The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 56 Storing Vegetables for Winter

What followed was not the expected explosion, but Qiangqiang’s joyful shout: Boom.

Lao Liu and the driver looked at the shells that fell on the ground. When the wind blew, they actually rolled up. This was a bit unusual.

Old Liu broke free from the driver's arms, stood up, dusted himself off, and said calmly, "What a fuss! If there was real artillery fire, why didn't we hear any sound?"

At this time, Qiangqiang stuffed the second shell into the barrel. The shell flew directly and hit Lao Liu in the chest. He caught it lightly, touched it with his hand, and then threw it to the driver.

"Wooden."

The driver looked at it over and over again, and exclaimed: "It's really realistic."

Old Liu went over and hugged Qiangqiang, saying lovingly: "You little troublemaker, you scared grandpa so much, let grandpa kiss you."

Qiangqiang was struggling in his arms to reach his cannon. The old man held the child in one hand, picked up the cannon, observed it carefully, and confirmed that it was the masterpiece of his youngest son.

Looking back, I saw the mother and son having a cordial and friendly conversation. Old Liu said with a smile: "Liu Hua, you made things so realistically that I was shocked."

No, your precious grandson wouldn’t agree either.

Ever since the mortar came into the hands of little Liu Qiang, he immediately became the coolest guy in the whole yard.

How could it not be beautiful? For other children, it was already quite a big deal to have a wooden gun. Many children's toy guns were the kind made of paper and had 20 shots.
As soon as Liu Qiang went out, he dragged a mortar. The other children could only shout biu, biu, biu, but there were no bullets.

Liu Qiang took the cannonball and stuffed it into the barrel, and then he heard "bang" and "boom" in his mouth. There was a real cannonball coming out, and the other children's eyes turned red with jealousy.

If there was anything delicious at home, he would not eat it himself and would give it to bribe Liu Qiang just to play with his mortar for a while. In less than a week, this kid, at the age of five, became the king of the children in the compound.

The reason is sufficient, they have guns.

Liu Hua got interviewed by the newspaper reporter as he wished. As for which newspaper, it was the newspaper that first reported on Daqing, and it is the same newspaper now. Only other newspaper can be named "People's".

Liu Hua was directly promoted to the thirteenth-level technician, which is the level at which college students can be hired as full-time employees. However, others can only be achieved after graduating from college, but Liu Hua achieved it in less than half a year after graduating from high school.

As for the administrative level, forget about it. The leaders above think that Liu Hua is a promising technical talent and is still so young, so for the time being, let him focus more on technology and don't add burden to him in other areas.

Liu Hua also thought it was good. Management was his weakness, as he had worked alone in his previous life. If everyone ate and drank together, there would be no problem, but if everyone shared the joys and sorrows together, there would definitely be many bumps and bruises, and Liu Hua didn't think he had the ability to settle them.

Liu Hua treasured the newspaper of that day as a commemorative piece. He believed that this would not be the first time he appeared in the newspaper and that there would be more opportunities for him to shine in the future.

What Liu Hua never expected was that the system gave him 100 points for such a toy mortar, which suddenly opened up new ideas for Liu Hua. It turned out that things didn't have to be high-end, and he could have more fun with them.

If you don’t have enough points in the future, just make some new and interesting things. As long as they are not available in this era, you can probably get points from them.

After entering late autumn, the weather is getting colder and colder, and every household starts preparing winter vegetables, namely carrots, potatoes and cabbages. Liu Hua doesn't need them, as his points can be exchanged, but he has to at least pretend, otherwise if he suddenly takes out a bright green cabbage when there is obviously no cabbage, it will make people suspicious.

His grain and non-staple food supplies were transferred to Nanluoguxiang, so he also pretended to prepare winter vegetables.

Sha Zhu took the initiative to find him and said, "Dude, why don't you come with us? My wife and my sister will take care of the vegetables, and we will transport them. You have a bicycle, so it will be fast."

"Okay."

However, it would take an eternity to transport several hundred kilograms of cabbage from both families using only bicycles. As a technician, Liu Hua did not like to do idle work, so he naturally had to use his brain.

He remembered that in his previous life he had seen a small trailer attached to an electric car on Taobao. It was not a complicated thing and except for two wheels which had to be bought separately, all the other things needed were already available at the steel rolling mill.

There was no need to draw a blueprint. I just showed my skills to the welding master in the factory and he welded a small trailer box neatly, with a bearing on each side, and then inserted the axle. All I had to do was buy a wheel and it was done.

The wheels were a bit more difficult. I finally found ones that were slightly smaller and wider so that they could carry more weight.

As for connecting it to the bicycle, since there is no universal joint, it is also simple. Just use bearings. In less than two days, the small trailer was completed.

When Liu Hua brought the small trailer back to the compound, all the neighbors came out to see it. They were all curious.

Sha Zhu saw the use of it at a glance and nodded with satisfaction: "Are you going to use it to transport the winter cabbage in two days?"

Liu Hua stood on the small trailer and said, "How about it? About 200 kilograms is no problem. We can just transport it three times."

With a bulging belly, he said in a careless manner, "Hua Zi, your car cost a lot of money, didn't it?"

"They are all made from waste materials from the factory." Liu Hua said with a smile: "It cost no more than 50 yuan to make two wheels, but they will be very useful in the future. They can be used for moving things."

Yan Fugui had a second-hand bicycle, and he came forward and said, "Hua Zi, can you lend me your bicycle? Uncle San has a large family, and he buys a lot of cabbage."

Sha Zhu was about to make a sarcastic remark because Yan Fugui was just talking nonsense, but he was about to use his words in vain, but was stopped by Han Yufeng.

Han Yufeng is a smart person. This thing is now in urgent need. If Sha Zhu says anything to refuse, he will be standing against the whole hospital. She also thought that if what Liu Hua said was inappropriate, she would step out to smooth things over.

"No problem." Liu Hua patted the small trailer and said, "But you have to wait until I'm done using it. I worked so hard to make this small trailer, and I can't let it have to wait in line behind you."

"That's what we should do." Yan Fugui nodded repeatedly: "I suggest that no matter who uses the car, they should clean it up, and whoever breaks it should be responsible for repairing it."

Yan Fugui's words were unanimously agreed by his neighbors. People should have dignity and trees should have bark. If you use other people's things, you should have some gratitude.

Seeing that most families in the yard did not have bicycles, Liu Hua suddenly had a new idea.

　Ask for monthly tickets and collection
　　
　
(End of this chapter)