The life of a villain in a courtyard

After experiencing the farce of the day, everyone was exhausted when they returned to the courtyard. They rested soon after returning home, after all, they had to go to work the next day. The mother and son of the Jia family also wanted to come back but were stopped by Yi Zhonghai. After all, she was the daughter-in-law of the Jia family, and it was impossible to just ignore her.

After returning home, Yi Zhonghai fell into deep thought in front of the candlelight on the table. He had always regarded Jia Dongxu as his elderly caregiver, but Jia Dongxu's behavior today really made him a little scared.

Qin Huairu is obviously a filial and hardworking good daughter-in-law, but Jia Dongxu beat her into the hospital and lost her child just because of a rumor. He didn't know how to correct his mistake and was unwilling to do even the right thing like taking care of his wife. Is such a person really a good candidate for retirement?

"What are you daydreaming about, old man? It's time to rest."

The old lady's words awakened Yi Zhonghai who was lost in thought. Yi Zhonghai nodded, took off his clothes and went to bed to rest. However, whether he could fall asleep or not was another matter.

The next day, Su Yun was awakened by the urge to urinate. Just as he was about to get up to relieve himself, a gust of cold wind blew and Su Yun shrank back into the quilt.

“It’s really hard to live without heating in the winter.”

The weather in Sijiu City nowadays is much colder than in later generations. People usually start buying coal and making coal balls in November to prepare for the winter. Su Yun arrived in Sijiu City in December. The coal coupons for this year had been used up by his uncle, and the coal in the house was taken away by someone, leaving him with nothing. As a result, he could only put an extra layer of fluffy blanket on his bed to be able to sleep peacefully on winter nights.

After getting up, Su Yun took out a portion of frozen preserved egg and pork wontons from the space and put them in the pot to cook. He was also busy picking out a set of clothes with the least patches from the ones he brought with him and put them on.

As soon as the wontons came out of the pot, Su Yun couldn't wait to take a bite, but he spit it out because it was too hot, and the skin on his upper teeth was burned.

"So hot, so hot."

Su Yun blew on the wontons a few times until they were no longer hot and then he started eating them in big mouthfuls.

While he was eating, someone pushed his door from outside, but it didn't move at all. Su Yun locked the door before going to bed last night to prevent people from knocking.

"Who?"

Su Yun put the wontons into the space and opened the door to find a little girl wearing tattered clothes and looking pale and thin. Su Yun couldn't help but feel strange. Whose child would run to his door so early in the morning?

"Who are you, little boy? What's the matter with you coming to your uncle's house?

Su Yun squatted down and asked curiously.

"Uncle, my name is Xiaodang."

"Xiao Dang!"

So this is Xiaodang, the second child of the Jia family. But she looked chubby in the TV series. Why is she so thin here?

"Xiaodang, what do you want to do with your uncle?"

"Uncle, Xiaodang is hungry. Can you give Xiaodang something to eat?"

While Xiaodang was speaking, he kept glancing at Su Yun and then quickly looked away, obviously very scared and uneasy.

"Why are you hungry, Xiaodang? Didn't your parents cook for you?"

"Mom is in the hospital, and so are Dad, grandma, and my brother. There's nothing to eat at home, and Xiaodang is hungry."

When Xiao Dang said this, he lowered his head and looked very sad.

"Then why don't you go to someone else's house to get food but come to my place?"

"They all ignored Xiaodang, saying that grandma was not a good person and asked Xiaodang to go away."

Su Yun felt unhappy after hearing this, so he turned back to the house, took out a pancake left over from yesterday and gave it to Xiaodang. Xiaodang immediately started to gobble it up.

Speaking of Xiaodang's experience in the yard, it was all Jia Zhang's fault. Originally, the people in the yard were willing to help these children of the Jia family. After all, the conflicts between the adults could not be blamed on these children. However, since Jia Zhang knew that her children could get food from others, she deliberately stopped the family from preparing food for these children and let these children go begging.

But no one had surplus food these days. It's okay to take care of your children once or twice, but you can't always ask for money. After a while, no one wanted to take care of the Jia family's children anymore.

Xiaodang took the pancake and ate it in big mouthfuls. She had not eaten since yesterday. Because of what Jia Dongxu did yesterday, Yi Zhonghai began to doubt whether Jia Dongxu would provide for him in his old age, so he deliberately forgot about the two little girls. The two little guys were young and did not dare to go out casually, so they stayed hungry in the house all night. This morning, Xiaodang could not hold on any longer and came out of the house to find something to eat.

"Xiao Dang? Why are you here?"

An old lady came out of the deaf old lady's room holding an empty bowl, walked to Su Yun's room, looked at Xiaodang who was eating voraciously, and slapped her head suddenly. How could she forget about the two children of the Jia family? There was no adult in the Jia family now, and the two children must have been hungry all night.

"Come to grandma's house, little one. Grandma will make you something delicious."

After saying that, he nodded to Su Yun and left with Xiaodang.

Su Yun went back to the house, finished his wontons, and tidied his appearance in front of the mirror to make sure there was nothing wrong before leaving the house. At this time, almost everyone in the compound had gone to work, leaving only a few idle aunties chatting.

"What are you doing so early in the morning, Xiao Su?"

An middle-aged woman who knew Su Yun greeted him. Su Yun had shown up yesterday, so it was normal for someone to know him.

"I have to go to the street office. I still have some things to deal with."

The aunt nodded and then started chatting with the person next to her.

As soon as he went out, he happened to meet Sha Zhu who was staggering forward with a lunch box. Su Yun took two quick steps and greeted Sha Zhu.

"Master He."

Sha Zhu was startled and turned around to find that it was Su Yun, so he burst out laughing.

"It's you, kid. Didn't I tell you yesterday that you can just call me Shazhu? Calling me Master He sounds strange. We are neighbors living in the same courtyard."

"It sounds so ugly to call you 'Shazhu', how about I call you Brother Zhuzi?"

"That's okay too."

"Hey, what are you doing going out so early in the morning?"

"Oh yeah, I have something else I want to ask you, Brother Zhuzi, do you know where the black market is?"

After hearing Su Yun's words, Sha Zhu looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he lowered his voice and asked, "Why are you asking about the black market?"

"I don't have any coal at home. It's really unbearable in this cold weather, so I wondered if I could buy some coal on the black market."

Sha Zhu nodded. It was really hard to live without coal at home in December. Then he told Su Yun the location of the black market and told him to be careful, because there would be people checking from time to time. If he saw something wrong, he should run away quickly and not worry about the things.

"Don't worry, I understand."

After saying that, he walked towards the place that Shazhu mentioned.

When Su Yun arrived at the entrance of the black market, a big man stopped him. He was the gatekeeper of the black market. If you wanted to go in, you had to pay an entrance fee of 10 cents. After paying the money, the big man let Su Yun in.