Rebirth 1958: My Home is in Nanluoguxiang

Chang Zhengyang poured the twenty kilograms of corn flour in the cloth bag into the big wooden barrel. It was only a little past four o'clock, so he could go back and take a nap.

At around six o'clock in Yanjing, smoke rose from every household. The city, which had been silent all night, suddenly became noisy at this time.

Chang Zhengyang was brushing his teeth with an enamel cup in his hand, listening to the noises coming from various households in the alley. The women were busy preparing breakfast in the kitchen, and they would yell from time to time, urging the children in the bed to get up quickly. If there were any who stayed in bed, they would be beaten up directly.

Men of all ages yawned and carried toilets to the public toilets to empty their midnight oil, releasing the semen accumulated overnight.

Chang Zhengyang smiled. He had been thinking about it over the past few days and now he could control his five senses so his nose no longer had to suffer.

It's better to have your own home, with a separate bathroom. Chang Baichuan dotes on his wife, so how could he let his sweet-smelling wife go to the smelly public toilet? He specially asked someone to build a septic tank with cement in his yard, and installed a flush toilet in the bathroom.

This is the only scorpion shit in the whole alley!

Although there is no running water and it is not very convenient to use, and a separate bucket of water has to be placed aside, the people in the Chang family don't care at all.

It’s better than burning night incense every day!

As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. People in the Chang family have a habit of not going to the toilet outside if they can avoid it.

Anyone who uses a dry toilet these days knows what the environment is like!

After Chang Zhengyang left the house, he saw He Yuzhu's stinky face and asked knowingly, "My man, did you hit the golden soup today?"

He Yuzhu was furious and said, "Screw you, you're the one who stepped on the shit!"

Haha ...

The men of all ages around burst into laughter, and He Yuzhu's face became even more sullen, especially Xu Damao, who laughed the loudest!

Chang Zhengyang dodged He Yuzhu's fist easily and said with a chuckle, "What kind of person are you? You can't even take a joke. Are you still a man?"

He Yuzhu snorted when he heard that, turned around and kicked Xu Damao.

"Laugh, I'll make you laugh..."

"Hey, why did you hit someone?"

Xu Damao was kicked unexpectedly and sat down on the ground. After being stunned for a moment, he became furious and jumped up and rushed towards He Yuzhu.

"Sun thief, I'm going to spend money on you today!"

Xu Damao punched He Yuzhu with anger and at an extremely fast speed. He Yuzhu didn't have time to dodge and was hit hard.

Hey, what a fuss!

Chang Zhengyang slapped his forehead. If it weren’t for what he just said, this would never have happened. He then stepped forward and separated He Yuzhu and Xu Damao.

"My two brothers, you all blame me for my bad mouth. Please give me some face and let's shake hands and make peace, okay?"

Whoosh, whoosh...

He Yuzhu and Xu Damao gasped for a few times and glared at each other fiercely.

"Xu Damao, I'll forgive you this time for Zhengyang's sake."

"Bah, idiot, I'm not afraid of you. I'm doing this for Zhengyang's sake. You just wait for me..."

Chang Zhengyang saw that the two men had regained their composure, and immediately said with a smile: "Don't worry, we are all from the same courtyard, we will see each other every day, so how about this, I will host you tonight, can you two brothers show up?"

He Xu and the other man looked at each other, then looked at Chang Zhengyang, and then nodded.

Yi Zhonghai, who was standing by, coughed and said, "That's the way it should be. We are all from the same courtyard, so we should love each other. Now, stop making fun of us neighbors and go to work."

Seeing that there was nothing exciting to watch, everyone had to disperse. There are few entertainment activities these days. They thought they could watch something exciting!

Pity!

"Brother Zhengyang, I know why he and I are like that."

After everyone had gone far away, He Yushui walked up to Chang Zhengyang and whispered, "My brother, that big fool, was praised by the third uncle last night, so he agreed to treat him to a meal, but he just remembered it this morning and has been sulking ever since!"

It is indeed so. You really deserve the title of Shazhu, He Yuzhu!

Chang Zhengyang rubbed He Yushui's head and said with a smile: "I understand, let's go to school."

"Okay, I understand. Goodbye, Brother Zhengyang."

He Yushui skipped and caught up with Chang Wanyue in front of him.

A day passed in a flash, and in the evening, Xu Damao came to Chang's house with a bottle of wine. He didn't make sauerkraut fish tonight, but changed the dish and made braised fish slices with pancakes. He added dried cowpea and dried mushrooms to the pot. The golden pancakes were soaked in the rich braised fish soup, which was so delicious that people could not resist it.

A plate of fried bacon, a plate of fried leeks, and fried peanuts provided by He Yuzhu, the few people toasted each other, and after three rounds, He Yuzhu and Xu Damao started to call each other brothers again.

The men in the alley are like this. They just had a fight in the morning, and after a drink in the evening, hey, today we are half-brothers!

"Silly Zhu, come on, let's go, I'll drink this cup, you can do whatever you want..."

Xu Damao held the cup and stood up shakily. Chang Zhengyang shook his head when he saw this. This was the third bottle. Chang Baichuan was not satisfied after finishing the bottle Xu Damao brought, so he took two more bottles.

Now there are only four grown men left at the table. Chang's father and son took a sip of wine from time to time and watched He Yuzhu and Xu Damao drinking together.

Fortunately, the Chang family's wine glasses were small porcelain cups weighing three cents. If they had been replaced with bowls, according to Xu Damao's way of drinking, the wine would have been under the table by now.

"Who are you looking down on, Xu Damao? Look carefully..."

He Yuzhu drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, with the mouth of the glass pointing downwards to indicate that he was not lying. He said he would drink it in one gulp, and he drank it in one gulp.

After they finished their drink, they quickly took a few bites of food to wash down the wine.

They had made a bet before dinner. Whoever lost in the drinking contest would have to sign up to do voluntary labor at the Miyun Reservoir for a week.

You have to bring your own food when you do this voluntary labor, which is not a big deal, the key is that this work is tiring.

Chang Zhengyang arranged this drinking party tonight, so there's no way he could let one of them really lose. Wouldn't that be a waste of being a good person?

"You two, today we are even."

"No!" x2

Chang Zhengyang chuckled and shook the bottle in his hand, and there was not a drop of wine left in it.

He Yuzhu and Xu Damao looked at each other, and they immediately understood. Since the host had given them an exit, they should just do it quickly.

"Xu Damao, you are lucky today. Let's compete again another day!"

"I'm afraid, I'm afraid of you, buddy, just wait!"

The two of them drank a few sips of soup and ate a few pieces of bread. Then they burped and stood up to say goodbye to the Chang father and son.

He Yuzhu had a good foundation after all, and his steps were steady, so he walked ahead of Xu Damao and went back first.

Looking at Xu Damao again, this guy was already walking like a cat. Chang Zhengyang shook his head and decided to send him back, lest he get bumped into something. Aunt Xu would definitely say something to him.

When passing by the water tank, Chang Zhengyang suddenly remembered that there were two old turtles. He quickly caught them, found a basket and threw them in, then helped Xu Damao back home.