Chapter 73 He Shengnan scolds Jia Dongxu

Ignoring the other children's crying, Wang Mengde went straight to pay the money.

The prices at Si Lian were much higher than those at other barbershops in Beijing. A haircut for men cost 80 cents each, and a perm for women cost 2.20 yuan.

Fortunately, my two younger brothers were just children, and it only cost fifty cents in total for the two of them.

When I went out, I saw that the line outside had stretched to the alley next to me, and most of the people in it were women in their twenties and thirties, all of whom came to experience perming and dyeing their hair.

In the queue, there were adults holding their children. When they saw Wang Yuanchao and Wang Weiguo's "Red Boy" hairstyle, their eyes lit up and they were all preparing to give their children the same hairstyle.

After getting the bicycles, the two younger brothers still sat one in front and one behind, but this time they switched positions.

When they got home, Ran Xiaomei was busy preparing dinner. When she saw them coming back, she complained, "Meng De, where were you guys so early in the morning? You're not back until lunch time."

As she was talking, after seeing clearly the hairstyles of Wang Yuanchao and Wang Weiguo, her face changed and she wanted to scold Wang Mengde for secretly getting a haircut outside without her knowledge.

This is really not knowing how to live. Even if the child's haircut is cheap, it will cost a lot of money for two people.

Just then, He Shengnan heard the noise and slowly walked out from the living room. When she saw the hairstyles of her two younger brothers, she couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Aiya, Yuan Chao and Wei Guo's new haircuts look really nice. They won't be prone to lice in the future."

Seeing her daughter-in-law say this, Ran Xiaomei swallowed the scolding words that were about to come out of her mouth. She glared at her eldest son fiercely and then began to prepare dinner.

night.

Wang Mengde and He Shengnan walked back from Yu'er Hutong. Before they entered the Chuihua Gate, they heard Liu Haizhong's voice coming from the middle courtyard:
"This time our alley will be the first to bring running water into the courtyard, which is a great thing. From now on, we don't have to queue up at the entrance of the alley every day to carry water."

Then, Yan Bugui also spoke:
"That's right, and each courtyard will have a separate water meter installed. I asked the leader of the neighborhood committee and was told that the water fee will be charged at 1.3 cents per ton.

From now on, every household in our courtyard must use water economically. Fortunately, the pressurized well is still preserved, and we will still use the pressurized well for daily washing, but we will use tap water for cooking and drinking.

Also, for those who have children at home, tell them not to waste the tap water in the yard. I roughly estimated that after the water meter is installed, the water bill can be reduced a little compared to the previous 20 cents per household. "

After the two old men finished speaking, the other neighbors also started talking about it.

"That's right. Now that we have running water in our hospital, it will be much more convenient. We don't have to rush to line up early in the morning."

"Yes, especially in winter, when I have to wait in line for water, my nose starts to run because of the cold."

"Third uncle is right. We need to save water. When running water is available in the yard, I will remind my two boys that if they dare to waste water, they will be spanked with a feather duster."

At this time, Yan Bugui saw Wang Mengde entering the middle courtyard, and he shouted loudly:

"Meng De, you're back. I have two things to tell you."

"Uncle, what's the matter?" Wang Mengde stopped and replied with a smile, then turned to He Shengnan and said, "Shengnan, go back and rest first. I want to chat with Uncle."

"It's okay, I'm not tired. Let's go back together after you finish talking." He Shengnan held her stomach and whispered. "It's like this. Today, the staff of the grain store delivered the grain coupons to my house. Other households in the yard have collected them. Since you were not at home during the day, I temporarily left them with you. You can come with me to collect them later."

Yan Bugui pushed the frame of his glasses and said to him.

Since the food coupons were issued in October last year, the grain store staff personally distributed them to each household in the first two months.

Later, they found that this method was too time-consuming, so they changed the way. They selected one household in each courtyard and asked everyone to put their grain books in their house.

The staff of the grain store directly handed all the grain coupons for the entire courtyard this month to him, and wrote this month's collection information on each household's grain book, which would then be used by that household to distribute the food to the residents in the courtyard.

No. 95 Courtyard was chosen to house Yan Bugui’s family.

"Okay, thank you, uncle. When you go back later, please call me and I will go with you to get it." Wang Mengde thanked.

"Well, I'll call you later." Yan Bugui continued cheerfully, "The second thing is that today the leaders of the street and neighborhood committee came over. Starting next week, our street will uniformly start to connect tap water to the courtyard.

We discussed it this afternoon and decided to put the tap water in the middle courtyard, next to the water well, which will be more convenient for everyone."

"It's good to put it in the middle courtyard. The place here is big and the place outside is too small. It's inconvenient for everyone to squeeze together when cooking in the morning, noon and evening." Wang Mengde naturally had no objection to putting the tap water in the middle courtyard.

From now on, they can get water whenever they go out, which is much more convenient than before.

"By the way, we have also discussed the water fee. Regardless of adults or children, the fee will be shared equally per person. Do you have any objection?" When it comes to charging water fees per person, Yan Bugui's face turned bitter again.

His fourth child, Yan Jie Di, has been born. Together with the four children, there are six people in his family in total. The water bill this month is not small.

But there is no other way. If we still follow the previous regulations of the water company and ask each household to share the burden, many families in the yard will not be willing to do so, so in the end we can only calculate it based on the number of people.

"I have no objection to distributing it equally per person," Wang Mengde said readily.

After finishing talking about both things, he looked at He Shengnan beside him and found that she had a trace of fatigue on her face:
"Uncle, if there's nothing else, I'll go home first."

Silly Zhu, who was sitting behind the crowd, saw him turn around and leave, and asked in a very inattentive manner: "Meng De, why have you been leaving early and coming back late recently? I can't see you every day. What have you been doing?"

In the past half month, Wang Mengde was busy at the Children's Hospital early in the morning and went to his parents' home in the evening. He usually came home late, so Sha Zhu hadn't seen him for several days.

Before Wang Mengde could answer, Jia Dongxu at the side could not help but laugh at him: "Where else can he go? He can't stay in the Steel Mill Workers' Hospital any longer. I guess he went to some small hospital to find a job."

Yesterday, he heard from a co-worker in the workshop that Dr. Wang Mengde from the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Workers' Hospital had passed away. In his opinion, the steel mill was such a good unit, and his departure must be the reason why he could not continue to work there, so he could not help but say something.

He Shengnan, who was walking home, got angry instantly after hearing his words. She turned around and said loudly with her eyebrows raised:
"Some people have been eating the food of dogs for so many years. My Meng De treated his son's illness a few days ago, but now he repays kindness with hatred and spreads rumors. Is he still a human being? His conscience has been eaten by dogs."

"Also, Meng De was transferred this time because he made great contributions in preventing the outbreak of the epidemic. He was accepted as a student by a famous Chinese medicine master, and he was transferred to his teacher's unit."

(End of this chapter)