Chapter 68: Demand for the White Widow to Resign

Although there was already a day's buffer time, when He Yuzhu asked,

Yan Bugui still felt a lingering fear.
"What's the fight?
I went to the bank to change money yesterday afternoon, and I was almost trampled to death."

"That's not right, Uncle Yan.

If I remember correctly, you bought firewood, rice, oil, salt and stockpiled some opium last month, so your salary must be gone.

And you had class yesterday!

Where would I get the money and time to go to the bank to exchange for dollars?"

"Hi!

Didn't the Executive Yuan increase our teachers' salaries after it promulgated the "Supplementary Measures for Improving Economic Control"?
They also reimbursed us for the previous two months’ wages.

The school knows that I am careful in my work.
After collecting the money, I and two colleagues were sent to the bank to exchange it for silver dollars.
Who knew that something like that would happen yesterday afternoon?

If we had not already exchanged our money and walked to the outskirts of the crowd, you would have had to come back to eat my meal today."

Seeing Yan Bugui bragging about himself, He Yuzhu thought to himself that it seemed that this guy was stingy even to the school.
Even the principal knew about him.

Then, He Yuzhu recalled what happened some time ago, and started to joke,

"Speaking of feasting,
What do you think, Uncle Yan, wasn’t I right?

This person should eat and drink.

Don't take money so seriously.

If you guys had arrived a few minutes later yesterday, something bad would have happened.

When you earn so much money, what's the point of not spending money on food and clothes?"

Although He Yuzhu didn't think about it that way,

But in Yan Bugui's opinion, He Yuzhu was simply pointing a finger at him, saying that he shouldn't have been angry with him some time ago.

So he was stubborn and refused to admit his mistake.

"I've already told you that you don't know anything.

Money is something that must be carefully calculated.
In this way, if something good happens in the future, you can use the money to build relationships, and if something bad happens, you will have a way out.

If everyone was like you and spent all their money, they would be helpless when something happened.

Learn from this, young man!

These are the life experiences of those of us who have been through this, and they are enough for you to learn for a lifetime.”

Although Yan Bugui later became rich and had a bicycle and a television, and even had money to invest in Yan Jiecheng's small restaurant,
But He Yuzhu didn't intend to learn too much about his life experience, nor did he intend to continue arguing with him about this matter.

So he quickly made jokes and changed the subject.
“Speaking of salary compensation,

The school must have compensated you a lot of money this time, so you can go to the bank and exchange it for gold bars. I think each of you got at least 4,000 to 5,000 yuan."

Hearing He Yuzhu mention the compensation, Yan Bugui was in a good mood.
I didn't hold him back to continue talking about life experience.
"Go away, you just know how to make fun of me.
Even in our poor school, the salary increase is only 300 to 400 gold yuan coupons, which only compensates for the difference in one month's salary.
Where did the three or four thousand come from?

Even if there are so many teachers in our school, they still have to be distributed to everyone. They can't be exchanged for gold bars.

But you,
What happened last night? Why did the one-eyed man stay here?

But I see you still have the mood to hit me,
I think it should be fine."

Seeing that Yan Bugui was also concerned about what happened yesterday, He Yuzhu felt a little warm in his heart.

So he repeated what he had said to the deaf old lady. Although Yan Bugui had already known at the bank yesterday afternoon that Lin Wenhua had obtained more than 1000 taels of gold from those deserters,

I have already prepared myself mentally.
But when He Yuzhu mentioned this matter again, he couldn't help but his eyes sparkled.

But after a while Yan Bugui realized that it was Lin Wenhua who took the gold bars.

I immediately lost interest again.
"Forget it, we can't get involved in the affairs of the one-eyed man.

Since you have nothing else to do, let's do this for now! When your father gets up in the evening, we can have a meeting after dinner to discuss something.

This meeting was supposed to start yesterday.
But your father was so worried about you that we didn’t mention it.”

Seeing that Yan Bugui only mentioned it but didn't say what it was, He Yuzhu didn't ask.

He Daqing is in charge of everything for the He family now. If Yan Bugui asked him for his opinion, he really wouldn't know what to say.

Anything he says may influence He Daqing's thinking.

"Okay, then I'll talk to my dad when he gets up, and we'll have the meeting after dinner."

When it was time for dinner, He Yuzhu first told He Daqing about the meeting that would take place later.
Then he looked at the White Widow.
"Aunt Bai, when I got home from get off work today, I heard that the people outside the pass seemed to have lost the fight, and the people in the south are also fighting now.

I guess it won’t be long before it’s Beijing’s turn.

I heard Uncle Yi and his friends say that the steel mill could produce rifles.
If a fight really breaks out, will we get bombed?

Why don't you quit your job in the cafeteria first, and then ask the old lady to introduce you to the canteen after the war is over."

But just as He Yuzhu finished speaking, He Daqing said,
"I got the pillar.
If a war really breaks out in Beijing, both the steel mill and Nanluoguxiang will be bombed.
You can’t hide from it.”

After hearing what he said, He Yuzhu originally thought that He Daqing disagreed.

But I couldn't explain to him why I knew the story of how Peking was besieged and peacefully liberated.
Not a single shell landed within the city walls.

Just as He Yuzhu was thinking about how to phrase it, He Daqing looked at the White Widow.

"But my wife,

What Zhuzi said is not without reason.
After all, the steel rolling mill can produce weapons and ammunition. It is such an important place, and there will definitely be troops stationed there after a war breaks out.

As the saying goes, after three years of military service, a sow can be as beautiful as Diao Chan.

Those soldiers are unreasonable.
If you stay in the steel mill, something bad will happen.
I think I should quit my job first and wait until the war is over.

Besides, our family doesn’t lack food, and I can support you even if you don’t work in the future.”

When the White Widow first came in, the deaf old lady acted like a bad guy, but she didn't want to kill her.

At this time, he smiled and persuaded,
"I think what Xiao He and Zhu Zi said is right. You should resign and come back.

We'll think of a solution after the war.

If the steel mill is still managed by Zhenhua and his team, it would be a piece of cake for me to go back to work there."

Widow Bai knew that men like He Daqing were all very proud.

If something that shouldn't have happened really happened in the steel mill, He Daqing would definitely kick himself out, regardless of whether it was voluntary or not.

Since her livelihood is guaranteed, it doesn't matter whether she goes to work or not.
And the White Widow was indeed afraid that those soldiers would line up to look for her one by one.

So I agreed without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)