Siheyuan: Five mouths waiting for food at the beginning

It's another weekend

"Grandma, I'm hungry," Banggeng said in Jia Zhang's ear. Xiaodang and Huaihua also looked at Jia Zhang with their big round eyes.

"I'm hungry. Go ask your mother to cook. Grandma is hungry too," said Jia Zhang.

Huaihua asked, "Grandma, why doesn't Uncle Sha bring us lunch boxes? I haven't eaten Uncle Sha's lunch boxes for a long time." The three-year-old baby knew nothing. She just knew that Uncle Sha didn't bring us lunch boxes and she couldn't eat delicious food.

Bang Geng said, "Huaihua, and Xiaodang are not allowed to call him silly uncle. Call him silly Zhu from now on. He has been seduced away by a vixen. He is no longer the silly uncle who loved us."

Banggeng heard the name "fox spirit" when Jia Zhang was chatting with Qin Huairu. It has to be said that parents are the first teachers of their children, and Banggeng has learned it very well.

Jia Zhang didn't know how to explain to Huaihua, and she said nonsense, "Huaihua, Shazhu married a vixen, and the lunch box was eaten by the vixen. If you don't listen, the vixen will eat your children too."

"Grandma, I'll be obedient. I don't want to be eaten by a fox spirit," said little Huaihua weakly. She was obviously scared. She was afraid of being eaten by a fox spirit.

(My grandmother was the same when I was a child. If I didn’t sleep or eat well, she would scare me with the butcher. There was a butcher in our village who looked very fierce.)

Jia Zhang looked at Banggeng's face which had become thinner, and then touched her own belly which no longer had any fat, and felt helpless.

I can't help but think that since Yi Zhonghai, the backer of the Jia family, lost his status as the steward, his prestige is not as high as before. Basically no one listens to him. Sha Zhu is controlled by the newly married vixen (Ma Dongmei). The Jia family has two widows and young children. Without the help of Yi Zhonghai and Sha Zhu, their family is nothing. It's good enough not to be bullied. Jia Zhang herself is helpless. She is old and can only give Qin Huairu some slack.

Jia Zhang thought that she couldn't go on like this. If she continued to watch Qin Huairu so closely, the child would lack nutrition. She tried her best to turn a blind eye. Jia Dongxu was gone, and Qin Huairu had already had an IUD inserted.

Jia Zhang didn't even think about it. The family could live very well with Qin Huairu's salary and the money given by Yi Zhonghai, but the two widows were both Pi Xiu, who only took in money and never spent it out.

People in different eras have different ideological cognitions. People of Jia Zhang's generation can live a hard life, but they must save money. The same goes for many rural elderly people in the 21st century. We cannot judge others with st century ideas.

But what the Jia family did was definitely wrong. They sucked too much. If they had left a descendant like Liang Ladi, they probably wouldn't have been scolded so harshly. But from Qin Huairu's perspective, she just wanted her child to live a better life. What's wrong with leaving Sha Zhu's property to her own child?

We should look at problems dialectically. The essence of a problem is different when viewed from different angles. So I agree with this statement, but I do not support the Jia family's behavior.

The Jia family's behavior is very selfish, but this selfishness has been infinitely magnified. There were many gangsters in the Northeast at that time. They are essentially the same. Wasn't Sha Zhu a gangster in the beginning? It was a matter of mutual consent. Sha Zhu would have helped if he didn't covet Qin Huairu's body. Sha Zhu is really pitiful for having no purpose, but Sha Zhu wanted her body. There must be a cause for every effect, so Sha Zhu's ending is doomed, because Qin Huairu is not Liang Ladi. (This is just my personal opinion. If you don't like it, please don't criticize me. I am still young, so please be merciful.)

"Just wait, Silly Zhu, you've caused my family so much misery," Bang Geng thought to himself, this is the case of a favor being repaid with a grudge.

But Banggeng is not without his merits and is quite nice to the Jia family.

Banggeng took his two sisters out to play again and saw that there was no one at Shazhu's house. Shazhu had gone out with the kitchen utensils in the morning, probably to serve someone. No one knew where the fox spirit was doing.

"You two stand guard at the door. I'm going to Shazhu's house to see if there's anything delicious. Call me if anyone comes." Banggeng instructed his two sisters.

Banggeng successfully entered Shazhu's house. Shazhu never locked the door. Banggeng often came to Shazhu's house to get things before, so he was familiar with the place and successfully found the place where Shazhu kept things.

First, we found half a basket of eggs, about a dozen of them. Bang Geng was so hungry that he ate five of them raw. Only then did he feel better. (Eating raw eggs should be a memory from the 70s and 80s.)

Banggeng also knew that he couldn't delay as the fox spirit might come back at any time, so he hurried to look for supplies and found a small bag of white flour, half a bottle of sesame oil, and half a jar of corn flour. Banggeng knew that Shazhu had a habit of drinking, so he hid peanuts and wine under the bed.

Banggeng put peanuts, wine and half a bottle of sesame oil in the egg basket, picked up the basket with his left hand, picked up a small bag of flour in his right hand, and prepared to leave.

Bang Geng thought to himself, "Let mom fry some eggs and steam some big white flour buns. They will be so delicious. Then I will sell the peanuts and wine and exchange them for a bottle of soda. Last time, my classmate Xiao Qiang wanted to drink it, but he didn't let him drink it. He drank it once before and it was so delicious. I will buy two bottles, one for myself and one for my two sisters.

I will slowly empty the noodles in the jar next time. I have already emptied it all.” In this day and age, both adults and children knew how precious food was, and Banggeng didn’t want to miss any of it.

Bang Geng was about to leave when his two sisters ran in. "Brother, hurry up, the vixen is coming," Xiao Dang said.

It turned out that Xiaodang saw Ma Dongmei, who came back from the front yard. Ma Dongmei also saw Xiaodang, and because Shazhu was the main wife, Ma Dongmei saw Xiaodang running into her house and hurried over.

It just so happened that the three children were trapped in the house. When they saw the things at Bang Geng's feet, they knew that the three children were stealing. The three children were about to run away. Ma Dongmei rushed over and grabbed Bang Geng's ears. It was so steady, accurate and ruthless. I don't know why women have this unique skill.

Ma Dongmei grabbed Banggeng's ear, and as Ma Dongmei twisted it a circle, Banggeng let out a scream.

Xiaodang and Huaihua were also scared and cried. Xiaohuaihua cried, ran and shouted, "Grandma, come quickly, the vixen is going to eat my brother. Grandma, come quickly, my brother is about to be eaten by the vixen."

Ma Dongmei also came out grabbing Banggeng's ear, "Qin Huairu, old woman, come out and see what your children have done," Ma Dongmei shouted while pinching the soft flesh on Banggeng's butt with her other hand.

Banggeng was pinched so hard that he screamed in pain. He couldn't bear it anymore and held Ma Dongmei's arm with both hands, ready to bite her. But who was Ma Dongmei? She was as smart as Zhang Fei. How could she tolerate Banggeng? She just slapped him in the face.

Banggeng became obedient all of a sudden, fearing that Ma Dongmei would give him another slap in the face. Didn’t the vixen know how much harm this slap in the face would bring to Banggeng’s young heart?