Break out of the courtyard

Chapter 45 Lao Zhang was thrown into the cold palace
  "Zhang Heping, you can't be too selfish. Your father has promised to give you money. If you don't give it, it would be unfilial!"

"You old Bideng!" Zhang Heping was concerned about the comradeship between Lao Zhang and Huang Xuebing, who had been polite in his words before.

As a result, Yi Zhonghai, the old Bideng, didn't care about speaking to the people in the courtyard, but he jumped out and made sarcastic remarks!

I saw Zhang Heping staring at Yi Zhonghai on the other side of the second door and Qin Huairu next to him, suppressing his anger and threatening: "Believe it or not, I will tell you what you did in the vegetable cellar on the night of February 2th!"

The whole place suddenly fell silent...

The people watching in the courtyard all looked at Yi Zhonghai. It was true that "evening" and "vegetable cellar" were too easy to attract people's imagination.

Qin Huairu didn't pay attention at first, but when she saw Yi Zhonghai's face changed drastically, Qin Huairu suddenly thought of something, and hid behind Sha Zhu with a pale face, and distanced herself from Yi Zhonghai.

"Zhang Heping, don't talk nonsense!" Yi Zhonghai was trembling with anger, feeling a little anxious.

In fact, for a moment, Zhang Heping really wanted to overturn Yi Zhonghai's reputation regardless of it, but he saw Yan Bugui shaking his head at him out of the corner of his eye, and finally suppressed his anger.

"I was the one who smashed the windows of Xu's house that night. Do you think I was talking nonsense?" Zhang Heping turned around and stopped talking to Yi Zhonghai.

The ultimate move can only threaten the enemy to the greatest extent when it is pressed without letting go.

If Zhang Heping broke the news that Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu were in the vegetable cellar as soon as they arrived, the other party would definitely refuse to admit it and would fight back wildly.

Unless Zhang Heping can get evidence that He Daqing sent living expenses to Si Zhu's brother and sister, and evidence that Yi Zhonghai withheld the money, he can break Yi Zhonghai's character with one blow!
  But why did Zhang Heping help Silly Zhu?
  Looking at the Tian family's mother and son, Huang Xuemin had already persuaded them to go outside the gate.

The woman had a job, a registered residence in the city, and her two sons also had food supplies. She was not short of money or food, but once she was short of tickets, she asked Zhang Bing for help. From then on, she regarded Zhang Bing as the scapegoat.

Now that she was threatened by Zhang Heping, she also had scruples.

As for the four remaining members of the family, seeing that something was wrong, they also left and never had to see each other again.

After Zhang Bing's four old comrades and their families also said goodbye and left, Zhang Heping summoned Yan Jiefang's gang of brats and asked them to move all the benches back to their homes.

Just after Zhang Heping put the wages on the kang and a stack of tickets into the money box, Sister Du, who handled the invoice certificate in the street, came and requisitioned the Zhang family's earthen kang, and spread the pile of tickets she brought with her in categories. On the kang.

Then, a group of people who brought their own benches sat in front of Zhang's house. They took their own food books and non-staple food books, waiting for Sister Du to issue March tickets.

Zhang Heping called for a cart and took Lao Zhang to the hospital with Huang Xuebing and grandma Xie Ermei. After giving Uncle Zhuang a massage at the hospital, he went home to Yan Bugui to go fishing in Houhai, ignoring Lao Zhang the whole time.

"What did Lao Yi do in the vegetable cellar that night?"

Faced with Yan Bugui's sudden gossip, Zhang Heping shook his head, "You can't talk about this kind of thing, let everyone guess. If I tell you, you will definitely tell the third aunt when you go back. If the third aunt spreads it again, it will be boring. .”

"With a girl?"

……

After catching 8 small fish, Zhang Heping and Yan Bugui went home.

This time, Zhang Heping took away all the fish. Yanbu brought out white wine, ginger, salt, and soy sauce. Zhang Heping was responsible for making steamed fish fillets. After steaming, he still needed 50% of the fish.

After lunch, her mother Ma Xiuzhen called her grandmother Xie Ermei back and left Zhang Bing alone in the ward.

The second sister, Zhang Pandi, took the two younger sisters outside, while Zhang Heping, his grandmother, mother, and eldest sister were at home doing accounting.

“上个月剩了34块8毛，妈这个月的工资是23块、爸的工资56块，合计113块8毛。”

Zhang Heping said, putting a stack of cents aside and pressing it with an ink bottle.

Then, he put the daily-used tickets such as sesame oil tickets, sesame paste tickets, soap tickets, and match tickets into a pile, "These tickets will be used today."

"Sweater tickets, shoe tickets..." Zhang Heping looked at his mother Ma Xiuzhen. Although she had paid great attention to hygiene, her clothes were worn and uncomfortable. Looking at the black cloth shoes on her feet, "These two tickets should be It was sent to me in kindergarten because my mother was not dressed appropriately."

"I..." Ma Xiuzhen's face was a little complicated. She had never told her son that the nursery nurses in the kindergarten were all dressed cleaner and better looking than her. Now she could only be responsible for cleaning inside.

"I will go buy leather shoes and turtleneck sweaters with my mother later, so that she will not be reluctant to spend money on herself." After Zhang Heping finished speaking, he placed 8 coupons for daily necessities and industrial products next to the shoe coupons. Other miscellaneous bills, because they were small in quantity, were bundled together with rubber rings and put aside first.

Finally, comes the highlight of today, food stamps!
  Father Zhang Bing's food stamps are 33.5 kilograms, 10 kilograms of refined grains, and 23.5 kilograms of coarse grains... His food stamps were not issued this month, and they were all allocated to the hospital.

Mother Ma Xiuzhen’s daily diet is 30 kilograms, 9 kilograms of refined grains, and 21 kilograms of coarse grains.

The two sisters are junior high school girls, and their daily rations are 27 kilograms, 8.1 kilograms of refined grains, and 18.9 kilograms of coarse grains.

Zhang Heping's ration for 12-year-old children is 25 kilograms, 7.5 kilograms of fine grains, and 17.5 kilograms of coarse grains.

This fixed grain quantity is much less than expected.

Zhang Heping did not realize that the fixed pay would be distributed according to age, gender, and type of work. Instead, it was calculated based on Lao Zhang's fixed pay multiplied by 5.

Judging from the market situation that 10 kilograms of fine grains can be exchanged for at least 20 kilograms of coarse grains, Lao Zhang's fixed grain is converted to 43.5 kilograms of coarse grains. Multiplied by 5 people, it is 217.5 kilograms.

The original plan was for relatives on both sides of the family to receive 100 kilograms each, leaving 17.5 kilograms for spare.

But now, apart from Lao Zhang's fixed grain and replacing all fine grains with coarse grains, the weight is only 141.7 kilograms.

The key is that Lao Zhang's four comrades still have more than two hundred kilograms of debt to pay!
  This month I can use the food saved at home to pay off the debt, but what about next month?
  "We still have about 23 kilograms of stick noodles and about 24 kilograms of flour at home. We use them all to pay off the debt."

"I'll take these 32 kilograms and 7 taels of fine grain stamps first and ask the third uncle if I can exchange them." Zhang Heping said, then he took the fine grain stamps, the stack of miscellaneous grain stamps, and 30 yuan and went to Yan's house opposite.

The 6 members of Yan Bugui's family have urban registered permanent residence, and 6 of them have food supplies, one more than Zhang Heping's family. In addition, the Yan family also has a bunch of food stamps, so Zhang Heping thought that Yan Laojie could give him a friendly price.

Previously, Zhang Heping and Yan Bugui bought 2 kilograms of stick noodles at a friendly price of 10 yuan and took them to school as gifts.

But this time, when Zhang Heping asked Yan Bugui if he was willing to sell his food stamps, Yan Bugui quoted the market price of the pigeon market, which was 1 yuan for 2 catty of fine grain stamps and 1 cents for 9 catty of coarse grain stamps.

And that’s just the ticket price!

Zhang Heping doesn't want to spend money on high-priced grain. His family is borrowing grain, and it's not a shortage of grain. If he wants to buy it, the borrower should buy it himself!
  Besides, he lent food to relatives on both sides of the family just to help him control the family's finances, and his grandma and mother had already supported him with actions this morning.

Therefore, now it is just a matter of fulfilling the promise made before to win over them.

As for Zhang Heping's feelings for relatives on both sides, to be honest, there isn't much.

Finally, the 32 kilograms and 7 taels of fine grain stamps brought by Zhang Heping were exchanged for 66 kilograms of coarse grain stamps with Yan Bugui.

A stack of miscellaneous tickets was picked and calculated by Mr. Yan, and he actually exchanged 14 kilograms of coarse grain coupons for Zhang Heping, which was 80 kilograms.

Zhang Heping felt that Yan Laoji would definitely gain, but Zhang Heping felt that he did not lose.

He didn't want to waste time going to Pigeon Market because he had no idea about the units of quantity in a half-foot cloth ticket. How long is a half-foot?
  In addition, if Yan Laoji has a way to sell tickets, is there a way to buy tickets?
  Would it be safer to go to his house to buy tickets in the future?

……

"There are 156.3 kilograms of coarse grain stamps in total, and relatives on both sides can borrow 70 kilograms each. How about that?" Zhang Heping came home and told his plan.

I have 16 kilograms of whole grains left this month, and a little more next month. Together, I can repay some debts.

Mother Ma Xiuzhen had no objection to this allocation, but grandma Xie Ermei complained, saying that she had told her hometown that the weight was 100 pounds.

Zhang Heping cursed, "Don't those two little girls want to eat?"
  Afterwards, the family went out on a large shopping spree and ignored Lao Zhang in the hospital.

When passing by the post office, they also sent a telegram to relatives on both sides, which cost 3 cents a word:

Come and pick up 70 kilograms of grain...

　Zhang Bing, who cannot move: Please vote...

　　
  　
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