Siheyuan: Fighting against Japanese Aggression in Beijing

As for Sha Zhu, his face has been full of smiles since he left Li Kangri's courtyard. He feels that he is very close to Li Qinghe.

He hummed a little tune and walked into the house. After entering the house, Sha Zhu tidied himself up, tidied his messy hair, changed into relatively clean clothes, then looked at himself in the mirror and smiled with satisfaction.

……

Soon it was around four o'clock in the afternoon, and Sha Zhu entered the courtyard carrying a clucking hen.

In the middle courtyard, at the gate of Jia's house, Banggeng was playing the stone catching game with Xiaodang at the gate. He was fiddling with a few stones over and over in his hands and was having a lot of fun.

"Giggle..."

Hearing the hen's cry, Banggeng immediately stopped playing with the stones in his hand. When he looked up, he saw Shazhu holding a chicken in his hand.

"Chicken, I want to eat chicken today!" Bang Geng thought to himself. Thinking of eating chicken, Bang Geng immediately ran into the house and shouted to Jia Zhang who was sewing shoe soles, "Grandma, I want to eat chicken, I want to eat chicken, Sha Zhu bought a chicken."

When Jia Zhang heard Banggeng say that Shazhu bought a chicken, she immediately started drooling, "Banggeng, my dear grandson, did you really see that?"

"Grandma, what you see is real! The chicken is clucking! Grandma, I want to eat chicken. I want to eat chicken tonight." Bang Geng shouted.

"Haha, it's good to see it for real. We have chicken to eat today. When Sha Zhu finishes cooking, we'll ask your mother to serve it. Go to the inner room now to wake up your mother and tell her about Sha Zhu buying a chicken." Jia Zhang said with a smile.

Hearing what Jia Zhang said, Banggeng happily ran into the inner room and started shaking Qin Huairu who was sleeping. Qin Huairu soon sat up. "Banggeng, Mom is still pregnant with your brother. You dare not shake me like this. It will hurt him." Qin Huairu scolded.

"Mom, I want to eat chicken. Shazhu bought a chicken. You should go and get it for me." Banggeng shouted.

"Kid, I've taught you so many times to call him Uncle He," Qin Huairu said, but suddenly she realized, "Bang Geng, you just said your Uncle He bought a chicken?"

"Yes, Shazhu bought a chicken. Mom, I want to eat chicken!" Banggeng shouted again.

"Okay, I'll get some for you when your Uncle He is done. Be good and go play!" Qin Huairu said with a smile.

After getting a definite answer, Banggeng immediately ran out to continue his game.

……

Half an hour later, Sha Zhu poked his head out the door and looked out. When he found no one was there, he ran to the backyard with the cleaned chicken.

When he arrived at the gate of Li Kangri's courtyard and saw that the door was open, Sha Zhu walked straight in. At this time, Li Kangri was watching Xu Damao doing push-ups!

Seeing Sha Zhu coming in with a chicken, Xu Damao immediately stood up and said, "Hey, Sha Zhu, you really bought a chicken! I thought you were just talking!"

"Sun thief, what are you talking about? Am I a person who doesn't keep his word?" Sha Zhu cursed.

"Da Mao, keep doing your push-ups. Why are you arguing?" Li Kangri glared at Xu Damao, then said to Sha with a smile, "Chef He, I'm looking forward to tasting your cooking tonight."

"No problem, I'll start now. What about your sister? She wants that piece of chicken so I can save it for her." Sha Zhu asked weakly.

"She went outside to learn how to ride a bike with Lou Xiao'e. I'll go call her. You go to the kitchen to clean up first. They will be here soon." Li Kangri said.

"Then I'll go get busy first!" After saying that, Sha Zhu went into Li's kitchen.

After Sha Zhu went in, Xu Damao got up knowingly and went outside to call for help.

……

Soon, the whole yard was filled with fragrance, causing complaints from people who were cooking in the yard.

At the Jia family, Banggeng, who smelled the fragrance, immediately ran to his own kitchen, "Mom, it smells so good. It must be Shazhu who has cooked the chicken. Please bring it to me quickly." Banggeng shouted.

"I know," Qin Huairu said as she untied her apron, "Hurry up and take your sister home and wait. Mom will get you some chicken."

After putting down her apron, Qin Huairu tidied her hair at the temples, then walked towards Sha Zhu's house with a smile, "Huh? That's not right, this fragrance is not coming from Sha Zhu's house?" Walking into the yard, Qin Huairu smelled the scent and asked in confusion.

Thinking of this, Qin Huairu quickened her pace and walked towards Shazhu's kitchen. She pushed the door open and walked in. She found nothing inside except a mess of chicken feathers. "Where is the person?"

So Qin Huairu came to the door of Sha Zhu's house again and shouted, "Is Zhuzi here?"

But there was no movement!

"Zhu Zi, I'm your sister Qin, are you home?"

Still no movement!

Seeing no response, Qin Huairu pushed open the door directly, but saw that there was not even a single person inside.

"That's strange. There are indeed chicken feathers in the kitchen. Where did this idiot Zhu go?" Qin Huairu thought.

"Oh no, I'm not going to do it with the old lady!" Qin Huairu screamed.

So she hurried to the backyard. As soon as she entered the backyard, she smelled a strong fragrance coming from Li Kangri's house, mixed with the aroma of various meats.

After taking a look at the tightly closed courtyard gate, Qin Huairu walked towards the old deaf man's house. He didn't think that Sha Zhu would be at Li Kangri's house.

When she arrived at the old deaf man's house, Qin Huairu listened at the door for a while, but did not hear Sha Zhu's voice.

"No sound! Where did this idiot Zhu go?" Qin Huairu asked puzzledly.

Just when Qin Huairu was puzzled, the second aunt came out from her kitchen and said, "Qin Huairu, what are you doing in the backyard? Are you looking for the old lady?"

"Second Aunt, I'm not here to look for the old lady. I have something to do with Sha Zhu. He is not at home, so I came to look for the old lady." Qin Huairu explained.

"Oh, are you looking for Shazhu? Don't look for him, he's not at the old lady's house. I just saw him carrying a chicken into that door." The second aunt pointed in the direction of Li Kangri's house, "I don't know what this Shazhu is up to. It's really strange that he would carry a chicken to his enemy's house."

"Click!" Qin Huairu's heart sank instantly. She understood almost instantly that this Sha Zhu was probably really into Li Qinghe. Otherwise, with Sha Zhu's personality, he would never be able to marry into the Li family in this life.

"What should I do? What should I do?" Qin Huairu thought panickedly.

"Qin Huairu, what's wrong with you? Aren't you looking for Sha Zhu? Go in and find him!" The second aunt said with a smile.

"Oh, okay!"

As she spoke, Qin Huairu walked to the door of Li's house and just stretched out her hand to knock on the door, but after thinking about it, she gave up. She stomped her feet and walked back to her home in the middle courtyard.

As soon as he got home, three pairs of expectant eyes turned to Qin Huairu, "Mom, where is the chicken?" Bang Geng asked after looking Qin Huairu up and down, left and right.

"Yes, Huairu, where is the chicken? Wouldn't that dead son of a bitch, Shazhu, give it to us?" asked Jia Zhang.

"Shazhu is not here!" Qin Huairu said.

"Where are the chickens? It doesn't matter if he's not here! As long as the chickens are here, it'll be fine!" asked Jia Zhang.

"Ji and Shazhu are gone!" Qin Huairu said angrily. She was so angry! "Why did you go to the Li family? Didn't you have a grudge? Didn't he blackmail you for money? Are you really so generous for a woman? Am I, Qin Huairu, not as good as a little girl?" Qin Huairu complained in her heart.