No one can disturb my retirement life in the Red Mansion

"Okay." Ou Mengmeng nodded and pointed to the drawer where the money was kept. Their family's food coupons and living expenses were all kept there, but she didn't keep a record of them because some of her monthly expenses were hidden.

For example, she would buy some stamps every month, and she would give Lou Xiao'e 10 yuan for the house payment every month, which could not be recorded in public. If she really rushed in and didn't copy anything else, she would copy it out of the account book, which would be troublesome.

As for hiding things, she has found ways to do it in recent years. For example, she bought stamps separately, and went to one of the many post offices every month. She bought the last edition from each one. At that time, there were not new stamps every month. She bought old special issues, and only said that she had stamps from other places at home, 8 cents stamps, and bought one year at a time. Who would suspect anything?

As for hiding, it was even simpler. She had put a lot of disassembled furniture in the cellar before. Now, it was just pieces of wood wrapped in cloth. Later, she made some adobe bricks herself and divided the cellar into two parts, using the excuse that it looked ugly and not asking Sha Zhu and the others to do so.

She sealed the furniture in the inner room. She rearranged the shelves in the outer room, so that the original size of the cellar could not be seen. The partitions of the shelves were made by her from old cardboard boxes, just like the cardboards for her photo frames. She took out the wooden boards from before and made bed boards for Banggeng and the others. Everything was in line with her identity as a poor widow. There was no suspicion at all.

After a few years, the adobe wall was no different from before. Once, Ou Mengmeng even got some lime and painted the bottom, saying it was to prevent moisture and insects. This made it even harder to see. Even Sha Zhu and his friends forgot what the cellar looked like before. They went down there several times to put things, but never thought that the inside had changed. They even praised their cellar for being so clean.

Her stamps were all wrapped in oil paper in the middle of the cardboard and laid out flat. As long as there was no fire, even if the cellar was flooded, it wouldn't be a big deal.

"Sister!" Jingru also had the key to the drawer, so this house was defenseless against her. She went to put the money away, and then she came back and sat down.

"What's wrong?" Ou Mengmeng could only raise her head this time. At this moment, Qin Jingru should have something to say to her.

"Um..." Jingru's face turned a little red.

"Are you in love?" Ou Mengmeng nodded. Thinking about it, Qin Jingru's hometown had sent her to Beijing to find someone to marry. But she had fooled him into becoming independent and strong. Four years had passed, so it was normal for her to say that she had a partner.

"Not really. However, in the past few years, some people have shown goodwill to me, but you know I don't have that intention." Jingru waved his hand quickly.

Ou Mengmeng nodded. There were many boys in the normal technical secondary school, but Jingru had a strong sense of urgency. She was still living with her cousin, so she had to use excellent grades to convince her family that her cousin's choice was right and that she could be independent. So she worked much harder than other students in the three years of technical secondary school. Of course, she was also older than them, but at this time, a girl like her was not surprising.

"Don't you want to ask something?" Jingru was a little depressed. Her sister just nodded and looked at her.

"What are you asking? You have always been steady. If you come to tell me, it means it is almost settled. You just want me to take a look at the person. Then go ahead and take a look!" Ou Mengmeng nodded and said seriously.

If Jingru had been a little vain when he first came to Beijing, but after four years with her, he had seen the evil of human nature in this courtyard, even Liu Haizhong, who had helped someone before, turned his face and didn't recognize him. So at this time, she really felt that Jingru would not be casual.

"Is Xu Damao okay?" Qin Jingru asked in a low voice, full of trepidation. "Nothing is wrong with him, he just doesn't look good." Ou Mengmeng had a unified perception of the people in the compound: they were ugly, and none of them looked good. Even the young Sha Zhu and Xu Damao, as well as the children of the Liu and Yan families, really didn't look good enough for her taste.

"Sister!" Jingru felt like she was about to collapse again. She found that her sister didn't seem to be very reliable except for academic matters.

"It's OK. He has a decent family background and a decent job. He's a little cunning, but life isn't hard for him. Aunt Xu and her family are actually OK. They think too much, but they don't interfere with their children's lives. I think it's OK!" Ou Mengmeng thought about it. After all, he has been here for more than four years and has seen what he should have seen. Xu Damao is more lively than Sha Zhu, and he likes to compete with Sha Zhu. He is very demanding of progress and is also very popular in the workplace. In principle, such people don't have to live a tiring life.

"I just think that since we all live in the same courtyard, I don't need to be too far away from you." Jingru breathed a sigh of relief and finally said something useful.

"That's right, this is very important." Ou Mengmeng nodded quickly. They were all in the same yard, which was good, but immediately, "Let him get a physical examination. Didn't he get into trouble when he went to the countryside before? It's better to be safe."

"Sister!" Jingru was speechless. After hesitating for a moment, he sat down and thought, "Last time he had an accident, he had a physical examination and found that he had some health problems. He also had an operation."

"Then what?" Ou Mengmeng didn't expect that she would hit the jackpot unexpectedly.

"The doctor said there was no problem in principle. He also consulted a Chinese doctor and took medicine for more than half a year. Anyway, he told me that if we don't have children in the future, he won't blame me." Jingru said softly.

"Isn't this a bit tea?" Ou Mengmeng held up her face. Doesn't this make Jingru's motherly love overflow? Once this was said, Jingru was afraid that she would be morally kidnapped.

"Sister, what did you say?"

"It's okay, I don't care whether I have a child or not, but I have one! I'm just saying this without any hesitation. If you really don't like it or don't want it, then it doesn't matter. But you are not like that. Why cast a shadow on your marriage and make the two of you become resentful couples in the future? Besides, if you can't have children, what do you think their family will do? So, can you please stop being so naive?" Ou Mengmeng shrugged.

Jingru took a deep breath. As sisters for four years, they had always been in perfect harmony, and now it was reflected in every aspect. She liked children, so she loved Banggeng and the other three as her own children, and the children also liked her. Now that Lou Xiao'e had a child, she also held the child tightly when Lou Xiao'e was not at home. Could she really accept not having her own child?

Ruo just didn't want to make Xu Damao feel bad, so she agreed. Then she watched other people's children being born one by one, while they could only watch helplessly. Thinking about it now, she feels depressed and painful.

And her cousin asked her a question: if it was she who couldn't have children, would the Xu family accept it as calmly as she did? She didn't even need to ask this question, she had the conclusion. So, is this a good match? (End of this chapter)