Siheyuan: I am the Smart Pillar

Sure enough, early the next morning, He Yuzhu saw the two brothers with bruised faces and noses. Liu Guangfu said to He Yuzhu with tears in his eyes, "Brother Zhu, Sister Qin, can you give us two brothers something to eat? We two brothers haven't eaten and are really hungry."

Liu Guangtian nodded with a red face and said, "Brother Zhu, we two brothers are not picky about food, anything to eat is fine." He Yuzhu sighed and said, "You two brothers, don't stand outside, come in quickly. We drink cornmeal porridge with white flour buns in the morning, you two brothers come and have a bowl."

He Yuzhu looked at his wife Qin Huairu and said, "Wife, put more cornmeal in the pot later. Make a few more white flour buns so that the two brothers can have more food." Liu Guangfu burst into tears after hearing these heartwarming words. Liu Guangtian was older after all, and felt that crying in someone else's house would hurt his self-esteem. He gritted his teeth and said, "Brother Zhu, you are really good to us brothers, better than our dad is to us."

Qin Huairu burst out laughing and went to the kitchen to make porridge for the two brothers. After a while, He Yushui also got up and found Liu Guangtian and his brother and asked curiously, "Hey, isn't this Brother Guangtian and Brother Guangfu? What's the matter with the wounds on their faces?"

Qin Huairu also brought up porridge and steamed buns from the kitchen. He Yuzhu picked out a smaller piece of steamed bun and gave it to his sister and said, "You little girl, eat your meal quickly. Drink the porridge quickly and go to Third Uncle's house later and let him take you to school." He Yushui nodded, took the steamed bun in one hand and took a big bite, smelled the aroma of wheat, and smiled happily.

Seeing that the two brothers were rather reserved, He Yuzhu smiled and handed each of them a steamed bun and said, "Don't be polite, you two brothers. Since you two call me brother, coming to my house for dinner is not a big deal, so hurry up and eat. Try this pickled vegetable I made, it's not bad."

The two brothers thanked him again and started eating. The way they ate made He Yuzhu wonder if they had never eaten before. He Yuzhu shook his head helplessly and asked his sister and wife to eat. When the two brothers slowed down, He Yuzhu asked curiously, "What's wrong with you two brothers? It seems you were beaten again last night."

After He Yuzhu said this, the two brothers burst into tears. Liu Guangfu gritted his teeth and said, "We don't know what happened to make our father angry last night. After returning home, he beat us with a belt and fried meat. He didn't allow us to scream, otherwise he would beat us severely. We had no choice but to grit our teeth and persevere. Sometimes I even doubt whether Liu Haizhong is really my father. What kind of father educates his son like this? Brother Zhu and Sister Qin, I'm not afraid of you two laughing at me. This morning's meal was the happiest one for us brothers."

Liu Guangtian originally wanted to stop his brother from saying that he knew that family disgrace should not be made public. There was no need to make this matter known to the whole city, otherwise the reputation of their Liu family would be ruined. But thinking about the scene where his father had exposed himself last night, Liu Guangtian was also angry.

Liu Guangtian sighed and said, "Brother, the third brother is right. I feel very sad too. Among the three brothers in our Liu family, except for the eldest brother who is a biological child, I feel like we two brothers were adopted. Sometimes we are even worse than adopted children. We should have been picked up from outside. I feel that the meaning of our existence is to let our parents vent their anger."

Qin Huairu was stunned and said, "Well... when your father beat you, didn't your mother try to persuade you or protect you?" When Qin Huairu was in the countryside, she had seen parents educating their sons. She had also seen parents beating their sons with wooden sticks as big as bowls. But while the father was beating, the mother was crying and trying to persuade him to calm down.

Liu Guangfu said viciously, "My mother, my mother didn't beat us together with my father, which is already very good." He Yuzhu could see that the two brothers really hated their parents in their hearts, but he was a traveler from the future. But there is no such concept that there is no fault of parents, only the imperfection of children. Don't parents make mistakes? Parents still make mistakes.

It is difficult for an honest judge to judge family affairs, not to mention that the relationship between them is just that of ordinary neighbors. He Yuzhu shook his head helplessly, handed two white flour buns to each of the two brothers and said, "Okay, you two brothers take two white flour buns each and eat them as lunch in school."

The two brothers thanked him again. They felt that He Yuzhu was really good to them. Tears flowed down their cheeks again, and they said with tears in their eyes, "Brother Zhu, we brothers don't know how to thank you." He Yuzhu waved his hand and said, "Okay, I don't need your thanks. Go back quickly, it's time to go to school soon."

The two brothers nodded, picked up their schoolbags, and went out with the steamed buns. Jia Zhang saw the scene of Liu Guangtian and his brother coming out with the steamed buns. Looking at the white steamed buns, Jia Zhang rolled her eyes and said, "Liu's second and third boys, where did you get the steamed buns? Did you steal them from someone else's house? I'm hungry, so each of you give me a steamed bun and I won't tell anyone."

Liu Guangtian curled his lips and said, "This is the white flour bun my brother Zhu gave me. Why should I give it to you, an old man? Go back to where you came from." At this time, Yi Zhonghai happened to be carrying tools to go to work. Hearing Liu Guangtian dare to scold the old man like that, he was quite angry. With a dark face, he said, "Liu Guangtian, how do you talk to your elders? You dare to scold your elders. I think I have to teach you a lesson."

When Jia Zhang saw that Yi Zhonghai was going to make the decision for her, she was overjoyed. She couldn't suppress the smile on her lips, but she said solemnly, "Yes, Old Yi, you are right. Filial piety to the elderly must be something we must abide by. People who are not filial to the elderly are worse than pigs and dogs. Liu Guangtian, you dare to scold me, hurry up and apologize to me, and give me the white flour buns in your hands, otherwise you can't leave today."

Jia Zhang's little thoughts were obvious to everyone. This made the two brothers very angry. They were beaten by their father last night, and they have been hungry since yesterday afternoon. This morning, the two brothers had no way to beg for food in the courtyard. The neighbors turned a blind eye. It was not easy for Zhu Ge to give us a full meal and generously gave us two white flour buns. Yi Zhonghai said it well. Why didn't he take them to his house to have a full meal when they were hungry?