Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 239
After two o'clock in the afternoon, the little girl was sitting in the courtyard with a laundry tub, washing clothes. Xu Fengming asked his eldest brother Xu Qing for a coal ticket and money, and left the compound with his second brother Xu Aiguo to go to the coal station to buy coal. up.

Xu Qing looked at his three younger brothers and sisters who were already capable of doing things, and felt indescribably happy.

And Liu Haizhong, who lives in the backyard together, walked around in the yard with his hands behind his back, feeling very uncomfortable. He turned around and entered the house, opened the curtains with his hand, and frowned at Xu Qing who was in the yard. up.

Xu Qing's parents were gone a few years ago, and he was the eldest brother. It was not easy to take care of the three younger brothers and sisters in the past few years, but life was pretty good.

Especially the brothers and sisters of his family, who never said that they had any major conflicts in the courtyard, compared to the three disobedient little bastards in their own family, they are much more sensible.

The more Liu Haizhong thought about it, the more he felt strange, why the son he educated by himself was not as good as the four Xu Qing brothers and sisters whose parents were not around.

Standing in the room, with bangs smacking his mouth, he began to walk back and forth again.

At this moment, Xu Damao led Lou Xiao'e with a playful smile, opened the door and came out of his own room. Seeing Xu Qing and the little girl washing clothes in the yard, he sat on the bicycle parked at the door of the house, waiting for his wife Lou Xiaoe locked the door, raised her hand and rang the car bell, and it rang.
"Qingzi, do you want to do some laundry? Take a break, come and smoke a cigarette."

Xu Damao shook out one of the peony cigarettes he was carrying, leaned forward, and threw it to Xu Qing. He also held one in the corner of his mouth, lit it, took a puff, and said to Xu Qing:
"Qingzi, brother, Xiao'e and I are going to go to the state-run store to buy something, do you have anything to bring along?"

Xu Qing looked at Xu Damao with a smile and said, "Brother Damao, thank you, but I don't have anything to buy at the moment. You go about your business."

When Xu Damao heard this, he nodded his head, pushed his bicycle, and headed toward the middle courtyard with Lou Xiao'e.

In the middle courtyard, Sha Zhu was sitting on the threshold of his house, humming a little song, using a shoe brush to brush the mud spots on the cloth shoes that were soiled by the rain a few days ago. Coming over from the backyard, a hint of envy secretly appeared in his eyes.

Xu Damao is married, but he is still single, if he says he is not jealous or jealous, it must be a lie.

In the compound, Sha Zhu, Xu Damao, and Jia Dongxu almost grew up on one side.

Jia Dongxu got married when he was eighteen or nineteen.

This year, Xu Damao also got married.

How could Shazhu feel better in his heart, he glanced at Xu Damao and Lou Xiaoe, Shazhu hurriedly lowered his head, pinched the shoe brush vigorously, and rubbed the upper of the shoe.

As soon as Xu Damao came out of the middle courtyard and entered the front yard, Sha Zhu threw the shoe brush in his hand on the ground, and didn't even think about brushing his shoes anymore.Reaching out his hand to take out the full amount of economical cigarettes from his body, he put the smoke in the corner of his mouth, turned around, and leaned his back against the door, feeling indescribably depressed.

After figuring it out by himself for a long time, Sha Zhu got up and ran to the house of the uncle Yi Zhonghai, asked the old lady for help, and then introduced him to a partner.

Although Silly Zhu felt that the girls that Da Ma had introduced earlier were all unreliable, but he didn't know who else to turn to for help besides Da Ma.

In any case, it is much more cost-effective to ask Da Ma to help him as a consultant and matchmaker without paying a penny, which is much more cost-effective than him to spend money to carry things and find a matchmaker outside.

When Xu Fengming and his second brother Xu Aiguo transported the bought coal back to the courtyard, Shazhu was still sitting in the old man's room and did not come out.

It wasn't until Xu Fengming and Xu Aiguo were in the backyard, together with their elder brother Xu Qing and his sister, that they kneaded the bought coal ash mixed with loess into briquettes, and Sha Zhu walked out of Yi Zhonghai's house with a happy face.

But at this time, the setting sun was setting, and the setting sun was filling the sky, and it was almost dusk.

At the end of winter.

Something happened in the compound.

The paralyzed Jia Dongxu didn't survive this dreadful winter, and he was gone.

Jia Zhang's family and Qin Huairu were crying, which made the atmosphere of the compound that was already clouded by the change of sky even worse for a while.

Due to the situation in the factory, Jia Dongxu's side was not taken into consideration.

When Jia Dongxu was alive, something happened in the factory.

The factory gave a sum of money at that time.

As for this time, there is no follow-up.

In fact, it stands to reason that the factory should give more or less token payments, but the factory has been so troubled that it has almost lost all its benefits, so there is no extra money left.

During the funeral, Jia Zhang fainted twice.

First the man was gone, and now the son was gone too. Mrs. Jia Zhang was so sad that she couldn't even get sick.

It wasn't until the Chinese New Year and the beginning of spring that things gradually improved.

It's just that after this blow, Jiazhang's people became more bitter and mean than before.

Especially for everyone in the compound, she didn't like anyone, and when she saw whose family had a better life than hers, she wanted to curse that person to death in her heart.

Qin Huairu was naturally heartbroken, but he felt a little relieved.

Now that Jia Dongxu is gone, she doesn't have to be so tired and work so hard.

When Jia Dongxu was freed, she was also freed.

But Mrs. Jia Zhang took her more seriously than before, for fear that Qin Huairu would remarry.

As for Qin Huairu, she doesn't have that idea yet. With three children, even if she wants to remarry, it's not that easy.

Qin Huairu didn't want to leave Banggen, Xiaodang, and Xiaohuaihua to Jia Zhang, which made it even more difficult for anyone to marry her, a widow with three children.

Therefore, Qin Huairu continued to stay at Jia's house, in the courtyard, and took care of the three children.

In fact, Qin Huairu can also just leave, anyway, Jia Dongxu is gone, throw the child to Jia Zhang, if she wants to leave, who can stop her.

However, Qin Huairu did not choose to do that.

This made Silly Zhu who lived in the middle courtyard feel admiration for Qin Huairu in his heart.

Therefore, Shazhu rescued Qin Huairu more frequently.

Xu Qing did not interfere or comment on this.

After all, Qin Huairu made a move that ordinary people would not do.

If it was a bad girl with no conscience, throwing the three children to Jia Zhang, slapping her ass, flying away, and finding someone to remarry, it is human nature to not suffer this crime, who can say anything.

But the problem is, Qin Huairu didn't do that, so it seems commendable.

As soon as the Jia family's affairs were settled, the compound returned to its former appearance.

However, the commotion and chaos after the change of sky still continued.

The factory shut down from time to time, the school closed from time to time, and there were still as many young people on the streets as last year.

However, in June, Xu Aiguo finished his third year of high school and graduated smoothly.

Next, he could no longer continue studying, and his studies came to an end for the time being.

As the eldest brother, Xu Qing asked his second brother to be patriotic and use the remaining quota in the family to work in the Red Star Rolling Mill.

(End of this chapter)