The life of a villain in a courtyard

"Shazhu, is the meal ready? We are all hungry!"

Yan Jiefang shouted towards the kitchen, he was so hungry.

"Right away, right away. Why are you rushing me? There are so many mouths to feed in the yard, and I'm the only cook and I don't even have anyone to help me. How can I handle it?"

Although Sha Zhu complained, his hands moved much faster. Soon the dishes were served. Everyone wanted to curse when they saw the dishes on the table. There was one dish of stir-fried cabbage, one dish of stir-fried radish, one dish of stir-fried cabbage and one dish of stir-fried radish, plus a pot of steamed corn bread on each table.

"Just eat this?"

"Why are you looking at me? The Jia family only prepared cabbage and radish. I took great pains to put together three dishes. You guys should just make do with what you have."

After cooking, Shazhu went back to rest. He was too lazy to care about the trivial matters in the yard.

"The Jia family is making fun of us! I will never be involved in anything that happens to the Jia family again!"

"Me too."

"Add me one."

Everyone was furious at what Jia Zhang and Qin Huairu had done. Qin Jingru, who was standing next to them, felt embarrassed. She now regretted very much why she had run to the city in a fit of rage. She would have been better off listening to Uncle Qin and going home obediently.

"eat fast!"

The third uncle directed the people at home to eat and take things from the table. Although the food was not very good, it was still food, and they would take advantage of any bargain they could get.

Qin Jingru couldn't stay in the yard any longer, and her business was done, so she found an excuse and left that day. Qin Huairu was about to send her back, but Jia Zhang had been urging her to send her away in secret and in detail because she had seen her nose and eyes look awful these days. So she let Qin Jingru go without even trying to keep her.

After finishing her housework, Qin Huairu followed Yi Zhonghai to report to the steel rolling mill. Because of Yi Zhonghai, she became a fitter.

Qin Huairu was a newcomer and was supposed to be an apprentice, but because of Jia Dongxu's seniority, she was directly made a regular employee with a monthly salary of 27.5.

When Yi Zhonghai brought Qin Huairu to the workshop, the young men in their twenties and thirties put down their work one after another. Everyone stared at Qin Huairu, with their eyes glued to her.

"Pay, shameless."

The female workers looked at the men around them with contempt and could not walk when they saw women.

"Uncle, what should I do?"

Qin Huairu looked at the things in front of her at a loss. This was the first time she had seen these things and everything was so new.

"This is your first day here, so just do some simple work. I'll teach you how to sharpen an iron rod."

As the machine started, Qin Huairu's body also began to vibrate with the machine. People around her were no longer in the mood to work, and everyone's attention was on her.

"Brother Liu, what are you looking at so intently?"

The section chief asked Su Yun to deliver a document. When he was coming back and passed by the fitter's workshop, he saw a group of men all looking in one direction, as if there was something tempting there that was attracting their attention.

"We have a new person here. I heard she is Jia Dongxu's wife."

"Qin Huairu is here to work."

"you know?"

"Of course I know her. She and I are from the same courtyard."

"Huai Ru, this name is really nice."

Su Yun was speechless when Brother Liu looked at him with a stupid look on his face. How could these people act like they had never seen a woman before?

"Su Yun?"

"Sister Qin, you're here for work."

Su Yun and Qin Huairu have no conflicts yet, and their relationship is pretty good.

"Why are you hanging around here if you're not going to work?"

"I'm here to help the section chief deliver some documents. We don't have much to do there anyway."

After Su Yun left, Qin Huairu found an older sister nearby to ask about the purchasing department. When she heard that the purchasing department was idle most of the time, she regretted coming to the fitter workshop.

"Why do you want to do purchasing?"

The female worker seemed to see through her thoughts. Qin Huairu was not the first person to have such an idea. Many people had tried to become a buyer. They felt that this job was lucrative and easy, but when they really started doing it, they found that not everyone could do this job. If the purchasing targets were met and you had no connections to get the supplies, you would run away in shame without being driven away by others.

"Let me tell you, that job is not something that ordinary people can do. You should just work in our workshop and wait for your rank to rise. Your salary and benefits will be no worse than theirs."

"Look at what you said. I'm just asking."

Qin Huairu had been thinking about this matter the whole morning, so much so that she couldn't even do the simplest job in the workshop.

"Huai Ru, the size of this iron rod is wrong? Why is it five millimeters smaller?"

Yi Zhonghai took the iron rods processed by Qin Huairu to assemble the parts and found a problem. According to the drawings, they should be tightly stuck together, but now they are loose.

"I am a great uncle..."

"Huai Ru, today is your first day at work. It is inevitable that there will be problems with the parts you process. Remember to be more careful next time. There cannot be too big of an error in these things, otherwise something serious will happen!"

"I know, uncle. I will be more careful next time."

When the lunch bell rang, everyone put down their work and walked towards the cafeteria in twos and threes. Qin Huairu followed Yi Zhonghai to the cafeteria. It was the first time for Qin Huairu to see so many people eating together. She was very shocked. She had never seen such a big scene before, and she didn't recover until she got her meal.

"What do you want?"

Ma Hua looked at the person in front of him and asked impatiently.

"I want two steamed buns and one potato."

Qin Huairu took the food and wanted to leave but was stopped by Ma Hua.

"Eh? Where's the money? You want to leave without paying me?"

"money?"

Qin Huairu was stunned: "Does eating in the factory cost money?"

"How fresh! Where can I eat for free?"

When she came out, Jia Zhang didn't give Qin Huairu any money at all, and her pockets were empty.

"Ma Hua, Huairu is a new employee in our factory. She doesn't know about these things. I will pay her."

Yi Zhonghai took out money from his pocket and gave it to Ma Hua.

"Master Yi, I'm sorry, I misunderstood."

"what happened?"

Sha Zhu noticed that the line in front of the window was not moving, so he went over to take a look.

"Nothing happened. Huairu just came to the factory and made some jokes because of some rules."

"Ma Hua, hurry up, there are many people waiting to eat behind us."

"Got it."

In the afternoon, as the bell rang, everyone put down their work regardless of whether it was finished or not.

"Uncle, let's go together."

Usually after get off work, Yi Zhonghai would wait for a few co-workers who were going the same way to walk together, but today he went against his usual practice and walked alone.

"No, I have something else to do, you guys go back first."

Yi Zhonghai came to the post office panting. He Daqing's letter arrived three days ago, but he was busy with Jia Dongxu's funeral and had not had time to pick it up. If he didn't pick up the letter today, it would be sent to the courtyard. If Sha Zhu didn't see it, all he had done over the years would be exposed.