Siheyuan: The Idiot in Charge

Chapter 26 Qin Huairu returns to her parents’ home

"Er Donkey, you're back!"

Tieniu ran out of the house with a face of surprise, grabbed Jia Weidong's arm and entered the main room.

"Er Donkey, I didn't expect you to come back so soon. How are the ladies in the city treating you?" Aunt Zhou also asked with concern after coming out of the room.

"They are very good to me!" Jia Weidong said, putting down the bag in his hand.

"..."

At this time, Qin Huairu also took a donkey cart to the village where her mother's family lived - Qinjia Dongzhuang Village.

When she first arrived in Huairou, Qin Huairu did not listen to Jia Weidong's instructions and was reluctant to pay for a car. She carried two bags and walked to her parents' home.

It was not strenuous at first, but after walking for a while, I regretted not listening to Jia Weidong. I didn’t know what the brat had packed in the bags. The two bags must have weighed a hundred kilograms. Fortunately, I caught a ride with someone from a neighboring village halfway. Donkey cart, otherwise Qin Huairu would be paralyzed from exhaustion when he got home.

The donkey cart took Qin Huairu to the entrance of the village and left without asking Qin Huairu to pay for the carriage.

"Mom, I'm back"

Qin Huairu panted and carried two bags into her parents' yard, put down the bags, stood in front of the house and shouted.

"You're such a dead girl, you still know how to come back! Why are you coming back? Our whole family thinks you are dead!"

Qin's mother scolded Qin Huairu when she left the house. Her sister-in-law Sun Hongmei, who followed behind, had a bad look on her face.

"Mom, I..." Qin Huairu's eyes turned red and tears filled her face.

"Don't call me mom. I don't have a daughter like you. Why come back? Go back to where you came from!" Qin's mother continued to argue.

"Mom, please calm down. My second sister has come back after such a long journey, and she is already at the door of the house. Please let her come in and drink some water." Sister-in-law Sun Hongmei looked at the two bags Qin Huairu brought back and said.

"Humph!" Qin's mother turned around and went back to the house. She looked back and saw Qin Huairu standing stupidly in the yard, "Why are you still standing there, waiting for me to invite you into the house!"

The Qin family still didn't know about Jia Dongxu's death. Qin Huairu carried two bags into the house and told Qin's mother about her life in the city for the past five or six years. Qin's mother lamented the hardship of her daughter's life. The mother and daughter hugged each other and cried again!

"Second sister, is this too much for your family to bring back so many things?" When Qin Huairu took out the contents of the bag, her sister-in-law Sun Hongmei exclaimed.

One bag contained 50 kilograms of stick noodles, and the other bag contained a small bag of 30 kilograms of white flour, a cloth bag, and a piece of pork.

The cloth bag contains 6 meters of red cloth, 10 meters of blue cloth, and 10 meters of blue floral cloth. Everyone in the Qin family gets a lot from making a suit of clothes.

Qin Huairu didn't expect that there was so much cloth and meat in the bag. The brat was really spending money lavishly!

"You damn girl brought such a thing back. Will your mother-in-law's temperament make things difficult for you? Has your mother-in-law changed her temper?"

While sister-in-law Sun Hongmei was busy preparing lunch, Qin's mother took Qin Huairu back to her room. Mother and daughter whispered rude words to each other, and Qin's mother asked reproachfully.

"Mom, my mother-in-law doesn't know. It doesn't matter if she knows. She doesn't care about things now. My brother-in-law is in charge now. Even I didn't know what was in the bag when I came here. I thought it was white noodles or stick noodles. It’s all prepared by Weidong,”

"Brother-in-law?, Wei Dong?"

"Well, he is the second child of Dongxu's second uncle's family. He was adopted by my mother-in-law."

"Second child? How old is he? How is he treating you and the child?"

"Weidong is fifteen years old this year. My second uncle's family has many children. He was ill and burned out his brain when he was young, so his grandfather asked his second uncle to adopt him to my mother-in-law," Qin Huairu said.

<divclass="contentadv"> "Ah! Isn't that just a fool? Huairu! Aren't you going to serve their elders and younger ones, and you have another idiot to serve? When will you be able to stand out? Huh? Listen to mom, just don’t spend time at their house. Mom will ask Matchmaker Wang to tell you about her family again," Mother Qin said.

"Mom! It's not what you think. My mother-in-law brought Weidong back and went to the hospital. The doctor said that the problem was not serious. Now she takes Chinese medicine every day! Although this brat is young and has not yet reached adulthood, he is very good at making money and speaks and acts well. It's stylish, and it's very good to me and the children!" Qin Huairu said.

"Are you telling the truth?" Mother Qin didn't believe it.

"Mom, of course it's true. If I can't make money, where can I bring so many things back with me?"

"That's right. When you married into the Jia family, you didn't even give me such a large gift!"

"That's not all. He gave me fifty yuan when he put me on the bus and told me to keep some for home." Qin Huairu said, taking out five big black tens from his pocket and handing them to Qin's mother.

"Ah! This child is very sensible. Why didn't you bring him back with you?" Qin's mother said in surprise.

"The brat has also returned to his hometown in Changping. Speaking of being sensible, this brat is really sensible. He is much better than Dongxu. He is not as selfish as Dongxu. Since the brat came into our house, he has dealt with big and small things. The arrangements were well made, and everything he said and done was well-founded. In order for me and my children to become registered permanent residents in the capital in the future, all the jobs in the steel rolling mill were given to me."

"Ah! Huairu, you've gone to work and served an iron rice bowl?" Qin's mother was pleasantly surprised.

"Yeah" Qin Huairu nodded with a proud smile.

"Then how come your mother-in-law agreed and didn't object?"

"Of course my mother-in-law objected, but it was of no use. The brat had a good idea. He also talked about the minority obeying the majority. He convinced my mother-in-law in just a few words. Hey! Hey!"

"According to what you said, this kid is extraordinary! He is capable."

"No, now the brat is in charge of all the big and small things in the family. My mother-in-law also loves him very much. I also love him. The whole family listens to him."

"You talk like a brat, wouldn't you do the same in front of me?"

"It's okay, we are both fine!"

"You two? How are you? Ah, Huairu, don't you know...?"

"Mom, where are you thinking? The brat is still a child! I just wash his feet every day..." Qin Huairu said with a red face.

"Ah... sneeze... ah sneeze" Jia Weidong played at Tieniu's house for a while, rejected Aunt Zhou's offer to stay, went home for lunch, and sneezed a few times after leaving Tieniu's yard, "Are you going to catch a cold? Are there people still talking about me?" He didn't know that Qin Huairu and Qin's mother were chatting with him happily!

"Dad, take this money and look for some good ones to make up for your mother. After spring, repair the house at home and find a wife for your eldest brother. It's time for him to get married."

After the family had finished eating, Jia Weidong took out ten big black tens and handed them to Jia's father, then pushed his bicycle out of the yard.

"Second child, come back when you are free," Jia's mother Jia Chen said with red eyes after sending Jia Weidong outside the courtyard gate.

"Well, if there are any difficulties at home, ask my eldest brother to go to the city to find me. Mom, I'm going back," Jia Weidong said, getting on his bicycle and leaving.

Mother Jia stood outside the courtyard gate, silently watching Jia Weidong's leaving figure until she was out of sight, then sighed and returned to the house...