Soul of the Siheyuan: Zhuzi, I can still give birth

The next day, before dawn, Qin Huairu woke up Xu Damao who was still sleeping soundly.

Yes.

Qin Huairu stayed at Xu's house last night, and the two of them tossed and turned until late at night before falling asleep.

Xu Damao is a typical chicken pecking at rice. He is fast, takes a short time and pays attention to quantity.

This made Qin Huairu feel contemptuous.

But last night, Qin Huairu still went against her conscience and cooperated with Xu Damao to please him.

This made Xu Damao seem to have regained his masculinity, and he looked very proud.

"It's not even daybreak yet, why are you in such a hurry? Let's have some more time while there's still time."

As he spoke, Xu Damao pressed Qin Huairu down and covered her with a quilt, during which time a flash of spring light appeared again.

After coming out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, Xu Damao said to Qin Jingru.

"Jingru, from now on, we have nothing to do with each other. I, Xu Damao, am not the kind of person who will turn my back on you. If you need my help in the future, just come to me."

Qin Jingru pursed her lips.

"Come on, stop pretending to be a good person here. Don't I know who you are? Even if I starve to death, I will never come to your Xu family."

After saying that, Qin Jingru glared at Xu Damao, then turned and left.

When Xu Damao heard Qin Jingru say that he was not a good person, he wanted to slap her in the face.

But after thinking about it, I decided to give up. After all, we are divorced now. If I hit her again and they report it to the police, I will be in trouble.

At this time, Qin Huairu walked out from the corner of the street.

She had followed the two of them to the Civil Affairs Bureau a long time ago, waiting for Qin Jingru and Xu Damao to divorce, and then she would come out and go in to get married with Xu Damao.

When the two came to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register their marriage, the registrar looked at Xu Damao in surprise.

"Aren't you the one who just filed for divorce? Why are you back? The divorce procedures have been completed."

After saying that, the registrar looked at Qin Huairu again.

"This woman looks familiar. Did she come here to get married some time ago? And then not long after, she got divorced."

Qin Huairu is already a regular customer of the Civil Affairs Bureau.

The registrar naturally had some impression of this good-looking woman.

"We are here to register our marriage. Here is the household registration booklet and the letter of introduction."

Xu Damao had already gone to the steel rolling mill to get the letter of introduction and was waiting to get married.

The registrar took the household registration booklet and the letter of introduction, glanced at them casually, said nothing, and quickly wrote a marriage certificate by hand.

He took another photo and said to the two of them.

"This photo has not been developed yet. You will come to get the marriage certificate in a few days. Once the photo is attached and stamped, the marriage formalities will be completed."

Although the registrar knew that the two were experienced, he still explained the rules to them again in a patient manner.

Xu Damao took out five dollars.

"I need wedding photos right away. Give me the quickest one. Money! I have plenty of it."

Seeing the arrogant Xu Damao, the registrar just glanced at him, but still took the money, walked to a person nearby, and whispered a few words in that person's ear.

The man nodded, took the camera and left.

"Wait a moment. I'm going to develop the photos."

The registrar came back and said to the two of them.

Qin Jingru returned to the courtyard angrily.

Went directly to the He family.

Ran Qiuye is feeding her child milk powder.

Qin Jingru was also smart. She went straight into the house and helped clean it up.

Qin Jingru was very skillful and cleaned up the messy house in no time.

"Sister Qiuye, is there anything else I can help you with? If not, I'll go to the deaf old lady's place."

Seeing that nothing was happening in the house, Qin Jingru decided to go and see the deaf old lady. After all, she would have to live with this old lady in the future, so she had to maintain a good relationship with her.

"Go ahead and see what the old lady needs. Come and get whatever she needs!"

Qin Jingru nodded and went out to the backyard.

"Ma'am, I'm back!"

Qin Jingru shouted before entering the house.

The deaf old lady is a deaf old lady. Whether it is true or not, her ears are more or less hard of hearing and she has to speak loudly to hear.

"Who, who is talking!?"

The deaf old lady was taking a nap at home. When she heard someone talking outside, she asked hurriedly.

Qin Jingru walked into the room and stood in front of the deaf old lady.

"Madam, it's me, Qin Jingru, I'm back!"

"Jingru is back, how is she, are you divorced?"

The deaf old lady knew that Qin Jingru went to divorce Xu Damao today, and now she came back, she just asked casually out of symbolic reason.

"We got divorced, but that sinister guy still kept pestering me. I ignored him and even scolded him."

Qin Jingru squatted in front of the deaf old lady and straightened her collar.

"Good, good scolding. It's obvious that Xu Damao is not a good person. He is just like his father, bad from head to toe."

"It's not bad for you to leave him. Just find a good family to marry in the future. I want to eat noodles for lunch. Let's cook some noodles!"

Although the deaf old lady knew Xu Damao, the two did not have much interaction. Although she had seen Xu Damao grow up since he was a child, the deaf old lady knew more about Xu Damao's parents.

Anyway, all the Xu family members are villains and no one is a good person. They can sell out anyone for the sake of profit.

"You will live with me from now on. We will live together as a grandmother and grandson. If you find someone suitable and you like someone, just marry her. I will marry you off!"

The deaf old lady doesn't hate Qin Jingru. Although she is Qin Huairu's cousin, she is much better than that white lotus Qin Huairu.

So she liked this silly country girl from the bottom of her heart.

"Hey, old lady, please sit for a while. I'll go make noodles for you. Finally, we can eat noodles with soybean paste."

After saying that, he ran out of the deaf old lady's house and went to He's house again.

"Teacher Ran, the old lady wants to eat noodles with soybean paste for lunch. I might as well come over to your place and make it. There is nothing in the old lady's kitchen except salt."

Ran Qiuye pointed to the kitchen and said.

"There's everything in the kitchen, feel free to use it. There's also a piece of meat in the basket that Zhuzi left behind when he left last night. It's perfect for making noodles with soy sauce."

Ran Qiuye can't cook.

She had tried hard to learn, but she just couldn't cook. Either she burned the rice or she added too much salt when cooking.

She, Ran Qiuye, is very smart, but she has no talent for cooking.

In the past, Aunt Li would always take time out to help her cook, but Aunt Li had her own things to do, so Ran Qiuye didn't really want to bother Aunt Li to come and help.

Now, with Qin Jingru here, I don’t have to cook the meals that I’m not good at.

Soon, the sound of chopping meat was heard from the kitchen.

"Teacher Ran, this bowl of noodles is yours. I gave it to the old lady first. You can eat it first. You don't have to wait for me."

After saying that, Qin Jingru took a bowl of noodles with soybean paste and went to the backyard.

After serving the noodles to the deaf old lady, she was also ready to go back to the He family for dinner.

As soon as I left the deaf old lady's house, I heard voices coming from Xu Damao's house.

Qin Jingru didn't want to pay attention to it, but the female voice she heard was very familiar to her.

"This voice is...Qin...Qin Huairu?!"

If it were someone else, Qin Jingru would not care.

But if the other party was Qin Huairu, Qin Jingru would feel that something was fishy.

So she went to Xu's house, but saw Qin Huairu busy in the kitchen, and Xiaodang sitting at the table, gnawing on a big chicken leg.

"Little darling, eat slowly, there's plenty of chicken."

Xu Damao spoke to Xiaodang with a rare smile, and Xiaodang nodded but kept talking.

Qin Huairu was holding little Huaifang and feeding her, mumbling something.

"Xiao Huaifang, you have a father now. I will change your name in a few days. From now on, you will no longer be called Qin Huaifang. From now on, you will be called Xu Huaifang. From now on, you will have a father too."

Xu Damao also said happily at this time.

"I never thought I could find such a loophole. Yi Zhonghai, Yi Zhonghai, I never thought that you, a family with no money left, would let me take advantage of it and let Qin Huairu give birth to a child for me."

Qin Jingru was standing outside the house and was also shocked when she heard what the two said.

When did Xu Damao get involved with his cousin?

"Could it be that... this pair of bastards had been having an affair a long time ago, and the child they gave birth to... is Xu Damao's."

"That's not right. I've been married to Xu Damao for more than a year, and I've worked the land a lot, but the flowers haven't even sprouted, let alone fruit."

Qin Jingru's heart was filled with anger and doubt at the same time. She couldn't believe that this incident really happened.

Qin Jingru was so angry that veins popped out and her clenched fists made a clattering sound.

"Sister Qin, we are husband and wife now. We can be open and aboveboard from now on. We don't have to be sneaky like before."

Xu Damao looked at Qin Huairu who was feeding her baby. The white spot made Xu Damao's blood boil.

Qin Huairu glanced at him sideways, pretending to be coquettish, and said to Xu Damao.

"You bastard, last night wasn't enough. You've been tossing and turning all night, and you don't feel tired!"

But in my heart I was cursing Xu Damao for being a waste.

"The more you cultivate the land, the more fertile it will be. If the land is not fertile, how can we grow and prosper? Let's hurry up and have another big fat boy. We are newlyweds now, so let's hurry up!"

Xu Damao stood up and was about to pull Qin Huairu into the room, but a familiar and angry voice came from outside the room.

"Qin Huairu, Xu Damao! You two, this pair of bastards, are so shameless!"

Qin Jingru threw a brick and smashed the window of Xu's house into pieces.

"Damn it, Qin Jingru, are you crazy? Didn't I hit you lightly yesterday? I'll beat you to death today!"

Xu Damao was standing not far from the window, and the brick almost hit her, scaring her so much that she started cursing.

When they chased after her, Qin Jingru had already disappeared.

"You bitch, you can run away, but you can't. I know you live with this old deaf man, so you just wait for me..."

Before he could finish his words, two people, one old and one young, walked out of the house diagonally opposite.

The younger one is Qin Jingru.

The old one is the deaf old lady, the ancestor of this courtyard.

The deaf old lady stood at the door with a cane, staring at Xu Damao.

Qin Jingru, on the other hand, stood beside the deaf old lady, looking at Xu Damao with a smug look on her face.

Xu Damao, who was originally furious, suddenly cooled down when he saw the deaf old lady.

He really couldn't afford to offend this deaf man.

"Xu Damao, what do you want to do? Qin Jingru is my granddaughter now. If you dare to touch her, I will punish you!"

"If I can't handle you, I'll find a pillar."

"If Zhuzi can't handle you, I'll find Director Wang from the Street Office. There will always be a suitable one for you!"

The deaf old lady scolded him so much that Xu Damao didn't dare to say a word.

I could only retreat back into the house, close the door, and never dared to come out again.

When the deaf old lady saw Xu Damao admitting defeat, she also pulled Qin Jingru and said.

"Jingru, don't be afraid. If he dares to bully you again in the future, tell me, the old lady, and I will punish him. Let's go back and eat noodles."

The deaf old lady took Qin Jingru back to the house to eat.

At the Xu family, Xu Damao was sitting at the table sulking.

Qin Huairu stood at the door, staring at the deaf old lady's house diagonally opposite, muttering to herself.

"This damn old woman is so nosy. She pressed our windows and didn't even allow us to say a few words of criticism."

Xu Damao was feeling upset.

He was not afraid of this old deaf woman, but of the power behind her.

Zhuzi is certainly one of the forces behind the scenes, but since Xu Damao even dares to scold He Yuzhu, how could he be afraid of him?

Of course, he was still very afraid of He Yuzhu who was going to beat him.

But what he was really afraid of was Director Wang from the Street Office.

He represents the government, who dares to act rashly?

Qin Huairu was still nagging, but Xu Damao stopped her.

"Okay, stop talking. The deaf old lady has a strong backstage. You and I can't afford to offend her. Not to mention us, even the three uncles in the courtyard can't afford to offend her."

Although Qinhuai District had been married to Siheyuan for nearly ten years, she was not clear about the origins of this deaf old lady.

All I know is that no one in the hospital dares to mess with her.

"Da Mao, what is the origin of that old deaf woman? I see that the three uncles are all very respectful to her. Even my unreasonable mother-in-law is like a mouse seeing a cat when she sees the deaf old lady."

Xu Damao said with a wry smile.

"I'm not sure either. I just heard it from my father. The old woman said she was a martyr's family member. Both her husband and son died on the battlefield during the Anti-Japanese War."

"So even the people in the street office were very respectful to her. There were two people my father was most afraid of. One was Sha Zhu's father He Daqing, and the other was this deaf old lady."

"Anyway, let's just not provoke her."

Although Xu Damao's fighting ability is poor, he is very quick to give in.

Qin Huairu said to Xu Damao at this time.

"Da Mao, I'm working in the cafeteria now, and I don't make much money a month. From now on, our family will have to rely on you. This month's grocery money...!"

Qin Huairu spared no effort to create opportunities for herself to gain benefits. For her, only money could give her enough sense of security.

Xu Damao took out a few big black fish bills (ten yuan) and handed them to Qin Huairu.

"As for money, I, Xu Damao, have no shortage of it. As long as you take good care of my child, you will get the money. Hurry up, hurry up, and let's give birth to another big fat son."

After saying that, Xu Damao pulled Qin Huairu into the room again, but found that Xiaodang, who was already full and satisfied, was looking at them strangely.

"Xiao Dang, take this dime and go out to buy some candy. Don't come back for now!"

Xu Damao took out a dime and gave it to Xiaodang.

Xiaodang is over four years old, so of course he knows what one cent means.

He happily took the money and ran out, leaving Xu Damao and his mother to work hard at home.

Qin Huairu was not afraid of getting pregnant again, because she probably already knew that Xu Damao, like Yi Zhonghai, was a family without a son.

In this way, Qin Huairu brought Xiao Huaifang and Xiao Huaihua to live in Xu's house.

Jia Zhangshi, Banggeng and Xiaodang still lived in the middle courtyard of the Jia family's house, but they did eat together.

However, Banggeng still rejected his new father and never even looked at him straight in the eye.

Qin Jingru was at the He family, taking care of Ran Qiuye and her son and the deaf old lady, and they were all happy.

After having "his own" child, Xu Damao worked even harder.

There was no more time for mischief, and the courtyard once again fell into relative peace.

And so, the year came to 1964.