Siheyuan: He Yuzhu since 1958

When Lu Shunyi saw He Yuzhu was about to stand up, he immediately motioned for He Yuzhu to sit down, stood up himself, walked to the door of the main hall, and said, "My grandson just arrived, and his butt hasn't even warmed up yet?! You two are here?! What do you want from him?!"

Cui Qinghai looked at Niu Dapao with some embarrassment. Niu Dapao made up his mind, smiled and said, "Uncle San, isn't it for those iron targets?! I heard that our eldest nephew works in a steel mill. I want to ask him for help. Let him get some iron."

"Why are you so mean?! I just arrived and I encountered such a bad thing?!" He Yuzhu muttered silently in his heart, knowing that if he didn't show up, it would be difficult for his grandfather to deal with this matter!

He Yuzhu stood up and walked to the door. Before he could speak, Niu Dapao asked in a familiar manner, "You are Zhuzi, right?!"

"Yeah!" He Yuzhu echoed the saying, "Don't hit a smiling person." He asked, "Who are you two?!"

Lu Shunyi said, "The old man next to you is your grandmother's brother. He is the village chief. The man next to you is Niu Dapao, the village party secretary. From your third aunt's side, he is your third aunt's cousin, but he is already five generations older than her."

He Yuzhu understood what his grandfather meant, smiled at him and said, "You two, I have heard what you said just now. Since we are all relatives, I will speak directly. I am just a cook in the steel mill. Although I can't touch iron in the steel mill, let's take a step back. Even if I get iron, I dare not sell it. This is speculation and it will cost you your head. However, as I said just now, we are relatives. I will show you a way."

Niu Dapao asked hurriedly: "What road?!"

He Yuzhu said: "Every factory has buyers who go to the countryside. You can exchange with them."

Cui Qinghai would not be angry if the matter of purchasing was not mentioned. When talking about this matter, he wanted to chop up the bastard Niu Dapao. It was originally agreed with the other party, but Niu Dapao's wife went back to her parents' home to visit relatives and accidentally let this matter slip. Now, the purchasing department was cheated. Now the purchasing department is unwilling to help.

He Yuzhu noticed that Cui Qinghai and Niu Dapao looked a little strange, so he asked, "What's the matter?! Is this method not working?!"

Cui Qinghai had concerns, but Lu Shunyi did not. Lu Shunyi sneered and said, "Zhu Zi, you don't know. We had already negotiated with the purchaser. But Niu Dapao's wife went back to her parents' home and made a fuss. She cheated the purchaser. Now they are only willing to use money and tickets, but not iron to exchange with us."

He Yuzhu sighed and said, "I can't help you. I can't risk my life to help you. How come the relationship hasn't reached this point yet?"

Cui Qinghai and Niu Dapao sighed at the same time. In fact, they came here today with the mentality of giving it a try. Since He Yuzhu couldn't do it, Cui Qinghai and Niu Dapao didn't bother. They said hello to Lu Shunyi and left in disgrace.

Lu Shunyi looked at the backs of the two and asked, "Zhu Zi, is this really impossible?!"

He Yuzhu replied: "Grandpa, if it were half a year earlier, I could still think of a solution. But now there is really no way."

After leaving Lu Shunyi's house, Niu Dapao made a bitter face and asked, "Old village chief, what should we do now?!"

Cui Qinghai replied: "What else can we do? Now you can only go to the commune and explain everything honestly. Otherwise, you can find the source of iron yourself." After saying that, Cui Qinghai quickened his pace, left Niu Dapao behind, and walked away on his own.

He Yuzhu stayed at his grandfather's house for half an hour, chatted with his grandparents for a while, and after agreeing to go to his house for dinner next Sunday, He Yuzhu rode his bicycle and left Sanjiadian Village.

When He Yuzhu was riding his bicycle past an abandoned yard not far from the Siheyuan, he suddenly noticed something wrong. Everyone living around here knew that when the Japanese occupied the city, they set their sights on something in this family's home. In order to get this thing, a team of Japanese surrounded this place. This family was also tough. Even though the whole family died, the thing did not fall into the hands of the Japanese. In order to find this thing, the Japanese turned this place upside down. In the end, nothing was found. Later, it was rumored that there was a treasure buried under this yard. At the beginning, some people looked for it secretly. After the Japanese surrendered, many people came to this abandoned yard to look for it openly. But all their efforts were in vain. Later, after a long time, everyone gave up. This yard was completely abandoned.

"It's been a long time since anyone came here to look for treasure. Why would anyone come here at this time?!" Driven by curiosity, He Yuzhu rode his bicycle into an empty alley. While there was no one around, He Yuzhu put his bicycle into the space and walked towards the abandoned yard, wanting to see what the person was doing inside? !

Soon, He Yuzhu walked to the abandoned yard and looked inside through the gap in the wall. He didn't know when this abandoned yard had become someone else's private plot. It was cultivated into plots of land. There were still cabbages and radishes in the land that had not been harvested.

He Yuzhu muttered, "Am I being too suspicious?! Was that person just planting vegetables?!" Then he thought that vegetables are planted during the day, so it's impossible for them to plant them at this time, let alone come here to harvest vegetables. Could they be here to steal vegetables? ! "

Not long after, a middle-aged man who was dressed very neatly but looked a little shifty came out from behind a half-collapsed house. After coming out, he pretended to tidy up his clothes while looking around. After a while, he probably felt that there was nothing unusual around him, so he left the abandoned yard through the gap in the wall on the other side.

After the others left, He Yuzhu did not go in immediately, but chose to continue observing. Unexpectedly, not long after, the middle-aged man came back again.

He Yuzhu looked at the middle-aged man who was looking into the abandoned yard and muttered, "What a fox! Fortunately, I was careful, otherwise I would have run into him head on and it would have been troublesome!" He Yuzhu was not afraid of not being able to beat the middle-aged man, but he was afraid that the middle-aged man had something with a loud noise on him.

After about seven or eight minutes, He Yuzhu saw the middle-aged man leave, and he was relieved and planned to go in to take a look. Suddenly, He Yuzhu thought of an old saying: "Once, twice, but not three times." He Yuzhu stopped again and continued to observe. In a blink of an eye, half an hour passed. He Yuzhu saw that the middle-aged man did not come back, so he immediately went in through the gap in the wall.

Soon, He Yuzhu walked to the place where the middle-aged man just came out. There was also a vegetable field behind the half-collapsed house. There were vegetables planted on it, and it looked normal. However, He Yuzhu still noticed something strange. Just when He Yuzhu was about to verify his guess, he suddenly remembered the sound of stones hitting the wall. He Yuzhu didn't think much and quickly dodged and hid in the half-collapsed house.

He Yuzhu looked out through the crack in the wall, and the middle-aged man who had just left came back. Seeing the middle-aged man walk to where he had just stood, He Yuzhu's heart immediately hung in the air. The middle-aged man carefully looked around, then bent down and pushed the soil at his feet to the side, and a protruding stone came into He Yuzhu's sight. The middle-aged man pressed hard on the protruding stone, and saw that the two stone bars under the eaves were offset, and a dark hole appeared. The middle-aged man took out a flashlight, looked around again, and then crawled into the hole.