Siheyuan: Shazhu's Brother Shadan

He took Zhang Guilan to the backyard, opened a side room, and revealed a room full of food.

"what!"

Zhang Guilan was stunned.

Who could have so much food? And it looks like it’s been there for a long time.

Zhang Guilan looked at Mingyue with suspicion. It was not that she doubted her, but she was wondering how she managed to store so much food.

Is it true that his son has magical powers as rumored?

"Mom, don't look at me like that. I don't understand either. These are the food your eldest son asked me to buy before the famine. Not only for this house, but also for the other two houses."

"what!"

This time, Zhang Guilan was completely dumbfounded. It seemed that her son really had such magical abilities as rumored by the outside world.

How could an ordinary person possibly think of this?

Zhang Guilan happily pushed the cart with two bags of grain on it and went home.

I always hum a song while walking.

If at the beginning I was full of sorrow, now I am smiling.

Don’t mention how beautiful the mood is.

At dinner time, let my sister and her family eat as much as they can and don’t worry about running out of food.

The younger sister thought her elder sister was speaking in a sarcastic way, and she actually started to cry while eating.

Zhang Guilan quickly put down her chopsticks and tried to comfort Zhang Guiju, "What's wrong? You were eating well, why are you crying?"

"Sister, are you chasing us away?"

"Why would I chase you away? I finally get to see my family, I'm so happy, how could I chase you away?"

Seeing Zhang Guiju still crying, Zhang Guilan had no choice but to hold her hand. She came to the rice jar and asked her to look at it. "Your family can live in this courtyard for as long as you want. I can support you!"

When Zhang Guilan said this, her deep affection and expression made people think she was a general, and she spoke so magnanimously and heroically.

"Wow, so much food? Where did you get it from, sis?"

Zhang Guilan patted her chest and said, "Don't forget that I'm the people's director. It's not a big deal to get some food. You can live here and eat here without worry. When the natural disaster is over, you can leave. I'm very considerate, right?"

Zhang Guilan was very kind to her sister, but what her sister did next was not so kind.

Half a month later, they actually took Zhang Guilan's second uncle and his family over as well. That wasn't all, as they also took in the younger generations of Zhang Guilan's fourth uncle and third uncle.

After all, my fourth uncle and third uncle had poor health and had already passed away.

After these people arrived, they cried to Zhang Guilan and complained that their fourth and third uncles were unlucky and did not survive the disaster.

When he came before, he was like a mourner, mentioning his fourth uncle and third uncle all the time, trying to play the emotional card with Zhang Guilan.

The neighbors all thought that his family had died, as they could hear faint crying sounds day and night.

Those are the younger generations of the fourth uncle and the third uncle who are crying and complaining.

Two bags of rice were eaten up by the twenty-something people.

Zhang Guilan saw that it was not a good idea, so she decided to sell her food poorly for the evening meal and borrow some food from the neighbors. She did all this to show off to her relatives at home.

The landlord has no surplus food.

After all, my fourth uncle, second uncle, and third uncle were all things of the previous generation and they hadn’t had any contact with each other for a long, long time.

Since Zhang Guilan's father died, there has been no news about these three uncles.

In addition, Zhang Guilan's father only has these two daughters, and the family is extinct.

She was looked down upon by her three uncles, and even when she and her sister got married, they had never seen what her family looked like.

But I didn't expect that my sister would be so disloyal.

When the neighbors in the yard heard that Zhang Guilan's family wanted to borrow food, they started to feel nervous.

After all, there are nearly thirty people in their family, so how much food is enough for them to eat?

We don’t know how long this natural disaster will last.

Besides, every household has a ration now, isn’t that funny?

Some families even blamed Zhang Guilan for adopting so many relatives.

So when Zhang Guilan came to borrow grain, every household gave very little, either one or two kilograms. The most that came to her was the deaf old lady in the backyard who gave her five kilograms.

After giving it to her, he grabbed Zhang Guilan's hand and comforted her, saying that having too many relatives was not a good thing and she should be careful not to cause internal conflicts, which was the saddest thing.

After borrowing from this courtyard, I only borrowed 42 kilograms of grain.

Don't forget that there are nearly thirty households in their courtyard. Zhang Guilan felt cold in her heart when she saw the small amount of food.

Normally, she treated her neighbors as well as she could, but when the critical moment came, no one was willing to help.

Of course, it’s also because he has too many relatives, so you can’t blame others.

But deep down she was still confused and couldn't believe it, and she felt cold from the bottom of her heart, so cold that she shivered.

When Zhang Guilan poured the borrowed grain into the rice jar, all the children in the family came over and stared at the rice inside.

"Auntie, what kind of rice is this? Why does it come in all these different colors? So pretty!"

"I don't understand this. This is the result of mixing rice, millet, sorghum and other grains together."

"Oh, will it taste good?"

As soon as the child finished saying this, he was slapped on the head by an adult.

"It's good enough to have enough to eat these days, but you still want to know whether it tastes good or not? I think you are just starving. After two days of eating full meals, your stomach doesn't know its own name."

As the oldest uncle here, he would beat and scold the children at any time and never say a soft word to them.

He was only a little more friendly when dealing with He Aiguo.

After all, in this courtyard, the second uncle is the oldest elder in the Zhang family.

But the most promising one is still the fool.

After dinner, Uncle Er actually wanted to go visit Shadan’s house.

When Zhang Guilan heard this, she knew she couldn't let him go to visit Mingyue's family, so she quickly stopped him.

"There are only lesbians in the courtyard, and there are other people's children. How can you go there? Is that right, second uncle?"

"Why, idiot, you're raising someone else's child? Your own family can't even get enough to eat these days, and you're still raising someone else's child. It's really absurd. Where's He Yuquan? Come here quickly so I can see him. I have to give him a good scolding."

Zhang Guilan quickly explained that Comrade Shadan was on a business trip, and only then did the second uncle calm down.

But what to eat tomorrow? This is a difficult problem!

There are only two or three pounds of mixed rice left in the rice jar. After all, when several kinds of rice are mixed together, it becomes mixed rice.

My family members didn't refuse to eat the mixed rice. They ate it more deliciously than anyone else. It was so sad.

It seemed as if it knew that this was all the food in the house, so it ate it without any effort.

There was no intention to leave anything for He Daqing's family. Judging from their behavior, it was a bandit policy of the Japanese devils to take everything they wanted.

As the population increases, sleeping with quilts becomes a problem.

There was no choice but for several people to squeeze into one room and sleep wrapped in one quilt.

We can't just chase these people to Mingyue's house. Even if Mingyue is willing, Shadan won't agree.

Don’t let their eight big dogs eat meat again. How can I explain this to He Zhenbang and Minglou?

Since the famine, the two children have not been seen taking the eight dogs and two cats out for a stroll. Maybe Mingyue explained the current situation to them, so they didn’t dare to bring them out.

After all, people are hungry at this time, and you still want to feed the dog. Aren’t you just waiting for people to gossip about you?

That night, Zhang Guilan and He Daqing introduced the current situation at home.

He Daqing and He Yuzhu both work during the day, and only Zhang Guilan took leave to accompany these relatives.

She was very worried during this period, mainly because there were so many relatives at home and she couldn't drive them away.

Now she only hated herself for being so nice to her sister.

As a result, my sister was such a big talker that she sent a telegram to invite my second uncle, third uncle, fourth uncle and the whole family to Beijing to eat and drink delicious food.

But the ones who suffered were Zhang Guilan's family, especially Zhang Guilan.

The key is to spend the money for the telegram or steal her money.

Zhang Guilan never expected that her sister would become like this. It is true that one should look at someone with new eyes after three days of absence.

Zhang Guiju made Zhang Guilan truly realize that the changes in human nature are so complex and unpredictable.

This is not my sister at all, she is simply a troublemaker.

Sometimes I really want to pull my sister aside and ask her what she is thinking.

In fact, Zhang Guiju's thoughts are very simple: jealousy.

Complete jealousy eventually developed into envy and hatred.

When the two sisters got married, their weddings were as shabby as could be.

Now, only more than twenty years have passed. My sister has become an official and has two outstanding sons. They eat and drink well and have never worried about food.

But she herself married a rural husband who had no ability at all, and a famine almost starved their family to death.

Especially in such a time of extreme hardship, seeing such a glamorous and beautiful sister, especially her happy family.

There was still so much food, and the unbalanced scale in her heart began to tilt at the first moment, and her jealousy completely erupted.

It has evolved from envy to envy, jealousy and hatred.

Now she has called all the families of her second uncle, third uncle and fourth uncle to Beijing just to disgust Zhang Guilan.

"What do you mean?" He Daqing looked at his wife with a puzzled look on his face.

Zhang Guilan's eyes flashed with determination, and she lowered her voice and said, "Drive them all away. We can't let them starve us all, so I plan to starve for a few days and drive them away. How do you think?"

He Daqing hesitated for a moment, then touched his round belly, thinking that he had become fat and strong in the past two years as the director, and maybe he should lose some weight. He nodded in agreement: "Okay, let's do it, it's just the right time to lose weight."

Zhang Guilan nodded with satisfaction, and then reminded: "By the way, remember to inform your son and daughter-in-law tomorrow and tell them to start preparing to go hungry."

He Daqing frowned and asked worriedly, "Isn't this too harsh? Can they hold on?"