Siheyuan: Grassroots Counterattack

"Then what about my marriage? It can't be delayed forever." Jia Dongxu looked out the window with a sad face.

Jia Zhang had never seen her son so distressed, and her heart softened. "Don't worry, Dongxu. I'll go find matchmaker Zhang tomorrow and ask her to go to the countryside to find a pretty and fertile girl. That should be all right, right?"

Jia Dongxu hugged Jia Zhang's arm and said to her with a smile, "Thank you, Mom."

Jia Zhang pretended to pat him, "You little brat, are you satisfied now? You must remember to work hard and learn all of Yi Zhonghai's skills, okay?"

"Mom, I know."

In the following days, the courtyard was peaceful. Li Tianyi was busy reviewing his lessons and had no time to pay attention to what was happening in the courtyard. Li's father and mother were afraid of disturbing Li Tianyi, so they rarely talked to him about these things.

That evening, when Li Tianyi was about to push his bicycle into the yard, the third uncle standing at the gate suddenly stopped him and said, "Tianyi, do you know what happened in the courtyard today?"

Li Tianyi shook his head and said, "Uncle, I just came back and haven't entered the courtyard yet."

"Let me tell you something. Today, Matchmaker Zhang brought a country girl to meet Jia Dongxu for a blind date. She is one year younger than Jia Dongxu."

"You're so old, but you haven't talked about marriage yet?" Li Tianyi asked in surprise. You know, in this era, people usually start talking about marriage at around 18 years old. Although the country has stipulated the legal age for marriage, most people will get engaged first, or have the wedding first, and then get a marriage certificate when they are old enough. Some people even don't get a marriage certificate at all.

The third uncle looked around, then pulled Li Tianyi to a corner and whispered, "Tianyi, you don't know, I heard that they were engaged before, but for some reason, they didn't get married, and now they are at this age! Although he is a bit older, judging from Jia Dongxu's expression, he should be willing."

Li Tianyi looked at the Third Uncle strangely, "Third Uncle, you didn't go to class today?"

"Yes."

"Then how do you know so much?"

"Hey, isn't that what your Aunt Yang told me? Later, I came back early and happened to see Jia Zhang escorting Matchmaker Zhang and the girl out, so I went over to listen. The girl's name is Qin Huairu."

Li Tianyi secretly calculated the time and felt that it was almost time for Jia Dongxu to get married. "Uncle, this is nothing new. Since Jia Dongxu is satisfied with this girl, they must be getting married."

"You don't know, after the girl left the courtyard and separated from matchmaker Zhang, the bad boy Xu Damao stopped the girl, and then told Qin Huairu about the situation of the Jia family, and then praised himself. It was also a coincidence that Jia Zhang was out shopping, so she caught her right away, and she started to make a fuss when she returned to the courtyard."

Li Tianyi's face was full of black lines. He and Xu Damao both went to high school, but not in the same school. Because the college entrance examination was approaching, the school decided to only keep the students who registered for the college entrance examination. The other students graduated early and their graduation certificates had already been issued to them.

So Xu Damao started to learn the technology of projecting movies from his father and started working in the steel mill. Who knew that he didn't go to work today and met Jia Dongxu for a blind date.

"Tianyi, after dinner we will have a meeting of the whole courtyard. Old Yi will definitely favor the Jia family. This will be a lively scene."

"Third uncle, please control the gloating expression on your face. It won't be good if first uncle sees it." Li Tianyi reminded.

Afterwards, Li Tianyi and the third uncle went into the front yard together. While eating, Li's father and mother were also talking about this matter. Li Tianyi did not interrupt, but just ate quietly, and occasionally picked up some food for his younger sister.

My younger sister is six years old this year and is in the first grade of primary school. My younger brother is nine years old and is in the fourth grade of primary school. He takes my younger sister to school every day.

After dinner, Li Tianyi went back to study, while his father and mother went to the middle court for a meeting. About an hour later, Li's father and his family came back, and Li Tianyi was explaining the exercises to his younger brother. Seeing this, Li's father and his family immediately shut up, waited for Li Tianyi to finish, sent his younger brother to sleep, and then continued the previous topic.

From the conversation between Li's father and Li's mother, Li Tianyi learned the outcome of today's events. After Xu Damao was caught by Jia Zhang, he ran back home. How could Jia Zhang let him go, so she followed him to Xu's house.

At the Xu family, Xu Damao's mother Xu Zhao happened to be at home, so the two old women started fighting after a disagreement. You grabbed my hair and I twisted your arm, and they wrestled with each other in front of the Xu family's door.

How could Xu Damao just sit there and watch his mother suffer, so he joined in. The mother and son started playing mixed doubles against Jia Zhang, beating her so hard that her face was bruised and a lot of her hair was pulled out.

No one else in the yard stepped forward to stop it. Finally, an old lady couldn't stand it anymore and asked the deaf old lady to come out, and only then did the war calm down.

As for Jia Dongxu, he had gone back to work a long time ago and was not at home at all.

Jia Zhang suffered a great loss this time. With her personality, how could she let it go? So in the evening after everyone got off work, she sat on the ground in the middle courtyard and started shouting, yelling at Old Jia to take Xu Damao, the bad guy, away.

The characteristics of the Undead Summoner have already appeared. After learning the whole story, Yi Zhonghai suggested holding a meeting of the entire courtyard. Liu Haizhong was of course willing, as he could once again show off his power as the second uncle in the courtyard.

After Xu Fugui came back from get off work, he listened to Xu Damao's story, glared at Xu Damao with disappointment, then picked up the wine from the cabinet and went to Liu Haizhong's house.

I don’t know what they talked about at home, but Xu Fugui walked out of Liu Haizhong’s house with a smile on his face.

At the meeting, Yi Zhonghai criticized Xu Damao for being immoral at the beginning, but Xu Fugui refuted that Xu Damao was young and wanted to marry a beautiful girl when he saw her. This was human nature. Besides, was there anything Xu Damao said about the Jia family that was a rumor? No, it was the Jia family who was deceiving the marriage, bullying the girl because she was from the countryside and hiding the true situation of their family.

This left Yi Zhonghai speechless. After some discussion, the two sides finally reached an agreement that the Xu family would pay 10 yuan in medical expenses to the Jia family, and the Jia family would not mention the matter again.

Although both parties were dissatisfied, they both accepted the result of the fight. If they continued to fight, they would only make others laugh at them.

In fact, Jia Zhang didn't know that Xu Damao was not the only one who missed Qin Huairu in the courtyard. Sha Zhu also dreamed of Qin Huairu that night. Sha Zhu was late for work because he had to go to school to deal with the fight in the rain, so he saw Qin Huairu who was not married yet.

Sha Zhu was fascinated by Qin Huairu at that time. Although he knew that she was Jia Dongxu's blind date and it was not good for him to like her, Sha Zhu couldn't help but think of her in his heart.

After knowing that Xu Damao had ruined Jia Dongxu's blind date in the evening, he felt a little happy. He felt a little more favorable when he saw Xu Damao's long face, and he also hoped that Qin Huairu would not marry into the Jia family.

During the meeting in the evening, Sha Zhu was particularly quiet. Yi Zhonghai signaled Sha Zhu several times with his eyes, asking him to go up and beat Xu Damao up, but Sha Zhu pretended not to see it.