Chapter 21 Banggen has grown up

"Auntie Yi, Aunt Chen, and Aunt Jia are all here." He Yuzhu originally didn't intend to have anything to do with the Jia family.

After the incident where Jia Zhang made He Yushui cry, the He and Jia families stopped interacting with each other.

However, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and Auntie Yida and Aunt Chen are also there.

If He Yuzhu deliberately didn't greet Jia Zhang, it would seem that he was impolite.

How could He Yuzhu be an impolite person?

He greeted her casually, parked the car, and prepared to unlock the door and enter.

"Hey, Zhuzi, where did you come back from? I haven't seen you for half a year."

Aunt Chen asked first. Her family and the He family had a good relationship and had helped each other.

"Aunt Chen, I've been working out of town for the past six months. It's Chinese New Year, and my boss is on holiday, so I came back to rest for a few days. I'll have to leave again after Chinese New Year."

He Yuzhu made up his mind not to get too involved with Siheyuan to avoid getting into trouble.

So I prepared my speech before coming.

"Zhu Zi, are you going to the other place alone, or with your wife and children?"

The aunt asked with some concern. She and the uncle still didn't want to give up He Yuzhu, with whom they had cultivated a relationship for many years.

If He Yuzhu took his wife and children to another place, the aunt would give up.

If Lou Xiao'e had stayed in Beijing, perhaps she could have tried harder to deepen the relationship.

"For the time being, I am alone. Xiao'e's parents are old and in poor health. Xiao'e has to take care of them at home."

He Yuzhu knew what the aunt was thinking, but he was not interested in caring about it.

Many novels are about planning houses in courtyard houses.

He Yuzhu was a little confused.

Although there are not many complete courtyard houses with complete title deeds in Sijiu City, there are definitely not a few of them.

Would a time traveler really keep harping on such a messy courtyard all day long?
He Yuzhu has no control over what others think.

Anyway, He Yuzhu just wanted to have as little dealings with the Siheyuan as possible as long as his own house was not occupied.

I opened the door and found that no one had been in the room for half a year, and the corners and table legs were moldy.

It is particularly difficult to clean up at this time.

First go outside and pull the ropes, then take out the quilts and mattresses to dry in the sun.

Afterwards, taking advantage of the system's storage capabilities, He Yuzhu easily cleaned up the dust in the three rooms.

An hour later, all three rooms were cleaned.

There are two main rooms and one for the old lady in the backyard.

Thinking of the old lady, He Yuzhu lit another stick of incense for her.

Although He Yuzhu is an atheist, lighting a stick of incense is a way of expressing grief.

After He Yuzhu cleaned the dust, he opened all the doors and windows to let the sunlight into the house.

The house has become a bit gloomy because it has not been occupied for a long time.

Remembering that he would have to live with his wife and children for a month, He Yuzhu went to buy another 300 pieces of coal briquettes.

The distance from the entrance to the central courtyard of this quadrangle is about sixty or seventy meters.

There are also two thresholds blocking the way, making it very inconvenient to carry.

He Yuzhu found an uncle with a cart and agreed to pay him two dollars to help him move all the coal briquettes back into the house.

Of course, He Yuzhu is not an idle guy, he does a lot of work himself.

The two of them moved about thirty pieces each time, and made ten trips back and forth.

By the time the coal briquettes were moved, it was already noon.

Some children and workers have returned from school at noon.

After He Yuzhu saw off the uncle on the cart, the first child to say hello was Yan Jiedi from the third uncle's family.

Yan Jie Di is no longer a child and has become a grown-up girl. The look in her eyes when she looks at He Yuzhu no longer has the spirituality she had when she was a child.

This girl's eyes are full of the Yan family's bloodline inheritance, and she is stingy and calculating.

"Brother Zhuzi, are you going to move back here? Do you want me to help you clean up?"

The little girl spoke very nicely, but unfortunately she stood at her door with her hands behind her back, just talking without doing anything.

"Forget it. Jie Di's clothes are so beautiful and clean. If they get dirty, it will be a lot of trouble to wash them in such a cold weather."

He Yuzhu responded with a sound and that was it.

The four children of the Yan family have been educated by the third uncle and have almost become smart adults.

Yan Jiedi was not really willing to help. If she really wanted to help, she should have spoken up when He Yuzhu and the driver on the cart were unloading the coal briquettes.

We're just coming out to chat now, just to be polite.

Back in the central courtyard, there was a man and three women sitting at the gate of the Jia family. Banggeng, Jia Zhangshi, Xiaodang, and Huaihua were all sitting on small benches basking in the sun, waiting for dinner.

"Uncle He is back."

These people had been hiding in the house just now, and only came out after seeing He Yuzhu finish his work.

The Jia family is also good at calculating.

"came back."

He Yuzhu had no intention of chatting with them, and just wanted to remain a nodding acquaintance with the Jia family.

Just when He Yuzhu was thinking about going back to the house to change clothes and go out to find a restaurant for lunch, two pretty young women pushed their bicycles from outside and walked into the central courtyard.

"Hey, Zhuzi is back."

"Sister Qin is off work."

"Hello, Zhuzi."

"Hello, Yuli."

The younger generation in the courtyard have all grown up. Be it Yan Jie Di or Xiao Dang Huaihua, to be honest, their looks are just average, with a good foundation at best.

When it comes to beauty, Qin Huairu, who is almost forty, or Yu Li, who just turned thirty, both crush the younger girls.

The two women walked side by side, like calla lilies, and the young ladies' temperament was perfectly grasped.

He Yuzhu greeted the two of them, didn't say much, and went back to the house to change clothes.

In this world, He Yuzhu has nothing to do with Qin Huairu and Yu Li.

After Yu Li and Xu Damao got married, they struggled for a long time because they had no children.

Later, they went to the hospital for a check-up and were told that there was nothing wrong with them.

However, seeing as neither of them seems to be planning on getting a divorce, and after more than a decade of ups and downs together, I'm afraid there must be problems with the diagnostic reports they produce.

He Yuzhu didn't want to say much about Xu Damao and Yu Li's affairs, nor did he want to get involved.

He Yuzhu never thought of cheating on Xu Damao. Although He Yuzhu had thought of being a thief, his moral standards made him keep the bottom line.

In order to take care of her family, Qin Huairu has become completely shameless in the factory. Except for not breaking her bottom line, she flirts with others almost every day.

In other words, Qin Huairu has a good foundation. She is almost forty years old, but she can still get along well with men.

Faced with the higher-level Qin Huairu, He Yuzhu didn't want to provoke her.

Of course, Qin Huairu didn't want to stir up trouble in the courtyard, as the Jia family still had to save face.

No matter what Qin Huairu's reputation is in the factory, Siheyuan has no right to control it.

In the courtyard, Qin Huairu is a great mother who is filial to her mother-in-law and takes care of her children.

If He Yuzhu were to swallow Qin Huairu, who knows what kind of mess his life would be ruined into.

After changing his clothes, He Yuzhu went out again, leaving only the stalks of grass and locust flowers in the yard.

Xiaodang was already a grown-up girl, and was called into the house by Qin Huairu to help with cooking.

Went out to a restaurant for lunch.

He Yuzhu returned to the courtyard and began to install the exhaust pipe for the coal stove.

When I left half a year ago, it was already summer and the exhaust pipes of the coal-fired stove had been removed.

It is winter now. If the three houses do not have exhaust pipes for the coal stoves, the temperature in the house will be too cold and the children living there will easily catch a cold.

There was a ladder at home, and He Yuzhu climbed up and down by himself and spent two hours to fix the exhaust pipe of the coal stove.

During this period, neighbors who were going to work or school met and greeted each other.

Living in a courtyard house with so many people coming and going is indeed inconvenient.

He Yuzhu planned to wait until the wind direction changed completely, then renovate the two rows of courtyards and move there with his wife and children.

Of course, you can also buy a new house.

If you have money, you can do whatever you want.

These three rooms in the courtyard will be left for He Daqing to live in when he returns.

Speaking of He Daqing, it has been more than 20 years since he passed away and he never sent back a single letter.

He Yuzhu only knows that He Daqing went to Baoding, but he is not sure about the specific place.

In the TV series, He Daqing was brought back by Xu Damao to cause trouble for Sha Zhu.

Now, He Yuzhu no longer pays attention to Xu Damao, and no one knows whether He Daqing will be brought back.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, I had tidied up my quilts and mattresses and closed the doors and windows.

Finally, He Yuzhu packed up his clothes and left the courtyard.

After everyone got off work in the afternoon, the aunt told the uncle that He Yuzhu was going to bring his wife and children back to celebrate the New Year.

"You said that after Zhuzi left Siheyuan, he went to work in another place? Did Zhuzi say that himself?"

In fact, the old man has mastered the understanding of human nature to perfection.

As early as when Jia Dongxu was still alive, he knew that the Jia family would no longer be able to provide for him in his old age, even though he had helped the Jia family a lot, both openly and secretly.

Later, Jia Dongxu passed away, and the old man started to have ideas again.

But Banggeng has the same temperament as Jia Dongxu.

When Banggeng grows up, he will become another Jia Dongxu, who is not willing to have any personal interactions with his neighbors.

Even after returning home and looking for a job, he was unwilling to come to beg for mercy.

It was Qin Huairu who came to her and the old man finally helped her and found her a job.

Having lost the hope of being supported by the Jia family in his old age, the only person the eldest uncle can rely on now is He Yuzhu.

After all, the two families had a good relationship for the past ten years or so.

"Yes," said the aunt, with a worried look on her face. She grabbed her husband's hand and started crying, "It's all my fault that I was in poor health and couldn't leave you a son or daughter when I was young..."

"Hey, why are you saying that again?"

The old man was a little unhappy. The couple couldn't have a child. It was not only the old woman's problem, but the old man himself also had some problems.

Every time the aunt talked about this, the uncle felt uncomfortable.

The old couple was looking forward to He Yuzhu's family returning.

Every day I stay in the yard, looking forward to it.

He Yuzhu didn't let them wait too long.

There is an old saying in the north that the New Year comes after Laba Festival.

He Yuzhu returned with his wife and children before Laba Festival.

Lou Zhendong asked Zheng Huyuan to drive the car twice.

The first trip was to send He Yuzhu and his luggage.

The second trip was to send Lou Xiao'e and her four children.

After He Yuzhu and his family came back, the courtyard suddenly became lively.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and more and more families are celebrating weddings.

He Yuzhu would politely turn down several people who came every day looking for extra income by preparing banquets.

Before, He Yuzhu almost always accepted these jobs, and that's how he accumulated two hundred large yellow croakers and five hundred small yellow croakers.

Now that times have changed, He Yuzhu no longer has the heart to cook for others.

However, He Yuzhu was able to refuse those who came with money.

Some of them came to invite him based on their connections, so He Yuzhu had to pack up his stuff and run over to help.

Director Yang came to us only once, and it was for the big boss in the TV series.

He Yuzhu had worked for senior leaders a few times before, but he had never been too involved with them.

When he went there again, the senior leader looked at He Yuzhu with new eyes and went out to greet him personally, which surprised Director Yang.

"Comrade Xiao He, you are amazing."

The boss's words left Director Yang confused. In Director Yang's opinion, He Yuzhu was just a cook.

Of course, He Yuzhu's cooking skills are so superb that they are beyond the ordinary.

But even so, He Yuzhu should not be worthy of being called "great" by the big boss, right?

"Big leader, you praised me, and this is what we should do."

He Yuzhu understood what the leader was talking about.

After all, the big boss is now in charge of the work of the Ministry of Industry.

The big boss naturally knew some things about He Yuzhu.

"Be humble, sit inside..."

(End of this chapter)