Living in a Siheyuan

When Li Ping'an returned home, Yu Li and Lou Xiao'e were already preparing dinner.

Xu Damao was also at home playing with his two children.

Li Pingan saw it and said, "Brother Damao, when did you come back?"

"I just came back today. I heard you went to deliver meat to the neighborhood office. How was it? Do you have any more?"

"Why? Do you want it too?"

"Of course I want it. The New Year is coming soon. I have to prepare some for my family. I also have to prepare some for Lou Xiaoe's family."

"Aren't you in the countryside every day? Don't you have any trouble getting anything?"

"Well, you know what the countryside is like now. I can't even get a decent meal when I go down there. Where can I get these good things?"

"It seems like you're having a hard time, too. Okay, I'll try to get us something to eat in a couple of days. But there won't be much."

Xu Damao was happy to hear this and said, "Okay, Ping An, you are capable. Just give me some of your points when the time comes."

"So you're not going to show movies before the New Year?"

"No, it's only a few days away from the New Year. I'll just have a good rest. We'll talk about it after the New Year."

The two chatted while teasing the child.

Soon Yu Li and Lou Xiao'e prepared the meal.

At night, Yu Li had already fallen asleep. Li Pingan lay in bed, but his mind entered the space.

After looking at the inventory in the warehouse in the space, he decided to take action tonight.

Li Pingan got up quietly and looked at the sleeping Yu Li. Then he left the bedroom.

The colorful magic clothes turned into a dark nightgown. The whole body was wrapped tightly, with only two eyes exposed.

Everything was ready. Li Ping'an disappeared in a flash.

Soon we arrived at the first resettlement site, which was also one of the sites managed by Director Wang and her colleagues.

This is a large courtyard. Many of the houses around it have collapsed. The few remaining rooms that can be lived in are crowded with people. Everyone sleeps on the ground, with straw as a blanket. Many people hug each other to keep warm.

After a rough look, I saw that there were about seventy or eighty people in this resettlement site.

Li Pingan found a relatively clean place in the yard. He took out 10,000 kilograms of rice, 1,000 kilograms of cornmeal and 1,000 kilograms of flour from the space. There were also quite a few potatoes and sweet potatoes.

After thinking about it, he took out half a pig and put them together.

These things were arranged, enough for them to enjoy a good meal for a while.

Seeing that everyone was sleeping, Li Ping'an found a big gong and knocked it twice hard towards the rooms with the largest number of people.

That was enough to get them all riled up.

At the current resettlement sites, each one has a manager assigned by the subdistrict office. Li Ping'an is not afraid that these things will be snatched up by everyone. And with so many people watching, he is not afraid that the managers will embezzle them.

After doing all this, Li Pingan disappeared and continued to rush to the next resettlement point.

Everyone was sleeping in the resettlement site, but suddenly a loud gong woke everyone up. Many people rushed out to see what was going on.

The manager of this resettlement site arranged by the subdistrict office is a man in his fifties, surnamed Ma, and everyone calls him Boss Ma. Although he also fled here, he has stayed here the longest and is a very righteous person. He has been assisting the subdistrict office in managing this place.

He was the first to run out. Seeing that there was nothing in the yard, he shouted, "Who is beating the gong?"

At this time everyone came out, and no one knew what was going on.

Boss Ma shouted, "Everyone, light a torch and look around."

After making the arrangements, he took out the flashlight issued by the street office and looked around.

When the light shone on the sack of sacks as high as a hill and the half-head of pork on top of it, Boss Ma was dumbfounded.

He walked over tremblingly, touched the sack, and looked at the rice that scattered out from the cracks.

Boss Ma knelt down on the spot in excitement, shouting, "God has shown his mercy, we are saved now!"

At this time, people gathered around and were excited to see so much food.

Some people shouted to share the food with everyone quickly, while others shouted to cook it now for everyone to eat.

Boss Ma shouted, "Shut up! What are you arguing about? Do you know where these things came from? Do you know if there are any problems? Now everyone should guard the things well, and wait for the people from the street office to come tomorrow and figure out what they are doing before making any arrangements."

"Everyone, rest assured. As long as the food comes from a good source and is edible, everyone will get some. Now just stay and watch quietly."

Boss Ma did have some prestige and quickly calmed everyone down.

The group found some wood in the abandoned houses around them and started a big fire in the yard. They gathered around the fire, drooling at the mountain of food, and waited for the daybreak.

This kind of thing also happened in more than a dozen resettlement sites around. There were only a few cases of looting, but they were all stopped by everyone working together.

Li Pingan ran around. He had basically delivered all the rice in the space. There was not much flour and cornmeal left. The entire grain warehouse looked empty.

It was only more than two hours since I got home.

At this time, Yu Li was still dreaming, not knowing that the people around her had done something that shocked the whole city. Even a hundred years later, this matter was called "the first of the ten unsolved mysteries in the city".

The culprit of this incident was sleeping soundly with his wife in his arms.

The next day, before work started, someone knocked on Director Wang's door in a panic.

As soon as Director Wang opened the door, the man said anxiously, "Director Wang, hurry up! Something big has happened at the resettlement site!"

Director Wang saw that he was so anxious, so he knew it was not a good thing. He quickly changed his clothes and got on his bike to follow him to take a look.

Zhang Zhiyong, who was at home, saw what happened and was afraid that something might happen, so he put on his police uniform, took his gun and went over with his wife.

On the way, the man recounted what had happened in a disjointed manner while riding his bike.

When Director Wang heard that a large amount of food suddenly appeared in the four resettlement sites in her jurisdiction in the middle of the night, and it was tens of thousands of kilograms, she was also stunned. Is there such a good thing?

So they quickened their pace and rode their bicycles very fast.

When Director Wang and Zhang Zhiyong saw the mountain of grain, they were also stunned.

Knowing that the food supply in each resettlement site is similar, this means that she alone has more than 50,000 kilograms of food.

She did not dare to delay such a big thing, and immediately asked Zhang Zhiyong to go to the Public Security Bureau to arrange for people to guard the food at each resettlement site to ensure the safety of every grain of food.

She also hurried back to report to her superiors, as she had no say in the matter.

After the arrangements were completed and the public security personnel were all in place, Director Wang returned to his office and called the district.

As a result, when she learned that a large amount of food inexplicably appeared in more than a dozen resettlement sites in the entire district last night, she also found it a little incredible.

Who can have so much food now? The food is now controlled by the state. Which private individual can get so much food?

It is impossible to say that it is public food. Which unit would secretly put food in the resettlement site? If there is any food, it is also distributed to the street office.

Director Wang was also notified to attend the meeting in the district immediately.

Because the matter was urgent, the result of the handling was notified before noon.

Each subdistrict office kept half of the food in the resettlement sites it was responsible for, and collected the other half to distribute to areas without food. Each subdistrict office organized people to prepare two meals a day for the resettlement sites, so that everyone could eat better.

You know, in the past each resettlement site only prepared one meal a day, and it was either watery porridge or a pitiful small cornmeal steamed bun.

These things can only keep people alive. It is impossible to have enough food.

Now that we can have two meals a day, everyone feels a little fuller.

And the district chief didn't mention the pork issue this time. Everyone knew it was a tacit agreement and no one mentioned it.

In this way, we can prepare a meat meal for the victims on New Year's Eve.

By noon, the fragrance of rice wafted through every resettlement site, and everyone could no longer wait, holding their bowls and waiting impatiently.

When they really felt it, looking at this thick bowl of rice porridge, many people shed tears. They swallowed the sweet rice porridge mixed with bitter tears.

They didn't know how long it had been since they had such a delicious meal.

Everyone knows that no one knows how these foods appeared. It was as if they fell from the sky. Many people held up their bowls, knelt on the ground and kowtowed continuously, thanking God for the gift.

This matter continued to ferment, and by the afternoon, almost everyone in the city knew about it.

No one could find any traces, and no one could explain how so many things could suddenly appear, and spread to more than a dozen places in such a short time.

If many people did it, it would be impossible for so many people to not be discovered.

Now everyone believes that someone in those resettlement sites moved a god, who conjured up food to save these poor people.

It’s just that today’s society doesn’t allow people to talk about these things, so everyone just speculates in their minds.

In the evening, Lou Xiao'e and Yu Li also found out. They discussed excitedly while eating. They had always sympathized with the refugees, and now that the gods had helped them, they were very happy.

As they were talking, Yu Li said, "I think it was a good thing done by Guanyin Bodhisattva. She can't bear to see the sufferings of the world."

Lou Xiao'e said, "That's not necessarily true. If it was her, why did she only give it to our district and not to other districts?"

The more Li Pingan listened, the more outrageous it seemed. He coughed hastily.

But Yu Li and Lou Xiao'e were in a heated discussion and ignored him.

Xu Damao on the other side said, "Ping An, I think this was done by some underground organization. They are probably from our area. That's why they sent food to the resettlement site in our area."

Li Pingan laughed and said, "Don't make blind guesses here. The government hasn't figured it out yet, how can you guess it?"

Anyway, the heat of this matter has not diminished, and it has become more and more intense.

It wasn't until the Chinese New Year that everyone's anxiety about the New Year finally calmed down a little.