The Life of a Son-in-Law in a Courtyard House

Yang Dalin, accompanied by Qi Xiaoning, gave a brief introduction to several neighbors.

Fearing that Yang Dalin might not remember since he had just arrived, they said they would introduce him to the person after they met him.

The gatekeeper, Old Qi, had his room inside the main gate of the courtyard; there was a door on the east wall inside the main gate.

Unlike the other rooms with their doors facing north, this one is different.

There is a small courtyard to the north of the gatehouse, though it is small, it provides more private space.

On the east side of the screen wall, you can see through the moon gate the small courtyard of Grandpa Qi, who lives in the gatehouse. It's quite well-maintained inside.

According to Qi Xiaoning, Grandpa Qi had a big flatbed cart that he used to haul goods for others to earn money; it could also be called a "hub".

They do more than just pedal a tricycle; they do everything from moving and transporting goods and grain to funerals and delivering betrothal gifts. Grandpa Qi must be out earning money right now.

The business of pedaling a tricycle is not that extensive.

To be honest, houses with a reverse-facing roof tend to be damp, and most people don't like that kind of house.

It used to be used as a place for servants or occasional guests.

However, these houses all had a small window opened on the south side with the approval of the street authorities, which solved part of the dampness problem.

Otherwise, if there are no windows on the south side, people living in such houses for a long time might actually get sick.

Our ancestors had certain principles when building houses. Most houses faced south, with a main door or large windows on the south side, which effectively solved most of the dampness problems in the rooms.

Yang Dalin followed them through the hanging flower gate, where the old women were still sitting at Yan Bugui's door.

Qi Xiaoning didn't mince words and introduced everything to Yang Dalin one by one.

They lived across the street from their house at the home of Uncle Yan Bugui.

Sitting in the middle near the doorway is Aunt Yang Ruihua, the third aunt.

The other woman outside the door, who wasn't very fat and had triangular eyes, was sewing shoe soles. She was Aunt Jia, also known as Jia Zhangshi.

Jia Zhangshi looked a bit fierce, and she wasn't as fat as she appeared at the beginning of the 65 TV series.

She's still very thin now.

Of course, she didn't throw a tantrum without reason; many authors have portrayed Jia Zhangshi as too demonic.

If someone thinks they can just wander into the yard and cause trouble, they're overthinking it.

With such reckless behavior, Jia Zhangshi would have died thousands of times over.

It's not yet the first year of Dongxu, and her son is still alive.

She throws tantrums and tries to take advantage of others without fear of embarrassing her son.

Ordinary people do get the benefits, but who comes up here and starts taking advantage without any regard for others? Does she really think no one dares to hit her?

Even Yi Zhonghai, the Heavenly Venerable, wouldn't dare to indulge him like that.

Yang Dalin took another closer look at Jia Zhangshi, guessing that since her son was still alive, she wouldn't be so hostile.

Her features and eyes also appear quite gentle.

Anyway, Yang Dalin called her Aunt Jia, and she responded very politely.

The other two women were Aunt Li, who lived on the west side of the main hall, and Aunt Liu, who lived in the third room from the west in the back room.

Qi Xiaoning from the Intermediate People's Court didn't intend to explain. Yang Dalin said he had just finished using the toilet and wanted to find a water pipe to wash his hands.

The young girl looked at him with new respect; he was quite hygienic.

Then they led him through the passageway in the middle of the main hall to the central courtyard.

The water tap in the courtyard is in the middle courtyard.

Two of the west wing rooms to the west of the water tap belong to the Jia Zhang family, and the southernmost room plus a side room belong to another family.

The Jia Zhang family also had a small kitchen built against the north wall, which was probably used in the summer. The place where Qin Huairu fed the rabbits should have been behind the kitchen.

The main house naturally belongs to the main character of the TV series, Sha Zhu. It has three main rooms and side rooms on both sides.

The west wing is larger, while the east wing is smaller. There is a passageway along the wall inside that leads to the backyard.

Of course, the verandas in front of the main house and the east and west wing rooms have lost their former beauty after so many years of weathering, and many things are placed under the verandas of each household.

The two side rooms on the south side of the east wing belong to Yi Zhonghai's family, while the northernmost room belongs to He Yushui.

Yang Dalin didn't see the Immortal Slayer's Staff, but he did see Qi Xiaoning call He Yushui out of the east wing.

He Yushui should be the same age as Yang Dalin now, both born in 44.

They're both sixteen now, and He Yushui is probably over 1.6 meters tall. Yang Dalin sadly discovers that he might be about the same height as her.

I'm only a little over 1.6 meters tall now. I can still salvage my height for a few more years. I hope the system will be able to help me out after it's activated.

Otherwise, He Yushui will grow to 170cm in the future, and if I can't keep up with her, I'll be a level eight disabled person.

Even though I was a level three disabled person in my past life, I was still over 1.7 meters tall.

Even if I don't grow to 1.8 meters tall in this life, I must be over 1.7 meters tall.

Otherwise, wouldn't they embarrass the time-traveling army to the point of being relegated to outer space?

For some reason, He Yushui didn't go to school either, and Qi Xiaoning called out to her.

He Yushui came out, and she wasn't that thin. Many people say that He Yushui was fattened up by He Yuzhu and became extremely thin, but that's nonsense.

If you're really that skinny, how can you grow to 1.7 meters tall? If you're really bad to your sister, how can you buy her a bicycle and support her through high school?

She's become too demonized. He Yushui is quite slim now, and her complexion is even better than Qi Xiaoning's.

Although she wasn't very fat, she was probably gaining weight and looked better than the older women I'd just seen.

After He Yushui came out, she took Qi Xiaoning's hand and whispered, "Is this what Auntie brought yesterday?"

"Yes, his name is Yang Dalin."

Yang Dalin washed his hands and face. It was late autumn, so the water wasn't frozen, but it was still a bit cold, which he could tolerate.

She wiped the water off her face again before speaking, "Hello, He Yushui, my name is Yang Dalin, you can call me Brother Dalin."

"Hello, Brother Dalin," He Yushui greeted politely.

Qi Xiaolajiao tugged at He Yushui's hand: "Sister Yushui, don't listen to him. He's the same age as you. You two don't even know who's older!"

"Ah," He Yushui blushed slightly and covered her mouth with her hand.

Yang Dalin, shameless as ever, blurted out: "Rain, don't listen to Qi Xiaoning's nonsense. I'm on the first day of the Lunar New Year, so you can't go wrong calling me 'brother'."

Qi Xiaoning genuinely didn't know Yang Dalin's birthday and was about to speak with a look of disbelief on her face.

At this moment, an old woman with a bitter face walked out of the middle door of the east wing.

"Xiaoning, Rainwater, what's this?"

Yang Dalin immediately recognized her – wasn't this the old lady who had been morally blackmailing the Celestial Venerable?

Qi Xiaoning introduced Yang Dalin directly: "Yang Dalin, this is the aunt of Master Yi, the master craftsman of our steel rolling mill."

Yang Dalin didn't know whether this older woman was good or bad, but he still had to show basic courtesy.

"Hello, ma'am, my name is Yang Dalin. I went home with Aunt Yulan yesterday."

"Oh, hello, you must be Dalin?"

"Yes, Auntie can just call me Da Linzi."

"Okay, okay, Dalinzi, come upstairs for a drink of water!"

Putting everything else aside, the older woman still extended a very polite invitation.

Yang Dalin was just wondering whether he should go in and sit down.

The main room door was opened, and the TV series protagonist, the one whose cooking makes his food glow, and who some people call a silly chef who's a lifelong simp, made a dazzling entrance with a messy head of hair!

Sixty years old, Sha Zhu is twenty-five, he's thirty-five, but he doesn't look that old.

You should know that He Jiong was already 47 when he played this role in the TV series, so how could he not look old?

At this time, Sha Zhu was twenty-five years old. Although he looked a bit old, he didn't know how to dress up and no one took care of him. He looked to be twenty-seven or twenty-eight, or at most thirty.

Nowadays, everyone generally looks old, and there's nothing we can do about it.