[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-siheyuan-standing-up-to-jia-zhang-sending-her-to":3,"chapter-siheyuan-standing-up-to-jia-zhang-sending-her-to-siheyuan-confronting-widow-jia-and-sending-her-t-chapter-70":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Courtyard House: Cursing Out Old Lady Jia and Sending Her to Labor Reform",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2148815,3576,"Chapter 70: Master-level calligraphy, shocking the Sihe Academy!","siheyuan-confronting-widow-jia-and-sending-her-t-chapter-70",70,"\u003Cp>As the end of the year approached, the atmosphere of the New Year became stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The rolling mill paid the employees in advance, just so the workers could have money for the New Year.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Only Yi Yi Zhonghai had one month’s salary deducted.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, he had money and had saved quite a lot of family wealth over the years.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Not getting a month’s salary didn't have much impact on him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In the courtyard, every household spent a little more money than usual, buying new clothes and new shoes for the children.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The wealthy ones added new items to their homes.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The vegetable market and grocery stores also increased supply to ensure that everyone could buy pork, vermicelli, soy products, and other foods for the New Year.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At the steel mill construction site, Jia Jia Zhangshi was still participating in reform-through-labor; she couldn't go home for the New Year.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Sha Zhu ran to the construction site every day, bringing delicious food to Jia Jia Zhangshi.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He treated her better than the Deaf Old Lady.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Even He Yushui hadn't eaten so much delicious food.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He Yushui, who already disliked Sha Zhu, completely looked down on him after knowing that her silly brother was with Jia Jia Zhangshi.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Her father ran off with a widow and went to Baocheng to be a live-in son-in-law.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Her own brother followed suit and was with the old widow Jia Jia Zhangshi.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He Yushui was going crazy.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In the past, Sha Zhu liked Qin Qin Huairu; He Yushui understood this and was too lazy to care.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But this time Sha Zhu went from bad to worse, directly choosing to date Jia Jia Zhangshi!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If this isn't brain-dead, what is?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>For this, the two had a big fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He Yushui cursed Sha Zhu for being brainless, liking an old woman older than his mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Sha Zhu was so angry he almost hit He Yushui, actually lecturing him, his older brother.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>When Sha Zhu acts foolish, he can be said to not recognize his own family.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If it weren't for several aunts coming out to stop it, He Yushui would have really been beaten by Sha Zhu.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The brother and sister had a big fight and completely broke up.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Every day when He Yushui came back from work, she went straight to her own room and didn't bother with Sha Zhu at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Seeing Sha Zhu diligently cooking for Jia Jia Zhangshi every morning, He Yushui wanted to burn his house down.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Family misfortune!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He Yushui didn't even want to spend the New Year with Sha Zhu.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In previous years, at Yi Yi Zhonghai’s suggestion, the three families of Yi Yi Zhonghai, Sha Zhu, and the Deaf Old Lady would spend the New Year together.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Yi Yi Zhonghai and the Deaf Old Lady would pay, and Sha Zhu would cook, making a table full of delicious food.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Only at this time could He Yushui eat a good meal.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Even then, leftovers had to be sent to the Jia family.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This year, He Yushui planned to spend the New Year alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Sha Zhu likes Jia Jia Zhangshi, so let him spend the New Year at the Jia house.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Like his father, he should just be a live-in son-in-law.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, the rolling mill closed half a day early, allowing workers to buy New Year goods.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Chen Tian went to the logistics department, and Li Changhai personally came out to distribute various materials to Chen Tian.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Part of it was a reward from the factory, and part of it was Chen Tian’s ration as a Level 3 engineer.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>There were too many things, so the factory specially found a tricycle to send them to Chen Tian’s house.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Watching two workers help Chen Tian move things into his house, everyone in the Sihe Academy was red-eyed with envy.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Yan Yan Bugui watched eagerly as Chen Tian flashed by with 20 jin of pork.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Looking at his wife, they both understood each other’s intentions.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Let Yu Li go help Chen Tian cook.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>During the New Year, Chen Tian was alone at home; how could he finish so many things?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Chen Tian knows calligraphy, and the whole Sihe Academy was shocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Yi Yi Zhonghai opened his mouth wide, not daring to believe it was true.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although he had a slightly higher cultural level than Liu Liu Haizhong, he was only a primary school graduate and hadn't even attended junior high school.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Writing and recognizing characters was fine, but writing couplets and calligraphy was simply beyond him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>For so many years, Yan Yan Bugui had written the couplets, and he just joined in the fun, unable to say anything meaningful.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although he didn't know how to appreciate it, his intuition told Yi Yi Zhonghai that the characters Chen Tian wrote were absolutely extraordinary!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At the very least, the momentum and font were far better than Yan Yan Bugui’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Qin Qin Huairu stood stunned on the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Chen Tian is a genius?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>How does he know everything?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Chen Tian’s handwriting was clearly much better than Yan Yan Bugui’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Every New Year, the couplets for everyone in the courtyard were written by Yan Yan Bugui, which Qin Qin Huairu had always looked down on.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The ones sold on the street outside were much better than what he wrote, but to save money, she had to let Yan Yan Bugui write them.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>During the New Year, who doesn't hope that the couplets on their door are atmospheric and good-looking?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Qin Qin Huairu stared at Chen Tian with resentful eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Calculating how to get Chen Tian to write a pair for her family.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>That way, when relatives and friends come to pay New Year visits, how much face she would have.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Sha Zhu was furious.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He thought Chen Tian just wanted to show off.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Whenever there was such a thing to show his face in front of people, Chen Tian would pop up.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Pfft, what calligraphy, it’s like a dog digging.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"I write better than him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Sha Zhu picked his nose and mocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In his view, people like Yan Yan Bugui and Yi Yi Zhonghai were just ignorant.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It’s just a few brush characters, why make such a fuss?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It just boosted Chen Tian’s prestige for nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Sha Zhu, if you don't understand, shut your dog mouth.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Chen Gong is at the level of a calligraphy master; with your primary school education, you’d better not embarrass yourself here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Xu Xu Damao glanced at Sha Zhu; he was truly a frog at the bottom of a well.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Calligraphy wasn't lacking in Lou Xiao'e’s family.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Lou Xiao'e’s father was known as \"Half-City Lou\" and even owned half the shares of the rolling mill.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although it has now been nationalized, the Lou family’s strength was still very strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Lou Xiao'e’s father loved collecting these things, and there were quite a few antiques, calligraphy, and paintings in the house.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>When he first married Lou Xiao'e, Xu Xu Damao went to the Lou family and saw quite a few.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At that time, to flatter Lou Xiao'e’s parents, Xu Xu Damao studied them to cater to their preferences and bragged, and don't say, he really fooled the old couple.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Of course, in this situation now, Father Lou had long hidden these things.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Xu Xu Damao saw at a glance that the simple couplet Chen Tian wrote was not inferior to the calligraphy treasured by Lou Xiao'e’s maiden home.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Sha Zhu, this uncultured thing, only knew how to bark.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Hehe, Chen Gong, how about giving me this couplet?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"This is your first masterpiece, I must treasure it well.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Xu Xu Damao smiled, thinking about inviting Chen Tian for a drink one day and asking him to write a piece of calligraphy for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Lou Xiao'e was surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>She was knowledgeable since childhood and could naturally see Chen Tian’s deep calligraphy foundation.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hearing Xu Xu Damao say this, Lou Xiao'e also looked at Chen Tian with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"It’s just a couplet, I’ll give it to you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Chen Tian smiled; what was there to treasure about this thing?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Xu Xu Damao was a person who knew how to talk.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"This calligraphy, even if I practice for another ten years, I won't be able to compare.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Chen Tian, you are truly multi-talented.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Yan Yan Bugui was convinced.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>His level compared to Chen Tian’s, the two were not on the same level at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Watching Xu Xu Damao happily take the couplet, he was also a bit envious in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Many people in the courtyard were jealous and wanted Chen Tian to write one for them.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>All were rejected by Chen Tian.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He showed off just to make the beasts in the courtyard jealous and make them feel itchy in their hearts.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Deaf Old Lady stood in the courtyard, deaf and dumb, and could only get close to the crowd, holding her cane and squeezing to the front with effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>She was at such an old age, and it was hard to have some fun during the New Year, so she also wanted a couplet written by Chen Tian.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But she didn't dare at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Whenever she spoke, she could only \"aba aba\" non-stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Chen Tian wrote another pair for his own house and went home laughing.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Today is New Year’s Eve, so he had to clean the house, wash clothes, and sit down for a big table of delicious food.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This was the most prosperous and happiest New Year Chen Tian had spent since crossing over.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Sister Yu Li, today is New Year’s Eve, do you have time to come help me clean the house?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In front of Yan Yan Bugui, Chen Tian asked deliberately.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Only seeing Yan Yan Bugui frantically winking at Yu Li, letting her agree to Chen Tian’s request.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Hmm, no problem.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Yu Li pretended to smile knowingly, letting Old Yan rest assured.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Looking at Yan Yan Bugui’s expression, Chen Tian found it a bit funny.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Today for the New Year, he would give Yu Li a jin of pork to take home.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Otherwise, whether this old thing Yan Yan Bugui would let Yu Li come to clean for him in the future was another matter.\u003C\u002Fp>",1708,"2026-06-16T18:09:03.510Z","2026-06-17T08:56:13.387Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","e3b2633c842038c862a493bc49bfbf2255250a28ac69a74d833fbf93ca8bf85f","siheyuan-confronting-widow-jia-and-sending-her-t-chapter-71","siheyuan-confronting-widow-jia-and-sending-her-t-chapter-69",308,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsiheyuan-confronting-widow-jia-and-sending-her-t-cover.jpg"]