The Dream Fulfillment Master in the Courtyard

"Master, that guy surnamed Shen is already an idiot, why does the factory still care about him?"

Jia Dongxu was very dissatisfied with Yi Zhonghai's refusal.

In this world, people tend to forget you once you're gone.

No matter how prestigious Shen Zhiyu was in the security department before, she's now a fool. The factory leaders haven't come to visit her in the past two months. Otherwise, given the state of Shen Zhiyu's room, the people in their compound would have been in deep trouble long ago.

"You don't know anything!"

Yi Zhonghai was getting angry.

"Why aren't the factory leaders coming? It's because your mentor has influence with them!"

"It's not impossible for you to earn this money, but not this much!"

"If you ask Qin Huairu to help Xiao Shen wash clothes and tidy up the house, you'll get at most five yuan!"

"Master, how can we earn more? You know our family's situation. I'm the only one with a ration, and life is really tough for us right now!"

Jia Dongxu quickly tried to play the victim.

"Unless you have your wife take care of all three meals for Xiao Shen, then I can decide to give you ten yuan!"

"Alright, Master, it's settled then!"

Upon hearing that it was just cooking a meal, Jia Dongxu agreed without hesitation. After all, his family always had to cook, so it was just one more person's meal.

Moreover, Shen Zhiyu also has a quota, so in effect, their family has an extra person's quota.

Just give a fool some food so he won't starve!

At this moment, Jia Dongxu could already imagine how wonderful his family's life would be in the future.

As for whether Qin Huairu is tired or not?

How tiring can it be?

It's just tidying up the house and washing a couple more pieces of clothing.

Jia Dongxu couldn't wait to go home and announce the good news, but Yi Zhonghai stopped him.

"Don't rush home to tell me yet. I'll hold a hospital-wide meeting tonight!"

"As for the ten yuan a month, you absolutely can't tell anyone else, otherwise, if others get jealous, you won't be able to do all the work!"

"Master, I understand!"

Jia Dongxu left Yi Zhonghai's house with a smug look on his face. As he went out, he saw Shen Zhiyu standing on the porch like a fool. He chuckled smugly, but when Shen Zhiyu looked over, he chickened out and ran away in a flash.

"You bastard, just you wait!"

Shen Zhiyu is not like Sha Zhu, who would be happy to be schemed against. He is always vengeful.

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Although she had just eaten a meal not long ago, Shen Zhiyu still went to Yi Zhonghai's doorstep when it was time to eat.

Yi Zhonghai also didn't let Shen Zhiyu in, but instead gave him food and let him eat at the door.

Shen Zhiyu knew he was slovenly, but how did he get this slovenly appearance?

You bastards, you're all bullying idiots!

But this fool is actually a hero!

Shen Zhiyu was seething with anger. After finishing her meal, she put down her chopsticks and left.

He didn't know where the original fool had gone; perhaps he had switched timelines with him. He also didn't know if the fool in his own timeline had returned to normal.

But whatever, I can't control that!

After eating and drinking his fill and sleeping well during the day, Shen Zhiyu returned to his room and wondered if he should heat up the kang (a heated brick bed), but he had already checked and there was nothing useful in the room.

Logically, he should have had quite a few coal briquettes, but he didn't see a single one.

There's no need to ask, they were definitely split up.

What a bunch of beasts!

Shen Zhiyu grew angrier the more she thought about it. Didn't these people ever consider that an idiot might freeze to death?

Just as Shen Zhiyu was about to explode with anger, Yi Zhonghai came in holding a pair of fire tongs and a burning coal briquette, and put the coal briquette into the stove hole.

Goodness gracious, Yi Zhonghai, you've got guts!

That shows they've put in a lot of effort!

If someone were to say that Yi Zhonghai didn't heat the kang (a traditional heated bed) for the mentally challenged man, it would be surprising if they were to say that he still delivered coal briquettes to him every day.

You bastard, it has to be you who knows how to play the game!

In the story, no fool ever appears in the courtyard.

So either the idiot is gone, or he left. As for whether he recovered or was taken away, it's impossible to know.

However, Yi Zhonghai, as an eighth-grade fitter, was unremarkable in the steel rolling mill, and the factory leaders did not seem to particularly favor him, which must have been for a reason.

Yi Zhonghai pretended to stay in Shen Zhiyu's room for a while before leaving.

Not long after, Shen Zhiyu heard a hospital-wide meeting being held outside.

Yi Zhonghai first gave a stern lecture to Sha Zhu, who was absent, saying that Shen Zhiyu couldn't rely on Sha Zhu for her meals because he didn't get off work on time. Then he assigned the task to Qin Huairu.

"Dongxu, you don't have any objections to my arrangement, do you?"

The task was assigned to Qin Huairu, but the question was directed to Jia Dongxu, the man in charge.

How could Jia Dongxu possibly have any objections?

"Master, Comrade Shen was injured while protecting the state-owned assets of our steel rolling mill. It is our family's honor to take care of him!"

"Excellent, it's been all for nothing that I've always taught you to help each other as neighbors!"

So the job naturally fell to the Jia family. Of course, there was also the agreed-upon ten yuan per month, but this was not mentioned at the general meeting of the whole courtyard.

"There's another thing. Before, Xiao Shen's head wasn't feeling well, and he always made a mess of the room. So, to prevent him from ruining things, I cleaned up all the things in his room!"

"I heard today that Xiao Shen seems to be recovering a bit. Tomorrow, everyone help decorate Xiao Shen's room properly!"

"Of course, we can't let everyone's hard work go to waste. We'll have a whole courtyard gathering for the New Year, so everyone can have a good time!"

The implication was clear: they wanted to use Shen Zhiyu's money to feed and entertain the people in the courtyard, but they phrased it very politely on the surface.

This move naturally won praise from everyone.

Shen Zhiyu, the person directly involved, acted like an outsider.

After the college-wide meeting ended, Shen Zhiyu returned to her room in a daze, only to find that the room was actually much warmer.

Is a lump of coal really that effective?

Shen Zhiyu squatted down at the entrance of the kang (heated brick bed) and looked inside. Her lips twitched instantly. There was more than one coal briquette in the kang hole, which meant that there had been coal briquette in the kang hole yesterday, but for some reason, it hadn't burned completely.

Whether it was because Yi Zhonghai didn't come to light the coal briquettes or for some other reason, Shen Zhiyu still held a grudge against Yi Zhonghai.

Keep a small notebook for recording expenses!

January 22, 1959—no, it should be the 21st—Yi Zhonghai didn't heat the kang (heated brick bed). Also, Yi Zhonghai and Jia Dongxu were calculating; this was the 22nd!

I'll keep a small notebook to keep track of the expenses, and calculate them later, including the interest!

Once the kang (heated brick bed) is heated, sleeping becomes very comfortable.

However, my stomach is a little uncomfortable.

Damn, now I'm going to have to go outside and get my butt all cold!

How are we going to get through the days to come?

Do you want to have a chamber pot at home like other people do?

Oh well, I guess I'll just have to let my bottom get cold!

Given these conditions, when in Rome, do as the Romans do!

Shen Zhiyu rushed out of her house and headed straight for the public toilet.

Thankfully it's winter, all is quiet, and everything is frozen, otherwise, this smell would be unbearable!

He still needs to get back to normal as soon as possible, and he needs to find a new place to live with a separate bathroom. Otherwise, Shen Zhiyu feels that he really can't endure life in this era!