The Fiery Era of Siheyuan

Chapter 42, borrowing food
The next morning, Li Weiguo woke up early.

After washing and dressing, I was about to go to work when I suddenly remembered that Zhou Can and Zhao Guobing were still at home.

So I went over to see how they were doing.

Walking to the compartment on the left, they saw that half of their quilts had fallen to the floor.

Looked at the bed again.
Good guy. Almost blinded.

I saw the two of them, with your legs around me, my arms around you, Zhao Guobing's head on Zhou Can's chest, and Zhou Can's arms around Zhao Guobing's head, just embracing each other to sleep
"Puff~~hahaha."

Such a wonderful picture, I couldn't bear it, Li Weiguo laughed on the spot.

Zhou Can and Zhou Can, who were sleeping, were awakened by the sudden laughter. They looked up in a daze, and looked around, only to find themselves and Zhao Guobing, two big men hugging each other.

Zhou Can woke up instantly, quickly pushed Zhao Guobing away, and jumped off the bed.

"Oh, I'm going. Zhao Guobing, you. You bastard. I thought you were a decent person. I didn't expect you to take advantage of me while I was asleep."

Zhao Guobing also woke up, jumped up from the bed in an instant, pulled the quilt over, and covered himself.

"You still have the nerve to say that it's obvious that you hugged me and took advantage of me, and I was at a disadvantage."

"Fart. You're the one holding my waist." Zhou Can said with his eyes wide open.

"You farted because you were holding my head." Zhao Guobing stared back, not to be outdone.

"Pfft~~hahahahaha." Li Weiguo was already laughing so hard, these two live treasures are like talking about cross talk, and they will perform a part with him early in the morning.

Zhou Can looked around and found out that he was in Li Wei's country, so he quickly took out his clothes from the stool next to him and put them on.

While putting on his clothes, he said: "Zhao Guobing, I'm a big girl with yellow flowers, you slept with me, you have to be responsible to know?"

Zhao Guobing gave him a blank look: "Fuck you, I haven't asked you to take responsibility yet." He also got up from the bed to look for clothes.

"Wei Guo, what time is it?" Zhou Can asked.

Li Weiguo: "It's eight o'clock."

"It's bad, I just told my family to go out for dinner yesterday, and I didn't say I couldn't go back. It's over, I don't come home at night, and I will be beaten when I go back." Zhou Can felt bad, and quickly lowered his head to find his shoes on the ground.

Li Weiguo jokingly said: "It's okay, just say, you slept with your partner last night, I'm sure it's okay."

"Go!!" ×2
"Hahaha"

Zhou Can and the two had arguing for a long time before getting dressed. After eight o'clock, the two of them had to go to work quickly. The young man who had just been assigned was late and left early when he arrived, and it was easy to fail.

Zhou Can: "Wei Guo, Guo Bing, come to my house for lunch on weekends. I'll find some good stuff for you. I've been saving up stuff for a long time."

"Okay, no problem. It's time for you to lose weight. We'll help you eat more." Li Weiguo teased.

Zhou Can rolled his eyes at him: "Fuck you, I don't call you fat, I call you plump!"

After sending Zhou Can and the two away, Li Weiguo also rode directly to work.

As soon as I sat down in the office of the picket unit, I felt that the atmosphere in the unit was not right.

He raised his head and looked at everyone in the office. Everyone had their heads shrunk and remained silent.

Just as he was about to ask what was going on, Wang Fen came over to look for Li Weiguo.

But not for work, but to borrow food.

There are eight people in Wang Fen's family. Originally, the family was a dual-career, and they were able to get by.

But her husband died of illness last year, and the family is old and young, and they can't take up the post for the time being. She can only support four sons, a daughter, father-in-law and mother-in-law by herself.

The 5 children are just growing up, and their appetites are huge. The ration in the food budget will be enough to feed the whole family every month.

The reason why Wang Fen was in the situation of borrowing food from everywhere was because her parents from the commune came a few days ago.

This year, the commune's hometown's summer harvest is not enough to pay for it, and the production team's big pot of food is getting worse and worse.

In addition, there are many children in my natal family and I can't eat enough, so I came to her house to borrow food.

After pleading hard, Wang Fen couldn't bear it. She couldn't watch her parents starve.

So I gave my parents some food to take back, but in the end my family had nothing to eat.

Originally thinking that there was not enough food, I went to the Pigeon Market to buy some high-priced food to eat, and it would be enough to distribute the ration until the 25th of the end of the month.

Unexpectedly, the situation has changed so fast this year, and I went to the Pigeon Market a few times, and I couldn't buy high-priced food at all.

This is the middle of the month, and there are still ten days until the ration will be issued on the 25th, and she is so worried that she gets angry.

But food is rationed these days, and every household is not rich. She borrowed a lot, but she didn't get much food. Everyone in the stock shrank their heads and dared not look up at her.

So she turned to Li Weiguo. Li Weiguo is single, and his monthly salary and ration must be more than enough.

"Captain, I really have no choice but to ask for your help. It doesn't take much, just ten catties of stick noodles is enough, and I will pay you back when the quota is paid at the end of the month." Wang Fen, who is in her 30s, is so worried. Turning around, touching tears, choked up and said.

In the office, Zheng Shan and the others all lowered their heads like ostriches, wishing to bury their heads in the ground, for fear that Wang Fen would beg him again.

It's not that they are cold-blooded, they are really powerless, whoever is present is not a big family, basically one person supports the family, and there are almost no double-employees.

Li Weiguo glanced at everyone in the office and roughly understood everyone's situation. He smiled and said to Wang Fen, "Hey, why am I taking this so seriously? Just wait here and I'll come as soon as I can."

"Thank you, Chief. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't know what to do. Thank you." Wang Fen was very excited and bowed again and again to express his thanks.

Li Weiguo stopped Wang Fen and told her to wait in the office with peace of mind, then walked out of the office quickly, got on the bike and went outside.

Li Weiguo was in a very heavy mood along the way. Ten kilograms of food was not enough for Wang Fen's family to survive ten days.

Eight people, even if they are a bit more frugal, each person has half a catty of food per day, and it takes nearly forty catties to survive.

Even if the family borrowed a little, what would she have to pay it back? With that little amount every month, she might have to pay for it every month in the end.

With only ten kilograms of grain, no one in the office dared to help. It seemed that every family was in difficulty to a certain extent.

After thinking about it, Li Weiguo turned around and rode towards the small quadrangle in Dongzhimen.

Arrived at the small courtyard, opened the door and entered, walked to the east wing, waved his hand, and released 9 sacks of sweet potatoes, and took out two net bags of eggs, each net bag was 5 catties, put away the things, and closed the door.

After leaving the small courtyard, he locked the door and rode to the rolling mill. When he reached a place where no one was around, he turned his hand and took out a cloth bag containing 10 catties of stick noodles from the space. He also put two egg.

Originally, Li Weiguo could give more food, but it was not appropriate. Sheng Mien fights Mi Qiu, since she asks for 10 catties, it is best to give 10 catties. If you want to help her, you can change the way.

Back at the picket unit office, Wang Fen shed tears when she saw this bag of stick noodles. She kept saying thank you to Li Weiguo, "Chief of the unit, thank you. Thank you so much. If you have anything to do with me in the future, just let me know." I won’t say anything about it.”

"Okay, Sister Fen, let's not talk about this anymore. Send the food home quickly. The family is still waiting." With that, he put his car keys in Wang Fen's hand.

Holding the key, Wang Fen bowed a series of thanks again, and finally rode away in a hurry.

Li Weiguo looked at Wang Fen's back in a hurry and shook his head helplessly.

Wang Fen is just a microcosm of ordinary people in this era. There will be countless families like her in the next two or three years.
(End of this chapter)