Chapter 12

Emptying out Zhang Cui’s family at night

Zhang Cui’s house was a standard 70s apartment building style.

The kitchen was in the hallway, the toilet was in the public toilet downstairs, and there were only three rooms.

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

Zhang Cui’s mother-in-law slept in the small bedroom, she usually squeezed in with her granddaughter Hu Xiaolian.

The small bedroom was very small, there was only a bed, a small wardrobe, and a table.

Tie Lanyan first opened the bedside table, it was messy inside, socks, biscuits, and peanut shells were mixed together.

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

Collected!

The wardrobe was mostly Hu Xiaolian’s clothes, they were gaudy.

Tie Lanyan didn’t like them, but she still collected the clothes and the wardrobe together, she also collected the table, leaving nothing behind.

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

Adhering to the principle of emptying everything, Tie Lanyan finally collected the bed as well.

The old lady had a smelly sock stuffed in her mouth, she lay pitifully on the floor.

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

There was a lock on the bedside table, Tie Lanyan used brute force to open it, inside was another tin biscuit box.

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

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

This was probably all of Zhang Cui’s family’s belongings.

Zhang Cui was the only one who worked in the family, it was not easy to save so much money.

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

Tie Lanyan tapped on the walls and under the bed, she found a small secret compartment.

Inside the small compartment, there were actually two small yellow croakers and a few pure gold rings.

This was real gold! She quickly collected it!

Tie Lanyan was overjoyed, she searched around again, but found nothing.

Finally, she angrily emptied the whole room.

The bed, wardrobe, thermos, enamel cup, washbasin, and even the urinal… she didn’t want the urinal, but she wanted everything else.

After emptying the bedroom, Tie Lanyan went to the living room.

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

Seeing the household register, Tie Lanyan had a plan in mind.

Since Hu Xiaolian liked to sign people up for the countryside so much, she had to give her a taste of her own medicine.

The lower level of the cabinet contained pots and pans, as well as a few jin of rice and a few steamed buns, and a bottle of malt extract, collected!

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

Finally, she even took the small coal stove used for burning coal briquettes in the hallway outside the door.

After all the hustle and bustle, except for the old lady and the urinal, the whole house was empty.

Tie Lanyan looked at her handiwork and was very satisfied.

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

After leaving Zhang Cui’s house, Tie Lanyan quickly went home.

After washing up in the space, she ate an apple while counting her spoils from tonight.

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

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

There were also some household kitchen supplies, the useful ones were put in the kitchen of the bamboo house, the useless ones were also burned.

After organizing these, Tie Lanyan counted the money in the biscuit boxes.

There was over 500 yuan, two small yellow croakers, a few pure gold rings, and a few ration coupons that were about to expire.

Hey, what a coincidence!

She had spent over 500 yuan during the day, and she earned it back at night!

Tie Lanyan shook the full biscuit box and smiled, showing eight teeth.

Tie Lanyan was very satisfied with the whole day’s trip.

After peeling and eating a few oranges, she went to bed with a full stomach.

She slept until dawn.

“Today is a new day, let’s go!”

Tie Lanyan sat up with a spring in her step, she was full of energy.

Breakfast was luxurious today.

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

Tie Lanyan ate until she was moved to tears, she was so happy.

After breakfast, Tie Lanyan practiced a set of boxing in the space.

Although she had the fighting power, her physical body had to keep up.

These past two days, she had been eating well and richly, Tie Lanyan felt that she was full of energy, she practiced for a full hour before stopping.

Then she killed the hen she bought yesterday, preparing to make a pot of old hen soup for lunch.

After finishing all this, Tie Lanyan hurriedly took a fighting shower, changed clothes, and went out.

She had two important things to do today.

The first was to sign Hu Xiaolian up for the countryside.

The second was to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy seeds, and also to spend those ration coupons that were about to expire.

She arrived at the neighborhood office, Tie Lanyan, disguised as an old lady, asked the staff:

“Comrade, where is the hardest place to go to the countryside?

“My niece is insisting on going to the countryside to build a new world, she has to go to the most difficult place, I can’t stop her, oh!”

The staff member looked at her in astonishment.

What? Did she hear that right?

It was 1975, many educated youths weren’t 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 a more relaxed place.

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

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

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

Now that someone had volunteered, she had to be proactive.

“Big sister, go to the border, it’s very hard there, it’s all sand all year round, it’s guaranteed to satisfy your niece.”

Tie Lanyan’s heart lit up.

Hu Xiaolian loved to dress up, if she had to eat sand every day, she would probably go crazy.

“Okay, then sign her up for the border, which train is the fastest, please sign her up.”

Tie Lanyan took out Hu’s family’s household register and handed it over.

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

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

This month’s quota was met!

Staff member: “Big sister, here’s the 45 yuan subsidy for going to the countryside, please pass it on to your niece.

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

Tie Lanyan smiled: “Okay, thank you.”

She got 45 yuan for free, awesome!

Hu Xiaolian’s life was going to be miserable.

The worse she was, the happier she was.

Who told this family to try to trick her and eat her alive, they deserved it!

Tie Lanyan was very petty.

Anyone who provoked her, she would tear a piece of flesh off them to get revenge.

You have to be ruthless to live a better life!