Siheyuan: Living in the People's Community, with a Heart for the Red Star

Old Yang felt very relieved when he looked at Zhao Jingyi and Li Yuping sleeping next to him. They were his women!

Lao Yang looked at the time. It was 6:00 in the morning. He got up quietly and went to the main room. He washed his face to sober up and get rid of the drunkenness from last night.

I sat at the eight-immortal table with nothing to do, drinking hot water while skinning the piles of camels, horses, and sheep in my mind. I didn't know what to do with the hundreds of furs piled together, and I was also confused when I looked at the piles of meat that looked like a small mountain. If the meat was taken out, it would definitely ooze out blood, which would be very difficult to clean up. It would be better if it could be frozen.

Lao Yang tried to release liquid nitrogen on the meat mountain, but liquid nitrogen was still liquid nitrogen and could not absorb heat in space to turn into nitrogen gas, which meant it could not be used for cooling. Lao Yang had no other choice but to wait and think of other solutions.

Old Yang was very uncomfortable smelling the alcohol coming from his body. He stood up and wanted to wash up. Suddenly, he stopped and thought of something. He controlled the space to cover his whole body and put all the substances on his body into the space. In a flash, Old Yang was naked, and even the dirt in his skin and sweat pores was taken away. Old Yang instantly felt his whole body was clear, and every pore opened up, and he could breathe air. This reminded Old Yang of the legendary dust-repelling spell or dust-avoiding formation.

In the space, Lao Yang removed all the impurities on his clothes and put them back on in an instant. Lao Yang smelled them carefully again and found no odor at all. They were cleaner than new clothes. It was just that the traces of time could not be erased. Otherwise, they were brand new clothes. In this way, Lao Yang discovered another way to use space.

Lao Yang was in a good mood. He sat down and continued to drink water without washing up. He didn’t need to wash his face anymore!

Lao Yang sat at the table and tried to control the space collection more carefully. He soon mastered the technique of cleaning the whole body without affecting the clothes. In this way, he could clean it from time to time to keep his body clean and tidy.

Lao Yang was drinking water and admiring his own intelligence when he suddenly came up with a good idea.

He opened the door and came to the yard, just in time to see pigeons flying in the sky, a marble appeared in his hand and he shot a pigeon with his finger. The pigeon fell down and Lao Yang jumped to catch it. After checking that no one had noticed, he returned to the house with the pigeon in his hand, locked the door, sat next to the table and listened to the pigeons cooing.

Lao Yang put his finger on the pigeon's body, and the space covered the pigeon. There was no reaction when he tried to collect the space, or it was already collected and rejected. He tried to collect a feather that his finger touched, and saw the feather whizzed into the space. The pigeon trembled in pain, struggled, and cooed.

"Success!" Lao Yang was very excited. This means that the pigeon as a whole is conscious, but it loses consciousness after being separated into individual parts.

The pigeon's urgent cry woke up the two women who were sleeping inside. They quickly walked out of the room and saw Lao Yang holding a pigeon and doing something unknown.

Zhao Jingyi came over while combing her hair and asked, "Husband, what are you doing? Where did you catch a pigeon? It looks like it's injured."

Old Yang did not answer, still studying the pigeon. Li Yuping also came out of the bedroom, went to the washbasin to wash her face, and also came over curiously. The two sat at the table, drinking water and looking at Old Yang.

Lao Yang covered the pigeon's head with space and tried to collect it. This time, he clearly felt a slight tremor in the space. Something must have happened. He tried to collect the pigeon's head and other parts into the space. The space trembled a bit, and Lao Yang clearly felt it. However, the pigeon was not collected into the space or killed. It was just that the pigeon clearly felt the terror and struggled more violently.

Lao Yang tried more than a dozen times, but failed to collect the package from different positions. However, he clearly felt that the closer to the brain, the smaller the vibration, and the farther from the brain, the larger the vibration. Although the vibration was very slight, it did exist. If Lao Yang hadn't calmed down and felt it, he would not have noticed it.

Lao Yang deduced that as the ability of space continued to increase, there would be a day when it would be able to ignore the resistance of consciousness and directly take living things into space to destroy consciousness. The tremor of space meant that it was fighting against the consciousness in the flesh. Once the consciousness in the flesh was lower than the ability of space, it would be directly killed and taken into space.

Lao Yang looked at the somewhat listless pigeon in his hand and realized that if he used space to continuously collect living creatures, the consciousness of the creatures would also be consumed in the process of resistance.

Lao Yang stopped the experiment and said to the two girls gently, "Look, I caught a pigeon. Isn't it fat? How about I kill it and make soup for you later?"

The two girls were stunned at the same time when they heard what Lao Yang said. They were just curious about why Lao Yang had a pigeon in his hand. They had never thought of killing and eating the pigeon, so they were a little confused when Lao Yang asked them.

Li Yuping asked tentatively: "Is it impossible to release this pigeon?"

Old Yang shook the limp pigeon and said, "It may have become an idiot now! It probably only has instinct left. It may have forgotten about flying and its nature."

Lao Yang put the pigeon on the table. The pigeon was limp and kept moving around on the table like a headless fly!

The two girls curiously approached and stared at the pigeon, and found that the pigeon really looked a little stupid, with lifeless eyes, and it was tossing back and forth there, but it didn't know how to jump up and run away. The two looked at Lao Yang in confusion.

"This is a new ability of mine. It can continuously deprive a living being of its consciousness, eventually turning it into an idiot or even a vegetable! But this process will take a long time, depending on the strength of the consciousness of the living being. I have only just started preliminary research in this area, and have not yet obtained specific parameters."

Lao Yang explained this phenomenon to the two of them, and then asked them with concern: "How are you? Are you hungry? Can I take out some food for you as breakfast?"

The gentle tone of Lao Yang made the two women a little confused. Did something happen this morning? Their husbands had changed, and the two women were still a little uncomfortable with it. But the two women quickly nodded and said, "Listen to your husbands. Let's eat early. Today is Sunday, so it's a good time to go out and play together!"

Old Yang threw the pigeon onto the table behind him, and took out some crystal shrimp dumplings, beef buns, pork steamed buns, fresh milk and soybean powder from the space. He then took out two cups from the space, poured soybean powder into the cups, added boiling water to make soybean milk, and gave one cup each to Zhao Jingyi and Li Yuping, and he took the milk and drank it himself.

Not long after the three of them had started to eat breakfast, they heard Luo Yun's voice coming from outside the door: "Brother Yang, we are here, come and open the door!"

Li Yuping, who was sitting outside, stood up and opened the door. Zhou Xiaobai and Luo Yun outside came in and then closed the door.

Seeing the breakfast on the table, they gathered around without saying a word, picked up the chopsticks on the table and started eating. Luo Yun reached out and took Lao Yang's milk and poured it into her mouth, saying while drinking: "Brother Yang, bring some more milk, these shrimp dumplings are not enough!"

Old Yang looked at Luo Yun who was eating with gusto, and lovingly took out a few cans of milk from the space and put them on the table, and took out the last few shrimp dumplings in the space. He made a cup of soy milk for Zhou Xiaobai and Luo Yun and placed it in front of each of them.

After watching the women eat and drink their fill, Lao Yang reached out and put all the leftovers on the table into the space. He then took out some tea leaves and made some boiled water, then placed a cup in front of each person. Then he asked about Luo Yun, who was humming after eating.

"Are you two okay today? Why are you both here?"

Zhou Xiaobai looked at Luo Yun who was too lazy to talk, and said, "Today is Sunday and the troops are on break. There is nothing to do in the military area. I thought that Brother Yang must have nothing to do today, so I asked for leave to come out and play with you guys!"

Zhou Xiaobai stood up, opened the handbag she brought with her, took out a bill from it, put it on the table and said, "This is the payment for the beef, 15,000 yuan. Husband, keep it!"

Old Yang shook his head and said, "We've already agreed on this. You two will keep the money from the sale to the army. I don't need this little money. You two don't have a bank account, right? I'll go out and get one for each of you today. I'll put the money in your two accounts and use it as pocket money. When the money from the fish sale is settled, you two can split it and don't have to take it back. The money from the meat sold to the General Logistics Department will be used to renovate and renovate the house. Once the house is built, you can move in. This house is still too small, and there are a lot of people. The environment is not suitable for us to do some embarrassing things! I'm going back to Hong Kong in a few days. Today, you're all here, so I'll have to accompany you for a good walk!"

When the girls heard Lao Yang say that they would be leaving soon, they immediately lost their mood to play and became sad. Lao Yang realized that he had said something wrong and hurried to comfort them. It took a while for them to cheer up. Lao Yang spoke softly about the wonderful life in the future and introduced them to many strange stories from abroad, which calmed the girls' melancholy.

Seeing that the situation had improved, Old Yang drove with the four girls to the Bank of China in the west of the city. He opened a bank passbook for each of them, exchanged the 1.5 yuan acceptance bills given by the army, and deposited 7500 yuan each into Zhou Xiaobai and Luo Yun's accounts. The two girls held the passbooks in their hands and were completely happy.

Another 5000 yuan was deposited into the passbooks of Zhao Jingyi and Li Yuping. After the two girls received the passbooks, the four girls happily gathered together and discussed excitedly, as if they had accomplished something great. Each of them carefully put the passbook in their handbags, holding the bag tightly for fear of accidentally losing it.

After Lao Yang and the four people came out of the bank, they drove north, intending to take the four girls to visit the Badaling Great Wall and take pictures as souvenirs.

It took us an hour and a half to drive to the reception office of Badaling Great Wall in Yanqing District. As soon as we drove into the reception office, two staff members came over and prepared to register the vehicle.

Five people got out of the car, each carrying a small bag, and looked like rich kids coming for fun. Lao Yang went up to meet the two staff members and took out two packs of Daqianmen cigarettes and stuffed them into their pockets. The two staff members were more certain of Lao Yang and his five people's identities. After all, they could afford a car and the cigarettes they gave away were all Daqianmen cigarettes, which was not something that an average family could afford. So the two happily registered Lao Yang's car, collected two cents from Lao Yang for parking, gave Lao Yang a deposit slip, and left.

Old Yang led the four girls out of the reception area and followed the signboards to the Badaling Great Wall with the crowds of tourists. On the way, Old Yang took out his camera and took pictures of the four girls, and also took pictures with the four girls.

After walking for about ten minutes, we arrived at the foot of the mountain. Looking at the Great Wall on the mountain, we were full of energy. At the entrance of the Great Wall, there is a stone tablet with the inscription of a great man, "If you haven't been to the Great Wall, you are not a true man." Many people took photos here. Lao Yang and his friends also took photos next to the stone tablet, and asked other tourists to take a group photo of the five of them. Although it was a difficult time, there were still some people playing on the Great Wall, not only students, workers, but also a few black and white foreigners.

Among the group, Lao Yang had the best physical fitness, followed by Li Yuping, Zhou Xiaobai, Luo Yun and finally Zhao Jingyi. After climbing two kilometers, everyone began to feel tired.

Lao Yang looked at his watch and it was almost 12 o'clock. The sun was very hot, and the girls had already held up umbrellas to block the sun. They found a big tree under a platform of the Great Wall, took out a tablecloth and spread it under the tree, and took out a lot of snacks and drinks from the space. The four girls took the drinks that Lao Yang had chilled and drank them. Drinking a bottle of chilled drink in the hot weather was refreshing and dispelled fatigue. The four girls, who were originally weak, immediately became energetic and began to talk about today's gains.

Lao Yang took out his camera and took a group photo of the four of them. After choosing a position and setting the shutter speed, Lao Yang joined the four people and took a group photo of the five of them.

While the five people were playing, eating and drinking, two foreigners came over and expressed in Chinese mixed with Russian and Chinese that they wanted to join the party.

Lao Yang communicated with the other party in Russian and learned that they were both experts from the Soviet Union who were helping China and were teaching at Kyoto University. They taught physics and mathematics, and they refused the order to withdraw to the Soviet Union and stayed in China.

This handsome guy is called Colin Storonev, a typical Slavic man, 38 years old, and teaches advanced physics at Kyoto University. Another beautiful girl is Yunina Kolsti, a descendant of aristocrats from Belarus, 36 years old, and teaches advanced mathematics at Kyoto University. The two got together for various reasons and got their marriage certificate in China. Today, I took advantage of my vacation time to visit the Great Wall. Due to lack of preparation, I climbed to the nearby area and was thirsty and hungry. I found the old Yang family having a picnic nearby, so I came over to join the old Yang family's party.

After listening to the two's narration, Lao Yang consulted the four girls and agreed to the two's joining since no one objected. Zhao Jingyi took two bottles of drinks and handed them to Colin and Yunina. The two took the drinks and drank them in big gulps. The cold drinks injected strong power into the thirsty bodies of the two people. They were immediately refreshed and exclaimed "It's so cool!".

Among the women, Li Yuping was the best at speaking Russian. The other three women only knew a little bit of Russian, so the main force of communication was placed on Lao Yang and Li Yuping. Women all over the world are magical creatures. Although the language communication is not very smooth, they can chat together quickly.

Lao Yang and Colin were chatting casually, but the key point was that Lao Yang didn't understand Colin's knowledge of physics, and Colin didn't feel anything about what Lao Yang said about daily life. The two of them had an awkward soul-to-soul communication while eating and drinking!