Siheyuan: The Cellar

Just when Qin Huairu was being beaten by Jia Zhangshi, the tempting fragrance spread throughout the courtyard.

In this era of material scarcity, lack of clothing and food, eating meat is actually a very luxurious thing.

Most of the neighbors in the compound had steamed corn bread and pickled vegetables. Later, when the disaster hit, they couldn’t even eat steamed corn bread. Then two-grain flour became the staple food for most families.

This is the case for urban residents. Some rural residents are even worse off. Sometimes the crops they produce are not enough to pay to the government. When people are pushed to the limit, they even eat tree bark and grass roots.

As for why this phenomenon occurs, those who understand will understand.

In this courtyard, the only families who can eat meat from time to time are Yi Zhonghai's family and Chen Guoliang's family.

Firstly, Yi Zhonghai and Liu Li both have high salaries, and secondly, both families have small families.

Otherwise, if we just talk about salary, Liu Haizhong's salary is actually not low, but it can't support the fact that there are five mouths to feed in his family, but only Liu Haizhong has a job.

Liu Haizhong is not the kind of person who only cares about his children and doesn't care about their lives. If he really doesn't care about his children, his family's living standards would have to be raised several levels.

"Oh, don't look at it. It's Doctor Liu's house in the backyard. I saw her taking the lamb leg back yesterday."

"This Doctor Liu is really something. He only prepares meat for us every other day."

"That's right, she could have eaten it, but she made it so delicious. I'm already hungry just by smelling it."

"That's not right. I remember that the dishes made by Doctor Liu seemed to be quite ordinary. They shouldn't be so fragrant!"

"Who knows? Maybe he has finally gotten the hang of it. But this Doctor Liu is really something. He doesn't know how to pay attention to the impact at all."

"Hey, what are you talking about? The child is growing up! What's wrong with eating meat? Is it wrong for Xiao Liu to love his child?"

At this time, the bowls of meat that Chen Guoliang sent out began to show their effects.

These families are already on good terms with Liu Li, and have no conflicts of interest with Chen Guoliang's family.

Besides, now that he has benefited from Chen Guoliang's favor, he naturally won't sit idly by and watch people in the courtyard fabricate gossip about Liu Li's family.

As human beings, we are social animals. No matter what we do, we can never please everyone.

This is also true in complex neighborhood relationships like the Siheyuan.

Each family has its own calculations. No matter what you do, it is impossible to satisfy everyone.

You can't get along with everyone like a family.

Take the Jia family for example. Even if Chen Guoliang brought a bowl of meat to his family, would Jia Zhangshi and Jia Dongxu remember his kindness?

No, they would only complain why Chen Guoliang didn't bring him the whole pot!

Another example is the deaf old lady. Whenever there was something delicious, Liu Li would never forget to give her a share. But what happened?

After weighing the pros and cons, didn't she still help Yi Zhonghai to trick Liu Li?

Instead of pleasing others and putting yourself at risk, it is better to live a more carefree life.

Unite some people with common interests, then win over some people whose interests do not conflict with yours. Finally, isolate those people whose interests conflict with yours. That's enough.

Everyone smelled the same smell, and Yi Zhonghai naturally smelled it too.

But after hearing the advice from the deaf old lady last night, Yi Zhonghai didn't want to provoke Chen Guoliang for the time being. He still had a lot of trouble to deal with!

Originally he just wanted to close the door and eat a steamed bun quietly, but there was someone who made him worry.

Jia family, Jia Zhang became more and more angry the more she spoke.

Qin Huairu's attack method gradually changed from magic attack to physical attack.

Qin Huairu is not a fool. If you scold me, I will just ignore it. It won't hurt me.

But if this had to happen, Qin Huairu would naturally not agree.

If you want to hit me, I definitely can't fight back. But you can only come to the yard to hit me, I have to let everyone in the yard see how you bully your own wife.

When you are old and can't move, I will treat you worse, and no one will be able to blame me.

"Mom, stop hitting me. I was wrong."

Qin Huairu rushed into the yard shouting loudly.

"Well, you country girl, you have grown up! You even dared to run away."

Not long after Qin Huairu rushed out, Jia Zhang also rushed out right after her, cursing Qin Huairu.

"If you weren't a country girl, would our Jia family have to live in such a difficult situation? If you are lazy and eat all day long, what's the point of our Jia family raising you?

We are both orphans and widows, but why can Liu Li's family eat meat while I have to eat steamed buns every day?

It's all because I married a lazy daughter-in-law like you. If it weren't for you, we could eat meat every day with Dongxu's salary.

I've said a few words to you now, and you dare to run outside. I'll beat you to death, you lazy country girl."

Everyone in the courtyard was confused after hearing Jia Zhang's curse.

Country girl? Didn't you, Jia Zhang, come from the countryside before you married Old Jia?

Lazy and gluttonous? Who are you talking about? Yourself?

Listening to Jia Zhang in the yard cursing more and more excitedly, Qin Huairu's voice became more and more shrill.

Yi Zhonghai knew that he could no longer sit idly by.

"Oh, sister-in-law, what are you doing now? Why are you making a scene in the yard so early in the morning?"

As soon as Yi Zhonghai came out, he hurried to stop the fight.

This man was really going to kill her. In just a short while, Qin Huairu's exposed arm was already covered with bruises and purples.

Yi Zhonghai was almost heartbroken when he saw it. How would he use it if it was broken?

With such a beautiful wife, Jia Dongxu didn't know how to stop her.

After Yi Zhonghai stopped Jia Zhang, he glanced around the yard. Well, Jia Dongxu didn't come out at all.

Yi Zhonghai couldn't help but sigh heavily. It seemed that what the old lady said was absolutely correct. It was really difficult for Jia Dongxu to achieve anything great.

Even though his wife was beaten like this, he didn't dare to get up and say a word. He just kept eating.

After all, Jia Zhang and Yi Zhonghai have been close friends for many years, so what Yi Zhonghai said still has some effect.

"Master Dongxu, you don't know! This daughter-in-law of ours is really useless! She has been married to our family for so many years, but she hasn't given birth to a child for Dongxu, and she is a burden to us all day long!

If it weren't for the fact that our Jia family had to support a useless person like her, how could Dongxu's high salary not even be comparable to the life of the orphans and widows in the backyard? "

When Yi Zhonghai heard what Jia Zhang said, his entire cerebellum shrank.

are you kidding me?

Who are you talking about? Jia Dongxu, a first-class fitter? A monthly salary of 33 yuan?

You're still comparing Jia Dongxu to someone else's backyard Liu Li? You're a level 1 fitter, how dare you compare your head to someone else's surgeon!

Moreover, speaking of waste, aren’t you, Jia Zhang, the biggest waste in the Jia family?

After all, Qin Huairu works diligently at home every day!

Yi Zhonghai, who had tasted the taste of the situation, had unknowingly begun to lean towards Qin Huairu from the bottom of his heart.

He himself hasn't even noticed this change.