Siheyuan: Sizhu starts blindly and takes a new path

Sha Zhu gave several boxes of delicious food to Qin Huairu and waited at home for her to heat some up and bring some to him.

The door of the main room was pushed open, and Qin Huairu came in with half a basin of peanuts and half a bottle of liquor. With an apologetic look on her face, she said, "Zhu Zi, I'm sorry. The children haven't eaten meat for a long time, and they didn't hug us and ate all the dishes. I quickly fried some peanuts for you, so you can just eat a little." Then she put the things on the table, said sorry again because she was embarrassed, and hurried out of the house to go home.

Sha Zhu looked at the peanuts on the plate, which he could count, and felt very unhappy.

The years have been bad, with severe droughts and poor harvests in various places. The country is also being forced to pay back debts by its former big brother in the north, resulting in an extreme shortage of supplies. People in various units in the city have either actively or passively requested to reduce their own food supplies, and the original mutual learning and observation between units is now pitifully rare.

Today is also the first time that Shazhu has prepared a banquet this year. I originally thought that I could have a nice meal with Yushui in the evening. Fortunately, Yushui went to play at another classmate's house, otherwise I would have to blame myself more.

After drinking a few sips of wine, he finished eating the peanuts. Sha Zhu walked to the cupboard and opened the lower cabinet to take out some peanuts. He weighed his pockets, and it was empty. He looked at the plate and said, "Hey, all the peanuts are mine, and they didn't leave any for me. What a family!" Sha Zhu was very depressed. He picked up the bottle and drank the rest in gulps, then fell asleep.

Qin Huairu felt a little guilty for not leaving any food for Sha Zhu yesterday. Today happened to be Sunday, so Qin Huairu came to Sha Zhu's house to help him clean and wash. Qin Huairu felt that she had no money or food, so she could only repay Sha Zhu with her physical strength.

Sha Zhu watched Qin Huairu clean the tables, chairs and cabinets and mop the floor twice, making it so clean that he was embarrassed to step on it. Then she took out her yellowed white shirt and spring clothes hidden under the bed, filled a basin with water and rubbed them vigorously by the sink. The hair on her forehead was wet and tangled, perhaps from sweat or tap water. Sha Zhu couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "She is so hardworking and a good woman!"

Qin Huairu quickly put the clothes outside, went into the house and put the basin on the shelf. Holding her wrinkled fingers from blisters, she said to Sha Zhu, "Zhu Zi, I'm so sorry for yesterday. It's all because the dishes you cooked were so delicious. Don't be angry with me. Look at how I cleaned the house for you today. I'll come over to clean the house for you from time to time in the future, and I'll wash your clothes too."

"Sister Qin, look at what you are doing. I bring you the lunch box out of friendship, and I don't ask for anything in return."

"What's the reward? I wash your clothes and clean the house for you. It's also friendship. We are helping each other."

"Yes, yes, help each other." Sha Zhu poured a glass of water and handed it to Qin Huairu, "Sister Qin, you must be tired, drink some water and sit down to rest."

When Qin Huairu was about to answer the call, Mrs. Jia lifted the bamboo curtain and entered the room. "Qin Huairu, you sneaked into a man's room so early in the morning and didn't come out for a long time. What do you want to do?"

"Mom, I'm helping Sha Zhu clean up the house, he..."

"You help him clean the house. He can't do it himself. I think you are missing another man. Your husband, my son Jia Dongxu, just passed away a few days ago. His body is still warm, and you are already thinking about another man."

"Mom, I didn't. You can't wrongly accuse me."

"You didn't. You stayed in the idiot's room for a long time without coming out. You were still talking and laughing. The two of you were flirting with each other, passing tea and water and touching each other's hands and feet. Bah, bitch, little slut."

"Jia Zhang, there is no one like you. I ate all the food I brought back to your house. Sister Qin felt bad and helped me clean the house to express her apology. But you slandered me like this. Do you still have any humanity?"

"My daughter-in-law, why are you so anxious? You have nothing to hide. I caught you two having an affair. You two adulterers, Dongxu, come back and see that your good brother is going to cuckold you."

The noise here was so loud that it alarmed the neighbors, who gathered around Sha Zhu's door.

Qin Huairu looked at her unreasonable mother-in-law, then at the neighbors around her, her eyes rolled back and she fell to the ground.

"Sister Qin, Sister Qin, wake up." Sha Zhu called anxiously, and suddenly sat up. He was dreaming again.

Sha Zhu looked outside and saw that it was already dawn. He was in no mood to sleep. He leaned against the headboard and thought: Why do I keep dreaming about the Jia family recently? What's the reason?

Sha Zhu got up and washed up, and was about to pour out the water. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Qin Huairu was about to knock on the door. Sha Zhu greeted her and asked Qin Huairu what was going on.

Qin Huairu started to apologize and clean the clothes just like in the dream. Shazhu also stared blankly at her like in the dream, and then praised her for being a good woman. Then Qin Huairu came over after washing the clothes, twisting her waist, and the two car lights flickered, which made me dizzy. Then Jia Pozi broke in while the two were talking, and started to make a scene, and finally made Qin Huairu faint.

"Sister Qin, Sister Qin, wake up!" Sha Zhu was shocked that the plot was exactly the same as in his dream, and called out to Qin Huairu.

The neighbors outside the house heard the cry for help and rushed in. Seeing that Qin Huairu had been unconscious for a long time, they were afraid that something had happened to her. An old man named Yan Jiecheng borrowed a cart, and everyone helped to send Qin Huairu to the hospital.

The eldest uncle asked Mrs. Jia to go with him to pay the bill. Mrs. Jia pulled Sha Zhu's arm and said, "I don't have any money, and Qin Huairu fainted at Sha Zhu's house. She fainted because she was tired from cleaning the house for Sha Zhu. Sha Zhu should be responsible. Sha Zhu should not only pay for the medical expenses, but also for her future nutrition expenses."

Saving lives was the most important thing. Sha Zhu and the old man ignored her and followed the team to the hospital. When they arrived at the hospital, the doctor felt her pulse and asked someone to make a cup of sugar water for Qin Huairu to drink. After a while, she slowly woke up.

The doctor smiled and said to Qin Huairu: "Comrade, congratulations, you are pregnant for more than a month. There is no other problem with your body. You just need to pay more attention to nutrition in the future."

Qin Huairu thanked the doctor with a wry smile, and Yi Ye and Sha Zhu also hurried to thank the doctor.

At night, the uncle and aunt discussed helping the Jia family. The aunt disagreed a little and advised her husband: "It is said that we should help in emergencies but not in poverty. The Jia family has compensation, not that they don't have money. Although Qin Huairu is pregnant again, she should go to work after giving birth. Then her family will have an income every month and it won't be difficult. Let's talk about it when we really need it."

The old man looked in the direction of the Jia family and said, "Hey, I have taken care of the Jia family for so many years. I finally waited for Dongxu to start working and trained him to be a third-level fitter. It seems that he is getting more and more promising. He respects us, and Qin Huairu is also diligent and capable. We have great hopes for the future. But who would have thought. Oh!"

"It's all my fault that I can't give birth to you," the old lady lowered her head sadly.

The uncle quickly interrupted him and said, "Don't say that. If my father-in-law hadn't taken me in, I would have starved to death somewhere and become food for stray dogs. I wouldn't be here today."

On the way home from the hospital, Sha Zhu kept thinking about the two dreams he had before. "The same thing happened, just like a prophecy. I can predict what will happen the next day. So can I avoid things that are not good for me? What did I do before the dream? Hmm... It seems like I ate peanuts and drank half a bottle of wine."

He Yushui, who had just returned home, stopped Sha Zhu who was in a hurry to go out to buy peanuts, and said, "Brother, I heard that Sister Qin fainted. What happened? What's the disease? Is it serious?" He asked three urgent questions in a row.

"It's nothing, I'm just pregnant again."

"Pregnant again, whose?"

"Whose? Jia Dongxu's? Who do you think it belongs to?" Sha Zhu nodded Yu Shui's head. "What do you think about all day long, girl?"

The rain stuck out its tongue and ran away.

Sha Zhu took out his grain book and went straight to the grain station to buy peanuts. He also went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a bottle of white liquor.

Prepare a meal for my sister and bring it to her room.

Then, after frying the peanuts, Sha Zhu couldn't wait to eat a few of them, drank half a bottle of wine, and fell asleep.