1959Siheyuan, a Turnaround

After Xu Damao left, Yi Zhonghai looked at Jia Dongxu, who was full of doubt, and comforted him earnestly: "Dongxu, Qin Huairu is a good daughter-in-law, you must cherish her. Don't listen to Xu Damao's nonsense, don't you know what kind of person he is?"

After listening to Yi Zhonghai's words, Jia Dongxu's doubts gradually dissipated.

Yes, if Qin Huairu didn’t want to live a good life with him, why would she work so hard to make money by pasting paper boxes?

Thinking of this, Jia Dongxu continued to eat his meal.

In a corner not far away, Xu Damao was eating alone, thinking about what he saw yesterday.

He always felt that there must be something complicated between Qin Huairu and that Li Dahu.

It just so happened that he was going to show a movie near Qinjia Village the next two days, and he wanted to take this opportunity to visit Qin Huairu's parents' home and make some inquiries.

Xu Damao narrowed his eyes slightly and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth.

He looked in the direction of Jia Dongxu, feeling secretly proud in his heart: "Jia Dongxu, Jia Dongxu, wait until I catch Qin Huairu's handle, and then I'll see what you say."

Today, Li Weiguo followed his three uncles to Lijia Village.

After completing their tasks for this month, the three uncles can finally relax a little.

Uncles Li Xinchuang and Li Dahu went home to help with the housework. After all, they didn't come back often in a month, so it was their duty to help with some housework.

Li Weiguo came back purely to relax.

Now he followed his second uncle to his hometown to clean up the house.

No one has lived in their hometown for some time. My grandparents were afraid that the house would deteriorate if it was not occupied, so they specifically asked my uncle and nephew to go back and clean it up.

Besides, who knows if the Li family will come back to the village to stay for a night or two one day.

While Li Weiguo was busy cleaning the house with his second uncle, he was thinking about how to ask about Uncle Dahu in a roundabout way.

Finally, he mustered up the courage to ask, "Second Uncle, did Uncle Dahu find a lover in Qinjia Village back then?"

Li Dahe was stunned for a moment and said, "A lover? I haven't heard him say that. But when your uncle Dahu was young, he loved to go to Qinjia Village. Why? Do you know something?"

Li Weiguo smiled, shook his head and said, "No, I'm just asking."

But in his heart he recalled what he saw last night, and he felt that Qin Huairu must have had something going on between him and Uncle Li Dahu.

But what he didn't understand was why no one in Lijia Village knew about this?

Why did Uncle Dahu hide this matter?

Could it be that there is a secret between them that cannot be told to outsiders?

In the old house in Lijia Village, sunlight shines onto the ground through the dilapidated window frames, and Li Weiguo and his second uncle Li Dahe are still busy.

They bent over and carefully pulled out the weeds in the yard. They hadn't tidied the yard for some time and the weeds were half a meter high.

With the joint efforts of the uncle and nephew, the weeds in the yard were cleared away and the yard gradually became more lively.

It was almost noon when Li Xinchuang came running in, his footsteps raising a light cloud of dust.

He stood at the door of his old home and shouted loudly: "Dahe, Weiguo, my father wants you to come over for dinner!"

Li Weiguo and Li Dahe stopped what they were doing, looked at each other, and saw embarrassment in each other's eyes.

They really didn't want to go to the village chief's house for dinner empty-handed. After all, everyone's life was not easy this year, and even the village chief's family had to plan their lives.

Just as the uncle and nephew were about to refuse, Li Weilan ran over.

Her cheeks were slightly red, and she shouted breathlessly: "Brother Weiguo, Uncle Dahe, my dad asked us to come and call you home for dinner."

Li Weiguo and Li Dahe looked embarrassed. Since the two families came at the same time, it was even more difficult for them to choose since they were caught in the middle.

Although on weekdays, we eat together and never separate.

But now both families have warmly invited me, and it would be bad to refuse either one.

Li Dahe thought for a moment and said, "How about this, Weiguo, let's split up. I'll go to your village chief's grandfather's house, and you'll go to Weilan's house for dinner."

Li Weiguo nodded after hearing this.

He also thought this was a good idea. At least the uncle and nephew wouldn't just eat at the same house.

So they split into two groups and headed in different directions.

Li Weilan invited Li Weiguo to her home for dinner, her heart filled with joy.

She knew very well that without the help of her great-grandfather's family, her father would not have been cured of his illness and the family would not have the good life they have today.

Now, her father is a regular worker in the purchasing department of the steel rolling mill, and the family is no longer as sad as before.

Both of her younger brothers went to school one after another, and she also learned a lot of words from them.

Life at home was completely turned upside down. Not only did we pay off all the debts we had owed over the years, but we also had some savings.

So, she was full of gratitude to her great-grandfather and his family.

Along the way, Li Weilan excitedly shared with Li Weiguo the recent changes in her family.

"Brother Weiguo, you don't know that the old hen I raised has hatched chicks. A total of eleven have survived. When they grow up, I can raise more chickens."

Li Weilan's eyes were sparkling and her face was filled with a happy smile.

"Really? That's great!"

When Li Weiguo heard this, he was also happy for Li Weilan.

He knew that in Li Dahu's family, Li Weilan and her mother Chen Suzhi, apart from earning work points in the brigade, spent all their time feeding these chicks.

Now when he heard that the old hen in Uncle Dahu's house had hatched a brood of chicks, he was sincerely happy for them.

"Sister Weilan, how long has it been since the chicks hatched?" Li Weiguo asked with a smile.

"It's been more than half a month. It's very lively now, furry and very cute." Li Weilan happily described the appearance of the chick.

The cousins ​​walked side by side towards Li Dahu's house.

When they were almost home, they saw Li Dahu, Chen Suzhi and their two cousins ​​standing at the gate looking in from afar.

When the cousins ​​saw them appear, they waved at them excitedly.

Shouting loudly: "Brother Weiguo, Brother Weiguo, you are finally here!"

"Uncle Dahu, Auntie, Wei Qiang, Wei Bang!"

Li Weiguo also responded to them with a smile and quickened his pace.

When Li Dahu saw that only Li Weiguo was there, he frowned and asked the reason.

"Weilan, why is there only your brother Weiguo? Where is your uncle Dahe?"

"Dad, when I went there, Uncle Xinchuang was there too, so Uncle Dahe went to the village chief's house!"

When he learned that the village chief's family had also invited him and his son, and that they had chosen to split up, Li Dahu joked, "You two uncles and nephews are smart enough to split up."

Li Weiguo also responded mischievously: "Of course, I'm afraid that if both my uncle and nephew come, we will eat up all the food at Uncle Dahu's house."

At this time, Aunt Suzhi said with a smile, "Don't talk for now, go wash your hands, and then we'll eat. Weiguo, you can't eat all the food at home. Your uncle Dahu has been bringing a lot of food home in the past few months because he's afraid that there won't be enough food at home."

This is true. Since the food shortage, the uncles have gone fishing after completing their tasks, and either sold the fish for money or exchanged them directly with others for food and grains.

Little by little, it adds up to a lot, and our family has never run out of food these days.

So both Li Weiqiang and Li Weibang have grown a lot taller this year.