Siheyuan: Five mouths waiting for food at the beginning

In the second grade of junior high school, I have a headache when I wake up in the morning.

I drank some millet porridge and felt much better.

I was getting ready to go to my father-in-law's house, so I took two bottles of wine and drank them at noon. In the afternoon, my father-in-law's house was coming, and I had to bring too many things back, so it wasn't cost-effective.

Seeing that it was almost time, I prepared to take the bus. I would not ride a bike this time. I was exhausted last time when I took Qin Jingru with me.

Just as I was about to go out, Qin Huairu came and said that we should go back together. So we went together. There was only one bus in the morning anyway. If we didn't go together now, we could still meet on the bus later.

Then he heard some noise in the middle courtyard. Qin Huairu wanted to take something with her, but Jia Zhangshi refused and asked her to take all three children with her, go back to earn some New Year's money, and bring something with her when she came back. Zhao Shanhe was shocked. Jia Zhangshi was even more cunning than a Pixiu, and even more calculating than Yan Bugui.

After a while, Qin Huairu came to reunite with her three children. As expected, she came with nothing in her hands. I don’t know if Qin Huairu can give some money to her parents when she goes back, so there is no chance of giving gifts.

The three children also wished Zhao Shanhe a happy new year, "Happy New Year, uncle, happy new year, aunt". Fortunately, they did not say the rhyme taught by Sha Zhu, otherwise Zhao Shanhe would have to ask why he wanted to take the postgraduate entrance examination.

Then he looked at Zhao Shanhe eagerly. Zhao Shanhe had no choice but to give money to each of them. They were really relatives, and they wanted good luck during the Chinese New Year. Zhao Shanhe decided to have four children in the future to earn back the money, and it would be best if he could find a way to stay away from Qin Huairu.

Qin Huairu kept talking all the way to the station, and she also wanted Zhao Shanhe to tutor Banggeng with his homework. In the future, Banggeng would definitely repay Zhao Shanhe when he was admitted to university.

Go ahead and beg him. He even wants me to tutor this ungrateful bastard. Not to mention whether he can get into college, the chances of expecting anything in return from this ungrateful bastard are lower than winning the lottery.

When they arrived at the station, Qin Huairu deliberately fell behind and held Huaihua in her arms, "Shanhe, it's inconvenient for me to take money while I'm holding Huaihua. Can you buy it for me first and I'll give it to you later?" She wanted Zhao Shanhe to buy tickets for her. Life is full of calculations. Although a few cents is not much, Zhao Shanhe pretended not to hear and bought tickets for two people. Qin Huairu could buy it or not. She was always taking advantage of him, right?

Not many people got on the bus. After all, there are not many people marrying rural girls. It is estimated that there are more people coming to the city from the countryside in the morning.

As soon as Zhao Shanhe got in the car, he closed his eyes and sat in the inner part to avoid Qin Huairu's chattering in his ears.

After getting off the car, he went straight to his father-in-law's house and wished a happy new year to his father-in-law, mother-in-law and brother-in-law. His brother-in-law's children were quite polite and wished a happy new year to Zhao Shanhe. Zhao Shanhe gave them two yuan as a lucky money (one or two cents was normal at that time, and some people in rural areas would just give some melon seeds). Zhao Shanhe's two yuan was the ceiling.

At noon, all the good things from his father-in-law's house were on the table, and Zhao Shanhe opened the wine he had brought. Two bottles of wine for four people were really not much. These farmers liked to have a drink when they had nothing to do, and they could drink a lot.

The elder brother-in-law and the younger brother-in-law toasted Zhao Shanhe frequently, and even his father-in-law toasted him a few times. Zhao Shanhe was flattered.

Qin Jingru even went back to the village to show off to her old girlfriends that she had moved to the city, obtained an urban hukou, and became a worker. It was really like walking in the night in fine clothes if she did not show off her wealth when returning home.

After lunch, I asked my father-in-law to pack the luggage, but I didn't expect that he had already packed it before the New Year. My mother-in-law said that these people have been counting the days since you left, and they can't wait for the New Year. Qin Xiaobing didn't go to his father-in-law's house today, but went yesterday, because he was afraid that we would leave.

After a while, my father-in-law's eldest and second brothers came, namely Qin Huairu's father and the village party secretary, as well as their two sons, who were also Zhao Shanhe's brothers-in-law.

What they said was to see if they could help and bring their son along.

Qin Jingru said, "The quota for the steel mill is very valuable. One quota is at least 500 yuan on the black market. It's only because his family Shanhe treats her well that they gave the quota to her family. If it were anyone else, they would have sold it."

When the others heard this, they stopped talking. The family could not earn more than 500 yuan a year. Only then did Qin's father, mother and brother-in-law realize how much of a favor they had received from their son-in-law.

The eldest son of the Qin family felt even more jealous. He had married his daughter to the city, and the third son's family had brought so many benefits to the family, but his own daughter came to his house to beg for money. It would be better for her not to come. He had many grandchildren, so he didn't need those grandchildren.

These days people earned work points and our family had no land, so we just gave the keys to the village party secretary and asked him to look after the house.

Then they carried a lot of bags and took the bus back to their hometown with their families. Qin Huairu also carried a lot of bags. She really listened to Jia Zhangshi and brought some things back.

Originally, Zhao Shanhe wanted to help get some things, but the Qin family refused to let him, saying that there were not many things and they were not needed. As a result, everyone carried large and small bags, and was sweating profusely. Even the two children had several small bags hanging on their backs.

When we arrived in the city, we separated from Qin Huairu and moved to a rented courtyard with the Qin family. The two older ones, Qin's father and mother, lived in one room, the eldest brother-in-law lived in another room, and the younger brother-in-law lived alone in the smaller room.

Zhao Shanhe didn't tell Qin's father that the house belonged to him. He said he rented it and paid him the market price, which was 13. For four workers in the Qin family, 13 yuan in rent was not a big deal. Zhao Shanhe had to take the money and couldn't help them endlessly.

I told Qin's father that the landlord had gone to Shanghai, and that I could just pay the rent to him when I got my salary. I originally planned to borrow one month's living expenses from Qin's father, but Qin's father said that he had enough money to live on over the years.

Zhao Shanhe was not asked to clean the room. The Qin family thought everything about the house was good. The two children were very excited. There were not many furniture in the house, and Qin's father planned to make a few by himself after a while. Only then did Zhao Shanhe know that Qin's father was a carpenter.

I had originally planned to take Qin's father and his family out for dinner, but Qin's father refused to go. I couldn't let my son-in-law spend any more money, so I just brought some food from home and cooked some. After a few days, when I go to work and transfer my household registration, I can eat commercial grain.

Qin's father and his family were not eligible for a house, so they could only rent a house. They could have lived in a dormitory, but it was inconvenient with a family, and it was not realistic to leave Qin's mother and two children in the countryside.

After settling Qin's father, Zhao Shanhe went home. Lying in bed at night, Zhao Shanhe always felt that he had neglected something.

Zhao Shanhe woke up in the middle of the night and finally realized what he had neglected. He didn't go to pay New Year's greetings to his master, and even forgot about his master when he got married. His master had helped him a lot in the past.

The next morning, Zhao Shanhe hurriedly took Qin Jingru to pay New Year's greetings to his master.

Sure enough, the master still blamed Zhao Shanhe. His apprentice got married without informing him, the master. Zhao Shanhe found a reason to apologize to the master.

The master gave Qin Jingru a big red envelope of two hundred yuan. The main thing was that the master had no worries about food and drink, and his sons were all promising, so there was no point in keeping the money. Zhao Shanhe felt very guilty and decided to visit the master more often in the future.