Siheyuan: Big City, Small Love

He Lai had been fishing all day. After work, he went to visit Grandpa Zhou and Grandpa Feng first, dropped off a goose at each place and left. After all, he had a lot to do today.

I have to go to the greenhouse to plant strawberries and watermelons today. I took out the prepared strawberry and watermelon seedlings from the space and went to the greenhouse.

After giving the seedlings to the old man, he gave him a few instructions and left him alone. After all, he was appointed by Director Wang and must have some understanding of growing crops.

He Lai took out another killed goose and went to the street office, intending to find Director Wang to gossip about the deaf old lady. He was a little curious.

"Xiao Laizi, you are really good, you can catch such a big bird.

If we hadn’t been short on manpower and Wild Duck Lake was far away, I would have asked your uncle Feng to lead the team to catch it.”

Director Wang looked at the meat in front of him and sighed.

He Lai thought so too. Police stations are still quite busy these days and everyone has their own things to do.

Police officers at the police station need to patrol their area of ​​responsibility every day to prevent cases from happening. If there are not enough people, they will not be able to respond in time. After all, in this era, people have to rely on bicycles and feet. There are very few three-wheeled motorcycles, which is very inconvenient. They can only add more manpower to make up for it.

"It's okay, Aunt Wang. If you want to eat them, I can catch a few for you. I'm a very good shooter now."

"Okay, tell me, what are you doing here today? I hope you're not coming here just to deliver some meat to your Aunt Wang."

Director Wang said with a smile.

"I'm here just to deliver the meat, and to tell Aunt Wang that I got some strawberry and watermelon seedlings and had them planted in the greenhouse."

"Okay, okay, Aunt Wang knows."

When Director Wang saw that the matter had been discussed and He Lai showed no sign of leaving, he guessed that there must be something else.

"Tell me, if you have anything else to say, your Aunt Wang will definitely do it if she can."

"Hey, Aunt Wang, I heard that the deaf old lady moved away. I'm just a little curious about what's going on inside."

He Lai expressed his curiosity.

"Well, it's okay to tell you, but don't go out and tell anyone."

"Auntie Wang, don't worry, I'm very tight-lipped."

"I later learned a little about what happened to the deaf old lady in the yard. You may know more than I do, so I won't say more.

As for this person, if it weren't for her age and the fact that she really needs someone to take care of her, I really wouldn't want to take care of her.

She came to see Director Sun to learn about the nursing home, and after taking a tour, she said she wanted to move out of the courtyard and live in the nursing home, so we agreed."

When Director Wang mentioned the deaf old lady, he was obviously not very interested, and it was obvious that he had deliberately tried to find out about the deaf old lady's reputation in the courtyard.

"What about the deaf old lady's house? Did Wang Jiabai take care of it?"

He Lai interrupted.

"How could it be that my care was in vain? It's been almost a year, and she gave me more than 70 yuan on her own, saying it was all her savings, and she just let it go.

She said that she would have to move back into the house when she died, so she couldn't give it to him for the time being. She said that she would have to die in her own house to feel at peace.

The house will be given to the street office after she dies. I didn’t agree at first because it didn’t comply with regulations, but she took out a box of jewelry and said that it should be considered as her donation to the street office. The jewelry is worth some money, so we won’t make things difficult for an old lady like her.”

Director Wang told the truth.

He Lai then understood the reason why the street office locked the door. This kind of steady profit was pretty good.

"Then Director Wang, I'll leave first."

He came to see that his goal was achieved and left.

……

He Lai returned to Courtyard No. 94, and Aunt Qian started chatting with He Lai again.

"Aunt Qian, what good news is going on today? I can see your crow's feet are showing from laughing."

Ever since He Zi moved into Yard No. 94, Aunt Qian would often bring him gossip.

"I always make fun of your aunt, but something happened next door today. The two sons of Teacher Yan went to Wild Duck Lake today, but they didn't bring anything back. They also lost their shoes, and their clothes and pants were soaked. It was so miserable.

We are dying of laughter, we are all greedy for your meat."

After Aunt Qian finished speaking, she covered her mouth and laughed.

"Hahaha, this is good news. Come on, Aunt Qian will give you two pieces of candy to sweeten the little girl's mouth. I'll go back first."

He Lai also laughed happily. The Yan family didn't have much ability, but they had some beautiful ideas. They even wanted to learn how to catch wild game themselves, without even thinking that they had a gun in their hands!

Soon everyone in the nearby courtyards knew that the two boys from the Yan family went to Wild Duck Lake, and they all laughed at them for overestimating their own abilities. If they were so easy to catch, the Wild Duck Lake would have been crowded with people long ago.

The Yan family sat together again.

"Dad, it was all your bad idea. There were puddles of water everywhere in that shabby place. If I hadn't helped Old Second in time, you probably wouldn't have seen him."

Yan Jiecheng still feels scared when he thinks about it now. It was too dangerous.

"What's going on? Why are He Lai and the others fine?" Yan Fugui was also puzzled. Why is his son so useless!

“As soon as we got there, we regretted our decision. Those large birds that were alone were hard to hit. We searched for a long time before we found a group of wild ducks. We immediately used our slingshots and finally hit one.

The second child immediately ran over and tried to pick it up, but he fell into the water halfway, and I was almost scared to death.

It took me a long time to pull him up, but my clothes and pants were soaked and one of my shoes was lost. "

Yan Jiecheng recalled the scene at that time, it was so tragic.

Yan Jiefang stood aside in silence, obviously terrified.

"Hey, you guys are probably too impatient. If you walk slowly, it won't work. How about you try again?"

After hearing this, Yan Fugui could only force an explanation.

"I won't go there again. There's no one there except a few hunters, and they all carry hunting rifles, unlike us. I'd better just do odd jobs. It's a waste of bus money, 40 cents per person!"

After Yan Jiecheng finished speaking, it was obviously impossible to go again.

"Why don't we ask Xiao Laizi and the others to go together?" suggested the third aunt.

"Forget it. I heard that Dad secretly bought a bicycle from He Lai's dad, which made him very unhappy. He rarely goes home. There's no way he can take us there."

Yan Jiefang told Liu Guangtian the news he had heard from him.

"Okay, let's forget about it then."

Yan Fugui could only nod helplessly. It was indeed he who deliberately discussed the bicycle matter with He Zhan alone because he was afraid that He Lai would object after knowing it. Not to mention going to Wild Duck Lake together now.

He just felt a little sorry for the one dollar fare and the shoe he paid for.

Sha Zhu and a few others in He Lai's family were also talking about the two boys from the Yan family going to Wild Duck Lake, and they were laughing all the time.

"I said you guys are almost done. Brother Zhuzi, you guys have all eaten, but I haven't. Can you help me cook some vegetables?"

He Lai looked at this group of people making a fuss in his home and smiled bitterly.

"Okay, I'll cook one for you." When Sha Zhu heard that He Lai hadn't eaten, he went to the kitchen to cook for He Lai.