Chapter 294

Yu Li steered the conversation toward Yu Haitang.

Entries: Yu Li (person?), Yu Haitang (person). Not in glossary. Need to translate? According to rules: person's name -> pinyin. So Yu Li -> Yu Li? Actually surname Yu given name Li. So pinyin: Yu Li. Yu Haitang -> Yu Haitang? Actually Haitang is Haitang. So Yu Haitang. We'll need to add to glossary.

Shazhu then remembered.

Shazhu is in the glossary, mapped to Shazhu.

He also has a sister-in-law who is a beautiful announcer, dubbed the factory belle by countless young workers at the steel plant.

Entries: Yagangchang (in the glossary). Beautiful announcer (not a name). Sister-in-law (not a name). No others.

In the previous life.

No.

Because Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu conspired against Shazhu, his relationship with Yushui became very strained.

Entries: Yi Zhonghai (glossary), Qin Huairu (glossary), Shazhu, Yushui (glossary).

After graduating from high school.

No.

He Yushui, who was supposed to work at the steel plant, went to the textile mill. Yu Haitang, who went to the textile mill, became the steel plant's announcer and even had a fateful entanglement with Xu Dameng.

Entries: Yagangchang. He Yushui (glossary). Textile mill (not a name). Yu Haitang (to be added). Yagangchang again. Announcer (not a name). Xu Dameng (the name's pinyin).

In this life.

After graduating from high school.

No.

After graduating from high school.

No.

He Yushui studied at the public security academy.

Entries: He Yushui (glossary). Public security academy (not a name).

After graduation.

No.

There were two job options: either work in the steel plant's security section, or work at the Red Star Police Station.

Entries: Yagangchang. Security Section (glossary). Red Star Police Station (glossary).

There was no case of swapping jobs with Yu Haitang to avoid the beasts inside the compound.

Entries: Yu Haitang (to be added). Inside the compound (not a name). Beasts (not a name).

"Is Haitang still okay?"

Entity: Haitang (referring to person? Actually it's a nickname for Yu Haitang? Could be just her given name? But it's a name-like reference. Since it's a person's name (her given name), we should treat as part of her name? The rule: person's actual name (including nickname habitually used as that person's name) -> pinyin. Here Haitang is likely her given name (or nickname). Since we already have Yu Haitang as full name, Haitang alone is her given name, but still a personal name. So we should translate as Haitang (pinyin). Not translate meaning. So we will add Haitang to glossary.

"Haven't you seen her at the steel plant?"

Entries: Yagangchang.

According to Yu Li's opinion.

Entries: Yu Li (to be added).

Yu Haitang still followed the same path as in her previous life.

Entries: Yu Haitang.

Working at the steel plant.

Entries: Yagangchang.

"Announcer?"

No.

"You're her brother-in-law and yet you don't care about this sister-in-law of yours; Haitang has been working as an announcer in the steel plant's publicity section for almost half a year."

Entries: Brother-in-law (not a name). Sister-in-law (not a name). Haitang (already added). Yagangchang. Publicity section (not a name). Announcer (not a name).

History is repeating itself.

No.

Even though Shazhu eased his sibling relationship with Yushui, Yu Haitang still followed her previous life's fate and became the steel plant's beautiful announcer.

Entities: Silly Pillar (Shazhu), Rain Water (Yushui), Yu Haitang (Yu Haitang), Steel Rolling Mill (Yagangchang).

No wonder he recently felt that from time to time, a familiar-sounding voice could be heard coming from the loudspeaker above the steel plant.

Entries: Yagangchang.

Thus: Thus: Mahua and the fat guy were shouting about some beautiful announcer.

Entries: Thus: Thus: Mahua (glossary). Pangzi (the nickname meaning 'the fat man', treated as a name: pinyin Pangzi). We'll add to glossary.

It turns out to be Yu Haitang.

Entities: Yu Haitang (Yu Haitang).

It's just unknown whether Yu Haitang will have an emotional entanglement with Xu Dameng.

Entries: Yu Haitang. Xu Dameng (the name's pinyin).

According to Xu Dameng's previous statement, he would leave with Lou Xiaoe; if he truly became single, he would marry Yu Haitang.

Entries: Xu Dameng. Lou Xiaoe (glossary). Yu Haitang.

He himself is Xu Dameng's brother-in-law.

Entries: Xu Dameng.

He constantly forces Bie Sun to call him brother-in-law.

Entities: Bie Sun (Bie Sun) – possibly a nickname or a person's name with surname Bie and given name Sun.

A smile appeared on Shazhu's face.

Entries: Shazhu.

……

No.

An Jiahe.

Entries: An Jiahe (glossary).

After listening to Shazhu's account.

Entries: Shazhu.

Only then did they realize that the courtyard actually had a routine of an unshakable father beating his son, and the neighbors in the courtyard had grown accustomed to it.

Entries: Siheyuan (glossary). Inside the courtyard (not a name). Neighbors (not a name).

He and Liu Haizhong developed a rapport.

Entries: Liu Haizhong (glossary).

A desire arose to discuss things with Liu Haizhong.

Entries: Liu Haizhong.

The content is about fighting.

No.

An Jiahe felt that Liu Haizhong's daily habit of beating his two sons was similar to his own daily habit of violently beating his wife.

Entries: An Jiahe. Liu Haizhong.

In a certain sense, it is.

No.

They are both preoccupied with some people's wrongful behavior.

No.

They are providing assistance to those people.

No.

The two can be considered the same type of person.

No.

The difference lies in one disciplining his son and the other disciplining his wife.

No.

Although the ones being disciplined are different.

No.

But their starting point is the same.

No.

He hesitated for a moment.

No.

He turned his head and went back inside.

No.

Now is not the time to discuss disciplinary experiences with Liu Haizhong.

Entries: Liu Haizhong.

An Jiahe needs to find a livelihood at the lake mouth.

Entries: An Jiahe. Lake mouth (not a name).

He is unfamiliar with the place and people.

No.

He stayed in the mental hospital for two more months.

Entries: Mental hospital (not a name).

This livelihood.

No.

It's really not easy to find.

No.

……

No.

The Jia family.

Entries: Jia Family (glossary).

Jia Zhangshi, who hurriedly trotted back from the central courtyard.

Entries: Zhong Yuan (glossary). Jia Zhangshi (glossary).

After entering.

【118】 He rushed straight to the inner room where Qin Huairu was.

He ran straight to the inner room where Qin Huiru was.

Entries: Qin Huairu (glossary).

Seeing Qin Huairu lying stiffly on the bed, her eyes gazing dreamily at the ceiling, he realized she had something on her mind.

Entries: Qin Huairu.

Perhaps it's because we are both widows.

It's also possible that Jia Zhangshi, seeing Qin Huairu, was reminded of her own past desire to remarry, but due to certain reasons she had to remain widowed, and a faint sympathy stirred in her heart.

Who made them both widows of the Jia family?

Back then, it was for her son Dong Xu.

Now it's for her grandson Bangeng.

Jia Zhangshi, who knows what's more important, can only apologize to Qin Huairu.

Who made you Bangeng's mother, my daughter-in-law?

"Huairu."

Qin Huairu didn't speak, looking dazed as if she hadn't heard Jia Zhangshi's voice.

Jia Zhangshi moved closer to Qin Huairu, saw her eyes red, and guessed that in her absence Qin Huairu had been crying.

"Mom knows you're unhappy, Mom also knows you hate Mom, you hate our Jia family; come to think of it, don't I hate too?"

Jia Zhangshi played the emotion card.

The Jia family cannot do without Qin Huairu.

"What can you do even if you hate more? Back then I couldn't abandon Dong Xu and remarry; now you also can't abandon Bangeng and Xiao Dang. As a woman, children are flesh from your own body; without them they suffer, with them you never know if others will like your children—palm and back are both flesh, being in the middle is troublesome."

The tone shifted.

She gave Qin Huairu an apology.

Whether sincere or not.

Or feigned.

At least Jia Zhangshi apologized.

A sudden scene.

It made Qin Huairu's vacant stare at the ceiling shift slightly onto Jia Zhangshi.

"Then and now, back then Mom worried you'd remarry; regardless of Mom, the Jia family relied on you, Qin Huairu, to hold it together. If you remarried, the Jia family would scatter. Mom has realized you're a dutiful daughter-in-law, that Dong Xu lacks fortune. Mom agrees to your remarriage, as long as they don't dislike Bangeng, Xiao Dang, and Huaihua, and are willing to take you—you bring the children and marry over, and as your mother-in-law I have no complaints."

Qin Huairu did not become overjoyed at Jia Zhangshi's suggestion to remarry; instead her heart grew even more numb, with a hint of resentment.

Her reputation stank all over the street.

You want me to remarry.

Whom would I remarry to?

The job at the steel mill might not be kept.

You tell me to take Bangeng and them to look for meal tickets.

All good things are thanks to you, Jia Zhangshi!

All bad things are my fault, Qin Huairu.

Just because you're thick‑skinned?

"Huairu, this time Mom is telling the truth. The newly arrived An Jiahe is gentle and weak, clearly a refined person, educated. If he doesn't mind that you're a widow with three children, go marry him. Mom sees that An Jiahe has no wife; marrying him you won't suffer loss, and Bangeng and the others won't suffer either."

An Jiahe.

That An Jiahe who said Qin Huairu is a good person!

Tears.

Along Qin Huairu's cheek.

They streamed down.

"Huairu, what's wrong? Don't you believe Mom? I swear by the light bulb, if I stop you from remarrying An Jiahe, Mom will die badly. Anyway, Mom came back to see you because there's something to do. That An Jiahe clearly isn't a house‑person; he wants dumplings but can't mix the filling or wrap the skins. He just arrived, and Mom thought, as neighbors, we should help each other out."

Qin Huairu's gaze.

It fell on Jia Zhangshi like a knife.

Frightened, Jia Zhangshi swallowed the rest of what she wanted to say.

"Huairu, why are you looking at me like that?"

In her words.

With a hint of guilt.

"Not going; if you want to go, you go yourself."

"Huairu, Mom knows what you're thinking; you surely think Mom is just craving their dumplings, but you're wrong—this time Mom really wants to match you two up. You're a good child, An Jiahe is also a good child; he's a few years older than you and has no wife, so marrying you isn't exactly abnormal, is it?"

Qin Huairu covered her ears with a pillow.

She looked determined not to hear Jia Zhangshi's complaints.

Seeing this, Jia Zhangshi...

... also gave up the idea of having Qin Huairu help.

And she didn't want to miss helping An Jiahe make dumplings.

She thought it over.

She comforted Qin Huairu with a sentence.

"Huairu, since you're feeling unwell, stay at home; Mom will go to An Jiahe's to help, and when she's done she'll come back and cook for you—tell Mom what you want to eat."

In order to enjoy An Jiahe's benefits.

Jia Zhangshi lowered her stance and kindly worked on Qin Huairu's thoughts.

Having said that.

She turned and left the Jia family.

She walked toward the central courtyard.

Arriving at the former Jia residence and looking through the glass, Jia Zhangshi's lungs instantly exploded with rage.

A moment of carelessness.

He actually fell into Yan Fugui's scheme.

Jia Zhangshi went to the rear courtyard to find Qin Huairu to come to An Jiahe's house to make dumplings; during that opportunity, Yan Fugui and his wife somehow heard the news, the couple, volunteering themselves, kicked An Jiahe's door, eagerly offering to help An Jiahe make dumplings.

Damn it.

Damn, this is taking food from the tiger's mouth.

The dough has a fixed amount.

The meat has a fixed quantity.

But the number of helpers increased, invisibly taking away the profit that originally belonged to the Jia family.

Jia Zhangshi kept telling An Jiahe that she wanted nothing, not even dumplings, but if An Jiahe presumptuously brought dumplings to her door...

Too many dumplings.

There is a way to send the extra.

Too few dumplings.

There is an amount to give for the shortage.

Yan Fugui is a famous abacus expert in the Siheyuan; when has he ever done a loss-making deal?

Jia Zhangshi worries even more that Yan Fugui and his wife, while she's away, will spill some truths, such as what kind of person Qin Huairu is, what sort of person she Jia Zhangshi is, what happened to Bangeng and Xiao Dang, why Yi Zhonghai died, and so on.

An Jiahe looks not bad.

Also good for the Jia family.

This is based on the premise that outsiders don't know the Jia family's situation.

Damn, if they knew the truth, they would definitely keep their distance from the Jia family.

Nobody would associate with someone whose reputation is terrible and known everywhere.

Jia Zhangshi's plan to match Qin Huairu with An Jiahe and turn An Jiahe into the Jia family's ox and horse faces the danger of falling through.

This is intolerable.

Jia Zhangshi stepped through the door.

She greeted the busy Yan Fugui couple who were making dumplings.

"Old Yan couple has arrived; hearing the sound at the gate, I knew you two came to Jiahe's house to help. Jiahe, Second Uncle is a teacher at Red Star Elementary School; they are well-known enthusiastic neighbors in our Siheyuan; when something happens, you can count on them."