Living in a Siheyuan

In the following days, Li Pingan studied at school peacefully.

With the strength and mental power of the middle stage of Qi Refining, Li Pingan's learning ability has improved a lot. Now he has mastered all the courses that the original owner learned, and has also learned Russian and English very well. Some basic communication and reading and translation are no problem.

Time slowly came to the day of the college entrance examination in July. Recently, there was a tense atmosphere among the students. Li Pingan was still as unhurried as before. He felt more and more that there were many inconveniences in school. He obviously had a lot of good things, but every day he had to eat food without any oil and chew on hard-to-swallow steamed bread with his classmates.

Besides, it had been so long since I got the "Eternal Spring Secret", and I had no time to practice it. I had not practiced any of my magic except the gold cutting technique I practiced in the mountains last time.

Fortunately, there are two puppets, Liu Mi and Lu Dehua, in the space to take care of it, otherwise he would not have time to take care of it. I really thank the ascended master for thinking so carefully.

He hasn't returned to the Siheyuan recently. I wonder what the Siheyuan looks like now?

In fact, since Li Pingan crippled Jia Dongxu's legs, the Jia family has been in dire straits every day. All the family savings were taken away by Li Pingan, and Jia Dongxu couldn't go to work. Now the Jia family is basically relying on Yi Zhonghai's support to survive. Seeing that Qin Huairu's belly is getting bigger and bigger, Jia Dongxu can only move around the house with a cane.

Now, except for the Jia family, everyone else in the courtyard lived a peaceful life. Only He Yuzhu made a big joke, and everyone gossiped about it for a long time.

Last time, the deaf old lady promised to find a wife for Sha Zhu, but later she was taken over by an aunt and asked Yi Zhonghai to find a matchmaker. As a result, Yi Zhonghai was punished to sweep the streets and went to the street office to study, and Jia Dongxu got into trouble. This matter was delayed. Finally, Sha Zhu couldn't wait any longer and found the deaf old lady to urge Yi Zhonghai. Yi Zhonghai didn't regard Sha Zhu as an old man yet, but Sha Zhu usually respected Yi Zhonghai. So Yi Zhonghai also seriously asked Sha Zhu to find the best matchmaker in the area.

The matchmaker took Yi Zhonghai's face into consideration, and Sha Zhu's conditions were not bad either. She carefully found a girl from nearby. The girl's family was quite well-off. Her father was a small leader in a food factory, and he used his connections to get the girl into the factory. She had two older brothers who both worked there. The girl was also pretty, and He Yuzhu was very satisfied when they met. The girl also ate the food Sha Zhu cooked and thought it was a good idea to find a chef. The two of them fell in love with each other. Then He Yuzhu went to the girl's house to pay a formal visit.

It was originally a good thing. The deaf old lady had already started preparing for Sha Zhu's wedding, thinking about having a great-grandson in the future. But something went wrong on the day of the visit. Otherwise, why would he be called Sha Zhu?

When I first arrived home, they were very welcoming. Sha Zhu behaved very well. He even cooked a few dishes for his future father-in-law and two brothers-in-law to taste. It turned out that this family was originally from the Northeast, and Sha Zhu couldn't hold back when they started drinking. Normally, no one would urge him to drink when his future son-in-law came to visit. Seeing that Sha Zhu couldn't drink, they asked him to drink less, but who is Sha Zhu? The more you don't let me drink, the more I want to drink. Don't you look down on me?

Look, others didn’t drink too much, but Sha Zhu did. He quarreled with his future father-in-law for some unknown reason. In the end, he knocked the father-in-law down with one punch. The two brothers-in-law were not willing to do so, as they all drank. So a fight broke out, with the two brothers-in-law fighting against Sha Zhu alone. Sha Zhu has been fighting since he was a child, but he didn’t lose. He almost knocked down the two brothers-in-law. In the end, he was stopped by other people in the yard. But he also smashed the girl’s house.

In the end, Sha Zhu left without even looking back, and the family ran over and scolded the matchmaker so much that she couldn't even lift her head. Her family was so well-off, yet they introduced a fool to her family.

The matchmaker was also angry, so she went to find Sha Zhu. But Sha Zhu thought that it was not his fault, but the girl's fault. He also retorted to the matchmaker. The matchmaker was furious, so she spread the story of Sha Zhu. Now everyone knows that Sha Zhu is really stupid, just a fool. Later, Yi Zhonghai went to find a few more matchmakers, but when they heard that they were going to introduce Sha Zhu, they were unwilling to do so.

In the end, this incident became Shazhu's dark history. Even the neighborhood office knew about it. No one introduced him to a date anymore.

When the deaf old lady found out about this, there was nothing she could do but ask Sha Zhu to wait a little longer and introduce him to someone after the hype had died down.

So Sha Zhu's marriage was postponed to the future. Otherwise, like in the TV series, Sha Zhu is almost 30 and still has no wife, and the street office will have to intervene. Everyone is working hard to build the motherland and have children. How can you, Sha Zhu, not get married? The main reason is his bad temper and bad reputation.

The story of Sha Zhu was talked about as a joke by the people in the courtyard for a long time. Among them, Xu Damao was the happiest. He didn't even have a partner, so how could Sha Zhu get married? So he spread the story everywhere. This also made Sha Zhu famous.

If Li Ping'an knew about this, he would probably think it was a joke. If Sha Zhu gets married, will the courtyard house still be a courtyard house?

So under normal circumstances, Sha Zhu would not get married so early. I don't know when Sha Zhu started to have inappropriate thoughts about Qin Huairu? At least now Jia Dongxu is still alive, and there is no sign of it.

Li Pingan is also making his final efforts as the college entrance examination is coming soon.

A few days passed, and the college entrance examination began. It was not as exaggerated as in later generations, with parents coming to accompany their children. There was even a police car leading the way, and the mother wore a cheongsam to symbolize a successful start. It was a very ordinary exam, and only the students and teachers were nervous. Some parents would pay attention, but few would give up their work to wait.

This exam was quite easy for Li Pingan. If he wanted to, he could definitely get into a good university. But since he had already decided not to go to school, there was no need for him to take the exam seriously. He could just do about right, but not too badly. Too badly would not fit his personality. He couldn't do too well either, or if he didn't go to school, the people who came to persuade and criticize him would probably drive him out of school.

The college entrance examination was over under Li Ping'an's lenient operation. Li Ping'an finally had his free time.

After saying goodbye to his classmates and packing his luggage, Li Pingan went home.

When we arrived at the entrance of the courtyard, several middle-aged women were chatting and enjoying the cool air. The city was already getting hot in July. Now that no one had air conditioning, the single-story houses were quite hot. So basically no one would stay at home, but would enjoy the cool air outside.

Li Pingan got out of the car and greeted several aunties. The third auntie said to Li Pingan: "Pingan, are you on vacation? How did you do in the exam this time?" The second auntie also asked: "Pingan is back. Can you get into college? If you are admitted, you will be the first college student in our compound, and you will be a cadre after graduation like Guangqi in my family." After Liu Guangqi went to secondary technical school, he has always been the pride of the second uncle Liu Haizhong and the second auntie, and they would praise their son to everyone they met.

The other aunties also looked at Li Ping'an, with a gossipy and curious look. Only one auntie looked unhappy. Li Ping'an had cheated her family out of several thousand yuan, and Yi Zhonghai had cleaned the streets for a month because of Li Ping'an.

Li Pingan pretended to have a regretful expression and said: "The test results were not very ideal. I didn't have time to review for many things."

The third aunt comforted her and said, "It's okay. Even if you don't go to college, the neighborhood office will arrange a job for you. It's better to start working early."

The second aunt said, "I guess you just delayed your studies because you were taking care of your family some time ago." As soon as the second aunt finished speaking, someone pushed her. At this time, the second aunt also reacted. She quickly said, "Ping An, I didn't mean that. I meant that you are a good child and filial."

Li Ping'an listened to them talking more and more excitedly and quickly said, "It's okay, you guys continue chatting, I'll go home and clean up first. No one has lived here for a long time." After saying that, he pushed his bicycle inside.

As soon as Li Ping'an entered, the third aunt said, "Second aunt, you are just bringing up something irrelevant. Ping'an lost two adults at home suddenly, and he had to stay at home to take care of them for such a long time. Plus, he must have been sad, so he didn't do well in the exam. And you said that in front of him. Isn't that rubbing salt into his wounds?"

The second aunt also said with some regret: "I really didn't think that much, I just said it casually."

The aunt said at this time: "It's okay, Ping An won't blame you."

Li Pingan opened the gate and returned home. It had been unoccupied for several months, and there was a thick layer of dust. After putting down his things, Li Pingan started to clean up the house.

First he cleaned up his parents' room, and he would live there from now on. He had already removed the curtain outside. This way the living room would be much bigger and look much cleaner.

It took Li Pingan several hours to clean up the whole house. Looking at the room that he had simply tidied, Li Pingan still felt dissatisfied. The main reason was that the house was too dark. It was dark as soon as the sun went down. Also, he could see the roof as soon as he looked up. The wood had been blackened over the years and it looked ugly.

Li Pingan looked around again. Forget it, just live here for now. I'll find someone to renovate the house after some time.

There was nothing at home, and Li Ping'an didn't plan to go out to eat. He took out a plate of pork head and some steamed buns from the space, and asked Liu Mi to make an egg soup. Then they ate at home. His house had its own courtyard gate, so he didn't have to worry about others suddenly coming to see him. As long as he didn't cook at home, the general smell wouldn't spread out. It's not like some authors wrote that eating dumplings at home can make the whole yard smell the fragrance, it's not that exaggerated. If you stew meat or something, maybe a few families nearby will smell it. But I won't cook in the backyard, and Yan Bugui's house in the front yard can smell the two steamed buns.

After dinner, although there was the convenience of the space, he still had to do what he should do. Li Pingan carried a wooden bucket and a basin to the middle courtyard to fetch water. He went directly into the space to take a shower. He was a little hot after working for several hours.

At night, Li Ping'an lay down on the bed and fell asleep peacefully.