The ups and downs of life in the Siheyuan

The conversation between the two in the room was overheard by the third uncle who walked to the door.

He looked at the half bottle of liquor in his hand, hesitated for a moment, turned around and left with a light step.

"Old man, didn't you go to get some food? Why are you back? Motoko is not such a person!"

"Hey, that little bastard Si Zhu arranged for me. I'm too lazy to see him, and Yuan Zi also said that he would send some over later. I thought that if I stayed shamelessly, it would satisfy my greed.

If Yuanzi doesn’t give it away, you won’t have a chance to taste the oil and water.”

The third aunt looked at Yan Fugui, smiled slightly, then lowered her head to pick up the soles of her shoes.

Li Yuan came to the main room and He Yuyu was sitting on the bed in a daze.

He deliberately stepped harder. She heard the footsteps, looked up at Li Yuan, and then showed a bright smile.

"What's wrong with the rain? Are you worried?"

He moved a stool and sat next to He Yuyu, waiting for her answer.

After a while, He Yuyu glanced at the main room and whispered: "Brother Yuanzi, I don't want to talk now. I'll do my homework first."

Li Yuan knew that it was probably related to Silly Zhu, so he nodded slightly, took out a Chinese book from her schoolbag and started reading.

Looking at Yu Yu lowering his head to do his homework, he then turned to look outside the window. I'm thinking about when I can turn on the power, and the light will be much better by then.

"Don't write about the rain. The light is too bad. Write after the solar energy shines into the room after the meal."

He Yuyu turned to look outside the house and put down the pen in his hand obediently.

"Here you go." Li Yuan took out two pieces of White Rabbit toffee from the storage compartment and handed them to He Yuyu.

Her eyes immediately widened, and she reached out her hand to take it without any politeness, "Brother, where did you come from?"

Nowadays, candy is in short supply, and White Rabbit is even more of a luxury product. Every time it is available, it is internally digested. It is very difficult for ordinary people to buy it.

Only during the Chinese New Year, if you are lucky, can you buy some.

It is often given as a gift when visiting relatives, and few people in the family are willing to eat it.

So when He Yuyu saw the familiar yet unfamiliar toffee, his eyes were full of surprise and disbelief.

"Hey, our webmaster gave it to me. I ate two pieces and kept the rest for you."

"Brother Yuanzi, you are so kind!" He Yuyu seemed to have forgotten the unpleasantness just now. He peeled off a piece of candy wrapper, carefully bit off a small piece, and then squinted his eyes and smacked it.

Finally, the remaining sugar was rewrapped.

Next, Li Yuan acted as an audience, and He Yuyu explained to him what he had seen in the school.

"Cao Fang didn't do well in the exam and cried in the dormitory for half the night. We were also disturbed and couldn't sleep."

"Ma Shengli hasn't come to school for several days. I heard that his family has no money."

"Lu Jun's father is gone. He died while hunting down a spy. Our class still observed three minutes of silence."

"Teacher Liu heard that he would visit Ma Shengli's parents on weekends."

"Our class submitted the most red brick powder this time and got a little red flag."

. . . . . .

"The meal is ready," Silly Zhu's shout came in.

"Okay, it's time to eat." Li Yuan touched He Yuyu's head, stood up and walked to the main room.

"Hey, you guys eat first, and I'll give some to the old lady. Xiao Yuanzi, do you have any objection?"

Li Yuan smiled and said, "No objection."

He Yuyu said nothing and was busy preparing the dishes and chopsticks.

Silly Zhu was carrying a large bowl of chicken. Most of it was potatoes and vermicelli, but not much chicken. There was a big white steamed bun on top. It seems that Shazhu still knows how to measure.

Li Yuan stood up and took a big bowl, picked 6 pieces of chicken with chopsticks, then added some potatoes and cabbage, a small amount of vermicelli, and finally poured almost all the soup into the bowl.

Excluding the portions given away, there is enough left over to feed three people.

"You eat the rain first."

"it is good".

Looking at He Yuyu who was sitting there motionless, Li Yuan picked up a chicken leg and put it into her bowl, standing still and staring at her.

He Yuyu glanced at Li Yuan, narrowed his eyes, happily picked up the chicken legs with chopsticks, took a big bite, and said vaguely: "It's delicious!".

Li Yuan then put the big bowl into the bamboo basket, grabbed two steamed buns, put them into the bowl, put them into the basket together, and then covered the basket with a piece of cotton cloth.

The reason why Li Yuan treats the Yan family so much is that the two families got along well when his original parents were alive. Yan Fugui often tutored Li Yuan in his studies.

The second is the funeral of the original owner's parents. Yan Fugui and his two sons were busy from beginning to end.

Third, when most people later plotted against the original owner, Yan Fugui never did so and often defended him in the courtyard.

Therefore, the original owner occasionally brought some food to the Yan family.

No matter what Yan Fugui planned, he had to maintain this friendship for the original owner, otherwise the changes would be too great and Lao Yan would notice something unusual.

In the backyard, the deaf old lady's main house.

"Oh, old lady, I'm in a good mood. I'm hungry just from the smell. It's my good grandson Xiaojing." The deaf old lady looked happy and pampered.

"Hey, this is the chicken Li Yuan bought. When I said I would bring it to you, he didn't stumble at all and just let me take it away."

"You said there will be more tomorrow?"

"Hey, you can't hear me anymore. Eat slowly, I'll leave first." Silly Zhu helped the old lady look at the stove. When he found that the fire was raging, he turned and left the room.

The deaf old lady turned around and looked through the window at Shazhu who left in a hurry, and murmured to herself: "Li Yuan, He Yuyu, Jia's family, Shazhu..."

Yi Zhonghai's home in the middle school.

"Finally, that prodigal son has some conscience and knows how to bring food to the old lady. It would be great if he wasn't such a prodigal son. It would be great if he could help the Jia family.

Hey, it seems that he needs to be educated well in the future, and he cannot be allowed to let himself go."

"Lao Yi, I think so. Even though Li Yuan likes to eat and drink, he always sticks to his duty and doesn't come into contact with things he shouldn't come into contact with. He is still a good boy."

"This is because the atmosphere of our compound is good and can suppress those unhealthy tendencies. Li Yuan lives in our compound. If he lives in other compounds, it will be useless."

The eldest mother suppressed her laughter and said nothing.

Yi Zhonghai looked at her and said, "Okay, you can laugh if you want."

After saying that, I started to laugh out loud, and my aunt followed suit.

"Don't mention it. Although this kid is not very smart, it is still a very useful trick, but his reputation is not very good."

"You still have the nerve to say that I didn't see you uncles coming forward to defend me at that time." The eldest mother calmed down her smile.

"Hey, to put it nicely, we are the uncles in the compound. But with the elimination of enemy agents in the past few years, the uncle system in the compound has ceased to exist in name only.

It was fine in the past, but as a large number of farmers moved into cities and factories, the number of workers who needed to be supported increased several times compared with before. With this increase and decrease, supplies have become increasingly scarce in recent years.

The courtyard is also a small society. If we can't establish a family, the three of us can't do much. After all, from another perspective, it's a matter of mutual consent."

"I don't understand this, but I just feel sorry for that child."

“We have gone through so much, endured so many hardships, and faced death several times, which made me understand the truth that everything can only depend on ourselves.

If you can't do this, if you don't have the energy, it's useless to try hard. If you can't survive in the compound, what will you do outside?

Why! This is fate, and the next few years will be more difficult, and that will be the moment to test human nature."