Rebirth of the Forbidden City: The Troublemaker in the Courtyard

After they walked away, Yuan Jun came to Ning Yuan and muttered, "Ning Yuan, why should we apologize to a few girls? It's so embarrassing!"

"You still feel ashamed? You really can scare a few girls with a broken kitchen knife!" Ning Yuan said to Yuan Jun bluntly.

"Don't be angry, Ning Yuan. Yuan Jun was just angry for a moment. That's just his personality. You know him well!"

Seeing that the situation was a bit awkward, Zhong Yuemin hurried out to smooth things over.

"It's because I know that our brother is not that kind of hooligan, so I didn't say anything about Yuan Jun to his face."

"It's normal to be playful and joking. If a girl is happy to play with you, you're a good enough guy to get her. But if she doesn't want to, you just pull out a knife and scare her. What kind of behavior is that?"

Ning Yuan also served as a soldier of the people in his later life. Some teasing things could be accepted, but things that touched the bottom line of principles were absolutely intolerable.

After hearing what Ning Yuan said, everyone fell silent because he was right, especially Yuan Jun, who had just wanted to refute Ning Yuan, but was now silenced.

Ning Yuan saw Yuan Jun's expression and knew that he had listened to him, so he didn't say anything more and took the initiative to invite his brothers to skate and have fun.

After a while, these buddies started laughing and joking again. This is how brothers are, there is nothing they can't talk about.

Fan Xinhua and Zoucheng Liu Ping and others also gathered with a group of girls, but they were having much more fun than Yuan Jun and Zheng Tong, the two idiots.

Fatty Fan's clever words made these girls very happy. Not long after they met, they were already getting excited.

Ning Yuan, Zhong Yuemin and others were also called over, and they played around like this for more than an hour.

The sun was about to sink below the horizon, and the people on the ice were preparing to pack up and go home in groups of three or five.

It would be boring to skate when there were fewer people. After Ning Yuan, Zhong Yuemin, Zhang Haiyang and others said hello, their group gathered together and went out on the ice together.

Maybe it was because it was getting late, they didn't encounter any quarrels on the way back. The large group of more than 30 people returned to Baiwanzhuang chatting and laughing.

When they arrived near Courtyard No. 2, everyone went home. Ning Yuan, Zhong Yuemin, and Fan Xinhua, who lived in the same courtyard, went directly back to their respective homes.

"Ning Wei, where have you been, you little bastard?" Ning Yuan just walked into the house and saw that little Ning Wei's clothes were covered with dirt.

"Brother, a few of us classmates went to the back mountain to play dirt fights this afternoon." Ning Wei saw his elder brother Ning Yuan coming back and quickly patted the dirt off his body and said.

"You kid, stay in the yard for the time being. We still have plenty of food at home. If you need anything, tell me and I'll buy it for you. Do you hear me?"

Ning Yuan thought about the conflicts happening everywhere outside in the afternoon, so he gave a serious warning.

"I see, big brother. By the way, when we went out this afternoon, we saw a lot of people fighting over there in the back hills. It was a really fierce fight, with dozens of people involved!"

The back mountain where Ning Yuan and his friends went was actually not far from Shichahai, which was also a place of controversy, so it was inevitable that they would get into trouble.

"Don't join in the fun. From now on, if you see people arguing, stay away from them. Try not to go out if you can. It might be a bit chaotic out there lately."

Ning Yuan knew too well his younger brother's reckless nature.

Although this kid has not experienced the misfortune of separation from his relatives, Ning Yuan discovered that this little Ning Wei still has a violent nature in his bones.

Every time he plays with these older kids, as long as they talk about quarreling, this kid gets particularly excited and wishes he could participate in it himself.

Including in the TV series, the little bastard was shouting at the gate of the compound, and when Ning Yuan went out to prepare for a fight, little Ning Wei was actually following him. This is very telling.

After seeing little Ning Wei nod reluctantly, Ning Yuan got up and prepared to make some dinner.

I just steamed a big pot of steamed buns, so Ning Yuan has been eating out these two days, and this kid Ning Yuan is not hungry.

But this kid is really in the prime of his life. He can probably finish making twenty or so steamed buns in less than three days.

Ning Yuan took out five big steamed buns, put them directly into the pot to steam them, and then started washing and shredding the potatoes.

When the oil pan is hot, add the chopped onion and minced garlic directly. After the garlic aroma comes out, take out the rinsed potato shreds from an enamel basin and stir-fry them directly in the hot pan. This way, the washed potato shreds will not stick to the bottom of the pan and will have a crispy texture when you bite them.

Just sprinkle salt and soy sauce, there is no other seasoning, just put it together like this, but this pot of shredded potatoes is still very fragrant after it comes out of the pot.

This is what I had for dinner: big white steamed buns with shredded potatoes.

After dinner, Ning Wei went to clean up the dishes, while Ning Yuan went to light the stove and boil water.

I walk outside all day every day and my legs and feet are sore. Soaking my feet in hot water is really a comfortable way to make them bubble.

After a while, Xiao Ningwei cleaned up the dishes, washed his hands and face, and soaked his feet before going to bed.

Ning Yuan sat alone in the living room and opened the jade pendant space in his right hand to check the supplies he had stockpiled.

Forty bags of whole grains, each weighing sixty catties, totaling two thousand four hundred catties. Five bags of refined white flour, each weighing fifty catties, totaling two hundred and fifty catties. Add to that the two baskets of whole grains I bought this morning, and you have about fifty catties.

By this calculation, 2,700 kilograms of food have been stored in the space.

According to the appetite of the brothers Ning Yuan and Ning Wei, they would have to eat at least three kilograms of food a day. In addition, there were Zhong Yuemin, Zheng Tong and others who went to the countryside to work in the fields with him. He certainly could not just focus on eating himself and let his brothers go hungry, so he had to prepare more.

If we calculate at ten kilograms per day, that would be three hundred kilograms of food per month, and three thousand six hundred kilograms per year.

It would take them at least five or six years to go to the countryside to work in the fields, which meant that Ning Yuan had to stockpile at least 18,000 kilograms of grain to ensure that he and his brothers around him would not starve.

Someone may ask, doesn’t the government distribute food rations? Only by checking it yourself can you know how severely the food rations are withheld.

Moreover, preparation is the key to success, so it is always better to prepare yourself.

Zhong Yuemin might meet his Uncle Ma, and then join the army after two years of working in the countryside, but will his two brothers be that lucky?

In the TV series, when Ning Wei joined the army, Zhong Yuemin and others had already been in the army for more than two years.

Ning Yuan's father, Ning Wanli, and others were released around 1973 or 1974.

In other words, it was not until these two years that Ning Yuan passed the background check, joined the army, and left this barren loess plateau.

If you calculate the time, it will take five to six years.

Moreover, Ning Yuan had already experienced military life once, and he did not have a strong urge to serve as a soldier again.

He hopes to be a trend-setter in this era where everything is booming.