Siheyuan: I am the Smart Pillar

He Yushui jumped to the door of Xu Damao's house in the backyard and knocked on the door politely. Xu Fengling opened the door from the inside and found that it was He Yushui. She smiled and said, "It's Yushui. Have you eaten?" He Yushui shook her head and said, "Fengling, my brother wants to invite you and your family to our house for dinner tonight. Are brother Damao and uncle and aunt here?"

Xu Lide also heard the conversation between his daughter and He Yushui. He walked over with his hands behind his back and said, "Oh, Zhuzi is inviting our family to dinner. Is that true? Little Yushui." He Yushui nodded. Xu Lide squatted down, smiled and said, "Okay, our family will go to your house later." He Yushui nodded, then skipped away from Xu Damao's house.

Xu Damao came out from the inner room, scratched his head and said, "Dad, why did I hear He Yushui's voice just now?" Xu Lide took out ten yuan from his pocket and said, "Zhuzi's family is inviting us to dinner tonight, and we can't go empty-handed. Take this ten yuan to the corner grocery store and buy two bottles of Xifeng wine, and use the rest to buy pork head meat."

Xu Damao sighed, took the money and left. Mao Shunhua said, "This eldest son of He Daqing is really capable. I didn't expect that he became the canteen director before he was 20 years old." Xu Lide also nodded and said, "Yes, I didn't expect that the silly-looking He Yuzhu is so capable. After we move away, Damao must make friends with He Yuzhu. In the future, if he is bullied in the courtyard, he will have a helper."

Mao Shunhua still felt reluctant to part with her son, after all, she still felt that her son was very young. What should she do without her father and mother? Besides, he knew that the neighbors in the courtyard were not good people. If it weren't for her old man, these people in the courtyard would have bullied her and her son to death.

Xu Lide looked at his wife who looked a little sad, smiled helplessly and said, "You don't have to be like this. When our son grows up, he will eventually go solo. We as parents can't always protect him. Besides, I had a hard time finding this job at the South City Cinema through someone else. Our son will eventually grow up, and this house here will be left for him to get married in the future. Don't we want the girl from the Lou family to be our daughter-in-law? Do you think Lou Bancheng will let someone else's precious daughter live with us two old bones?"

Mao Shunhua nodded and said, "Lide, I know what you said. But I can't bear to leave. We have lived in this courtyard for almost a lifetime." Xu Lide sighed and said, "It's all for our son. There's nothing we can do. Tomorrow you go to the old house and clean up, and then we'll move back." Mao Shunhua nodded. Although he said he couldn't bear to leave, as a mother, there was nothing he couldn't do for his son's future.

"Hey, Xu Damao, it's so late, what are you doing outside?" Jia Dongxu walked in from the courtyard gate and found Xu Damao in a hurry, so he asked curiously. Xu Damao said, "I'm going to the corner to buy some wine." When Jia Dongxu heard the word "wine", his saliva didn't seem to flow. He smiled and said to Xu Damao, "Hey, Damao, it's boring for you to drink alone. How about we drink together tonight? I'll make you some snacks to go with the wine."

Xu Damao burst out laughing and said, "What good food do you have at home? It can't be the pickled cabbage that your mother pickled!" Although Xu Damao is relatively young, he has been drinking for two or three years. The last time Jia Dongxu invited Xu Damao to drink together, Xu Damao went with him for some reason.

The original plan was that Xu Damao would bring the wine and Jia Dongxu would provide the snacks. Xu Damao even stole a bottle of wine from his father. But when he went to Jia Dongxu's house, he found that the snacks were pickled cabbage lumps made by Jia Zhang. This made Xu Damao very angry, but Jia Dongxu didn't realize it at all. Instead, he said confidently, "Aren't pickled cabbage lumps snacks?"

Yi Zhonghai was furious at the time. Xu Damao had brought good wine, but how much could a piece of pickled cabbage be worth? Moreover, the pickled cabbage smelled like stinky feet. When Xu Damao thought about what happened last time, he felt so disgusted that he almost vomited. Xu Damao sneered and said, "Who wants to drink with you? I have to celebrate for He Yuzhu tonight."

He smelled the faint stench on Jia Dongxu again, and immediately pinched his nose and ran away. Jia Dongxu was so angry at Xu Damao's back that he spat at him and cursed him unwillingly, "You damn thing, you want to invite me to go, but I won't go?"

Jia Dongxu went to his home with a dark complexion. He thought about it again. He was the oldest person of the younger generation in the courtyard. Would He Yuzhu invite him as well? Thinking of He Yuzhu's cooking skills, Jia Dongxu almost drooled. He thought about the relationship between his family and He Yuzhu again, and sighed helplessly, saying, "This chance seems very slim."

"Hey, Jia Dongxu, what are you doing here?" Liu Haizhong came in dressed in a proper manner, holding two bottles of wine. Jia Dongxu looked at Liu Haizhong and said, "Oh, it's the second uncle. You are holding wine, are you going to Sha Zhu's house for a banquet?" Liu Haizhong asked in confusion, "A banquet? What kind of banquet are you going to?"

Jia Dongxu's eyes lit up, and he was very happy in his heart. He didn't expect that Sha Zhu didn't invite Liu Haizhong, a petty person. If he didn't add fuel to the fire now, when would he add fuel to the fire? He smiled and said, "Didn't Sha Zhu get promoted to the director of the canteen? He prepared a banquet at home and invited Xu Damao's family. Didn't he invite you? That's impossible, you are the second uncle in charge of our courtyard."

Liu Haizhong's face looked a little unhappy. This idiot Zhu really didn't invite him! Liu Haizhong asked, "Did he invite you? How did you know this news?" Jia Dongxu smiled bitterly and said, "How could he invite me, Jia Dongxu? Our Jia family and the idiot family have been incompatible for a long time. Just now, Xu Damao took the money to go out to buy wine. Xu Damao told me so."

Liu Haizhong's face suddenly darkened, and he said with a dark face, "You mean, Sha Zhu invited even Xu Damao, a young boy? This is too outrageous. After all, I am the head of this courtyard and Sha Zhu's elder. How could he not invite me?"