Siheyuan: Black and steady Gou Laoliu

Steel rolling mill, canteen.

A chef patted the dazed Sha Zhu on the back of his head and scolded him harshly, "Sha Zhu, you are distracted again! Take half a day off and go back to rest!"

Sha Zhu came back to his senses, shook his head, and forced a smile: "Master, I didn't sleep well last night. I'll just go smoke a cigarette and relax."

After saying hello, Sha Zhu rushed to the toilet.

He was distracted one after another today and couldn't forgive himself for doing that to Xu Damao. For this reason, he locked himself at home for the whole day yesterday.

However, everything has two sides. When reflecting behind closed doors, Sha Zhu recalled more details and actually had a different feeling in his heart.

Sha Zhu hated himself for being like this and fell into deep distress; fortunately, no one else knew about this, otherwise he would be too ashamed to see anyone.

When he came near the toilet, Sha Zhu suddenly heard a familiar laughter, and an inexplicable sense of intimacy arose in his heart. He looked in the direction of the sound and saw who else could it be but Xu Damao.

It’s strange to say, before, Sha Zhu just felt annoyed when he saw Xu Damao, but now, not only is he not annoyed, but he feels a little happy instead.

Sha Zhu took a deep breath and walked over as if possessed by a ghost.

Xu Damao saw Sha Zhu and was about to run away, but Sha Zhu stopped him and said, "Xu Damao, give me a cigarette. I have run out of cigarettes."

After peeing at Sha Zhu's house, Xu Damao has been on high alert for the past two days, fearing that Sha Zhu wanted him to let his guard down so that this grandson could take the opportunity to launch a sneak attack.

Seeing Xu Damao was about to leave, Sha Zhu hurriedly shouted, "You drank too much the night before yesterday and got drunk too quickly, so that drinking contest doesn't count. I'll cook two side dishes tonight, and we'll continue the drinking contest to see who wins. You won't be scared to the point of peeing your pants and not dare to do it again, will you?"

Xu Damao thought it made sense at first, but he soon remembered that Sha Zhu got drunk and acted crazy, and kicked him in the butt, so he thought this wine was not worth drinking.

Sha Zhu's face turned fierce: "Xu Damao, I'm inviting you to drink. If you dare not go, I will beat you up every time I see you in the future!"

Xu Damao hesitated for a moment and thought, if he went to drink, at most he would get kicked in the buttocks, but if he didn't go, he would have a hard time in the future.

"Drink if you want, who's afraid of who?"

From then on, Sha Zhu and Xu Damao developed a "brotherhood" because of drinking, and their relationship became closer and closer.

But every time Xu Damao woke up from a hangover, his butt always hurt.

Until one day two and a half years later, Xu Damao planned to pretend to be drunk to fight back against Sha Zhu, but he discovered a shocking secret instead.

He was actually given...

For a period of time after that, Xu Damao hid whenever he saw Sha Zhu, but the longer he endured, the angrier he got. The more he took a step back, the more he felt at a loss, so Sha Mao decided to fight back.

So, the two of them resumed their relationship as drinking buddies.

Until one day, Xu Damao deliberately persuaded Sha Zhu to drink, got him drunk, and then started to fight back.

Sha Zhu is an old hand. He understood what happened to his kidney the moment he sobered up. From then on, he would get drunk every time he drank.

Xu Damao was tricked by Chen Ruyi and cheated out of a lot of money, and in the end he lost both his money and his life. During this most difficult period, it was Sha Zhu who accompanied him.

At this point, these two sworn enemies, who used to fight whenever they met, have become close friends.

Next, Han Li said goodbye to everyone he knew one by one.

Among them, Qin Huairu acted extremely crazy when she learned that Han Li was leaving, and she wished she could stay with him forever.

Han Li did not treat her badly and left her a lot of money.

Three days later, probably because of the many injustices, Niu Erzhuang's luck was not good. He stepped on a landmine and died.

Without their pillar, the Niu family’s world was devastated.

But outsiders think this is retribution.

At this point, the Niu family was in a gloomy mood and needed Ma Yanrong to go back and take charge of the situation.

From then on, Ma Yanrong cried poor to Yi Zhonghai every now and then. Although she didn't get the one million (one hundred yuan) security fund, she did get two or three hundred thousand (twenty or thirty yuan) in nutrition expenses.

Yi Zhonghai always believed that Sister Yanrong was pregnant with his child until more than a month later, when Tian Guixiang started having morning sickness. After Yi Wanhua's questioning, he realized that he had been deceived by the Niu family.

It is impossible for her to have morning sickness within a week or two. Ma Yanrong pretended to do this in order to force him to marry her as soon as possible.

When Yi Zhonghai and the Niu family had a falling out, he learned that Ma Yanrong had cut off the water and electricity, and he became eager to marry into the Yi family.

Since then, the Niu family has never been as strong as before, and the Jia family mother and son were discharged from the hospital;

The mother and son squandered all day and spent most of the family savings. Now the Niu family has no intention of paying for the medical expenses, so they have no choice but to go home.

As the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and a broken ship still has three thousand nails. Although the Niu family has lost a pillar, they are not someone who can be bullied; not to mention, Niu Xiaohua is not a good person.

Jia Dongxu is another bully who only bullies the weak and fears the strong. He stands on Niu Xiaohua's side like a fence-sitter: Wife, you hit my mother, but you can't hit me!

With the couple's concerted efforts, Jia Zhang began to take care of the Jia family's household chores every day. Although it was hard and tiring, they could barely get by.

Even many years later, when people chatted, they would praise Jia Zhang as a good mother-in-law who managed the Jia family in perfect order, leaving her daughter-in-law no chance to interfere.

From then on, as the story spread, Jia Zhang became a model of a good mother-in-law.

After Yi Zhonghai broke off completely with the Niu family, he planned to go back and deal with his wife, take back the financial power of the family, and then recover the huge treasure. However, he unexpectedly found that his body was getting weaker and weaker, and he had no interest in that matter.

Yi Zhonghai began to look for medical treatment and medicine everywhere, and dared not mention the matter of taking back financial power.

Until one day, one of my wife’s relatives, Wang Tieshan, came to our house.

At this point, Yi Zhonghai personally experienced the pain and torture his wife had endured.

His wife controls the family's finances and he has lost his masculinity. Now he has a child in name only, which gives him hope in life.

Gradually, Yi Zhonghai accepted his fate and felt that it was quite good for the three of them to maintain such a secret relationship. At least his Yi family would have a successor!

After the deaf old lady in the backyard lost her huge wealth, she became an ordinary old woman. She started to get close to Sha Zhu and talked about her eldest grandson all the time.

Of course, she also suspected that Yi Zhonghai was stealing from the company, but after a long period of secret observation, she found that the living standards of the Yi family had not improved.

Even from Sha Zhu and others, they hadn't heard that Yi Zhonghai had been spending money lavishly recently.

What's more, if I run out of money in the future, I will have to rely on Yi Zhonghai and his wife for my retirement, so we can't let the relationship become strained now.

The news that the deaf old lady got from Yi Zhonghai was: "Niu Erzhuang mortgaged his house to gamble with others a few days ago, so he took the risk to make a fortune. After getting the money, nine out of ten times he will use it to pay off debts and continue gambling. Now unless we force the Niu family to death and force them to sell the house, otherwise we really can't get the money!"

The old deaf man was sad for a while, but he finally let it go. Fortunately, Yi Zhonghai still recognized the IOU and was willing to pay back 50,000 (five yuan) every month.

Yi Zhonghai thought that the old deaf man probably wouldn't live long. Besides, if he didn't return the money, he would have to kill him to silence him. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to deny what was written in black and white. So he might as well just think of it as spending money to buy peace of mind.

After experiencing this series of changes, when Han Li went to support the construction of the southwest, the birds in the courtyard basically calmed down; although there were occasional noises, they were mostly minor.

After all, the wind in this compound never stops.

One year later, Han Li was galloping on his horse on the endless prairie, when a long-lost system prompt sounded in his mind: "Ding! It is detected that the host has another child. The host is rewarded with a month's vacation without regard for cause and effect!"

"Tongzi, listen to me and say thank you. Because of you, the four seasons are warm~"

"yue~"

(End of the book) Thank you, thank you, thank you!