Siheyuan: Happy He Yuzhu

And Qin Huairu also has her dignity. There are two places in Nanluoguxiang that collect waste: one is a collective one and the other is run by the Yan family.

Because of this scrap collection station, Yan Jiecheng is now also a wealthy man in the alley.

Although it doesn't look glorious, it actually makes a lot of money.

This can be considered as the blessing that Yan Bugui left for his descendants. After Yan Bugui got into trouble, he supplemented his family income by picking up scraps. After Yan Jiecheng woke up, he followed Yan Bugui to pick up scraps at first, and later he pulled a cart to collect scraps. That's how he discovered the secret to wealth.

Yan Jiecheng now runs a scrap collection station. The busier a person is, the more energetic he is. Take Yan Jiecheng and his wife for example. Now they have a harmonious beauty of husband and wife following each other.

Moreover, Yan Jiecheng's wife is pregnant.

This is a great happy event for the Yan family.

Now Yan Bugui has no time to pick up scraps. He goes out fishing every day to supplement the nutrition for his daughter-in-law.

Let’s talk about Qin Huairu again. People these days are frugal and generally don’t throw things away.

Qin Huairu wouldn't go to those units to "pick up" junk, so naturally she wouldn't be able to pick up anything good.

Go to the collective purchasing station to sell it. Although they will buy it, there are all kinds of tricks on the scales and prices.

This is the reality of this day and age. In later generations, we believe in collective qualities and not in private units.

Nowadays, places like collective scrap collection stations have become a place for some people to make extra money.

On the contrary, private purchasing stations like Yan Jiecheng dare not make any changes to the scale.

Everyone weighs the goods at home before sending them over. If Yan Jiecheng dares to have such an idea, he will be beaten like a pig in minutes.

Qin Huairu didn't want to go to the collective purchasing station, and she was embarrassed to go to the Yan family purchasing station.

You have to prepare some things and then drag them to other street purchasing stations to sell them. Only those who have done this know how hard it is.

Qin Huairu shed tears many times because of this. She was too tired and felt that life was boring.

She didn't know why her life had come to this point. She wanted to change and had found a window, but she didn't dare to change.

She was trapped in the comfort zone of life and couldn't extricate herself.

This seems to contradict what was said above about her hard life, but it is indeed the case. It does not mean that a well-off life is a comfort zone, but a poor life is not.

In fact, no matter rich or poor, everyone has their own comfort zone.

Take Qin Huairu for example. Her comfort zone is that as long as she works hard, she can eat white flour buns every day and meat once a week. She will be very satisfied.

So Qin Huairu knew that the He family made money by opening a factory, that the Yan family made money by collecting waste, that Xiaodang and his wife also made a lot of money by selling vegetables, and that the income of small vendors outside was no less than hers.

But Qin Huairu still didn't dare to give up her job and enter another track.

Because she knew that there were many possibilities to get rich quickly in the outside world. But for her, with her self-aware good luck, she couldn't afford to lose.

She lost, and even the white flour buns she could eat every day were gone.

This is also the reason why it is difficult for poor people to get rich. They are trapped in their comfort zone and cannot extricate themselves.

Qin Huairu also thought about repairing her relationship with Xiaodang, so she asked someone to pass a message to Xiaodang.

Xiaodang remained silent, and his meaning was very clear: he would not forgive her and did not want to have anything to do with her.

Qin Huairu's only hope now is retirement.

After the reform and opening up, temporary workers like them who had problems before have now been converted into regular employees.

Qin Huairu was thinking about retiring, and then with her pension, maybe she could go back to the countryside to grow some vegetables, or she could make a fortune by selling vegetables like Xiaodang.

Qin Huairu's greatest pride was that she was a city dweller, but now she is ready to tear this pride apart for the sake of her life and her future retirement.

This thing is definitely a tragedy.

In recent years, many hot spots have emerged on the streets.

For example, Clivia,

For example, Qigong,

For example, antiques.

But the neighbors in the courtyard basically didn't get involved.

There were definitely some minor interferences, like Yan Bugui planted a few pots of orchids.

But let him make a living from it, or try to get rich overnight from it.

Yan Bugui definitely can't do it anymore.

Several older people in the hospital have been severely punished by society, and their personalities have changed a lot.

To put it bluntly, because they have suffered, they know how to embrace the happy life they have now.

Yan Bugui planted a few pots of flowers and sold them for nearly 100 yuan. However, he did not think of making money from the money, but used the money to buy various nutritional supplements for his daughter-in-law.

Of course, he did not give up his flower-growing business.

At the beginning, I used orchid seeds to cultivate it. I collected seeds from here and there.

Later, everyone knew that orchids were valuable, so Yan Bugui started to cultivate seeds and make money by selling them.

Although he earned little money, Yan Bugui was very happy to get something for free.

Another example is Liu Haizhong's wife, who suffered from some physical problems in the past few years. With the introduction of a neighbor, she joined a qigong group.

Her only biggest hope was that she could develop the sense of qi so as to cure Liu Guangfu's leg.

But her learning is also free. When a master asks them to pay tribute to him, Liu Haizhong's wife will change her master without hesitation.

For this thing, she had visited many masters in several parks near Nanluoguxiang, but she never spent a penny.

As for antiques, the Yan family actually has the best chance of coming into contact with them.

The old books that Yan Bugui collected in the past are now antiques.

Moreover, the Yan family has a scrap collection station. Sometimes, there are always people who sell their old items at home as scrap to the scrap station.

To be honest, the Yan family really made money from this.

Moreover, Yan Bugui was also quite envious of this. He felt that with his vision and knowledge, he could really make a living in this field.

The only time in Yan Bugui's life that he suffered a business loss happened not long ago.

He ran to the ghost market and spent dozens of dollars to buy a painting that was said to be from the Ming Dynasty, but turned out to be from yesterday.

The reason why Yan Bugui chose painting instead of other things is because he knows something about literary art.

But reality slapped him hard in the face.

Yan Bugui punished himself by eating pickles for a month. He was hospitalized with a stomachache and spent dozens of dollars on hospital expenses.

From then on, Yan Bugui never dared to make trouble again.

Making Yan Bugui spend money for himself is more painful than cutting off his flesh.

Yan Bugui's stinginess is getting worse and worse. His daughter-in-law is the only one in the family who always brings meat and fish when she comes home.

But that belonged to his daughter-in-law, and even Yan Jiecheng couldn't have any contact with it.

According to Yan Bugui, Yan Jiecheng has plenty of money outside, so what is he robbing?

This thing also made Yan Jiecheng speechless. Because of the purchasing station, he and his wife lived in the purchasing station. After all, that was their only source of income.

After so many years of wasting time, Yan Jiecheng's personality has changed drastically. He is willing to invest and spend money.

Of course, these two "willing to give up" are compared with Yan Bugui.

Just like when Yan Jiecheng opened the scrap yard, the owner originally wanted to sell the land, and it wasn't expensive, just a few thousand at the time.

Although the Yan family was in a difficult situation at that time, they could still squeeze out by doing some tricks.

But Yan Jiecheng was reluctant to do so.

With the development of the Asian Games construction in recent years, the land has been worth tens of thousands.

It went from a few thousand to tens of thousands in less than three years.

This is because the owner of the land is waiting for a good price to sell it, otherwise Yan Jiecheng's scrap yard will have to move out.

In order to thank Yan Jiecheng for not buying the house, the owner waived one month's rent for him.

Yan Jiecheng was so moved that he wished he could travel through time himself.

As for the antiques mentioned above, this is still a niche market during this period.

Not many people understand.

But if you want to earn this money, you either have to learn it yourself or have someone to back you up.

In fact, the Yan family is involved in both of these aspects.

Although Yan Bugui's character is not very good, he is in the literary circle after all, so it's always a good thing for him to know some great people.

This is all Yan Jiecheng's fault. He went to someone's house to ask for an appraisal, but before they even looked at it, they asked, "How much?"

This kind of thing, any cultured person with a little sense of shame would not want to bother with such people.

Yan Jiecheng's generosity can be considered as revenge consumption. That is, when he was in the courtyard, Yan Bugui controlled him too harshly.

Now that Yan Jiecheng can earn his own money, he is willing to buy anything.

Originally, Yan Bugui couldn't stand Yan Jiecheng's extravagance, but since his daughter-in-law recovered and gave birth to the Yan family's eldest grandson, Yan Bugui no longer cared.

In other words, the Yan family has changed, although the changes are not much, but they are all for the better.

Now, except for the Jia family, all the other wealthy families in the courtyard seem to have found their own comfortable life.

Regardless of whether they are rich or poor, the relationship between a family is not so strange after all.

This should be the biggest change in this yard.

He Yuzhu really hadn't been to that yard for some time. He heard about what happened in the yard because Liu Ping saw it when she went there to clean up.

There was no other reason, it was just that Qin Huairu couldn't move all the things she picked up outside at once, so she moved them in two batches. As a result, a bundle of cardboard in the front yard was taken away by someone unknown.

Qin Huairu sat in front of Yan Bugui's house and burst into tears.

The meaning is very clear, which is to determine that Yan Bugui's family took it.

How could Yan Bugui be willing to bear this reputation? He would definitely not admit it. He, Yan Bugui, could cheat and trade in his life, but he had never stolen.

But the Yan family did have a lot of cardboard at home, and cardboard these days was all pretty much the same.

This thing is really hard to explain.

That’s why Yan Bugui refused to let Qin Huairu go in to search, and the two sides were in a stalemate.

In the end, Yan Bugui paid Qin Huairu fifty cents in compensation, which made the old man very distressed.

He had to pay compensation. Seeing Qin Huairu's crazy look, Yan Bugui was really afraid that she would die at her own door.

This kind of trivial matter is very interesting when Liu Ping describes it with gestures.

He Yuzhu and Yu Li did not feel any complicated emotions because of Qin Huairu's experience. Instead, they were surprised that they found such a thing interesting.

It turned out that without realizing it, the couple had become so far away from the courtyard?