Courtyard houses: Those who are capable are rewarded, and many children bring many blessings.

Niu Dazhuang listened for a while but didn't hear anything, so he lost interest, took out a cigarette and smoked a bag.

The two sisters had almost finished cooking dinner. Qin Xueru then boiled four more eggs and placed them on the kang table.

"Dazhuang, don't go out this Sunday. Clean up the coal in the yard!"

Niu Dazhuang regretted piling ten tons of smokeless coal in the yard, not for any other reason than that it was affecting the lives of several families in the adjacent courtyard.

Although the other three families have become more obedient after being dealt with by me and my uncle, we still can't be without public morality.

"Okay, I'll clean up after we eat and take some over to Grandpa's!"

If it weren't for the fact that a man in the family needs to carry the heavy load, productivity would be low now, especially in cities and rural areas. Without a man in the family, many things can't be done.

After eating, they called the three little ones over and carried some over to Grandpa Niu in a basket. Niu Dazhuang first moved the large coal blocks in front of other people's houses to his own under the eaves and stacked them neatly.

Qin Xueru finished cleaning up the dishes, saw that they were busy and knew she couldn't help, so she went to the Intermediate People's Court to see if her third sister had been bullied!

That's just how women are. Niu Dazhuang is capable, and Qin Xueru feels proud when she goes out, so she speaks with more confidence.

Once inside the Jia family home, she couldn't directly criticize Jia Zhangshi, so she lectured Jia Dongxu instead: "Third brother-in-law, I'm not trying to be mean, but you can't even take care of your own woman. My third sister is pregnant, and you're just making her angry. If she gets into trouble with the baby, you'll regret it!"

Jia Dongxu felt even more aggrieved now, and this grown man almost cried: "Xueru, I just got home from get off work, how could I have time to make your sister angry!"

Madam Jia was furious. It was one thing for her daughter-in-law to bully her son, but for Qin Xueru to come in and, for no reason at all, scold her son? She couldn't stand it.

"Qin Xueru, our Jia family's affairs are none of your business, you outsider! Go cool off somewhere else!"

Qin Xueru wasn't one to be trifled with either. "Who wants to get involved in your Jia family's mess? If you hadn't sent Xiaobanggeng'er to my house this afternoon to ask for scrambled eggs, I wouldn't have bothered with your family affairs at all."

My sister ate at my house, which saved your family money. How can you be so greedy and try to take advantage of us? Have you no shame?!

That wasn't all. She then said to Jia Dongxu, "I thought my sister was going to be happy marrying into your family, but it turns out she's just suffering. Why are you taking advantage of our family's lack of connections?"

"Oh dear! How could I let your sister be mistreated? Why don't you ask her?"

"Don't even ask her. You didn't directly make my sister angry, but you did it indirectly. What pregnant woman doesn't want to eat well? Look at your family!"

At this point, Jia Dongxu felt even more wronged. "Xueru, let's be reasonable, okay? Didn't your sister tell you that I only keep one yuan for pocket money after I get paid, and give the rest to your sister? She can buy whatever she wants!"

"Hmph! You make it sound so easy. You only have that little bit of fixed salary each month, how are you going to spend it? My sister has to be careful with her money. Even if she wants to buy some eggs, she can't bear to part with them. That's why she comes to my house to freeload. And your mother, instead of being grateful to my family, is thinking of taking advantage of us even more! My sister is the unluckiest person in eight lifetimes to have married into your family."

After saying that, he pulled Qin Huairu along, saying, "Third Sister, let's go to my house. We won't tolerate their bad behavior!"

After the two sisters left, Jia Dongxu looked at his mother, sighed, and lost his appetite. He went to the neighbor's house to complain to his master.

When the two sisters returned, Niu Dazhuang had already left.

He closed the door and poured Qin Huairu a bowl of water: "Third Sister, calm down first."

"I wasn't really angry, I just felt my mother-in-law was being unreasonable!"

"Third Sister, are you sure the child in your belly is Jia Dongxu's?" Qin Xueru suddenly asked this question.

The question immediately made Qin Huairu blush! "Eight or nine out of ten, I'm always the one who goes first, Dazhuang has never done 'that,' how could it be his?"

"I just don't understand. Is my Dazhuang really that magnanimous?"

"Xueru, what do you want to say?"

"I mean, look at the situation now, you're just staying at home all the time anyway, why don't you just divorce Jia Dongxu!"

"This... Xue Ru, if I get a divorce, under what pretext can I stay at home?"

"Let Dazhuang rent us a small courtyard house outside, then we can live however we want!"

"Oh! Is that so? What about the baby in my belly?"

"If you agree, wait for Dazhuang to come back and talk to him about it, then see what his opinion is!"

"Ningru will be here in a few days!"

"Let her come. You've seen what Dazhuang is like before. Are you worried about him not having enough to eat? Look at him now, he's out every night, who knows how many women he's seeing. If we don't do something about it, we'll be in big trouble!"

The two sisters whispered for a while before Qin Huairu finally ate dinner.

Meanwhile, Niu Dazhuang rode his bicycle to Chen Xueru's house.

"Little brother, you did this on purpose, didn't you!" Chen Xueru was furious at Niu Dazhuang's behavior.

"What happened to me? I'm not late!"

Chen Xueru pulled the person in front of the full-length mirror and said, "Take a look for yourself."

"Haha... I carried coal around the house for a bit, I'm going to wash it now!"

Chen Xueru's eyes darted around, and she smiled mysteriously: "Hehe, no need, let's all shower together later! Yongmei, go boil some water, boil a lot!"

Niu Dazhuang ignored her and washed his face first.

"Sister, let's have a drink first, I'm a bit shy!"

"Hehe, that's fine too. You're much more aggressive than usual after drinking. Let that foreign woman know how powerful we men are. Let's see if she still dares to brag about that wicked monk from her country."

"How did this 'evil monk' get dragged into this again?"

Chen Xueru then recounted the story she had heard from Elena about the wicked monk Rasputin to Niu Dazhuang. She concluded by saying, "Little brother, you must do your best tonight!"

"Don't say that. I'm under a lot of pressure. It's best to let things take their course!"

"My dear brother, if you can't win her over, she won't work for us wholeheartedly. And if she doesn't work for us wholeheartedly, we won't make much money!"

Niu Dazhuang even modestly said, "I've done my best, go prepare the bar!"

Alright, the two of them started drinking first.

Lin Yongmei has already boiled the water, but Elena hasn't arrived yet.

"Are you sure you've decided on this?"

"Why are you in such a hurry?"

"It's not that we're in a rush. If we haven't made plans, we won't wait for her. It's that I've developed feelings for you."

"Hehe, good little brother, just bear with it a little longer, something might have been holding you up."

The two had almost finished a bottle of red wine when Elena finally arrived late.

"Sorry I'm late!"

Niu Dazhuang and Niu Dazhuang tacitly avoided asking each other the reason.

"Being late will result in a penalty of three cups of wine," Chen Xueru said, handing her a wine glass.

"Okay, to show my sincerity in apologizing, I'll switch to vodka!"

This foreign woman is really something, she asked for vodka right away...