1959Siheyuan, a Turnaround

"Uncle Zhuzi, why can I only catch soft-shelled turtles and not anything else?"

Li Weimin pretended to be depressed and asked He Yuzhu.

"You little brat, you're just being rude after getting a bargain. Do you know how hard it is to get this turtle? This 15-pound turtle can be sold for 20 yuan in a big restaurant, and you're still pretending!"

As he spoke, He Yuzhu slapped Li Weimin.

There was no way Li Weimin would let He Yuzhu succeed, so he bent down and dodged.

"I say, Weiguo, do you really want to cook this turtle? Can you really bear with it?"

"I'm willing to give it up, of course I'm reluctant to give it up. After all, they were caught by two children, so let's have a taste of the turtle worth twenty dollars!"

Wang Guifang had the fifty-six yuan given by Liu Ming in her pocket. When she entered the house and saw the big sack of defective cloth, she was so happy that she didn't know what to do. She didn't feel sorry at all for letting the children at home eat the turtle.

"Brother Zhuzi, I'll have to trouble you to cook today. None of us knows how to cook this soft-shelled turtle, so it's just right for you and Yushui to stay here and eat together!"

Li Dajiang also came out of the kitchen at this time. He had just mixed some multi-grain flour and would steam multi-grain buns later.

"Hey! Brother Li, Yu Shui and I will be rude to you. My lunch box is also with my sister-in-law. Let's eat together today!"

He Yuzhu naturally wanted to taste the soft-shelled turtle, as his skill in cooking soft-shelled turtle was extraordinary.

"Okay! It's settled. I'll go get the seasoning from home and make sure the soft-shelled turtle is cooked authentically!"

"Brother Zhuzi's craftsmanship must be this!"

Li Dajiang gave He Yuzhu a thumbs up without hesitation.

He Yuzhu likes to hear others praise him, and he feels very satisfied now.

If he had a tail, he could really lift it up to the sky.

He Yuzhu hurried home, took out his ancestral seasoning from the box at home, and hurried out of the house again.

"Zhu Zi, where are you going? Aren't you going to eat at home today?"

As He Yuzhu just walked out of the door, a man suddenly rushed out from Jia's house and blocked his way.

"Qin Huairu, I've already told Jia Dongxu that I won't bring a lunch box from now on. It's useless for you to stop me!"

Since his sister has found a way to avoid the Jia family, he can't possibly ruin her plan. After all, she is his only sister.

"Um...Zhu Zi, I just want to ask you where you are going?"

Qin Huairu stammered and looked pitiful, staring at Sha Zhu with her big eyes blinking.

If it were the old Sha Zhu, he would have been mesmerized by this look long ago, but ever since Li Weiguo had a heart-to-heart talk with him that day, he felt that a country girl like Qin Huairu could only be worthy of a loser like Jia Dongxu.

He Yuzhu could marry a better city girl than Qin Huairu, so Qin Huairu was no longer attractive to him.

"I'm going to the Li family in the front yard to eat. I have things to do so I won't tell you any more!"

"The pillar...that...that..."

Before Qin Huairu could finish her words, Sha Zhu had disappeared from her sight.

Qin Huairu found out that Sha Zhu didn't take the lunch box when Jia Dongxu came back. The reason she stopped Sha Zhu was that she wanted to borrow food from his family.

There are five people in the Jia family, and only Jia Dongxu has a fixed amount of food. Although it is better off than the Li family, they can't resist the mother-in-law, Jia Zhang, who eats a lot!

The little ration I got from the grain store at the beginning of the month has been eaten up.

If she couldn't borrow food from Sha Zhu today, her family would have to go to the Pigeon Market to buy food at a high price.

With Jia Dongxu's salary of 27.5 yuan, he gave his mother-in-law 3 yuan for pension, and left some pocket money, so only a dozen yuan was left in her hands.

With this amount of money, you can only buy a dozen kilograms of coarse grains at most in the pigeon market.

It is simply impossible for a family of five to survive until the beginning of next month with just a dozen kilograms of food!

So Qin Huairu had to borrow food from Sha Zhu every month. She knew that Sha Zhu was a chauvinistic man who liked to show off in front of women, so he never asked her to pay back the food he borrowed from her.

She took advantage of this point of Sha Zhu and tried her best to get benefits from him. Who would have thought that Sha Zhu suddenly changed in the past two days.

The lunch box was not given to her family to eat, and even her pretending to be weak could not fool Sha Zhu. Qin Huairu suddenly panicked.

How would her family survive without Sha Zhu's help? She had to find an old man tonight to think of a solution. Now there was only one old man in the courtyard who could help her family.

The deaf old lady in the backyard looked displeased when she saw the food brought over by the aunt.

"Why are you eating corn porridge today? You haven't gotten tired of eating it for two days in a row!"

The aunt watched the old lady lose her temper and remained silent.

The old lady adopted her son Lao Yi as her godson and sent Lao Yi whatever they ate at home. Although the old lady was old, she was still greedy. If she couldn't eat anything delicious at someone's house, she would get angry at the owner.

For Lao Yi's sake, she never argued with the old lady. If the old lady wanted to eat, she could eat. If she didn't want to eat, she could just starve!

It is not easy to have a full meal in these times. The old lady has really never suffered any hardship!

"Humph! I don't want to waste my time talking to you, you can't even get a fart from me. Call Xiao Yi over here, I need him for something!"

The old lady turned around, rolled her eyes, and walked out of the old lady's house.

"Lao Yi, the old lady wants to talk to you about something!"

"What's wrong? You're talking so harshly. Is the old lady angry again?"

The aunt had a gentle personality, and Yi Zhonghai knew her best. Unless she was very angry, she never spoke loudly.

"She despises the corn porridge we eat, and looks down on it. Doesn't she know that other people can't even eat cornmeal porridge?"

"Okay, I know why she's unhappy. Eat first, I'll go over and take a look!"

The aunt glanced at her husband. Fortunately, her husband, Mr. Yi, had a good temper and never lost his temper with her, otherwise she would have been angry to death.

The biggest regret in her life was that she had not been able to give birth to a child for Lao Yi. Alas! Why was her life so miserable?

In the Li family's kitchen, He Yuzhu was skillfully handling the soft-shelled turtle on the chopping board.

Li Weiguo, who was watching from the side, was dazzled and stunned.

After a while, a pot of turtle soup was stewed, and two fish were stewed in another large pot.

This is not really a life of luxury for the Li family. According to what Li Weimin and Li Weihua said, "After eating, they will go fishing tomorrow. There are plenty of fish in the river anyway!"

These words were spoken with great confidence. Li Weiguo had led the two brothers astray in their fishing career, but he was happy to see it happen.

He noticed that the two brothers spoke more humorously now, and it was not because their lives were too hard in the past, which made the two brothers lose interest in life.

Now he feels pretty good like this!

"Uncle Zhuzi, please stir-fry some spicy and sour potato shreds! I love that!"

"Sure! Weiguo, how about learning how to cook from Uncle Zhuzi? Uncle Zhuzi really likes you. He doesn't even like ordinary people!"

After several contacts, He Yuzhu really liked Li Weiguo.

This kid is capable and perceptive, and he's smart at everything he does. If I accept him as my apprentice, I'll definitely enjoy a happy life for the rest of my life.