Siheyuan: Traveling through Cai Quanwu, pretending to be Uncle Shazhu

After arriving outside the courtyard, Cai Quanwu and Jia Dongxu walked towards the vegetable market.

It was still early and neither of them had any intention of taking a ride.

Jia Dongxu wanted to stay quiet, while Cai Quanwu wanted to kill time.

After walking for a while, Cai Quanwu took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed one to Jia Dongxu.

Jia Dongxu took the cigarette and tactfully took out a match to light it for Cai Quanwu.

The two men lit up cigarettes, took a few puffs, and then Cai Quanwu and Jia Dongxu started chatting.

"Dongxu, what are you going to buy at the market?"

"My mother fell down, and she insisted that I go to the market to buy her some meat."

Jia Dongxu didn't want to tell the truth at first, but was afraid of being exposed in the end, so he chose not to lie and told the truth.

"That's not right, Dongxu. I heard from Zhuzi that your mom broke her mouth when she fell. Why is she still thinking about eating meat? Can she open her mouth? Doesn't it hurt?"

Cai Quanwu thought that Jia Zhangshi fell so hard that she couldn't open her mouth, but he didn't expect that she could still think about eating meat.

"Um, Uncle Cai, it's not as serious as you think. It's just that my lips are swollen. It's okay to open my mouth."

Regarding Cai Quanwu’s misunderstanding, Jia Dongxu thought to himself that it would be better if he couldn’t open his mouth, then no one would urge him to come out to buy meat.

When Cai Quanwu heard Jia Dongxu say that Jia Zhang's lips were swollen, he suddenly thought of the scene in which a certain Hong Kong movie star in later generations had a sausage-like mouth in a movie.

It was a rare and famous scene, but unfortunately, Cai Quanwu fell asleep in the morning and did not witness it with his own eyes.

"Hey, Dongxu, you've suffered a lot."

"Your mother is such a grown-up, but I didn't expect her to be so unreliable. She can even fall down while walking. It's better to be a less-worrying person than a good person."

Cai Quanwu's words touched Jia Dongxu's heart.

Jia Dongxu almost burst into tears.

Finally someone understood his suffering.

When his master was around, he only knew to ask him to accommodate his mother, and would always say that she was his mother and it was not easy to raise him.

In the end, there are no perfect parents in the world.

No matter how unreasonable her mother's request was, his master would always speak on her side.

The pain of having a reason but nowhere to complain is really painful.

"I can't help it. He is my mother after all."

"When we were going down the mountain, I clearly reminded her to be careful when walking, but she didn't listen and just kept running forward. Now, she accidentally tripped over the grass and fell like this."

This time, Jia Dongxu treated Cai Quanwu as his close friend and complained to him.

"I think your mother should not be spoiled. She asked you to buy meat. When you get to the market, you can just take a look around and come back."

"If she asks you, just tell her that the market is sold out of meat."

Cai Quanwu gave Jia Dongxu some advice.

"This is not good."

When Jia Dongxu heard that Cai Quanwu's arrangement coincided with his own idea, he was secretly delighted, but a look of embarrassment appeared on his face, and he said something inconsistent.

"What's wrong with that? Just listen to your uncle."

"You work so hard in the factory every day and you don't even think about buying some meat to supplement your diet. Your mother's minor injury is nothing."

"Uncle San has a sprained back and has to go to work tomorrow, but he didn't say anything."

"The wound on your mother's mouth will heal in two days, why eat meat?"

“How much money do you earn after working hard all day?”

Cai Quanwu didn't care about Jia Dongxu's worries and started brainwashing him.

"Okay then. I'll listen to Uncle Cai."

Jia Dongxu seemed to have made a great decision and said to Cai Quanwu.

In fact, I was already very happy.

Now I don’t have to buy meat, and I don’t have to worry about being caught lying when I go back.

Perfectly met his psychological expectations.

"By the way, Uncle Cai, how did the Third Master sprain his waist?"

The first time Cai Quanwu said that the third uncle sprained his waist, Jia Dongxu had something on his mind and didn't take it too seriously. Now that he has put his worries aside, he heard again that the third uncle sprained his waist and couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.

"Haha, Uncle Third is having an old problem again." Cai Quan replied sarcastically.

"I've never heard of Uncle Sanye having this problem?"

Jia Dongxu didn't understand what Cai Quanwu meant and looked confused.

"When the third uncle was visiting the graves, he saw a rabbit and he accidentally twisted his waist while chasing the rabbit."

Seeing that Jia Dongxu didn't understand what he meant, Cai Quanwu simply explained it directly.

"Ah, so that's what happened."

"Uncle Cai, you are so mean."

This time Jia Dongxu understood and said with a smile.

The two chatted all the way to the vegetable market.

In the second half of the journey, Cai Quanwu kept brainwashing Jia Dongxu.

As the head of the family and an adult man, you must be strong and not let a woman put you under the sway of others.

If a woman dominates you for too long, your yin will become stronger than your yang, and you will be in trouble soon.

Jia Dongxu nodded continuously as he listened.

There were many fallacies and heresies in later generations, and Cai Quan picked and chose and instilled them all into Jia Dongxu.

Cai Quanwu even told Jia Dongxu about the three obediences and four virtues that women were supposed to follow in the past.

I just hope Jia Dongxu can rise to prominence.

Jia Dongxu was greatly impressed by what he heard and nodded repeatedly.

It is a heresy, but if you explain it from a certain perspective, it does make some sense.

When they arrived at the vegetable market, the two of them walked around it for a few rounds. All the food sold there were familiar kinds of food.

Vegetables include radishes and cabbages, and meats include chicken, duck, fish, and pork. Beef and mutton are rare.

At the pork stall, the two of them didn't even need to go back and lie, because the meat had been sold out, leaving only a few bones that were cleaner than those chewed by dogs and some offal.

Jia Dongxu definitely would not buy these things, but in the end Cai Quanwu bought them all for a few cents.

"Dongxu, is there anything you want to buy?"

In front of the pork stall, Cai Quanwu asked, holding bones and offal tied with straw ropes in his hands.

"Let's wait and see." Jia Dongxu's words were filled with refusal.

He hadn't planned to buy anything in the first place, so he felt awkward when Cai Quanwu asked him this.

Afterwards, Cai Quanwu accompanied Jia Dongxu for a few more rounds.

When he left the vegetable market, Jia Dongxu still had nothing in his hands.

Cai Quanwu now understood that Jia Dongxu was not an honest boy either.

It is estimated that even if he had not given Jia Dongxu any advice, this kid would not have planned to buy meat.

No wonder this kid refused when I first asked him to go to the vegetable market with me.

It turns out the roots are here.

However, Tsai Quanwu had no intention of exposing it.

As a human being, it is rare to be confused.

After leaving the vegetable market, Cai Quanwu and Jia Dongxu tacitly did not speak to avoid embarrassment and just walked back with their heads down.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of the courtyard, Cai Quanwu heard the voice of the third uncle.

"Old Liu, you can't say that. My wife didn't miss the trip on purpose. She just delayed me a little while buying medicine. Who knew something like this would happen?"

"We can't stay in the old lady's room 24 hours a day, on call at any time. How can we still live in the family?"

"Besides, I sprained my waist. It's not too much to ask my wife to buy some medicine. I am the head of the family. If I fall down, my family will starve."

"There are always priorities in doing things."

"If you, Old Liu, were sick and your wife ignored you and went to take care of the old lady, would you be happy?"

The third uncle's words were very convincing.

Cai Quanwu brought Jia Dongxu into the yard and looked at the group of people gathered at the door of the third uncle's house. He pushed the crowd aside and walked in. He saw the third uncle standing at the door supported by the third aunt, and the second uncle standing aside with a gloomy face.

"Old Yan, what happened to Old Liu?" Cai Quanwu walked in and asked.

When the third uncle saw Cai Quanwu, his eyes lit up and he immediately said:

"Old Cai, please judge whether what Old Liu did was right or wrong."

When Cai Quanwu heard this, he was completely confused. He didn't know what had happened, and now he was asked to judge the matter. How could he do that?

"No, Old Yan, if you want me to judge, you have to explain clearly what happened."

"I am completely confused by what you said. How can I judge for you?"