Siheyuan: All the birds want to die, I enjoy happiness

"Yes, you will sleep here tonight. What's wrong? Do you think the conditions are not good enough? Just make do with it." Of course Su Xingchen had no idea what the two brothers were thinking. He thought they were complaining about the conditions in the house.

After hearing what Su Xingchen said, the two brothers waved their hands quickly. They were joking. Su Xingchen was willing to give them a place to stay tonight. They were already very grateful. How could they complain that the place was not good? The key point was that the place was not bad. They saw a lot of firewood and coal in the house. At least it was very warm to sleep here.

They may not be so warm even at home. After all, they are sleeping outside, so how can they be warm?

"Brother Chen, we don't dislike this place. We think it's pretty good. It's better than our home. We are very happy that you can take us in tonight. How could we dislike this place?" Liu Guangfu said.

"Okay, then you guys can pack up and stay here tonight. Basically, we have everything you need here. If there's nothing else, I'll leave first." Su Xingchen said as he prepared to push the door and leave.

"Sorry to trouble you, Brother Chen." Liu Guangfu quickly stood up and walked Su Xingchen out the door.

Su Xingchen waved his hand and told him to stay in the room. He just went out. After he went out, he remembered that the two brothers seemed to have not eaten yet, so he quickly prepared some millet and pickled mustard from the space. He didn't prepare anything else because he was worried that if others knew that he fed them so well, they would say that their family was rich and they didn't know how well off they were.

This kind of pure behavior will attract hatred. Never mind the neighbors in the courtyard. If Liu Haizhong finds out, they might come to his house and make a scene, and then the two children will be beaten.

After getting the things, he did not go in immediately. He waited outside the house for a long time before pushing the door and going in.

When he opened the door, he saw two brothers busy making the bed, and the other one was busy boiling water for washing. "Hey, Brother Chen, why are you back again? Is there something wrong?" Liu Guangfu heard someone opening the door and quickly looked up.

"Oh, it's nothing. Didn't you two have no meal yet? There is still a bag of millet and pickled mustard. Cook some millet porridge later and eat it with the pickled mustard. There is nothing else to eat." Su Xingchen said as he put the bag of millet and pickled mustard in his hand there.

"Brother Chen, this... this seems a bit inappropriate. We have already troubled you by letting you live here, and you still have to give us food before we get to your place." Liu Guangfu said, scratching his head a little embarrassedly.

"Oh, it's okay, it's okay. I'll go first. You should go to bed early after dinner. It's getting late." Su Xingchen said.

"Okay, brother, drive slowly on the road." The two brothers said as they sent Su Xingchen out of the house, and unknowingly, the way they addressed Su Xingchen had changed.

Compared to Liu Guangqi, Su Xingchen is more like their brother. After all, Liu Guangqi has been watching Liu Haizhong's behavior for so many years, but he has never helped his two brothers. He has always been like his mother, just watching from the sidelines. Liu Guangqi sympathizes with the plight of his two brothers, but it is only sympathy.

It also made him decide that he must break away from Liu Haizhong's constraints when he grows up. Liu Haizhong thought that favoring his eldest son would make his eldest son be filial to him, but he never expected that the eldest son also wanted to leave the family as soon as possible.

In fact, Liu Guangqi could help his two younger brothers a lot of the time, but sometimes he not only watched coldly, but even mocked his two younger brothers. Who can stand this? So Liu Guangfu and Liu Guangtian certainly don't like or respect their brother too much.

"Guangtian, scoop out some water from the pot first. Let's cook some millet porridge to drink. After we finish drinking, we can wash up and go to bed." Liu Guangfu turned to Liu Guangtian and said.

"Okay, I'll go first. Brother, why is Brother Chen so good to us?" Liu Guangtian said while working.

"Alright, alright, don't worry about why. Just remember, he is good to us and we cannot be ungrateful. We must remember his kindness to us. If we can help him in the future, we should help him more." Although Liu Guangfu is only 13 years old, his mind has already become very mature under the torture of Liu Haizhong for so many years.

"Okay, brother, I get it." Although Liu Guangtian is young, he still listens to his brother very much. Of course, this brother is Liu Guangfu, not the eldest brother Liu Guangqi.

After a while, the millet porridge was ready. The two people were already hungry. When they smelled the millet porridge, they couldn't stand it. They quickly filled two bowls, sat down, opened the bottle of pickled mustard and started eating.

"Brother, this smells so good. The millet porridge smells so good, and the pickled mustard tuber smells so good too." Liu Guangtian couldn't help but sigh after taking a bite of the pickled mustard tuber and drinking a sip of the millet porridge.

"Yes, it smells so good. Hey, hey, eat slowly. This is hot." Liu Guangfu said when he saw Liu Guangtian eating so fast. To be honest, he was not worried that Liu Guangtian would eat too much and he would eat less, but he really cared about his younger brother.

After Su Xingchen returned home, he couldn't sleep, so he simply picked up a book and started reading. After reading for a while, he fell asleep in a daze.

1956, New Year's Day

Every household got up early and started to eat breakfast. Those who had new clothes put on new clothes, those who had new pants put on new pants, and those who had new shoes put on new shoes. At that time, it was not like now, sometimes people would get a brand new set of clothes. It was very good to get a brand new set of clothes every year.

The children of the Yan family had already gotten up. The New Year was coming soon. Their family had good food. Of course, they would not eat badly on the first day of the New Year. After all, the third uncle was different now. This child got up so early, of course, he was preparing for the New Year's money. They got up early, washed up, and then waited at the door of the third uncle's bedroom.

Uncle had no idea that several children were waiting at the door. He got up quickly when he saw the daybreak. Just as he was about to go out to wash up, he opened the door and found several children waiting at the door. "Oh, you got up so early this year? Let your mother cook for you later. I'll go brush my teeth and wash my face first."

As soon as Yan Bugui finished speaking, several children knelt on the ground together and kowtowed three times, "bang bang bang", regardless of what Yan Bugui said.

Yan Bugui was completely stunned. After all, the children had never behaved like this before. He didn't expect that this year they would wait for him directly at the door of the inner room. Before he could react, the children started to kowtow again. "Hey, hey, hey, what are you guys doing?"

"Dad, of course I want the New Year's money." Yan Jiecheng spoke first.

"That's right." Yan Jiefang also echoed. The children had never received any New Year's money before because Yan Bugui was reluctant to give them any. It was good enough to give them a bite of meat during the New Year. How could he possibly give them New Year's money? It was totally unrealistic, okay?

But this year, the children must ask for lucky money. My father is completely different from before. Who knows, maybe he will give me lucky money this year? Even if he doesn't give me money this year, so what? I just kowtowed to him. After all, he is their father. It doesn't matter if I kowtow to him.