The days of being a buyer in Siheyuan

"No, I just figured it out. What's the point of working hard for most of my life to make so much money?"

Yi Zhonghai sighed and said that since he was ousted from office, he no longer had to worry about so many trivial matters and suddenly he had nothing to do.

People like to daydream when they have free time, and Yi Zhonghai is no exception. Whenever he thinks about how he has worked hard for most of his life, but has no one to take care of him when he is old, and he and his wife are all alone, he feels sad.

Chen Xiulan saw that Yi Zhonghai looked very unhappy, and asked anxiously: "What are you thinking about? Why do you look so unhappy?"

Seeing Chen Xiulan's worried expression, Yi Zhonghai hesitated and told her his thoughts.

Chen Xiulan felt sad after hearing this. She would occasionally think about this matter, but she didn't expect that Yi Zhonghai was also worried.

"Why don't we adopt a child while I can still take care of him? When he grows up, I can take over your job. Then we won't be worried about no one to take care of him."

Chen Xiulan brought up the same old thing again. She had wanted to do this before, but Yi Zhonghai was always worried that if he raised the child, he would run away, so she had never made up her mind.

"I need to think about this."

After hearing this, Yi Zhonghai frowned and replied.

Suddenly, there was silence in the room. The two of them ate their meals with their own thoughts. Seeing that Yi Zhonghai did not agree, Chen Xiulan did not mention it again. After all, she could not decide on such a big matter without Yi Zhonghai's nod.

At the Jia family, Qin Huairu returned home with a lost expression. As soon as she entered the house, she saw Jia Zhang-shi sewing the soles of shoes that she would never finish, Banggeng doing his homework, and the two girls in the room who were not little anymore. Xiaodang was playing with Huaihua in the corner.

Seeing Qin Huairu coming back, before Jia Zhang could say anything, Bang Geng ran over and spoke to Qin Huairu in a hurry.

"Mom, I'm hungry."

Seeing Banggeng shouting that he was hungry, Qin Huairu then smelled the aroma of meat wafting in the yard. She touched Banggeng's head with a wry smile.

"Okay, Mom will go cook for you right away."

Bang Geng looked at Qin Huairu with longing, and asked, "It smells so good outside, it's the smell of stewed meat, do we have meat to eat at home?"

Qin Huairu felt helpless when she heard this. How could you want to eat meat just because other people eat it? She could only explain in a nice voice.

"That's someone else's. We don't have that. Now it's hard for me, your mother, to even feed you. Where can I get meat for you to eat?"

Bang Geng was very disappointed after getting the answer. He wanted to run out and take a look just now, but Jia Zhangshi didn't let him go out because she was afraid that he would get into trouble.

Banggeng wanted to say something else but was stopped by Jia Zhang.

"Good, go do your homework. Your mom is exhausted from a long day's work. Stop bothering her."

Jia Zhang drove Bang Geng away with a gloomy face, and then motioned Qin Huairu to come to the kitchen to talk.

Jia Zhang was not in a good mood at the moment. After all, Qin Huairu's expression when she came in just now did not look very good.

"Huai Ru, why are you frowning? What happened?"

Jia Zhang asked in a deep voice.

Qin Huairu sighed and explained after hearing this.

"Mr. Yi said today that he won't agree to our request. Mom, what do you think we should do now?"

Qin Huairu had no choice but to ask Jia Zhangshi. After all, she was old and experienced, and who knows, Jia Zhangshi might have a solution.

Jia Zhang didn't react much after hearing this. I guess she was mentally prepared and just thought in silence.

After thinking for a long time, Jia Zhang finally spoke up: "The days ahead will be difficult. Yi Zhonghai doesn't want to pay attention to us now. This won't do. This is not what Old Jia said when he left. Go call Yi Zhonghai over and I'll talk to him."

Jia Zhang decided not to hide it anymore and planned to dig up the past. She asked Qin Huairu to find Yi Zhonghai.

"Oh, ok, I'll go right away."

Qin Huairu was stunned after hearing this. She didn't expect that Yi Zhonghai had such a connection with the Jia family. She immediately got up and went to find Yi Zhonghai.

Jia Zhang went back to her room and found her box. She took it out from under the cabinet with great effort. It turned out to be a small box with a small lock on it.

Jia Zhang took a key from her neck, opened the box with a click, and took out something. Before Jia Zhang could take a closer look, Yi Zhonghai was brought over by Qin Huairu.

"Uncle Yi, please wait a moment. I'll go call my mother out."

Qin Huairu's voice was heard outside the house. Jia Zhang hurriedly put away her things, and then saw Qin Huairu pushing the door and walking in.

"Old Yi is here, come in and talk."

Jia Zhang ignored Qin Huairu and directly brought Yi Zhonghai into the house. Then she closed the door, leaving Qin Huairu no chance to ask questions.

"Jia Zhang, why did you ask me to come here?"

Yi Zhonghai asked Jia Zhang with a unhappy look on his face.

Qin Huairu went to see him just now, and Chen Xiulan was not in a good mood towards him again. Now Yi Zhonghai would certainly not be in a good mood towards Jia Zhangshi either.

However, Jia Zhang had a calm expression on her face as she took out the thing she had just given.

"Old Yi, I wonder if you still recognize this?"

When Yi Zhonghai saw what Jia Zhang took out, his pupils shrank. He stared at Jia Zhang and asked, "I recognize it. What do you want to do?"

Yi Zhonghai's tone was extremely nervous. It seemed that what Jia Zhang took out directly hit his vital point.

Seeing that it was useful, Jia Zhang was relieved. She had no intention of trying to control Yi Zhonghai and made her request directly.

"When Old Jia left, you said you would take care of the Jia family, but now you want to leave us behind. I have no choice but to give you this thing."

As Jia Zhang continued to talk to herself, Yi Zhonghai's expression became more and more ugly.

"If the Jia family can no longer make ends meet, I don't want to keep this thing anymore. As for where it will go, I can't guarantee it."

Jia Zhang's words were full of threats, and Yi Zhonghai's face was dark at this moment, and it was unknown whether it was because of anger.

Yi Zhonghai looked at the thing in Jia Zhang's hand that could control him, and couldn't help but recall what happened in the past.

At that time, the steel mill still belonged to the Lou family, and Yi Zhonghai was a fifth-level fitter. An imported machine in the steel mill broke down for some unknown reason, and the engineers of the steel mill could not figure it out, so they did not disassemble it. He was arrogant at the time and decided that he could solve the problem, so he disassembled it when no one was around. However, the result was unexpected.

Yi Zhonghai spent half an hour and actually finished it. However, since he opened it privately, he dared not make it public and did not dare to tell anyone else about it.

At that time, Lao Jia was an electrician in a steel rolling mill. When he discovered this, Yi Zhonghai asked him not to make it public, and Lao Jia agreed.

Afterwards, when the engineer checked it, he accidentally found that it was fine, so he did not take it apart to check. After confirming that it was his mistake, he reported it and there was no problem.

However, they didn’t expect that an accident occurred after the machine had been in use for a few hours, and an electric leakage caused the death of a worker.

Later, during inspection, it was discovered that the machine had been disassembled and the engineer responsible was immediately arrested. Since then, this person has never been seen in the steel mill since.