[{"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-42":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},2314092,4526,"Chapter 42: Learning from He Yuzhu to Break Down Pork","the-siheyuan-food-love-and-family-in-1960s-beiji-chapter-42",42,"\u003Cp>Erhai’s luck was meeting Laobiao, who knew how to rally people and somehow took Erhai in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was called Erhai because he was the second son at home, surnamed Yang, so they called him Erhai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was said he had an older brother named Dahai, who died on the road along with their father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the food that came in went to the youngest child and the old mother, but no one knew where they’d gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kid was malnourished; at sixteen or seventeen, he was only about one and a half meters tall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don’t let his small size fool you—he had fire in his eyes, was sharp, and knew how to talk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right then, one scooped, the other hauled, and soon a pile of dirt had gathered by the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xuewu waved them over: “That’s enough. Bring hot water and mix the mud.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Guodong had just brought out the aluminum kettle when Laobiao and Wen San carried in a large pot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hey! Brand-new big iron pot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the door, Laobiao set the iron pot on the ground and dashed to the cart, lifted the felt cloth to check, felt it, then came back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wu Ge, you’re amazing! Just learned we were short on meat and you got us this huge chunk.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xuewu handed the shovel to Laobiao: “No more talk—mix the mud, hurry up, build the stove. Pluck the hair and process it tonight.”\u003C\u002Fp>",238,"2026-06-20T13:46:54.288Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","210fd47f437fbcc3b516a9bd901e1a1cdb0d494ba22a372305f1cf1c92a4e79f","the-siheyuan-food-love-and-family-in-1960s-beiji-chapter-43","the-siheyuan-food-love-and-family-in-1960s-beiji-chapter-41",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-siheyuan-food-love-and-family-in-1960s-beiji-cover.jpg"]