Siheyuan: Sending the whole courtyard to jail at the beginning

"Hey, Xiaojun is here? Have you eaten yet? I just bought some steamed buns and soy milk. Come and eat them while they're hot."

Lin Beijun and Xu Damao were drinking tea and chatting when Lou Xiaoe came back from outside carrying something.

"Go Junzi, eat something."

"Sister Xiao'e and Brother Damao, you guys eat. I've already eaten and I'm still full."

Lin Beijun patted his stomach to indicate that he was full.

"Pa~, by the way, Junzi, I almost forgot about your important event. When Director Wang came this morning, she asked me to tell you to go to the street to find her at 1:30 pm on time. She said your work has been arranged."

After drinking a sip of soy milk, Xu Damao suddenly slapped his thigh and said, which scared Lou Xiaoe.

"Xu Damao, you are going to die."

Lou Xiao'e cursed while wiping the soy milk that spilled on her chest, which made Lin Beijun's eyes widen.

Xu Damao smiled awkwardly, "Didn't I just remember it?"

"Okay, I got it. Thanks, Brother Damao. You guys eat, I'll go back and clean up the house."

"Well, why are you being so polite? Well, go back and get busy. Your sister Xiao'e and I will help you clean up later."

"it is good."

When he got home and looked at the cluttered and messy house, Lin Beijun felt a headache.

"Some have been cleaned up."

Lin Beijun sighed, lit the stove, rolled up his sleeves and worked hard. Soon Xu Damao and his wife came to help.

All the pots, pans, and other things related to food and drink were thrown at the door and I didn't dare to use them.

Next was clothes. I kept two of my parents’ favorite and best-preserved pieces as a keepsake, and threw away the rest, including mine and my eldest brother’s.

My own clothes are too small to fit me, and I don’t know when my eldest brother will come back. Keeping them takes up space. At worst, I can buy him new ones when he comes back.

He threw the single bed, wardrobe, desk and chair from his room and the furniture from his eldest brother's room at the door. Actually, the things in his eldest brother's room were still in good condition, about 60% to 70% new, but the things in his room were less than 50% new, all very old and in a mess. The bed was never level.

None of the furniture is made of good materials. I was thinking of getting some valuable furniture made of huanghuali, golden nanmu or the like, so I threw them away first to make room.

Oh, yes, Lin Beijun also threw away the two cabinets in the kitchen. He didn’t know how many layers of grease they were covered with, and he couldn’t clean them no matter how hard he tried, so he just threw them away.

Lin Beijun did not throw away all the furniture in his parents' room.

After nearly half of the things were thrown away, the house immediately became a lot more spacious.

"Come on, Sister Xiao'e and Brother Damao, have some coffee and try my cooking skills."

Lin Beijun handed the brewed coffee to the two of them and said.

"Oh, coffee! Xiaojun, you actually have this good thing? Why didn't I see you grinding coffee? I didn't see a coffee machine either."

Lou Xiao'e took the coffee, smelled its aromatic flavor, and said in surprise.

"Hey, coffee? Isn't that something foreigners make? I have to try it."

Xu Damao said with shining eyes.

"Hehe, this is the coffee powder I ground before, mixed with milk powder and sugar in small packets. Just add hot water and you can drink it."

Lin Beijun took a sip and said.

"Mm, it tastes very good."

Lou Xiaoe praised.

"Pah, pah, what the hell is this? It's so bitter, just like Chinese medicine."

After Xu Damao took a sip, his big donkey face suddenly turned into a bitter melon face, full of disgust.

"Hahaha, Xu Damao, look at your embarrassing look."

Lin Beijun could see that Lou Xiao'e would never miss any opportunity to discredit Xu Damao. It could be said that she looked down on him from the bottom of her heart.

But, why would you get married if you don't like the other person?

"Haha, coffee is like tea to foreigners. It's their favorite drink. It's normal that Damao doesn't like it when he drinks it for the first time."

"Okay, Junzi, what are you going to do with the stuff we threw outside the door? How about finding a car to sell to a trust store?"

Xu Damao held his nose and drank the coffee in one gulp. It was so hot that he drank several gulps of cold water before he recovered and asked.

Lin Beijun shook his head. "They are not made of good quality furniture, and they are also quite old. They are not worth much even if they are sold."

"Brother Damao, Sister Xiao'e, which family in our courtyard is in the most difficult situation? Which family didn't take my things at that time?"

Lou Xiao'e said almost subconsciously, "Qin Huairu's family is in trouble."

Lin Beijun covered his face and said, "My silly sister, who told you that Qin Huairu's family was in trouble?"

"Ah? Aren't they poor? Qin Huairu tells everyone every day that her family is poor and in trouble. The uncle also said so and often asked everyone to help her family and donate money to her family."

Lou Xiao'e said in a daze.

Seeing that Lou Xiao'e and Xu Damao were both bewildered, Lin Beijun explained speechlessly,

"Bah, her family is poor as hell. How many years has Jia Dongxu been dead? Only three years. The factory paid 3 or 500 yuan in compensation. Qin Huairu also took over the job. 800 yuan a month, plus the factory subsidy, at least 27.5 yuan, right? Two adults and three children, how can 5 yuan a month not be enough?"

Moreover, one of the two adults is an old person and the other is a woman. How much can they use?

"Yan Bugui also makes 27.5 yuan a month and can support a family of seven. Why can't Qin Huairu support a family of five?"

"Yes, Junzi is right. Shazhu brings lunch boxes to her family every day. Yi Zhonghai also helps them from time to time with Shazhu's money. Her family is very rich, I tell you."

Xu Damao continued, saying that he had never thought about these things before, but as soon as Lin Beijun pointed them out, he understood.

"Yes, look at their family, is there a thin person? Everyone is plump and white? How many patches are there on their clothes? How do they look like a poor family? If you don't know them, you would think they are a family of officials."

"It seems to be true now that you guys are talking about it. Does that mean that we have all been deceived by her family for so many years?"

"Huh, what else do you think?"

Lin Beijun said unhappily that no matter whether he had seen them on TV before or had personally met them now, Lin Beijun hated all of them in his heart, from the old to the young, none of them were fun to deal with.

Lou Xiao'e was furious. "The Jia family is such a piece of shit."

"Then I really don't know which family is poor except the Jia family. In this courtyard, except for the deaf old lady, I don't walk around much and talk very little."

"Ezi, I've told you so many times that the deaf old lady is not a good person. I told you not to hang out with her, but you just wouldn't listen."

Xu Damao said angrily that the deaf old lady had helped Sha Zhu to bully him since he was a child, and he remembered all these grudges.

"Sister Xiao'e, what Brother Damao said is really true. That old lady is really not a good person. I will tell you in detail one day."

Lin Beijun curled his lips and said with some disgust, "What a fool! In the end, he was sold by the deaf old lady and still helped others count the money."

"Oh, okay, Xiaojun, I'll listen to you. I won't have any contact with Old Lady Long anymore."

Lou Xiao'e trusts Lin Beijun very much in her heart. Although Lou's father is Lin's father's old leader, the relationship between Lou Xiao'e and Lin Beijun is the opposite. Lou Xiao'e used to follow Lin Beijun around. Although she is the older sister, she is actually the younger sister. Lin Beijun protects her a lot.

Well~ Lin Beijun would not admit that he protected the elder sister of the Lou family just to protect his wallet...

"If you want to know which family in the courtyard is the most difficult and which family has not taken anything from your family, hey, it's just a coincidence that Zhang Quezi's family and Liu Polan's family in the front yard, and the two brothers Wu Dabao who live next door to my house in the back yard, these three families are the poorest in the courtyard, and they are also the only families in the courtyard who have not taken anything from your family.

The other families were all vying for it, but they were not as good as the Liu family, the Jia family, and the Yan family. "

"Zhang Quezi is Zhang Daming. The first year you left, a machine accident occurred in the factory and he was seriously injured. His leg became lame, so everyone called him Zhang Quezi. He lived in one room with his old father, silly wife and two children. There was not a single good piece of clothing in the house. All the clothes were patched up. The two children were basically naked in the summer and did not go out in the winter because they had no clothes to wear.

He is the only one in the family who works and earns about 30 yuan a month. His father is old and in poor health and can't go to work, so he helps take care of the children at home. Almost all the money he earns is used to buy medicine for his father. He found a wife from the countryside. Although she is good-looking, she is not very smart and a little stupid. But the betrothal money was given and there is no way to return it, so Zhang Daming accepted her. Later, he had two daughters, one three years old and the other two years old. I heard that she is pregnant again, and this time it may be a boy."

"Liu Polan, old Liu, has no children left. He lives with his grandchildren. He doesn't have a job and raised his two grandchildren by picking up scraps. Now he is old and in poor health. His eldest grandson has good grades, but he has to drop out of school and do odd jobs to support the family and take care of his grandfather and sister. Alas..."

"The two brothers Wu Dabao, Wu Jia and Wu Yi, lost their parents three years ago. All the savings in their family were spent on their parents' hospitalization during their last days. They still owe a lot of money. These two brothers are really filial. Now they make money by carrying heavy bags, and they still haven't paid off their debts. You would be shocked if you saw them. They are so thin that they look like skeletons."

"To be honest, I really admire these three families. They are very ambitious. When the Jia family and the Liu family took the lead in robbing your family's things, the old pious woman Jia Zhang and Liu Haizhong were afraid of trouble, so they took the initiative to send over the things that the courtyard didn't come to take. These three families refused to take them, and because of this, they made things difficult for us later."

"This is what it means when a person is poor but has a strong will."

Lin Beijun sighed with some admiration.

There are also good people in this courtyard.