Siheyuan: Starting from Building a Village

The next day, when going to work, everyone in the courtyard found that Yi Zhonghai seemed like a different person. He smiled at everyone he met, nodded, or greeted them.

Everyone felt that the atmosphere in the courtyard had changed. To put it bluntly, it seemed a lot more relaxed and the tense atmosphere was gone.

"What do you think of Old Yi? Did he have a child in his old age? Why is he so happy?"

"Haha, Erlu, do you want to make people laugh to death? He is Yi Zhonghai, a well-known old man with no money, how can he have a child?"

"That's hard to say. What if he was adopted from an orphanage?"

"Impossible. I think they have reconciled with the Jia family again."

"how do you know?"

"Yesterday Yi Zhonghai invited Jia Dongxu, but I don't know what they talked about. Yi Zhonghai looked different this morning, not as gloomy as he was the past two days."

"Could it be that Jia Dongxu paid back the money?"

"It's unlikely. That's two thousand dollars. Do you think that loser Jia Dongxu is really capable?"

"That means Jia Dongxu agreed to take care of Yi Zhonghai in his old age."

"Hehe, Yi Zhonghai is really blinded by his thoughts. It's not certain who will support whom in the end."

"That's right. In the entire Nanluoguxiang, Jia Dongxu is a well-known loser, and only Yi Zhonghai can be interested in the Jia family."

As soon as Tan Guihua went out, she heard people talking. She went back to the house with a gloomy face, and her mood immediately became bad.

"Old Yan, are you going to get your money back?"

Liu Haizhong walked to the front yard and happened to meet Yan Bugui who was also about to go out.

"Who said that?"

However, Yan Bugui did not hear the discussions of the people in the Intermediate Court.

"No, how could Yi Zhonghai be so happy if he didn't come back?"

"Yi Zhonghai invited Jia Dongxu to dinner last night. I guess the two of them reached some unspeakable deal."

If someone said that Jia Dongxu returned the two thousand yuan to Yi Zhonghai, Yan Bugui would not believe it, because Jia Dongxu did not have that ability.

"Is it true, as others say, that Jia Dongxu agreed to provide for his retirement?"

"Maybe. Isn't Yi Zhonghai's biggest wish to find someone to take care of his old age?"

"Humph, Yi Zhonghai is really a dog that can't change its bad habits. He has been cheated twice in a row, but he still doesn't learn his lesson. I see clearly that he will suffer in the future."

"Old Liu, you are not a fish, how can you know the joy of fish?"

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is that you are not Yi Zhonghai, so how can you know Yi Zhonghai's happiness?"

"Old Yan, you're right, this sentence is interesting. I'll write it down."

"Forehead..."

Liu Haizhong couldn't deal with Yan Bugui with just one sentence.

"Old Yan, I'm leaving now. I'm going to work. I'll treat you to a drink when I have time."

Liu Haizhong, with a big belly, put his hands behind his back, raised his head and walked out of the courtyard slowly.

"Bah, if you, Liu Haizhong, knew how to treat others, you wouldn't have been unable to become a team leader for so many years. What a joke."

"And that old mule Yi Zhonghai deserves to be wiped out."

In the entire courtyard, Yan Bugui was the only one who was angry and walked out cursing.

"Mom, I'm telling you, be careful next time and don't scold my master anymore."

Before Jia Dongxu left, he specifically gave Jia Zhangshi a word of advice.

"Dongxu, you're not really going to agree to take care of that old man?"

"It's not impossible to take care of him in his old age. Think about it, when my master gets old, his money, work station, and house will all belong to our Jia family. This business can be done."

"That's right, Dongxu, it's you who can see it clearly."

"Mom, just stay at home and take good care of the children. You will have your own time."

"Don't worry, my son Dongxu. I will never scold Yi Zhonghai again. Even if I do, I will do it in my heart."

"Okay, it's good that you know it, I'm leaving now."

"Dongxu, it's still early. Others get up so early to go to work. We can wait until it's warmer before going out."

"Mom, I went out to work hard to make money. Otherwise, how can I afford to give you the five dollars a month? If I don't make money, how can I support my family in the future? How can you enjoy life?"

"Yes, yes, yes. Dongxu should take care of his health while making money."

"I see."

Jia Dongxu went out leisurely.

Jia Zhang squinted her triangular eyes, pouted her lips, looked around, and seeing that there was no one around, she went back to the house as she had no chance to show off.

.........

"Sister Zhang, you don't have to come so early every day."

After breakfast, Zhang Qingfang brought Xiaogang and Xiaoying to the office.

"I have nothing to do at home anyway, so if I come early I can help with other things."

"Sister Zhang, you don't have to do this. You can do what you like in your spare time. We don't have anything to do here except when we open the store."

Liu Guozheng understood Zhang Qingfang's feelings. Someone gave her a job with a good salary, so she felt bad and wanted to do more work to express her gratitude.

Lou Xiao'e said, "Brother Zheng, this is also your fault for not telling me the specific working hours."

Liu Guozheng slapped his forehead and thought that what he said yesterday about working hours was too general.

"Then let's say, 11am to 1pm, 4pm to 6pm, these are our working hours. Starting tomorrow, we will follow this schedule."

"what?"

Zhang Qingfang was stunned. She couldn't even do more work if she wanted to? The working hours were too relaxed, right? Two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon. The money was too easy to earn.

"Also, this is the lounge. If you don't want to go back in the afternoon, you can rest here."

Liu Guozheng pointed to the two reverse-shaped houses next to him and said.

There are quite a lot of houses in the office. There are six rooms in the front. One of them is where the doorman Xu Fang and Han Zhang usually work. Three of them are stalls. There are two remaining rooms, one of which is used as a staff lounge and the other is kept as a backup.

"It just so happens that I have nothing to do right now. There are beds, tables and stools in the lounge. You can also help Xiaogang and Xiaoying with their studies."

After Liu Guozheng said this, Yue Xiaogang became dissatisfied.

"Uncle Zheng, I haven't returned to school yet."

"so what?"

"So I don't have a textbook and can't learn."

"Is that so? Fine then. I'll have someone buy it for you this afternoon."

"Uncle Zheng, you will have no friends if you do this."

"Hey, I'm not going to be friends with you."

"Ahhhh, I'm so mad."

"Hahaha."

Everyone laughed at Yue Xiaogang's crazy look.

"Uncle, my brother doesn't learn, so I will."

"Xiaoying is a good boy. Here are two candies as a reward."

"Thank you uncle."

Yue Xiaoying got two candies and gave one to her brother.

"Okay, Sister Zhang, take them out to play, we need to go out for a while."

"Do you need help?"

"No, no, let's go to the welfare home."

Now going to the welfare home has become a normal thing. I go there basically once a week to see the children there. Every time I go there I bring some small gifts, mostly candies and snacks, as well as some picture books and textbooks used by current students.

As for the food donated to the welfare home, Xu Fang and Han Zhang are responsible for its transportation. As long as they return to the village, they can get in touch with their clones. The clones will place the necessary items directly in the Xishan warehouse for them. All they have to do is deliver them to the welfare home every Monday.

If the food is delivered once a month, the amount would be a bit too much. Keeping so much food in the welfare home's storage room would easily arouse greed, so it was changed to delivery once a week on Mondays.