Siheyuan: Banggeng and I are classmates

"Jingru, you should go inside and rest first. You must be tired after walking all the way into the city."

Qin Jingru was puzzled by the aunt's attitude towards He Zhangshi, but when she saw He Zhangshi asking, she quickly replied: "It's not tiring. How can riding in a car be as tiring as working in the fields? It's very comfortable!"

"Not tired is good, not tired is good!"

He Zhang casually agreed with the country bumpkin Qin Jingru, put the package on the table and took a sneak peek at it. Seeing that there were only some worthless mushrooms and peanuts inside, she couldn't help but curl her lips.

In his heart, he was even more certain that Qin Jingru was here to take advantage of him.

He Zhang poured Qin Jingru a cup of hot water and asked, "Jingru, you haven't wanted to come and see Huairu for so many years. It was Huairu who went back to see you. Why do you want to come and see her this time?"

Qin Jingru withdrew her gaze from all around, picked up the water cup and thought about her intention, lowered her head and stammered, "I just suddenly wanted to come and see my cousin, so I came!"

"Oh!"

Seeing her hesitating, He Zhang nodded and confirmed that she was here to extort money. Thinking that it was no longer her turn to be the head of the He family, He Zhang's expression improved a little.

Call out the little Dang Huaihua in the house and let Qin Jingru meet them one by one.

Qin Jingru pinched the two children and just praised them for being cute. He Zhang took the opportunity to slip into the inner room and continue making matchboxes.

Thinking that Qin Jingru came to ask for money, He Zhang naturally didn't want to build a relationship with her, lest she would be embarrassed to refuse when the time comes. What's more, He Daqing gave her a death mission, so she dared not do anything less than a matchbox.

Qin Jingru teased Xiao Dang Huaihua and glanced around the house from time to time. Seeing the sewing machine, clock, statue of Chairman Mao and other things, her eyes were full of curiosity. These things were rare in their village and only the team leader's family had one.

Standing up again and looking around the side room, Qin Jingru saw that it was filled with exquisite wooden beds and gorgeous cabinets. She couldn't help but feel envy in her eyes.

Nowadays, the countryside is full of earthen brick walls and earthen stoves. She has never seen so many cabinets and wooden beds, not to mention that the house still has white walls and green bricks. Even the roof is much more empty than the earthen houses in the countryside.

Looking around, she couldn't help but think that her cousin was living a paradise after marrying into the city. Even if her husband died, it was a good thing. She could work as a worker and get a city hukou. In her opinion, this was not a loss no matter how you looked at it.

Turning to Jia Zhang's inner room, Qin Jingru looked at the big bed on the left and the big kang on the right, and couldn't help but feel suspicious - isn't there just a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law in her cousin's family, and three children, so why do they need so many big beds?

Feeling confused, Qin Jingru was too embarrassed to ask the elder whom she had just met for the first time - He Zhang. So she turned her attention to Jia Zhang.

He Zhang was seen folding her hands and pasting the matchbox quickly.

"Auntie, why are you making this matchbox?"

He Zhang glanced at him and said unhappily, "Paste matchboxes to make money! Are we city folks starving?"

"Oh, it's about making money! Then I'll help you."

Qin Jingru nodded. She could tell that He Zhang was unhappy. She walked to the kang and sat down. She imitated Zhang and started to paste matchboxes. She finished one in no time and asked:

"Auntie, it's quite easy to paste matchboxes. How much can you make in a month?"

He Zhang saw Qin Jingru was reducing her workload, and said with a slightly better face: "It costs 1 cent to paste two matchboxes. I have to take care of the children, wash clothes and cook every day. I can paste about 600 matchboxes, and earn cents!"

He Zhang hated the job of pasting matchboxes. It was tedious and tiring. Her hands were covered with glue all day long, and she only earned 30 cents a day. In her opinion, He Daqing was just looking for trouble and torturing her on purpose.

Unexpectedly, Qin Jingru was surprised after hearing this and looked at the pile of matchboxes in front of her in disbelief.

"Oh my god! Our production team worked very hard last year, but at the end of the year we only got 1 cents in bonus points. I only earned 1 cents a day working in the fields."

"You sit in the house, take care of the kids, do the laundry, cook, and paste some matchboxes. You can earn 30 cents a day. Isn't it too easy to make money?"

Seeing Qin Jingru's inexperienced look, He Zhang's city dweller's sense of superiority surged in his heart.

It is true that his family is the poorest in the yard, but it depends on who you compare them with. If you compare them with the countryside, it is not wrong to say that his family is a rich landlord.

Thinking of this, He Zhang said proudly: "This is the difference between the city and your country. We eat the food supplied, and Huairu eats the food of the state..."

Qin Jingru couldn't help but open her mouth wide when she heard this. She knew that workers' wages were high these days. Her cousin Qin Huairu earned 27.5 yuan a month, which was equivalent to her work points for a year.

But I never thought that an old lady who takes care of children at home, who is so old that she can't even go to the fields in their rural area, can easily earn three days' worth of work in the city.

Qin Jingru felt as if she was suddenly awakened, and she felt that this time she had made the right choice to enter the city!

A day passed in the blink of an eye. Qin Jingru had been in the house making matchboxes for He Zhang. During this time, she went in and out of the courtyard many times. The neighbors in the courtyard all knew that Qin Huairu had a beautiful cousin named Qin Jingru.

When He Daqing and Sha Zhu returned to the courtyard, Qin Jingru was stunned. She didn't know that Qin Huairu had remarried. After finding out the relationship between the Jia family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and the He family's father and son, Qin Jingru was even more confused.

But Sha Zhu and his son were both very warm to her, so she didn't want to ask them about these things. She had to pretend that she didn't know the twists and turns and kept calling him brother-in-law and Duke.

At this time, Li Muhua returned to the compound after school. He was also surprised to hear Qin Jingru coming to the compound.

In the TV series, Qin Jingru did not come by herself. It was Sha Zhu who asked Qin Huairu to introduce her to him. Qin Huairu returned to the village on the first day of the Lunar New Year and brought Qin Jingru with her.

Now Sha Zhu and Qin Huairu are married and the New Year is over. Li Muhua thought Qin Jingru would never appear again, but she came to visit again.

"What is she doing here?"

Li Muhua was a little confused about her purpose, wondering if she was still having an affair with Xu Damao. But after thinking about it for a moment, Li Muhua had no intention of finding out more information or getting involved.

He felt indifference towards Qin Jingru in the TV series, but also a hint of disgust.

If she was willing to jump into the fire pit of No. 98 Compound, Li Muhua would not stop her. If she was smart enough to go back to the village, Li Muhua would not hate her so much that he would drag her into the fire pit.

"Let it be. It's enough to deal with the deaf old lady and the stupid Zhu Jia family. I won't get involved!"

At present, Li Haifu and Xu Yan are looking for a yard and preparing to buy a house and move. Thinking that they will not have much interaction with these people in the future, Li Muhua became much more indifferent.

Not long after Li Muhua returned to the house, Qin Huairu dragged her feet back to the courtyard.

She always felt a little listless lately, but couldn't tell whether it was due to lack of sleep or because she was too tired from work.

When she walked into the house and saw Qin Jingru, Qin Huairu's face flashed with unnaturalness, and then changed into surprise and asked: "Jingru, why are you here?"

Qin Jingru glanced at He Daqing and continued, "I came to see you. You haven't been home for a long time..."

The two of them had not seen each other for a long time and were chattering non-stop in the house. They both ignored their own thoughts and talked about trivial matters such as how the village was, where Qin Huairu asked Qin Jingru to go for fun these days, etc.

It was not until the evening when Qin Huairu and Qin Jingru lay down on the bed and turned off the lights that Qin Jingru asked in a low voice: "Sister, how could you and your mother-in-law marry them? If this gets back to the village, how will you live?"