Siheyuan: All the incense in the family is counting on you

When Li Bowen arrived at the backyard, the things in his car had long disappeared.

The smell of stewed fish wafted out from the big pot on the stove. The big basin next to He Yuzhu was full of beaten eggs. Even the three pounds of pork that he had put in the egg basket and forgot to take had been cut and placed aside.

Li Bowen really felt like crying but had no tears. It seemed that he was here to deliver something to the Jia family.

"Zhu Zi, I had two large baskets of eggs and more than 40 fish. Did you use them all?"

"All the fish has been stewed, and only one basket of eggs has been used! The rest are there!" He Yuzhu said, pointing to the large basket on the ground next to the chopping board.

Li Bowen sighed: "Oh, my eggs and my fish! How can I report this to the factory?"

"What are you afraid of? Didn't the uncle tell you that he would go and tell the factory? Why are you worrying about that?"

"Uncle, he is so kind-hearted, don't let him scheme against me again!" Li Bowen didn't think Yi Zhonghai would be so kind-hearted. They had just had a conflict a few days ago, so it's not impossible for him to trick you at this time.

"Sizzle!" A handful of chopped green onions were thrown into the pot, followed by the plate of meat, and they were quickly stir-fried. He Yuzhu replied while cooking: "I don't think so. After all, he is the eldest uncle in the courtyard. If he plays tricks at this time, how can he hold his head up in the courtyard in the future!"

Well, let's wait and see what happens next. There's no point saying anything now. The food has been served on the table and there's no way for you to take it back.

With these ingredients, the banquet is considered satisfactory, and the guests don't have to eat just a stew of radishes and cabbages.

As the saying goes, if you want to look pretty, you must wear mourning clothes! This is really reflected in Qin Huairu. Although she is pregnant for five or six months, when Jia Dongxu was buried, she was wearing mourning clothes and crying like a pear blossom in the rain, which was really heartbreaking!

He Yuzhu's eyes never left Qin Huairu, which made Li Bowen curl his lips. It must be an inherited problem, a lover of young widows.

Yi Zhonghai pulled Banggeng and made him kneel in front of Jia Dongxu's coffin. He then stuffed a basin into his hand and said, "Banggeng, throw it as hard as you can!"

He raised the stick high and threw the basin hard onto the brick in front of him. With a "pop" sound, the porcelain basin shattered into pieces.

"It's really fun. Can I break another one?" Banggeng didn't understand what this meant, but he thought it was very funny. He turned his head and grinned at Yi Zhonghai, saying this.

Yi Zhonghai almost stumbled and fell to the ground. How could this kid say such a thing? He was cursing that something bad would happen to his family!

"Pooh, pooh, pooh, what nonsense!" Yi Zhonghai grabbed the stem of the stick and pulled it aside.

Then someone shouted, "Get up!"

Several young men in the yard directly got on the poles and lifted Jia Dongxu's coffin. The hearse outside the door was already ready. They put the coffin on the hearse and drove straight to the crematorium in the west of the city.

Li Bowen was extremely reluctant to go, but there were only a few young people of the same generation in the courtyard. It was naturally impossible for someone of a higher generation to carry the coffin. The rest were either old or young, so they could only lend a hand.

It was also the first time for him to see the operating procedures of a crematorium. He originally thought that the coffin and the body would be pushed in directly. Unexpectedly, after the hearse arrived, a staff member came out, took Jia Dongxu out of the coffin, and pushed a flatbed cart. The mattress and burial objects in the coffin were placed on the cart, and then the person was put on the cart and covered with a white sheet.

The person was pushed away, and after the family members said goodbye, he was taken directly to the crematorium. When he came out, he was already in a small box.

Looking at the coffin in the yard outside, Li Bowen whispered to He Yuzhu standing next to him: "What should we do with the coffin outside? Will they take it back?"

"How is that possible? It's so annoying to have something like this parked in the yard. Let's see what they say to do with it later!"

Neither of them had expected that the Jia family actually had a piece of land at the cemetery. Although it was not big, it was enough to bury Jia Dongxu's coffin. The urn was placed in the coffin, and the hearse drove to the cemetery again. Several people acted as strong laborers and dug the hole with shovels.

When they came back, it was already dark.

Li Bowen was so tired that he didn't want to move at all. This kind of work of digging a big hole was more strenuous than the first night of marriage. When he got home, he didn't even have dinner, and went straight back to bed to lie down.

That’s the good thing about young people. They feel full of energy after a good night’s sleep.

Looking at the empty back bed of his tricycle, Li Bowen was in no hurry to go to the factory. He dawdled until early noon before pushing the tricycle out to the steel rolling mill.

Before he even touched the office door, it opened from the inside, and he ran into Lin Dong from the same group. Lin Dong was also shocked: "Fuck, I'm scared to death!" Seeing that it was Li Bowen, he stretched out his hand and pushed him out: "Come here, I have something to tell you!"

"What's wrong, Brother Lin?" Li Dong is about 30 years old, a little over meters tall, with a slight beer belly. He is the person Li Bowen can talk to best in the purchasing department.

"The section chief has been looking for you for a long time. Did you use the things you purchased to hold the funeral of Jia Dongxu from your hospital?" Pulling Li Bowen to a corner, Lin Dong asked in a low voice.

"Well, yes. We didn't have time to buy them yesterday, so Yi Zhonghai from Workshop 1 said to use them first. He came to the factory later to ask why our section chief was unhappy?" Li Bowen asked in the same low voice.

"How can you be happy? You weren't there when Jia Dongxu got into trouble, so you don't know what his mother did in the factory. She sat on the floor outside the factory director's office and started howling, causing everyone in the office building to come and watch. Factory director Yang and several other leaders had faces as dark as the bottom of a pot. This morning, our section chief was called over by the factory director and given a lecture. You're in for it this time!"

Oh shit, this Yi Zhonghai is really tricking me. Why didn’t he tell me before that Jia Zhang was causing a commotion in the office building? If he had known this would happen, he would never have let her use those things. Now, the section chief has been scolded, and he is definitely not going to get any good results.

"Thank you, Brother Lin!" Things have come to this point, so I can only go ahead with it.

"Okay, I have to get back to work. There should be more section chiefs around these two days, so you should take care of yourself too!" After saying that, Lin Dong left.

Li Bowen gritted his teeth and pushed open the office door. He decided not to wait for someone to call him and go there himself. Under the sympathetic gazes of the other people, Li Bowen knocked on the door of the section chief's office.

"Enter!"

Seeing Li Bowen push the door open, Section Chief Gao was furious. He was in a good mood in the morning, but he was called over and scolded for no reason. It was all because of this kid in front of him: "Hey, our great hero is back. How much did you purchase this time? Tell me quickly so that I can be happy and give you a reward!"