Siheyuan Fortune Telling: Starting from a Buyer to Become an All-rounder

It's called cooking, but in fact he just ate it directly. Xu Dazhuang had prepared all the food and placed it in the kitchen waiting for him to get up and eat it.

The weather was hot at this time, so they had a cabbage soup with two steamed buns. But the best thing was that there was a dish of braised meat in the cupboard. This level of living can be said to be the envy of most people in the current courtyard.

It is for this reason that Xu Dazhuang chooses to buy braised meat instead of buying raw meat and cooking it himself. It is not just Xu Dazhuang who does this. Families with slightly higher wages in the courtyard all do this. For example, Yi Zhonghai's family in the Central Courtyard, you never smell any braised pork or stir-fried pork in their home.

There is also Liu Haizhong's family in the backyard. Because Liu Haizhong likes to highlight his status, their family can smell the smell of Liu Haizhong's fried eggs every day. After all, Liu Haizhong is not only a sixth-level blacksmith, but also the second uncle in the yard. With the help of Liu Haizhong's official-obsessed thinking, at least their family lives a better life than others on the surface.

The current situation in the courtyard is that there are only a few families who own properties, including Yi Zhonghai's family, Sha Zhu's family, Liu Haizhong's family, Xu Damao's family, Jia Dongxu's family, Yan Bugui's family, and Xu Dazhuang's family. The others basically rent houses in the courtyard, which are allocated by the factory or resettled by the street office.

As for the economic situation.

In the front yard, Xu Dazhuang's family has two people eating, but Xu Dazhuang's basic salary is 72 yuan, and the average salary is 36 yuan. His living standard is the best in the front yard. This is Yan Bugui's family. Yan Bugui is an elementary school teacher. Although his basic salary is only 36 yuan, Yan Bugui has been teaching for many years, and various subsidies add up to more than 50 yuan. The salaries of other families are basically not as high as Yan Bugui's family.

It's just that Yan Bugui's family is large, with two adults, four children, three boys and one girl. The eldest, Yan Jiecheng, is four years older than Xu Dongsheng and is only twenty-two now. The youngest, Yan Jiedi, is only four years old now. Although the fourth child is a girl, the Yan Bugui in Xu Dongsheng's memory is still the same as the Yan Bugui in Xu Dongsheng's previous life's movies, TV shows and novels. Although stingy and calculating, he is fair and impartial.

In this regard, Xu Dongsheng can say that Yan Bugui is better than most fathers.

So although Yan Bugui's salary is okay, when divided equally, the average living expenses per person is only eight or nine yuan, which can be said to be only average in the front yard.

The living standard in the Central Courtyard is relatively high among all the courtyards. Yi Zhonghai is now a grade seven worker, the highest grade of mechanical workers in the courtyard, a grade seven fitter with a monthly salary of 84 yuan. Yi Zhonghai has only a junior high school education, which is much better than the illiterate Xu Dazhuang and the elementary school student Liu Haizhong, so it is natural that he has a high grade.

Jia Dongxu's family. Jia Dongxu is a mama's boy. His mother has the final say in everything. Even marrying Qin Huairu was requested by Jia Zhang. He is only a first-level fitter now, with a monthly salary of 33 yuan. For a family of five, the average cost per person is only 6 yuan. However, Jia Dongxu's family has his master Yi Zhonghai to help them, so they live a pretty good life.

Sha Zhu's family lived the most arrogant life in the compound. After all, Sha Zhu was a cook, an eighth-level cook in the steel rolling mill. Although he was the lowest-level cook, his monthly salary was 35.5 yuan. If he and He Yushui shared the salary, they would have 17 or 18 yuan each month. This was also the reason why He Yushui could go to school.

He Yushui is two years younger than Xu Dongsheng and is only sixteen years old now. However, because Sha Zhu only succeeded in becoming a formal employee of the canteen six years ago, He Yushui didn't start school until he was ten years old. He is still in primary school and has been in the third grade for two years. This is He Yushui's second fourth grade.

So actually He Yushui is still happy, at least she has an education and now she doesn't have to worry about family affairs. If she were in the countryside, even if you were given the opportunity to study, as long as you were told that you wanted to repeat a grade, you would have to give up studying. Although Sha Zhu and Jia Dongxu were like brothers, most of the time, it was Sha Zhu who paid for the meals, but basically all the expenses were Sha Zhu's own share, because Sha Zhu ate by himself, so a dozen yuan a month was enough for food and drink.

Liu Haizhong in the backyard had the same salary as Xu Dazhuang, a basic salary of 72 yuan. For a family of five, each person had more than 10 yuan, which was about the same as Sha Zhu's family. Even worse than Sha Zhu's family. After all, Sha Zhu's job was one of the eight major employees, and there was always money to be made, because now everything needed tickets, and grain and oil were all rationed. Although blacksmithing was a heavy physical job, so was cooking, with little difference.

Xu Damao is now an apprentice projectionist at a steel rolling mill. He has not yet been formally evaluated and become a regular employee. For this kind of job, there is only one position for each person. If Xu Damao wants to become a regular employee, the projectionist at the steel rolling mill must give him the job. However, Xu Damao does not have this worry, because his master is his father, and he has taught him everything he knows. After his father retires, he will be able to inherit his father's position.

As for salary, Xu Damao's father has moved out now, so Xu Damao lives alone. Xu Damao's current apprentice salary is 22 yuan per month, which is enough for him to spend, after all, his father will help him.

As for the others, their salaries are low and their population is large, so basically, they cannot compare to these families. There is no seniority allowance yet, so the salary level in the hospital is basically like this. Although there are bonuses, they are paid every six months. In summary, people like Xu Dazhuang can get a few to ten yuan more every month, while others don't get much more.

Therefore, everyone's life was difficult, except for Sha Zhu's family and Liu Haizhong's family. Everyone was secretive about what good food they ate, for fear of attracting other people's attention. After all, if someone noticed them, jealousy would make a person unrecognizable.

So now there is a situation that even if you want to eat in the courtyard, you don’t need to be called. You just come at mealtime. If you are late and there is no food, that is your own business. Of course, at Xu Dongsheng’s house, Xu Dazhuang will save food for Xu Dongsheng.

The purpose of doing this is that people like Xu Dongsheng are afraid of being noticed, and the other is to prevent other children from following them to eat for free. Although the children will come back to replace the food coupons after they go home and tell them, it is still a hassle after all, and everyone thinks it is better to have less trouble than more.

After Xu Dongsheng ate the meal prepared by Lao Xu, he stretched and prepared to go out, because now he only had corn flour and some vegetables in his house, and there was nothing that could be grown. He had to go outside to find these things.

Xu Dongsheng came to Lao Xu's room, reached into the compartment behind Lao Xu's bed and took out a key, opened the bedside table next to Lao Xu's kang and took out an aluminum box.

This aluminum box was where their family kept their commonly used property. It contained food coupons, cloth coupons, oil coupons and other tickets, as well as some coins ranging from one or two cents to one or two yuan. The largest denomination of the banknote was five yuan. Xu Dongsheng took out the food purchase certificate from it, and then took out two kilograms of food coupons and two yuan and fifty cents and put them in his pocket. After putting the box back, he locked the bedside table, put the key back to its original position, left the room, and simply fastened the door without locking it.

Because now in order to strive for an advanced and civilized compound, several uncles in the compound held a meeting and asked everyone to leave their doors open at night and not lock their doors when going out. They also asked people in the compound to keep an eye on each other to ensure that no one is robbed.

If you were caught stealing these days, at the very least you would be paraded through the streets and detained for a few days, and at the most serious you would be identified with a tag and shot directly, so as long as someone was watching, there would basically be no problem. Among the people in the courtyard, the most proactive one was Yan Bugui, because their family's things could not be lost, not a single thing could be lost, otherwise the whole family would starve.

Of course, Yan Bugui was also a survivor of the war, and he survived with his family. It was impossible for him to have no trump cards. But if anyone stole his things, they would obviously be in trouble. After all, those who survived were not simple people, including Jia Zhang in the middle courtyard and the deaf old lady in the backyard.