Siheyuan: My wife is Xu Huizhen

In the 1970s and 1980s, technical schools were everywhere, but it was only 1958. The country was vigorously developing and introducing technology, but had not yet considered the training of skilled workers.

There are not many technical secondary schools.

After observing for some time, He Yuzhu felt that opening a technical school would be a good choice.

After all, my own machinery factory can produce machine tools, so I can train machine tool workers in technical schools. In this way, after learning the technology, I can go directly to the factory and get hands-on practice as soon as possible.

After listening to He Yuzhu's explanation, Li Hongying nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, this is also a solution."

He Yuzhu said: "I calculated that it would cost quite a bit to build a school."

"so much?"

He Yuzhu nodded and asked, "Can we get some farmland?"

"What do you want to do?"

He Yuzhu said: "Doesn't the street also have the requirement to learn agriculture and industry?"

Li Hongying nodded: "Yes, there is such an activity."

Learning agriculture and industry means that workers need to work in the fields and learn how to farm. During the busy farming season, young and middle-aged people are organized to go to the countryside to help farmers harvest and plant.

Learning to work means organizing junior and senior high school students to visit factories for internships. Of course, they will also be organized to go to the countryside to farm.

He Yuzhu said, "Can we give the machinery factory a piece of farmland, and then we can organize the cultivation and build a small farm."

It is now the spring of 1958. In less than two years, life will become difficult and there will not be enough food.

He Yuzhu has always wanted to find an opportunity to get farmland, but now there is not even a commune, and the farmers' land still belongs to the farmers, and there is no large production team.

It just so happened that District 5 was abolished and Dongcheng District was to be established. He Yuzhu from Xicheng District wanted to take this opportunity to get some arable land.

Li Hongying thought for a moment and said, "The district has quite a bit of land outside the city, most of which was confiscated from some large landowners. Since you have this request, it's okay to give some to the machinery factory."

He Yuzhu said happily: "That's great. Now I can grow crops and raise livestock, which can solve the problem of food sources."

"But the specific amount of land still needs to be discussed at a street meeting. How many acres do you plan to take?"

He Yuzhu said: "Of course the more the better. We can use machinery to plant them later."

"Okay, I'll try to get you more."

The machinery factory is the apple of the eye of the street. It has solved the youth work problems in the street and made the street always an advanced street in the district. Of course, we will provide strong support to it.

In the afternoon, Li Hongying, Tian Zao, and some street cadres brought He Yuzhu to the alley.

This is a group of several dilapidated courtyards, with broken bricks and tiles everywhere and weeds growing everywhere.

Li Hongying said: "This is the place. It is given to you to run the primary and secondary schools. The technical school will be located somewhere else."

The area is large enough, but there are only a few intact houses.

He Yuzhu didn't despise it and said, "It's a pretty good place."

I saw the place, and then went to the next place. It was also a dilapidated yard and the house was uninhabitable, otherwise it would not have been idle until now.

He Yuzhu didn't take it seriously. After confirming the address, he paid the money to the street office, and a construction team under the street office came to clean up the site and build the house.

They also built several factories before, so the quality is of course top-notch.

He Yuzhu has been busy with this matter these two days. After confirming the address, he began to take over the candle factory, printing factory, flour mill, garment factory and transportation team.

Some places had better geographical locations, so He Yuzhu moved the factories out, demolished the places and rebuilt them into guesthouses.

This way you can save some money.

After taking over these small factories, Li Hongying called He Yuzhu over and said:

"After a street meeting, it was decided to transfer 1000 mu of farmland to the machinery factory."

"Only 1000 acres? Isn't that too little?"

"You think this is not enough? I asked the district for a piece of land to get the 1000 acres for you."

"Okay, that's quite a lot."

He Yuzhu followed Li Hongying to the countryside to confirm the boundaries of the land, which was in an area not far from the factory.

Although it is said to be 1000 acres of land, it actually covers a very large area, of which only 300 acres are high-quality paddy fields where rice can be grown.

There are also many rice plantations around the capital, but the area is not too large.

Rice can only be grown in some areas with relatively good irrigation conditions.

This is 300 acres, and the rice fields are mainly distributed on both sides of a river, and can be directly irrigated with river water.

There are several ponds connected to the river, some large and some small, none of which have been developed and are wild ponds.

What remains is dry land, where cash crops such as corn can be grown.

In addition to these fields, there are still many areas that have not been cultivated.

There are reed marshes, small woods, and some barren land with no grass at all.

Li Hongying said: "This land is handed over to you, but the crops on the land must be handed over to our street after harvesting so that you can plant them in the fall. All the income from now on will belong to the machinery factory."

"Okay, no problem. This is the agricultural learning base of the machinery factory."

"Are you satisfied now?"

"Satisfied, very satisfied."

"Do your best. The streets are counting on you."

He Yuzhu asked: "Sister Hongying, after this big adjustment, are you going to be transferred or continue to stay in the street?"

"It has not been decided yet. I don't know where I will go. I can only wait for the notice from my superiors."

He Yuzhu didn't ask any more questions about this matter, but Li Hongying's ability was obvious to all. She managed the street in an orderly manner, and all residents could live and work in peace and contentment, and few of them had no food to eat.

He Yuzhu gave her some advice and comforted her, and then they returned to the city together.

He Yuzhu has been very busy recently, so he took a break from his busy schedule to drink tea and take a break in the office.

Then the phone rang, He Yuzhu picked up the phone and asked: "Hello, who are you?"

Xu Zhaodi's convulsive crying voice came from the phone: "It's me, Damao has been arrested."

"What? Damao was arrested? By whom?"

"It was our street police who arrested Damao on the way."

Xu Zhaodi cried and told what had happened.

The matter is actually very simple. Xu Damao went off work as usual today.

Who knew that not far from the factory, several public security comrades came out, confirmed that it was Xu Damao, and took him away directly.

A co-worker who was leaving get off work together told Liu Haizhong, and then Liu Haizhong told Xu Wude after he came back.

Damao's mother fainted immediately. Xu Wude and the neighbors brought his wife into the house and pinched her Ren Zhong acupoint to save her.

Today, Xu Zhaodi brought her children back to her parents' home and immediately called He Yuzhu.

He Yuzhu asked: "Do you know what it is about?"

In fact, he had some guesses in his mind, which was about Yi Wending being beaten, but it was better to pretend to be confused.

Xu Zhaodi said, "It might be the incident when Yi was beaten last time. You and my little sister should come back quickly. The yard is in a mess."

"Okay, I'll take her back now."

He Yuzhu put down the phone, went out and said to his younger sister:

"Hurry back, Damao has been taken away by the police."

"What? How could this happen?"

"Who knows? Your sister called and said your mother fainted."

"what!"

Xu Xiaomei was so surprised that she was in such a panic that she even dropped the teacup. She didn't even bother to clean up and went straight out of the office.

He Yuzhu ordered the staff to clean up the floor, locked the office door, and then rode his bicycle out of the factory.

Soon they caught up with Xu Xiaomei's bicycle. Xu Xiaomei used all her strength to ride as fast as she could, and the two of them returned to the courtyard together.

Xu Xiaomei threw her bicycle aside and rushed into the yard.

He Yuzhu had no choice but to lock his own bicycle, then help his younger sister lock hers before entering the yard.

When you are in the front yard, you can hear crying and arguing coming from inside.

When I walked through the central hall, I saw Xu Damao's mother and the White Widow arguing with each other again.

The two families were facing each other, each filled with anger, and would fight at the slightest disagreement.

He Yuzhu frowned. Just as he had guessed, the two families followed this pattern again.

This time He Yuzhu did not try to dissuade her. Instead, he walked over to Wen Yuping, greeted her, took her in his arms, and said:

"What's going on here?"

"It was because Damao was arrested that the Xu family came to the Yi family to make trouble."

Xu Wude has two daughters and only one son, Xu Damao, and he is very doting on her.

Of course, the son would blame the Yi family if something happened. Even if Xu Damao beat Yi Wending into the operating room, in the view of Xu Damao's mother, the Yi family was also to blame.

This is also the reason why He Yuzhu came over today but did not try to stop the fight. The Xu family was being unreasonable this time, so he didn't want to get involved.

But he hid aside to watch the fun, and Yi Zhonghai didn't want to leave him alone.

Yi Zhonghai shouted loudly: "Zhu Zi, you are back now, come and judge for everyone who is to blame for this matter."

He Yuzhu walked helplessly to the spot between the two families and said, "We have been neighbors for many years. Arguing and cursing like this is not the solution to the problem. Let's sit down and talk things out calmly."

Xu Wood also discovered that there was no point in continuing to scold him.

Right now, we should find a way to get our son out.

"Okay, let's sit down and talk."

Originally, they wanted to negotiate at He Yuzhu's home, but He Yuzhu declined and instead went to Liu Haizhong's home to talk.

He Yuzhu no longer cared about the leadership in the courtyard, otherwise he would not have allowed three old men to serve as the masters of the courtyard.

Given his current social status and the fact that he manages a factory with hundreds of employees, everyone will give him enough respect.

He has money and power, and no one in Siheyuan will look down on his opinion.

At Liu Haizhong's home, Xu Wude said, "Old Yi, hurry up and get my son out to me. He didn't beat me. You are throwing dirty water on him."

"Haha, you make it sound so easy. If you say it wasn't him who hit me, then it wasn't him who hit me, right?"

Yi Zhonghai said with some pride:

"I have asked the police, and they have evidence that it was Xu Damao who injured my son. How dare you deny it?"

"Impossible, you are just framing me. My son would never do such a thing. You are forcing him to confess."

"It's no use talking to me. My eldest son's second child was broken and he went into surgery twice. His life is ruined. If that's the case, don't even think about your son coming out."

"You are just making a false accusation. It wasn't my son who beat me."

"The public security comrades have evidence." Yi Zhonghai was very proud. He had been bullied by Xu Wude for so many years, and he had to pay him 30 yuan a month from the money he earned. He had been holding a grudge for a long time.

This time we finally had solid evidence, so we could send Xu Damao to jail and finally get our revenge.

How could Yi Zhonghai give up just because of Xu Wude's two words!

What's more, now I have to pay 10 yuan every month, and there is no deadline.

It wouldn't be pleasant for anyone.

Liu Haizhong saw that the two of them were about to quarrel again, and hurriedly tried to stop them:

"Okay, okay, we are all in our forties, let's talk slowly if there is anything."

"What's there to say? Damao is still in the police station. I don't know how he is doing now." Xu Wude said angrily.

Liu Haizhong asked: "Did Xu Damao really do this?"

Xu Wood quickly shook his head: "It is absolutely impossible that Damao is not capable of such a thing."

Although he believed in his heart that Damao might have done it, he was still unwilling to admit that it was Damao who did it.

Yi Zhonghai said: "It's no use for you to deny it. The police station has already arrested another person, the one with the surname Du from our factory. He is Xu Damao's best friend and he has admitted it."

Yi Wending and his brother were together, so Xu Damao found his best friend, and the two of them put sacks on the Yi brothers and beat them up.

Fights were common at that time, and Xiao Du didn't think it was a big deal.

It was just that Xu Damao kicked Yi Wending hard to vent his anger before leaving, directly breaking his lower body, which caused the incident to become a hot topic.

When the public security comrades were investigating Xu Damao, this comrade named Du also came into their sight.

When he was brought to the police station, Xiao Du confessed everything.

Now that they had a witness, they arrested Xu Damao.

Yi Zhonghai told the story with some pride, and then asked:

"Everyone, tell me, the police have evidence, but Xu is still adamant. Go to the police station and make a scene if you can!"

Xu Wood was so angry that he didn't know what to say.

I had previously thought that the public security comrades had no evidence, and that Yi Zhonghai could not frame He Daqing, so he framed his own son. I did not expect that there was a third person who could provide evidence.

"This is impossible, how could this happen?"

Xu Zhaodi, who was sitting next to her, was a little dumbfounded. Doesn’t this mean that her brother will go to jail?

Xu Wude was so angry that he couldn't speak. He only had one son, so things would be difficult.

He is about to reach the age for marriage. If Damao goes to jail, it will take at least three to five years. When he comes out, he will not only be old but also have a bad reputation.

If things go wrong, you might end up being single for the rest of your life.

If this were the case, the Xu family's mutual support would be completely ruined.

Xu Wood thought about it over and over again but could not find any way to solve this problem.

His relationship with Yi Zhonghai was already the worst. It would not be an exaggeration to say that they were enemies. It was impossible to expect anything from him.

Then he turned around and asked, "Zhu Zi, what do you think we should do about this? Damao can't go to jail."