Siheyuan, Me and the Yu Sisters

After seeing He Yushui off, Zhang Renkang hummed a ballad, rode his bicycle to the department store and started buying like crazy, which attracted the manager of the department store to come out to check on him. After asking Zhang Renkang what he was going to do, he learned that he was buying daily necessities for his new home. He checked again and found that they were all beddings, pots and pans, and there were only one or two sets. Only then did he feel relieved to let Zhang Renkang continue buying. Department stores are strictly controlled these days. Once a salesperson feels that the purchase quantity is unreasonable, he has the right to call the security guards or even the police to investigate you to determine whether you are engaged in speculation.

Zhang Renkang hired one or two rickshaws to deliver the things into the courtyard. Everyone in the courtyard was resting this weekend, and Zhang Renkang and two rickshaw drivers were moving the things into the house, which caused a lot of discussion among the aunties and neighbors in the courtyard.

Yan Bugui stepped forward and said with a smile

"Renkang, you are moving into a new house, so you should set up a few tables to celebrate."

Zhang Renkang laughed and said

"Uncle, the higher-ups are asking us to keep everything simple. You're trying to make me make a mistake. How can renovating my house be considered a new home? It's not like I'm moving. If the things in my house weren't too old and unusable, I would have saved on these things."

Yan Bugui thought to himself that Zhang Renkang was really stingy. He was called Yan Laoxi, but I think Zhang Renkang was even more stingy than me. What's the point of being simple? These two trucks of stuff of yours must cost at least a hundred yuan each. Yan Bugui continued unwillingly.

"Renkang, let's set up a few tables in the yard. Isn't this also to celebrate for you? There are neighbors in the yard, so we can take care of each other in the future."

Zhang Renkang snorted and said

"No need for celebration, care? Care for what? Do you still want to rob my house?"

He ignored Yan Bugui and continued to walk into the courtyard. Yan Bugui was so angry that he stamped his feet and followed him into the middle courtyard unwillingly.

Central Courtyard

Second Aunt: "Zhang Renkang is different now that he has become a cadre. Look at how much he bought. This must be close to a hundred, right?"

Third Aunt: "Zhang Renkang really doesn't know how to live. It's okay for him to be alone now, but he will be miserable when he has a wife and children."

An old lady said: "There is no elder at home to take care of this child. He is used to living a lavish life, which is not a good thing. He should find a wife to take care of him."

Jia Zhang was even more straightforward. She stepped forward and stopped Zhang Renkang and said arrogantly:

"Zhang Renkang, you bought so many things, but you didn't even think of inviting the neighbors to dinner. You can't be so stingy as a leader, right? And our Jia family is in such a difficult situation, why don't you help them?"

Jia Zhang felt that since her family had introduced Qin Jingru to Zhang Renkang, and the two of them were getting along well, Zhang Renkang was not aware of this at all. She had been waiting for Zhang Renkang to come and beg them for help for the past two or three days since Qin Jingru returned, but he never showed up. Qin Huairu knew something about this, but she didn't dare to tell Jia Zhang. So Jia Zhang couldn't help herself and thought that Zhang Renkang was asking her family for help, so she planned to take advantage of him.

Zhang Renkang was holding a pile of dishes and looking at the fat and big-eared Jia Zhang in front of him. His forehead darkened. Did this black pig think that he had not been beaten for more than half a month and had not learned his lesson? Zhang Renkang said coldly

"Get out of the way, a good dog doesn't block the road"

Jia Zhang got angry when she heard this and shouted

"Zhang Renkang, how dare you talk to me, your elder?"

"Don't you want to get married?"

Zhang Renkang laughed and said indifferently

"Ms. Jia Zhang, how can you, an old pious woman, decide whether I marry a wife or not?"

"If you're in the way, don't blame me for kicking you away."

Just as Jia Zhang was about to explode, Qin Huairu quickly ran over and took Jia Zhang away, whispering

"Mom, what did I tell you? Why did you go and provoke him again? Do you have to make me suffer the same fate as that fool?"

Seeing Jia Zhang's expression change, Qin Huairu quickly continued

"Now is not the time to continue to quarrel with him. Wait until Jingru gets married, then we can think of a way to get him to help us. By then, we will be relatives. If he still doesn't give a penny, the saliva in the yard will drown him."

Jia Zhang suppressed her anger and looked at Zhang Renkang unhappily. She didn't dare to force him. Zhang Renkang, this bastard, really dared to hit people. Jia Zhang was arrogant and unreasonable, but she was not as stupid as Sha Zhu.

Zhang Renkang and the two rickshaw drivers finished moving in a short while. After giving them three cents, they started to pack up in the house. The quilts and mattresses needed to be aired out, and the pots, bowls, chopsticks, etc. needed to be soaked and washed. Zhang Renkang lit the stove, boiled a pot of water for himself, and started to pack up the supplies one by one.

At Sha Zhu's house in the Intermediate Court, when Zhang Renkang came back just now, Sha Zhu was confronting He Yushui. It was said that there was something wrong with the He family's genes. Sha Zhu and He Yushui didn't get along well, and they started arguing after just a few sentences. He Yushui asked Sha Zhu to give her seven yuan a month for her studies and food, and that all the houses would belong to Sha Zhu after she got married. Sha Zhu believed that all the houses belonged to him, and there was no reason to give them to a daughter as inheritance. He had raised He Yushui for seven or eight years, and provided her with food, drink and schooling, and He Yushui had no right to bargain with him.

The quarrel caused Yi Zhonghai to come in and take sides. Yi Zhonghai said

"Yushui, you have to be grateful. You know how hard your brother has worked these years, don't you? He went from an apprentice to a chef, and he suffered a lot in the beginning."

"You've been studying since you were young, and your expenses must be more than 30 yuan a year. Last year, you spent 60 or 70 yuan in high school. All this money was earned by your brother with great effort."

"Rainwater, how can you be so heartless?"

Yi Zhonghai is a shrewd man. With just a few words, he accused He Yushui of being heartless and ungrateful. He Yushui was speechless. At this time, Sha Zhu said angrily:

"I say, He Yushui, why didn't you do it a few years ago? Now I'm being bullied by that bad Xu Damao and I'm making 18.5 yuan a month. Do the math. You spend almost half of your money on schooling a month. Can I still get married?"

He Yushui also got excited now and said

"Where is the money you saved for marrying? Has it all gone to the Jia family? You hang out with Qin Huairu every day for unknown reasons, who would dare to marry you? If you want to marry a wife, you should first cut off contact with Qin Huairu, the vixen."

While they were talking, Qin Huairu came in. It turned out that she heard a quarrel in Sha Zhu's house and saw Yi Zhonghai had been in for a long time. She wanted to come to see what was going on. Although Sha Zhu didn't have much money now, she could still squeeze him. When Qin Huairu heard He Yushui say that Sha Zhu should break up with her, she became nervous and thought of

"This He Yushui is so cruel. If Sha Zhu really marries a wife, wouldn't this mean the end of his family's life?"

Qin Huairu was instantly possessed by a spirit of drama, and said aggrievedly

"Yushui, did I do something wrong and offend you? I apologize to you."

As he said this, he gave Sha Zhu a pitiful look. Sha Zhu, who was so soft-eyed, was so overwhelmed that he could not tolerate his goddess being wronged. He shouted angrily:

"He Yushui, what nonsense are you talking about? What did Sister Qin do to you?"

Then he turned around and said

"Sister Qin, don't bother with this girl. She is ignorant. I will deal with her later."

He Yushui was furious when she saw Sha Zhu's licking look. She didn't think anything of Qin Huairu before, and because she lacked maternal love since childhood, He Yushui once thought that Sister Qin was the best woman. It might be a woman's natural instinct. As He Yushui grew up, she felt more and more that Qin Huairu had bad intentions. How come her silly brother didn't get a penny back after lending so much money? And He Yushui understood Qin Huairu's green tea and white lotus look too well. This was a woman's natural instinct.

He Yushui has been increasingly disgusted with Qin Huairu since she was fifteen years old. It was also because she had repeatedly said that her brother was stupid that the relationship between the two siblings had become increasingly tense in the past two years.

He Yushui sneered and said

"Qin Huairu, you are really good at pretending. My silly brother has lent you at least three or four hundred yuan over the years, right? Not to mention the lunch boxes for several years. I would rather starve as your sister than let your family go hungry. Tell me, have you ever paid my brother back a penny? Are you planning to use him as your accomplice?"