I became a poor little sophora japonica in the courtyard

Two hours later, Jingyi watched Minister Lu leave with her folder. Minister Lu left without even a word of conclusion, which made Jingyi very confused.

Not even a word of criticism or praise! What is this? Just keep hanging yourself out here?

Jingyi also accepted her fate and continued her idle life. No one came to assign her work, and her office was deserted. She received a deputy department-level salary of 177 yuan per month, which made her feel at ease.

Here, Xu Damao really rented two back rooms of Shazhu, and after some cleaning, he moved into the No. 95 courtyard house with Qin Jingru and his daughter Xu Hongxia. He became neighbors with his sister Xu Yueling, and left his six-year-old son with his parents.

Qin Huairu still wanted to stop it! Xu Damao's family moved into the back house, so what should her family do when Bang Geng comes back? But Sha Zhu ignored her at all. The Jia family's affairs had nothing to do with him now.

But having Qin Jingru move in as a neighbor also gave Qin Huairu one benefit, as it gave her an extra channel to suck blood occasionally.

She could go to her cousin's house to complain while Xu Damao was at work, and then ask for money or things. This worked very well at first! But after a lot of times, coupled with Xu Damao's warning to Qin Jingru, this gradually stopped working!

Qin Jingru was not a fool! She came to her every day to complain about her poverty, and her money was not blown by the wind. She had never met someone like her cousin who only borrowed but never paid back.

"Xiaoling, come over and have dinner with us later."

Jingyi had just entered the backyard after get off work when Xu Damao poked his head out of the kitchen he had built at the door of his house and told her.

"No! You guys eat it! I have everything ready at home." Jingyi waved her hand to refuse.

No one in the family understands why she wants to raise the Jia family's child. Especially Xu Damao! You've never been so close to your own niece. Did the Jia family give your sister some kind of magic potion?

But Jingyi still goes her own way! She doesn't ask for anything in return, she just wants to change Xiao Huaihua's fate.

She took out the ready-made meals from the post station warehouse and kept them warm in the steamer while waiting for Huaihua to come back from school.

This year, colleges and universities will resume classes, and the college entrance examination will also resume in December. Xiao Huaihua is only in the first year of high school, but she is destined to have a different future.

As long as she could support Huaihua until she graduated from college, she would let go. The rest of her life would depend on her.

Sha Zhu took his son He Xiao and carried lunch boxes to the back room rented by Xu Damao. Now the relationship between the two is very good, and they often get together to drink and brag.

"Zhu Zi, do you hate your father? He left you and your sister behind for more than 20 years."

The drinking session lasted for more than an hour, and Xu Damao was already drunk. He hooked his arm around Sha Zhu's shoulder and talked to him about the past.

"What's so hateful about this? Everyone has their own aspirations. Without He Daqing, wouldn't my brother and I be living well? Not to mention me, even Yu Shui was promoted to the head of the Telecommunications Department this year, a proper state cadre."

Sha Zhu was stunned for a moment, his expression changing back and forth, but in the end he just answered indifferently! If He Daqing was not mentioned, he would not even remember that his father was still alive in this world.

"I seem to have heard from my sister before that your father was forced away by someone, and he seemed to have left something for you and your brother. I can't remember the details, so you should ask my sister." Xu Damao revealed with his tongue sticking out.

"Hey! I see you're almost drunk! You have such a low alcohol tolerance, yet you always ask me to drink. Let's stop here tonight, and come to my place to drink in a few days." Sha Zhu saw that it was almost time, so he stood up and wanted to end the drinking party.

"You don't believe me? I'm not talking drunk. If you don't believe me, ask my sister. My sister is omnipotent. No man in the world can match her. That's what I said!"

Xu Damao stood up shakily! Qin Jingru heard him yelling and ran out from the inner room to hold him up.

Sha Zhu shook his head, said goodbye to Qin Jingru and came out of the back room. When he passed the west wing in the backyard, he suddenly stopped.

Is what Xu Damao said true? Was there some hidden reason why his father He Daqing ran away with the White Widow? Did he leave something for his brother and sister? Why didn't he know all this?

He turned around and went back to knock on the door of the west wing. Whether Xu Damao said it was true or not, he just needed to confirm it with Director Xu.

"I'm sorry to bother you so late, Director Xu. I just came from your brother's place. He said there was a hidden reason why my father left, and that he left something for us. I don't know if what Xu Damao said is true, but he said you know. So, I came to ask."

As soon as Jingyi opened the door, Shazhu stood at the door and started explaining. A few years ago, when Jingyi was in the old house, her parents somehow talked about He Daqing who lived in the middle courtyard, and she also talked about him vaguely. Unexpectedly, his brother Xu Damao remembered him.

"Then come in and talk. It's hard to explain it in just a few words." Jingyi made way and invited him into the house to talk.

Jingyi never found a chance to tell them that Yi Zhonghai had withheld his brother and sister's living expenses. The key point was that at that time, Qin Huairu was still sucking blood from Sha Zhu. If the money went into Sha Zhu's hands, it would undoubtedly be a bargain for the Jia family.

Actually, it was not a good time to say it now. They had not divorced yet, and Qin Huairu was still Sha Zhu's nominal wife. If she knew that Sha Zhu had a large sum of money, she would definitely try to get the money.

"I once heard that your father sent you and your sister living expenses every month. But he first sent the money to Yi Zhonghai, and then asked him to pass it on to you. I don't know if this is true or not! But Yi Zhonghai received remittance slips from other places every month, so this can't be false."

Jingyi's words were ambiguous! Otherwise, she couldn't explain this matter clearly. She couldn't tell Shazhu that she knew it through a dream or divination, right?

"I'll go find Yi Zhonghai and ask him about it." Sha Zhu's face changed, and he stood up and was about to go out, but Jingyi stopped him!

"It's no use for you to go now! After all, there is no evidence. Isn't Yu Shui the chief of telecommunications at the Third Post and Telecommunications Branch now? Ask her to look up the remittance records from more than ten years ago in the database. Get the evidence first!" Jingyi gave him advice.

"Okay, let's do it. I'll go to the Third Post and Telecommunications Office tomorrow to look for rain water!"

Sha Zhu thanked Director Xu! He turned and left the west wing and came to the corridor in the middle courtyard. His face was gloomy as he looked at Yi Zhonghai's residence in the east wing of the middle courtyard.

If Yi Zhonghai really withheld the living expenses that his father sent to him and his sister every month, he and Yi Zhonghai would never reconcile.

Yi Zhonghai retired in 1975 and started to enjoy a life of retirement. But as he and his wife got older, he became more anxious.

It seems that Sha Zhu has no hope at all! He and his family are just like ordinary neighbors, and there is no warmth anymore. Yi Zhonghai has been trying to improve the relationship between the two families, but all efforts are in vain.

Even when his wife Chen Shufen invited Sha Zhu and his son to have a New Year's Eve dinner during the Chinese New Year, Sha Zhu remained indifferent. How many years has it been since the two families have gathered together to celebrate the Chinese New Year?

On the contrary, his relationship with the Jia family became closer. In recent years, his wife Chen Shufen's health began to fail, and Qin Huairu often came to help with the laundry and cooking. He was also more and more satisfied with Qin Huairu.

He didn't have much hope for Sha Zhu now, at least he still had Qin Huairu to choose from. Now the children of the Jia family were all grown up and no longer a burden, except for that lazy Jia Zhang!

Yi Zhonghai planned to talk to Qin Huairu in two years and hand over the elderly care work to her. As long as she took good care of him and his wife, everything in the family would be given to Qin Huairu.