Siheyuan: Big City, Small Love

"Come here, brother." Qian Dandan greeted him immediately when she saw He Lai coming back.

"Oh, Dandan is so good. Here are two strawberries for you. Where is your mother?" He Lai took out some strawberries from his cloth bag and gave them to Qian Dandan, then started asking questions.

"Thank you, brother. Mom and the others have gone to the middle court for a meeting. I'm here to inform the people who just came back."

Qian Dandan took the strawberry and answered with a smile.

"Okay, I'll go take a look." He Lai pushed his bicycle into the central courtyard.

"He Lai is back." Someone shouted, and everyone turned around and made way for him.

He Lai had no choice but to push the cart over and saw Secretary Sun was also there. He thought there must be something important to announce.

"Go on, go on, I'll just listen from the side." He Lai parked his bicycle and stood aside.

"He Lai, come, sit here." A resident in the middle courtyard gave up half of his bench to He Lai.

"Thank you." He Lai didn't hesitate and sat down directly.

"Okay, that's the thing. There's nothing we can do during these difficult times. We just have to overcome them. I believe the organization will be able to solve the food problem soon. I've finished what I want to say. I'll leave first. There are still several hospitals waiting for me to notify them."

After Secretary Sun finished explaining what he was doing, he left.

But the people in the yard did not disperse and started discussing.

"He Lai, that Secretary Sun came here to talk about the quantitative reduction."

"Oh, I see. Brother Chen, I don't think anyone seems to be reacting much!"

He Lai was a little puzzled. Why didn't they make a fuss when the quota was reduced?

"Hey, I have to thank you for this. We went fishing in Yongding River every day these days and saved up a lot of food.

There is no food at the grain station now. It opens at 8 o'clock, and we go to line up at 3 or 4 o'clock every day, but we can't buy anything. Even if we can buy, it's only some corn flour, and only enough for three days. It's too difficult."

Brother Chen sighed.

Although there is not much harvest from fishing now, they no longer use flashlights when fishing at night. They use kerosene lamps instead, which saves a lot of money. In this way, fishing has little cost and all the fish caught are profitable.

"That's good. Everyone, hold on. I believe things will get better in the future."

He Lai saw that everyone was surrounding him and could only say nice things.

The difficult days finally arrived. I have to speed up the development of Chlorella. I will go to Mr. Zhou again tomorrow and give him the development method of Chlorella. By the way, I will collect the Chlorella in the space and use the space ability to make some Chlorella powder.

Everyone started chatting next to He Lai, hoping that He Lai could help them with some advice.

"Well, I have some pig offal on my bicycle, and I don't have anywhere to dispose of it. You can take it and cook it for yourself."

As He said this, he took off the bag of pig offal and handed it to Uncle Qian.

I originally wanted to let Shazhu braise it, but now I'll just give it to them to eat.

"He Lai, this is not appropriate." Uncle Qian was a little embarrassed. Pig offal is also meat, and there are probably more than ten pounds of it.

"It's okay, it's okay. No one will prepare it for me when I take it back. I'll give you the same ones. Just remember to send me a bowl."

He Lai waved his hand.

Just when He Lai was in a stalemate with them, the sound of rain appeared.

"Come on, brother. Mom is calling you to eat."

"Oh, okay, everyone go back to eat, I'll go back too."

He Lai heard the rain's cry for help, so he quickly stood up and pushed his bicycle out of the whirlpool.

Back inside

"Yushui, luckily you're here, otherwise I would have to be dragged along for a long time. Here, your strawberry."

He Lai gave the strawberries in the cloth bag to Yu Shui.

"Thank you, brother. The mother asked us to go eat."

Yu Shui took the strawberry and said with a smile.

"Ah, really eat, I thought you said that on purpose to pull me out! Then let's go."

He Lai was surprised.

He Lai Yu Shui came next door.

"Why is mom so nice today? She's waiting for me to come back before eating?"

He Lai walked to Wu Juan and teased He Wu in her arms. After all, Wu Juan eats early and starts eating when she is hungry.

"Don't be so frivolous. Tell me, what have you been doing these past two days? Your father said you weren't at the factory these past two days."

Wu Juan asked.

"It's about this. Director Li from the factory asked me for help and promised me two jobs, so I helped him. Today I went to tell Grandpa and the others the news."

He Lai explained to Wu Juan.

"Oh, so, you should tell us what you need, or ask your father to help you?"

Wu Juan felt relieved when she heard this.

"No need, I've already done it. By the way, my cousin and his family will be here the day after tomorrow."

"So soon, are you all going to work at the steel mill?"

"No, I put these two places in the machine repair shop because I'm afraid people will gossip about me."

"Oh, now I feel relieved." Wu Juan felt relieved when she heard He Lai say that.

"Mother, where is my meal?"

"Grandma will get it for you." After explaining the matter clearly, Grandma He went to the kitchen to get food for He Lai.

"Xiao Laizi, are you telling the truth? Are the kids in my family going to the city?"

Old Mrs. Wu pulled He over and asked.

"Really? So you have to stay a few more days, grandma."

"Okay, grandma, stay and enjoy your life for a few more days."

Soon, several dishes were placed on the table. He Lai and Yu Shui ate while the others watched.

After dinner, He Lai realized that He Zhan was not at home.

"Mom, isn't Dad back again?"

"I'm back. I had a bite of food and went back to the security department."

As soon as He Lai heard this, he knew that He Zhan was afraid that he would blame him for informing on others, so he took the initiative to go to the security department to work overtime.

Forget it, it’s hard for him to have such a troublesome son, so let him sleep in the security department for a few more days! Hehe…

……

When I returned to the house, I found a large plate of pork offal on the table. It looked like it was half full. The people in this yard are quite content.

"Rainwater, put it in the kitchen. I'm going to take a shower first."

"I got it, come here, brother." Yu Shui agreed and went to the kitchen with it.

After washing up, He Lai returned to the room and entered the space. He collected most of the chlorella in the pool, then used his ability to grind it into powder and made 50 kilograms of chlorella powder.

He Lai thought about it again and again and decided to record the cultivation method of goose manure. After all, this is much more useful than human urine and can minimize the suffering of the people.

After all, if Chlorella is cultivated well, it can really produce 10,000 kilograms per mu!

……

The next day, He Lai took the results to Mr. Zhou.

"Xiao Laizi, why are you here today? Is there something wrong? Your Grandpa Zhou went to the Ministry of Metallurgy."

Old Mrs. Zhou was surprised.

"I have something to ask. Can you take me to the Ministry of Metallurgy? I've never been there."

He Lai forgot that Mr. Zhou also had to go to work.

"Okay, I'll make a phone call and ask someone to take you there." When Old Mrs. Zhou heard that He Lai had something to do, she immediately made a phone call.

He Lai sat in the living room waiting.

After a while, Old Mrs. Zhou came back.

"Xiao Laizi, is there anything urgent?"

"Well, it's very important. I made a nutritious food substitute and wanted Grandpa Zhou to recommend it. This is it. Grandma Zhou, take a look."

He Lai opened the flour bag, revealing green powder.

Old Mrs. Zhou grabbed a handful, put it to her nose, smelled it, and licked it.

"It smells like grass, which is nice, a bit like crab."

"This is chlorella, which is made from algae found underwater that have been dried."

He Lai explained.

"Grandma Zhou, would you like to try making a cup? This powder can be drunk directly by soaking it in water, or mixed into flour or some dishes."

"Okay, come on, give me a drink." Old Mrs. Zhou was obviously interested.

He Lai brought a teacup, poured in some chlorella powder, soaked it with boiling water, and soon there was a cup of green water.

He Lai tasted it first. It might be made in the space. There was no other taste, only the smell of seaweed.

"It's okay, Grandma Zhou, you try it."

"Okay." Old Mrs. Zhou took the teacup with a smile and started drinking.

Soon the car to pick up He Lai arrived, and He Lai got on the jeep with the Chlorella powder.