Chapter 446: Qin Huairu Taken Away

Really useless! They simply wasted Liu Haizhong's son's status; if it were me, this old woman, no matter what I say, I'd have to make Shazhu spit out the house.

Because I didn't see the big show of Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu brothers angrily beating Shazhu.

Jia Zhangshi felt deeply lost in her heart.

After returning to the Jia Family, she then started cursing Qin Huairu while greeting the eight generations of ancestors of Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu; after cursing the two Liu brothers, she began greeting Shazhu's family.

She put a hat on Shazhu's head accusing him of having money but not lending it to their Jia Family.

She insisted on dragging Qin Huairu along to confront Shazhu for an explanation, asking why Shazhu had money to buy Er Da Ma's house but told the Jia Family widows he had no money and wouldn't lend the house to the Jia Family, bluntly saying this was Shazhu's contempt for the Jia Family widows, looking down on them.

Qin Huairu glanced at Jia Zhangshi and ignored her suggestion.

She is a widow.

But she is not a fool.

If she really followed Jia Zhangshi's advice and went to Shazhu's door to demand justice, in the end the only thing she could lose would be her face, Qin Huairu's face.

The money is Shazhu's own earnings.

It has nothing to do with the Jia Family, not a single cent.

Want to lend it to you.

Then lend it to you.

Don't want to lend it to you.

Then don't lend it to you.

Nobody can say Shazhu is wrong.

Rather than idly chattering here, it's better to think about how the Jia Family will handle things going forward, the house matter needs to be resolved, and Qin Huairu's crisis also needs to be dealt with.

Compared to the Jia Family's house.

Qin Huairu is more worried about the latter.

Liu Haizhong is Qin Huairu's cautionary tale; the official-obsessed was taken away, and within three hours all evidence was solidified, and then the outcome was that he would get to eat free meals for twenty years.

Qin Huairu, as an insider, knows her own family's affairs.

Back when she served as the head of the Mistake-Correction and Rectification Group, her heart inexplicably felt elated, thinking she could soar to great heights; relying on that title, she did something that now seems like a mistake.

She racked her brains thinking about those past events.

The more she thought,

the worse her mood became.

the worse her complexion looked.

Some things simply cannot withstand any scrutiny; although Qin Huairu never committed a monstrous evil, she did after all do something that harmed the Yagangchang workers.

This is a fact.

It cannot be questioned by anyone.

Moreover, it points to Qin Huairu's guilt.

She thought for over ten minutes.

She simply couldn't think of a reasonable solution; unconsciously she sat up straight, her gaze unintentionally drifting through the glass to the outside, and what met her eyes was indeed a scene Qin Huairu neither wanted nor liked to see: several Security Section staff walking toward where the Jia Family is, followed by some onlookers.

Having Liu Haizhong's cautionary tale before her,

Qin Huairu's inner panic instantly intensified to the extreme.

Her whole person instantly became like a deflated balloon, listless, her face showing endless anguish, and she muttered softly words like 'it's over'.

Jia Zhangshi, sitting with her back to the glass, not seeing the Security Section heading toward the Jia Family, thought Qin Huairu was cursing the diagonally opposite Shazhu, and following Qin Huairu's words, she began to angrily curse.

He deserves to die; we're all residents of the same compound, he obviously has money but insists he doesn't—this is cold-blooded. This old woman will go out tomorrow to spread his name, letting everyone know Shazhu is a heartless rich scoundrel who won't lend money to our Jia Family—bah!

Just as her words fell,

The Jia Family's door was kicked open.

Jia Zhangshi turned her head and started cursing.

But before the foul words could even finish turning in her mouth, the sight of Security Section staff holding weapons flashed into her view.

The harsh reality forced Jia Zhangshi to swallow those cursing words without hesitation; thinking of how Liu Haizhong was taken by them and sentenced to twenty years in prison, Jia Zhangshi was so frightened she almost wet herself, and if Qin Huairu ended up like Liu Haizhong with a twenty-year prison sentence, the Jia Family would be scattered.

Jia Zhangshi's beloved grandson Bangeng, even if he returned, would have nowhere to live, let alone a job.

No house.

No income.

How could Bangeng dare to kick a widow and marry a young maiden?

For the Jia Family.

Jia Zhangshi also had to steel herself to say a few words.

But the words were on her lips.

The head of the Security Section had already waved his hand, directing his two subordinates to take Qin Huairu out of the Jia Family; by the time Jia Zhangshi managed to shout, the Security Section staff had already taken Qin Huairu out of the Siheyuan.

Looking at the Jia Family in utter disarray.

Thinking again about what the Jia Family will have or lack in the future.

Jia Zhangshi truly felt sorrow rise from her heart.

She let out a loud wail from her mouth.

Heaven above, how can I live like this? The house is gone, my daughter-in-law has been taken away by the Security Section again—who can this old woman rely on? How will Bangeng ever marry in the future? How can I explain this to Dong Xu?

A bleak, miserable sound.

Flying out from inside the Jia Family house.

It drifted into the neighbors' ears within the courtyard, followed by the sound of their whispered discussions; they had no intention of avoiding Jia Zhangshi, saying whatever they thought.

Formerly because.

Today's result.

If it weren't for Jia Zhangshi and Qin Huairu causing trouble, the neighbors wouldn't have become so hostile toward the Jia family; they would all have been quite happy to see the Jia family meet misfortune.

Kicking someone when they're down is nothing surprising.

"Master He." Old Wang from the front courtyard, hearing the commotion, Shazhu who came out of his own house asked, "Qin Huairu has been taken away."

As expected.

We'll have to pay for those past mistakes, no matter what.

Shazhu replied.

"I saw it."

"Master He, Liu Haizhong got twenty years, and now Qin Huairu has been taken away—will she also get a twenty-year free meal?"

"Hard to say." Shazhu gave an ambiguous answer: "It depends on what Qin Huairu did initially and how serious the consequences are; we have to trust Factory Director Yang, trust Yagangchang."

"I estimate Qin Huairu won't get twenty years; maybe seven or eight years."

"Liu Haizhong got twenty years, and if Qin Huairu is locked up for another seven or eight years, their positions will be vacant."

The neighbors present.

They obviously became interested.

As many young men and women from the countryside kept returning to the city, the already tight job positions became even more scarce, with many wolves competing for little meat.

Even a street sweeper position has seventy or eighty young men and women vying for it.

Yagangchang.

A ten-thousand-worker factory.

In an era that valued the iron rice bowl.

Its allure is truly not ordinary.

More than twenty youths in the courtyard with nothing to do, idling all day, the neighbors all saw it; if they can't find work, these people will become drifters, how could they then ask a matchmaker to arrange marriage?

Thus.

The arrest of Liu Haizhong and Qin Huairu was, for them, a rare piece of good fortune.