[{"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-25":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},2314075,4526,"Chapter 25","the-siheyuan-food-love-and-family-in-1960s-beiji-chapter-25",25,"\u003Cp>Liu Yin counted on her fingers and said: “Your aunt just weighed it—the pig was three hundred twenty-five jin, but after removing hide and hair, it was three hundred four jin; the hooves, head, and tail totaled forty jin; the organs and intestines were forty-five jin; the meat was two hundred nineteen jin; you gave He Yuzhu eighteen jin; you gave the courtyard seventeen jin; now there’s one hundred eighty-four jin left in the vat.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Yin grew more pained with each calculation: “Tomorrow give your sister-in-law twenty jin; your father and his four superiors have seven or eight colleagues they often visit—then you’ll only have one hundred twenty jin left.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Liu Yin wince in distress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xuewu smiled and put his arm around Liu Yin’s shoulder: “How are you so good at counting? Mom, you’re great at math—did your sister-in-law teach you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Yin pinched Li Xuewu in anger: “Aren’t you distressed?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Yafang spoke up: “Maybe I should take less home—I can’t eat all this.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xuewu replied: “Don’t listen to Mom’s accounting—take twenty jin. Mom’s just used to being frugal.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xuewu added to Liu Yin: “Don’t worry—eat your fill. When you’re done, I’ll go hunt another.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Yin grew serious: “No, it’s too dangerous. Today I heard He Yuzhu—I didn’t realize wild boars in the forest are this fierce, even tigers avoid them. Don’t take risks.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Shun tapped the table with his fingers, also speaking seriously: “Didn’t we say this was the last time?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xuewu kept his arm around Liu Yin’s shoulder: “Next time I’ll go with people and guns.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Shun rejected it again: “No, bullets don’t care who they hit—this year the hospital took in several people injured by accidents.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These days, Xinhua Bookstore and Supply & Marketing Cooperatives sell guns; the Jianwei series is well-known, and other factories produce guns too—some amateurs shoot people like pigs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Yin nodded vigorously upon hearing Li Shun: “Listen—there’s enough meat.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xuewu stopped arguing, said “Alright,” and prepared to sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That night, Li Xuewu slept soundly from the alcohol; the train’s influence had faded, and the kang no longer shook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Monday morning was bright and sunny.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Children’s shouting\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clanging pots and pans\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second Uncle beating his child’s voice...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looks like Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu gave Second Uncle a surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xuewu stepped outside and saw Third Uncle, holding a basin of hot water, scrubbing his bicycle, head raised as he listened to Second Uncle beating his child.\u003C\u002Fp>",415,"2026-06-20T13:46:54.288Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","d9abf350315c8e72fefc3d84896289dcb0315ab04edda87035e09391f8c541ed","the-siheyuan-food-love-and-family-in-1960s-beiji-chapter-26","the-siheyuan-food-love-and-family-in-1960s-beiji-chapter-24",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-siheyuan-food-love-and-family-in-1960s-beiji-cover.jpg"]