Siheyuan: Big City, Small Love

A week later, Qin Huairu was finally discharged from the hospital. Sha Zhu wrapped Qin Huairu and her son tightly and pushed the cart back to the compound.

Qin Huairu also saw the baby rocking chair that He Lai gave her. It was very nice to put the baby in it, as it rocked back and forth.

All the kids gathered around Qin Huairu to look at the child.

"Alright, alright, go away, I'll give you some candy later, don't crowd around." Sha Zhu started to chase people away again. Qin's mother also cleaned up the house with a smile.

Soon the children all took their candies and left, leaving only He Lai and his mother still teasing the child.

"Brother Zhuzi, have you thought of a name? Do you want to call him Xiaoxiao Laizi?" He Lai deliberately said nonsense.

"Xiao Laizi, stop making trouble. Just pick one seriously. Your father's intention is to let you try to pick one first. If not, let me find a teacher to pick one for you. He asked a teacher to pick one for him back then." Sha Zhu answered while packing up.

"Xiao Lai, hurry up. Don't think that your mother doesn't know what you have been doing recently just because she can't read. Take it out now." Wu Juan ruthlessly exposed He Lai.

When He Lai heard what his mother said, he knew he was exposed. Seeing everyone's eyes, he could only take out a piece of paper from his pocket.

"Brother Zhuzi, both you and Yushui have the word 'Yu' in their names, so you belong to the 'Shui' generation. So the next generation should be the 'Huo' generation, so I specially found some names related to fire and listed them all here. You decide for yourself!"

Sha Zhu grabbed the paper and came to Qin Huairu. Several people sat together and began to discuss enthusiastically.

After careful consideration, they finally decided to use the word "Yan" as the standard and named the child He Yanyang, which means that he is as hot and energetic as the sun. At the same time, they also gave him a cute nickname, Xiaoyangzi.

"Xiao Yangzi, Xiao Yangzi, are you happy? This is a name your uncle picked specially for you." Qin Huairu held the child gently and said softly.

The child seemed to understand what his mother said and started giggling. His innocent laughter filled the whole room with a happy atmosphere.

……

After a few more days, Qin's mother had to leave. After all, she had been here for nearly a month and a half, and she had to be busy back home.

Sha Zhu helped send Qin's mother back and brought a lot of things.

Qin Huairu's eyes turned red when she saw her mother was about to leave, and she gave her another 200,000 yuan. After all, money is still the most popular thing for rural people nowadays, and it is more useful than bringing any things back!

Qin Huairu's maternity leave was soon over. Fortunately, there was a nursery in the textile factory so she could breastfeed at any time, otherwise she really didn't know what to do.

The school days always go by quickly. The adults go to work every day, and He Lai watches the rain every day. They go to school happily every day, and after school, they do homework and play in the yard.

Apart from occasionally going to Shichahai or the moat to fish for eels or fish on weekends, there is nothing else to do.

……

"The exams are finally over. Liu Shiya, it's time to say goodbye." He Lai finished his final exams and was finally going to junior high school.

"That's not necessarily true, brother. We might have been in the same class in junior high school!"

"Ah, then I'll skip a grade."

"you!"

"Uh, I just said it casually."

"You are the only one who can dance. I have also prepared for it. I want to dance too."

He Lai was also speechless. This girl really can't stand being teased!

Finally I graduated from elementary school.

……

The children were walking on their way home from school.

"It's summer vacation now, what do you want to do?" He Lai asked.

"I want to fish for eels every day!"

"Me too!"

"Didn't I tell you that you can't fish every day?" He Lai immediately gave each of them a slap on the face.

"It's too conspicuous, don't you know? Haven't you noticed that there are more people on the road? What if someone spots us?"

"understood."

Liu Guangtian and Xiao Huzi immediately became quails. There was nothing they could do as He Lai's status in their hearts was getting higher and higher.

Basically, they do whatever He Lai says.

Now the two of them have no worries about food and drink, and they have grown strong, especially Liu Guangtian, who has already shown a trend of developing into a man with bangs like Liu.

"Yushui and Chun'er, where are you two?"

"I want to play with my brother."

"Me too."

"I……"

He Lai was also helpless. The two little girls, aged seven or eight, just played around.

"Let's go catch cicadas these few days." He Lai came up with an idea after listening to the cicadas' chirping.

"How to catch him? Is it easy to catch him?" Liu Guangtian was particularly concerned about this kind of thing.

"You'll know when the time comes. Go home."

……

After everyone finished their meal, they gathered in the backyard to chat.

"Brother Zhuzi, Brother Damao, let's go catch cicadas tonight?" He Lai suggested.

"Okay. I have nothing to do at night." Sha Zhu responded immediately. It was a hot summer day and he couldn't sleep at night.

"How to catch it? Is it easy to catch it?" Xu Damao asked.

"Easy to catch! Rely on this. And everyone should bring a flashlight." He Lai pointed at the plastic bags and plastic bottles and said with a smile.

"Okay, Xiao Laizi's method will definitely work. Let's go back and get a flashlight." Sha Zhu said and went to get it.

"Then what time will you come back so I can open the door for you." Wu Juan was a little worried.

"It will probably take about two hours. He should be back around 9 o'clock," He Lai replied.

"Okay, mom knows."

Liu Haizhong and the others all looked at him and laughed. They also knew how to catch cicadas, but they only caught them during the day and had never heard of catching them at night.

But it's too hot in the summer, so we just let them do what they want.

The group came to the Shichahai Park behind in a mighty procession.

He Lai first led everyone to wrap the tree.

"Just tear up the plastic bag and tie it to the tree like this. Tie the plastic better and try to spread it flat on the tree surface. Do you see it clearly?" He Lai said as he did it.

In this way, we tied up more than 20 trees.

"It's getting dark. What should we do next?" Sha Zhu was a little anxious.

"Follow me." He Lai came to a small tree, tied the flashlight to the tree and turned it on.

Then put the crushed soil into plastic bottles.

It started to shake.

"Just shake it by the side like me." He Lai said, and everyone followed suit.

After a while, the cicada flew over. It really worked!

Sha Zhu took the lead and took action immediately.

"Not bad, not bad, this is a good method. Xiao Laizi is really capable. Hahaha."

Everyone started catching them. Even Yu Shui and Chun Er started catching them. The cicada flew up the tree branches as if it was desperate.

After a while, they had changed several flashlights and caught a lot of cicadas. He Lai thought he had to buy more batteries.

He Lai looked at his pocket watch and it was past 8 o'clock.

"Call it a day, call it a day, that's about it. We still have to go over there to check on the harvest!"

He Lai quickly suggested.

Everyone put away their bags, all of them were filled with harvests.

He Lai took everyone to see the tied trees, and sure enough, there were a lot of cicada monkeys.

"This is a cicada larva. Everyone, please deal with it after catching it. Otherwise, it may be gone tomorrow."

"Okay, got it."

Everyone expressed their opinions.

"Then take it back quickly."

He Lai also quickly told everyone to start picking up the trash.

Everyone was smiling as they felt the harvest was fruitful. He Lai also asked everyone to recycle the plastic bags so that they can be reused next time.

"Oh, work is so boring. I might as well follow Xiao Laizi." Sha Zhu sighed.

"Brother Zhuzi, don't be silly. Be careful or your sister-in-law might pull your ears." He Lai said.

"Brother Zhuzi, you have to help me make it when the time comes. I can't do it. Yu Shui and I only know how to eat, right, Yu Shui?" He Lai said with a smile.

"Hey, it's no big deal, leave it to me. If others want it, just give some oil. After all, this thing is a bit oil-consuming. But it smells really good when fried. I haven't tasted that flavor for a long time." Sha Zhu agreed without thinking, after all, he had to cook too.