Siheyuan: Sizhu starts blindly and takes a new path

Xu Damao and Qin Huairu looked at each other without saying anything. They both knew that whoever spoke first would surrender first.

Xu Damao, who was extremely afraid of death, gritted his teeth and did not retreat. Qin Huairu looked at his narrowed eyes, and remembered what he had said to her before. She understood that Qin Jingru could be abandoned by Xu Damao at any time, and he would be happier after abandoning her.

Qin Huairu thought it through and knew that she had no control over Xu Damao's things, but she still said stubbornly: "Then give me fifty yuan as compensation for this period of time. Otherwise, I will sue you for raping me. Anyway, I can't live anymore, so don't think you can live well either."

Xu Damao was so angry that he thought this woman was really cruel. But when he thought about his life, fifty yuan for his life was worth it. "But I can't give it to you all at once. I have to pay you ten yuan a month for five months."

"Okay." Qin Huairu agreed and stretched out her hand.

"Hey, you really want money without shame." Xu Damao said without delay, took out a handful of money from his pocket, took out two five-yuan bills and gave them to the other party. "Don't come to the Propaganda Department to find me in the future. I will give you money when the salary is paid next month, but if you come to me again, I won't give it to you."

"You're not a popular commodity. No one would look for you if it weren't for food." Qin Huairu wanted to ridicule Xu Damao, but now that she hadn't received all the money, she accepted it.

Qin Huairu felt relieved when she received the ten yuan. At noon, she ordered five steamed buns and two dishes in the canteen. The children had not eaten enough for several days. When she was about to pay the bill, someone handed over the bill.

A tall and thin man said with a big smile on his face: "Qin Huairu, I'll treat you to lunch today, don't be polite to me."

"Guo Piezi, why don't you treat me to a meal? I won't be polite to you." A male worker next to him interrupted.

"Go away, what's your business?" Guo Piezi didn't give the man a good look. He turned around and smiled at Qin Huairu, "Tell me what you want to eat in the future." After saying that, he looked outside the cafeteria again. Qin Huairu already understood what he meant.

Qin Huairu picked up the things, nodded to Guo Piezi, and left.

This scene fell into the eyes of the old man. Ever since the old man dreamed that his apprentice complained to him, the old man would often think of Jia Dongxu. Seeing his apprentice's wife degenerate step by step, he felt a little bit unbearable. Maybe it was because he was one year older and his heart softened, the old man decided to help Qin Huairu, not for her to take care of him in his old age, but for his own peace of mind and to prevent the reputation of the Siheyuan from being ruined.

An old man followed Qin Huairu from a distance and saw her enter an abandoned warehouse. He heard voices from inside through the door and knocked hard outside, startling the two people inside. Guo Piezi hurried out while tidying up his clothes. On the contrary, Qin Huairu slowly packed her clothes before walking out of the door. She looked around for a long time and found the old man hiding behind the door and asked, "Uncle, what are you doing?"

"You tell me what to do, I'll stop you."

"You can stop it once, can you stop it every time? My mother-in-law doesn't care about this matter, so who are you to control me?"

"I am Jia Dongxu's master. I can stop you every time. Do you think you can mess around during working hours? As long as it's not working hours, I will keep a close eye on you."

"Uncle, you are Jia Dongxu's master, but he is dead, dead. Now I am the one supporting the family, his mother and his three children. Do you think I don't want to live a clean life, I just want to become a half-open door? What can I do as a woman? I can't understand those fitter's drawings, I can't make things right, I can't get a promotion or a raise in salary, and I can't support the children. If I don't find other ways, am I going to let my children and mother-in-law starve to death?" Qin Huairu complained with tears falling.

"I know you have a hard time raising a child, but why didn't you tell me before that you couldn't understand the blueprints? Why didn't you ask other colleagues?"

"Why didn't I ask? Those people could answer a little at first, but after a while they thought I was trying to get close to them and started to touch me. How could I ask? Although I'm not a chaste woman, I'm not someone who can be flirted with by anyone."

"So you plan to live like this, what will you do when you are old and ugly, what will you do when your reputation is so bad that no one dares to touch you? Think about what you will do to them when they are small and weak, will you still marry or not?"

"I can only take care of the present, uncle. If they starve to death now, how can they get married in the future?"

"How come you can't survive on 27 and a half dollars a month?"

"I have to give my mother 3 yuan a month, and she needs 2 yuan a month for medicine. Banggeng and Xiaodang are getting bigger and bigger, and the ration is not enough. I need to go to the pigeon market to exchange for food coupons, which costs almost 2 yuan. Banggeng's tuition and the children's clothes are all expensive. I have to save 1 or 2 yuan every month. It's like this every month, and it will be a lot if it accumulates over a long period of time."

After listening to Qin Huairu's calculation, the old man was also shocked. He didn't expect that Mrs. Jia alone would earn 5 yuan a month, which accounted for almost one-fifth of Qin Huairu's salary. But he couldn't agree to let Qin Huairu continue to degenerate. "According to your calculation just now, if you can be promoted to a second-level worker, it will be 38 yuan, which is enough even if Xiao Dang Huaihua goes to school in the future. If you want to do a clean job by yourself, I will teach you until you become a second-level worker, and I will make up for the hunger you pull every month, okay?"

The uncle gave Qin Huairu the right to choose. Seeing Qin Huairu's expression constantly changing, the uncle knew that he couldn't push her too hard, so he said, "You don't have to rush to give me an answer. Go back and think about it carefully. You can also discuss it with your mother-in-law. I don't think she really wants to see you go on like this."

Qin Huairu nodded and walked away slowly.

The old man straightened his back as if a huge stone had been lifted off his shoulders, raised his head to look at the sky, and muttered a few words silently.

After finishing her meal, when Mrs. Jia was sucking her teeth, Qin Huairu pulled her into the inner room and told her what the old man had said during the day.

"What do you think?" asked Mrs. Jia.

"I don't know either. If it's the same as before, I don't know if I can get promoted to level two because of my low education. I'm still an apprentice now. What if after a long time, the old man doesn't want to bear the burden of our family's famine anymore? What should we do then?"

"Why don't you agree to Yi Zhonghai first, and then talk about it when you really feel you can't make it. If you rely on men like that for a long time, rumors will still have an impact on Banggeng in the future. You should work harder for Banggeng."

Qin Huairu looked at her mother-in-law, and it seemed that the most important thing to her was to be good. Qin Huairu said again: "It's okay to agree to the uncle, but we will have to live a hard life in the future, and we won't be able to eat steamed buns anymore, but it's okay with you."

Mrs. Jia looked at the boy who was doing his homework in the hall, gritted her teeth and said, "No problem, it will only take a few months, and it will be fine once you get promoted."

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