Courtyard House: Drunk and barging into the Xu family's house, I woke up numb.

“Look at that stubborn fellow, they’ve spoiled him rotten. He’s got a lot of bad habits. He wouldn’t behave even when he was locked up in the steward’s office. They broke his arm and he had to come back to recover.”

"I'm telling you, boss, and you two listen up too."

"When I have a son in the future, I will love him dearly, but I must discipline him strictly and do a good job in his education."

"If you dare to raise my grandson to be like that scoundrel, I'll beat you all up too!"

No sooner had Liu Haizhong finished speaking than his door was pushed open.

Immediately afterwards, a figure rushed into the house and knelt down on the ground with a thud.

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"Happy New Year, Second Uncle! Happy New Year, Second Aunt! Happy New Year, Uncle and Aunt! Banggeng wishes you a Happy New Year!"

After speaking, before the Liu family could react, he immediately began to kowtow.

Liu Guangqi, who was sitting on the side, was the first to react. He got up and went to Banggeng, reaching out his hand.

"Hey, isn't that a Korean hamster?"

"Come on, get up quickly. The neighborhood committee just issued a notice this year that this is no longer allowed."

Banggeng knelt on the ground and looked at Liu Guangqi.

"Uncle Guangqi, I don't know anything about the streets or anything like that."

“My grandmother said that I am a junior, and it is perfectly right for a junior to kowtow to his elders to wish them a Happy New Year. This is a rule passed down from our ancestors.”

Liu Haizhong looked at the kneeling boy and was momentarily at a loss. Just now, he had scolded the boy for being unruly and ill-mannered.

Now that someone has suddenly kowtowed to him to wish him a Happy New Year, he feels somewhat embarrassed.

He could tell that the boy was holding a bowl and was obviously asking for a reward.

If we don't follow the old custom and give him lucky money, this kid will probably have to keep kneeling.

He can talk to adults about the things the neighborhood advocates, but he can't talk to children about them; it would be incredibly embarrassing if word got out.

"Honey, what are you standing there for? Give Banggeng his New Year's money."

“This child has already laid out the rules, so we elders should also abide by them.”

Auntie Er wasn't stupid either; she took out a two-cent coin from her pocket and put it into Banggeng's bowl.

"Banggeng, get some fresh air on the ground."

Banggeng looked at the two cents in the bowl and felt a wave of disdain. How stingy!

"Second Aunt, it's alright for me to catch a cold, but my two younger sisters are still in the hospital."

“She’s still on an IV drip, vomiting and having diarrhea, and my mom is still worried about the medical expenses.”

"However, my mom said that no matter how difficult things are for our family, we still have to follow the rules of covering up and keeping secrets."

"That's why they made me come back early this morning to pay my respects to the elders."

"I hope everyone can be happy and safe, and not spend the New Year in the hospital like my family did."

"Alright, they think it's not enough," the second aunt and uncle exchanged a helpless glance.

Auntie Er gritted her teeth and took out another three cents from her pocket and put it in.

"Bang Geng, get up quickly and go buy some candy for your sisters so they can have some sweets and share in the joy."

Banggeng looked at his second aunt with slightly red eyes.

"Thank you, Auntie. You're a good person; you know how hard our family's life has been."

“My sister can’t eat hard food right now. The doctor said it would be good for her to eat some bread, but bread is too expensive.”

“It’s my fault as the older brother; I can’t even do this little thing.”

The second aunt took out another 50 cents from her pocket and threw it at the stick.

"Is this enough? It's enough to buy fruit and bread for the two of them."

"If you don't get up soon, I'm taking this money back."

Banggeng knew that the price had already been raised to the maximum. He stood up abruptly, smiling as he spoke.

"Thank you, Uncle and Aunt! You are both good people and will surely live to be a hundred years old!"

After saying that, he ran out in a flash. Aunt Er stood at the door watching Bang Geng run to the next house, looking annoyed.

"What the hell? Rushing back from the hospital first thing in the morning? This isn't a New Year's greeting, it's clearly asking for money!"

After he finished speaking, he looked at Liu Haizhong, who had a dark expression on his face.

"Old Liu, you're the second oldest man in the courtyard, aren't you going to do anything about it?"

Liu Haizhong slammed his hand on the table and snorted coldly.

"This Jia family is really outrageous! Sending a kid to cause trouble so early in the morning, what a spoilsport!"

Chapter 106 She's Gone Wrong; Jia Zhangshi Has Died Herself! [Please Subscribe]

Banggeng was overjoyed after successfully getting a dollar from Liu Haizhong's house.

With the spirit of a hungry tiger descending the mountain, he embarked on a new journey, performing a traditional New Year's greeting in the courtyard according to the methods taught by Jia Zhangshi.

He didn't spare anyone who was married or of a higher generation than him; he went from house to house, sweeping them all away.

Whether it was He Daqing, Yi Zhonghai, or Yan Bugui, none of them could escape it.

Moreover, he received double from Sha Zhu: a small portion of 50 cents from He Daqing and two dollars from Sha Zhu.

As for He Yushui, well, he didn't even glance at Bang Geng with a straight face, and didn't contribute a single penny.

"Rain, people from the village come to wish you a Happy New Year, why are you giving them such a cold shoulder?"

He Daqing put his chopsticks on the table and glared at He Yuzhu.

"Give them what? Are you stupid? Do you think they're really here to wish you a Happy New Year? They're obviously just here to freeload."

He Yushui glanced at her silly older brother and said irritably.

"Dad, my brother is the kind of person who never learns from his mistakes. He forgets the pain once the wound heals and has completely forgotten about the time when people made him take the blame."

He Daqing nodded.

"That's right, the blows were too light."

When Sha Zhu saw his father and sister ganging up on him, he immediately became angry.

"Hey, you two father and daughter are hitting me with cymbals first thing in the morning, aren't you? And you're going to hit me too?"

"What's wrong, Comrade He Daqing? Are you also learning from Uncle Erda's old trick of using corporal punishment to produce filial sons?"

"Let me tell you, this approach doesn't work on me. If you push me too far, I'll just go crazy."

He Daqing snorted.

"Then you should leave quickly, I can sleep alone in the room."

Sha Zhu sneered.

"Fine, do you think I want to sleep in the same room as you?"

"You snore so loudly when you sleep that it can wake people up in the middle of the night."

He Daqing asked.

"Has Cao Xu not returned yet?"

He Yuzhu said.

“I called them before dinner, but they weren’t at ‘870’s’ house. I guess they’re spending the New Year at the Lou’s house.”

Speaking of which, the relationship between the He family and the Cao family has improved quite a bit recently. Before the New Year's Eve dinner was started yesterday, He Daqing asked Sha Zhu to go and call people.

However, Cao Xu was spending New Year's Eve with Xia Jie at the Cao family's old house, so he naturally missed him.

This morning, I went to check the backyard, but Cao Xu still hadn't returned.

"When did the Cao family and the Lou family become so close?"

Hearing the old man's question, He Yuzhu pointed to He Yushui standing to the side and said.

"It's a long story. Let Yushui tell you. He's been with the Cao family for a long time and knows more than I do."

Just as the He family was discussing the relationship between the Cao and Lou families, Banggeng came skipping and hopping out of Uncle Yi's house.

Once outside the house, he went straight to the home of his third uncle, Yan Bugui, who lived in the front yard.

As usual, he pushed open the door, disregarding whether the Yan family was eating or not, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Yan Bugui.

This sudden movement startled Yan Bugui so much that he dropped his chopsticks. The third aunt put down her rice bowl and came out.

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"Bang Geng, get up quickly. This kind of thing doesn't work in the city, and it's even less common in our family."

“We’re not even immediate family. If outsiders saw this, wouldn’t they say we’re practicing feudal customs?”