Courtyard House: Starting by inheriting the tradition and suppressing the barbarians.
Chapter 3: The Jia family visits, and the old woman is confronted!
The next morning, just as dawn was breaking.
Li Xuan woke up very early.
After a night's rest, and nourished by the Marrow Cleansing Pill and the spiritual spring water.
He felt an explosive power coursing through his body, and his senses were incredibly sharp.
Their mental strength is also exceptionally powerful.
A ten-meter range scan is just like radar!
It can even remotely store things into the Purple Cloud Space through thought!
Li Xuan looked at his mother and younger siblings who were still fast asleep, and tiptoed to the outer kitchen.
The rice jar at home is almost empty, with only a little bit of old cornmeal and a few shriveled sweet potatoes left.
Let's just grab something to eat for now.
Li Xuan didn't mind, scooped up a few spoonfuls of cornmeal, and cut up two sweet potatoes.
However, he replaced all the water used to cook the porridge with spiritual spring water from the Purple Cloud Space.
As the firewood crackled, the water in the pot gradually boiled.
An indescribable fragrance wafted out from the gap in the pot lid.
This sacred spring water has the power to turn decay into wonder.
The originally rough and astringent cornmeal and sweet potato porridge surprisingly exuded the sweet aroma of top-quality fragrant rice.
It even carries a faint fragrance of grass and trees.
The fragrance seemed to have eyes, spreading throughout the entire courtyard through the cracks in the doors and windows.
……
forecourt.
Uncle Yan Bugui, who was figuring out how to save the water from washing his face to flush the toilet, suddenly twitched his nose twice.
"Wow! What's that smell?"
"This smells amazing! Who cooks meat porridge this early in the morning?"
He followed the smell to the backyard, his Adam's apple bobbing involuntarily. "This seems to be the direction of Old Li's house?"
"What good things could Su Yun, a widow and her orphan, possibly have?"
The Intermediate People's Court, the Jia family.
Just as Jia Zhangshi was dreaming of her eldest grandson eating meat, she was suddenly awakened by the aroma.
"Gurgle!"
Her enormous belly made a loud noise.
Qin Huairu, heavily pregnant, was folding blankets when she smelled this odor and swallowed hard.
With a glare of her triangular eyes, Jia Zhangshi sprang up from the kang (a heated brick bed).
She moved with such agility that she didn't seem like a fifty-year-old woman.
"Good for you! That damned Su Yun!"
"Yesterday he was complaining to me about being broke, saying his family couldn't afford to eat, but this morning he was hiding in his room eating and drinking well!"
"They have no conscience! They're heartless!"
As Jia Zhangshi grumbled and put on her shoes, she yelled at Qin Huairu, "What are you all standing there for?"
"Grab the big bowl! Come with me to the backyard!"
After saying that, she strode aggressively toward the backyard with her bow legs.
……
Inside the Li family's house.
Su Yun and her two children were also awakened by the aroma.
"Brother, it smells so good! What are you cooking?"
Li Tian ran out rubbing his eyes, drool almost dripping from his mouth.
"Special sweet potato porridge, go wash your face, dinner's ready soon."
Li Xuan smiled and served his mother a bowl.
Just as the family sat around the table, ready to enjoy this special breakfast.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The already somewhat loose wooden door was smashed with a deafening roar, as if it would shatter at any moment.
"Su Yun! You heartless bastard! Open the door right now!"
"Hiding indoors and eating alone, aren't you afraid your whole family will choke to death!"
"You have good food but don't know how to show filial piety to your elders or help your neighbors. That's capitalist behavior!"
"It's selfish!"
Jia Zhangshi's unique hoarse voice, accompanied by the sound of banging on the door, was like a demonic chant.
Su Yun's face turned pale, and she almost dropped the chopsticks in her hand.
Xiaoyu was so frightened that she shrank into her mother's arms.
The smile on Li Xuan's face vanished instantly, replaced by an icy chill.
He gently put down the bowl and patted his younger brother's shoulder: "Xiao Tian, take your sister and eat first."
"Brother, I'm going out to take care of the trash."
After saying that, Li Xuan stood up, strode to the door, and suddenly pulled it open.
Outside.
Just as Jia Zhangshi was preparing to ram the door, the door suddenly opened, and she almost lost her footing and fell in.
She steadied herself, looked up, and met Li Xuan's cold, dagger-like eyes.
For some reason, she felt a sudden tremor in her heart.
But this old hag was used to being domineering and soon straightened her back.
A look of greed and ferocity crept onto that fleshy face.
"Hey! You little brat, you're still alive? You're pretty tough!"
When Jia Zhangshi glanced into the room and saw the hot porridge on the table, her mouth watered.
"Since you're not dead, hurry up and bring me that pot of porridge!"
"My hamster is at the age where it's growing rapidly. Can you afford to compensate me if it goes hungry?"
"And what about what we discussed yesterday? How's that going?"
"Quickly clear out that side room! My Dongxu's wife is about to give birth, and we have nowhere to live!"
She confidently stretched out her thick hand, ready to barge into the house.
Li Xuan stood like a mountain blocking the entrance, unmoving.
He looked down at the fleshy ball that was only about 1.5 meters tall and sneered:
"Mrs. Jia, you're spewing filth so early in the morning without even brushing your teeth! Aren't you afraid of disturbing all the neighbors in the courtyard?"
"you!"
Jia Zhangshi was stunned.
She never expected that Li Xuan, who was usually so timid, would dare to speak to her like that.
"Who are you calling a brat?"
"I'm talking about you, you old hag!"
Li Xuan's voice suddenly rose in pitch, full of energy, making Jia Zhangshi's eardrums buzz.
"I just don't understand, what does your dog's growth have to do with ours?"
"Does he have the surname Li like me? Am I supposed to support him?"
"And you say your family is struggling financially? Jia Dongxu earns a little over thirty yuan a month, which is more than enough to support your family of five!"
"Look at you, all fat! You practically wobble when you walk. Who in the whole hospital is fatter than you?"
"You still have the nerve to say it's difficult?"
"Look at my mom, look at my brother and sister-in-law, they're just skin and bones!"
"You're stealing our food rations; are you trying to drive the families of martyrs to their deaths?"
Li Xuan's words were eloquent and logically clear, his voice booming!
This left the neighbors who had just rushed over to see what was going on completely stunned.
Everyone took a closer look.
It really is!
Jia Zhangshi's face was as round as a pancake, and her complexion was ruddy.
Looking at the Li family mother and son, they were indeed extremely thin and weak.
This is hardly helping the poor.
This is clearly robbery by local tyrants!
"you..."
Jia Zhangshi was hit where it hurt, and her old face turned a deep purplish-red, and she started to throw a tantrum.
"You're talking nonsense!"
She yelled and clawed at Li Xuan's face, yelling, "I'll scratch you to death, you ill-mannered little bastard!"
"How dare you talk back to your elders!"
As the filthy fingernails reached out to scratch, a cold glint flashed in Li Xuan's eyes.
He didn't hit the old man, because doing so would make him lose his right.
He merely narrowed his eyes slightly, and the wisp of Ming Jin energy he had just refined within his body was instantly released along with killing intent!
At this moment, in Jia Zhangshi's eyes, the boy in front of her seemed to have turned into a fierce tiger that would devour anyone it wanted!
The fear, stemming from her biological instincts, made her entire body tremble violently.
"roll!"
Li Xuan's tongue crackled like thunder, and he let out a low shout.
This shout was like a thunderclap from a clear sky.
Jia Zhangshi was so frightened that her legs went weak, and her momentum instantly turned into staggering.
"Ouch!"
She tripped over her own feet with her left foot, and her whole body tumbled out like a giant ball of flesh.
There was a crisp "snap" sound.
Jia Zhangshi fell hard onto the muddy ground in front of the Li family's house, face down, getting a mouthful of mud and ash.
The posture was absolutely perfect—like a dog eating shit!
"puff!"
Xu Damao, who was watching, couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Even the usually serious Second Uncle Liu Haizhong's lips twitched a few times.
Li Xuan coldly watched Jia Zhangshi, who was lying on the ground groaning.
"This is karma."
"If Jia Zhangshi dares to cause trouble at my house again, next time it won't be as simple as just falling down."
After saying that, he slammed the door shut.
Outside the door, only Jia Zhangshi's pig-like screams echoed for a long time.
"My tooth...I knocked my tooth out!"
"Dongxu! Come and beat this little beast to death!"
......
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