Siheyuan: Yan Jiekuang's carefree life

"This old Tian is really going backwards as he gets older!" Gao Junsong muttered, took two deep puffs of his cigarette, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, put his hands in his sleeves, shrank his neck, and walked slowly towards his home.

As the Spring Festival approaches, the snow is getting heavier. Although the snow is heavy, the village is still full of children's laughter. Time soon came to New Year's Eve. Early in the morning, Yan Jiekuang began to prepare. At noon, he and Su Zihui had a simple lunch. At four o'clock in the afternoon, Su Zihui and Yan Jiekuang moved things to the cowshed one after another like ants moving.

"Jie Kuang, stop working, let your grandmother and the others do it. Come and drink with us old men!" Ding Huawei pulled Yan Jie Kuang to his side and pushed him onto a stool. Yan Jie Kuang smiled helplessly at Su Zihui and said, "Grandpa, a while ago, Xiao Hui and I found the best winemaker in our village to make a lot of wine. Today I brought a jar here. You guys try it, how does it taste?!" After that, Yan Jie Kuang opened the seal on the wine jar at his feet, found a wine bucket, scooped a bucket of wine and poured it into the bowl.

Ding Huawei, who had been eager to drink the wine after smelling it, could not wait to take the bowl filled with wine and took a sip of it. The fragrance of the wine instantly filled Ding Huawei's mouth. Ding Huawei closed his eyes unconsciously, then opened them instantly and shouted, "Good wine!" Then he urged, "Jie Kuang, hurry up! Pour them some wine!"

"Hey!" Yan Jiekuang responded readily and immediately poured a bottle of wine into the bowl in front of each of them.

Halfway through the drink, the dishes came up one after another. Ding Huawei looked at Yan Jiekuang under the influence of alcohol and said, "Xiao Yan, you are a good guy. You suit my personality very well. Xiaohui is the only daughter in our family and the old Su family. If I find out that you treat her badly, I will punish you even if I risk my life!"

Yan Jiekuang said, "Grandpa, a daughter-in-law is meant to be spoiled. Don't worry! I won't treat Xiaohui badly."

Jiang Bi Da said, "Jie Kuang, we don't know how long we will stay here. Maybe we will stay here for the rest of our lives. You and Xiao Hui are not that old. You can't stay with us forever, right?!"

Yan Jiekuang smiled and said, "Uncle Jiang, even if you want to stay here forever, they have to agree?! Do you think it will go on like this forever?! Don't worry, in a few years at most, you will all return to your original positions. I advise you to treat this place as a sanatorium. Take care of your health. Even if you can't go back in the future, live a few more years and see what will happen to those people in the end."

"I like what you said!" Luo Dajun echoed, saying, "After listening to Jie Kuang's words, I thought about it and realized that it was true. Here, we don't have to worry about food or clothing, and at most we have to do some physical work. Who among us didn't do these kinds of work when we were young?!"

"You guys are having a really lively chat!" Before Luo Dajun finished speaking, Gu Ruoxue and Yang Ling came to the table with the last two dishes. After putting the dishes on the table, the two of them sat down next to their respective men. Yan Jiekuang quickly opened a small bottle of champagne and poured it into the glasses in front of them.

Ding Huawei raised the bowl of wine and said, "Come on! Let's have a drink. I hope we will live happier and happier!"

The Northeast is celebrating the New Year in a lively manner, and the city is equally lively. However, the liveliness on both sides is somewhat different. On the night of New Year's Eve, when everyone was having a reunion dinner, the Jia family staged a war between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law. The cause started a month ago. Ever since Banggeng became a wanted criminal, the Jia family's life has been like Wang Xiaoer's New Year, getting worse day by day. Qin Huairu's work was also implicated by Banggeng. Originally, the factory was going to fire Qin Huairu, but Li Huaide "mediated" and the factory did not fire Qin Huairu. Instead, she was transferred to a new position from her original warehouse job to the cleaning team, responsible for cleaning the women's toilets in the factory.

Originally, Qin Huairu thought that as long as she stayed in the factory and held on to Li Huaide's thigh, she would have a chance to turn over. However, Qin Huairu did not expect that Li Huaide would find an excuse to kick her out. It turned out that Qin Huairu relied on Li Huaide to have no worries about food and clothing, and Jia Zhangshi also benefited from it, and she lived a good life. Now that she has returned to the pre-liberation period, how can she bear to let Jia Zhangshi live a hard life again? Add to that the sarcasm of the neighbors around. Jia Zhangshi felt that this was all caused by the lack of men in the family. I don't know who gave Jia Zhangshi an idea. Jia Zhangshi remembered the third boy in her eldest brother's family in her hometown. The boy was called Zhang Denggao, and he was about the same age as Jia Dongxu. When he was a child, he accidentally cut off three fingers on his left hand when he was picking pig grass, and he became disabled since then. A while ago, Jia Zhangshi met an acquaintance from his hometown and heard that Zhang Denggao had not married yet. Jia Zhangshi felt that this was an opportunity to adopt Zhang Denggao under her name and then let Zhang Denggao marry Qin Huairu. Then she asked Qin Huairu to give her job to Zhang Denggao, and Qin Huairu came back to take care of her.

After making up her mind, Jia Zhang started to act. She told Qin Huairu that she was going back to her hometown, and then went to the street office to get a letter of introduction. After that, she took some money from her family and set off on the road back to her hometown.

It's true that Jia Zhang actually managed to have Zhang Denggao adopted. When she arrived at her hometown, Jia Zhang went directly to her eldest brother's house. The Zhang family didn't have a good face for Jia Zhang, but Jia Zhang had learned his lesson this time and came to the door with things. In the countryside, no matter how bad the relationship is, people will not hit someone who smiles at them. When Jia Zhang saw her eldest brother, she first chatted about family matters, and then exaggerated the story that Jia Dongxu died of a work-related injury and that his wife abused her after taking the job. Anyway, in Jia Zhang's words, she was a victim and a punching bag in the family. It was as miserable as it could be.

Having received the sympathy of the Zhang family, Jia Zhang began to direct the conversation to Zhang Denggao. During the conversation, Jia Zhang suddenly said, "Brother, since Denggao is not handy and cannot earn high work points in the countryside, why don't you give him to me as an adoptive child? I will take him to live in the city. Don't worry! I will not only find him a wife, but also help him find a job. If it doesn't work out, I will ask my daughter-in-law to give the job to Denggao. But Denggao must take care of me in my old age and see me to the end of my life."

After hearing what Jia Zhang said, Jia Zhang's eldest brother thought it was a good thing, maybe his son would change and live a good life. So Jia Zhang's eldest brother called his third son Zhang Denggao and told him about the matter. Zhang Denggao, who had long wanted to stay in the village, heard about this good thing and agreed without thinking. With the witness of the elders in the village, Zhang Denggao was officially adopted by Jia Zhang.

After staying in the village for more than half a month, Jia Zhang and Zhang Denggao set out on the journey back to Sijiu City.

After a long time, Jia Zhang and Zhang Denggao finally returned to Sijiu City on New Year's Eve. As soon as she entered the house, Jia Zhang saw the dishes on the table and immediately smiled brightly. Then she looked at Qin Huairu and said, "Huairu, do you know that I brought your man back today and specially prepared such a table of dishes?!"