The days of being a buyer in Siheyuan

Yan Bugui considered his words for a while before speaking out, "Director Shen, my family doesn't have the conditions for this. After all, we have three children at home, and my wife is too tired to take care of them. I really can't take this job."

Director Shen felt embarrassed by Yan Bugui's refusal. He originally thought it was just a matter of going through the formalities, but it turned out that no matter how hard he tried, Yan Bugui refused to agree.

Director Shen looked at other people again, and everyone whose eyes met lowered their heads or turned to look elsewhere.

It seems that no one wants to take on the job of taking care of the deaf old lady.

Now Director Shen could only look at the deaf old lady in embarrassment, with doubt in his eyes, as if to ask how the deaf old lady had offended so many people and why everyone disliked her.

The old lady was also very disappointed at this time. She had thought that it was a trivial matter with the help of the street office, but it turned out that she was wrong. There were more than 20 households in the yard, and no one wanted to take care of her. She was not even willing to pay her five yuan a month from the street office.

Liu Minghui and Yu Li were watching from the sidelines. Seeing this, Liu Minghui whispered to Yu Li, "It seems that the deaf old lady is not very popular in the hospital."

Liu Minghui sighed deeply. You know, the deaf old lady always claimed that she was the ancestor of the courtyard, but now he found out that it was just wishful thinking.

In fact, this is also because the deaf old lady does not understand her own status. The ancestor's words were previously spread by Yi Zhonghai.

It was because Yi Zhonghai wanted to promote the idea of ​​respecting the elderly in the hospital that he elevated the deaf old lady to such a high position.

"No one is willing?"

Director Shen asked again, and someone responded sparsely below: "Everyone is having a hard time, so who has time to take care of others?"

"Yes, yes, we have only lived here for half a year, so we don't know each other well."

“…”

These are what some people who have lived in the hospital in the past one or two years said. As for the old residents, they didn't say anything. Whether they like it or not, everyone mainly doesn't want to offend the deaf old lady.

It would be bad if I were to be relied upon.

Director Shen looked at them carefully one by one.

The He family only has Liu Lin and two cooks. They don’t need to earn some money, but they probably don’t have much hope.

Liu Minghui, let alone, is the deputy director of the steel mill. He has plenty of food and drink, and he will not eat with others. What's more, he is someone who has no connection with him.

Finally, Director Shen turned his gaze to the Jia family nearby.

Although Director Shen has only been here for a short time, he has heard of Qin Huairu's reputation.

"Qin Huairu, how about your family consider it a little bit? I can decide to give you five more dollars."

This would be ten yuan a month. No matter what others think, Jia Zhangshi and Qin Huairu's eyes lit up at this moment.

You have to know that Qin Huairu's salary is only 27.5 yuan, and ten yuan is almost half a month's salary.

Qin Huairu thought, as long as the deaf old lady didn't die, it would be fine. It would just be a matter of cooking for one more person every day.

This is just a piece of cake for Qin Huairu.

Just as Jia Zhang was about to agree, the deaf old lady spoke.

"No, forget about the Jia family. I don't dare to ask someone from the Jia family to take care of me."

Jia Zhang's face froze and suddenly became gloomy. If there weren't so many people here, Jia Zhang would have definitely cursed loudly.

Director Shen was also surprised after hearing this. He turned his head and looked at the deaf old lady and said, "Old lady, you have to think it over. If you don't agree to let the Jia family take care of you, then there will be no one left."

Director Shen didn't expect that after working for so long tonight, she still hadn't figured out how to deal with the matter. However, she did realize that the deaf old lady was not very popular in Courtyard 95, so it could be said that she had brought it upon herself.

After hearing this, the deaf old lady said in a positive tone: "In this case, I will just support myself and not trouble others."

What else can I say? The deaf old lady has already been embarrassed tonight. She originally wanted to use her own house as a bargaining chip, but in the end, the Yan family might be the only option, and she is not happy about this.

After all, she was well aware of how stingy the Yan family was, and her monthly ration was among the highest in the compound, so she didn't want to give everything to the Yan family. It was conceivable that if the third aunt cooked for her, she would be lucky if she didn't have to eat or take anything away.

Since the deaf old lady said so, Director Shen felt that this was the only way. She had helped as much as she could, and in the end there was really nothing she could do.

"Well, let's go. Although we don't have to take care of the old lady, we still have to lend a hand to the best of our ability."

"Especially Liu Haizhong, you live in the backyard, you know that."

Finally, Director Shen called Liu Haizhong's name. Liu Haizhong nodded when his name was called. No matter how he thought about it, he had to agree.

After all, he is the boss of the hospital and he cannot refuse to help.

Finally, everyone dispersed. Director Shen said a few words to the deaf old lady and then left the courtyard.

"There's something wrong with this yard..."

After leaving the courtyard, Director Shen said to the person next to her, "These two are old people from the street office, so she spoke bluntly."

"Haha, Director, this courtyard is not normal to begin with. Previously, the uncles were good at covering up the situation. Now that Yi Zhonghai has gone, Liu Haizhong basically doesn't care about anything."

"It would be better to let Yi Zhonghai be the manager anyway."

Director Shen said thoughtfully.

.....

"How come you have time to come here? I thought you forgot about us mother and daughter."

At Chen Xueru's house, Chen Xueru, who hadn't seen him for several days, said unhappily.

Since Liu Minghui became the deputy director, among other things, he has had a lot more drinking and social events. Li Huaide would always invite him to attend banquets, and as a result, Chen Xueru was neglected a lot.

Chen Xueru was also somewhat resentful about this, so she turned a displeased face towards Liu Minghui.

"Oh, what's going on? Where is my considerate Xueru? This is not like you."

Chen Xueru looked at Liu Minghui with a cold face and said, "What are you saying? Why don't you find someone who is more sensible?"

Seeing this, Liu Minghui knew that Chen Xueru was quite resentful, and immediately laughed and said, "How could that be possible? No matter how sensible you are, you are not as good as you."

Then he sat down next to Chen Xueru, took her hand and said, "Don't be angry, I'll come over to accompany you more often in the future, okay?"

After hearing this, Chen Xueru shook off his hand angrily: "Come on, if it weren't for you, I would have dumped you long ago."

Chen Xueru spoke in an inconsistent manner, and Liu Minghui noticed that there was a smile in Chen Xueru's eyes at this time.

Thinking about this, Liu Minghui took something out of his pocket.

"Here, try it on. I think it suits you very well."

Liu Minghui took out a watch, which was bought in Hong Kong Island. It was a ladies' watch.