A hundred flavors of life

Chapter 1011 Sister Qin becomes a stepmother! (Please subscribe!)
Jia Zhang had been called out before and had nothing on her. Her pension money and the pensions of Old Jia and Little Jia were also hidden at home. Qin Huairu searched the house for most of the night and finally pried up a tile under the bed, only then did she find the box where the old witch hid the money.

Under the curious gaze of Banggeng and Xiaodang, Qin Huairu opened the box with great anticipation. Suddenly her eyes lit up and her face was filled with smiles.

Inside the box, there was a thick stack of black tens, as well as a lot of miscellaneous Mao Zedong banknotes, and Jia Zhang's gold ring was also inside.

She took out the money and put it on the bed and counted it several times. It turned out to be more than 1,300 yuan.

Qin Huairu was stunned. She had never seen so much money in her life. Even the Jia family only gave her a dowry of ten yuan when they married her. With more than a thousand yuan, how many of her would that be?

But on second thought, her father-in-law's pension, Jia Dongxu's pension, plus the savings over the years when her father-in-law was still alive, can be roughly matched.

Qin Huairu cursed Jia Zhang in her heart. She was so rich but still forced her to borrow meat from the neighbors and was looked down upon. The whole family had no food to eat, but she didn't even know to take some money out for emergencies. The old witch was not saving money for her retirement, but was trying to suck her blood.

Banggeng's eyes lit up when he saw the money, but he still cared about his grandma in his heart, even though his grandma had used him as a scapegoat last time.

He said aside:

"Mom, why was grandma taken away? Did she do something bad?"

Qin Huairu usually wouldn't say bad things about her mother-in-law in front of her son, but she was angry at the moment and said unhappily:
"Yes, your grandma was arrested because she did something bad. Look, she hid so much money, but she didn't use it to buy food for you, her eldest grandson, or to buy rice or meat for the family."

Before she finished speaking, Bang Geng rushed to defend his grandmother:

"Mom, then you should find grandma and tell those uncles and aunts that grandma often took me out to eat chicken legs."

Qin Huairu: "."

She taught her son with a frown on her face: "Bang Geng, I know you want grandma to come back, but lying is not a good thing for a child!"

Bang Geng rubbed his fingers and said, "I didn't lie. My grandma also bought me braised pig's trotters. It's just that she didn't let me tell you. If you don't believe me, ask Xiao Dang. A few days ago, Xiao Dang saw my grandma giving me buns to eat, and my grandma gave her one too, asking her not to tell you."

Qin Huairu looked at Xiaodang.

Xiaodang immediately acted as if he had done something wrong.

Qin Huairu felt like she was torn apart. She had not yet finished her confinement some time ago, and that was the time when she needed nutrition. Even now, she was still breastfeeding, and pig's trotters could be used to increase milk production. So, except for Huaihua who could not speak, everyone in the family knew what was going on, but they kept it from her.

She has fallen into a den of wolves. The Jia family is a whole family of ungrateful wolves!
Qin Huairu put the money back into the box with tears in her eyes and put it back under the floor tiles. At this moment, she made a decision: she must remarry!
With the Jia family being such a tough guy, why would she stay a widow? She still has a long life to live. She is only 29, she should think about herself!
At Hua Twelve's house, He Daqing brought some good wine and delicious food and came over to ask for advice. At the table, he smiled brightly:

"Twelve, you are amazing. You said you would get rid of Jia Zhangshi and she did it. By the way, do you think Qin Huairu can agree to that?"

Hua Shier bumped into He Daqing and then smiled and said, "Don't worry, Uncle He, your plan will definitely work!"

"That's great. I'll thank you later!"

Hua Twelve waved his hand: "We don't need to talk about thanking each other, but there are two things I need to tell you in advance!"

He Daqing said quickly: "I trust you now. Just tell me what's wrong. I promise I won't say no!"

"First, if Qin Huairu remarries, her three children must take your surname, He!"

He Daqing pondered and said, "Twelve, is this necessary? I am not such a petty person!"

Hua Twelve smiled faintly: "If you don't change your surname, why do you keep them? Wouldn't they become donkeys pulling millstones for the Jia family? This is not a good way to say it!"

Without waiting for He Daqing to reply, he continued, "Second, you have to let Qin Huairu give birth to a child for you. If you don't have a child in your second marriage, the woman won't be able to focus on you!"

He Daqing thought for a long time and nodded vigorously:
"That's right. I've already agreed, so I'll do as you say!"

Hua Shier chuckled and said, "It's not enough to promise. After you two register, take Qin Huairu to the hospital for a checkup before you say this."

He Daqing was puzzled: "Why, is there something wrong with Qin Huairu?"

"There's nothing wrong with it, but I heard that Mrs. Jia Zhang was afraid that Qin Huairu would become restless after Jia Dongxu passed away, so she asked her to get an IUD inserted right after she gave birth to Huaihua!"

He Daqing grinned and spat, "This old witch is really a piece of shit!"

The next day at work, Qin Huairu went to the Security Department, found the chief's office, and met Hua Twelve:

"Twelve, I agreed to what you told me last time!"

Hua Shier felt amused in his heart. He saw through Qin Huairu's little thoughts at a glance.

What can't be said in the courtyard? The two met in the morning. She came to his office to talk about it, obviously for others to see that Qin Huairu and the security chief have a special relationship.

But he was too lazy to expose it, and smiled faintly:

"Sister Qin, it's a good thing that you've come to terms with it. If you take a step further, the family will have a pillar. But why are you telling me this? Go to the cafeteria and talk to Uncle He. Ask him to prepare something delicious for you and your mother tonight to celebrate!"

Qin Huairu said unhappily: "Sister Qin has agreed, what about my job?"

Hua Twelve coughed lightly and said, "You have only been in the loading and unloading workshop for a few days, and I have asked someone to transfer you away. It is not right. There will definitely be people gossiping about you. You just hold on for a few more days. After you marry He Shuer, I will say hello to the personnel department!"

Qin Huairu rolled her eyes, obviously not trusting her and afraid that she would go back on her word: "Twelve, I will never go back on my word once I've promised. Just help me. I really can't do the work in the loading and unloading workshop anymore!"

Hua Twelve smiled awkwardly. He was on guard against Qin Huairu, but he couldn't say it openly. He just smiled and said:
"Sister Qin, you're wrong. Didn't the head of our factory's security department retire? The factory director wanted to give me a heads up. I thought that after I get promoted in a few days, I would be able to speak more forcefully, and it would be easier to arrange work for you then!"

Qin Huairu thought this was right, so she gritted her teeth and decided to hold on for a few more days.

During lunch, she didn't queue up, but walked to the front and called He Daqing to come out and talk.

He Daqing also guessed what Qin Huairu was going to say to him, and walked out with a grin:
"Huai Ru, do you have something to talk to me about?"

Qin Huairu stuffed the lunch box directly into his hands and whispered in a coquettish tone:
"I want to eat delicious food, I want to eat meat!"

He Daqing immediately knew that the matter was settled, and nodded vigorously: "Hey, I'll fight you right away!"

After that, he went back and brought back a lunch box full of food. When Qin Huairu saw that it was all potato chips, she immediately looked unhappy. He Daqing whispered, "The meat is all underneath!"

Qin Huairu nodded and said, "Let's go to your office and eat. I have something to tell you!" He Daqing happily took Qin Huairu to the office.

Liu Lan had been keeping an eye on the food window. When she saw the two people leave, she asked the fat man next to her:
"What's going on between your master and Qin Huairu?"

The two of them immediately started gossiping about this issue, laughing from time to time.

In the canteen director's office, Qin Huairu used a spoon to push aside the potato slices and found that there was meat underneath. She couldn't help but smile, then lowered her head to eat, and said a little embarrassedly:
"Did Twelve tell you about that? What do you think?"

He Daqing was even happier when he heard that no one called him uncle anymore:
"I have no objection."

He was halfway through his speech when he suddenly remembered what Hua Twelve had told him, and quickly changed his words:
"I have two ideas!"

He immediately told Qin Huairu about changing Banggeng's surname and giving him another child.

Qin Huairu's eyes turned. She had no objection to the first condition, as she hated the Jia family now. But the second one was absolutely unacceptable. If she gave birth to a child for He Daqing, what would happen to her three children?
However, Qin Huairu did not refuse explicitly, but nodded and said:

"Okay, I promise you, but you have to promise me that you will be nice to Bang Geng and the others, and that you will have meat for every meal at home. I don't want to eat bran or vegetables!"

In fact, what she was thinking was that since she had an IUD, He Daqing didn't know about it, so he couldn't blame her if she couldn't have the baby. She could just say that He Daqing was old and couldn't have the baby and get away with it.

He Daqing didn't know what Qin Huairu was thinking, and patted his chest:

"Don't worry, I'm a chef. I won't starve even in a famine. It's just meat for every meal. That's not a big deal. As for Banggeng and the others, I will treat them the same way I treated Shazhu and Yushui. It will be the same!"

Well, he could give up Shazhu and Yushui who ran away with the widow, and he could also give up Banggeng and Xiaodang. After he was almost buried alive by the White Widow's son, He Daqing felt that these were not his biological children, and he must be more careful with them.

Neither of them is getting married for the first time, and each has his own plans.

After things were settled, they agreed to register on Saturday, set up a few tables in the courtyard on Sunday, and invite the neighbors to the wedding banquet.

After the agreement, He Daqing locked the office door from the inside. No one knew what the two men did inside. Anyway, when people came to work in the afternoon, everyone in the cafeteria noticed that He Daqing looked very happy and looked a lot younger.

On Saturday, Hua Shier went to the shooting range in the suburbs as usual to teach his forty-one apprentices the art of gun-flipping.

Cai Xuemin recently began to doubt whether Hua Twelve had brought out the real thing, and after meeting him, he began to complain: "I said Twelve."

"I forgot what the teacher said, call me Master!"

Cai Xuemin was very confused, but he still said obediently:
"Master, Master, is that enough? I just want to ask you, are you not teaching me the real thing? It's been a long time, I've been practicing more than a thousand times a day, my hands are swollen, why haven't I mastered it yet?"

Hua Twelve laughed: "That's because you are stupid. If it is so easy to practice, how can it still be called a special move?"

At this moment, someone suddenly cheered: "It's done, I've done it!"

The soldiers who were practicing together gathered around, and Hua Shier and Cai Xuemin also went over to check it out.

The cheering man was a young soldier named Wu Guoyuan. When he saw Hua Twelve coming over, he hurried forward excitedly and said, "Master, I have mastered it!"

Cai Xuemin didn't believe it: "Fire one more shot and let me see!"

Wu Guoyuan was not vague either. He swung his gun again in front of everyone. The bullet bypassed the obstacles and hit the target. Although it did not hit the center of the bull's eye, it did create the effect of an arc shooting.

Hua Twelve looked at Wu Guoyuan's muscles and bones: "You practice martial arts, right? Bajiquan?"

Wu Guoyuan asked in surprise: "Master, how did you figure that out? I haven't told anyone that I'm from Cangzhou."

Hua Twelve smiled and said, "Okay, keep practicing!"

He turned around and patted Cai Xuemin on the shoulder: "Now you know it, it's your lack of strength, practice your arm strength more, young man!"

Cai Xuemin nodded dejectedly. Before, he had reason to doubt that Hua Shier did not teach him anything real, but since all the soldiers who trained with him had become bad, it meant that it was his own problem. He secretly made up his mind to go back and practice more arm strength and he had to regain his face.

At the end of the training, Cai Xuemin remembered something: "Oh, by the way, your hospital's Yi Zhonghai will be in the sentencing meeting tomorrow. It has been decided that he will be sentenced to death!"

Good evening, back at the courtyard, He Daqing showed off his marriage certificate everywhere and distributed wedding candies to every household.

The neighbors in the courtyard were all confused. What was going on? Wasn't Qin Huairu having an affair with Sha Zhu? Why did she register with He Daqing? Your social circle is so messed up!
However, since people were handing out wedding candies, the neighbors still said a few words of blessing. He Daqing's announcement that a banquet would be held tomorrow made the neighbors even happier.

At night, Qin Huairu coaxed the children to sleep, then left the Jia family and moved directly to the back house of the He family.

Early on Sunday morning, the neighbors were busy, going to He Daqing's house one by one to congratulate him and give gifts. Most of them gave a basin, a thermos or something like that. Hua Shier gave ten yuan, Xu Damao gave five yuan, and Liu Haizhong wanted to make a breakthrough, so he gave the same five yuan as Xu Damao, the deputy section chief.

He Daqing and Qin Huairu were all smiles, welcoming and seeing off guests, and they became a couple.

The banquet started at 11 o'clock. He Daqing spoke a few words first and announced that from now on the three children of the Jia family would change their surnames to He. Jia Geng changed his name to He Geng, Jia Dang changed his name to He Dang, and the same went for Huaihua.

Xiao Dang was ignorant, but Bang Geng refused to change his name or call him dad. He Daqing was not angry. He took out a pack of White Rabbit and a Big Black Ten and placed them in front of Bang Geng:
"Call Dad!"

Bang Geng: "Dad!"

Everyone couldn't help but sigh, this child is so filial!
During the meal, someone asked, "Where is Auntie Yida? Why can't I see Auntie Yida?"

No one knew where Auntie had gone. When the banquet was almost over, Auntie came in from outside, looking somewhat dejected, with a sad face. Only Hua Twelve knew that Yi Zhonghai should have been eating peanuts by then.

At the same time, in Jiajiawazi Village, 150 miles away from the capital, the brigade leader was criticizing Jia Zhang:

"Ms. Jia Zhang, you can't do anything after you return to the village. You have nothing left over when you eat. From now on, you don't have to work with the others. The donkeys in the production team are yours to raise. If you don't take good care of them, your food rations will be reduced by half, and you won't even have any food."

The day after He Daqing got married again, he took a leave and took Qin Huairu to the hospital for a check-up and had the IUD removed.

Qin Huairu looked worried. She couldn't understand how He Daqing knew that she had an IUD.

A month later, Sha Zhu returned to the courtyard. When he learned that Sister Qin had become a stepmother, he was completely stunned.

At the same time, in the production brigade of Jiajiawazi Village, Jia Zhang disappeared, and a donkey also disappeared!

(End of this chapter)