Siheyuan: I Raised Ten Thousand Wild Boars

"Silly brother, silly brother, I'm back!"

He Yushui had just returned from school, and before his bicycle had even stopped, he couldn't wait to shout.

Because a few days ago, Sha Zhu told her that there would be a reception dinner at the factory today and he would bring her some braised pork.

When I opened the door, I saw Shazhu sitting there eating peanuts and drinking wine.

However, when he saw the lunch box on the table, He Yushui didn't have time to ask him why he didn't answer him.

"Bang!"

When He Yushui opened the lunch box, he was in no mood at all. There was only half a box of cabbage.

I have been eating cabbage and pickles at school for a week. How can I have any appetite when I come back?

"Brother Sha, didn't the factory prepare a reception dinner today?" He Yushui didn't want to blame Sha Zhu, so he had to pick up the steamed bun beside him and started eating it with the cabbage.

"I did it. Well, didn't Sister Qin help wash our dirty clothes? I was just thinking of giving Banggeng a piece of meat, but who knew that the boy would snatch the whole box away from me!"

Sha Zhu felt a little embarrassed when he saw his sister was angry.

"Silly brother, you gave something away once during the Chinese New Year. Why are you giving it away again? Do you still have me, your sister, in your heart?"

It was better when my father was around, I had meat and my father to protect me. When my father left, my elder brother became a different person. Over the years, my brother and I had been hungry and full until Sha Zhu got a job in the factory, and we finally settled down. Who had ever pitied us?

Thinking of this, He Yushui became more and more sad, and tears began to fall down.

"Yu Shui, don't cry. It's my fault this time. I promise to bring it to you next time, okay?" Sha Zhu was also panicked when he saw his sister crying.

The brother and sister have been together for so many years, so they still have feelings for each other.

"Brother, you are a cadre now. Can you be more normal in the future? Find me a sister-in-law and give birth to a baby to continue the He family line."

"These brothers know that they have been looking for someone to introduce them to, but there is no suitable one!"

"Then can you please stop meddling in the courtyard's mess and learn more from Li Guohua and Xu Damao in the backyard? Look how they never care about the courtyard's affairs!"

"How can they be the same? According to what the old man said, they are selfish, and we are righteous!"

"It's not just our family that's being righteous. It's New Year's Day, and I won't say anything if you serve the dishes to the old lady, but you also serve them to the Jia family. I can wash your clothes, and you don't need your sister Qin to wash them for you. And there's the old lady in the backyard, so what can our family gain except having an ancestor above our heads?"

He Yushui was also very angry, and his voice was getting louder and louder.

"Snapped!"

When Sha Zhu heard He Yu Shui talking about the old lady, he couldn't help but slapped He Yu Shui in the face.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

He Yushui looked at Sha Zhu in disbelief. He actually beat her for a stranger. After more than ten years of brother-sister relationship, she was not as good as an outsider?

"Yushui, I'm sorry, please don't talk about the old lady next time. She is an elder and we have to respect her!"

In a rage, Sha Zhu hit his sister, and he felt a little guilty because he never hit a woman, let alone his own sister.

When He Yushui heard what Sha Zhu said, she didn't explain. She just looked at him, then picked up her bag and went back to her room.

It was the look in her eyes before she left that made Sha Zhu feel so strange. He felt like he had lost something very important.

"Crench!"

Just when Sha Zhu was drinking alone, the door was pushed open again, and Yi Zhonghai walked in again with a bottle of wine in his left hand and a plate of peanuts in his right hand.

"Shazhu, are you drunk? Why did I see Yu Shui crying?" An old man scolded as soon as he came in.

"Don't mention it. Yu Shui thought I was meddling in other people's business in the yard, so I couldn't help but slapped her! I'm regretting it now and thinking about how to coax her!" Sha Zhu drank quite a lot of wine and his voice became a little loud.

Although Sha Zhu didn't say it explicitly, Yi Zhonghai had already guessed what He Yushui was talking about.

Oh, it's really a troubled time. It's hard to fool educated people. It seems I have to find a way to keep them apart.

"You should never forget your roots. This is what our ancestors passed down. It's definitely true. Yu Shui is still young, he will be fine in a few years. I'll ask your aunt to persuade Yu Shui later. You should drink less in the future. If you drink too much, you won't listen to me."

With just a few words, Yi Zhonghai shifted the blame onto He Yushui and freed Sha Zhu from self-blame.

"Thank you so much, uncle. I toast to you!"

After hearing this, Sha Zhu felt much better.

"Shazhu, I saw Qin Huairu helping you wash clothes today, what's going on?" Yi Zhonghai pretended to fill Shazhu's glass with another glass and asked casually.

"Well, the weather has been cold recently, and I thought I had clothes to change, so I wanted to wait a while before washing them! Who knew that when I got home today, I found that Sister Qin had washed all my clothes for me, so I gave her family a box of meat, and finally broke my promise to Yu Shui, look at what happened!"

If someone takes the initiative to help you do something, you should at least give them some thanks and not let them criticize you.

When Sha Zhu thought about this, he felt that he had done nothing wrong and that it was his sister who had a childish temper.

"Oh, so that's how it is. There's nothing wrong with you doing this. You're a man of our city, so you're a man of justice!"

The old man raised his glass and clinked it with Sha Zhu's.

"That's right, we can't do anything wrong!"

After drinking three cups in a row, Shazhu is a little drunk.

After knowing the whole story, Yi Zhonghai had different thoughts in his mind.

Because of the household registration problem, the Jia family did not have enough food every month. In the past, I had to support the Jia family with five kilograms of coarse grains every month, and sometimes I might even exceed the limit.

Although my monthly salary is very high, I have no descendants, so I have to save money for my retirement.

I retired at the age of 60. By then I was too old and my hands were not steady enough to do the technical work of a fitter, but I would not lower myself to do manual labor.

Even if I only live to 80 years old, that's still years. In addition to eating, drinking, defecating and urinating, people get older and start to have more illnesses. They also need to take medicine, and a little money is simply not enough.

The medical expenses plus food expenses for a month are at least 20 yuan, right? And it’s not a question of whether the money is worthless. Before liberation, the gold yuan coupons made the common people suffer a lot.

That would cost 240 yuan a year, or 2,400 yuan in ten years.

What if you live to be 90 or even 100 years old because you have done too many good things, but you lose all your money while you are still alive? That would be the end of your life.

So the more money for retirement, the better.

This Sha Zhu has now been promoted to a ninth-level cook and is also the canteen monitor, with a salary of 33 yuan. If he could get Sha Zhu to help him support the Jia family, he would be much more relaxed.