Siheyuan, my new life

Yi Zhonghai said coldly: "Okay, don't waste time, call the person who can make the decision in your family. We are all thousand-year-old foxes, and no one should think of playing Liao Zhai for others."

Qin Huairu was obviously frightened by Yi Zhonghai's expression. Everything was completely different from what she had imagined, so she quickly put on her clothes and went out.

After a while, Qin Huairu's father Qin Dashan and the village chief Qin Dahai walked into the house together.

Before the two of them could speak, Yi Zhonghai said straight to the point with a gloomy face: "You two, let's not beat around the bush. Tell me what you two mean? Should we settle this publicly or privately?"

Qin Dashan was about to speak when Qin Dahai stopped him with a wave of his hand. He smiled bitterly and said, "Master Yi, let's not talk nonsense now. Huairu has always wanted to marry into the city and become a city dweller. I believe that with your brain, Master Yi, you can understand the rest without me saying anything else."

Yi Zhonghai picked up the cigarette box and handed each of them a cigarette. He thought for a moment before speaking: "Village Chief Qin is a man of few words. I, Yi, will not beat around the bush. First of all, I will never divorce and remarry. The reason is very simple. My wife saved my life. A few years ago, my husband and I went from Shencheng in the northeast to our relatives in Sijiucheng. On the way, I caught a cold. It was my wife who walked for a day and a night in the wind and snow pulling a sled before we found an old Chinese doctor. It was my wife who knelt down and begged the old Chinese doctor to cure her illness. She saved my life. Even if she can't have children, I will never divorce and remarry."

Qin Dashan and Qin Dahai both had embarrassed looks on their faces. Obviously, before they plotted against Yi Zhonghai, they had learned about his situation from the old master. They knew that due to his wife's poor health, Yi Zhonghai still had no children. However, they never expected that there was such an unknown thing between Yi Zhonghai and his wife.

Qin Dahai sighed and said, "Master Yi, if we knew these things in advance, we brothers would never do this. Now the rice has been cooked, and Huairu is also pitiful. I wonder what Master Yi wants to do?"

Yi Zhonghai frowned, and after a while he said: "There are two paths that Miss Huairu needs to choose. One is that I will give Miss Huairu a dowry of one million dragon coins as a little compensation for her. The other is that from now on I will give Miss Huairu 100,000 dragon coins as living expenses every month. After she gets pregnant, I will find her a suitable partner in the city and let her become a city dweller. After the child is born, I will continue to take care of them both."

Qin Dahai and Qin Dashan looked at each other, said they would consult Huairu, and walked out together. As for the matter of the official, none of the three people in the room mentioned it. Because things have developed to this point, it would not be good for both parties to have the official. If so, Yi Zhonghai might be imprisoned, but Qin Huairu's reputation would definitely be ruined, and it would be a pure dream to marry a good family in the future. What's more, the Qin brothers had a guilty conscience and were also worried that if the official found out the truth of the matter, they would lose everything.

More than half an hour later, the Qin brothers and Qin Huairu walked into the room together, and it was Qin Dahai who spoke again: "Master Yi, Huairu is determined to follow you, and she chose the second path."

Only then did Yi Zhonghai show a hint of smile on his face. He took out a thick stack of banknotes from his trouser pocket, counted out five and handed them to Qin Huairu, who was blushing and secretly looking at him: "This is 500,000 dragon coins. You keep it first. Don't be reluctant to spend it. Buy something for yourself and your family to improve your life. I will come over two or three times a month in the future. If your family has any difficulties, just let me know."

From then on, Yi Zhonghai would find ways to go to Qinjia Village several times every month. Half a year later, Qin Huairu told Yi Zhonghai that she was pregnant.

So Yi Zhonghai immediately arranged for his apprentice Jia Dongxu and Qin Huairu to meet for a blind date, and two days later he arranged a wedding for them in the name of a master helping his apprentice to get married. Not only did he pay for all the wedding expenses out of his own pocket, he also generously gave the newlyweds a sewing machine as a gift.

Eight months later, Qin Huairu deliberately fell to create the illusion of premature birth, and went to the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Jia Zhang happily named the child, his full name was Jia Geng, and his nickname was Bang Geng.

Yi Zhonghai had always been suspicious about this boy. Although Qin Huairu repeatedly claimed that he was his own flesh and blood, Yi Zhonghai was still skeptical. However, he did not go back on his promise to take care of them and their child. In addition to secretly giving Qin Huairu 100,000 dragon coins as living expenses every month, he often asked his wife to give some cornmeal and flour to the Jia family. After the birth of the second child of the Jia family, Xiaodang, he took the initiative to increase the living expenses to 15 yuan (at this time, currency reform had been carried out, the original dragon coins were abolished, and the government issued a new currency, which was later called the new version of RMB, the Big Black Ten). The reason was very simple, that is, Yi Zhonghai was convinced that Xiaodang was definitely his own flesh and blood.

Yi Zhonghai was not a kind man, how could he be so kind as to help Jia Dongxu get married? Don't talk about the relationship between master and apprentice. The reason why he agreed to accept Jia Dongxu as his apprentice was, firstly, because of the incense relationship between him and Jia Zhang; secondly, it was known that Jia had helped Yi Zhonghai in the steel mill. Now that Jia was dead, if he did not agree to accept Jia Dongxu as his apprentice, he would definitely be criticized by people in the know.

Yi Zhonghai was not unprepared. He had long ago asked the old Chinese doctor who treated his wife to prepare the "fertility-eliminating soup" that had been circulated in the palace. It was said that the royal concubines were worried that the maids around them would give birth to royal children and affect their status, so they secretly ordered the court doctors to prepare this soup to eliminate children and grandchildren for the maids around them to take.

Yi Zhonghai also learned about this decoction from an old Chinese doctor when he invited him to drink. He took advantage of the old Chinese doctor's drunkenness and got the prescription.

After getting the prescription, Yi Zhonghai conducted an experiment in the courtyard. When he invited Xu Fugui and Liu Haizhong to drink, he secretly mixed the medicine into the sobering soup for them.

At that time, Xu Fugui had a son and a daughter, and Liu Haizhong had three sons. In this era where having many children is a blessing, as long as the family conditions allow, people want to have more children.

With Xu Fugui and Liu Haizhong's conditions, they certainly wanted to have more children, since they could afford to raise them anyway. And these two guys often showed off their children in front of Yi Zhonghai, who was nearly 40 years old and still childless. Although Yi Zhonghai still looked like he didn't care on the surface, he was already gnashing his teeth in hatred in his heart, so these two became Yi Zhonghai's experimental subjects.

Liu Haizhong and Xu Fugui never imagined that this seemingly honest Yi Zhonghai could be so vicious. After taking the "sterile soup", several years have passed and no children have been born in these two families.

In fact, Yi Zhonghai's most desired target is He Daqing. Unfortunately, He Daqing has never remarried since his wife passed away and has been raising his two children alone.

After Yi Zhonghai's secret tracking, he found that He Daqing often went to the Eight Great Hutongs to hang out, almost three or four times a month. However, going to the Eight Great Hutongs was a common thing for men at that time, so it would not be a big deal even if it was spread out.

Since He Daqing had no plans to remarry, Yi Zhonghai would not waste the expensive "sterility soup" on him.

Yi Zhonghai, who had already tested the efficacy of the "Juezi Soup", found an opportunity to drug Jia Dongxu before he got married. In order to ensure that there would be no mistakes, he mixed the "Juezi Soup" with sobering soup twice and watched Jia Dongxu take it with his own eyes.

After Qin Huairu married Jia Dongxu, she still maintained a relationship with Yi Zhonghai. The place where they had their trysts was the vegetable cellar in the central courtyard where Yi Zhonghai and Jia Zhang had reminisced about the past.

Unfortunately, there were so many people in the courtyard, so in order to avoid being noticed by outsiders, the two had to reduce the number of trysts. It was not until last year that Qin Huairu gave birth to another child, but it was a daughter. Yi Zhonghai was a little disappointed about this, but thinking that Qin Huairu was only twenty-four or twenty-five years old, and his body was much stronger than his peers, Yi Zhonghai believed that he would give birth to a son in the future, so as to ensure the continuation of the Yi family's incense.

As for Jia Dongxu, Yi Zhonghai used him as a tool to raise his children. In order not to arouse Jia Dongxu's suspicion, Yi Zhonghai deliberately revealed his intention to ask him to take care of him and his wife in their old age. In fact, if Jia Dongxu could really do his best to take care of him in his old age, what would be wrong with leaving the accumulated money to him? In the end, it would still fall on his children anyway.

In Yi Zhonghai's eyes, Jia Dongxu had definitely made a profit. Without his help, how could Jia Dongxu marry a beautiful lady like Qin Huairu? Thinking of Qin Huairu's plump and fair figure and her identity as his apprentice's wife, Yi Zhonghai felt an inexplicable impulse in his heart.