The days of being a buyer in Siheyuan

"If Jia Dongxu could be as strict with Bang Geng as I am, today's incident wouldn't have happened. As the saying goes, a good child is born under the stick. Don't you agree?"

Liu Haizhong waved his hands while speaking, as if he was giving orders.

Liu Minghui and the other man looked at each other and Liu Minghui said, "I have to say that Second Uncle is the one who knows how to educate children. How can Jia Dongxu compare with you? Third Uncle, don't you think so?"

Yan Bugui also said dryly after hearing this: "That's right, the Jia family only has one boy, so he must be spoiled. Even if Jia Dongxu wants to beat him, Jia Zhangshi will not be happy."

Yan Bugui said for a while and then changed the subject: "Old Liu, your Guangqi is supposed to graduate next year, right?"

When talking about Liu Guangqi, Liu Haizhong becomes excited. You know, Liu Guangqi is his eldest son, who became a cadre after graduating from a technical secondary school.

The second aunt often talked about this in the courtyard.

"That's right. Guangqi will graduate next year, and he will be a cadre when he starts working in the second half of the year."

"Old Yan, I have to say that you are no good. The child you taught couldn't even get into high school, and you still won't let me."

After Liu Haizhong said this, he sprinkled salt on Yan Bugui's heart. You know, Yan Jiecheng's failure to get into high school made Yan Bugui lose all his face.

Not to mention in Siheyuan, everyone knows that Yan Jiecheng is not a good student, but outside everyone would wonder if the Yan family’s education is not good, otherwise if a teacher’s child can’t even get into high school, then the teacher is probably not that good.

Yan Bugui was so angry with Liu Haizhong that he turned around and went home without saying a word.

"Hey, why is this old Yan so stubborn? He's going back right away."

"I shouldn't have said this if I had known."

Liu Haizhong realized belatedly that what he said embarrassed Yan Bugui.

Seeing this scene, Liu Minghui also laughed in his heart. No wonder Liu Haizhong always wanted to be a leader but just couldn't get promoted. His mouth was too offensive.

"Uncle, I'll go back to cook first. We'll talk later."

Liu Minghui didn't want to talk to Liu Haizhong alone, so he slipped away under the pretext of cooking.

Liu Minghui went home to cook. At this time, Sha Zhu came in leisurely from the gate, holding a net bag in his hand, which contained two lunch boxes. Today, Director Yang of the steel rolling mill invited everyone to dinner, and Sha Zhu was in charge of the small kitchen and had just returned. Originally, he was going to share the food with the people helping in the kitchen, but Sha Zhu remembered that Qin Huairu asked him to help bring some dishes last night, so he took two boxes by himself.

Sha Zhu came to the middle courtyard. Qin Huairu was washing things by the sink. Seeing Sha Zhu coming back, Qin Huairu asked with a smile: "Zhuzi is back, why are you so late today?"

The main reason was that she saw the lunch box in Sha Zhu's net bag. Qin Huairu was washing things outside under the command of Jia Zhang, who wanted Qin Huairu to intercept Sha Zhu's lunch box outside.

Sha Zhu felt happy when he saw Qin Huairu smiling at him.

Unconsciously, he took out a lunch box and handed it over: "Sister Qin, this is what's left over from today's special cooking. It has meat. Take it back and feed it to Bang Geng."

Qin Huairu took it without hesitation, without any intention of refusing, and said with a smile on her face: "Then I thank you on behalf of Banggeng. I will send it to you after I wash the lunch box tonight."

When Qin Huairu's hand was holding the lunch box, it touched Sha Zhu's hand, which made Sha Zhu's heart flutter. He suddenly felt that giving her a lunch box was nothing. It would be nice if he could touch Sister Qin's little hand every day.

This scene was seen by many neighbors, including Yi Zhonghai. Seeing this scene, Yi Zhonghai said to the aunt: "See, I said Qin Huairu would definitely help the Jia family."

But the aunt didn't think so. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Sha Zhu was interested in Qin Huairu, which was not good for the reputation of both families.

"Old Yi, if this happens, will the neighbors in the compound gossip about it?"

Yi Zhonghai didn't think so. He felt that if someone helped the Jia family, he could spend less money.

Although Yi Zhonghai wants Jia Dongxu to take care of him in his old age, it does not mean that Yi Zhonghai is willing to spend money on the Jia family.

It can be said that Yi Zhonghai is a hypocrite. He wants to take care of Jia Dongxu in his old age but is unwilling to pay for it. If it weren't for Sha Zhu taking care of him in the end, his old age life would have been very miserable.

"Just go to the old lady in the backyard more often and take good care of her. We are setting a good example for everyone now, so that when we are old, we will not be left without anyone to take care of us."

The eldest mother nodded.

"But I'm afraid someone will tell this to the old lady."

"You know, the old lady treats Zhuzi as her own grandson."

"What are you afraid of? Zhuzi helped on his own. He was not forced by anyone."

At the Jia family, Jia Zhang looked at the lunch box Qin Huairu brought back and said with jealousy, "No wonder Sha Zhu is so big and fat, it turns out he eats so well every day."

"If it were you, I would give us Bang Geng to eat. We Bang Geng will be leaders in the future."

Jia Zhang said she wanted to give Banggeng some food but she kept picking up the food with her chopsticks. Qin Huairu rolled her eyes. Banggeng was only a few years old but she always brought up Banggeng, while she was the one who ate the most.

Now that Jia Dongxu is still here, Qin Huairu is living a pretty good life. Even if Qin Huairu hadn't come just now, Jia Dongxu would have left some for Qin Huairu. The main reason was that Xiaodang still needed milk, and it would be even more troublesome if Qin Huairu wasn't full.

So Jia Zhang didn't say anything. Under normal circumstances, Qin Huairu couldn't eat meat at all. It was only because Jia Dongxu was nice to Qin Huairu that he would secretly give her some.

It is normal to think this way. If Jia Dongxu was not good to Qin Huairu, why wouldn't Qin Huairu remarry after Jia Dongxu died?

It was because Qin Huairu really missed Jia Dongxu that she raised Jia Zhang and several children to be clean and pure, even though Sha Zhu was sacrificed in the process.

Today's incident has given many people in the courtyard a lot of gossip. Everyone wants to know why Sha Zhu gave the Jia family a lunch box and whether he is interested in Qin Huairu or something.

But no one came out to explain, it seems that Sha Zhu will become famous.

In the past, everyone thought that Sha Zhu just loved to fight with Xu Damao. After all, they were young, and everyone understood and would not go around talking about it. But if there was no reason for today's incident, rumors might spread after today that Sha Zhu was thinking about Qin Huairu.

I just don’t know how Jia Dongxu will solve it this time.

After returning home, Liu Minghui had a quick dinner. The braised meat he made in his space and the steamed buns he made outside solved the problem.

Then he went to bed. It gets dark early in winter, and there is no electric light in the courtyard house yet. We eat with kerosene lamps. Liu Minghui doesn't know when the electric wires can be pulled into the house. He feels that going to bed after dark every day is a real waste of time. You know, I couldn't sleep at all when I first came here, but now I'm used to it.