Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 407 One thing after another
Silly Zhu stood at the door of the house, glaring at Yan Jiecheng with wide eyes. He was angry and annoyed.

In the past, in the compound, apart from his sister Yuyu, the person he cared about most was the old lady who always treated him as her grandson.

He had never been loved by his father and his mother since he was a child. He Daqing left the compound without saying goodbye more than ten years ago. Silly Zhu and Yuyu were instantly without support. It was the old lady who took him and Yuyu, who had just become sensible, to the backyard to greet him and give him a warm welcome. Cook and eat.

Although later, Yi Zhonghai, because he was the steward of the Intermediate Court, has been taking care of Sha Zhu and Yu Yu in all aspects.

But when Si Zhu was most helpless and in the most difficult situation, the old lady was the first to reach out.

Can Shazhu not remember this kindness in his heart?

This is why, after Xu Qing's parents passed away, Silly Zhu would give one of the lunch boxes brought from the factory to Xu Qing's family. That was not to mention that the four Xu Qing brothers and sisters had the most difficult life at that time.

Silly Zhu always ran to the backyard, and from time to time he would visit the old lady, take time to help cook, and go out for walks on his back.

This all has its roots, which is why Silly Zhu always likes to fight against injustices and does not want to see others being bullied.

He is a poor man, how can he get used to those injustices, but if he can help, he will never hesitate.

At this time, Yan Jiecheng was scolded by Sha Zhu, and when he saw Sha Zhu looking furious, he felt frightened for a moment and stammered:
"Silly Zhu, you, you kid, don't act nonsense. I'm just going to read the old lady's will. My family won't fight with you about the house. I just went to the street to do it. I know it's true that the old lady gave the house to you and Qingzi."

Upon hearing this, Silly Zhu was slightly stunned. Half of the fire in his heart was gone. He stared at the malicious Yan Jiecheng and said coldly:
"Since you know this, why are you reading the will?!"

Yan Jiecheng saw that Silly Zhu had restrained his temper, and bravely said: "Sinzhu, the old lady gave you the house, but the things in the house, please take out the will and let me take a look. I think those things, Old My wife probably gave it to you without saying anything, right?"

Silly Zhu finally understood that Yan Jiecheng saw that he couldn't decide on the house and was planning to get the things in the old lady's house.

"Yan Jiecheng, I know you're not holding back anything good. You want to see the will, so let the third uncle come over by himself. You, just stay here!"

After Shazhu said coldly, he turned around and entered the house, slamming the door shut.

Yan Jiecheng was disappointed. Seeing that Silly Zhu didn't take him seriously, he cursed in a low voice and returned to the front yard to tell Yu Li what had happened.

Yu Li was wearing a plaid shirt. The more she looked at Yan Jiecheng, the more she felt that it was useless.

She just came up with the idea of ​​seizing the things in the old lady's house. She didn't dare to let Yan Jiecheng ask Yan Bugui to go to the middle courtyard to find Sha Zhu to read the will. He bit his back molars angrily and stabbed the old lady with his right index finger. Yan Jiecheng's forehead.

"You are just a useless snack. You can't even cure a fool. I'm really blind!"

And Yan Bugui, who lives in the front yard, doesn't know what his son and his daughter-in-law have just planned.

However, before nightfall, Yan Bugui heard from Jia Zhang of the Intermediate Court in the courtyard that his son Jie Cheng was looking for Sha Zhu to read the will and wanted things in the old lady's house.

Yan Bu's noble face was livid. He stood in the front yard and cursed at Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li.

He is the third master of the courtyard, a good-looking person, and he is also a teacher, teaching and educating people, and setting a good example for others.

Although he usually likes to take advantage, the old lady left the house to Sha Zhu and Xu Qing. How can he make her face plot against the things in the house.

He never thought that his son and daughter-in-law would give him a "long face" today, and they went to see Silly Zhu with the third aunt behind his back.

Yan Bugui said angrily: "Jie Cheng, you and your wife are really promising. There are so many people in our hospital, and no one from other families cares about the things in the old lady's house. But you two don't think it's embarrassing. Don't treat me and your mother's old faces." Isn't it okay to throw it on the ground and make people laugh?"

Yan Jiecheng covered his face with the cattail leaf fan in his hand, lowered his head, did not dare to breathe, and remained silent.

Yu Li looked unconcerned. It had not been ten years since she married into the compound. She didn't think it was a big deal when the old lady was alive, and she didn't care now that she was dead.

"Dad, I asked Jie Cheng to find Silly Zhu. Those things in the old lady's house are just gathering dust. You might as well bring them into my house and let me do my bidding."

Yan Bugui was angry and helpless when he saw that his daughter-in-law was the mastermind. As a father-in-law, he could not do anything to his daughter-in-law Yu Li. He sighed and said:

"Yu Li, if you marry Jie Cheng, our family has not treated you badly, right? Why do you need food and clothing if you are lacking it?"

Before Yan Bugui finished speaking, Yu Li raised her hand and interrupted:

"Dad, what do I wear all day? Take a look at what Xu Qing's daughter-in-law Jinghong wears in the backyard. In addition to the sewing machine that Jie Cheng and I bought last year after working hard for several years, there is also something else we can use. Can you do it?"

Yan Bugui is speechless.

Yu Li continued: "Dad, you always go to Xu Qing's house when you have nothing to do. You don't know what is in their house? A radio, an electric fan, a bicycle, a sewing machine, everything you need. Where is our house?"

The more Yu Li talked, the more excited she became. She felt very wronged. Tears flowed from her eyes and she sobbed:

"Jie Cheng asked you to borrow money, but you didn't give it. We wanted to use the bicycle, but you didn't let us use it. Today I asked him to go find Si Zhu and get some useful things from the old lady's house. They are not in our house. I have nothing and no money to buy it.”

Yan Bugui was choked by Yu Li's series of words and couldn't open his mouth for a long time. When the three aunts on the side saw their daughter-in-law crying again, they sighed secretly and took advantage of the darkness to reach out and pull Yan Bugui. , let's stop talking.

Yan Bugui didn't want to be blamed for bullying his daughter-in-law, so he turned around and walked into his small study, closed the door and sat there alone, feeling sad secretly.

A week later, the matter of the old lady's house was finally settled.

No one in the yard was thinking about it anymore. Silly Zhu took advantage of the nice weather on the weekend and walked to the backyard to discuss with Xu Qing to clean the old lady's house and put it in order.

He didn't plan to live in it, and he didn't even think about renting it out.

Of course, the old lady passed away not long ago, so no one would be willing to rent it right now.

The cabin assigned to Xu Qing was previously occupied by Feng Ming and Ai Guo. After Ai Guo got married last year, Xu Fengming became the only one living there.

But not long ago, Feng Ming also married Tang Xiujuan, and now the cabin is empty and has been idle for a while.

Xu Qing took his sister to clean up the small house, and then went to the old lady's main house to help Shazhu clean it.

Ma Jinghong's stomach was bulging, but she couldn't help even if she wanted to.

More than two hours later, Xu Qing and Silly Zhu locked both the main house and the small house respectively.

Liu Haizhong stood at the door of his house, brushing the mud stains on his yellow rubber shoes with a shoe brush while looking sideways at Sha Zhu and Xu Qing who locked the door.

He failed to win the old lady's house. Although he felt a little uncomfortable, it was better than Yi Zhonghai in the middle courtyard.

Yi Zhonghai almost fell ill. He couldn't understand why he and his aunt had taken care of the old lady all these years.

Compared with Lao Yan and Lao Liu in the compound, they are much more diligent.

As a result, the old lady had two houses, but she didn't leave one for him.

Yi Zhonghai hadn't set foot in the backyard for several days. Now he was sitting on the kang in the house, smoking a cigarette, and couldn't figure out what he could not do to the old lady to let her treat him like this.

The aunt sat aside and mended Yi Zhonghai's clothes and said:
"Master, you see, I said a few years ago that the old lady was haunted, and you still didn't believe it. Now it's fine. Nothing has been left for our family. Everything has been given to Zhu Zhu and Xu Qing's family."

Yi Zhonghai took two puffs of cigarette and said to himself:

"It's okay that the old lady didn't give the house to our family. Lao Yan from the province is jealous of Lao Liu's family. We don't have any children. It's useless for the old lady to leave it to us. It's okay to give it to Zhuzi. From now on, when we grow old Well, we still don’t know whose hands this house will fall into.”

As Yi Zhonghai spoke, he raised his head and looked around at his room, with many thoughts in his mind.

The aunt couldn't find the scissors, so she bit off the black thread on her clothes with her teeth and whispered:

"Head of the family, we are not going to rely on Zhuzhu to support him in his old age. If Zhuzhu comes to our house in a few days, we will leave our house to him in advance."

Yi Zhonghai shook his head and said: "It's too early, why are you in a hurry?"

After hearing this, the aunt stopped talking and continued to use the needle and thread in her hand to pick up a pair of trousers and sew them silently on the kang.

The sun was shining high, the sun was dazzling, the sky was as clear as a mirror, and not a single cloud could be seen.

The weather was extremely hot, making it impossible to stand in the courtyard.

In the front yard, Yan Bugui went out to the flea market early in the morning to buy some old furniture. He was sweating all over his neck and was pulling his bicycle from the alley to the courtyard.

In fact, in the past three or four days, this stingy third uncle also went to the flea market, but he couldn't make up his mind to buy it back.

You have to spend money to buy things!
But seeing as September was about to begin tomorrow, he couldn't do it without buying it. Hongxing Elementary School would start in a few days at the beginning of September, and he had to teach. If he wanted to buy it again, he would have no time.

The daughter-in-law has been quite dissatisfied with his father-in-law recently, and Yan Bugui is afraid that Yu Li will scold him behind his back and say he is not a human being.

If Yu Li and Yan Jiecheng hadn't been thinking about the things in the old lady's house, Yan Bugui would never have gone to the flea market to buy furniture.

There is no other way. My daughter-in-law is forcing me to do it. How can I do it if he doesn’t buy it?
It would be really embarrassing if Yu Li scolded his father-in-law behind his back.

Yan Bugui just pushed his bicycle to the main entrance of the compound and hurriedly shouted to the third aunt who was washing clothes in the shade of the eaves of her house:

"Quickly put down what you are doing and come out to help me push the cart."

Two minutes later, Yan Bugui and his wife pushed the bicycles back into the yard and shouted towards the hut where his son and daughter-in-law lived:
"Yu Li, you and Jie Cheng come out and move these furniture into your house." Yu Li was eating melon seeds with her daughter in the house. When she heard Yan Bugui's words, she leaned on the window glass and looked into the courtyard. She saw her father-in-law and mother-in-law. I bought a lot of furniture for her house, and I felt happy. I quickly got off the kang, put on my shoes, opened the door curtain and walked out.

But when she saw that it was all old furniture, the smile on Yu Li's face suddenly disappeared and she frowned.

"Dad, Mom, why are they all old? How can we use them?"

Yan Bugui took out his handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his face while saying:

"The old one can be used, don't worry. I made an agreement with the shopkeeper when I bought it. If it breaks within a month, I will refund it."

Yu Li's face dropped. She didn't want to, and was too lazy to reach out to untie the ropes of the old furniture. She curled her lips and said:

"Dad, Jie Cheng is not at home. Let's keep these junk in the yard. When Jie Cheng comes back, he will watch them move."

After Yu Li finished speaking, she turned around and went back to the house without looking at the faces of Yan Bugui and the third aunt.

Yan Bugui was so angry that he gritted his teeth and bought furniture. His daughter-in-law didn't appreciate it and didn't even say a kind word.

Yan Bugui immediately threw the handkerchief he had just wiped sweat to the third aunt, turned around and left with a sullen face.

The third aunt was left standing alone in the courtyard under the bright sun, looking at the furniture on the bicycle, feeling at a loss for a moment.

It's just that the third aunt is also a person with a temper. Seeing that the head of the family is gone and her daughter-in-law doesn't want it, she simply doesn't care.

Let it sit in the yard.

In the backyard, Xu Xiaoya saw that the weather was hot and had just made some sour plum soup.

Sitting in the house with his elder brother, sister-in-law and nephew, Shazhu drank to relieve the heat.

Now that Aiguo and Fengming have gotten married and no longer live in the compound, Xu Qing is left with only his younger sister.

Silly Zhu drank the warm sour plum soup, crossed his legs, looked at Xu Xiaoya, grinned and said teasingly:
"Xiaoya, Qingzi, Aiguo and Fengming are married. I don't care about your sister anymore. Are you sad?"

Xu Xiaoya shook her head, shook her shiny black braids, and said with a smile: "Brother Yuzhu, I'm not sad. My eldest brother, my second brother, and my third brother all helped me find a sister-in-law. I'm happy before it's too late. Why am I sad? .”

Silly Zhu groaned, smoked a cigarette and sighed:

"My sister Yuyu has been coming back to see me several times a year since she got married. I have been very sad. If I had known, I would not have let her get married early."

Xu Qing drank the sour plum soup in his bowl and said with a smile:
"Brother Silly Zhu, as for you, stop thinking about that. Yu Yu is having a pretty good life now. You should be happy for her."

Silly Zhu sat on the stool and smiled bitterly: "Qingzi, the rainy day is good. Of course I am happy as a brother, but I am not living a good life."

As soon as Si Zhu finished speaking, Xu Xiaoya whispered:
"Brother Yuzhu, what? Why are you having a hard time? I went to the middle courtyard to find you early this morning and was going to help you wash your clothes. But I saw Xiaodang from Sister Huairu's house holding you and wearing dirty clothes from you. When you get out of the house, you still have a hard time, and someone helps you wash your clothes. If I were you, I would wake up happily."

Silly Zhu grinned and said: "Oh, little girl, you are still thinking about me, brother. It seems that I have not loved you in vain all these years."

However, just as Si Zhu finished speaking, Qin Huairu came in from outside the house carrying a net bag containing watermelons.

When Xu Qing saw Qin Huairu coming, he hurriedly asked his sister Xiaoya to go to the kitchen to serve a bowl of sour plum soup.

As soon as Xu Xiaoya went to the kitchen, Qin Huairu placed the watermelon in front of Xu Qing and said:
"Sister, I came here today and wanted to ask you, when will my son, Bangge, be able to return to our compound from where he jumped in line?"

When Xu Qing saw Qin Huairu asking about this, he thought for a while and said:

"Sister Huairu, it should only be the past few days. I called the factory last month and asked them, and they said that it would be mid-September at the latest."

After Xu Qing finished speaking, he then asked Qin Huairu: "Sister Qin, Banggeng hasn't written to you recently?"

Qin Huairu shook his head and sighed, "My son doesn't like to talk, and keeps everything in his mind. It's been more than half a year since this year, but he has only sent me three letters in total."

At this time, Xiaoya brought out sour plum soup from the kitchen, and Xu Qing changed his topic and said:
"Sister Huairu, how do you like the sour plum soup made by my sister?"

Qin Huairu reached out and took the bowl from Xu Xiao, held it in her hand, lowered her head and took a sip along the edge of the bowl, then raised her head and squinted her eyes, and praised with a hum:
"Xiaoya, the sour plum soup you make is really delicious. When Banggian comes back, I'll make some for him too."

In fact, Xu Xiaoya's sour plum soup contained too little rock sugar and was a bit too sour.

Qin Huairu drank the sour plum soup in the bowl in one breath, sat for a while, and then stood up to leave.

Xu Qing and Jinghong asked her to take the watermelon back.

The situation in the Jia family's house has been sluggish, and there is no way to live well without a pillar of support.

Xu Qing is not a freeloader, and he will not ask Qin Huairu for a watermelon just for such a trivial matter today.

But Qin Huairu hurriedly raised her hand to block it and said: "Jinghong, I brought them to your family. You can keep them and eat them. I bought two pills today and I have them at home."

As soon as Qin Huairu finished speaking, she turned around and ran towards the middle courtyard. Xu Qing had to let his sister Xiaoya carry her back to the middle courtyard.

There is really no shortage of watermelons in Xu Qing's house. He got four of them from Patriot the day before yesterday and just finished them yesterday.

Jiefang rode over last night and delivered another sack.

A total of seven or eight.

This does not include the six pills Feng Ming brought with Xiu Juan early this morning.

When watermelon was in season, Xu Qing ate only watermelon and steamed buns for three meals a day. He couldn't finish it in three or four days.

After Qin Huairu left, Shazhu sat in Xu Qing's room for a while before leaving.

Before leaving, Xu Qing picked a big watermelon from the watermelon brought by Feng Ming in the kitchen this morning and asked Sha Zhu to take it back.

Silly Zhu was nowhere to be seen. He had always been on good terms with the Xu Qing family. He happily left with nearly eleven kilograms of watermelon in his arms.

Turn around and it’s September [-]st.

Xu Qing had just cycled to the alley entrance of his compound after get off work in the afternoon and saw Jia Zhang standing aside, looking at the crowds of people coming and going on the street.

Xu Qing held the car brake and asked, "Auntie, where are you waiting for me, Sister Huairu?"

Jia Zhang shook her head, "No, yesterday you said that my grandson Bangge would be back in the next few days. I'm waiting for him."

Xu Qing groaned, pedaled with his right foot and continued walking back along the alley towards the courtyard.

On September [-]th, Xu Hongzhi and Yu Li's daughters started school.

And for several days, Jia Zhang, who had been standing at the entrance of the alley looking forward to her grandson, finally got the idea of ​​going to the countryside to join the queue.

Xu Qing got off work in the evening and attended a drinking party. As soon as he returned to the compound, he heard constant laughter in the Jia family room in the middle courtyard in the front yard.

Passing through the middle courtyard, he even smelled the aroma of meat wafting everywhere in the courtyard, which was coming from Jia's house.

In the front yard, Xu Qing heard from the third uncle that Banggeng was back. Jia Zhang and Qin Huairu must have specially bought meat to celebrate.

Xu Qing smiled, pushed the bicycle, turned around and said hello to the third uncle who had just come out of the house, and walked back to his home in the backyard.

But the Jia family's house was still lively.

Jia Zhang picked up a large piece of braised pork with chopsticks and put it in Banggeng's bowl. While letting Banggeng eat it quickly, he said:
"Grandson, I've been working in the countryside for the past six months and haven't eaten well. Now that I'm home, let's eat. Grandma has been buying meat for you every day these days."

Banggen buried his head in eating the braised pork without saying anything, while Qin Huairu looked at his son with a happy face.

While I was happy, I couldn't help but feel a little worried.

My son is back, but now that he has grown into a young man, sleeping at night is a problem.

After dinner, Qin Huairu walked out of the house, went to Shazhu's house, and asked Shazhu if he could let Bangge live in the house in the old lady's backyard.

Although Shazhu had no intention of being with Qin Huairu, he was kind-hearted after all, so he nodded and said:

"Sister Qin, that's no problem, but the old lady just passed away not long ago. How dare Bangge live alone in the main house?"

When Qin Huairu heard this, her heart skipped a beat. She forgot about this, frowned slightly, and started thinking about it.

The old lady gave the main house to Shazhu, and left the small house to Xu Qing. If the main house can't be lived in, then let Bang Jie hold the small house.

After thinking about it, Qin Huairu came out of the Silly Pillar House and hurried towards Xu Qing's house in the backyard under the moonlight at night.

(End of this chapter)