Siheyuan: Master of the Fire, Eating Watermelons Online

Chapter 102: Xueru Silk Shop, First Encounter with Chen Xueru

"Hey, why does this person look unfamiliar?"

"What are you looking at? Isn't this Changshan's son-in-law in the city?"

"Strange, Qin Huairu in the morning and my brother-in-law in the afternoon, why do they have to go back separately?"

"Could it be..."

"It's really hard to say."

"..."

After getting off the bus in Changping, Jia Dongxu carried the wine into Qinjia Village, which naturally attracted the attention of the villagers on the way.

However, Jia Dongxu was not familiar with them, and he did not take the initiative to say hello when he saw them. It was not until someone came up to talk to him that he spoke a few words.

Soon, Jia Dongxu continued to walk towards Qin Huairu's parents' home according to his memory.

Jia Dongxu doesn't come here very often, not even once a year.

Every year, I would only accompany Qin Huairu back during the Chinese New Year. There were a few times when I didn't even come, so we weren't very familiar with each other.

The only thing to be thankful for was that he at least remembered the way, otherwise he would have made a fool of himself.

But when Jia Dongxu arrived at his father-in-law's house, he found that there was no one at home.

I asked the neighbors nearby and found out that the whole family, including Qin Huairu who came back in the morning, had gone to the fields.

After a brief chat, before Jia Dongxu could try to test him, he learned that Qin Huairu had returned in the morning, which made him feel relieved.

Anyway, the person was found.

As the neighbors enthusiastically asked their children to go to the fields to call people, Jia Dongxu politely declined the invitation to stay for a drink of water and went straight back to Qin Huairu's house to wait.

the other side.

While working in the fields, they suddenly heard the neighbor's child coming to tell them that their brother-in-law had returned. Both Qin's father and mother were a little surprised.

"Brother-in-law?"

"Brother-in-law is here?"

The brothers Qin Guangming and Qin Guangliang were also a little surprised.

There were no surprises.

The main reason is that they are not very familiar with their brother-in-law Jia Dongxu, and they can more or less feel that their brother-in-law looks down on them, his two brothers-in-law.

Qin Changshan looked at Qin Huairu and asked in confusion: "Huairu, didn't you say Dongxu was going to work?"

"I... Dad, I'll go back and take a look first."

Qin Huairu, who couldn't answer, could only choose to escape.

At the same time, he also wanted to go back quickly to see what was going on, and he didn't want his parents to know what happened in the Jia family.

Qin Changshan saw this and didn't think much about it. Instead, he said to Qin's mother and two sons, "Let's go. Let's pack up and go back."

The visit of the son-in-law from the city was no small matter, so the family naturally could not continue to linger on the fields, otherwise people would gossip about them.

When they were packing up and going back, Qin Huairu, who was jogging all the way, soon saw Jia Dongxu appear in her house.

"Qin Huairu, you are getting bolder, aren't you?"

"You ran back to your parents' home in the middle of the night without saying a word. What do you mean?"

"Do you know that our family was almost laughed at by others this morning? My uncle and I had to look for you outside for the whole morning..."

"Because of you, I have lost my salary for today."

"Do you think I spoil you too much?"

"..."

Qin Huairu was a little touched when she saw Jia Dongxu coming to see her, but as soon as they met, he scolded her and she was completely stunned.

In an instant, Qin Huairu felt discouraged.

Jia Dongxu didn't care at all how much injustice he had suffered at home and outside.

If she hadn't been wronged at home and Jia Dongxu hadn't cared about her feelings at all, would she have run outside crying in the middle of the night, and then met Wang Weiguo, and had that kind of thing happened by accident?
Even if what happened last night had not happened, she had been wronged in the Jia family and ran back to her parents' home, but Jia Dongxu chased her with such a chilling attitude.

"Jia Dongxu, why did I come back? Don't you know at all?"

Qin Huairu looked at Jia Dongxu with a chilled face and said with a sad face, "If you hadn't pushed the 100 yuan onto our family, your mother would have forced me like that, and you kept dragging your feet and asking me to endure it. How could I endure it?
This is a hundred yuan! Not just one or two yuan. What do you want me to do?
It’s okay how your mother treats me at home, but don’t you know what’s going on these days?
Jia Dongxu, are you still a man? You are not capable of taking the blame on me..."

Qin Huairu, who had been suppressed for a long time, finally couldn't help but explode.

No matter how patient she is, there is always a limit.

Jia Dongxu's words just now were obviously the last straw that broke the camel's back, making it completely meaningless for Qin Huairu to continue to swallow her anger.

The first time Jia Dongxu saw Qin Huairu like this, he was stunned.

And facing what she just said, Jia Dongxu had no way to refute.

Jia Dongxu, with an ugly face, was silent for a moment, and finally realized his problem and current situation. He could only force a smile on his face and persuaded Qin Huairu: "Huairu, I'm sorry, I was impulsive just now, mainly because I was too worried about you.

You don’t know, when I woke up this morning and found you were missing, I was so worried that I didn’t even go to the factory and spent a long time looking for you outside with an old man.

Finally, I couldn’t find anyone, so I thought of coming here to take a look. I didn’t expect you to be here, so I got anxious…”

If it were usual, Qin Huairu would definitely be soft-hearted when faced with Jia Dongxu's explanation of the relationship, but this time she was very calm.

After staying in the Jia family for so many years, can't she tell how much truth and how much falsehood in what Jia Dongxu said?
I was just deceiving myself before.

Now that the fantasy has begun to disintegrate, the filter in Qin Huairu's eyes no longer exists.

"Huai Ru, come back with me, please. Don't let the neighbors laugh at you."

"Mom has already bought some meat and is waiting for you to come back to make braised pork!"

"You haven't eaten meat for a long time, right?"

"And Bang Geng, she's also waiting for you to go back and make braised pork for her!"

"As long as you come back with me this time, you can eat as much braised pork as you want."

"Let's not talk about the past anymore. Let's go back and live a good life, okay?"

"..."

Thinking of the purpose of his visit, Jia Dongxu also knew that now was not the time to quarrel. It was more important to bring the person back first, so he immediately started to persuade them.

Qin Huairu was a little surprised and even sad when she found that Jia Dongxu kept talking about braised pork and said that he bought the meat specially for her.

Before today, she hadn't eaten meat for a long time.

It’s not that the Jia family didn’t buy meat. They used up all the meat coupons every month. Sometimes when Jia Dongxu went to the pigeon market to trade meat coupons, or when an old man helped out, they would have more than one meal of meat a month.

But the problem was that she had developed a habit under the supervision of her mother-in-law, so she didn't dare to use her chopsticks when the meat was served. She would just taste it and dip a steamed bread in the broth, and she would be satisfied. Every time her chopsticks touched the bowl of meat, her mother-in-law would start to get angry.

But even so, Qin Huairu used to feel very satisfied. After all, she could at least taste meat every month.

Under such conditions, not to mention my mother's family in the countryside, even if we live in the same courtyard, we may not be able to do so.

But now, Qin Huairu feels that these are not so important.

However, Jia Dongxu mentioned the Banggen joke, which made her hesitate.

After all, Banggeng is the flesh that fell from her body after ten months of pregnancy.

It had only been less than a day since he left, but Qin Huairu couldn't help but start to worry.

This was something she couldn't give up no matter what.

But thinking about going back and facing the difficulties and oppression from her mother-in-law, Qin Huairu could only harden her heart and said, "Jia Dongxu, it's not that I don't want to go back with you, but how do you want me to go back? When I go back, your mother will ask me for the hundred yuan again, what do you want me to do? Where can I get the hundred yuan from? I really can't hold on any longer..."

The hundred dollars that Jia Dongxu blamed Qin Huairu for might not be the source of all the problems, but it was definitely a fuse that could ignite at any time, and until now, there is still a huge explosion barrel at the other end.

After hearing Qin Huairu's words, Jia Dongxu fell silent.

He himself was also troubled by the hundred dollars. If there was a way to fill this hole, he would not have pushed it onto Qin Huairu in the first place.

Fortunately, Qin Changshan and others came back at this time.

Seeing this, Jia Dongxu quickly took the bottle of wine he brought and walked forward to his father-in-law Qin Changshan and said, "Dad, I came to see you specially. I brought a bottle of wine and some peanuts. Let's have a drink later?"

Jia Dongxu knew very well that if he wanted Qin Huairu to go back with him obediently, his father-in-law's family was crucial.

Qin Changshan was a little surprised by the enthusiasm of Jia Dongxu, his city son-in-law, but he didn't think much about it. Instead, he was very happy.

Soon.

Qin's mother shredded the peanuts that Jia Dongxu had brought, and took out the braised pork that was left over from lunch, which was to be saved for the family to eat in the evening.

When he saw the braised pork, Jia Dongxu was dumbfounded.

Is your father-in-law's family so well off?
Qin Changhe, who started drinking next, was also a little dazed.

This wine...

Although he is reluctant to buy and drink wine now, it does not mean that he has never drunk it before. He can naturally taste the quality of the wine, and he can also taste whether the wine is mixed with water.

Half a bottle of wine is mixed with half a bottle of water. If you can't taste the difference, then all the wine you drank wasted.

Qin Changshan, who was shocked and suspicious, thought of two possibilities. One was that Jia Dongxu was cheated and bought fake wine mixed with water. The other was that the city son-in-law mixed the water himself.

After making a few indirect remarks and noticing an unnatural expression on Jia Dongxu's face, Qin Changshan understood.

Jia Dongxu, who kept picking up meat to eat, couldn't help but start asking about their family's situation. Qin Changshan obviously guessed something and didn't say that the meat was brought back by Qin Huairu.

The change this brought was that the son-in-law, who used to look down on her, now had more smiles and enthusiasm on his face than ever before.

Qin Changshan was absent-minded during the drinking session, but Jia Dongxu enjoyed it to the fullest.

The wine wasn’t very good, after all, it was half mixed with water, but he enjoyed the meat.

The family had originally planned to save the braised pork for dinner, but he almost ate it all by himself.

after.

Jia Dongxu secretly found Qin Huairu and asked her carefully and flatteringly, "Huairu, I didn't expect your family's conditions to be so good now..."

Looking at Jia Dongxu who seemed a little strange at this moment, Qin Huairu felt puzzled and did not reply.

Jia Dongxu didn't care about this, but continued to say with a smile: "Look, can you ask our dad to lend you a hundred yuan first, so that mom can have an explanation..."

Before Jia Dongxu could finish his words, when Qin Huairu heard him asking her to borrow 100 yuan from her parents' home to fill the hole, her eyes widened and she looked at him in disbelief.

Crazy?
……

It's evening.

After Wang Weiguo got off work from Fengze Garden, he came to Zhengyangmen.

Standing outside a store called Xueru Silk Shop, Wang Weiguo stared at the sign for a while, then walked in.

Wang Weiguo bought some cloth coupons at the Pigeon Market a few days ago, and has been looking for time to buy himself a few new sets of clothes.

In this era, there are ready-made clothes in stores, but they are not cheap. Most people choose to buy the fabric and make them themselves at home.

However, as a grown man, Wang Weiguo naturally doesn't know how to do needlework. In the past two years, his clothes have been made by his aunt, but Wang Weiguo doesn't want to bother her all the time.

For this reason, he had never gone to the supply and marketing cooperative where his aunt worked, but instead went to the department store in Wangfujing. However, after looking around, he didn't find anything he liked.

Thinking of custom-made products, Wang Weiguo made some inquiries and found this place.

When Wang Weiguo first heard the name, he was stunned, as if it overlapped with another drama he had watched in his previous life.

So Wang Weiguo came here specially today.

On the one hand, I want to buy clothes and have them custom-made, and on the other hand, I want to confirm whether it is what I think it is.

If so, then this is not just the world of the courtyard house.

As soon as he walked in, Wang Weiguo saw a graceful woman in cheongsam, with her back to him, sorting the fabrics in the shop.

As soon as the other person turned around, Wang Weiguo was stunned.

Chen Xueru?
is her!

The Chen Xueru from Zhengyangmen.

at the same time.

Chen Xueru seemed to notice someone coming in, turned around, and just happened to see Wang Weiguo, and her eyes lit up.

What a handsome boy!
Chen Xueru found that Wang Weiguo seemed to be looking at her, but she was not annoyed. Instead, she couldn't help but smile and greeted Wang Weiguo: "Little comrade, do you want to buy cloth or make clothes?"

"Little comrade? Do I look small?"

Chen Xueru was not much older than Wang Weiguo, but as soon as she opened her mouth, she left Wang Weiguo speechless.

Hearing Wang Weiguo's words, Chen Xueru chuckled and said, "She looks young. I'm 26 years old this year. How old are you?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Weiguo remained silent.

What can he say about age?
It is said that a woman three years older than a man can bring home a fortune. Now she can bring home two gold bricks.

Seeing Wang Weiguo remained silent, Chen Xueru laughed even more happily and couldn't help but teasing, "Looking at you, are you eighteen?"

"Comrade, I'm here to buy clothes..."

"Oops, my negligence, how old is the little comrade this year?"

"..."

(End of this chapter)