Siheyuan: He Yuzhu since 1958

At the same time, in the backyard, at Liu Haizhong's house.

Liu Haizhong was drinking wine, humming a little tune, with a happy expression on his face. The second aunt couldn't help asking: "Lao Liu, what's the matter today? Why are you so happy?!"

Liu Haizhong said, "Nothing! There are only two things. One is that Yi Zhonghai was fired from the factory; the other is that all his apprentices were demoted to apprentices. This time I am proud of myself!"

Liu Guangqi asked: "Dad, how long do you think Yi Zhonghai will be imprisoned this time?!"

Liu Haizhong took a sip of wine and replied, "It's hard to say. If it happened a few years ago, this would have been enough to make Yi Zhonghai eat peanuts. But it's hard to say now."

The front yard, Yan Bugui’s home.

After dinner, Yan Bugui drank tea water that had been brewed more than a dozen times and had no tea flavor at all, and sat in a repaired chair in a daze, as if thinking about something. The third aunt was mending clothes by the light of the street lamp outside the window, and suddenly asked: "Old Yan, Yi Zhonghai has been arrested. How do you think his wife will live in the future?!"

Yan Bugui came back to his senses and said, "They have no children and live frugally. They have saved a lot of Yi Zhonghai's salary in the past few years. Although they can't live a good life, I think they will have no problem eating and drinking normally. Fortunately, Jia Zhang is not in the courtyard now."

The couple likes to scheme, and after Yan Bugui mentioned this, Third Aunt Yang Ruihua instantly understood. Third Aunt said: "Old Yan, the deaf old lady in the backyard has been living with Yi Zhonghai and his wife. Now Yi Zhonghai has been arrested. Why doesn't she help to get him out?!"

Yan Bugui glanced at his wife and said, "Didn't you hear what Director Wang said at the last hospital meeting? The identity of the deaf old lady that was rumored in the courtyard was all made up by Yi Zhonghai. His goal was to create the deaf old lady as his backer, and then suppress Liu Haizhong and me. He wanted to make the courtyard his own place of authority. In the past, Yi Zhonghai relied on the deaf old lady 30%, Sha Zhu 30%, and the rest on his prestige in the steel mill. But he didn't expect that Sha Zhu would be his success and his failure. Yi Zhonghai would never have thought that he would end up falling into the hands of that bastard Sha Zhu."

The third aunt echoed, "I didn't expect that Shazhu would be so ruthless. This incident is a reminder for us. We must be more careful in the future."

Yan Jiecheng said, "Dad, Mom! I think you are worrying too much! Sha Zhu is still the same as before. He is even more stupid now than before. Two days ago, I was a temporary worker in the warehouse of the steel mill. Sha Zhu made a lot of tickets when he took private jobs outside. He sold these tickets to the people in their kitchen at a low price. Some of them were bicycle tickets."

"What?! Sha Zhu has a bicycle ticket?!" Yan Bugui immediately jumped up from his chair, and then his face showed an expression of having lost hundreds of dollars, and he said: "This Sha Zhu is really something, why doesn't he think about the people in the yard when he has a ticket."

"That's right!" The third aunt echoed, saying, "If we use those unused miscellaneous tickets to exchange for a bicycle ticket from Sha Zhu, even if our family doesn't buy it, we can at least make ten yuan by selling the tickets outside."

"Ten yuan, you said it's too little." Yan Bugui muttered thoughtfully, then changed the subject and said, "I'll see Sha Zhu tomorrow morning and ask him if he still has the tickets?"

"Ah!" He Yuzhu sneezed in the corner of the kitchen after just moving a floor tile. He Yuzhu muttered, "Who is thinking about me?!" Then He Yuzhu moved three more floor tiles in a row, and used a broom to sweep the dirt under the upper floor tile, and a bluestone slab appeared in front of He Yuzhu. When He Yuzhu saw the bluestone slab, an excited smile immediately appeared on his face, and he muttered, "Finally found it!" He Yuzhu lifted the bluestone slab with force, and a row of stairs appeared in front of He Yuzhu. He Yuzhu entered the supermarket space, found a candle and a bundle of steel wire, and left the supermarket space again.

One end of the wire was made into a hoop, and the candle was placed in the hoop and lit. He Yuzhu pushed the wire down little by little. The wire in He Yuzhu's hand had just been halfway down when it reached the bottom. After waiting for a while, He Yuzhu saw that the candlelight had no intention of going out, and his heart was immediately relieved. He Yuzhu took another flashlight from the supermarket space. Turning on the flashlight, He Yuzhu bravely walked down the stairs carefully. The stairs were not long, with a total of twenty-one steps. Walking down, He Yuzhu used the flashlight to carefully look at the secret room. The secret room was not high, about 1.8 meters, but it was very wide below. It was estimated to be as big as one and a half standard basketball courts. There were boxes half a person's height piled up below. He Yuzhu walked to a box and opened it. What came into view was a bundle of scrolls and some books. Then he opened another box, which contained neatly stacked silver ingots. He Yuzhu picked one up and took a look. The words "Da Yuan Ku Yin" were engraved on the silver ingot. He Yuzhu took a breath of cold air. As people in later generations, they all knew that there were ruins of Yuan Dadu under the Forbidden City.

He Yuzhu put the silver back into the box, took a deep breath, calmed his uneasy mood, and without looking at the things in other boxes, he directly put all the boxes below into the space and then returned to the ground.

After washing up, He Yuzhu turned off the lights and entered the supermarket space with a thought. He Yuzhu did not expect that the storage space on the lower level of the supermarket space actually had an automatic sorting function. The boxes collected by He Yuzhu were automatically classified according to the different items inside. There were nearly a hundred boxes collected, and except for some gold and silver, the rest were antique calligraphy and paintings.

He Yuzhu temporarily lost interest in these things that could not be seen, eaten or drunk. He walked around the supermarket again, left the supermarket, and lay down on the bed to sleep.

Just after midnight, He Yuzhu opened his eyes. It was autumn, and the city was already a little chilly. He Yuzhu took out a popular military coat from the supermarket, put it on, and then disguised himself, opened the door, looked out, and made sure that everyone in the courtyard was asleep. He immediately climbed over the wall and left the courtyard.

Because he was going to another pigeon market today, after leaving the courtyard, He Yuzhu took out a bicycle from the supermarket space and rode the bicycle straight to Xizhimen. More than 20 minutes later, He Yuzhu arrived not far from the Xizhimen pigeon market. He Yuzhu found a deserted place, put the bicycle into the space, took out a backpack full of meat, and walked towards the alley where the pigeon market was located with the backpack on his back.

"Sell or buy?!" He Yuzhu arrived at the gate of Pigeon Market and was stopped by two strong men.

He Yuzhu replied: "Sell!"

"A dime!"

He Yuzhu took out a dime from his pocket and gave it to the strong man who was blocking the road. The two strong men took the money and made way. He Yuzhu walked into the alley with his backpack on his back, looked around instinctively, walked to the middle of the road, near the entrance of an alley, sat down, took out a piece of cut meat, and put it on the backpack.

The pigeon market on the Xizhimen side is relatively large, and many people come. The 300 kilograms of meat prepared by He Yuzhu were quickly sold out. He Yuzhu carried an empty backpack and walked around the pigeon market, then left the pigeon market from the other side. After walking outside for a while and making sure that no one was following him, He Yuzhu took out his bicycle and returned to the courtyard.