Lying Low to Scavenge in the Courtyard

Zhang Weiguo transmigrates to that era of scarcity, a time of lacking clothes and food.

He is a decorated veteran who has been transferred to a position as the head of the purchasing departme...

Chapter 253 Raising a son can prevent old age

Because of Zhang Weiguo, the food in Siheyuan has been better these days, but compared with chicken, chicken is still more delicious.

The aroma of chicken lingered over the courtyard all night, tempting more people.

Why are they all eating chicken for no reason?

After some inquiries, I found out that roosters can cure infertility.

This statement is obviously untenable, and a little analysis will reveal it. Unfortunately, everyone is uneducated and just follows blindly.

Those who don’t have children want to have children, and those who have children want to have a son.

At this time, sons are much more valuable than daughters, and it is said that raising a son can provide for old age.

Daughters are married off and raised by other families.

People at this time have a natural obsession with their sons.

This news spread throughout the courtyard. No one believed it at first, but Zhang Weiguo, Daye, and Xu Damao, the three childless people, all did the same thing.

This adds to the authenticity of the story. Zhang Weiguo is a section chief, a cadre. Would he do such a thing if it wasn't real?

This old man has lived for so many years and has seen all kinds of things. How could something fake fool him?

Xu Damao runs around everywhere all day, meets many people and encounters many things. Maybe Xu Damao got this secret recipe from somewhere.

People at this time firmly believed that folk remedies could cure serious illnesses.

After much discussion, the final conclusion was that this matter was true.

All of a sudden, those who had no children or those who had no sons started to have ideas.

Although the price of a big rooster is not cheap, it is still affordable if you save some money.

However, what they are not sure about now is whether there are any particular requirements for the big rooster. Can any one be used, or is it a specific breed? They don't know this.

No matter what, just follow the recipe and eat it. What if it works? If not, you can still have a good meal.

You eat it yourself, not give it to others.

Whenever Zhang Weiguo had time, he would go outside Changsheng Hall to observe and see what the two apprentices looked like.

After Zhang Weiguo's observation, he only saw an apprentice, who was probably in his twenties. Looking at the apprentice's appearance, he knew that he was a smooth person.

Such people will not be content with the status quo and will definitely strive for higher goals if they have the chance.

I didn't see the other person and don't know who he was.

Zhang Weiguo saw an abandoned courtyard next to Changsheng Hall.

The walls are in such a dilapidated state that they can be described as broken ruins.

Seeing such a small courtyard, Zhang Weiguo had some ideas.

When building a house at this time, people would put some copper coins on the beams.

Some families would also put grains, and wealthy families might even put oceans.

In short, no matter what you put, it will not be empty.

Zhang Weiguo wanted to see what was stored in this house. Before it became dilapidated, this house was considered a wealthy family.

Zhang Weiguo wanted to see if he could see anything. Since he was doing nothing here anyway, he might as well find something to do.

Whether you can find something or not, you can kill time.

Zhang Weiguo entered the courtyard, and as soon as he entered, he saw shit everywhere.

This must be someone who doesn't want to go to the public toilet and wants to relieve themselves here.

Public toilets smell too bad, and the feces in them are handled uniformly, so you don’t have the right to deal with it personally.

Zhang Weiguo entered the house and found that part of the roof was broken and some parts of the wall had collapsed.

Zhang Weiguo looked at the beam and wondered how he could climb up there. He didn't have a ladder and couldn't reach it at all.

Zhang Weiguo wanted to climb up the broken wall, but he didn't know whether the wall could still bear his weight.

Zhang Weiguo kicked the wall and it went right through.

“This is too fragile.”

Although this wall is made of earth, not brick, it is too fragile.

Zhang Weiguo pulled his foot out and looked at the hole in the wall.

"No, this is a partition wall. It's used to hide things. I just don't know if there is anything inside it."

Zhang Weiguo was a little excited. Instead of looking for something on the beam, he found something in the wall first.

Zhang Weiguo used his skills to remove the dirt on the wall, leaving a big hole.

Zhang Weiguo looked inside and saw something wrapped in newspaper.

Zhang Weiguo reached out to take it and felt that it was quite heavy.

There aren't any gold bars in here, are there?

Zhang Weiguo was suddenly a little excited. This gold bar was much more valuable than copper coins.

Zhang Weiguo was not in a hurry to watch it and threw it directly into the space.

He then used his hands to widen the hole to see if there was anything else.

When the hole was enlarged a little more, they saw a package inside.

Zhang Weiguo took out the package and looked to see if there was anything else inside.

After making sure that there was nothing else, Zhang Weiguo put the things into the space.

He cleared the dust off his body, then left the yard and looked around to make sure there was no one else around.

Zhang Weiguo returned to the steel rolling mill.

Came to the office and closed the door.

Then take out the two packages and pick up one of them.

Zhang Weiguo opened it and saw a pistol inside.

Zhang Weiguo removed the magazine and found that it was full of bullets.

Zhang Weiguo took the gun apart and took a look. There was no damage and the gun was still usable.

Zhang Weiguo reassembled the gun smoothly.

He took the bullet out again, made sure it was usable, and then loaded it back.

Zhang Weiguo took out another item from the package and opened it. It turned out to be a diary with some Chinese characters written on it. Each Chinese character corresponded to a four-digit number.

Zhang Weiguo’s first reaction was that this was a code book.

I just don’t know which country this code book belongs to.

If this thing belongs to the homeowner, then this homeowner is an enemy spy.

The house is dilapidated. I don’t know why. Maybe the owner left or was arrested? There is no way of knowing.

After making sure that there was nothing in this package, Zhang Weiguo opened another package.

The first thing that catches the eye is the gold bars.

There are really gold bars in here, I'm really rich.

Zhang Weiguo counted them and found there were ten small yellow croakers.

In addition, there is a stack of banknotes, all of which are large-denomination first-edition RMB.

No one uses the first edition of RMB now. The exchange rate between the first and second sets of RMB is 10,000 to one yuan.

This money also costs more than a thousand yuan.

Zhang Weiguo is not short of money and has no plans to exchange the money. Zhang Weiguo has not yet collected the first set of RMB.

This money may not be valuable now, but it will be valuable in a few decades.

In addition to these, there were two rolls of dollars wrapped in newspapers.

These things alone are worth five thousand dollars.

This is a huge sum of money.