Siheyuan: He Yuzhu since 1958

He Yuzhu asked: "What's the matter?!"

"No! No! Very wrong!" He Yushui muttered a few words, and asked seriously: "Are you and Sister Yingying in love?!"

He Yuzhu turned his head and looked at He Yushui, and asked: "What's in your head, little girl?! I'll go to your school in a few days to ask, how did your teacher teach you?!"

He Yushui smiled and replied, "Our teacher is a very beautiful girl. How about I introduce her to you some other day?"

"You little girl!" He Yuzhu patted He Yushui's head and said, "Wait outside, you can eat soon."

He Yushui rubbed the place where He Yuzhu had slapped her, hummed softly, and pouted as she left the kitchen. After a while, He Yuzhu brought the food to the table outside and said, "I'm going to go out for a while and will be back soon. You eat first! When you're done, just leave the bowl alone."

He Yushui asked: "Brother, where are you going?!"

He Yuzhu smiled and said, "Don't worry about where we go. It's a good thing anyway." After that, He Yuzhu put the four lunch boxes into the cloth bag, put on his cotton coat, put the cloth bag in his arms, and went out.

He Yushui looked at her brother's back and couldn't help laughing. She muttered, "He must have gone to deliver food to Sister Yingying. Still want to hide it from me?! Not even close!" Then He Yushui picked up the chopsticks and began to eat happily.

Xu Damao, who was riding a bicycle back from outside, saw He Yuzhu coming out and asked with a smile: "He Yuzhu, why aren't you eating at home at this time? Where are you going?!"

He Yuzhu asked: "Xu Damao, did you move?!"

Xu Damao was stunned for a moment, and asked back: "What do you mean by that?!"

He Yuzhu said, "Your family moved to the seaside? Aren't you meddling too much?!" After saying that, He Yuzhu glared at Xu Damao and walked out of the courtyard directly.

"What's wrong with this idiot Zhu?!" Xu Damao muttered as he looked at He Yuzhu's back. Suddenly he thought of a possibility. He laughed unconsciously and followed He Yuzhu quietly on his bicycle.

As soon as he passed the intersection, He Yuzhu found Xu Damao following him. However, He Yuzhu did not take Xu Damao seriously and continued to walk forward. After a while, Xu Damao, who was following behind, saw He Yuzhu enter the gate of the police station. He was shocked and muttered to himself: "What is idiot Zhu doing in the police station?!"

Just when Xu Damao was standing in a daze not far from the Public Security Bureau, He Yuzhu found out the location of Huang Ying's office from the police officer in charge of reception, came to the door of Huang Ying's office, and knocked on the door.

Huang Ying heard the knock on the door and called out, "Come in!"

He Yuzhu opened the door and walked into the office. Huang Ying saw He Yuzhu and asked with a smile, "Why are you here?!"

He Yuzhu replied, "I've brought you lunch." He Yuzhu then pretended to reach into his arms, but in fact he took out a cloth bag containing a lunch box from the supermarket space, put it on the table, and said, "Eat it quickly! Eat it while it's hot!" Then he asked, "Where's the lunch box from this morning? I'll take it back."

Huang Ying tilted her head to look at He Yuzhu and said, "Other families don't have enough food to eat. Although your family, your sister and you are both registered in the city and have food supplies, they can't afford to be so generous, right?!"

He Yuzhu replied, "You underestimate me, don't you?! Since I started working, I have traveled all over the rural areas around the city. At that time, food was not so scarce. I brought back a lot of food. I also got a lot of meat, and made a lot of bacon and preserved meat. I store them all at home. Even if I stop buying food now, the food I have stored is enough for Yushui and I to eat for five years."

Huang Ying smiled and joked: "I didn't expect you to be so good at living?!"

He Yuzhu said: "What if I don't know how to make a living?! There are only me and my sister at home. If I don't know how to make a living, then this family will be finished, right?!"

Huang Ying nodded in agreement, opened the drawer, took out a stack of food coupons, handed them to He Yuzhu, and said, "Take it!"

He Yuzhu shook his head and said, "You should keep it! I don't need it right now. I'll ask you for it when I need it."

Huang Ying was not a hypocritical person. Since He Yuzhu said so, she did not insist and took the food coupons away, and did not forget to remind him: "We have an agreement! If you don't have enough food coupons, ask me for more."

"I got it! Please give me my lunch box from this morning! I still need to go back to eat!" He Yuzhu pretended to be anxious and urged.

"Okay! I'll give it to you!" Huang Ying stood up and walked to the cabinet. She took out the cable bag containing the teacup and lunch box from the cabinet, handed it to He Yuzhu, and said, "Be careful on your way back."

"Don't worry! I know what I'm doing." He Yuzhu suddenly thought of something, reached into his pocket, took out a handful of White Rabbit milk candies and stuffed them into Huang Ying's hand, saying, "I didn't know you were on duty tonight. So I didn't prepare a midnight snack for you. Take these candies. If you're hungry, you can fill your stomach." After that, He Yuzhu took the network cable bag and left the office.

Huang Ying looked at the warm candy in her hand, a sweet smile appeared on her face, and she muttered: "You did a good job. I'll make a note of you in my little notebook!"

He Yuzhu walked out of the police station and saw Xu Damao waiting on the roadside. He Yuzhu smiled and greeted him: "Damo, why are you here?!"

Xu Damao looked at He Yuzhu and asked, "What are you doing at the police station?!"

He Yuzhu asked back: "What can you do in the police station?!" Then he asked: "Are you hiding something?"

"He Yuzhu! You can eat whatever you want! But you can't talk nonsense!" Xu Damao looked at He Yuzhu with a ferocious face and shouted hysterically.

He Yuzhu then said: "Then why are you in such a hurry?!"

Xu Damao replied: "How can I not be anxious about this matter?! I might have to sit on the fence if things go wrong."

He Yuzhu said impatiently: "Stop talking nonsense! Send me back!"

"Let me take you there? No way!" After saying that, Xu Damao rode away on his bicycle.

He Yuzhu looked at Xu Damao's back and muttered, "This kid is here to cause trouble! I must find him something to do. Otherwise, he will be too busy and cause trouble for me." Thinking of this, an idea suddenly came to He Yuzhu's mind. Talk to the head of the Propaganda Section tomorrow and assign Xu Damao more tasks. At least let him stay in the countryside before the New Year.

However, He Yuzhu did not expect that someone had already taken the lead and put a stumbling block in Xu Damao's way. The next morning, Xu Damao had just arrived at the unit and had not even had time to catch his breath when he was called to the section chief's office. The head of the propaganda section directly assigned Xu Damao a one-month mission, all in the rural areas on the edge of the city.

After all, two wheels are faster than two legs. Xu Damao returned to the courtyard before He Yuzhu. Yan Bugui saw Xu Damao coming back, and asked with a smile while looking at Xu Damao and the bicycle beside him: "Damo, where did you go? Why are you back so late?!"

Xu Damao said, "Third Uncle, don't mention it! When I came back, I saw He Yuzhu go out, so I followed him to see." Then he asked, "Guess where He Yuzhu went?!"