Siheyuan: Xu Damao's New Life

On the way back, Yu Shui asked as they rode their bikes, "Are you really going to give him year-end benefits? Will it get him into any trouble?"

"It's okay. Our factory needs more people, so we brought your people here with us. Besides, you don't think you can be assigned to work here just because you graduate from college, do you? He owes me a favor."

"Interpersonal relationships require give and take. If you want to maintain the favor after it's used up, you have to find a way to get another one. You don't think that as the director he really can't get supplies, do you? He comes to me to do things because he wants to maintain this relationship." Xu Damao explained.

Yu Shui nodded, thinking that officials were too deep-minded, and it would be better for her, who had a simple mind, to stay away from them.

The couple chatted all the way and went straight back home.

Xu Damao entered the house and poked the stove. Seeing that it was out, he asked, "I bought roast chicken and roast duck from the front door this afternoon, as well as some braised food. They are still hot. What would you like to eat?"

"Have some roast chicken, and cut some cooked food. I'll go make rice and stir-fry some vegetables." Yu Shui said after hanging up the clothes.

"Well, I'll go to the uncle's house to exchange a piece of coal so I don't have to light the stove again." After Xu Damao said this, he picked up a piece of coal with tongs and went to Liu Haizhong's house.

Xu Damao looked at Nan Yi's house and saw that the door was still locked. The couple had not come back yet. Since they had to go to work and Ding Qiunan's father was not in good health and needed someone to take care of him, they sent the child to his father-in-law's house to be taken care of.

It's quite cold in winter, so this saves Ding's mother from running back and forth. The young couple often visit when they are free, and sometimes stay there.

Soon Xu Damao came back with a half-burned coal ball, put it in the stove and put new coal balls on top. Soon the room became warm.

Yu Shui was busy cooking. Xu Damao had nothing to do so he took out a red book from the desk and started reading it. He also wanted to learn more about the thoughts of great men.

"Don't look at it for now, wash your hands and eat." Yu Shui greeted.

Xu Damao put down the book, washed his hands, and sat down to eat with Yu Shui.

The entrance of Nanluoguxiang.

Bang Geng ate a few bites of food and then slipped out. This evening his boss sent someone to the yard to look for him, so they arranged to meet at the street corner.

As soon as Banggeng appeared, he was pulled into an alley by his boss and there were several people from their gang around him.

"Banggeng'er, you are very brave. You haven't come to find us for so many days. Do you want to leave us and work on your own?" the boss asked.

"No, boss. A few months ago, I failed to steal something and had both my arms broken by a ruthless guy. I had been lying at home before and only recently recovered from my injuries. My family members were afraid that I would get into trouble with that guy again and wouldn't let me go out." Bang Geng defended.

"Are you lying, kid?" The boss said that he didn't believe the nonsense told by the little rascal Banggeng at all. Now that he can work on his own, he must leave them behind and work alone.

If it were him, he would probably choose to work alone. After all, if a person does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth. The amount of money he earns each time is limited. How can he keep it all to himself when it is shared by so many people?

"Boss, I really didn't! Last time, someone broke both of my arms in an alley, and then someone..."

"Tell me what happened to you!"

"I was crippled! My grandma said I will never be able to find a wife in the future." Banggeng said in a low voice with tears in his eyes.

"What? Isn't it such a coincidence? The youngest eunuch in the Forty-Nine City that everyone has been talking about recently is you?"

Bang Geng nodded while crying.

"If you don't believe me, I can take off my pants and show you." Banggeng said and was about to take off his pants.

"No, no, now that you've come to this point, I definitely believe you." The boss said, holding back a laugh.

"Yes, we all believe that you are a eunuch!"

"Eunuch Jia!"

"Bang Geng, let me show you how to greet you!"

Others also joked about the stick meme.

Banggeng was already a teenager and could understand a lot of words. When he heard what everyone said, he couldn't hold back any longer and burst into tears.

"Okay, okay, we are all in the same group, so stop making fun of me." The boss spoke up to stop everyone from laughing.

At this time, a guy with a pointed chin and monkey face stood up and asked, "Banggeng, how is your hand now? Can you still work?"

This guy with a pointed chin and monkey cheeks was nicknamed Skinny Monkey, because he was quite clever and was a military advisor in their team. It was at this time that he first thought of the impact of Banggeng's hand injury on his future work.

"I don't know either. I've been raising it for several months and I just feel itchy. How about we go and do something big tomorrow?" Bang Geng stopped crying and said.

These days, he had been eating cornmeal steamed bread or cornmeal porridge at home, and his mouth was almost dry. Now that he could get out, he wanted to make a big profit so that he could have a good meal with the money.

In fact, Qin Huairu has been working hard to receive customers recently, and has indeed made a lot of money. However, she sees that Banggeng is already useless, so it is definitely not worth spending money to supplement his nutrition. Now she is more concerned about her two daughters, and even Jia Zhangshi is the same. Xiaodang and Huaihua's status in the family has risen sharply.

"Okay, let's look for the target first, and you stay at home and take good care of yourself. After we find the target, we will send someone to the yard to find you." said the boss.

"Well, boss, if everything is fine, I'll go back first, otherwise my mother will come looking for me." Banggeng said.

"Go ahead, practice your skills more at home when you have nothing to do, and don't get rusty and get caught." The skinny monkey warned.

"Got it." Banggeng responded and walked towards the courtyard.

Soon it was late at night and every household in the courtyard fell asleep.

I saw a figure walking out from the east wing of the central courtyard, then coming to the front yard, climbing over the wall and leaving the yard.

That's right, this figure is Yi Zhonghai who is about to go to the black market. In order to keep his secret, to get back the money that Jia Zhang had blackmailed him, and to avenge the fact that she had caused him to have no children or grandchildren, he had been deliberately trying to kill Jia Zhang.

However, Jia Zhang is now enjoying a good life. She spends her days eating and sleeping, and rarely leaves the courtyard except to go to the toilet. This leaves Yi Zhonghai, who has always wanted to make a move, completely clueless.

After thinking about it, he came up with a poisoning method. Didn't you, Jia Zhang, poison me and make me extinct? Then I will poison you to death! But he didn't want to kill Jia Zhang with a simple bag of rat poison. That would be too easy for the old woman. He wanted to get a special chronic poison from the black market to slowly torture Jia Zhang!

Yi Zhonghai had heard about this kind of medicine from the deaf old lady before. It was relatively easy to find before liberation, but now he could only look for it on the black market. However, the nearby black markets were basically secretly controlled by Xu Damao, so things like poison were definitely not allowed. He went to the black market several times but came back empty-handed, so he planned to go to the black market in Xicheng tonight to ask around.