Siheyuan: Big City, Small Love

After seeing all these fancy foreign colors, He Lai left the space.

It is already two o'clock in the morning. He Lai thought that there was still so much food in his space, so he decided to put it again. This time he would not put it in the north, but planned to put a batch in the Dazhalan area in the south.

As it was late at night, He Lai didn't dare to run too fast for fear of causing unnecessary trouble. After all, there were people going out at night.

After about an hour, He Lai ran along Beiyanhe Street, passed Wangfujing, and walked along Chongwenmenwai Street and Tiantan Road.

Suddenly, He Lai saw a stone tablet and a little girl not far from the roadside and was shocked.

Seeing that the little girl didn't move, he mustered up the courage to take a few steps forward.

Only then did he realize that it was a statue! He Lai walked closer and saw that the statue was a little girl holding a goldfish bowl, with the three characters "Goldfish Pond" written on the stone tablet.

He Lai suddenly remembered where this was.

Isn’t this the largest slum in Beijing, the Goldfish Pond?

There are many stories about the Goldfish Pond. Originally, the water quality of the pond here was the best, suitable for the growth of goldfish. Therefore, until the Qing Dynasty, this place was a place for raising goldfish, hence the name Goldfish Pond.

Until the beginning of the last century, the Qing Dynasty declined, and the upstream Longxugou was filled with urban sewage and rainwater, and there was no ability to repair it. The goldfish pond was abandoned and turned into a stinking puddle, and the shore naturally became the largest slum in the old city.

He Lai had read Lao She's "Longxugou" several times. It was later made into a movie, which vividly portrayed the residents living in Longxugou.

He Lai didn't think much about it and decided to put the food here. He looked around and found no one, so he started to act. He put 100,000 kilograms of food behind the stone tablet! Sweet potatoes, potatoes, rice, flour, cornmeal, everything, and a large bucket of soybean oil, weighing 400 to 500 kilograms. He left three notes with big words He Lai cut from the newspaper - for the people!

After He Lai finished everything, he left quickly and returned to Nanluoguxiang.

Things are not calm over at the Goldfish Pond. People here usually get up very early, and it is already dawn in the city.

Xiaoshi is a morning market from 4 to 7 in the morning, selling daily necessities. It is especially popular near the goldfish pond.

Soon the residents saw the food left by He Lai, and then saw the words "for the people" left on the ground. They knew that he was another legendary philanthropist, so they started to go home and call people to bring bags.

Soon, many residents of the goldfish pond gathered here to load food.

Later, the director of the local street office was called in. He originally wanted to stop the people from looting, but after seeing the three big words "For the People", he fell silent.

Since it was distributed to the people, she had no reason to refuse. She could only watch the residents fill their bags. The people on the street maintained order and asked them to line up. Especially for the oil, this big barrel of oil looked a lot, but it was not enough for all the residents. Each household could only get about one kilogram, otherwise it would be gone in an instant!

After more than an hour of queuing to receive food, 100,000 kilograms of food were gone in an instant.

Even at the oil drums, residents were still wiping them with clean towels or cotton cloth, trying to remove the remaining oil in the drums.

……

He Lai, the instigator, is already sleeping soundly in bed.

Wu Juan came and knocked on the bedroom door early in the morning.

He Lai was soon awakened and opened the door in a daze.

"What are you doing, mom? Knocking on the door so early in the morning!" He Lai said, rubbing his eyes.

"Look at you, what time is it now! It's nine o'clock! You're still sleepy. You're not sleeping at all late at night. I don't know what you're doing. You've messed up Yu Shui's room. Go have breakfast quickly and then go to work!"

As Wu Juan spoke, she pulled He Lai out of the rain room and began to check the bed, fearing that He Lai had done something bad in the room. As for what it was, single men would know!

He Lai washed up in a daze, then sat down and started drinking porridge. There was a bowl of pickled cabbage in front of him.

"Mom, is this all you're going to eat? If you can, give me some pickles!"

He Lai shouted.

"Alright, alright, have some porridge. When we get to the steel mill, you can eat something good. Be obedient."

By this time, Wu Juan had already taken off the quilt cover that had covered her with rain.

"Mom, why are you so rude? I just slept on it for one night and you took it apart to wash it!"

He Lai said unhappily.

"How dare you say that? Rain is a grown-up girl now. The quilt is all smelling of your sweat. I don't know what you did at night! How can I not take it down and wash it?"

Wu Juan glared at He Lai unhappily, and was sure that her son must have done something bad, otherwise why would he be sweating so much!

He Lai ran all night yesterday and of course he was sweating. After taking off his clothes and lying in bed, he noticed a slight smell of sweat.

He Lai went into the space to clean it up, and also put the quilt into the space to get rid of the sweat smell.

Unexpectedly, Wu Juan still smelled it!

He Lai could only drink the porridge awkwardly without any explanation. After Wu Juan went back, he rode his bicycle to the steel mill.

When he returned to the technical department, Section Chief He Lai was welcomed with warm applause.

"Our Section Chief He, did you bring any gifts for us subordinates?"

Liu Mu said with a smile, and when he saw He Lai reaching into his pocket, he added, "You can't just send us away with a cigarette like last time!"

"Uh... let's eat braised pork. What do you think of braised pork?"

He Lai took his hand out awkwardly and said.

"good!"……

Everyone agreed immediately.

"Okay then, Liu Mu, Shen Dandan, come with me to the office, and the rest of you can continue working."

He said this and left.

He Lai Office

"Brother Liu, Sister Dandan, how are you doing recently? Is everything fine in the workshop?"

He Lai asked.

"There are problems, but they are not technical issues. They are about the food for the workers. There is not enough food and they are not full. Several workers have been injured because they work on an empty stomach."

Liu Mu said.

"Ah, what's going on? Is there no food in the cafeteria?" He Lai asked in surprise.

"It's not that the steel mill is out of food, it's that there's no food on the market, my great section chief! You don't know how expensive firewood and rice are until you run a household! Now the grain station is almost out of food!"

Yanagi sighed.

"Uh... there's also this matter! I don't know about it. I just got back."

He Lai said awkwardly.

"Brother Liu, you don't know him yet. Didn't you hear the workers who came back from Guangcheng say that our section chief treated others to big lobsters and crabs in Guangcheng? But here we only have a bowl of meat."

Shen Dandan said indifferently. After all, the workers who went to Guangcheng came back to work yesterday, so He Lai's deeds naturally spread.

"Well, Sister Dandan, if you say that, I won't give you a gift. I originally had a few chocolates here that I was going to give you."

After He finished speaking, he took out two pieces of chocolate and shook them in his hands.

Shen Dandan's eyes lit up when she saw it. As a highly educated person, she naturally knew what chocolate was. She took a quick step and snatched it from He Lai's hand.

"Don't think you can get rid of me with just two pieces of chocolate. Give me at least four! There are several people sitting next to me!"

Shen Dandan looked at the chocolate and spoke again.

"Okay, okay, I'll give you four more dollars, okay?" He Lai was also very generous and directly took out another four dollars.

"That's good enough!" Shen Dandan looked at the chocolates on the table and immediately smiled happily.

"Well, Comrade He Lai, I'm a big living person standing here, you think you can't see me? You give it to her and not to me! It's a bit unreasonable!"

Liu Mu spoke up immediately.

"Well, I have 20 kilograms of fine grain coupons here that I wanted to give you, but since you want chocolate, forget it."

He Lai took out the fine grain coupons to tempt Liu Mu.

Liumu instantly snatched the fine grain ticket from Helai's hand. This is a good thing!

"Brother Liu, I think you can participate in the 100-meter race. With this speed, you will definitely be among the top few, if not the first."

He Lai said with a smile.

"Go away, don't you know that there are a lot of people waiting for food at home? These are fine grain coupons, not cornmeal or wheat bran!"

Liu Mu stared at the fine grain coupons as if he were holding a treasure.

"Okay, okay, go ahead and do your work. I still have to figure out how to get you some pork."

He Lai sent the two people away with just one sentence.