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

At the end of 1963, Jia Zhang finally gave birth to a daughter.

After Jia Zhang gave birth to a daughter, she no longer had the heart to do anything naughty, which made the courtyard much quieter.

But Jia Zhang faced a very embarrassing problem.

Due to her age and physical condition, Jia Zhang had no milk to feed her child.

So the pressure was put on Qin Huairu again.

This person has to breastfeed two babies at the same time, which makes Qin Huairu a little overwhelmed.

Because my nutrition is simply not enough.

In order to ensure that Qin Huairu had enough milk to feed her child, Xu Damao went to the countryside to show movies.

At the same time, he kept asking fellow villagers for various local specialties.

Of course the villagers are unwilling to do so. No one would come to the village eight times a month.

Every time you come here you have to eat and take things. No one’s life is easy these days, and life in the countryside is not much better than in the city.

In some places, the situation is even worse, with some people even starving to the point of eating Guanyin soil.

So Xu Damao's "hard" work brought him trouble.

Someone reported Xu Damao.

As soon as Xu Damao arrived at the factory that day, he was called to the office by Director Yang.

Xu Damao also thought that because he had worked hard during this period, the factory leaders would praise him and give him a salary increase.

I'm under a lot of pressure now, as I have a whole family to support.

Five children, a daughter-in-law, and her mother-in-law.

The pressure is extremely great.

Xu Damao stood happily in front of Director Yang, waiting for his praise.

However, what awaited Xu Damao was not praise from his superiors, but punishment from the factory.

"Xu Damao, what have you been doing recently?"

Director Yang asked Xu Damao.

Xu Damao said to Director Yang with a flattering look on his face.

"Director Yang, I haven't done anything during this period. Even if I go to the countryside more often to enrich the spare time of my fellow villagers, it will be worth it for me to work harder."

Director Yang sneered and continued.

"Well, your work attitude is pretty good. You know, some fellow villagers came to the factory specifically to look for you. You know, Xu Damao!"

When Xu Damao heard this, his eyes lit up.

Is this a letter of praise to myself? It would be better if there is a pennant as well!

These are all recommendation tools for promotion and wealth.

"Director Yang, this is what I should do. There's no need for thank-you letters or anything like that, but the more silk banners or something like that, the better. I won't mind any more you give me."

Xu Damao is waiting to get promoted and make money, and Director Yang is looking forward to it.

Director Yang took out an envelope from the drawer, opened a pair of envelopes at random and said to Xu Damao.

"These are the letters written by the members of the commune where you showed the film and sent to our Red Star Steel Mill."

"Since you've admitted it, I'll open a letter at random and read to you what's in it. It's all about you!"

Xu Damao nodded happily and waited for Director Yang to read the contents of the letter.

Director Yang took out the letter, cleared his throat, and began to read the contents of the letter.

"Dear leaders of the Red Star Steel Mill, we are members of the Xiangyang Commune. We want to report that Xu Damao, the projectionist of your steel mill, took advantage of his position to force us to give him local specialties, and the quantity was particularly large..."

Director Yang read out several hundred words in an eloquent voice, all of which were reports of Xu Damao.

Xu Damao was so scared that his back was soaked with sweat. If he punished himself like this, he might even lose his job.

Director Yang put down the letter and said to Xu Damao.

"Tell me, Xu Damao, how should I punish you?"

After listening to the letter read by Director Yang, Xu Damao was shaking like a sieve.

The letter said that he would accuse himself of corruption and bribery, and of forcibly extorting the hard-earned money of the working people.

Xu Damao couldn't wear such a big hat.

Eat peanuts in minutes.

"Director Yang... Director Yang, I am innocent. They slandered me. I am innocent!"

Xu Damao tried to defend himself, saying that as long as he denied it, these peasants would not be able to do anything to him.

Director Yang frowned and took out a few more envelopes from the drawer.

"If someone from one commune reported you, I would have considered them to have wronged you, but now people from four communes have written to report you, how do you explain this?"

Director Yang's words left Xu Damao speechless.

It's also his own fault. He asked for too much and he deserved to be reported.

Seeing several envelopes on the table, Xu Damao sat down on the ground.

"Director Yang, I...I know I was wrong. Please don't fire me. I have a family to support and I can't be without a job!"

Seeing Xu Damao crying, Director Yang was helpless.

Xu Damao is the only projectionist at the Red Star Steel Mill. If he is really fired, the Red Star Steel Mill will be left without a projectionist.

However, if Xu Damao was not punished, there would be no explanation to the members of the commune.

So Xu Damao cannot be fired, but he must be punished.

"Forget it, considering this is your first offense, I won't fire you this time!"

After hearing what Director Yang said, Xu Damao was delighted.

As long as you don't get fired and lose your job, it's fine.

In this day and age, if you are fired, it is impossible to find a job.

If the factory fires you, it will not give you a letter of introduction. Without a letter of introduction, it is impossible to find a proper job.

"Thank you, thank you Director Yang, thank you Director Yang!!"

Xu Damao kept saying thank you, no matter if it was sincere or perfunctory, at least it showed that his current attitude was still correct.

"Don't be happy too soon. As the saying goes, a death sentence can be pardoned, but a living crime cannot be escaped."

At this time, Xu Damao could only listen carefully. If he disobeyed Director Yang, he might really fire him.

"From now on, you will clean the public toilets of the entire steel mill. However, you will also have to do the movie screenings. As for the losses of the communes, they will be deducted from your salary. Half of your salary will be deducted from you every month as compensation. When the compensation is completed, you will officially return to work in the Propaganda Department. First, report to the Environmental Sanitation Section!"

Director Yang waved to Xu Damao and asked him to go clean the public toilet.

Xu Damao walked out of the factory director's office with a pale face and walked towards the sanitation department listlessly.

The head of the Environmental Sanitation Department has received a call from Director Yang and told him the results of the punishment for Xu Damao.

From now on, he will be responsible for cleaning the public toilets in the steel mill.

Moreover, Director Yang asked the Propaganda Department to inform the entire factory of this decision.

Now everyone knew the news.

Qin Huairu was washing vegetables. When she heard the news, she almost cried.

'Why am I so miserable? I married Yi Zhonghai, and he ended up being a general.'

"I married Xu Damao, and now Xu Damao has ended up cleaning toilets. Could it be that I am really the reincarnation of a jinx? Whoever gets involved with me will be unlucky!"

Just as Qin Huairu was lamenting the unfairness of God, Yu Li and Liu Lan came over carrying a large bucket.

"Widow Qin, after washing the vegetables, wash this bucket of potatoes too. Don't be lazy!"

Seeing the full bucket of potatoes, Qin Huairu no longer had any interest in arguing with Liu Lan and the others. In the end, the most tiring and dirty work would definitely be hers anyway.

Now, she regrets very much being transferred to the cafeteria. She does the hardest and most tiring work every day, and it seems that there is no end in sight.

Now when the leftovers are distributed after get off work, it is rarely my turn, and my previous plan to take the leftovers home has also been dashed.

Moreover, nowadays, due to the shortage of supplies, the number of reception banquets has been reduced a lot. Although the steel rolling mill is not short of supplies, the higher-ups have issued a notice that the habit of extravagant eating and drinking must be reduced.

So Qin Huairu hasn't brought back any proper meals for a long time, and she has to rely on Xu Damao to support the whole family.

Originally, Xu Damao seemed to be living a pretty good life, but now Xu Damao has been forced to clean the toilet.

It seems that Xu Damao's income will also decrease now.

What will happen to this big family in the future?

That evening, the Xu family held a family meeting.

"Starting tomorrow, our family's quality of life will be reduced by half. We will eat meat once every two days instead of once every five days."

"We have white flour and rice, but we have changed them to two-grain noodles and millet porridge. Our family is experiencing some difficulties for the time being. Let's work together to overcome them. Once this period is over, everything will be fine."

Xu Damao said helplessly to the whole family.

After hearing this, Jia Zhang immediately quit.

"Why? I just gave birth to a child and I need nutrition to recover. Besides, Huairu has to feed two children now, so she can't live without meat."

Jia Zhang, who lived a life of luxury in the Xu family, could not tolerate Xu Damao's withholding of food, and was the first to jump out to oppose it.

Xu Damao was also extremely disgusted when he saw Jia Zhang running towards the fat woman.

"Old hag, the reason you can still sit in my house and eat at the same table with me is because of Qin Huairu. You can eat it or not. If you don't want to eat it, get out. If you keep nagging, I will make your whole family eat rice bran. Do you believe it?"

Xu Damao would not tolerate Jia Zhangshi, and how dare an outsider to bully her here.

"Xu Damao, do you know that you are a little absolute...!"

When Jia Zhang saw that Xu Damao dared to scold her, she was about to expose his past.

Qin Huairu told her that Xu Damao might be like Yi Zhonghai, with no descendants.

But as soon as he opened his mouth, Qin Huairu covered his mouth.

"Da Mao, it's okay, it's okay. The food at home is pretty good now, but it's okay. How can it be worse than before? We'll go cook, you take a rest."

After saying that, Qin Huairu pulled Jia Zhang into the kitchen.

"Qin Huairu, why are you covering my mouth? Let me scold that little bastard, otherwise I will be very upset."

Qin Huairu whispered in Jia Zhang's ear.

"Talk, talk, talk... Just go and talk. When the time comes, our family will be driven out and we will just starve to death. If you want to die, take that bastard of yours and die far away. Don't bring trouble to us mother and son."

Seeing that Qin Huairu was angry, Jia Zhang didn't dare to make trouble anymore.

She was really afraid of being kicked out of the house, and that the child would starve to death.

"Huai Ru, Mom was wrong. I won't make trouble again. Don't chase Mom away. I'm going to go see the kids. You go ahead and do your work."

After saying that, Jia Zhang walked out of the kitchen, pretending to go and see the child, leaving Qin Huairu alone to work in the kitchen.

In this way, Xu Damao started the double job of cleaning toilets and showing movies.

And the monthly salary is only a little over 20 yuan.

Because the communes around the old city had already refused Xu Damao's permission to show movies in their areas.

If he wanted to go to the countryside, he would have to go to a farther place, which would undoubtedly take Xu Damao more time, and sometimes he would come back empty-handed.

The Xu family's quality of life has also declined visibly.

The year 1963 passed in such an uneventful manner.

And the spring of 1964 arrived.

Although it was 1964.

But life was not easy.

It’s only been a little over a year since the big storm, but in fact, many things have already begun to expose many problems.

Some units and departments that have smelled something fishy have begun to set up so-called monitoring teams and started secret investigations into some personnel.

From time to time, some people would appear at the leader's house, saying that they were there to report work to the leader.

But He Yuzhu knew that these people must have been sent by enemies of some leaders.

In the previous life, the leader was removed from his position because he was betrayed by the people around him.

However, the person who betrayed the leader has never been revealed.

First of all, the leader’s wife will definitely not betray her husband.

Although during that special period, there were many cases of fathers and sons, husbands and wives, and mothers and sons becoming enemies.

However, the leader’s wife and the leader will prosper and fail together.

Now that her leader has fallen, she is not much better off.

But everything is still okay, not as bad as it was more than a year later.

The leader hasn't asked He Yuzhu to visit him for a long time. He Yuzhu knows that the leader and his wife are protecting him.

He Yuzhu's two children are not far from turning one year old, and the two little guys are chubby and very cute.

"Zhu Zi, my child is weaned now, and I still want to go out to work. I feel like I'm going to mold if I stay at home like this every day."

After dinner that day, Ran Qiuye said to He Yuzhu.

He Yuzhu was not surprised at Ran Qiuye's decision to go out to work.

In the previous life, ever since Qin Huairu ruined the relationship between him and Teacher Ran, Teacher Ran disappeared soon after.

I’m not really sure what happened afterwards. I was just a passing figure in my life.

However, Ran Qiuye is definitely a person who cannot sit still. It is definitely unrealistic to ask her to stay at home and take care of the children.

"You can go out to work if you want. Mom doesn't have much to do right now anyway, so why not let her come over to our house? Qin Jingru and Aunt Li are here, so they can help take care of the baby."

Ran Qiuye had no objection to He Yuzhu's arrangement.

"Have you decided where to work? I can help you find a job."

He Yuzhu now has connections all over the city, and his wife is an educated person, so he will be sought after in any government department.

"Zhu Zi, if I had to choose, I would rather be a teacher. But after seeing my parents, I know that you were absolutely right to let me quit my teaching job."

"So I found a job in a library so I could swim in the ocean of knowledge again."

Seeing Ran Qiuye's face full of longing, He Yuzhu didn't know what to say. As long as his wife was happy, nothing else mattered.

"Okay, I'll talk to Aunt Li tomorrow and ask her to come over and help if she's free."

"With Qin Jingru added to the mix, there won't be any problems with three adults looking after two children."

He Yuzhu's words also made Ran Qiuye feel relieved, so she could go to work with peace of mind.

He Yuzhu was also officially promoted from logistics director to deputy factory director, in charge of logistics, which was Li Huaide's position.

Li Huaide is still the deputy factory director, but he has changed from being in charge of logistics to being in charge of production.

He has more power than before, but he is worried that his income will be affected.

But soon, He Yuzhu dispelled his worries.

His dividends will be delivered to him every month without any less.

This made Li Huaide believe in He Yuzhu even more.