Get something in the courtyard

Back at the courtyard, under the soft and hard tactics of the two widows of the Jia family, Yi Zhonghai once again started his working life.

On the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, Banggeng and Yi Zhonghai started looking for jobs under Qin Huairu's coercion and expectation.

Relying on Yi Zhonghai's righteous face and moral blackmail, the two of them found another job.

After bringing the news home, Qin Huairu privately gave Yi Zhonghai some loving comfort.

It is not easy to get Qin Huairu's benefits. Since Yi Zhonghai has taken them, he has to pay the price.

Every morning at five o'clock, Qin Huairu got up on time to cook. At six o'clock, she would enter Yi Zhonghai's room, wake up the two of them personally, and then force them to go out to work with her tears.

Yi Zhonghai's comments on Qin Huairu, such as filial piety, are all jokes. But the point about hard work is still worth mentioning.

As long as someone pays her, she will never be lazy.

Yi Zhonghai was not happy at all, and he wished Qin Huairu would slack off for a bit. Unfortunately, this was just an empty dream.

Yi Zhonghai's salary is 150 yuan a day, and Banggeng's salary is 50 yuan a day, which adds up to 200 yuan.

With so much money, she hated to sleep. How could she be lazy when she was watching the two of them?

You know, Yi Zhonghai is old and can't work for many days. Why don't we let him do more work while he can still work? Should we wait until he can't work anymore?
Yan Bugui still resented Yi Zhonghai's concealment and never cared about Yi Zhonghai's affairs.

Liu Haizhong was different. He felt that Yi Zhonghai's behavior was not good, so he stopped Yi Zhonghai when he was getting off work.

"Old Yi, you are killing yourself. At your age, getting up so early every day to go out to work, can your body bear it?"

Yi Zhonghai was filled with bitterness, but he dared not speak it out. Bang Geng was right beside him, and Qin Huairu would know as soon as he spoke.

"Old Liu, Huairu's family has a hard time. Look at Banggeng, he's so old, but he still hasn't found a wife. That bastard Shazhu doesn't want to help, how can I be like him? While I can still do it, I'll take care of Banggeng more and teach him a skill to make a living."

Liu Haizhong turned his head and glanced at Bang Geng: "I remember you started teaching him last year. It's been almost a year, and you still haven't taught him?"

Bang Geng glared at Liu Haizhong with some shame and anger in his eyes. At his age, he couldn't find a job or a wife, and he was always depressed and felt ashamed to face people. Liu Haizhong's words simply added fuel to the fire.

Yi Zhonghai was a little embarrassed. Although he had sworn many times that he would not hold back when teaching the stick, he would forget this oath every time he taught. His mind was full of thoughts of teaching the apprentice and starving the master to death.

Therefore, every time he teaches, it seems that he teaches very seriously, but in fact he doesn't teach anything at all. If anyone works completely according to his instructions, the probability of accidents is very high.

"Lao Liu, Bang Geng has actually learned very well. It's just that those self-employed people can't compare with the steel mill. They don't let Bang Geng do it himself. If you don't do it yourself, you will definitely not be able to learn this kind of locksmith work."

Liu Haizhong didn't think too much about it. After listening to Yi Zhonghai's words, he felt that it made sense: "If that's the case, you shouldn't work in those small factories."

Yi Zhonghai certainly didn't want to work in a small factory. But what could he do? Banggeng couldn't find a job because of his reputation.

"Old Liu, can you talk to Director Lan and find a job for Bang Geng in the steel mill?"

Liu Haizhong doesn't have that ability, and even if he does, he won't use it. He knows Banggeng's reputation very well. Besides, you don't need to spend money to ask others to do things. Can Qin Huairu take out the money? Is she willing to take it out?

"Old Yi, you are not unaware of the situation at the steel mill. Director Lan is only the director of a branch factory and has no say in the matter. The current factory leaders are much worse than the previous ones. They are always thinking about arranging their own people to work in the factory.

I heard from others that the deputy director in charge of logistics rented out the canteen to his relatives. The food they prepared was almost like pig food. Many people stopped eating at the factory.

Yi Zhonghai certainly knew that the food didn't taste very good. Because no one ate in the cafeteria, there was a lot of food left over every day. Qin Huairu relied on her beauty to hook up with the cafeteria director and got several lunch boxes of food every day.

Yan Bugui couldn't help but interrupt: "The food in the cafeteria is so bad, how can we entertain the factory leaders?"

Liu Haizhong said enviously: "There are so many restaurants outside, how can we not find a place to eat? Those leaders have arranged the reception in the restaurants outside."

Yan Bugui was a good calculator and quickly figured out that the cost of eating out was much higher than eating in the factory. "This is really bad at living."

"Live a good life?" Liu Haizhong said disdainfully, "It's not their money that we're spending, so they won't feel bad about it."

Liu Haizhong has a deep understanding of this. When he was the captain, he enjoyed the pleasure of eating without spending his own money.

At the factory, he doesn’t have to pay to eat in the cafeteria, and at home people give him gifts, which also don’t cost money.

Unfortunately, the time for enjoyment is too short.

The three were chatting when they suddenly noticed several families in the yard returning happily with meat and wine.

"Mr. Li, what's the happy event in your family?"

"Uncle, our child has found a job. We are going to celebrate. Everyone in the family is waiting. I will go back to cook first."

Worried that Yan Bugui would take advantage of her, Aunt Li hurried home.

"No, doesn't her son have a job? In a machinery factory." Liu Haizhong was stunned for a moment and asked.

Before I could get an answer, I saw the Zhao family's daughter-in-law walk into the yard carrying wine and meat.

"Zhao family, is there a happy event in your family too?"

"Yes, my son and daughter-in-law have found jobs."

"What's going on?" The three old men looked at each other in confusion.

Such a big thing, but the three of them didn't know anything about it. Especially Yan Bugui, who was watching at the door all day but didn't know anything about it. He was really useless.

Yan Bugui felt a little embarrassed and quickly sent the third aunt to investigate.

After a while, the three aunts came back: "Isn't this Wang Kun's factory recruiting workers? They signed up and all passed. They will go to work the day after tomorrow. That's why they bought things to celebrate."

"What?" Yi Zhonghai shouted angrily.

He convened a meeting of the entire hospital specifically for Banggeng's work, but ended up embarrassing himself and failed to get anything done.

Now, so many people in the hospital have found jobs in Wang Kun's factory. What is this? Are they deliberately going against him?

Wang Kun is indeed not a good guy.

"Old Liu, Old Yan, do you know what's going on?"

Yan Bugui had been staring at Yi Zhonghai's face since he was called out by Yi Zhonghai. Seeing his expression, he knew that he had been kept in the dark. His resentment towards Yi Zhonghai disappeared.

He always thought that Yi Zhonghai had known the news for a long time and deliberately kept it from him.

Liu Haizhong said: "I don't know."

Yan Bugui naturally would not admit that he knew, and said, "I don't know."

Yi Zhonghai was unwilling to give up, so he took the two of them to find Tian Youfu.

Tian Youfu said, "The news of Wang Kun's factory recruiting workers is posted on the bulletin board of the street office. It's not a secret. Don't you know what it has to do with me?" (End of this chapter)