A courtyard house, equipped with a fishing system, living in an era.

Xu Pingan bought a whole bunch of ingredients for making Laba porridge.

After all, he wasn't short of money, and besides, no one said that you could only drink Laba porridge on Laba Festival!

These neighbors living in the courtyard house, no matter how poor they claim to be, are considered wealthy in this era.

Even pulling a rickshaw in the city, earning over 100,000 yuan a month is still quite lucrative...

So from the Laba Festival onwards, the courtyard is filled with fragrance.

Who doesn't eat dumplings during Chinese New Year? Who doesn't have two good meals during Chinese New Year?

However, the fragrance that filled the courtyard led to the discovery of a hidden boss within the courtyard.

These days, that old lady surnamed Hu has started using a cane to wander around the middle and front yards.

Most of the time, she ate at Yi Zhonghai's house.

After all, begging for food door-to-door was still too ahead of its time for her!

The deaf old lady said she couldn't bear the shame!

As a level three fitter, Yi Zhonghai especially needs the help of the elderly deaf woman.

To be honest, Chinese people have always had a pretty strong sense of morality.

The traditional idea of ​​respecting the elderly and caring for the young has continued for thousands of years.

This elderly deaf woman surnamed Hu is, after all, nearly sixty years old.

This isn't 70 years from now; 70 years from now, 60 will be the age to go out and explore.

At this age of 60, one really does start to look old and frail, after all, it's rare for someone to live to seventy!

Moreover, the deaf old lady had bound feet, which made it difficult for her to move around and made her look even older!

Therefore, Yi Zhonghai is now genuinely taking care of the deaf old lady.

After the Laba Festival, we would arrange for her to have a meat meal every few days.

Although Yi Zhonghai was only a level three fitter, his salary was about the same as Xu Ping'an's.

However, his salary is really not low for a family of two.

The only difference is whether you want to eat something good or whether you want to be in the limelight.

Originally, according to the habits of Yi Zhonghai and his wife, they should save money when it was time to save money.

But things are different now...

At the pool in the central courtyard, Xu Ping'an was washing bedding with his two younger sisters.

"It's freezing cold, do these bedding absolutely need to be washed?"

Xu Fang's eye-rolling had stopped.

"Brother, how can you not clean the house before the New Year? If you don't clean it now, it'll really be New Year's soon."

Xu Pingan remained silent.

"Doesn't Er Ya sing at home every day? The New Year is just around the corner after Laba Festival? Aren't we already celebrating the New Year?"

"Brother, do you really have to go through with this?"

"Fine, I'll shut up!"

He told himself to shut up, but Xu Pingan kept muttering to himself while he worked.

The quilt, which had been sewn together, had to be taken apart, the cover washed and dried, and then sewn back together.

Xu Pingan practically never touches these kinds of jobs.

Before he transmigrated, he would simply throw away any clothes that were torn.

There's nothing I can do; I'm just not good at needlework.

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In the main room, the He siblings looked at each other in bewilderment.

Young He Yushui saw her friends washing their blankets outside and had already circled around twice.

Now he tiptoed up to He Yuzhu and asked him.

"Brother, should we wash our blankets? Sister Fangfang said we have to clean the house thoroughly before the New Year."

He Yuzhu was in a real bind.

He's good at cooking, but when it comes to washing clothes or blankets, he's really not good at it.

He could tell that Xu Pingan wasn't actually good at it; it was his younger sister who was handling things, and Xu Pingan was just there to do the physical labor.

"Forget it, let's not bother with this anymore! I'll think of something else in the summer!"

On the east wing, the Jia family mother and daughter-in-law were also peering out the window into the courtyard.

"Mom, why is it that the Xu family is barely responding to my attempts to befriend them?"

Although Madam Jia disliked this daughter-in-law, she had her son's influence, so at most she would just give him a cold shoulder and put on airs.

To say that he tormented Qin Huairu in any way, that's really not true.

If things really got too messy, Qin Huairu would probably have run away long ago after Jia Dongxu died in the original drama.

"Hmph, ignoring you is the right thing to do. Do you think everyone is like Sha Zhu? It's true that there are no wrong nicknames, only wrong names..."

She swallowed back even harsher words.

This silly Zhu actually called his daughter-in-law Sister Qin?

From small courtyard houses to the entire city of Beijing, who would address their neighbor's wife like that?

Moreover, although Jia Dongxu and Sha Zhu did not grow up together, they had both moved into this courtyard when they were teenagers.

The other young people in the courtyard, Yan Jiecheng from the front yard, Liu Guangqi from the back yard, and even Xu Ping'an from the countryside, all called Qin Huairu "Sister-in-law Jia"...

But this silly Zhu, whether genuinely stupid or pretending, actually called her Sister Qin when asked.

You call her Sister Qin?

Regardless of what she was thinking, Jia Zhangshi didn't say anything more about Qin Huairu.

Jia Zhangshi's thoughts are very simple now.

After working so hard for so many years, she finally raised her son to adulthood and got him married. Now she needs to eat and drink well to take care of her health.

Eat more and get angry less, and try to see her grandson give her a great-grandson. That way, she can say she has done right by Old Jia in this life.

Although Jia Zhangshi doesn't nag Qin Huairu, she now doesn't do any housework at all.

After years of being a daughter-in-law, she finally becomes a mother-in-law and still has to do housework. Isn't all that hard work for nothing?

Qin Huairu really didn't care about this.

This kind of work is much easier than working in the fields in the village.

After a long day of work, I didn't even feel tired. In the evening, I still had the energy to make love with Jia Dongxu and try to have a baby!

……

Compared to the Jia family's situation, the Yi Zhonghai family on the other side found the sounds coming from their courtyard rather jarring.

On the one hand, their family really enjoys the sounds of children playing.

On the other hand, they felt that all the liveliness belonged to other people, leaving their family with only endless loneliness and desolation.

However, the Yi family today consists of more than two people; there is also a deaf old lady.

At that moment, the deaf old lady was leaning on a cane, peering out the window towards the pool.

"That young man is the same young man that Xiao Wang brought into the courtyard back then."

"Yes, his name is Xu Ping'an, and those two little girls are his sisters."

"I heard there are no adults left in their family, is that right?"

They are all deep and calculating people.

As soon as the deaf old lady spoke, Yi Zhonghai quickly understood her thoughts.

He shook his head slightly.

He had indeed thought about Xu Ping'an, but in the end, Xu Ping'an was really just an ordinary neighbor to him.

There's absolutely no emotional foundation between them!

Sha Zhu and Jia Dongxu's situations are different.

Yi Zhonghai and they had a friendship that began in their fathers' generation, and after their fathers passed away, this friendship naturally continued to them.

According to the older generation, this is the friendship between two generations...

Anyone who wants to act superior because of their age can simply say, "I watched you grow up..."

He intervened in many things in a way that seemed perfectly natural!

From this perspective, he really doesn't have any moral advantage over Xu Ping'an!

Yi Zhonghai's current situation is not very optimistic.

Because of my arm injury, I only passed the third-level fitter exam this time.

The next assessment is still a long way off...

Look at how prestigious those senior workers are now in the factory. Not to mention the workshop director, even Director Yang has to give them face.

And he didn't hold any official position in the institute...

"Forget it, we don't have much of a relationship, and besides, this Xu Ping'an is very principled!"

This is exactly what Yi Zhonghai really thinks.

He genuinely felt that Xu Ping'an was not someone who could be easily fooled.

The deaf old lady watched the three members of the Xu family interact through the window for a while, secretly making her own plans.

Yi Zhonghai needs her now, and he's treating her quite well.

But how long can this need last?

She still needs to find a way to increase her own importance.