Chapter 12: Emptying Zhang Cui’s Family at Night

Zhang Cui’s house is a typical 70s-style apartment building.

The kitchen is in the hallway, the toilet is downstairs in the public toilet, and there are only three rooms.

A large living room, a bedroom, and a small bedroom.

Zhang Cui’s grandmother sleeps in the small bedroom, usually squeezed in with her granddaughter Hu Xiaolian.

This small bedroom is small, with only a bed, a small wardrobe, and a table.

Iron Orchid first opened the bedside table, it was messy, socks, biscuits, and candy wrappers were mixed together.

The biscuit box contained some loose change, a total of 37 yuan and 85 cents, and a cotton cloth ticket.

Collected!

The wardrobe was mostly Hu Xiaolian’s clothes, gaudy and flashy.

Iron Orchid didn’t like them, but she still collected the clothes and the wardrobe directly, as well as the table, leaving nothing behind.

The small bedroom was left with only the old woman and the bed she was lying on, the room suddenly became much emptier.

Adhering to the principle of emptying everything, Iron Orchid finally collected the bed.

The old woman had a smelly sock stuffed in her mouth, lying pitifully on the floor.

Fortunately, she was in a coma now, otherwise she would have jumped up and shouted that there was a ghost.

Leaving the small bedroom, Iron Orchid went straight to Zhang Cui and Hu Zhuzi’s bedroom.

There was a lock on the bedside table, Iron Orchid used brute force to open it, and inside was also a tin biscuit box.

She opened it and took a look, wow, there was a lot of money.

She counted it, a total of 478 yuan and 32 cents, and a grain ticket, a cloth ticket, and a meat ticket.

This is probably all the belongings of Zhang Cui’s family.

Zhang Cui is the only one in the family who works, it’s not easy to save so much money.

If she knew that her savings from years of frugality were gone, she would probably spit blood, haha.

Iron Orchid tapped on the wall and under the bed, and found a small secret compartment.

Inside the small compartment were actually two small yellow croakers and several pure gold rings.

This is real gold! Quickly collect it!

Iron Orchid was overjoyed, she searched around again, but found nothing.

Finally, she could only angrily move everything out of the room.

The bed, wardrobe, thermos, enamel cup, washbasin, and even the urinal… the urinal was not taken, everything else was.

After emptying the bedroom, Iron Orchid went to the living room.

There was a cabinet in the living room, with the grain and oil book and the household registration book locked on top.

Seeing the household registration book, Iron Orchid had a plan in mind.

Since Hu Xiaolian likes to register people to go to the countryside so much, then she must give her a little payback.

The bottom of the cabinet contained pots and pans, as well as a few pounds of rice and a few steamed buns, a bottle of malt extract, collect!

The old sofa, dining table, a few chairs, even the calendar and mirror on the wall were all collected.

Finally, she also took the small stove for burning coal balls in the hallway outside.

After all this busy work, except for the old woman and the urinal, the whole house was empty.

Iron Orchid looked at her masterpiece, feeling very satisfied.

Humph, you guys were thinking about my property, now I’ve emptied your house, what are you going to do!

After leaving Zhang Cui’s house, Iron Orchid quickly returned home.

After washing up in the space, she ate an apple while counting her evening’s harvest.

The furniture in Zhang Cui’s house was all old, she first placed them in the bamboo house yard, and would see if she wanted to burn them as firewood later.

As for the clothes, the clean and half-new ones were kept for later use, the old ones were all burned.

There were also some daily kitchen items, the useful ones were put in the bamboo house kitchen, the useless ones were also burned.

After organizing these, Iron Orchid counted the money in the biscuit boxes.

There was over 500 yuan, two small yellow croakers, several pure gold rings, and a few expired tickets.

Hey, what a coincidence!

She lost over 500 yuan during the day, and earned it back at night!

Iron Orchid shook the full biscuit box, smiling, revealing eight teeth.

Hopefully, there will be more suckers like this, then she will be rich!

Iron Orchid was very satisfied with her day. After peeling and eating a few oranges, she contentedly went to sleep.

She slept until dawn.

“Today is a new day, let’s go!”

Iron Orchid sat up with a carp leap, full of energy.

Breakfast was luxurious today.

3 boiled eggs, 1 apple, 2 bananas, and 1 cup of malt milk.

Iron Orchid ate until her eyes were filled with tears, she was so happy.

After breakfast, Iron Orchid practiced a set of boxing in the space.

Although her fighting ability was there, her physical body had to keep up.

These past two days, she had been eating so much and so well, Iron Orchid felt full of energy, she exercised for a full hour before stopping.

Then she slaughtered the chicken she bought yesterday, preparing to stew a pot of old hen soup for lunch.

After finishing all this, Iron Orchid hurriedly took a combat shower, changed clothes and went out.

She had two important things to do today.

The first was to register Hu Xiaolian for going to the countryside.

The second was to buy seeds from the supply and marketing cooperative, and to spend those few expiring coupons.

Arriving at the street office, Iron Orchid, disguised as an old lady, asked the staff:

“Comrade, where is the most difficult place to go to the countryside?

My niece is clamoring to go to the countryside to build a new world, she insists on going to the most difficult place, I can’t stop her, sigh!”

The staff member looked at her in astonishment.

What? Did she hear wrong?

It was 1975 now, many educated youths were not as enthusiastic as before, they all knew how cruel it was to go to the countryside.

Even if they were assigned to the countryside now, everyone would prefer to go to an easier place.

This was the first time she had seen someone who was eager to suffer.

But she couldn’t say much about this, after all, it was their family’s business.

Besides, the quota for going to the countryside hadn’t been filled yet.

Now that someone had come to actively register, she had to be enthusiastic.

“Big sister, go to the border, the border is very hard, it’s all sand as far as the eye can see, I guarantee your niece will be satisfied.”

Iron Orchid chuckled in her heart.

Hu Xiaolian loved to preen, if she had to eat sand every day, she would probably collapse.

“Okay, then register for the border, which trip is the fastest, please register for me.”

Iron Orchid took out Hu’s family’s household register and handed it over.

The staff member twitched her mouth, did this person have a grudge against her niece, she was so eager.

She thought this in her heart, but her hands didn’t stop operating.

Come on, it was rare to have someone who was willing to go to the border, she had to arrange it.

This month’s quota was complete!

The staff member said: “Big sister, this is the subsidy for going to the countryside, 45 yuan, please give it to your niece.

The train is the day after tomorrow, someone will come to your door tomorrow to notify you about the train ticket for going to the countryside, remember to pay attention.”

Iron Orchid smiled: “Okay, thank you.”

She got 45 yuan for free, awesome!

Hu Xiaolian’s life would be miserable from now on.

The more miserable she was, the happier she was.

Who told this family to try to plot against her and eat her out of house and home, they deserved it!

Iron Orchid was very petty.

Anyone who provoked her, she would tear off a piece of flesh to retaliate.

People should be ruthless, that’s how you live better!

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