Siheyuan: The Seeds of Disaster Are Sown on My Wedding Day

In the Great Heat of 1952, eighteen-year-old Qin Huairu married into the courtyard, her red wedding clothes dazzling sixteen-year-old He Yuzhu. To save two mao in wedding gifts, Jia Zhangshi pushed Wang Gebi into digging up the daughter hong he'd buried underground. Yi Zhonghai murmured to He Yuzhu that they should go keep someone company over drinks that night. The wedding character was pasted to the Jia family's door, but everyone in the courtyard was quietly calculating their own angles that day.