The booming era begins with the director of the Propaganda Department!

Chapter 366 Eighty percent! !
Zhang Shenfei expressed his gratitude to the neighbors in the courtyard.

They are willing to come and help, so we should appreciate it. "Don't worry, Director Zhang. After we found out that Director Tian was about to give birth and needed help, we all rushed here as soon as possible..."

"As the saying goes, we should be anxious about what the leader is anxious about, and be busy about what the leader is busy about. With everyone's help, Director Tian will be fine." Xu Damao came over and said with a smile.

Since Zhang Shenfei became the leader, he never called him by his nickname, but Director Zhang or Director Zhang. Similarly, he also called Tian Xiaozao Director Tian.

Sha Zhu standing by couldn't stand his behavior.

Hearing this, he curled his lips in disdain: "Da Fei, we are all childhood friends of Zao'er and you, so we are a family. Isn't it being too formal for you to say this?"

After saying that, he looked at Xu Damao provocatively.

"Giving birth to a child is such a big thing, and the man is not at home. Anyone who sees it must lend a hand." Yi Zhonghai smiled.

Ever since his aunt gave birth to Yi Weihong, he was content with having a daughter and no longer interfered in the affairs of the Siheyuan.

But she was thinking about Zhang Shenfei's contribution in selling her Hongmao Medicinal Wine. She was grateful to him and always wanted to find an opportunity to show off.

And seeing that Yi Weihong was getting older, he was still thinking...

Although myself and the aunt are a bit older now, it’s not too outrageous.

If I ask Zhang Shenfei to get more Hongmao medicinal wine, maybe I can give Wei Hong a younger brother...

By then, I will have a son and a daughter, and I will no longer care about the idiot or the deaf old lady!!!
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August 8, 1961, the 27th day of the sixth lunar month, was the beginning of autumn and the day Zhang Weiguo was born.

At 4:30 in the afternoon, a loud cry was heard from the delivery room.

The people waiting outside immediately stood up and looked towards the closed door of the delivery room.

Zhang Shenfei walked over even faster.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Zhang Weiguo was wrapped in a small dark blue floral blanket and carried out by a thin nurse.

"Who is Tian Xiaozao's family member? Take the child."

"I!! I am!!!"

Zhang Shenfei was excited, but after all, he had wrapped several King Kongs before, so the muscle memory was still there.

She took the child from the nurse with quite skillful posture, held it in her arms, and carefully observed the little nose and face.

The little guy has a fair face, black hair and a high nose. He'll be a handsome guy when he grows up.

only……

It’s just that his eyebrows and eyes seem to be about 80% similar to Zhang Handong when he was just born? ? ? ?
Hiss!!!! A complex expression flashed across Zhang Shenfei’s eyes.

I don’t know if I will look more and more like Zhang Handong as I grow up.

If the two brothers continue to look similar, it seems like it might be a bit troublesome...

Just as Zhang Shenfei was brainstorming, Tang Danniu, who was standing next to him, heard that Tian Xiaozao had also given birth to a boy, and her brows were immediately overjoyed.

The Zhang family has everything except a little girl.

She gave birth to ten children in succession, all of them were naughty little boys.

I have been trying to have a girl, but I have never been able to do so. It has become an obsession.

As the saying goes, if you have too much of something, you don’t want it anymore. The Zhang family wanted little boys the least and little girls the most.

Ever since Tian Xiaozao became pregnant, Tang Danniu has been under great psychological pressure.

Tian Xiaozao is naturally prettier than her and does a better job than her.

If she gave birth to another girl, her status in the Zhang family would rise sharply? How would she, as the sister-in-law, cope with it?

Fortunately, fortunately, Tian Xiaozao also gave birth to a son...

The Zhang family already has ten boys, so having too many things is not precious, so this little eleven is just like that.

Soon, Tian Xiaozao was pushed out, and the neighbors in the courtyard came forward to congratulate him.

When the child was born, he weighed 6.2 jin, which is not considered big in later generations, but it was quite big in that era and could be called a big fat boy.

Because the baby was not very big, Tian Xiaozao had no tears or stitches, so she only needed to stay in the hospital for three days before being discharged.

This is quite normal in this era, and fewer wounds need to be sutured after being torn.

Zhang Shenliang took Zhang Weiguo from Zhang Shenfei and looked at his little nephew with fondness.

Seeing this, Tang Danniu, who was standing by, felt unhappy.

When my own child was born, I didn’t see it as rare as this one!!

He walked to the front and snatched the child from Zhang Shenliang's hands: "Do you know how to hold such a small child? Go, go, go! Go get Xiaozao something to eat."

Zhang Shenliang was angry but dared not say anything. He walked aside, picked up three eggs from the basket, and followed his daughter-in-law's instructions to go to the state-owned restaurant outside to make confinement meals.

The child was held by Tang Danniu. The nine great warriors of the Zhang family surrounded them, looking at their little Eleven, and they were all very happy.

Zhang Shenfei was in front of the bed, feeding Tian Xiaozao spoonfuls of freshly brewed brown sugar water, taking care of her attentively.

Seeing this, Qin Huairu, who was standing by, had a glimmer of envy in her eyes.

The baby has been born and the mother has left the delivery room safely.

The neighbors in the courtyard congratulated them and then left.

Another day has passed.
Although he was reluctant to leave his wife and son, after all, he had already made an appointment with Wang Zhuzi to go to No. 2 Luoquaner Hutong, so Zhang Shenfei could only leave reluctantly.

Hearing that her brother was leaving at this critical moment, Tang Danniu was immediately displeased:

"I'm not saying this, why are both of you Zhang brothers like this? When I gave birth, your brother always ignored me. You're still like this when it comes to Zao'er. In your eyes, is it that giving birth to a child is as easy as a hen laying an egg???"

"A hen lays eggs, didn't you say that yourself..." Zhang Shenliang muttered softly. After receiving a cold stare from his daughter-in-law, he shrugged his shoulders and dared not say another word.

Zhang Shenfei felt guilty and let his sister-in-law scold him, but then he smiled and said:

"There really is something going on at school, and I really can't get away... Besides, aren't you here, sister-in-law? You have a lot of experience, and I believe you can take good care of Zao'er and our Weiguo."

Tang Danniu glanced at Tian Xiaozao's ward and said, "I can help you take care of the child, but you have to go and greet your wife yourself."

This is Tian Xiaozao's first child. If the man is not around, she might get emotional...

She doesn't want to be implicated.

Zhang Shenfei nodded and said yes. He watched Tang Danniu carry a large basin of diapers to wash them. He turned around and went to the ward to report the situation to Tian Xiaozao, then left the hospital and went to Luoquaner Hutong.

Arriving at the place,

I saw Wang Zhuzi and several members of the ancient building team already waiting here.

These guys were all from Longji in the past. They couldn’t be said to know Zhang Shenfei, but they all looked familiar.

Zhang Shenfei had talked to Wang Zhuzi before, and told him that he was here to collect folk songs and accumulate materials for his next novel submission.

So when these people saw Zhang Shenfei, they were not curious, but just asked a few questions about his novel writing, and Zhang Shenfei just made up some nonsense to fool them.

The ancient construction team did not have uniform clothing, and everyone wore green military uniforms and blue work clothes. Zhang Shenfei had deliberately worn the same clothes before coming here, and now he was mixed in with a group of masters. Except for being more handsome, taller, and more upright than them, there was no other difference between him and them.

The group soon arrived at No. 2 Luoquaner Hutong.

The owner of the house here is surnamed Gu, a bald man. It is said that his ancestors were jade dealers and were quite wealthy. After liberation, he handed over the dozen jade carving shops left by his ancestors. Now he works in the Cultural Relics Bureau and gets a fixed salary.

Although their house is big, there are only four people living in it, the Gu couple and their two children.

My son works in a banknote printing factory and my daughter works at Tsinghua University. They rarely come home.

After the handover, the man named Gu told me which houses Wang Zhuzi was going to replace the tiles in. Then the homeowner and his wife went to work, and Wang Zhuzi led the workers to start working.

Zhang Shenfei didn't know how to do civil engineering work, so when he saw that his master was not at home, he started to move around freely, strolling around the yard.

No. 2 Luoquaner Hutong, with its golden pillar gate, is a quadrangle with east and west courtyards.

It is divided into the front yard, middle yard, back yard, east wing yard and west wing yard.

When Zhang Shenfei bought the courtyard house in Yunju Hutong from Uncle Niu, he was somewhat complacent.

I always feel that my yard will be worth at least hundreds of millions in the future, and it will be very prestigious to live in it.

But now, if you compare yourself to others, you will die, and if you compare goods, you will throw them away.

Compared with Comrade Gu’s courtyard house, my own courtyard in Yunju Hutong is just a smaller one.

After the tour, Zhang Shenfei really wanted a courtyard like this, but there was no rush.

Not to mention that real estate transactions are not an easy thing nowadays, it will take decades for housing prices in Beijing to soar.

Before that, it would be easy to get such a house at a low price while it was still tradeable.

There is no need to take risks now and go against the policy to buy a house.

After wandering around the cross courtyard, Zhang Shenfei went to the front yard again, feeling it was a pity.

Originally, these courtyards belonged to one owner and only his entire family lived there.

But later, during the first five-year plan, my country's industry developed rapidly.

A large number of workers poured into the city of Beijing, and these people needed to be resettled, so the government introduced a rent-exchange policy.

No. 2 Luoquaner Hutong was not spared.

Most of the houses were rented out, and all the rented out courtyards became large slums. With so many people, the courtyards became messy, and the original charm of the courtyards was gone, becoming a mess.

Some residents don’t have kitchens, so they just build shacks under the eaves to cook. Some eaves have all kinds of sundries piled up under them, wasting such a nice house.

The Gu family only left the courtyard with a pond.

Relatively speaking, this courtyard has few people living in it and, coupled with the care it has received, it does show some of its former glory.

After walking around the entire yard,
In the end, Zhang Shenfei focused his attention on the pond which covered a large area.

The pond is huge.

Zhang Shenfei measured it with his feet and found it was eighty feet long and forty-five feet wide, which added up to nearly four hundred square meters.

Perhaps because no one has taken care of it for a long time, there are aquatic plants growing everywhere in the pond and the water is green.

Although there are lotus leaves inside, they are in a mess and grow at will.

There is a rockery at the western shore of the pond. Zhang Shenfei thinks it is very similar to the one he saw in Xiangguo Temple before. From a distance, they look like twins.

He walked to the edge of the pond, bent down and raised a handful of water. It was cool and a little slippery.

He walked around the pond for a long time, picked up a large stone and threw it into the pond, splashing a lot of water, but in the end he still couldn't figure out what was going on.

Remembering that Long Danniu and Li Dabing had mentioned many times that the water in this pond was particularly deep, Zhang Shenfei thought that he should go into the water to explore.

You have to go and see the rockery too.

Each strange stone has its own unique appearance. He doesn't think that two stones that look exactly the same would be the work of nature.

After making a plan in mind, Zhang Shenfei returned to the cross-yard. Wang Zhuzi had dragged a stool in advance and placed it under the shade of a tree, waiting for him to rest.

Who would have thought that Zhang Shenfei would become interested, roll up his sleeves and enthusiastically want to work with them.

"Brother Dafei, you can't do this job..." Wang Zhuzi muttered quietly when no one was paying attention.

"It's okay. If I can't do big jobs, can't I just be a laborer?" Zhang Shenfei smiled and came closer and said, "Didn't you say that you told these people about this? I came here to experience life and prepare to write articles.

It would be unreasonable to do nothing, right? ? "

"That's true." Wang Zhuzi pondered for a while, "Then why don't you be responsible for transporting the tiles?"

When replacing the tiles in a tiled house, you must first remove all the old tiles on the roof, and then transport the soaked new tiles to the roof.

According to the work process, they are divided into unskilled workers and skilled workers. Unskilled workers are those who are not very strong or slow, but they can do the job as long as they are quick-eyed, quick-handed and diligent.

Replacing the tiles on the roof is a difficult job for the master. It is a technical job. If it is not done properly, the house will leak and the master's reputation will be ruined.

Zhang Shenfei was working with other laborers. After a short while, his clothes were soaked and stuck to his body, feeling sticky.

I can't help but sigh that it's not easy to do any job.

After finally working until lunchtime, Zhang Shenfei made the excuse that he was too tired to eat, so he gave Wang Zhuzi a food coupon and asked him to bring him some food when he came back.

The other masters knew that he was a college student, and when they saw his appearance, they teased him, saying that he was powerless and that scholars were useless.

Zhang Shenfei didn't care at all and laughed happily along.

"Stop talking nonsense. The weather is really hot now. Not to mention Dafei, even I who often work outdoors can't stand it." Wang Zhuzi put away the meal ticket and money given by Zhang Shenfei. "Well, after dinner, I will treat everyone to a beer in the tavern."

"Great! It's so refreshing to drink a glass of cold beer in the hot summer."

"It has to be our captain, so open!!!"

"I'll have to order another serving of rice noodle sausage later. Beer and rice noodle sausage are so delicious."

"Then I'll have a portion of pickles, and we can all eat together then."

"Don't tell me, I haven't had beer for a while, and I really miss it."

"Then Dafei, we'll leave first. You take a good rest here. We'll bring you food and beer when we come back."

As the masters talked, they walked out of the courtyard.

Soon, Zhang Shenfei was the only one left in the huge yard.

He didn't rush to the pond, but rested on the lounge chair for a quarter of an hour.

After making sure those people have gone far away,
Zhang Shenfei walked to the edge of the pond, picked up a long bamboo pole and probed the depth.

Then he took off his clothes, put them into the space, jumped into the water with a splash, and dived down.

PS: Godfathers, the virus has struck again. The wrist bone successfully confirmed five positives today. Everyone should pay attention to safety and wear masks.

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