Siheyuan: Sending my younger brother to the countryside to raise pigs

"What nonsense are you talking about? You know our family's financial situation. My salary is not enough to support a large family. If it weren't for Sha Zhu's help, we would have starved to death long ago."

While washing clothes, Qin Huairu told Qin Jingru about her difficulties.

"I don't know how to repay him, and I don't have anything to give him, so I can only help him wash his clothes and clean the house."

Humph, how come there is nothing to give? This is like giving yourself away.

"So that's how it is. Sister, is that silly Zhu really lazy?"

Qin Huairu looked at Qin Jingru in surprise.

Is this taken seriously?

It was originally a good thing, but now it seems that my sister seems to have some misunderstanding about Shazhu.

Qin Huairu suddenly felt a little regretful. She shouldn't have washed clothes for Sha Zhu at this time. No wonder her sister had misunderstandings.

"Why do you think so?"

"Isn't it? If he wasn't lazy, why didn't he do his own laundry and clean the house?"

"Didn't I say it was to thank him for taking care of our family? You misunderstood Shazhu, he is not lazy."

"Hmph, even if I'm not lazy, you've made me lazy. Okay, let's not talk about him anymore. I'll help you wash, so we can go faster."

"That's fine. You can wash the fool."

"I don't want to do that. How can I look like a young girl washing clothes for a man? I'll wash clothes for the three of them."

After Qin Jingru's words, Qin Huairu felt a little uncomfortable taking Sha Zhu's clothes again, but she had already taken them, and it was not easy to take them back, so she had no choice but to wash them.

The two sisters chatted and laughed, and washed two basins of clothes before the weather got too hot and hung them on the clothesline in the yard.

After finishing the work, the two sisters returned home.

Not long after they sat down, Jia Zhang came back with bags full of vegetables, fruits and snacks.

My mother-in-law hasn't been seen since the meeting just now. Did she go to the vegetable market?

It would be fine if it was just for buying groceries, but didn’t they know the family’s financial situation? How could they even have money to buy fruits and snacks?

Qin Huairu was a little angry, but she couldn't show it in front of Qin Jingru.

Of course she didn't dare to do that. Normally she would just complain a few words.

"Mom, are you going to the market? Why don't you ask me to go with you? It must be tiring to buy so many things."

"Why go to the vegetable market? Where can we get the money to go to the vegetable market? Go, wash the fruits and let Jingru and the children eat them together."

Jia Zhang handed half a bag of fruit to Qin Huairu.

Qin Huairu was shocked. She took the bag and asked, "You didn't go to the market? Then where did these things come from?"

It won’t fall from the sky, right?

Jia Zhang looked at Qin Jingru with a smile, "Are we all benefiting from Jingru's help?"

"Jingru?"

"I?"

Both sisters looked puzzled.

Jia Zhang nodded and said proudly, "That's right. Doesn't Jingru want to find a partner? I went through all the young people of the right age in our courtyard.

The fruit was given by your third aunt. I tell you, the Yan family is very stingy now. I heard that all the fruit was brought back by Yan Jiecheng. It was a whole bag. They couldn’t even finish it. They ate it as a meal.”

Eat fruit as a meal?

This... this is too rich.

Qin Jingru's eyes lit up.

Qin Huairu was not happy about the fruit. Instead, she was a little angry. "You went to Third Aunt's house?"

"Yes."

"How can you go to Third Aunt's house?"

Jia Zhang was puzzled by Qin Huairu's intense reaction, "Why can't I go to his house?"

"They are not suitable for each other."

"What's inappropriate?"

"Yan Jiecheng is divorced and older than Jingru."

"What's the big deal? As long as a man is capable, it doesn't matter if he's divorced. He's older and more caring. Look at him, eating fruit as a meal, what kind of life is this?"

Jia Zhang seemed to have thought of something, and then looked at Qin Huairu with disgust and contempt, and clicked her tongue, "Tsk tsk, some time ago I asked you to seduce her, but you refused and pretended to be a chaste heroine. Now you're anxious? Do you know what you are doing? You're just occupying the toilet without taking a shit."

puff~

Qin Jingru next to her almost couldn't help but burst out laughing.

My sister's mother-in-law is really interesting. She actually encourages her daughter-in-law to seduce men.

I wonder what Yan Jiecheng’s expression would be if he knew that he was compared to a toilet.

Qin Huairu blushed, but fortunately they were all family members and they all knew what she was thinking. She stammered, "I...I will go. Jingru and him are really not suitable. Jingru doesn't like him. Isn't that right, Jingru?"

Qin Jingru looked down on him in her heart, but her expression didn't change at all. She nodded, "Yes, I don't like older people."

"If you don't like it, it's because you haven't been exposed to it."

Jia Zhang selfishly wanted Qin Huairu to marry Yan Jiecheng. Compared with Qin Jingru, Qin Huairu was the support for her and her children.

"Okay, if you don't like older people, there are younger ones. The snacks were given by your Aunt Wang, and his eldest son has reached the age. This bunch of vegetables was given by your second aunt, who wanted Jingru to meet his second son.

If you ask me, don't even look at his family. They are too stingy. They send beggars away. Moreover, Lao Liu has a bad temper and often beats his children. People say that children are like their fathers. His children will definitely not be any better in the future."

Qin Jingru nodded obediently, "Okay, Auntie, I'll listen to you."

Jia Zhang smiled with satisfaction, "What a good child, just listen to me, I won't harm you."

"Well, I believe Auntie and Sister. Oh, by the way, Sister wants me to be with Shazhu."

"Silly Pillar..."

Jia Zhang looked at Qin Huairu meaningfully, "That kid is not bad, but I forgot about him. He is also a capable guy, a chef, and he will never lack food. If you can really get along with him, you can expect to enjoy a good life in the future."

Qin Jingru caught Jia Zhang's expression and couldn't help rolling her eyes in her heart.

Does she also know about the affair between her daughter-in-law and Sha Zhu?

That’s right, we all live under the same roof, how can we keep it secret?

That would be interesting.

Jia Zhang: "There were originally two capable young men in our courtyard, Sha Zhu and Xu Damao, and now there is another one, Yan Jiecheng. Xu Damao got married early, so you must seize the opportunity with the remaining two."

"I understand, ma'am."

Jia Zhang continued to chatter on and on about the two people's problems, and provided some experiences that she had not had time to put into practice.

Qin Huairu walked into the kitchen carrying the bag, washed the fruits, called the three little ones who were playing in the yard back home, and the whole family gathered around the table and ate happily.

Qin Jingru looked at the banggeng sitting next to her and asked with a friendly smile, "Banggeng, is it delicious?"

"It's delicious, so delicious, sweet and juicy. Mom, how can we afford to buy fruit?"

Qin Jingru answered for her sister: "I didn't buy it, it was given to me by someone else."

"Ah, who is so nice? Is it the silly uncle?"

"No, it's your Uncle Yan."

"Uncle Yan? Which Uncle Yan?"

"Your third uncle's eldest son, Yan Jiecheng."

"It's him, I know. I heard he's quite capable."

The whole fruit was swallowed up in no time, and the stick still felt unsatisfied and wanted to eat more.

But after looking at his mother and sister, and then at the fruits on the plate, he retracted his outstretched hand, then lowered his head and licked the juice on his fingers.

"A few days ago, Yan Jiekuang kept showing off his fruits in front of us, saying that his brother bought so many that they couldn't finish them all. He skipped meals every day and ate fruits instead."

The child spoke innocently, not trying to hide the envy and jealousy in his tone.

But it was this innocence that deeply hurt the hearts of all the adults present.