Siheyuan: He Yuzhu’s Sunshine Farm

Chapter 100: It’s difficult for a man to have both loyalty and filial piety (please subscribe)
Zhou Qiang was dumbfounded when he heard Li Xiuniang's name. He looked at He Yuzhu in disbelief and asked again: "Master He, can you tell me your sister's name again?"

Seeing Zhou Qiang's dumbfounded look, He Yuzhu was convinced that this must be his sister's guard husband. Thinking of the suffering his sister had endured, He Yuzhu also felt a little aggrieved.

He looked at Zhou Qiang and said slightly: "Comrade Zhou, my sister's name is Li Xiuniang. She is from Shanxi. After leaving her mother-in-law and father-in-law at home, she took her two children to Beijing to find her husband. .

I suffered countless hardships along the way.

But after arriving in Sijiu City, I discovered that the address her husband gave her was actually a fake. At that time, if she had not had children, my sister would have committed suicide in Nashichahai.

Because she has children, my sister knew that if she died, her children would not survive, so she had no choice but to take her children to eat Baijia rice in Sijiucheng. But is Baijia rice delicious these days?
Even you guards can't have enough to eat, and there are a few people who are willing to give others a hundred meals to eat, so my sister can only take her two children to eat every meal.

Later, the three of them lived in Daxi Mountain in Dongzhimen. Who knows, it didn't take long for my sister to have a high fever. Fortunately, she met me. I finally took my sister to the hospital on a cart.

I finally managed to snatch my sister back from death.

I saw that my sister was suffering too much, so I recognized my godson directly, and my two children recognized me as their uncle. Now I have settled a home for my sister and two children in our courtyard house, and I have to arrange for the children to go to school. prove.

It can be said that my sister is really suffering. My brother-in-law, whom I have never met, is really not a thing. For so many years, I didn’t even care about seeing my parents after they passed away. I didn’t even care about my children, and even my wife. I don’t look at it.

Even the address left behind is fake, worse than a real pig or dog. "

He Yuzhu scolded Zhou Qiang more and more fiercely, but Zhou Qiang on the side was already in tears. He squatted down in pain and cried in his arms. He Yuzhu looked at Zhou Qiang who was squatting down and sighed: "I'm sorry, brother-in-law, I didn't mean it." I want to scold you, but it’s really hard for my sister. If I hadn’t happened to go to Daxi Mountain that day, it wouldn’t have been because I had a relationship with your daughter Hua Ya.

Then there is no doubt that my sister will die, and so will her two children in such an environment.

I know that you have a more important task, but I am not that great. I only know that you have made my sister, mother and son suffer. "

At this time, Zhou Qiang was also in pain and replied: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry...!"

As the crying gradually became louder, He Yuzhu stopped talking. Instead, he quietly closed the door of the factory office and sat silently with Zhou Qiang. He cried for five or six minutes. Zhou Qiang's mood finally came to an end. After he stabilized, he stood up and asked, "Brother He, can you take me to your house? I want to go and apologize to Xiuniang and the children."

"Brother Zhou, it's not far away!" He Yuzhu also had a smile on his lips.

In a courtyard house in winter, people at home basically stay at home, unlike in summer, when people like to go out and play.

The winter in Sijiucheng is super cold.

Just put the radish and cabbage from the winter village by the window and they will not go bad all winter long. You can also use them to make dumplings stuffed with cabbage on New Year’s Eve.The pickles pickled during the Xiaohan solar term will not grow white hair even if they are placed on the kitchen counter. The only thing you need to worry about is that the pickle jar will freeze into ice lumps if it is too cold. Then you have to scald it with boiling water to melt it when you eat it.

Because the temperature is too low, if you want to eat a hot meal, you have to rush. Generally, the whole family needs to sit around the table before the stew can be served. Otherwise, if you wait for a few people or ink, the meal will be cold. .

After eating, washing dishes is also a headache in winter. If the family can afford it, they will boil a pot of boiling water and mix it with cold water. For families that are reluctant to part with briquettes, if they use cold water to wash dishes, almost everyone has it. Chilblains and joint diseases may occur.

Many grandmothers in the yard have dislocated and swollen joints on their hands. According to them, washing dishes and clothes with cold water "irritated" the root cause of the disease. Not only do they feel itchy and painful from time to time, but their hands also feel difficult. Fully stretched out.

In order to cope with the cold winter, the window seams were sealed and cotton curtains were hung outside the doors.

In the winter of the old days, indoor heating in courtyard houses was mainly done by burning fire or floor kang. The well-built houses used bricks to build the kang, with a stone pavement at the bottom and a coiled flue.The heat source is usually a charcoal brazier, which is ignited outdoors in advance and burned vigorously, and then the charcoal brazier is pushed into the kang through the hole of the kang, and the heat is transferred in the flue.

At the same time, it is emitted indoors through the masonry and conducted to the kang surface, while the smoke in the kang is discharged to the outside through the ventilation holes at the root of the wall along the flue.

However, after the Republic of China, iron sheet foreign stoves and cast iron stoves were widely used, equipped with sections of iron sheet chimneys, and the hot kang was replaced by a more comfortable bed.

In winter, the sun shines obliquely, and the sunlight shines through the eaves and windows into the room, forming dazzling beams of light, giving the room a bright and warm atmosphere.

Although the outdoors is withered, potted flowers can still be grown inside the house. There is a flower stand specially designed to display bonsai. It is made of hardwood and has an elegant shape that matches the antique interior decoration and furnishings.

Grandma Li is currently making matchboxes with Li Xiuniang and Hua Ya.

Firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, tea, firewood is really the most important necessity. Matches are also called "matching fire, fetching lamps" in Laosijiucheng dialect. It seems that they are also called "self-fired fire", but you rarely hear it.

In the beginning, there were several match factories in Sijiucheng, but later they were all merged and moved outside Yongding Gate, where Fulaiyin Garden is now.

The match factory was one of the most important commodities in demand back then.

The quantity required was huge, and matchboxes were a very troublesome item that could only be made by hand, so I decided to paste the matchboxes and distribute them on the streets. Anyone who wanted to paste them could paste them.

Those women who did not have jobs began to work as matchbox gluers.

100 matchboxes can earn 5 cents in processing fees. Almost every household can paste matchboxes.If there are many people in the family, they will divide the work and cooperate. Some use a brush to apply the paste, some fold the paper into shape, and some use wax to blur out the bottom of the box.

After all the processes are completed, they are taken outside to dry, then tied up with furoshiki and sent back to the factory.

Grandma Li likes to paste matchboxes to supplement herself when she has nothing to do. Now that Li Xiuniang is here, she also takes Hua Ya to paste them together. It is a happy time to be able to paste matchboxes at home in winter.

The dog is taking a nap, and when he wakes up, he will come to help.

For lunch, she ate the leftover mutton and green onion buns from the morning. With this family accompanying her, Grandma Li was obviously much happier.

"Haha. Hua Ya is really amazing. With this hand speed, I can almost catch up with your mother." Grandma Li looked at Hua Ya lovingly, then took out a White Rabbit toffee from her pocket and handed it to Hua Ya. in hand. "Grandma, you gave the child the pillar that was given to you again." Li Xiuniang looked at Grandma Li with a smile.

"What's the point? Why am I, an old lady, eating so much sugar? If I eat too much, it's all a waste. Most of my body is buried in the soil. It's better to give it to the children." After saying that, seeing Hua Ya not picking it up, He peeled off the candy wrapper and stuffed it into Hua Ya's mouth.

Hua Yajiang couldn't help it, she could only eat it and said with a smile: "Madam, it's so sweet."

"Haha...!" Grandma Li smiled and nodded: "It's good that it's so sweet, but after eating it, remember how good your uncle is. Your uncle is a good person, but he has always been deceived by that widow. He has always been deceived. It has been many years, but fortunately during this time, I have become somewhat awakened.”

"Grandma...!" Li Xiuniang looked at Grandma Li with some gossip at this time and asked: "What's going on with my brother and that Jia family? This family, especially the widow, I always feel like they don't look like good people."

"Hmph!" Grandma Li snorted coldly: "In this courtyard, you can't see how bad this widow is. Your brother is stupid and easy to deceive. I don't know how much money was deceived by this widow. At that time, how many people It's not worth it for your brother.

But your brother is stubborn. He worries about the widow's children going to school and getting sick. At that time, many people were calling your brother a fool behind his back.

Her reputation has been completely ruined. Do you think that little girl is willing to be with someone who is not even remotely close to the widow? "

"This widow is indeed very beautiful." Li Xiuniang looked at Grandma Li and said.

"Huh, the more beautiful a woman is, the badder she is. This widow can tell at a glance that she is scheming. If you want to take advantage of her, she will pull your skin off, and her three children will follow you to suck your blood. .

And her evil mother-in-law. "Grandma Li said calmly: "Fortunately, your brother has woken up, which is really a blessing among misfortunes. "

"Yeah!" Li Xiuniang nodded.

At this time, a jeep parked at the entrance of the courtyard, and He Yuzhu took Zhou Qiang into the courtyard. At this time, the old people in the front yard were surprised to see He Yuzhu coming back, and they all came out to watch the fun.

He Yuzhu shouted loudly at this time: "Uncle Zhang, Aunt Li, my sister's husband is here. His name is Zhou Qiang, and he is my sister's husband."

"Yo!"

The old people in the front yard were horrified. They all nodded respectfully when they looked at Zhou Qiang's guard uniform.

Zhou Qiang also repeatedly raised his hands and said: "Thank you for helping to take care of my family. I have caused trouble to everyone." After that, he saluted.

The people in the front yard felt happy for a while, and they all smiled and went out, directly surrounding Zhou Qiang and He Yuzhu. When they arrived at the middle yard, He Yuzhu came to Grandma Li's house and shouted: "Sister Hua Ya, Gou'er. !”

With a shout, the door of Grandma Li's house opened. Hua Ya was the first to rush out and throw herself into He Yuzhu's arms. She shouted with a smile: "Uncle, why are you back?"

Then I heard Li Xiuniang's surprised voice again: "Why are you back at noon? Have you eaten? If not, I will make braised noodles for you."

But when Li Xiuniang, who had just gone out, saw Zhou Qiang dressed as a guard next to He Yuzhu, her face was in disbelief, and her tears fell down.

"Mom, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying?"

Hua Ya looked curiously at her mother who was crying miserably.

At this time, Li Xiuniang ran directly in front of Zhou Qiang and hugged Zhou Qiang tightly, crying loudly and shouting: "You, you... you are looking for us to die, Hua Ya, he is your father!"

"Dad?" Hua Ya was surprised.

"Yes, that's your dad." He Yuzhu patted Hua Ya's little head, and then handed Hua Ya to Zhou Qiang's arms.

After Zhou Qiang hugged Hua Ya, the little guy raised his head in Zhou Qiang's arms and asked curiously: "Are you my dad?"

"Yes!" Zhou Qiang nodded with red eyes.

Hua Ya showed a happy smile: "Dad, my mother, brother and I finally found you. Dad, why didn't you come to us? Grandma kept calling Dad your name when she left. Grandma misses you. Grandpa I miss you, my mother misses you, Hua Ya and Gou'er both miss their dad, but dad, why don't you come to us?"

Suddenly, Zhou Qiang's tears fell again due to his daughter's smiling question.

There is a saying that goes well: A man should not shed tears lightly, but he has not yet reached the sad point.
"I'm sorry, sorry...!" I said two sorry sentences in a row, full of Zhou Qiang's guilt and apology.

"I know, I know you are protecting the family and the country. You are not wrong. It is difficult for a man to have both loyalty and filial piety. Don't worry, Zhou Qiang. I helped you fulfill your filial piety to your father-in-law and mother-in-law. When they left, they were very peaceful. They also I understand you." Li Xiunian carefully wiped the tears from the corners of Zhou Qiang's eyes.

Then Zhou Qiang nodded, and the family was finally reunited. Then, the system's voice sounded in He Yuzhu's mind: "Congratulations to the host for completing Li Xiuniang's husband-finding mission, gaining an upgrade experience of Sunshine Farm plus fifty points. And triggering the mission: Help Zhou Qiang's camp, guarantee the camp The warriors have enough meat and food, and if the mission is successful, the experience gained will be increased by two hundred!"

"Hiss!" He Yuzhu was surprised. This time he actually had two hundred experience points, which is a lot. You know, it takes [-] experience points to upgrade from the first level to the second level of Sunshine Farm. If you complete this task, the upgrade bar will be Half done.

Soon, after the recognition was over, He Yuzhu and Zhou Qiang both walked into Grandma Li's house, and everyone in the courtyard dispersed. However, from now on, they did not dare to flirt with Li Xiuniang's family anymore.

After sitting down at Grandma Li's house, Zhou Qiang began to apologize to himself, and also told his wife the reason why his address was wrong, that is, Zhou Qiang's health district is a confidential unit, and he cannot leak it. I really wronged my wife.

Li Xiuniang cried and said it was okay, while Hua Ya was clinging to He Yuzhu's bad seed. Hua Ya was still somewhat unfamiliar with her father, but after the dog woke up, he threw himself directly into Zhou Qiang's arms. Father and son There seems to be no barrier between the two. In fact, this is because the dog is still young.

Li Xiuniang was infinitely tolerant of her husband, and now that she had found him, it would be great. She had no other extravagant wishes, she was just immersed in happiness, and the smile on her lips never stopped.

(End of this chapter)