Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle.

Chapter 210 New Year's Drama (Subscription Request)
When a person concentrates on doing something, time often passes quickly.

Take Yang Ning for example. In order to develop our shock tunnel as quickly as possible, he spends the rest of his time, except for going home after get off work, either helping the missile research project team deal with computational problems encountered in the research, or conducting shock tunnel experiments again and again with Mr. Guo and Academician Yu Huyinghong. Then, based on the data from the previous experiment, he modifies the data and ignition time of the shock tube and explosion gas.

Gradually, the length of the wind tunnel changed from the original ten-meter model to thirty meters and fifty meters, and the diameter of the jet nozzle also increased from thirty centimeters to fifty centimeters.

However, because the theory of explosion is still being explored, the wind speed and duration cannot be improved. The only way is to suppress the explosion to maintain the wind speed between subsonic and supersonic speeds, and the experimental time can only be maintained at 10 milliseconds.

Amid the explosions, Yang Ning bid farewell to the busy 56 years and entered 57 years.

When Yang Ning walked home in the snow, Hu Yinghong had already returned from Xu Damao's wedding.

Seeing Yang Ning coming back, Hu Yinghong quickly put down the work in her hands and carefully helped Yang Ning clean the snow off his body.

"Did Xu Damao's wedding go smoothly today? Did that guy say anything to me?"

Looking at Hu Yinghong who was carefully helping him clean the snowflakes on his head, Yang Ning asked.

After hearing Yang Ning's words, Hu Yinghong burst out laughing.

Seeing her like this, Yang Ning became even more curious: "What's wrong? What's wrong with that kid again?"

Then Yang Ning shook his head and said, "That shouldn't happen. Although that guy is not very serious on weekdays, he is also very sensible. He shouldn't make a fool of himself at his own wedding, right?"

"Xu Damao doesn't have any, but I found that the courtyard where your family used to live has a lot of talented people, all kinds of people."

Hu Yinghong smiled and explained to Yang Ning: "Xu Damao didn't do anything weird, but the two uncles in the courtyard are both weird. This is the first time I have seen such confident and shameless people in my life."

After thinking about it, Yang Ning knew who the two uncles Hu Yinghong was talking about were. The only one who could make Hu Yinghong say that they were confident was the second uncle's family, who had already become obsessed with power. As for being shameless, was there anyone in the courtyard who could be more shameless than the third uncle's family when they saw something delicious?
No, even if the third uncle’s family consists of six people, except for the two younger ones who cannot sit at the table alone, the other four people each occupy a table, and then pack up all the leftover dishes and take them home when the guests are not full. Yang Ning does not find it strange.

But this shouldn't make Hu Yinghong so happy, right?

"It's the second and third uncles, right? What did they do today?"

"Yes, I heard from mom that those two families are the second and third uncles in that courtyard."

"When my parents and I first arrived, the second uncle came up to us and showed off his eldest son. Although he said that his eldest son was useless and hoped that he could learn more from you, his inner meaning was that his eldest son was very promising and would soon become a high-ranking official."

"He also said that his son would be able to ride on the Jinggang Mountain in the future, and he would also be able to benefit from it."

Hu Yinghong tried to suppress a smile as she spoke: "Didn't you see that his eldest son's face was almost purple at that time?"

After listening to Hu Yinghong's words, Yang Ning was not surprised at all. This move was indeed very arrogant. If he didn't have this confidence, how could he dare to dream of becoming a leader with only primary school education in the original book?
"Didn't mom scold him?" Yang Ning asked curiously.

He thought, with his mother's temper, could you tolerate the second uncle's sarcasm? Not to mention just a few words, even if she quarreled with the second uncle, it wouldn't be strange.

"No, at first my parents just dealt with it casually. As the second uncle in the yard kept going more and more outrageous, before my mother could lose her temper, Xu Damao's father came over and sent him away." Come to think of it, which family can tolerate someone who disgusts the guests so much on the day of their son's wedding? In this situation, it would be strange if Xu Damao's family didn't stand up.

The behavior of the Second Uncle was not only a slap in the face of the Yang family, but he also didn't give any face to the Xu family at all!

"Is this the end of the matter?"

Yang Ning felt a little regretful. It was a pity that he didn't attend the wedding today and missed such a big news.

"It's not that easy to end. Although the second uncle behaved himself later, when the wedding was about to end, He Yuzhu somehow found out what happened before. So after he finished his work in the kitchen, he came to the second uncle's table and started to act weird."

"I don't know what that kid said, but he started fighting with Second Uncle's family after a while."

At this point, Hu Yinghong couldn't help laughing again: "While everyone was busy trying to stop the quarrel, the third uncle and his family in the courtyard took advantage of the situation and packed up the last few dishes and took them back home like thieves, and even said that it was to prevent waste."

Yang Ning didn't even need to think about it. The person who passed the message to He Yuzhu and teased him was none other than Xu Damao, the guy with all kinds of bad intentions.

In Xu Damao's mind, the Liu family's previous actions were clearly a disrespect to him and made him lose points in front of the Yang family.

But he was the groom today and was too embarrassed to retaliate, so he went to He Yuzhu to start a fire.

If you ask who knows He Yuzhu best, even He Yuzhu's wife can't say that she can compare to this guy Xu Damao. When it comes to provoking He Yuzhu to take action, Xu Damao is the professional.

"What a pity, I missed such a big show to start the new year!"

Although Yang Ning had a look of regret on his face, he was thinking in his heart that these two childhood friends were indeed nothing to be ashamed of. Even if he didn't go today, those two guys would still think of helping his family get back their face, which was already very loyal of them.

In this city, isn't it all about appearance?
Yang Ning thought that if he went there today, he would have to compete with the second uncle.

But Yang Ning forgot his identity. If he went, the second uncle would not dare to speak so loudly to the Yang family.

The second uncle is just stupid, but not dumb. I'm afraid he saw that Yang Ning didn't come today, so he was impulsive and wanted to show off to the Yang family.

"The uncle didn't stand up?" Yang Ning felt strange. Why did the uncle seem to hardly appear in Hu Yinghong's words?
"You are talking about Uncle Da, it seems his grandson is sick today, so he went to the hospital to see the doctor with his grandson. Only Aunt Da and his apprentice were there."

"Grandson?" Yang Ning was a little confused when he heard this at first, but then he thought of the child in Qin Huairu's belly, and he understood.

It seems that the old man is now content with having a grandson. He devotes all his attention to his grandson and no longer stirs up trouble in the yard.

In fact, Yang Ning also misunderstood the old man. He really thought that he had turned over a new leaf. Little did he know that as the big boss in the original novel, his mind was so meticulous.

Seeing that the Xu family and the He family, who were the most likely to cause trouble in the courtyard, were both related to Yang Ning, although he did not know Yang Ning's specific job and position, he knew that he could not afford to offend Yang Ning. For the future of his "grandson", he suppressed his eagerness and did not get involved in the affairs of the courtyard.

(End of this chapter)