Chapter 150

Sha Zhu stayed to cook with He Daqing, while Li Jiandong and others were invited into the house by Hu Haodang.

This is Li Jiandong's house, and it also has the two largest rooms in the entire hospital. Although it is now given to Hu Haodang to live in, Li Jiandong still goes back to his house to sit for a while every time he comes back.

The residents who got the news soon came in groups of three or four to greet him.

As the eldest uncle in the courtyard, Li Jiandong is also qualified to wait for others to come to his house.

"Director Li, your return today really brings honor to our hospital. The new year with you here is a real new year." Liu Haizhong flattered him as soon as he opened his mouth.

The force was so strong that Li Jiandong was a little uncomfortable with it.

Xu Fugui also said, "Old Liu is right. To be honest, you didn't come back last year. We really missed something. It can be said that our hospital is what it is today because of the support of Director Li alone. Whether it's me or my son Damao, right Damao?"

Xu Damao laughed and said:
"Yes, if it weren't for my master, I wouldn't be where I am today. Master, I have good news to tell you."

Xu Damao looked mysteriously at Lou Xiao'e who was standing next to him.

Lou Xiao'e also had a shy look on her face.

Qin Huairu was a little curious and asked on behalf of Li Jiandong: "Da Mao, what is the good news? Why don't you tell us and let us guess?"

Xu Damao chuckled and said, "Master's wife, I'm just a little embarrassed. Oh, I'll tell you the truth."

“In fact, Master felt my pulse before and found that I was infertile.

Later, I didn’t give up and went to the hospital for a checkup. The result was the same as what Master said.”

"I was about to despair, but my master gave me a prescription that gave me hope again."

"I have been taking the medicine prescribed by my master for the past two years, but because it is too bitter and I am sometimes too busy with work, I may not drink enough. It was not until this year that I saw the effect."

This is indeed good news.

For the residents in the compound, there is no greater joy than getting married and having children.

It's just that some people are more stupid.

Sha Zhu asked innocently, "Xu Damao, you don't even have a child yet, how come you've seen results?"

Chen Xueru, who was standing next to him, pinched him and said angrily, "Are you stupid? If they say it works, then you must be pregnant."

Sha Zhu glanced at Lou Xiaoe's belly and said "oh" as if he had realized something.

Xu Damao said proudly: "How about it, Shazhu, buddy is going to be a father soon."

"Haha, I became a father several years ago. Xu Damao, you will just have to follow me around and eat dust for the rest of your life."

These two have been bickering since they were little. They feel uncomfortable if they don't have a few words with each other when they meet. They are used to it.

Everyone laughed...

At about ten o'clock, He Daqing and others had packed up the ingredients, and the people in the courtyard helped to move the things to the tavern dormitory building. Since the dormitory building was built, any gatherings in the courtyard were held here.

When Yan Jiecheng and others saw Li Jiandong coming, they came out of their homes to greet him.

Ding Qiunan also walked out of the house holding her son Ding Nianmin.

Liu Guangqi and Zhou Rong have also been back for several days.

"Director Li, you are here too."

Li Jiandong was talking to several of his apprentices when a room next door suddenly opened and an old man in his sixties stood at the door and greeted Li Jiandong.

Li Jiandong looked back and said with a wry smile, "Uncle Zheng, please don't call me Director Li. How are you feeling recently?"

Uncle Zheng is Director Zheng. He retired a few years ago and Sha Zhu took over his job.

Since retiring, Director Zheng has moved into the tavern's dormitory building. He usually drinks a little wine, plays with the kids, and his life is quite interesting.

Li Jiandong walked over to talk to Director Zheng, while Yan Jiefang also kept his eyes on Qin Jingru.

When Li Jiandong and his group came over just now, Qin Huairu introduced Qin Jingru's identity to everyone.

Yan Jiefang had been eyeing her because she was pretty, and when he heard that she was Qin Huairu's sister, he immediately decided that he had to marry her.

He thought the same as Yan Bugui. If he could marry Qin Jingru, wouldn't his job be secured?
Even if Li Jiandong is unwilling to help him, can he just ignore it for Qin Huairu's sake?

"Hey, girl, your name is Qin Jingru, right?"

Yan Jiefang kept in mind the dating tips he learned from the "experts" and was bold, careful and thick-skinned.

Of course, he was too lazy to be careful, but he had no problem being bold and thick-skinned.

It was Qin Jingru's first time here and she didn't know many people yet. She was sitting in a corner and talking to He Yushui, who was about her age.

When Qin Jingru heard someone calling her name, she turned her head away.

"Big brother, are you calling me?"

Qin Jingru didn't know the man in front of her at all. Qin Huairu had introduced several people to her just now, most of whom were elders and Li Jiandong's apprentices. There were so many people in the courtyard, it was impossible for her to introduce them all.

However, since he was from this courtyard, Qin Jingru still stood up politely.

"Yes, that's what I'm calling you. I heard that you came to the city this time to find a city girl? What do you think of me?"

Yan Jiefang said with a grin, he felt that he was one of the better ones among his peers.

Although he had no formal job and even had a temporary excavator job, Li Jiandong was fired.

But, no matter what, he is still a member of Courtyard 40, and this alone is enough to fascinate the lesbians around him.

After all, being able to marry into Courtyard No. 40 is the dream of many women.

For women of marriageable age in the surrounding streets, marrying into No. 40 Courtyard is as awesome as a country girl marrying into the city.

Qin Jingru is just a country girl. If she can marry him, it would be like achieving a double jump, so Yan Jiefang is very confident in himself.

But he forgot that Courtyard No. 40 was envied by others because of Li Jiandong. Although Qin Jingru was a country girl, she was also Li Jiandong's sister-in-law. Others would envy Courtyard No. 40, but how could she, Qin Jingru, envy it?

At this moment, Qin Jingru looked Yan Jiefang up and down, and asked with some doubt:
"Hey, big brother, I don't know who you are. What's your name? And do you have a job? Which factory do you work in?"

Qin Jingru asked three questions in a row.

Since we are dating, we must ask clearly.

This is the same as those women who ask about houses, cars, and money, except that there are not so many people asking about houses and cars now, but work and salary must be asked clearly.

Yan Jiefang didn't feel disgusted by this. After all, he had been on so many kissing dates recently and had encountered such direct ones.

Smiling, he replied:
"My name is Yan Jiefang, and I'm an excavator worker at a steel mill. You know excavators, right? It's a technical job."

"Yan Jiefang?"

When Qin Jingru heard the name, she seemed to have heard it somewhere before.

He Yushui standing next to him couldn't stand it anymore. Yan Jiefang had already been fired. Wasn't this just misleading?

She pulled Qin Jingru and said, "Sister Jingru, don't listen to him. He used to be an excavator worker in the steel mill, but he was fired because of something."

He Yushui's words were relatively restrained. At least he didn't say why Yan Jiefang was fired.

After all, they were from the same courtyard, so He Yushui still gave him a little face.

However, Yan Jiefang didn't think so.

He glared at her and said, "Yushui, why are you so ungrateful? Although I was fired, as long as I get married and separate from my father, I can go back to work immediately. Do you believe it?"

He Yushui stuck out her tongue and made a face: "Lululu, I don't believe it. You were fired by a big uncle. Who in the steel mill dares to let you go back?"

At this time Qin Jingru also remembered.

Isn’t this the son that the third uncle mentioned before?
It turned out that he was not unemployed, but was fired from his job, which was even more despised than having no job.

Qin Jingru was so materialistic that she rolled her eyes at that time: "What kind of person are you going to date when you don't have a job? If I marry you, I can't even afford to eat. I might as well stay in the village." Yan Jiefang was looked down upon by Qin Jingru, and he immediately felt a little dissatisfied.

He is the man of Yard 40. Many women wanted to be his, but he looked down on them. Today, he was actually looked down upon by Qin Jingru, a country girl.

However, he still endured the humiliation and said:

"Qin Jingru, what you said is wrong. You are a country girl and you may not understand the rules in the city. Since a few years ago, each family can only have one work station. I am not married yet and still live with my parents. My father is a teacher and he also holds the only work station in the family. However, as long as I get married and separate from my father, I can get another one immediately. Then, as a resident of No. 40 Courtyard, I can find any job I want."

What Yan Jiefang said is true.

In Yard 40, there are Li Jiandong, the director of the steel rolling mill, and Sha Zhu, the director of the street office.

It can be said that basically any job you want to do can be arranged.

But the prerequisite is that you, Yan Jiefang, must strive to be good.

If Yan Jiefang could be as ambitious as his brother Yan Jiecheng, Li Jiandong could even arrange for him to take on a management position.

However, not only was he not as good as Yan Jiecheng, he was even not as good as some ordinary workers in the steel mill.

He learned to operate the excavator quite quickly, but he always liked to cheat while working.

I didn't learn any good habits, but I just tried to learn how to date others.

It would be good if he could be bold, careful and thick-skinned, but he is only bold and thick-skinned, and has not learned to be careful at all.

For a person like this, Li Jiandong would have to take a huge risk even to use him, let alone promote him.

not to mention.

Even though Yan Jiefang is still working in the steel mill, Qin Jingru still looks down on him.

How much does an excavator operator earn in a month?
He is not as good as the one Chen Xueru introduced to her before, who earns forty or fifty yuan a month.

"Alright, alright, no job means no job. Even if there is no work station, can't you find a temporary job first? Even Yu Shui, who hasn't graduated yet, has already made an appointment with my brother-in-law to work in the steel mill after graduation. You, a native of the courtyard, are fired and you still have the nerve to say this and that?"

Qin Jingru doesn't give Yan Jiefang any face.

Although they are sisters, Qin Jingru and Qin Huairu have very different personalities.

This is a very materialistic woman, who has played the role of a smug villain more than once in the play.

At the beginning, Qin Huairu wanted to set her up on a blind date with Sha Zhu, but when she saw that Xu Damao had good conditions, she was deceived into leaving with just a few words.

Later, when she married Xu Damao, Xu Damao asked her to stay away from Qin Huairu, and she immediately made it clear that she would draw a clear line between herself and Qin Huairu's family.

After the storm, Xu Damao became the deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee, and Qin Jingru followed him to an unbridled degree. When the hospital held a meeting, Xu Damao was the only one absent, and she insisted on asking others to wait for the leader Xu Damao to come back.

Because of Li Jiandong's presence in the courtyard, those beasts have more or less gotten rid of some of their bad habits under Li Jiandong's leadership.

But Qin Jingru can't do that.

She has always lived in the countryside and could only see Li Jiandong occasionally during the holidays.

Therefore, her character also developed as in the drama, and for a while she was out of tune with this romantic courtyard.

Even He Yushui felt a little awkward after hearing what she said.

Although Yan Jiefang is indeed a bit hypocritical, there is no need to say such harsh words.

You, Qin Jingru, are an outsider, or a guest. It doesn't seem right for you to come to someone else's yard and speak so harshly. It seems as if you are relying on your brother-in-law's power and don't treat others as human beings.

Even He Yushui had this feeling, and Yan Jiefang, as the person involved, felt even more ashamed.

He nodded at Qin Jingru and said:

"Okay, okay, Qin Jingru, you are a country girl, who gave you the courage to look down on me, a city person? Even if I don't have a job, I am still a city person. Sooner or later, I will be assigned a job. Whether you can marry into the city is not certain."

After saying that, he turned around and looked at He Yushui.

"Yushui, you'll be eighteen after the Chinese New Year, how about we become a couple?"

He Yushui was listening to Yan Jiefang's words and thought he was right, but she didn't expect him to suddenly say this.

I was stunned at that time.

"No, Yan Jiefang, what are you talking about?"

Yan Jiefang simply went all out. Didn't you, Qin Jingru, look down on her? I also look down on this country girl. He Yushui is so good. Although she doesn't have a powerful brother-in-law like Li Jiandong, her brother is Sha Zhu, the director of the street office.

As long as he marries He Yushui, won’t Sha Zhu immediately get himself a workstation?
When the time comes, I won't go to work at the steel mill anymore. I'll ask Sha Zhu to arrange a job for me at the street supply and marketing cooperative, or let me go to the police station or the grain station. Which place wouldn't be more comfortable than being a worker and working hard?
So he said excitedly:
"He Yushui, why don't we be together? You'll be 18 after the Chinese New Year, so we can date first and get married when you think the time is right."

"We both grew up in the same courtyard. Although I am a few years older than you, we are of the same generation. Your brother and I are fellow apprentices. If we were together, it would be like being even closer."

He Yushui was deceived by Yan Jiefang's words.

Wasn't he pursuing Qin Jingru just now? Why did he suddenly want to date me?
He Yushui is relatively traditional. There were classmates pursuing her in high school, but she never responded. It’s not because she felt that her family conditions were not good enough for them, but purely because of her modesty as a girl.

Unexpectedly, Yan Jiefang also suddenly confessed to her, which made her forget how to respond for a moment.

"Haha, even rabbits don't eat grass near their burrows. Yan Jiefang, you are really useless. No wonder my brother-in-law fired you. I think he should fire you from the compound next, right?"

Qin Jingru sneered at the side.

Although she looked down on Yan Jiefang, she felt a little uncomfortable because Yan Jiefang confessed his love to He Yushui right after being rejected by her.

"Qin Jingru, just take care of yourself. Li Jiandong is only your brother-in-law, not your man. Even if he kicks you out of this courtyard, he can't kick me out."

Yan Jiefang still has this confidence.

He was a native resident of Courtyard No. 40. How could he be driven out just because of Qin Huairu's sister who showed up?

In fact, this is true. Although Yan Jiefang is very humble, Qin Jingru is also a hopeless person.

Li Jiandong and Qin Huairu would not deal with people in their own courtyard for Qin Jingru.

However, they would not punish Yan Jiefang for Qin Jingru, but would criticize him for He Yushui.

While the three of them were talking here, they didn't notice Hu Haodang who was smoking on the second floor.

Hu Haodang is one of the few people who smokes in the compound. Because Li Jiandong doesn't like the smell of cigarettes, he always smokes alone and far away.

The whole hospital was having a dinner together today. The residents were all on the first floor and in the main courtyard. Hu Haodang ran to the corridor on the second floor to smoke, and just below him were Yan Jiefang, He Yushui and Qin Jingru.

At first, when Hu Haodang heard that Yan Jiefang was pursuing Qin Jingru, he just thought it was for fun.

After all, Qin Jingru was here for a blind date, and Yan Jiefang was also anxious to find a partner to get married. This was something everyone in the hospital knew.

Regardless of whether it will succeed or not, the fact that Yan Jiefang dared to say it out loud was very good in Hu Haodang's eyes.

Unexpectedly, when Yan Jiefang failed to find Qin Jingru, he immediately turned his attention to He Yushui.

In this courtyard, Hu Haodang’s best friend is He Daqing. The two often drink together and are very close friends.

Hu Haodang's hometown is in the Northeast. His wife died during the war and he had no children, so he never found another one.

Therefore, Hu Haodang treated the little girl He Yushui as half his own daughter and spent a lot of money to buy her gifts on her birthday.

Now, hearing that Yan Jiefang was actually eyeing his goddaughter, Hu Haodang's face changed instantly.

"Hey? Who threw the cigarette butt? Can you keep an eye on me? You have to pay for burning my clothes."

Yan Jiefang was waiting for He Yushui's reply when suddenly a cigarette butt fell from the sky and landed on his head.

Yan Jiefang raised his head and shouted, and then he saw Hu Haodang lying on the guardrail with a sneer on his face, looking down at him.
"Yan Jiefang, are you still a human being? I thought you were a beast."

"No, Captain Hu, what do you mean by that? I can ignore the cigarette butt issue because you are my elder, but how can you insult others?"

The two of them were talking a little loudly, and other people in the yard heard the noise and looked over here.

Yan Bugui saw that it was Yan Jiefang who was talking loudly to Hu Haodang, so he ran over and asked, "Jiefang, what's going on? Why are you arguing with Old Hu?"

(End of this chapter)