Siheyuan: Grassroots Counterattack

Just when Li Tianyi was immersed in his work, Xiaoxue called Li Tianyi to eat. Li Tianyi put his things into the space and then walked out of the study.

During the meal, Li Tianyi asked Xiaoxue if she wanted to go out to work. Xiaoxue glanced at her two sons, then shook her head, saying that she would first take care of the two little guys and then go to work.

Li Tianyi didn't say anything else. An An is already 6 years old this year and will be able to enter the first grade this fall, but Doudou still needs three or four years. Li Tianyi plans to find out in the next few days whether there is a red education class, that is, a kindergarten, here. If there is, he will send An An there, and then wait for Doudou to grow up a little in two years, and send him there as well.

In this way, Xiaoxue can go to work. There is a military hospital in the military region. With Xiaoxue's work experience, as long as she looks for a job, she will definitely be hired by the military hospital.

Of course Li Tianyi did not express his thoughts. Now the family still needed to buy some firewood and coal, so Li Tianyi planned to go and ask in the afternoon.

He told Xiaoxue about the idea of ​​buying firewood and coal, and Xiaoxue immediately stopped him, "Brother Tian, ​​I just asked the neighbors nearby, and they all went to the village near the military district to exchange firewood. As for coal, the military district will distribute it in the winter. If you want to buy more, you need to take the coal ticket and money to the city to buy it."

"So, the people nearby all burn firewood?" Li Tianyi asked curiously.

"Yes, we don't need to heat the kang now, so we don't use much firewood. It's winter, and that's when we use a lot of firewood."

Li Tianyi recalled the surrounding environment when he entered the military area. There were big mountains around the military area with dense forests. Li Tianyi did not plan to collect firewood by himself. He knew his own strengths and weaknesses. He did not have the ability to move freely in the deep mountains and forests, so it was imperative to go to the nearby villages to explore the situation.

Li Tianyi told Xiaoxue his idea, and Xiaoxue did not object. The firewood used for cooking today was all left over from the yard, and there was not much left now.

After lunch, Xiaoxue went to coax the two children to rest, while Li Tianyi and Xiao Zhou drove out of the military area.

According to the information they got, the two came to a small mountain village four or five miles away from the military area. The road here was winding and bumpy. It was lucky that Xiao Zhou had good driving skills, otherwise the car would have been suffocated several times.

Li Tianyi saw some low thatched houses from a distance. Li Tianyi asked Xiao Zhou to park the car at the entrance of the village, then got out and walked to the big willow tree, where several old men and women were sitting.

These old men and women also saw Li Tianyi and his car. When they saw Li Tianyi approaching, they looked at him with vigilance.

Li Tianyi smiled and greeted them, "Hello, old comrades. I am Li Tianyi, and I come from the military region next door." As he spoke, he took out his officer ID and showed it to them.

When they heard that Li Tianyi came from the military area, although they could not read, they looked at the photo on the officer's ID card, and then looked at the person in front of them. Well, it was a person, so they relaxed their vigilance a little.

"Young man, what are you doing in our village?" asked an old man holding a pipe.

"Old comrade, I want to find our team leader. I want to exchange some firewood."

"Okay, then you come with the old man." He stood up and walked slowly towards the village.

Li Tianyi and Xiao Zhou hurriedly followed. After a while, the three of them stopped at the door of a house. The old man pushed open the door. The woman in the yard heard the sound, looked up, and then shouted: "Dad, why are you back at this time? Who are they?"

"They are here to look for the leftover dog."

Li Tianyi then realized that the old man was the captain's father. Li Tianyi quickly greeted him, "Hello, sister-in-law. I am Li Tianyi from the military region. I want to ask the captain about changing firewood."

"Hey, hello, hello, come in and sit down, don't stand here." As he said this, he led Li Tianyi and the others into the house.

After they were seated in the house, the woman said, "Wait a minute, I'll go to the field to call my head of the family."

After that, the sister-in-law went out in a hurry, so Li Tianyi started chatting with the old man. Through chatting, Li Tianyi learned that this village was called Qianjin Brigade, and the captain's surname was Su. As for other things, Li Tianyi did not ask any more. After all, this was the first time they met and they were not familiar with each other, so it was not appropriate to ask too much.

After a while, Mrs. Su and a man in his fifties came into the room. Li Tianyi stood up, shook hands with the man, and introduced himself again.

The man was also very polite. After learning about Li Tianyi's purpose of coming here, he happily introduced to him the daily firewood exchange situation in their village.

Li Tianyi entrusted the matter to Captain Su, and asked him to send two trucks of firewood to the military region first. He would wait at the gate of the military region. As for what he wanted to exchange?

Li Tianyi said that he had sugar, food coupons and some daily necessities tickets, and implied that even money would be fine.

Captain Su said he understood, and asked Li Tianyi to go back first while he arranged for people to load the truck.

When Li Tianyi was leaving, he put a box of cigarettes on the table. The captain said he didn't want anything, but Li Tianyi insisted on keeping it, so the captain had no choice but to accept it.

After leaving the village, Xiao Zhou drove back and arrived at the gate of the military area. Li Tianyi went to the sentry post to report that someone from a nearby village would come to deliver firewood. The sentry asked Li Tianyi to register. This kind of thing was very common in their military area, so the sentry was not surprised.

He was the captain of the forward brigade, and these sentries all knew him, so when Li Tian told them, they knew what to do.

More than an hour later, the firewood trucks of the Qianjin Brigade arrived. One truck was pulled by oxen and the other was driven by several people.

Li Tianyi hurriedly stepped forward to greet Captain Su, and the sentry also stepped forward to check and then let him pass.

Li Tianyi and Xiao Zhou were driving in front, and the team leader and his men were following behind. People on the road were already used to it. The firewood in this family quarters was basically what his father had recently exchanged from several nearby villages.

When they arrived at the door of the house, Xiaoxue was watching the children playing. Seeing the firewood delivered, Xiaoxue hurriedly invited the children into the house while she waited for Li Tianyi.

Soon two carts stopped in front of Li Tianyi's house. Li Tianyi ignored the women who were watching the fun and invited Captain Su into the yard. "Captain, what do you want to change this time?"

Although this truck has a lot of firewood, it is actually not valuable. Captain Su also knows the market and does not dare to ask for an exorbitant price. "Comrade Li, can you exchange this truck's firewood for 3 kilograms of brown sugar?"

Li Tianyi did the math and felt it was okay. Although brown sugar was rare, for him, his family was not short of sugar.

So Li Tianyi nodded in agreement, and Captain Su happily ordered his men to start unloading firewood into the shed. Li Tianyi and Xiao Zhou wanted to help, but were stopped by Captain Su. In Captain Su's words, letting Li Tianyi take action would be a slap in their faces.