Siheyuan: There are seven fairies in my house, I am so busy

The women in the Zhang family are all good at working. No matter what kind of work it is, they can do it quickly and well and are not afraid of hard work. Plus there are so many people, it didn’t take long for a tricycle to collect almost all the bricks for the city wall.

Each brick of the city wall is 48 cm long, 24 cm wide and 13 cm thick. These old city wall bricks are large, thick and heavy. One brick weighs nearly 50 kilograms. It is a strenuous task for Zhang's daughter to move them. So the transportation work can only be done by Zhang Jialiang.

After finding the wall bricks, they had to clean them. There was still a lot of dirt and lime on them, and each piece had to be cleaned thoroughly. Plus the weather was hot, so soon the sisters were sweating profusely.

Even Zhang Jialiang, a strong young man, was sweating. The bricks of the old city wall were big and heavy, and a tricycle could not carry too many of them, otherwise the wheels and tires would not be able to bear it and it would be difficult for the driver.

When it was almost done, he decided to pull the bricks home first.

"Jiamei, Jiahui, the two of you come with me, let's pull these bricks back first."

"Okay, Third Brother!"

This place is several miles away from the courtyard. Zhang Jialiang rode the tricycle back to the courtyard. Even with the help of his fifth and sixth sisters, he was still exhausted and out of breath. There were only a dozen old city wall bricks in this tricycle, but the weight was really not light, probably six or seven hundred kilograms.

When he returned to the old city wall, his sister and sisters had already cleaned up another cart of city wall bricks.

In this way, he ran back and forth six times in the morning and pulled six trucks, but in the end he brought back less than a hundred old city wall bricks. This made his hands and legs ache from exhaustion.

When it was the fourth trip, he put the fifth child at home and prepared to cook.

Today, he knew that the house was going to be renovated, and Old Sun and another person would come to work. Plus, the other people in the family would have to expend a lot of physical energy, so he prepared two rabbits and three pounds of fish to reward everyone at noon.

People in the capital have a rule that if someone helps to build a house, the host will generally provide them with a meal every day.

Wealthy families will prepare better meals, and those who are not well off will do their best. In any case, it is a token of thoughtfulness. The people who work will work hard after eating the host's meal.

"Liangzi, what you prepared is too rich, with rabbit, fish, and steamed buns made of two grains of flour.

I won't hide it from you. To be honest, I haven't eaten meat for several months.

Alas, there are many people in my family, including many children and grandchildren. I can’t afford to buy meat with the limited meat coupons I have in a month. I have to exchange them for grain so that my family can have enough to eat.

This is too much of a waste. Lao Yang and I can just eat something small as long as we don’t starve.”

Old Sun was indeed frightened when he saw the sumptuous meal, and he was telling the truth. His family really had not eaten meat for several months. At the same time, Old Yang nodded and said that his family was the same.

"Uncle Liu, Uncle Yang, you two don't have to be polite. It's an old custom in our capital to leave a meal for the people who work at home every day.

I don't have much talent, I just know how to hunt. I didn't spend any money on these things, I hunted them all myself.

Today is the first day, and I specially prepared these. There aren’t many things, and there are many people in our family, so each person can’t eat much, so we just prepare them for a taste.

Besides, it's not like this every day. From now on, we will have simple meals. Please forgive me, both of you."

"We are really flattered. It is not easy to have a meal of meat these days. Besides, no one can be full after eating meat. It is just for the taste.

If you want to have delicious food, you have to be a big leader to have that condition. We don't have that fate, so this is good enough.

From now on, just do things normally. Just cook what your family usually eats. We are not picky. We are all poor people and no one will blame anyone.

Don't worry, Liangzi, we will definitely repair your back house and kitchen for you. Lao Yang and I don't have any other skills. If you treat us to meat and buy us cigarettes, we will definitely do a good job for you."

The two old brothers were quite stubborn and refused to go into Zhang Jialiang's room to eat with his family. Perhaps because there were too many women in his family and it was inconvenient, they just squatted where they worked and had their lunch.

In the afternoon, Zhang Jialiang and his group continued to collect bricks from the old city wall. Zhang Jialiang was very tired at the end of the day, and so were his other sisters.

But this was all done for the sake of working on their own families, and thinking about living in a renovated house with a sturdy kitchen in the future, no one complained.

Sha Zhu returned to the courtyard early in the afternoon. Today, Liu Haizhong hosted a banquet for everyone in the courtyard and invited Sha Zhu to be the chef.

Sha Zhu had nothing to do in the factory cafeteria, so he came back early. Since he had promised Liu Haizhong to cook, he had to deal with it well.

Apart from anything else, he is very serious as a chef. No matter who asks him to cook, he takes it seriously. As a chef, Sha Zhu is qualified.

At about the same time, Zhang Jialiang came to the backyard. Xu Damao had already arrived, so he went straight to sit next to Xu Damao.

"Da Mao, how is it, has Liu Guangqi changed?"

After Xu Damao took a look and saw that it was Zhang Jialiang, he curled his lips with disdain.

"He's still the same, acting like he's second to nothing, and he doesn't care about anyone, as if I owe him money!"

Zhang Jialiang looked at Liu Guangqi, who was sitting at another table with Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong and Yan Fugui. His appearance had not changed much.

However, the clothes and shoes he wore were of much higher quality, his hair was neatly groomed, and he looked very gentle and refined.

He also knew Liu Guangqi's character. He generally didn't like to talk to people in the compound and hardly communicated with anyone except the two managers, Yi Zhonghai and Yan Fugui.

"He has always been like that, so what? Did you try to get close to him?"

Zhang Jialiang asked as he took the cigarette handed to him by Xu Damao.

After Xu Damao lit up the cigarette, he took a deep puff and blew out a smoke ring. He responded in a very unhappy tone.

"I am such a jerk. I thought he had graduated and was an adult now. He should have changed a bit and shouldn't be as self-righteous as before.

The result, ugh!

His grandma’s!

He is still the same dog, acting so arrogant, but he is just a junior college student, what's so great about him? "

"Well, since you've been there, you've paved the way for me, so I won't go there to join in the fun.

So that he won't look down on me again. I have a bad temper, and if I can't hold it in and beat him up, what shall I do then?"

"It's a pity you didn't go. You would have been so angry if you had gone. Look, someone else has gone. I guess he will be beaten back in less than 10 seconds."