A layman in the courtyard

Chapter 5 Re-understanding of Siheyuan
Cao Zhihua hung vegetables from the market on his bicycle and pushed the bicycle across the steps.

I saw the first aunt and the third aunt chatting in the corridor of the third aunt's house. The first aunt was very surprised to see Cao Zhihua pushing a bicycle and asked,
"Zhihua, where did you get this bicycle?"

"Auntie, I just bought this car at Tianqiao Department Store. It cost me 165 yuan."

"This is really expensive. This is not how you spend your money. Your father has just passed away. We still have three children in our family and have no source of income. How will we live in the future with such a way of spending money?"

"When my dad passed away, Director Lou told me when he came to hand over the compensation that I could take my dad's job at any time and go directly to work in the steel rolling mill. I plan to go to work after March this year to make money. Provide for the family.”

"Then there's no need for you to spend so much money on a bicycle."

"My hometown sent me a letter saying that the autumn harvest was coming soon, and asked me if I had time to go over and help. You know, my dad used to take time to go back and help. Now that my dad is gone, I plan to go back to my hometown to help my relatives harvest. Isn't that right? Buying a bicycle is convenient for traveling back and forth, and having a bicycle at home is convenient for doing anything.”

"Look at you buying so much food at once. You can't stay overnight on such a hot day. Isn't this a waste of money? You didn't do it like this."

"My brothers and sisters have worked hard these days. My father left and they were frightened again. I bought meat to replenish their bodies."

Cao Zhihua chatted, but felt that it was not interesting and they couldn't even talk together, so he parked the car in the corridor and entered the house carrying the vegetables.

Today, 165 yuan is a lot of money. The workers in the yard used to work for the capitalist Lou family.

I won't give you any salary increase. In the past, the entire Sijiucheng Steel Rolling Mill was just one factory. It would be useless to threaten people in half the city with a strike. If you don't work, there will be people rushing to do it. Don't think that it will be easy to find a job once you leave here.

In 1953, the state stepped in to solve the job problems of more than 300 million employed workers, but there was still a problem of more than 100 million employed workers that could not be solved. This is not more than 100 million people, but more than 100 million families.

Because Cao Zhihua's father indirectly saved Lou Bancheng's life, he had a high income far exceeding that of ordinary workers.

This is also the level 53 labor policy implemented by the country in 8, this year.

In order to protect his wealth and life, Lou Bancheng fully supported the national policy and specially invited the country to send people to conduct assessments.

The wages of more than 5000 employees in the steel rolling mill were increased according to the assessment level.

Don't look at it. Now I am a seventh-level worker with a monthly salary of 84.68 yuan.

In the past, all the old workers in the Loushi Steel Rolling Plant only earned 27.5 yuan a month, while the new workers only earned 15 yuan a month.

So now even the oldest man in the courtyard does not have much wealth.

Cao Zhihua put the vegetables in the kitchen, untied the straw from the chicken's feet, put the chicken in the chicken cage, grabbed some cornmeal and put it in the chicken bowl.

So I went back to the corridor to take a rest and wait for my younger siblings to come back from school to cook something. I couldn’t do it myself, and I couldn’t do it either.

Cao Zhihua sat down in the corridor and didn't want to move, his mind was completely empty.

Suddenly I remembered that I had read a lot of Siheyuan fan novels in my previous life.

Didn't it say in the novel that if someone had some delicious meat or chicken at home, some people in the yard would start cursing?Did people start knocking on the door begging for meat?
Why am I not greedy when I see one big mom and three big moms when I come in?We didn’t even talk about the chicken and meat I bought?
Maybe it’s because prices are really low in this era. Although prices have been unstable in recent years, unscrupulous businessmen will sometimes double the price of food for you.

But overall it's not bad.

But Cao Zhihua feels that life in this yard is actually not very stressful.

The third uncle earns 27.5 yuan a month from teaching. Except for two families in the courtyard where men died, the other families are all working families.

For example, the third uncle’s family has only two children. It only costs 100 yuan to buy 13 kilograms of flour a month, and only 5 cents a kilogram of vegetable oil. Two or three kilograms of vegetable oil is enough for the whole family for a month.

The remaining money can be used to buy some household items and some meat or chicken to improve our lives. It’s really nothing.

Therefore, in the absence of national rationing, everyone is actually not short of oil, water and meat.

In terms of income, the families in this courtyard can live a very good life even in the whole country.

Moreover, our Chinese people have been very face-conscious for thousands of years.

Even in a highly money-worshiping society like the previous life, the poorer the people, the more they need face and self-esteem.

When you go out to meet friends, even if your pants are empty and clothed, you still have to find a way to attract a handsome person to go out and support your appearance.

In a society like the 50s, if you really took a bowl to someone's house every day to beg for meat, and you dared to live in this yard, you would really be drowned in saliva. You were a celebrity in the surrounding streets.

This is why He Yuyu only went to the house of the deaf old lady and the uncle who were particularly close to him when he was hungry. He would rather go hungry than go to other houses because he couldn't afford to lose this person.

As for Sha Zhu and Qin Huairu in the later stages of the Siheyuan plot.

Then it is really Zhou Yu who beats Huang Gai, one who wants to be beaten and the other who is willing to suffer.

Silly Zhu is willing to devote himself wholeheartedly, isn't it just asking for it if he is plotted by the widow?

When I was watching the drama and reading the novel, why did this courtyard house have more than 20 households living in it at the beginning of the plot?

But there are only a few families who play the leading role?Cao Zhihua felt that he might have solved the case.

The survival wisdom our Chinese people have inherited for thousands of years is to meddle less and suffer less, and to ignore matters that are not your own.

Wouldn’t it be nice to live your own little life?You have to struggle every day.

He Shazhu and the others are just ordinary neighbors, but because they see him as pitiful, they have to help him find ways and give advice?

It’s not a thankless effort and it also offends people. What’s the point of it?Is the play not good?Or is it just a pain in the ass?
Cao Zhihua suddenly laughed as he thought about it. He felt that the protagonists of those Siheyuan fan novels he read in his previous life were probably idle.

Otherwise, after time travel, everyone will become childish?
There is a saying in the past life that adults only see pros and cons, while children only see right and wrong.Use simple good and evil to determine people's interactions?Isn't this childish?
What's more, in the plot of this courtyard, there are really no villains who commit murder and arson. They are just a group of ordinary people living in the era.

Even the worst Li Huaide and Xu Damao in everyone's mind were nothing in Cao Zhihua's past life.

Like Xu Damao, who is straight-talking and unpleasant, cheating on widows, reporting on his ex-wife, and reporting on neighbors.What was this in the society of the previous life?
In previous societies, were men and women who had affairs within marriage less seen or heard about?

Cao Zhihua didn't believe that the protagonists of these time-travelers in fan books had no cheating friends in their previous lives, and they didn't have a strong sense of justice.

Moreover, in the previous life, he bullied honest people to an extreme, and even hacked his whole family to death.

Silly Zhu has bullied Xu Damao since he was a child, kicking people out of their homes, giving his ex-wife to his rival, and even giving birth to a child for him.

Even an honest person wouldn't be able to bear it, right?

It feels like these people who have crossed over are like the police of the Pacific Ocean, and they are very strict!
Cao Zhihua smiled silently, feeling that he had made a mistake. He compared the novel with his previous life and was convinced.

For me, the way I dealt with things in my previous life was pretty good, so I just need to live a good life.

But it's not like he's a different person just because he traveled through time. Wouldn't that mean he was forcibly reduced to intelligence?

In my previous life, I only looked at the pros and cons, not the good and the evil. I only looked at the risk, not the right and wrong, and I never engaged in any ineffective social interactions.

Whatever you do depends on what you want or don't want to do, not because you have to do it.

Friends are either people who come together to drink, chat and have fun, or people who can help with their careers.

In my previous life, I had a certain limit in how to get along with friends. If it wasn't too high, everything would be fine. If it was too high, then I wouldn't have any friends.

Therefore, although Cao Zhihua did well in his previous life, he had relatively few friends.

After all, everyone's time and energy are limited. If you do this and that, you will never achieve anything. You don't care about this or that. If you are exhausted, you won't have much potential.

Cao Guohua was resting alone in the corridor, feeling lustful and not paying attention to the passage of time.

Soon I saw my three little brothers and sisters running and jumping towards the door of the house.

The jumping Xiaoyu suddenly stopped and saw Cao Zhihua sitting in the corridor and the bicycle parked next to him.

"Wow... Big brother, did you buy the bicycle?"

Cao Zhihua looked at the cute three little ones and felt extremely happy instantly, and he didn't take the bicycles too seriously. , greeted

"Xiao Yu'er, Big Gouzi, Er Gouzi, come here."

The three little ones immediately gathered around happily.
"Don't be too tight. Don't be too tight. Stand far away. It's too hot. If you come around, there will be no wind."

Xiaoyu heard her brother's words, thought for a moment, took two steps back, and said cutely
"Okay, big brother, are you still hot like this?"

Cao Zhihua smiled and said to Xiaoyu:
"This is better, much cooler."

"Did you behave well in school today? Did the teacher praise you?"

Seeing her elder brother asking, Xiaoyu immediately answered first

"We are so good. The teacher praised the second brother today and said that the second brother's academic performance has improved."

"What about you? Have your academic performance improved?"

Xiaoyu's happy expression disappeared instantly, and she said aggrievedly
"No, I have given tutoring lessons to the second and third brothers, but my grades have not improved."

When Cao Zhihua saw Xiaoyu's eyes were red, he put his hand into his pocket, and then took out the White Rabbit toffee he bought while shopping in the morning from the space, handed it to Xiaoyu, and immediately praised him.

"Xiaoyu is so good and sensible. She knows how to help her brothers. We are a family, and helping our brothers is the best way to show yourself. Here, this is a reward from big brother."

Children's emotions change quickly. Xiaoyu jumped and screamed happily when she heard her elder brother praising her for being sensible and giving him White Rabbit toffee.

But the big dog and the two dogs on the side are envious.

Cao Zhihua looked at his two younger brothers and thought for a while, then took out a White Rabbit toffee and handed it to Da Gouzi.

"Big Gouzi performed well. With the help of my sister, my academic performance improved. I was praised by the teacher. My eldest brother also rewarded you with a piece of candy."

Er Gouzi saw that his second brother and his younger sister both had candy, but he didn't have any.Tears are about to come out in an instant

"Big brother, big dog and sister all have it, why don't I?"

In his previous life, Cao Zhihua raised his children by letting them know what is right and what is wrong through rewards and criticisms from an early age. His children have been very sensible and accomplished since they were young, and they have never let themselves worry too much.

So you won’t give sweets to Ergouzi just because he wants to cry. Being spoiled is like killing a child. In fact, children are very smart. If they are not properly guided, they will grow more and more crooked. The younger the child, the more important it is to let them know what is right. wrong.

"Er Gouzi, you have to be sensible. You have not helped your brother and sister, your academic performance has not improved, and you have not been rewarded by the teacher, so the eldest brother will not reward you. In the future, if you are rewarded by the teacher, or help your brother and sister Sister, then big brother will reward you."

"Wow..." Ergouzi burst into tears when he heard that his eldest brother couldn't eat candy by himself.

Cao Zhihua was also a cruel person and said seriously to Ergouzi
"Okay, you are such an adult, but you are still not sensible at all. I bought meat, eggs and chickens in the kitchen. You go and cook the meat, scramble an egg, and then make some cornmeal pancakes to put on for dinner. The chicken will be eaten tomorrow. ."

Xiaoyu saw that her eldest brother looked unhappy, so she quickly dragged her two reluctant brothers to the kitchen while whispering in their ears.

(End of this chapter)