To get rich quickly, you need to be simple and rough

Jia Zhang was just dreaming about getting married, but Li Yujin was living a good life and the eldest son was enjoying a good life at home.

Life is so hard for the people in this besieged city that no one cleans up the dirty laundry in the toilets.

It couldn't be transported out either. Fortunately, it was winter, otherwise Li Yujin would have been vomiting from the fumes. The alley was almost impassable.

Li Yujin hardly ever leaves the house now, as there is nothing to buy on the streets anyway.

The sound of gunfire could still be heard from time to time outside the city, and now everyone in the city was staying at home.

Staying still would save him from starvation, but fuel was in dire need, so Li Yujin could only burn honeycomb coal during the day so that there would be less smoke.

Monkey and his friends would occasionally come over to chat with him, and when they left, they would secretly put some cornmeal on their bodies, but they didn't dare to take more because the neighbors were all living a hard life.

Carrying it back in a bag wouldn't be awkward. Living in a slum means there are too many people and too many eyes. Monkey and the others always cook a big pot of porridge in the morning.

No more cooking during the day. Put the big pot of porridge on the warm kang and eat it once in the morning and once in the afternoon. It is a benefit for the younger children in the family.

That is to give the child a basin of porridge, and the child is responsible for licking it clean. At this time, food is life, and it doesn't matter whether it looks good or bad. Being full is the most important thing.

The ancient city of Sijiucheng is undergoing the most severe test. There are no pedestrians on the streets and shops are closing down one after another.

Life in Yard No. 95 is not easy either. The deaf old lady is very old and has experienced a lot. This is how people become cunning as they age. She felt something was wrong in the summer.

Her legs and feet were not good and it was inconvenient for her to go out, so she went to find Yi Zhonghai and said, "Zhonghai, I feel that something is not right now. I am afraid that the world will be in chaos.

Look at how many soldiers were pulled out of the city yesterday. I'm afraid a fight is about to break out!

"You're off duty today, so go to the countryside and buy me some food. In these chaotic times, having food is the key to peace of mind."

As she spoke, she took out ten silver dollars from the pocket of her blue cloth coat. Yi Zhonghai saw that the old lady's analysis was reasonable and quickly agreed:

"Don't worry, old lady. I'll go there soon. I'll also buy some to store. Chunfang happens to have two silver bracelets that can be exchanged for some food."

With the help of Yi Zhonghai and the deaf old lady, everyone in Courtyard 95 searched through boxes and cabinets for their belongings.

Even Yan Fugui, who was stingy to a certain extent, took out a gold brocade and exchanged it for food.

Jia Zhang was not stupid either. She tremblingly took out a silver hairpin and a pair of gold earrings from under the cabinet.

In fact, people who can afford to buy a house always have some savings. Every family in Yard No. 95 really has stored food.

When the rebels were looting food, they hid the food on the roof and some of it was stuffed into the kang holes.

He had escaped a disaster, and although he was not rich, he could still afford to eat porridge. He Daqing had now switched jobs to the canteen of the steel mill.

The restaurant is closed, but Lou Bancheng is still powerful. Now He Daqing is almost the Lou family's private chef.

His family is the only one in the entire courtyard who can have enough to eat, and no one in the entire courtyard No. 95 does not envy the He family.

It was winter and water was freezing. Li Yujin was sitting by the stove at home, warming himself when he heard a commotion at the door.

Li Yujin put on his cotton-padded jacket and opened the door with his shoes, and saw Shazhu from the next yard crying like a tearful man.

Yi Zhonghai was pulling the construction truck while Jia Zhang and Yan Fugui's wife were holding the truck. In the truck lay He Daqing's wife, rolling her eyes.

Li Yujin's spirit probed over and discovered that it was caused by a foreign object entering the trachea. Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda.

Li Yujin pushed Yi Zhonghai away and pulled He Daqing's wife off the trolley. He clenched his fists and hugged He Daqing's wife from behind.

He pressed his fist against the hollow in the middle of his chest, exerting constant pressure with both hands. Sha Zhu's eyes turned red:

"Mu Shu, are you still a human being? My mother is waiting for the doctor to save her life! Let my mother go!"

Li Yujin didn't have time to listen to his nagging and increased the strength of his hands. After more than ten times, He Daqing's wife spat out a date pit with a click.

He Daqing's wife finally managed to catch her breath, and her complexion slowly returned to normal.

"Good boy Mu Shu, thank you. I saw that there was some meat on the leftover date pits and I was afraid it would be wasted.

I never thought I'd choke on the date pit when I coughed. This time, it's all thanks to you! Zhuzi, you and Yushui thank you, Brother Li!"

Sha Zhu blushed and said, "Thank you, Mu Shu, for saving my mother's life! Now that the past is over, please let me know if you have anything to say!"

Li Yujin smiled, patted He Yuzhu on the shoulder, said see you later and went back home.

He didn't want to get too deeply involved with the people in Courtyard 95, and it would be best if they didn't target each other.

The people in that yard seemed to be in constant trouble. He liked to live a peaceful life and was a little annoyed by the noise because it was too stimulating.

The difficult years of 1948 finally passed, and time entered January of 1949.

Life becomes increasingly difficult after entering the twelfth lunar month. In previous years, people in the city would begin preparing for the New Year at this time.

But on the Laba Festival, many families have almost run out of cornmeal, let alone Laba porridge.

The city was like a dying patient, devoid of any life. The sound of the cannons had indeed ceased.

The people of Beijing seem to have seen the dawn of peace. No matter who wins, please stop fighting. Who can bear to live like this?

The scales of luck finally tilted towards this ancient city. On the seventeenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the entire city welcomed the red team.

The people of the city went out to watch the excitement; the fighting had finally stopped. And the Red Army was too busy with business.

The first thing the Red Army did after entering the city was to deploy a large amount of supplies to the market in the city.

Citizens, their necks stretched by hunger, rushed to the grain stores carrying sacks of French currency to buy food. The entire city seemed to come alive overnight.

What followed was a city-wide cleanup, and every household had to send someone to clean the streets. Finally, someone came to clear the yellow and white things from the streets.

Li Yujin also carried a shovel and went to the street to work. The people from the Military Control Commission sent people to notify every household.

You can't lie down at home at all. You have to shovel it up with a shovel and pull it out of the city with a wheelbarrow.

At the city gate, farmers in the suburbs of Beijing used ox carts to pull manure out of the city. This was all high-quality fertilizer, and in the past, this stuff was controlled by the dung tyrants.

If you want to buy some, they will mix some soil in it. By the way, all the toilets in the old city are contracted by dung tyrants.

Not only did they demand money from the citizens for collecting manure, they also adulterated and harmed the farmers. The manure tycoons became rich.

After Li Yujin worked for a week, the entire city was transformed. The piles of garbage under the city walls disappeared.

The city of Beijing had never been so clean before. Shops began to open one after another, and Li Yujin's business of boiling water and braising meat also gradually recovered.