Siheyuan: Rebirth of a comfortable life starts with Shazhu

Chapter 1097: Bad Intentions and Malice
Speaking of Qin Huairu, things like rubbing coal balls by hand look easy for professionals to do, but if anyone does it by themselves, it will be terrible.

Qin Huairu was not a fool. She knew she didn't understand, so she could only try adding the loess a little bit at a time.

So these days, it’s not just the four members of the Jia family who are worried, but also the entire neighborhood’s neighbors are worried as well.

For example, two or three hundred years before liberation, the coal briquette industry in Beijing was contracted by farmers in northern Hebei.

After the autumn harvest, they would bring their families and go to the old city to find a way to make a living.

This must be hard-earned money, just to make a living.

But if there is no technical content at all, it will be impossible for the farmers to make a living from this.

There are also smart people who can understand it at a glance, but they are unwilling to do it because it is too tiring.

The amount of loess added, the amount of water added, and the dryness or wetness of the coal balls during drying all affect the combustion effect of the coal balls.

There is a passage in traditional crosstalk that describes this industry, ~ "Shaking Coal Balls", which both Mr. Ma and Guo Taoxin have mentioned.

Qin Huairu definitely doesn't understand.

So sometimes there was thick smoke in the Jia family's house, and sometimes the stove went out in the middle of the night, and the old and young in the Jia family were so cold that they cried.

The Jia family suffered from various accidents, and the neighbors in the courtyard were also unable to live in peace.

Apart from anything else, Qin Huairu and her two daughters all looked gloomy.

Now Yi Zhonghai was even more certain that Qin Huairu had nothing to do with Xu Damao.

This also shows that Yi Zhonghai is meticulous. Even though he had already confirmed this matter a long time ago, he was still secretly observing Qin Huairu.

It was not until this time that Yi Zhonghai finally felt relieved.

Here I have to talk about the welfare of the people in Beijing. Logically speaking, normal people have coal briquettes tickets for all seasons.

It would definitely be more cost-effective to use that ticket to buy ready-made coal cakes than for Qin Huairu to make them herself.

But Qin Huairu lived in the back house, which was dark, damp and cold. In addition, Qin Huairu also took on some sewing and washing work, so she needed more hot water.

The Yi family is also a big consumer of coal briquettes, and the few tickets issued by the street are definitely not enough. The Yi family has some spare money, so naturally they go to the pigeon market to find someone to exchange some coal briquettes tickets.

Only someone as precarious as Qin Huairu would think of buying coal and doing this herself.

If she had a man behind her, this wouldn't have happened.

Yi Zhonghai didn't have any sympathy for Qin Huairu.

For Yi Zhonghai, looking back, if it weren't for the involvement of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Jia family, he wouldn't have come to this point.

This brings us to the thoughts of small people. For example, does Yi Zhonghai hate others?

He hated He Yuzhu, Xu Damao, and even Guo Dapiezi who was unwilling to help him in the end.

Including Director Wang from the street. Although he gave him a chance to live, when Director Wang faced him, he threatened him with a look of disdain. When he thinks about it now, he would hide at home and draw a circle to curse those people.

But he only dared to curse a few words in his heart. When they really met on the street, Yi Zhonghai smiled brighter than anyone else.

He kept thanking them, and almost flattered them as living Bodhisattvas who save people from suffering.

Can't you afford to offend?

But he was thinking about the possibility of revenge on the Jia family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Logically speaking, even if he didn't take revenge on the Jia family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, Qin Huairu and the others would have been unlucky enough.

This is a bit like Yi Zhonghai having nothing better to do and looking for trouble.

Indeed, he has no hope in life now.

It is impossible to have a son of my own, to have a comfortable retirement life, and there is no pension security.

So he really had no way to vent the anger in his heart, and Qin Huairu and the others happened to be hanging around him, so it was normal for Yi Zhonghai to bully those he could.

To paraphrase a classic saying, it's like Ah Q teasing a little nun. He can't afford to offend others. It should be said that Yi Zhonghai has always had that idea since he came back as a "sheep", but he couldn't find the opportunity.

As I said, the Jia family has reached the lowest point possible, and Qin Huairu now has nothing except a job that requires her to be punished.

The key points are things like these that Yi Zhonghai can’t reach.

Now, the people like Guo Dapiezi in the steel rolling mill regard Yi Zhonghai as a scourge. As soon as they see him, they know that trouble is coming.

Yi Zhonghai had originally given up hope. Although he wanted to vent his anger, he would not ruin his life because of those things.

It is better to live a miserable life than to die a good death. The poorer you are, the more you fear death.

The "poor" here refers to those who are still alive.

For those who cannot even survive, it doesn’t matter whether they are “human” or not.

But now Yi Zhonghai has discovered a new possibility.

There is nothing else to say, it’s just Liu Guangfu’s fate.

Only then did he remember that Banggeng was still staying where minors were supposed to be.

We are not discussing the good or bad of human nature here, and the human nature is not a matter of discussion when it comes to Yi Zhonghai.

After all, it was like an obsession that took root in his heart, and he tried every means to put it into practice.

Yi Zhonghai was sitting in the bedroom. He had just crawled on the ground and pulled out a locked box from under the bed.

This is where all the Yi family’s wealth is located.

Yi Zhonghai carefully opened the box, looked at the various small and large bills, put his fingers to his mouth and spit, then began to count them one by one.

Here are the savings he made when he was working, all in a passbook. This cannot be moved. It is his last hope in life.

These big and small bills were all earned by him during this period.

As mentioned before, the Yi family's expenses during this period were all paid for with Tian Ya's income.

And all the money he earned was saved by him.

Let’s count them. There are more than a hundred of them.

This was another step closer to the big thing he wanted to accomplish.

He touched his leg which was vaguely aching, and it was hard to tell what expression there was on his face, it looked like sadness, and a little ferocious.

There was nothing else to do, he was thinking of finding someone to cripple Banggeng's leg, or someone who could make him more powerful.

This is his morbid idea. To him, the Jia family did all those bad things together with him. Why should he be the only one who is unlucky?

Although Qin Huairu was also in trouble, it was not because of those things, so Yi Zhonghai felt unhappy.

He met a gangster on the street and tried to probe him about this matter.

The other party told Yi Zhonghai that they had a way to do this.

But he had to pay to see the injury, and because they were afraid that Yi Zhonghai wouldn't understand, they explained it to him in detail.

For example, if someone in there just beats someone up and leaves him/her with a black eye, at most he/she will be reprimanded and put in solitary confinement.

But if a big noise is caused, the person who did it might have to add extra days to his sentence, so this money is to compensate for that.

The gangster also offered Yi Zhonghai a price, like if he wanted to beat him up until he had a black eye, as long as Yi Zhonghai paid twenty or fifty yuan, the difference would be whether the person being beaten would have to stay in bed for a few days.

The other party also cited Liu Guangfu as an example, saying that people like Liu Guangfu had been lying in bed for several days.

However, the person who attacked him didn't show enough strength and broke Liu Guangfu's ribs.

(End of this chapter)