Xu Damao's Thirty-Six Stratagems in Siheyuan

Thanks to the modern-minded Xu Damao's reminder, Qin Huairu almost lost her mind again and fell into a family vortex.

In fact, Gao Yingpei himself has a good character. He doesn't smoke, drink, gamble, beat women, and does housework: a true five-good man.

But she couldn't stand up to her tough mother and two unreasonable children. Qin Huairu listened to the advice and asked around. The workers in the packaging workshop revealed the truth: Huairu, don't say you are beautiful, there are many women prettier than you. Do you think Director Gao, who has been without a wife since he was 37 years old, is a good man who is family-oriented and considerate of women, has to wait for more than three years for you to choose! I tell you, wake up, his sixteen-year-old daughter alone can make you mentally collapse. Director Gao is a daughter slave, and even his twenty-year-old son has to stand aside. Forget it, you should consider Zhang Jianhua. Regularization is also a condition. If you don't make any mistakes by April next year, you will be regularized naturally. The salary is 28 yuan, which is not enough for you and your mother to eat.

There was indeed a busybody, Aunt Zhai, the team leader of the packaging workshop, who knew that Qin Huairu was a temporary worker who came in through the accounting relationship of the supply and marketing cooperative. It was also because Qin Huairu was a good person that she reminded Qin Huairu.

She also did the work of Zhang Jianhua, an older youth. In the twelfth lunar month, Qin Huairu and Zhang Jianhua really became a couple. However, this offended Director Gao of the production workshop.

It is definitely impossible to get a regular job in advance. I have to wait another three months.

Zhang Jianhua, in fact, has not married yet because there are no elderly people in the family, the conditions are relatively poor, and he has to take care of the growth of his younger brothers and sisters. He is trying to please the old man. Now his younger brother is married and his younger sister is still not married, and she has no job, so he despises Qin Huairu for bringing a burden. He really can't afford to support her, his salary is only 34 yuan.

After Aunt Zhai's matchmaking, the marriage was finally about to happen. However, the target of the marriage changed from director to worker. They finally got the marriage certificate in the twelfth lunar month, but no wedding banquet was held.

Xu Damao only found out about it during the Spring Festival, but he didn't have time to congratulate or pay attention to it.

Xu Damao was still very busy during this Spring Festival. The gifts he gave during the Spring Festival had completely changed. He gave food, which was the most important material at the moment.

Especially on the fifth day, when he went to Hu Tianhua's house, he gave him ten kilograms of flour, which shocked Hu Tianhua's family beyond words.

It was Hu Wanxi's youth that interrupted the conversation, which allowed Hu Tianhua to react.

Hu Tianhua was very grateful to Xu Damao. Ten kilograms of refined white flour really solved the Hu family's Spring Festival difficulties. You know, on the first day of the New Year, the Hu family simply made a meal of cabbage dumplings with two kilograms of flour.

Just as Hu Wanxi commented on his father: My dad is a nerd, he doesn't know the importance of firewood, rice, oil and salt. Brother Xu, if you want to learn from my dad, I guess you will be in the same situation in the future. When you are starving, you look at your beloved antique porcelain. That thing can be eaten as food.

Xu Damao didn't comment. Hu Wanxi kept pulling Xu Damao and complained, "Brother Xu, you said you would take me to the movies, but it seems like you've been breaking your promise for a while, right?"

Helplessly, Xu Damao took Hu Wanxi to the Dongcheng District Cinema and watched the latest movie "Liu Sanjie" for free in the screening room.

"Brother Xu, can you teach me martial arts?"

"No." Xu Damao verbally rejected Hu Wanxi's request on the way back.

"For a beautiful and intelligent girl like you, learning martial arts is like burning the piano and cooking the crane. You should learn the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, which is more in line with your temperament."

"But I want to be a chivalrous man and travel around the world."

"Wan Xi, there is a world of difference between dreams and reality. Besides, your physique is not suitable for martial arts training. Only when everyone plays to their strengths can they achieve something. It's getting late, and I should go back. Brother Xu will take you to the movies again if there is a chance, but I guess you don't have time, as you should be going to college in September this year. My sister is one year older than you, but she is not as good at studying as you. She passed the technical secondary school entrance examination last year and will graduate in two years. Brother Xu hopes you will study hard."

When Hu Wanxi said goodbye to Xu Damao, she always felt a little regretful and nostalgic. She felt a little melancholy as she watched Xu Damao riding away on his bicycle.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Xu Damao, Lou Xiao'e, and their son returned to live in the No. 95 compound. Since Lou Xiao'e became pregnant, she has been staying in the Lou family's western-style building, and spent New Year's Eve in Yandaixie Street.

Considering that there are many children in Yard 95 and it is lively, I decided to move back.

Yu Li was very excited, finally someone was there to accompany her. Lou Xiao'e had been feeling depressed for months, and finally she found someone to chat with. These two women were bringing their two children, and it was very lively.

The two families had dinner together again, which caused another commotion in the Jia family in the east wing. This was because Xu Damao brought an old hen today, which He Yuzhu stewed, and the aroma made Bang Geng cry with greed.

Having lost his mother's love, Jia Geng hadn't eaten meat for a long time. He only had a few slices of fat meat at the New Year's Eve dinner, thanks to his uncle.

The fragrance of this native chicken combined with He Yuzhu's cooking skills spread throughout the whole courtyard, entertaining a large area.

The third uncle was eating his meal while enjoying the aroma; the second uncle was eating two fried eggs, which were tasteless; the first uncle and the first aunt were complaining at home about the bad guy who was a bad person and didn’t respect the elderly even though he had good people…

Banggeng rolled around at home again, and asked his grandmother to go to Shazhu's house to ask for meat for dinner, and no matter how she tried to persuade him, he would not listen. Jia Zhang shamelessly knocked on the door of the main room in the middle courtyard with a large basin.

"Shazhu, Shazhu, open the door, open the door."

He Yuzhu ignored it, but the knocking on the door continued.

Yu Li stood up and opened the door, blocking Jia Zhang at the door. "Aunt Zhang, what's wrong? You keep knocking on the door during the holidays."

"Silly Zhu, you didn't even bother to share some of your stewed chicken with my family. My grandson can't eat. If you compensate me with some chicken, I'll pretend nothing happened. Otherwise, ..."

"Aunt Zhang, what else can we do?"

"Otherwise I will report you to the street office for bourgeois corruption."

"Then go ahead and sue me. I'll wait." Yu Li looked at the small basin in Jia Zhang's hand and felt a little disgusted with this neighbor next door.

Jia Zhang shouted in the middle courtyard, causing another commotion. In an era without entertainment programs, watching foreign scenes was also a kind of enjoyment.

This forced Xu Damao and He Yuzhu to put down their drinks and go out to fight.

This was again the mediation by Yi Zhonghai.

"Silly Zhu, this year is not good. Your family stewed chicken today. Why don't you give some to Dongxu's mother? It's not good to see Dongxu's mother rolling on the ground during the holidays. You are a chef, and you don't need this food on weekdays. Please serve some to her."

He Yuzhu was about to take over when Xu Damao spoke first.

"Uncle, don't blame Brother Zhuzi. I bought the chicken, and I just let Zhuzi stew it. If everyone throws a tantrum and lies on the ground, I have to give them chicken. Do you think you will give me fifty or one hundred dollars if I lie down at your doorstep later? My wife and son are still young. Banggeng is already a big kid who goes to school. Do you think he wants a two or three-year-old kid to snatch meat from him? Besides, eating a chicken is considered bourgeois corruption, which is stipulated in the law. Why don't you persuade Dongxu's mother to get up and go back, stop causing trouble, and just ask others to give you things. Don't you know how difficult it is to buy a chicken now? Hey, you are also an eighth-level fitter, an uncle in the yard, why don't you think before you do things and speak. As Dongxu's godfather, you should persuade the person on the ground and your godson to work hard to earn good food."

"Xu Damao, nothing good has happened since you came back! You might as well not come back in the future."

"Eh? Uncle, this backyard is my home. What right do you have to stop me from going home? Just because of being unreasonable and begging everywhere, and not getting meat, Jia Zhang bit back. I think if this continues, our No. 95 Courtyard will become famous. Under your correct leadership, Yi Baji, No. 95 Red Star Courtyard will become a begging yard."

"you……"

"Master Yi, think about it carefully. I won't accompany you any more. Brother Zhuzi, close the door and go have a drink."