The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 213 Establishing Prestige
The guy in tattered clothes is Banggeng who we haven't seen for many years. He used to be clean and fair, and his family members were reluctant to let him work. Now he is a little tanned, but still very dark.

His face was particularly rough, and there were several scars on his forehead and corners of his mouth. They were obviously old injuries. He was probably beaten when he had a fight with other educated youth or locals when he first went to the countryside, because this guy deserved a beating.

This guy, holding a parchment roll in one hand and placing it behind his head, walked into the yard as if no one was around, and started shouting.

"Mom, grandma, I'm back."

Yan Fugui might have had diarrhea in the morning and stayed in the toilet for a while longer, so he didn't notice anyone coming in. When he came back from the toilet, he heard someone shouting and yelling, as if they were simply not taking him, the door god of the courtyard, seriously.

"Who is it, yelling so early in the morning?"

Bang Geng turned around and saw Yan Fugui, and said with a smile: "Yan Fugui, I haven't seen you for a few years, and you are still like this."

Yan Fugui squinted his eyes for a long time before he could tell: "Bang Geng, you're back. It's not how you came back. You went to the Hexi Corridor, and you still don't know what civility is."

Yan Fugui's son Yan Jiekuang is still suffering in Shanhaiguan. How can this good guy come back? So Yan Fugui is eager to know a way to get his son back.

Banggeng pointed at himself with his thumb and said: "I have been rolling around in the Hexi Corridor. I was able to survive because I was ruthless. If a person is not ruthless, he cannot stand firm. If he does not have courage and bravery, he would have been taken away by the wild wolves in the Gobi Desert long ago."

Banggeng's grinning look really scared the people in the yard.

At this time, Qin Huairu heard the noise in the yard, opened the door, and saw the person outside the door who looked both familiar and unfamiliar. She tentatively called out, "Bang Geng?"

Bang Geng turned around and saw Qin Huairu, grinning: "Mom, I'm back."

Qin Huairu was crying loudly. Jia Zhang was the laziest person and was not awakened by the noise in the yard. Instead, she was awakened by Qin Huairu's crying.

Jia Zhang cursed: "Why are you howling so loudly so early in the morning? I'm not dead yet."

"Mom, Bang Geng is back."

Jia Zhang got up quickly, walked to the door in two or three steps, and when she saw Banggeng, she hugged him tightly: "Banggeng, my sweetheart, you are finally back. I missed you so much."

Bang Geng let Jia Zhang hold him, and said sarcastically, "Grandma, you've gained weight again. It looks like you're living well in the capital. When I was starving in the Hexi Corridor, did you miss me?"

Sha Zhu carried their third daughter to Liu Hua and whispered, "Hua Zi, did you hear that? This kid's tone is not right."

Liu Hua smiled and said, "Why, are you still afraid that he will make a scene? Let me tell you, this guy is essentially a coward. Even if he is ruthless now, it's only because he hasn't met anyone more ruthless than him. He is still a coward at heart. There's no need to be afraid of him."

"From what he said, he has beaten wolves before."

Liu Hua said contemptuously: "You believe this? See the blanket on his shoulder? If he really fought a wolf, the blanket would not be made of sheepskin, but wolfskin."

"So this guy is bluffing." Liu Hua nodded. "He takes advantage of the fact that we don't know his true identity and tries to show off his power. He thinks that he can bully people in the courtyard."

Sha Zhu smiled and said, "Oh, he can do whatever he wants as long as he doesn't provoke me. If he does, I will teach him a lesson."

When Jia Zhang heard her grandson say that, she cried and explained, "Grandma missed you so much. I am a woman and I am not in good health. I can't go far away. Otherwise, I would have come to see you a long time ago. Some time ago, I asked Liu Hua, that damned guy, to find you a job so that I could transfer you back. But we don't have a head of household, so no one takes my words seriously."

Bang Geng turned his head and looked at Liu Hua, his eyes gleaming with ferocity as he said, "Mr. Liu, you are so disrespectful of the friendship between neighbors. My grandma asked you to help find a job, which is easy for you. Do you really want me to die out there?"

Liu Hua smiled and shook his head: "It's really not that I'm shirking my responsibility. If I were in the steel mill, I would help you find a job. The key is that I'm not in the steel mill now, and the director of the steel mill has changed to a man named Yang. If we don't get along, he won't listen to me."

Jia Zhang jumped up and down and cursed: "Nonsense, don't think I don't know that you have been promoted again. Is it difficult for you to find a job? You just don't want our family to be well."

Liu Hua clapped his hands and said, "Neighbors, please judge for me. It would be fine if you could just find a normal job. Jia Zhang asked me to find a teaching job for her grandson, a university teaching job at that. A person who has not even graduated from junior high school is going to teach university students. If I could find such a job, even if I were the president of a university, it would not be my turn. It would have been snatched up by others a long time ago."

Xu Damao smiled and said, "That's right. If there is such a job, I can do it. After all, I have graduated from junior high school. It would be great to be a teacher, and a university teacher at that. It's respectable, the salary is high, and there are winter and summer vacations."

Banggeng stared at Xu Damao, and Xu Damao said disdainfully: "Banggeng, why are you looking at me? You want to eat me? You have to have the courage to do that."

Bang Geng pointed at Xu Damao and said through gritted teeth: "Xu Damao, remember to be careful when you go out at night next time."

"You are ready to hit me with a club." Xu Damao said disdainfully, "You have to learn it too, grandson. I will teach you a trick. If you really want to hit someone with a club, don't say it out loud. It won't work if you say it out loud. If you say something harsh before hitting someone with a club, then most of the time, they won't dare to hit you."

Qin Huairu had been compromising for half her life just to establish a good image in the courtyard. After Banggeng went to the countryside, she had already restored a lot of the Jia family's reputation, but in just half a day, her son had completely destroyed it.

"Great! When did you arrive in Beijing? Why didn't you send a telegram in advance to let us know?" Qin Huairu hurriedly pulled her son into the house, "So I could pick you up at the train station."

Bang Geng sneered: "To send a telegram, I need money. I have only enough money to buy a train ticket, and the rest is enough for a living."

Xu Damao smiled disdainfully, and Sha Zhu asked with a squint: "What are you laughing at?"

"What are you laughing at? You're laughing at the fact that he has good relationships with people, but he can't even borrow money to send a telegram. You, a fool, want to send a telegram, but you can't borrow money?"

Sha Zhu finally understood and nodded: "It seems that this kid can't even make friends in all these years."

Xu Damao chuckled and said, "What the hell, just tell me, can you find any good points in this guy Banggeng?"

When Sha Zhu licked Qin Huairu, he thought Bang Geng was a good kid. Unfortunately, he got married and started a family early in this life, so he shook his head and said, "I really didn't notice it."

(End of this chapter)