Zhang Xudong grabbed Zhang Xiyan and started moving her hair.
"You little naughty boy, how dare you laugh at your brother? Wait till I teach you a lesson."
"Sister-in-law, help me, my brother is bullying me."
Zhang Xiyan ignored her brother and went to He Jingxian for help.
He Jingxian slapped Zhang Xudong's claws away, pulled the little girl up and went home.
"Come on, let's go home and get warm and ignore your stinky brother."
Just as Zhang Xudong was about to follow him home, Director Feng came staggering over again.
"Dongzi, I'm going to find someone to design the house right now. Do you have any special requirements?"
"Uncle Feng, let's go sit at his house. You can have a glass of water to warm yourself up."
“No, I’ll move as soon as possible.
Only after the foundation is laid and the walls are built, can the matter be considered finalized.
Then I can feel at ease and sleep peacefully at night." Director Feng refused.
"Uncle Feng, it's so cold now, it's frozen. Will cement walls work?"
Zhang Xudong was a little worried and asked.
"How could it not work? Look at our factories, many of them were built a few years ago when we were ramping up production.
At that time, in order to catch up with the progress, no one cared whether it was cold or hot.
Construction will not stop during the Chinese New Year, and it will be completed when it is completed.
There is also the Great Hall in Beidu and those museums, all of which have been under construction throughout the winter.
As long as we keep warm and light a few more braziers, we'll be fine."
Director Feng explained to Zhang Xudong.
Zhang Xudong felt relieved after hearing this.
"That would be great. When it comes to building a house, we know six out of seven, except for one thing.
Uncle Feng, how do you plan to build this house?
"I plan to build it roughly in the form of a quadrangle courtyard. I will build a five-room main hall and three east and west side rooms.
It’s different in the upside-down room.
I plan to build the gate of the base and the neighborhood committee in the middle, with two auxiliary rooms on each side.
The door of your house is still built in the southeast corner.
Do you think this is appropriate?"
Director Feng told us his plan.
"Uncle Feng, my family won't build a house with a reverse roof. We can just build a gate in the southeast corner.
This way the yard will be cleaner and it will be more convenient to wash and dry things.
And Uncle Feng, my family will pay for the expenses of our yard.
You can't get involved with those two courtyards."
Zhang Xudong put forward his own request.
"That won't work, we just agreed to exchange yards.
Now that the leaders are gone, you are giving me problems.
Do you think I, your uncle Feng, am easy to bully? "
"Uncle Feng, if that's the case, my family won't move. You can just build two yards."
Zhang Xudong insisted.
“It’s my decision whether the house is built or not.
Whether you move or not will be decided by the old ladies in the neighborhood committee.
If you can outsmart them, I will respect you."
Director Feng said with a smile.
Zhang Xudong was stunned. He was asked to reason with a bunch of old ladies. Was it because he thought his ears were too quiet?
Director Feng turned and walked away, saying as he walked:
“I’ll have them come over and do the work for you now.
How dare you threaten your uncle, little brat?"
"Okay, Uncle Feng, please let it go. Don't bother them with such a small matter. Isn't it enough that I obey you?"
Zhang Xudong quickly begged for mercy.
"That's more like it, I'll go call them over.
Let them see where to set up the stove to boil water.
It's so cold, but we have to make sure the comrades who come to work have some hot water to drink."
Director Feng walked away while talking to himself.
After hearing this, Zhang Xudong decided not to go home.
Just stand here. Those old ladies will probably be here soon.
Sure enough, within a few minutes, a group of people came from the direction of the living area.
Most of them are lesbians, including old, middle-aged, young and young people.
They were pulling several carts loaded with pots, pans, and utensils.
There were also people pulling firewood; people pulling wooden stakes and straw mats, and even tables, chairs and benches.
There were a few old men following inside, carrying shovels and tile knives, and it seemed that they were going to build a stove.
Zhang Xudong hurried back to the house and called out his three young daughters.
Let them take care of this matter and don't go ahead and do it yourself.
"Grandma, ask them to build another stove.
I'll go get some meat. They won't let us pay, so we'll just cook a pot of meat porridge for everyone every day.
If you don't want to pay, we can provide you with a meal, so it won't be in vain for us to ask for the house.
"You'll feel at ease living there, and no one will say anything," Zhang Xudong said to his grandmother.
"Okay, you can figure it out yourself.
If you can still exchange for some food, you should do so.
Building a house is hard work. People work very hard, so they have to eat more.
No one has enough food these days, so don’t let everyone go hungry just to build a house for us.
Let's make some steamed bread or pancakes, any extra money will help us out," said grandma.
The old lady has lived in the city for several months.
After she had been interacting with those old ladies for a while, she realized that many city dwellers did not eat better than those in the countryside.
Especially those families with many children still have to look for wild vegetables, leaves, etc. to mix into their food.
There are many people at home who only eat porridge once or twice a day.
It was even harder to get meat in the city, even though everyone was given a meat ticket worth one or two taels every month.
But it’s useless to have tickets and money if you don’t have a place to buy meat.
Some people see that their meat coupons are about to expire, so they go to queue up to buy meat at four or five in the morning.
If you are lucky enough, you can get a piece of meat weighing half a pound or three ounces if you stand in line.
If you are unlucky, you may wait in line for a long time and the meat is sold out, so you still can't eat meat. There is no place to talk to them.
The biggest advantage of living in the city is that you can buy food supplies every month.
Whether you have enough to eat or not is one thing, but you will definitely not starve to death.
Zhang Xudong became worried after hearing what his grandmother said.
Getting some meat was really no problem for him. Everyone knew that going up the mountain to hunt was like a piece of cake.
But what to do with the food? We have plenty of food, but if it's not enough, we can always borrow some from India.
But no matter how much food there is, you can't take it out if there is no clear way! Is it possible to get food by hunting?
Zhang Xudong scratched his head but couldn't come up with a solution.
He couldn't help but complain:
"Can't you readers give us some advice?
You're just cracking melon seeds and watching me suffer, right?"
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