Siheyuan: Breaking up with Shazhu at the beginning

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For an ordinary family, more than one thousand yuan is already a considerable sum of money. Even if Qin Huairu does not eat or drink, it will take at least 50 months, or nearly four years, to save up this amount based on her salary.

This money includes the savings of Old Jia, the compensation for Jia Dongxu's accidental death, and the monthly pension given to Jia Zhang. The total amount is quite considerable.

Faced with the money in front of her, Qin Huairu's dislike for Jia Zhangshi became even deeper. This miser should be severely punished.

While she worked hard to support the family, Jia Zhang never gave her even a penny.

She often used the excuse that she had spent all her money and watched Qin Huairu suffer humiliation and being molested, but she was so stingy that she refused to help with even a penny.

Thinking back to the past, Qin Huairu's deep hatred for Jia Zhang almost burned into a raging fire, and she wished she could stab her to death with a knife.

After packing up her belongings, Qin Huairu chose to hide them in a secret corner, then opened the door and came out, facing the child and said,

"Each of you will receive 50 cents as New Year's gift.

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On the morning of New Year's Eve, when Yang Jun was having breakfast, he heard the second uncle outside calling on everyone to get ready.

The steps that were originally intended to go out immediately turned unhappy.

Liu Dahai is becoming more and more outrageous. He doesn't even let people have peace during the New Year and starts such a big scene early in the morning.

He has been holding meetings for days on end, sometimes even twice a day.

Although everyone is curious about these things and feels that it is lively during the leisure time of the Spring Festival, they are also starting to feel a little bored.

The neighbors in the yard quickly gathered together. There were no meeting tables and chairs prepared. The second uncle stood still, with his belly bulging, to maintain order, and then announced the final ruling of the street office on Yi Zhonghai and Jia Zhang.

He went to the street office early in the morning before dawn to inquire about the details. As Yi Zhonghai's sworn enemy, he could not miss any crucial information.

Their relationship is as complicated as the one between Sha Zhu and Xu Damao.

The two were aggressive by nature and refused to give in to each other throughout their lives.

Yang Jun stood behind the crowd of onlookers, also wanting to hear how the subdistrict office would handle the incident of Yi Zhonghai and Jia Zhang.

He understood that with Aunt Wang's presence, Yi Zhonghai would not get away with it as easily as last time.

Seeing his second uncle Liu Haizhong's excited face, he realized that Yi Zhonghai might be in trouble this time.

The second uncle raised his hand to signal people to wait, then calmed down and began to read out the street office's ruling on Yi Zhonghai and Jia Zhang.

"In view of the crimes Yi Zhonghai committed in the past and the crime of adultery this time, in accordance with the principle of combined punishment, it is hereby declared that:"

Having said this, he paused deliberately to appreciate the eager and curious eyes of everyone in the yard. This was undoubtedly his highlight moment.

"Yi Zhonghai's punishment is to go to Xishan Farm for twenty years of labor reform."

This verdict was like a thunderclap, exploding in the sky above the yard in an instant.

"Twenty years..."

There was a lot of noise in the crowd, and most people thought that the punishment for Yi Zhonghai was too harsh.

After all, twenty years in prison is the maximum sentence. For him, who is already fifty-eight years old, even if he can get out alive after twenty years, he will be an old man with a staggering gait and aged appearance.

Although Yi Zhonghai in the original drama could live to be eighty years old, in Yang Jun's opinion, such heavy physical labor would make it impossible for him to live that long on the farm.

Even if he didn't die on the farm from overwork, his health would be much worse after he was released from prison.

Next, the second uncle raised his hand to signal silence again, and then he announced:

"According to Jia Zhang's own statement, she did not volunteer, so the subdistrict office decided to reduce her punishment."

"The original place of residence will be retained for supervision for a period of six months."

The seemingly relatively light punishment is actually not light at all when you look into it.

What is "retained for supervision"? In fact, it means sending Jia Zhang back to her parents' home before she got married to live there for half a year, which is a humiliation to her.

If you are good to Jia Zhang, then your family will see Zhang Cuihua's true nature and bring disgrace to the family's reputation.

Those who were deported back to their hometowns were not only not protected by their maternal relatives, but were often treated as enemies.

They will make public accusations, and some will even be eager to cut off relations, even publishing in newspapers to sever ties.

Therefore, for Jia Zhang, being repatriated to her hometown was almost a torture.

And then, the second uncle announced that the two of them would have to be "paraded through the streets for three days."

After hearing this, Yang Jun thought there was no need to listen any further, so he drove out of the yard.

The second day of the first lunar month is his wedding day, so he has to get back the prepared ingredients first.

Wang Yuying has been reminding him these days, fearing that something unexpected might happen.

She asked him to contact his former comrades and classmates as soon as possible to retrieve the ingredients.

I urged him to go out as soon as I finished my meal.

Yang Jun decided to go find Yi Qiu Shui first to find out the truth. He couldn't go empty-handed during the New Year.

What's more, the two are about to get married, so some festival gifts should be given to each other.

When a new son-in-law visits his parents-in-law for the first time, the gift cannot be too shabby to avoid being laughed at, but it must also avoid possible dissatisfaction from the senior leader.

After some consideration, Yang Jun parked the car in an empty place on the roadside and took out a gift from the dimensional space: half a pig of tender and plump pork, two ten-jin carps, twenty jin of high-quality mutton, four bottles of Moutai liquor and four boxes of exquisite Zhonghua cigarettes.

Yang Jun also wanted to add some snacks like peanuts and sugar beans, but finally gave up.

These gifts are already very rich and seem quite heavy in this era; however, considering that the big leaders have great power and have seen a lot of the world, it is not surprising that these gifts are given out.

After packing his things, Yang Jun drove straight to the leader's residence.

Go home.

Yang Jun took out all the ingredients needed for the wedding banquet from his super power space.

He had calculated in his mind that he would have to prepare a banquet of at least 20 tables for his colleagues at the factory, his neighbors in the military compound, and his old subordinates.

Through the experience of Shazhu's wedding, he realized that the neighbors in the yard would probably account for most of the guests.

There are nearly twenty households and more than one hundred people in this compound. According to the custom of having ten people at each table, at least ten tables of dishes must be prepared.

Considering that it was the holiday, as a steel plant cadre and an elder in the courtyard, he could not be stingy and at least let everyone in the courtyard share a meal.

He didn't want to be like Sha Zhu, where only one person in his family could attend the banquet and the others could only watch.

He was reluctant to do so, and he was not stingy with the meal expenses.

In addition, he was not worried about being reported, as he had a network of connections in the office and the police station. He was also an active cadre and had so many senior colleagues to take care of him. If he was too cautious, he would be wasting his chance to live again.

Sometimes you don’t need to worry too much about the meaning of life.

If you care about gains and losses in everything, life will have no real meaning.

Back in the courtyard, Yang Jun carried half a pig into the backyard, then gathered the whole family together to help carry the food that was like luggage.

Afterwards, Yangmei and Yangliu began to count the remaining seasonings: peanut oil, rapeseed oil, five-spice dried tofu, bean paste, pepper, star anise, bay leaves, onions, ginger, garlic, bean sprouts, tofu skin, and soybeans...

As for common ingredients such as potatoes, radishes and bok choy, the family had sufficient supplies and Yang Jun did not take them out.

To the surprise of the whole family, it even included many vegetables that were out of season, such as leeks, garlic sprouts, cucumbers, winter melons, tomatoes, eggplants and green beans.

Wang Yuying couldn't help but praise Yang Jun's friend for being very capable and being able to get vegetables even out of season.

Hearing such praise, Yang Jun blushed with shame, but he was not in a position to say that these off-season fruits and vegetables were the result of his hard work of running to the market time and time again and paying high prices.

Whenever these seasonal vegetables appeared, there would be an immediate rush for them. Yang Jun would often buy them at prices several times higher than usual. Sometimes, even if he paid a higher price, he might not be able to buy them. He would have to work very hard to get a leaf or a small piece of eggplant vine.

Even such meager food can be turned into a full vegetable garden through his skillful hands.

"Brother, you prepare these ingredients, but it may be difficult for my sister-in-law to meet such standards, right?" After thinking about it, Yang Mei agreed. Even as a high-level leader, he might not be able to get off-season fruits and vegetables so easily.

But people's tastes are different nowadays. Compared with a life of abundance, they yearn for rich meat rather than green food.

"You're wrong to think so, my brother can do it.

"With the ability of a big leader, can't he even get something like this?" Yang Mei retorted, with a hint of doubt on her lips.

She felt that her elder brother was hiding something, and Yang Jun's recent progress and abilities had increasingly amazed her.

Within just one and a half months after retiring and returning home, he was promoted from team leader of a small department to deputy director, and then became a core figure in the factory, with a speed as rapid as if he had ridden a rocket.

Things that were difficult to solve in the factory were easy for him. The large supply of grain and pork, as well as the acquisition of ingredients that were not suitable for the season, in his eyes, nothing was impossible.

Especially after what happened in the steel mill and the hospital, Yang Mei became even more convinced that her eldest brother was almost omnipotent. At this moment, she began to yearn for power.

She witnessed with her own eyes that everyone in the yard was trying to please her eldest brother and fabricate a false story to frame the children's fight as a conflict between Bang Geng and adults, which even went beyond the act of tampering with the facts.

Even calling a deer a horse is not so exaggerated.

(The first day of the new year.

Getting up early, everyone in Yang Jun's family, adults and children alike, no longer indulge in a comfortable sleep.

As the saying goes, "A year's plan starts with spring, and a day's plan starts with the morning." For the first morning of the New Year, everyone is looking forward to welcoming the new year and putting on new clothes, which symbolizes an auspicious and beautiful wish.

As soon as he opened the door, Yang Jun saw Yang Mei and a group of younger brothers and sisters standing at the door.

"Happy New Year, Brother!" Everyone blessed in unison and bowed to him.

“Well… Happy New Year everyone.

" Yang Jun was suddenly surprised, but after regaining his composure, he responded to their greetings.

"Stop standing there, go brush your teeth, wash your face and get ready for dinner. We have work to do." Yang Jun wanted to go to the bathroom, but was stopped by the Yangmei sisters.

They all looked at Yang Jun with smiling eyes, as if they were waiting for something.

Yang Jun was stunned for a moment, then immediately understood what they were thinking. This was the New Year's money they had been looking forward to.

Shaking his head and chuckling, he took out a thirty-yuan bill from his wallet and handed it to each of the children as a symbol of his blessing.

When Yangmei and Yangliu received the New Year's money, they were a little surprised that it was only 30 yuan, but they understood that Brother Yang didn't care about this little pocket money, so they accepted it.

When giving New Year's money to his youngest brother Yang Yu, Yang Jun reminded him: "Remember to ask your mother to help you save this money.

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He has accumulated pocket money for his sister Yang Yu to 20 yuan per week. In order to maintain her status as the "big sister", Yang Jun dotes on her to the extreme.

If he hadn't been unable to bear seeing his sister Yang Yu being bullied by her classmates, he really would not have condoned her extravagant spending.

"I won't hand it over. This is my New Year's money."

Fearing that Yang Jun would change his mind, Yang Yu hurriedly stuffed the money into his pocket and ran away.

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The first day of the new year is the first day of the Spring Festival.

Every family was enjoying a dumpling feast, and the Yang family was no exception.

Early in the morning, mother Wang Yuying, sister Yangmei and younger sister Yang Liu worked together to prepare dumplings with three kinds of fillings: spicy and sour radish and beef, pork and green onion, and leek and egg.

Wang Yuying enjoyed the delicious leek and egg herself, but left the meat dumplings for the children.

Noticing her behavior, Yang Jun guessed that she was reluctant to leave him.

Recalling his childhood, his father always secretly left all these delicacies to his children, claiming that he didn't like them. At that time, he naively believed what they said.

As he grew up, Yang Jun understood the selfless love of his parents.

He also chose to eat the leek and egg dumplings, and also gave her some extra radish and beef.

Looking at her son's actions, Wang Yuying smiled slightly, her heart filled with pride - her son has really grown up.

"How much New Year's money did you give each of them this year?" Wang Yuying asked casually while enjoying the dumplings.

"...thirty.

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