Siheyuan: All the birds want to die, I enjoy happiness

"That's about right. Guess how much this much is?" Yan Buguilu looked at the third aunt in a way you would never guess.

The third aunt looked at the two bags of cabbage in front of her, which weighed about 40 to 50 kilograms, and tentatively guessed, "It should be 1.5 yuan?"

"No, guess again." Yan Bugui said with a smile and shook his head.

"Looking at your expression, I must have guessed it was too expensive, one dollar?"

"You're wrong. I won't beat around the bush with you. All this for only fifty cents." Yan Bugui said with a proud look on his face, as if to imply that except me, who else could buy it for such a small price?

"Hey, boss, that's really cheap. How did you buy it so cheaply? Oh, and how did you get these two big bags back? They are not light."

"Hey, let's take these two bags back and we'll talk about it first. Jiefang, Jiekuang, come out and help move things." Yan Bugui shouted twice into the house.

"Coming, coming." The two brothers ran out in a hurry.

"What's wrong, dad?"

"You two carry one bag in, and your mother and I will carry the remaining bag together." Yan Bugui said, pointing to the two bags of cabbage in front of him.

"What's this, Dad? Something delicious?" Yan Jiefang said as he reached out to see what was in the bag.

"No, it's two bags of cabbage? I thought it was something else." Seeing that it was two large bags of cabbage, Yan Jiefang was immediately deflated. He thought there was something delicious. It turned out that his father had prepared two large bags of cabbage. This New Year's Eve would probably be cabbage vermicelli dumplings again.

"What's wrong? The cabbage is not good. If you think the food in our house is not good, then don't eat at home tomorrow. Go out and earn money to eat." Yan Bugui said unhappily.

"Eat, isn't it okay for me to eat? Jie Kuang, come and help carry it in." Yan Jiefang only dared to complain a few words. Asking him to earn money to buy food? That would be troublesome.

"Okay." Yan Jiekuang said and came to help carry the cabbages.

"Old lady, come on, let's carry the remaining bag in." As he said that, Yan Bugui and the third aunt carried the cabbage into the house.

"Boss, you haven't told me how you bought it so cheaply."

"I'm telling you, it just happened today. I was passing by an alley after work and saw a bunch of people buying cabbages there, so I thought I'd ask the price. But when I went up, I saw there were not many good ones left, only five or six. The rest were only rotten on the outside, but good inside. I said there was nothing good left anyway, so why not sell it to me for fifty cents."

"Will he be willing to do that?" the third aunt asked curiously. After all, even if it was spoiled, not all of it was bad. At least half of the forty or fifty kilograms could still be eaten.

"Hey, he definitely didn't want to, so I said I would add another fifty cents to buy his two cloth bags, a total of one dollar, and then I talked to him for a long time before he agreed. By the way, I also asked him to deliver the things to the entrance of the courtyard."

"Sure, then how do you eat this cabbage?"

"How about this, pick out a few fresh ones and we'll cook them in the next two days, pick out the rest of the bad ones and make pickles, and put the ones that can still be kept for a while in the cellar and eat them slowly. With so many cabbages, we can eat them until the New Year. I'll buy a little more meat this year, and we'll have some meat this year."

"Really?"

"Dad, you can't lie to us."

"Yeah, it's true."

The three children hurried over when they heard Yan Bugui say that he would buy more meat for the New Year. After all, they knew their father very well. He was a stingy person, but how could he be so generous this year? They all wondered if their father had lost his mind.

"Go away, go away, you three, if you don't believe me, who else can you believe?" Yan Bugui asked the three aunts to continue cooking, and squatted on the ground to pick vegetables. Looking at the piles of rotten vegetables in front of him, he thought, if we raise two chickens, wouldn't it be enough to feed them? Raising two hens can also lay eggs, which can be eaten and sold for money. Thinking of this, Yan Bugui couldn't help but decide to find time to buy two chickens in the next two days.

Yi Zhonghai and Auntie were drinking some wine and eating some side dishes at the moment. "I guess He Daqing might come to see us in a couple of days. He will definitely entrust the child to us in advance. He won't leave without saying a word."

"But, I see that He Daqing is quite familiar with Chen Zi's mother's family. I'm worried that he won't entrust the child to his family when the time comes." Auntie also expressed her thoughts at this time.

"I thought about it at first, but have you ever thought that He Daqing will definitely leave the job to Sha Zhu, and I am the only one who can take care of Sha Zhu in the factory. As for Liu Lihua, at most I can take care of her in the yard and on the street. How can I be more suitable than her? Don't worry about this. Come, let's have a drink."

"Old Yi, drink less. Your waist isn't healed yet."

"Hey, I'm much better. I'm going to work tomorrow. I can't just sit at home and eat all my savings, right?"

"Can your waist really work?"

"What? I'll let you know in a moment if it works or not."

"We are an old married couple, and you are really something." The aunt said shyly.