The yard on this side of Mao'er Hutong used to use padlocks, but Chu Xiangqian didn't think it was convenient, so he had already changed to an old-fashioned cast iron door lock.

Close the door and open it from the outside with a key, so you don't have to run out and open the door every time you lock the door.

Chu Xiangqian drank a lot of wine because he was fighting with the dwarves, so he simply pretended to be asleep, so as not to let the woman get verbose and ask questions.

Qin Huairu entered the back room, saw him sleeping, and after thinking about it, he hurriedly went to the kitchen.

Seeing that there were a few unwashed dishes in the pot, he immediately knew that Chu Xiangqian had eaten dinner.

Simply light the fire and wash the dishes, and then boil the water to wash.

Only then did he quietly go up to the pit, lying on Chu Xiangqian's chest, hugging the man tightly.

Chu Xiangqian could obviously feel this woman's attachment to him, and secretly shook his head, thinking in his heart that this long-term love was really not something to talk about casually.

At least I can't do it now, so I don't want this woman casually.

Thinking about the fact that there are still 5 years before the storm comes, it is not difficult to have such a long time to prepare and avoid trouble.

To put it bluntly, the really powerful period is the first year or two.

Of course, this is the capital, and the local disturbance has been going on for many years before it slowly calms down.

And as long as you get closer to Deputy Director Li, the neighborhood committee, and the street, it is very simple to keep a few people.

As for Chu Xiangqian himself, in the first year or two, he must have stayed on Hong Kong Island or abroad honestly.

Pretending to be woken up by Qin Huairu, Chu Xiangqian angrily slapped her behind her a few times, and then began to check her basic skills.

After playing and singing, not to mention, at least Chu Xiangqian felt that this woman was very compatible with him.

After everything calmed down, both of them couldn't sleep, and after washing, they couldn't help but talk about the courtyard.

What Chu Xiangqian didn't expect was that Xu Damao's grandson was really a father, not to mention, that little rural daughter-in-law really gave birth to a big fat boy for him.

Of course, only Chu Xiangqian was convinced that this kid was definitely not Xu Damao's.

But as long as the woman doesn't say it, Xu Damao will only think that the little doll is his son in the future.

If Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e divorce and marry that woman again, this secret should be able to be hidden for a lifetime.

Chu Xiangqian secretly said No wonder Lou Xiao'e has been living with her parents recently, it seems that the Lou family has already known about Xu Damao's illegitimate children outside.

The problem now is to make a fuss and then make Xu Damao pay the price.

It's better to break up peacefully, so as not to kill Xu Damao, but he will talk nonsense everywhere, saying that Lou Xiao'e can't give birth to children.

Chu Xiangqian would like to see the two divorce, anyway, Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e have long been separated, Lou Xiao'e has not even returned to live in the courtyard in the past few months, but has been living in the small courtyard on Beach Street.

And if Lou Xiao'e is really divorced, she may be able to be a sister with Qin Huairu in the future.

It's just that what no one realizes is that the news that Qin Huairu said was more than a month ago.

The woman Xu Damao was looking for gave birth to a child and was out of confinement, and she became restless after getting a job.

Anyway, the child in the belly is not Xu Damao's, and he naturally has no real feelings for Xu Damao.

To put it bluntly, he just wanted to use Xu Damao to enter the city and eat commercial grain.

And this woman knows that Xu Damao is not a good person, and she has long heard that when he was showing movies in the countryside, he provoked some little daughters-in-law and pretty widows.

Even she herself was deceived by Xu Damao, since this is the case, it is basically impossible for her to follow Xu Damao with all her heart.

After meeting a man in the city who is longer than Xu Damao and has better family conditions, and is faintly interesting to herself, this woman immediately moved other thoughts.

Of course, if you can marry someone else, it is not impossible to throw the child to Xu Damao to raise.

It is regarded as returning the favor of the Xu family to help find a job, and Xu Damao's parents actually don't want their son to marry this woman.

First, I look down on rural people, and secondly, this woman has children with men unclear before she gets married, which shows that she is not an honest person.

If you marry into the door, there will be some kind of moth in the future, and you will attract bees and butterflies, and it will be light to be embarrassed.

So as soon as Xu Damao's parents heard that the woman said that the child was given to the Xu family, and there was no more relationship between the two parties, they just thought about it overnight, and the couple agreed to give the woman 200 yuan, and the two families would have nothing to do with each other in the future.

But this can be regarded as a pit for Xu Damao, I thought that I could have a wife and children to heat the kang head, but I didn't expect that the children were there, but the daughter-in-law ran away.

However, Xu Damao was persuaded by his parents, and probably knew that this woman was not a good match, and there was a high probability that she would not be at peace in the future, and the peaceful breakup was solved smoothly, but the Lou family was mad.

Since Xu Damao has a child with another woman, it means that Lou Xiao'e has a physical problem, otherwise she would not have been married for so long and would not have been able to conceive.

Even Lou Xiao'e herself felt that the problem was herself.

So even though they knew that Xu Damao had cheated, the Lou family still cared about their reputation in the end, and they didn't plan to retaliate against the Xu family.

There was even a moment when Lou's father and Lou's mother actually thought about simply being the boy who was born to Lou Xiao'e.

The two of them continued to live in such a confused way.

Fortunately, this idea was given up by Lou's father and Lou's mother within two days, and in the end, they could only think about sending Lou Xiao'e to the two brothers on Hong Kong Island.

And in Lou Xiao'e's heart, if she has to make do with a man to finish this life, why don't you live with Chu Qianqian?

Even if he is in his outer room, it is 10,000 times stronger than continuing to live with Xu Damao.

Not to mention Chu Xiangqian's ability, he is stronger than Xu Damao, and he is much more handsome and good-looking than Xu Damao.

No matter how you choose, you will choose Chu Xiangqian instead of Xu Damao.

The next day, Chu Xiangqian rode Chu Xiangqian and waited near Lou's house, at about 10 o'clock in the morning, and finally waited for Lou Xiao'e to show up.

As soon as she saw Chu Xiangqian, Lou Xiao'e almost screamed excitedly, but fortunately, she found an excuse to go out with her heart to her man.

Chu Xiangqian naturally followed slowly behind, and before he knew it, the two of them arrived at the small courtyard on Beach Street.

After entering one after the other, before closing the door, Lou Xiao'e threw herself into his arms excitedly, and then cried in a low voice.

Chu Xiangqian hurriedly comforted him, after Lou Xiao'e said what had happened recently.

Only then did he promise, "Okay, okay, I will definitely support you for the rest of my life." ”

With this promise, Lou Xiao'e's mood eased a lot, and then mentioned that her parents planned to send her to Hong Kong Island to join her eldest brother and second brother.

It's just that Lou Xiao'e is willing to let Chu Xiangqian go, and she is even more afraid that after she goes to Hong Kong Island, Chu Xiangqian doesn't know where she went at all.

This has been dragging on, wanting to wait for Chu Xiangqian to come back and let him decide whether he will stay in the capital or go to Hong Kong Island.

And for Chu Xiangqian, it's actually the same.

And in the past four or five years, it is actually safer to stay in the capital.

In addition, Lou's father and Lou's mother actually prefer to stay in the capital, otherwise, if he wants to leave, he would have been able to leave a long time ago, and he doesn't have to worry about having no money to live on Hong Kong Island.

To put it bluntly, when people are old and can stay in their homeland, few people are really willing to leave their homeland.

In the TV series, Lou's father was forced to a place where it would be impossible to leave if he didn't leave, so he left overnight, but this can be regarded as the leader who vouched for him before he was trapped.

It's just that it involves wives and children, as well as dozens of brothers and sisters, and sometimes it really doesn't care so much.

After Lou's father went to Hong Kong Island, he died in just a few years, which shows that this old man has a very strong sense of local love in his heart.

Of course, it is also possible that this old man has resentment in his heart, feeling that he is not sorry for the Celestial Empire, but in the end he was forced to leave.

This breath in my heart is not smooth, and my mood naturally can't get better.

And the older people are the most afraid to think too much.

Chu Xiangqian thought about it, but he still planned to leave Lou Xiao'e in the capital first, lest she and her parents go to Hong Kong Island in the future, maybe they would blame themselves for letting her family leave their hometown.

Only when they are forced to helpless can they help them leave, and the harvest will be grateful.

"In this way, I will give you 200 yuan as pocket money every month from now on. Then I will get you a hundred catties of white flour or rice, as well as all kinds of salted meat, dried fish, and some fresh meat and vegetables, and keep the white and fat you raise.

And you just need to serve me well, find friends to the rest of the time, and spend more time with your parents. No matter how bad it is, I'll find you an easier job to pass the time. ”

Lou Xiao'e is overjoyed, for a woman like her, who has no ambition and likes to sleep lazily and eat ready-made food when she is in the courtyard on weekdays, this day is the life she looks forward to the most.

If you find another maid to do the laundry and cook, it will be complete.

It's a pity that although there are still nannies and life secretaries, simple servants are basically gone.

And the more capitalists come from, the less dare they hire servants now, and only those who are big leaders can be equipped with nannies and life secretaries.

Of course, it is not an inflexible way, find a middle-aged woman who is widowed in the countryside, and let her come to the capital in the name of her relatives to join Lou Xiao'e.

I usually cook, clean, and clean, and give twenty or thirty yuan, saying that it is grocery shopping and other household expenses.

It's no longer an employment relationship, it's about doing the housework for the family.

If you give an extra ten or twenty yuan a month, it will be regarded as an employment fee, and this money is nominally money to buy vegetables, and if it is found out, it is corruption.

The hired relative did not dare to bite back.

It's a pity that Lou Xiao'e's family really can't find poor relatives who are so poor that they can't eat.

If you want to hire a maid, you have to think about it, but this doesn't prevent Lou Xiao'e from singing after she just received Chu Xiangqian's attention to herself.

After a chorus of you and me, Chu Xiangqian naturally had nothing to do, but Lou Xiao'e was directly tired.

I only drank a bowl of porridge for lunch, and went back to bed to catch up on sleep.

Seeing this, Chu Xiangqian shook his head helplessly, and secretly looked at it, it was really possible for him to develop Lou Xiao'e and Qin Huairu into sisters.

accompanied Lou Xiao'e on Beach Street for a day and a night, and the next morning, Chu Xiangqian rode a bicycle back to the courtyard first.

Then I found three uncles, saying that the chestnuts got 2,600 catties, and the other wild boars were sold directly to several units.

But to put it mildly, in the end, there are some pig's trotters and pig's tail.

The three uncles were overjoyed, and the whole yard actually had 19 households.

Now each family can get more than 100 catties of chestnuts, plus the rations they receive every month, they should not go hungry again for many months to come.

As for someone who wants to hide the chestnuts and wait until winter to take them out to avoid an accident, Chu Xiangqian doesn't care about it, and he can't care about it.

However, I said before that I could get 3,000 catties, and Chu Xiangqian was not verbose, "Let's get 2,600 catties first, and I'll get another one or two thousand catties in the second half of the year, so that the big guy's life can be more stable." ”

The three uncles nodded busily after listening, the lack of food in winter is the most difficult.

Then Chu Qianqian went out and took out more than a dozen bamboo baskets in an open space full of cement piers.

Loading 200 catties of chestnuts every month, soon the men in the yard transported these chestnuts back to the courtyard in batches and at different times, avoiding the attention of outsiders, and the big guys were relieved.

At this time, Chu Xiangqian's status in the courtyard is even higher.

In the evening, the three uncles came to the door together and gave Chu Xiangqian 1,300 yuan, which was considered a clear balance of money and goods.

The rest, naturally, is the second master and the third master who took out the antiques collected in the past two months.

It's just that I didn't expect that Uncle Yi would also take out a pair of jade jade bracelets.

Chu Xiangqian could see at a glance that this pair of jadeite was a jade species, and it should be a good thing from the old pit.

It's just that the better the things, the more Chu Xiangqian muttered in his heart, Yi Zhonghai was not from a wealthy background before, and the jewelry he took out in his hand knew what it was.

Yi Zhonghai is not stupid, seeing Chu Qianqian frowning, he can't guess what he is thinking.

said with a smile, "This thing is not mine, the old lady still wants to seek a future for the pillar in the end, and she is even more worried that after you transfer his father out of the capital to work, she will suddenly transfer the pillar away one day." ”

Only then did Chu Xiangqian, the second uncle, and the third master understand that this is to buy money for themselves.

Chu Xiangqian smiled, reached out and picked up the pair of bracelets on the table, and the sound of +19 gold coupons immediately sounded in his mind.

Only then did he decide that this pair of bracelets was an old object, and then he was about to say that he was not afraid that the stupid pillar would complain about the deaf old lady hindering his future in the future?

But when the words came to his lips, he suddenly reacted that Silly Zhu was actually not a person with great ambitions.

In other words, this guy is actually very sober in his heart, knowing that he is a chef, and it is his duty to cook well.

Otherwise, since he knows the big leader, not to mention promotion, at least he will be transferred out of the back kitchen and go to the management post.

But he still honestly cooks at the leader's house, not mentioning anything else.

And Silly Zhu is not small in his resentment towards his father now, let him go to Hong Kong Island to help He Daqing, this guy will probably not go.

Since this is the case, then let Silly Zhu continue to stay in the capital and cook for his master and wife.

As for the promotion of Silly Zhu, this guy has no problem being the kitchen squad leader, if he really makes him the logistics director, maybe something will happen.

Of course, it is not possible to be promoted, but it is okay to raise the salary level.

And as long as the stir-frying skills go up, the level of the kitchen master in the rolling mill should be able to rise to level five or four or something.

At that time, the salary should have been fifty or sixty.

For Silly Zhu, it was enough for him to stay in the cafeteria contentedly for the next ten years.

Chu Xiangqian put away the bracelet, took out the previous 1,300 yuan from his pocket, counted 60 yuan, and handed it to the first uncle.

(End of chapter)