Free Days in Siheyuan

Chapter 5

Early the next morning, those in the family went to work and those who went to school went to school.Only Zhang Yu slept until dawn and got up calmly when the sun was shining on his buttocks.

"System check-in."

"Ding, congratulations to the host for successfully signing in. The reward is one yuan in cash and ten catties of pork." Looking at the pork in the space, it is fat enough, but people in this era are short of oil and water, so they love this fat meat even more. I will be happy to see you.

Eating the rice that his sister-in-law left in the pot, he looked at his house, because it hadn't been lived in for a few years, even if it was maintained frequently, it was dilapidated very quickly.

Before Zhang Yu moved in, he repaired it once, but there was no major repair. He thought about finding someone to repair it when he was free these days.

By the way, I also repaired a few houses of my sister-in-law and uncle. My sister-in-law and uncle have three children and one daughter. The eldest brother, Zhao Feng, is 21 years old this year. I joined the security department of the rolling mill, and now I have been a regular worker for four years.

The second brother, Zhao Lei, is 20 years old. He studied better than his eldest brother. He went to a technical secondary school. After graduating in May this year, he was assigned to the propaganda department of the rolling mill.

The third brother, Zhao Liang, is 18 this year. He went to high school but didn't go to university, so he didn't say anything.I haven't found a job yet, and I'm doing some odd jobs in the street. He also said before that he would give the third brother the job compensation from the army, but his uncle and third brother disagreed.

The eldest sister, 18 this year, and the third brother are twins, and she is the one with the best academic performance in the family. This year, she was admitted to the health school and is now studying in the health school.

For a day, he basically did nothing, looked around the house inside and out, up and down.The courtyard they live in now is said to have been built by a warlord in the early Republic of China, and the courtyards built are generally slightly higher.

Looking at Fang Gao, he suddenly had an idea, is it okay to build a second floor at this height?

The sudden idea made him very excited, and he immediately wanted to find someone to ask. It happened that Uncle Zhao passed by the door at this time. "Xiaoyu, what are you doing?"

"Uncle Zhao, I'm looking at the height of the house. How tall do you think this house is?"

"This house! I think it's 4m8." Turning his head to look at the house, he gestured with his hand again, and said firmly, "4m8 is not bad, it's 4m8."

"Uncle Zhao, have you read the information on the house? How can you be sure it is 4m8?"

"What information do you need to look at? Your uncle Zhao is an old fitter for many years, and you can almost tell the slightest bit, let alone this house." Grandpa Sun, who heard someone talking in the next room, came out with a cane.

Seeing Mrs. Sun coming out with a cane, Zhang Yu and Mr. Zhao hurried to help him up. This is a treasure in their courtyard.Compared with the deaf old lady in the courtyard next door who didn't know the truth or faked shoes for the Red Army, Mr. Sun's family is the real heroes.Grandpa Sun is in his 70s this year. Before the founding of the People’s Republic of China, he not only purchased a variety of urgently needed materials from various places, sent them to our party’s place thousands of miles away, scattered all the money in the family, and sent away his son and grandson who joined the army one after another. Now alone.

And in dealing with people, everyone has to give a thumbs up, so the people in the courtyard respect Grandpa Sun very much, and Grandpa Sun also explained what it means to have an old man in a family, if there is a treasure, who in the courtyard has something that cannot be decided , I like to ask him to ask, most of the time he can give excellent advice.

"Mr. Sun, come out for a walk! Be careful."

"Go, go, I can still walk by myself. Why should I help?" Seeing the two of them coming to help him, Mr. Sun waved his other hand with a smile in his eyes. "What are you two talking about here?"

"Grandpa, didn't I think about going to work soon? The house is a little leaky. I want to fix it. I don't know when I will be free after work." Turning my head and pointing at the house, "Look, This house is quite tall, as Uncle Zhao said just now, the house has to be 4m8, so I wondered if this house could be made into two floors with a partition in the middle?"

Hearing his words, Uncle Zhao's eyes lit up. In this day and age, every household lacks a house, and many families live in two rooms. Even if they get married, they just draw a curtain. "You have a good idea, tell me about it in detail."

"Uncle Zhao, look, this house is 4m8 high, with 2m6 left at the bottom, a 20cm partition in the middle, and two meters at the top. Although it's a little lower, it's quite spacious for sleeping on the top." Zhang Yu pointed to the house and introduced it to Uncle Zhao.

"Xiaoyu is still a young man of yours. This house is good. I am worried that my child will get married. If the unit can't get a house, where will I live? Now it's all settled." Uncle Zhao clapped his hands excitedly: " Xiaoyu, you wait, I will go to your Uncle Wang and let him see how to fix it." After speaking, he walked to the front yard without waiting for Zhang Yu to reply.

After a while, Uncle Wang from the front yard came over, listened to their ideas, measured the size of the house, and patted the house.

"I think Xiaoyu's idea is fine. The house in our courtyard was built late, and the materials are all the best. If a hole is made in the wall to insert rough wood, and then a layer of planks is laid, it will definitely not be a problem if it lasts for 30 to [-] years. "

After my sister-in-law and uncle came home in the evening, after listening to his ideas, they immediately sat down with Uncle Zhao and Uncle Wang to discuss how to add a second floor.

After discussing it, he asked for two days off, and Uncle Wang recruited his group of apprentices for 1 yuan and 5 yuan a day. In addition, the apprentices from the rolling mill brought by Mr. Zhao came to help after get off work, and the house was quickly built.

Taking advantage of the busyness at home due to the partition, Zhang Yu took over the job of buying food every day.

Just like today, when my sister-in-law was steaming tortillas on the stove, he came out to buy vegetables.

I happened to be here today, there were not many people queuing in front of the butcher stall, so I should be able to buy it.

Finally, he waited: "Master, please give me a catty of meat." The butcher quickly cut off a piece of meat, and weighed no more, no less, exactly one catty.

"Master, do you sell this bone?" Looking at the small piece of meat in his hand, thinking of such a group of people, he happened to see the bone next to him.

"Sell, how much do you want? If you want more, I will take all the big bones for [-] cents." Then, Zhang Yu spent money and bought back a pair of big pig bones.

Passing by an alley on the way, seeing no one in the alley, he took out two catties of fat meat from the space, which was the kind of fat meat with basically no trace of lean meat, which happened to be obtained at the check-in yesterday.He shaved off some of the lean meat on it, but isn't there only white fat left?

Sure enough, seeing the meat he bought, my sister-in-law grinned happily, "This meat is good, it's perfect for cooking oil."

Seeing the big fat meat and looking at the group of people working hard outside, Zhang Guifang gritted her teeth and cut half of the meat, cut it into large slices, and used it to stew cabbage.

"Uncle Wang, hurry up and take a rest, come over here to wash your hands and eat."

After washing their hands, a group of people lined up to eat with lunch boxes, "Brother Li, what do you think the boss prepared today?"

"There will definitely be meat, I can already smell the aroma." Li Qiang took a few deep breaths, and after picking up the vegetables, he hurriedly put them aside, looked at the oily vegetables, and laughed with three or five pieces of big fat meat flower.

For lunch, he ate stewed cabbage with fatty meat and pork bone soup, and all the workers boasted that his family was real.Many people are reluctant to eat, such as Li Qiang, who ate half of the cabbage, drank the bone soup, and kept the meat and put it in a bag.Thinking happily, when I go home at night, let the mother-in-law add two cabbage, stew it with the oil, water and fat in the dish, and also open meat for the children.

The food is easy to prepare and the work is not too difficult. It can be done in two days.

The inside of the house was repainted with a layer of white putty, and it looked much cleaner. Because the partitions were made of wood, they could live in that day.

After the house was repaired, the neighbors in the courtyard came to visit. The house was divided into two floors, with three rooms of the same size on the upper floor, which were used as wedding rooms for the three brothers.

The room where my sister-in-law and my uncle lived on the lower floor has basically not changed much, but the larger room has been vacated and the original partition has been removed.Most of the places have been used as a living room and dining room, and there will be a fixed place for eating in the future, so there is no need to move tables and chairs every time for a long time.

Near the window, I made a small room for the kitchen, so that when it rains, my sister-in-law doesn't have to cook in the rain.

Looking at the newly renovated house, several children's wedding rooms have come out, which solved the biggest problem.My sister-in-law pinched my uncle's arm excitedly, and rubbed the painful arm. Zhao Wenzhuo couldn't help laughing. After solving the house problem, the children's marriage problems will be better solved in the future.

(End of this chapter)