Siheyuan: The road to counterattack for the little transparent

Lin Donglai planned to go back to his room and leave a note for his sister. Before leaving the middle courtyard, he asked:

"Sister Lingzi, I'm going to Donglaishun for lunch. They specialize in shabu-shabu mutton. Would you like me to order one?"

Under normal circumstances, Lingzi's eyes would definitely light up when she heard that there was mutton to eat.

But she was in an extraordinary period at the moment. When she heard about eating hot pot, her mouth seemed to have a strong smell of mutton, and she completely lost her previous happiness.

His stomach immediately began to churn. He waved at Lin Donglai, then turned back to the pool and started vomiting.

But this time it was not dry retching. It was probably because the stomach was empty, and he even vomited out yellow bile.

Seeing this, Lin Donglai stopped on his way home. Just as he was about to help Sister Lingzi back to the house to rest, a strange voice came from not far away:

"It's just a pregnancy, as if everyone has been pregnant before. We are all country folk, why are we so delicate?"

As soon as you heard the harsh and sharp voice, you knew without looking that the person was Jia Zhang, who was sitting at the door of her house sewing shoe soles, gazing at the people in the yard with vicious eyes.

After Sha Zhu got married, he often cooked delicious food at home. He was a good cook and most of his dishes were meat.

The strong aroma made the Jia family's young and old who lived in the central courtyard extremely envious, especially Bang Geng. As soon as he smelled the aroma of meat, he would beg for meat.

Qin Huairu seemed to have automatically activated a barrier against the boy's nagging. No matter how he begged, she just said that she had no money to buy it.

Banggeng knew that his grandmother loved him, and when he saw Qin Huairu ignoring him, he would always target Jia Zhang, hugging her and acting coquettishly.

In just a few months, Jia Zhang was harassed by her eldest grandson and had no choice but to buy meat for him several times with her own money.

You know, Qin Huairu only gave her five yuan for her pension every month, and buying meat a few times almost spent her one month's pension.

Although she enjoyed eating meat every time, as soon as she wiped her mouth after finishing the meal, she always felt distressed when she thought about the money she spent.

After a few times, she blamed the matter on Sha Zhu's family, thinking that if it weren't for the fact that they cooked meat every now and then.

If her family can smell the aroma of meat, her eldest grandson will not clamor for meat, and she will not be greedy, so naturally she won't have to spend the money.

Naturally, this also added a lot of resentment towards the Sha Zhu couple who lived with them in the Central Courtyard.

Today she was humming a tune while sewing shoe soles on the kang. When she heard the noise in the yard, she immediately lifted the curtain and looked outside.

Unfortunately, Lingzi had already walked into the house after retching. She was left alone. The same result happened two or three times.

Jia Zhang, who didn't believe in evil, simply got off the kang, moved a stool to the door, picked up her things and sat down.

She planned to see who made the noise in the yard while she was working. She heard that Sha Zhu's wife was pregnant, so it was probably that woman.

But she wasn't 100% sure, so she didn't know what to say until she saw Lingzi run to the sink, retching and vomiting.

Jia Zhang finally couldn't bear it anymore and, regardless of Lin Donglai's presence, made sarcastic accusations.

Lingzi was very weak at this time and had no energy to argue with her. She just rolled her eyes at Jia Zhang and turned back to lie down in the room.

But Lin Donglai was different. He turned around and stared at Jia Zhang without saying a word. He just stared at her quietly.

Jia Zhang was frightened by the stare and couldn't help but mutter, "I'm telling the truth. Why are you looking at me like that, Mr. Lin?"

"When women in our country give birth, they work while they are pregnant, eat and sleep well, and they give birth naturally when the time comes."

"Unlike your cousin, who covers her mouth and vomits all the time and can't eat. If you don't know her, you would think she is the daughter of a wealthy family in the city."

Lin Donglai laughed instead of getting angry: "Aunt Zhang, are you describing yourself or your daughter-in-law Qin Huairu?"

Jia Zhang patted her chest and said, "I was like this in the beginning, I could eat and sleep well, and I gave birth to our Dongxu, who weighed 7.6 jin, but he is the biggest boy in this alley."

"My daughter-in-law is not bad either. She can eat, sleep and work. The three children she gave birth to are all very healthy. What's the problem?"

Lin Donglai chuckled: "Wow! I thought it was a big deal. You just want to say that you two can eat and sleep well, just like raising pigs."

"You know what the problem is with your son. As for the others, I won't say much. Think about it carefully."

After saying this, Lin Donglai did not argue with her too much. After all, he had an appointment at noon, so it would be better for him to go home early to prepare.

After Lin Donglai finished speaking, he turned around and went back to the front yard. Lingzi didn't want to listen to Jia Zhang's upset words, so she went home early in the morning and closed the door.

In the entire central courtyard, Jia Zhang was the only one left sitting at the door of her house, thinking about Lin Donglai's words and recalling Jia Dongxu's various behaviors when he was alive.

There was an indescribable sadness on his face. As the saying goes, a man forgets his mother when he marries a wife. When Jia Dongxu was alive, he changed after he married Qin Huairu.

He no longer obeyed his mother's words blindly, but listened to his wife in everything. He not only bought delicious food for Qin Huairu, but also bought her new clothes.

She cried, made a fuss, and even attempted suicide several times before the situation gradually stopped. However, it may also be because she had a child and the novelty had worn off.

What made Jia Zhang most sad was that after her son had a child, he never paid her food expenses again, claiming that the expenses were high.

Thinking of her deceased eldest son, Jia Zhang felt hatred and pity at the same time. She shed two lines of turbid old tears and after a while she couldn't help but burst into tears.

Listening to the crying sounds coming from the middle courtyard, Lin Donglai felt relieved: She deserves it, she can't speak human language at such an old age.

Lin Donglai picked up a pen and wrote a note to his sister as soon as he got home, telling her that he had to go out for something at noon and that she could just have lunch at Sister Lingzi's house.

He raised his hand and saw that it was almost eleven o'clock. After all, he had something to ask for, so it would be more polite to go and wait early. So he pushed the cart out of the yard.

Just as I reached the gate of the courtyard, the third aunt just came back from outside the courtyard. She immediately heard the crying coming from the courtyard and asked in confusion:

"Dongla, what happened in our courtyard? Why does it sound like the old Jia family's wife is crying?"

Jia Zhang was a person who never let herself be wronged. People in the courtyard always left the impression that she was the one who threw tantrums and cursed in the streets. Few people had ever heard her cry.

It's not surprising that the third aunt would ask such a question. Lin Donglai smiled and said, "I guess she's thinking of something sad."

"Third Auntie, I have an appointment with someone to discuss something at noon today. I am in a hurry, so I won't chat with you for long."

After saying that, he got on his bicycle and pedaled towards the entrance of the alley.

Watching Lin Donglai riding away on his bike, the third aunt murmured with a smile: "It's probably because this kid made the old hag angry. Good boy, you're really capable!"