Siheyuan: Big City, Small Love

"Okay, Mom, Wu'er, stay with me for a few days. I'll take her to the factory! This way you don't have to worry about her getting into trouble!"

He Lai comforted.

"Okay, okay, take her away quickly. This little girl is not as obedient as Yu Shui was when she was little. She is so hard to teach. She is always in the yard, beating this one or bullying that one. I am so fed up with her!"

Wu Juan immediately agreed.

There's no way. Wu'er is spoiled by a bunch of children. Because of He Lai, children like Xiao Yangzi, Xiao Shitou, Xier, Nannan and others, all do whatever Wu'er asks them to do without any objections. She has become the king of children.

Seeing that Wu Juan agreed, He Lai hugged Wu'er, who was still standing in the corner as punishment, and touched her little head.

"Mom, how many days does that guy have left?" He Lai asked curiously.

"Why are you asking? You're more gossipy than my mother every day!"

Wu Juan glared at He Lai. She knew it, but she didn't want her son to be involved in this.

"Uh..." He Lai was speechless for a moment and fell silent.

"Mom! Don't be angry." Yu Shui came behind Wu Juan and massaged her shoulders.

"Oh, my mother is destined to worry. Look at this son and that father, neither of them makes me worry-free! Look at that father, he never comes home now, it's like he's dying in the security department every day, there's not a single day that he can get home on time!" Wu Juan sighed.

He Zhan, who was at the door, was about to go into the house when he heard this. He immediately decided to go to He Daqing's place for a drink first. If that doesn't work out, he would just stay there for the night.

……

He Lai didn't get any news from Wu Juan. While Wu Juan took Yu Shui to cook, he took Wu'er to Liu Haizhong's house.

"Second Aunt, what are you burning?" He Lai asked with a smile.

"Hey, Xiao Laizi, come in quickly, come in quickly." The second aunt called out.

"Where's the Second Master?"

"He will be back soon. He is the workshop director now, so of course he has to stay and work overtime." The second aunt said with a smile.

He Lai smiled bitterly, it seemed that Liu Haizhong was really busy.

He Lai leaned against the kitchen door and watched Second Aunt cook.

There weren't any particularly good dishes, just a serving of bean sprouts, a serving of fried bacon with oyster mushrooms, and two fried eggs.

"Xiao Laizi, do you want to eat at Second Aunt's house today?" Second Aunt asked with a smile.

"Brother, I want to eat eggs!" Wu'er pulled her sleeves and said.

"Haha, Wu'er, come here, take it, it's not hot anymore." When the second aunt heard Wu'er's words, she immediately picked up a fried egg and put it to Wu'er's mouth.

Wu'er immediately took it and started biting it.

"Why don't you thank Second Auntie!" He Lai patted Wu'er's butt.

"Thank you, Second Auntie!" Wu'er immediately thanked her obediently.

"Wu'er is so good!" The second aunt rubbed Wu'er's little face with her hands and continued, "Oh, I also want to give birth to a daughter, but unfortunately I only have one son in my life, one son in my life!"

"Haha, Second Aunt, don't let my brother Zhuzi hear this, he will be sad!"

He Lai smiled.

The second aunt was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted and continued to laugh: "Zhu Zi, haha, they are young, it's good to have more children, who knows, maybe the one in Huai Ru's belly is a boy!"

He Lai smiled helplessly. After all, he knew that Qin Huairu was still pregnant with a girl.

"By the way, Second Aunt, what's the situation with that old lady?"

He Lai asked about his purpose.

"A deaf old lady?"

"Ok!"

"Well, what else could it be? He couldn't survive in the nursing home. I heard that there wasn't much good food in the nursing home these years. It was good enough to have something to eat. There was no oil or fat.

They are all lonely elderly people. I heard that more than half of them have passed away in the past few years. It is hard for the deaf old lady to survive all these years. Now her health is not good, and she wants to die in her own room, which can be regarded as the final resting place for her. "

The second aunt explained.

"Who will take care of her then?"

"The people from the street office will take care of it. There will be people to prepare three meals a day, wash clothes and so on. We don't have to worry about it."

The second aunt said.

"Didn't she do anything special?" He Lai asked curiously.

"Ah? What? No, I just wanted to ask the old Yi family to come over when I came back, but was rejected.

Bah, this old woman has caused so much harm to the Yi family, and she still wants others to take care of them. She is really blind. "

The second aunt said indignantly.

"Haha, I guess she wants to apologize." He Lai smiled bitterly. After all, people are dying and they always want to atone for their crimes.

"What's there to say? It's just that the old Yi family is kind-hearted. They took care of her for so many years, but they still hurt her so badly. Little Lai, you don't know that the old Yi family had been taking care of this deaf old lady since before liberation. They were closer to her than my own mother!

At that time, we joked that the old Yi's maid was the deaf old lady's maid, serving tea and water, washing clothes and cooking every day. The deaf old lady just lay down and enjoyed herself every day, while the old Yi's maid was busy running around, tired like a dog.

At that time, I even doubted whether this deaf old lady was really Yi Zhonghai’s biological mother and why they needed to take care of her so much!

……

"

When the second aunt talked about this, she couldn't stop talking like a flood. She recounted what the first aunt had done for the deaf old lady. There was no way out. Because of the moral blackmail of the deaf old lady, the second aunt had to take a lot of delicious food from the family to honor the old ancestor.

He Lai listened with great interest. This kind of gossip was the most interesting. The deaf old lady's methods were quite powerful. Unfortunately, she met a time traveler like herself. A counterattack from her shattered all her fantasies.

Now the deaf old lady is lying in bed unable to move, and He Lai is not worried that she will do anything out of line again!

The second aunt kept talking until Liu Haizhong came back, and then He Lai left and went to Sha Zhu's house.

At Sha Zhu's house, Secretary Sun was talking to Sha Zhu and others.

After so many years, Secretary Sun has become the deputy director, helping Director Wang handle a small part of the affairs in Nanluoguxiang.

Since he was the one who handled the matter of the deaf old lady, he would be responsible for any problems now.

"What are you talking about?" He Lai asked curiously.

"Oh, Comrade He Lai, Comrade He Yuzhu and I have something to discuss. Isn't this the deaf old lady in your backyard who has returned? She has a small request before she dies."

Deputy Director Sun said with a smile. He no longer called He Lai "Little Laizi" because He Lai was older now and a section chief, with a higher rank than him.

"Oh, could it be that she wants my brother Zhuzi to cook for her?" He Lai guessed.

Sha Zhu had his head lowered, but he immediately raised it, looked at He Lai, and said, "Hey, Xiao Lai, you are amazing! You know everything!"

"Haha, what's wrong, Brother Zhuzi, do you want to go?" He Lai put Wu'er down and let her go to play with Xier.

"Why go? If she wants to eat something delicious, let her go buy it herself. Director Sun, my Zhuzi will never go. You should find someone else."

Qin Huairu said with a sullen face.

When Sha Zhu heard this, he lowered his head again.

"I understand. Okay, I'll go first." Director Sun didn't actually have much hope, but he had to come and convey the deaf old lady's last wish.

"Brother Zhuzi, what's wrong? Do you want to cook for that old lady? Aren't you afraid of our father? He will come over and beat you up!"

He Lai walked to the side of Sha Zhu and smiled silently.

"I...I...I just felt that she was quite pitiful. She wanted to eat something delicious before she died. I..."

Sha Zhu stammered and couldn't speak.

Logically speaking, he should hate the deaf old lady the most. After all, it was the deaf old lady who planned He Daqing's escape from the old city.

But that's Sha Zhu's personality. No matter how big the matter is, it's over once it's over. The men in Laosijiucheng are all generous!

No matter how many bad things the people in the yard did back then, he chose to forgive them. There is a reason for that.

People like Xu Damao, Liu Haizhong, and Yan Fugui were the ones who harmed him the most, but Sha Zhu was able to take them in one by one in the end. What's more, Sha Zhu now has a happy life, so he doesn't care about the deaf old lady's past.

Recall that He Damao snatched Qin Jingru and forced Lou Xiaoe away; the first thing Liu Haizhong did when he came to power was to lock up Sha Zhu; and Yan Fugui even said bad things about Sha Zhu in front of Ran Qiuye in order to ruin Sha Zhu's blind date.

The magnanimity comes from tolerance, this is what Shazhu is talking about!