Siheyuan: Get the system at the beginning

"Who is it? The door is not closed. Come in!"

When the deaf old lady heard that it was the girl next door who delivered the buns, she no longer cared about pretending to be deaf. She was immediately happy and quickly talked to the other person inside and asked her to come in.

Zhang Xiaoyan and Lou Xiaoe pushed the door open and walked in. Unexpectedly, the room was quite large. Zhang Xiaoyan put the plate of buns on the table, and then sat on the stool with Lou Xiaoe.

"Old lady, you haven't eaten yet, come and have a taste, this is fresh out of the pot and smells really good."

Zhang Xiaoyan spoke as she glanced around the room, and the entire layout of the room immediately came into view.

"Oh my! You are so thoughtful! I, an old woman, haven't eaten steamed buns for a long time. Ezi is here too. Have you eaten yet?"

"We've eaten. The old lady steamed the buns for you for a little longer. Let's eat first. Come over and eat quickly! I'll help you or it will be cold later."

Lou Xiao'e walked over to help the old lady lift the quilt, then helped her get off the kang and onto the stool.

Zhang Xiaoyan smacked her lips as she watched. Lou Xiao'e was really kind-hearted. Her parents and grandparents probably had never enjoyed such care, but this old lady enjoyed it first.

"Thank you so much for still thinking of an old woman like me. I am old and don't want to go out..."

Listening to the deaf old lady's long-winded polite words, Zhang Xiaoyan pursed her lips in her heart. She was too old to go out, so who was the one who went out in the middle of the night before? Could it be that she thought she was dazzled?

But she didn't say this. The three of them exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then Zhang Xiaoyan told her the purpose.

"Old lady, I heard from Sister Xiao'e that you were this. I have admired soldiers who fight in battles since I was a child, but I also know that victory in a war is inseparable from people like you who silently support us behind the scenes.

I just want to hear how you did it in the past. If it were me, I would be a little timid. I really admire your courage, and you should be respected by us."

Just as the two of them were looking at each other expectantly, wanting to know about the other's heroic deeds, they did not expect the old lady to put one hand directly on her ear and raised her voice and said loudly:

"What did you say? I can't hear you. I'm old and my ears don't work anymore. These buns must have been made by my wife! They're really delicious. They're so mushy. I haven't had a bun with so much meat filling in a long time."

Lou Xiao'e looked at the old lady in disbelief and then turned to look at Zhang Xiaoyan next to her. Zhang Xiaoyan's attention was not on Lou Xiao'e, but on the old lady opposite her carefully.

'Sure enough, all the previous rumors that were favorable to this old lady were probably all false. In the original plot, this old lady was portrayed as a heroic mother, but no one from the street office came to visit her during the holidays, and there were no photos or related items of any relatives in the room. You have to know that the elderly are still relatively superstitious at this time. No matter what, if there is a deceased person in the family, there will be at least one portrait on the wall. Of course, if the family is too poor, there will be no portrait on the wall.

Of course, I didn’t dare to hang it on the wall except during the movement period, but with this identity, how could I not hang it on the wall? I wouldn’t hide it at other times.’

Zhang Xiaoyan clearly saw that the deaf old lady's body stiffened and her eyes flickered unconsciously. It was obvious that something fishy was going on. Not to mention that she could hear just now and then became deaf immediately. Who would believe this?

"Then you should eat more buns, old lady! Sister Xiao'e and I will leave first."

After saying that, he stood up and pulled the still somewhat dazed Lou Xiao'e out of the door, leaving the deaf old lady behind who hadn't reacted yet.

But after they walked out, the deaf old lady looked at the buns on the table and began to ponder.

"That was so weird just now! Look, I'm telling you."

After the two returned to Zhang Xiaoyan's home, as soon as they closed the door, Lou Xiao'e said strangely,

"It's not obvious, she's just pretending! After all, the old lady is old, and her memory may be a little confused. It's also my fault for rushing over there rashly. I asked her so suddenly, and I guess she didn't understand. By the way, when will your Damao come back? He's been gone for several days!"

Zhang Xiaoyan didn't want to continue this topic either. After all, the person in front of her had the nickname "Silly Ezi", so she quickly changed the subject and put two sweet potatoes on the stove.

"You are going to prepare roasted sweet potatoes! You really have a good appetite after just having a meal. Don't mention Damao. I have been in the countryside for almost a week this time, but I am used to it. It is usually fine, but when it snows in winter, the time is extended. This year, it snowed early, and it started snowing in October. I stayed in the countryside for almost a month before coming back. His job is really worrying."

Some words were on the tip of Zhang Xiaoyan's tongue but she swallowed them back. There was nothing she could do. The couple had only been married for a short time and some words, even if they were said with good intentions, would make people feel disgusted. She should just wait until later!

Thinking this way, Zhang Xiaoyan still said something as if jokingly,

"You've been in the countryside for so long! I heard that projectionists are very popular in the countryside. Aren't you afraid that some girls will fall in love with your Damao?"

Facing Zhang Xiaoyan's teasing, Lou Xiao'e's smiling face suddenly fell, and the corners of her eyes turned red.

"What's wrong? I was just kidding, don't cry!"

Zhang Xiaoyan didn't expect that her words would be so hurtful, so she quickly apologized.

"Even you know about his philandering habits! That guy is not a good person. I didn't expect that even someone like you who just moved in not long ago knew about it. It's really embarrassing."

Lou Xiao'e said with a choked voice, her two fingers unconsciously tangled together.

"I'm just kidding. You guys just got married not long ago, it shouldn't be possible, right?"

Zhang Xiaoyan didn’t know what to say. Should she just lift the table over the other party?

"Wow, you don't know he is a bastard. If I hadn't found hair of different lengths inside his cotton-padded jacket when I was doing his clothes, I would have been kept in the dark. Tell me, why am I so miserable?

When he was young, his parents loved him with luxury, but when he grew up and encountered this world, he married someone he didn’t love, which was fine, it was marrying down, but he still wasn’t satisfied..."

It turns out that this kind of thing cannot be hidden, the person next to you knows it very well!

Zhang Xiaoyan looked at Lou Xiao'e, who suddenly broke down and cried loudly, and she didn't know what to say for a while.

"You don't know! Every time I go to my mother-in-law's house, her eyes are always on my belly. Every time I see that look, I want to flip the table. To put it bluntly, they were servants in my family before, and now they are not treating me well after marrying me. The sarcastic words they say are really unpleasant to hear."

Zhang Xiaoyan couldn't think of any words of persuasion, so Lou Xiao'e cried and expressed the grievances that had been buried in her heart for who knows how long.

There was no other way. There were not many people of the same age in the courtyard. In addition, Xu Damao did not have a good reputation in the courtyard, which also affected Lou Xiao'e's popularity in the courtyard. So she usually went to the old lady. She treated her as her own grandmother. Whenever she returned to her parents' home and brought something delicious, she would give it to the old lady.

As a result, I found out today that the old lady always pretended to be deaf and dumb. She was treating her like a fool! So Zhang Xiaoyan thought it was a joke, but it was the last straw for her heart.