Chapter 17: Jia Zhang's Visit

Although the deaf old lady said that she would leave the house to Sha Zhu after she passed away, this matter had little to do with Sha Zhu himself.
Because he was not close to the deaf old lady.

The reason is that the deaf old lady is now over 60 years old, which is considered a long-lived person in this era. She may die any day.
She felt that she might not live long enough to see Shazhu grow up.

Naturally, I don't care about him.

I guess the deaf old lady never thought that she would live into her 70s and lived to be over 80 years old. It was still Sha Zhu who saw her off to the end of her life.

But there's no point in saying this now.
He Yuzhu knew what happened next.

Even though the current courtyard house is different from the one 18 years later or when the TV series opens,
Only seven families lived there, including He Daqing, Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, Yan Bugui, Xu Fugui, the deaf old lady, and Jia Zhang.
But in the near future, the Siheyuan will become the slums in TV dramas.
There is no way these houses would fall into his hands.

Therefore, compared to simply believing the verbal promise of the deaf old lady, He Yuzhu believed more in the actual title deed.

"The east wing in the front yard is also nice.
But you have to ask the old lady to transfer the house to my name now, so that I can feel at ease. "

He Daqing felt a little embarrassed by He Yuzhu's request, and felt that he was a little too hasty.
"What do you want me to say?
Will the old lady think that we two couldn't wait any longer and made up a trick to cheat her out of the house?
If things go wrong, it might end up in a mess.”

Seeing He Daqing's embarrassment, He Yuzhu smiled and shook his head.

"What's so difficult about this?
If the old lady doesn't believe it, then call Uncle Yi, Uncle Xu and the others out to be witnesses, and ask them to find a partner for you.

It just so happens that we have to divide the property in advance, and I need them to witness it.
Otherwise, your new wife might persuade you to do something against your will and you might end up denying it."

Seeing that his son didn't trust him so much, He Daqing couldn't help but roll his eyes, but when he thought about the bad things that happened in Nanluoguxiang, he didn't dwell on it.

"It would be good to let them witness it. I will also give you a written document so that you won't be suspicious later.

But let’s not talk about introducing a date, Dad knows his limits.”

"Stop it,
All you have done these years is cook and hang out in the red-light districts of the Eight Great Hutongs. How can you possibly meet any good people?
Don't talk about your lovers in the Eight Great Hutongs.
If you teach our Rainwater bad things, I will never forgive you."

As soon as He Yuzhu finished speaking, He Daqing glared at him and angrily retorted,
"I, your father, am such an unreliable person!"

But after saying that, he still stood up consciously.
"Okay, I'm planning to have a meeting with Lao Yi and Lao Yan to sort out the accounts."

Soon, the neighbors of the courtyard gathered together, but He Daqing did not start by talking about his own affairs. Instead, he began to count the accounts.
"Old Yan, you are the accountant, please tell me about the expenses in the past few days!"

After He Daqing finished speaking, Yan Bugui stood up with a small notebook in his hand.

“Let me talk about income first.

We have prepared a total of 100 yuan for Lao Jia's funeral.

There are also gifts from neighbors, the largest amount is 5 cents, the smallest is 1 cents, about 15 yuan.

The total is 114 yuan;
The second is the cost.
Since the Xinyi Gangfang and the lamas broke the agreement first, the original 30 yuan was basically saved.
So the biggest expenses were paper work, loosening work, hiring a deacon, and buying a coffin.
As well as the deposit for the meals and ingredients for the three days,

The total amount is 58 yuan.

That is to say, after finishing Lao Jia's funeral, we still have 55 yuan left, as well as more than 8 kilograms of flour for the next four days.

Look..."

Although Yan Bugui didn't finish his words, almost everyone knew what he was going to say next.
At this time, Jia Zhang was the first to stand up.
"Old Yan, what you are doing is not fair. We have agreed to pay for the funeral of our old Jia.
The same rules will apply to other people in the future. Any surplus money and grain now will naturally belong to our Jia family.

And our old Jia has gone,

Dongxu is just an apprentice in a steel mill now, and it is still unclear whether he can stay in the factory in the future.
You can't take back all the money you saved."

What Jia Zhang said was true. If Jia Dongxu could not stay in the steel mill, their family would lose their livelihood.

These 56 yuan and 200 kilograms of food can really save lives.

Although Yan Bugui is stingy, he really can't open his mouth when it comes to matters involving human lives.

When Jia Zhang said this, she turned to the deaf old lady for help.
"Old lady, could you please ask Director Lou to let our Dongxu stay in the steel mill and not kick him out?"

Seeing Jia Zhang looking for the deaf old lady for help,
He Yuzhu, who was listening in on the side, was a little confused at first.

But then I remembered that the old lady in the TV series knew a lot of things about the Lou family's past that Lou Xiao'e didn't know.
It is really unreasonable to say that they didn’t know each other before.

I searched Shazhu's memory.

I learned that Xu Damao's mother, who worked as a nanny in Lou's family, was also introduced to the job by the deaf old lady.

As for the four families of Xu, Liu, Yi and Jia who worked in the steel rolling mill in the courtyard, they were particularly respectful to the deaf old lady because of the relationship with the Lou family and did not dare to neglect her.

of course,

Although the Lou family has shares in the steel mill, they are not the owners of the steel mill.

Because the steel mill is a heavy industry, it is the reverse product received from the small life, and the money goes into the pockets of the big officials.

The Lou family is just the white glove in charge of management.

But even white gloves,
For the workers at the steel mill, a word from the Lou family was enough to decide their fate.

Sure enough, as soon as Jia Zhang finished speaking, the deaf old lady agreed without taking it seriously.

"No problem, Xiao Zhang, it's not difficult.

But have you and Dongxu thought about what to do in the future? Xiao Jia is gone, and Dongxu can't be an apprentice in the factory for the rest of his life!

Then the problem remains unsolved.”

Apprentices in those days were different from those in later generations. Not only did they not receive any salary, but there were also many rules for learning skills.
It can be said that there is no difference between them and the master's slaves.

The deaf old lady could solve Jia Dongxu's work problem, but the decision of becoming his disciple had to be made by Jia Dongxu and his mother.

If he met the wrong person, and something happened to Jia Dongxu,
To avoid complaints,
Not only the deaf old lady, but even neighbors like He Daqing didn't say anything, because they just didn't want to get involved.

Jia Dongxu and his mother were also very cautious about this matter.
After thinking about it, he finally looked at Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong, who were also neighbors in the courtyard.

Then they excluded Liu Haizhong without hesitation,
"Old Yi, why don't you help me and take in our Dongxu, so that he can take care of you and your sister-in-law in the future!"

(End of this chapter)