[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-siheyuan-food-love-and-family-in-1960s-beiji":3,"chapter-the-siheyuan-food-love-and-family-in-1960s-beiji-the-siheyuan-food-love-and-family-in-1960s-beiji-chapter-17":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Siheyuan: Food, Love, and Family in 1960s Beijing",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2314067,4526,"Chapter 17: Chapter Seventeen: I","the-siheyuan-food-love-and-family-in-1960s-beiji-chapter-17",17,"\u003Cp>Jia Dongxu had borrowed 10 yuan from the Li family two years ago and now refused to pay it back; Liu Yin caught her and scolded her, so the Jia family members never dared look toward the Li house when passing through the front yard—only Qin Jingru hoped to mend relations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xuewu led He Yuzhu into the room; the sour cabbage was already sliced, the big pot’s water boiled, and they waited only to open the pig’s belly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Yuzhu greeted Li LaoTai, Da Lao, and Li Shun as he entered, taking the cigarette roll offered by Li Shun with both hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Yuzhu was a man who cared about face; few outsiders entered the Li household, and the Li family never visited others’ homes—only neighbors with headaches or fevers came for treatment and stayed briefly, so the neighbors all said the Li family had strict customs, was a medical lineage, and a scholarly household.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Receiving the cigarette from Li Shun made him feel greatly honored; Li Shun was a doctor at the Central Hospital, and others usually begged him for favors—he rarely showed courtesy to anyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Yuzhu cupped the cigarette in both hands while Li Xuecai lit it, then squatted on the ground to examine the boar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He first checked the neck, since slaughtering a pig began with bleeding out through the carotid artery, but the pig’s head and body were intact, so he shifted his feet backward—suddenly the back door slammed shut, making him jerk upright, clutching his buttocks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother, you’re pretty ruthless.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hahaha, this wild boar’s hide is too thick, caked with pine resin and hard mud—even a shotgun might not pierce it. I’ve only got a spear, so I aimed for the soft spots.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Li Xuecai let out a series of “hehe” laughs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xue blushed slightly and slipped into the north room, lying on the kang and peeping through the glass window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Yuzhu finished his cigarette, crushed it out on his shoe sole, and tossed it into the stove entrance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You folks really need a big pot like this—small pots won’t remove the bristles.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Yin prepared the household cleaver and axe; He Yuzhu brought his own scraping knife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Zhu Zi, your grandmother was from the Northeast, used to big pots and kang beds, so our household habits follow Northeastern ways.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Li LaoTai said from the kang inside the room: “I’m an old Beijinger.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hahaha!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Yuzhu, Li Xuewu, Li Xuewen, and Li Xuecai together lifted the large boar onto the crossboard above the stove, stepping up onto the stove platform in one stride.\u003C\u002Fp>",437,"2026-06-20T13:46:54.288Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","4c66a21a44ae203774d516738337a8b138d7ee71d86bb84145b8c1c900b63156","the-siheyuan-food-love-and-family-in-1960s-beiji-chapter-18","the-siheyuan-food-love-and-family-in-1960s-beiji-chapter-16",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-siheyuan-food-love-and-family-in-1960s-beiji-cover.jpg"]