Siheyuan: Big City, Small Love

When everyone arrived at the gate of the courtyard, He Lai knocked on the door and Wu Juan opened it immediately.

"Oh, you guys have a good harvest. You all caught so much?" Wu Juan saw that everyone's bags were full, probably cicadas.

"Hehe, Aunt He, Xiao Laizi's method is very useful. Look at all of them." Sha Zhu opened the bag to show Wu Juan.

"Okay, okay. Come in." Wu Juan quickly invited everyone in.

"Has Mom been waiting for us outside?" He Lai asked.

"How can that be? I'm staying at your Aunt Zhang's house." Wu Juan touched He Lai's head.

It turned out that my mother was waiting at a house in the front yard, and He Lai immediately took over the call.

"Mom, let's give them some. We can't let them wait in vain."

"Okay, Mom will take you there." Wu Juan took He Lai to Zhang's house.

"Hello, Uncle Zhang, Aunt Zhang." He Lai hurried forward to greet them.

"Xiao Laizi is here, come and sit down." Aunt Zhang saw Xiao Laizi coming and quickly stood up to greet him.

"Aunt Zhang, that's thanks. It's too late today. Thank you for letting my mother stay at your house. I can't finish all these cicadas, so I'll share some with you. Just take a bag and I'll pour them out for you." He Lai shook the cicadas.

"This, this..." Aunt Zhang was a little embarrassed.

"Take it, Zhang's sister. It's not easy for you either. Even if you don't eat it, the children will have to eat it too," Wu Juan quickly advised.

"Thank you very much." Aunt Zhang said with red eyes. Yes, my family just came here, and my husband's job is the hardest labor, so he needs these foods.

Aunt Zhang quickly brought the bag over, and He Lai poured some of it over.

"Then we'll leave first." Wu Juan said and left with He Lai.

"This family is really nice." Aunt Zhang said, looking at the cicadas in the bag in front of her.

"Yeah, I don't know if you can take me to catch it." Uncle Zhang also sighed.

……

"Mom, do you have a good relationship with the Zhang family?" He Lai was curious about why his mother had a relationship with them.

"Hi, I've met him a few times at the vegetable market. His family heard last year that there were job openings in the city, so they came here. The Military Control Commission arranged for him to work in our courtyard. Your Uncle Zhang is now working as a porter at the grain station.

Zhang Meizi also went to buy some cheap vegetables in the afternoon. When we met, I chatted with her and asked her to take my car a few times. That’s how we became familiar with each other.”

Wu Juan also felt emotional.

He Lai thought to himself that the population of Sijiu City was increasing and it was probably almost saturated.

He Lai came to Sha Zhu's house and saw that Sha Zhu and Yu Shui were already dealing with the larvae. Wu Juan and He Lai also joined in.

It will be fine in a moment.

"Brother Zhuzi, we'll leave first. Good night." After saying this, He took Yu Shui and Wu Juan back.

Take a bath and go to bed.

……

The next day, after the workers got off work, many of them saw He Lai and his team catching cicadas yesterday and wanted to follow them.

But because no one came to help Yu Shui when he was bullied last time, He Lai and Yi Zhonghai cut off all contact with him.

So they all turned to Liu Haizhong for help. After all, everyone knew that He Lai had a good relationship with Liu Haizhong now, and they wanted him to help put in a few good words for them.

He's Yard

"Xiao Laizi, I just saw a lot of people going to Liu Haizhong's house. I guess they want you to take them to catch cicadas."

Xu Damao's spy work is still very effective.

"Okay, I understand, Brother Damao, let's see what Uncle Liu says." He Lai didn't really care. After all, it was easy to know the method.

You will know it after you follow along. The principle is very simple.

Liu Haizhong came over slowly.

"Uncle Liu is here, please sit down." He Lai thought that he should establish his position in Liu Haizhong first, which would be more advantageous for the left and right courtyards behind.

“Xiao Laizi, that…that…” Liu Haizhong felt a little embarrassed.

"It's okay, Uncle Liu, just tell me if you have anything to say. Xiao Laizi will do it if he can." He Lai looked at Liu Haizhong's embarrassed expression and spoke directly.

"Uncle Liu said frankly that everyone wants you to lead us to catch cicadas. I wonder if you think it's possible."

After Liu Haizhong finished speaking, he stared at He Lai, fearing that he would disagree.

"There is no problem. But you need to organize the people yourself, Uncle Liu. We are only responsible for teaching.

After all, this thing is simple. Just take a flashlight and a few large plastic bottles.

But Uncle Liu, you may not know that flashlight batteries are quite expensive. Two batteries cost six thousand yuan.

See if everyone can accept this. Don’t blame me when you see that you didn’t catch many cicadas, don’t you think?”

He Lai also agreed directly, but also explained the pros and cons.

"Okay, Uncle Liu will go and tell them. Let them make their own choice." When Liu Haizhong heard He Lai's agreement, he immediately went to notify the residents.

He Lai saw Liu Haizhong walking away, and whispered to everyone, "We won't use the plastic bag method anymore. It's not good if too many people know about it. And if we do this, they won't always worry about the cicadas."

Everyone nodded in agreement. All of them came here to listen to He.

Soon, several families gathered in Liu Haizhong, including Yan Fugui's family and Jia Dongxu. Yi Zhonghai did not come.

Wu Juan saw that the Zhang family didn't come, so she went to pull them over and asked He Lai to take them with her.

He Lai didn't care. There were so many cicadas anyway and he couldn't catch them all.

"Uncle Liu, have you explained all the problems?"

"I told you, they all did it willingly. I promise I won't blame you." Liu Haizhong was telling the truth.

When He Lai heard this, he walked straight up to those people and spoke again.

"Since everyone wants to catch cicadas, Uncle Liu has already explained the pros and cons.

I repeat. Everyone knows that flashlight batteries are expensive, so I suggest that you take turns using them. Otherwise, you may fail to catch cicadas because the flashlight runs out of battery. Just don’t blame me, Xiao Laizi.”

"Xiao Laizi, is that kerosene lamp okay?" someone asked, taking out a kerosene lamp.

Everyone immediately realized that kerosene lamps can provide the same lighting.

"In theory, it's possible, but it's better to use a kerosene lamp with a wick inside. After all, don't burn trees in the wild in the summer, otherwise it will be bad.

You can try a kerosene lamp, after all, the brightness is much smaller than a flashlight. I don’t know the effect either.”

Everyone said they understood. They all went back to get kerosene lamps. After all, this only needed a little kerosene. But many people still brought flashlights. In case it didn't work, it would be a waste of time. They had to be prepared.

He Lai didn't care. It was still early and he only had an hour or so to catch cicadas.

They were still discussing how to distribute the flashlights if the kerosene lamps were useless, as some people had more and some had less.

After discussing for a long time, we finally decided that everyone would form teams with the same number of people, basically two people each, and three groups of six people would be just right, so that everyone could catch cicadas based on their own abilities.

Only Yan Fugui was a little unhappy. No one wanted to live with his family. After all, there were four people and they didn't want to have less. Others didn't indulge him either.

So Yan Fugui could only hope that the kerosene lamp would be effective.

He came to see that everyone had discussed it, so he set off and asked everyone in the compound to follow him.