Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

His wife then went over and closed the door with a puzzled look on her face. Yan Bugui asked his wife to sit down and roughly repeated to her what Lin Geng had said to him when they went to Lin Geng's house today.

After hearing this, his wife was also stunned. She sat there in a daze for a long time. Yan Bugui sighed and continued, "I have lived for so many years, but I still don't see things as clearly as Xiaolin. Others have seen through things long ago, but I have never seen through them. I always thought that there was nothing wrong with what I did, but the two of us have been scheming and scheming, and we have made everyone in the courtyard dislike our family!

After all the scheming, I ended up losing all the affection I had for my child!

Think about it carefully, why would Jie Cheng and Jie Fang rather give up their lives at home and travel so far to work, and live in the factory dormitory? And eat the disgusting communal meals!

Isn’t it because the two of us have been plotting against them and they really can’t stand it anymore, so they would rather stay away from us than come back to this home?

If we continue to plan like this, Jie Kuang and Jie Di will run away sooner or later. We worked hard to raise them, but we turned them into enemies and ungrateful people!

Think about it carefully, is it all the children's fault? Probably not!

Xiao Lin is right. We, my husband and I, are calculating every day, even our own children. We have calculated away the family affection, so if the children have any way out, they will choose to stay away from us!

If this continues, when we are old, who among the four will take care of us? When we are too old to move, there will be no one around to take care of our shit and urine!

The old deaf woman in the backyard, at least before she died, she could exchange her house for the silly couple to help take care of her and see her to the end of her life. Who can we count on then? By then, the children won’t even like us. When we lie in bed, we will cry to the sky and the earth, but no one will answer us. We can only lie in our own shit and urine and wait to die!"

After hearing Yan Bugui's description of their miserable fate when they get old, his wife was immediately frightened, her face full of fear, and she hurriedly grabbed Yan Bugui's arm and said to him, "Old Yan, what should we do? We have spent so much effort and saved money to raise them, how can they not respect us?

What if they don't care about us when we get old? "

As she spoke, Aunt Yan began to sob.

Yan Bugui said impatiently: "Cry, cry, cry, why are you crying? Isn't this just our own fault? If Xiao Lin hadn't told me all this today, I would still be obsessed with it!

Although money is indeed important, think about it carefully: if our children hate us and are unwilling to be filial to us when they grow up, then what is the point of saving money?

We can't go on like this! If we continue like this, Lin Geng is right. When we really get old, no one will care about us!

We have to change our calculating habits in the future, otherwise, when we get old, we might be even more miserable than the old deaf man in the backyard!

You will see that Liu Haizhong will have a miserable old age with no one to support him. We cannot end up like him. If that happens, we might as well hang ourselves to death. I, Yan Bugui, am a scholar after all and cannot afford to lose face!"

Yan Bugui's wife was not a woman with her own opinions. She had followed Yan Bugui all her life and listened to him in everything. When Yan Bugui said that he would change his calculating habits in the future, she nodded. But after nodding, she hesitated and wiped her tears and asked Yan Bugui:

"Old Yan, are you serious? Are we really not going to guard the door and plot against people in the future? Then you won't be able to take advantage of anyone in the future!"

Yan Bugui was so angry at his wife's behavior that he almost died. He really wanted to slap this old woman to death, but as a scholar, he usually wouldn't hit people, so he could only scold her angrily: "What a plot! Don't you think that after we had a falling out with Xiao Lin, who in the yard is willing to let us take advantage of you? Have you taken advantage of anything in all these days?

Since it's like this, let's be more generous in the future! At least we can make good friends, so as to avoid the same situation as now, where we have a quarrel with Xiaolin and everyone in the hospital ignores us!

Cook more in the future, don't be so stingy, make sure the children are well fed! Save where you can and spend where you can, don't go on like this, or the children will hate you!

When I have time in the next two days, I will ask Xiao Lin to call Jie Cheng and Jie Fang back. We will admit our mistakes to the children and not plot against them in the future! We can still repair our relationship with the children now, otherwise, they will really ignore us in the future!"

After hearing this, his wife nodded and sighed, agreeing to Yan Bugui's request. However, when she continued to cook according to Yan Bugui's instructions, she still looked distressed. After hesitating for a while, she finally put away most of the chicken, marinated it with heavy salt, and hung it up to dry. It could be kept for a while.

As for the one pound of pork belly, most of it was cut off, leaving only two taels. The rest was fried and put into a jar with plenty of salt. This was a way to store meat when the weather was hot and there were no refrigerators. It could be stored for several days without going bad. When cooking, scoop a spoonful and put it into the dish, and it could be eaten for several days.

At noon, when Yan Jiekuang and Yan Jiedi returned home from school for lunch, they smelled the aroma of chicken soup and fried meat before entering the house. They were both very surprised, their mouths watering immediately, and they rushed into the house immediately.

When the two rushed into the house, they were even more surprised to see a large bowl of steaming, fragrant chicken soup on the dining table, a plate of stir-fried meat with beans, and another plate of shredded potatoes.

So the two of them immediately came to the table with saliva dripping, looking at the food on the table with stars in their eyes, and tears of excitement flowed from the corners of their mouths.

"Mom and Dad! What day is it today? Why do you make so many delicious dishes? Are you going to invite anyone for dinner?" Yan Jiekuang wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and asked excitedly to Yan Bugui and his wife. At this time, Yan Jiedi also looked at Yan Bugui with a puzzled and eager look on her face.

Yan Bugui looked at Yan Jiekuang and Yan Jiedi, with a rare amiable smile on his face, and said to Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiedi: "We are not inviting anyone today, just our family. Your parents see that you are too busy with your studies, so they are giving you some nourishment! Go wash your hands and come over to eat!"

Yan Bugui's answer completely stunned Yan Jiekuang and Yan Jiedi. They could hardly believe their ears and stared at Yan Bugui in amazement, thinking that they must have been hallucinating, or they were dreaming and had not woken up yet.