Siheyuan: Cooking journey

I don’t know when I developed this bad habit.

Sha Zhu used to steal some rare snacks like peanuts from the cafeteria and hide them under his bed.

A while ago, the secret under the sheets was turned upside down.

He Yuzhu has encountered this situation several times, and it was always the work of that kid Banggeng who came to steal things.

Now there is nothing under the bed.

He Yuzhu didn't go that way, but instead entered the room on the left.

The living place is a large open room with a small room on the left.

When put together, it becomes a spacious room.

In ancient times, this large room was blocked by a screen and had soft couches against the wall. It was a place for ladies to chat, drink tea and meet guests.

On the contrary, the small compartment on the left is the proper bedroom and the place to sleep.

Now this place has become a warehouse for storing miscellaneous items, with stored cabbages and grain piled inside.

As soon as He Yuzhu entered, the first thing that caught his eye was a pile of cabbage.

Cabbage was the main dish at that time.

The communes outside the city send supplies to the streets every month.

At that time, the street will notify every household.

Residents can go to the streets to buy food and store it with their food certificates.

In addition to cabbage, the street is also responsible for telling everyone the monthly quotas of various supplies, and occasionally adding some extra things, such as being able to buy an extra half pound of tofu and two taels of meat today. During festivals, you can also use your food ration book to buy candy, peanuts, melon seeds, etc.

These are in limited supply. If you know the news too late, you won’t be able to buy them.

So, at that time, apart from the grain stores, the most important source of information was the streets. Going to the streets early in the morning to see if there were any new goods became a part of daily life.

As for the grain store, its status is higher than that of the street and police station.

It knows exactly how many people are in every household around it, and it holds everyone's lifeblood in its grasp.

People from other places who came into the city had no grain books and no national grain coupons, so the grain stores would not sell them grain and they had to go hungry.

This method really restricts population mobility.

Because the grain book has restrictions, where to buy it is specified, and the grain book for this street can only be used here.

This was also an important reason why I was too lazy to move before.

After moving, I have to come back here to buy food, which is equivalent to giving up the right to purchase some daily necessities.

The streets are rotated. You can buy these on this street today, but it will be another street tomorrow. If you don’t know this information, it means you have automatically given up.

If you want to move, it's better to be closer.

After marrying Ran Qiuye, I can no longer just care about myself and ignore my sister.

Some daily necessities also need to be purchased.

He Yuzhu thought about all this in his mind and glanced around the small compartment.

There aren’t many cabbages here, and the system space can keep them fresh, so most of them are stored in the space.

I stayed behind so that He Yushui could watch over it. It wouldn't be possible for dinner to suddenly become a cabbage feast without even a single cabbage.

Some flour and cornmeal are treated in the same way.

What is left here is prepared for He Yushui.

Now, the cornmeal is still there, but the flour is gone.

Stolen?

He Yuzhu frowned slightly.

When we were sending the deaf old lady back to the backyard, our house was searched.

Really...

Do you think this is a charity? Come here whenever you get the chance and take whatever you see.

He Yuzhu was thinking about teaching this heartless brat a lesson.

At this time, He Yushui came back.

"Brother, I'm hungry, let's cook."

"By the way, this morning..."

Thinking about the flour, He Yushui mentioned what he heard in the morning.

"That's too much, Granny Zhang. She has money to buy painkillers but doesn't buy rice for Xiao Huaihua.

"Although I don't like Sister Qin very much, it's not good for the child to not have good food, so I sent the flour over;

"I'm fine, you still say I have no sympathy and am an ungrateful person."

He Yushui raised her little face, looking as if asking for praise.

He Yuzhu rubbed his eyebrows and couldn't help but sigh.

At first, he really didn't like this sister.

He ate his brother's food and used his brother's money, and finally pushed his brother into a widow's house as a laborer. He was like an ungrateful person and left the family without any support.

But as we got to know each other better, I discovered that she was kind-hearted, compassionate, and not a bad person at heart.

Compared to those selfish people in the yard, it's already pretty good.

I could tease her when I had nothing to do, and she gradually accepted it.

After all, there were some mistakes, and we can't blame her entirely. We can only say that Widow Qin was too clever.

Of course, the most important thing is that she is stupid and heartless, and there is no way to whitewash this.

No matter what, you can't push your brother into the arms of a widow with three children. What is he thinking? Is his head full of water?

Put yourself in his shoes. If you were thrown to a man with three children and treated like a slave, would you be happy?

Now, He Yuzhu feels that he shouldn't care about her.

I even wanted to find her a man like this to marry.

I wanted to create some distance between them and keep her away from Widow Qin, but I didn't expect that I would still be too sympathetic.

Someone robbed your house and wanted to drive you away. Even though they have such a big grudge against you, you still go to give gifts.

The funniest thing is that this time, Widow Qin didn’t even come to act to gain sympathy, but she took the initiative to come to the door.

This is no longer kindness or excessive compassion, but an excessive Madonna heart.

Don’t you know what hatred and resentment are!

"elder brother……"

He Yushui hesitated for a moment and said, "You lost your money, maybe you suspected that Banggeng stole it, so you didn't want to call the police;

"It's also because of this that I haven't wanted to interact with Sister Qin in the past two months, right?

"But in your heart, you still miss Sister Qin. You even gave up your own sister's house. I can see it.

“At first, I also thought it was Bangteng who stole it;

"But after hearing what they said this morning and knowing that Sister Qin's family was in such a difficult situation, I don't think Bang Geng stole it. If he did, Sister Qin's family wouldn't be in such a difficult situation, and there would only be three dollars left.

"This clears up the misunderstanding. Don't be so cold to Sister Qin in the future..."

He Yuzhu: "..."