Siheyuan, Me and the Yu Sisters

It was cold in winter and it got dark early. Liu Haizhong and his group returned home after dark. Not long after they got home, Yan Bugui came to their house.

Yan Bugui sat opposite Liu Haizhong, holding a cup of hot water and smiled.

"Lao Liu, this is good enough. You even added sugar. How generous."

He put down the cup and gave Liu Haizhong a thumbs up.

White sugar was a rare commodity. Not only did you need a special white sugar ticket, but you also had to limit the amount you could buy.

Besides the department stores and other large supply and marketing cooperatives, the general street supply and marketing cooperatives in the city did not have any goods.

That is, Liu Haizhong became the director and taught his apprentices personally. Operating the forging equipment was very labor-intensive, so the factory allocated eight taels of sugar tickets per month.

If it were another job, for example, the three people in Yan Bugui's family might not even get half a pound of sugar tickets a year.

Liu Haizhong smiled and said

"It's not easy for you, Old Yan, to come here, I have to take it seriously"

"I didn't see you at the door when I came back today?"

Yan Bugui took another sip, which was sweet and soothing to the throat, and explained:

"I attended a pre-class briefing at school this afternoon."

"I have to wait until the education is finished before I can leave."

"These days, I don't dare to speak out about anything outside, for fear of causing trouble."

Liu Haizhong smiled. He was not afraid of outside events in the factory. Right now, the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill and the northern suburbs were the only stable places in the city. There was no major outside influence that could cause chaos.

Liu Haizhong went to a seat opposite Yan Bugui and asked

"Did you ask Shazhu today?"

"What does he mean?"

Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui had discussed Sha Zhu and Qin Huairu's move back a few days ago, but Yi Zhonghai was not sure whether Sha Zhu and Qin Huairu could reach an agreement.

So what Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui meant by discussing was that Yan Bugui should pay attention to Sha Zhu's actions in the courtyard and test the waters first.

Yan Bugui explained

"It's settled, and I'm coming back."

"Now he has already gone to the Jia family to clean up the mess."

"I just came from the middle courtyard and saw that the Jia family was very busy. The old Yi couple were cleaning things in the house with him."

Liu Haizhong looked out the window

Zhang Renkang's family had their curtains drawn, but from the silhouettes one could tell they were clearing the table and preparing for dinner.

Say

"Silly, I don't really care."

"Qin Huairu's return is no small matter, especially her disabled son. Last time, I went with Lao Yi to visit her family."

"You're the only one who didn't go. You don't know that the room is almost smelling like medicine jars."

"The look in that little bastard Banggeng's eyes is like he wants to eat me."

"If we let her family come back, we're afraid that the hospital will be in chaos again."

"Just the sound of Banggeng's barking is enough to torture me at night."

Liu Haizhong doesn't really care about Qin Huairu's family.

But if they move back, will the people across the street be willing?

Zhang Renkang's family is also talking about these things

Yu Li sighed and said

"These few years have passed, and the hospital is now stable. We want Qin Huairu to come back with her family."

"Won't it be a mess again?"

Qin Jingru said helplessly

"My cousin has lost her enthusiasm now."

"I heard what an old lady said"

"His son now seems a bit like Jia Zhang, addicted to painkillers"

"You said that their whole family is coming back. It's not a big deal for us. If we really have to, we can just not let them into the backyard."

Zhang Renkang took a sip of the porridge and shaved off the meat that was stuck in his teeth.

"Move back, move back."

"We are no longer the same kind of people,"

"Just don't associate"

"Otherwise, people will accuse us of bullying orphans and widows."

"Bang Geng is disabled. Qin Huairu and Sha Zhu just want Sha Zhu to take over her job."

"If you want to support their whole family, is Shazhu tied down for life?"

Yu Shui, who was sitting there thinking while holding the porridge, suddenly asked

"Brother Renkang, do you think Qin Huairu will give birth to a child for him?"

Yu Haitang hummed and said

"The family is already starving, so why would they give birth?"

"I said rain, what do you think?"

Qin Jingru, who was holding Hongmei, smiled and shook her head and said

"Not always"

"My sister, even if she doesn't give birth to a fool, she still has to think about who will take care of her in her old age."

"Can she still count on Bangteng?"

Zhang Renkang said with a chuckle

"People say that there are no filial sons for a long-term sick bed. Qin Huairu can be considered a qualified mother."

"With Banggeng like this, I'll have to eat her for the rest of my life"

"Don't you think that Qin Huairu's attitude towards Bang Geng is just a bit of maternal instinct to support herself?"

"But how long can this maternal instinct last?"

Yu Li and Jing Ru must have seen what kind of personality Jia Zhang has become because of Bang Geng, right?

Have you seen rain?

Yu Haitang was the only one in the room who didn't know much about the Jia family. Apart from what her family had told her, when she entered the compound, the Jia family had almost been torn apart by Zhang Renkang.

And at this time

"I do not care"

"I disagree"

"Qin Huairu, if you marry that idiot Zhu, I won't forgive you."

"I would rather die than acknowledge that idiot Zhu as my father"

"You are a member of our Jia family. Don't think that you can get rid of your relationship with our Jia family just because my father and grandmother are gone."

Bang Geng leaned against the wall with a fierce look in his eyes, looking at Qin Huairu who was trembling with anger on the kang and his two sisters who were shivering in the corner.

The rude shouting

Qin Huairu finally calmed down and said

"Bang Geng, how can you call yourself Uncle He like that?"

"Mom, who is this for? It's for you guys."

"Mom only earns 18 yuan a month, and your medicine alone costs 8 yuan. The rest is not enough for our family to eat."

"Can't you understand your mother?"

Banggeng's chest kept rising and falling, and his arrogant eyes slanted

"no"

“I don’t care, I just don’t agree”

"Qin Huairu, don't even think about taking away our Jia family"

"I know, you just dislike me being a burden, don't you?"

"I want to have another child with Shazhu"

"You're a bitch"

Snapped

pop

Papapa

Qin Huairu can't control herself

Go up and give the stick a big mouth

Then two more big mouths slapped him in the face.

Then he slapped himself three times like crazy

He collapsed and squatted on the ground and cried

She couldn't bear it anymore.

She's just a woman.

Especially in the past two years, I have been raising a disabled son and two daughters.

I work during the day, and at night I have to take care of the guy who is crying out in pain from his broken leg.

Who can understand how she got through these two years?

Her dark complexion and one-third of her hair being white are proof of her hard work.

What's wrong with her?

She just wants to live an easy life

Is there anything wrong?

Why does she have to endure this pain?

The more Qin Huairu thought about it, the more she felt wronged. She cried even more miserably than when she cried in front of Jia Zhang's grave.

As for Jia Zhang, she was just trying her best to be a daughter-in-law.

A widowed mother has to support three sons.

But tonight, the good joke

It really broke Qin Huairu's heart.

Even on the day she was kicked out of the courtyard, Qin Huairu had never been so sad.

Qin Huairu was crying on the ground

The joke of being beaten unconscious on the kang

There are two sisters who are even more frightened, shivering in the corner.

Qin Huairu's family

It's obviously colder inside tonight than the wind outside.