Scholars in the courtyard

In the afternoon, before Xu Damao had time to rest, Silly Zhu came over with an enamel jar.

"Xu Damao, go to the warehouse to move two bags of potatoes."

"What, why is it me again?"

"Who else are you?"

"You~ I can't move it alone. Someone come and help me."

"No one is here, everyone is busy, you are the only one."

“䱱…”

Xu Damao knew that Silly Zhu was trying to make things difficult for him, but he understood that this was bullying.

I left in frustration, and finally carried two bags of potatoes back in the middle of the afternoon.

Then I saw a group of old men and women in the back kitchen sitting there chatting. Is this what the hell is going on?

Xu Damao was furious.

"Xu Damao, take a rest, we have to clean up later."

Shazhu was very happy when he saw it, and Xu Damao sat directly on the potato.

This stupid column is really nothing.

After get off work, Shazhu smiled at Xu Damao, who was still mopping the floor, "Shamao, work hard and leave after you finish."

After saying that, he walked out with splayed legs.

"Silly Zhu, I'm going to fuck you."

Bang

Xu Damao threw the mop aside, stared at the raised door curtain, and roared.

After a while, he sighed and performed a monkey fist with a sad and angry expression.

Finally, he picked up the mop and continued working.

After cleaning up, Xu Damao dragged his tired body back home.

As soon as I walked out of the gate, I tightened my collar. For three to nine days, I froze to death.

"Damn it, you can't do this anymore. If you continue, you will be fooled to death."

"Projectionist, projectionist!"

Xu Damao's heart immediately became excited as he thought about the benefits of being a projectionist.

At this moment, Xu Damao suddenly saw a figure in front of him. Under the dim street light, he was swaying with his head down, walking without a hitch.

Lou Xiaoe?

Xu Damao recognized it at just one glance. She was his ex-wife, Lou Xiao'e!

Yang Xiaotao came out of the office and saw that the time was already past six o'clock.

I lost track of time while reading.

I was still thinking that Lou Xiao'e didn't say hello when she left.

Impolite.

After leaving the office building, Yang Xiaotao rode his bicycle and walked towards the courtyard.

Not long after leaving, I heard a fierce quarrel.

The voice is still somewhat familiar.

When I got closer, I saw it was Lou Xiao'e and Xu Damao.

"Get out of the way, don't get so close, we have nothing to do with you anymore."

"Ezi, I will change, I swear to God I will change!"

"Get out of the way. If you don't, I'll call someone."

"Ezi, a couple's kindness lasts a night and a hundred days, but you don't show any affection at all?"

"You're being a hooligan, here comes someone..."

Lou Xiao'e's arm was pinched by Xu Damao and she shouted loudly.

Xu Damao panicked, "Ezi, I..."

Ring bell

Before Xu Damao finished speaking, he heard the ringing of a car bell, and then saw Yang Xiaotao approaching on a bicycle.

Xu Damao immediately let go of Lou Xiao'e, and then his body subconsciously wanted to hide behind Lou Xiao'e.

Unexpectedly, Lou Xiao'e dodged nimbly and stood beside Yang Xiaotao, glaring at Xu Damao.

Yang Xiaotao stopped the car and looked at Xu Damao.

"Xiao'e, is he acting like a hooligan? Do you want to send him to the security department?"

"Yang Xiaotao, stop talking nonsense, who is acting like a gangster?"

Yang Xiaotao asked Lou Xiao'e, and Xu Damao was so frightened that he quickly spoke and looked around, ready to run away.

When Lou Xiao'e saw that it was Yang Xiaotao, she let go of her nervousness for no reason. Seeing Xu Damao's cowardly look, she felt even more at ease.

This may be Yang Xiaotao's reputation.

She calmed down and Lou Xiao'e didn't want to cause trouble again.

"Need not!"

Then he said seriously to Xu Damao, "Xu Damao, we have no relationship anymore, and there will never be any relationship in the future."

"Don't disturb my life in the future, otherwise, don't blame me for being rude."

After hearing this, Xu Damao looked at Lou Xiao'e, then at Yang Xiaotao, and stretched out his hand to tap on both of them.

"Okay, okay, you two, very good..."

boom

Before Xu Damao finished speaking, Yang Xiaotao kicked him over. Xu Damao was kicked to the ground, holding his stomach and unable to speak anymore.

"Dogs bark."

"Get out of here!"

Yang Xiaotao squinted his eyes, not knowing why he was so angry.

Maybe, because he is Xu Damao.

Xu Damao got up from the ground, not daring to say harsh words, turned around and ran into the night.

Seeing Xu Damao leaving, Yang Xiaotao pulled the car and looked at Lou Xiao'e, "Go home early after get off work and don't go out at night."

Lou Xiao'e nodded.

"Thanks."

"It's okay. Is your home close to here?"

"Well, it's just around the corner."

"Okay, I won't see you off anymore. Go back early. See you tomorrow."

After Yang Xiaotao finished speaking, he rode away.

Lou Xiao'e looked at the looming figure under the street lamp and whispered, "See you tomorrow."

Back in the courtyard, Ran Qiuye was preparing dinner.

Yang Xiaotao had just sat down and the food was already on the table.

Two dishes, one stir-fried pork with cabbage, one stir-fried bean sprouts, and two salted duck eggs on the table.

This kind of salted duck eggs are all pickled by ourselves, and there are still many in the jar. After peeling it off, the egg white is gray and the egg is shiny. It is salty and fragrant when you take a bite, especially with rice.

Ran Qiuye knew Yang Xiaotao's appetite and always cooked too much.

"The Jia family is making trouble again today."

Ran Qiuye ate some and put down his chopsticks when he lost his appetite. "Jia Zhang said that the family lost money and beat Qin Huairu."

Yang Xiaotao was stunned, "Her family lost money?"

"Well, I also looked for my aunt, but I couldn't find it after searching through the house."

"Call the police?"

"No."

Yang Xiaotao suddenly thought that the person who could steal money from Jia Zhang must be a thief.

And in Jia's family, doesn't there happen to be a rising thief?

However, this was a family matter, and Yang Xiaotao didn't bother to take care of it.

Sure enough, after dinner, while Yang Xiaotao was reading, a sharp cry came from Jia's house, and then through the window, he saw Jia Zhang chasing the stick thief with a rolling pin and screaming.

"You little bastard, if you dare to take money, come here."

"Woo~ No, I won't go. If you don't give me the money, I will take it myself."

Banggeng was crying while running, but he couldn't outrun Jia Zhang and was caught after a while.

Qin Huairuyi stood at the door, watching the commotion in the courtyard, feeling unspeakably bored.

"Qin Huairu, are you dead? Come here quickly..."

Jia Dongxu's voice sounded again in the room, and Qin Huairu could only lower her head and return to the room.

In the yard, the wails of the stick stalks continued.

Mrs. Jia Zhang was also cruel. The red marks on Banggeng's butt were all connected together. If the aunt hadn't been unable to bear it any longer and came out to stop her, Banggeng would probably have to sleep on her stomach tonight. .

Then I heard that Banggeng spent the money to buy candied haws, and it was a big black ten, and he bought two bunches of candied haws...

After hearing this, Mrs. Jia Zhang felt heartbroken and fainted again...

After people in the courtyard heard about it, it became a topic of conversation after dinner.

After hearing this, Yang Xiaotao could only say that the upper beam was not straight and the lower beam was crooked.

Bangge's behavior is inseparable from Jia Zhang's teachings.

However, things took a turn for the better after dinner.

The people from the subdistrict office came to the yard, found Banggeng and asked about the situation, and then returned the remaining nine yuan to the Jia family.

It turned out that after Banggeng took out the money, the candied haws seller asked him to wait where he was while he went to find someone to break the money. When he came back, Banggeng had already run away.

The man couldn't be found, so he went to the subdistrict office and told the matter. The subdistrict office asked around before finding the Jia family.

After being lost and found again, Mrs. Jia and Zhang almost knelt down in front of the comrades from the street office. She looked more affectionate than meeting her biological father.

Qin Huairu didn't expect that it would turn out to be a turn of events. These ten yuan were an important asset for their family.

When the people from the subdistrict office left, BangGeng naturally received another lesson.

But what they didn’t know was that Banggeng only bought one candied haws, but came back with two...

Under the night, with hot water boiling on the heater, Ran Qiuye leaned on the bedside and read a book, touching her belly from time to time, as if she was giving prenatal education.

Yang Xiaotao took out the blueprint of the pressure cooker and looked at it carefully.

As for why it was a pressure cooker, on the surface it was for Ran Qiuye's confinement period, but in fact he just wanted to stew chicken.

Of course, this is Yang Xiaotao's personal wish. If it rises to the national level, it will be another level.

After all, the pressure cooker is more helpful to people in high altitude areas.

Yang Xiaotao originally thought that the pressure cooker was a very simple thing, but when he checked the system rewards, he discovered that the pressure cooker was not a picture, but a complete set.

There are simple pressure cookers here that only need to be heated with fire to use, but they require manual operation.

There are also advanced ones that can set the mode after powering on, just like those used in later generations of households.

Of course, what Yang Xiaotao is looking at now is a simple pressure cooker.

In other words, simple pressure vessels.

But even this simple pressure cooker requires a lot of effort.

For example, sealing rings are a big problem in China at the moment.

At least we need to find qualified rubber to make it.

The processing of the parts also needs to be carefully crafted, otherwise if the pressure cooker explodes, the power will not be as simple as scalding.

Yang Xiaotao pulled out a drawing and began to copy it, preparing to complete it piece by piece.

Ran Qiuye didn't take it seriously when she saw Yang Xiaotao writing and drawing. After all, this was the job of an engineer. It was normal for her, a primary school teacher, not to understand.

In the backyard, Xu Damao was guarding the table and talking to Xu's father.

"Dad, I suffered a lot from Silly Zhu today, and this guy is just taking revenge. I was late in the morning and hung up two baskets of potatoes by myself. This is not a fucking human job."

After hearing this, Xu's mother also spoke for Xu Damao.

Xu's father put down his pipe and pot, "How about asking the new projectionist?"

"He's from the branch below. His surname is Li and his name is Li Quan."

"Li Quan? Are you from Li Kangzi's family?"

After Xu Damao heard this, he quickly asked, "Dad, do you know this person?"

"I don't know him, but if his father is Li Kang, then he knows him. I was trained in the same batch as his father back then, so we can talk when we meet."

"However, I heard that this family lives in a military compound."

"That…"

Xu Damao was a little disappointed. Since he was an acquaintance, he couldn't use his unscrupulous hands.

I originally thought that a young boy with no skills could drive people back just by playing tricks on the projector.

But who would have thought that there is still such a relationship, no wonder he dares to take apprentices, he is not afraid of grabbing his job at all.

"You're just doing it. If your good work is gone, you don't know how many people are staring at you? You're a waste of money!"

Xu Damao lowered his head, and Xu's father didn't say much when he saw him.

"The house is ready for you. Your mother and I will go back after the New Year. There are still a lot of things to do at home. We also need to walk around in the village."

"Dad, I..."

"Okay, you go ahead and don't lose your job in the steel rolling mill. Let's talk about the rest after the New Year activities."

Xu Damao looked depressed. It was still half a month before the New Year. He would be tortured by Sha Zhu all the time. It was unknown whether he could hold on until the New Year.

Moreover, for this Chinese New Year, it would be so refreshing to go to the countryside and watch a movie. Scraping potatoes in the kitchen would be enough.

"Dad, aren't you familiar with the people in the cinema? How about I go to work there?"

"One carrot and one pit. If it were so easy, your father and I could go back to the countryside? Guard the rolling mill and don't think about anything else."

"Also, find a woman quickly. The boss is not young anymore, so hurry up and give us a root..."

Xu's father was talking, Xu Damao lowered his head, thinking about what to do in the future.

In the middle courtyard, Qin Huairu came out of the house and knocked on the stupid door.

In the room, Silly Zhu was spreading his legs, trying to recover from his injuries.

Today, I took revenge on Xu Damao in the steel rolling mill, but the beating was still not enough.

Only when the body recovered and beat Xu Damao severely could this tone be resolved.

Otherwise, wouldn’t this courtyard’s reputation as the God of War be lost?

There was a knock on the door, and Shazhu was curious who came so late.

"The door is not closed."

After hearing this, Qin Huairu opened the door and walked in, then closed the door smoothly.

In the Jia family, Mrs. Jia Zhang was lying on the window watching Qin Huairu close the door, stamping her feet angrily.