Siheyuan: I am the Smart Pillar

Inside the Jia family's house, the three members of the family stared at each other, and Jia Zhang couldn't stand it anymore. The aroma of stewed meat in the air in the yard made her unable to eat the dry and hard steamed bread. While drooling, she muttered to herself, "Shazhu, this bastard, is really good at eating. This seems to be stewed beef with potatoes. This bastard didn't even bring me a bowl to taste, he deserves it."

Jia Zhang looked at her eldest son and said, "My son, your wife is pregnant with our grandson. I am old and can live without meat. I don't have many years left to live. But my daughter-in-law's belly must be well-nourished. Go to Sha Zhu's house and borrow a bowl of meat."

Jia Dongxu was extremely unwilling. In the past year, the relationship between his family and Shazhu's family had taken a sharp turn for the worse. He also looked down on Shazhu, thinking that he was just an orphan without a father or a mother. After He Daqing ran away, he often laughed at He Yuzhu and his sister behind their backs. But what he didn't expect was that after He Daqing left, this silly Shazhu seemed to have changed into a different person. He actually got married and got promoted.

This made Jia Dongxu, who had his mother to help him and a master to protect him from the wind and rain, very angry. Compared with Sha Zhuzi, he felt like a waste. Many people in the yard compared him with Sha Zhu, which made Jia Dongxu very resentful. Jia Dongxu felt that he didn't have the face to go to someone's house with a bowl to ask for meat.

She immediately shook her head and said, "I won't go. If I go, I will definitely be laughed at by that kid Shazhu. What's wrong with eating steamed corn bread? Steamed corn bread is delicious? Eat it quickly. After I get my salary next month, I will buy some pork for you." Jia Dongxu hung her head. She didn't want to see the expressions of her wife and mother.

Xu Erni despised Jia Dongxu in her heart. In fact, she also wanted to eat the beef stewed with potatoes cooked by He Yuzhu. She also secreted a lot of saliva from her mouth. She really envied Qin Huairu. Jia Dongxu never felt guilty about not creating good material conditions for his wife and mother. Instead, he just lived one day at a time with a negative mentality.

Jia Zhang couldn't stand it any longer and had to have a bowl of beef stewed with potatoes tonight. She started crying and throwing a tantrum, saying, "Oh, Old Jia, come up and take a look. Your son has grown up and doesn't listen to me. I want to eat... oh, no, my daughter-in-law is pregnant and wants to eat some meat, but he doesn't even go to get some. Isn't it obvious that he doesn't want our grandson to be born? Come up and take a good look at your good-for-nothing son!"

Crying, howling, and making a fuss, this is Jia Zhang's winning magic weapon. She also secretly observed her son's reaction until her son became impatient, and then Jia Zhang showed a smile of success. Jia Dongxu waved his hand and said, "Can you please stop making a fuss? I'll go ask Sha Zhu for a bowl."

Jia Dongxu took out a small bowl from the cupboard. Jia Dongxu was a man of honor, so he naturally wouldn't go begging with a bowl. Seeing this, Jia Zhangshi was a little unhappy, and quickly said with a dark face, "How much can you put in such a small bowl? Take this big bowl."

Jia Zhang took out the ancestral basin again. She felt that she had finally persuaded her son to beg for food, or rather, to borrow food. Then he should borrow more so that she could have enough at once. As for her pregnant daughter-in-law, she was already kind enough to give her a little broth.

Jia Dongxu felt a little helpless. He looked at the big basin in his hand, thought for a while and said, "Mom, this is not appropriate. Sha Zhu will definitely not agree. I'd better take a small bowl." Jia Zhang said quickly like chasing away a fly, "I, your mother, have eaten more salt than you have eaten rice. Can Sha Zhu and his family eat so much? If our family helps him, it will be considered as accumulating virtue for him. You go quickly and stop talking nonsense."

Jia Dongxu, the mama's boy, looked at the bowl in his hand and thought about his mother's behavior. If he really took a small bowl to beg for food, even if he really got it back, the beef stew with potatoes in the bowl would not be enough for his mother to make. It would be better to take a big bowl, so that he could have some meat at that time.

In Yi Zhonghai's home, Old Lady Long was drooling as she looked at the steamed buns on the table. She slapped the bun on the table and said with some unhappiness on her face, "Shazhu is really too unreasonable. He used to send a portion of delicious food to me, his ancestor. Now that he has married a wife, he has forgotten me, his ancestor. It's really too unreasonable."

Yi Zhonghai quickly added fuel to the fire and said, "What if you are the ancestor? You hit the nail on the head. Shazhu used to be such a good child. He was filial and polite. He especially cared for us neighbors. Now he is becoming more and more selfish. Look, we didn't even get any of this delicious stewed potatoes with beef. It shows that we don't even take you seriously."

Old lady Long was also very angry. She looked at Bai Xiuying and said, "Xiuying, go to Shazhu's house and ask for a bowl of meat. Just say that I, the old lady, want to eat some meat. It's really too much." Bai Xiuying hesitated. She felt that with the relationship between her family and Shazhu, she would definitely not be able to get it back. After thinking about it, she wanted to say something. Yi Zhonghai was not happy and said, "Why are you still standing there? Why don't you go to Shazhu's house quickly? The old lady wants to eat something good. Can't we, the younger generation, satisfy her little wish?"

Bai Xiuying had no choice but to take out a bowl from her own cupboard and went directly to the door of Sha Zhu's house. After Bai Xiuying left, Yi Zhonghai frowned and asked Mrs. Long, "Grandma, what should we do now? We spent so much effort to drive He Daqing away, and this Sha Zhu is like a different person, he has become smarter. This is simply not cooperating, I really can't accept it."

Old Lady Long thought about it, and a ferocious look appeared on her old face. She stood up with a cane, thought for a while and said, "Send a telegram to Widow Bai tomorrow to ask if He Daqing has come to Sijiu City during this period. Shazhu has changed so much, I think He Daqing must have said something behind his back? Otherwise, how could a child who grew up with a very dull personality become like this?"