Siheyuan: Why are you all here to see me?

Chapter 16: Building a Greenhouse in the Small Courtyard

After dinner, Li Gang and his two companions left the eldest sister's house. The eldest sister reluctantly saw them off again and again. After Li Gang left, the eldest sister went to the main house.

Old man Zhao drank a little too much, but he was still sober.

Old Man Zhao said, "Old Wife, you don't need to take the things your little brother brought you into this room. We all have gifts. You can keep them to replenish your body. You can cook for yourself these few days."

The younger sister Zhao Dahua was unwilling to do so. "We haven't divided the family yet. We can't eat all the good things by ourselves."

When Old Man Zhao heard this, he immediately got angry. "What are you talking about, you stupid girl? That's for your sister-in-law's health. If people know that our family eats our daughter-in-law's health supplement, how can our Zhao family save face? I haven't said anything to you, you stupid girl. The first time a guest comes, you let him introduce you to someone in the city. You really made our Zhao family lose face. You are not allowed to eat tonight. Remember this lesson."

That's right. When they were drinking, they talked about Yu Li's work. Zhao Dahua envied Yu Li and asked the Li family to find her a date in the city. This made old man Zhao very angry. This girl was so tactless that she always wanted to go to the city and spoke without considering the occasion.

Zhao Dahua didn't dare to say anything. If she dared to refute him, the old man would really beat her.

Old man Zhao took a puff of Pegasus and couldn't help saying, "This cigarette is really good to smoke."

Zhao Dahe looked at the Pegasus cigarettes on the kang and said, "Dad, give me a box too."

Old Man Zhao: "I'll give you a shit. Go to the city with your eldest brother tomorrow and work honestly. If anything goes wrong, I'll beat you up." Zhao Dahe shuddered and didn't dare to ask for cigarettes anymore. Old Man Zhao: "Boss, your brother-in-law is not a simple guy. He's from the old family. I don't mean anything else. I just want to say that you have a powerful brother. Go back tomorrow and plant the land for Xiao Si. We are all family. Don't be careless."

Zhao Dahai: "Don't worry" Zhao Dahua still wants to talk

Old man Zhao: "You better stay at home and stay safe. If you dare to sneak out, I will break your legs."

Eldest sister Li Xiang: "Dad, let Dahua go with me tomorrow. She can help me take care of the kids. I also want to help Xiaosi cook."

Zhao Dahua cast a grateful look at her sister-in-law

Old Man Zhao: "Hmph, I know what you're thinking. Go tomorrow. If I find out that you dare to do something shameful, I'll break your legs."

Zhao Dahua didn't hear about the broken leg, she just heard that she could go into the city tomorrow.

Yes, Li Gang wanted his brother-in-law to help him plant winter wheat on the few acres of vacant land at home, so this conversation happened.

The next day, Li Gang went to the station to pick up his eldest sister. At ten o'clock, his eldest sister's family also had her brother-in-law, but why was there this sister-in-law? Why did this sister-in-law come? Yesterday, when this sister-in-law mentioned that she wanted to find a partner in the city, Li Gang was very disgusted. She had no looks and bad skin. Only her face was clean, and her neck was black. She looked like a sloppy person. When she washed her face, she only cared about her face and didn't even wash her neck. She still wanted to find a partner in the city, and she didn't even look in the mirror. But since she was here, she couldn't dare to leave. This tricycle couldn't fit everyone, so she had to call another tricycle and went back to the courtyard together.

When we arrived at the courtyard, we briefly introduced ourselves to our neighbor and then went to the small courtyard.

Jia Zhang: "See? The one who will eat up the whole family is here. It's his eldest sister and her husband's family who are here to eat up the whole family."

Qin Huairu: "Mom, no way, maybe he's just visiting?"

Jia Zhang said confidently, "If you don't believe me, just watch!"

The courtyard arranged accommodation for the few people and took some food. The eldest sister and the eldest sister-in-law went to cook. Li Fang sometimes came back at noon and sometimes didn't. Anyway, she had a bicycle.

The lunch was very sumptuous, and there was also the Arctic Ocean. Zhao Dahua looked at such a sumptuous lunch and thought that this was how people in the city lived. She became more determined to marry into the city, and was even more eager than Qin Huairu at the beginning.

In the afternoon, Zhao Dahai and his brother started leveling the ground. Zhao Dahai felt strange seeing his younger brother working particularly hard today, and couldn't help asking, "Dahe, you usually don't work so hard, what's wrong with you today?"

Zhao Dahe wiped his cigarette and pointed at the Zhonghua cigarettes and tea at the end of the field.

Zhao Dahe: "Brother, look at who you work for, and you will get this kind of treatment, smoking Zhonghua cigarettes, drinking good tea, this is also very energetic to work, right?"

Zhao Dahai also thought it made sense. "That's right. Look at what we had for lunch. That's Quanjude's roast duck. I heard that the duck alone costs eight yuan. And there's also Maotai. We can't drink at noon tomorrow, otherwise we'll feel sleepy while working."

Zhao Dahe nodded, and the girls went shopping. Li Fang put her nephew on the back seat of her bicycle, and the nephew was very happy. Zhao Dahua looked at Li Fang's beautiful bicycle with stars in her eyes and was very envious. She was also very jealous of Li Fang's clothes, small leather shoes, and her sister-in-law. She also wore a Lenin suit, small leather shoes, and a watch on her wrist. Li Gang saw that his sister-in-law should need a watch because she worked in the trade union, so he got her a watch ticket.

Zhao Dahua: "These are the people in the city. They are so happy."

When shopping, Zhao Dahua started to feel jealous again. Yu Li was better, after all, she was the one in charge of the money in her family, and she could understand that she had a lot of money in her pocket. But when she saw Li Fang buying a hairpin for one dollar, she didn't even hesitate. Looking at Li Fang's money, there were three or four big black tens alone, not to mention a few five, two, and one dollar notes. This really made Zhao Dahua jealous.

The girl came back to cook at about four o'clock. Li Fang was also generous and bought two hair ties for Zhao Dahua, spending thirty cents. Don't look down on these two hair ties, rural girls usually just have two braids.

Yu Li and Li Xiang were even more considerate and actually bought Zhao Dahua a vest for girls, which made Zhao Dahua very happy.

When they got home, everyone went to cook, but Zhao Dahua couldn't wait to go into the house to change into her vest and tie her hairband. She touched the two small buns that were no longer dangling, and felt very satisfied. She thought of Yu Li's big buns and wondered how hers looked. And when she went out just now, the woman washing clothes in the middle courtyard had an even bigger bun. She felt a little disappointed when she looked at herself, but then she thought of the delicious food in the evening and became happy again.

This is the difference. Everyone else helps with the cooking, but you think you are the master. You have no sense at all. Where is our Li Gang?

After lunch, Li Gang went to the logistics department of the steel mill to look for Li Huaide.

Li Huaide: "You are a rare guest, what's the matter?"

Li Gang: "Director Li, I need your help. I need a few steel pipes, semi-circular ones, some thin iron wires, and some plastic film."

Li Huaide "What do you want that thing for? The steel pipe is easy to get. I'll write you a note and you can exchange it for pork. But I don't have any plastic film."

Li Gang: "Director Li, please think of a solution for me. When winter comes, I will take care of your vegetables."

Li Huaide asked in confusion, "What green vegetables? Where can we get green vegetables in winter?"

Li Gang: "Don't worry about it, just get it for me. I guarantee you'll have vegetables to eat in the winter, including cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, celery, and leeks."

Li Huaide: "How much do you want? I'll find a way."

Li Gang: "I don't know how wide it is, but it should be 40 meters long and 12 meters wide." Li Huaide: "So many, okay, this is you, Li Si, I won't waste my interpersonal relationships if I change someone else, wait for me to make a call."

After a while, Li Huaide hung up the phone. "It's 15 meters wide and 40 meters long. Someone will deliver it tomorrow. I promised to give them a pig."

Li Gang: "It's so expensive, I don't want it"

Li Huaide knew that his little trick was discovered by Li Gang. "Okay, I knew I couldn't hide it from you. You are so young, how can you be so cunning? Half a pig, you got it, tell me, they sent someone to get it, really, it's a waste of favors, there is no benefit at all."

Li Gang knew that Li Huaide was not really angry. Li Gang said, "One end is enough, but if you give me a rope as thick as a thumb, I will also give you a sheep. I won't pay for your steel pipes. The steel pipes must be semicircular in diameter and two meters high. Forty pieces should be no problem, right?"

Li Huaide: "You don't want to suffer any loss. I haven't asked you for the gas for your tricycle yet. Okay, I'll inform your sister-in-law when it's done."

Back at the courtyard, the eldest sister and Yu Li were cooking. Li Gang went to see them. The eldest sister was reluctant to add oil.

Yu Li "Sister, I was reluctant to add oil at first, but Xiao Si said that we don't lack oil at home. Xiao Si said that the dishes cooked with less oil are not delicious and he doesn't like them." When the elder sister heard this, she said, "Let's add it. We can't treat our younger brother badly." Li Gang looked around and found that Zhao Dahua didn't find anything. He asked and knew that she was trying on clothes in the room. Li Gang pouted and said, "What's there to try on a small vest?" He went to see his elder brother-in-law working.

My brother-in-law is busy leveling the land.

Li Gang "Brother-in-law, come and rest for a while, have some tea and we'll have dinner soon,"

The two came over to drink tea. Zhao Dahai said, "Your land must be old. It's very hard. This afternoon, you have only leveled less than two acres of land. It will take at least three days to level it completely."

Li Gang: "Don't worry, it's only September, it's still early."

Zhao Dahai: "There is enough time"

At this time, the eldest sister came over and called for dinner, so the few of them went back to eat.

After three days, the ground was finally leveled, and the steel pipes and plastic film were also brought in. Yesterday, Li Huaide sent people to follow Li Gang to the mountain to take away a fat pig.

After the land was ready, Li Gang found a bricklayer and built two fire dragons in the field, one twelve meters long. The eldest sister's husband and his brother went back to Zhaojia Village. Li Gang asked the eldest sister's husband to go back and weave a few one-meter-wide straw mats and collect more firewood. Li Gang would buy them with money or exchange them with food. The eldest sister's husband was also wondering these days. Xiao Si had inserted steel pipes into the ground and built two fire dragons in the middle, and now he wanted straw mats. Although he was curious, he still took two bottles of Moutai and a bottle of Zhonghua given by Li Gang and went back. The eldest sister and Zhao Dahe and his sister did not go back. Zhao Dahe did not go back because there was still work to do. The greenhouse needed to be carefully leveled and no pebbles were allowed. But what are you doing here, Zhao Daha? You don't help with cooking all day, like a young lady. Li Gang wanted to lose his temper once. When eating, he even asked the eldest sister to add more rice for her. Li Gang could not tolerate this. In the end, the eldest sister winked at him frantically, and Li just did not lose his temper. If it happens again, Li Gang will definitely not indulge her.

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