Comfortable life in Siheyuan

"You are all here, who is watching the child over there?" Liu Qingshan asked puzzledly while looking at the group of people in the room.

"It's okay, your brother-in-law is watching, Dongdong is playing with his younger brother and sister." The second sister said nonchalantly!

"Dongdong should be in elementary school now, right? Doesn't he have homework during the holidays?" Liu Qingshan asked with a smile.

"How can you be an uncle? Our Dongdong is already in the second grade. Besides, they don't have so much homework! They will finish it in just a few days of vacation." The second sister said with a smile.

"Dongdong is already in the second grade? He has grown so big in the blink of an eye!"

The second sister rolled her eyes at him immediately.

"You guys go and accompany the children, leave this to us!" Seeing that it was inconvenient for them to do anything here, Liu's mother immediately started to chase them away.

"Mom, please steam some more buns. I've been riding all the way, so I need to eat more at noon."

Liu Qingshan went back to his room after he finished speaking. He hadn't seen his child for many days and he really missed him.

"Xixi, does Nannan miss her daddy?" After entering the house, Liu Qingshan went straight to his two children.

"Daddy, Daddy!" Xixi is one year older after all, and she happily calls for her daddy.

Nan Nan, who was left, looked at the man who suddenly appeared with a confused look on her face. In the end, Liu Qingshan hugged both of them.

"Uncle, uncle, I want a hug too!" Dongdong on the side shouted anxiously.

"Oh, you forgot about our stuff. Uncle is here to hug you now."

After a while of excitement, Liu Qingshan started chatting with his family.

"Wife, nothing happened in our yard these days when I was away from home, right?" Liu Qingshan asked with a smile.

"Just a few days after you left, Xu Damao got into trouble. He spread rumors in the steel mill, saying that He Yuzhu and Qin Huairu were having an affair, and that the stick belonged to Zhu."

"What happened later? How was this discovered?" Liu Qingshan asked curiously.

"This is what Sister Xiuyun told me. There was a person in Zhuzi's cafeteria who was busy for a long time before he found out that the news came from the Propaganda Department. When Brother Zhuzi heard the Propaganda Department, he guessed that Xu Damao was restless, so he brought people to block Xu Damao, and finally took him to the Security Department for treatment." Feng Yu said with a beaming eyebrow.

"How did you deal with it later? Can you continue?" the second sister asked anxiously.

"Xu Damao, read out a self-criticism in front of the entire factory, and then compensated the He and Jia families five dollars each."

"That's it? Are you going to let Xu Damao go so easily?" The second sister curled her lips in disdain.

"It's almost done. I guess all the running around Xu Damao has done recently has come to nothing." Liu Qingshan said with a smile!

"What was he busy with? Why did it fail?" Feng Yu asked curiously.

"Xu Damao has been busy with the transfer of cadre positions recently. He just said it nonsense last time when he was drunk!" Liu Qingshan said with certainty.

"Then he has no hope. He has made such a big mistake and he still wants to change his job. It's a pipe dream!" my brother-in-law explained with a smile.

"No wonder he has been in a gloomy mood recently and doesn't want to talk to anyone in the yard!" Feng Yu said thoughtfully.

"Is everything alright at home?" Liu Qingshan asked.

"No matter what happens at home, everything is fine, just rest assured!"

"Yes, your sister and I come back from time to time to visit, so you don't need to worry about the family!"

"Brother-in-law is the best. I guess you're the only one who can remember this!"

"Don't play tricks on me. Seriously, how long will your business trip take?" the second sister asked seriously.

"It will probably take about a month. A group of people are here to study, so it will take a little longer. But I can come back when I have time!" Liu Qingshan explained.

"Forget it, we won't take you with us. Xiaoyu and I will prepare together then!"

Liu Qingshan was a little confused. What was going on?

"You have forgotten all this. My sister-in-law is about to give birth. We have to prepare for it." Feng Yu reminded.

Liu Qingshan slapped his forehead and suddenly realized: "I have been so busy recently that I forgot such an important thing!"

"My sister and I can prepare the things needed by the mother and the child. You won't be needed." Feng Yu said with a smile.

"Okay, the money and bills at home are all with you, you can just take them yourself." Liu Qingshan felt relieved now.

"Oh! By the way! I forgot to mention it just now. The third uncle's family in the front yard had good news a while ago. Yu Li is pregnant, and it's almost three months now!"

Yan Jiecheng has been taking care of his body for more than a year, and this time it finally paid off.

"Then Yu Li has stood up straighter now!" Liu Qingshan said with emotion.

"It's not too hard. After all, we don't know whether it's a boy or a girl!" Feng Yu joked with a smile.

"It's a good thing after all, otherwise our courtyard would be too scary. The eldest uncle in the middle courtyard had no children at first, but later he adopted Yi Xiaojun. We all know the situation of Xu Damao in the backyard, so I won't say more. Later, Yan Jiecheng appeared. Don't you think our courtyard is not auspicious?"

"Yes, there are three courtyards in the front, middle and back, one in each courtyard. Is this the wind..." Feng Yu said in a low voice, and he didn't dare to say anything more when he said the rest.

"Not only that, the second uncle has two sons who ran away. The eldest son, Liu Guangqi, has been gone for several years. The second son, Liu Guangtian, has been gone for more than half a year too! There is also an old lady in the backyard who doesn't care about anything. I haven't heard that there are any other people at home. Except for people from the street, no one else has come to visit over the years." Liu Qingshan recalled carefully.

"Hey! Stop talking, it sounds creepy." Feng Yu got goosebumps and said with some fear.

"Don't listen to his nonsense. Isn't everything going well in the courtyard now? Xu Damao has two children. Even though they are not his biological children, they have the surname Xu after all. The first uncle also has Xiaojun. As for the third uncle, Jie Cheng is also fine. Everything is moving in the right direction." The second sister smiled and comforted Xiaoyu.

"Sister, there is a Jia family in the central courtyard. They are almost out of men." Feng Yu said with some embarrassment.

"Don't think about it, it's okay. Besides, we already have a son and a daughter. Don't worry about it." Liu Qingshan comforted with a smile.

In the backyard of Xu's house, Xu Damao looked at the two children in front of him, and then thought of the fact that Yan Jiecheng's wife was also pregnant, and he felt even more uncomfortable.

"Sun Xiaoyan, please cook me some more dishes at noon. I want to drink some wine." Xu Damao ordered like an old man, sitting on the sofa.

"Da Mao, it's already the end of the month, and there's not that much oil left. The most I can do is make you a boiled dish with a few drops of oil."

"Where did the money I gave you go? How could you be such a spendthrift woman!"

"You only gave me ten yuan this month. Last time you said you would give me five yuan more, but it turned out to be five yuan less. I have been living a tight life this month." Sun Xiaoyan said aggrievedly.

"I guess you've heard about what happened last month. This is a special case for me too, please understand." Xu Damao said in a more relaxed tone.

"Da Mao, I'm at home taking care of the children and have a lot of free time. Why don't you go to the street office to get some matchboxes, which will bring extra income to our family." Sun Xiaoyan said carefully.

"Why do you want to receive that thing? Our family can't even make ends meet? Do you want to say that our family is poor and embarrass me, Xu Damao?" Xu Damao said with an unhappy face.