The winner of life in the courtyard

Chapter 203 A drink and a peck

"ah……?!"

After hearing what Shen Zhiping said, Yan Jiecheng was dumbfounded. He really couldn't believe that Shen Zhiping, who had such a high salary, could only lend him such a small amount of money.

"Brother Shen, what about my sister-in-law..."

After a brief moment of daze, Yan Jiecheng remembered Liu Wanqing.

Shen Zhiping smiled and said, "Brother Jie Cheng, what you are asking is that your sister-in-law's salary was previously handed over to the family. After being with me, as a grown man, can I still spend your sister-in-law's salary?"

"As men, we can't do such things!"

Yan Jiecheng didn't know what to say for a moment.

However, he also understood that he could only borrow 200 yuan from Shen Zhiping at most. Adding the 100 yuan given by his family, the total was 300 yuan.

With three hundred yuan, the couple should be able to rent a new house and buy some furniture.

However, after spending the money, they had to live a tight life for a while.

"Brother Shen, I'll lend you two hundred, but it may take me some time to pay it back!"

After Yan Jiecheng realized that he could only borrow 200 yuan from Shen Zhiping, he stopped pestering Shen Zhiping. As for borrowing money from Liu Wanqing, he didn't have the nerve to do so.

"Brother Jie Cheng, it is said that brothers should be clear about their accounts. I will lend you this money, but we need to agree on the repayment time and interest first!"

If Shen Zhiping didn't know that he couldn't refuse Yan Jiecheng's request to lend him money, he actually didn't want to lend him money.

He doesn't have much contact with Yan Jiecheng, but whether it is the Yan Jiecheng we know in the plot or the Yan Jiecheng in reality, neither of them is someone Shen Zhiping can approve of.

Yan Jiecheng is eager for quick success, narrow-minded, and most importantly, he doesn't know how to be grateful.

Although Yan Bugui is calculating and stingy, everything he has is for the Yan family and to support his four children.

Relying on his own ability, without stealing or robbing, he raised four children, and not a single child died. Based on this alone, Yan Bugui is a first-class man as a father.

Unfortunately, all Yan Bugui’s hard work ended up raising a bunch of ungrateful people.

In Shen Zhiping's view, people can be incompetent or stupid, but they cannot be ungrateful.

I lent two hundred yuan to Yan Jiecheng only out of consideration for Yan Bugui.

Nowadays, his monthly salary is over 200 yuan.

But, no one knows.

"Brother Shen, let me give you one year, and I will pay you back with the interest..."

"Since Brother Jie Cheng said so, then, if you pay me back within one year, I won't charge you any interest. If you don't pay me back within one year, the interest will be—"

"If you don't pay back the money within a year, I'll give you 3% interest if it exceeds a year!"

Yan Jie Chengdu didn't wait for Shen Zhiping to say how much the interest rate was, and generously gave a standard of 3%.

Hearing Yan Jiecheng say this, Shen Zhiping naturally had no objection.

In fact, Shen Zhiping only wanted to ask for a small profit, but he never expected Yan Jiecheng to be so domineering.

However, with the salaries of Yan Jiecheng and Sun Ailian, it should be no problem for them to pay off the debt of two hundred yuan within a year.

At worst, these two people can still rob Peter to repair Paul.

Shen Zhiping was not worried about Yan Jiecheng paying back the money within a year.

Because the money is really not much!
After all, Yan Jiecheng also inherited the old Yan family's tradition, stingy and calculating!
When it comes to increasing revenue, the Yan family is definitely quite good at saving money.

Yan Jiecheng had reached an agreement on the matter, and Sun Ailian and Liu Wanqing stopped chatting and the couple quickly said goodbye and left.

Shen Zhiping saw Yan Jiecheng and his wife out, closed the gate of the east courtyard, and then returned to the house.

When Liu Wanqing saw Shen Zhiping coming back, she asked Yan Jiecheng what he was doing there, and Shen Zhiping told her what had happened.

"Is Teacher Yan so open-minded?"

Liu Wanqing was very surprised when she heard that Yan Jiecheng and his wife were going to separate from the Yan family.

Shen Zhiping shrugged and said, "I don't know exactly what happened. However, as the tree grows bigger, the branches grow bigger, and as the son grows older, the family splits up. It's only a matter of time before the Yan family splits up!"

In the plot, after Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li got married, they did not separate, which caused a lot of trouble.

What Shen Zhiping remembers most is the bicycle incident.

When Yu Li's relatives came, they wanted to use the family's bicycle. The second and third sons wanted to use it, and in the end no one was able to use it. Yan Bugui used it himself and went fishing to supplement the family income.

But unfortunately, in the end, no one showed up. Because Sha Zhu found out that Yan Bugui had lied to him by saying that he would introduce Teacher Ran to him, Sha Zhu removed one of Yan Bugui's bicycle tires.

Now, Sha Zhu and Qin Huairu have become husband and wife and will no longer have any contact with Teacher Ran.

Thinking of Teacher Ran, Shen Zhiping suddenly realized that the plot in this courtyard had completely deviated from the original plot.

Xu Damao, who was once the most handsome man in the Siheyuan plot, has now become a eunuch and will never have any intersection with Qin Jingru, Yu Haitang and others.

The undead summoner Jia Zhang sent himself to labor reform.

Now that Yi Zhonghai and his wife have adopted a child, they no longer have to worry about living in the courtyard in order to support themselves in their old age.

There is also He Daqing, who returned to Siheyuan early and had a new family outside and children. Now he is still in Sijiu City, but rarely comes back to Siheyuan. He is working like a slave for his new family.

Shen Zhiping had never noticed before, but in an instant, the familiar plot of the courtyard house had completely changed.

"What's the matter with you?"

Seeing that Shen Zhiping suddenly fell silent, Liu Wanqing said several words but didn't wait for Shen Zhiping's response. She couldn't help but raised her hand and slapped Shen Zhiping.

Only after being slapped by his wife did Shen Zhiping come to his senses.

"Nothing, it's just that I just thought of something!"

Shen Zhiping looked at Liu Wanqing apologetically.

Liu Wanqing frowned and asked, "What's got you so absorbed in it?"

"Nothing, I just suddenly thought, Yan Jiecheng and his wife have separated and moved out, do you think they will continue to live in the courtyard, or move out? If they move out, will they live close by or far away?"

"That's it?"

Liu Wanqing felt that Shen Zhiping was not telling the truth.

Shen Zhiping did not tell the truth, but he also had no way of telling the truth to Liu Wanqing. He couldn't tell Liu Wanqing that everything here was just a period drama, right?
"Not only that, I thought about the Feng Shui of this courtyard!"

"Shh-"

After hearing Shen Zhiping talk about Feng Shui, Liu Wanqing quickly made a gesture to keep quiet and glared at Shen Zhiping, "Don't say such things again!"

Although there are no strict restrictions in this regard at the moment, the signs have already emerged.

Shen Zhiping smiled and said, "We are just the two of us at home. If we were somewhere else, would I say a word?"

With this slightly taboo topic, Shen Zhiping successfully diverted Liu Wanqing's attention.

……

Yan Jiecheng and Sun Ailian moved very quickly.

The second week after Yan Bugui separated the couple, they moved out. The new house they rented was not close to Courtyard No. 95, but was very close to Sun Ailian's parents' home.

Yan Jiecheng was quite complacent about this, saying that when he was too busy, he could just go to his father-in-law's house for a meal.

When the news spread, Yan Bugui's old face was simply unbearable to look at.

In the eyes of some people in the courtyard, Yan Jie's current state is no different from being the Sun family's son-in-law.

It's not like they don't have houses to rent here, but they chose to live near their father-in-law's house.

Of course, some people think Yan Jiecheng is a good man who loves his wife. This kind of thing really proves the saying that the husband has his reasons and the wife has her reasons.

The two sides of a matter are vividly reflected at this moment.

Yan Jiecheng was feeling very happy, and had no idea that what he was doing was actually stabbing his own parents in the heart!

"This son, I raised him in vain!"

When Yi Zhonghai talked about this with his wife Wang Shufang, he was filled with sorrow and emotion.

Raising a son is a way to provide for your old age, but after this son got married, he ran away. He would rather live close to his father-in-law than with his biological parents. Can you rely on such a son?
"Old Yi, don't say that in front of Old Yan!"

Wang Shufang glanced at Yi Zhonghai.

Yi Zhonghai nodded. He was not a brainless idiot.

Yi Zhonghai and his wife are smart, but there are people in this courtyard who don’t have brains, and there are more than one!
First, Sha Zhu laughed at Yan Bugui for raising a son for someone else, and then Liu Haizhong also talked about this and even shared his own parenting methods with Yan Bugui.

"Old Yan, you are so lacking in dignity!"

"This son, he won't become anything unless he is beaten!"

"Our ancestors have said that a good son is born under the stick!"

"If you had given your boss a beating earlier, do you think he would still do something so disgraceful to the family today?"

"..."

Yan Bugui looked at Liu Haizhong meaningfully, without refutation or explanation, he just turned around and went back to the house.

When Liu Haizhong saw Yan Bugui's look, he felt that if Yan Bugui didn't listen to him, he would suffer a second loss sooner or later.

Unfortunately, Yan Bugui is gone.

Liu Haizhong sighed and walked back home.

Then, the cries and requests for mercy of Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu were heard from the backyard of the courtyard.

To have such an unreasonable father who only knows how to make his sons filial under the stick, these two brothers don’t know what sins they committed in their previous life.

At this time, Liu Haizhong could never have imagined that it would not be long before his eldest son Liu Guangqi, whom he regarded as a treasure, would run away with his wife.

I wonder what he will feel by then.

……

In the east courtyard.

Shen Zhiping and Liu Wanqing did not pay attention to the gossip of outsiders. What happened to the Yan family had nothing to do with them.

In other words, Yan Bugui is already in such a miserable state, so they won’t add fuel to the fire!

"This Yan Jiecheng is such a piece of shit!"

Liu Wanqing felt very displeased whenever she mentioned Yan Jiecheng.

"And that Sun Ailian is not a good person either!"

It is said that when you marry a chicken, you follow the chicken; when you marry a dog, you follow the dog. However, when Sun Ailian married Yan Jiecheng, she did not consider Yan Jiecheng at all.

"Wife, why are you so angry?"

Shen Zhiping was amused. He had never expected that Liu Wanqing would be so dissatisfied with Yan Jiecheng and his wife because of this matter!

Liu Wanqing snorted and said, "I just can't stand it!"

"Well, everyone has their own opinion!"

"After all, the person who will spend her life with Yan Jiecheng is Sun Ailian, and the most important thing is that the couple get along well."

"As for the rest, it's all irrelevant!"

"Really?" Liu Wanqing narrowed her eyes and looked at Shen Zhiping, "Then if you were in Yan Jiecheng's situation, what would you choose?"

"I will definitely listen to you, my wife!"

"My wife is so considerate and will definitely make the right choice!"

Shen Zhiping just kept praising him.

However, Liu Wanqing just likes this.

The matter concerning the Yan family spread in the courtyard once again. Compared to the first time Sun Ailian overturned the table, this time was more domineering.

Because Yan Jiecheng, the eldest son of the Yan family, became a half-son-in-law when he married a wife. Many people think that Yan Bugui married a very bad wife.

As the old saying goes, this is a case of losing both the lady and the army!

Yan Bugui could only remain silent about the gossip circulating in the hospital.

At this time, he would definitely not have the upper hand in arguing with these people. Because the fact is that after Yan Jiecheng was expelled, he rarely came back to the courtyard.

It would be fine if he was busy at work, but on weekends, Yan Jiecheng would hardly appear in the courtyard.

Nowadays, Yan Jiecheng is busy enjoying his own world with Sun Ailian!

Although Yang Ruihua knew that he had raised his son in vain when he talked about dividing the family property, he still had a glimmer of hope in his heart, hoping that his son still cared about them.

But the facts made Yang Ruihua really desperate.

This son was really raised in vain!
In other words, this is the son that someone else raises.

The older generation often said that girls are like water poured out once they are married, and that girls are money-losing goods.

However, the actions of Yan Jiecheng of the Yan family opened the eyes of many people. It turned out that not only daughters but also sons could be money-losing items.

When these things gradually spread in the steel rolling mill, Yan Jiecheng was awakened from the sweetness of their world of two.

In this era, filial piety is still valued by many people.

In the eyes of many older generations, Yan Jiecheng's behavior is unfilial.

What can you expect from an unfilial person?
After the master craftsman who taught Yan Jiecheng locksmith skills learned about this, he called Yan Jiecheng to a corner and carefully asked him about the twists and turns involved.

Yan Jiecheng was also stupid. Until this moment, he didn't think he had done anything wrong.

After knowing that the truth was just like the legend in the factory, the master fitter still gave Yan Jiecheng some advice out of consideration as an elder.

Yan Jiecheng said that he was not unfilial, he just lived far away.

"Master, don't listen to those people's nonsense. This is really not our fault. It's all my father's fault. Tell me, how can you collect rent money from your daughter-in-law?"

As soon as Yan Jiecheng opened his mouth, he pointed out Yan Bugui's mistakes.

"Okay, if you think it's right, then it's right!"

After listening to Yan Jiecheng's explanation, the master fitter was too lazy to say more. However, in his heart, his evaluation of Yan Jiecheng dropped several levels, and his enthusiasm for teaching Yan Jiecheng also dropped several levels.

A dog does not despise a poor home, and a son does not despise an ugly mother!
If he doesn’t even understand such a simple truth, why should we teach him technology?
It’s a pity that Yan Jiecheng did not notice the change in his master’s attitude. He thought he had convinced his master and was very complacent.

This situation continued until the beginning of the year's work-level assessment!

When Yan Jiecheng took part in the work-level assessment, he ultimately failed and everyone was dumbfounded.

"impossible!"

"How could I fail the test?"

"I request a re-examination!"

(End of this chapter)