Siheyuan: A Different Kind of Scheme at the Wedding Banquet

In the height of summer in 1952, eighteen-year-old Qin Huairu married into the courtyard. Her red dress dazzled sixteen-year-old He Yuzhu. Jia Zhangshi was unhappy that Wang Gebi had only given two mao as a wedding gift, while Yi Zhonghai busied himself chopping vegetables in the kitchen. As the bride toasted the guests, He Yuzhu stared at her figure and swallowed hard. From that day on, the schemes throughout the courtyard began to clatter away.