The Prosperous Years of Siheyuan

Chapter 14

It was less than three o'clock when we left the grain store. It was inevitable that we would encounter those beasts in the courtyard when we returned home. The family in the east and the west were short of time, so we should do something more serious.

Thinking of the bunch of keys given to him by his old office colleague Song Wenyi in the morning, Chen Jisheng simply turned back from the grain store, went all the way out of Dongzhimen, and came to the scrap yard of the rolling mill.

There are a lot of good things in some scrapyards with overgrown vegetation. They are all big items, including scrapped tanks, cars, and gun barrels.

Most of this is considered special steel. If the scrap steel had not been refined a few years ago, it could be considered the wealth of the steel rolling mill, not to mention several thousand tons.

The yard that Unit Chief Sun was talking about was a lonely compound next to the scrapyard. The walls were very high, more than three meters high.

There are some differences from what Sun Meilan said. The houses in the front, middle and back rows are all built according to warehouse standards, and the height and width are much higher than ordinary courtyard houses.

That stretch of green bricks and stones could have been scrapped tomb bricks and smashed stone tablets. Chen Jisheng had seen such a house in later generations. No expense was spared in the materials. It was solid and reliable. It only had to be occupied by people. It was bad luck!

Facing the front and rear walls of the scrapyard, there are gates close to four meters wide. Perhaps it is because of the proximity to the water. The large black iron gates are made of various materials. The facade is made of steel plates, not oil drum iron sheets.

Such a large iron gate must be difficult to push open. Chen Jisheng rode a bicycle to the main entrance. The wide main entrance must have been dismantled from elsewhere. The door was covered with copper foam nails and the door knocker was made of pure copper. It was either the palace or Baylor. The door of the house.

After taking a closer look at the simple main entrance, I saw that it was different from what I had just thought. It was not tomb bricks, but serious city bricks. In order to facilitate entry and exit, there were no steps at the door, and a slope was paved with pockmarked granite.

Taking the key to open the chain-locked door knocker, looking through the three-meter wide and nearly ten-meter deep porch, one can see that the ground of the courtyard is also paved with city bricks, with occasional large areas of stone slabs. No expense was spared in building this courtyard.

The doors and windows are also in accordance with warehouse standards, with small windows and doors, and they are all made of solid wood, which does not transmit light and air well.

The front and back yards turned around. In such a large yard, the only room that can be lived in is the one next to the porch. It should be the guard’s room at the back. transparent.

The others are all large rooms of [-] to [-] square meters, and the floors are all hardened with wall tiles and stone slabs. For Chen Jisheng, this kind of warehouse is just right.

It is located in a remote area, and the surrounding households are four to five miles away. There are many entrances and exits, and the walls are high and thick, so the privacy is quite good.

Most of the warehouses have been emptied, and most of the remaining items are miscellaneous materials. Hundreds of old sacks and flour bags have been collected. There are a lot of tables, chairs, benches and other large items in the warehouse. Although they are good, they may have accounts. Chen Jisheng did not put them in the warehouse. Collect whatever you want.

I randomly found a Taishi chair and an Eight Immortals table. The material should be good and it would be easy to carry it. The coating is a bit thick and dirty at first glance, but the color is probably mahogany.

After Chen Jisheng sat down, he put his feet on the Eight Immortals table, closed his eyes and began to check the things in the reserve.

"Fuck...this is so powerful...this thing is deadly..."

Cursing while searching, the storage warehouse in Chen Jisheng's space was not just a warehouse but a group of strategic storage warehouses. When several doors opened, his jaw almost dropped.

A rough search took more than 20 minutes. In addition to surprises, it was also a bit troublesome. Chen Jisheng pinched his painful eyebrows. It seemed that this warehouse could not be used frequently.

However, in terms of time, nearly half an hour could not hold me back. I took a sack and packed a few of the new products I had just retrieved. This was for the worship of the mountain gate tonight. Old Li was shocked, look at him What a reaction.

In addition to many good things, Chen Jisheng also found a batch of large cans of canned beef in the food warehouse. There were still no labels on the outer packaging of the individual products, but there were English product name labels in the warehouse.

The storage warehouse in the space, Chen Jisheng is [-]% sure that it belongs to the US enemy, but there are still some specious things inside, so the origin of the storage warehouse is still somewhat uncertain.

Old sacks were spread on the table of the Eight Immortals, and Chen Jisheng used the M6 ​​saber in the warehouse to untie two pigs, a sheep, and a cow, and save them for future use, otherwise they would be too big and inconvenient to be conspicuous.

Although the M6 ​​is a powerful weapon for killing people, it is not efficient enough to deconstruct flesh. Not to mention the effort required, the blade is also not fast enough. A set of special decomposition tools will be needed later.

Based on the discovery just now, Chen Jisheng also loaded more than twenty 1911 magazines and a dozen M14 20-round magazines in case of emergency.

The things were almost packed, and most of the energy was restored. I collected the garbage in the warehouse and checked it carefully again. There were no omissions.

Chen Jisheng carried two large sacks and hung them on the back seat of the defense. He locked the courtyard door and left the courtyard.

Because of the reason of unloading the meat, I went home a little late. I greeted the third master at the door, and when I entered the house, I saw that the three goods in the house were really not fuel-efficient.

Last night's family meeting decided that Chen Jisheng would be in charge of everything. The three of them came home from school and became shopkeepers. Now they are eating, and they are all sitting at the round table, waiting anxiously.

"Sorry, the unit is delayed by something, wait a moment..."

Chen Jisheng couldn't say anything. He parked his bicycle in the coal shed and entered the small kitchen carrying two sacks.

The tedious process of igniting the briquette stove, opening the two-kilogram can of beef and pouring it into a casserole, washing the remaining eggplants in the kitchen and breaking them into the casserole.

Then put away the tin can, find the steamer and put the Lianghe noodles steamed buns bought in the cafeteria. After the beef is warmed up, reheat the steamed buns so that they don’t taste too hot in summer.

Then he took out a whole ham from the sack. This thing seemed to be used as military rations in ancient times. As long as it is properly cured, the shelf life of ham can reach more than ten years, but it is best to eat it within three or four years.

Compared with domestic hams, there are no mold spots on the surface of the hams in the warehouse. I just don’t know if they can be eaten raw, but it’s pretty much the same. This stuff shouldn’t kill anyone.

There is no special knife, so I can only use the kitchen knife at home. The good knife is Wang Mazi's mulberry knife. Silly Zhu should have sharpened it last night. Chen Jisheng felt that the sharpness was better than the M6 ​​saber.I found a starting position, peeled off the skin of the ham, and put it directly into the space. I threw the skin away for people to see. The lack of preservation was another denunciation.

Although kitchen knives are good, they are still not as good as special knives. Let alone making thin slices transparent, it would be nice to change them three times to make them transparent.

I tried to taste it. Apart from being a little salty, it tasted good and also had a light woody aroma. It should be smoked ham.

After cutting a plate full of thick slices, the beef soup in the casserole started to boil. He took off the casserole and replaced it with a steamer. Chen Jisheng used a wet rag to bring the hot casserole to the round table in the main room.

"Yeah! Beef, second brother is so good."

Chen Jisheng ignored his younger sister Chen Xue's flattery, glanced at her, turned around and brought over the ham slices.

"Jisheng, is this raw meat?"

The second sister, Chen Baohong, is indeed a minor in chemistry. She has good eyesight and can distinguish between raw and cooked food.

"Ham, foreign product, try it? It's a pity that there is no red wine, but old wine is also a perfect match."

The second sister is an idealist now, a bit like a little bourgeois. She doesn’t have much time like this, so she might as well take care of her.

Compared with red wine, Chen Jisheng naturally prefers old yellow rice wine, which is full of flavor and makes time slow down as he savors it.

Old wine is most suitable for reminiscing about the past, slowly getting drunk with memories, all the grievances and hatreds in the body will be resolved at that moment.

With the little old wine left over from last night, the family had a healthy dinner, but it was not suitable for settlement, the cost of settlement would be staggering, and most people could not afford one meal a day.

After dinner, I met the three siblings, but there was no intention to communicate. Chen Jisheng had to go to Deputy Factory Director Li to pay homage to the mountain gate in the evening. He didn't say much to the three of them, but just asked about Chen Xiaobao's location.

Changing the vests and short-sleeved shirts that have been soaked many times with a sea soul shirt, Chen Jisheng doesn't have to do the dirty clothes himself. The sisters at home don't know how to cook, but they still have to wash and rinse. Yesterday's sea soul The shirt should have been washed by my little sister.

It is not suitable to tie a cowhide belt in the summer. It will get tired after a long time. So he put on a normal plastic belt. Chen Jisheng went to the kitchen to get a sack, got on his bicycle and left home.

Different from the freshness in the morning, the weather in the evening was a bit sultry and it might rain in the next two days. Although it was a bit windy while riding the bike, I was still sweating.

Deputy Director Li is a fashionable person and has moved upstairs a long time ago. At this time of year, the Tongzi Building is slightly more private than the courtyard. Unlike the courtyard, at seven or eight o'clock, it is full of chickens crowing and frogs crowing, which is very lively.

The family courtyard of the steel rolling mill is outside the east gate. It can be regarded as the lowest courtyard, but it is relatively small in scale and the children are relatively weak.

But there is no shortage of everything that should be provided, including armed guards, a service club, and a canteen. After passing the gate with a work permit, Chen Jisheng did not ask about the residence of Deputy Factory Director Li.

Just according to the note written by Director Fan of the cafeteria, I fumbled to find the third floor one by one.

Looking at the time, it was just after 07:30. I knocked on the wooden door softly and Deputy Director Li, wearing a tank top and shorts, appeared at the door.

"Director, I am Chen Jisheng who is reporting today." Although they knew each other, Chen Jisheng still introduced himself to the company in a polite manner.

"Xiao Chen, come in quickly and pick up something as soon as you come! Your sister-in-law is not here, so feel free."

Hearing the title of Deputy Director Li, Chen Jisheng understood clearly. It seemed that his position had improved a lot after Director Fan passed him by.

"Director, there is nothing valuable, just a piece of Virginia ham from the American enemy, two bottles of whiskey, and a military watch currently in service by the American enemy. Just a little thought."

There are different methods for worshiping the mountain gate. Chen Jisheng's method is very fierce and hard to open!

"You didn't go to Factory Director Yang?"

After seeing the things, Li Huaide, deputy director of the factory, raised his brows. This ceremony is a bit heavy. In terms of corruption, he can definitely get peanuts.

“If you’re not a traveler, it’s okay if you don’t go!”

Chen Jisheng was also straightforward when it came to standing in line, and Lao Yang would soon turn into a mud bodhisattva, with a rate of return of about nothing, and he was a flag-like figure at Iron Gate, so he couldn't be pulled.

"Good boy! I saw you right!"

Deputy Director Li gave a few words of praise, and the process of paying homage to the mountain gate was over. Most of the conversations that followed were insignificant things. Li Huaide wanted to get to the bottom of it, but Chen Jisheng covered it up calmly.

When it comes to the backer relationship, the more vague it is, the more awe-inspiring it is. The two of them wandered around for an hour, and Li Huaide's goal naturally fell through.

But he was in a good mood. Chen Jisheng's current strength was already above that of Director Fan in the cafeteria, and he had obtained another general.

(End of this chapter)