Siheyuan: Relieve stress and relieve worries

Chapter 803: The Jia Family Dilemma
Wang Zhan didn't know what Qi Dasheng and the two little girls took. He was reading and drinking tea in the study room. They took the things and hid them.

However, when he went to school the next day, Wang Zhan knew what his sister had taken. It was a hand-embroidered shoulder bag of the Dai people that she brought back from Wadang. It was colorful and very beautiful. Wang Zhan had stolen it temporarily in order to carry some precious jade. Such shoulder bags were not sold anywhere there, and it was a token of love for an unmarried woman.

During dinner, Qi Dasheng asked Wang Zhan worriedly, "My disciple, I understand that you keep antiques. It may be your hobby. But why do you keep so much gold?"

Wang Zhan rolled his eyes and said, "I have paid enough. Don't forget, I still have two younger sisters to support. I have to leave some money for the family."

After Qi Dasheng heard it, he thought about it and stopped asking. He pretended not to know, but said proudly: "Your set of Swiss props is pretty good."

Wang Zhan knew that Qi Dasheng must have taken this thing away. It was a complete set of Swiss knives.

The next day, Xiaowu still didn't go to school. Wang Zhan knew that Xiaowu had really been punished this time.

Red Star Steel Rolling Plant, the third production workshop
Nearing noon, Yi Zhonghai was still working hard. Jia Dongxu's workbench was not far from Yi Zhonghai. After a morning of work, Jia Dongxu felt sore in the back and waist. In the end, he still didn't complete the morning's task. There was nothing he could do but to continue working.

At this time, Yi Zhonghai had already turned off his machine and his workpiece was completed. He turned and went to the rest area behind him, thinking of drinking some water and taking a break. Then he habitually looked at his apprentice Jia Dongxu, seeing that he was struggling with the processing.

Yi Zhonghai walked over and said, "Come on, go out with the master to smoke a cigarette, and I'll help you process it when we come back."

Jia Dongxu turned off the machine, put down the workpiece, turned around and left the workshop with Yi Zhonghai.

Outside at the stockyard, the master and his apprentice sat down. Jia Dongxu quickly took out his cigarette and wanted to pass it to his master. Yi Zhonghai smiled and said, "Take mine."

As he spoke, Yi Zhonghai took out a box of Daqianmen from his pocket, opened it and handed one to Jia Dongxu. Jia Dongxu smiled and said, "Oh, Master, that's amazing, Daqianmen?"

"The director gave it to me. Today's task is a bit urgent, so he gave me a pack of Daqianmen in the morning as a reward." Yi Zhonghai said with a smile.

Jia Dongxu gave his master Sun a thumbs up. After the two chatted for a while, Yi Zhonghai asked, "Why do I feel that you are so tired today?"

Jia Dongxu took a puff of his cigarette, sighed and said, "Master, how can I not be tired? Huairu is pregnant again, and I am the only one in the family who has a ration. I went to buy food again last night. If I don't buy, there will be no food at home. I am so worried."

Yi Zhonghai knew the situation of his apprentice's family, so he sighed and said, "When the town and city were divided, I advised your mother to register her household registration here, but she refused to listen. Oh, doesn't she have land in the countryside? She should have received some food, right? Didn't you ask your mother to go back and check on her? Oh, and what about Huairu?"

Jia Dongxu thought, yes, he had reached an agreement with the Jia family at that time, how could he forget about it? Although he felt relieved, he still said with a sad face: "Master, you don't know, my family will only have food tonight, and we will run out of food tomorrow. All my money is used to buy bargained food."

Yi Zhonghai looked at his apprentice meaningfully and said, "Okay, don't be so sad. Come to my house in the evening. I still have ten kilograms of corn flour and two kilograms of white flour so that your wife can have something good to eat." Jia Dongxu was suddenly happy and hurried to thank his master. After smoking, the two returned to the workshop and continued to work.

In the evening, Jia Dongxu returned home, put down his lunch box, and walked out. Jia Zhang shouted, "Where are you going? You're out as soon as you get back?"

Jia Dongxu said: "My master promised to give me some food, I will go and get it back."

At Yi Zhonghai's house, after Jia Dongxu left with the food, Li Cuilan said worriedly, "It's only been a few days since he got paid, and he's already out of food. We can't keep helping him, and the rations we have are not much."

Yi Zhonghai was not worried at all and said, "It's just this time. I guess Jia Zhang and his wife will go back to the countryside to ask for food tomorrow. The countryside is still relatively wealthy now, so don't worry."

Sure enough, early the next morning, Jia Zhang and Qin Huairu went to the countryside.

When Jia Zhang came back, she was quite high-profile and arrogant. She came back in a donkey cart with several hundred kilograms of grain on it, which was the income from her land this year. In this way, the Jia family's problems were solved at once, and the Jia family even became one of the few wealthy families in the entire courtyard.

There were a few families that were short of food and had tried to borrow grain from Jia Zhang. Jia Zhang scolded them and kicked them out in a very harsh way. After that, the residents of the courtyard gradually distanced themselves from the Jia family. But did the Jia family care about this? They would rather eat white flour than two liang of flour, which was really hateful.

October 10, 1956 was the day when the famous "Double Ten Agreement" was signed in history. It was also Xiaowu's first day of school after the National Day. Wang Zhan looked at Xiaowu walking slowly and laughed out loud.

Xiao Si wanted to go over and help Xiao Wu, but Xiao Wu refused and insisted on going to his seat by himself. He slowly sat on the stool while holding onto the desk. However, it was very strange that he only sat on the edge of the stool and did not dare to sit fully. Wang Zhan looked at his uncomfortable look and said, "Hey, Xiao Wu, if you can't do it, just rest for a few more days. Why do you insist on coming to school?"

Xiao Wu said, "No, I was almost getting better, but my dad got into trouble. He looked at the award certificate on the wall and then at me. He scolded me again last week. I'm afraid if I stay at home any longer, I'll probably get scolded a third time."

Wang Zhan looked at the pitiful Xiao Wu and said to Xiao Si, "Xiao Si, go find the class teacher later and tell him everything. Then ask the teacher to accompany you to send Xiao Wu home in the evening and ask him to plead for mercy."

Xiao Si nodded and said, "That's a good idea. Xiao Wu will probably have to take a few more days off."

"Take a rest. Why do you feel so uncomfortable? Come back to school when you feel better." Wang Zhan said with a sigh.

But Wang Zhan turned around and asked Xiao Wu again, "Xiao Wu, what are you thinking? Honor and money, which is more important? Don't you know? Your parents are working class, with good family backgrounds. Honor is more important than anything else. Don't you know that?"

Xiao Wu said with a bitter face, "I know, I was just complaining, I didn't say anything, who knew I would get so many fights, mixed doubles, twice."

(End of this chapter)