Siheyuan: Fighting against Japanese Aggression in Beijing

"Xu Damao, stop talking nonsense. It's impossible. How can a young man like me marry a widow?" Sha Zhu said angrily.

"Shazhu, tell me, if your master hadn't helped you, would you have married Yu Li? Think it over carefully and say so!" Xu Damao said proudly, "Think about it again, did you follow the Widow Qin around in the beginning, especially when Jia Dongxu died, I saw you wanted to dive into the Widow Qin's ditch." Xu Damao said.

"Impossible, Xu Damao, stop talking nonsense. It's impossible, absolutely impossible." Sha Zhu objected.

"Zhu Zi, Damao is right. If he hadn't lent you a wife, you would have married Widow Qin. You have to be grateful to Xu Damao for the rest of your life, don't you understand?"

"Ah? Master, what do you mean? I still don't believe it."

"Okay, then let me tell you. Let me ask you, before you became my disciple, were you still thinking about Widow Qin? You can't lie to me. If you lie to me, I won't continue." Li Kangri said.

Hearing Li Kangri's words, Sha Zhu said truthfully, "Yes, I admit that I have thought about Widow Qin. I thought about her when she married me. But I only thought about her body and never thought about marrying her."

"See, Shazhu, you are just a despicable person," Xu Damao said proudly.

"Da Mao, don't interrupt," Li Kangri glared at Xu Damao, then said, "Zhu Zi, you are thinking about her body, and people know that you are thinking about her body, so you can't get her. But then again, can you not marry her if you don't want to? Think about it, when you are that old, have you married a wife? Does Yi Zhonghai agree to let you marry her? Does the Jia family agree to let you marry her?"

"This..." Sha Zhu thought for a while and said, "This is what happened. If it weren't for you, Master, I might not be able to find a wife."

"Shazhu, just admit it. If it weren't for your master, you would be Yi Zhonghai's eldest son and Widow Qin's workhorse now." Xu Damao interrupted.

"I admit that without Master, I would not have fallen out with Yi Zhonghai and would have provided for him in his old age. But Master, would I marry Widow Qin? Impossible!"

"Zhu Zi, think about it! If you can't get married, when you are forty years old, will you marry Widow Qin?"

"This……"

"Shazhu, don't say you don't know how to do it. You have never tasted the charm of a woman in your life. When you realize that you can't marry a virgin girl, you will definitely marry her. Don't deny it." Xu Damao said.

"I admit it, I will!" Sha Zhu said dejectedly.

"So, I said that if Xu Damao hadn't lent you a wife, you would definitely marry Widow Qin and work like a slave for others until you were no longer of any use and were abandoned." Li Kangri said.

"That's right, this is what would have been your fate, Shazhu. You should be grateful to me for the rest of your life." Xu Damao said excitedly.

"No way?" said Sha Zhu.

"No?" Li Kangri smiled, "Zhu Zi, I remember now, you still have a father, right? Now he has probably been abandoned, and I don't know whether he is dead or alive."

"He Daqing?" Sha Zhu was shocked. At this moment, he remembered that he still had a father. "Will he be abandoned?"

"Shazhu, of course they will. Think about it, your father slept with the mother of the White Widow's son. Think about how they will treat your father when they grow up. Think about it carefully, if you were the White Widow's son, would you hate your father for sleeping with your mother? I'm not talking about your biological mother, I'm talking about the White Widow." Xu Damao said with a smile.

"This... I don't know how to say it!" Sha Zhu was speechless, because indeed, he knew that if it were him, he would also hate his own father.

"I don't know how to put it, but I just admit it. It's okay to admit it. Shazhu, I tell you, you have to be respectful to me when you see me in the future, do you hear me? I am your benefactor, your lifelong benefactor." Xu Damao said proudly.

"Okay, big brother, I will be grateful to you for the rest of my life." said Sha Zhu.

"Hahaha, that's more like it." Xu Damao laughed.

"Da Mao, in addition to thanking me, you also have to thank Zhuzi. In fact, you two are destined to be mortal enemies."

After hearing what Li Kangri said, Sha Zhu perked up and changed his previous decadence. "Master, what do you mean? Tell me quickly."

"Master, is that true? He and I are mortal enemies?"

"Isn't it? Were you guys fighting each other before I came?" Li Kangri said with a smile.

"That's true," Xu Damao said angrily.

"Xu Damao, we're not fighting, I'm the one hitting you." Sha Zhu started to show off again.

"Virtue, you are no match for me now." Xu Damao said contemptuously.

"Da Mao, in fact, if I hadn't come, you would definitely not have children, right?" Li Kangri asked.

"Master, I will be grateful to you for this for the rest of my life. No, I will be grateful to you in my next life." Xu Damao said.

"If I hadn't come to your yard, your life would have been different. Do you want to know?"

"Master, tell me quickly, I want to know." Sha Zhuhou said anxiously.

"Master, tell me."

"If I hadn't come, you would have definitely divorced Sister Xiao'e in six or seven years. Do you agree with this?" Li Kangri asked.

"It's very likely!" Xu Damao said truthfully.

"Then you will get married again after the divorce, and you will still have no children after the marriage, so you will be a family extinct for the rest of your life."

"Yes, that's right,"

"And you will fight the Pillar until death, right?"

"That's for sure!" they said in unison.

"But you won't really kill each other, right? Think about it carefully?" Li Kangri said.

After hearing what Li Kangri said, the two of them thought seriously. After a long time, Xu Damao said, "That's right. At that time, I loved and hated Sha Zhu. I hated him for always bullying me. I loved him because I felt that life was meaningless without him. I didn't know what to do. Who was I competing with? When I was in Hong Kong, I always thought about him and always wanted to quarrel with him."

"Zhu Zi, what about you?" Li Kangri asked.

"Master, it seems that what Xu Damao said is right. Without him as a comparison, life is really meaningless. I missed him too during the years when he was away." Sha Zhu said.

"So, I said that you two are destined to be enemies in life and death, and you can't live without each other. Is that right?"

"Yes," the two admitted.

"So, when I asked you to lend a wife to Zhuzi, I wanted you to help each other. You lent your wife to Zhuzi, and Zhuzi's wife gave birth to a child for him. This is all thanks to you, so his child is destined to call you dad," Li Kangri said with a smile.