After hurrying all the way, it was still completely dark when Sha Zhu returned to the courtyard. Yan Bugui was standing at the door of his house watering the flowers. When he saw Sha Zhu carrying the lunch box, he hurried over to greet him.

"Hey, silly Zhu, you're back so late. Let me guess, you worked overtime tonight. You can have meat, right?"

Whenever Sha Zhu worked overtime to cook, he would secretly pack some of the food into his lunch box and take it home. The food in the small canteen was different from the food in the big pot, so of course there would be both meat and vegetables included.

As for why Yan Bugui knew so much about it, it was all because of Sha Zhu, who once talked too much after drinking a few mouthfuls of horse urine while having a meal with Yan Bugui, and accidentally let the secret slip, which Yan Bugui has kept in mind ever since.

After all, the food in the lunch box was not obtained in an honest way. Sha Zhu felt guilty and quickly gestured to Yan Bugui: "Shh! My Third Uncle, please keep your voice down. I beg you."

No matter how difficult the times are, chefs will never go hungry. But if you lose your identity as a chef in a steel mill, it will be difficult to find such a job again. Sha Zhu is clear about this.

If someone with bad intentions heard what the Third Uncle said, he would become jealous and who knows what bad things might happen.

"Uncle, have you eaten? I have some braised pork in my lunch box. How about I serve it to you?" Sha Zhu looked at Yan Bugui with a smile. It was his bad luck to be caught by him tonight. He just thought he was unlucky.

Yan Bugui laughed when he heard this: "That's great, Third Uncle, I won't be polite. Do you want me to bring out the bowl or do you want to come to my house?"

Shazhu is not stupid. Although it is dark, there are still people walking around in the yard at any time. Of course, it is safer to go into the house.

When they got into the house, Yan Bugui took a bowl and put it on the table, smiling and motioning to Sha Zhu to pour the food into the bowl. After Sha Zhu poured half of the braised pork into the bowl, he covered the lunch box and hurried home.

After putting the things away, he didn't even have time to eat. He stood in the yard looking towards the Jia family, wondering in his heart: I don't know if Teacher Ran has finished the home visit and left.

On the other side, at the Jia family, Teacher Ran was sitting at the table and talking to Qin Huairu about Banggeng's performance in school. Jia Huairu kept nodding in agreement, while Banggeng sat aside with his head down and said nothing.

It was said to be a home visit, but in fact he came to complain. Recently, this guy was either talking to others or throwing paper balls at others in class. When the teacher criticized him, he just lay down and fell asleep.

After explaining the situation clearly, Teacher Ran stood up and said, "Mother Jia Geng, I hope you can pay attention to the problem I told you tonight. It's getting late and I should go back."

After looking at Bang Geng, he smiled and said, "Jia Geng, you are a good boy if you correct your mistakes. The teacher is going back. Goodbye!"

Bang Geng waved his hand with a fake smile. Qin Huairu stood beside him and smiled awkwardly: "Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Ran. I will definitely criticize Bang Geng seriously and let him correct his mistakes as soon as possible. Don't worry."

As he spoke, he opened the door and sent Teacher Ran out: "Teacher Ran, please slow down and be careful with your steps. I really trouble you tonight."

The two men walked into the yard while exchanging some polite words.

When Sha Zhu heard the voices, he was overjoyed. It seemed that Teacher Ran had not returned home yet. This was a good opportunity to see if it was as good as Bang Geng said. Fearing of being discovered, he hurried back home and stood behind the window to watch secretly.

Teacher Ran and Qin Huairu walked into the yard together. Although the light was not very bright, it was clear from the back that she was a slim woman. When she turned around to talk to Qin Huairu, Sha Zhu took the opportunity to see her face clearly.

I saw Teacher Ran with two thick black braids, a fair oval face with curved eyebrows and eyes when she smiled, and a cherry mouth under her small nose. She was smiling and talking to Qin Huairu. Shazhu was stunned.

As the saying goes, comparison is the thief of envy. After making this comparison, he suddenly felt that Qin Huairu, who was standing next to Teacher Ran, was fatter than Teacher Ran and not as pretty as her.

Not until Teacher Ran walked away did Sha Zhu bear to look away. From that moment on, he felt like he had a little deer in his arms, jumping around in his heart and feeling restless.

At this moment, he thought of Lin Donglai's words asking him to ask the third uncle to introduce a girl to him. Looking at the food he had not had time to eat, he came up with an idea, picked up the lunch box and walked towards the front yard.

Yan Bugui got half of Shazhu's lunch box of braised pork, and was bragging to his wife: "Look at this braised pork, it looks bright red and looks like amber, and it smells fragrant, it's really mouth-watering."

"Yang Ruihua, you can cut the meat into small pieces and add some salt to marinate it. This is half a bowl of meat, and our family needs to eat it slowly."

The third aunt was also happy and replied with a smile: "Okay, okay, I'll listen to you."

Just as the old couple were talking over braised pork, there was a knock on the door: "Uncle, it's me, open the door quickly, I have something to tell you."

"That's Shazhu's voice." Auntie Three heard the voice and quickly turned to her husband and asked, "Did he regret it and want to take the braised pork home?"

"That's impossible. Once the meat is in our mouths, he can't take it back." Yan Bugui was also a little worried, but he still comforted his wife: "Open the door first and let him in."

As soon as the door opened, Sha Zhu nodded and smiled enthusiastically at the third aunt. After walking into the house, he saw Yan Bugui sitting at the table looking at him, and his smile became even more worthless.

"Hey, Uncle Third, I've thought about it and I think I'll give you all the braised pork tonight. Yu Shui has gone to play with her classmates, and I'll just have some vegetarian dishes and steamed buns. I don't want to eat meat."

Sha Zhu looked at the braised pork in the bowl, swallowed his saliva and said to Yan Bugui.

If it were someone else, they would probably believe it, but Yan Bugui is the third uncle in the hospital after all. He is good at calculating and is naturally very sensitive about things that cost money, such as food, clothing, etc.

He saw through Sha Zhu's hypocrisy at a glance, but he could not refuse the half portion of braised pork in the lunch box.

After adjusting his glasses, Yan Bugui went to get another bowl and put it on the table, then looked at Sha Zhu with a smile and said, "That's great, Third Uncle, I'm more than happy to have you. Just pour the meat into this bowl."

Just saying that, Sha Zhu actually poured all the remaining braised pork into the bowl, and the three aunts were stunned.

Without saying anything, Yan Bugui took the two bowls of meat and stuffed them into the hands of the third aunt, saying, "My dear, take it and deal with it first." Then he turned around and said with a smile, "Shazhu, tell me, do you want to ask the third uncle to do something for you?"

"Hehe... Third Master is worthy of being Third Master, he is really smart. To be honest, I do have something to ask of you."

Sha Zhu spoke out his thoughts in one breath: he thought Teacher Ran was good, and wanted to ask the third uncle to help him get to know her, and if it was a good match, they could get together. Of course, he would not let him help for nothing, so he would go buy two pounds of meat and six white flour buns for the third uncle tomorrow as a fee for his errands.

This was a huge temptation for Yan Bugui and there was certainly no reason to refuse. He immediately agreed without waiting for Sha Zhu to say another word.

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