Love in the Siheyuan: Starting from Jia Dongxu

"What?" Jia Zhang's eyes widened as she looked at Jia Dongxu and she said loudly, "Jia Dongxu, what kind of wife did you find? Do you want her to bully your mother?"

Sha Zhu was startled by Jia Zhang's loud shout. He quickly picked up the bowl and sat on the threshold of the gate to eat.

"Ah? She's a good daughter-in-law. Uncle Jia and Second Uncle both say that my daughter-in-law is good." Jia Dongxu said as he ate the rice in the bowl. He was so hungry. After riding for several hours, he felt exhausted all over.

"Well, what the second brother said is still trustworthy. Did you and your wife go back to Jiajia Village today? Is your father's grave still there?" Jia Zhang looked at Jia Dongxu expectantly.

Jia Zhang came from the countryside and knew that the marriage was a verbal agreement between the two. Since her uncle Jia and her second uncle had said so, she was her daughter-in-law and there was no way she could escape from it. Her thoughts turned to the grave of Old Jia.

"Yes, there's only a small mound of earth left." Jia Dongxu uttered a few words intermittently with rice in his mouth.

"Oh, Old Jia, I'm so sorry. Your grave is no longer here after you're gone." Jia Zhang started crying again.

Jia Dongxu quickly swallowed the rice in his mouth with great effort, "Why are you crying? I'm still eating and haven't finished talking yet. Go out first and wait until I finish eating before we talk."

Jia Dongxu glanced at Jia Zhang with disdain. What a lack of vision! She didn't see that she was so hungry, yet she was still standing there like that.

Jia Dongxu rolled his eyes, took his bowl and sat down next to Sha Zhu to eat.

Sha Zhu finished the rice in his bowl and asked, "Aunt Jia, is there any more?"

"It's gone. How about giving you some pancakes? Now we can only have pancakes." Jia Zhang said from the side.

"Dongxu, do you want to eat some cake?" asked Sha Zhu.

Jia Dongxu was busy eating and stretched out his hand to gesture with two fingers.

"Okay, Aunt Jia, four pancakes." Sha Zhu said, and started stretching his arms and legs at the door.

"Zhu Zi, you're pretty good at these moves. Where did you learn them?" After finishing his meal, Jia Dongxu rubbed his stomach with satisfaction.

"I've been practicing with a customer at Fengze Garden since I was a kid." Sha Zhu said, "My dad sent me to Fengze Garden since I was a kid, and I practiced a few tricks with him."

"Where is that person?" Jia Dongxu asked.

"How would I know? I don't know him." said Sha Zhu.

Then he leaned closer and said, "I'm telling you in secret. That person ran to the other side and asked me not to tell anyone else."

"Well, you really can't tell anyone else. Remember, don't even tell your wife from now on." Jia Dongxu said in a low voice.

"Yeah, that person did say that. He said I can't even tell my wife." Sha Zhu laughed.

"Then you told me that you, the fucking cat, harmed me. I'm telling you, I didn't hear anything." Jia Dongxu said angrily, and then leaned over and whispered, "Didn't that guy give you anything?"

"Come, let me show you something good." Sha Zhu pulled him and continued to go into the room.

"What good stuff?" Jia Dongxu said.

I saw Sha Zhu moving the bed away with force, taking out a brick that was pressing on the bed, and starting to dismantle it. After a while, he saw a suitcase.

Sha Zhu twisted it with all his strength, then looked outside and saw Jia Zhang making pancakes, so he unzipped the box with confidence.

"Man, come and take a look!" Sha Zhu pointed at the box and pointed at Jia Dongxu.

"What is so mysterious?" Jia Dongxu said as he opened the box, took a glance, quickly covered his mouth, and then looked outside.

"Hey, Zhuzi, so many big yellow croakers? Were they all given to you by that person?" Jia Dongxu reached out and took a piece.

Oh my god, this feels amazing!

I gently stroked the yellow croaker and weighed it. It was pretty good, more than one kilogram.

Jia Dongxu counted them carefully and saw that there were about 30 of them.

After taking a look, Jia Dongxu packed up the big yellow croaker and said, "Zhu Zi, hide it well. Don't tell anyone, or it will cost you your life."

"That man asked me to keep it for him and return it to him when he comes back." Sha Zhu said, "He said I can take out two pieces when I get married."

Jia Dongxu glanced at Sha Zhu and asked, "Why did he ask you to keep him?"

"I don't know either. That person just told me not to tell anyone."

Sha Zhu said this and put the box back where it was.

"If you want to renovate your house, don't leave it there for now. When everyone is asleep at night, hide it in my house first. I'll return it to you after your house is built." Jia Dongxu grabbed Sha Zhu and said.

"Okay, then I'll recover first." Sha Zhu said as he pulled the bed over to cover him.

Jia Dongxu muttered to himself, could the person Zhuzi met be a high-ranking official over there?

Otherwise, how could there be so many gold bars? I think no one would know that the man actually used a child to hide the gold bars.

With Sha Zhu's personality, he can indeed keep a secret if he says so.

Otherwise, the boss would not have asked him to cook all the time.

"Zhu Zi, are you short of money now?" Jia Dongxu asked Sha Zhu while pushing the box under the bed.

Sha Zhu thought for a moment and said, "I'm not short of money. I'm going out to work now, so I won't be short of money in the future."

"In that case, let's keep the yellow croaker. Listen to me, the yellow croaker will become more valuable as time goes by. Maybe one yellow croaker can be sold for thirty or forty thousand yuan by then." Jia Dongxu estimated the price of gold in more than thirty years and gave a rough figure.

"How much?" Sha Zhu asked in surprise. Thirty or forty thousand, that would be a lot of money.

"Come on, it's not much. I'll help you earn more money when the time comes!" Jia Dongxu gave Sha Zhu a speechless look.

Jia Dongxu couldn't help but feel excited when he thought about the future after several decades. By then, he would be less than 50 years old. With these yellow croakers, haha, his life would be guaranteed.

"When the man comes back, we will return the gold to him. If not, we will do business with him."

"Okay." Sha Zhu nodded.

"You are not allowed to tell anyone about this, got it?" Jia Dongxu reminded Sha Zhu again.

"Okay, I get it. If you hadn't told me that I was going to get married, I wouldn't even tell you."

"Okay, let's wash our hands and go eat some cake," Jia Dongxu walked out, humming to himself, "I'm really proud of myself today."

Jia Dongxu almost laughs when he walks now. Now that his future life is guaranteed, he can continue to pursue his career with foresight.

He took the pancake made of three-grain flour and ate it with relish.

Jia Zhang watched curiously from the side, "Son, don't you not eat three-grain noodles? Why are you eating it today?"

How could Jia Dongxu tell her the truth? He stammered that he was too hungry.

Seeing that the two had finished eating the cake, Jia Zhangshi finally spoke, "Dongxu, tell mom, what happened to your father's grave?"

"It's nothing. Your daughter-in-law fixed it." Jia Dongxu said while gesturing, "Your daughter-in-law took a shovel and dug the soil for more than two hours. She piled the grave up again. It's piled very high."

"Bah, you have such a filial daughter-in-law and you still say that others bully me. You really have bad intentions." Jia Zhang said as she slapped Jia Dongxu.