Siheyuan: Sizhu starts blindly and takes a new path

Without mentioning this, Qin Huairu still had a slight smile on her face, maintaining her gentleness. When someone pointed out the gap between before and after, Qin Huairu resented Zhao Meng even more. But in order to avoid being criticized, she explained: "Don't talk nonsense, it's not true. I'm an honest person. I don't want to get married again, so how can I rely on a man? Last year, my mother's family harvested a lot of grain, and they brought a lot to my family some time ago, so I came here to live a relaxed life for a few days. Now, the grain is gone, and I have to live a tight life again."

Hearing her say that she didn't rely on other men, Liu Lan and the little bees all curled their lips, but no one deliberately exposed her shortcomings, but no one sympathized with her either. In the end, Qin Huairu still left with a normal amount of free vegetarian dishes.

Qin Huairu did not touch the vegetarian dish. She only ate a steamed bun at noon. She planned to save the food for her family for dinner. After losing Zhao Meng, the blood bag, the Jia family's life has been getting worse and worse. They no longer eat meat every two days, but white steamed buns from time to time. Now Xiaodang is in school and Banggeng's board and lodging expenses in the work-study school are not small expenses. In addition, Qin Huairu also wants to save up 300 yuan as soon as possible to return the factory and keep her job, so she can only be more frugal in eating and drinking. The dishes cooked in the factory cafeteria are fried with some lard, which tastes more fragrant. Xiaodang and Huaihua like to eat them, so Qin Huairu often saves the lunch in the cafeteria, and adds steamed bread and a thin soup that can reflect shadows, which becomes the Jia family's dinner.

Only when Banggeng came back last time did Qin Huairu arrange for them to have dumplings. Banggeng was very satisfied. However, Xiaodang thought that her mother wanted to give the best to Banggeng, so she withheld money from her and Huaihua. She didn't know that her mother was also harsh on her, so she hoped that Banggeng would come home and she hoped that he would never come back.

After finishing her meal, Mrs. Jia looked at her palms, which were no longer thick but slightly shriveled, and said, "Huai Ru, it's good that you are frugal, but our family is too frugal now. Look at the two children, their faces are pointed. Shouldn't we eat meat once in a while?"

"Mom, bear with me for a while. When Banggeng comes back in a few days, we'll make dumplings for him. How about cabbage and pork lard filling?"

When Xiaodang heard that he had to wait for Banggeng again, he exploded: "Banggeng again, why do we have to wait for him to come back before we can eat? It's because his family lost money, he has no right to eat good food."

Qin Huairu looked at Xiaodang with her eyes wide open as if she didn't know him. Xiaodang had always been very obedient before and had no special opinion about Banggeng.

Mrs. Jia couldn't stand to hear people talking about her precious grandson, especially the two money-losing ones in the family, so she scolded, "What are you talking about, you silly girl? Banggeng is your brother, the pillar of our Jia family and the hope for the future. This Jia family belongs to him, he deserves to eat and drink well, you should be thankful that you can bring him a little food, and you dare to say that he is not qualified, who do you think you are?"

"I'm not a thing, I'm a human being, and I'm not some dead girl, you old hag."

Qin Huairu slapped Xiao Dang in the face with a "slap". "Don't talk to grandma like that. She's your elder. You can't be disrespectful to her. Apologize."

"Why didn't you hit Jia Geng when he scolded Sha Zhu and his uncle-in-law? Aren't those our elders?" Xiao Dang covered his face and cried.

"Yes, those are not your elders, they are outsiders. You are from the Jia family, your grandmother is also from the Jia family, and your brother is even more from the Jia family. Our family is the relatives." Qin Huairu stared at Xiaodang and said, "Apologize to your grandmother now." After saying that, she raised her right hand high.

Xiao Dang reluctantly apologized, but Jia Po kept scolding Xiao Dang for not distinguishing between superiors and subordinates, so Xiao Dang had to run out. When she ran to the gate of the yard and secretly wiped her tears, Cao Baoguo, a boy from the Cao family next door to the deaf old lady in the backyard, happened to pass by with a string of candied haws. Xiao Dang was envious again, and tears oozed uncontrollably from the corners of her mouth.

As luck would have it, the conversation between Xiaodang scolding Mrs. Jia and Qin Huairu scolding Xiaodang was overheard by Yu Li who was passing by the door.

After entering the house, Yu Li told Sha Zhu what she had just heard. Sha Zhu sat at the table and pondered over Qin Huairu's words. He patted his thigh and said, "No wonder, no wonder I was so sincere to the Jia family at the beginning, but they treated me like that in the end. It turns out that they are their family, and we are all outsiders, or in other words, insignificant people."

"Why, do you still want to become relatives with Qin Huairu?"

After hearing what Yu Li said, Sha Zhu quickly explained: "How can I be related to her? That's not what I meant. I meant that the hearts of people in their family are cold and can't be warmed up. Anyone who is not related to them by blood should not even think of getting close to them, let alone getting the slightest benefit from them."

"I didn't pay much attention to it before. I felt that Qin Huairu was always smiling and friendly when she talked to anyone, unlike Grandma Banggeng, who would quarrel with people at the slightest dissatisfaction. When she talked about your blindness, I thought she did that just because she was in trouble at the time and bullied you because you couldn't see. Now it seems that it's not the case at all. She must have felt that you had no value and were an outsider, so of course she had to abandon you to protect her own family. Fortunately, you regained your sight and later ignored her."

Yu Li then asked, "However, our family doesn't have a good relationship with her family, and Xu Damao is her cousin's husband. It's strange that she can still say that?"

"There's nothing strange about it. There's something unspeakable between Qin Huairu and Xu Damao, especially Qin Jingru."

"What is this secret, especially about Qin Jingru?" Yu Li asked curiously. Before Sha Zhu could answer, she suddenly understood and asked, "How did you know about this? Why didn't anyone tell Qin Jingru?"

"When the two of them were hooking up, they were discovered by Fatty or Liu Lan. At that time, Xu Damao and I were having a big fight, so I arranged for Fatty to follow them. Fatty watched them do that several times. The main reason was that Xu Damao was a cunning guy. He always moved to a new place after each shot, never in the same place, and the time was short. Fatty didn't have time to inform us, so we had no chance to catch them in the act. Later, for some reason, the two of them suddenly broke up." Sha Zhu recalled and said regretfully, "There was no evidence. What could I say to Qin Jingru? Say that we saw Xu Damao and Qin Huairu having an affair? I won't tell you whether Qin Jingru would believe me about my relationship with Xu Damao. The main thing is why I had to tell her. She also had an affair with Xu Damao first and pretended to be pregnant, so she squeezed Lou Xiao'e away. She is not a good person either. Bad things should be together with bad things, tied tightly together. If they are separated, they may harm others, which is not good."

"It's not good." Yu Li nodded and continued, "However, you feel this way for the sake of others, but you also mean to speak up for Lou Xiao'e. What do you think of her?"