Siheyuan: Starting from a Truck Driver

In the eyes of the original owner, Yi Zhonghai, as the elder of the courtyard house, has always been willing to help others.

At that time, even if he was unable to repay the debt, Yi Zhonghai would agree to postpone the repayment.

As long as you become a truck driver and work diligently for a few months, you can save enough money to pay off your debts.

Li Xiaodong, who had watched "The Love in the Courtyard" in his previous life, understood that Yi Zhonghai was actually quite scheming.

They often pretend to be considerate of others, but in fact they are secretly pursuing personal gain.

If the money cannot be repaid, Yi Zhonghai will take the house away without mercy.

Li Xiaodong naturally couldn't let him have his way.

“How much time is left until the repayment date?”

...

Li Xiaodong's eyes were fixed on the yellowed calendar on the wall.

The eye-catching date made his pupils shrink instantly.

"1960, July 11."

There were only 5 days left. In that era, earning more than yuan in just five days was as difficult as achieving annual small goals in later generations.

“How could I agree to that?

Does sleeping in the same bed mean getting married?

Yu Li, Yu Li, you are a woman of the new era, why do you still believe in such outdated customs?

In the afterglow of the setting sun, Yu Li stepped out of the courtyard, still feeling unbelievable about what she had just experienced.

After repeated thinking, she felt that she was conquered by Li Xiaodong's charm.

His broad shoulders give people a sense of security.

Moreover.

In another half a month, he will be able to become a truck driver.

As the saying goes, a horn is better than a county magistrate.

Yu Li is a bold and ambitious woman with a long-term vision.

Otherwise, she would not have opened a restaurant in such a timely manner despite numerous obstacles.

In her eyes, Li Xiaodong undoubtedly has more development prospects than Yan Jiecheng.

Marriage is a big deal, and it involves food and clothing. Which woman doesn’t want to find a partner who can make money?

With this thought in mind, a faint smile appeared on her face.

However, the smile was interrupted by a voice coming from behind.

"Yu Li, where did you go just now?" The voice penetrated her tranquility.

Yan Jiecheng searched everywhere in the courtyard but couldn't find Yu Li, so he was planning to go to Li Xiaodong's house to question her.

When he saw Yu Li, he was overjoyed and ran over quickly.

He looked at Yu Li carefully, as if trying to discern...something from the subtle details.

"Snap!" He instantly felt a burning pain on his right cheek.

"Yu Li, what are you doing?" Yan Jiecheng covered his face and looked at her in disbelief.

"Yan Jiecheng, you are worse than a beast!" Yu Li raised her eyebrows, and the happy expression on her face disappeared in an instant.

Has the truth been exposed? Yan Jiecheng's eyes widened, his face full of anger: "Could it be that you and Li Xiaodong...you..."

Thinking that his fiancée might be molested by Li Xiaodong, Yan Jiecheng felt a chill, his forehead felt slightly cold, and he couldn't help but shake his head.

"Pa!" The left cheek was hit hard again, and the two red and swollen slap marks were particularly eye-catching.

"We sleep in the same bed, isn't this what you've always been looking forward to?" Yu Li gritted her teeth, her eyes widened and her eyebrows raised.

"You...you..." Yan Jiecheng's eyes went dark and he almost fell down.

His fiancée was actually sent to Li Xiaodong personally.

This is really a crying mess!

"From now on, we have nothing to do with each other. I will marry Li Xiaodong next month." Yu Li ran out the door quickly without even looking back.

Watching her back disappearing out of the door, Yan Jiecheng staggered and almost fell. Fortunately, Yan Bugui arrived in time to support him.

"Jiecheng, what's wrong with you?" Yan Bugui asked with concern.

"What's wrong! It's all your bad idea! Yu Li was with Li Xiaodong...they are getting married." Yan Jiecheng endured the pain, broke free from Yan Bugui's hand, and ran back to the room in tears.

What happened? Impossible, absolutely impossible! They were obviously drunk.

Yan Bugui scratched his head, his eyes behind the lenses full of confusion.

"Dad, I've told you before that you can't be too shrewd! Now, you've even tricked my daughter-in-law away with you." Third Aunt shook her head helplessly. When Yan Bugui suggested asking Li Xiaodong for help, she was opposed to it.

What a kind child Li Xiaodong is.

Whenever there is a happy event in a family, he is always the first to lend a helping hand.

Qin Huairu had a difficult labor and had nowhere to turn to for help late at night.

It was Li Xiaodong and Sha Zhu who braved the wind and snow and took Qin Huairu to the hospital on a flatbed truck.

"What do you know? You are so short-sighted!" Yan Bugui was very angry.

Facing the three aunts, Yan Bugui rebuked them mercilessly: "The livelihood of the whole family depends on my meager monthly salary of 27.5 yuan. Do I have it easy?"

"You, you..." The third aunt knew Yan Bugui's temper very well. She shook her head helplessly and walked into the house.

She planned to go and comfort Yan Jiecheng. Although the child didn't say it, one could imagine the pain in his heart because his fiancée was taken away from him.

Oh, what a sin.

Their conversation made Yan Bugui more and more irritated. Over the years, he has always been proud of his cleverness. Except for that silly Zhu, almost no one in the courtyard could escape his calculations.

Unexpectedly, Li Xiaodong, the person he always took advantage of, gave him a silent and severe blow.

"Li Xiaodong, Li Xiaodong, you've really screwed me over." Yan Bugui paced back and forth at the door with a miserable look on his face, muttering to himself.

Yi Zhonghai happened to pass by. Upon hearing this, he had already walked to the gate of the central courtyard, but turned back and came to Yan Bugui.

"Old Yan, what happened to Li Xiaodong?" he asked.

Yan Bugui opened his mouth, wanting to confide in Yi Zhonghai, but found that he couldn't say anything. Sending his daughter-in-law to someone else's bed, such a thing is too shameful to talk about!

"He, he, is the troublemaker in our yard!" Yan Bugui's face turned red and he stammered out these words, obviously he had been holding it in for a long time.

Troublemaker? Isn't that Shazhu? Yi Zhonghai looked at Yan Bugui in confusion. Old Yan must be hiding something.

But it doesn't matter, as long as he hates Li Xiaodong. "Do you still remember that I lent Li Xiaodong a hundred yuan half a month ago?" Yi Zhonghai approached Yan Bugui and said with a sinister smile.

"I remember that it seemed that Li Xiaodong mortgaged the house to you..." Yan Bugui was halfway through his sentence when he suddenly realized something and his eyes widened. "Lao Yi, you don't want to take the house back, do you?"

"Oh, why do you speak so harshly? That's called debt collection. Li Xiaodong owes me money and doesn't pay it back, so I want the house back. It's only natural." Yi Zhonghai explained.

Wow, he is worthy of being the master of the courtyard house, he is so thoughtful.

The two rooms of Li Xiaodong's family are 50 square meters in total and are private property. If they are sold to a demolition team, they can be worth at least more than 200 yuan.

Yan Bugui thought about it for a while and understood the trick. "Don't worry, I will support you when the time comes. If Li Xiaodong refuses to move, the three of us will contact the street office," he promised.

Yi Zhonghai hummed a tune, clapped his hands with satisfaction, then turned and left.

At this moment, Li Xiaodong has completely integrated the memories of his predecessor, with a bright smile on his face. This is indeed the world of "Love in the Courtyard". In the previous life, this strange TV series was often used to treat low blood pressure. As long as the first two episodes were watched, the patient's blood pressure would immediately return to normal; and after watching the entire series, it was common for blood pressure to soar. The characters in the play have their own characteristics, including the upright Yi Zhonghai, the strict and kind father Liu Haizhong, the mysterious necromancer Jia Zhangshi, and the vampire-like Qin Huairu. The petty-minded Xu Damao and the loyal He Yuzhu, together they constitute the excitement and disputes of this courtyard.

The thrifty Yan Bugui and the old lady whose identity is a mystery.

In this world, there are only a few good people left, and they are only Lou Xiao'e and He Yushui.

At dawn, the sun shines obliquely on the densely packed tube-shaped buildings.

The golden glow spread across the capital, covering everything with a layer of elegant golden luster.

In the severe cold, Li Xiaodong found a worn-out felt hat with the fur removed from the cupboard, put it on his head, and pushed the door open to go out.

Although he has received the memories of the original owner, Li Xiaodong is still full of curiosity about the world of this strange era.

The courtyard is paved with blue bricks and is surrounded by quaint blue brick and tile houses.

There are two rooms on each side, a total of six rooms, forming a U-shaped layout.

Together with the buildings at the back, the front yard, middle yard, back yard and back yard are intertwined to form a complete four-in-one courtyard.

There is a brick pool in the center of the courtyard.

There was a gray-white faucet standing in the pool.

A group of young women gathered around the faucet to wash clothes.

They rolled up their sleeves, their little hands were red from the cold, and they looked tired.

However, life forces us to do so.

The factory only distributes two sets of winter clothes every winter.

The days of sunshine are short in winter and the weather is extremely cold.

If you don't wash and dry your clothes as soon as possible, they may affect their wearing time.

One of the young women saw Li Xiaodong approaching, her eyes lit up, she shook off the water droplets on her hands and stood up to greet her.

She was wearing a blue work suit, with an upright posture and a plump figure that revealed the charm of a mature woman.

Although she is nearly thirty years old, she is still plump where she should be plump, and prominent where she should be prominent.

Especially the firm peach shape, which moves back and forth between the left and right hips as the legs swing. This simple and primitive movement makes men feel excited.

Most men will nod subtly.

Li Xiaodong recognized her at a glance. She was Qin Huairu.

A tea artist who controls the courtyard with his eloquence.

Of the hundreds of yuan that the former director borrowed from Yi Zhonghai, at least five yuan went into her pocket.

Of course, for Qin Huairu, borrowing means taking and she will never return it.

Seeing Qin Huairu running towards him with a happy face, Li Xiaodong naturally understood her purpose.

She wanted to borrow money again.

In the courtyard, Qin Huairu often looked for two people to "take advantage of her".

Among them are the predecessors Li Xiaodong and Sha Zhu.

Sha Zhu was willing to be "plucked" because he was greedy for Qin Huairu's beauty.

However, the predecessor Li Xiaodong was too simple and thin-skinned to withstand Qin Huairu's pitiful words and softened his heart.

They were almost drained dry by Qin Huairu.

Li Xiaodong is no longer the same person he used to be, so naturally he cannot satisfy her.

Qin Huairu opened her red lips slightly, like a flower about to bloom, and Li Xiaodong spoke first: "Sister-in-law of the Jia family, I don't know how to start. It just so happens that I want to ask you for money, but you take the initiative to pay it back."

"Pay back the money?" Qin Huairu was stunned, her eyes wide open.

Paying back the money is impossible, not possible in this lifetime.

She came here to borrow money...

"No, no, I..." Qin Huairu instinctively wanted to deny it.

Li Xiaodong noticed that the young wives were rubbing the clothes in their hands and secretly peeking over here.

Indeed, a widowed woman and an unmarried man.

When the two of them stand together, it is inevitable that they will cause endless speculation.

He suddenly thought and spoke before Qin Huairu again: "Sister-in-law of the Jia family, you are really a sensible person. You know that I owe you a debt and I am worried about how to repay it, so you came to urge me to pay it back early in the morning."

I didn’t say I wanted to pay the money back… Qin Huairu was about to retort when she caught a glimpse from the corner of her eye that the young wives were looking at them with strange eyes.

Obviously, the young wives had heard what Li Xiaodong had just said.

These young wives are like the mouthpieces in the courtyard.

If Qin Huairu didn't pay back the money, they would gossip everywhere: "Qin Huairu owed Li Xiaodong money, and now Li Xiaodong owes me money, but she doesn't pay it back. She is so heartless and ungrateful."

Once her reputation is damaged, it will become difficult for Qin Huairu to pretend to be pitiful or borrow money in the Siheyuan.

"Well, well, I'm actually here to return your money." Qin Huairu's face turned pale, she smiled awkwardly, wiped the stains on her hands, and took out a stack of bills from her trouser pocket.

He counted them, took out most of them, and handed them to him.

"Brother Xiaodong, this is the five dollars I lent you last time. I'm returning it to you now!" Qin Huairu deliberately raised her voice so that the women next to her could hear her clearly.

Did you see that? I, Qin Huairu, always keep my word.

He reluctantly looked away, muttering to himself.

Li Xiaodong seemed like a different person, and the original loan turned into a repayment.

Ouch, it hurts!

Li Xiaodong took the banknotes, counted them briefly, put them in his cotton-padded jacket pocket, and called out to Qin Huairu who was walking back in a daze.

"Sister-in-law Jia, I remember that brother Xudong vomited blood in the middle of the night and was sent to the hospital two years ago. You had no money at the time, so Zhuzi and I paid for it. I remember it was one yuan and thirty cents." Li Xiaodong recalled clearly.

Qin Huairu was stunned for a moment.

In the cold winter, beads of sweat oozed out of her forehead.

It happened so long ago, but Li Xiaodong still remembers it so clearly.

She subconsciously wanted to find an excuse to shirk responsibility.

However, Li Xiaodong said loudly: "Sister-in-law of the Jia family, if it was before, I would not ask you to lend this money. But now I have to repay my master's debt..."

"Well, this..." Qin Huairu's big eyes turned quickly, thinking about how to default on the debt.

I have to admit that Li Xiaodong has a very good reputation in the Siheyuan.

The young wife of the Liu family put her soaked cotton jacket in the basin, wiped the sweat from her temples, and whispered, "Li Xiaodong is in trouble now, and Qin Huairu still doesn't pay back the money. It's really wrong."

Aunt Zhang also agreed, "That's right. We lent money to the Jia family because we thought they were pitiful and Qin Huairu was a good person. But we didn't expect her to cheat. Who would dare to lend money to her in the future?"

……

No matter what era, deadbeats are not welcome.

When Qin Huairu heard everyone's discussions, her heart tightened. She realized that if she didn't pay back the money this time, it might not be so easy to borrow money again in the future.

"Wait a minute, I'll get it for you at home."

Qin Huiru bit her lower lip and walked slowly towards the Jia family. Halfway there, her eyes lit up and she stopped.