Siheyuan: Bringing Warehouses to 1959

"I'm warning you, don't play any tricks!" Daozi said to Jia Dongxu in the dark.

"Brother Dao, I'll just take the gold bars you gave me before." Jia Dongxu didn't dare to move in the dark. "After doing this with you this time, I won't be able to survive in Sijiu City anymore. Sister Hua promised me to let me go."

It’s not that Jia Dongxu naively thought he could leave, but under the circumstances, he could only believe so.

Of course, Jia Dongxu also had other hopes. He hoped that Jiang Hua and Zeng Wangcai would both suffer losses, so that he could take advantage of the chaos and leave.

He felt that this was very likely to happen, because Zeng Wangcai was powerful, and Jiang Hua was also powerful. If two powerful guys met together, he might really have a chance.

The knife did not burst Jia Dongxu's bubble of fantasy. He thought there was no need to say anything more to a dying person.

He knew that Jiang Hua had a mission to lead Jia Dongxu and a more important mission to be a human bomb.

"Hurry up!" Daozi urged, and then said, "Your wife and children are not at home, are you playing any tricks?"

"No, how dare I, Brother Dao!" Jia Dongxu defended, "I haven't been home for two days, how would I know the situation at home? Oh, we're out of food, and my wife must have gone out to borrow some food."

Daozi didn't turn on the light for fear of attracting attention, so he used a flashlight to check and found that what Jia Dongxu said was true.

"You are such a cruel person, you have such a rich fortune in your hands, yet you make your family unable to make ends meet and ignore the lives of your wife and children. You are the only one like that."

"Brother Dao, what I said is for safety." Jia Dongxu explained with a wry smile.

Daozi accepted this explanation. He just scolded Jia Dongxu just now because he was expressing his feelings.

Jia Dongxu then went to the corner to take out the gold bars, took off his trousers in front of Daozi, and went to get needle and thread. He hid the two gold bars, one on the left and one on the right, into the pockets on his trousers and sewed them up with needle and thread.

Hiding valuables in underwear is a trick that some people still use decades later.

(Note: This is a true story. I have a friend, a real friend, not me. He encountered a special situation and was detained by a shelter because of a temporary residence permit. Later, he hid 300 yuan in the rubber band of his underwear in the middle of the night. After he was released, he used the 300 yuan as travel expenses to go home.)

After hiding the gold bars, Jia Dongxu put on his pants, indicating that he had nothing to worry about anymore.

Daozi felt ashamed when he saw that he didn't even care about his wife and children, but he didn't say much.

The two men came out of Jia's house and sneaked out of the courtyard. Instead of going to the main road, they turned left and prepared to walk through the alley.

After turning a corner, the two of them unexpectedly ran into Qin Huairu who had just returned.

Qin Huairu walked silently, feeling confused. Suddenly she saw someone else walking on the street like her in the middle of the night, and she looked at him in the moonlight.

"Dongxu..." Qin Huairu couldn't help but be happy when she recognized the man in the moonlight. "Where have you been these two days? I was so worried. Did you do something bad? An uncle came to my house today and asked me to find you. Don't hang out with bad people. Zeng Wangcai is in the factory now..."

Qin Huairu didn't think too much about Daozi. She just wanted to quickly tell him about Zeng Wangcai from the steel rolling mill so that the man would come back.

She knew that the man was very afraid of Zeng Wangcai now.

"Zeng Wangcai?" Daozi muttered in a low voice, thinking of the man in Chaoyang Branch, "He is in the steel mill?"

"Dongxu, he is..."

"You bitch, you have no sense of vision. This is Brother Dao!" Jia Dongxu asked thoughtfully without waiting for Daozi's instructions, "I know Zeng Wangcai is in the factory. Tell me what did that old man Yi Zhonghai say to you?"

Qin Huairu was relieved when she saw that the person following Jia Dongxu was a man, and she ruled out the possibility that Jia Dongxu had a woman outside.

However, she remembered what Yi Zhonghai said and was worried that Daozi was not a good person, so she hesitated and refused to say anything.

"Tell me, what did the old man say to you?" Jia Dongxu asked angrily, raising his hand as if to hit someone.

Qin Huairu didn't dare to hesitate any longer. She told Yi Zhonghai everything he asked her to say and looked at Daozi worriedly.

And Daozi was also looking at Qin Huairu!

To be honest, Daozi didn't expect such a coincidence. He had agreed with Jia Dongxu to pretend to be a friend of Jia Dongxu so as to avoid suspicion from Jia Dongxu's family.

There is no need to pretend now, because it is useless. If someone guesses your identity and Jia Dongxu’s wife sees you, it is almost like being exposed.

Therefore, Daozi suddenly had evil thoughts and took out his knife to kill Qin Huairu to silence her.

Qin Huairu had been paying attention to the knife. When she saw the knife's movement, she said with a trembling heart: "If the old man doesn't see me tomorrow, I will go to the police station to report it..."

Dao Zi's knife paused, and said in surprise: "Wow, your brain works pretty fast."

"It's true!" Qin Huairu explained quickly, "I went out to look for him today and came back so late. It was the uncle who asked me to look for him. The uncle is very smart. He won't see me tomorrow. Even if he doesn't want to save me, he will report me just to make him distance himself from the matter."

"Dongxu, is what she said true? What kind of bullshit uncle is so awesome?" Daozi asked Jia Dongxu for confirmation.

Qin Huairu looked at Jia Dongxu pitifully. She almost guessed that Jia Dongxu was going to run away, so she was worried that Jia Dongxu would refuse to testify.

"Almost. That old guy has some skills." Jia Dongxu didn't look at Qin Huairu. "But it's limited. He was beaten to a pulp by Zeng Wangcai. The old guy wants to use us to deal with Zeng Wangcai."

"That's no problem." Daozi chuckled, "We're going to cause trouble for him anyway. Damn it, that girl treated me so badly, I can't keep my anger out.

"The key is whether what he said is true. There are only three people in the steel mill, Zeng Wangcai."

The factory security department, Daozi and the others have never been worried about anything.

Because the incident happened so suddenly, Daozi and the others did not receive any relevant information.

"I'm not sure about that. The old man never speaks with any confidence and can't tell truth from falsehood." Jia Dongxu said. He didn't dare to say anything definite in case he was wrong and would be pissed off.

"Okay, no rush. Anyway, there is still time to adjust the plan." Daozi looked at Qin Huairu, "As for you, if you say one more word, you will become a widow."

This was obviously a threat to Qin Huairu, and Daozi felt that this threat would definitely work.

But in Qin Huairu's opinion, being a widow seems... not bad, provided that she can take over Jia Dongxu's shift at the steel mill...

Women's minds are really unpredictable.

Jia Dongxu would never have thought that the threat of the knife actually opened a window for Qin Huairu.

They parted ways, Qin Huairu went home with a heavy heart, while Daozi and Jia Dongxu returned to their hideout.

After settling Jia Dongxu and monitoring him, Daozi went to report to Jiang Hua.

"The steel mill is empty?" Jiang Hua frowned and thought for a few seconds, "If it's true, we have to change our plan and wait for news tomorrow.

"Is Jia Dongxu's wife reliable?"

What she meant by asking this question was whether Qin Huairu would leak the news of Jia Dongxu's return.

"It should be reliable." Daozi thought for a moment and said affirmatively, "Reliable, unless she wants Jia Dongxu to die. I have learned about his family's situation. Jia Dongxu is the only one who makes money. If Jia Dongxu dies, his family will have nothing to lose."

"Okay, I'll contact Lao Liu tomorrow."

Late at night, Qin Huairu tossed and turned in bed. The temptation of the widow grew greater and greater, and it became increasingly difficult for her to resist.