Siheyuan: Get the system at the beginning

"You are really great, but what about the dust!"

Zhang Xiaoyan couldn't help but exclaim in delight as she watched the room become clean in an instant.

"The dust is at the door and you need to deal with it yourself."

"Oh that's not bad."

Zhang Xiaoyan glanced at the door and hurried over to clean it. She had indeed not noticed it before. She had not expected that the dust and those inconspicuous little pieces of garbage in the room would form such a large pile after being swept out.

The house originally consisted of two small single rooms. After all, this was the backyard where servants lived in the past, so the house couldn't be too big.

The previous owner opened a door in the middle wall to make it a suite.

Zhang Xiaoyan looked inside and out. She had looked before, but there was a thick layer of dust through the window, so she couldn't look very carefully.

"At first I thought there was a kang in this room, and I thought I could enjoy it, but it turns out there is nothing. Maybe I can build a kang someday, it will definitely be very comfortable."

Zhang Xiaoyan said to herself that because no one had lived in the room for a long time, and it was a snowy day, people were shivering with cold. Fortunately, they had just bought a coal stove. Now there was no need to clean, so naturally they needed to light a fire so that the room would not be so cold.

As a result, half an hour passed, the whole room was filled with smoke, but the coal balls would not burn. Zhang Xiaoyan even wanted to pour some oil on the coal balls to see if they could burn.

'bang bang bang'

"Is Miss Zhang home? I'm your neighbor."

While making a fire, Zhang Xiaoyan was still congratulating herself that she had considered all these things, so she had bought everything she needed. However, it was difficult to make a fire, and then she heard a knock on the door.

"็ Hello Who are you?"

When I opened the door, I saw a young woman holding a drooling child in one hand and a fire tongs in the other, with a half-burned coal ball on the tongs.

"My name is Su Hongmei, and I'm the daughter-in-law of the Sun family. People of my generation call me Sun's sister-in-law. My home is right there. I saw that there were coal stoves and coal briquettes among the things you bought just now. I thought you must have started a stove, so I sent one to you to save you the trouble of starting from scratch."

Su Hongmei raised her chin and pointed to his house.

"How can this be so embarrassing? Thank you, Sister Sun. I'll trade you the coal briquettes!"

Zhang Xiaoyan is such a person. If you are good to me, I will be good to you. If you are not good to me, I will be good to you. If you are not good to me, I will ignore you. If you are not good to me, I will deal with you.

So when facing the enthusiastic neighbor, Zhang Xiaoyan naturally would not give her a cold face. She quickly made way for her to enter the house. Because the fire tongs were in her hands and it was not easy to change hands, she let her go directly into the house and put the coal balls into the coal stove.

Although Su Hongmei looked a little sallow, and it was obvious that she was malnourished, she always had a smile on her face. She helped Zhang Xiaoyan fix the coal stove and explained how to use the coal stove to save coal briquettes.

"Thank you very much! I've never used coal briquettes before. How old is this child? What's his name?"

"His nickname is Huzi. He is nine months old. His father also works in a steel mill. I take care of him at home, clean the house and cook for his father. My mother-in-law and father-in-law are both in the countryside and they only come twice a year..."

Zhang Xiaoyan didn't know whether the Sun family's sister-in-law was too simple-minded or foolishly bold. She emptied her family's wealth just for a stranger she just met. Of course, this family's wealth was much better than Feibi's.

The stove was burning, so I took the time to get a pot of water and sat on it.

The sister-in-law of the Sun family was still chattering there. She started by talking about the children, then her parents-in-law and her husband, and now she is talking about her parents from her mother's side, brothers, and even her sister-in-law, nephews, nieces, and grandparents. How difficult it was for them in the past, and what happened?

Zhao Xiaoyan felt a headache after listening to this, and her face felt stiff. The system just laughed. There was no water at home, so naturally no one would pour hot water for the other party. Isn’t this woman thirsty?

Zhang Xiaoyan was very confused. In the end, Hu Zi in Aunt Sun's arms had been drooling since he entered the house. He had slept for a while and woke up. He must be hungry and was humming and looking for food.

Aunt Sun then remembered and said a few more words with apologetic and embarrassed look, then she left with the child in her arms. However, when she left, there was an unburned coal ball in the tongs.

"Hahahahahahahaha~"

"Shut up. If you keep laughing I won't pay any attention to you anymore."

After everyone left, Zhang Xiaoyan couldn't wait to close the door. The system in her mind was laughing like crazy. Zhang Xiaoyan said angrily,

"If you don't want to laugh, then don't laugh. Your neighbor is quite welcoming. Are you sure you don't want to open the window a crack? Aren't you afraid of gas poisoning?"

The system kindly reminded Zhang Xiaoyan, and then she remembered that it was no wonder that she felt a little stuffy in the room. She turned her head to see that the window was tightly closed, so she walked over and opened the window a little.

"There are thieves in this yard, and it's not okay to have no guardrails on the windows!"

Looking at the window that one can climb in and out of at will by simply unbolting it, Zhang Xiaoyan feels that she still has a lot of things to do, especially if she wants to feel at ease and live here.

"These are all small matters that can be solved quickly. Your first priority now is to clean up the room quickly. It would be best if you could make a meal for yourself so that you can prepare for the challenges in the afternoon."

The system was speaking vaguely for some unknown reason. Zhang Xiaoyan felt as if there was something in its mouth that was why it was speaking so unclearly.

"I know this even if you don't tell me. By the way, you are the task system, right? Why aren't you the sign-in system?"

Zhang Xiaoyan saw that the water on the stove was about to boil, so she took the kettle down and put it aside. The iron pot nowadays is troublesome. After buying it home, you have to use lard to rub off the layer of stuff on the surface.

Zhang Xiaoyan didn't know why. Anyway, when she lived with her grandmother in the countryside, she replaced the iron pot with a new one, which was what her grandmother did. Zhang Xiaoyan also found that if she didn't do this, no matter what dish she cooked in the iron pot, a layer of black would be attached to it, which made people feel uncomfortable and felt like it was poisonous.

It was a loss. The system had just sent her two kilograms of pork. She was not worried about that now. She asked the system to give her two taels of pork with skin and meat, and cut off the skin with a knife.

When the iron pot on the stove turns red, throw the prepared pig skin into the pot.

As soon as the lard touched the iron pan, it made a sizzling sound and began to emit a lot of smoke. At first there was a fragrance of oil, but later it was accompanied by a smell of rust, which was very unpleasant.

Zhang Xiaoyan used a spatula to press the pig skin and draw circles in the pot, trying to rub every spot. She kept rubbing in this way for more than half an hour. The pig skin became charred, and Zhang Xiaoyan put the iron pot on the ground with satisfaction.