Free Days in Siheyuan

Chapter 1338

On August 8th, the Jia family really got into trouble.

Boss Feng has been hiring people to follow Jia Dongxu, but he only found out that although Jia Dongxu is married, he is not very honest.

He was involved with several widows, but he was careful in his actions, so even if someone found out, there would be no evidence.

Boss Feng and Zheng Gouzi were very troubled by this. Without any evidence, everything was in vain.

But isn't this a coincidence? The brother who told Zheng Gouzi that he had submitted the letter of denunciation on the street that day accidentally discovered something interesting.

One afternoon, when Zhang Chao went out, he saw the familiar blue clothes.

Then I thought, isn't this the person who went back and forth several times in the street office that day? What is he doing sneakily this time?
Jia Dongxu didn't know that his cautious behavior to avoid other people's eyes aroused Zhang Chao's curiosity.

Zhang Chao was also a talented person. He did not follow him directly, but chose to find his way back from the direction he came from.

On the way, they asked the children who were playing hide-and-seek in the alley, and finally confirmed that Jia Dongxu came out of Widow Li's house.

When he heard the news, his eyes lit up, as if he had smelled something big.

You have to know that Widow Li is not a simple person. Although she was born in the countryside, she was sent to her current husband's family as a child bride when she was seven or eight years old.

But she was a ruthless person. After she found out that the person she was going to marry was not good-looking, she hooked up with her brother-in-law who was three years younger than her and was still in school. She became pregnant with her first child. Her in-laws were so upset that they had to replace her husband with her eldest son's and replace him with her youngest son's. They changed the story to others and said that she was a child bride for the youngest son.

But despite being rejected by her husband's family, she won over her husband, who was three years younger than her, and lived a happy life with four older sisters-in-law above her.

Moreover, the two of them made the family uneasy, and finally the father-in-law had no choice but to borrow money to buy a house and divide it between the two of them.

She became a widow after her husband accidentally drowned in the river last year.

In order to occupy the house they are currently living in, she found something to hold against her husband's family and forced them to sign the agreement.

But her husband's family were not people to be trifled with. Although they agreed to let her live in the house, she was not allowed to remarry. Moreover, the house had to be transferred to her two sons, and she had to raise the children.

But she spread the news, saying that she wanted to find another one to come to the door, and if she disagreed, she blocked the door of her in-law's house and made trouble.Moreover, her brothers had grown up too, and if they disagreed, they would arrest and beat their elder brother. There was only such a son left in the husband's family, so they could only agree for the sake of his son.

As soon as this incident happened, everyone nearby knew that Widow Li was looking for a accomplice to help her raise her child.

I'm afraid Jia Dongxu doesn't realize that his momentary indulgence in pleasure has brought him into big trouble.

If Widow Li knew that Jia Dongxu was married and had a four-year-old son, she would never let him go.

When Zheng Gouzi learned about this from his brothers, he laughed so hard that his mouth split open. "Now, let's see what Jia Dongxu is going to do?"

Afterwards, Zheng Gouzi took a handful of candy and went to the vicinity of Widow Li's house to find a few children.

"If you help me with something, I'll buy you some candy."

"That won't work. Who knows what bad things you're going to ask us to do?" The leading boy kept shaking his head.

"I'll give you half now, and I'll give you the other half of the candy after it's done." Having said that, Zheng Gouzi took out half of the candy from his pocket.

Looking at this handful of candies, the children's eyes lit up. You know, this is White Rabbit candy. They had only heard that it was delicious but had never tasted it.

Unable to help but waver, the boy next to him turned his head and looked at the child: "Boss!"

Seeing his men looking at him eagerly, he became greedy, swallowed his saliva, and said undecidedly: "We will help you, but you can't do bad things."

"It's not a bad thing. You just need to go to the door of the Li family and say a few words."

Then he handed the candy to the child.

Looking at the candy in his hand, the child gritted his teeth and said, "What do you want to say?"

"You go to the gate of Li's house and tell them that Jia Dongxu, a first-class fitter at the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, lost a lot of money playing cards today and was caught by his wife. She is now making a scene in the courtyard of a certain alley."

A few children were chatting and gossiping at the door of Li's house as if they were joking, and they also added many of their own descriptions in the middle, as if they had seen it with their own eyes.

The eldest son of the Li family is nine years old this year and has already understood a lot of things.

Knowing that his mother wanted Jia Dongxu to help his family, support him and send him to school, when he heard that Jia Dongxu was already married, his face fell and he immediately ran home to tell Widow Li about it.

When Widow Li heard the rumors that her eldest son had learned, she knew that they were most likely true and that someone had told them to her on purpose. Her face turned black.

After hearing the news, with Li Hehua's intelligence, how could she not understand that Jia Dongxu just wanted to take advantage of her and had no intention of taking responsibility at all.

Li Hehua's face was dark, and she wanted to knock on the door immediately, but she also knew that without evidence, the Jia family would not admit it. Moreover, if she made a fuss, her already bad reputation in the neighborhood would be even worse.

It doesn't matter to her, but she has two sons and a daughter. For the sake of her children's future, she has to swallow her anger.

"It seems that I underestimated him, but Jia Dongxu, is it so easy for me to get a bargain?"

Sure enough, within a few days, Li Hehua found something against Jia Dongxu and forced him to sign an IOU for 300 yuan.

The next day, he went to the Jia family's house and demanded that the money be returned.

Jia Zhang was still making a fuss and refused to acknowledge the debt.

But Li Hehua brought a few brothers from her mother's side and came to make trouble.

She also agreed to give them half of the loan so that they could get married. How could she just let it go like that after spending so much money?

Several of my brothers from my natal family are old enough, but they haven't found a wife because they are poor. If this happens, my eldest sister can vent her anger and get money to marry. Only a fool would do it.

Besides, if you join in the commotion, you can at least gain some advantage and save a few meals.

It was just after get off work, and nearby neighbors rushed over to watch the fun, but no one came out to help.

Over the years, Jia Zhangshi and Jia Dongxu have offended all their neighbors. Many people wish them bad luck, so naturally they will not stand up for them.

Jia Dongxu hid in the house and refused to go out. Only Jia Zhang and Qin Huairu were outside entangled with Li Hehua.

"Jia Dongxu, come out and tell me why you borrowed this money. If you have the guts, tell it in front of everyone." Li Hehua shouted.

Qin Huairu felt something was wrong when she heard this. Her woman's intuition told her that something must be wrong. Qin Huairu went back to the house and asked her husband why he owed so much money. Seeing her husband's silence and thinking about Li Hehua's appearance outside, what else was there to not understand?
She broke down and cried, "I married into your family in 53, gave birth to your son the following year, served my mother-in-law, and did housework. I never did anything well enough, and yet you treat me like this."

Jia Dongxu squatted on the ground, buried his head, and continued to remain silent.

He knew that he had embarrassed himself greatly today, and many people nearby should be able to guess the truth.

Thinking of this, his eyes became dark. He hated the neighbors for not helping him, and he also hated Li Hehua for holding onto his weakness and being aggressive.

He turned around and blamed Jia Zhangshi again. He just needed to give Li Hehua the money when she asked for it. Why was she making a fuss?

Anyway, the money in her hands will be hers sooner or later. Wouldn't it solve all the problems if she gave it to her in advance?
Now that everyone knows about the incident, how can I face people in the future?

Jia Zhang, who was making a fuss outside, didn't know that her son was blaming her, and just kept on making a fuss.

In the end, Qin Huairu wiped away her tears, cheered herself up, found Jia Zhang, and explained the seriousness of the matter to her.

In fact, Jia Zhang knew very well that her son was having some philandering thoughts, but she just thought that as a man, her son would never suffer any harm, so what was wrong with being philandering?
Knowing that he had caused a big disaster, he reluctantly took out the money and gave it to Li Hehua.

When she handed the money to Li Hehua, she felt so heartbroken that her hands throbbed. Li Hehua pulled hard several times before she took the money away from her hands.

Holding the money in her hand, Li Hehua left satisfied, leaving behind the neighbors who were talking about it.

Jia Zhang slammed the door hard and closed it.

This angered the neighbors who were watching the fun. "I knew that Jia Dongxu was not a good person. I think this money was probably taken by someone who had something to use against him."

After saying this, she smiled ambiguously. What kind of evidence could a widow possibly hold against a man? Isn't it obvious?
He had nothing to do that day, so he wandered around the capital. Firstly, he wanted to find more sources of goods to prepare for future purchases, and secondly, the Mid-Autumn Festival was coming soon, and people were allowed to set up stalls, so he had to take a good look around.

Suddenly I seemed to hear some sound and turned my head to look.

“Dang,” “Dang,” “Dang,”

Turning around, I saw that it was the sugar-exchanging porter carrying two round bamboo baskets.

The sugar-exchanging pole consists of two round bamboo baskets with a rectangular wooden plate on top. Inside the plate is a large piece of yellow malt sugar.

When they heard the sound of the small copper gong, the children in the alleys ran out of their homes, holding broken glass, bones, scrap copper and iron, orange peels, apricot kernels, old newspapers and magazines, broken shoes and shabby covers...

The crowd surrounded the sugar exchanger who was carrying a load on his shoulder. The man carrying the load was an old man in his fifties or sixties.

Seeing the children gathering around him, he quickly put down his burden and shouted, "Be careful, be careful, don't push, don't push, everyone can change, everyone can change."

Then the sugar exchanger took the waste handed over by the children and looked at how much the waste was worth. Then he used his unique sugar knife to hit the maltose with the sugar shovel, and knocked off a thin piece of maltose.

The child who got the candy quickly squeezed out of the crowd, and his younger brothers and sisters surrounded him in a circle, staring at the candy in his hand.

The older children also loved their younger brothers and sisters very much. They divided the maltose into several portions, one for each child. Then they wrapped up the remaining portion and said to their younger brothers and sisters, "Put the rest aside first, and we will go tomorrow."

The children who got the candy put the maltose in their mouths and ate it, feeling like they owned the whole world and were extremely happy.

Some children, reluctant to finish the candy in one go, would suck it in their mouths for a while and then quickly spit it out, but then could not help but keep it in their mouths again.

Those children who didn't get any candy would go home and pester their elders until the elders couldn't bear it anymore and took out a cent or two, or found some waste materials for them, and then they would happily go out to exchange for candy.

Seeing the children eating happily, Zhang Yu suddenly felt greedy. Although there were better candies in the space, he inexplicably wanted to eat maltose.

I was too embarrassed to buy it in front of the children, so I waited until the children had all left before quietly walking up to the shoulder pole and saying, "Give me 5 cents, please."

"Okay!" The old man selling candy quickly knocked off 5 cents for a bag of malt sugar, picked it up and handed it to Zhang Yu, who bought a big bag for 5 cents.

"Little brother, try my candy. It tastes good. Come again next time."

I took maltose to eat breakfast and looked at it. Today, the service includes fried dough sticks, sesame cakes, small wontons, pot lid noodles, soy milk, fried liver, stewed pork, and soy milk rubber rings.

Five cents for two fried dough sticks plus one liang of grain coupons, two cents for a large pancake plus one liang of grain coupons, seven cents for a bowl of wonton soup plus one liang of grain coupons, eight cents for a bowl of pot-lid noodles plus two liang of grain coupons...

Looking at the sign, Zhang Yu said, "Two fried dough sticks and a bowl of wonton, please."

"1 cents, plus two taels of food coupons." Then he shouted to the kitchen, "Two fried dough sticks and a bowl of small wonton."

Many people like to eat fried dough sticks with soy milk, but he prefers Hu La Tang. Hu La Tang is not available today, but small wontons are also good.

After paying, I quickly found a place to sit down to avoid being left without a seat. I had to look at the window so that I could get the food later.

After a while, the wontons were cooked and they were quickly brought over and placed on the table.

There was steam rising in the bowl, and each dumpling was snow-white and translucent, with a little red meat filling in the middle, and some chopped green onions sprinkled in the middle, which looked very beautiful in white and green.

Some seaweed and dried shrimps are added to the soup, making it taste even more delicious.

A tempting aroma spread to my nose, and I couldn't help but drink a spoonful of soup and eat a bite of wonton. The rich soup in the wonton scalded me, but I couldn't bear to spit it out, so I held it in my mouth and savored it carefully.

The soup rolls back and forth on the tongue, stimulating the taste buds and making people unable to stop eating.

This chef's cooking skills are really amazing. Look at the golden fried dough sticks next to it. Take a bite, it's crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.

The fried dough sticks just out of the pan were crispy. I ate a few bites of them dry and then soaked them in wonton soup. It would taste better if soaked in spicy soup.

The fried dough sticks are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, soaking up the broth of the spicy soup. The taste is amazing when you take a bite.

Thinking of this, I wanted to eat Huo La Tang more and more, and it seemed that the wontons in the bowl were not as delicious as they were at the beginning.

He hurriedly finished the wontons in the bowl, bought twenty fried dough sticks with his lunch box, and hurried home.

After returning home, I turned on the stove and let the fire burn brightly. I cut the tofu skin into shreds, took out the soaked black fungus from the space, cut it into shreds, cut the gluten into small pieces, put them in the pot, added water and brought to a boil over high heat.

It was a little difficult for him to prepare the seasoning, but he had the soup packets for Hu La Tang obtained by signing in through the system, which saved him a lot of trouble.

Moreover, products produced by the system must be high-quality.

When I first signed in for the soup dumplings, Zhang Yu cooked them once.