Siheyuan: Struggle in the Red Era

The matter between the He and Xu families was finally frightened away by He Yushui and He Sanmei threatening to call the police and sue the Xu family for extortion. However, He Yuzhu also paid a large sum of money for the inspection before he was able to get away.

"My sister-in-law scolded my brother for three days and even said that if my brother continued to beat people like this, they would just divorce. The money he earned every month was not enough to pay for his medical expenses. If this continued, the three of us would starve to death."

"My brother was scolded like a grandson, and he didn't dare to talk back."

"This is the first time I've seen my brother so cowardly. He didn't dare to move even when someone twisted his ears and scolded him."

Lin.

He Yushui was muttering to himself and scribbling on the notebook angrily with his hands.

Lin Baoyan moved her arm away distressedly and pulled out the notebook: "Your brother should have someone to take care of him. So much money was lost just because he relied on his strength to beat people up. Don't you feel bad? Even an outsider like me feels so sad when I see this."

"How can I not feel bad? The meals my sister-in-law prepared these days are all steamed bread and pickled vegetables. Not to mention the taste of meat, there is not even a drop of oil."

Lin Baoyan glanced at her. This girl had a father who was a chef when she was a child, and she had no shortage of money. After her father ran away, she received living expenses on time every month. Her brother didn't care how she spent the money. She had enough money and never went hungry. Now that she had a sister-in-law, she suddenly lived such a hard life. Although the source of the hard life was her brother, she couldn't help feeling a little uncomfortable.

"Okay, once your brother changes, your sister-in-law will naturally stop eating these every day. If you really can't get used to them, you can have extra meals when you go to school."

After saying that, he stood up and went to the kitchen, pretending to take something out of the cupboard, but actually took out a plate of fried peanuts from the space, put them on the table with chopsticks, and said, "Try it. I fried them freshly. You have a good taste. See if there is anything that can be improved."

He Yushui wanted to say something but stopped himself, then sighed, and without saying anything, took the chopsticks, picked up the peanuts and tasted them carefully.

The days after school started passed quickly. Because of skipping a grade and the days after traveling through time, she was already twenty years old. She really couldn't get along with the kids who were in their teens. She felt that the games played by her classmates, such as dropping the handkerchief and hopscotch, were too childish. So, after class every day, Lin Baoyan either went to the teacher's office to ask questions or sat in her seat to review and preview, which made her classmates around her come to her and beg her.

"Lin Baoyan, come play with us. We'll let you do hopscotch first."

"How about hitting a sandbag? I brought a new one."

"If you don't like it, let's go jump rope. It'll be fun if there are so many of us jumping together."

"If you don't like these, you can go play hoop rolling with us."

"Come play with us, please."

Lin Baoyan was annoyed and asked helplessly: "What's wrong with you? I've said it before, I don't like playing these games."

All the students wailed, "Why don't you like playing games?"

"You love studying so much every day, the teacher criticized us when he saw it."

"Why can't we learn from you? But, I also studied very hard."

"Recess is supposed to be for playing."

Listening to the complaints of these lovely little classmates, Lin Baoyan felt a little embarrassed. She just focused on her own studies and forgot that her classmates were still children and did not have as much experience as she did in other lives. They did not understand how difficult it was to find a job in society without a diploma and knowledge.

But this is not the new century. This is the 996s, not the blessed society of the future. In fact, there is no need for her to push herself so hard, and cause these little classmates to suffer as well.

So he smiled and closed the book, saying, "Okay, let's go play, but you said that I should play first, so you can't cheat."

"Okay, okay, you can play first, you can play any one of them first, okay? Let's go, let's go quickly."

"Hurry up, hurry up, or you'll have to go to class again if you're late."

Playing with cute kids and being the one who gets treated preferentially, even though this preferential treatment is actually a bribe, it still feels great.

After returning home from school in the afternoon, Lin Baoyan still maintained this happy mood. From the moment she entered the compound, she smiled and called out to everyone she saw, confusing everyone along the way.

"Did this girl pick up money?"

"Yeah, that little face is smiling."

"She is in school all day, where did she go to pick up the money? Maybe she was praised by the teacher. My daughter was praised by the teacher, and this is her expression."

"Oh, your daughter was praised by the teacher. What did the teacher praise her for?"

"Praise her for helping her classmates clean the playground."

Entering the middle courtyard, Zhou Kangzhan was moving the coal stove outside the door and lighting the honeycomb coal. No one knew how he did it, but a thick smoke came out, which was so choking that Jia Zhang, who lived next door, had to hide in the east wing and stand far away, refusing to go home.

Ever since Zhou Kangzhan moved in last time and scared her, Jia Zhang has become much more obedient. Now, seeing Zhou Kangzhan burning the coal stove like this, she doesn't dare to make a fuss.

Zhou Kangzhan was also choked by the smoke, so he stood up with the fire tongs in hand to avoid it. He turned around and saw her coming in. He smiled and asked, "Baoyan, you look so happy today. Is there any happy event at school?"

Lin Baoyan smiled and said, "Nothing, I'm just happy that I won a game with my classmates. Stop burning the coal stove. I'll go get you some coal balls."

"You've been away from home for a whole day, and the coal briquettes are still burning?" Zhou Kangzhan was surprised.

"I changed three coal briquettes before I went out, and the damper was closed tightly. Usually, when I come back, the coal briquettes are still burning." Lin Baoyan walked to the backyard, and Zhou Kangzhan hurriedly followed with a coal briquette.

"Brother Zhou, I haven't seen you for several days." Lin Baoyan took out the key and opened the door.

Since that day when she delivered dinner, she and Zhou Kangzhan had somehow become very close. He Yushui had even been jealous of her, saying that she was disloyal and that they were obviously good friends, but she was secretly so close to Brother Zhou.

"Yes, I'm busy with work." Zhou Kangzhan was not polite and went to the kitchen to replace the honeycomb coal that was almost burned out.

"By the way, Baoyan, my comrade-in-arms mailed me some pine nuts. I'll bring them to you later."

Again.

Lin Baoyan was helpless. This Brother Zhou always treated her like a child and gave her all the snacks he had. But she was not the kind of person who would take favors from others without giving anything in return. In order to give him a gift in return, her brain was almost drained. She was also under a lot of pressure.

Even if she wanted to refuse, this person had to force it on her. If she hadn't found nothing unusual, she would have suspected that this person had bad intentions towards her.

Forget it, once she gets the pine nuts, she will process them and make them into something else and return them.

Zhou Kangzhan quickly came over with a bag of pine nuts and a bag of flour.

Lin Baoyan was cooking and asked him casually, "Do you have any food at home? If not, you can eat here."

Zhou Kangzhan said with a smile: "I came back late, there must be nothing left in the market, so I will have to trouble Baoyan today."

Lin Baoyan rolled her eyes and said, "Okay, you're sure." She didn't even plan to go to the vegetable market and just came here directly.

At first I thought he was so righteous and I admired him so much, but after just a few months he became like this.