Siheyuan: Walking the Path of Qin Huairu

Time flies, the years are like a shuttle.

The vegetarian and mixed years are fleeting.

In the blink of an eye, it was 1965. The neighborhood committee director officially retired, and Xu Huizhen naturally became the neighborhood committee director.

The subdistrict office once wanted to transfer Xu Huizhen to be the deputy director of the subdistrict office. For others, a promotion is a good thing, but Xu Huizhen declined on the pretext that she had many children at home and that working at the Qianmen Neighborhood Committee would make it more convenient for her to take care of the children.

She is like an old hen incubating chicks, squatting in the Daqianmen neighborhood committee without moving. In Xu Huizhen's view, this position is tailor-made for her. She conveys the notices from her superiors every day and takes care of the trivial matters in the jurisdiction. Occasionally, she can also receive rewards from the system. It is as comfortable as she wants.

Everyone knows the nickname of Qianmen Rouge Tiger. Why? Because Xu Huizhen is good at writing and fighting hooligans. The hooligans in Daqianmen all stay away from her. There is no other way. She can't make sense with reason and can't win with physical fight.

The twins have grown up and are now over four years old. They are really a troublesome couple. Fortunately, Aunt Han has helped her over the years, so she can go to work normally.

After Hu Yingzi gave birth to her child, she moved out and lived alone in Pian Ye's former house. Xu Huizhen couldn't take care of them all their lives. With a house and a job, their lives weren't too bad.

Xu Huizhen focused her main energy on her four children. Xu Jingli entered the first grade last year, and Xu Huizhen deliberately did not let her go to school early because according to her age, after graduation, Xu Jingli could catch up with the tail end of the educated youth going to the countryside.

As the head of the neighborhood committee, it was only right for her family to take the lead in responding to the national call, and Xu Jingli would have to go to the countryside. So she could only delay until the college entrance examination was resumed in 1977 so that she could go to college smoothly. In the original plot, Xu Jingli also went to college and met Chen Xueru's son Hou Kui on the university campus.

Hou Kui is a boy with high IQ and EQ, and he has good character. He is a good son-in-law, and Xu Hui really doesn't want to change the original plot.

After Chen Xueru and Xu Damao got married, they spent several years in love, but they never had children. After the sweet period, Xu Damao's old habit came back, and he occasionally went out to pick wild flowers on the roadside.

Who is Chen Xueru? After noticing Xu Damao's abnormality, she stared at him like a thief, but the devil is one foot high, and the way is ten feet higher. Xu Damao moved the battlefield from the city to the countryside, and when he went to the countryside to show movies, he hooked up with the young widows in the village.

As for He Yuzhu, as early as 1961, Xu Huizhen took out the motorcycle rewarded by the system from the space and asked He Yuzhu to donate it to the steel rolling mill to see if he could imitate it and produce motorcycles.

If motorcycles could be produced in this era, it would be a great feat and it would be possible to export them abroad.

Director Yang and Deputy Director Li are both smart people, and they both saw the value of this motorcycle.

The two factory managers, who had seemed to be at odds with each other in the past, surprisingly reached a consensus this time and decided to go all out to manufacture motorcycles.

It must be said that the wisdom of the Chinese people is not exaggerated. After nearly a year of gathering experts and senior technicians, they finally succeeded in developing it. Although the appearance is not so beautiful, the workmanship is still rough, and the performance of the engine needs to be improved, the results are still very gratifying.

On this basis, after further in-depth research and experiments, the motorcycle manufacturing process was further improved, and the steel rolling mill successfully produced the first qualified motorcycle.

When the first car whizzed through the streets of the capital, it caused a great sensation and was highly praised by the country's leaders.

He Yuzhu was therefore promoted to the position of logistics director, which was the position of Deputy Factory Director Li before. This speed of promotion was unprecedented.

He was also rewarded with a motorcycle. When the motorcycle production workshop was established, Director Yang took the lead and gave him five job quotas.

In the courtyard, Aunt Yi successfully gave birth to a son in the winter of 1961 and named him Yi Xinsheng. Since having a son, Yi Zhonghai has been much more content and lived a down-to-earth life, and he has no more contact with Qin Huairu.

Qin Huairu, without Yi Zhonghai's help, often used her beauty to gain benefits for her children in order to make their lives better. She was also very famous in the steel mill, exchanging steamed buns for steamed buns.

Jia Zhang kept staring at her daughter-in-law at first, but Qin Huairu, who was forced into a corner, showed her fangs. She warned Jia Zhang, "If you don't like her, go back to the countryside. You have a rural hukou anyway, so you shouldn't have stayed in the city."

Jia Zhang couldn't just give in, she said: "Don't forget, your job belongs to the Jia family, believe it or not, I will take your job back, and then you have to go back to Qinjiazhuang!"

Qin Huairu sneered, "You are the daughter-in-law of the Jia family, and so am I. Why should you have the final say on work? It is only natural for me to take over my husband's job! On the contrary, if I remarry, no one will support you. You should think carefully. And this house was also distributed to employees by the steel mill. We can still live in it now because I work in the factory. If I were not an employee of the steel mill, the house would be taken back. Where would you live then?"

After hearing what Qin Huairu said, Jia Zhang was like a deflated balloon and lost her temper.

In the original plot, the reason why the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law could live in peace was because Yi Zhonghai and He Yuzhu were there to protect the Jia family. They could live on, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law cooperated well, one playing the good cop and the other playing the bad cop.

Jia Zhang would throw a tantrum when she should, and Qin Huairu would pretend to be weak when she should, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law worked in unison and thrived in the courtyard.

Having lost the support of He Yuzhu and Yi Zhonghai, Qin Huairu also took off her disguise. How could she allow Jia Zhangshi to manipulate her at will?

The final result was that Jia Zhang pretended to be deaf and dumb, took care of the children at home and did not mind other people's business, while Qin Huairu was having a good time outside.

The deaf old lady in the backyard was a bit miserable. Ever since Yi Zhonghai had a child, Aunt Yi had to take care of the child and occasionally get some manual work from the neighborhood committee to supplement the family income.

There was no other way. Yi Zhonghai's salary was reduced, and the family's previous savings were all spent by Yi Zhonghai. In order to save some money for her son, Aunt Yi had to do this.

In the capital, many unemployed women have benefited from the handicraft factories. They can take on some outside work and earn some hard-earned money while taking care of the elderly and children at home.

Therefore, the care for the deaf old lady was not as dedicated. The old lady's family assets had been partly seized by Xu Huizhen, and she didn't have much money left. She couldn't eat nutritious food, and she had to do housework herself.

What she couldn't stand the most was that no one in the yard took her seriously and no one came to flatter her.

In this way, she became depressed and died in 1963. She was killed earlier than the original plot.

After the deaf old lady passed away, her house was a private property, and because she was a five-guarantee household, the house was taken over by the neighborhood committee.

Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui in the yard had their eyes on these two houses, because their sons were growing up one after another and were going to get married and have children, and everyone needed a house.

Several families went to the neighborhood committee to ask to rent the old lady's house, but He Daqing got there first.

He Daqing bought the house at Xu Huizhen's suggestion because his daughter He Yushui was getting married and had no house to live in, so he bought the house as a dowry for his daughter.

Although house sales are not allowed now, there are still loopholes because the old lady's two houses were originally private property. Under Xu Huizhen's operation, Director Ma of the neighborhood committee turned a blind eye and transferred the ownership to He Daqing.

Unlike the original plot, He Yushui was admitted to Beijing Medical College and was assigned to a hospital as a doctor after graduation. This was also a change under the guidance of Xu Huizhen.

But the person she was looking for was still a policeman named Wu Jianguo. Xu Huizhen didn't know whether he was the same policeman in the original plot.

Wu Jianguo has younger brothers and sisters, so housing is quite tight. In this day and age, who doesn't have tight housing? There are many families with three generations living in one house, just like the Jia family.

So they lived in the two houses of the old lady in the backyard and took care of He Daqing's daily life.