Returning to 1955, I began a life of lively chaos and leisure in that legendary Siheyuan. Let's see how a modern person can live their own little life by "gouging" (playing it safe/layi...
What Liu Haizhong didn’t expect was that while he was angry, the person who asked the question was even angrier.
Liu Haizhong just wants to pretend to be an elephant, but he is really worried about his family's livelihood.
Seeing Liu Haizhong's attitude, the man also got angry and pointed at Liu Haizhong's nose and cursed: "You don't know anything, why are you here to inform me?"
Liu Haizhong was about to leave.
"Say it again, damn it!" Liu Haizhong cursed back angrily.
"What's wrong with me just scolding you? What you said was all bullshit! How can the neighborhood office have a bastard like you?"
"Fuck you." The man walked forward and punched Liu Haizhong in anger.
Neither the people in the compound nor the joint defense team members brought by Liu Haizhong expected things to develop like this.
"Fuck you, you dare to hit me!" Liu Haizhong didn't tolerate the man and walked up to him and started fighting with him.
The people in the yard and the joint defense team members looked at each other and hurried forward to stop the two men.
"Captain, Captain, stop fighting, stop fighting."
"Xiao Wang, what are you doing? Why are you fighting with the leader of the street office?"
After all, the two men's arms were not as strong as the thighs, and they were pulled apart before they could even move two hands.
However, there are also troublemakers in this joint defense team, such as Liu Haizhong's lackey, who started shouting when he saw Liu Haizhong being beaten.
"Captain Liu, kill him! Kill him!"
It's just that this lackey just stood there moving his mouth without doing anything, and he was shouting very loudly.
Even the two men in Liu Haizhong stopped fighting and just saw him dancing and shouting.
Liu Haizhong's face almost turned green with anger, not because he was beaten, but because he had a subordinate who was willing to watch the fun and not mind making trouble.
Seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on him, the lackey felt a little embarrassed, and hurried to Liu Haizhong's side and asked with concern: "Captain, are you okay?"
Liu Haizhong was almost mad, pointing at him and yelling, "I don't have a shit to worry about, get out!"
It was so embarrassing that Liu Haizhong didn't want to cause trouble to anyone anymore and could only vent his anger on his lackeys.
What everyone didn't expect was that before leaving, the lackey pointed at the man who had fought with Liu Haizhong and threatened him, "Just wait, our Captain Liu won't let you go!"
Liu Haizhong instantly wanted to beat his lackey to death. Wasn’t it embarrassing enough?
"Get the hell out of here!" Liu Hai cursed angrily and strode out of the compound.
With the lessons learned from the previous experience, the next few compounds in Liu Haizhong were not as arrogant as the first one. They were much quieter and ran away as soon as they were notified.
In order to prevent his stupid lackey from causing trouble again, Liu Haizhong specifically ordered him to guard the gate before entering the yard.
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The atmosphere of the New Year this year is obviously more depressing than before. 99 percent of the people in the entire capital city have been affected by this notice.
Even the children in the compound rarely make noise. After all, the food is so poor that they don’t have the energy to make noise.
"I think the Jia family is having a hard time lately!"
On the last weekend before the Spring Festival, Yi Zhonghai said with emotion while having lunch at home.
Yi Zhonghai has always been frugal in order to save money for his retirement, and now that there is a food problem, Yi Zhonghai has become even more frugal.
It was called lunch, but actually I just had two steamed sweet potatoes and a bite of pickled vegetables.
An old lady sighed and said, "Everyone is in trouble now. Just bear with it. This is much better than the old days, don't you think?"
Yi Zhonghai shook his head and said, "That's not what I meant. Look, after Dongxu passed away, the Jia family is now old and young, and Huairu is pregnant. It's really unbearable."
Sometimes, the aunt really couldn't understand what Yi Zhonghai was thinking, and Yi Zhonghai didn't say those words for her to give advice.
There was nothing she could do about it, so the old lady simply kept silent.
After a while, Yi Zhonghai said, "No, I'll go to Jia's house to have a look."
After saying that, Yi Zhonghai stuffed the last bite of sweet potato into his mouth and wanted to leave.
But just as he reached the door, he came back again. The old lady was about to ask Yi Zhonghai why he came back again.
Yi Zhonghai hurriedly picked up the water and poured it into his mouth. After a few seconds, Yi Zhonghai let out a long sigh.
"Ouch, I'm choking."
Jia family.
The Jia family has been in a state of unrest these past few days. Like most other families in the courtyard, they still have some food stored, so they don't have to eat sweet potatoes or something else instead of food every day.
But the Jia family is different. They eat up all the food every month.
Just at the beginning of the month, Qin Huairu bought all the food for this month.
But now the policy has changed, and Qin Huairu can only eat substitute food for the time being.
After eating it for two days, the old and young in the family started to rebel.
"Mom, I don't want to eat sweet potatoes. My stomach hurts."
As soon as Banggeng took a bite of the sweet potato at the table, he threw it on the table and refused to eat it, and started making a fuss.
Qin Huairu saw Bang Geng wasting food, and she glared at him and said sternly, "Pick it up for me!"
When Bang Geng saw Qin Huairu was angry, he immediately ran into Jia Zhang's arms and said aggrievedly: "Grandma, I don't want to eat this anymore. My stomach hurts."
Qin Huairu knew very well that eating too many sweet potatoes would make her stomach uncomfortable, but what could she do? She also wanted to eat meat every day, so she had to have some at home.
"Banggeng, I didn't say you were the one, did I?" Qin Huairu scolded Banggeng.
"Okay, why are you angry with the child? If you ask me, it's the same. My eldest grandson has been eating this stuff every day recently. How can he not feel uncomfortable?" Jia Zhang patted the stick in her arms and retorted to Qin Huairu.
Seeing that Jia Zhang was indulging her again without any bottom line, Qin Huairu said with a wry smile, "Mom, I don't want to eat either, but if I don't eat, our family won't have enough food."
"Where is Shazhu?" asked Jia Zhang.
Ever since Qin Huairu communicated with Sha Zhu last time, Sha Zhu started to support the Jia family again.
Last time, I directly gave 5 kilograms of cornmeal to the Jia family.
At the beginning of this month, after Sha Zhu bought the food, Qin Huairu wanted to come, but Jia Zhangshi got mad and scolded Qin Huairu, so Qin Huairu didn't go.
Within that one day, He Yushui came back and not only asked Sha Zhu for living expenses, but also took away several kilograms of food from home.
If this happens, the Jia family will have no share.
In the end, Sha Zhu could only give Qin Huairu some sweet potatoes and cornmeal as substitutes for food.
"Mom, we're too late. Shazhu gave all the good food in the house to Yushui." Qin Huairu said helplessly. If Jia Zhang hadn't been making trouble there, this wouldn't have happened.
"Hmph, you're just a money-loser. What's the point of eating so well? They're all from other people's houses."
Jia Zhang cursed angrily and continued to ask, "That stupid fool, didn't you give me anything else?"
Qin Huairu pointed to the sweet potato on the table and said, "This is what Sha Zhu brought."
"We are in need of this stuff!" Jia Zhang was almost angry to death. Not only had the sticks of this thing been eaten enough, she had also eaten enough of it.
"Think of another solution!" Jia Zhang was so angry that she stuffed a big mouthful of sweet potato into her mouth.