I am a cripple in the Siheyuan. Who am I afraid of?

Chapter 168 Why is there no one at Du Yuhui’s house?

Qin Jingru was surprised to see that Song Wu did not enter the courtyard with them through the main gate, but instead went to the small door of the nearby house facing the street, and couldn't help but froze there.

Qin Huairu saw Qin Jingru in a daze and asked her, "Why don't you leave? Come into the courtyard."

Qin Jingru pointed at Song Wu and asked, "Why did Song Jiji go there?"

"He usually enters and exits his house through his own shop. It is inconvenient to enter from the yard." Qin Huairu pointed to the high threshold of the door and said to Qin Jingru.

At this time, Qin Jingru saw Song Wu opening the door of the small house and rolling the wheelchair into the house.

When the two sisters walked all the way to the front yard, Yan Bugui happened to have just returned from the middle yard. He saw Qin Huairu leading a girl in a coarse cloth gown into the yard and said hello with a smile: "Are you coming back from below?"

"Yes, third uncle, the spring plowing support is over. This is my sister Qin Jingru who is following me to play in the courtyard for a few days." Qin Huairu introduced Qin Jingru to Yan Bugui. After all, he guards the door every day, coming in and out, and he must let him know what is going on in the courtyard. There must be one more person.

After hearing this, Yan Bugui looked at Qin Jingru more curiously, thinking that he did look a bit like Qin Huairu.

Qin Jingru just smiled at Yan Bugui and turned her attention to the environment around the courtyard, looking around, very curious.

Qin Huairu went to the countryside and left her two children with Jia Zhang, but she was exhausted.Now that Qin Huairu came back, Jia Zhang finally felt relieved, but when she saw that she had brought her country sister over, she felt unwilling to do so.Although this little girl also weighed grains as rations, what was just a little stick noodles?

Thanks to Qin Jingru's diligent hands and feet, her eye for work, and because Qin Huairu brought back some food when she returned home this time, although Mrs. Jia Zhang didn't want to see this little girl from the countryside, and her face was not good-looking, she didn't As for saying things that are too unpleasant to hear.

In the small courtyard in front, a farewell is better than a wedding.Song Wu held Lou Xiao'e in his arms for a while, making Lou Xiao'e angry. She opened his hand and said, "Shameless, be careful not to touch the child."

Song Wu chuckled and gently touched her slightly bulging belly with his hand.The two people leaned closely together and each told what they had been busy with during this period, expressing their pain of missing each other.Lou Xiao'e pouted and said, "You are not allowed to leave for such a long time in the future."

Song Wu looked at the plates and bowls on the table strangely, and asked, "You two are still having such a sumptuous meal at home?"

Lou Xiao'e said with a smile: "It's not like He Yuyu, who took his classmates home to play, and forced himself to have a meal here. Gao'e was about to clean up after eating, but ended up going to the hospital again. I was too lazy to move, so I threw it away I don’t care here.”

When Song Wu heard that Gao E had gone to the hospital, he knew that Xu Damao had been brought back, so he briefly told Lou Xiao'e about Xu Damao.

After Lou Xiao'e heard this, she first covered her mouth in shock, and then giggled to herself.

The next day, Song Wu went to Du Yuhui's place in the morning to say hello and let her know that he was back, but found that there was no one in her courtyard.

This is strange. Where did people go so early in the morning?
So he simply went directly to school.After waiting for a while at the school gate, I met Ran Qiuye who came to work in the morning.

Ran Qiuye was very happy to see Song Wu: "Are you back? Are you tired from being in the countryside?"

Song Wu smiled and said, "I'm not tired. I eat well and sleep well. My life is almost the same as in the city. I just went to see Du Yuhui. Why is there no one at home so early? I came over to see if she came to work."

Ran Qiuye said: "Sister Yuhui has taken leave and gone back to her home these two days. It seems that she didn't tell me anything in detail."

"Going back to her house?" Song Wu really didn't know much about Du Yuhui's family. At this time, when Ran Qiuye said that Du Yuhui had gone home these two days, he was inevitably a little worried and a little strange.

Because Du Yuhui never seemed to have a good relationship with her family, to the point where they were rarely mentioned, Song Wu, who was so close to her, didn't know much about her natal family.

Song Wu asked Ran Qiuye: "Do you know where her family lives?"

Ran Qiuye was startled and shook his head.She said hesitantly: "Now that I think about it carefully, it seems that Sister Yuhui rarely mentions the affairs of her natal family, so that even I don't know much about it. I just realized that I don't care enough about Sister Yuhui. .”

Song Wu shook his head and sighed, saying in his heart: "It's not just that you don't care enough about her, I don't know her very well either."

Song Wu came back from Hongxing Elementary School and had no idea for the time being. He had to go home first and prepare to wait and see if Du Yuhui would come back in the next two days.

When he returned to the courtyard, the repair shop opened as usual. Near noon, clerk Liu from the street came to look for him.

"Master Song, you asked me to ask about that matter. I went back and asked, and then I heard what he said. It's not easy to arrange people at the bicycle factory now. In fact, you don't need to say it's a bicycle factory. We are now in BJ City There’s downsizing everywhere.”

Song Wu asked strangely: "Weren't we always streamlining the past two years? I haven't seen much movement."

Clerk Liu moved a chair and sat next to the stool where Song Wu was working. It looked like he was going to put on a show to talk to him. "The situation is different this year when the New Year comes. Not only in factories, there are several small welfare factories on our streets. Temporary workers have to be greatly reduced. There is not so much work, and people can't support them."

At this point, Clerk Liu lowered his voice and leaned into Song Wu's ear and said: "The main reason is that food is too tight. So many people came here in the past few years. Although the output of various things has increased due to the large-scale production, people are not allowed to eat. There is no food in the fields, and the products produced cannot be sold. We have held several meetings in a row. In short, we ask people to return to where they came from. There are several people in your courtyard who may want to Go back to your original hometown."

Song Wu was really surprised this time.He couldn't help but ask: "Is it that serious?"

Xiao Liu nodded: "In addition to finding ways to fill our stomachs, the focus of our work now is to find ways to send people back, for fear of causing trouble."

The two chatted casually for a while, and before leaving, Clerk Liu said to Song Wu: "But the situation at the bicycle factory is pretty good, because they only started the production line last year, and their production has just started to expand this year, so the workers There is still work here. My brother will come to see you in two days. Then you can ask him in detail. After all, he didn’t tell me in detail. "

Clerk Liu left in a hurry, and Song Wu was working alone, thinking about what he just said.

To put it bluntly, on the surface it seems that too many workers were transferred in when production was ramped up a few years ago, but in fact the fundamental reason is still lack of food.After all, as soon as they entered the city, everyone had to eat and purchase grain. Now that the pressure on food is so great, it is natural to find a way to send those who eat food back to farm.

After all, digging the east wall to repair the west wall will make life difficult.In addition, the country's financial background is not very strong. If you want to go abroad to buy other people's things, your waist is tight, and you are too stretched to solve the fundamental problem.

While he was thinking wildly, Qin Jingru walked into the repair shop with a curious look on his face.

"Song Jiji, I heard from my sister that this is your shop. Do you usually work here?" She walked around the small shop like a curious baby.

Song Wu asked her with a smile: "I have to follow you here. Isn't the city fun?"

Qin Jingru pouted and said, "It's not fun. I'm going back tomorrow. It's so boring here. The food in the city is worse than what we eat there."

Song Wu secretly laughed in his heart. What she said was true. Life in the city may not be better than in Qinjiacun. After all, there is land in the countryside and it is close to BJ City. He can still dig some food in the soil if he can think of a way.

Song Wu asked her: "By the way, can you still go to school?"

Qin Jingru shook her head: "I haven't graduated from junior high school, so I won't go to school."

Song Wu smiled and said, "Can I learn some knowledge or learn more?"

"It's useless to go to school. I'm responsible for most of the labor force at home. Besides, as long as I marry a good family in two years, isn't it better than going to school?" Qin Jingru said seriously, blinking her big eyes.

As a result, Qin Jingru spent most of the day in Song Wu's repair shop except when she went home to cook and eat at noon.But this girl is really not unpleasant, and she has life in her eyes.

Although she didn't understand technology, she helped deliver things, clean the room, tidy up messy furnishings, and pour a glass of water. Anyway, she never stayed idle.

When there were few people around, Song Wu saw sweat on her head while working, and felt quite embarrassed.He took out a few milk candies and two snacks from the space and handed them to her, "You're not full, come on, take some stuff to cushion your stomach."

Qin Jingru hadn't had a full meal since she entered the city yesterday. When she saw what Song handed over, her eyes widened.

"Taosu, take it and eat it." Seeing that she didn't move, Song Wu handed the thing forward again and waved it in front of her eyes.

Qin Jingru's face was still red, she took the things and sat on the small stool to eat some snacks. She carefully put the pieces of toffee into her pocket.

She only ate one piece of snack in small bites, and wrapped the other piece in a small handkerchief and put it in her pocket, and then started working in the shop again.He even asked Song Wu if he could move it, while sorting out everything on the shelves and on the floor of the entire shop.

When he got off work in the afternoon, Liu Guangqi walked into the repair shop and saw a pretty young girl working in Song Wu's shop. It was quite strange.

Song Wu looked up and saw his expression, and said to him with a smile: "This is Zhongyuan Qin Huairu's sister. She is here to play at her house. Why don't you come to my shop and help me with some work? You are here to ask about work. Let’s do it.”

Unexpectedly, Liu Guangqi sighed, pulled up a chair and sat next to Song Wu, "I'm just here to tell you, don't ask about work."

"What's wrong?" Song Wu stopped what he was doing and looked at Liu Guangqi strangely and asked.

Liu Guangqi smiled bitterly and said, "My partner failed, and her family is no longer in BJ."

(End of this chapter)