Siheyuan: Rebirth of a comfortable life starts with Shazhu

Xu Damao was really helpless.

He is a leader after all. Look at He Yuzhu and Guo Lei sitting in the corner chatting. Ma's hot tea is being made for them, and melon seeds, peanuts and cigarettes are placed next to them. The key is that no one disturbs them.

But when Xu Damao entered the yard, no one treated him as an outsider.

Xu Damao was definitely willing to help, and the Ma family didn't want to cause any trouble. So Xu Damao took on the role of "general manager" of the banquet today, instead of inviting a few old guys in the courtyard to preside over it as they did in the past.

According to Ma San, Yan Bugui and the others are already grandfathers to Goudan, so he dare not trouble them.

Therefore, Xu Damao, who is good at dealing with people, has become the best choice.

Xu Damao agreed to this without hesitation.

Apart from anything else, he still has a son in the yard.

When Song Jiefang gets married in the future, he will also need help from his neighbors in the yard.

Yan Bugui, who was working in the front yard, took the initiative to apply for a receptionist job, not for anything else, just to get an extra pack of cigarettes.

Xu Damao was annoyed that Liu Haizhong's original target was not him, but He Yuzhu. However, Director He was indifferent to Liu Haizhong's enthusiasm and ignored him.

So Liu Haizhong had to settle for the next best thing and turned to Xu Damao.

The key is that it is too obvious.

Before He Yuzhu came in, Liu Haizhong sat on the chair like a wife waiting for her husband to leave, staring eagerly towards the outside of the yard.

When He Yuzhu came in, Liu Haizhong was the first to greet him with an excited look on his face. Unfortunately, there were too many people greeting He Yuzhu at that time, and Ma San and his wife came forward to entertain them. Later, He Yuzhu met Guo Lei again, so Liu Haizhong couldn't find a chance to interrupt.

Even now, even though Liu Haizhong was talking to Xu Damao, his eyes would occasionally drift towards He Yuzhu.

This made Xu Damao, a deputy section chief and recently a model worker in the toy factory, feel -1 in sense of accomplishment.

Doubao is also dry food, and he is also a deputy department head. But now he is so unwelcome, he must be unhappy.

In fact, Xu Damao’s thinking is just like a woman’s.

When Liu Haizhong came to him just now, he was annoyed.

But when he realized that the focus of attention in the bangs was not on him, he felt looked down upon again.

Of course, Xu Damao certainly cannot blame He Yuzhu for what happened now.

Even if he had no conscience, he was still filled with gratitude towards He Yuzhu.

But Xu Damao blamed Liu Haizhong.

Now seeing Song Jiefang coming in, Xu Damao took the opportunity to avoid Liu Haizhong, leaving Liu Haizhong standing in the yard like a fool, at a loss, and not getting involved with anyone.

There is no way. Now, ever since Yi Zhonghai left this courtyard, Liu Haizhong has become the one with the worst reputation.

Even Yan Bugui can't compare to him.

Liu Guangfu's backstabbing made him, as a father, a laughing stock in the eyes of others.

Even if Yan Bugui was notorious, at least Yan Jiecheng and his family of three were still in the yard.

For example, brother and sister Yan Jiefang and Yan Jiedie exchange letters with their family every month.

In the eyes of the neighbors, this is a good family.

After all, ordinary families with many children will have the problem of raising their children.

The fact that a child can exchange letters with his family every month shows that he still recognizes his family.

It was normal for Yan Jiefang to write back. He went there quite early and got married and had children in northern Hebei.

This is the only grandson of the Yan family so far. No matter how stingy Yan Bugui is, he will send some delicious food and money to the child every now and then.

In addition to the law that things that are far away are fragrant but things that are close are smelly, Yan Bugui now misses his second son very much.

But Yan Jie Di was able to write home every month thanks to Yan Jie Cheng's wife Lan Hua. After Yan Jie Di went to the countryside, she realized that the days of eating pickled vegetables and black-faced steamed buns at home were also happy.

When I went to the countryside, I didn't have enough food to eat or warm clothes to wear, and I worked myself to death every day.

It's those few days every month when a woman just can't cope with it normally.

Yan Jiedi also went to northern Hebei.

But she arrived late, and all the good spots had been picked up by others.

They can only go to more remote places.

In the first month that Yan Jiedi was there, her money and clothes were stolen.

Some said they were villagers, while others said they were educated youth who had arrived there before them.

It would have been fine if he had just stolen money and clothes, but he even stole her aunt's hair.

Of course, this is probably also because Yan Jiedi has little social experience and likes to show off her wealth in front of others.

After all, although the Yan family was stingy, they had never committed any petty theft.

Yan Jiedi didn't expect that their small courtyard was full of girls, so how could someone choose to steal?

So, I still don’t have enough experience.

Later, Yan Jie Di wrote a tearful letter home. It was Lanhua who, against all odds, bought various daily necessities for Yan Jie Di in Sijiu City and sent the letter to her.

They also persuaded Yan Jiecheng, and the couple took twenty yuan and sent it to Yan Jiedi.

If I use orchids as an excuse to convince Yan Jiecheng to pay, the entire Nanluoguxiang would probably laugh for the rest of their lives.

At the beginning, Lanhua said at the dinner table of Yan's house that Yan Jiedi had no money and didn't even have winter clothes, and she was so pitiful over there.

Yang Ruihua cried, found some old clothes, and took out five dollars from Yan Bugui's pocket.

But Yan Bugui and his son had the same idea, which was that they should write a letter back and ask Yan Jiedi to contact the local educated youth office.

The government should find the thief or compensate Yan Jiedi for her losses.

If we look at the matter objectively, this is not wrong.

After all, if theft occurs at the educated youth site, the local educated youth office must bear some responsibility.

But this can't help the emergency.

Yan Jie Di was a grown-up girl after all, so it was not appropriate for her to mention in the letter that her aunt's belt had been stolen.

It's the kind of thing that's filled with wood ash and can be reused.

Yang Ruihua no longer has this need, and it is unthinkable.

Only Lanhua was a little more attentive. She went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy various underwear for Yan Jiedi.

Lanhua has really suffered a lot. If Yan Bugui had not brought her back to be Yan Jiecheng's wife, she might have starved to death.

So she knows the hardships of living in the countryside.

Seeing that Yan's father and son did not take Yan Jiedi's crying seriously, she could only blow the bedside wind.

According to what Lanhua said to Yan Jiecheng, if they didn't help Yan Jiedi now that she was in trouble, if this sister-in-law held a grudge against the family in the future, then the couple would not be able to gain any advantage or enjoy any happiness.

There are a lot of other miscellaneous things, but they all serve to sow hope in Yan Jiecheng.

The brotherly love that Yan Jiecheng was supposed to have had was turned into an advance investment, which made Yan Jiecheng reluctantly pay the twenty yuan.

This also saved Yan Jiedi's tendency to become indifferent to her family. (End of this chapter)