Siheyuan: A Very Happy Era

Chapter 503 We Understand
Soon, the day passed.

The five carriages all smoothly transported people to the corresponding production teams, and they all received a warm welcome.

If you don’t know, you might think we are receiving some senior leaders!

It can even be said that in the eyes of the people in those ten production brigades, the people of Jinshanbao are much more important than their superiors.

Therefore, the people of Jinshan Castle had already enjoyed an extremely sumptuous banquet before they even started working.

Especially for the two couples who went back to her parents’ home, they could take the leftover food back to her parents’ home after dinner, which was really a great honor.

Among them, in the Sunjiashan Production Brigade, Xu Laosan and Sun Yanmei had lunch. By the time they finished their meal, it was already past two in the afternoon.

At this time, most of the villagers were working in the fields, except for Sun Yanmei's family, who stayed at home because they had received the task of entertaining guests.

"Hey, his father, is the person who came to serve as a technical instructor for our production team really Mei Zi? Why do I feel like I'm dreaming?"

Hearing this, Sun Laogen took a deep puff of his pipe, then turned his head to look at his wife Zhang Xiaohua, and scolded her in a somewhat unpleasant tone: "Are you annoying? You have said this almost eight hundred times from this morning until now. If you don't believe it, can't you go and see for yourself?"

"I...I just can't believe it! How come such a great thing happened to our family?"

Zhang Xiaohua spoke in disbelief as she thought about the brigade cadres' promise to give their family an extra box of bees.

However, because she had said these words countless times before, neither Sun Laogen, who was squatting at the door smoking a pipe, nor her younger son, who was chopping wood in the yard, nor her young daughter-in-law, who was sitting nearby sewing shoe soles, paid any attention to her.

After a while, footsteps were suddenly heard at the gate of the courtyard.

The next moment, Sun Laogen, Zhang Xiaohua and others all turned their heads expectantly, only to find that the person who came was not their eldest daughter, Sun Yanmei, but their eldest son and daughter-in-law.

This instantly made the expressions on their faces become somewhat disappointed and even a little ugly.

"Mom, I heard that the person who came to our production team as a technical instructor was our eldest sister. Is this true?"

The eldest daughter-in-law walked quickly to the door of the house, and then asked Zhang Xiaohua with an expectant look on her face.

"Of course it's true, otherwise the brigade cadres wouldn't have let us not work in the fields today and gave us full work points."

When Zhang Xiaohua heard this, he immediately answered with some pride.

"Great!"

When the eldest daughter-in-law heard this answer, she couldn't help but cheer.

Then, she rolled her eyes, stepped forward and asked, "Well, I also heard that the brigade agreed to contract an extra box of bees for our family. This should be true, right?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Zhang Xiaohua's expression changed instantly. She then stared closely at her eldest daughter-in-law's calculating face and said in a deep voice, "Why are you bringing this up for no reason? Don't forget that you have already separated yourselves."

"Whoa!"

When the eldest daughter-in-law saw Zhang Xiaohua like this, she not only did not back down, but waved her hands confidently and said, "We are just moving out to live separately, not severing our relationship with the eldest sister. Now that the eldest sister has added a box of bees to the family, of course we have a share!"

At this point, she saw that Zhang Xiaohua was about to explode with anger, so she quickly turned her head to look at Sun Laogen and asked in a tender voice, "Dad, isn't that right?"

Upon hearing this, Sun Laogen did not say anything. He just smoked his pipe silently and looked at the gate of the courtyard, as if he had not heard what his eldest daughter-in-law said at all.

When the eldest daughter-in-law saw this, she quickly reached out and pinched her husband, then angrily cursed: "You dead man, hurry up and say something! Don't you want the baby in my belly?"

Hearing this, the eldest son opened his mouth, then said in a muffled voice: "Dad, Mom, you also know that Cuiping is pregnant and can't do heavy work. Besides, there are two children to take care of at home. Why don't you give that box of bees to us?"

"Yes, yes!"

When the eldest daughter-in-law heard what her husband said, she quickly echoed, "Dad, Mom, the one in my belly is your grandson, you don't want to see him suffer with me before he's even born, right?

Besides, no matter what, we are all family, you can't be so partial!"

After saying this, she glanced intentionally or unintentionally at her sister-in-law who was sitting next to her sewing shoe soles.

"you"

When Zhang Xiaohua saw her eldest daughter-in-law being so shameless, she was so angry that she was speechless.

Back then, the eldest daughter-in-law wanted to divide the family because she didn't want her youngest son to spend a lot of money to get married. She even used the reason that the youngest son spent too much money on marrying his wife and threw the responsibility of supporting the two elderly people to the youngest son and his wife.

As a result, now that he sees that there are benefits to be gained, he tells her that we are all family.

This is too bullying!

Just when she was about to stand up and have a good talk with her eldest daughter-in-law, she suddenly heard Sun Laogen's voice with a hint of excitement.

"Alright! Stop talking, get up and follow me to pick them up!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Sun Laogen suddenly stood up and strode towards the gate of the courtyard.

Outside the gate of the courtyard, from afar one could see a man and a woman, surrounded by six or seven brigade cadres, walking towards the gate.

"Plums, they are really plums!"

Soon, Zhang Xiaohua shouted excitedly and ran after him.

Her eldest son and daughter-in-law, as well as her youngest son and daughter-in-law, first looked at each other, and then rushed over.

In the end, they managed to get ahead of Sun Laogen and Zhang Xiaohua, grabbed Xu Laosan's hand, and put their arms around Sun Yanmei's shoulders.

"Brother-in-law, we missed you so much!"

"Sister, you are finally back. I have been looking forward to your return every day!"

With each warm and affectionate word, the scene quickly turned into a very warm family reunion.

Only Sun Laogen and Zhang Xiaohua, who were standing at the back, felt uncomfortable facing the mischievous looks of the brigade cadres and wished they could dig a hole and crawl into it on the spot.

After all, this is too embarrassing.

Fortunately, Sun Dezhuo took the overall situation into consideration and spoke up in time to pull the people away. Then, in front of Sun Laogen and Zhang Xiaohua, he praised Xu Laosan and Sun Yanmei a lot, and then instructed Sun Laogen and Zhang Xiaohua to take good care of them, and then left with them.

This made Xu Laosan and Sun Yanmei secretly happy, and also made Sun Laogen and Zhang Xiaohua, an old couple, feel relieved.

Then, without waiting for the eldest and youngest daughters-in-law to continue pretending, the old couple warmly invited Xu Laosan and Sun Yanmei into the house, and then asked them about their well-being for a long time.

Seeing the old couple's performance, Sun Yanmei was naturally quite pleased, and Xu Laosan was full of emotion. Before, whenever he followed Sun Yanmei back to her parents' home, he was treated well to have a glass of cold water. In fact, every time he had to look at Sun Laogen and Zhang Xiaohua's expressions, fearing that he would say something wrong.

Who would have thought that he would one day be the guest of honor?

And all this is because of Li Guoqiang. If Li Guoqiang had not set up the apiary and let his wife Sun Yanmei become a worker in the apiary, when would he be able to regain his dignity and face as a man!

Thinking of this, his gratitude towards Li Guoqiang increased a little more.

If the situation did not allow it, he might have wanted to offer a tablet for Li Guoqiang at home.

At this time, Li Guoqiang had no idea what Xu Laosan was thinking.

When he was leading people into the mountains to dig beehives, he happened to catch a silly roe deer, and then he shared it with everyone, causing those workers who failed to grab the technical instructor to shout that he was a righteous man.

Little did he know that in his little world, there were also ten stupid roe deer that he had just brushed out.

In the evening, the entire Jinshan Fort was filled with the tempting aroma of meat. If you didn’t know, you would think it was a festival!

"Hadron, hadron!"

Just as Li Guoqiang was about to pick up his chopsticks to eat, he suddenly heard a burst of chaotic shouting coming from outside the house.

This made him feel a little surprised, and then he hurriedly got up, got off the bed and walked out.

"Qiangzi, this is the roe deer meat that my family stewed. I'll bring some over for you to try!"

"Qiangzi, me too, you'll have to taste my cooking later."

"Qiangzi, and me too!"

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"you."

Li Guoqiang looked at the people standing in the yard and the bowls of roe deer meat in their hands, and for a moment he couldn't help but feel a little warm in his heart.

In fact, he didn't take that stupid roe deer seriously at all.

The reason why he shared the silly roe deer with everyone was not only to make up for the psychological gap of everyone who could not become technical instructors, but mainly because there were too many prey stored in the small world, so much that he could not finish eating them in several years.

Instead of staying in your own little world forever, you might as well take the opportunity to do everyone some good and consolidate your own reputation!
However, what he didn't expect was that everyone took the meat back to cook it and did not forget to bring him a bowl.

"Come on, everyone, stop standing here, bring the meat in quickly, and then go home to eat!"

Li Xiuqin saw a hint of emotion on Li Guoqiang's face, and she felt happy, then she quickly greeted him.

Hearing her words, everyone nodded in agreement. Then, without asking Qu Yinfeng, Xu Yuping and others for help, they brought the meat into the house themselves.

Soon, when they saw the food on the kang table in Li Guoqiang's house, they were all stunned.

The reason why they were stunned was not because the food in Li Guoqiang's home was too good, but because the food in Li Guoqiang's home was too bad.

"Qiangzi, is this all you're going to eat tonight?"

After being stunned for a while, Li Xiuqin pointed at the pot of cornmeal porridge, a pot of boiled sweet potatoes, a plate of stir-fried sauerkraut, a plate of hot and sour shredded potatoes and a plate of cold cucumber on the kang table, and asked Li Guoqiang who followed in with a look of disbelief on her face.

"Yes! Is there any problem?"

Li Guoqiang nodded when he heard this, and then asked with some confusion.

After all, ever since he came back from the old city, his family had been eating meat and fish every day for more than half a month, and he was almost sick of it, so starting from a few days ago, he asked Qu Yinfeng, Xu Yuping and others to prepare some simple meals from time to time to regulate their stomachs.

However, to Li Xiuqin and other villagers, this kind of thing is simply unimaginable.

They thought that Li Guoqiang had to eat such simple meals because he gave all the meat to them.

This touched their hearts, and the way they looked at Li Guoqiang was almost tearful.

"No, you misunderstood. I'm just tired of eating meat recently, so I want to change my taste."

Soon, Li Guoqiang reacted to everyone's affectionate looks, and then he quickly waved his hands and began to explain.

Although he wanted to consolidate his reputation, there was no need for him to make himself so pitiful.

"Qiangzi, stop talking, we understand!"

When Ma Hongying heard what Li Guoqiang said, she immediately spoke with a serious face.

After saying that, she placed the bowl of meat on the table, then turned and walked out.

When others saw this, they hurriedly followed suit.

After a short while, everyone left, leaving only Li Guoqiang, Qu Yinfeng and others, who looked at each other in bewilderment.

By the way, they still haven’t figured out what Ma Hongying understands.

Fortunately, this matter was not a bad thing after all. Soon, Li Guoqiang put this matter aside and sat back on the kang to continue eating with Qu Yinfeng and others.

At the same time, as Li Xiuqin, Ma Hongying and others returned to their respective homes, the news of Li Guoqiang's benevolent act of preferring to eat simple meals himself and to share all the meat with everyone spread throughout Jinshanbao.

This not only made Li Guoqiang's reputation rise to a higher level, but also made some people who were usually a little jealous of Li Guoqiang feel very ashamed.

Especially Xu Yuliang, when he found out about this, he was stunned for a moment and couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Because this incident made him completely understand the gap between himself and Li Guoqiang.

In the blink of an eye, it was soon the next morning.

Li Guoqiang got up and had breakfast as usual, then went to the No. 1 apiary, ready to take people into the mountains to dig beehives.

Originally, after more than half a month of busy work, the workers in the apiary were very tired. In addition, the beehives they dug up now had to be handed over to the county, so their enthusiasm for going into the mountains was much lower than at the beginning.

However, when Li Guoqiang arrived at the apiary, he found that all the workers had already prepared to go into the mountains, and they even all looked heroic and proud, just like hens with chicks.

This made Li Guoqiang feel a little surprised, but also a little relieved. Then he didn't say anything and directly announced the departure.

(End of this chapter)