A layman in the courtyard

Chapter 70

However, for Yi Zhonghai, although he has taken on an apprentice to prevent retirement, he is only in his 40s. If he had to subsidize Jia Dongxu's family for more than ten years, Yi Zhonghai would also murmur in his heart.

So now Jia Dongxu's life is a bit hard. He has a lot of pressure to support his family and often doesn't have enough to eat. Now his master Yi Zhonghai is forced to learn skills every day. He is also under a lot of pressure from work and assessment. He is much more tired at work than before.

Cao Zhihua thought for a while, checked that it was almost time, and rode his bicycle to work.

Riding on the way to work, I clearly feel that the streets of Sijiu City are now depressed.

The stalls and vendors along the streets and alleys have basically disappeared, leaving only some public-private joint venture shops open, but there were a lot of people lining up at the entrance of each shop early in the morning.

There is no other way, supplies are scarce now, and you need to grab anything you want to buy.

When he arrived at the gate of the steel rolling mill, Cao Zhihua saw a large truck in the factory heading outside.

Cao Zhihua gave Liu Gang, the security guard in the security room, a cigarette.
"Brother Gang, why is there someone leaving the bus so early in the morning? It's still empty."

"Hey, don't you know? There is news from Mentougou. Last night, we shot 5 wild boars, many pheasants and hares. Chief Ma of the Purchasing Department personally went out to grab the goods."

Cao Zhihua pretended not to understand and asked:
"Brother Gang, if you want to buy a wild boar, does the section chief have to do it himself?"

Liu Gang looked at Cao Zhihua with a fussy look:
"Hey, you don't know that now the supply and marketing cooperatives and other large and small enterprises in Sijiu City are going out every day for some unplanned supplies."

Liu Gang took a puff of cigarette and continued:

"Especially pork, it's a hot commodity. Wherever there are unplanned pigs or wild boars, as long as the news gets out, at least dozens of factories will grab it. Do you think Chief Ma can take it easy?"

Upon hearing this, Cao Zhihua joked:
"Brother Gang, our steel rolling mill hasn't eaten much meat for a month. The people in our steel rolling mill who purchase unplanned supplies are not good enough."

When Liu Gang heard this, he lowered his head and whispered:
"How could it not be possible? There are currently more than 20 people in the purchasing department, but everyone is busy with their tasks every month. It's just that there are so many people in our factory, and the amount purchased each time is small. How can it be our turn to eat? What about the entertainment? "

Cao Zhihua felt that he could not accept these words any more, or something would happen if he did, so he prepared to leave:
"Hi, Brother Gang, I have to check in. I'll talk to you later."

"Zhihua, wait, there is a letter from you."

Cao Zhihua stopped and asked:
"Is it the reply from Zhang Guohua and the others?"

Liu Gang patted Cao Zhihua on the shoulder and said:
"It belongs to them. My comrades who have changed their jobs and have not been assigned jobs are living a hard life. They have little income from farming and are under great pressure to support their families. On behalf of these comrades of mine, I would like to thank you for continuously sending money to them to support their families over the past few years." , otherwise they wouldn’t know how to live their lives.”

Cao Zhihua held the letter in his hand and said with a wry smile:

"Brother Gang, you also know that I have had a heroic dream since I was a child. After learning about Brother Zhang and his heroic deeds in the Northern War, as well as their current difficulties, I was deeply touched. Unfortunately, my personal abilities are really limited, and I can only I have been trying my best to help for a short period of time, but so far I have only been able to help 8 of them."

Liu Gang's eyes were a little red, he nodded, and patted Cao Zhihua hard.
"You are good, you are already very good."

Cao Zhihua smiled and patted Liu Gang
"Okay, Brother Gang, I'm really running out of time. I have to check in."

"Okay, go ahead and remember to come to training."

"Okay, Brother Gang, let's go."

After Cao Zhihua finished typing, he came to the communication room and opened the letter to read the reply while boiling water.

In the past few years, Cao Zhihua has been practicing boxing with these veterans from the security department for three to five days, and he has a very good relationship with this group of people.Through daily chats, Cao Zhihua learned that the army was downsizing at that time, and a large number of soldiers who had changed their jobs had no job arrangements and could only go home to farm.

Therefore, Cao Zhihua specially selected some people whose family conditions were difficult, who were relatively loyal, and who had clear grievances and grievances to write letters to contact him.

After several years of constant contact through letters, Cao Zhihua chose a few families with particularly poor families and sent them one or two dollars a month, and successively supported 8 veterans of the Northern War.

Although he has never met these people, Cao Zhihua has a very good impression of these eight people. He feels that these are people who will repay their kindness. This is also to pave the way for his own family arrangements after going to Hong Kong.

At that time, as long as one of these 8 people is willing to come and help, they can help solve their own security problems, and then all the efforts will be rewarded.

After reading the letters, Cao Zhihua drank tea while replying. After all eight letters were written one after another, he got off work.

Cao Zhihua took out two lunch boxes from the space. Half of each lunch box was filled with hanging pot duck and half with braised pork. Then he put a lunch box into the space, punched in the work card, walked to the parking area and rode his bicycle home from work. .

When he got home, the door was locked. Cao Zhihua knocked on the door, entered the house and locked the door. When he walked into the kitchen, he saw three small rice dishes had been cooked and spinach was being fried.

Seeing the eldest brother coming back, the three little ones happily greeted:
"Brother is back, it's time for dinner."

Xiaoyu jumped over and took Cao Zhihua's lunch box, and whispered cutely:
"Brother, can the conditions be improved again today?"

Cao Zhihua raised his index finger to his mouth,

"Shh~ we did it secretly"

Xiaoyu looked strangely to the left and right, and gave Cao Zhihua a knowing look.
"Shh~"

Then Xiaoyu put the lunch box on the table, opened it, and her saliva almost flowed out.He said anxiously to Ergouzi who was cooking:
"Third brother, how long will it take? I can't bear it anymore."

The big dog was immediately attracted by the smell of meat and shrank his throat. The boss of Twenty Thousand Stars stared at the lunch box and was speechless.

"It's ready. Hurry up and pack the food, and we'll start eating."

Xiaoyu happily filled the rice with bowls and chopsticks, and the family sat down and started eating.

In fact, since Cao Zhihua traveled through time, he has never treated the three little ones badly in terms of materials. However, the current environment is like this, and the three little ones are also very greedy when they see meat.

"Brother, the meat is delicious."

"Yes, yes, brother, the happiest thing in the world is to be able to eat duck meat every day, it's so delicious."

Cao Zhihua smiled and did not fight for meat with the three little ones. After all, he had no shortage of meat.

"If it's delicious, eat more. After you finish eating the bones, be sure to dig a hole somewhere and bury them. Don't let anyone see them, okay?"

"Yeah, I understand, brother, I wrapped the bones, hid them in my clothes, took them out and buried them."

"Well, the big dog is so good."

After dinner, Cao Zhihua didn't care about anything and rode his bicycle to Chen Xueru's place to see his son.

(End of this chapter)