Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

Chapter 494: Superficial Unity (First Update)
As soon as Yi Zhonghai's threatening words came out, Bang Geng and Jia Zhangshi focused their attention on Qin Huairu at the same time, as if they had discussed it beforehand.

Jia Zhang's face was full of worry, fearing that Qin Huairu would give up and affect Banggeng's future.

Bang Geng looked at Qin Huairu with a praying expression and kept winking at her, asking her to nod.

Faced with this situation, an embarrassed expression quickly flashed across Qin Huairu's face, and then she frowned and fell into deep thought.

In front of Jia Zhang, she could threaten the other party to compromise by pretending to overturn the table. That was because Jia Zhang had no trump card, could not do without Qin Huairu, and could not afford to take the risk.

As long as Qin Huairu showed the slightest sign of remarrying, or ignored the Jia family's opinion, she would bow her head and compromise.

Yi Zhonghai is different.

Although Qin Huairu is the only elderly person left in the courtyard, Yi Zhonghai has a job and an income, so he will still be able to receive a pension even when he retires in the future.

Without me to support him in his old age, there will be no problem for him to survive.

If he did not bow down to his threat, Yi Zhonghai would really drive Bang Geng out of the house he was living in, no longer recognize Bang Geng as his disciple, and then completely sever ties with the Jia family.

In this way, Qin Huairu would be the sinner of the Jia family, and whether it was Banggeng, Xiaodang or Kuihua, they would all hate her to the core.

Although Qin Huairu felt very comfortable saying those harsh words when threatening Jia Zhang just now, when she really faced Banggeng, Xiaodang and Kuihua, she definitely couldn't abandon them.

Especially the stick terrier.

It is not only the hope of the Jia family, but also the hope of Qin Huairu.

Otherwise, when he married He Yuzhu, he would not have tried every possible means to prevent her from having children.

The purpose is to concentrate all limited resources on Banggeng so that he can have a better future.

Yi Zhonghai came up and threatened Qin Huairu with his future, which was tantamount to stabbing her in the chest.

In this case, it is definitely impossible to refuse outright.

As a mother, he couldn't joke about his son's future.

But she was unwilling to accept Yi Zhonghai's threat.

Yi Zhonghai can use this matter to threaten her once and make her do something she doesn't want to do. There will definitely be a second time in the future!
Once I give in this time, there will be no room for bargaining in the future.

After half a minute of painful struggle, Qin Huairu decided to compromise temporarily.

If she is alone now, the worst that can happen is that she remarries.

Anyway, I have a local resident now, so I won’t starve to death even if I make matchboxes.

But now Banggeng and Xiaodang are his weak points, and he has no leverage over Yi Zhonghai. Facing Yi Zhonghai's threat, he has no other choice but to bow his head.

Thinking of the word "handle", Qin Huairu's eyes suddenly became sharp, but she quickly concealed the sharpness.

She decided to endure it temporarily for the sake of Banggeng and Xiaodang, and settle the score with him once she could find some evidence against Yi Zhonghai.

Thinking of this, Qin Huairu didn't waste any words and directly replied with a frown: "I can cook dinner!"

"But only for dinner!"

"I have to paste matchboxes during the day, so I don't have time to make lunch!"

"Can……"

Yi Zhonghai was very happy to see Qin Huairu give in under his threat, and felt that he finally had the initiative in front of Qin Huairu.

His face immediately lit up with joy, and he agreed immediately, fearing that Qin Huairu would change her mind.

But I always felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

In the end, Yi Zhonghai simply thought that he was overthinking the matter.

At the same time, Jia Zhang breathed a sigh of relief because after Qin Huairu took over the dinner, she could cook one less meal every day.

But the good mood only lasted for a few seconds. This afternoon, I threatened Qin Huairu with expulsion from the Jia family and asked her to cook dinner. Qin Huairu not only did not take over the threat, but threatened me in return.

As a result, Qin Huairu compromised as soon as Yi Zhonghai threatened.

In Jia Zhang's view, it was obvious that Qin Huairu looked down on her and was out of her control.

But there was nothing she could do.

Yi Zhonghai controls Banggeng's future and owns the house where Banggeng lives now, so he can use Banggeng to threaten Qin Huairu.

As a mother, Qin Huairu certainly cannot ignore her son.

She couldn't use the stick to force Qin Huairu.

If he really did this, it would mean that Bang Geng was being unfair to Qin Huairu and forcing his own mother out.

If Qin Huairu was really pushed into a corner, she might really ignore Banggeng and Xiaodang and marry someone else.

Such a price is definitely not something Jia Zhang can afford.

So Yi Zhonghai could use Banggeng's future to threaten Qin Huairu, but Jia Zhangshi could not threaten her with Banggeng and could only watch Qin Huairu slip away from her control.

Seeing that his mother agreed to cook dinner from now on, Banggeng's face suddenly lit up with joy.

For him, not only did he save the house he was living in, but he also saved his future in the steel mill.

Ever since Director Yang and Deputy Director Zhang were exhausted from their own torture, rumors in the workshop that Yi Zhonghai was appointed as the official leader of the fifth group have been intensifying.

In Banggeng's opinion, as long as Yi Zhonghai becomes the official team leader of the fifth group in a workshop, he will be able to become a regular employee as soon as possible with his support.

With Yi Zhonghai, the team leader, backing him up, even though he was still an apprentice, no one in the entire workshop, except the workshop director and a few team leaders, dared to harass him.

Banggeng couldn't help laughing when he thought about how he would show off in the workshop in the future.

The dining atmosphere at the Jia family also became relaxed.

But only Qin Huairu knew that this ease was only superficial.

Behind the ease lies a greater crisis.

In order to deal with Wang Dong and plot against He Yuzhu, Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu were always in the same boat no matter what they did.

Today, Wang Dong has been promoted to the director of the steel rolling mill's kitchen, a veritable section-level cadre.

His wife Chen Jun not only became a senior technician in the steel rolling mill, but was also close to becoming an engineer.

Even his sister-in-law Chen Li was sent to the financial department of the steel rolling mill to work as a clerk. Maybe with Wang Dong's support, she can become a cadre in the future.

He is completely on a different level from Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu.

Not to mention continuing to plot against Wang Dong, at this moment they don’t even have the capital to do so.

It is even more impossible to plot against He Yuzhu.

No matter Qin Huairu's sweet words or Yi Zhonghai's moral blackmail, they were all ineffective in front of He Yuzhu.

Before, the two people could unite when they had a common enemy, but now they have no common enemy and even started to plot against each other, so they can no longer unite as before.

One day, several people may become enemies and fight each other to the death.

It’s just that no one wants to overturn the table now, so everyone is taking a step back to maintain superficial unity.

Qin Huairu, in particular, was thinking about how to find something to hold against Yi Zhonghai while eating.

Otherwise, she will be controlled by others every time she conflicts with Yi Zhonghai in the future.

(End of this chapter)