Chapter 80: Shifting the Blame onto Yi Zhonghai

During the wonderful days of the New Year.

And there's no lack of food and drink.

He doesn't eat his own family's meal, runs next door to Yi Zhonghai's to eat, feeling weak and also going against Shazhu's intention to stay away from Yi Zhonghai.

In his previous life.

Yi Zhonghai used this moral blackmail on Shazhu.

On New Year's Day, Shazhu, Yi Zhonghai, Long Laotaitai, and the Jia family—all together—ate the New Year's Eve dinner.

They called it a reunion.

It had nothing to do with it.

Reunion, my ass.

Shazhu did not agree to Yi Zhonghai's request to eat together.

Each family lives its own life.

Yi Zhonghai also didn't feel bad.

With Long Laotaitai gone, every household in the siheyuan felt happy, including Yi Zhonghai and his wife who cared for her, giving people the pleasure of having a great burden lifted.

Shazhu called Yushui to eat.

This little brat has turned bad.

Not eating.

Nothing.

As soon as they eat, the little girl always has something to keep her busy, something to do.

"Yushui, today is New Year's Eve; if you don't eat, I'll finish it all and there'll be none left."

The little girl jumped up, dropped what she was holding, and sat down at the table.

The brother and sister were just about to eat.

Then they heard an 'aiya' from the doorway.

It sounded somewhat familiar.

Shazhu's head buzzed and exploded; he seemed to guess who the voice belonged to—the ancestral elder of the rear courtyard, Long Laotaitai.

For some time now, everyone in the siheyuan seems to have forgotten Long Laotaitai, including Shazhu.

I never expected it to happen on New Year's Eve.

Long Laotaitai miraculously returned to the siheyuan and stood at Shazhu's door.

One could figure it out with their toes.

Also knew why Long Laotaitai came.

To eat that sunflower duck.

The key is there's no preparation.

The prepared sunflower duck was devoured by He Yushui, Shazhu, and that bastard Xu Damiao all at once.

One reason is there's no sunflower duck.

Another reason is Shazhu finds it disgusting.

It's the New Year, old lady, don't come bother me.

In Shazhu's heart, Long Laotaitai is also someone unwelcome.

In his previous life, it was Long Laotaitai who enlightened Yi Zhonghai, so Yi Zhonghai then placed his old-age support on Shazhu; otherwise, relying on Shazhu's job as a chef in the Yagangchang factory cafeteria, the property of two rooms in the siheyuan, plus a monthly salary of thirty-seven point five yuan, it would be impossible to delay until Qin Huairu became a widow and Shazhu remained a bachelor.

Around twenty-four or twenty-five years old and still unmarried.

There's nothing fishy about this.

Even if you beat Shazhu to death, he wouldn't believe it.

Upon learning that Long Laotaitai stood at his door, Shazhu instantly became like the chicken that a weasel visits for New Year's greetings, his heart in turmoil, truly feeling weak.

Meet force with force.

Meet water with earth.

Long Laotaitai appearing at the door naturally means she has her own thoughts, but that doesn't mean Shazhu will just sit and wait for death; Shazhu also has countermeasures.

He urged He Yushui to quickly eat the dumplings.

Shazhu stepped toward the door.

While stepping toward the door, Shazhu dipped his finger in saliva and drew two tear tracks on his cheeks, then opened the door.

The figure that came into view was indeed the Long Laotaitai who had been missing for a long time.

In the dim light, Long Laotaitai no longer had the imposing air of the ancestral matriarch; she looked quite wan, her hair disheveled like a chicken coop, her clothes dirty, her face bruised blue and purple, giving Shazhu a sense that she had weathered many hardships.

Estimating this period of time.

She has suffered quite a bit of injustice.

No need for Long Laotaitai to speak.

Shazhu preemptively gave Long Laotaitai a heavy blow.

"Hey old lady, you've finally come back; you don't know how worried I've been during this time, I thought something happened to you; if it weren't for being tied up at home, I would have come see you earlier; I'm so anxious I could go up to the roof."

Long Laotaitai anxiously peered inside.

The aroma of the dumplings.

It whetted Long Laotaitai's appetite.

The gluttonous Long Laotaitai, during the time she was corrected, had her mouth watering like a bird.

Thinking of coming back to have a big meal.

Shazhu's guess was correct.

Long Laotaitai came aiming for Shazhu's Tan-family vegetable sunflower duck.

She's quick.

Shazhu isn't slow either.

"I know what you mean!"

Seeing Long Laotaitai anxiously eager to rush inside and eat heartily, Shazhu shifted his tone, changed the subject, and blocked her at the doorway.

In Shazhu's heart.

Long Laotaitai can spend the New Year there, but she cannot have a big New Year celebration at Shazhu's house.

Shazhu must draw a clear line with Long Laotaitai, who has hoarded fifty catties of white flour and fifty catties of rice.

"Granny, don't rush, we just have dumplings, vegetable-filled dumplings; at the eldest uncle's house they have fish and chicken, please wait a moment." Shazhu's meaning was that he put on a coat, then after thinking, put on a chicken feather, and sending Long Laotaitai to Yi Zhonghai's house was the important matter: "No need to wait, I know you're starving, I'll send you to the eldest uncle's house right now; I know you've been lacking oil and water in your stomach lately."

Shazhu supported Long Laotaitai as he walked toward Yi Zhonghai's house.

He then worried that Yi Zhonghai's household would hear the noise, so he put away the dumplings and meat, and thereby implicated himself.

Shazhu couldn't bother with much.

He simply carried Long Laotaitai on his back and barged into Yi Zhonghai's home.

He didn't care how Yi Zhonghai and his wife reacted; he directly placed her on the main seat in Yi Zhonghai's house.

"Eldest uncle, Granny came back on foot; it's not easy in the dark, she even fell on the way; over here we just have dumplings, no meat, but Granny is still close to you, eldest uncle, so I brought her to you; may your whole family have a harmonious and beautiful reunion year."

Yi Zhonghai's home is slightly more abundant than Shazhu's.

Besides dumplings, there is also a fish and a chicken, unlike Shazhu's home, which only has a plate of dumplings.

Long Laotaitai instantly dispelled Shazhu's suspicion that she was disloyal.

Mistakenly thinking that Shazhu sent Long Laotaitai to Yi Zhonghai's house because he worried she wouldn't eat well at his own home.

"Zhonghai, my old lady finally made it to this meal; you don't know, the days my old lady has spent these past few days have been really bitter."

This is thanks to Shazhu's blessing.

If Shazhu were a few minutes slower.

Yi Zhonghai's household would have taken away the fish and meat.

Ai.

Shazhu secretly sighed in his heart.

Long Laotaitai's gluttonous craving truly turned her into a detestable ghost even a dog would despise; when Long Laotaitai gazed at the chicken and fish on the table, a flicker of disgust actually flashed in Yi Zhonghai's eyes.

As you know.

In the Siheyuan, the people who treat Long Laotaitai best are Yi Zhonghai and his wife; according to the neighbors, they have been taking care of Long Laotaitai for seven or eight years.

Disgust.

Nothing more than Long Laotaitai's insatiable greed.

Every day she wants to eat something better.

In this situation, truly no one can satisfy Long Laotaitai's demand.

No wonder Long Laotaitai values Shazhu so highly.