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

Everything was the same as before for Zhang Dabiao. The three girls cooked for him every day, and the side room had become their private kitchen.

The food processing plant can handle some of the materials he collects, and the comprehensive utilization plant can also consume a batch every month. In addition, there are the cream cakes and sour creams ordered by the steel rolling mill. Guangqi and Damao also buy meat and beef candy from him from time to time. Zhang Dabiao earns 150 a month, which is considered a high salary in those days.

I give Qin Jingru 20 yuan every month as her labor fee and personal savings, so she can save it and use it however she wants. I can't keep letting her work for free.

So Zhang Dabiao has nothing to do lately, just waiting to graduate from elementary school.

As for building a house, he had previously contributed 300 yuan to the mutual aid society's housing fund, and recently he has gradually earned some back, so he still has just over 1000 yuan left. It's still not enough to build three main rooms like Sha Zhu's.

So we're planning to wait until summer vacation to do it. We'll just knock down the side room and turn it into a big kitchen, and then do some simple renovations inside.

Then we entered the courtyard, which connected to the side rooms. There were three main rooms, the same size and layout as Sha Zhu's three rooms. Zhang Dabiao wanted to make them two stories, with a small attic on top, to increase the usable area. Then it connected to the 40-square-meter stable, making it a long, narrow house.

Zhang Dabiao had asked Director Wang in detail. Previously, Zhang Dabiao and his neighbors had misunderstood. After 58, the state issued specific implementation measures, which clarified that privately owned rental housing with more than 15 rooms (12-15 square meters per room) or a building area of ​​more than 225 square meters was included in the rental management.

That's for renters. Some long-term residents have inherited a lot of properties, and they can't live in all of them, so they rent them out.

But if you're building your own house, I still advise Zhang Dabiao not to build so many houses, lest there be any policy changes and you'll have trouble dealing with it. A big tree catches the wind, and these days having too many houses isn't a good thing.

Wouldn't it be great to build three or five rooms, and have a yard of several hundred square meters, to grow crops and raise fish?

Therefore, Zhang Dabiao's plan to build three more main rooms is not excessive. Even with the addition of the 40-square-meter stable, his living area is only 112.9 square meters, which is perfectly reasonable.

I also emphasized to Zhang Dabiao that although his house construction was legal and reasonable, everyone was struggling to get enough to eat, and he was still building a private house, and he should build it according to the style of a formal house...

Director Wang felt this wasn't a good time and that it was best to keep a low profile recently.

Zhang Dabiao nodded as well.

Since building a house wasn't the right time and Zhang Dabiao had nothing else to do, he started prisoner training—and incidentally set up a horizontal bar and a parallel bar in the small courtyard, so he could use them for exercise and also to air out his quilts, killing two birds with one stone.

It's always good to practice more, so you won't be caught off guard if someone tries to assassinate you next time.

So every morning you could see Zhang Dabiao running around in the small courtyard wearing this vest, and Sha Zhu would shake his head when he saw it.

"Is Da Biao going to switch careers and become an athlete?"

"His physique does offer him a way out."

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Recently, Mu Wanqing has been coming over after class, and she also studies in the stables of the small courtyard on weekends. Zhang Dabiao also explains math and physics to her from time to time. Zhang Dabiao has forgotten all his other subjects, but he still has some basic knowledge of these two.

He Yushui was a little unhappy with Mu Wanqing's actions, but Mu Wanqing's college entrance examination was just a few days away, so she didn't dare to be pretentious at this time.

Why did I come to Zhang Dabiao's place to study?

Let's keep quiet.

Zhang Dabiao also tried various ways to provide Mu Wanqing with meat, eggs, milk, ginseng slices, refreshing coffee, and mints.

Since we're going to take the exam, let's give it our all. We can worry about everything else after the exam.

Previously, Mu Wanqing had always been wary of receiving help from others, but after "stamping" her agreement with Zhang Dabiao last time, she became more open.

Anyway, I'll pay it back slowly in the future; at worst, I'll pay it back myself.

So He Yushui was even more furious. She had previously thought that Zhang Dabiao had given her stomach medicine and milk, and that she was the special one.

But compared to now...

While others were sipping coffee and sucking on ginseng slices, occupying Zhang Dabiao's stable to study, Zhang Dabiao still had to fawn over them and serve them...

And what about yourself?

He and Qin Jingru were cooking for the two of them in the kitchen?!

He Yushui really wanted to smash the pot and leave!

She asked Qin Jingru indirectly, "Jingru, you were sent from Qinjiatun to pay off Da Biao's debt, but Da Biao is now with Mu Wanqing like this, like this..."

Aren't you angry?

Qin Jingru shook her head indifferently: "I'm not angry. It doesn't matter who Brother Da Biao marries. I'm going to stick with him. I just want to be his mistress."

He Yushui's eyes widened in disbelief: "Qin Jingru, what are you saying?"

"Our country practices monogamy!"

Qin Jingru looked at He Yushui's ignorant expression and said, "In our village, before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the landlords had four or five concubines."

"And so I've heard that some people are even trying to send their daughters to landlords as concubines. What's their motive?"

"So that we can live a better life and have enough to eat."

"A woman marries a man for food and clothing. Big Brother Biao is capable; what's wrong with marrying a few more?"

"I'm sticking with Brother Da Biao no matter what."

"You haven't seen what's happening in our countryside. Some people starve to death, while others die from eating clay."

"My family had planned to marry me off for 10 yuan and 20 jin of cornmeal."

"I've heard that in some places, five kilograms of cornmeal are enough to take a famine-stricken woman back home as your wife."

"But what kind of life am I living now?"

"So I've thought it through. I don't care how many times Brother Da Biao marries, as long as he doesn't kick me out and there's a place for me in the family, I'll be his mistress and serve him for the rest of my life."

After saying that, as if she had made a decision, Qin Jingru smiled again and continued cooking with the spatula.

He Yushui was left staring blankly, completely at a loss, not knowing what to do.

Qin Jingru's idea...

Is it feudal or avant-garde?

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In early July, Zhang Dabiao proudly graduated from elementary school and became a junior high school student. It was truly an achievement!

To celebrate, a celebration party was held in the small courtyard. Da Mao, Guang Qi, Mu Wanqing, He Yushui, and others hosted it for him, which made Zhang Dabiao both angry and amused. He thought, "I'm not taking the college entrance exam anymore, it's too embarrassing to do this."

Two days later, Mu Wanqing and Tian Liugen were also going to take the college entrance examination.

Liu Gen's family were poor farmers, but he easily passed the certification exam and was able to take the college entrance exam.

But Mu Wanqing encountered a problem.

Her testimony was rejected.