Rebirth of the Forbidden City: The Troublemaker in the Courtyard

The mutton was finally served!

This meal was so enjoyable. I ate the mutton until I was full and drank the soda as if it were boiled water.

This meal is so delicious, so satisfying!

The hot pot was finished. After Zhong Yuemin got the meal bill from the counter, even though he had a lot of money recently, he couldn't help but frown!

A plate of mutton cost 60 cents, and the five tables ate a total of 75 plates of mutton, which cost 45 yuan.

Ten plates of vegetarian dishes cost three dollars and thirty cents in total, so five tables cost sixteen dollars and fifty cents, and there are more than seventy bottles of Beibingyang soda.

Including the money for the copper pot, this meal cost seventy yuan!

During this period, Zhong Yuemin also took 600 yuan from Ning Yuan. After spending lavishly on food and drinks and treating his brothers to a meal at Lao Mo, he had about 500 yuan left.

This meal cost him seventy dollars!

If he keeps eating like this, he won't be able to finish more than a few meals with his limited savings.

Ning Yuan looked at Zhong Yuemin's constipated expression and resisted the urge to pay for him.

Zhong Yuemin will never change his generous and righteous character.

Of course, Ning Yuan didn’t think that this kind of personality was bad. On the contrary, it was precisely because of this that so many troublemakers around him were willing to deal with Zhong Yuemin.

But Ning Yuan knew how difficult it would be to survive in the next few years, so even if he wanted to be generous, he didn't dare to do so.

In this way, in order to maintain his image in front of so many brothers, Zhong Yuemin still paid the bill very painfully, oh no, very happily.

After eating this hot pot meal, everyone was almost unable to walk.

A group of people walked out of Donglaishun's gate arm in arm, jokingly and playfully, and then went to find their own bicycles.

It was already past five in the afternoon when they came out of the hospital. After finishing the hot pot meal, it was probably almost eight o'clock and it was getting dark.

Donglaishun is located in Dongcheng District in Dong'an Market (it moved to a street-facing location around 1971).

Most of these guys live in the Baiwanzhuang area of Xicheng.

So I rode my bike and strolled back to the compound. It was almost nine o'clock in the evening.

When Ning Yuan arrived home, little Ning Wei was jumping around the house with a rough wooden pistol that he had bought from somewhere, imitating the tactical moves in the open-air movies he had seen before.

Little Ning Wei, who was having fun playing "biu.biu.biu", rushed over to him when he saw Ning Yuan coming home.

"Brother, did you bring me any delicious food?" Little Ning Wei was thinking about Ning Yuan bringing him delicious food all day long.

But this is also a bad habit that Ning Yuan has developed in this kid recently.

Recently, Ning Yuan either brought him bread and canned meat from Lao Mo, or bought fruit malt candy, candied haws and other delicious foods from the Pigeon Market.

As a result, this kid now looks for what delicious food Ning Yuan has in his bag as soon as he gets home.

Fortunately, when Ning Yuan came out of Donglaishun, he passed by the place where they placed the drinks and secretly put a large carton of Arctic Ocean soda into the space of the jade pendant in his right hand.

It’s just the right time to take out two bottles to deal with this impatient little Ning Wei.

Ning Yuan took a look at the big cardboard box in the space, which contained forty bottles of Arctic Ocean soda. With a slight movement of his mind, he took out two bottles and put them in his bag.

After Ning Yuan took off his military bag from his shoulder and put it on the table, little Ning Wei happily took out two bottles of Arctic Ocean soda from the bag.

"Brother, you also bought Beibingyang soda, you are really my brother!" Little Ningwei shouted excitedly, and then he put the bottle cap directly into his mouth and bit it open with his teeth.

He raised it and gulped down half the bottle in one breath. Only then did he burp comfortably!

Then he started to sip it again!

Ning Yuan was so angry when he heard the boy's perfunctory thanks that he laughed: "I am your biological brother, can you be more perfunctory?" Then he slapped Ning Wei on the head.

Without paying any more attention to the kid's annoying look, Ning Yuan stood up, poured a basin of hot water, took off his shoes and socks and soaked in it.

It’s so comfortable and I can have a good sleep again!

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Ning Yuan's biological clock is extremely punctual. He wakes up before seven o'clock and can't fall asleep again.

After getting up, Ning Yuan simply washed up and rode his bicycle out of the yard.

Today he did not go to the pigeon market outside Chongwenmen, but instead went to the Xiao market at the foot of the city wall at Caishikou.

Although this underground market is a little smaller than the pigeon market in Chongwenmen, there is no other way. He has been going to that market to buy food for four or five days in a row, and he buys fifty or sixty kilograms each time.

If he continued to buy like this, someone would notice him. Although he was not afraid of such a small trouble, it was better to have less trouble than more.

After riding for half an hour, Ning Yuan locked his bicycle and entered the small market at Caishikou.

There were only two small stalls selling grain, and the grain they sold was not much. The two stalls together sold only about 40 kilograms of corn flour.

Ning Yuan didn't hesitate and bought them all.

Then he walked around and bought a woven bag of sweet potatoes, weighing more than 40 kilograms.

These sweet potatoes can also be eaten as a staple food. Just buy whatever you can get. In this day and age, who needs a bicycle anymore?

There was also someone selling free-range eggs in a basket, and Ning Yuan went over and bought all the eggs in the small basket.

I didn't see anyone selling fruit today, but there were people cutting red paper into vertical strips more than one meter long, and writing Spring Festival couplets with a brush on the spot.

After all, the New Year is approaching, and there is a large crowd of people surrounding the old man who is writing Spring Festival couplets.

Basically, he wrote one couplet and sold it at one cent per couplet. There were more than a dozen people queuing up.

Ning Yuan looked for a few minutes but couldn't get in line, so he simply paid an extra dime and bought one from a middle-aged woman who had just picked up a couplet.

The middle-aged woman happily took the two cents and went to queue again.

Although Ning Yuan is usually quite brutal in fights, it's just a small market. There's really no need to scare people with a knife to cut in line just for a few cents. It's so damn embarrassing!

After looking around and finding nothing else to buy, Ning Yuan left the market carrying his bags.

After pushing the bicycle around the corner, Ning Yuan took advantage of the fact that no one was around and packed all the things he had just bought at the market into the space. Then he climbed onto the bicycle and rode back to the compound.

After all this trouble, it was only 8:30 when they returned to the No. 2 courtyard. Ning Yuan quickly prepared breakfast, went into the bedroom, and slapped the lazy Ning Wei twice to wake him up.

"Can you get up earlier every day?" Ning Yuan said to little Ning Wei who was still squinting his eyes.

"Brother, you don't let me go out to play, so can't I just sleep a little longer at home? You want me to stay at home, but you also want me to move around. This is unreasonable!" Ning Wei said dissatisfiedly.