The strong fisherman in the courtyard

"Let's go, brothers, let's go wash our hands and faces, otherwise we won't be able to eat later. I'll pay for it in the afternoon, and the three of us will go to the bathhouse and have a good meal!" Li Ming said happily.

"Okay, it's been a while since we've had a bath together." Yan Xingle said happily.

After Yan Wang came back from the outer courtyard, the three of them washed up and walked towards Li Ming's house together. Wu Xuanxuan had already prepared lunch, so all they needed was for the three of them to start eating.

"Huh, Brother Li, you are right. It would be more refreshing to have a sip of soda right now!" Yan Xing drank almost half a bottle in one breath, then burped comfortably and said happily.

At this moment, none of the three of them cared whether there was a beautiful woman in front of them. The body's desire for carbonated water had long overcome some insignificant rationality, and taking a sip of soda was the right thing to do now.

Li Ming nodded as a matter of course, "Of course, you can listen to me!"

Wu Xuanxuan did not despise the three of them. Instead, she happily picked up some dishes for them and placed them in front of them. "Okay, eat a few bites first, or you won't be able to hold on. I heard from Xiao Mingzi that you have to take a shower in the afternoon, you can't go on an empty stomach!"

Chapter 448: Smuggling Vegetables at Midnight

"Dad, I recently got a cart full of winter vegetables, including cabbage, potatoes, carrots and so on. Can you tell me how we can prepare them?" Li Ming said to his parents after lunch.

The old couple was stunned. They didn't expect that their son would make such a big one after such a short time! Li Weiguo went out and wandered around every day, and he couldn't come back with so many!

Li's mother got up first and closed the doors and windows of the house. When she came back, Li's father finally spoke, "A cart?"

Li Ming nodded calmly. He could have gotten it done earlier, but he almost forgot. The main reason was that he had finished moving the coal two days ago, and he had been thinking about taking a break for two days. Yesterday, he saw his father coming back with a bag of cabbage, and then he remembered it.

It is worth mentioning that at least half of it is cabbage stalks, and this was snatched back by Comrade Lao Li with great effort!

"It will be tonight. I was thinking that I would go outside and throw it in through the wall, and you guys would take it inside. The main thing is that there is Yan Fugui in the front yard. If we come in through the main gate, we will definitely not be able to hide it from this old guy." Li Ming said helplessly.

He could have thrown them directly from the space to his old house, but there was no way to explain it. There were a lot of things. Besides, he was planning to pick them up and send some to the neighbor next door.

Father Li thought about it and nodded, "Okay, but it will take a lot of time for our family. I trust you to leave it alone, but I'm afraid our old arms and legs can't handle it."

Mother Li rolled her eyes at Old Li and said, "Hmph! He's not as good as my own son!"

"How about I call the neighbor next door? Then we can give him half. Of course, he will pay for it. I think we have a lot of food at home, so why not..."

Before Father Li finished speaking, Mother Li nodded and agreed, "It's decided. Last time, the family helped us, so it's no problem for us to give them half this time. Of course, we still have a lot of cabbage and other things at home."

Li Ming was happy. This was a good feeling. He didn't need to say it out loud.

"Go call the neighbors next door over, and we'll discuss it. What time will it be on your end?"

"We'll be there a little after one in the middle of the night. I'll just climb out and you guys just need to meet us inside!" Li Ming said with a smile.

I don't know why, they didn't do anything illegal, but why did they treat it like a thief to get some vegetables to survive the winter in this courtyard? I don't think this would happen in any other courtyard!

After Li Ming finished speaking, he walked towards the opposite door, and after a while he came back with the three members of the Wu family.

"Thank you, Old Li! This is a great help!" Wu Qiangguo handed Comrade Li Weiguo a cigarette and said with a smile.

The new courtyard house we moved to this time is really nice. Although many of the neighbors have mental problems, it is obvious that there is still one reliable neighbor, which is great!

"Well, what's the big deal? We are all neighbors!"

"But can you let Mingzi go out and throw it in by himself? It's not easy for him to do this job alone!" Old comrade Wu Qiangguo is still very considerate of young people.

Li Weiguo glanced at his son. Although he looked a little thinner, some things cannot be judged based on first impression alone!

"How about you think about the last time this kid slapped He Yuzhu?"

Wu Qiangguo shut up and said no more. Anyway, he couldn't slap He Yuzhu away with just one slap.

Ms. Wu Fang and Ms. Liu Lanfang laughed after hearing this, and then started chatting about women's topics, such as how to marinate these vegetables quietly so as not to be discovered by someone.

Wu Xuanxuan sat next to Li Ming and Li Rui, just listening with a smile.

It was not until around three o'clock in the afternoon that the two families finished talking about these things and dispersed.

At that time, these people would put a sack or bundle inside the courtyard wall to prop it up. When Li Ming threw it over from the other side of the wall, they would hold up the sack to catch it. They would catch it every time!

The two groups of people can take turns to work without any delay.

Not long after Wu Qiangguo and his family of three left, Wu Xuanxuan came in again, stuffed the money directly into Li Ming's hand, and without waiting for Li Ming to say anything, she walked out with her ponytail swinging.

Li Ming was stunned. The woman's movements were so smooth that he couldn't react.

He immediately handed the money to his mother, "I still have money to use, I'll hand this over!"

Mother Li is very satisfied with her son's awareness. At least it is much better than that of Comrade Lao Li. Just in terms of this awareness, Comrade Lao Li can't even catch up with him.

Li Ming simply ignored his father's murderous look and shrugged his shoulders. There was nothing he could do. His mother was the boss. If Li was not convinced, he could go to the Queen Mother to discuss it.

. . . . . .

At one o'clock in the middle of the night, Li Ming woke up from the bed on time, put on his clothes and walked outside. His small living room was already full of people.

Two groups were receiving the dishes, one group consisted of Lao Li and Lao Wu, and the other group consisted of the remaining four ladies. They were all waiting for Li Ming.

"Awake!" Comrade Li Weiguo said with a smile. His son is really amazing. As a father, he doesn't need to worry about anything. Although he sometimes feels a bit redundant, who wouldn't want such a good son?

Just ask the Yan family across the street, hey, they dream about it!

"Let's go."

The group quietly came to the back of Li's old house. There was a gap of more than one meter. It was just right for them to hold up the sacks. At least it was no problem to hide one person.

Li Ming watched them pack up, then rubbed his hands, and climbed over the wall and left the hospital in a very relaxed and cool manner, amid the confused but shocked looks of several people.

Li Ming came out of the courtyard and looked around. Seeing no one there, he relaxed a little. He picked up a lump of earth and threw it into the courtyard wall. This was their secret signal. When they saw the lump of earth, they could start preparing to pick the vegetables.

"Damn it, living in this courtyard is so fucking difficult! Every day is just like a fucking drill!" Li Ming muttered a few words, flipped his hand, and two cabbages appeared in his hand, and then he threw them!

Wu Qiangguo and Li Weiguo, who were separated by a wall, saw the bright cabbage and their eyes brightened up. They took the treasure steadily.

Then Li Ming threw vegetables continuously from outside the wall, and the two groups of people held sacks and waited inside to catch them until they became numb.

It was around two o'clock when Li Ming finally stopped. He estimated that there were more than a cart full of garbage, so he stopped.

"I'm really tired. My arms are suffering!" Li Ming laughed and flipped in from the outside again in the same way.

The aisle is now filled with cabbage, potatoes and radishes.

Chapter 449: Three Idiots Make a Big Trouble at the Street Office

The two families were each busy with their own vegetables, just like ants moving house, transporting them to their respective homes one by one.

That is to say, no one got up to go to the toilet in the middle of the night, otherwise they would be frightened to see this scene. The dogs took small but stealthy steps but shuttled back and forth in the front yard at a very fast frequency.

The two families finished their work at three o'clock and went home.

It was convenient for the Li family, as they could just put the things in the old house, but they couldn't just watch the Wu family busy themselves after they were done, right? So they joined the ant moving team and cleaned up together.

It wasn't until after three o'clock that we finished cleaning.

. . . . . .

The next day.

It was past ten in the morning when Li Ming finally woke up. He was overworked last night, so he decided to get up later today to be responsible for his health.

Subdistrict office.

Although Li Ming had just woken up at this time, the staff of the street office were still engaged in a war of words.

Led by the deaf old lady, accompanied by her two right-hand men, Yi Zhonghai and Aunt Yi, they had been talking with the street office officials in the office of the street office for a while.

Of course, it was mainly because Director Wang had gone out with some people to do some business, otherwise the fighting power of this deaf old lady would not be so strong.

Yi Zhonghai took a morning off from work at the steel rolling mill today to accompany the deaf old lady to do some work.

"You guys wait first. Director Wang hasn't come yet. Let her tell you when she comes." Seeing that the three people opposite him were unmoved by any persuasion, a certain staff member gave up the idea of ​​harassing them any further.

Anyway, it's disgusting, really disgusting! No matter how right or correct you are, I'm just an old lady who receives five guarantees, and I only believe in my side of the story!

Damn, this guy is not here to discuss things, he is here to cause trouble!

Seeing this, the deaf old lady snorted coldly and sat on a bench with the support of Yi Zhonghai and his wife, waiting for Director Wang to come back. Someone had already gone out to look for Director Wang.

The current situation is just short of shouting, "Hurry up to the Western Paradise to invite the Buddha!"

About half an hour later, Director Wang returned to the subdistrict office with a gloomy face, accompanied by several subdistrict office staff, including Li's mother, but everyone looked unhappy.

As soon as Director Wang entered the yard, he saw the three human-shaped things. An old man was sitting on a stool, and the other two were following him. Haha, they looked quite realistic!

"You three come to the office, and everyone else go back to your seats first." Director Wang shouted at the three old men with a dark face, then said something to his colleagues behind him and walked towards the director's office on his own.

Yi Zhonghai was trying to greet Director Wang with a smile on his face, but he choked before he even opened his mouth.

The deaf old lady looked unhappy, but she still stood up with the help of Yi Zhonghai, and the three of them walked towards the director's office.

"Dong dong dong."

"Come in."

When Yi Zhonghai and the other two heard Director Wang speak, they pushed the door open and went in. Director Wang ignored them. Instead, he boiled a pot of water for himself and tidied the table.

She knew very well how to deal with this kind of person. He was just a coffin-filled idiot who was making a fuss by relying on his age. Simple!

It's normal that other colleagues in the street office can't deal with this kind of thing, but if you really let her, a director of a street office, deal with it, it's obvious that the coffin filling will definitely not gain any benefit.

"Tell me, I heard that you, old lady, have some opinions about the things given to the five-guarantee households this winter?" Director Wang said with a smile, looking at the deaf old lady.

The deaf old lady nodded. "That's right. In previous years, the five-guarantee households gave a lot of things this winter. Even last year, there was not much. But why is it so little this year? How can I, an old lady, live like this?"

The deaf old lady's voice was hoarse, like the cry of an old crow. It seemed that she had been arguing with the officials of the street office and had not been able to get a sip of water to drink.

Director Wang then gave his colleagues a thumbs up with satisfaction, saying, "Well done!"

"Old lady, this is the regulation from above. You know that this year is not a good year. Now that you know, just overcome it." Director Wang said with a smile, "After all, you are not the only one who has five guarantees in the city. Others will have no problem."

The deaf old lady choked. She could act like a spoiled brat to other street office staff, but this method would be useless against the street office director in front of her.

But she still wants to fight for it. She is an old lady with a good appetite, but now she eats almost half less. How can she survive?

"Director Wang, do I, an old lady, still have the strength to work? Others can find ways to overcome their problems, but it's not easy for an old lady like me who is deaf and lame to overcome it!"

Director Wang glanced at you. It's not like she's never seen you scolding and beating people before. How come you were so good at it then? Why can't you do it now?

"Alright, just get over it. I see that you still have Yi Zhonghai's family to help you, old lady. It's good for neighbors to help each other."

The old lady opened her mouth to argue, but Director Wang didn't give her a chance. "Of course, if you have any objections, you can appeal to the higher authorities. If they approve your decision, that's fine. But our subdistrict office doesn't have the resources or the power to do so."

The old lady looked unhappy and wanted to speak but didn't dare to. She didn't expect that she would return empty-handed again this time at the street office. Last time it was because of He Yuzhu's matter, and this time it was because of her own matter, and she failed!

"Director Wang, the old lady is indeed in difficulty. Can you make an exception for her?" Yi Zhonghai had not intended to speak, but when he saw the deaf old lady's eyes, he knew that he was still thinking about the old lady's house, so he had no choice but to speak.

Director Wang really couldn't help laughing this time. "Yi Zhonghai, let's not talk about why the old lady asked the country to make an exception. Let me ask you, if one person got an exception, what about the others? Could it be that you, Yi Zhonghai, paid for the food?"

"Think before you speak. Okay, go back!" Director Wang looked at Yi Zhonghai with displeasure and drove him away. She didn't want to talk to a fool. He spoke without thinking. Did you think your head was pinched by a fitter?

After Yi Zhonghai was scolded, his expression was a copy and paste of the deaf old lady's. The two of them looked exactly like the same person. It was Aunt Yi who reacted first and pulled the two people with ugly expressions out of the office.

Director Wang saw these three idiots who didn't know where they were leaving the street office and laughed, "What the hell is this!"

Chapter 450 The trouble caused by Liu Haizhong

"Do you really think you are more reasonable as you get older?"

"There are all kinds of things, and they even make exceptions. I don't know if Yi Zhonghai has lost his mind."

Even though they had already left the subdistrict office, Director Wang was still muttering that the actions of the three of them today had really opened her eyes!

After Director Wang finished muttering in the office, he walked out of the office and joined the street office's army in attacking the three of them.

No matter what level Director Wang is, as long as they are women, they all feel the same about this matter.

Paoju Hutong.

Li Ming had nothing to do, so he strolled over to the Liu brothers. The Yan brothers did not follow Li Ming. They basically went there every day during the day and also went out to work part-time at night.

Li Ming was sitting in the yard listening to what the Liu brothers said. As soon as he arrived today, he felt that the Liu brothers looked a little unfriendly. They did not hide it. To be precise, the four of them were still discussing at that time and planned to go to the courtyard in the evening to tell Li Ming. Unexpectedly, he came directly over.

"I understand what you said. Liu Haizhong saw you two selling food on the black market, and he wanted you to sell him food at a low price, right?"

The Liu brothers nodded, the sorrow on their faces was so intense that it could not be dispelled. Although they hid it very well, they were Liu Haizhong's biological sons after all. It was very unlikely that Liu Haizhong would not recognize them if he met them.

Li Ming lit a cigarette and tapped his fingers on the stone table. "He also threatened you that if you don't do this, he will report you?"

"Yes, brother, it was both of our fault this time. I'm really sorry!" Liu Guangtian apologized in a crying voice.

The two brothers felt that they were sorry for Li Ming. He had given them a way to survive and make money, but they were about to cut off their own path.

It's okay to cut off their own power, they accepted it, but it will definitely have an impact on Li Ming, which is why the two brothers are sad.