Siheyuan, Me and the Yu Sisters

He Daqing returned to the courtyard and went to the deaf old lady and said

"Old lady, I have sent a letter of apology to the police station. I think Shazhu will be released after a few years of labor reform in the vicinity of Sijiu City. Don't worry, old lady."

The deaf old lady sat on He Yushui's kang and looked at He Daqing and said

"Okay, as long as my eldest grandson can come out, I will hold my breath and wait for him. I will not be able to rest in peace until I see my grandson."

He Daqing nodded and said a few words to the deaf old lady, then went to talk to an old lady and told her what Yi Zhonghai had said, and then hurried to the bus station. He had been out for three or four days, and if he didn't go back, the White Widow would be worried. He could still catch the last bus to Baocheng.

Zhang Renkang rode his bike in the cold wind to Donglaishun and persuaded them to buy a copper pot and five pounds of charcoal for 40 yuan. He hung them on the beam of the bike and rode back to the courtyard in advance. As soon as he arrived at the door, he was stopped by Yan Bugui. Zhang Renkang looked at Yan Bugui at the door speechlessly and said

"Hey, Uncle, it's not even 3 o'clock yet and you're already off work?"

Yan Bugui said with a smile

"I don't have classes this afternoon, so my afternoon salary is just for nothing, right?"

Zhang Renkang listened to his twisted logic. This was the ancestor level of slacking off. Others were preparing for lessons at school, and even if they didn't have classes, they would wait until the end of the get off work day to leave. But Yan Bugui was different. As long as he didn't have classes in the afternoon, he would sneak away before two o'clock. Or he would go fishing in Shichahai. Now the lake was frozen, so Yan Bugui would go home and be lazy.

Yan Bugui looked at the copper pot and a sack of charcoal on Zhang Renkang's carriage and asked:

"Renkang, what is this? Is this a pot?"

Yan Bugui had never seen Donglaishun's copper pots. With his salary and income, he had no intention of hanging around Qianmen Street. Wouldn't it be better to go fishing in Shichahai to supplement the family income?

Zhang Renkang laughed

"I took Yu Shui to eat Donglaishun mutton hotpot a few days ago. She thought it was delicious. I'm thinking of buying a copper hotpot and cutting some meat for Yu Shui to eat hotpot. Eating hotpot in the middle of winter is still warm."

Yan Bugui opened his eyes wide and said in disbelief

"Renkang, my dear, you bought hot pot just because He Yushui thought it was delicious?"

Zhang Renkang laughed

"Uncle, he is Zhang Yushui now. The household registration has been changed. Yushui belongs to our Zhang family now. He is in my household registration. Please don't make the mistake."

Yan Bugui was surprised

"He Daqing, are you ignoring the rain?"

Zhang Renkang laughed

"Didn't the He family take care of it?"

Yan Bugui said enviously

"Yushui is so lucky. I will be blessed if I follow you."

I thought to myself, Zhang Renkang is really generous. He bought hotpot for her and made it herself just because she likes it. Judging from the size of the pot, it must cost about 30 or 40 yuan.

Yan Bugui suddenly said

"Renkang, are you still in need of a sister? Why don't you take Yan Jie Di as your sister?"

Yan Bugui was thinking about asking Yan Jie Di to recognize Zhang Renkang as her brother, so that his family could take advantage of Zhang Renkang in the future. With Zhang Renkang's conditions, his family would be full of grease if they ate some of the leftovers. Zhang Renkang felt amused when he saw Yan Bugui daydreaming. This Yan Bugui was really good at calculating.

Zhang Renkang said

"Rainwater was my mother's favorite when she was alive, and I came here to fulfill her last wish. I don't have the ability to take care of a child."

Yan Bugui continued to say

"Hey, it's not that difficult, just let your aunt take a look, and you should go to work."

Zhang Renkang shook his head and said

"I won't admit it, Third Uncle. I have something else to do so I'll leave first. You should go back and warm up. It's so cold outside."

Zhang Renkang pushed the cart towards the backyard. Yan Bugui was about to say something unwillingly, but Zhang Renkang left him with his back turned. Yan Bugui stamped his feet in anger, put his hands in his sleeves to keep warm, paced at the door waiting for the next person to come back, muttering:

"What a loss, what a loss, Zhang Renkang didn't bring anything back today, he didn't even give me a cigarette"

Zhang Renkang returned to the house and saw that Zhang Yushui had already folded the quilt and left. He looked in the drawer and saw that there was still 90 yuan. He shook his head and thought

"We have to talk it over next time, Yushui. Our family doesn't need his money."

From the end of October to the beginning of December, Zhang Renkang had already traded with the steel mill and Mr. Lu Sanye six times. Not counting the gold bars, Zhang Renkang had nearly 100,000 yuan in cash in his space. How could he spend it? Even if Zhang Yushui tried his best, he couldn't spend it all.

Placing the copper pot in the deep cabinet of the kitchen, Zhang Renkang lay on the sofa and analyzed the recent situation in his mind. With the proposal of the Four Modernizations, the struggle between the economic faction and the ideological faction has probably begun to become clear. After a year of preparation, the economic faction was defeated and lost the dominant position. The ideological faction took advantage of the mass movement to gain power, which eventually led to the loss of control of the overall power grab and caused the country's economic development to regress. However, in a positive sense, it also completely suppressed the erosion of the remnants of domestic mobilization, transformed the social feudal customs of thousands of years and the westernization process in modern times, safeguarded the autonomy of the country and the nation, and laid a solid ideological foundation for embarking on a distinctive path.

It is not for Zhang Renkang to judge whether this is right or wrong. The biggest challenge he faces now is to deal with Yang Weiguo's questioning and madness. In order to keep his position, it is possible that Yang Weiguo will go crazy and take various measures. If he goes crazy and reveals the matter of the material transaction to the higher-ups, Zhang Renkang will not be able to withstand the investigation from above.

Zhang Renkang thought about it and decided to give Yang Weiguo some hope, and then find some trouble for him to stabilize him first. He couldn't let him get desperate. Zhang Renkang planned to go to Lou's house to get some information at night. The machinery that Yang Weiguo was thinking about to expand production should be the result of Lou Huaijin's trip to Hong Kong Island this time.

A few hours later, everyone in the courtyard returned home to heat up their meals. An old lady who was delivering meals to the deaf old lady next door looked at Yi Zhonghai who was drinking corn porridge and said:

"Zhonghai, He Daqing left this afternoon. He asked me to tell you that Zhuzi's letter of apology has been given to the police station. If there are no problems, Zhuzi should be able to be released after two or three years of labor reform around Sijiu City. He asked you to help him take care of Zhuzi when the time comes."

Yi Zhonghai swallowed a mouthful of steamed bread and nodded.

"That's good. This time when I went back to the factory, I saw that everyone no longer believed the rumors. They all said that I was kind and righteous. What do you think of the public opinion on the street?"

A lady sat down and said

"I have been chatting with women from various courtyards these days, and I see that everyone has begun to praise your kindness and righteousness. Your reputation has finally returned."

Yi Zhonghai nodded and said

"Is this five hundred dollars not wasted? If I lose my reputation, how can I manage this courtyard and create an image of respecting the elderly and loving the young? You have to visit the old lady more often. She's next door to us now. This is a memorial arch for people to see. Let public opinion ferment. In a few days, I will hold a meeting of the whole courtyard to call for donations to the old lady. In this way, the courtyard will slowly return to my control."

Yi Zhonghai swallowed a mouthful of mush and said

"Don't think that the Street Office can just dismiss me, Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui. They are still far from being good enough. We also have to think carefully about who we will rely on to take care of us in our old age."

"I have been thinking about this for a long time these past few days. When Zhuzi comes back, let's match Qin Huairu and Zhuzi together. Zhuzi won't be able to marry a proper wife anymore. Who would want Qin Huairu with three children? Besides, Zhuzi has cooking skills, so he won't starve to death. Then let him go out on the street, or even outside the city to pick up some prostitutes to earn a living."

"We have the money in our hands, so we don't have to worry about him and Qin Huairu being disrespectful to us. When the time comes, I will take Banggeng to learn technology. Qin Huairu is a filial child and will not let us down."

(The original plot I designed was to have Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu have an affair, and Yi Zhonghai asked Qin Huairu to get him pregnant, but I thought it was too dark, so I gave up, and the plot didn't quite fit the personality traits of Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu, so it would be a forced reduction in intelligence if I wrote it out. I plan to change my thinking. Later, Bang Geng was sent to a juvenile detention center for petty theft, and Jia Zhang forgot to buy painkillers and had an addiction attack, so she was forced to detoxify and was locked up. Qin Huairu lost her job and had to raise two children, so she had no choice but to go into the underworld to support her family.)

Seeking "Generation of Love"

Seeking "Generation of Love"

Seeking "Generation of Love"