Siheyuan: Sending the whole courtyard to jail at the beginning

When I got home, everything was fine. The house was still warm, which meant that the stove that was buried with wet coal in the morning had not yet gone out. I picked up the stove hook and lifted the stove cover. Sure enough, there was still some fire, but it was not very strong. I added two shovels of dry coal, and soon the fire was burning vigorously.

I went to the outside pool to get two large buckets of water to use at home. This was really inconvenient. I had to go to the central courtyard to get water, which was so troublesome.

After boiling the water, I picked up a small shovel to shovel the ashes and sweep the floor. I had to be busy for a while as soon as I got home.

“Cluck…”

Holding the rooster's wings, perhaps sensing its own fate, the rooster crowed loudly.

"Brother Ji, don't blame me. If you want to blame someone, blame Jia Banggeng and Sha Zhu. Everything you have done is worth it."

Pinch the chicken's head, and this time the big rooster can't crow. Pluck all the feathers on the chicken's neck. A flash of cold light flashes, fast, accurate and ruthless, which also makes the chicken suffer less pain. The chicken's blood flows into the prepared bowl and is kept to be stewed later.

Scald, pluck and collect chicken feathers. They cannot be thrown away. Chicken feathers can be exchanged for money. Although Lin Beijun doesn't need a penny of them, it is shameful to waste them.

He gutted the meat, cut it into pieces, and split it in half. Lin Beijun was going to use one half to make an authentic Northeastern dish, chicken stewed with mushrooms, and the other half to make a Cantonese dish, Cantonese-style boiled chicken, which was both delicious and a good match for drinking. It was simply perfect.

"Hey, Chef Lin, how many dishes will you prepare tonight? If the dishes are not too tasty, I will take the good wine back with me."

"Xiaojun, you can actually cook?"

"Autumn, autumn, autumn~"

Three voices suddenly sounded. Lin Beijun turned his head and looked, not at the owner of the first and second voices, but at the owner of the last voice. He said with some surprise, "Oh, my little Koi, oh, uncle misses you so much, brother-in-law, you are here too?"

Cai Quanwu hugged Xu Jingli, nodded with a smile, and said, "Zhu Zi said that you should make delicious food tonight and invite him to your house for a drink, so he went to the tavern to get some wine and asked me to come along. I brought the kids along, is that convenient?"

"Hahaha, my little niece and my brother-in-law are here, so what's inconvenient? Any time is convenient."

Lin Beijun didn’t even bother cooking. He just washed his hands and went to hug his little baby.

Liu Haizhu is a very outgoing person. It seems that Lin Beijun has been ignoring him because he is not polite. After putting down his things, he went to the food counter to take a look. "Oh, there are chickens and fish, and there are also braised pig ears and peanuts. Comrade Lin Beijun, you are a bit extravagant and corrupt."

Lin Beijun rolled his eyes at him and said mockingly, "You are extravagant and corrupt, huh? Then don't eat for a while."

"Haha, that's impossible. My brother made this. If I don't eat more, wouldn't that be disrespectful to my brother?"

"Haha, thank you, sir, please don't give me face."

"Brother-in-law, the child is for you. I haven't finished cooking the dish yet."

After mocking his brother, Lin Beijun gave the little koi to Cai Quanwu. Although he was reluctant, he still had to cook.

"Okay, Junzi, go and do your work, just give the child to me."

"Hey, give it to me, give it to me. I don't even care about my little niece."

"Okay, I'll just go see how they're doing with the house."

After saying that, Cai Quanwu went out. Lin Beijun suddenly realized. No wonder his brother-in-law came over. It must be that his sister and brother-in-law thought that Lin Beijun was young and knew little, so they came over to see how the house was being repaired and whether there were any problems. He wanted to stop being fooled.

Lin Beijun just felt warm in his heart.

Half an hour later, the dishes were ready. There were chicken stewed with mushrooms, Cantonese-style poached chicken, braised fish, braised pig ears, peanuts, and a cabbage and tofu soup. There were five dishes and one soup, both meat and vegetarian, and paired with fragrant rice. It looked so appetizing.

"Come on, brother-in-law, Zhuzi, sit down, let's eat. There's no such thing as too many formalities at home. I won't treat you."

"Haha, okay, don't say hello, let one of you go first."

Cai Quanwu happily picked up the wine glass, the three of them clinked glasses, and began to eat and drink.

It was dinner time, and the rich aroma of meat was wafting around the courtyard. The aroma made the residents salivate. Then they looked around and saw that there was no oily or meaty food at home, and suddenly they felt that the aroma did not smell good.

At the dining table in the front yard of Yan's house, Yan Jiecheng was sniffing the aroma of meat, his eyes blurred, and he kept swallowing his saliva, "It smells so good, I wonder whose family is stewing the meat?"

"Dad, we haven't eaten meat in a long time. Can you buy two taels of meat someday?"

Yan Jiefang was also very greedy and said to his father with a joking face.

Why did they say two taels? Because if they said more, it would be impossible for them to buy more. His father was so stingy, how could he be willing to buy more? Don't dream.

Yan Bugui glared at his two useless sons in anger, stretched out his hand and said, "If you want to eat meat, you have to pay for it."

"Uh...."

The two brothers Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang were almost choked to death by their father's words. How could they have money? Besides, even if they had money, wouldn't it be better to go out and eat? Buy food at home? Are you crazy? There are so many mouths in the family, no matter how much meat there is, it will not be enough. There are too many wolves and too little meat.

"Come on, Dad will teach you a way. Let's go to the downwind side, smell the meat while facing the wind, and eat it. Isn't that equivalent to eating meat as well?"

Yan Jiecheng's eyes lit up and he gave his father a thumbs up, "Dad, why don't you be a teacher? That means you have knowledge and culture."

Having said that, he hurried out with the bowl in hand to smell the food.

Hearing his son praising him, Yan Bugui looked very proud, glanced at his son and daughter, stood up and said, "Let's go, if we go too late, there will be no good place."

The third aunt and the youngest son Yan Jiekuang also went out with their bowls, leaving only Yan Jiedi and Yu Li in the room.

Yan Jiedi lowered her head and said nothing, while Yu Li's face was filled with misery and regret.

In the backyard of Liu Haizhong's house, Liu Haizhong, the second aunt, and Liu Guangfu's family of three were smelling the aroma of chicken and fish while eating pickles and porridge. The old couple's faces were very gloomy, so gloomy that water seemed to drip out of them, while Liu Guangfu looked cautious and alert, and secretly glanced at his father from time to time.

"Pah, this damn Lin Beijun, why didn't he choke to death when he used our family's money to buy delicious food?"

Liu Haizhong slammed the chopsticks on the table and cursed, scaring Liu Guangfu so much that he almost ran away.

"Go, make me some fried eggs. Damn, they eat meat, so ours can't be bad either."

"Hey, I'll go right away."

Second Aunt happily got up and went to fry eggs.

"Liu Guangtian, go get me some wine."

Liu Haizhong shouted again, but this time there was no response.

"Pa...Awoo..."

When Liu Haizhong saw that his son dared to ignore him, he was so angry that he hit his son's hand with a chopstick, which hurt Liu Guangfu.

"Didn't you hear your father talking to you?"

Liu Haizhong yelled angrily.

Liu Guangfu tried hard to hold back the pain and tears in his hands, and said with a wronged look on his face, "Dad, I am the third child Guangfu, not the second brother Guangtian. The second brother is in the fence."

Liu Haizhong was stunned and looked at his sons in a daze. At first glance, he thought he was the second son, Liu Guangtian, but when he looked again, he thought he was the third son, Liu Guangfu. He couldn't help feeling dazed.

Yes, the second son had been sent in by himself. At this moment, he felt his heart ache for the first time because of his second son Liu Guangtian.

"Pah, when I call you second brother, I am calling you, right? Don't you know why you can eat here peacefully?"

"I-Is it not okay for me to go?"

Liu Guangfu wiped his tears and went to get wine for his father while choking. At this moment, he suddenly envied his second brother. Although his second brother was in prison, he would no longer be beaten by his father.

Isn’t this home also a prison?

In the middle courtyard of Jia's house, Jia Zhang was inhaling the aroma of meat, eating it with steamed buns made of two-grain flour and stewed radish without any oil or water. She took a big bite of the steamed bun, looked at the backyard with a face full of resentment and cursed,

"This black-hearted orphan has wiped out his family. We, an orphan and a widow, are eating pickled radishes while he is eating chicken and fish. Why doesn't he come to help our family? What's more, he bought it with our money? He really deserves to be wiped out. He is a jinx who brought death to his parents and brothers. Bah."

After cursing, the old witch spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm.

Seeing her mother-in-law's look, Qin Huairu felt extremely disgusted. She was already very angry when she heard her scolding Lin Beijun, and now she felt really disgusted when she saw her mother-in-law spitting on the ground again.

"Mom, stop scolding me. Aren't you afraid that Lin Beijun will hear it? Uncle said that we should not provoke him until the matter is over."

"The chicken was not cooked by Lin Beijun's family, the smell came from Sha Zhu's family."

Sha Zhu: Sister Qin, am I not attractive anymore? Now that you have Lin Beijun, have you forgotten about me, He Yuzhu?

Hearing her daughter-in-law's words, Jia Zhang's body trembled, and she hurriedly looked towards the door. When she didn't see the figure she was afraid of, she breathed a sigh of relief, glared at her daughter-in-law unhappily, and cursed, "How could I be afraid of that little beast? I'm old and I don't mind going to the same level as him."

"That idiot is not a good guy either. He didn't even bring a bowl of stewed chicken to my house? Didn't he know that my grandson is in the growth stage?"

As he spoke, he touched his grandson's head with a kind look. Seeing that he was eating in small bites, he asked worriedly, "Grandson, why aren't you eating?"

"Ah?" Banggeng looked at his grandmother in confusion. He and his two younger sisters had eaten a whole chicken in the afternoon. How could he eat more?

"Humph, it's all your mother's fault that she's incompetent and can only feed us pickled radishes for dinner."

"Qin Huairu, why don't you go to Sha Zhu's house and ask for chicken for my grandson? If you don't get the chicken, don't come back either."

Qin Huairu was so angry. What good grandson wanted to eat? I think it was you who was greedy for meat, right?

But after sniffing, the chicken smelled really good, and she was also greedy. Qin Huairu nodded, took a big bowl and some leftover white wine and went out.