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

Surprisingly, Sha Zhu has a really good physique.

Yesterday, I had a fight with the Liu and Yan families, and also had two fights with Qin Huairu.

It's impressive that you can get up so early!

After Sha Zhu got up and ate his meal.

Li Jianguo then went to the door.

"Zhu Zi, how was it? Are you satisfied now? You two were quite intense last night."

They almost ripped the roof off, but luckily the three of us live in the central courtyard.

Otherwise, your romantic escapades will surely become public knowledge.

Sha Zhu immediately blushed with embarrassment and couldn't say a word.

Then Sha Zhu took the official house papers and went out with Li Jianguo.

The two arrived at the neighborhood committee soon.

The neighborhood committee found it strange, looking at Sha Zhu as if he were an idiot.

Why did he exchange three main rooms for two side rooms?

"He Yuzhu needed money recently, so as his neighbor, I helped him out."

The clerk nodded knowingly and began processing the formalities, which took all morning to complete.

After returning home, both families busied themselves moving.

Rain went to school and still doesn't know what's going on at home.

Seeing the two families tidying up back and forth, Jia Zhangshi was puzzled.

"Li Jianguo, what are you two families doing all this time?"

"Hey, Zhu Zi, we're short on money, so I spent some to buy a room."

Let's switch places now.

"What?! They want to change rooms?!"

She turned and shouted at Sha Zhu.

"Shazhu, why do you think you can swap rooms with Li Jianguo? My family also has a side room, why don't you just switch with us?"

Sha Zhu was at a loss for words.

Li Jianguo then started cursing.

"Old hag, get out of here."

I paid a hefty price to get this house.

What are you thinking? Get lost!

If you keep arguing with me, I'll slap you.

Jia Zhangshi immediately became obedient and quickly ran home.

Qin Huairu, who was standing by the pool, also spat out a "pui" after hearing Li Jianguo's words.

This Li Jianguo is shameless. What kind of bargaining chip is he using? He just traded himself for it.

He'd do something so despicable as to swap someone else's wife for his own room.

Qin Huairu was also filled with hatred and gritted her teeth.

Sha Zhu understood the meaning behind Li Jianguo's words, and feeling embarrassed, he scratched his head.

His eyes, however, were fixed on Qin Huairu with a lecherous gaze.

The two families worked busily until the afternoon, finally finishing moving all the furniture.

Li Jianguo looked around the new house, extremely satisfied, while Yao Yao busied herself tidying up.

Because of what happened yesterday, Jia Zhangshi hurriedly went to the backyard.

The house wasn't ready yesterday, so today they quickly made the bed and moved in.

Looking at these two large rooms, Jia Zhangshi was quite satisfied.

Currently, only the Jia family has four rooms in the courtyard, which is unique; no other family has as many rooms as their own.

Li Jianguo moved to a new house, cooked a feast, opened a jar of wine, enjoyed a delicious meal, and then launched into another earth-shattering battle.

The two old men immediately quieted down and stopped the meeting. Three months passed quickly.

Li Jianguo's martial arts skills are improving rapidly, and he now possesses over 150 years of refined internal energy.

He had mastered the art of "Free and Easy Wind Control" to an unparalleled level, possessing a built-in lightness skill that allowed him to touch the ground with ease.

It's amazing that it can float in the air for more than 10 minutes without touching the ground.

Unexpectedly, the neighborhood committee held another meeting that day.

"Comrades, I'm here today to talk to you about two things."

The neighborhood committee will now be officially renamed the subdistrict office.

Issues such as the turnover of street office management personnel, property problems, and neighborhood disputes.

The location of the subdistrict office remains the same.

We hope everyone will continue to support our work in the future.

At this moment, Liu Haizhong clapped his hands vigorously.

"I will lead the team to actively cooperate with the leadership's work."

Director Wang raised his hand to suppress the applause and continued speaking.

"Comrades, the second thing is that the grain ration policy has been in effect for some time now."

The implementation was very successful. Next, cotton and cloth will also be included in the unified purchase and sale system.

From now on, everything will be purchased with coupons; this is what cotton coupons and cloth coupons look like.

The company will issue cotton coupons and cloth coupons every month.

Simply buying these two items with money will no longer be feasible.

After hearing this, everyone started discussing it. Making a garment is not easy.

It will probably be even more difficult in the future.

"Officer Wang, how many cotton and cloth coupons will be issued each month from now on?"

Is there enough for everyone?

"Comrades, you can rest assured about this; it's all based on national statistics."

That's more than enough for your annual use.

Actually, everyone knows it's nonsense. If there's enough, why bother with centralized purchasing and sales? We can just buy whatever we want.

After seeing that everyone had no questions, Officer Wang brought up another matter.

"Now the coal briquette factory outside Yongdingmen has also increased its output."

Everyone can line up to buy coal briquettes, so there's no need to crank them by hand, and they're very cheap.

You can probably buy 100 yuan worth for around 300 yuan, which isn't much more expensive than the hand-cranked ones.

Everyone was delighted to hear this good news.

In the past, every household had to work hard shaking coal briquettes, which was exhausting.

Li Jianguo used to be lazy and directly subcontracted the job of making coal briquettes to Yan Laokou's family.

Sometimes, when there wasn't enough, I'd secretly sneak some coal briquettes into the storage space.

After saying that, Director Wang left with his men.

Li Jianguo used to wonder why the subdistrict offices hadn't appeared yet. It turns out that the subdistrict office policy wasn't implemented until 1954.

"Yaoyao, winter's almost here! Let's go buy some coal briquettes."

"Hmm, that works too. If everyone else is buying, it would be a bit unusual if we didn't."

Li Jianguo was too lazy to go himself, so he went directly to Yan Jiancheng.

"Jiecheng, how about you go to the coal briquette factory tomorrow and haul some coal briquettes for me?"

"Sure, Brother Jianguo, no problem at all. How many do you want to buy?"

"Okay, let's load 1000 yuan first, that'll fill one cart."

"I'll give you two brothers an extra five hundred yuan later, how about that?"

"No problem, Brother Jianguo, I'll go tomorrow."

As he spoke, Li Jianguo gave Yan Jiancheng the money for the coal briquettes.

If it weren't for the fact that they were from the Yan family, Yan Jiancheng would have led Yan Jiefang out early the next day.

He borrowed a handcart and went to buy coal briquettes; with money in hand, he was quick and efficient at work.

The two diligently stacked the coal briquettes neatly in the kitchen.

The Yan family members are truly hardworking as long as they are paid, no doubt about it.

They handed the money directly to Yan Jiancheng, and the two brothers happily pulled the cart away.

Now, the grains in Li Jianguo's space are mostly sorghum grown for brewing.

The stored grain was more than enough to eat, and the various fruit trees had begun to bear fruit.

However, the first batch of fruit was not tasty and not sweet enough, so I plan to water the trees with spring water next time.

Previously, the spiritual spring water that gushed out of the spring was not enough, but now there is much more. It is not enough to irrigate the land, but it is more than enough to irrigate a few trees.

Li Jianguo started making wine jars again, trying to use spiritual spring water to brew the wine. He thought it would not only increase his internal strength but also make it taste better.