Siheyuan: Garbage King

On the thirtieth night, after making the dumplings and cooking them, they are offered to the deceased family members first, and then the living people can eat them.

A family of five gathered around a small table with several plates of pork dumplings, fried eggs with green onions, and fried pork slices with cabbage.

Several children looked at the food in front of them and were so greedy that they drooled. It wasn't until Zhang Yurong spoke that they dared to use their chopsticks to pick up something to eat.

Qin Xiaohe was young and couldn't use chopsticks well. He picked up a dumpling and dropped it to the ground.

In this day and age, no one dares to waste food, not even children.

Qin Xiaohe jumped down from the stool with his short legs, squatted on the ground, picked up the dumplings, and swallowed them in one bite.

"Mom, I'm a little choked..." Qin Xiaohe's face changed slightly and he said to Zhang Yurong.

Zhang Yurong looked at his youngest son's appearance and smiled and fed him a sip of dumpling soup: "Turn the original soup into original food, drink the dumpling soup, and grow taller. I will be as tall as your big brother in the future."

Qin Xiaohe drank the dumpling soup happily: "It would be great if I could eat dumplings every day."

He clasped his little hands and talked about his thoughts, which looked very cute.

Qin Hongxing, who was still stuffing dumplings in her mouth, interjected: "How can I eat dumplings every day? My mother still has to save money to buy a wife for our eldest brother."

Hearing this, Li Fang wondered why he still had his own business. He coughed a few times and said, "Okay, okay, hurry up and eat. There are so many delicious things. If you don't eat them, I will finish them all."

He put two dumplings into Zhang Yurong's bowl. Zhang Yurong had been eating Erhe Noodles steamed buns just now. He was reluctant to eat the dumplings and left them all to his children.

"Mom, eat quickly. If we have the conditions in the future, we will eat dumplings every day like Xiaohe said." Li Fang said with a smile.

Zhang Yurong smiled and nodded: "Okay, I'll wait for you then."

In addition to making these plates of dumplings, the meat Li Fang brought back was also richer. Zhang Yurong asked Li Fang to send it to Qin Jianjun's family.

After eating dumplings and setting off firecrackers, the New Year is here.

In the evening, several children were making noises to keep up the New Year's Eve, but soon they got tired from running around and fell asleep while lying on the bed. Li couldn't fall asleep in the house, so he went out and planned to take a walk.

As soon as he went out, he saw Qin Jingru wandering in front of the house.

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"Brother Fangzi, happy New Year." Qin Jingru put on her red cotton-padded jacket, which made the girl's skin look fairer.

Li Fang waved his hand: "Happy New Year, happy New Year. Have you received any lucky money this year?"

Qin Jingru's cheeks turned slightly red when she heard Li Fang's words: "I have grown up and am no longer a child, so I don't have any new year's money. Besides, it's not the first day of the new year yet..."

Li Fang looked at Qin Jingru in front of him, the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

A handful of red and green fruit candies suddenly appeared from his hand.

"If you don't have any lucky money, why don't you have some sweets?" Li Fang looked at her with a smile.

The girl looked at the candy in surprise, stretched out her hand and took a piece of candy.

With her little hands that were red from the cold, she peeled off the candy wrapper and put the candy into her mouth. Qin Jingru couldn't help but feel how sweet it was in her heart.

"It's delicious, so sweet." Qin Jingru said excitedly.

Li Fang looked at the girl's surprised look and smiled. She was still a child after all.

However, he himself is only sixteen years old, so it can only be said that they are in their youth.

The sound of firecrackers makes New Year's Eve more lively, but firecrackers cannot drive away the cold winter.

After a while, the two of them were frozen stiff outside.

"I'm going back first, it's too cold." Li Fang put a handful of candies into Qin Jingru's hand.

Before Qin Jingru came to her senses, he ran back in a hurry.

Qin Jingru happily returned home with the candy. Her family members were surprised when they saw the candy in her hand.

"Sister, I want to eat sweets too." The speaker was Qin Jingru's younger brother, a little boy wearing crotchless pants.

Qin Jingru reluctantly gave a piece of candy to each member of her family. These candies were given by Brother Fangzi, and she was reluctant to eat them herself.

Who are you willing to give more points to others?

Fortunately, the other children were also sensible and were satisfied with a piece of candy. They no longer pestered her for it and started running and jumping around the house again.

"Li Fang gave it to the kid?" While Qin Jingru was returning to the house, her mother and husband murmured in a low voice.

Qin Daping smoked a dry cigarette: "Yes, Fangzi is a worker now. Who else but him can be so generous and give our daughter so much candy..."

Women always think more. Mother Qin's eyes lit up and she said, "It would be great if Li Fang could marry Jingru, and Jingru could go to the city and live a good life."

Qin Daping shook his head. He was not very optimistic about the two of them: "Li Fang is a worker. He has an urban household registration and eats commercial grain. He married Jingru. Not only does his wife have an agricultural household registration, she will also have an agricultural household registration when she gives birth to children. He will support the family by himself.

It’s difficult...unless this kid has the ability to support his family."

It's not that he looks down on Li Fang, on the contrary, he feels that his daughter is not worthy of Li Fang. After all, in this era, there is really a big gap between urban household registration and rural household registration.

Being a good match is never empty talk

Qin's mother sighed: "Jingru, this child, ugh... I'll go talk to her."

Qin Daping grabbed Qin's mother and said, "At Jingru's age, she won't listen. If she's older than the Chinese New Year, don't make her child feel uncomfortable. Let's talk about it later when we have a chance. Don't be in a hurry."

They have all come from this age, and they all know that boys and girls of this age are most likely to go to extremes.

Every year, there are young people in the village who can't think of anything and go to extremes.

They don't want their daughters to be like this.

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On the first day of this year, because Qin Dashun left, the family was afraid of being tabooed by others, so they didn't go to pay New Year's greetings.

Several young people couldn't receive the New Year's money, and they looked uncomfortable. Although the New Year's money was only one penny at most, mosquitoes were nothing but meat.

Li Fang saw the children looking unhappy, so he gave each of them two cents.

"Why do children need so much money? Mom will take it for you and give it to you in the future."

As soon as the money was distributed, Zhang Yurong opened the door and came in, taking away all the money, leaving only five cents for each person.

Qin Xiaomei looked at Li Fang with pitiful eyes.

Li Fang spread his hands and expressed that he was helpless.

Several children couldn't help seeing their elder brother, so they ran out helplessly to play with their friends.

Zhang Yurong put chestnuts and melon seeds that Li Fang had brought back in each of their pockets, and asked them to share them with their friends.

Li Fang hid in the house to catch up on his sleep. He slept late last night and was feeling sleepy now.

But as soon as I closed my eyes, the uninvited guest came again.

"Why did you fall asleep again? Get up quickly." Qin Jianjun ran into the house covered in dust.

There is still air conditioning on my body.

Li Fang sighed. Now, Qin Jianjun had wiped out his anger when he got up.

"What bad idea did you come up with again..." Li Fang hugged the quilt and looked at Qin Jianjun.

Qin Jianjun chuckled and took out a long gun from his back.

"Look what good things I have brought for you." Qin Jianjun held up the gun in a showy manner.

This gun looked homemade, and Li Fang felt as if he had seen this gun somewhere.

"Has Uncle Wu ever hunted with this thing?" Li Fang thought for a long time before remembering that he followed Qin Dashun up the mountain the year before last and saw Qin Darong taking it.

Qin Jianjun nodded.

"I got it secretly. Let's go hunting." In the past, he could only use a slingshot to shoot birds, but that slingshot could only hit sparrows and other birds. He couldn't even hit rabbits, so Qin Jianjun turned his attention to Qin Darong.

Soil gun.

Qin Darong never let him touch this native gun. He secretly took it out from home because he was sure that Qin Darong would not be at home during the New Year.

Li Fang looked at the bold Qin Jianjun and had a strange premonition.

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