Courtyard House: Drunk and tipsy, the whole courtyard exposed at the start.

The document was posted in the form of a large-character poster in front of the house of the idiot in the Intermediate People's Court. It had the official seal of the street office and the details had to be made clear to everyone.

The first batch of members included:

The three people in the front yard were Yan Jiecheng from the Yan family (west wing), Qi Datou from the Qi family (two rooms in the east wing), and Zhong Xiaohu from the Zhong family (two rooms in the left side hall). The children of the other four families were either too young, had gone to work in other places, or were over 35 years old, so they did not participate (Peng Tao on the far left of the side hall, Zhang Hongqi on the right, Zhao Dezhu on the right, and Chang Laosan in the south room of the east wing).

Five people from the Intermediate People's Court: Liu Guangqi and You Hongjuan from the Liu family (two rooms on the north side of the west wing, originally Zhang Dabiao's house), Shazhu and He Yushui from the He family (the main house and the northeast wing), and Zhang Dabiao from the Zhang family (the side room and the small courtyard; Qin Jingru's household registration is not here, so she cannot join the association).

The five people in the backyard are: Xu Damou and Xu Xiaoling from the Xu family (west wing), Liu Guangtian from the Liu family (east wing), Tian Liugen from the Tian family (two northeast back rooms), and Fang Youcai from the Fang family (two northwest back rooms). They are all 42 years old, their children are in other places, so they have not joined the association.

So there are only 13 members in total, and Zhang Dabiao has observed all of them. They are all of good character. At least after he was stabbed and fell into the water, they all went to rescue him and were willing to do blood transfusions for him.

To know what kind of person someone is, you have to look at what they do.

The rest is an internal matter. Three workstations plus 900 yuan each, these households are easy to allocate.

Qi Datou started looking for temporary work after graduating from junior high school because his family needed a workstation. He "borrowed" a workstation from Zhang Dabiao, repaying Zhang Dabiao 10 yuan a month and donating 2 yuan to his housing provident fund until the 600 yuan for the workstation was paid off.

60 months? 5 years?

Zhang Dabiao didn't care anymore; this was equivalent to Da Tou donating 120 yuan of his housing provident fund, which was no small amount.

Zhong Xiaohu and Tian Liugen both graduated from high school this semester, and their grades were exceptionally poor. Knowing the difficulty of finding jobs, they directly "bought" workstations from Zhang Dabiao. They also pledged 50 yuan from their housing provident fund, which was the limit for both of them.

Both families had a little extra money. The Zhong family gave them 300 yuan plus two small yellow croakers, which was actually overpriced, but the Zhong family felt they got a good deal. Zhang Dabiao wanted to give them some more money, but they refused.

The Tian family had no money, but they had a bunch of broken antiques. They took the only remaining antiques in their family and "exchanged" their workstations with Zhang Dabiao. Zhang Dabiao was stunned. He didn't understand these things either.

However, Xu Damao came over to explain that these items were probably worth over 700 yuan in a state-run antique shop. They were inherited from the Tian family ancestors; when they were struggling financially, they sold a few items to the antique shop, and they'd all been authenticated, so they shouldn't be fake. It's just that the antique shop's asking price was very low, so the family couldn't bear to sell them all. Now, it's about workstations; these antiques aren't useful for anything. Da Biao, if you don't want them, I'll try to buy some?

Has it been authenticated?

Zhang Dabiao didn't care anymore and bought them all. By 2000, these things would be very valuable.

He didn't recognize the other trinkets or paintings, but there was a snuff bottle and a cricket cage. Those two items alone would be a huge windfall!

It's a mutual agreement, so let's just leave it at that!

This arrangement means that every family in the hospital now has a workspace. With jobs, life will naturally be easier in all aspects. In addition, with the wild vegetable and biscuit exchange from Zhang Dabiao's side, and the weekly team-up for digging wild vegetables and fishing, everyone's life won't be so difficult.

Relatively speaking, the residents of No. 95 Courtyard were considered to be living relatively well in this alley!

The housing provident fund has increased to 1000 yuan because the Zhong family and Tian family donated 50 yuan each, but no one applied for it because everyone has a quota and they can barely make ends meet. Those three families had already borrowed rice once before, and Yan Jiecheng helped them exchange it for coarse grains, so they still have some surplus grain at home.

So Zhang Dabiao had Yan Jiecheng and others form a team to use their provident fund to buy some cornmeal, as well as high-gluten flour and rice in Pigeon Market. After buying it, they would store it in the stable. If any family in the mutual aid association needed food, they could come and apply for it.

In addition, Yan Jiecheng was instructed to take refined rice and flour to Zhanggezhuang in the suburbs to exchange for coarse grains, such as cornmeal, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, and potatoes, since Pigeon City didn't have many coarse grains for sale, so they could only buy whatever was available.

Everyone was puzzled as to why Zhang Dabiao was so nervous. Once the job problem was solved, Da Tou would start working right away, and Hu Zi and Liu Gen would start working after graduating in July. Wouldn't that solve the livelihood problems of their families?

Zhang Dabiao rambled on, saying this was called being prepared for a rainy day.

But what she was really thinking was—[After the autumn harvest, food will be even scarcer. While we can still buy some now, we should buy as much as we can. The second half of the year will be truly dire!]

[And it will be about the same next year; things will only get better after the autumn harvest the year after.]

Let's just endure it.

However, having food in hand brings peace of mind, and the members of the mutual aid society were very happy to see the grain slowly accumulating in the stables.

This is their collective granary!

Moreover, fearing that the grain would spoil due to the high temperature in the stable, everyone volunteered to dig a cellar together. They built a 20-square-meter cellar, more than two meters high, specifically for storing grain.

As for Sha Zhu's cellar, it's a communal storage place for vegetables in the yard. To be honest, it's often vandalized, with cabbages being broken off all the time. Young people don't trust it.

Everyone knows who made the story, so it's best not to get entangled with them since there's no evidence.

Therefore, the supplies of the mutual aid society's "small group" must be properly stored in a separate cellar.

Zhang Dabiao was speechless. He hadn't done anything, yet his brothers and sisters had dug a cellar for him.

In the end, we found Master Lei and spent some money to have him reinforce the structure and do some moisture-proofing to avoid any problems.

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It's already early May, and Yan Jiekuang came to inform Zhang Dabiao that the school wants him to go back tomorrow to take the grade skipping exam.

Because of Yan Bugui's incident, the Ministry of Education is still paying close attention to Zhang Dabiao's application to skip a grade, and a written exam is still required.

However, because he has accumulated a lot of "honors" recently, after discussing with the school, they agreed that as long as he can get 60 points to pass, they would allow him to skip a grade and consider him to have passed.

The next morning, Zhang Dabiao and Yan Jiekuang arrived at the school together. 60 points? That's nothing.

Sports – Although Zhang Dabiao had just been discharged from the hospital, his physique was no joke; he broke the elementary school record – a perfect score of 100!

The leaders of the Education Bureau thought it was just a formality, but Zhang Dabiao's drawing skills amazed everyone, earning him a perfect score of 100!

Music—just kidding, thanks to the musical influence of later generations, we sing so well that even music teachers are impressed—100 points!

Productive labor – a few flaws, but still got 95 points;

Handicraft class – 100 points!

History – 85, Geography – 80, Nature – 90;

Arithmetic—how much more can elementary school students do in math? A perfect score of 100!

Chinese Language - 92 points;

Politics – 85 points.

With an excellent average score of 93.36, Zhang Dabiao successfully skipped directly to the 6th grade and became a proud 6th grader.

The school has no other requirements. Just attend classes normally for the remaining two months, don't skip classes, and graduate from elementary school smoothly.

However, due to his height, Zhang Dabiao still sat in the last row of the classroom.

Recently, his height has increased from 170cm to 174cm, making him a tall and strong man among elementary school students.

When I returned to the yard after school in the afternoon, something else happened there.