Siheyuan: What bad intentions could a veterinarian like me have?

Chapter 109: A fire breaks out in the backyard. How rare!

"Whoops, whoops, whoops..."

On the kang in the inner room of the Jia family, Jia Zhang had already fallen into a deep sleep, and from time to time she could hear loud snoring. To put it bluntly, the bed board was shaking.

Lying on the kang in this room were Jia Zhang's Xiaodang, Banggeng, Huaihua, Qin Huairu, and Qin Jingru who was almost squeezed into a roujiamo.

She had already lost all her sleepiness due to Jia Zhang's snoring, which was like a war. In addition, the cramped space made it impossible for her to turn over, which made her extremely upset.

"What's wrong? Can't sleep, Jingru? Are you missing your mother?" Qin Huairu noticed the person beside her tossing and turning, so she opened her eyes and asked.

She glanced at the clock on the chest of drawers; the hour hand had already passed nine o'clock.

"Sister, do you sleep like this every day? Can you sleep? It's like fighting a war! Don't call me tomorrow, I want to sleep all day! I can forget about sleeping tonight!" Qin Jingru covered her head with the quilt, and when she pulled it open, her eyes were filled with speechless resentment.

"Come on, come on, that won't work. I have to find another bed for you to sleep on! Put on your clothes!" Qin Huairu said as she began to put on her clothes quietly.

"Hey? Sister, where are we going?" Qin Jingru quickly put on her clothes and suddenly became excited.

"He Yuzhu has a younger sister named He Yushui, who now lives alone in the second east wing. Although her house only has one kang, it's enough for you to sleep on it! Let's go, I'll go and beg her!"

Qin Jingru got out of bed and hesitated, "It's so late, isn't it bad?"

"Yu Shui is kind-hearted. He will agree if I talk to him. How can you help the Jia family if you can't sleep well? Let's go!" As Qin Huairu spoke, she tiptoed, lifted the door curtain and walked out.

Qin Jingru had no choice but to follow him out. The two of them walked a few steps and arrived at He Yushui's house. They found that her door was open and she was sitting at the table facing the door, fiddling with something with a kerosene lamp on.

"Yushui!" Qin Huairu greeted and walked in.

"Sister-in-law Huairu, why are you here?" He Yushui hurriedly stood up and greeted her.

"You're welcome, you're welcome," Qin Huairu said briefly, "You met my sister today. She was supposed to sleep, but my mother-in-law snored so loudly that she couldn't sleep. I really had no choice but to let her come and stay with you for two days! After I finish taking care of the things at the Jia family, I'll let her go back! I might have to bother you for a few days!"

"About this! It's not a big deal, just come and stay! My bed is very cold when I sleep alone, please warm it up for me!" He Yushui agreed without noticing the loophole in Qin Huairu's words, staring at Qin Jingru with curious eyes.

"That's great, thank you for the rain!" Qin Jingru said happily.

"Thank you, Yushui! Jingru, help Yushui with some work. Huaihua is still asleep. I have to go back!" Qin Huairu sniffed and asked, "What are you doing? Why aren't you sleeping so late at night?"

He Yushui quietly covered the large porcelain bowl and smiled: "I'm a little hungry, so I'll just make something to eat!"

"Hey, it's not easy for you either! Yushui, if you need any help, just let me know. Thank you for these days!" Qin Huairu nodded, said something, then turned and left.

Qin Jingru then came over and sniffed as well, saying, "Yushui, why do I smell a bit of sour plum? What are you doing?"

"It's sour plums!" He Yushui smiled. "I bought them this afternoon. They cost me six cents!"

Qin Jingru scratched her head and said in confusion: "This thing doesn't seem to satisfy hunger. The more you eat, the hungrier you get!"

"It's not for eating, it's for drinking!" He Yushui smiled, took a piece of gauze and put it on the table, poured the crushed plums in the porcelain bowl on it, held the cloth with both hands and picked it up to sift out the large bone residue, then swept the plum meat into the porcelain bowl, hurried to the boiling copper pot, opened the lid and poured it all in.

"What are you going to do?" Qin Jingru was very surprised.

"Sour plum hangover soup!" He Yushui said excitedly.

"You didn't drink!"

"It's not made for me!" He Yushui said with a red face, and sat beside the stove and fanned the fire.

"Huh?" Qin Jingru glanced at the room, becoming more and more confused, her face instantly turned fearful, "Don't scare me, you're the only living person I see in this room!" "What are you talking about! Go to bed!"

As he spoke, he waited until the water boiled, then He Yushui covered the stove vent. When the fire was low, he dipped the chopsticks in the water in the pot and said, "It's almost done!"

"Watch your step, slow down!"

At this moment, two staggering figures flashed in from the hanging flower gate in the middle courtyard. They were Yan Bugui who was supporting Li Xiangdong.

"Hey, you're drunk..." Qin Jingru ran to the door and took a look. Suddenly she realized, "Well, you made the hangover soup for Li Xiangdong. Wow, you're so nice to him!"

"Brother Dong!"

He Yushui didn't wait for her to finish. She put the coal stove in, picked up the copper kettle and ran out with a smile, "Uncle, please be careful and pay attention to the steps. I'll go light the lamp for you!"

"Hey, this girl is so attentive!" Qin Jingru was really curious. She turned around, closed the iron cover of the stove, and chased out.

At this time, Yan Bugui had already climbed the stairs with Li Xiangdong.

"Uncle, right? Watch your step! Threshold, threshold!" Qin Jingru chased after him and shouted a few words. Yan Bugui, who didn't know how much he drank, stumbled and almost dropped Li Xiangdong. She hurried over to support Li Xiangdong and turned back to call He Yushui: "Have you lit the light? This guy is too heavy!"

"Here we come!" He Yushui had already put the copper kettle on the ground and ran to light the kerosene lamp. Upon hearing the news, he ran over in a few steps and helped the two of them sit down at the table together with Qin Jingru.

"How much did he drink? Uncle, you forced my brother Dong to drink, didn't you? He can't drink, you're so stupid!" He Yushui said, and hurried to find a teacup to pour sobering soup, "You should also drink a cup of sobering soup while it's hot to sober up!"

"I didn't drink much, I didn't drink much..." Yan Bugui's nose was red, his eyes were wide open, and he was almost dizzy. But when he heard that there was a hangover soup to drink, he instantly became energetic, "Hey, that's great! I drank too much, really too much! Let me have a taste first!"

"..." Qin Jingru rolled her eyes. She had heard that the third uncle loved to take advantage of others, and today she had finally seen the whole picture.

As soon as the soup came up, Yan Bugui hurriedly took a sip, his eyes lit up, "Tsk, did you make this with rainwater? And you even added rock sugar... Wow!"

He didn't mind the heat and drank two gulps. However, he was too impatient and the alcohol started to come out, so he put down the cup and rushed to the yard to vomit.

"Yushui," Li Xiangdong drank a mouthful of the hangover soup, and felt warm from the tip of his tongue to the bottom of his stomach. He raised his eyes and glanced at her, smiling, "You are quite caring. Thank you!"

"That's right. Sister Yushui calculated that you had to come back at this time. She was afraid that the sobering soup would get cold if you made it too early. She really cares about you!" Qin Jingru said with a smile.

"Huh?" Li Xiangdong then realized that there was another person behind He Yushui, "Are you Qin Huairu's sister?"

"Cousin! I am her cousin Qin Jingru!" Qin Jingru said with a red face.

Li Xiangdong was about to make a joke when he suddenly heard a loud howl in the backyard, breaking the silence.

But this cry did not seem to be of pain, but rather an indescribable pleasure.

He Yushui put the copper kettle down and said angrily, "What are you doing? You're not sleeping in the middle of the night and you're just howling like a ghost!"

Li Xiangdong laughed and said, "Yushui, this is probably not because you don't sleep, but because you sleep! I'm afraid it's Xu Damao's family!"

"That's not it!" Yan Bugui held onto the door frame, looked towards the backyard, and said unnaturally, "Dongzi, why does this voice sound like Second Aunt's?"

"Huh?" This confused Li Xiangdong. He quickly drank a sip of sobering soup, stood up and said, "Then we have to go and see what's going on! There's a fire in the backyard, how rare!"

Qin Jingru: “…”

(End of this chapter)