As you wish, start from the Siheyuan

Kyoto courtyard house.

"Grandma, our team leader gave us some glutinous rice balls today! Can you cook some for us?"

Recently, the Young Pioneers have been collecting less and less things nearby, and the team leaders are planning to go farther tomorrow. Today, in order to motivate everyone, everyone was given a large portion of dumplings and asked to go home early today.

When Banggeng returned home in the afternoon and didn't see Qin Huairu and Shazhu, he thought of asking grandma to cook the dumplings so that he and his sisters could have a bite first.

"Ouch! Grandma's body aches! Wait a moment, Shazhu will be back from get off work soon. You don't need the chef, and you want us to do it ourselves?"

Jia Zhang was lying on the bed groaning, and after she finished speaking, she did not forget to take two painkillers.

"Oh, I always hear them bragging. The big brothers always say how delicious their cooking is. Let Sha Zhu teach me. Then I can take over Sha Zhu's job when this old thing can no longer be collected.

Oh no! No, I'm hungry. I'll cook the dumplings first. Brother Zhang Qiang said that it's OK to add water twice after boiling. I'll give it a try. "

Banggeng looked unconvinced and decided to cook it himself. After all, he was almost crying with greed.

"Eh? Mom, did you cook?"

As soon as Qin Huairu got home, she came to see Xiaodang and the others. When she heard the sound of food boiling in the kitchen, she went over to take a look.

There was no one in the kitchen, and the coal briquettes at the bottom of the pot were almost burned out but no one was paying attention. The steel pot lid was clanging and the soup in the pot was bubbling out.

"Mom? Are you making noodle soup? It's all gone."

Qin Huairu quickly opened the lid of the pot and stirred it with a spoon.

"What? I didn't make noodle soup! Are we going to cook the glutinous rice balls with stalks?"

Jia Zhang was too lazy to move today and just said something.

"Great! Xiaodang, go find your brother."

Qin Huairu looked at the pot of noodle soup and felt sad and helpless. Other people's children can cook, take care of children, and help with housework at home, but Banggeng may have been spoiled and is still so careless. How dangerous is this?

My mother-in-law is the same. The kids at home are almost setting the house on fire, but she is fine and acts as if nothing happened.

"Mom! You're back. Look at the dumplings I made. How about them? Haha..."

Bang Geng ran back and looked at Qin Huairu opposite him, with an expression that said, "Praise me, praise me quickly!"

"What? Are you cooking glutinous rice balls? Did you boil the noodles in water and forget to put in the glutinous rice balls? Huh? There are really five nuts. How did you cook the glutinous rice balls into soup?"

Qin Huairu scooped it up with a spoon, and seeing the five kernels, she believed it a little and asked curiously how Bang Geng did it.

"Ah? Mom, where are my glutinous rice balls? Did you steal them? Wow... Woohoo... You have to compensate me for the glutinous rice balls."

When Banggeng saw that there was only hot water left in the pot, he immediately refused to work and started throwing a tantrum.

"You silly boy, I just came back, how could I steal your food! I must..."

"Wuwu..., either you ate it secretly or grandma ate it secretly. She knew I brought back a lot of glutinous rice balls this afternoon. Wuwu..., I asked her to cook for me but she refused. She must have eaten it secretly. Wow..., Wuwu..., I won't live anymore. You all bully me, Grandpa, Wuwu..., Dad..., please take this old woman away quickly, Wuwu..."

Qin Huairu was interrupted before she could finish her words, and then she just stared at her son's performance in a daze.

Banggeng has really learned 99% of the crying, making a fuss and threatening to commit suicide skills, but there is one thing I didn't say because I'm afraid he will become too proud.

Banggeng sat on the ground and started rolling around again.

Now Jia Zhang was dumbfounded. She had been lying on the bed without moving. What was going on?

Jia Zhang also didn't believe that anyone could come to her room to steal food, and even if someone did, she would still rebel. Who would dare to offend her?

"Huh? Why is there only soup left? Banggeng obviously brought so much this afternoon! It's only been cooked for a short time, it can't be melted! Xiaodang, Huaihua, did you two steal some? You two losers, you ate more than anyone else, I won't beat you to death, I didn't even get to eat a single bite."

As Jia Zhang said this, she was about to catch the two little maids, Xiaodang and Huaihua.

Qin Huairu quickly stopped them and asked Xiaodang and Huaihua to run into the yard.

"Stop, you two losers, wait and see how I deal with you. You don't even know to let grandma eat first, you uneducated people."

Jia Zhang chased into the yard.

"What are you doing? Why are you hitting the child?"

Auntie has been particularly maternal lately and can't stand children being bullied. When she saw Xiaodang and Huaihua being chased and beaten by Jia Zhang, she was extremely angry.

"Do you have any right to interfere in our family affairs? Do you think you are the boss? Get out of here."

Jia Zhang was also getting angry. She was usually negligent in disciplining her child, and he had learned to eat alone. She thought she would beat you two to death. She was chasing them very hard, but unexpectedly a stink bug appeared and blocked her way, so she pushed the aunt hard.

"Ouch! You're hitting people, you shameless old thing. I told you to hit the child, and I told you to hit me."

Auntie was so angry that she, who was usually so good-tempered, finally couldn't bear it anymore. It was as if she saw her own son Aiguo being bullied. Auntie stood up and rushed to Jia Zhang.

“Pah…Pah…”

The old lady went up and slapped him twice.

"Ah..., I'll fight you..."

Jia Zhang has always been a person who cannot bear to suffer any loss, so how could she bear to be slapped twice?

The two men fought each other, and the whole central courtyard was in chaos.

"Stop it, this is disgraceful, Jia Zhang, this is really unreasonable, you are bullying my family, right? Qin Huairu, what's going on?"

Yi Zhonghai, who had just entered the central courtyard, saw the child's mother being bullied. He was so angry that he went up and pulled Jia Zhang away, threw her a few steps away like garbage, and then asked Qin Huairu what was going on.

Jia Zhang was thrown eighty cents away and was groaning in pain.

"Uncle, Bang Geng took some glutinous rice balls to cook today, but he didn't check the pot. In the end, only soup was left in the pot. So my mother-in-law suspected that the two girls had eaten them secretly and wanted to beat them, but Auntie stopped her. My mother-in-law seemed to have pushed Auntie, and the result was..."

What Qin Huairu said is quite pertinent.

"Ouch...! I won't live any longer. God damn it, these people are bullying me. Dongxu, his father, please take them all away... Ouch..."

Jia Zhang started cursing and swearing again and again.

"Shut up, what nonsense! Zhuzi, go ask who stole the food."

When the old man saw He Yuzhu had returned, he asked him to handle it.

“Who cooked this?”

He Yuzhu came out carrying the soup pot.

"Woo woo...well, silly Zhu, this is what I cooked, so what?"

The look of Banggeng asking for a beating is really speechless.

“How do you cook it?”

He Yuzhu asked about Banggeng again.

"How can you cook this? Just add water and boil it! Once it boils, it's done."

Bang Geng already has an air of confidence and the demeanor of a capable man who thinks he is the best in the world.

"Did you add cold water directly to cook it?"

He Yuzhu is a bit upset.

"What else? Do you fry it in oil?"

Bang Geng sneered.

"Pfft..., haha...! Okay, I get it. No one stole the noodles. The stalks are boiled in cold water, so they become noodle soup, right? Who doesn't boil the noodles in boiling water? I'm sorry, Auntie! Uncle, I'll cook something to make amends to you two later."

After He Yuzhu finished speaking, he kicked Bang Geng.

"I'll make you a little master, I'll make you ignorant, I'll make you eat alone...!"

He Yuzhu went up and beat him again.

"Ah..., wuwu... you are nothing, idiot, why did you hit me?"

The stick is unyielding.

"I'm your stepfather, so what? A stepfather isn't a father? You said I can control you, you said I'm not good to you or I've treated you unfairly, I've provided you with food and clothes, but I can't control you, so what...!"

He Yuzhu finally figured it out. Children cannot be spoiled alone, but also need to be managed. Just like cooking, one has to control the heat. One cannot just add sugar, but also salt, chili peppers, etc.

"Jia Zhang, you should also go back. Don't embarrass yourself here. If you continue to spread rumors about ghosts and gods, I will send you to be reformed immediately."

Uncle Yi Zhonghai also spoke. He looked at the old woman with anger in his eyes. You are bullying the child's mother. You are rebelling.

When Jia Zhang saw that no one supported her and was frightened by the eldest uncle Yi Zhonghai, she returned home in shame.

"Zhu Zi, Huai Ru, Bang Geng should be properly disciplined, otherwise you will regret it in the future. If jade is not polished, it will not become a useful thing!"

Yi Zhonghai helped the old lady back to the house, and the others also dispersed.

Qin Huairu looked at Bang Geng, then at He Yuzhu, gave He Yuzhu a helpless and firm look, and went back to the house alone.

He Yuzhu couldn't help but smile when he saw the changes in Qin Huairu.

But when he saw the joke again, he immediately lost his composure.

"Go over there and kneel down."

The only sounds left in the entire courtyard were Bang Geng's screams.