Chapter 36 Brother
"What's the matter? Zhiqiang, you don't drink?" Xu Damao asked.

"Zhiqiang, you should pour some too. Now that you're working, you should learn to drink slowly." Yu Zhiyuan said.

After pouring the wine, Xu Damao raised his cup and said, "Thank you guys for this time. I didn't expect you to do it without asking any questions. Cheers."

Several people put down their glasses.

Xu Damao picked up his chopsticks and said, "Let's eat the food first. There's no rush to drink the wine. We have plenty of time in the courtyard. Qiaoqiao must be hungry."

After eating and drinking, Yu Zhiyuan told Qiaoqiao to go back to her mother.

Only a few people lit up their cigarettes.

"Zhiqiang, it's okay to drink a little, but forget about smoking. Brother-in-law has to quit smoking when he has time."

"It's better to go on a long journey. It won't be wrong for your brother-in-law to follow you." After saying that, Xu Damao raised his wine cup and clinked it with a few people.

"Zhiyuan, you have a quick mind. My brother's movie has been on the air for several years. I don't know how to improve it, and I don't know what to do. Can you give me some advice?"

During this period, Xu Damao estimated that the pressure on his children was not that great, so there were not so many romantic affairs.

At most, you just take a little more food and eat a few more bites.

"Shamao, you get food and benefits while going to the countryside, and you also get subsidies, isn't that good?"

"I say, Silly Zhu, you prepare this banquet and carry a big lunch box home every day. Do you think people are blind? Be careful that Uncle Three will order you."

Yu Zhiyuan nodded after hearing this. It seemed that he had to be more careful in the future. He could do it secretly, but being caught in the act would be another matter.

"Yes, Brother Zhuzi, you don't need that much, so you should take it. You can share the scraps with your apprentices and the kitchen helpers, and they will also appreciate you."

Sha Zhu nodded after hearing this.

"Hey, Zhiyuan, you haven't given me any advice yet!"

"Brother Damao, are you really asking me to say this?"

"Just say it."

"First of all, it's a good thing that you only fined him in the courtyard this time and didn't report it to the street office or the police station." Yu Zhiyuan said and drank a glass of wine.

Xu Damao quickly poured it over: "I know, if it was exposed, I would have been finished long ago."

Yu Zhiyuan shook his head: "It's not worth just a shabby bicycle ticket."

"Isn't this the benefit?" Xu Damao wondered.

Yu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "After this incident, everyone in the compound knows that you can get bicycle tickets. What about other things? Who doesn't need something? In the future, everyone in the compound will come to you to make exchanges. Don't sneak into the village and shoot. It's best to do it outside the compound."

"Oh, I really underestimated this. Great!" Sha Zhu slapped his head.

Xu Damao quickly raised his wine cup.

"As for your progress? You belong to the Propaganda Department, right?"

Xu Damao nodded.

"Propaganda? You often go to the countryside to show movies. You should write down and express the spirit and energy of the peasants in production through articles. Send the manuscript to the newspaper. If one or two of your articles are selected, what do you think the factory leaders will think?"

Xu Damao looked at Yu Zhiyuan and said nothing, then raised his wine cup: "I've finally understood what enlightenment means. Thanks, Zhiyuan, if this is done, I'll provide you with wine for half a year. Good wine!"

They drank until the moon was at its highest point in the sky before returning home.

Is there really such a big conflict between Sha Zhu and Xu Damao?

Is it true that every time the two of them had a conflict, Yi Zhonghai always took the side, causing Xu Damao to strongly backlash? Xu Damao is not a bad guy in the complete sense of the word.

It's just a personal way of survival.

The day passed as Yu Zhiyuan worked hard and trained new employees, until Sunday!
Early in the morning, I took my daughter to chop chicken food, feed the chickens, clean the chicken coop, and put chicken manure into cement bags.

Chicken manure, don’t take it lightly.

I beat the tomatoes with a small fork, took a thick wooden stick and put them on a rack, while explaining to my daughter why I was building the rack.

Use a small shovel to loosen the soil for the vegetables.

"Hey, you two are serving dishes here. I have to say that these vegetables of yours are really good."

"Good morning, Mr. Zhuzi."

"Good morning, my dear." "Why are you running to the backyard so early in the morning?" Yu Zhiyuan looked at Sha Zhu with disdain and said, "You little jerk, there's eye boogers in your eyes."

"What else can I do? I'm going to prepare some mud to build a stove. I'll need the leftover bricks from your house."

Yu Zhiyuan waved his hand: "Just use it."

After saying that, he went back to the house to clean up and prepare breakfast.

After breakfast, I saw Shazhu carrying two broken buckets and shoveling soil from the small garden in the front yard.

"Brother Zhuzi, how many buckets do you need?"

"Just ask for two more barrels."

After listening to this, Yu Zhiyuan took his own bucket to the pool in the middle courtyard to fetch water.

When I came back with the water, I heard Shazhu calling, "Shamao, come over and make the mud."

"Shazhu, are you sick? Just do it yourself, why are you making such a fuss?" After saying that, Xu Damao came over with a shovel to mix the mud.

After some time, the three men began to move bricks from the old lady's wall to the middle of the backyard.

During this time, the two of them never stopped talking.

The two of them were mixing mud, and Yu Zhiyuan took a brick and sat down and spoke: "Brother will give you two new words today! Do you want to listen?"

Both of them shut up and looked at Yu Zhiyuan, meaning, you say it.

"The word is pattern. The two of you should stop fighting in the yard all day. What else can you do except make people laugh at you?"

The two of them made good use of the mud, Sha Zhu built the stove and Xu Damao carried the mud.

"Expand your horizons and broaden your horizons. When you're off duty, Brother Zhuzi should often go downstairs or to the courtyard to host banquets. Take a good look at which village has a lot of pigs. When they are slaughtered in winter, wouldn't it be good for you to go and find out if there is any? If someone's courtyard is not doing well, and there is news of good wood or good toys, wouldn't it be good?"

Then he handed cigarettes to the two of them and lit them.

"Brother Damao often goes to the countryside to show movies. He carefully looks for villages with good fruit trees and delicious fruits. Wouldn't it be delicious to bring some back in the autumn for his wife to eat? If a family has a lot of peanuts and soybeans, he can bring some back and ask Brother Zhuzi to make some soybean paste or peanut paste. You can do this yourself. Be open-minded and news will be golden, my friend."

Hearing this, the two brothers were stunned.

"Those who have wives will soon have children. If you stay home more often, people will say you are a family man. What are you yelling about in the yard every day? See what happens when the three old men leave the yard!"

Yu Zhiyuan slapped his lips and said, "Bah, just pretend I didn't say that last sentence."

After Yu Zhiyuan finished speaking, the two men stopped talking.

After building the stove, Sha Zhu took two pieces of firewood from Yu Zhiyuan's house and used straw to ignite the two stoves to dry them out.

"Zhu Zi, let's have a drink together this afternoon, brothers?"

Sha Zhu looked at Xu Damao and said, "Drink something."

"That's right, it's like a revenge for the murder of your father, is it that serious?"

After saying that, Yu Zhiyuan went home carrying the bucket.

Many families in the compound did not have lunch today, and are waiting to have a big meal in the afternoon!

Yu Zhiyuan didn't dare to do that and quickly made lunch for Xuemei and his daughter.

After lunch, I just took a nap.

Then I heard Sha Zhu's loud voice outside: "This is all Uncle San has. Who can eat it?"

After hearing this, Yu Zhiyuan put on his shoes, washed his face and came out.

I saw three uncles, Liu Guangtian, Liu Guangfu, Yan Jiecheng, Yan Jiefang, Xu Damao, and Sha Zhu, arguing there.

Yu Zhiyuan looked over and saw a basket of wilted potatoes, a basket of cabbages, a large bundle of vermicelli, a dozen kilograms of grass carp in a large wooden basin, five kilograms of pork belly, and two bags of cornmeal.

Yu Zhiyuan grabbed a handful of cornmeal, smelled it, and then tasted it. Although it was a bit stale, it was still edible.

I turned around and saw two boxes of Erguotou.

He sighed and took out twenty yuan from his trouser pocket and gave it to Yang Zhiqiang.

(End of this chapter)