Traversing the courtyard

Chapter 290

Xu Damao was very happy today. His appointment to be promoted to deputy director came down today. Director Li even arranged a table with the five deputy directors in the evening.

After the wine session was over, Xu Damao sent Director Li to the car, bid farewell to Deputy Director Du, Deputy Director Nie and other four deputy directors, and walked home with his bicycle swinging.

"Drink the celebration wine today,

Unrequited aspirations and never-ending vows,
Come to Japan to show your skills,
Dry blood to write spring and autumn,
hahahaha"

Xu Damao was flustered, shaking his head and humming. He Yuzhu squatted behind the roadside tree and waited for Xu Damao to pass by. He took two steps forward and put the sack directly on Xu Damao's head.

Xu Damao cried out in surprise and was kicked down to the ground. Most of the wine was sober, and then he was punched, kicked and served with sticks.

He Yuzhu and Yi Weidong vented their anger and wrapped the sack with a rope a few times to increase Xu Damao's struggle time. He Yuzhu winked and pushed Xu Damao's bicycle and ran away.

By the time Xu Damao took the sack off his head, there was no one in sight.

"Where's my bicycle? Why was the bicycle pushed away?"

Xu Damao looked around and couldn't find any clues, so he could only curse a few words bitterly, and he was no longer in high spirits for being promoted today, his whole body hurt, his face was already swollen when he touched it, and he vomited a few times. With blood in his mouth, he could only swear and endure the pain and walked home.

After entering the courtyard, the third mother asked in surprise, "Xu Damao, what's wrong with you?"

Xu Damao snorted without answering, and walked directly to the middle courtyard.

"Bah, you deserve it, it looks like the beating is not light."

Seeing Xu Damao with a bruised nose and swollen face enter the room, Qin Huairu asked in surprise, "Da Mao, what's wrong with you? Who beat you?"

Xu Damao grinned and said, "Get me hot water first, and I'll take a shower. On the way, I was put in a sack and beat and kicked. Even the bicycle was pushed away."

Qin Huairu quickly poured half a basin of hot water, carefully wiped off the dirt on his face and asked, "Then did you see who hit it?"

"I don't even know how many people it is, how can I know who hit it!"

Qin Huairu washed the towel, wiped it again and said, "Then this beating will be for nothing?"

"I can't find anyone, what can I do? I don't know if it's the person I offended or to grab the bicycle."

"Then you can only admit that you are unlucky. Who made you do so many bad things?"

Xu Damao was unhappy when he heard this, and said, "I'm just doing work. If I don't do work, how can I spend money? How can I have anything to give to Director Li? How can I become the deputy director?"

"Are you the deputy director?"

Xu Damao said: "Yes, I was notified in the afternoon, but I didn't expect to be beaten in the evening. What bad luck."

Qin Huairu's heart moved and said: "Could it be someone who competed with you for the deputy director?"

If Yi Weidong knew that Qin Huairu led Xu Damao to a wrong path, he would definitely give a thumbs up.

After two days of worrying between He Yuzhu and Yi Weidong, Xu Damao didn't find fault with them, and it seemed that he didn't suspect them.

A few days later, the two beat Xu Damao again at night to grab a bicycle, and stomped Xu Damao angrily.

In the twinkling of an eye, the time came to the twelfth lunar month, and the third master Yan Pugui thought that he was going to write a couplet soon. Every year, this would be a good thing. This year, he would also like to get some good things according to the usual practice. If he didn’t give money, he would even give me some melon seeds and peanuts. Yes!

After dinner in the evening, Yan Bugui knocked on the door of the uncle's house and came in and said:
"Old Yi, it looks like the Chinese New Year is coming soon, do you want to call the whole hospital for a meeting?"

Uncle Yi said: "Old Yan, I am no longer the uncle in the courtyard, it is useless for you to come to me."

"Look at what you said, we can do without you in the courtyard."

Uncle Yi said: "Old Yan, if you want to have a meeting, you can do it. If you are looking for me, you are looking for the wrong person."

Yan Bugui smiled and said, "Then I will discuss the meeting in this courtyard."

"Okay, you can do it. I'll just sit on the side and listen to the drink."

Seeing that Yi Zhonghai didn't object, Yan Bugui thought that this first step would be completed, so he beckoned to him.

He smiled and said, "Okay, that's good, I'm going!"

The aunt laughed and said, "How come this is gone!"

Seeing Yan Bugui go far away, he sat down and said, "I think this old Yan wants to be the home of our courtyard."

"Who knows what he thinks in his heart, I am too old, and now I don't want to care about anything, as long as I look at He Xiao every day, I will be happy."

Uncle Yi went on to say: "Old Yan just can't see how much he weighs, how many bowls of dry rice he can eat, and he likes to meddle in other people's business without that level."

"That's right, I'm going to deliver food to the old lady."

Yan Bugui came to the second uncle's house again and told the story again.

Liu Haizhong got out of the workshop since he offended the workshop director before, so he can only clean in the rolling mill every day, and even in the courtyard, he also behaves with his tail between his legs. Hearing Yan Bugui's words, he said:

"Old Yan, if you want to have a meeting, you can hold it. I won't go anyway. If you want to do it, you can do it yourself."

Yan Bugui was just here to make a fuss, since he is not the leader of the rolling mill, there is no need to be afraid of Liu Haizhong, and said with a smile:

"That's right, it's enough with your words, I'll go there first, and I have to inform other people!"

The second aunt smiled and said, "Third Master, please walk slowly."

"You stay."

The second aunt closed the door and went back to the table and sat down and said, "He is looking at you and the first uncle, he wants to be the boss."

Liu Haizhong sighed and said, "If he wants to, he'll be the one. Anyway, it has nothing to do with me."

The more the second aunt thought about it, the more angry she became, and she couldn't help scolding the second uncle, but before she stopped, Liu Guangtian came in and made a fuss, and even called Liu Haizhong's name directly.

The second aunt saw that Liu Haizhong was about to lose his face, so she interrupted Liu Guangtian and asked:

"Guangtian, have you eaten yet?"

"I'm so busy all day long that I don't touch the ground, how can I have time to eat!"

The second aunt said with a smile: "Then you wait, I'll cook for you, in this yard I only count on you to save face for me as a mother!"

Liu Guangtian triumphantly took away the melon seed plate in front of Liu Haizhong and kowtowed it himself, but Liu Haizhong didn't make a sound and continued to sigh.

Yan Bugui soon came to Qin Huairu's house, saw that Xu Damao's face was still bruised, and told about the meeting again.

"Go ahead and tell me what to say."

Yan Bugui smiled and said, "What you said is wrong, who made you the biggest official in this courtyard. Why should I say hello to you?"

Xu Damao remembered that he hadn't met He Yuzhu and Yi Weidong, and said, "I said the third master, you just emphasized one thing at the meeting and warned some people to be careful and behave with your tail between your legs."

The third master gasped, Xu Damao wanted to use himself as a swordsman, Xu Damao hated Yi Weidong and Shazhu the most, there was no way for him to rush ahead.

Said: "Then you have to tell who these people are!"

Xu Damao put down his chopsticks and said: "I tell you what to say, what's the matter with the third uncle, the first and second uncles have finished playing, and you are the only one left, don't let me knock you down too, remember my words That sentence, be a man with your tail between your legs.”

Yan Bugui has been scheming all day, but he claims to be a cultural person, so he still can't do this kind of thing.

Said: "I don't like to hear what you say. Don't you understand me? I don't do things that don't comply with the rules, and I don't say things that go too far. I come to say hello to you because I respect you."

"Okay, okay, you can drive yours, this matter has nothing to do with me, I don't participate."

Yan Bugui said: "This is the end!"

After Yan Bugui left, Xu Damao said angrily, "I don't know what to do."

Only then did Qin Huairu say: "You, you can't be too stiff in the yard on the surface, we will have to live here for decades in the future!"

"I'm already the deputy director, and I still want to see Yan Pugui's face? It's really embarrassing for him."

"Okay, let's eat."

Yi Weidong called Yan Bugui in and sat down, poured a cup of hot tea, and asked, "Third Master, what do you want?"

Yan Bugui told about the meeting, and Yi Weidong knew that it was a good time for Yan Bugui to get some peanuts and melon seeds when he wanted to write couplets.

Although Yan Bugui in the entire compound also has shortcomings, it is a bit too much to calculate his own children, but a person who has not experienced that kind of hard life cannot imagine the difficulties in the past. The family lives worse than Qin Huairu's family, and it is not easy to maintain a living without help from others.

Yi Weidong said: "Third Master is going to write couplets soon, so I will open my mouth to trouble you today and write couplets for our houses."

Seeing that Yi Weidong was so clear, Yan Bugui asked directly, "Only about your house?"

"How can it be, even my uncle's, my brother's, and my sister's houses have to be written, and by the way, there are old ladies' houses, and I have an upside-down house."

Yan Bugui was about to burst into laughter: "There are quite a few houses here!"

Yi Weidong got up and took out a stack of red paper from the cupboard, then took out two bottles of Niu Er and handed it to Yan Bugui, "I've got the red paper ready, and I'll trouble you when I get old."

Seeing Yi Weidong so open-minded, Yan Bugui said, "I'll definitely think of some good words for you. What kind of wine are you taking? It's too outlandish."

With a humble mouth, he took it directly in his hand.

Yi Weidong smiled and said, "Third Master is not an outsider, so I can't drink this wine with me."

Yan Bugui said a few more polite words and walked away with a smile on his face.

He didn't see Yan Bugui convening a general meeting for several days. Yi Weidong met Yan Jiedi outside the hospital that day:
"Xie Di, why did the third master say that there was no movement when the meeting was held?"

Yan Jiedi laughed and said, "Brother Weidong, I told you, don't talk nonsense!"

"What else is there to keep secret?"

Yan Jiedi explained: "The ration of peanuts and melon seeds this year hasn't come down yet. My dad will hold a meeting after the ration is settled. Then I will mention the matter of writing Spring Festival couplets and collect some peanuts and melon seeds. Do you understand now?"

"Three masters are enough chicken thieves, counting the melon seeds and peanuts of each family."

Yan Jiedi kicked Yi Weidong and said, "Chou Weidong, did you say that about my father in front of me?"

Yi Weidong knew that he had said the wrong thing when he said it, and said, "Then let me ask you to set off firecrackers, okay?"

"Okay, let me tell you, I'm not afraid of shooting guns this year."

Yi Weidong smiled and said, "Alright then, let's go and buy two plates of Da Di Hong."

It’s almost the new year now, and there are more children setting off cannons on the street. It’s better to be a child, and you can play and frolic carefree.

After entering the twelfth lunar month, the days passed very quickly, and the new year passed in a blink of an eye. He Yushui came over to celebrate the festival, put the big bag on the table, and shouted: "Sister-in-law, where is my nephew?"

"Shh, keep your voice down, you're falling asleep." Lou Xiao'e came out of the back room and said.

He Yushui said embarrassedly: "Sister-in-law, I forgot that Xiaoxiao will sleep during the day."

After speaking, he pulled Lou Xiao'e's sleeve and said, "I brought some nutritional supplements and some southern pastries to give you a boost."

Lou Xiao'e looked at her fatter body than before and smiled and said, "Yu Shui, it's good that you are here, what else do you have?"

He Yushui took out all the things and put them into the cupboard and said, "Sister-in-law, I'm going to find Weidong, and I'll see my little nephew when I come back."

"Go, go back to the uncle's house for dinner."

"understood."

After He Yushui went out for a while, He Yuzhu came in and saw the big bag. He went into the back room and asked, "Is it the rain?"

"Yeah, I'm going to find Weidong when I put the things down."

"This rain, it's in vain that I came back early to prepare meals, and I didn't go to see my brother first when I got home."

Lou Xiao'e rolled her eyes and said, "Yu Shui and Wei Dong have a good relationship, are you still jealous?"

He Yuzhu smiled and said, "Yes, just pretend I didn't say anything."

He took a bottle of cooking wine from the cupboard and went out.

When He Yushui and Yi Weidong came over, the food was ready, and the second aunt pulled He Yushui and asked in a low voice, "Yushui, are you pregnant?"

He Yushui said shyly: "Auntie, not yet, we've only been married for two months!"

"Your brother is Xiaoxiao, and I'm just waiting for your good news. Our bodies are still strong, and it's time to take care of your children."

He Yushui responded with a few words, and sat down next to Yi Weidong.

Yi Weidong asked: "Sister, did aunt ask if you are pregnant?"

He Yushui patted Yi Weidong's thigh and said, "You laugh at me too!"

"Sister, don't I want to hug my little nephew?"

He Yushui blushed and said, "You still say? Go and hug Xiaoxiao."

Well, He Yushui couldn't ask her these questions when she was just married, and she would be beaten up if she did.

After eating, Lou Xiaoe said, "Yu Shui, let your brother send you away, or sleep in your room?"

"Don't worry, I'll sleep with Weidong."

The good news came the next day that the special offerings for the Spring Festival, such as the melon seeds, peanuts and sesame paste from years ago, can be bought in the non-staple food book.

When he went to work in the morning, He Yuzhu said: "Weidong, you see, if there is no meeting today, there will be a meeting tomorrow."

Yi Weidong smiled and said, "I already gave you two bottles of Niu Er, which is enough for the third master to drink by himself during the New Year's Eve."

"You are kind-hearted, and you give a little too much."

Yi Weidong smiled: "Third Master has to support six people with his salary. Although the boss Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li are married now, life is still tight. I just think it is not easy for Third Master."

Yi Weidong didn't compare Qin Huairu to He Yuzhu's face. He Yuzhu thought about how he foolishly gave Qin Huairu everything and money before, and felt that his previous behavior was very funny. No wonder he was 30 years old. I am still a bachelor.

He Yuzhu said embarrassedly: "The third master is more difficult. I only saw the third master being stingy before, and I didn't think about why he was so stingy."

"If you are not stingy like the third master, one or two children will starve to death."

(End of this chapter)