Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 592 Big loss

The yard on Maoer Alley used to use padlocks, but Chu Qianqian found it inconvenient and had long ago replaced it with an old-fashioned cast iron door lock.

Once the door is closed, it can be opened from the outside with the key. There is no need for people in the house to run out and open the door every time after locking the door.

Chu Xiangqian drank a lot of wine because he had a drinking competition with the dwarf, so he pretended to be asleep to prevent the woman from nagging and asking questions.

Qin Huairu entered the back room and saw him sleeping. After thinking about it, he hurriedly went to the kitchen.

Seeing a few unwashed dishes in the pot, he immediately knew that Chu Xiangqian had finished his dinner.

Simply light a fire to wash the dishes, and then boil water to wash up.

Then he quietly walked into the pit, lying on Chu Qianqian's chest, hugging the man tightly.

Chu Qianqian could clearly feel the woman's attachment to him, and secretly shook his head, thinking that this long-lasting love was not something he just talked about casually.

At least I can't do it now, I just don't want this woman anymore.

Consider that there are still five years before the storm hits. With such a long time to prepare, it is actually not difficult to avoid trouble safely.

As for Chu Xiangqian himself, in the first one or two years, he must have stayed in Hong Kong Island or abroad.

After everything calmed down, neither of them could sleep. After washing, they couldn't help but talk about the courtyard.

But this was a setback for Xu Damao. He thought he could keep his wife and children warm, but he didn't expect that when the children were born, his wife ran away.

And as long as you close the relationship with Deputy Factory Director Li, the neighborhood committee, and the street, it's easy to save a few people.

The two of them continued to live in such confusion.

To put it bluntly, the really powerful period was only the first one or two years.

Of course, if you can marry someone else, it is not impossible to leave the child to Xu Damao to raise.

So when Xu Damao's parents heard that the woman said that the child was given to the Xu family and that there would be no relationship between the two parties, they just thought about it for one night. The couple agreed to give the woman 200 yuan and there would be no relationship between the two families from now on.

When she saw Chu Qianqian, Lou Xiao'e was so excited that she almost screamed, but fortunately, she really cared about her man and found an excuse to go out.

Chu Xiangqian was willing to see the two get divorced. Anyway, Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e had long been inseparable. Lou Xiao'e had not even returned to the courtyard house in the past few months, but had been living in a small courtyard on Beach Street.

The woman Xu Damao was looking for gave birth to a child and was in confinement. She became restless after getting a job.

Moreover, this woman knew that Xu Damao was not a good person. She had long heard that he had provoked some young wives and pretty widows when he was showing movies in the countryside.

Even she herself was deceived by Xu Damao. In this case, it is basically impossible for her to follow Xu Damao wholeheartedly.

It is better to break up peacefully, lest Xu Damao is killed and he talks nonsense about Lou Xiao'e not being able to have children.

The problem now is to make a fuss and make Xu Damao pay the price.

Pretending to be awakened by Qin Huairu, Chu Xiangqian slapped her behind several times angrily, and then began to check her basic skills.

No matter how you choose, you will always choose Chu Xiangqian instead of Xu Damao.

To put it bluntly, they just want to use Xu Damao to enter the city and eat commercial food.

There was even a moment when Lou's father and Lou's mother even thought about pretending that the boy was Lou Xiao'e's child.

What Chu Xiangqian didn't expect was that Xu Damao's grandson would actually become a father, and that the rural girl-in-law would actually give birth to a fat boy for him.

Since Xu Damao had a child with another woman, it meant that Lou Xiao'e had some health problems, otherwise she would not have been able to get pregnant after being married for so long.

However, Xu Damao was persuaded by his parents, who probably knew that this woman was not a good match and would most likely not be settled in the future. The amicable breakup actually solved the problem smoothly, but the Lou family went crazy.

Chu Xiangqian secretly thought that it was no wonder that Lou Xiaoe had been living with her parents recently. It seemed that the Lou family already knew about Xu Damao having an illegitimate child outside.

Not to mention that Chu Xiangqian's ability is better than that of Xu Damao, and he is also much more handsome and good-looking than Xu Damao.

So even though they knew that Xu Damao had cheated on him, the Lou family still cared about their reputation and had no intention of retaliating against the Xu family.

But what no one realized was that the news Qin Huairu said happened more than a month ago.

If she marries someone like this, any trouble she may cause in the future will be trivial.

Firstly, she looks down on rural people, and secondly, this woman had an unknown child with a man before she got married, which shows that she is not an honest person.

Think of it as repaying the Xu family's favor for helping him find a job, and Xu Damao's parents actually didn't want their son to marry this woman.

Of course, this is here in the capital, and the local turmoil has been turbulent for many years before it slowly calmed down.

In Lou Xiao'e's heart, if she had to make do with a man for the rest of her life, why not live with Chu Qianqian?

Even being his wife is ten thousand times better than continuing to live with Xu Damao.

Of course, only Chu Xiangqian was convinced that this child was definitely not Xu Damao's.

After checking it out with some playing and singing, at least Chu Xiangqian felt that this woman fit him very well.

Fortunately, this idea was abandoned by Lou's father and Lou's mother within two days. In the end, they could only think of sending Lou Xiao'e to live with his two brothers in Hong Kong Island.

But as long as the woman doesn't say anything, Xu Damao will only think that the little baby is his son from now on.

Anyway, the child in her belly is not Xu Damao's, and she has no real feelings for Xu Damao.

If Xu Damao divorces Lou Xiao'e and marries that woman again, this secret should be kept secret for a lifetime.

The next day, Chu Xiangqian rode Chu Xiangqian and waited near Lou's house. At around 10 o'clock in the morning, he finally waited until Lou Xiao'e showed up.

After meeting a city man who was taller and handsomer than Xu Damao, had a better family background, and was vaguely interested in her, this woman immediately had other thoughts.

And if Lou Xiao'e really gets divorced, she might be able to be a sister with Qin Huairu in the future.

Even Lou Xiaoe herself felt that the problem lay with herself.

Chu Qianqian naturally followed slowly behind, and before they knew it, the two of them arrived at the small courtyard on Beach Street.

After entering one after another, before closing the door, Lou Xiao'e excitedly threw herself into his arms, and then started crying softly.

Chu Xiangqian hurriedly comforted him after Lou Xiao'e told him what happened recently.

Then he promised, "Okay, okay, I will definitely support you for the rest of my life."

With this promise, Lou Xiao'e felt much relieved, and then mentioned that her parents planned to send her to Hong Kong Island to join her eldest brother and second brother.

It's just that Lou Xiao'e couldn't bear to let Chu Xiangqian go, and she was even more afraid that after she went to Hong Kong Island, Chu Xiangqian wouldn't know where she went.

So I kept putting it off, wanting to wait until Chu Qianqian came back so that he could decide whether to stay in the capital or go to Hong Kong Island.

But for Chu Xiangqian, it was actually the same.

And in the past four or five years, it is actually safer to stay in the capital.

In addition, Lou's father and Lou's mother actually preferred to stay in the capital. Otherwise, if he wanted to leave, he could have left long ago, not to mention that he would not have to worry about having no money to live in Hong Kong Island. To put it bluntly, when people get old, few people are willing to leave their hometown if they can stay in their hometown.

In the TV series, Lou's father was forced to the point where he would really die if he didn't leave, so he left overnight, but this can be regarded as cheating the leader who had vouched for him before.

But when it comes to wives, children, and dozens of brothers, sisters, and a large family, sometimes I really can’t control that much.

After Lou's father went to Hong Kong Island, he passed away only a few years later. This shows that the old man had a strong sense of local sentiment in his heart.

Of course, it is also possible that the old man had resentment in his heart and felt that he had not wronged the Celestial Empire, but he was forced to leave in the end.

This feeling is not good in my heart, and my mood naturally cannot get better.

And older people are most wary of overthinking.

Chu Qianqian thought for a while and decided to keep Lou Xiao'e in the capital first, lest she and her parents go to Hong Kong Island in the future, and she might blame herself for causing her family to leave their hometown.

Only when you are forced to help them leave, will you gain gratitude.

"In this way, every month from now on, I will give you 200 yuan as pocket money. I will also get you a hundred pounds of white flour or rice, as well as various types of bacon, dried fish, and some fresh meat and vegetables to keep and raise you. Baibai is fat.

And you just need to serve me well, find friends to play with at other times, and spend more time with your parents. If nothing else works, I'll find you a lighter job to pass the time. "

Lou Xiao'e was overjoyed. For a woman like her who had no ambitions and liked to sleep in and eat ready-made meals in the courtyard, this day was the life she looked forward to the most.

If I could find a servant to do the laundry and cook, it would be complete.

Unfortunately, although there are still positions such as nannies and living secretaries, simple servants are basically gone.

And the more capitalists you are, the less likely you are to hire servants. Only those who are big leaders can have nannies and secretaries.

Of course, there is a way to find a middle-aged widowed woman in the countryside and ask her to come to the capital to join Lou Xiao'e in the name of a relative.

I usually do cooking, cleaning, and housekeeping, and I will be given another twenty or thirty yuan, which is said to be for grocery shopping and other household expenses.

It is no longer an employment relationship, but you are doing housework for the family.

An extra ten or twenty yuan a month is treated as employment fee, and the money is nominally used to buy food. If it is found out, it is corruption.

The employed relative did not dare to bite back.

It's a pity that Lou Xiao'e's family really can't find any poor relatives who are too poor to eat.

If you want to hire a maid, you still have to think hard, but this does not prevent Lou Xiao'e from just receiving Chu Xiangqian's attention to her, hugging him and going to sing an opera.

After a back-and-forth chorus, Chu Xiangqian was naturally fine, but Lou Xiao'e fell down from exhaustion.

I only had a bowl of porridge for lunch and went back to bed to catch up on some sleep.

Seeing this, Chu Qianqian shook his head helplessly, thinking to himself that it seemed possible that he could turn Lou Xiao'e and Qin Huairu into sisters.

I stayed with Lou Xiao'e on Beach Street for a day and a night. Early the next morning, Chu Qianqian rode his bicycle back to the courtyard first.

Then I found three uncles and said that they got 2600 kilograms of chestnuts and sold the other wild boars directly to several units.

But after all is said and done, some pig trotters and pig tails are left in the end.

The three uncles were very happy. The whole yard actually catered for 19 households.

Now each family can receive more than 1 kilograms of chestnuts. With the monthly rations, they should not go hungry again in the next few months.

As for someone who wanted to hide the chestnuts and wait until winter to take them out to avoid an accident, Chu Xiangqian ignored them and had nothing to do with them.

However, he said before that he could get 3 kilograms, so Chu Xiangqian didn't hesitate, "I'll get 2600 kilograms first, and then I'll get another one or two thousand kilograms in the second half of the year, so that you can live a more stable life."

The three uncles nodded hurriedly after hearing this. The lack of food in winter is the most difficult thing to endure.

Then Chu went out and took out more than ten bamboo baskets in an open space filled with cement piers.

200 kilograms of chestnuts were loaded every month. Soon the men in the yard transported these chestnuts back to the courtyard in batches and at different times, avoiding the attention of outsiders, and everyone felt relieved.

Now Chu Xiangqian's status in the courtyard was even higher.

In the evening, the three uncles came to the door together and gave Chu Xiangqian 1300 yuan, which was considered as money and goods.

The rest, of course, were the second uncle and the third uncle who took out the antiques they had collected in the past two months.

But I didn't expect that the first man would also take out a pair of jade bracelets.

Chu Xiangqian could tell at a glance that the pair of jadeite jadeites were of the Cuisi species, and they should be good ones from Laokeng.

But the better the things were, the more Chu Xiangqian muttered in his heart. Yi Zhonghai was not from a wealthy background before, and the jewelry he took out had who knows where.

Yi Zhonghai was not stupid. When he saw Chu Qianqian frowning, he couldn't guess what he was thinking.

She smiled and said, "This thing is not mine. After all, the old lady still wants to find a future for Zhu Zhu. She is even more worried that after you transfer his father out of the capital to work, one day you will suddenly transfer Zhu Zhu too."

Only then did Chu Qianqian, the second uncle, and the third uncle realize that this was bribe money for themselves.

Chu Qianqian chuckled, reached out and picked up the pair of bracelets on the table, and the sound of +19 gold coupons immediately sounded in his mind.

Only then was he convinced that the pair of bracelets were old items, and then he was about to say, "Aren't you afraid that Silly Zhu will blame the deaf old lady for hindering his future?"

But as he spoke, he suddenly realized that Silly Zhu was not actually a person with great ambitions.

In other words, this guy is actually very clear-headed and knows that he is a cook and it is his duty to cook well.

Otherwise, since he knows the big boss, not to mention being promoted, at least being transferred out of the kitchen and going to a management position is not out of the question.

But he still cooked at the leader's house honestly and didn't mention anything else.

Moreover, Silly Zhu has a lot of resentment against his father. If he is asked to go to Hong Kong Island to help He Daqing, there is a high probability that this guy will not go.

In this case, let Silly Zhu continue to stay in the capital and cook for his master and mistress.

As for promoting Silly Zhu, this guy would have no problem being the kitchen squad leader. If he were to be the logistics director, something might happen.

Of course, promotion is not a problem, but salary level promotion is no problem.

And as long as the cooking skills are improved, the level of the chef at the steel rolling mill should be upgraded to level five, level four or something like that.

At that time, the salary should be fifty or sixty.

For Shazhu, it is enough for him to stay in the cafeteria contentedly for the next ten years.

Chu Qianqian put away the bracelet, took out the previous 1300 yuan from his pocket, counted 60 yuan, handed it to the uncle and said.

(End of this chapter)