Siheyuan: Struggle Begins in the 1950s

Facts have proved that Shen Maiqiu has the best luck.

Only two of the fifteen chests contained gold.

The rest are silver, jewelry, jade, or smaller antiques.

All of those antiques are the best of the best, and some of them can be regarded as the treasures of museums in later generations.

It can be said that he got a big bargain this time.

"It's amazing that the original owner of this house didn't even know that he had so many treasures buried underground. If he knew that there were these things under his house, he would never sell the house even if he was beaten to death."

Wang Jianjun smiled and said:

"I don't know where this man's ancestors got so many good things from. I think they wanted to leave them to his descendants. It's a pity that the news was lost in some generation. Now we have a good chance."

Wang Jianjun's guess was almost right.

Wang Gang’s ancestor was a brave and warlike prince on horseback.

He also hid these gold and silver secretly when he was fighting outside.

He originally intended to save this money for future generations to use in emergencies.

Because they were afraid that their descendants would ruin the family, they specially established family precepts. This secret can only be known by the head of the family in each generation.

However, one of the family heads later died on the battlefield, and the secret was completely lost at that time.

Wang Jianjun played with the gold for a while and then put it into the space.

I'm not short of money now, so I'll just keep these things for collection.

After the initial excitement, the two women were no longer so interested in the gold.

My man has a personal space that is more precious than this gold.

Even all the gold in the world cannot compare to that time and space.

"Brother Jianjun, when are we going to move in?"

Shen Maiqiu was very satisfied with this courtyard house and was no longer attached to her previous house.

"I'll clean this place up after the New Year. Some of the flowers and plants here have died, and the house needs to be cleaned up. After all, this is a house that someone else has lived in, so we can move in after the thorough cleaning."

Wang Jianjun was also very satisfied with this place. It was definitely more comfortable to live in than the two rooms in his yard.

After buying the house, the next day was New Year’s Eve.

Wang Jianjun gave the workers in Hong Kong an early holiday and then returned to the Siheyuan to prepare for the New Year.

Because of the holiday on New Year's Eve, the courtyard was much busier than usual.

People in the courtyard started preparing the New Year’s Eve dinner early in the morning.

No matter how frugal people are on normal days, every family has to eat something good on New Year's Day.

Many families usually save up their meat coupons for use during the Chinese New Year.

Of course, the Yan family is excluded.

The only meat dish in Old Yan’s family this year is the steamed salted fish.

Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiekuang wanted to have a meal of cabbage dumplings made of white flour, but there were none available.

"Dad, can't we have some meat today during the New Year? Everyone gets one meat ticket every month."

Yan Bugui glared at the two of them and scolded them:

"Isn't this salted fish meat? And didn't I bring meat dishes back from Xu Damao's wedding last time? I just ate it not long ago and I'm craving meat again!"

Yan Jiecheng recalled that Xu Damao seemed to have got married last month.

It's been so long, I've long forgotten the taste.

However, the Yan family is now headed by Yan Bugui, and Yan Jiecheng's three brothers and Yan Jiedi dare not have any objections.

Looking at the neighbors who came back from buying meat, Yan Jiecheng and his friends could only look on with envy.

Because Qin Huairu was pregnant, Jia Zhang rarely helped with the housework at the Jia family.

Although she complained about Qin Huairu's pretentiousness from time to time, and said that she still worked even when she was pregnant with Dongxu.

Qin Huairu ignored her and continued picking vegetables.

Today, the Jia family celebrated the New Year together with the Yi family, the He family and the deaf old lady just like in previous years.

This was Yi Zhonghai's specific request.

With so many people sitting at the same table to eat, Yi Zhonghai, an old man with no family, felt like he had four generations living under the same roof.

Of course, he was the only one who felt this way. Jia Jia was only thinking about how to eat more meat dishes today, He Yuzhu just wanted to make something delicious for Qin Huairu to nourish her body, and the old deaf man was greedy and just wanted her to have meat to eat.

Early in the morning, these families gave all the meat tickets to Sha Zhu to go and buy the meat. Now they are waiting for Sha Zhu to come back with the meat.

At the Xu family's backyard, Xu Damao took Chen Li out early in the morning.

At Chen Li's request, Xu Damao also agreed to take Chen Li back to her parents' home to celebrate the New Year this year.

The same as him is Liu Guangqi from the second uncle's family.

Liu Guangqi, who had already intended to defect, took the initiative to take his wife back to her parents' home this year.

Although the second uncle had some objections, he still agreed to his eldest son's request.

Wang Jianjun also went out early in the morning.

This year he promised his two daughters that he would go to their homes for New Year's Eve dinner, but of course he told others that he was going back to the countryside to celebrate the New Year.

When he arrived at the second daughter's house, the two sisters were busy in the kitchen.

Shen Chuxia has recently become fond of cooking.

In the past, cooking was unpalatable because there was no choice of ingredients.

It’s hard to make delicious food when we eat potatoes, cabbage, and radishes every day.

Now that we have the ingredients provided by Wang Jianjun’s space, we can try them to our heart’s content.

"I will be responsible for half of the New Year's Eve dinner this year, and you will be responsible for the remaining half."

Shen Chuxia said confidently while holding the kitchen knife.

"Okay, let's compete. You tell me what ingredients you want, and Mai Qiu will be our referee today."

Wang Jianjun also became interested and simply took out a bunch of ingredients from the space for Shen Chuxia to use.

This side of the courtyard.

The Jia family had been waiting for a long time and finally had Sha Zhu back.

Looking at the less than two kilograms of pork belly in Sha Zhu's hand, Jia Zhang curled her lips in disdain and said:

"Silly Zhu, who can eat this pound of meat?"

Sha Zhu refuted somewhat unwillingly:

"Hey, Aunt Jia, the meat coupons paid by my family of two are the same as those paid by your family of four. Do you think this is too little?"

Because four families were celebrating the New Year together, Yi Zhonghai suggested that each family contribute some ingredients.

Meat tickets are distributed equally among the number of people.

But the Jia family was only willing to pay for two people.

He said that he bought meat to supplement Qin Huairu's nutrition.

Of course, anyone with a discerning eye knew that the fact that Qin Huairu was able to have a bite of meat was a sign of Jia Zhang's conscience.

"Although our family had few meat coupons, we at least managed to get some extra potatoes and cabbage."

Jia Zhang explained confidently.

Sha Zhu didn't bother to pay attention to her. If it wasn't for Qin Huairu's sake, she wouldn't bother to pay attention to Jia Zhang.

He has not forgotten his previous grudge with Jia Zhang.

Sha Zhu carried more than a pound of meat and some vegetables and went back to the house to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner.

If you want to prepare a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner with this pound of meat, you have to be careful with your spending.

Cut off a few ounces of meat and chop it together with the cabbage to make dumplings.

If we don’t eat dumplings during Chinese New Year, it will feel like the New Year is not having any festive atmosphere.

Then cut off a few pounds of fat to make twice-cooked pork.

The leftovers were made into braised pork with preserved vegetables. The old lady has bad teeth, so this dish is suitable for her.

Although the three meat dishes are a little less, they are still considered rich compared with those at the third uncle’s house.