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Chapter 326 Wear a hat!!

fat???
That is now. In the next few years, where will there be any fat people in the city? ? ? Zhang Shenfei thought to himself.

Zhang Shenliang dragged up a handful of food on his back and said, "Don't look at it anymore. Let's go home quickly. Go back and have a good sleep."

In order to buy this little bit of food, they lined up all night.

The three of them then returned to the courtyard, poured all the food into the jar, and went home to catch up on some sleep.

After getting up in the afternoon, I heard Tang Danniu, Grandma Zhang and Tian Xiaozao discussing going to the Yi family to visit Aunt Yi.

Although the place where the aunt gave birth was relatively random, fortunately, both mother and daughter were safe after being sent to the hospital.

Grandma Zhang came with her two granddaughters-in-law, bringing five eggs and half a pound of noodles. The eggs were a gift from Tang Danniu's family, and the noodles were given by Tian Xiaozao.

Although there are not many things, the purchase of eggs has already been restricted. A family can only buy one pound per month, and noodles require special receipts.

These are all good things that money can’t buy.

"Mr. Yi, you have finally gotten what you deserved after all the hardships you've endured. Raise the child and you'll have no regrets in this life." Grandma Zhang said, holding Auntie Yi's hand.

The eldest lady was born of an old clam, so it goes without saying that she was weak. She smiled and forced herself to exchange a few polite words with the three women from the Zhang family. Then she heard the door being slammed open, and then Zhang Ximei rushed in like a little cannonball.

"Grandma Yi, Grandma Yi, did you really give birth to a little girl? Don't worry, I will treat her well in the future!!!" The little yellow-haired boy was overjoyed to suddenly have a wife.

Yi Zhonghai, who was holding a bowl of brown sugar boiled eggs, was suddenly heartbroken!!!
"No, that's not necessary. Our family can afford to raise a daughter," he said.

Zhang Ximei refused: "No matter how good my parents are, can they be better than men? My mother said that in this life, no matter whether it is parents or children, they can only accompany us halfway. Only a couple can stay together forever."

Although the little girl, who is still in swaddling clothes, looks wrinkled and her face is a little yellow, that doesn't matter.

The most important thing for a man is loyalty. He is not someone who only looks at appearance!!!
"Grandpa Yi, the baby is mine, you can't separate us!!!" Zhang Ximei held the little girl from the Yi family and glared at Yi Zhonghai hungrily.

Ah, this... Tian Xiaozao and Grandma Zhang tapped their toes on the ground awkwardly and looked at each other.

Tang Daniu even grabbed her son's ear and dragged him out of Old Yi's house. Tian Xiaozao and the old lady of the Zhang family saw that Yi Zhonghai's face turned green, and they also stood up.

"Well, there's still fire on my pot. I'm going to go back first."

"I'm leaving too."

As soon as they left, Yi Zhonghai sat down on the stool in anger, gasping for breath.

……

January 28, 1959, the 21st day of the twelfth lunar month.

Suitable for: getting married, meeting relatives and friends, matching marriages, getting engaged, and making money.

Taboo: opening a business, setting up a bed, burial, and repairing a grave.

This is the day when Cai Quanwu gets married, no, he is marrying into the Song family. Not only is he marrying into the Song family, but in order to reassure Xiao Liu's second mother-in-law, from today on, Cai Quanwu will take the surname Song.

This incident should have caused a stir no matter where it happened, but it was calm in the courtyard.

"Hey, it's nothing. After He Daqing went to Baocheng, he also took the surname of the White Widow."

"Originally this was a very strange thing, but in Old He's house, it seems like nothing."

"Their family has been like that since the beginning!!!"

"I don't know what Silly Zhu's last name will be after he gets married, ah no, after he gets married..."

“So in the end, the inheritance of the He family’s surname still depends on Yu Shui, the girl.”

After a few words of discussion, everyone let it go and headed towards Heizhima Hutong in twos and threes, carrying their gifts and a few grain coupons.

Since various supplies have become increasingly scarce, there are more unwritten rules for banquets in the city.

That is, no matter who is hosting a wedding or funeral, the guests will not only give money as gift, but also consciously pay three or two grain coupons.

This situation continued until 1963, when the gentleman gave a farewell banquet to the national table tennis team participating in the World Table Tennis Championships. When notifying everyone to attend the banquet, he specifically reminded everyone: "Everyone bring your own food coupons!"

If we talk about Cai Quanwu finding a home, the happiest people would be Shazhu and Banggeng.

Needless to say, Sha Zhu's cousin had a girlfriend. Although he was going to be someone's stepfather, at least he didn't have to worry about the sound of the kang edge.

Anyway, this is something worth celebrating.

He is a cook himself and often works at wedding banquets to earn some extra money.

At this moment, he was in the middle courtyard of No. 35 Heizhima Hutong, directing Xiaopang and Ma Hua to quickly build a stove with yellow mud, and then directing Liu Lan to quickly pack up the purchased vegetables and meat.

Since the poor harvest in summer, people's lives have become increasingly difficult. This is reflected in the fact that few people eat pure white flour noodles or noodles with soybean paste at weddings.

Instead, it was served with mixed noodles, and the amount of meat in the stew was pitifully small.

But no matter what, there are about a hundred people to feed, and the stove at home is not enough, so we have to build a temporary stove.

While they were busy here, the neighbors in the courtyard had all arrived.

Yan Bugui was still in charge of Cai Quanwu's wedding accounting. However, there were no peanuts or sunflower seeds on the table, and the candies were limited to one per person, and no one was allowed to take more.

Cai Quanwu's wedding was full of the characteristics of the times.

The couple, one wearing a green suit and the other wearing a dark blue suit, were the most common clothes of that era.

Widow Xiao Liu's clothes were no different from those of any other lady present, except for a flower in her temple, which highlighted her identity as a second-time bride.

Should I say or not,

Although Xiao Liu was a widow and had given birth to several children, her appearance could be described as "pretty and well-proportioned", especially her big buttocks, which were straight and perky even through her cotton pants.

Zhang Shenfei couldn't help but sigh that although the He family loved widows, they still had a good eye for beauty.

Some people like to marry a beautiful widow, while others like to marry an ordinary-looking or ugly virgin. It can only be said that everyone has different aspirations.

The newlyweds entered the house, bowed to the portraits of the two leaders, and then sang the H song together.

Hey, what a coincidence, it’s still the same song “The Sun Rises on the Prairie”, but this time the prairie blooms on the head of Xiao Song, the man Xiao Liu died.

This song can be sung by everyone from the age of 99 to the age of just learning to walk, and soon the duet between man and woman turned into a chorus.

Sha Zhu stood in the crowd, looking at Qin Huairu who was singing with everyone beside him, then turned his head to look at Jia Dongxu who was standing on the other side of him, and couldn't help but sigh.

In fact, he doesn't mind having the last name Banggeng...

But this Jia Dongxu is such an eyesore!!
After Cai Quanwu and his wife sang three songs, the older people retreated to the yard to wait for dinner. Only Zhang Shenfei, Sha Zhu, Yan Jiecheng, Liu Guangqi, Xu Damao and other young people were left in the room.

Zhang Shenfei took out an apple from his pocket, took out a rope and tied it to the apple. Finally, he took off his shoes with a sly smile on his face and got on the kang.

The young men present immediately laughed knowingly. "Here it comes!!!"

"Hurry up, eat the apple, eat the apple!!!"

"Bite, Cai Quanwu, bite! Damn, I missed it again, I didn't hit the Q..."

"Cai Quanwu, can you do it??? If not, let me take over!!!"

"Yo, they're biting it! Tsk, tsk, tsk, has ST gone in???"

"Hey, why are you still so reluctant to part..."

Outside the house,

Zhang Shunsui, Zhang Fendou, Yan Jiekuang, and Liu Guangfu, along with a group of young boys, were staring through the small glass window, their eyes wide open, their mouths almost drooling.

For the bride, and for the apple that I couldn’t eat a single bite of for a whole year!!!

"What are you looking at? Get out here and pick up firecrackers!!!" Liu Haizhong walked over and kicked them in the butt one by one.

The young men turned around and ran. They had no choice but to run. They had seen Liu Haizhong beat his two sons to death since they were young, and they were afraid.

After the wedding night, there is the wedding banquet.
Each person had a bowl of mixed noodle soup and a steamed bun made from two kinds of flour, and they sat or squatted together in the yard, eating and drinking.

Zhang Shenfei had a relatively high status, so he didn't need to find a place in the yard, but instead sat on the kang in the inner room.

But the food he ate was the same as everyone else. With him were Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, Grandma Zhang, the deaf old lady and others.

"Dafei, I heard that your family is short of food?" The deaf old lady had bad teeth and could not eat the mixed flour steamed bun alone. She broke the bun into small pieces and soaked it in the soup while asking.

"Well, I've finished eating what I saved before. From now on I can only follow the rationed food..." Zhang Shenfei said as he slurped a big mouthful of noodles.

"It's also our fault. We had too many children and we can't afford to support them ourselves, so we have to ask the second child for help." Zhang Shenliang put down his chopsticks and sighed.

The deaf old lady looked at the two brothers with some disbelief, but said nothing.

She watched these two brothers grow up since they were young, not to mention Zhang Shenliang.

Zhang Shenfei used to make a lot of money by serializing novels in newspapers. Later, he worked in a steel mill, working his way up from a propaganda officer to a canteen director. She didn't believe that he didn't make any money.

Although Zhang Shenliang honestly said that all the food that Zhang Shenfei had saved before was used to subsidize their family, these two are brothers after all, and Zhang Shenfei is very cunning, so he might have talked to his brother about it in advance.

But no matter how many ideas you have, they are just guesses after all.

Rather than wondering whether the Zhang family had food, she was more worried that even the Zhang family had started to cry poor. Was something serious going to happen this time???
Thinking of this, the deaf old lady couldn't help but clench her cotton jacket on her chest.

Here are the food coupons she has saved over the years, waiting for the time when the situation gets bad so that she can sell them at a high price in the pigeon market.

Originally, they could have saved more, but unfortunately, after Lao Yi's wife became pregnant, Lao Yi no longer cared about her food and drink, and she could only eat her own food.

When she thought of the middle-aged woman who had just given birth, a gloom flashed across the deaf old lady's eyes.

If you want your own retirement to be secure, you must make sure that Lao Yi’s retirement is not secure…

Only if Old Yi has no descendants would he be willing to support himself in his old age.

If a person does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth!!!
After asking a few questions, the deaf old lady stopped asking the group of people. While she was eating, drinking and chatting, she heard a noise coming from outside.

From the noise, it sounded like Sha Zhu and Xu Damao were fighting again.

"What's going on? I have to go and take a look." Liu Haizhong put down the bowl and walked out with a figure-eight step.

Although it was not in the courtyard, Xu Damao and Sha Zhu were from their courtyard after all, and as the second uncle, he had to seize the opportunity to enjoy the official addiction, right? Has the matter been dealt with?
The others also got off the kang and walked to the door. Zhang Shenfei called Bang Geng over and said, "What's going on? Why did your silly uncle and Xu Damao fight?"

Bang Geng raised his head with excitement in his eyes: "Uncle Zhang, I just finished a bowl of noodles and went to get a second bowl, and I saw Sha Zhu touching Xu Damao's wife's hand.

I ran over and told Xu Damao, and then Xu Damao couldn't stand it anymore and insisted that Shazhu put a hat on him, and the two of them started fighting. "

Liu Haizhong: "Isn't each person limited to one bowl of noodles? How can you get a second bowl?"

Bang Geng: "It doesn't matter. Don't worry about these details."

Yi Zhonghai glanced at Liu Haizhong: "Old Liu, is this the time to talk about this?"

Zhang Shenfei immediately walked towards the crowd: "Today is Cai Quanwu's big wedding day, let's go separate them first."

Come to think of it, how did this silly Zhu get involved with Xu Damao's ex-wife Liu Lan? ? ?
Although Xu Damao and Liu Lan just got married, they divorced before they even entered the bridal chamber.

But at least the two of them had obtained a marriage certificate. Who could stand the fact that he was suddenly getting along well with his mortal enemy?

When a few people went over, they saw Sha Zhu beating Xu Damao.

Xu Damao's head was green with anger, but he was a weak fighter and was beaten by Sha Zhu without any strength to fight back, and he could hardly protect himself.

Liu Lan seemed stunned.

Xu Damao's mother's eyes were blazing with anger: "Liu Lan, you unfaithful bitch, do you want Sha Zhu to beat Damao to death???"

"Is there any justice in the world? If you were in ancient times, you would be put into a pig cage... You are despicable!!!

Why do you have to look for a man in our courtyard house when you are looking for one somewhere else? Where can we put our Xu family's reputation? "

Xu Fugui was originally holding Sha Zhu with a sullen face, but when he saw Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, and Zhang Shenfei coming over, he immediately let go of Sha Zhu and walked over: "Second uncle, third uncle, no one is as bullying as Sha Zhu, you must make a decision for our family."

Yi Zhonghai was directly omitted in the conversation.

Under the command of Zhang Shenfei, several young men in the courtyard finally pulled Sha Zhu and Xu Damao apart.

There was a distance of two meters between the two people, but they were still spitting at each other.

"Silly Zhu, you grandson, you even slept with my wife. I can't stand with you."

"Bullshit, you were the one who let Liu Lan down and abandoned her. You are just a piece of shit!!! Useless thing!!"

"I'd rather throw away my stuff than give it to you!!!"

"The country allows widows to remarry, why don't you let Liu Lan find a partner???!! Not only do I want to date her, I want to marry her and have three children in two years!!!"

Not only the neighbors of the courtyard were present, but also Xiao Liu's relatives and men, women and children from Heizhima Hutong.

Everyone surrounded Sha Zhu and Xu Damao, pointing and talking.

The aunties in the courtyard were extremely surprised. It seemed that Sha Zhu was much better than his father and Cai Quanwu.

At least the person you find isn't a widow, and doesn't have to take the child's last name, right? ? ?
It seems that the He family's surname no longer needs to rely on He Yushui to continue.

Yi Zhonghai's face turned pale: "Today is Cai Quanwu's wedding day, what are you all arguing about???
Silly Zhu, this Cai Quanwu is your cousin. Let’s talk about your affairs after we return to the Siheyuan and hold a general meeting. Now, finish Cai Quanwu’s marriage first!! ”

(End of this chapter)