A pleasant life in a courtyard

Chapter 115 Good things come in pairs
Just when everyone thought the Li family's limelight was over.

Unexpectedly, another good thing is about to happen.

The next morning, the postman came to the door.

It was summer vacation, and only my elder sister and younger brother were at home.

At least I didn’t fail this exam.

Chinese 65, Mathematics 90.

My math scores are okay, but my Chinese scores are just unsatisfactory.

Li Xiang felt that there was still a lot of room for improvement in his grades, so he asked his eldest sister to catch him every day to finish his homework and practice Chinese calligraphy before letting him go out to play.

When the postman came to the door, the siblings were arguing over filling in the blanks for the idioms in their Chinese homework.

Five () four () fill in the blanks.

Guess what little brother Li filled in, anyway, when the elder sister saw it, her eyes darkened, and the anger almost came out of her head.

Five (eight) four (ten).

The eldest sister yelled: "I asked you to fill in the idioms, not the multiplication tables."

Li Xiaodi quibbled: "Sister, why are you so fierce? It's enough to read it smoothly. Aren't all idioms man-made? It's not an idiom today, but maybe it will be in two years."

The eldest sister slapped the table and said fiercely: "Don't argue with me here. I haven't learned a few words. I just have a lot of fallacies. Do you want to change it? If you don't change it, I'll be pissed~"

"Ghost, ghost debate? What do you mean? I'm a human being, and eldest sister, can you please stop imitating my mother and threatening to beat me at every turn? I'll turn into a tigress and I won't be able to get married in the future."

The eldest sister was too lazy to nag him any more, then suddenly screwed on his ears and twisted them 360 degrees.

"I change, I change, I change, it's true."

The younger brother immediately gave in, muttered, picked up the eraser, and began to erase the answers on it.

He really felt that his answer was correct, so he wiped it reluctantly.

The eldest sister looked at her little brother obediently with some pride, "Little boy, fight with me."

"Is Li Xia at home?"

The postman's voice made the siblings look outside the door.

And the envelope in his hand was the answer that the elder sister had been waiting for for a long time.

I thanked the postman and took the envelope.

Before it is even torn open, the name of the school on the envelope has revealed everything.

"It's amazing. After a college student, your family has a technical secondary school student."

The postman walked into the yard and remembered who this family was.

Li Xiang's notice from last year was also delivered by him personally.

"Brother, give the postman a glass of water quickly."

At this time, Little Brother Li became more alert and hurriedly dragged a stool over for him to sit on. Then he ran to the kitchen to get a bowl to put sugar in.

Last year, Little Brother Li saw Mother Li doing the same thing.

He understands that at this time, he should be more polite to the messenger.

"No, no, no, I still have a lot of letters to deliver in this bag, and everyone is looking forward to it. Well, the next one is in the yard next door."

The postman took out an envelope from his bag, pointed in the direction of the yard next door, and said with his mouth open.

"Uncle, is the name above Deng Xiuxiu?"

When the eldest sister heard that it was in the yard next door, she immediately asked eagerly.

"Yes, I'm from the same school as you."

"She is my classmate. We are both going to the same school. Let's go. Uncle, I will show you the way."

Now the eldest sister is even happier. What could be happier than getting admitted to the school you want to go to?

That is, I got admitted to this school with my good friends.When Little Brother Li came over with the prepared sugar water, the two of them had disappeared.

He looked around confusedly, where did he go?Do you still want to drink water?
When Li Xiang and Li's mother got home from get off work, they were surrounded by people congratulating them.

Some of them expressed sincere congratulations, while others were pantothenic.

But in front of the Li family, everyone smiled and said obediently.

Li Xiang didn't feel anything. Anyway, he never wanted his eldest sister to study nursing, but he couldn't control his eldest sister's wish.

On the other hand, Li's mother was extremely happy. She no longer looked like she disliked going to a technical secondary school at first.

Later, he was even lost in the compliments of his neighbors and decided to have a drink to celebrate this happy event.

You know, when Li wanted to go to college last year, the Li family didn't even do it.

Because at that time, the Li family was still suffering from famine outside and had no money.

In fact, from the perspective of Li's mother, the Li family still has no money, and all the money they finally saved was given to Li Xiang to buy a bicycle.

But now that the Li family doesn't owe money, Mother Li feels that what the third uncle said makes sense.

There are many happy events in the family, and it is time to celebrate.

The third uncle was originally planning to hit a pole if there were jujubes but no jujubes, but he didn't have much hope.

When he bought the car yesterday, he wanted to mention it, but the Li family preempted him, saying that the family had spent all their savings on buying the car.

And Li Xiang also agreed. If anyone had serious business, he could borrow a car. If he wanted to ask someone to treat him again, he would appear to be aggressive. He was also afraid of angering Li Xiang, which would make it difficult to bring up the matter of borrowing the car later.

Today, unexpectedly, the Li family has another happy event. It would be unreasonable not to treat them to guests.

If he wants to bring it up, if the Li family doesn't handle it, it will only be the Li family that will be picked.

Unexpectedly, Mother Li agreed.

The banquet is scheduled for this Sunday, and the cook is He Yuzhu who shows up uninvited.

Everyone came and recommended themselves, and there was no reason to rush back.

There aren't many seats, just three tables, and we've agreed that each family in the courtyard can have one.

Two tables are neighbors in the compound, and one table is family members with good relationships.

Sitting in a squeeze, that's about it.

The dishes ordered by the Li family were pretty good, and they never thought about making money by hosting banquets.

"Each table has one dish each of braised pork vermicelli, braised fish, stir-fried meat with cowpeas, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, stir-fried dried beans with green peppers, and braised eggplant, a bottle of white wine, and two steamed buns with two-sided noodles per person."

He Yuzhu and Li Xiang checked the menu and said, "Brother, your banquet is considered to be the best in this area. It's so good, I'm afraid I won't be able to recoup the money."

"I didn't even think about getting my money back. I took advantage of a happy event at home to repay some of the favors I received from the big guy in the past few years."

Li Xiang handed a cigarette to He Yuzhu, and then continued to explain: "It should have been done last year. We were almost famine at that time. There was nothing we could do about it. Even if we hit the fat man with a swollen face at that time, the back of my house was still there. It’s not easy, and everyone can’t get anything good to eat.”

He Yuzhu made a good sale and said: "Then your meat tickets are enough. If it's not enough for me, I still have some. I haven't had time to use it this month."

"I've collected enough. If it's not enough, I'll tell you again. Brother Zhuzhu, please try to put the dishes in as big a plate as possible. I don't dare to say that the neighbors can eat enough of the dishes, but don't eat them with two chopsticks."

"Don't worry, I can cook as many dishes as there are at that time. But whether it's a matter of two chopsticks or not, it can't all depend on the amount of food. Your brother and I have been the chef at many banquets. Let me tell you. Ah~ There are all kinds of people at the table."

Li wanted to understand what He Yuzhu meant.

But he thought about the behavior of his neighbors in the lower yard, so he wouldn't do such a thing.

And he has set the rules, one for each family, excluding even the three aunts who are most likely to hold the pot.

I hope that day goes smoothly, Li Xiang thought.

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