Since coming back from that big courtyard, Zhou Jiao has never left the military compound again. Every day, I am not chatting with the newly met little sisters in the compound, watching movies, playing chess games, and cooking a few new dishes.

Zhang Guoqing has often been taken out by his father-in-law recently, sometimes pulled over by the old men in the compound to drink and listen to ideological classes, and he has to brag with Fang Fei and his buddies at night.

The life in the compound is very good.

Seeing that Chinese New Year's Eve was approaching in a few days, the couple learned that more than 40 free markets had been opened in seven districts of the capital since the second half of last year, and they were secretly happy that they had just come to catch up with the good time.

Considering that the couple was going back to the Northeast after the New Year, the couple decided to go to the largest ladder free market in the capital, buy some inventory, and smuggle some things to store at home by the way.

At four o'clock in the morning, Zhang Guoqing and his wife handed over the child to Aunt Chen. After leaving the compound, I directly hired a carriage to inquire about the ladder free market.

On the adjacent road outside the Tiantai Free Market, there are small vendors selling New Year paintings, baskets, roasted new dried fruits, and toys, and the market is divided into four parts: groceries, local products, vegetables, and chickens and ducks.

In addition to a small number of village vendors in the market, the most of them are farmers from other counties who produce and sell their own products. Now in the winter, all the farmers have come out to do business. In addition to chicken, duck, fish and shrimp, cabbage, green onions, garlic, ginger, dried chili peppers, vermicelli and other local products are available on the stalls of some uncles with Hebei accents.

Zhang Guoqing and the others first walked around the market. In addition to grain, it was found that there were many varieties of food. Compared with state-run vegetable shops, the free market is more convenient, with a complete variety, fresh ingredients, and bargaining.

Standing at the entrance of the market, there are many citizens coming and going, and you can also see a lot of carts parked in the remote part of the market, and there are people guarding the things on the cart on the side, and they keep receiving the goods sent by their families.

The two saw that as the sky brightened, more and more citizens entered. Looking at the sack in his hand, he immediately bought a few large bamboo baskets not far from the door, and carried the bamboo baskets to buy from the innermost. When I came to the stall selling eggs, there were already several people in front of me haggling for money.

Zhang Guoqing immediately asked Zhou Jiao to look at the goods in the bamboo basket, and he stepped forward to quietly discuss with the egg seller aunt. As for the price, after the beginning of spring, see how many eggs are left?

Zhang Guoqing moved the bamboo basket and put it next to the stall and asked Zhou Jiao to stay here. He hurried to a short distance with his sack and snapped up the purchase.

Zhou Jiao saw that her aunt was good at talking, so she asked her what other markets were around and whether there were any markets. The egg seller aunt and her man followed the villagers in the middle of the night to drive the carriage over, except for her man, there were river fish and river shrimp that were not sold, and she was fine.

She was in a mood to talk about the markets and bazaars she knew, and she was very sensitive to where to sell what to sell, and what to sell. When Zhang Guoqing comes back again, Zhou Jiao already understands the ** is not far from ten.

For example, the dried and fresh fruit wholesale market outside Yongping Gate in Beijing. The main varieties are seasonal fruits, such as: chestnuts from Beijing, Huairou apples, Shanxi pears, persimmons and black dates. The wholesale market's approach to the pricing of fruit is not a one-size-fits-all market, and prices are often inverted.

For example, the Tuodi in the Jingxi Mining Area is the original bazaar, and the Tuodi bazaar has a market every two days every month. The two markets of Dongba and Suncun in the eastern suburbs have a market on the 3rd, 7th and 10th of each month. Changxin and old factories have three days of wax on the 24th, 27th and 29th of the lunar month every year. The varieties sold in these bazaars are similar to those in the urban areas, with a few more local products with rural characteristics.

After Zhang Guoqing finished shopping, his enthusiastic aunt borrowed him a cart. Out of the market, Zhang Guoqing repacked and returned the cart. The couple found a carriage and returned to the compound not far away.

Zhou Jiao stayed where she was, and Zhang Guoqing went back with two sacks and pushed a bicycle to carry it. The couple carefully spent the winter like rats hiding things in the house.

After returning home, Zhou Jiao immediately began to deal with live chickens and ducks with Zhang Guoqing after feeding the children. This time, the most difficult thing is these living creatures, so that Zhou Xiaozheng and the two of them can often drink fresh chicken soup. Zhang Guoqing bought the chicken when he saw it this time, and stuffed it into a sack when he tied it. This will be afraid of the rooster crowing and he will move quickly. He killed, Aunt Chen and Zhou Jiao were just enough to wash.

Aunt Chen looked at the twenty or so old hens that had been cleaned up, and she was so hated that she just wanted to scold the two of them for being a loser. Especially when a few old hens still have small eggs in their stomachs, she is even more distressed.

Zhou Jiao saw that she couldn't bear to look at her, knowing that she was distressed, and said, "Don't feel distressed, it's all in the stomach." I'm not at home, so my dad must be busy and deal with a few mouthfuls. I'll pack it up and put it on the outside, and I'll bother you to stew it every week for them to drink. In the future, I will send you dry goods, don't be reluctant to use them. If you can eat it in my parents' stomach, you won't lose. I bought a lot of eggs this time, and I gave the duck eggs to the porridge after marinating them into salted duck eggs. The eggs were left for my parents to eat slowly, and my aunt remembered that my father liked boiled eggs. ”

Aunt Chen nodded. In the past few months, she has figured out the chief's dietary preferences. I know that the taste of the Zhou family is close to that of southerners, and they pay attention to diet nutrition and hygiene. Except for Lin Lishan, who gets up late, everyone else has to drink two cups of hot water before getting up, and they have to drink porridge when they come back from running. Especially Zhou Jiao's father and daughter must have a boiled egg in the morning.

For several days in a row, Zhou Jiao and Zhang Guoqing ran to the market and suburban markets every day. This time when she returned to Beijing, after cashing out the rent deposit certificate of the small courtyard, Zhou Jiao had sufficient funds on hand. She secretly planned to exchange cash for supplies. Because of the space, taking advantage of this rare opportunity, the two of them added a lot of materials unknowingly.

Crazy to buy one after another, Zhou Jiao and the others were worried that the movement was too big to attract attention, considering that they might have to go to S City, even if the prices were extremely low now, they could only stop.

Zhou Jiao and the others are not worried about financial problems, but they are afraid of attracting attention. Now she still has more than 5,000 cash in her hand, not to mention the $10,000 in cash.

When she returned to Beijing this time, Zhou Xiaozheng gave her Gu Ruyi the deposit certificate that she returned, and asked her to take out all of them and cancel her account. Zhou Xiaozheng personally took her to take out this cash in batches three times, and her father didn't want to keep it here after taking it out.

With the amazing shopping of the young couple, the Zhou family's warehouse was full. Zhou Xiaozheng had no dissent, and felt in his heart that the child had suffered from hunger and suffering in his early years, and he had no sense of security in his heart, and he had developed a habit of storing materials. This kind of misunderstanding made him, who loves children deeply, also have a great interest in the market economy. Many years later, he often laughed and said that his daughter was a lucky star.

The Zhou family changes its dishes every day, and the dried fruits are continuous, and the Cheng family, Cheng Yongxian brothers, Lin Liying, and their youngest sons are stationed in the Zhou family and resolutely do not leave. Even if Cheng and Lin bought a lot of New Year's goods after them, they couldn't shake their obsession with Zhou Jiao's cooking skills.

As they moved in, Zhou Jiao took the opportunity to gradually reduce her contact with Mrs. Lin. During this period of time, under the pretext of cultivating the feelings of grandparents and grandchildren, Mrs. Lin was full of tricks, whether it was an old piece of material or a few old cheongsams to give her, or she was pulled to visit the compound with a deep love for her grandchildren and grandchildren, and pulled her out to be a guest.

In the face of her stubborn summons, all kinds of intentional or unintentional temptations to show off, Zhou Jiao knew it and coped with it freely. Fortunately, Mrs. Cheng's resident in Zhou's house made Mrs. Lin have some scruples, and she didn't dare to step into Zhou's house at a step. If it weren't for Mrs. Lin's pretending to be a scoundrel, the Zhou family might have become her performance venue.

At the end of 57, the two brothers of the Gu family in the capital were torn apart, and a storm without warning was one after another, which made people take care of it.

Since ancient times, many people have fallen into the ground, and as the situation gets bigger and bigger, there are more and more people with intentions, and the truth is gradually approaching. From the quarrel between the two brothers and the children of the Gu family, it was revealed that the partial house owed 10,000 taels of gold to the main house, and there were reports from people with intentions one after another, and the Gu family and the partial house jointly conspired to kill the blood of the same clan to death. At the end of the 57th year, the big family of the Gu family in Jiangnan has become familiar to the world, and this big drama has also made the citizens of Beijing full of excitement.

Two days ago, after Gu Ruyi's eldest brother Gu Changqing was detained after following in the footsteps of his grandson, Mrs. Lin Gu Ruyi closed her door and cut off contact with her mother's family.

There are rumors outside, Zhou Xiaozheng's father and daughter have expected the result, and now they are as stable as Mount Tai, waiting for the last knife to fall. In the past, they are still patient and are waiting for the right time.

The day before the 23rd Chinese New Year's Eve, the two sisters Lin Xueli and Lin Xuezhen in the northwest took the lead in returning to Beijing for the New Year. Twenty-one-year-old Lin Xueli is like a wild boy, with short black hair and a military uniform, and her temperament is straightforward and rude. Seventeen-year-old Lin Xuezhen is innocent and lively, straightforward and quick-witted, this is their initial impression of Zhou Jiao.

The three sisters of the Lin family, compared to Lin Xuelin who pretended to be false, these two sisters have special hobbies and love all beautiful things, which undoubtedly makes Zhou Jiao more satisfied.

The sisters are good at livening up the atmosphere and communicating with people. Before the afternoon arrived, a large number of brothers and sisters in the compound had gathered at the Zhou family for dinner. plus the Cheng family, Cheng Yongxian's brothers, and Lin Liying's two sons, who have recently been stationed in the Zhou family. For a while, the Zhou family was very lively.

Zhou Xiaozheng hugged Ping An and pulled Lin Lishan to avoid Cheng's house early. The Zhou family did not have the presence of their elders, especially Zhou Xiaozheng, who they were afraid of, so that a group of people happily ran to the outside service club to bring wine back, and they kept laughing until the beginning of the movie in the compound before slowly leaving.

The next day, Zhang Guoqing and his wife drove their military cards together with the cousins of the same generation of Cheng and Lin to go to Dongfeng Market to brush mutton. The tarpaulin of the truck leaked everywhere, and the cold wind blew everyone in the cold winter to shrink their necks, but it still couldn't reduce the young people's playful and food-loving mood.

Zhang Guoqing spent more than five yuan to invite everyone to lunch, and after lunch, Lin Xuezhen, the third child, asked Lin Xuelin, the eldest who had already received a salary, to get a haircut. According to her words, when you receive a salary, you should treat yourself as an adult. She pulled Zhou Jiao, who was about to speak, and pinched her behind her back, and the distressed Zhang Guoqing hurriedly said that he had a treat, but was interrupted by the rude second Lin Xueli and rushed to the side. It made everyone laugh.

In the end, men and women were divided into two ways. Zhang Guoqing was dragged away by the Li ** brothers, who were bent on hanging firecrackers. He promised the two little ones last night to prepare enough firecrackers for the New Year, so that they could have a good time. After the two brothers Lin Dinghui and Cheng took the two little ones to buy them in Dong'an Market, a group of boys drove a truck to look for them.

The four girls went to the nearby Quadruple barbershop. hasn't cut her hair yet, Lin Xuezhen has already arranged an afternoon trip. She hurried back without her clothes, waiting to make a few clothes. She inquired, and her eldest uncle gave Zhou Jiao a lot of cloth tickets. Last night, she secretly asked Zhou Jiao for it. Now that she has a ticket in her hand and the money given by Mrs. Lin, she can't wait to visit the market, especially the Wangfujing Department Store that she has been thinking about for a long time.

Zhou Jiao knew that she liked high-end items, and she was not disgusted by this. Who doesn't love beauty? Last night, Lin Xuezhen kept touching her sheepskin jacket and couldn't put it down, but she didn't have any intention of dominating it. So as soon as she said she wanted a ticket, she gave it to the other party. It's just that she is still worried that this girl is too unrestrained in her pursuit of clothes.

Lin Xuezhen, who came back from the northwest, seemed to have to make up for the regret of not being in the capital for many years, pulling the three of them to sit on a human-powered tricycle and running through the four major shopping malls throughout the afternoon. In the end, when night fell, the interest was still there, and he was reluctant to go home.