1952: Walking through Nantongluo Alley

Jia family.

Jia Zhang and Jia Dongxu sat in the living room, neither of them saying a word. The atmosphere was so depressing that it was a little scary.

The only faint sound at the scene was the friction of Jia Dongxu's clenched fists.

At this time, Jia Zhang first sighed, and then said.

"Dongxu, why don't we just forget about it? Mom will find you a woman who is ten thousand times more beautiful than Qin Huairu someday."

"No!" Jia Dongxu said with a gloomy face.

"I can't accept this! I can't accept this! Why did Chen Xiao steal my wife? Why?!"

Listening to Jia Dongxu's increasingly agitated tone, Jia Zhang felt worried.

"Dongxu, we can't do anything illegal. You are my only child, and you are the only one in three generations of our Jia family!"

"Mom will arrange a blind date for you tomorrow. We won't look for Aunt Wang this time. There are plenty of matchmakers in the city. Let's find someone else to introduce us."

"Mom, don't worry, I won't do anything illegal. It's okay to find a matchmaker, but she must be prettier than Qin Huairu!"

"I want to marry a wife who is prettier than Qin Huairu and humiliate him in front of him all day long, otherwise I won't be able to swallow this!!!" As he spoke, Jia Dongxu punched the table.

"Mom, I'm going back to my room to sleep."

Jia Dongxu got up, went back to the bedroom and locked the door.

Lying in bed, he tossed and turned, unable to sleep, his mind full of Qin Huairu's figure.

No matter how he shook his head, he couldn't get rid of Qin Huairu's figure.

Then he thought about his beloved woman who was about to marry Chen Xiao, and everything that would happen after the marriage.

In the end, Jia Dongxu shed tears of shame.

"Chen Xiao, I'm not done with you!!!"

There was nothing to say all night, and it was early the next morning.

After breakfast, Jia Dongxu went out to work without saying a word.

Seeing her son in such a state, Jia Zhang couldn't help but feel a little worried.

Then he kept giving him repeated instructions and advice.

Anyway, he said a lot of confusing things, but it is unknown whether Jia Dongxu listened to it or not.

After Jia Dongxu left, Jia Zhang also locked the door and went to find the matchmaker.

……

On the other side, Chen Xiao got up early in the morning, first ran to the Old Drum Tower Street to buy a few buns, then came back, washed up, and sat at the table to eat happily.

For some reason, Chen Xiao never gets tired of eating the meat buns from the Old Drum Tower. He has been eating them for several days in a row and never gets tired of them. He is even a little addicted to them.

This made Chen Xiao wonder if the store had added something that shouldn't have been added.

When I was eating the last bun, there was a knock on the door.

"Brother Chen Xiao, Brother Chen Xiao, are you home?" Sha Zhu was knocking on the door outside.

"If you have anything to say at home, please come in and tell me first." Chen Xiao said without raising his head.

"Ugh."

Shazhu opened the door happily.

As soon as he came in, he sat down opposite Chen Xiao, as if he was at home and not at all shy.

At this time, he saw Chen Xiao eating a meat bun on the Old Drum Tower Street, and then he swallowed secretly.

"Brother Chen Xiao, did you buy these meat buns from Old Sun's on Old Drum Tower Street?"

"Yes, what's wrong? Is there any problem?" Chen Xiao raised his head and looked at Sha Zhu.

Silly Zhu shook his head.

"No problem, I just want to say that I've had the meat buns from Old Sun's before, and they're quite delicious."

Chen Xiao was speechless for a while.

He thought Sha Zhu had something to do so early in the morning, and probably smelled his meat bun and was greedy.

Although Sha Zhu is now an apprentice in the kitchen of a steel rolling mill, his salary is only 17.5 yuan. He has a younger sister to support, so it is impossible for him to eat meat buns.

At this time, Chen Xiao had a question: where was Sha Zhu's sister? He had been in the courtyard for a few days and had not seen He Yushui.

"Shazhu, where is your sister He Yushui? Why haven't I seen her these days?" Chen Xiao asked puzzledly.

The idiot on the opposite side scratched his head embarrassedly.

"My sister's cotton pants are torn, and she has been lying at home for the past two days..."

Chen Xiao: “…”

"All right……"

Seeing Sha Zhu staring at him while he was eating the meat bun, Chen Xiao lost much of his appetite.

Holding the meat bun that he had taken two bites of, he said to Sha Zhu.

"Want to eat?"

Silly Zhu nodded.

He and his sister haven't eaten meat for several days.

"But there is a condition." Chen Xiao waved the meat bun in front of Sha Zhu.

At this time, Sha Zhu only had the meat bun in his eyes, and he kept swallowing his saliva while watching it.

"What are Brother Chen Xiao's conditions?"

"From now on, you have to listen to me in the courtyard. If someone causes trouble for me, you have to help me no matter who they are." Chen Xiao continued.

If we were to ask who in the Siheyuan is the strongest fighter, it would be Shazhu. Apart from being a bit silly and a bit of a bootlicker, everything else is pretty normal.

It is definitely better to be able to recruit Sha Zhu for your own use than to make him your enemy and cause trouble every day.

"Okay, Brother Chen Xiao, from now on you are my brother, my real brother." Sha Zhu kept nodding his head.

"You said it yourself. A man's word is as good as his bond."

After saying that, Chen Xiao handed the meat bun he had taken two bites of to Sha Zhu.

After taking the meat bun, Sha Zhu ran back home happily. At this time, his 9-year-old sister He Yushui was still lying on the bed, crying and refusing to go to school because her cotton pants were torn.

"Yushui, look what delicious food your brother brought you."

He Yushui wiped her red eyes from crying and looked over, then her whole face became excited.

"Meat buns! It's meat buns!"

Sha Zhu stuffed the meat bun into He Yushui's hand.

"Eat it, and go to school after you finish your meat bun. That's what you just promised me."

"Yeah." He Yushui first took a bite of the meat bun, then nodded with a satisfied look on his face.

Then Sha Zhu went to the kitchen, opened the lid of the pot, took out two steamed buns from it and put them in his mouth to eat.

After finishing two meat buns, Sha Zhu brought his sister He Yushui to the third uncle's house.

Yan Bugui is a teacher and also He Yushui's homeroom teacher.

Every day he would send He Yushui to Yan Bugui's house, and then Yan Bugui would take him to school.

Sha Zhu himself ran to the steel mill in panic.

He had only been an apprentice in the kitchen for a few months. Although his father He Daqing had taught him how to cook before, the chefs in the steel mill kitchen did not recognize his teachings. He had to be an apprentice for three years before he could hold the rice spoon.

The apprentice's job is to wash and move vegetables, and wash pots and dishes every day.

For this hard-earned job, Sha Zhu is particularly active every day.

I had just left the Third Uncle's house and ran out of the courtyard when I ran into Chen Xiao.

At this time, Chen Xiaogang came into the alley on his bicycle.

Sha Zhu waved at Chen Xiao.

"Brother Chen Xiao!"

Chen Xiao looked back and frowned when he saw that it was Sha Zhu.

Is this guy planning to ride his own bike this time?

It's impossible, absolutely impossible. No one except women can sit on the back seat of my bicycle.

"Silly Zhu, what's the matter with you?"

Sha Zhu smiled, revealing a mouthful of big white teeth.

"Nothing, we just happened to meet, let's go to work together."

"I won't ride a bike, I'll just run behind."

Chen Xiao: “…”