Chapter 13 Clearing the Snow
Yu Zhiyuan came to the old lady's room and saw Lou Xiao'e playing with Qiaoqiao while the old lady was taking a nap on the kang.

"Qiaoqiao, have you finished playing? Your dad is here to pick you up."

Having said that, Lou Xiao'e stood up, said hello to the old lady and went home.

Yu Zhiyuan hurriedly said, "Sister Xiao'e, I need your help with something!"

"What's the matter?" Lou Xiao'e asked doubtfully.
"Do you have any Maotai liquor tickets? I'd like to exchange some."

"I don't have a ticket, but can I get you a few bottles of wine?"

"Can you give me a few bottles?"

Lou Xiao'e thought: "Are five bottles enough?"

"enough!"

Lou Xiao'e gestured to the number four and said, "I'll take you home tomorrow night."

Lou Xiao'e walked out of the old lady's house.

The old lady then asked, "Zhiyuan, why do you want such expensive wine?"

"I'm preparing gifts for the New Year. My brother-in-law still hasn't found a job."

Yu Zhiyuan thought that there was no need to give Moutai as a gift, it would be nice to stock up on this stuff.

"Come here, I have something to tell you." The old lady waved Yu Zhiyuan over.

Walking to the kang and sitting down, the old lady took out a few fine grain coupons and handed them to Yu Zhiyuan.

"Just give me some hot three-grain steamed buns in the morning and evening. His cooking is really dull."

As the old lady spoke, she fished out two wine tickets and half a pound of meat tickets from under her pillow and handed them over.

"Just take it and serve me well. I still have a few years to live."

"Ma'am, you are in good health."

After Yu Zhiyuan finished speaking, he took the ticket, said goodbye, and went home with his daughter in his arms.

I went to bed early and woke up in the middle of the night.

Yu Zhiyuan took a look at the flashlight and saw that it was four o'clock, so he got up, dressed warmly, packed his things and left the compound.

I rode my bike with a flashlight to Fangshan Reservoir, found a location and started working.

It was already daybreak when we returned to the compound. Fortunately, no one was checking the gate today.

During lunch, I told the canteen director that I would deliver fish in the evening.

When I got home from get off work in the afternoon, I packed my things and put them in the space. When I went out, I saw that it was snowing heavily. It was really cold!
Told Yang Xuemei.

After putting on a raincoat, he pushed the bike out of the compound and rode to Maoer Hutong to ask Old Man Zong for twenty carps, two chickens, a leg of lamb, and a hundred eggs. He promised to deliver them the next morning.

By the time we delivered all the fish to the factory, the snow was already above our ankles.

I felt more energetic after I got home, thanks to the firewood my father-in-law gave me, which was very durable.

The snow still hadn't stopped when I went out the next day. I climbed out of the yard, strolled to Maoer Hutong, and carried the things to Old Man Zong's house.

Before leaving, the old man handed Yu Zhiyuan two 25-gram small yellow croakers.

This was Yu Zhiyuan's first time collecting gold. He bit it with his teeth and only put it away after seeing the tooth marks.

The snow never stopped and I sold less than ten fish at the Pigeon Market.

It's snowing heavily and I don't want to go out.

I went to the state-owned restaurant and bought eight meat buns before rushing home.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, already above the ankles.

He entered the house, put down the buns, and quickly went to the ear room to find a piece of wood, and used a wooden stick and a nail to nail it into a T shape.

He threw the simple rake outside the yard, went to the middle yard, carried the ladder, went around to the back of his house, and set up the ladder.

He climbed up the ladder with a rake and raked the snow down bit by bit. He did not throw the rake back into the yard until he had raked all the snow on the roof of his house and the old lady's house. Then he carried the ladder back to the yard to rake the other half.

When the work was done, Yang Xuemei had already gotten up and was preparing breakfast.

As soon as I came down from the ladder, I heard Liu Haizhong talking.

"Zhiyuan, bring the ladder over here and help clear the snow off my roof."

Yu Zhiyuan replied directly after hearing this: "Second uncle, I'm busy making breakfast for my wife and the old lady. Come over and do it yourself." Liu Haizhong said, "You kid can't order you around anymore, right?"

After saying that, he turned around and went back home.

Then, a series of ghostly howling sounds were heard coming from the Liu family.

When Yu Zhiyuan returned to the backyard after washing his own urine pot, he found Liu Guangtian standing on a ladder with half of his face swollen, raking snow from the roof of his house.

Why is it only half a picture? Because Yu Zhiyuan can’t see that side.

When I entered the old lady's room, I heard her say, "What were you talking about with Liu Haizhong this morning? Why did you hit the child?"

"I had just finished raking the snow off our roof when the second uncle asked me to go over and rake his house. I said I was busy, so the second and third uncles of the Liu family got beaten up!"

"This Liu Haizhong is really going backwards as time goes by. He still dreams of being an official every day."

The old lady sighed as she spoke.

"Stay away from his house from now on. It's too messy and unpresentable."

"I understand, old lady. I'll go get you breakfast. I bought some meat buns today."

Yu Zhiyuan said this and walked out.

After breakfast, a group of people who worked in the steel rolling mill walked towards the factory in the wind and snow.

Take the task and get on the vise.

While Yu Zhiyuan was working, the snow outside stopped and the sun came out.

Just after lunch, at a command broadcast from the factory, more than 5,000 people in the factory took up their tools and started clearing the snow.

As the song "We Workers Have Power" was playing on the radio, the young men from Workshop 2 climbed onto the roof of the factory building and pushed the snow to the ground.

No one was lazy and no one complained.

Everyone shouted as they cleared the snow off the roof, then began to shovel the snow on the ground into carts, and then the workers trotted and pushed the snow into the small river outside the factory.

White mist was coming out of their mouths and white steam was coming out of their heads, but they never stopped working.

After cleaning the area near the workshop, they began to clear the snow in all public areas to the singing of "Unity is Strength".

No one was standing there giving orders, everyone was clearing the snow with the tools in their hands.

Occasionally someone would straighten up, light a cigarette and start getting busy again.

In two hours, all the snow in the entire factory area was cleared.

The workers of this era do not think about saving some energy for themselves, they are also willing to contribute to this era.

After the factory area was cleaned up, I heard on the radio that the snow-clearing campaign in the factory area was over.

A group of people wearing work clothes with the words "Red Star Steel Rolling Mill" on them walked out of the factory and began to clear the snow outside the factory.

After joining the people from Dongcheng District, the lively snow clearing activity was completed.

A group of people returned to the factory in a lively manner, and the factory leaders affirmed and encouraged the enthusiasm of the snow-clearing workers.

And I hope to continue to work hard and create greater success in future work!

Then announce the end of get off work.

It was only 4:30 when the group of people from the courtyards returned to the main courtyard, and then each courtyard began to organize the cleaning of the snow in the main courtyard.

After being busy until six o'clock, there was no more daylight in the entire courtyard.

The garbage in the corners was also cleaned out, and they returned home with laughter and joy.

Yu Zhiyuan just climbed out of the vegetable cellar holding a cabbage and two potatoes, and saw Hu Hanguang and Fan Changjun walking into the backyard side by side.

Looking at the cuts on Hu Hanguang’s face caused by the wind, you can tell how hard the lives of truck drivers were in that era.

Yu Zhiyuan handed the cabbage and potatoes to Fan Changjun and asked him to take them into the house. Then he turned around and went into the vegetable cellar, took out a chicken, two grass carps and a turtle from the cellar and returned to the house.

He called his daughter over: "Qiaoqiao, go to your uncle He's house in the middle courtyard and ask him to come home to cook. Also ask your aunt Yushui to come over if she's at home."

Qiaoqiao nodded and ran out of the house.

Ask them to pour themselves some water.

Yu Zhiyuan also told Yang Xuemei to go to the grocery store to see if there was any tofu left, and if so, to buy some more.

(End of this chapter)