The Life of a Son-in-Law in a Courtyard House

In fact, everyone in the courtyard knows that Qin Huairu is capable and intelligent.

Everyone knows it, but it's hard to explain it clearly.

Especially after she actually became a widow.

There's a big idiot in the courtyard who's replenishing her blood. Since she's no longer sucking everyone's blood, who would dare to expose her?

Throughout the 1950s, 60s and 70s, everyone suffered terribly.

Apart from a few families like Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, Yan Bugui, Shazhu, and Xu Damao, who were doing relatively well, the rest of the families in the courtyard were not doing well.

The other companies are really not that great.

Qin Huairu later earned 27.5 yuan a month, of which 3 yuan was given to Jia Zhangshi, and Xiao Dangbanggeng only paid 5 yuan for half a year's tuition.

Her family wasn't that poor.

In 65, she and Jia Zhangshi had several children, none of whom seemed malnourished, and none of them wore patched clothes.

She's not poor at all; she just wants to eat better without working for it.

She asked Xu Damao to buy her steamed buns, promising to go to the small storeroom, and then told Shazhu.

It's a typical case of taking the benefits without giving anything in return.

If she really likes Sha Zhu, isn't having Sha Zhu and Yi Zhonghai helping her occasionally enough?

She even got an IUD, preventing him from having children, actively approaching him, ruining his reputation, preventing him from getting married, and then getting her shoes hung up on her because of a joke, causing him to be single for almost ten years.

All I can say is that this woman is incredibly cunning.

After Qin Huairu left, Qi Yulan closed the door, not wanting to be too harsh on her two daughters.

She knew that before Yang Dalin came to her house, people often came to take advantage of her, borrowing things and never returning them.

Making sarcastic remarks all the time has caused the two children a lot of distress.

Otherwise, why would Qi Yulan insist on bringing Yang Dalin home?

The family is missing a man to support the household.

These things are unavoidable. For example, in winter, when she has to haul vegetables for winter storage in the yard, there's no man in the house. Besides going to work, she also has to take her two children to queue up.

People lined up in the middle of the night, and other families had boys or men taking turns.

She had to stay up all night with her two children.

We'll have to work hard to bring it back.

In winter, when it snows heavily, she always has to ask other boys for help to shovel snow off the roof.

Even something as simple as replacing roof tiles requires her to ask for help.

Over the years, Yanhua and Xiaoning have grown up, and sometimes she takes care of the two children and does whatever she can.

But there are some jobs she can't do.

Fortunately, Dalin is a sensible and capable child.

The hard times are almost over.

The mother and her two daughters secretly finished eating the steamed buns and drinking the porridge inside the house.

Before going to work in the afternoon, Qi Yulan told her sisters that they should lock the door whenever they could when she and Dalin were not at home.

Don't tell Dalin about this either.

At this time, people were hungry, and women and children were mostly staying at home.

In ordinary families, little boys can go out to play for a while, but little girls and teenagers go out less often because there is a preference for boys over girls, and girls are often hungry and have no reason to go out for a stroll.

When Yang Dalin returned in the afternoon, his aunt had not yet arrived home.

When he gave the face cream and candy to the two sisters, the older sister shyly accepted a box of face cream.

Seeing that she was hesitant to take the candy, Yang Dalin simply broke off a piece and placed it in her hand.

Her shy expression made Yang Dalin feel as sweet as if he had eaten honey.

But when he handed the candy to Xiaoning, the little girl just burst into tears.

After a while, Yang Dalin used meat and vegetables to coax the story out of her at noon.

The matter isn't a big deal, but it depends on the era.

In extreme cases, even a gold bar can only be exchanged for a single steamed bun.

Those two steamed buns are practically a way to swindle two gold bars from me!

That bitch Qin Huairu, I'll teach her a lesson she won't rest until I get my hands on her.

Yang Dalin's mind raced and he came up with a brilliant idea.

However, he didn't say it directly, but comforted the little girl: "Silly sister, good people will be rewarded. Look, I brought you meat, vegetables, and steamed buns. Consider the two buns as feeding the dog. Bad people will be punished by bad people, don't worry."

Yang Dalin was about to divide the candy equally between the two sisters, but there was one left over.

After Qi Xiaoning called out "Hello, Brother Dalin," Yang Dalin gave her the candy.

Tell her not to be stingy with food in the future.

I'll eat three pieces a day, so I can save the money later and feed it to the puppies.

They ordered two meat dishes, but only heated one of them.

I also heated up six steamed buns.

We're just waiting for Aunt Yulan to come back for dinner.

To prevent others from smelling the food, the door must be closed tightly when we eat.

When Yang Dalin returned, he actually saw Yan Bugui, who was guarding the entrance of the hanging flower gate.

However, Yang Dalin simply hung that tattered piece of clothing on the outside of his satchel.

The lunchbox was also tightly sealed and placed in the shoulder bag.

In theory, Yang Dalin was still a child, and Yan Laokou and Yang Dalin had not yet become familiar with each other.

He was naturally too embarrassed to take advantage of Yang Dalin.

This old man has some shame, though it's not much.

Unlike Sha Zhu, Yang Dalin didn't casually carry his lunchbox in a net bag.

That's too high-profile. Yan Bugui has never been able to get the better of Sha Zhu, which is why he's so jealous and envious.

In the opening scene, he steals a chicken, and he wants to kill Sha Zhu with Liu Haizhong.

Instead, Yi Zhonghai changed the subject, allowing Sha Zhu to escape unscathed.

Actually, when it comes to Yi Zhonghai, the good he is is because he is good to the deaf old lady, Sha Zhu, and Qin Huairu's family.

This does not include any rainwater.

If he were someone who was obsessed with power, then he wouldn't have stepped down voluntarily in the summer of 66.

His biggest weakness is that he has no children, no one to support him in his old age, and he doesn't feel proud despite being an eighth-grade worker.

All he wanted to do in his life was solve his retirement problem; he wasn't that concerned about anything else.

Because he has no children, what's the point of climbing high or making a lot of money if he has no children? Who will he leave it to? He has no descendants.

Aunt Yulan returned home and, looking at the things Yang Dalin had bought, her eyes filled with tears.

In order not to frighten Aunt Yulan, Yang Dalin paid another twenty yuan today.

He and Grandpa Qi have agreed to go to the grain bureau tomorrow to carry grain.

Once or twice is acceptable, but not a third time. And work at the train station isn't always easy.

And what if someone with a big mouth spills the news that Yang Dalin earns so much money every day?

There will inevitably be disputes.

Yang Dalin said to Aunt Yulan, "Auntie, could you please buy me a few more pairs of socks and prepare two sets of work clothes for me?"

It would be best to have a replacement for this jacket. A few patches are fine, especially on the shoulders and knees of the pants; just sew on more patches.

Aunt Yulan wiped away her tears: "Child, you must have suffered so much to earn this much money. Are you tired? It's okay if we work a little less. I still have money."

"Auntie, don't worry, I'm not stupid. You can tell at a glance that you know nothing about my abilities. I'll show you."

Yang Dalin cleared the tabletop, then placed a cloth on it for Qi Xiaoning to sit on.

The solid wood old eight-immortal table weighs fifty or sixty pounds, plus Qi Xiaoning, who weighs about sixty pounds, and she's also very thin, so that makes a total of one hundred and twenty or thirty pounds.

Yang Dalin told Qi Xiaoning to hold the table firmly, and then lifted the table up from below with one hand, raising it above his head.

Actually, Yang Dalin wanted to grab a corner of the table and lift it up.

It wasn't that he couldn't do it, but he was afraid that Qi Xiaoning would fall, so he chose to lift her up.

Amidst the three girls' quiet gasps of surprise, Yang Dalin put down the table.

Yang Dalin took off the coat he had changed into after showering, revealing a sweater underneath.

He took off his sweater, revealing a thermal undershirt underneath, and under the thermal undershirt was a men's crossbody vest.

It's common for teenagers to dress like this in the summer, so it doesn't count as being an exhibitionist.

Yang Dalin showed them his muscles.

"Auntie, look at me, these muscles of mine, I've built them up from doing chores at home since I was a kid. Don't worry, as long as I'm well-fed, I'll have the strength. But tomorrow we'll have to work at the grain bureau, so we probably won't earn as much."