ALL NOVEL Chapter 5
Qin Shouyi thought about it and felt that this was true.
This time he came to Sijiucheng to inquire about the family situation of his prospective son-in-law. He couldn't turn around and go back without knowing which direction the door opened.
Of course, although Qin Shouyi stopped, he no longer had hope for the marriage of the Jia family.
Because since the kind-hearted brother He dared to lead him to the compound where the Jia family was located and asked him to ask around in the surrounding courtyards, it meant that what he said was true and he was not afraid of you to check.
Qin Shouyi was so angry.
He wanted to turn around and leave, but he was a little unwilling.
Thinking of the brother He in front of him saying that he wanted to introduce his son to him.
Qin Shouyi half-heartedly followed He Daqing to the quadrangle in Hongxing Hutong, intending to inquire about the situation of the Jia family and take a look at the boy of this brother He.
The quadrangle where He Daqing lived was a large courtyard with three entrances. It was said that it was a Beile Mansion in the past. Later, during the Republic of China, it was bought by a businessman of a shoe factory.
Later, the city of Sijiu went through several wars and was not peaceful. The merchants could no longer do business and could only make a living by constantly selling their property. Even the properties in the courtyard were sold here and there. In the end, only the two main rooms in the backyard were left in the hands of the merchant's widow.
That's right.
The merchant's widow is the deaf old lady who lives in the backyard of the courtyard in the TV series. She is over 60 years old this year. She is an old lady with bound feet. Now she has signs of selective deafness and occupies the two best rooms in the courtyard.
He Daqing remembered that when he watched TV series in his previous life, many people said that the best house in the courtyard was the old He family, with a main room and an ear room in the middle courtyard.
In fact, this statement is wrong.
Just think about it and you will know that in the ancient forest gardens, the main rooms in the middle courtyard were used for meeting guests, and the houses in the backyard were the places for living.
You say that a reception room can be compared with two houses in the backyard?
Why did Yi Zhonghai and his wife take care of the deaf old lady and take the initiative to take care of her in her old age?
To put it bluntly, he had his eyes on the two main rooms in the backyard of the deaf old lady, which were the best houses in the courtyard.
As for whether the old lady had made straw sandals for the Eighth Route Army,
He Daqing didn't quite believe it.
Because the deaf old lady had been living a life of luxury since she was a child, and had never suffered from hardship, if you said that she had made cloth shoes for the Red Army and donated shoes and money to the shoe factory, there might be a little possibility.
But you want a rich lady to make straw sandals?
We won't make it so difficult.
The five-guarantee households in the TV series are, to put it bluntly, a kind of national policy, which originated from the"Outline of National Agricultural Development from 1956 to 1967".
The policy stipulates that the rural cooperatives in the middle and rural areas will uniformly take appropriate care of the lives of widows, widowers, orphans, and single members who lack labor and have no support in life, and ensure that they have food, clothing, fuel (fuel), education, and burial, so that they can rely on life, death, and burial.
Food, clothing, fuel, education, and burial are referred to as the five guarantees, and the families enjoying this policy are called five-guarantee households.
So if you equate the five-guarantee households with patriotic businessmen, martyrs' families, etc., it would be a joke.
In 1952, the quadrangle was almost full of people. There were four families in the front yard, six families in the middle yard, and eight families in the back yard, a total of 18 families, with a population of more than 80 people.
Most of these people were workers and their families of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill.
Because the regulations above required guarding against spies and facilitating personnel information management and ranking, three yard uncles were selected on the street to mediate conflicts between neighbors on weekdays and strictly investigate strangers and outsiders.
The third uncle in the front yard, Yan Fugui, was an elementary school teacher at the Red Star Primary School.
He was less than 40 years old and had three sons and a daughter.
The first uncle in the middle yard, Yi Zhonghai, was a fitter in the steel rolling mill.
He was currently at the sixth level and was over 40 years old.
He had no children.
The second uncle in the back yard, Liu Haizhong, was a fifth-level forger in the steel rolling mill.
He was just 40 years old and had three sons.
Because today was not Sunday.
So when He Daqing led Qin Shouyi into the quadrangle, he did not see the third uncle Yan Fugui watering flowers and washing cars.
Even in the yard, there were not many people, only a few women sitting in the yard chatting and working.
They were either making soles, knitting sweaters, mending clothes, pasting matchboxes, washing clothes, etc. Anyway, no one was idle.
Except for Jia Zhang, who was slightly fat.
This person could make soles for two months, which ordinary people could not compare with.
Just like in the TV series, Qin Huairu had endless clothes to wash, Jia Zhang also had endless soles, but she had never made a few pairs of shoes.
In He Daqing's memory.
Jia Zhang was also an old man in the courtyard. She had spent much more time in the courtyard than He Daqing, Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong and others.
Because Jia Zhang's husband used to be a servant in the house of the deaf old lady, and even the house where the Jia family lived now, the house certificate was in the hands of the deaf old lady. Later, when the old Jia died, the old lady saw that Jia Zhang was pitiful, so she let her live here and did not charge her rent.
This is the reason. That
’s why Jia Zhang was so submissive to the deaf old lady and didn’t dare to challenge her. Otherwise, with Jia Zhang’s arrogance and aggressiveness, she would n’t care about a powerless, lonely old lady.
"The Qing Dynasty is back!"
"I came back a little early today!"
"These are relatives coming!"
"…………"
Several middle-aged women who were sitting in the front yard basking in the sun, chatting, and busying themselves saw He Daqing leading Qin Shouyi into the yard and greeted him.
It must be said that his predecessor had a good relationship with people in the courtyard. When the neighbors in the courtyard saw him, they all greeted him.
"Sister Wang, Sister Lin, Sister Zhang, Sister Jia... what are you busy with?"
He Daqing heard the neighbors in the yard greeting him, and he responded politely one by one:"Hi, aren't there guests coming to my hometown, so I came back early."
But when he looked at Jia Zhang, he realized something was wrong.
Because when he greeted Jia Zhang, Jia Zhang seemed very shocked and frightened, her eyes flickered and she didn't dare to look him in the eye, as if she had done something wrong.
This made He Daqing feel something was wrong.
Thinking of the fact that his predecessor had told Yi Zhonghai yesterday that he would run away with the White Widow, let Yi Zhonghai take care of the two children, and said that he would leave money and food for the two children at home.
He Daqing instantly had a bad premonition in his heart.
"Could it be that Yi Zhonghai had colluded with the old widow in front of him to rob his own house?"...............................
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