Sixties! Winter!
Forbidden City!
In the evening, smoke rose from the chimneys.
The streets and alleys were filled with the smell of fireworks!
Zhu Fan was carrying a bag of pork in his hand as he walked in the alley, attracting the attention of many people.
One had to know that the pork weighed a full catty.
In this era where one pound of pork was one yuan and the average salary was only 20 to 30 yuan, many people could only taste meat during the New Year.
Many people's eyes were filled with envy!
"Who is this guy? Do you have a mine at home? He actually bought so much pork!"
"Isn't that so? I haven't eaten pork for half a year. I can't even remember what pork tastes like!”
"What is half a year to you? The last time I ate pork was during the Chinese New Year last year!”
Not long after, Zhu Fan stood at the entrance of a courtyard house.
Looking at the courtyard house in front of him, Zhu Fan's eyes revealed a complicated expression.
In fact, Zhu Fan was a transmigrator. Eight years ago, he discovered that he had transmigrated to a world filled with love and became a member of the courtyard.
However, his background after transmigrating was not very good. He had no parents and only a grandmother who raised him. Not long after, his grandmother passed away, leaving him alone.
At that time, Zhu Fan was only twenty years old.
At that time, Qin Huairu had yet to marry Jia Dongxu.
It was said that a first-blood Qin Huiru was very good. Any normal man would want her.
Zhu Fan was a normal man, so he wanted to intercept Jia Dongxu and get Qin Huiru.
However, at that time, Qin Huiru was still in the countryside. Hence, Zhu Fan had asked the matchmaker to go to the countryside to matchmake Qin Huiru so that she could marry him.
Initially, things were going quite smoothly. Qin Huairu followed the matchmaker to the city.
However, he did not expect that God's plan would fail.
When Qin Huiru arrived at the courtyard house, Zhu Fan was not at home, so the matchmaker brought Qin Huiru to the Jia residence to wait.
This was a great opportunity. When Jia Zhangshi saw how beautiful Qin Huiru was and how big her butt was, she naturally wanted to think of a way to make Qin Huiru her daughter-in-law.
Hence, she had said many bad things about Zhu Fan in front of Qin Huairu. He then introduced his son, Jia Dongxu, to Qin Huairu.
When Zhu Fan realized it, it was already a little late!
However, he still tried to persuade Qin Huairu not to marry Jia Dongxu. Otherwise, her life would not be easy.
However, Qin Huairu was a very realistic woman. After some analysis, she concluded that the Jia family's house was twice as big as Zhu Fan's house. Jia Dongxu's salary was also double that of Zhu Fan.
Most importantly, Jia Dongxu had a " kind " old mother who could help her take care of the child. These were all things that Zhu Fan did not have.
In the end, Qin Huairu rejected Zhu Fan's proposal and chose to marry Jia Dongxu!
This was originally nothing. Marriage was free. What could others do if they didn't like you?
Zhu Fan was not angry. After all, he did not have any feelings for Qin Huiru. He just wanted to taste her blood!
However, what the Jia family did after that was very excessive.
Jia Zhang-shi was worried that Zhu Fan would snatch her daughter-in-law away again, so she went around badmouthing Zhu Fan and slandering him, ruining his reputation.
His goal was to chase Zhu Fan out of the courtyard house, but in the end, he did not succeed.
Originally, Zhu Fan also wanted to leave this courtyard house. After all, who would want to live with a group of beasts?
However, if he wanted to move to a new house, he had to have the capital.
At that time, he did not have such an ability.
Zhu Fan could only endure it silently.
Five years later, Zhu Fan finally had the ability. However, at this time, he activated the check-in system.
As long as one signed in at this courtyard house every day, they would be rewarded!
It was because of this that Zhu Fan did not leave this courtyard house.
This was because once he left the courtyard house, he would not be able to sign in and receive the reward.
However, because of Jia Zhangshi, Zhu Fan was ostracized in this courtyard house and did not get along well with everyone.
In the blink of an eye, eight years passed!
As the saying goes, thirty years in the east river and thirty years in the west river, don't bully the young and poor.
The insufferably arrogant Jia family had declined because of Jia Dongxu's death in an accident.
Although the factory manager felt sorry for the Jia family and let Qin Huairu replace her husband, Jia Dongxu, to work in the factory, Qin Huairu did not have much skills, so her salary was very low. It was only half of Jia Dongxu's. The family's life became more and more difficult.
If it wasn't for Silly Zhu, who was coveting Qin Huiru's body, secretly helping them, the Jia family would have starved to death long ago.
However, Zhu Fan was different. He had gone from a Grade 1 Welder to a Grade 6 Welder.
His monthly salary had also increased from 18.5 yuan to 58.5 yuan.
In addition, he could earn some money by signing in to the system every day.
He led a very comfortable life, which attracted the envy of many people in the courtyard house.
However, Zhu Fan did not care at all. As long as he lived well, the more jealous those people were, the happier he would be. Who asked those people to look down on him back then?
Retracting his thoughts, Zhu Fan walked into the courtyard house.
This courtyard house was very large. There were more than a dozen families living in it, and there were more than a hundred people.
The courtyard house was divided into a front yard, a middle yard, and a backyard.
In the front yard lived the third uncle, Yan Bugui. This guy was indeed a math teacher. He was good at scheming. He schemed against whoever he caught, even his own children.
Liu Haizhong lived in the middle court. This guy was a typical official fan, but he had great ambitions and little talent. He would not be able to achieve anything in his life. He believed that a dutiful son would be born under the rod. In the end, his parents were not kind and his children were unfilial.
Yi Zhonghai, who lived in the back, was a hypocrite. On the surface, he treated Silly Zhu very well, but in secret, he wanted Silly Zhu to take care of him in his old age.
In the middle court, other than the second uncle, there was also the Jia family, Silly Zhu, and Zhu Fan.
Zhu Fan's house was on the right side of Shazhu and opposite the Jia family. This was also the main reason why when Qin Huiru first came, he was not around, and the matchmaker brought Qin Huiru to the Jia family's house opposite.
The front yard!
When Third Master Yan Bugui saw Zhu Fan carrying a huge lump of meat in his hand, his eyes instantly lit up!
If he could get a meal, that would be really wonderful!
He immediately came up and asked with a cheeky smile,"Eh, Zhu Fan, why did you buy so much meat? Are there relatives coming today?"
Yan Bugui knew the answer and asked. He knew that Zhu Fan didn't have any relatives.
As expected, Zhu Fan shook his head and said,"No!"”
"Why did you buy so much meat when your relatives didn't come? You can't finish it, right? By the way, I have a bottle of precious earth wine cellar with me. I'll bring it to your house later and we'll drink together. How about it?”
Zhu Fan knew that Yan Bugui was good at scheming, but he didn't expect him to be so shameless.
A bottle of Earth Wine Cellar only cost 20 cents, and she wanted to freeload on his 1-yuan meat. This was really a good plan.
However, Zhu Fan did not buy it!
Back when he was slandered by Jia Zhangshi, Yan Fugui did not come out to speak up for him.
Now that she saw that his life was so prosperous, it was too late for her to try to get close to him!
Besides, if there was a first time, there would be a second time. He did not want to be targeted by an ingrate every night.
After thinking about it, Zhu Fan hurriedly refused,"Third Uncle, there's no need. I'm not used to drinking the old cellar. You should keep it for yourself.”
After he finished speaking, Zhu Fan ignored Yan Bugui and walked towards the middle court.
Yan Fugui had an awkward expression. He had planned everything, but why couldn't he scheme against Zhu Fan, this brat?
When he returned to the courtyard, he saw a beautiful woman in a blue uniform washing dishes in the courtyard.
This woman had big eyes, exquisite facial features, and a good figure. She also turned her head a lot.
She was Qin Huairu!
As he did not want to have anything to do with this woman, Zhu Fan barely spoke to Qin Huiru. He would not even take the initiative to greet her when they met in the quad.
When Qin Huairu saw the pork in Zhu Fan's hand, a complicated look appeared in her eyes.
She took the initiative to greet him,"Zhu Fan, are you off work?"”
"Yes!"
Zhu Fan nodded, then walked into his house and closed the door.
Qin Huairu shook her head helplessly. She had brought this upon herself.
At night!
Zhu Fan took out the pork he had bought and stir-fried the peas. He added a little chili. The fragrance spread everywhere, and the entire courtyard could smell it.
In Liu Haizhong's house in the backyard.
The second aunt inhaled the fragrance in the air and said enviously,"It smells so good! It's really too fragrant. We can only smell this meat during the New Year. This must be from Zhu Fan's house, right?
I just saw him carrying a bag of pork into the house! This guy's life was getting better and better!”
Liu Haizhong did not say anything. He glanced at the peanuts and scrambled eggs in front of him and instantly felt that they did not smell good!
Jia Clan!
After smelling the fragrance, the stick started to make a fuss."I want to eat meat, I don't want to eat cornbread!”
As he spoke, he threw the cornbread in his hand onto the ground.
Little Dang and Huai Hua also wanted to eat meat.
Jia Zhang-shi saw her grandchildren making such a fuss and angrily scolded,"This Zhu Fan, who has parents but no parents to raise him, doesn't even know to share some of the good vegetables with us! What a miser, without any sympathy!”
Upon hearing her mother-in-law's words, Qin Huairu's face revealed a bitter expression.
She thought to herself, You still have the cheek to say that about me? How did you treat others back then?
Actually, she was the one who felt the most wronged.
The person she was supposed to marry back then should have been Zhu Fan.
However, after seeing that the Jia family's conditions were better, he chose Jia Dongxu.
However, who would have thought that a few years later, the Jia family would be so unbearable? Now, the Jia family was the hardest to live in the entire courtyard house.
Without everyone's help, it would be difficult for them to survive, let alone eat meat.
However, Zhu Fan was different. This guy ate meat every day and lived a comfortable life.
If she had known this would happen, she would have married Zhu Fan back then!
But it was too late for regrets now!
Seeing Qin Huairu remain silent, Jia Zhangshi glared at her and said,""What are you doing? Didn't you hear what the children said? They want to eat meat. Hurry up and ask Zhu Fan for some! Anyway, he can't finish it all by himself!"
Qin Huairu's eyes revealed a hint of grievance. She wanted him to ask Zhu Fan for pork. What right did she have?
She didn't want to go, but when she saw the children's pitiful looks, she decided to go all out.
In her opinion, Zhu Fan had not gotten married all these years because he still had feelings for her.
In that case, he wouldn't reject her request, right?
If it really didn't work, then she could only use her ultimate trump card…
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