Siheyuan: Sizhu starts blindly and takes a new path

"This..." Liu Guangtian was stunned by the question. Although he wanted to say that his father would not do that, based on his understanding of his second uncle, it was still possible.

"Guangtian, if you can't solve it, I won't make it difficult for you. You, don't make it difficult for me. I have old and young people to take care of." Sha Zhu stood up and prepared to see him off. Liu Guangtian immediately said anxiously: "Brother Zhu, how about you not take the money openly, I will give it to you privately."

"Then if your father tells the neighbors that I didn't collect your money and I'm going to prepare your wedding banquet, let alone the neighbors asking me to prepare it for free in the future, I won't be able to explain it to the third uncle. The third uncle did ask me to do it when Jie Cheng got married, but it didn't work out because of the price."

"It's not possible to do it for free, but it's not possible to do it for free either. What should I do?" Liu Guangtian was extremely troubled at the moment.

Seeing Liu Guangtian puzzled by this question, Yu Li said, "Guangtian, Liuyi is hungry. Why don't you go back and think about it, and then come back to find Zhuzi after you've figured it out."

When Liu Guangtian was going home with a frown on his face, he was met by Xu Damao who was going to the toilet. Xu Damao asked, "Guangtian, why are you so worried? Your eyebrows are all twisted together."

Confused, Liu Guangtian quickly pulled Xu Damao to tell him what happened. Xu Damao smiled and said, "Shazhu just doesn't want to do this. You should find someone else."

"Brother Damao, if I could really find someone else, why would I worry so much? It's not like Sha Zhu is the only cook in the world." Liu Guangtian replied dissatisfiedly.

"Then let your father go find Sha Zhu himself. Once they have talked it out, it will naturally be possible." Xu Damao felt a surge of nervousness in his lower abdomen. He stamped his feet and said, "Guangtian, please beg your father. I have something urgent to do, so I'll leave first." After that, he ran away.

After Liu Guangtian returned home, he told his second uncle what Sha Zhu and Xu Damao had said. The second uncle didn't say anything after hearing it. He knew that Sha Zhu was asking him to make a promise and to admit his mistake and beg for mercy. If it was someone else or something else, he wouldn't have to think about it, but he needed to think about it carefully when it came to his beloved eldest son.

Before Xu Damao returned to the backyard and entered the house, he looked at the second uncle's house and Sha Zhu's house and couldn't help but say, "Look at the dark hole in front, it must be the thieves' lair..."

On Saturday night, the second uncle asked the first uncle to act as a guarantor and come to discuss matters related to the wedding banquet with Sha Zhu. The second uncle, who had a high salary and a small burden, was indeed much more generous than the third uncle in spending money. He prepared 3 pounds of meat and 1 fish for each table, as well as enough steamed buns made from Erhe noodles.

Sha Zhu asked jokingly: "Second uncle, you usually only have one egg for each meal. You are really willing to spend so much on your eldest son's wedding. You still have two more eggs to buy!"

"Those two bastards are incompetent at everything they do. They eat everything they can, and yet they still want to get married. They should just get married in the evening."

"Why, Second Uncle, those two are not your sons, you can't treat them differently. As the old saying goes, if parents are not kind, children will not be filial. Don't wait until the eldest son is not enough and the second and third sons ignore you before you regret it."

"Silly Zhu, you..." The second uncle was about to get angry, but he held back and said, "I'm not angry. I know you are deliberately trying to piss me off so that I can have a falling out with you so that you won't prepare a banquet for my family. If I don't do what you want, I won't be angry."

The performance of the second uncle made the uncle next to him praise him and said, "Old Liu, good job."

After sending the two old men away, Yu Li continued to talk to Sha Zhu about the street office. Zhou He, who had always been at odds with Yu Li, was transferred away. Yu Li now needed to be responsible for the health management of the area, and her workload had doubled. Fortunately, she had given birth. If she was still pregnant, she might not be able to take on such a heavy burden. Director Wang also talked to her and encouraged her to work hard and strive for an early promotion.

Sha Zhu said: "This is really good news coming one after another. Today our director said that my promotion to deputy director seems to be on the way."

"Really? That's great. You said last month that you might be promoted to deputy director, but there has been no news since then. I thought it was a failure." Yu Li happily picked up Liu Yi who was lying in the crib and held him high up. "Dad is going to be the director. Isn't Dad awesome?"

Sha Zhu said, "What kind of director is that? He's called a director, but he's actually just a deputy section chief, just starting out."

"That's pretty impressive. Many people can't even make it to the deputy section level in their thirties. You come from a worker background, so you should be happy that you can make it to the deputy section level."

"I just suffered from my lack of education. If I had graduated from high school, I might be a director now."

Knowing that Shazhu was just teasing him to cough, Yu Li did not refute him and just hugged Liuyi and listened to him bragging.

After helping Uncle No. 2 with the wedding banquet, Uncle No. 1 returned home and discussed with Aunt No. 1 about going to the welfare home tomorrow. Aunt No. 1 had made a lot of steamed cakes during the day and was going to take them to the children tomorrow.

The next day, the two set out early without telling anyone in the orphanage, because they didn't know if they would meet children they liked, so they went quietly. People often come to the orphanage to donate their love, so the director and teachers treated them as ordinary kind-hearted people at first, and asked some older children to perform for them, and also let an old man take them to visit many facilities in the orphanage.

When an old man and an old woman said they wanted to adopt a younger child, the director of the orphanage was even happier. It was a good thing for the child to grow up in a loving and normal family. So the director invited the two to his office, showed them a list of children, and asked them to pick one.

The old man took the list and looked through it. None of these children satisfied him 100%. They were either too old or had some physical defects. The ones with no physical problems were all girls. None of these fit his idea of ​​taking care of the elderly. He was afraid that the older ones would have their personalities fixed and it would be difficult to discipline them if he took them home. If they had physical problems, he didn't know whether he would take care of them in the future or they would take care of him. If he took the girls home, they would get married and the men would be too strong to agree to take care of him in his old age. Then all his hard work would be in vain.

He looked at the list and shook his head. Auntie saw it. As a couple for many years, she knew that there was no one on the list that satisfied her husband. She also understood that it was not easy to find the right one. She did not lose heart and whispered to Uncleie quietly, "There is no one suitable here. Let's go back and look at other welfare homes. There are more than one in Beijing. If we don't give up, we will find the right one for our child sooner or later."

The old man looked at his wife. It was the old woman who had proposed to adopt the child, and he should have been the one to comfort her. Unexpectedly, she was more open-minded and thoughtful than him, so she said, "Don't worry, I won't lose heart. Let's go to a few more welfare homes, and we will definitely meet a child that suits our eyes."