boyutpedia Chapter 2 Look at this family!
Chapter 2 Look at this family!
Courtyard house, central courtyard
It's the weekend, and the residents in the courtyard are enjoying themselves.
Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, and Xu Fugui were playing chess in front of the stone chessboard. Sha Zhu, Liu Guangtian, Yan Jiecheng, Chen Laosan, and a few others were gathered under the covered walkway, secretly listening to Xu Damao telling jokes in a low voice.
Xu Damao had a heavy taste, and the stories he told made even raw recruits like Sha Zhu, Liu Guangtian, and Yan Jiecheng feel embarrassed, let alone Chen Laosan, who already had two children.
Under the pomegranate tree opposite the covered walkway, a group of women, including Auntie Da, Auntie Er, Auntie San, and Auntie Xu, gathered together and chatted about everyday life.
In just a few words, the reputations of countless people in the steel mill's residential area were ruined.
Zhang Erya was tired from sewing shoe soles, so she lifted the curtain and went out to get some fresh air in the yard. But when she turned her head, she found that the two pieces of ginger she had hung out to dry on the windowsill were gone.
This really stirred up a hornet's nest, and Jia Zhangshi sat down on the ground with a thud:
"Oh my God! Which bastard is bullying us, a widow and her orphan..."
You scoundrel who stole my ginger, I curse you not to live past thirty! I curse your son to call someone else "Dad!"
As Jia Zhangshi cursed, she glanced at the three Yan brothers, her gaze carrying a pointed meaning.
"Old Jia, open your eyes and see! Since you left, all these bastards in this yard have been bullying me! If you're watching over me from heaven, take that dog who stole our ginger with you!"
As soon as the soul summoning spell was cast, the faces of everyone in the courtyard immediately showed disgust.
Zhang Erya didn't care about anything else, and slapped her thigh, cursing the bastard who stole her things and his ancestors for eighteen generations.
She kept cursing until her mouth was dry and she was foaming at the mouth, until her son, Jia Dongxu, returned from working overtime.
"Mom, please stop scolding me," Jia Dongxu whispered as he leaned closer.
Jia Zhangshi, her face flushed and neck thick with anger, exclaimed, "Why shouldn't I scold him? I'm going to scold him! That scoundrel dared to steal my things, I'll curse him to death!"
Not only will I curse him, but I'm also going to the police station to report him and have the police arrest this ginger-stealing bastard and make him a target!
"Mom..." Jia Dongxu sighed, his voice even softer, "I brought the ginger home and put it in the kitchen."
"Huh?" Jia Zhangshi was dumbfounded. Damn it, after all that cursing, she ended up cursing her own family?
Remembering her own vicious words, she quickly spat into the air a few times.
After getting up, I felt I couldn't just slink away like that, otherwise people would think my family was easy to bully.
Then, hands on her hips, she yelled at the crowd in the yard, "I'm magnanimous, I won't hold these two ginger heads against anyone. But if anyone dares to bully me again, I'll curse their whole family to death!"
Everyone in the courtyard: "???"
Damn it, living in the same courtyard as Zhang Erya, who is annoying to everyone and even dogs, is the worst luck imaginable!
……
backyard,
Liu Guangfu, the third son of the Liu family, leaned against the corner of the wall, took a small sugar figurine, and stuck out his tongue, licking it little by little.
Banggeng originally came to play with him, but when he saw the little sugar figurine, his eyes lit up and he walked over: "Guangfu, what are you eating?"
Liu Guangfu looked up: "Hey, I'm eating a sugar figurine! Look, it's Sun Wukong!"
The little guy rolled on the ground for ten minutes for this little sugar figurine, and got a beating from his dad before he finally got what he wanted. Now he's especially proud of himself and wants to show it off to everyone he meets.
Banggeng swallowed hard: "Brother Guangfu, move that Sun Wukong a little closer to me..."
Liu Guangfu was only eight years old and, without suspicion, obediently brought the candy over.
The next second, Banggeng opened its blood-red maw, bit off half of the sugar figurine, and turned to run away.
Liu Guangfu froze on the spot for a moment, then came to his senses a few seconds later and burst into tears.
"Waaaaah... I hate you, I'm never playing with you again!"
……
Outside the Forbidden City, in Changping, Qin Family Village
Today is Mr. Qin's 60th birthday.
A sixtieth birthday celebration should be a grand affair, but the Qin family wasn't well-off in the village; they were at best middle class. Their life was ordinary, and they had few guests.
There were only three tables for the birthday banquet. Apart from a few of Qin Laoliu's friends, the rest were all relatives.
Inside the main room, the Qin family members gathered together, their laughter echoing throughout.
Inside the kitchen, Xiao Dang looked at Qin Huairu busy at the stove and scratched his head: "Mom, Auntie, Second Auntie, Little Auntie, Uncle, Second Uncle, and Third Uncle are all having a feast in the main room. Why don't we go in?"
Qin Huairu felt bitter inside, but she stubbornly said, "So many people smoke in the main room, Mom can't stand the smell of smoke."
Smelling the delicious aroma wafting from the main room, Xiao Dang licked her fingers greedily: "Xiao Dang isn't afraid of the smell of smoke, Xiao Dang wants to eat at the banquet."
Qin Huairu gave a bitter smile. How could she not know that Xiao Dang was greedy? But the food served at her family's banquet was not delicious.
There's an old saying that the roads to one's maternal family's home are paved with money. Qin Huairu used to think this saying was an exaggeration, but after she got married, she realized it couldn't be more true.
Seven years ago,
When she married into the Jia family in Beijing from Qin Family Village, she enjoyed a period of great prestige. Her parents had high hopes for her, expecting her to bring prosperity to the family after she entered the city.
But as time went on, it became clear that although the Jia family was relatively well-off compared to others in the village, Zhang Erya had no intention of helping her in-laws.
Unable to gain any advantage from his in-laws, Qin Laoliu turned his attention to his daughter, Qin Huairu. At first, she was alright, but after giving birth, her heart was set on her husband's family.
Qin Huairu didn't contribute a single penny to her eldest son Qin Huaishan's and second son Qin Jianguo's weddings.
"This girl, we've raised her for nothing!" This was a phrase Qin Laoliu always had on his lips.
Ever since Qin Laoliu said those words, everyone in the Qin family except Qin Huairu's mother has started to have a subtle change in their attitude towards Qin Huairu.
Qin Huairu couldn't get the money back to help her parents' family. At first, she wanted to do more to make up for it, but later she found that no matter how much she did, her parents only cared about money, and her heart turned cold.
Like today, I brought ten eggs to celebrate my dad's birthday.
But after her father got the eggs, he didn't even let her drink any water before sending her into the kitchen to cook.
At this moment, listening to the laughter and chatter in the main room, and thinking about the vastly different experiences she had with her eldest and second sisters at her parents' home, Qin Huairu, with a stern face, cooked the grand finale dish, chicken stew with mushrooms, took out a small portion of it, and put it into the aluminum lunchbox she had brought.
She brought three lunchboxes today, and they're almost all full now.
"Xiao Dang, let's go." She put all the lunchboxes into the net bag, pulled Xiao Dang along, and left.
A dozen minutes later, Qin Yuru, the eldest daughter of the Qin family, and Qin Fengru, the second daughter, entered the kitchen and were stunned to see the chicken stew with mushrooms that had gone cold on the stove.
"Dad, Mom, Huai Ru has run away!"
"What? They ran away?" Qin Laoliu and his group rushed out of the main room and saw the mess in the kitchen. Qin Laoliu was so angry that he slapped his thigh.
"What a disaster! How could I have given birth to such a thing!"
At this point, the Qin family's disgust for Qin Huairu and her husband's family reached its peak.
On the other side, at the entrance of the courtyard house
"Who are you looking for?" Yan Bugui stared wide-eyed at the young man in front of him.
"Sir, I'm looking for Zhang Erya. Do you know if she lives in this courtyard?" Zhang Chengfei patiently repeated himself.
Yan Bugui's gaze fell again on the things Zhang Chengfei had brought: "You, who are you to Zhang Erya?"
Zhang Chengfei: "I am Er Ya's third uncle."
Third Uncle? Yan Bugui was shocked.