Chapter 15 He Yuzhu's Little Thoughts

When it was her turn to get food at the window, she said, "Master, please give me two steamed breads and one cabbage."

"Sister Qin, why are you here to get food?"

The guy inside the cafeteria window was stunned.

"Silly Zhu, you are the one serving the food."

Qin Huairu didn't expect to meet someone from the courtyard by chance.

"Hi, I'm a cook. I came to help out at the window this afternoon. Sister Qin, why are you wearing your factory uniform?"

Sha Zhu took the lunch box but didn't rush to get the food.

"Oh, my husband retired due to illness, so I took over his job." Qin Huairu explained. It was no longer a secret.

"What? Sister Qin, you replaced Li Zhiguo's position."

I'm so confused, what kind of operation is this?

"Master He, are you going to serve the dishes or not? There are people waiting for you."

The workers who were queuing for food were shouting.

Sha Zhu directly retorted, "If you want to eat, wait. If you don't want to eat, leave."

As he said that, Sha Zhu picked up the spoon and scooped a full spoonful of cabbage into the lunch box, and then added half a spoonful of vegetable soup.

He also gave Qin Huairu two steamed buns.

Sha Zhu couldn't help but ask, "Sister Qin, you should at least eat white flour for lunch."

"It's okay. I'm used to it. I'll save the money and buy white flour for my husband."

Qin Huairu walked away happily, holding a steamed bread in one hand and a lunch box in the other.

"Ah! Sister Qin is such a good person, but Li Zhiguo is not a human being."

Sha Zhu was extremely angry. When the next worker handed over his lunch box, he only gave him half a spoonful of vegetables.

"Master He, why are you ordering these dishes now? The female worker just now was..."

The worker was speechless.

"Eat if you want, just this amount!"

Sha Zhu thought that he couldn't do anything to Li Zhiguo, and he couldn't deal with an ordinary worker either.

"you……"

The worker had no choice but to leave with the lunch box tragically.

……

Qin Huairu quickly found the organization with the lunch box and was taken to the workshop by her master Chen Yun.

The active female workers' representatives in the factory all eat here.

"Auntie Chen, who is this? She's so pretty." The chubby-faced Sister Hua shouted.

Chen Yun replied, "This is my new apprentice, the wife of Xiao Li from my workshop."

"Who is Xiao Li?" a female worker asked, but she didn't know the number.

"The one who stole Jia Dongxu's girlfriend, her name is Qin Huairu."

Chen Yun invited Qin Huairu to sit next to her. There were not many true master-apprentice relationships in this factory.

Since she accepted Qin Huairu as her formal apprentice, their relationship is special.

"Ah! She is the one who was robbed, but why is she working in the factory?"

Sister Hua looked at Qin Huairu carefully and found that she was really beautiful.

"She replaced Xiao Li's position. Xiao Li had stomach problems and retired today..."

After Chen Yun explained the situation, all the female workers were stunned.

"Qin Huairu, you haven't been deceived!"

"I think Sister Hua is right. How can you have stomach problems at such a young age?"

Qin Huairu said hurriedly: "He is really sick. He went to a big hospital for a checkup. My husband will stay at home for a few years to recuperate."

Everyone looked at the steamed bread in Qin Huairu's hand and shook their heads.

"Qin Huairu, how much is your salary for taking over the job?"

A female worker asked the key question.

"Twenty-seven dollars and a half."

Qin Huairu herself felt very satisfied with this.

"That's not bad. You get paid, and you keep it for yourself..."

There are women to help.

Who knew Qin Huairu would say, "My husband helps me collect my salary, and he gives me three dollars a month for household expenses."

As soon as these words were spoken, all the girls gasped, and even Chen Yun felt numb.

"Qin Huairu, you go to work, he gets paid, and he only gives you three dollars?"

"Girl, listen to my advice. You have to collect your salary yourself. I can only give your man five dollars a month at most."

The women tried to persuade her, but Qin Huairu still shook her head and insisted on letting Li Zhiguo collect the salary.

Suddenly, Chen Yun asked the key question, "Qin Huairu, does your man have any advantages?"

Sister Hua was not afraid of trouble. "Is Li Zhiguo particularly troublesome?"

Qin Huairu listened for a while before she understood. She blushed and whispered, "It's quite troublesome. Sometimes they won't let you go even in broad daylight."

The three girls looked at each other and sighed for a long while, "Qin Huairu, at least you are not at a disadvantage."

When Qin Huairu finished eating and went to wash the dishes, Sister Hua gathered the sisters together and said, "Next time Li Zhiguo comes to the factory, we will find an excuse to take him to see the melon."

Chen Yun kept shaking her head beside her.

But after Li Zhiguo left the steel mill, he felt relaxed all over.

He also rode away with the bicycle and returned to the yard, where he saw Yan Bugui fiddling with the flowers and plants again.

"Morning, Uncle!"

"Li Zhiguo, why are you back at this time?" Yan Bugui widened his eyes.

"I'll come back to get something."

Li Zhiguo went to the backyard and picked up the fishing rod.

This left the aunties in the yard stunned.

Jia Zhang muttered in a sarcastic tone: "You don't even know how to work properly every day. How is this better than my Dongxu?"

At this time, Yan Bugui was studying a bicycle. When he saw Li Zhiguo coming back with a fishing rod, he was completely stunned.

"What are you doing with your fishing rod?"

"Of course it's fishing. Uncle, I'm leaving first."

Li Zhiguo ran away quickly. Anyway, he would find out what happened when the people at the steel mill got off work.

"No, why aren't you at work?"

Yan Bugui wanted to ask a few more questions, but the man had already left on his bike.

Li Zhiguo came to the moat and found a suitable location.

……

Steel rolling mill, seven workshops, plus canteen, office building, warehouse, fleet, security department, etc.

They were all chatting about gossip, all related to the Siheyuan.

First, the chef He Daqing and the widow failed to escape.

The second is Li Zhiguo, a fitter in the second workshop.

"Jia Dongxu, you harmed Qin Huairu."

"How did you fall into Li Zhiguo's trap? How did your partner get robbed?"

"Jia Dongxu, when is your next blind date..."

The male workers kept asking Jia Dongxu all kinds of questions, and he almost became autistic.

After get off work, Qin Huairu packed up her workstation and hurried to leave.

Chen Yun thought for a moment and said, "Qin Huairu, we told you before that you should go talk to your man. Three dollars a month is too little."

"Well! Then I'll let him take one more dollar. Master, I won't say any more to you. I have to hurry back to cook."

Qin Huairu left in a hurry.

"What a sin!" Chen Yun shook her head. This disciple was just stupid.

Qin Huairu followed the workers out of the factory and met Jia Dongxu, Xu Damao, and Sha Zhu as soon as she arrived in the alley.

"Sister Qin, didn't Li Zhiguo leave the bicycle to you?"

Sha Zhu has too much resentment towards Li Zhiguo.

"I don't know how to ride. It's just a few steps." Qin Huairu waved her hand indifferently.

"Sister Qin, why does Li Zhiguo need a bicycle when he is not at work? You should ask him to give it to you." Xu Damao took the opportunity to provoke her.

Even Jia Dongxu spoke up, "Qin Huairu, you really can't spoil Li Zhiguo. You have to see his true face clearly."

Qin Huairu didn't want to hear anything and left in a hurry.

"Sister Qin, why are you walking so fast?"

Xu Damao hurried to follow.

"I have to go back and cook. I left in a hurry this morning and haven't washed my clothes yet."

Qin Huairu's words shocked the three single men.

Sha Zhu looked up to the sky and sighed. Xu Damao regretted it so much that he almost vomited blood.

Jia Dongxu ran back to the house, pulled the quilt over him and started crying.

"Dongxu, what's wrong with you?" Jia Zhang hurried over to show concern.

"Mom, I'd better marry Qin Huairu. As long as she is willing to divorce, I still want her." Jia Dongxu said aggrievedly.

"Stupid, what's so good about Qin Huairu? She will only live a hard life if she marries that bad guy Li Zhiguo.

Li Zhiguo didn’t work properly this morning and went out with his fishing rod…”

Jia Zhang started to scold her son, thinking that he was possessed by a demon.

"Mom, Qin Huairu went to the steel mill to replace Li Zhiguo."

Jia Dongxu's words made me stand there in a daze.

"Qin Huairu went to work at the steel rolling mill?" Jia Zhang was stunned. What was going on?

"Oh my god, now Qin Huairu is working to support Li Zhiguo. It was said that Li Zhiguo was ill, Qin Huairu must have been deceived.

When Li Zhiguo went to collect Qin Huairu's monthly salary, he would give her three yuan for food expenses."

Jia Dongxu felt sad when talking about this.

"Oh my, how can a person behave like this? This is too immoral."

Even someone like Jia Zhang couldn't help but start cursing.

"Mom, Qin Huairu hasn't been married for long. I'm trying to steal her away. Do you think it's okay?"

Jia Dongxu couldn't stop these thoughts from coming out.

"Dongxu, just give up on this idea.

Don't think about Qin Huairu anymore. She is not a virgin anymore. Our Jia family cannot afford to lose her."

Although Jia Zhang thought that Qin Huairu could work and earn money, she was already Li Zhiguo's woman.

"Mom, I don't care. I just want Qin Huairu."

Jia Zhang pulled the quilt over her head and started crying again.

"Cry, you'll feel better after crying. Tomorrow, Mom will find a matchmaker to ask around."

Jia Zhang also felt uncomfortable.

When the person who worked at the steel mill came back to the yard and told the shocking gossip, the residents were furious.

"Li Zhiguo has corrupted the atmosphere in the courtyard. First he intercepted the money, then he cheated on his wife. If he continues like this, there will definitely be people who will follow his example."

An auntie was worried and asked her husband not to do this.

"Maybe he has been corrupted. Jia Dongxu went on another blind date yesterday, and my Guangqi tipped off Xu Damao. I wonder if Xu Damao wanted to steal the show."

The second aunt directly exposed Xu Damao, which made Jia Zhang, who had just come over, feel like she was struck by lightning.

"The people in the courtyard can't all catch me, the old Jia family, and bully me."

Jia Zhang was afraid. If it happened again, her son would probably be unable to bear it.

"The source of this is Li Zhiguo. It's Qin Huairu who is suffering. I just went to see her and she was still cooking at home."

"Isn't that Li Zhiguo? Oh, he actually caught a big fish."

A resident screamed and everyone looked over quickly.

Li Zhiguo was seen pushing a bicycle with a shorter fishing rod tied to it and a big fish hanging on the handlebars.

"Li Zhiguo, where did you catch this fish?"

Yan Bugui jumped up.

"I even caught a duck in the moat outside Dongzhimen."

After hearing what he said, everyone saw a big hemp duck tied to the back seat of the bicycle.

"Oh my god, you are so lucky!"

Yan Bugui's eyes turned red. His salary was low, so he wanted to figure out something to supplement his family income.

As a result, Li Zhiguo only went out for one day and caught both fish and ducks.

"Well, I have to go back. I haven't had dinner yet."

Li Zhiguo said this, but he walked back slowly, after a while.

Everyone paid attention to the big fish and ignored the small fish weighing half a pound hanging on the handlebars. This was his catch for the day.

He almost got nothing. As for the big fish and duck, he took them from the reward supermarket.

"Brother, you're back."

Qin Huairu had already prepared the meal and was just about to come out with a basin to wash clothes.

"Wow, what a big fish!"

“And there are ducks!”

Li Zhiguo started to show off. Since he didn't have enough luck, he used cheats to make up for it.

"Huai Ru, come and stew the fish. Keep the duck for laying eggs."

"Hey! I'll grab some pickled cabbage and stew the pickled fish. You can also drink the soup. I'll also give you some crispy peanuts. You can have a good drink tonight."

Qin Huairu was happy, but she quickly took out a chair and let her man rest first.

Then she went to process the fish.

Many residents in the courtyard came over to watch the fun.

Seeing Li Zhiguo leaning on the chair and Qin Huairu actually killing fish, they couldn't help but shake their heads.

"How can Li Zhiguo be so lucky? But Qin Huairu can finally have some meat."

"You're probably overthinking it. For someone like Li Zhiguo, it's good enough that he can give people some fish soup."

"Let's go fishing sometime. The duck is still alive and can lay eggs."

Xu Damao was already holding the bowl of rice, but when he saw Qin Huairu killing the fish, the food in the bowl suddenly lost its flavor.

Qin Huairu prepared the fish and took it to the kitchen to stew it. The residents in the yard also left with sighs.

"Brother, the peanuts are ready. Drink them first. The fish still needs to be stewed for a while."

Qin Huairu came over with peanuts, and also brought a wine bottle and a cup.

"Well, the doctor said I should drink less to protect my stomach."

Li Zhiguo nodded, "Let's boil some more hot water later and take a bath together to avoid the fishy smell on our bodies."

Qin Huairu nodded, looking shy, and went back to the kitchen to work.
"Brother, the fish is ready."

Qin Huairu brought a large bowl to the table, which contained pickled fish, and it looked appetizing.

"Okay, let's try to finish them all."

Li Zhiguo took a piece of fish first, took a bite and found it tasted very good.

Seeing that there was a lot of fish meat, Qin Huairu couldn't help but eat as well.

"Brother, you are really capable. You caught such a big fish."

"No, you didn't see the scene. As soon as the fish bit the hook, I knew I had caught a big catch..."

Li Zhiguo boasted a lot, but the truth was that he finally caught a small fish, but it fell onto the ice when he pulled it.

Qin Huairu looked at her man with admiration and thought he was perfect in every way.

"Huai Ru, let's go to your house to hold a banquet this weekend. I'll get it ready on Saturday, and we'll rush back to the village when you get off work."

Li Zhiguo wanted to save face in the Qin family's village.

"Okay! Don't waste it."

Qin Huairu still felt sorry for the money. She was married and already a member of the Li family.

"I'll take care of it, don't worry about it!"

Li Zhiguo put on airs and there could only be one voice in the family, and that was his.

After a long while, the fish in the basin was not finished, but it didn’t matter, there was no need to worry about it going bad in the winter.

The next morning, Qin Huairu woke up at dawn.

After she had breakfast, she warmed the extra portion in the pot, and also prepared hot water for washing her face and drinking water.

Then I went to work happily.

(End of this chapter)