The courtyard: the atmosphere of human life

Darong was quick and efficient. After looking around, she lifted up the small basket of eggs in the main room and smashed it down heavily.

"Since the eggs are to blame, then no one should eat eggs anymore."

Darong's voice was not loud, but her tone was still steady.

"Oh, you little rascal, you are such a waste."

Before Darong's aunt could react, Darong's grandmother, who came over, started complaining first. She quickly took a bowl from the closet and started to clean up the egg soup in the basket.

In the early years when the war was raging, Darong's grandmother was one of the people who really went hungry. Although Darong also experienced the tail end of a shortage of supplies when she was young, at least she was able to eat enough since she was young. She could not understand her grandmother's idea of ​​eating even stale food.

"Just live a good life if you want to. Why do people in the village dare to bully our family? It's because the family members are not united." Darong said sternly while standing in the main room.

"If you don't want to go, just leave openly and don't threaten me all the time. Once you leave this door, I want to see who will tolerate a jinx like you who beats your mother-in-law and scolds your husband!"

Darong was the first person in the family who actually asked to drive her aunt away. Ever since she came into the family, Darong's grandmother was always afraid of offending her and making her son's life difficult. However, the more she tried to get along with her, the more arrogant she became.

From the initial quarrel to the current physical fight, not a single slap was not caused by Grandma Darong herself.

When Darong said this, no one in the room spoke a word. Her sudden surge of aura surprised Darong's mother as well.

After being stunned for a few seconds, the aunt put down the child and rushed towards Darong angrily.

"Who do you think you are? You dare to meddle in our family's affairs..."

She raised her hand and was about to hit Darong, but Darong's mother stepped forward, blocked Darong's aunt's slap, and pushed Darong's aunt with her backhand, causing her to stagger.

Both of them were women who grew up on farmland. Fighting was easy for them. In an instant, the two of them rolled into each other.

"Oh, stop hitting me, stop hitting me..." The eldest uncle on the side kept shouting anxiously, but he was helpless and was held back by the third uncle and Xiaoying, unable to move forward.

Darong looked at her little cousin who was crying in fear in the inner room, walked around the two people fighting, went into the room and held her little cousin in her arms.

While Darong's grandmother was trying to mediate the fight, she also secretly helped Darong's mother to beat up her eldest daughter-in-law. She finally felt relieved for once because of the resentment that had been suppressed in her heart for many years.

I don’t know if it was Darong’s words that had an effect, or if she was really scared by the beating, but this usually domineering aunt not only did not divorce my uncle, but she actually stayed quiet for a long time and stopped making trouble.

As soon as Darong's mother and her two children came home in the evening, Darong's father knew that they had just been through a fierce battle. There were bloodstains on Darong's mother's face and neck, and her face was gloomy and she didn't say a word.

That night, none of the four children dared to speak loudly, for fear that their mother's anger would not subside and would harm innocent people.

Darong's mother was naturally upset. She tossed and turned all night and couldn't sleep. Although she was not her biological daughter, she had seen the difficulties of this adoptive mother since she was a child.

"Da Rong's father, I've been thinking about this all night. Can you think of a way to build another house? Don't worry about the older or younger ones. Let them live separately and stop making such a fuss. Her grandmother is old and can't stand the hassle."

Early the next morning, Darong's mother woke up Darong's father who was still sleeping soundly.

"We just paid back the money for building the house." Darong's father was still sleepy and said with some embarrassment with his eyes closed.

Building a house is not a difficult task for Darong's father. The difficult part is the money to buy materials. Darong's father is kind and fair. He has a good relationship with people in the team, so it is no problem for him to invite a few friends to work over.

But our family’s conditions were so ordinary that we didn’t have enough money to buy materials for building a house. When we built the house before, we asked relatives and friends to lend us the money for the materials, and it’s only been less than two years since we paid it off.

"Can you pull some usable scraps from the team and mix them with some new ones?"

Darong's mother thought for a long time and finally spoke out.

At that time, Nanjian would also undertake some demolition work due to planning and reconstruction. Some houses did not meet the conditions of dangerous buildings, but because of road planning to avoid demolition, the demolished materials would not be too bad.

In fact, these dismantled materials are also transported and dumped as construction waste, so some people will pick out some usable ones and take them home.

This behavior was not considered theft and was not allowed, but because living conditions were limited at the time and they were all local residents, the team turned a blind eye and did not interfere.

"It's not a good influence. After all, I'm the team leader." Darong's father frowned slightly. It's okay for others to do this kind of thing, but if he does it, he will be taking the lead in taking advantage.

Darong's mother didn't say anything else, but just started crying.

After the fifth day of the New Year, the Chinese New Year is basically over. Children are waiting for school to start and adults are already back to work.

Early in the morning on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Darong arrived at the breakfast department. Pei Bin did not come to pick Darong up for work today, but waited until the breakfast department's working time before hurriedly entering the room.

"How dare you be late? You won't be able to count the fruits soon."

As soon as Pei Bin entered the door, Xiao Cui secretly glanced at Darong and joked with a smile.

"It's okay, it's okay. I'll be there for you." Pei Bin quickly changed his clothes while chatting happily with Xiao Cui.

Although Pei Bin and Darong did not speak, they greeted each other with just an eye contact. Xiao Cui was sandwiched in the middle and smiled at the two sour people in front of her.

"Da Rong, this is for you." On the way home from get off work, Pei Bin took out an oil paper bag from his backpack.

"what is this?"

"Meat, smoked rabbit meat, take it home for your brothers and sisters to eat."

"Where did you get the rabbit meat?" Darong asked Pei Bin curiously with her eyes wide open.

Although supplies were no longer so scarce at that time, every household still could not have meat for every meal. Moreover, in small towns like the southern suburbs, it was difficult to see wild rabbits due to the accelerated urbanization process.

"Hehe, I won it playing cards last night." Pei Bin smiled embarrassedly.

The reason why he didn't go to pick up Darong today was because he played cards until midnight last night and was unable to get up in the morning.

Darong did not shirk her responsibility and generously put the rabbit meat into her backpack.

"I will be transferred next month. My father has already told the factory leaders when he visited us during the Chinese New Year. I will start work on the 1st of next month."

Pei Bin was very happy about joining the factory. After all, his salary would be much higher than that in the breakfast department.

"Good thing, congratulations."

Darong was also happy for Pei Bin, and began to look forward to the textile factory being completed as soon as possible so that she could successfully pass the entrance exam.