Siheyuan: My Northeastern Farmhouse

Chapter 3 Struggle for Urban Hukou [-]
Throwing away all impossibilities, there is only one answer!
Gu Weijun raised his left hand to face the sun and observed it in detail repeatedly. The palm of his hand was full of calluses. He had worked hard all his life, and nothing but calluses was calluses.The back of the hand is so dark. Why is there still coal and soil?After taking a basin of well water, washing it repeatedly with soap, and then exposing it to the sun, I finally made a discovery!Near the tiger's mouth of the left arm, a cone-shaped frame appears vaguely, extending intermittently to the inside of the index and middle fingers of the left hand.Withdrawing his left hand, he couldn't see it unless he looked carefully. Even if he saw it, his first reaction would be that the back of his hand was covered in dust. Gu Weijun nodded with satisfaction. Keeping a low profile is the way to go!
After drinking tea to moisten his throat, he took a deep breath of cigarette, threw it at his feet and crushed it. Gu Weijun patted the non-existent dust on his thighs and stood up.He closed the door, took a deep breath again, yanked the door open with his right hand and rushed in. When he took a closer look, he was still in the main room of his hometown!

The posture is wrong, come again!
Gu Weijun closed his eyes, held the door handle tightly with his left hand, and relaxed!Take a deep breath! "My left hand and right hand move in slow motion." He muttered in a tone-deaf accent, slowly but forcefully opened the door and stepped in.

There was a moment of trance in his mind. Gu Weijun's heart felt slightly settled, and he opened his eyes slowly and uneasily.The first thing that catches the eye is a large bust of Chairman Mao hung in the middle of the north wall, with the words "Serve the People" written underneath. Below the portrait of the Chairman is a long case with two pots of Clivia on both sides. A wing chair.

In the north corner are two large water tanks and two buckets side by side. A carrying pole is pressed on the wooden cover of the water tank, and various cooking utensils are hung on a row of nails on the wall above.On the left side of the house, close to the interior wall, is a large stove, stove and stove built at the back. The surface is plastered with cement, and the flue from the stove mouth on the inside leads directly to the earthen bed in the bedroom.

In the far right corner of the room is a wooden dish rack or cabinet that is 1.5 meters wide and about 2 meters high?In front of the cabinet is a folding round table standing against the wall and wooden benches stacked two by two.Three large bedroom cabinets, two red and one yellow, with 1-meter-high bricks underneath, almost occupy the remaining right wall. Covered with quilts, they can be used as single beds. Next door is the home of a famous deaf old lady.

Gu Weijun put his hands on his hips again and laughed wildly. The Golden Finger lived up to its name and shouted: "Back then I had my hands in my pockets and I didn't know what an opponent was!" Fortunately, I am still a virgin in this life. I will get married when I am old and I will not have to compete with each other!
The door behind him opened with a creak. Gu Weijun just turned around and couldn't dodge, only to see a slap on his forehead.

Gu Weijun was stunned, "Mom, gah!" Gu's mother slapped her again without saying a word. Gu Weijun shrank his neck, scratched it with his hand, and quickly grabbed Gu's mother's hand. "Mom, Mom, if you have something to say, please say it. Don't break your hand!"

Looking at the stupid son in front of her, Gu's mother was furious and yelled, "Why are ghosts crying and howling in the house?"

"Are you worthy of fighting back against my opponent? I slam the door back and forth. Will you repair it if it's broken?" After saying that, she smelled the smell of cigarettes on Gu Weijun's body, "Did you steal Dad's cigarettes again?" Gu's mother asked again. Get started.

"No! I'm not! I didn't! I was practicing my recitation just now!" Looking at the second aunt outside the door who was suppressing a smile, Gu Weijun smiled awkwardly at her and quickly closed the door.

Gu's mother raised her eyebrows and said sarcastically: "Hey, why didn't I know that my son still loves to study so much? Then why can't he even pass the high school entrance examination? He's just here to sharpen his skills after graduation!"

"Mom, didn't I realize my shame and then act bravely?" Gu Weijun said with a smile on his face.

"Bah, how brave are you to sleep in after graduation?" Mother Gu's eyes widened angrily, "Hurry up and go out to find work to earn your own food, our family doesn't support idle people!"

"Okay, okay, Mom, I'll go out to look for work right away, just wait and see!" Gu Weijun clasped his hands together, nodded and bowed, wiped away the non-existent cold sweat, turned around and was about to go out.

"Wait a minute!" Gu's mother took out a handkerchief from her pocket, opened it, picked out a one-dollar note, and handed it to Gu Weijun, "Go to the supply and marketing cooperative at the door to buy a piece of tofu and a bottle of wine. You are going to be gay tonight. The uncle is here to drink." After saying that, he opened the cabinet and found out a tofu ticket and a wine ticket, and handed them to Gu Weijun along with the wine bottle on the window sill, "Hurry back after buying. Breakfast is in the pot. Go out after eating. Damn it!" After saying that, he gave Gu Weijun a roll of his eyes.

"Hey!" Gu Weijun took the ticket and bottle with both hands, pushed open the door backwards, turned around and muttered in a low voice, "Women from the Northeast are tigers, you can't afford to offend them!"

"What are you muttering about?" Gu's mother shouted from behind, "Nothing." Gu Weijun ran away quickly.

"What a bastard!" Mother Gu also cursed in a low voice, closed the door, and continued gossiping with the second aunt in the backyard.

After passing through the Moon Gate, Gu Weijun looked at the location of the faucet in the middle courtyard. Unfortunately, he didn't see the classic scene of the widow washing clothes. The doors of several houses in the middle courtyard were closed, but the curtains of Jia's house moved. Maybe I went out for the weekend, or maybe I haven’t gotten up yet.After passing through the central hall and reaching the front yard, I didn't see Yan Laokou watering the flowers. I sat down in the room and saw Yan Jiecheng opening the door and just about to come out. When he saw Gu Weijun, the grandson closed the door with a bang and went back. "Bah" Gu Weijun spat, curled his lips in disdain, and walked out of the southeast corner gate.

The two stone lions at the entrance of the courtyard are still there, but they are also full of pits. I turned around and looked at the courtyard door. It was an ordinary red wooden door that was already mottled. The house number nailed on the pillar of the courtyard door was No. 40, Nanluogu Lane. "This house belongs to a wealthy businessman at most. There isn't even a nail on the courtyard door, but isn't it written as number 95 in the novel?" Gu Weijun shook his head, "Why do you think so much? It's so idle."

But now that I have "travelled" over, I have to think carefully about how to continue getting along with the people in the courtyard! "What you see on paper will eventually make you realize it is shallow. If you are aware of this matter, you must act on it!"

People were already coming and going on the street. Although there was a lot of food, they were in high spirits, and everyone they knew greeted each other warmly.There are also slogans with the flavor of the times posted on the walls on both sides of the road: "Prepare for war and prepare for famine for the people" and "People of the world unite to oppose any imperialism."

There were even more people at the Nanluoguxiang Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and they were almost queuing up to the next intersection. Gu Weijun quickly stood over and queued up.What if I can’t buy tofu and can’t get wine?It's not that I'm afraid of getting beaten, but the key is that I don't want to let my old mother go to all the trouble. Doesn't swearing also consume your lung capacity?
Finally got in, squeezed to the counter, Gu Weijun waved the money ticket, picked up the bottle, and shouted: "Sister, a piece of tofu and a pound of wine," the inside was even more noisy. Materials are scarce these days, and tofu is a good thing. No, Gu Weijun's father had just left a piece after saying hello to him in advance.A young girl with a pretty face and a plump figure rolled her eyes when she saw Gu Weijun, shook off her pigtails, walked over and grabbed the money and bottle from Gu Weijun's hand. "Why are you here at this time? I don't know how busy I am at this time!" The girl is Yang Qing, Gu Weijun's ferocious Yang Yu's sister. She was born on a sunny day and another on a rainy day. She also has an older brother, Yang Chen, who was born in the morning. He was born a few years ago. The soldiers are gone.

"Hey sister, I came as soon as I got up and I didn't even eat breakfast."

"Sluggard, everyone else queues up before dawn!" "Don't we have a sister here?"

The girl hummed and smiled sweetly, "You're the only one with a sweet mouth." She took out the tofu tied with yellow paper and hemp rope and the wine bottle that had been packed in advance from under the counter, and gave her 2 cents in change. Gu Weijun. "Leave quickly, I don't have time to talk to you."

"Okay, sister, see you later!" Gu Weijun held up the thing and twisted his butt left and right to squeeze out.

The girl seemed to have remembered something, and then shouted, "You and Xiaoyu are not allowed to fight with others!"

Gu Weijun struggled to turn around, waved his hand to indicate that he understood, and continued to squeeze out.

At this time, an old lady with a protruding stork bone shouted sharply: "Little girl, didn't you say that the tofu is sold out?" As soon as she finished shouting, she was pulled by another old lady next to her, and she whispered something in her ear, "Stork Bone" The old lady muttered a few words and fell silent.

"Tch!" Yang Qing rolled her eyes and went back to her work.

Gu Weijun went home and put the tofu and wine on the stove. He shouted to Gu's mother who was cleaning the room in the bedroom, and ran out in a rage. "Breakfast?"What breakfast?Vegetable dumplings?How can dumplings be so fragrant!

Turn left from the hospital gate and walk 500 meters to the courtyard of Xiaoyu's family. It has a larger population. You can build a foot and I will build a foot, leaving a narrow aisle in the middle.Fortunately, Xiaoyu's house is in the front yard, only about 20 square meters, separated by a room and a half.Pushing the door straight in, Yang's mother was wiping dust, "Hello, aunt, where is Xiaoyu?" Yang's mother tilted her mouth towards the bedroom, turned around and continued working.Gu Weijun opened the door and saw that he was sleeping with snot and bubbles in his nose. He lifted up the quilt and shouted in Xiaoyu's ear: "The sun is shining on your butt!" Xiaoyu sat up cleverly and saw that it was Gu Weijun. He said angrily: "Why is your grandson so early today?"

"The early bird catches the worm! Hurry, I'm going to find Tiezi."

"In a hurry? Wait until I brush your teeth, wash your face and have breakfast."

"Eat Mao Eat, Ma Liu's, Hutongkou Braised Sauce is waiting for you, I'll treat you to a meat dish today!"

Hearing this, Yang Yu, who was putting on his pants, paused and asked differently: "The sun is rising in the west today? Don't you want to save money to marry a wife like Widow Qin?"

Gu Weijun's old face couldn't stand it all of a sudden. This is my brother's dark history, and you just told it like this?Don't I want to lose face?Could it be that my brother would tell you that I just like Teacher Hao Lei’s style!He cleared his throat and said, "Brother, I'm very demanding. With my good looks, if I find a good job, the pretty girls will keep coming to me!"

"Damn it, I'm going to find Tiezi, let's go!"

"Auntie, let's go!" Gu Weijun fled in panic!
"Haha, haha" Yang's mother covered her belly and bent over with laughter!

When Yang Yu came back with a towel hanging on his shoulders and a washbasin in hand, Yang's mother stuffed a dime directly into Yang Yu's trouser pocket and said, "It's not easy for everyone now, remember not to let the army spend money!"

"Got it!" Yang Yu put the towel and washbasin on the shelf and staggered out.

The fast-moving Gu Weijun here has long since stopped caring about the humiliation just now. Was his shame in his previous life just a waste of time?However, Gu Weijun also discovered that not only was he physically in puberty, but his mentality was also in the prime of youth.Thanks to this era, there is no endless overtime!No high housing prices!There are no various make-up classes!No over-medication!Just two words: wanton!Two more words: Be high-spirited!
By the time Yang Yu walked over to the braised pork stall, Gu Weijun and Tiezi had already occupied a table and were sitting there. Two steaming portions of braised pork and sesame cakes were already placed on the table.Yang Yu looked at Gu Weijun, a little surprised: "Junzi, you don't want to eat?"

Gu Weijun puffed out his belly and waved his hand, "The dumplings we had at home this morning are full of oil and water. You two can eat them!"

Yang Yu sat down dubiously, pushed the braised pork and sesame seed cakes in front of Tie Zi, took out a dime from his pocket and slapped it on the table, "Old Zhang, here's another braised pork belly and sesame seed pancakes."

Tiezi smiled "hehe" without being polite, picked up a bowl of braised pork and started eating it.

(End of this chapter)