Chapter 363 Preliminary Preparations
As Jia Dongxu said before,
If He Yuzhu reported this matter, they would lose a way to make a living.

But the die is cast.

All he could do now was to test He Yuzhu's reaction.

"Zhu Zi, you won't report us!"

He Yuzhu has always known that food coupons and meat coupons are too easy to hide, and the black market ticket transactions cannot be stopped at all.
Didn’t you see later that even a deaf old lady dared to go out and resell food coupons?

Not to mention that this black market transaction is actually quite beneficial to He Yuzhu himself. The remaining food, pork, and eggs in his space can also be used openly and without restriction under this excuse.

Of course, He Yuzhu would definitely not say this in front of so many neighbors, so as not to leave any handle.

"Uncle Yan, you're overthinking this.

A few days ago, our militia cooperated with the police station and the street office to crack down on the black market because we were following the orders of our superiors.
We in Beijing have now set up a joint defense team to specifically combat black market transactions.
Our militia will not interfere in the affairs of the black market in the future, and I will naturally not cross the line and take care of this matter.

But should I say it or not?

Although it's none of my business, you'd better be careful when you go to the black market to buy food coupons and meat coupons. If you get caught by the comrades of the joint defense team, it won't be easy to escape."

Hearing He Yuzhu say that he would not report them, Yan Bugui and Jia Zhangshi all breathed a sigh of relief.

As for whether or not they would be caught, and what would happen if they were caught,
There must be evidence to prove that they are involved in black market transactions, otherwise they will not allow anyone to wrongly accuse them.

At this time, Yi Zhonghai and the others finally saw the stairs on the apple tree behind He Yuzhu.
Then he asked in great surprise,
"Zhu Zi, I want to ask you why you put the stairs of the courtyard on the tree.
Now there are no apples on the tree again!"

Hearing this, He Yuzhu first looked at Yi Zhonghai, then turned back and patted the ladder on the tree, and said with a smile,
"Uncle, what are you talking about? Isn't it that the government is promoting the elimination of the four pests? I'm going to climb up and cut a few branches to make a slingshot, which I can use to shoot sparrows."

After He Yuzhu finished speaking, He Ying in He Daqing's arms also clapped his hands and looked at Yi Zhonghai with a smile.
"Grandpa, my father said he needed something to catch sparrows for me."

Looking at He Ying clapping his hands, Yi Zhonghai asked with a smile,

"Oh? Really? Then you must ask daddy to catch a few more sparrows for you, He Ying."

"Yeah, my dad is the best."

When Yi Zhonghai was talking to He Ying, Yan Bugui and Jia Zhangshi beside him thought of the rewards for promoting the elimination of the four pests in the street office.
They all looked at He Yuzhu and said,
"Zhu Zi, when you go up to cut the branches later, cut down two more. Then we can make some slingshots."

"Right, right, right, pillars. Since we have to cut them down, let's cut down a few more. Then we can all make slingshots and use them to shoot sparrows. We must completely eliminate these pests."

After hearing the two's requests and thinking about the current situation of the Siheyuan,
He Yuzhu refused without hesitation.
"Uncle Yan, there are so many people in our courtyard now. If every household asks me to take care of this tree branch, I won't be able to take care of it.

I think you should wait until I finish chopping and then come up and chop yourselves.
The stairs are here anyway.”

After He Yuzhu finished speaking, he didn't care about their reactions. He asked Li Qingshan and He Yushui to hold the stairs and quickly climb up the apple tree to cut off the easiest branches at the bottom.

After coming down, while collecting the materials, he looked at Yan Bugui and said,
"Uncle Yan, didn't you say you wanted to cut down the branches?

What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and call your brother Jiecheng over here!" Seeing He Yuzhu chopping trees without paying attention to him, Yan Bugui, who was still a little dazed, finally came to his senses after hearing the reminder. He first looked at the apple tree, then nodded immediately.

"Oh, right, right, right, pillars. Put the stairs there first. I'll go get Jie Cheng to get a knife and chop down the tree."

Then Jia Zhang also came to her senses and went home with the pork to call Jia Dongxu.

Soon the whole courtyard became lively, and everyone began to scramble for the stairs, wanting to go up early to see the lower branches.

The apple tree in the front yard was soon plucked to pieces.
The neighbors carried the stairs to the middle yard and the back yard. I guess no one will be able to eat the apples from the trees this year.

But this was a collective decision made by the neighbors, and had nothing to do with He Yuzhu.
He was trimming a branch with a knife.
First, cut off the excess parts, then peel off the bark, and then pick up sand and grind it finely.

Seeing the slingshot gradually taking shape in He Yuzhu's hands, Li Qingshan, who had been helping him, was the first to get excited and volunteered to say,
"Brother, you take the rain water and do it at home first.

I'll go to the supply and marketing cooperative outside to buy some rubber bands, and when the slingshot is ready, we'll go out and play."

Seeing that He Daqing, who had just said that he was going out to buy rubber bands, was now holding He Ying at the door of the east wing, watching the neighbors' excitement, and had no intention of going out for a while,
He Yuzhu smiled and agreed to Li Qingshan's request.

"Okay, go ahead.

By the way, if you want to buy more, buy more. Slingshots require a lot of rubber bands.

I'm afraid that every household in Beijing will make this thing, and the rubber bands in the supply and marketing cooperative will not be enough to sell, so we should buy some more in advance and store them."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

Seeing his uncle Li Qingshan running out of the courtyard, He Ying in He Daqing's arms also yelled for his mother to take him out to watch picture films.
In the arms of her grandfather He Daqing, she couldn't wait to open her arms and ask Lou Xiaoe to hug her.

Seeing this, He Daqing did not hand his eldest grandson over to his daughter-in-law, but carried He Ying out of the house.
"Let's go, grandson. Can I take you out to see the picture?"

"Okay, let's go out and look at the pictures."

With He Yuzhu's slingshot, scarecrow, gongs and drums, firecrackers, fly swatters, hay, mouse traps and other tools for eliminating the four pests,

Time slowly came to April,
The local crops grew large green leaves, and the vigorous nationwide campaign to eradicate the four pests officially began.

From the Beiping Municipal Government, to Dongcheng District, and then to Jiaodaokou Street, leaders at all levels were holding mobilization meetings, and the Siheyuan was naturally no exception.

At the meeting, Yi Zhonghai first conveyed the spirit of his superiors, and then said,
"Everyone, the higher-ups have been promoting the campaign to eliminate the four pests for a while now, and tomorrow is the official day to take action.
I hope everyone remembers the above propaganda.

flies, which spread dysentery, typhoid, cholera, hepatitis, and poliomyelitis;
Mosquitoes, which spread malaria, Japanese encephalitis, and filariasis;
Rats can spread a range of diseases including plague, schistosomiasis, leptospirosis, scrub typhus, murine typhus, and rat-bite fever;

And the sparrows would steal our already scarce food;
I hope everyone will be more proactive in eliminating these pests.

......"

(End of this chapter)