Comfortable life in Siheyuan

Qin Huairu felt the scrutiny from people in the courtyard, and felt sad.

She knew that what happened today was the result of the first and second uncles dealing with her family, but she really had no way to refute such an obvious thing.

Jia Zhang also saw the situation in the courtyard clearly at this time, but unlike Qin Huairu, she stood up and said, "Gentlemen, you must have remembered it wrongly. It's only been five months, not even half a year. Why are you in such a hurry to summarize it? Did my family offend you some time ago, and you want to take away my family's quota?"

Jia Zhang knew that she must not be cowardly at this time, otherwise her family would not even be able to drink soup.

"You're really overthinking this. We've already helped for five months this year. From now on, we'll start in January and July, and choose every six months. This way it's easier to calculate." Yi Zhonghai's face changed several times, and he almost stood up and cursed. Fortunately, he was cunning enough and was not stumped by Jia Zhang's shamelessness.

"No one has taken your place, so now it's up to everyone to vote, not for us three uncles to decide. Jia Zhang, do you not trust us three uncles, or do you not trust the neighbors in the yard?" Liu Haizhong asked with a gloomy face.

Jia Zhang was stunned by the question and sat there for a while, not knowing what to say.

At this time, Qin Huairu stood up and said with a sad face: "Second uncle, my mother-in-law is not well educated and does not understand any big principles. If she says something wrong, please don't argue with her. We believe that the three uncles are fair in today's matter, and we also believe that the neighbors in the yard will make their own judgments. My family's life is indeed not easy, and thank you all for your help." After that, Qin Huairu bowed several times to everyone.

"Okay, let's start voting now. I'll free you to hand out the white papers." The third uncle stood up and announced.

Yan Jiefang took a stack of white paper and distributed it one by one.

"For this vote, we must be realistic. We must elect the families in need. We cannot just choose those with whom we have a good relationship. We must treat everyone equally." The second uncle spoke again at this time.

The moment the people in the yard got the paper, they knew who to write about. In fact, everyone knew who the poor families in the yard were.

Uncle Wang in the front yard and Aunt Li in the back yard have always had difficulties. Now it is nothing more than replacing the Jia family and choosing another one. There are still several families in the yard who are in difficulties. Relatively speaking, Grandma Ma's family in the front yard has the most difficult life.

There are four people in the family, and they live on Uncle Ma's salary. In fact, it is enough to get by, but the key is that the wife is a sickly woman, and she has to spend money on medicine every month, so life is obviously tight. At the end of the month, the family basically relies on Grandma Ma to pick up some rotten vegetable leaves that others don't want at the market to make ends meet.

Liu Qingshan wrote down three names, walked over and put the slips into the ballot box, then turned around and sat back down.

"The first uncle will read out the names later and I will record them in the book. The three families with the most votes will be the ones in need of help." The third uncle explained again patiently.

"Hurry up, we haven't had dinner yet." Xu Damao shouted.

"Why are you in such a hurry? It will be over in a moment." The old man looked at Xu Damao unhappily.

"Go on. When you're done I'll put the tickets here and you can come and take a look." The third uncle started to get busy again.

"I'm starting to read out the names, Wang... Li... Yan Bugui..." Yi Zhonghai read out Yan Bugui's name and looked at the third uncle with some disdain.

"My neighbors chose me because they saw that I have a hard time." The third uncle said shamelessly.

Yi Zhonghai thought to himself, it would be fine if I didn’t know this character, but you write couplets every year, so who in this courtyard doesn’t know this character?

"Go on, Ma...Li..." The old man read very quickly. After reading one note, he put it in front of the table. He finished reading in a short while.

The third uncle raised the notebook in his hand and said loudly: "The first three families in need of assistance are the Wang family in the front yard, the Ma family in the front yard, and the Li family in the back yard. This vote is completely open and transparent. You all chose these candidates. Do you have any objections?"

"No!" "No!" everyone shouted.

"Okay, then it's settled. We'll start providing assistance from next month. Since there are two families that haven't changed, we don't need to change it. Let's follow the original path. My family will still support the Wang family, and Qingshan will still support Aunt Li's family. The only change is that Second Uncle's family will support the Ma family. Now you all know." Yi Zhonghai said with a smile.

"Got it, let's go back and eat!" The people who were not selected started to make a fuss.

The Jia family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law walked home with extremely ugly faces. Jia Zhang was about to yell, if Qin Huairu hadn't held her tightly, the courtyard would probably be even more lively at this moment.

The three uncles now walked towards the backyard with a smile and went to the second uncle's house together.

The reason why the three uncles could unanimously agree on today's matter was that they all got what they wanted.

First of all, the third uncle agreed to hold the whole hospital meeting just because of the dinner promised by the second uncle, which is why the meeting had to be held in advance.

The first master was the most cunning. He obviously had some complaints about the Jia family, but he was still waiting for the second master to speak. He looked very embarrassed, but now that he had drunk some wine, he couldn't stop smiling.

The second master finally vented his anger and now he is in a clear mind. Only the Jia family suffered a critical blow.

"Come on, come on, have a drink! Today I finally got rid of a worry." The second uncle said excitedly.

"Why do you worry about it? It's just a blind date with that country girl from her family in broad daylight. It's not necessary." The third uncle raised his glass with a smile and said slowly.

"You don't know, I didn't want to donate money to her family from the beginning. The first time, I donated five dollars, and Jia Zhang bought meat the next day. Do you think there are such poor families? I felt that what he was eating was not pork, but my meat!" Liu Haizhong complained with deep hatred.

Yi Zhonghai and Yan Bugui both lowered their heads at the same time, their shoulders shaking constantly, and it was obvious that they were trying hard to hold back their laughter.

After a while, the old man said, "I'm sorry, Lao Liu. We didn't have any experience with the last incident. We made you suffer. Now the matter is finally settled."

"Yes, the one-on-one assistance proposed by Liu Qingshan is also a good idea, but we have no experience in it." The third uncle echoed.

"You said that Liu Qingshan, couldn't he discuss his ideas with us? This time he caught us off guard." The second uncle complained.

"Come on, come on, have a drink! This wine is good." The third uncle greeted.

"I guess the Jia family can't eat now!" said the second uncle with a smile.

"How's the matter between Guangtian and her sister?" asked the old man.

"I don't know either. I don't have any news. Forget it, I can't do anything about it." When talking about Liu Guangtian, the second uncle frowned again.