Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

After hearing what Li Huaide said, Director Yang also felt that it was not justified to take back Jia Dongxu's work position without compensation. After all, Jia Dongxu and his son made mistakes, but his wife and children did not. The factory's actions might indeed force his wife and children into a desperate situation.

So after thinking it over again and again, Director Yang consulted the other two deputy directors present, the chairman of the labor union, and the leaders of various departments. Most of them felt that what Li Huaide said made sense and that the factory should not be too drastic in doing things.

If Jia Dongxu's wife and children lost their source of livelihood and were forced to complain to others, even if the factory was in the right, it would probably be a bit hard to justify.

So after discussion at the office meeting, Li Huaide proposed that Jia Dongxu's wife be allowed to inherit Jia Dongxu's job and be given a job so that she can at least be able to raise the three children left by Jia Dongxu. In addition, considering that Jia Dongxu did die in an accident while processing parts in the workshop, the factory should give his family a pension of 300 yuan even out of humanitarian spirit.

After considering it, Director Yang and a group of factory leaders finally compromised. After all, no one wanted to make a big fuss and cause negative impact on the factory. What's more, the money was not something they had to pay individually, so they all agreed to Li Huaide's proposal.

Finally, a decision was made at the meeting that the factory would give Jia Dongxu's family a pension of 300 yuan, retain Jia Dongxu's work position, and allow Jia Dongxu's widow Qin Huairu to take over the factory one month after giving birth and replace Jia Dongxu as an apprentice in the workshop.

After Qin Huairu returned home, Yi Zhonghai immediately asked her how she talked with Li Huaide. Qin Huairu tried hard to hide her inner emotions and only told Yi Zhonghai that she had begged Li Huaide for a long time, and Li Huaide agreed to hold a meeting in the factory to study the matter because she had to take care of three children alone.

Yi Zhonghai felt that this matter was feasible. Jia Dongxu's work position might be kept and might be left to Qin Huairu, so he felt more relieved.

He wanted to go to the factory to inquire about it, but then he thought about his current bad reputation in the factory. Many of his co-workers who used to be polite to him now looked down on him when they saw him. They either stayed away from him or loudly mocked him.

In the past, factory leaders would be polite to him because he was an eighth-level worker, but now, factory leaders look at him with disgust.

Even some of his friends in the workshop, with whom he used to have a very good relationship, now gave him a cold face and ignored him. For example, the senior worker he had hired before had a very good relationship with him and they always talked and laughed when they met. But when he asked him to accept Lin Geng as his apprentice and wanted him to help him control Lin Geng, the friend turned against him on the spot and scolded him.

Thinking about his current situation, he knew that no one would pay attention to him if he went to the factory to inquire, so Yi Zhonghai could only stare anxiously with Qin Huairu as the factory made a decision, placing all their hopes on Li Huaide.

The next day, Li Huaide sent someone to inform Qin Huairu of the factory's decision. After hearing it, Qin Huairu almost collapsed to the ground, and her heart finally settled down in her stomach.

You have to know that this time she went to find Li Huaide, but she paid a considerable price. She was a very smart woman. She could see at a glance that Li Huaide was a lustful man who was attracted by her appearance, but she deliberately pretended to be very embarrassed, and said in an official tone that this matter was really difficult to handle. She repeatedly emphasized that Jia Dongxu was now under the punishment of expulsion, and the accident was caused by illegal operation.

So Qin Huairu could only follow his desperate plea. Finally, in order to let Li Huaide help her get the compensation from the factory and Jia Dongxu's work position, she took the initiative to do some unspeakable things for Li Huaide, which made Li Huaide contentedly agree to her plea.

Fortunately, Deputy Director Li kept his word and did not let her pay the price in vain. In the end, he successfully negotiated for the factory to give Jia Dongxu a pension and also retained Jia Dongxu's work position for her.

Qin Huairu is very happy now. As long as one month after giving birth to the baby in her belly, she will be able to go to the factory to take over Jia Dongxu's job. After taking over, she can transfer her household registration to the urban household registration of the old city. Banggeng, Xiaodang and the baby in her belly can also be transferred to the urban household registration with her.

In this way, their family's food ration would be enough for them to eat, and she could finally become the worker she had always dreamed of and transform herself into a thorough city dweller.

You have to know that when she married into the Jia family, she had a rural household registration. She originally wanted to transfer her household registration to the city, but the old pious woman Jia Zhang, who was greedy for the little grain she got from the land in the countryside every year to supplement the Jia family, refused to allow her to move her household registration to the city no matter what.

Moreover, even Jia Zhang herself had always refused to move her household registration to the city. She coveted the little bit of land allocated to her in her rural village. Every year, she asked her relatives to help her farm the land, and then give her some grain every year after the harvest.

Who knew that the policy would change later, and moving household registration became very strict and difficult. Collective cooperatives were implemented in rural areas, and the land allocated to individuals was taken back. Cities changed to a quantitative supply based on household registration.

Jia Zhang was completely dumbfounded. She had lost her rural land, and she and Qin Huairu did not have household registration in the city, so there was no ration supply. In addition, the child followed his mother's household registration and did not have a city household registration. So Jia Dongxu was the only one in the family who had a ration supply, but he had to support several people in the family.

In addition, Jia Dongxu himself was not very motivated and his work level could not be promoted. He could only earn about 30 yuan a month. The rationed food was not enough for them to eat, so they could only use the money to buy the so-called negotiated food, that is, high-priced food, in the Pigeon City. Jia Dongxu's salary was not enough for him to spend on smoking, drinking, and gambling from time to time.

The past two years happened to be the three-year difficult period, and Jia Dongxu's salary was indeed not enough for the Jia family to make ends meet. However, his salary exceeded the poverty line of the average income of each family member and they could not get subsidies from the street office. The Jia family had a really hard time.

In addition, Jia Zhang was a lazy woman who was unwilling to do anything when she was in her forties. Since Qin Huairu married into the Jia family, she officially began her retirement life. All the housework was left to Qin Huairu. She would sit on a small stool in the yard all day, holding a plate of patinated soles and chatting with the aunts and grandmas in the yard.

Moreover, Jia Zhang was a greedy person who loved to eat. The food ration at home was not enough, but she still ate a lot. Her appetite was equivalent to that of Jia Dongxu and Qin Huairu. She wanted to eat only good food every day and even disdained to eat steamed buns made of whole grains. She wanted to eat white flour buns and even meat every day.

In this case, Jia Dongxu could not sustain the family with just that little salary. Jia Zhang was a wealthy woman, and even though she had money, he would not allow her to spend even a penny to supplement the family expenses. So the Jia family could only go to Yi Zhonghai for a solution.

Yi Zhonghai is also a person who is very good at calculating. He wants Jia Dongxu to support him in his old age in the future, but he is reluctant to help the Jia family. So he morally blackmails the residents in the yard to defraud donations for the Jia family. At the same time, he takes advantage of the fact that Sha Zhu loves Qin Huairu and tricks Sha Zhu into helping him help the Jia family.

Now Qin Huairu received a notice from the factory, telling her that she can take over Jia Dongxu's shift and go to work at the steel rolling mill. Qin Huairu was very excited. She would no longer be controlled by Jia Zhangshi and Jia Dongxu, mother and son, and she would be able to make money to support herself in the future.

Moreover, after completing the succession procedures, she can transfer to an urban household registration, and her children can also follow her to transfer to urban household registration. In the future, her family’s food ration will be enough for them and their children to eat.

So Qin Huairu was extremely excited after receiving the news.