Siheyuan: I am the seventh uncle of Banggen

In the morning, Zhang Zhiling organized a family meeting. The young and old men in the clan testified that Zhang Dasong and Zhang Dabao had severed their relationship. Zhang Dasen went to the mountain to get a letter of understanding, and Zhang Shoucheng went to the commune to pick up his father Zhang Dasong.

When Zhang Dasong heard the decision of the family meeting, he couldn't help but sigh.

"It's over if it's broken off. Who wants to be related to him..." Zhang Dasong's wife muttered to herself.

Zhang Dasong came over and slapped her hard, causing blood to come out of the corner of her mouth. "If you say another word of nonsense, get out." Zhang Dasong's wife was terrified and dared not say anything.

"Shoucheng, have you been to your aunt's house?" Zhang Dasong asked.

"Not yet, let's go tomorrow." Zhang Shoucheng was also afraid of his father's angry look.

"Bring something with you when you go," Zhang Dasong instructed, then lay down on the bed.

Chapter 5: First Meeting with Qin Huairu

To be honest, Zhang Dabao didn't really care about the old house at home. If Zhang Dasong had come out and talked to Zhang Shoucheng, it wouldn't be a problem. The location of the house was not very good. After the Spring Festival, he would go to the city to work. The elderly people at home were gone. How many times could he come back? He really couldn't live in the house. If he wanted a house, he could just choose a place in the village to rebuild it. He didn't lack money. But things didn't work that way. Zhang Dasong and his son were playing rogue. Zhang Dabao, who had lived a lifetime, was not afraid of this.

It was actually quite good to live in the mountains. His progress in practicing the "Tian Yi Heart Method" was very rapid. On the fifth day of living in the mountains, he finally reached the first level of Qi Refining as described in the book. This time he was in a coma for a day and a night.

When he woke up again, Zhang Dabao closed the door and heated the kang. He then heated a large vat of water to wash himself. He rubbed off a lot of the oily mud on his body. After washing, he felt much more relaxed.

It snowed for a whole day and night. The snow on the mountain was more than 30 centimeters thick. Zhang Dabao looked up how to set traps in a book and spent the whole morning setting traps on the mountain. Whether there would be pheasants and rabbits tomorrow depended entirely on them.

The weather is too cold. There is no one outside all day, and no one from the village will come. The road in front of the door leading to Qinjiagou is now completely invisible. It must be because of the heavy snow that blocked the mountain.

A day later, he went to check if the traps he had set had any results. The result was that he did not get much. Perhaps because he had no experience, he had set more than 20 traps but only caught two wild rabbits. He returned to the hut, processed the rabbits, and stewed them in a pot. At this time, Zhang Dabao heard a child crying outside. Who would bring a child out in such a cold day? Is he sick? Did someone abandon a child? After leaving the house, Zhang Dabao followed the sound. The crying sound was on the road above the ditch, but he did not see any adults. Could it be that someone really abandoned a child? At this time, the family was in financial difficulty, and some cruel people would abandon the girl to reduce the burden on the family.

On the path, Zhang Dabao found a little girl, about seven or eight months old, lying on a woman who had fallen in the snow. He approached and found that the woman looked familiar, as if he had seen her somewhere before. He touched her nose and found that she was still breathing. She must have fainted, so he decided to save her first. Zhang Dabao held the child and carried the woman on his back to the hut. Fortunately, he had reached the first level of Qi Refining, otherwise he would not be able to rescue the mother and daughter in one go.

The child was still crying. Zhang Dabiao judged that the child might be hungry, so he found some milk powder from the space and gave it to the little girl. He then put the woman on the heated kang. The girl ate and fell asleep. After a while, the meat was cooked so soft that it fell off the bone. I don't know if it was the aroma of the food or the warmth of the woman on the kang that woke her up.

She struggled to sit up, but her body was too weak, so she lay down on the kang again. When she saw Zhang Dabiao coming over, she asked, "Am I dead?"

"She didn't die, but she almost died. Why did you bring the child out in such a cold weather? You could bear it, but could she, who was so young, bear it? You just fell in the snow. If no one saw you, you would have been dead. If you died, how could she survive?" Zhang Dabao directly criticized the woman.

She didn't say anything, but tears kept flowing from her big eyes.

Seeing this, Zhang Dabiao stopped criticizing her and walked to the pot and asked the woman, "Have you eaten yet? Want to eat together?"

“I haven’t eaten,” the woman whispered, and tried to sit up again, but failed.

"Forget it, lie down, I'll feed you. The child has eaten and should be asleep now." The little girl must have been tired from crying just now. Children tend to be sleepy after eating, and the room was warm, so she fell asleep next to her mother.

Zhang Dabao served the woman a bowl of wild rabbit soup, took a steamed bun and placed it next to the kang. He helped the woman up and leaned her against the wall, and fed her with a wooden spoon.

The woman took two bites and tears started flowing again.

"What's going on?" Zhang Dabao asked.

"Since I can remember, no one has ever fed me. And it was meat. I can't even remember when I last ate meat," said the woman.

"What kind of life are you living?" Zhang Dabao said sarcastically.

After the meal, the woman regained some strength and sat up by herself. After a while, she stood up again, went to the pot, served herself another bowl of vegetables, and took the steamed bun and started eating.

"Eat slowly. Eating too much at once is too greasy and can cause diarrhea." Zhang Dabao advised her when he saw this situation, but she didn't listen and finished all the food in the bowl. She then scooped two spoonfuls of hot water from another pot into the bowl and drank it before wiping her mouth.

"Where are you planning to go today?" Zhang Dabao asked the woman.

"My parents' home is Qinjiagou, and I want to go back there," she said.

"There is too much snow on the road and the road is not clear. It is too dangerous and you may not be able to go," said Zhang Dabao.

When the woman heard what Zhang Dabao said, tears started flowing again.

"Are you sick? You can't go because of the heavy snow. Is there an emergency at home?" Zhang Dabao thought that the woman's relatives might have encountered a big problem, so she was in a hurry to go back.

"It's not urgent. We have nowhere to go. Xue Da can't return to the capital, and my boyfriend's uncle's family won't accept him. What should we do?" The woman said while crying.

Zhang Dabao hated to see women crying. "Stop crying. Stay here for a day or two. Go back to Beijing when the weather is better. You can't go back to Qinjiagou for a while."

After saying that, he went out and chopped down another tree, and chopped firewood outside to heat the kang.

The woman was also tired, so she fell asleep on the kang with her daughter.

In the middle of the night, the woman began to have diarrhea and went out to the toilet again and again. In fact, there was no toilet in this place. It was just a pit dug in the open space. The wind was strong in the mountains and the house was hot. After finally stopping her diarrhea, she started to have a fever again.

Zhang Dabao thought he had saved a great person, it was really troublesome, so he found some cold medicine for her from the space, and also used physical cooling methods to cool her down. In the morning, he made millet porridge for her and helped her feed the child. Fortunately, the woman's physical fitness was not bad, and she recovered after lying in bed for two days.

She especially liked watching Zhang Dabao teasing little girls. When the girls laughed happily, the woman also became happy.

After the woman recovered, she became very diligent and kept the house clean inside and out, and washed all the clothes that Zhang Dabao had taken off.

During the day, the woman looked after the child by herself while Zhang Dabao went up the mountain with a bow and arrow. He was quite successful and shot two pheasants. He stewed one of them in the evening.

"What's wrong with your leg?" the woman asked Zhang Dabao.

"She is injured and hasn't fully recovered yet. You don't want to talk about things at home. You must have encountered some difficulties, otherwise you wouldn't have brought your daughter out in such a cold weather. Stay a few more days. To be honest, I like your daughter very much. She loves to laugh and doesn't cry. She's very cute," Zhang Dabao said as he lifted the girl up again. The little girl giggled again.

After playing for a long time, the little girl was tired. Zhang Dabao washed her face and feet, held her and patted her to sleep. He put the child down and started washing his own feet. At this time, the woman came over and said, "Let me wash your feet. You saved me twice. I don't know how to repay you. Let me wash your feet."

"No need to repay. Haven't you heard that one should do a favor without expecting anything in return? Really no need." Zhang Dabao was shocked. He quickly washed himself and lay on the kang next to the little girl.

After washing, the woman blew out the light and got on the kang. Zhang Dabiao was a little tired from hunting in the mountains during the day. When he was about to fall asleep, the woman crawled over from the kang and pressed him down. She kissed him on the mouth and started to take off his clothes with her hands. Zhang Dabiao, who was covered with two quilts, couldn't stand it, so the two of them exchanged fire. Zhang Dabiao was quickly defeated in the first battle, but he became more and more courageous and defeated the enemy in the next battle.

It's cold outside, but it's spring inside.

Zhang Dabiao's biological clock had made him wake up early. He looked at the sleeping woman in his arms. She had red lips, white teeth, and a graceful figure. She was really pretty. He couldn't help but lower his head and kiss her. The woman was awakened by the kiss, and then the morning exercise began. After the battle, the little girl woke up. The woman dressed the child and fed her milk, while Zhang Dabiao heated the kang and cooked.

A happy life is always short. Two adults and a child lived in the cabin for more than ten days. It was already the middle of the twelfth lunar month and the snow at the foot of the mountain had melted a lot. One night, the woman said to Zhang Dabao, "I have to go back tomorrow."

"The capital?" Zhang Dabao asked.

"Yes, I've been away for a long time. Although life here is good, it's not my home after all," the woman said slowly.

"After the Spring Festival, I will also go to Beijing to work, maybe we will meet again," Zhang Dabao said to the woman.

"If you have time, please come find me. My name is Qin Huairu, and I live in No. 95, Hongxing Street," the woman said. "Are you Qin Huairu?" Zhang Dabiao was stunned. This was the heroine of the courtyard. She was really beautiful and smooth. She was worthy of being the one who had fascinated Sha Zhu all his life.

"Do you know me?" Qin Huairu heard that Zhang Dabao's tone was a little strange.

"Would you believe me if I said I also worked in a steel rolling mill?" Zhang Dabia asked with a smile.

Qin Huairu shook his head.

"I was also assigned to live in Compound No. 95. The two rooms in the backyard and the three rooms in the east house are for me and my comrades," Zhang Dabao revealed his ultimate move.

"Really? That's great." Qin Huairu suddenly threw herself into Zhang Dabao's arms.

The two of them now have a tacit understanding. Zhang Dabao lowered his head and kissed Qin Huairu on the mouth. The two of them moved their positions to the kang, and another fierce battle began.

After the battle, Qin Huairu talked about how she came here.

Chapter 6: Origin

That day, Zhang Shoucheng took a chicken and five pounds of millet to the home of his aunt Zhang Cuihua in the capital, saying that he wanted to borrow money to build a house.

"Shoucheng, don't you have a house to live in?" Zhang Cuihua asked.

"Aunt, the house has been taken back by my uncle," said Zhang Shoucheng.

"Da Yang is drunk? Is that his?" Zhang Cuihua didn't understand what Zhang Shoucheng meant.

"It's Uncle Da Biao from my third uncle's family. He has returned from the army and still has one leg in a stifle. His head was blown up by a grenade and he gets sick all the time. The commune said that whoever messes with my uncle will be beaten to death by my uncle and he deserves it," Zhang Shoucheng explained.

"Da Biao is back. I haven't seen him for five years. The last time I saw him was when your second grandfather passed away. I only heard that he went to the army, but I didn't expect that he was injured. Isn't the house you live in Da Biao's?" Zhang Cuihua said.

"So he has to go back when he comes back. Our two younger brothers have grown up, and I am married now. We have to build a house," said Zhang Shoucheng.

"I can't give you the money. I'll go back with you and give the money to your father," Zhang Cuihua said to Zhang Shoucheng.

Zhang Shoucheng could only agree. Then Zhang Cuihua took her grandson and asked her daughter-in-law to bring her granddaughter to Zhang Dasong's house. They stayed there for two days. Zhang Dasong's wife couldn't stand it anymore. The family ate too much. They ate more than ten days' worth of food in two days. Zhang Cuihua didn't even mention borrowing money. Zhang Dasong's wife drove the four people out.

Zhang Cuihua took her grandson back to the capital and asked her daughter-in-law to take her granddaughter to her parents' home for a few days to relieve the pressure of food for the family. As for whether it was snowing outside or whether the road was easy to walk on, these were not within her consideration.

After listening to Qin Huairu's words, Zhang Dabao sighed. It was indeed the style of his cousin Zhang Cuihua. She was very persistent and only focused on the present when doing anything. As for whether there would be any bad influence, it was not within her consideration. She was not worried at all about anything happening to her daughter-in-law and granddaughter.

"Let's leave early tomorrow morning. Take some money with you. You can go out and buy some food when you have time. Don't put yourself in a difficult position. I will move into the courtyard after the Spring Festival." Zhang Dabao took out twenty yuan and ten kilograms of food coupons and gave them to Qin Huairu, who hid them close to her body.

Outside the curtains, the rain is trickling, spring is fading, and the silk quilt cannot stand the cold at five o'clock. In the dream, I don't know that I am a guest, and I am greedy for a moment. Don't lean on the railing alone! The boundless mountains and rivers, it is easy to leave but hard to meet again. The flowing water and falling flowers are the spring gone, the heaven and the earth.

The night passed too quickly. At daybreak, the two of them took a short rest. Fortunately, Zhang Dabao practiced the "Tianyi Heart Method", otherwise he would not have been able to hold on.

Watching the figures of Qin Huairu and her daughter getting farther and farther away, Zhang Dabao felt a little lost.

The renovation project of the backyard in the No. 95 compound attracted the attention of the compound. No one knew who was allocated a house. There were five rooms in total. There were too many people in the compound who needed houses. Liu Haizhong's three sons in the backyard had grown up, and there were only two rooms in the family. The eldest son Liu Guangqi wanted to get married now but there was no place to get married. Liu Haizhong and Liu Guangqi also applied, hoping to get at least one room in the backyard. Now, all five rooms were allocated, which made Liu Haizhong very disappointed.

The Jia family in the central courtyard also looked at the house in the backyard. The housing conditions of the Jia family were even worse. There was only one room for three generations of a family, which made it very inconvenient to do anything. Jia Zhang now went to the backyard every day to inquire who got the house and see if she could get one.

Yan Bugui in the front yard was also a little disappointed. He also hoped to get one or two rooms. His family's accommodation conditions were also very difficult. There were only two rooms in the house. The three sons were getting older and lived in one room; the daughter was eight years old and still lived with the old couple. When he saw construction work in the backyard, he came to inquire several times and got the news that a junior of Deputy Director Li and his comrades were allocated a room. As soon as the news came out, Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui no longer wanted a room, but Jia Zhangshi was the only one who still missed it.

When Jia Dongxu got off work today, he asked his master Yi Zhonghai again, "Master, is there really no hope for the house?"

"There is no hope. Two combat heroes were assigned to the house. They are relatives of Deputy Director Li in the factory. Who in our unit dares to offend Deputy Director Li? Dongxu, you do not meet the conditions for housing allocation. It is more realistic for you to work hard to get promoted to a higher level and earn more money to buy a house." Yi Zhonghai is also very troubled by his apprentice Jia Dong, who has been working for more than six years and is still a first-level worker. He, Yi Zhonghai, is also one of the only three eighth-level workers in the factory. As an apprentice of a first-level worker for more than six years, Yi Zhonghai's face is constantly rubbed on the ground. When talking to other senior workers, he dare not talk about teaching apprentices. He gets angry when he talks about it, because Jia Dongxu is too disappointing.

Qin Huairu, who had been away from her mother's home for more than ten days, came back with her daughter. Jia Dongxu did not look happy at all. There were two more people eating at home, and he was the only one who had a quota among the five people in the family. His mother and son ate too much, which made him very worried.

Another family with good conditions in the hospital is Yi Zhonghai's. Yi Zhonghai is an eighth-level worker, earning 99 yuan a month. He has many apprentices, but the old couple lives a very frugal life because he has no children and wants to keep more money for himself.

He Yuzhu from the Intermediate Court also had good conditions. He was a cook, and a cook would never starve to death in a famine. He earned 37.5 yuan a month. He had only one younger sister at home, and sometimes he could bring back some leftovers from the factory for entertaining guests. The two siblings lived a good life.

Xu Damao in the backyard had an even better life. He was an eighth-level projectionist with a salary of 37.5 yuan. He could receive gifts when he went to the countryside to show movies, and he ate and drank delicious food with his leaders every day.

The most difficult families are the Jia family and the Yan family. Both families have low incomes and many people to feed. Of course, the most difficult family is the Jia family, because Jia Zhangshi and Qin Huairu, as well as Banggeng and Xiaodang, all have rural household registration and no quotas, and they have to buy high-priced grain, which makes the low-income Jia Dongxu simply unable to afford it.

No matter whether you are rich or poor, you still have to celebrate the New Year. Zhang Dabao returned to the village on the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month. The house had basically been restored to its original state, and the things that were originally there had been put back to their original positions.

It was even colder at home than on the mountain. Zhang Dabao looked around the rooms and started to heat the kang. The winter in the north was too cold and the houses nowadays were not well sealed. Zhang Dabao was now a cultivator at the first level of Qi Refining and his strength was already very strong, but he still felt cold.

The kang was heated and a pheasant was stewed on the stove in the house. Since Qin Huairu and Xiaodang left, Zhang Dabao went up the mountain to hunt every day. He caught a lot of pheasants and rabbits. The day before he went down the mountain, he also caught a wild boar weighing 150 to 160 kilograms. Zhang Dabao now basically achieved freedom in eating meat.

"Da Biao" The door rang, it was Zhang Dasen's voice.

"Sixth brother, why are you so busy? Has something happened?" Zhang Dabao asked when he saw Zhang Dasen sweating profusely.

"Something happened to Dongxing from the Lianhua family. She rolled down the mountain. Let's go over and take a look. The person who brought the news said that Dongxing might not make it." There was indescribable sadness on Zhang Dasen's face. He felt sorry for his sister, who became a widow at such a young age.

"Hurry up, I'll take the pot down." Zhang Dabao went back to the house and took the pot off the stove. He put on his military coat and went to meet up with Zhang Dasen at Zhang Dalui's house. Together with Zhang Dalin and Zhang Shouyong and Zhang Shouqian from Zhang Dalui's family, a group of six set out for Jiajia Village together.

Chapter 7 Second Sister

I haven't seen my second sister Lianhua for five years. I thought she would come back to her parents' home to see me during the Spring Festival, but I didn't expect such a thing to happen to her family. Zhang Lianhua is now helpless. She is only 25 or 26 years old, has only one daughter, and her husband Jia Youxing is dead.