Free Days in Siheyuan

Chapter 87 Transaction II

"Of course not, and I'm not stupid. I told him that I heard people said that there was grain for sale in the grain store, but after I went there, I found out that I was cheated. There was no grain for sale at all. After working for a long time, I didn't buy anything. I went home Drink some water, and then go out to various supply and marketing cooperatives to see if there is anything children can eat." The old man repeated what he said just now to the old woman, fearing that if the two people said that they were cross-cutting, the neighbors would become suspicious .

"Okay, I see." The old woman said that she understood, and she couldn't do anything wrong.

The moment the old man went out, his spirit changed and he became dejected. He happened to bump into that neighbor again, and when he saw him, he said, "Go out again so soon!"

"This kid is screaming at home hungry. I really can't bear to listen to it anymore. It hurts to hear it. Since it is still a while before dark, I will go to various supply and marketing cooperatives to see if I can buy pastries. Soak biscuits and the like in water for him to eat."

"Then you go, people will get off work when it's late." Hearing this, the neighbors didn't ask anything.

The old man also breathed a sigh of relief, and finally made it through. Next time he gets things inside the house, he must avoid people.

Zhang Yu waited for a while at the place he chose, and the old man came over, and then showed him the emerald he had brought.

"How about it, am I not talking nonsense? These are much better than the ones at the beginning, right?"

"That's right, how do I change these?"

Sure enough, the old man did not lie to him, these jadeites were even better than the ones he put out at the beginning, and his waiting was not in vain.

Zhang Yu was not idle while waiting. During the waiting period, he took out some food from the space and put it in a corner.

After getting the emerald and negotiating a price that both of them were satisfied with, he pointed out the place where the grain was stored. The old man didn't care about the emerald when he saw the grain. He just hugged the grain excitedly. This is their fate!With these, they can survive.

At such an old age, he has experienced more than one disaster, and he also understands that even if he has thousands of dollars at this time, his family property is not as useful as a bag of grain.

With these grains, mixed with the monthly rations, their family will always be able to survive this time.

"Then how do you bring these grains home?" Zhang Yu asked the old man after collecting the jade.

"You go first, I will let my son carry it later." Then the old man gave Zhang Yu an address, if he had food and needed jade, he would go to him. After these two transactions, he also understood Zhang Yu's address. Yu is not the kind of person who can't look down on other people's good, and he can feel at ease in dealing with him.

"Okay." After Zhang Yu finished speaking, he left without staying.

Not long after Zhang Yu left, a middle-aged man came in. The middle-aged man entered the door furtively, and called softly, "Dad, dad, are you there?"

"Yes, I'm here, come in, come in."

"How's Dad, have you changed?" The middle-aged man saw that there was nothing beside his dad, and asked quickly.

"It's changed, it's changed, come and take a look." The old man replied, and then opened the firewood to cover the grain first.

The man saw the food and said excitedly, "Father, are you buying this food?"

Regarding what his mother said, he didn't really believe it at first. It was because his mother showed him the fine grains at home that he believed him a little bit, but he never thought that he could exchange so much grain this time.

"No, these grains belong to our family."

"It's all ours, that's great!" The man looked at the grain on the ground and smirked.

The old man patted the back of his head, "Stop laughing, laugh again when you go back, and quickly find a way to transport these grains back."

Hearing these words, the man also became serious. His mother also told him that his father was questioned several times by the neighbors today just because he was carrying a betel on his back. Obviously, these grains cannot be brought back blatantly.

"Father, why don't you stay here and watch, and I'll transport them back bit by bit."

"That won't work, it will be conspicuous if there are too many times, and the family next door to us has a dog. When the dog barks a lot, it will definitely attract people to come out to check. How about this, let's not pass in front, I remember we There is no one near the wall behind the house, so we will pass from there and throw the grain across the wall.”

"Okay." The middle-aged man looked at his father convincingly. Sure enough, there is an old man in the family. If there is a treasure, if he has to figure out a way, he can only think of taking advantage of the dark and transporting it home bit by bit. Forget about the dog factor.

Not to mention that they were discussing how to transport the food back here, Zhang Yu was also thinking about how to get more food home.

After thinking about it for a long time, thinking of the scene of exchanging jade in the abandoned house today, he suddenly remembered his own three-entry yard.

Yes, he remembered that when he went to check that day, one of the walls of the inverted room would never be found to be thicker than the other walls unless he looked carefully.

I don’t know how it was built when the house was built. The walls from the outside are all the same thickness, but when you go inside the house, people who are extremely sensitive to space may find that the area inside the house is less.

He was also thinking about renovating the house, and he discovered it when he was measuring the area of ​​the room. After he found out, he searched carefully inside and out, but he couldn't find any difference.

Finally, I brought my little uncle, and after being reminded by my uncle, I found a mechanism hidden on the bedpost. After I opened it, I found that it was a small dark room. It was a wall that was partially hollowed out and could be put down. Quite a few things.

That day, they also found a secret room under the study in the main room. My uncle said that this layout is obviously because the host wanted to make a secret room in the main room too conspicuous, so they put it in the servant's room again. I got this secret room here.

The imprint left inside shows that a lot of things were placed in the two secret rooms. According to the traces, the things in the inverted room should be much heavier than those in the study room, but now there is nothing in it. It was taken away by the owner when he left.

He put some of the fine grains in the space into it, and after thinking about it, he took back some of the fine grains and replaced them with more coarse grains.

Then he went back with a small backpack on his back. The neighbors passing by said hello to each other. When they looked at his small backpack, they all felt that they had put down something and ignored it.

"Sister-in-law, I'm back."

"You can be considered to be back. It's getting dark. If you don't come back, I will send your third brother to find you." Zhang Guifang heard his nephew's voice, ran out quickly, and dragged him to check up and down.

"Sister-in-law, I'm fine. It's just that it took a lot of time to find someone to change those things. Didn't I come back well? Don't worry."

(End of this chapter)