been passed down since before liberation, so ordinary people still call it that now.

At this time, if you want to make calls to different cities, you have to go to different places.

For example, if you want to call Harbin, you have to go to the long-distance telephone building on the west side of the National Culture Palace on Chang'an Avenue; if you want to call Haidafu, you have to go to the long-distance telephone building on Wusheng Road.

Before making a phone call, you have to go to the counter to get a phone bill and fill it out with a pen. Write down clearly where you want to call, who you want to call, what is the relationship between this person and you, and the phone number.

After paying the deposit, just wait aside.

If it’s fast, it may take ten minutes; if it’s slow, it may take half an hour or even an hour.

Xu Dacan waited for nearly 40 minutes before he heard his name being called.

I quickly replied, "Here!" The voice on the other end was cold and hard: "Go to Room 8."

Xu Dacan glanced at the woman, found number 8 on the door of the row of small telephone rooms on the east side, went in and closed the door.

I picked up the phone and heard a female voice: "Wait a minute!"

Then I just held the receiver and waited. I couldn't leave. I waited for several minutes before I heard a voice coming from the receiver: "Long-distance call, talk!"

Xu Dacan was startled. Before he could say anything, he heard a voice coming from the receiver: "Who is it?"

Although the telephone at that time was very outdated and the sound was severely distorted when passing through the radio waves, Xu Dacan still recognized the voice of his cheap father Xu Hang.

He was afraid that Xu Hang couldn't hear him clearly, so he shouted into the receiver: "Dad, it's Dacan!"

"Dacan?! Kid, why did you think of calling me?" Xu Hang's voice was full of surprise and disbelief.

Xu Dacan said hurriedly, "Dad, it's not easy to make a long-distance call, so let me make it short. Everything is fine here. I want you to help me collect some medicinal herbs in my hometown and mail them to me when you're done."

"Medicinal herbs? What kind of medicinal herbs?"

"Dad, find a pen and paper to write it down. Asafoetida, ginseng, deer antler, astragalus, musk, realgar, bezoar, ganoderma, northern drooping cordyceps, false crystal orchid, rhubarb, pine needle jade, gastrodia, schisandra, epimedium, Acanthopanax, gentian, that's all for now."

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"..."

On the other end of the phone, Xu Hang could hardly write and kept asking him to speak slower.

After a while, Xu Hang asked him, "What do you need so many herbs for?"

Xu Dacan had already made up an excuse: "Dad, the phone call time is up, tell me in the letter later. As long as it's what I just mentioned, I want it. I don't have to buy the best ones, just the cheapest and cheapest ones. Mail it to me when you're done."

After saying that, he hung up the phone without giving Xu Hang time to nag at him.

I asked my family to mail the medicinal materials from the Northeast, firstly to ripen them and sell them for money, and secondly to prepare for the future and eliminate potential risks in advance.