Siheyuan: A Very Happy Era

Chapter 607 Since they can
"Alright, stop with the nonsense. What do you want to talk to me about? Just say it!" Li Guoqiang waved his hand and said somewhat impatiently.

In fact, Yu Chunhua had only been there a short time and hadn't even had a chance to explain her business when Qin Huairu came over.

"I'll come and help you clean!" Qin Huairu replied immediately and very skillfully.

As she spoke, she walked to the side, picked up a rag, and started working on the cabinet.

Seeing this, Yu Chunhua hesitated for a long time, but in the end, she was too embarrassed to tell Qin Huairu her purpose.

After all, she couldn't exactly say she came here to see if Li Guoqiang would take a liking to her, could she?
"Hmph! You're still too green!" Qin Huairu couldn't help but feel a little smug when she saw Yu Chunhua's expression.

"Yu Chunhua, if you have something to say, just say it." Li Guoqiang saw that Yu Chunhua was a little hesitant, and he felt a little amused. Then he spoke softly to comfort her.

"No, actually I'm fine." Yu Chunhua met Li Guoqiang's deep and captivating eyes, her heart skipped a beat, and then she shook her head and said.

After saying that, she didn't dare to stay any longer and immediately got up and left in a hurry.

"Hey, everyone's gone, why are you still looking?" Qin Huairu watched Yu Chunhua leave, then turned around and saw Li Guoqiang staring at the door. She couldn't help but tease him a little.

"What's wrong? Why aren't you going to see Uncle He? What are you doing here?" Li Guoqiang raised an eyebrow and asked with a hint of amusement.

Qin Huairu was immediately speechless when she saw Li Guoqiang pretending to be ignorant.

Then, her eyes lit up, and she walked over and plopped down in Li Guoqiang's lap.

"You! Didn't I make it clear to you before? There's nothing between me and Sha Zhu. We're completely innocent. Why are you still holding onto this?" Qin Huairu poked Li Guoqiang's chest with her finger and said coquettishly.

"Are you saying I'm clinging to this particular thing?" Li Guoqiang asked softly, a smirk playing on his lips.

"Here it is!" Qin Huairu was overjoyed upon hearing this, and then quickly grabbed Li Guoqiang's hand.
Soon after, they went from the living room into the inner room and didn't come out until noon.

"Hey, Grandma, where's my mom?" Banggeng came back excitedly from outside carrying bags and packages, then looked around the house and his brows slowly furrowed.

"Your mother went out on business!" Jia Zhangshi glanced at the things Banggeng was carrying and immediately felt a pang of sadness.

If she were a little younger, and if someone were willing to pay, wouldn't Bang Geng have to give her away to someone else?
"They went out?" Bang Geng was slightly taken aback, then suddenly fell silent.

Because he knew that Qin Huairu must have gone to find Li Guoqiang.

"Brother, have you struck it rich? Why are you suddenly buying so much stuff?" Huaihua leaned close to Banggeng and asked with a look of surprise and uncertainty.

"Yeah! Brother, you don't have a job, where did you get so much money? Did Mom secretly give it to you?" Xiao Dang's face was full of resentment.

You should know that she and Huaihua work themselves to the bone every month and can only earn a little over forty yuan.

Moreover, they had to hand over a large portion of their monthly salary to Qin Huairu, leaving them with less than ten yuan to distribute among themselves.

They had originally planned to get some money back from Qin Huairu sometime in the future!
Unexpectedly, Qin Huairu secretly gave Bang Geng so much money!
This is just so unfair!

"No, this money wasn't given to me by my mom, I borrowed it from someone else!" Banggeng quickly shook his head and explained, almost letting slip the truth.

"Borrowed it from someone? Who did you borrow it from?" Xiao Dang persisted.

“Yeah! You don’t know any rich friends, so who would lend you that much money?” Huaihua also expressed her doubts.

"Hey! Why are you asking so many questions? Anyway, I haven't done anything wrong, why do you care where my money came from?" Banggeng retorted impatiently.

"Hey! You won't tell me, huh? If you don't, I'll go tell Mom and she'll come and teach you a lesson!" Xiao Dang glared at her and then brought up Qin Huairu.

"Fine! Go ahead and ask. If I'm even a little bit afraid, then I'm not your brother!" Bang Geng immediately lost his temper upon hearing this.

In his view, Qin Huairu was probably too busy trying to please Li Guoqiang to care about her son!

Moreover, Qin Huairu knows best where he got his money, so why would he be afraid that Xiaodang would complain to Qin Huairu?

"Hmph! I knew Mom was biased. This money must have been given to you by Mom!" Xiao Dang was so angry at Bang Geng's self-righteousness that she felt a tightness in her chest.

Although Huaihua didn't say anything, her gaze towards Banggeng was filled with anger.

Bang Geng immediately knew that he had no choice but to explain the origin of the money today.

In addition, he didn't want his two younger sisters to be ruined by Li Guoqiang in a muddled way.

After a slight hesitation, he finally decided to tell Li Guoqiang that he had given him money to call him "Dad."

"Alright, alright, I'll tell you the truth! This money..."

"Bang Geng, shut up!" When Jia Zhangshi saw that Bang Geng wanted to tell Xiao Dang and Huaihua the truth, she hurriedly interrupted him.

"No, Grandma, things have already come to this, why are you stopping me from talking? Besides, I'm not afraid of losing face, so what are you afraid of?" Bang Geng looked at Jia Zhangshi with some confusion.

For a moment, "I," Jia Zhangshi, didn't know how to refute her.

"Xiao Dang, Huaihua, let me tell you the truth! Mom and Li Guoqiang, there's something going on." Seeing that Jia Zhangshi didn't say anything, Banggeng hurriedly told Xiao Dang and Huaihua, who were full of doubts, what the truth was.

"What? No, bro, what nonsense are you talking about? How is this possible?" Xiao Dang's eyes widened, and then he looked at Bang Geng with an incredulous expression.

"Yeah! Bro, are you out of your mind?" Huaihua didn't want to believe it was true either.

"Look what this is!" Bang Geng didn't bother to explain anything; he simply took out 963.7 yuan from his pocket and slammed it on the table.

"So much money? How do you have so much money?" Xiao Dang was stunned for a moment, then asked in astonishment.

"I...I've never seen so much money before!" Huaihua was somewhat stunned.

"Hmph! This money, plus what I used to buy things, totals 1000 yuan. It was all compensation from Li Guoqiang, who made me call him 'Dad'!" Bang Geng snorted coldly, then answered somewhat awkwardly.

"What? You mean Brother Qiangzi told you to call him Dad?" Xiao Dang was immediately startled upon hearing this.

"No, why would Brother Qiang do that?" Huaihua was both shocked and puzzled.

"What else could it be? Because Mom has been with him for over a decade!" Bang Geng clenched his fists, then hissed in a low voice, his face full of resentment. "What? This... how is this possible?" Xiao Dang's eyes widened, then he muttered to himself in shock.

At the same time, she also recalled various unusual phenomena she had seen before.

However, at that time she didn't think in that direction at all. Instead, she mistakenly thought that Li Guoqiang might have feelings for her. She even thought about giving Li Guoqiang a good scolding and calling him a toad trying to eat swan meat.

Then, as Li Guoqiang gradually revealed his amazing talent, she slowly began to like him.

It was only because Li Guoqiang had too many women around him, and because she was still young at the time and had not yet deeply experienced the hardships of life and the ruthlessness of reality, that she was never able to let go of the pride in her heart.

As a result, she never had the chance to express her feelings to Li Guoqiang again.

Besides that, she also couldn't understand why Li Guoqiang would give their family money.
Even though Qin Huairu said it was because Li Guoqiang had taken a liking to her and Huaihua, she still had some doubts.

After all, if Li Guoqiang really had his eye on her and Huaihua, why hadn't he approached them about it all this time?
Only now, after learning the true relationship between Qin Huairu and Li Guoqiang from Banggeng, has she finally understood everything.

So all that money was Li Guoqiang's reward to Qin Huairu for her hard work!

So, is she still going to go with Huaihua to Li Guoqiang to express her feelings?

As Xiao Dang was thinking, a very serious problem suddenly occurred to her, and her heart skipped a beat.

She even felt like crying.

You should know that she was already prepared to be Li Guoqiang's mistress.

But now, it's all over.

Because she knew that Qin Huairu would absolutely not allow them to be together.

Just as her eyes were slowly reddening, Huaihua suddenly buried her face in her arms on the table and began to sob.

"Waaah~ How could Mom do this? If word gets out, how will we ever face anyone again?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Dang immediately burst into tears.

While crying, she also complained to Qin Huairu, asking why she had lied to them and said that Li Guoqiang had taken a liking to them.

If it weren't for this, perhaps she wouldn't be in so much pain now!
As she cried, she saw the money on the table and thought of the good days Yu Li and Qin Jingru had lived with Li Guoqiang, and she couldn't help but cry even harder.

The greatest tragedy in the world is not gaining something and then losing it, but thinking you are about to get it, only to find out in the end that it was all a misunderstanding.

"Waaaaah~ I don't want to live anymore!"

"Hey! Xiao Dang, please don't be impulsive, listen to me!" When Bang Geng saw Xiao Dang stand up and run outside, his heart jumped into his throat, and he hurriedly got up to chase after Xiao Dang and stop him.

"Brother, move aside, I'm going to settle accounts with Li Guoqiang!" Xiao Dang said angrily.

"No, don't you think things are complicated enough? Besides, this was all Mom's own choice, why are you trying to hold her accountable?" Banggeng said earnestly.

Originally, he intended to tell the truth so that Xiaodang and Huaihua could see Li Guoqiang's true colors and not be easily deceived by him.

If he had known that Xiao Dang and Huaihua would react so strongly, he would have kept it a secret no matter what!
When Xiao Dang heard Bang Geng's words, he was speechless.

After all, according to Bang Geng, Qin Huairu and Li Guoqiang have been together for over ten years. If you say that Qin Huairu didn't do it willingly, no one would believe it.

If Qin Huairu did it voluntarily, then what reason would she have to confront Li Guoqiang?
Thinking of this, she felt a surge of anger and resentment. She then turned around abruptly, ran back to the dining table, sat down, and burst into tears.

Seeing this, Banggeng hurriedly followed and said in a deep voice, "I can comfort you."

“Xiao Dang, Huaihua, I know you can’t accept it right away. I felt the same way when I first found out.”

But then I thought about it again and realized how much my mother had sacrificed for the three of us siblings and for our family.

Since she wants to be with him, even if we don't support her, we can't stop her, right?

Hearing this, before Xiaodang and Huaihua could say anything, Jia Zhangshi, who had been watching for a while, quickly chimed in, offering her advice:
“Yes! I think Banggeng is right. It’s only right that your mom pursues her own happiness.”

Besides, without Qiangzi's help all these years, who knows what kind of life our family would be in?

"Grandma, that's true, but my mom is so much older than Qiangzi. Isn't she afraid people will laugh at her?" Xiao Dang retorted, somewhat indignantly.

"Exactly! And how are we supposed to face Brother Qiangzi after this?" Huaihua raised her head, pouting, her face full of grievance.

We agreed to go to Hong Kong together to enjoy ourselves, but now all of that has fallen through.

"Hey! It's no big deal. Didn't you see that girl from the countryside, Xu Yuping? She's about the same age as your mother, and she even brought her daughter with her to follow Qiangzi!" Jia Zhangshi waved her hand dismissively.

Yup!

If they can do it, why can't we?

When Xiao Dang and Huaihua heard what Jia Zhangshi said, their minds suddenly cleared, and a glimmer of hope shone in their eyes.

However, before they could even start figuring out what to do next, Qin Huairu walked in, her face beaming.

He looked at least ten years younger than yesterday; if he told people he was only thirty-eight or thirty-nine, they would believe him without a doubt.

At the same time, this situation also made Xiao Dang and Huaihua believe from the bottom of their hearts that Li Guoqiang had the ability to make women younger and more beautiful.

"Huh? What's going on with you guys? Xiao Dang, Huaihua, why are you crying? And Banggeng, did you buy all this stuff? Don't you want to live anymore?"

When Qin Huairu entered the room, a look of surprise and uncertainty immediately flashed across her face.

After asking a series of questions, she gave Jia Zhangshi an inquiring look, wanting Jia Zhangshi to explain things to her properly.

(End of this chapter)