The Life of a Son-in-Law in a Courtyard House

This person concealed the truth from both superiors and subordinates.

Let Stone Village take the lead and be a model.

They misreported production output and delivered far more grain than required.

When the disaster actually struck, he was arrested.

There was really no grain in the commune or the county.

The old team leader could no longer find the leader they had saved who was no longer in the county.

This plunged Stone Village into crisis.

Fortunately, the old captain wasn't that stupid, but he hadn't learned how to say no.

Being manipulated by others, you have no choice but to accept it.

The people from that commune must have misled the old team leader; they'll definitely say it was the order from higher up.

We shouldn't go to the leaders; we should just do our jobs well.

As a result, things went wrong, and he was arrested.

As a result, the newly appointed commune leaders were unable to provide relief because there was no food available.

This created a vicious cycle.

Perhaps the new commune leaders misled the old team leader, since the former team leader had sided with the other side.

They would rather die than save him.

We don't know if there's anything else going on here.

However, the villagers were the most unlucky ones.

Yang Dalin looked at the time and saw that it was getting late, it was already past 4:30 and almost 5 o'clock, so he prepared to leave and said: "Old Captain, once bitten, twice shy. In the future, don't let those who don't know anything about farming command those of you who do."

Your village has a lot of stones, so let's set up a quarrying team in the name of the village collective.

Go to the wealthy villages further east from the mountains and ask them if they need houses built. Transport stones for them, lay foundations, and build walls.

It'll at least provide some extra income.

This way, they can not only remove the stones from the ground, but also exchange them for food.

Do this as a collective.

No one can find any dirt on you.

After all, bricks are hard to buy when they're building houses, so isn't it good to have stones?

"A stone house is definitely more sturdy than a brick house."

"Okay, okay, thank you for the idea, Comrade Yang. We'll get started right away."

Yang Dalin was preparing to say goodbye and leave.

An old man, not much younger than the old team leader, came out from the direction of the village.

A large group of villagers followed behind him.

He was also holding a piece of paper in his hand.

The man approached the old captain and said, "Captain, the grain has been checked and the IOU has been written."

Everyone in the village except you has put their handprint on it.

The old captain took the note, glanced at it, and said, "Alright, old man, give me the inkpad, I'll put my fingerprint on it too."

Comrade Xiao Yang, please leave your address so we can keep the IOU. Our village thanks you for saving our lives.

We, the people of Stone Village, keep our word and will definitely return the grain.

Leave your address.

We'll pay it off in installments over the years.

Yang Dalin hadn't originally intended to ask for a refund, but now that he was surrounded, he had no choice but to leave an address.

If things go wrong, we might not be able to leave.

Alright, looking at these villagers who are determined to return the grain.

Yang Dalin remembered that Captain Jing had said they were a convoy from the provincial capital.

Captain Jing must have deliberately kept their origin from Beijing to maintain secrecy.

Then I'll just leave an address in the provincial capital.

Yang Dalin was not familiar with the address of the capital city of Hebei Province.

He wrote about Yang Dalin, a member of the freight transport team at the Hebei provincial capital railway freight station.

I've already told the old captain my full name, so it's not appropriate to make up another one.

Just leave any address.

Yang Dalin never expected that a few years later, the old team leader would actually personally take the grain to the provincial capital's railway freight station.

They couldn't find him, and then the wind picked up, making it impossible for them to search for him for fear of causing trouble. By the time they finally found him, he had already changed his mind.

Yang Dalin bid farewell to the trustworthy captain, pocketed the IOU, and quickly returned to the vicinity of the convoy.

We're almost near the convoy's camp.

Yang Dalin carried a wild goat on his back and a bag of cornmeal in his hand.

That evening, the team members gave away all the dry rations they had brought.

I wanted to treat everyone to a nice breakfast.

It was just past five o'clock, and the sky was beginning to lighten.

His colleagues from the security department on duty spotted him from afar.

The shout woke up the colleagues who were getting out of bed.

A colleague from the security department who was familiar with Yang Dalin quickly ran up and took Yang Dalin's things.

"Xiao Yang, did you hunt this in the mountains?"

"It looks like a sheep. Did you buy it?"

Yang Dalin rolled his eyes at him: "It is a sheep, and it looks like a sheep. This is a wild goat."

Everyone donated their dry rations yesterday, so I'm treating everyone to mutton and mutton soup.

Add some more cornbread.

I promise everyone will eat well.

Captain Jing didn't sleep well last night; Yang Dalin went into the mountains, and he was worried about him.

Seeing that Yang Dalin said he would be back at five o'clock, I returned at five o'clock.

He was also carrying a slaughtered sheep and a bag of cornmeal.

This solves everyone's breakfast problem.

Several team leaders gathered around, and Team Leader Jing patted Yang Dalin on the shoulder: "Good lad, you brought back so many."

Everyone, lend a hand and stew half of the mutton into mutton soup.

We made cornbread and everyone had a hearty breakfast.

And then we set off again.

Upon hearing this, everyone cheered.

The others happily went to help.

Several team leaders pulled Yang Dalin aside, and Team Leader Jing asked, "Has the grain been delivered to Shitou Village?"

"Yes, we went into the mountains and hunted two big wild boars and a wild goat. We traded the two big wild boars for a lot of coarse grains and sent them to Stone Village."

Hey, they even wrote an IOU and insist on paying it back.

"Just like you said, 'we're from the provincial capital,' so I wrote down a fake address from the provincial capital."

Captain Jing punched him in the chest: "Not bad, kid, you've got a strong sense of secrecy."

"Are you willing to give up that food?"

"There's nothing to be reluctant about; it's just a matter of wasting some bullets."

I didn't invest any money.

It's alright, it saved dozens of lives in a village.

This is doing a good deed.

"It's all part of our job."

"Alright, kid, no wonder your station chief, Captain Wang, and Captain Xiao all like you so much. You're generous and sophisticated."

By the way, I have a question: how did you get those two wild boars on the black market?

"Those two wild boars must weigh at least two or three hundred pounds, right?"

Yang Dalin looked at Captain Jing as if he were an idiot and said, "Captain Jing, let alone the fact that I can carry a 300-pound wild boar."

I hid the wild boars at the foot of the mountain, then ran to the county town, found the people at the black market, and told them I had two wild boars to trade.

Then the two of them, carrying food, went to the vicinity of Stone Village first, while the other two rode bicycles with me to the foot of the mountain, where we found wild boars.

"Let them carry it away themselves. I'm not really going to carry two wild boars to find them; I'd be exhausted."

"Haha, good job, you've got a way."

I knew it! I thought you could fly.

Do you really think the people in the black market will listen to you? Aren't you afraid they'll double-cross you?

Yang Dalin patted the AK on his body and said, "This is the truth, why are we afraid of them?"

"Give them three times the guts, and they'll dare to double-cross us!"

The AK has thirty bullets, the SKS has ten bullets, plus Yang Dalin's pistol.

Indeed, unless the other party is a fool, they wouldn't dare to make a move so easily.

This is truly the truth.