Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

"Yes... I want this workstation..." Aunt Zhang was so excited that she almost jumped up from her chair. You couldn't tell at all that she was an old woman over fifty years old.

In Aunt Zhang's view, this job not only brings her a steady stream of income, but also allows her to spend more time with her son Zhang Linbao.

Although she was a first-time mother, she adopted Zhang Linbao from an orphanage.

But she firmly believed in one thing.

The children are all brought by their parents.

As long as I care about him and take good care of him, Zhang Linbao will definitely be a filial child when he grows up.

The free time working in the steel rolling mill is much longer than sweeping the streets, so I have more time to accompany Zhang Linbao.

Besides, this is a formal job.

Even if I get old and can no longer work in the future, I can pass this job to Zhang Linbao.

If Zhang Linbao doesn't like the job of helping in the kitchen, he can sell it for money, or ask Wang Dong for help and pay some money to exchange for another work position.

After getting an affirmative answer from Aunt Zhang, Chen Dehui didn't waste any more words and spoke again: "Since you want it, I will go back and tell Wang Dong to leave this job to you."

"Go prepare 350 yuan this afternoon, and go to the steel mill with Dongzi tomorrow morning. You can start working directly after signing the agreement with the other party."

"Forget the jobs on the streets and save them for other people who need help more."

Aunt Zhang was very excited. She looked at Chen Dehui as if he were her benefactor. Her eyes turned red and she said with gratitude: "Thank you, uncle..."

"If it weren't for your help, I wouldn't have lived so well in the Siheyuan."

Chen Dehui waved his hand and replied: "We are all neighbors living in the same yard, why are you talking about this?"

"Besides, I am the boss of the courtyard. I will definitely not watch the residents of the courtyard go bankrupt."

After saying this, Chen Dehui was helped by his mother-in-law and prepared to leave.

When she was about to leave, Aunt Zhang suddenly said, "Uncle... I have another question."

“Now it’s filled with people wanting to buy jobs.”

"Although you only gave me a job as a kitchen helper, if it were announced, there would definitely be a lot of people who would want it. Can you tell me why Director Wang reserved this job for me?"

Chen Dehui didn't expect Aunt Zhang to ask such a question.

After thinking for a few seconds, he did not answer immediately, but frowned and asked Aunt Zhang: "Do you hate Yi Zhonghai?"

"Of course I hate it..." Aunt Zhang answered without thinking.

"I have been married to her for decades. Although I have not given birth to any children for him, I have been devoted to him."

"After the divorce, I went to the hospital to check and found out that I can have children."

"The reason why I couldn't have a child with him before was all because of Yi Zhonghai."

"In the end, Old Yi didn't care about our friendship at all and kicked me out just because he wanted to take care of me in my old age."

"I have advised him many times before that we should adopt a child and raise him ourselves. He will definitely be filial to us in the future and take care of us in our old age."

"Old Yi just wouldn't listen, and he was only thinking about how to get the Jia family to provide for his retirement."

"I have long felt that the Jia family is unreliable, so I told him to give up the idea, but Old Yi just wouldn't listen, and even got involved with that bitch Qin Huairu."

"To put it bluntly, I am going out to work now, partly to raise Zhang Linbao and to provide him with support in his old age."

"Another important reason is to live well and see with my own eyes the scene of Yi Zhonghai abandoning the Jia family in the future." After listening to Aunt Zhang's complaint, Chen Dehui did not show any surprise, but replied calmly: "Dongzi also hates Yi Zhonghai to the core."

"You certainly don't know."

"Yesterday during the day, he and Bang Geng plotted against Dong Zi again at the steel mill. They wanted to remove Dong Zi from his position as the head chef of the steel mill and turn him into an ordinary worker."

"Although he failed in the end and Dongzi managed to keep his position as the head chef, he was still punished by the steel mill and will not be able to get promoted for several years."

"As the old saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

"You are the one abandoned by Yi Zhonghai. The better your life in Siheyuan is in the future, the more it will show how stupid Yi Zhonghai's original decision was, and everyone will laugh at him."

"In order to achieve this goal and make you live in regret for the rest of your life, Dongzi decided to help you so that you can live a life with many children and grandchildren in the future, a life that even Yi Zhonghai would envy."

“This is called killing people and destroying their hearts.”

Aunt Zhang didn’t think there was anything wrong with being used by Wang Dong.

Just as Chen Dehui just said, the goal of both people is to make Yi Zhonghai live in regret for the rest of his life. Plus, they can live a better life, so why not do it?

…………

A workshop in a steel rolling mill.

The workshop director suddenly appeared in front of everyone, clapping his hands and calling on the workshop workers to come closer to him.

"Stop for a moment, I have something to announce..."

“The handling work in our workshop is the most arduous, and it has always been assigned to a few apprentices. I think this is really unfair to them.

"Why are all apprentices paid the same salary? Some can help senior fitters in the workshop, doing very easy work and learning fitter skills, while others can only do hard labor in the workshop and work as porters?"

"I decided to follow the practice of the back kitchen and organize all the apprentices in the workshop to take turns to work as porters in the workshop."

"Now I'll start calling the roll."

"All apprentices whose names have been called, please stand up. Starting today, you will be porters in the workshop for the next month, transporting all raw materials and finished products between the workshop and the warehouse."

"Wang Youguo... Chen Zhihan... Jia Geng..."

Banggeng was standing next to Yi Zhonghai. When he heard that he would be an apprentice in the workshop for a month, he became anxious.

He had personally experienced how tiring it was to be a porter when he had suppressed Director Yang and Deputy Director Zhang.

Seventy or eighty kilograms of raw materials and processed parts are moved back and forth between the workshop and the warehouse.

The two of them were exhausted after working for less than ten days because of the hard work.

Banggeng tried to move the raw materials and processed parts, and he had to use all his strength to lift them.

If he were asked to carry the raw materials back and forth between the workshop and the warehouse, his small body would be exhausted.

He immediately begged Yi Zhonghai: "Dad..."

"Being a porter is too tiring. Can you please talk to the director and ask him not to let me be a porter?"

"Besides, I am your apprentice. I am definitely not comparable to those hardworking apprentices."

"I want to learn locksmithing skills from you, and I don't want to work as a porter. Please..." (End of this chapter)