Courtyard House: Passing through the Silly Pillar, Activating the Blessed Cave Heaven

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Others can finish their work easily, but I have to spend half a day working hard. It's really frustrating to compare yourself to others.

They moved the two baskets of eggs into the west wing and stored them properly, while the remaining eggs were temporarily stored in the cave.

It seems we need to speed up the sale of eggs quickly, otherwise it would be such a waste if so many eggs went bad.

The camellia oil trees on the mountain have finally blossomed, and it won't be long before the camellia oil can be harvested. All these years of hard work are finally going to pay off.

The rosewood tree has only grown to one meter tall. These things grow slowly by nature, so there's no use rushing it.

The bamboo planted earlier is growing at a frustratingly slow rate. It has been almost four years since it was planted in 1947, and it only started to sprout bamboo shoots in large numbers last year. There are only a little over a thousand bamboo shoots left.

It seems I'll have to transplant some myself so the whole mountain can be covered with a dense bamboo forest as soon as possible.

After finishing a fragrant braised chicken, He Yuzhu filled his stomach and pondered how many braised chickens he had eaten over the years.

He needed to practice martial arts, and he was also at the age where he was growing. Every day in the blessed land, he had to eat at least three roast chickens to avoid going hungry.

If it weren't for his huge appetite, he probably would have several thousand chickens at home by now.

On his days off, He Yuzhu would go back to his home in Nanluoguxiang as usual.

Before even entering the courtyard, Jia Zhangshi's loud voice drifted over from afar: "You lot are really unlucky, missing out on such a good thing as land distribution! When I first heard that land was going to be distributed to the people, I immediately moved my household registration back to my parents' home, and in the end, I really did get five mu of land."

Now that my brother is farming the land, I can get 400 catties of grain every year without having to work, and I won't have to worry about food for my family! The land has all been distributed now, so it's too late for you to regret it.

"When I get married in the future, I'll have to find a wife from the countryside; at least that way I'll have an extra source of food."

He Yuzhu almost burst out laughing when he heard Jia Zhangshi's smug boasting.

Right now, she seems to have gotten a great deal, but in a few years, when urban residency is linked to food coupons, she'll have her day.

When he first read the novel, he found it strange that Jia Zhangshi, who had lived in Beijing for more than ten years, had not been able to obtain an urban household registration after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Now he knew the reason for the problem.

Thinking about it this way, it makes sense that Jia Dongxu would marry Qin Huairu, who has a rural household registration.

Although Qin Huairu was pretty, Jia Dongxu's family was also quite well-off—a family that could afford a sewing machine in 1951 couldn't be poor, could they? It's probably because Jia Zhangshi thought that most girls in the city didn't have jobs, so it would be better to marry a girl from the countryside, at least she could get the harvest from a few acres of land for free.

He Yuzhu had to admit that Jia Zhangshi's plan was truly shrewd.

If it weren't for the significant policy changes that followed, this tactic could have yielded substantial benefits.

Unfortunately, man proposes, God disposes. Going against the tide of the times and making reckless moves is just like the tragedies that people often talk about in later generations: in 1911 he was castrated to become a eunuch, in 1949 he went to join the bald-headed leader, in 2000 he learned to repair pagers, and in 2021 he bought a pre-sale apartment in Evergrande—each one of which was "promising".

He Yuzhu glanced at Jia Zhangshi, who was looking smug in the crowd, shook his head inwardly, and then turned and walked towards his own home.