Siheyuan: Sizhu starts blindly and takes a new path

Xu Damao rushed home first, and no matter how Lou Xiao'e knocked on the door outside, he didn't open it. He needed time to hide some of Lou Xiao'e's dowry.

Sha Zhu wanted to help Lou Xiao'e kick open the door, but was stopped by the old lady. The neighbors had heard what Xu Damao had said against him before. It was a false accusation. If he helped to kick the door open again, Xu Damao would be beaten.

What would the neighbors think? Those who understand would say that they were helping the poor woman Lou Xiao'e, while those who said that they were an adulterer and a whore beating her husband. If this rumor got out, Sha Zhu would forget about getting married. Yu Li would definitely break up with him. No girl would marry a man with the title of "adulterer". She would be single for the rest of her life.

The deaf old lady called the third uncle and told him to guard the gate and inform everyone if Xu Damao went out at night. She asked Sha Zhu to accompany Lou Xiao'e home tomorrow morning and the first uncle to ask for leave for Sha Zhu tomorrow morning.

Xu Damao pulled out the suitcase under the bed, opened it and looked at the two plum bottles from the Ming Dynasty. He stroked its smooth white porcelain surface and recalled what Lou Xiaoe had told him: plum bottles, also known as jing bottles, first appeared in the Tang Dynasty and became more popular during the Song and Liao dynasties. They have a narrow mouth and short neck, very broad shoulders, slightly narrow legs, and slightly plump feet. The small diameter is only commensurate with the thin bones of plums, hence the name plum bottle. He then touched the two words "Neifu" in blue and white regular script. These were things from the Ming Dynasty palace. Lou Xiaoe told him that they were more valuable than other bottles because of these two words.

Xu Damao stroked the two bottles gently, as if he were stroking his own children, from gently stroking to firmly grasping, trying to hold the bottles firmly. Finally, with a fierce look in his eyes, he put the bottles into the suitcase, picked up the suitcase and slammed it heavily.

Then he no longer hesitated and took out a large yellow croaker and three small yellow croakers from the drawer of the wardrobe.

He knew that he couldn't keep everything, but if he took a little bit, Lou Xiao'e, a carefree woman, wouldn't notice.

Xu Damao walked around the house for a few times but couldn't find a place to hide the gold bars. He thought about it and decided to go out to find his father. The gate to the yard was already closed. As soon as he took down the top bar, the third uncle came out and said, "Xu Damao, why are you still going out so late?"

"Uncle, I'm going to go to my dad and tell him what happened today."

"Oh, then will I leave the door open for you at night?"

"I won't be back tonight." Xu Damao said and left.

The third uncle went to the old lady's house in the backyard and saw that the light was still on. He heard the old lady comforting Lou Xiao'e inside. He knocked on the door and told the old lady through the door that Xu Damao had gone out and would not come back. After listening, the old lady thanked the third uncle and let Lou Xiao'e go home to pack up her things.

Lou Xiao'e entered the room and opened the compartment of the cabinet as well. She took out all the gold bars inside and counted them several times. She found that one big one and three small ones were missing. She pulled out the suitcase under the bed and wanted to put the gold bars into the suitcase. After opening it, she felt dizzy and almost bit her teeth off before she calmed down.

After listening to Lou Xiao'e's story, Lou's father and mother were already shaking with anger. Xu's mother, who was a servant at the time, kept saying that her son was good in this and that, so they married their precious daughter to him, firstly because they knew her background, and secondly to protect her by lowering her class status. She didn't expect that after all the picking and choosing, she would marry such a bastard.

Lou Xiao'e asked her father to find Xu Damao to compensate for the plum vase and get back the gold bars.

Father Lou shook his head helplessly. "It's not the same as before. The teacher said that the working class is in the leading position and we are capitalists. Although we helped the government before liberation, our class background is too high and too dangerous now. He can say that you broke the plum vase, but can you prove that he took the gold bars and where he hid them? If he says that we framed him, then we won't be able to explain even if we are right."

"So let him go just like that?"

"Money is more important than material possessions. It's better to recognize him early. If he knows more about our family, he may pose a greater threat in the future." Father Lou stroked his mustache. "But we can't let him go so easily. I'll call Director Yang and transfer him to the workshop to deal with him."

Father Lou said to Mother Lou: "You will accompany Xiao'e to get a divorce and bring back the things."

After Sha Zhu sent Lou Xiao'e to her home, he kept thinking about how Lou Bancheng would punish Xu Damao on the way to the steel mill. He didn't expect the Lou family to be so silent, so he suffered a loss.

When Yu Li came to the courtyard again, Lou Xiao'e had already left with her things. When she heard about what happened last night, she really refreshed her worldview. Like everyone else in the courtyard, she didn't understand why Xu Damao wanted to divorce. It was not until Sha Zhu came home and told him about the matter between Qin Jingru and Xu Damao that Yu Li suddenly understood.

"Qin Jingru really did everything she could to get married into the city." Yu Li looked down on Qin Jingru.

"We can't just blame Qin Jingru. If Xu Damao hadn't provoked her, the subsequent events wouldn't have happened."

"Qin Huairu is even less of a good person. She actually destroyed Lou Xiaoe's marriage in order to make Qin Jingru marry Xu Damao. You are not a good person either, for giving them advice." Yu Li has a very correct outlook on life.

Sha Zhu smiled and said, "If I don't give them advice, they might have targeted me. Of course, Xu Damao himself has to bear the brunt of the disgusting things he did. It's not a bad thing for Lou Xiao'e to divorce him. Can you count on such a bad guy for the rest of your life?"

Sha Zhu thought of something important and told Yu Li, "Oh, Qin Jingru is faking her pregnancy. When she can't continue acting, Ying Xu will find someone to rip her off. Be careful and don't let her put the blame on you."

"Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on it." Yu Li said she knew and asked Sha Zhu, "Have you ever thought about dealing with Xu Damao? He has framed you for adultery. If he succeeds, you might end up in jail, regardless of whether I will marry you or not."

Sha Zhu said bitterly: "How could I not have thought about it? I wanted to kick him to death, but now the police have to abide by the law. If it was before liberation, I would have put him in a sack and beaten him to death and thrown him into the moat in a minute. But even if I can't beat him to death, I can still find a chance to beat him up to vent my anger."

"Yes, we can't let this Chen Shimei go."

"He's still Chen Shimei? Big donkey face, and he's still pretty?" Sha Zhu said with a spit. "I originally thought the Lou family would help, but I heard you said they quietly moved the things away, so they probably worried about not being able to help. Then we can only find a way ourselves, and sooner or later we'll make them suffer a fate worse than death."

Qin Jingru moved into Xu Damao's house on the night that Lou Xiao'e left the courtyard.

As a result, the second aunt who was cooking didn't have time to take the pot off the stove. She ran into the house to report the latest discovery to the second uncle, "Xu Damao is so quick. He divorced in the afternoon and brought a new one in the evening."

"It's not new at all. They must have been hooking up for a long time, otherwise they wouldn't have been so determined to divorce so quickly." The second uncle didn't eat salt for so many years in vain.

The next day, everyone in the hospital knew why Xu Damao got divorced. But Xu Damao didn't care, and Qin Jingru didn't care either. They thought how they lived had nothing to do with others, and they didn't eat a single bite of rice from others.

But Qin Jingru was not very happy last night, because in the afternoon she saw Lou Xiao'e and her family moving a lot of things from Xu Damao's house. She kept shouting in her heart, "Mine, all mine, who asked you to move my things." If it weren't for Mrs. Jia holding her back, she almost went out to stop them.

Compared to yesterday's unhappiness, Qin Jingru is happy and satisfied today because she finally married a city dweller. Although she was targeted by the street staff who handled the marriage certificate with contemptuous eyes and cold words, she is still satisfied and happy because she won and she married into the city.

On the third day, Qin Jingru was unhappy. Xu Damao was transferred to the boiler workshop, and because he didn't know how to do anything, he could only be assigned to shovel coal and remove slag. After a day's work, he was tired and his back and waist ached. His nose, ears and eyes were full of coal dust. It took him a long time to wash them off after get off work. He wanted to find Qin Jingru to be intimate, but she disliked his sweaty smell. Xu Damao was already in a bad mood, and this made it worse. Just when he wanted to reach out and hit Qin Jingru, she stuck out her belly and said, "Go ahead and hit your son."

Xu Damao couldn't take action but he could open his mouth and curse: "You jinx, as soon as you married me, I was transferred to work as a boiler operator, it's dirty and tiring, like a dog, and you still despise me. If it weren't for you, I would still be a projectionist, it's such an easy job. Damn it."

When Qin Jingru heard that Xu Damao had been transferred to another job and was tired, she immediately went over to give Xu Damao a shoulder massage. It took her a while to finish massaging Xu Damao.