The Beginning of a Courtyard House: Sixty Years of Internal Strength

"Okay, no problem." He nodded happily.

"Hurry up and tidy up your doghouse! Look at the mess it's in! How am I supposed to sleep here?"

"Dad, you guys eat first, I'll go clean up right away."

After saying that, Sha Zhu happily went to pack up, while He Daqing started asking Yu Shui about Li Jianguo.

"Rain, someone in the yard just shouted that someone hit Yi Zhonghai. Was it Li Jianguo from the front yard?"

"Dad, it was Li Jianguo who beat up Yi Zhonghai."

"Hmm, it seems this kid really has a grudge against Yi Zhonghai; he's the one who wrote the letter."

Okay, if you have any grievances later, and you don't know how to write a letter, just go to him and ask him to write it for you, understand?

"Okay, I understand, Dad."

After returning home, Li Jianguo and Yao Yao eavesdropped on the conversation at the Intermediate People's Court again. After listening for a long time, they didn't hear any secrets and sighed helplessly.

"Yaoyao, this Yi Juehu is too resilient. He's been beaten so many times, but he just rubs some safflower oil on his skin and never goes to the hospital."

Li Jianguo was speechless when he heard about safflower oil. He had already hit him hard last time, and before his injuries had fully healed, he was beaten up by He Daqing again, yet he still applied safflower oil.

"Brother Jianguo, it's nothing, just a superficial injury. In our village, as long as the bones aren't broken, people just stay home and recover. The three scoundrels in the village had their legs broken, but a folk doctor set them up, and they're still lame now."

"Yaoyao, we didn't hear anything useful. Let's continue studying."

As he spoke, Li Jianguo picked up Yao Yao and got into bed.

The next day, Li Jianguo took some of the supplies to the steel rolling mill.

After all, only 10 days have passed; we can't possibly complete a month's worth of tasks all at once.

After submitting the task, I quickly wrote another application form, this time for another village, requesting 20 days. The team leader glanced at it and registered it.

Li Jianguo strolled leisurely out of the steel rolling mill, feeling that this was quite good; he no longer needed to come twice a week, and the time he could apply to leave was longer than before.

Li Jianguo rummaged through his and Bao Bao's collection of antiques and found a small box. Then he randomly opened one of the dozens of large boxes.

He took out 30 gold ingots and started stuffing them into the box. After filling it with 25, he couldn't fit any more. He decided to leave it as it was and gave up.

Carrying the small box, he went to the silk shop to find Chen Xueru.

When Chen Xueru saw Li Jianguo, she pulled him to the backyard.

Upon entering the house, Li Jianguo placed the package on the table, opened it, and patted the small box.

"Sister Xue Ru, guess what's inside?"

"It's not all gold bars inside, is it?" Chen Xueru looked at Li Jianguo in surprise.

"Of course." Li Jianguo said, opening the small box.

Chen Xueru was stunned when she saw the room full of gold ingots. She gently took one and bit it.

"It's true, so you weren't lying to your sister after all."

"Sister Xue Ru, what are you saying? I would never lie to you, so hurry up and hide it. We can't let anyone know."

Upon hearing Li Jianguo's words, Chen Xueru quickly grabbed the small box and hurriedly hid it.

Li Jianguo waited for a long time before Chen Xueru came over carrying several dishes.

"Little brother Jianguo, you've helped me so much, how can I ever thank you enough?"

At this moment, Li Jianguo quickly helped set out the food and then whispered something in her ear.

"Sister Xue Ru, of course you know how to thank me."

After saying that, he kissed her and shoved her under the table.

Li Jianguo ate and drank with a focused mind, enjoying a comfortable meal.

Then we moved on to a few more battlefields. This time, we were up so late that I looked at my pocket watch and it was already 6:30. We had already missed dinner time.

He quickly woke up Chen Xueru next to him, "Sister Xueru, it's getting late, I should go."

Chen Xueru waved her hand sleepily, then turned over and went back to sleep. Li Jianguo chuckled twice, got dressed, and went home.

When we arrived at No. 95 courtyard, we got rid of Yan Laokou at the gate and returned home. Yao Yao had already eaten.

"Where did Brother Jianguo go? Did he go to keep Sister Xueru company?"

Yao Yao looked at Li Jianguo with a smile.

Li Jianguo was taken aback. He hadn't told Yao Yao about Chen Xueru, so how did she know?

Wang Yao burst out laughing when she saw Li Jianguo's bewildered expression.

"You're thinking I knew, right? How could I not know? You went out to cheat on me and didn't even bother to wipe your mouth. You took a shower and you still smell Chen Xueru's perfume on you. I smelled it a long time ago."

Well, it turns out women are all Sherlock Holmes in this regard. Li Jianguo chuckled awkwardly.

"Yaoyao, why don't you look angry at all?"

"Brother Jianguo, what's there to be angry about? I can't satisfy you by myself. You can find a few more, it's fine. I'm still your legal wife." Yao Yao said indifferently.

Li Jianguo lifted her onto his lap.

"Yaoyao, did anything happen at home today?"

"It's nothing. He Yushui came today, but didn't say anything, just thanked me."

I heard that the old lady in the backyard cried out for half the night; she must have been really starving yesterday.

By the way, someone just said there's going to be a big meeting later, I wonder what they'll be talking about. I hope they won't bring up the old lady's story again.

Didn't Yi Juehu say yesterday that he was going to hand over the task of taking care of the old lady to Yan Bugui's wife?

"You'd never guess! It'll start soon, you'll see when you listen."

Li Jianguo and Yao Yao had some tea and then went to the Intermediate People's Court. There were already quite a few people there.

The three old men slowly sat down at the octagonal table, looking at the limping Yi Juehu. It was quite a sight. As soon as the three of them were seated, the second old man couldn't wait to jump out.

"Yes, the reason for holding this conference is that we received a notification from the government, and the government's upcoming policies will be beneficial to the people's economic development."

Uncle Er rambled on and on about nonsense for a long time, only stopping when he saw everyone was getting a little impatient.

"Now, let's invite this highly respected gentleman to speak."

Li Jianguo chuckled speechlessly. As someone of high moral standing, the beasts knew exactly what he was laughing at just by hearing his laughter, and they all joined in.

Yi Zhonghai tapped the table with his enamel mug, his face grim. Only when his expression grew increasingly unpleasant did the birds quiet down.

"I didn't call everyone here today for anything specific, just to talk about the grain ration certificate. From now on, the rules for buying grain will change. You'll need to apply for a grain ration certificate from the neighborhood office. The amount of grain you can buy each month will be recorded based on the number of people in your household."

As soon as Yi Zhonghai finished speaking, Jia Zhangshi ran out, sat on the ground, and started throwing a tantrum.

"Damn it, they're making life impossible for us! Only Jia Dongxu in our family has an urban household registration, and we only receive a ration based on the number of registered residents. How are we supposed to survive?"

In fact, this was the initial stage of rural cooperatives. Those who owned land could receive grain dividends, and it was also easy to change their household registration.

Jia Zhangshi was also a rural resident, and her family owned land in her hometown. Both Qin Huairu and Jia Zhangshi could obtain a considerable amount of grain from their hometown, so the Jia family lived quite comfortably.

Jia Zhangshi just wanted to make a scene and see if she could get some benefits out of Yi Zhonghai.

Yi Zhonghai's expression darkened further at this moment, and he could tell at a glance that Jia Zhangshi was doing it on purpose.