Siheyuan: Fatty’s Counterattack

I rode my bicycle and followed the route provided by Hummingbird. I pedaled for almost 20 minutes until my throat started to smoke before I arrived at the yard where Liu Lan was.

Unexpectedly, there was an unexpected gain.

As soon as the fat man entered the yard, he saw a familiar figure leading a child, who was struggling to move wood.

The fat man stepped forward and grabbed the wood without saying a word.

The woman was startled. She turned around and saw that it was the fat man, and she patted her very plump breasts with lingering fear.

Shen Xuemei said angrily: "Why are you here? You scared me!"

The fat man was embarrassed, scratched his head and said, "I heard Liu Lan was here, but I didn't expect you to live here too."

Shen Xuemei looked confused: "Huh? Sister Liu is here too. I'm sorry because there was so much noise in the yard, I didn't notice her."

This is not a lie. Her husband has basically lost his labor force and cannot contribute. Their family has to build its own shed. Other families are living in it, but her family has been unable to build it.

So how can she still have the energy to care about other people?

The fat man sighed: "Stop working. You wait for me here. Find Liu Lan and then go to our courtyard to deal with it for a while. Our earthquake shelter has been set up and the stove fire has been set up. We are lacking everything."

Regardless of Shen Xuemei's objection, the fat man went to the back.

After walking all the way inside, I found Liu Lan beside a pile of bricks.

Her child has been in poor health since he was a child, and this time he was caught in the rain. Even though he is a 14-year-old boy, he is like a quail right now, leaning against Liu Lan and trembling.

The appearance of the fat man once made Liu Lan think that he was hallucinating.

She mocked herself and said: "I may be confused. How could that heartless person appear here..."

The fat man said angrily: "Why do I have no conscience?"

Liu Lan suddenly raised her head, looked at the fat man again in disbelief, and then struggled to stand up.

The fat man saw the veins on the back of her hands popping up, and he seemed to have exhausted all his strength, so he hurriedly gave her a hand.

After Liu Lan stood up, the fat man pulled her up again.

Liu Lan didn't say anything, just looked at him.

The fat man took her hand in his, patted the back of it and said, "Pack your things and come with me."

"..."

The fat man led Liu Lan and his mother to the front yard, only to find that Shen Xuemei not only did not stop and wait for him, but was working even harder to build a shed.

The fat man pulled her down with a headache: "What are you doing? Didn't I tell you to go to my place?"

Shen Xuemei shook her head stubbornly at this time: "We are not related, and now is a difficult time. Everyone is relying on our own efforts. How can we take the initiative to become your burden?"

Only then did Liu Lan recognize her: "Shen Xuemei?"

Shen Xuemei also smiled and greeted her: "Sister Liu!"

Now the stubbornness changed from one to two. Liu Lan insisted on building a shed with Shen Xuemei, and then they had someone to take care of them together.

The fat man became anxious, so she whispered: "What happened to me in the past? How dare you let me get along with Yu Li day and night!"

In one sentence, the fat man was speechless.

The fat man scratched his head and pushed the two of them aside. He had experience in building sheds and helped Shen Xuemei build the earthquake shed in less than an hour.

After helping them put away their things, the fat man asked, "Have you eaten anything?"

Both of them shook their heads. The fat man took out a few pancakes from his bag and a military kettle. They were all prepared when he was watching the surveillance in Stardew Valley. He told them: "There are enough pancakes and only this amount of water." A pot, see which one you know, and ask them to give you some boiling water after you finish drinking the water."

Liu Lan and Shen Xuemei no longer had the energy to be polite to him. One fed their son and the other fed their husband, making the fat man look like he was superfluous...

After leaving the yard, the fat man let out a long sigh of relief. Too many things happened this year.

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Although the following days were difficult, with the presence of the two chefs, Fatty and Silly Zhu, the food and drink of everyone in the front yard made a qualitative leap.

After experiencing the earthquake shed incident, everyone followed Fatty's lead.

Everyone took out the food and gathered it together, but Yanbu Gui was the only one who couldn't take it out.

how to say? He is so calculating that when he buys food, he only buys enough food for three days, and he still talks plausibly...

It's a pity that no one in the front yard thinks highly of him now, and even Yan Jiecheng and the others are angry.

But this time, at least he didn’t let his good son tear down the shed, and then go to the middle courtyard and backyard to see other people’s faces in despair, so he would be satisfied!

At noon, the fat man made a stew directly. The steamed buns on the side of the pot soaked up the soup, which was much better than eating steamed buns!

Li Xianying, who also works at the Red Star Factory in the front yard, had snot bubbles coming out of her nose after eating: "It smells so good! If I hadn't been in trouble, how would I have had the chance to taste your craftsmanship, Fatty?"

After hearing this, Shazhu was dissatisfied: "The food I cooked doesn't taste good? Didn't you also say that the tofu cooked with cabbage tasted terrible last night?"

Everyone in the shed laughed, and Shi Bowen's mother whispered to her son: "Bowen, be diligent and do more work for others. The food you eat here every day is better than at home."

Shi Bowen nodded: "Don't worry, Mom."

After saying that, he protested a little unwillingly: "You shouldn't have stopped me that day..."

The old lady glanced at her son sheepishly. Now she also knew that Shi Bowen had followed Chen Kang in the past.

The good things he brought back were all given by others; the money for the last operation was also borrowed from Chen Kang's second sister, and has not been paid back yet.

Speaking of Chen Yan, the old lady was extremely satisfied.

While sitting in a daze, I also thought in my heart that it would be great if the two of them could achieve something.

But when I think of Shi Bowen, the boss is so big that he can't even get a wife, all because she, an old woman, has been delayed.

As a result, when Chen Yan was talking to her one day, the old lady suddenly said with emotion: "Oh, it's useless. It's time to die. If you don't die, you will be annoying."

"..."

It's been raining lately.

Not only did the weather not get cooler after the rain, it actually became more stuffy than before.

Everyone is not going to work anymore, so sitting in the shed all day can't help but be irritable.

At night, with the help of wires pulled out from the house, the men sit under the electric light and brag and spank, while the women chat in small groups.

Fatty sat with Shi Bowen, Silly Zhu, Yan Jiecheng, and Yan Bugui, chatting about how Yan Jiefang and his brothers were like this.

The fat man was too lazy to get involved in their conversation, but Silly Zhu suddenly asked: "By the way, why haven't you seen that thief Xu Damao?"

The fat man glanced at him sideways: "Miss him?"