Siheyuan: Big City, Small Love

"Brother Lai, where did so many sweet potatoes come from?" As soon as Yu Shui entered the door, he saw more than a dozen sweet potatoes on the table. He Lai was also eating sweet potatoes.

"My neighbor gave them to me. Do you want to eat some? Some of them are ripe and smell delicious!"

He Lai smiled bitterly and said, I don't know why, everyone in this courtyard brought me sweet potatoes! Most of the people who came this time were adults, who put down the sweet potatoes and ran away.

So, in this era, there are still many people who are poor but have great ambitions. I guess when they see me giving things to my children, they will come and give them to them in person.

"Okay." Yu Shui sat next to He Lai and started eating sweet potatoes.

"Wow, come on, brother, these sweet potatoes are so delicious, I want to eat a few more."

"If you eat too much sweet potato, you will fart easily."

"Then I'll go back to the house and eat slowly."

"Doesn't the room stink?"

"Humph, I'm not going to bother with you. I'll get some for Chun'er and the others."

Yushui picked up a few cooked sweet potatoes and ran out.

I don’t know if it’s because they ate too many sweet potatoes, but every household in the yard of No. 94 started farting, haha.

At the weekend,

He Lai came to Grandpa Zhou's house in the morning with a packed goose and two bags of fruit.

Now the guard at the door has let He Lai in. This must be because Mr. Zhou gave the order.

He Lai discovered that Mr. Xu was also here. Looking at Mr. Xu's eyes, he shrank his neck and immediately said to Mrs. Zhou.

"Grandma Zhou, this fruit belongs to Grandpa Xu half, you can share it when the time comes."

"Okay, give him half." Old Mrs. Zhou took the fruit bag and said with a smile.

"You're smart, kid. What's in the other bag? Bring it here for me to see." Mr. Xu was obviously not satisfied with half a bag of fruit, and directly asked He Lai to bring it over.

"Well, it's just a goose. I brought it here to nourish Grandpa Zhou. You don't need to look at it."

"Bring it here quickly."

Seeing that Mr. Zhou didn't say anything, He Lai had no choice but to walk over and give the bag to Mr. Xu.

"Wow, such a big goose, no, give me half of it."

When Mr. Xu opened the bag and saw the big white goose inside, he immediately asked for half of it.

"Old Xu, did I give you face? Get lost. I won't give you my things! I don't believe it. You are not the only one in the Ministry of Agriculture. Without you, I will still eat hairy pigs!"

Mr. Zhou finally couldn't help but explode.

He Lai was also confused. What was going on?

"Old Zhou, you better think it over carefully. Without my seedlings, it will be difficult to grow crops on this land."

Mr. Xu said with a smile.

"If you don't want to plant it, then don't plant it. I eat meat every day, who cares about your broken seedlings? Anyway, I didn't plant them."

"Okay, I'll wait for you to beg me." Old Master Xu smiled and left.

He Lai watched Mr. Xu leave, then turned and asked Mr. Zhou.

"Grandpa Zhou, what kind of seedlings?"

"It was your street office that insisted on planting a few acres of land and wanted me to help get some sweet potato and potato seedlings. I don't know who threw hundreds of thousands of kilograms of grain before, and the Ministry of Agriculture used it to cultivate the seedlings. I heard that they are quite good.

So I asked this old man Xu for it, damn it, this old man Xu wants this and that, anyway, I don't care, he bothers me with such a small thing. "

Mr. Zhou told his grievances, it turned out that he was blackmailed by Mr. Xu, these soldiers just love to play these games.

"Leave this to me. Director Wang just needs some seedlings. I'll take care of it."

He Lai said with a smile.

"Oh, how do you get this thing?" Mr. Zhou was surprised.

"Grandpa Zhou, you may not know that 20,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes appeared in our area yesterday. People in our courtyard got some sweet potatoes, and I will cultivate them when the time comes. There are not many seedlings in two or three acres of land, I can take care of it."

He Lai said with a smile.

"Okay, okay, let's not beg him. Damn it, he's been bullying me all morning. If I'd known you were capable of that, I wouldn't have tolerated his bullying. The same goes for your street office. Such a big thing has happened in your own family, yet you still come to ask me for things."

Mr. Zhou felt relieved now.

"Grandpa Zhou, you can't blame Aunt Wang for this. The sweet potatoes only appeared last night."

He Lai explained.

“Hey, you’re saying this is weird, we’ve been investigating for so long, but we still can’t find out who got this food, it’s like it appeared out of thin air!

We really have to thank this person, otherwise, the food supply in this city would be a bit tight."

Old Master Zhou sighed and said that he heard that the seedlings produced from this grain were much better than those on the market.

"Grandpa Zhou, let's focus on when we can go shooting. I've been looking forward to it for many days."

He Lai didn't want to continue this topic.

"Okay, okay, old lady, please cook dinner early. Xiao Laizi and I have to go to the shooting range to play at noon."

"Okay. I'll do it now." Old Mrs. Zhou took the bag of geese and said with a smile.

"Come, let's play chess and see if you have made any progress recently."

"Then you have to let me have the horses and artillery."

"Okay, let you."

……

Soon, Mr. Zhou took He Lai to a shooting range outside the city.

There were already people waiting at the door of the shooting range, ready to welcome Mr. Zhou. After all, he was a ministerial-level cadre, and was considered upper-class in the city.

The person in charge of the shooting range took him to the armory, where He Lai saw rows and rows of weapons.

There is everything here, pistols, rifles, machine guns, all kinds of firearms of this era are here, there are even cannons and mortars in the innermost!

It would be nice if I could give myself a shot, feel it, and listen to the sound of thump.

"Okay, forget about the cannon. You can't just let that thing go. Pick a gun."

Seeing He Lai staring at the cannon inside, Mr. Zhou reminded him.

He Lai then came to his senses and chose a Water Lianzhu, after all, he already had this gun.

"This sniper rifle is pretty good. Do you know how to use it?" asked Mr. Zhou.

"Not really. Don't we have Grandpa Zhou? Hehe. Grandpa Zhou, you have to teach me well."

He Lai held the water beads steadily and said to Mr. Zhou with a smile.

"Okay, I'll teach you how to use a gun. Hey, get me fifty rounds of bullets."

Mr. Zhou smiled and picked up a handful of water balls and said to the person in charge of the shooting range.

When the man heard this, he quickly took his guards to get bullets.

He Lai soon learned how to load and press bullets. The water-jet rifle was loaded by using a clip to press the bullets into the magazine from the top of the fuselage at once, five rounds at a time, which was quite unusual.

The two men lay on the ground, looking quite realistic. Under the guidance of Mr. Zhou, He Lai fired several shots, but unfortunately his accuracy was a little off and he missed the target.

"Xiao Laizi, it seems that you don't have the talent to be a sniper! In the past, there were basically no small telescopes in the water chain, and we had to squint our eyes to aim."

"Grandpa Zhou, I've only fired a few rounds, and you're saying that. You better let me fire a few dozen rounds first. Don't people say that sharpshooters are fed with bullets?"

He Lai just lay on the ground, looking ahead through the telescope, and said unconvincedly,

"Haha, you know this, but you are wrong. This bullet can indeed produce a sharpshooter. However, most sharpshooters are born with it.

In my former unit, there were several sharpshooters, all born with this talent. At that time, there were not so many bullets for them to practice with, so whoever was the best would be the sniper! "

Old Master Zhou began to recall the war years again.

"Bang" He Lai fired another shot.

"Haha, I hit it. See, old man? I almost hit the bull's eye."

"Really? Let me see. Oh, you're good, Xiao Laizi. Come again. Come again."

……

Soon, He Lai fired nearly forty bullets. Mr. Zhou didn't shoot much. He was basically teaching He Lai how to shoot.

Fortunately, He Lai did not disappoint Mr. Zhou, and the last few shots hit the bull's eye.

"How about it? With my level, can I be a sniper?"

"You? It's still early. We're only a hundred meters away now. Why don't you try 200 meters?"

"Just try it!"

"Xiao Hu, go get another hundred rounds of bullets."

"Yes!"

……

He Lai and Mr. Zhou spent the entire afternoon on the training range, with He Lai firing his gun tirelessly and adjusting various details.

In the end, He Lai was able to hit the 200-meter bull's eye many times.

"How about it? Do you want to try 300 meters?" He Lai joked with a smile.

"Forget it, let's stop here for now. Help me up." Old Master Zhou had been lying down for too long and could hardly sit up.

"Commander, are you okay?" The guard hurried over to help him up.

He Lai was embarrassed, forgetting that Mr. Zhou was old and the guard was new to the job and had no experience in this, so he let Mr. Zhou lie on the ground for so long.

"It's okay, it's okay. I just lay there for too long, so I feel a little numb for a while. It will be fine after I sit for a while."

"Come, let me help you press it, it will be fine in a moment."

He Lai walked behind Mr. Zhou and started kneading him gently.

After a while, Mr. Zhou finally recovered and stood up with the help of He Lai.

"Xiao Laizi is really capable. Just press it casually and it will be much better."

Mr. Zhou stretched his body and felt unusually comfortable.

"Let's go back and give you another acupuncture treatment. Don't worry, I have inherited the true skills from my master." He Lai said with a smile.

"Okay, okay, let's go back. It's almost time. Xiao Hu, go return the gun."

"Yes!"

Soon the three of them drove back to Mr. Zhou's home in the military compound.

After letting Mr. Zhou take a short rest, He Lai started to give him acupuncture, and Mr. Zhou fell asleep.

"Grandma Zhou, I'm leaving now. Grandpa Zhou is just a little tired. It's nothing serious. Don't worry."

"Don't worry, don't worry, just ride slowly on the road."

"gone."

He Lai returned to Nanluoguxiang in this way.