Siheyuan: First-class Merit at the Start

But in the blink of an eye it was New Year's Eve and the factories had already closed for the holiday.

Whether it is about promotion or setting up a new workshop, we can only wait until we resume work after the Chinese New Year.

However, when he thought about what he had to do after the New Year, Li Bolu felt a little desperate.

First, he was required to oversee the commissioning of the steelmaking furnace, and then he himself took out the four-unit machine.

After the fourth generation of computers, he also planned to organize people to reverse engineer the third generation of computers.

I guess it will take at least two years to finish the work.

But it was not just as he told Feiyang. His family members died for this land. As their son, nephew, grandson and brother, he must do something for this country.

Although influenced by the original owner's emotions and his already somewhat angry mentality in later life, these words also came from his heart.

But that's not all, there is another main reason, he learned from Zero that the system will constantly update system items according to the technological level of the world he is in.

In other words, if he wants to fly into the sky and stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun, he must continuously improve the technological level of this world.

Otherwise he can only rely on his left foot to step on his right foot to get to the sky.

Li Bolu, who has some free time these days, has been accompanying Chen Xi every day.

But it's strange to say, he obviously didn't take any protection at all.

But Chen Xi didn't react at all.

On the 29th day of the lunar year, Li Polu brought Chen Xi back to the courtyard again.

The courtyard was particularly deserted this year, the door of the second uncle's house was closed, and the whole family stayed in the correctional facility in an orderly manner.

The third uncle's family also has only one daughter-in-law, Yu Li, and her two little kids, Jie Kuang and Jie Di.

Because of her broken leg, Old Lady Long has been living in Yi Zhonghai's house, glaring at each other with Auntie.

Since Xu Damao divorced Lou Xiao'e, there was no one at home and the door was closed.

Widow Liu from Liujia Village went to his house twice to make trouble when she saw that Xu Damao had not come to marry her. However, when she heard that Xu Damao was in jail, she was scared away, fearing that she would be implicated.

As for Sha Shui, ever since her brother Sha Zhu slapped her and said something shocking last time, she has never spoken a word to Sha Zhu again.

Every time I return to the courtyard, the first thing I do is to greet Li Polu.

In addition, he and Chen Xi are of similar age. Over time, the two became good friends.

Sometimes, Chen Xi would sleep with Sha Shui, leaving Li Polu alone in the empty room.

This was the case today. When Shashui saw Li Polu bringing Chen Xi back to the courtyard, he immediately followed them.

He Yushui had dinner at Li Polu's house.

After dinner, the three of them sat together and chatted until late at night.

Seeing that it was almost time, He Yushui prepared to get up and say goodbye.

At this time, he was stopped by Chen Xi.

"Yushui, don't go back tonight. It's not safe to be alone at night. Sleep with your sister-in-law tonight."

Li Polu didn't believe a single punctuation mark in Chen Xi's lies. It was unsafe to go from the backyard to the middle yard.

The reason why Chen Xi could say such nonsense was naturally because he had his own plans.

Firstly, she wanted to take it easy. She had a cold and her throat was a little uncomfortable.

Secondly, after so long, she also noticed that Yu Shui seemed to have different ideas about his brother.

Chen Xi said that he could understand He Yushui's idea. After all, his brother was such an outstanding person, and it was normal for girls to like him.

For such a girl, she would naturally pull her into the united front.

Of course, this was directly and inevitably related to her inability to cope with the situation alone. She was afraid that if she didn't find some helpers, she would die young sooner or later.

So, she set her sights on Chen Xueru and He Yushui.

This can be considered as her helpless compromise. People are selfish, if she is not so young and inexperienced, who would be willing to share?

The tragic Li Polu could only go to another room alone with a pitiful and resentful look.

At night, when Li Polu was sleeping alone and tossing and turning.

Chen Xi and He Yushui were talking by candlelight at night.

"Rainwater, we are good friends, right?"

He Yushui responded with a smile: "Of course, brother Polu and sister-in-law are the best people to me now. With my brother..."

He Yushui paused for a moment, then continued, "Just as good as my brother was to me when he was a child."

Chen Xi also heard from Li Polu about how He Yushui persuaded Sha Zhu.

She could only sigh helplessly at He Yushui's weird brother who said, "You just didn't have food for a week, but Sister Qin hasn't eaten meat for three days. Do you know how difficult it is for her?"

"It's okay, Yu Shui, if you don't mind. From now on, just treat me and Po Lu as your family. As long as we have something to eat, you will never go hungry."

Chen Xi's words made He Yushui feel the warmth of family, but she couldn't help but recall that windy and snowy winter when she and He Yuzhu were sitting on the train from Baocheng back to Sijiucheng, and her brother said to her while holding her in his arms.

"Yushui, Dad has his own reasons for not wanting to see us. Don't worry, I will take good care of you. From now on, as long as I have something to eat, you will never go hungry."

In fact, his brother did exactly that. When he first started working, he would bring back delicious food every few days.

Later, after she went to school, I bought her a bicycle.

She was never treated harshly in terms of food, clothing and other expenses.

But when did his brother start to change?

It seems like it started with an uncle helping his brother from time to time?

It seemed to have started when she told her brother that the old man and the deaf old lady refused to give her food when he was not at home.

She still remembered that when she first told her brother, he got very angry at her.

She scolded her loudly for not being grateful. The uncle, aunt and deaf old lady were so kind to them. She shouldn't say bad things about them behind their backs.

He Yushui's memory gradually began to blur, and she felt that it all seemed to have started when the eldest uncle told her brother that the Jia family had a hard time living with two children, and asked her brother to help the Jia family more.

Yes, that’s when it started.

He Yushui's memory gradually became clearer.

It was from that time that the lunch boxes her brother brought back were often taken away by Jia's sister-in-law before he even entered the house.

It was also from that time that her brother began to lend money to the Jia family frequently.

Of course, this was not the most desperate thing, because although his brother began to help the Jia family from time to time, he still often considered her.

At that time, she felt that she watched her brother following other people's wives around every day, so she stayed at school most of the time and didn't want to come back. Out of sight, out of mind.

The moment when she felt truly desperate was actually when her brother slapped her last time. That sentence had been lingering in her mind for a long time.