Stay away from beasts in the world of Siheyuan

"Host, I'm fine."

The woman in the yard had already gone back to the house. When Xu Changping was about to be unable to bear the cold wind and strange looks from passers-by, he finally heard the voice of the system.

"You are so slow." Xu Changping knew that this little system didn't understand irony, so he said directly.

"Host, this is a complete luck system. My speed is considered fast."

The system retorted unconvinced.

Xu Changping was too lazy to argue with it and urged:

"Okay, go ask the main system for compensation. You just saw how hard this little girl's life was."

"Host, I'll go right away."

The system knew what Xu Changping was thinking, so it left a message and ran away.

Xu Changping no longer had to stay here, so he started walking around. He believed that people living nearby should know about the little girl's background.

Unfortunately, it was winter at that time, and Xu Changping walked around for a long time but didn't see any aunties or old ladies chatting outside.

Xu Changping, who was unwilling to give up, waved to the children playing on the roadside:

"Kid, do you want some candy?"

Xu Changping reached into his clothes pocket and took out a few fruit candies, spreading them in his palm and showing them to the children.

"Who are you? What do you want to do?"

A boy who looked older than the others asked boldly.

"Brother is not a bad person. Brother just wants to ask something. Whoever can answer the questions will get all the candies."

These days, few people would buy a lot of candy for their children. Just now, when these children saw the candy in Xu Changping's hand, their eyes widened. Now, when they heard Xu Changping say that, they asked some questions and immediately started scrambling for the candy.

"I know. My family lives here. I know everything."

"I just realized that I am the oldest and I know the most."

"No, my grandma told me a lot."

“…”

"Okay, I'll ask you guys later, and whoever says it best will get a piece of candy."

Xu Changping interrupted the children and proposed a new distribution plan.

He was tired of the noise made by the kids, and was afraid that their loud voices would attract adults, who would then treat him as a kidnapped child.

"Then ask."

The older child spoke up.

"I want to ask about the little girl in the yard of this house. If anyone knows, just tell me."

Xu Changping pointed to the little girl's home and said.

"Which little girl? There are several of them in the yard." A chubby little boy asked while sucking his fingers and looking at the candy in Xu Changping's hand.

"That's the little girl with whip marks all over her face."

As Xu Changping spoke, he handed a candy to the fat boy who had just spoken.

When the other children saw that Xu Changping really gave them candy, they immediately started talking about it one after another.

After listening for a while, Xu Changping roughly understood what was going on. He shared the candy in his hand with the children, dusted himself off and stood up.

It turns out that the little girl was called Huang Xiaoya, and she had always depended on her grandfather.

Last winter, her grandfather passed away unexpectedly. Just when the neighborhood office was worried about the little girl's upbringing, a family came from nowhere with a letter of introduction, claiming to be the old man's relatives, and moved into Huang Xiaoya's home openly.

The subdistrict office saw that someone had taken over this hot potato, and no one investigated the family's background, so Huang Xiaoya's hard days began.

Having said that, Xu Changping guessed that those people were most likely related to the people in the street office, otherwise they would not have come so blatantly.

"System, system."

After calling out several times in his heart without getting any response, Xu Changping estimated that this small system would not be able to come back for a while.

Now he didn’t know what kind of compensation he would give to the little girl, so he had to leave here first.

The system was not there, and he was not in the mood to go to the black market again. He found a deserted place, took out his bicycle, and rode to the library.

----

He Yuzhu's relearning of martial arts went smoothly. His master, for the sake of He Daqing, did not make things difficult for him and just told him to go there when he was resting.

Now that the matter was brought up, He Yuzhu had nothing to feel embarrassed about. He immediately performed the same set of punches again from the morning and asked his master to point out any shortcomings.

After leaving his master's house, He Yuzhu had many more bruises on his body besides his face, all of which were caused by beatings from his fellow disciples in the name of sparring.

Although his master didn't say anything when he returned, many of his fellow disciples were unhappy with him, so they took this opportunity to attack him.

On the way home, He Daqing looked at his grinning expression and said in a serious tone:

"If you give up halfway again this time, don't expect me to take care of you."

"No, I have to practice it well this time."

He Yuzhu had already thought it through when he was being beaten. This was not the era of later times where one could blackmail others after being beaten. He still had to be able to protect himself.

When they returned to the courtyard, as soon as He Yuzhu entered the door, Bai Yingying greeted him with a smile and helped him take off his hat and coat.

Seeing that the couple had such a good relationship, He Daqing didn't want to be a light bulb and turned back to his room.

"It's only been a short while since we last met, and you miss me already?"

He Yuzhu saw Bai Yingying busying around like a little bee, smiled and pinched her rosy face, teasing her.

"go."

Bai Yingying patted He Yuzhu's hand, rolled her eyes at him and hung up her coat.

He Yuzhu was not angry either. He sat on a chair in the main room, poured a glass of water, and said while watching her busying herself:

"Good wife, how come I found such a virtuous wife."

"Don't be silly, I have something serious to tell you."

"I have something important to do too, let me speak first." He Yuzhu transferred the piece of wood and animal skin placed in the system space into his pocket, took it out and threw it on the table.

"What is this?"

Bai Yingying looked at the things He Yuzhu threw on the table and forgot to say what she had just thought of.

Why does this thing look so familiar? What about the black little piece of wood that her grandfather left for him?

"The thing you put in the closet." He Yuzhu took the initiative to speak without waiting for Bai Yingying to speak.

"What?" Bai Yingying asked in surprise. She remembered that thing was a whole piece!

"I just threw it gently on the table, that's all." He Yuzhu shrugged and looked at Bai Yingying with an innocent face.

"Is this also from inside?" Bai Yingying grabbed the animal skin on the table and asked while opening it.

"Yeah, it fell out from inside." He Yuzhu did not hide it and stared at Bai Yingying to see her reaction.

"How is this possible? My grandpa never told me there was something inside!" Bai Yingying was very surprised when she looked at the map on the animal skin.