Chapter 226: Distinguishing the Important from the Unimportant
When Yan Bugui heard He Yuzhu say that he was cooking noodles at home, he immediately walked to the door of He's house.
Seeing the noodles boiling in the steaming pot on the stove and the small bowl of boiled eggs next to the pot, he said with envy,

"Oh! Sure, Zhuzi.

You have noodles and boiled eggs. Your family lives a very good life. You wouldn't trade them for anything even if you were given to a rich man."

He only said one sentence, then he looked at the deaf old lady sitting on the kang and said,
"Old lady, Sister Zhang has gone too far today.

If you feel bad about the money Jia Dongxu spent, you can just tell me earlier. At worst, we can just not have this meal.
But I had already bought the meat, but she actually took it back without my knowledge.
There is no such thing!
You must take good care of her, and it would be best if you could give her two crutches."

When the deaf old lady heard Yan Bugui ask her to give Jia Zhang two crutches, she smiled and shook her head to refuse.
"I got Xiao Yan,
You know I don't care about these things now.

If you have any problem, please discuss it with Zhuzi. If it really doesn’t work, wait for Xiaoyi, Xiaohe and other managers to come back, and then you can discuss it with the others!

It's just a meal and a few pounds of pork, what's the big deal?"

Seeing that the deaf old lady didn't want to take care of the matter, Yan Bugui was not happy about it, but he still smiled and nodded.

"You are now enjoying a good life with Lao He and Zhuzi every day.

The days are beautiful.

Of course, I don’t care about those few pounds of pork, and I don’t want to care about these trivial matters in the courtyard, so as not to affect my mood. "

After talking to the deaf old lady, Yan Bugui looked at He Yuzhu and continued,
"Zhu Zi, what your Aunt Zhang did is really disgusting. What do you think we should do? Should we let her cut a big piece of meat?"

Hearing this, He Yuzhu frowned and thought for a while, then he took action to remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot.
"Of course we can't let her succeed.
If that is the case,
Then let's not eat tonight's dinner and give all the meat and fish to Aunt Zhang.

I want to see how much of this food she can eat. In this hot weather, if she can't finish it today, it will all go bad tomorrow.

By then, I will have offended everyone,

Aunt Zhang will either eat herself to death or get seriously ill, and she may not get much benefit herself. "

I heard that He Yuzhu came up with such a bad idea after thinking about it.

Yan Bugui immediately shook his head and refused.

"That's not a big deal. Today we bought 5 catties of pork belly, 4 large carps, and 4 large pig's trotters. That's at least 15 or 6 catties of meat.

If we give all this to Mrs. Zhang, we will suffer a huge loss.
Besides, if we can’t finish it and it goes bad, wouldn’t it be a waste of food to have so much meat? Wouldn’t you feel bad about it?
No, no, please change to something else."

After hearing Yan Bugui's words about wasting food, He Yuzhu thought it was quite a waste.
If Jia Zhang ate more than 10 kilograms of meat at a time and ate herself to death or got seriously ill, that would be a small matter. If this good thing was spoiled, He Daqing would probably beat him up.
If the residents of Nanluoguxiang knew that he had come up with this idea,

He will have to bear the reputation of a prodigal son.

But to deal with a tough guy like Jia Zhang, you can't use soft tactics, so you can only use hard tactics.
But he was a junior in the Siheyuan, so naturally he couldn't take the limelight like that.

"Uncle Yan, I don't know what to do. Why don't you go ask Auntie One and Auntie Two and see if they have any ideas."

Seeing He Yuzhu said that he had no way out, Yan Bugui didn't quite believe it.
"Is there really no other way?"

"There's really nothing I can do. You should find someone else. I have to eat, and then I have to go to work at the branch office."

After saying this, He Yuzhu stopped paying attention to Yan Bugui and started to greet the two younger ones.
"Yushui Qingshan, come here quickly and serve the noodles!"

"Here comes brother!"

Seeing He Yuzhu serving noodles and preparing to eat, Yan Bugui swallowed his saliva twice, then turned and left the He family. At the dinner table, the deaf old lady peeled eggs with a smile on her face, while admonishing He Yuzhu,

"Zhu Zi, stay out of the Siheyuan's affairs in the future.
If Xiao Zhang wants to make a fuss, let her do it. It's just a little bit of pork. What's the point? The right thing to do is to do your job well and do your work in the branch!
Nothing else matters.”

Knowing that the deaf old lady was doing this for his own good, He Yuzhu was not an ungrateful person and agreed without hesitation.
"Okay, old lady, I understand. I won't get involved in this matter, so don't worry."

Hearing this, the deaf old lady smiled and nodded, then began to eat the eggs in small bites.

After lunch, he supervised He Yushui and Li Qingshan to wash the dishes, and then He Yuzhu slowly went out.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble,

Even if there was nothing to do at the police station, He Yuzhu would stay there obediently, waiting until He Daqing and the others had returned to the courtyard on normal days before leaving the police station.

As soon as I entered the courtyard gate, I saw that the courtyard was very lively.
But unlike what he thought, Aunt Yi and Aunt Liu were just busy cooking, and it was not a drama of Jia Zhang fighting against the neighbors.

Yi Zhonghai, Yan Bugui and others were moving their tables, chairs and benches to the yard.

Making final preparations before dinner.

Seeing this, He Yuzhu stepped forward to help with the work, and asked Yan Bugui with some doubts,
"Uncle Yan, how did you convince Aunt Zhang to take out the pork?"

Hearing He Yuzhu's question, Yan Bugui shook his head and said,

"No?

It was not so easy to persuade Mrs. Zhang. After trying for a long time, she was not moved at all. So I naturally did not bother to talk anymore.

The correct thing to do is to eat what can be eaten first.

And I have already discussed it with Sister Yi and Sister Liu.

Anyway, this is not any of our business. When the neighbors see that there is less meat, they will naturally ask about it. We will talk about it then."

Seeing that they were planning this, He Yuzhu said nothing more.
Started setting the table.

Sure enough, when the steamed fish and stewed pig's trotters were served, nothing happened. But when the braised pork was served, neighbors like Liu Haizhong and Xu Fugui immediately started to make a fuss.

However, the first person he held accountable was not Jia Zhang, but Yan Bugui, who was in charge of buying vegetables.

"Old Yan, what's wrong with you?

Last night when we were enjoying the cool breeze, we agreed to order 5 catties of pork belly, but how come only this much was served on the table?

This is not braised pork, it's just braised potatoes.

Did you embezzle the money for the meat?"

Just when Yan Bugui was about to say that this was because Jia Zhang had cut half of the pork belly to go back and prepare dumplings,
When Xu Damao and Liu Guangqi heard that the money was embezzled,

He immediately remembered that Yan Bugui did not share the money with them when they bought groceries this morning, and he started to yell,

"Dad, I saved a lot of money when I bought groceries today.
Uncle Yan put all of it into his pocket."

(End of this chapter)