Siheyuan: Craftsmen of a Great Country

After returning home, Jiang Chen lit the briquettes and burned the kang in the middle.

Now that her identity has changed, of course her daughter-in-law will take care of her.

Liu Yue's eyes sparkled: "Leader, I feel like I'm in a dream, everything is so unreal."

Jiang Chen waved: "Come on, come here!"

Liu Yue walked up to Jiang Chen blankly: "What are you doing?"

Jiang Chen grabbed his hand and pinched it gently: "Does it hurt?"

Liu Yue said aggrievedly: "It hurts!"

Jiang Chen said: "Do you still think it's a dream?"

Liu Yue shook her head: "No more."

Jiang Chen said: "By the way, you still call me the leader?"

Liu Yue said: "I'm used to it, but I think it's good to be called a leader. Whether it's at home or in the factory, you are my leader."

Jiang Chen said: "Then just follow along!"

It's just a title anyway, it doesn't matter what you call it.

In the future, it can be temporarily adjusted according to the actual situation.

Seeing that it was getting late, Jiang Chen said, "Your kang will be hot soon. Go wash up and go to bed early at night."

Liu Yue nodded: "Okay, leader!"

In the Jia family, Mrs. Jia Zhang put down her needle and thread, shook her hands, and muttered: "It's not cold when it snows, it's cold when it melts, but it freezes me to death."

"Huai Ru, go turn up the charcoal fire and burn the kang to sleep."

His family was reluctant to start burning the kang early like Jiang Chen did.

Usually, some charcoal fire is burned in the stove, and everyone warms up around the stove.

When it's time to go to bed, the fire will be increased to burn the kang.

Watching Qin Huairu add briquettes to the stove, Jia Zhang said proudly: "The briquettes my eldest grandson found are easy to use."

The tiger-headed and tiger-brained stick figure laughed happily when he heard grandma's praise: "Grandma, I'll get it again tomorrow. He has a lot of briquettes."

Mrs. Jia Zhang nodded: "Okay, okay, our eldest grandson is good."

"Look, our eldest grandson is only 6 years old and can bring things from home to support the family. Some people have nothing to do but eat."

Everyone knows who someone is.

It was only because Qin Huairu was pregnant and thinking about the birth of her second grandson that she didn't mention him by name.

Jia Dongxu sighed: "Mom, didn't I tell you that Jiang Chen is the leader of the factory now, so don't offend others."

"Why are you taking other people's briquettes again?"

Mrs. Jia Zhang snorted: "Light snow is afraid of wind, heavy snow is afraid of poverty. It snows so heavily so early this year, it's threatening people's lives."

"You have changed from a third-level worker to a second-level worker, and your salary has dropped by nearly 8 yuan. It is barely enough for our family to eat and drink every month, so there is still more money to buy carbon."

"Besides, no one saw where the Jiang boy got it from. These are the briquettes that our eldest grandson went to find himself."

When the matter of downgrade was mentioned, Jia Dongxu sighed.

I feel bad.

Originally, with this extra 8 yuan, my family's life would be much better, and they would not be so strapped.

Now it seems that Qin Huairu will give birth again in more than two months, Jia Zhang's medicine cannot be stopped, and the family has no savings. As the only man in the family, she feels a lot of pressure.

However, he knew that the Jia Zhang family had money. Once Qin Huairu gave birth to a second grandson, the Jia Zhang family would be able to take some of it out if they were happy.

"Cough cough!"

Bangge coughed twice.

Mrs. Jia Zhang was nervous for a while: "Dasun, are you just one of us? Could it be that you have a cold?"

Jia Dongxu's physical advantage trembled. He had to take medicine when he had a cold, and taking medicine required money.

Although it is not expensive, my family has no money now.

Then he realized something was wrong: "No, what does this smell like? It's so choking."

Jia Zhang also coughed twice and scolded: "Qin Huairu, when you added the briquettes, did you add the pepper?"

Qin Huairu was stunned and glanced at the briquettes: "No, besides, where do we get the chili peppers?"

This family is from the north, and they don’t have much preference for chili peppers, so they basically don’t have dried chili peppers at home.

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The briquettes burned quickly, and the smell of chili peppers in the room became stronger and stronger.

The whole family coughed together, with tears streaming down their faces, and they wanted to cough up their lungs.

This is a particularly spicy variety that Jiang Chen brought from his hometown. When it is burned by fire, the taste is indescribable.

When Jiang Chen was making it, he left a small gap to allow the smell inside to escape.

Pregnant women are inherently sensitive, so Qin Huairu couldn't bear it at first, so she mustered up the courage to pull the stick and go out, preparing to get some air under the eaves.

But the temperature outside was touching. Qin Huairu and Banggan shivered at the same time as soon as they opened the door.

After hesitating for a moment, she still coughed and walked out the door.

Jia Dongxu and Jia Zhang looked at each other and rushed out of the door.

The family scrambled to cough under the eaves again.

It was burning hot inside and freezing cold outside. The two worlds of ice and fire were really uncomfortable.

After a long while, Mrs. Jia Zhang finally regained her breath and said angrily: "Qin Huairu, cough, tell me clearly, where does this smell, cough, come from?"

Qin Huairu was also confused: "I don't know either."

He Yuzhu next door heard the commotion here, opened the door and saw a trembling and coughing family under the eaves, and his heart trembled.

Asked from afar: "Why do you go outside to cool off in such a cold weather?"

"Hey, you guys are here. How many days has it snowed and you got wind and cold?"

Mrs. Jia Zhang said angrily: "A dog can't spit out ivory from its mouth. If you don't speak, no one will think you are mute. You just got the cold, and your whole family got the cold."

Since He Yuzhu's lunch box was not given to them, Jia Zhang's hatred for He Yuzhu grew day by day, and she was not polite at all when she said angry words.

Qin Huairu explained; "I don't know what's going on, but the smell of chili peppers in the house is very choking."

He Yuzhu was stunned: "It smells like chili peppers. What are you doing at home? Are you burning chili peppers for fun?"

Qin Huairu shook her head: "I don't know where the smell comes from, but it's very big anyway."

Jia Zhang glared at Qin Huairu: "Why are you talking to him so much?"

He Yuzhu walked to Jia's house minding his own business, and was immediately choked by the strong smell of chili peppers that filled the room and coughed: "Oh, let me go, what are you doing? I thought cooking the spiciest Sichuan food was enough to choke people."

"You have set the chili pepper nest on fire. It is a hundred times more choking than when I cook."

Jia Zhang said angrily: "Go back to your bed and stop talking sarcastically here."

Seeing that nothing serious happened, He Yuzhu left angrily.

Jia Dongxu was thoughtful and glanced at the place where the briquettes were piled: "Sichuan food? Do you think it's a problem with the briquettes?"

"Let's not talk about whether we have chili peppers at home! Even if we do, if we accidentally drop one or two in, the taste will not be so strong. How many chili peppers are needed."

Since the problem is not with the chili peppers at home, there is only one possibility: there is a problem with the briquettes.

This is the simplest elimination method.

Mrs. Jia Zhang frowned: "The Jiang family is from Sichuan. I heard that people there eat chili peppers as food. He must have chili peppers."

"But how come his chili peppers are together with briquettes?"

Qin Huairu thought for a while and said, "Is it possible that Jiang Chen accidentally knocked over the chili noodles and sprinkled it on the briquettes, and then the stick just happened to take it back?"

Jia Dongxu nodded: "This is possible."

Mrs. Jia Zhang said angrily: "Maybe, his house is so big, he can't put some chili noodles anywhere, so he has to put it outside, right?"

"It's been snowing for the past two days, and you can't dry things out. Why do you think the chili noodles appear outside?"

Jia Dongxu scratched his head: "It seems so."

Jia Zhang said: "So, he did it on purpose. He probably found out that we had taken his briquettes and deliberately tampered with them."

"You said this bastard thing, there are so many briquettes piled there, what's wrong with using them? And it's such a bad move, it's unscrupulous."

"No, I have to go find him to settle the score."

Jia Dongxu quickly stopped him: "No, Jiang Chen is the leader of the factory, so we should not offend him easily. I have just been demoted. If he gives me little shoes to wear, life will be even more difficult."

Qin Huairu also advised: "If you come over now, aren't you taking the initiative to admit that our family took his briquettes?"

It was okay for Qin Huairu not to speak, but as soon as he did, Jia Zhang became furious: "You are afraid of that little beast, but I am not."

"Now people are bullying me. If I can bear it, I won't be able to shit on my head in the future."

When saying this, Mrs. Jia Zhang completely forgot that the root cause of this series of events was Banggeng stealing other people's briquettes.