Chapter 7: Courtyard Life (I beg you all for votes)

Li Xuewu looked at the "porcelain doll" in front of him.

He thought in his heart, and replied in his mouth: "Sister-in-law, hello."

"Hey, you go in, I'm going out."

"Then see you later."

After speaking, he glanced at Lou Xiaoe's twisting back, bouncing and jumping like a child.

Li Xuewu entered the main gate, glanced at the screen door and the inverted seat room. These four inverted seat rooms were all dark, and the windows were still covered with window paper, broken and dilapidated.

The inverted seat room didn't face the sun, so no one wanted it, and it couldn't be lived in. After a long time, one would get sick.

Li Xuewu went around the screen door and looked. The foundation of the house was still good. This courtyard was originally a large family, at least four entrances. Looking at it, the back courtyard was not an inverted seat room structure, so it was obviously changed.

This inverted seat room was built very high, like a warehouse. Of course, it was also a warehouse now. Everyone's junk was piled up inside.

Li Xuewu looked at it and didn't care, so he walked back, entered the second door, and greeted the woman looking at him at the door of the east side room.

"Third Master's wife is washing vegetables."

Third Master's wife was stunned.

"Yo, you are Xuewu, right? I heard from your mother that you are back. You've grown taller, you've really made something of yourself."

Li Xuewu didn't take it seriously, so he walked into the room and replied: "You are polite, Third Master's wife. It's cold, I'm going back to the room."

Third Master's wife looked at this big young man and muttered a few words before returning to the room. She saw her eldest daughter-in-law sewing shoe soles, and chatted with her.

"The second boy from across the street is back. He was a very unruly person back then. If you see him, hide away, don't get close."

Yu Li, wearing a large floral-patterned cotton-padded jacket, smiled with her pretty little face and replied, "Could anyone be more reckless than Seeing Sha Zhu?"

Third Master's wife heard her mother-in-law's words, which were meant for her, and felt uncomfortable in her heart, but responded perfunctorily.

Yu Li heard her mother-in-law's words and knew they were meant for her; she felt disgusted inside but gave a perfunctory response.

Yu Li listened to her mother-in-law's words and felt uncomfortable, but responded perfunctorily.

"How good can he look? Can looking good be eaten as a meal?"

Third Master's wife didn't stop the kitchen knife in her hand, "Thump-thump-thump" lowering her head to cut vegetables.

"You don't know, he was handsome back then, always leading little girls home to play. Later, he became more and more naughty, the family couldn't control him, he ran out to run wild, and didn't come back all day. You say, can looking good be eaten as a meal?"

Yu Li sneered and said: "Then he became a pretty boy."

Third Master's wife heard her daughter-in-law's teasing words and followed suit.

"It would be fine if he was a pretty boy. Like Xu Damao in the back courtyard, finding a daughter of a capitalist, and the life is not rich. It's a pity that this unruly boy has wild thoughts and a ruthless hand. In the past, Jiecheng and Liu Guangtian from your Second Master's house in the back courtyard were most afraid of him. Your father went to the Li family several times."

Yu Li heard her mother-in-law mention her husband and sneered again. Yan Jiecheng's temperament was as soft as noodles. It was normal to be afraid of outsiders, but she couldn't say it in front of her mother-in-law.

"After being reformed in the melting pot for two or three years, is he still the same when he comes back?"

Third Master's wife had already put the cut vegetables into the pot, and while working, she chewed her tongue.

"I just saw him come back, who knows? But his face is ruined. There is a large scar on his right face, which looks a bit scary. When he greeted me just now, it looked like a centipede crawling on his face when he smiled."

Third Master's wife said these words to give her daughter-in-law a vaccination.

"Anyway, he is not a good person, stay away from him."

Yu Li responded: "I know, Mom."

Not mentioning the fact-stating or exaggerated statements of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the Third Master's house before eating lunch, Li Xuewu couldn't hear it anyway.

Li Xuewu returned home, and mother Liu Yin had already cooked lunch, stewed Chinese cabbage with frozen tofu. Only Liu Yin, Big Grandpa, and Grandma were at home for lunch, and she only made a small basin, just enough for four people to eat.

Liu Yin scooped a basin of cold water for her son, added hot water from the thermos, and asked: "How about the work?"

Li Xuewu answered while washing his hands and face: "It's settled, go to the Red Star Rolling Mill outside Dongzhimen, security section officer."

Liu Yin felt a stone fall in her heart when she heard that her son had a place to work, and hurriedly greeted the two elderly people to eat.

As long as there is work, it won't be difficult to find a wife.

At the dinner table, Liu Yin looked at her son in front of her and was very happy.

"First Master, Second Master, He Yuzhu, Xu Damao, and Liu Guangtian from Second Master's house in the courtyard are all from the Red Star Rolling Mill. Get along well and take care of each other in the future."

Li Xuewu saw that his mother mentioned everyone, but didn't mention Qin Huairu. This was because she was afraid that he would "get along well" and "take care of each other" with that little widow!

Li Xuewu didn't show it on his face, but thought in his heart that this was a bloodsucker with the appearance of a full-level vixen. Her appearance was tempting, but it was hard to subdue without some cultivation.

Regardless of what his mother meant, Li Xuewu promised: "I know."

Seeing that his mother stopped talking, he asked: "Who owns the four inverted seat rooms in the outer courtyard?"

Liu Yin raised her head and said: "Why ask this? No one owns them. Who wants them? They can't be lived in. Our family has so many people and none of us go there to live, just because they don't face the sun and will make people sick."

Li Xuewu felt relieved when he heard that the four houses had no owner. It didn't matter if they didn't face the sun; he could make them face the sun. He knew in his heart that this matter couldn't be rushed, so he put it aside for the time being, waiting to see if there were any arrangements in the factory.

"Town Demon Museum"

After lunch, seeing the sun was bright, he had been on the train for several days and got up early in the morning, so he started to feel sleepy. He didn't open the quilt, just covered himself with the military coat, put his head down on the quilt, and started snoring.

Grandma Li saw her grandson sleeping and was afraid the kang would be cold, so she hugged a bundle of firewood and raked it into the stove pit. Before long, the kang was warm, and Li Xuewu's snoring was even louder, non-stop.

This sleep lasted until the sun went down.

In winter, it gets dark early. It was not yet six o'clock, and it was almost dark. The reflection of the snow on the ground made it slightly bright.

Li Xuewu got up and saw that everyone in the family was busy.

Li Xuewen was reading in the north room, Li Xuecai was processing medicinal materials with Li Shun, Grandma was helping on the side, Liu Yin was making shoes, Big Grandpa was pushing a plane in the room, repairing a piece of wood, and sister-in-law was tutoring Li Xue at the Eight Immortals table in the middle of the room.

Liu Yin saw Li Xuewu get up, hurriedly put down the work in her hand, walked to the stove, picked up the pot lid, and took out a bowl of porridge, three steamed buns, and a dish of pickles from the bowl rack.

"Wake up, wash your face, eat quickly while it's hot. I saw you sleeping soundly just now, so I didn't call you. It's all hot now, get up quickly."

Li Xuewu rubbed his face, lifted his military coat, walked to the washbasin, washed his face, and sat at the Eight Immortals table to eat.

Li Xue saw her second brother eating steamed buns with porridge and pickles, eating a steamed bun in three bites, eating very fast, and couldn't help but open her mouth in surprise.

Zhao Yafang tapped the back of her sister-in-law's hand with the pencil in her hand.