Chapter 492

In the skit "You've Got Yourself Into Trouble", there is a line of dialogue.

Escaping requires funds.

Huaihua wants to leave the Jia family, go far away to a place where no one knows Jia Zhangshi, Qin Huairu, or the Jia family's ill reputation, and live the life she desires.

No money.

How to realize her idea.

At the moment she stepped into Bai Xu Restaurant, she suddenly had the idea of working there to earn a few years' money, then with money she could flee far away.

With money in hand, one does not panic.

She does not want to end up like Xiao Dang because of Bangeng.

Among Bangeng, Xiao Dang, and Huaihua.

Without a doubt.

Bangeng occupies the top position; even his full-blooded younger sister can be forced to marry someone she dislikes, let alone Huaihua, his half-sister sharing the same mother.

He will surely sell her out without mercy.

With some savings in hand, she finds things a bit easier to do.

Knowing that Bai Xu Restaurant is up to Shazhu, after Huaihua stated her purpose, she fixed her gaze on Shazhu and waited crisply for his reply.

Under Huaihua's gaze, Shazhu was somewhat startled, his mind a bit confused; he never expected Qin Huairu's daughter Huaihua to come to Bai Xu Restaurant to work.

Logically speaking.

The restaurant is hiring, and Huaihua also needs a job; both sides should be a natural match.

However, because Huaihua is the Jia family's daughter, the painful lessons from the previous life are still vivid in Shazhu's memory; thinking of how he was kicked out of the Jia family by Bangeng in his past life, Huaihua, speaking in a sarcastic tone, told Shazhu, "Since Shaba wants to help our Jia family, go all the way—let Shazhu die outside, not die an unlucky death in the Jia family."

On one hand, the emotional factors from the previous life are at work; Shazhu does not want to get overly entangled with the Jia family members, and while anyone can come to Bai Xu Restaurant, the Jia family members are the exception.

On the other hand, Huaihua is too young—only fifteen or sixteen—so if Shazhu kept her, it would be tantamount to giving others leverage over him.

Considering these two points, even if Huaihua spoke up, she would not be retained.

Shazhu does not want to invite trouble for himself.

In the previous life.

Clearly, it was Lou Xiaoe who put up the money to open the restaurant, but Qin Huairu insisted on inviting the beasts inside the compound to eat, standing at the door and greeting all the neighbors in the role of the host.

Facing Yan Fugui's inquiry.

He proudly stated a figure of three million.

This restaurant.

In the end, for some reason it took the Jia surname, all profits were taken by Shazhu to subsidize the Dayuan nursing home, resulting in a loss, and then he went to Lou Xiaoe asking for money.

Ironically, the good reputation was snatched by Qin Huairu, while those who ate Lou Xiaoe's food, lived in her house, drank her water, and spent her money—those beasts—were instead spreading Qin Huairu's good name for caring for the elderly and widowed.

The person who put up the money is Lou Xiaoe.

The one who benefited, however, is Qin Huairu.

Just thinking of such an outcome, Shazhu lost his good temper toward the Jia family; this is also why Huaihua, when negotiating with Shazhu, if it were Jia Zhangshi instead, she would surely have already gotten a big slap.

Shazhu cleared his throat and expressed his attitude to Huaihua.

"Huaihua, we are both neighbors of the same compound; I am one generation older than you, and my grudges with your Jia family have nothing to do with you. This restaurant is registered under the Yagangchang name; as for how many people to hire and when, I cannot tell you—I can only say that once the restaurant opens, it will definitely need staff. Although it's said that Bai Xu Restaurant is under my charge, I am merely a cook; the real decision-makers are those leaders of Yagangchang."

Huaihua felt a bit disappointed.

She is not stupid.

She heard the refusal in Shazhu's words.

She forced a bitter smile onto her face.

"Huaihua, even if this restaurant is up to me, He Yuzhu, you are only fifteen years old, far below the hiring age; I cannot let you in, or else people will stab me in the spine, saying I delayed your future, Huaihua. You know what kind of person your grandmother is, I know it too, and the neighbors know it even better. Rather than have your grandmother come knocking later, causing trouble and demanding money, we'd better keep things calm; feel free to come by anytime to play."

That amounted to driving her away.

Huaihua bit her lower lip with her teeth.

She turned her head and left Bai Xu.

She walked onto the main street.

Still reluctant, she turned back to glance at the busy Shazhu and them, a hint of envy in her eyes, paused in place for thirty-odd seconds, then strode off toward the distance.

A living person cannot be killed by holding in urine.

Cannot work at Bai Xu.

One can still go elsewhere to work.

Because she is young, and besides there really are no extra jobs these days, Huaihua also has no connections; after looking for work for three or four days, she found every door shut.

In the end, she took advantage of Shazhu going to report work to the big leader and handed the restaurant's renovation task to Thus: Thus: Mahua, mixing into the odd-job crew and working as a renovation laborer for a few days.

Because of Shazhu's plan for private rooms on the second floor, the restaurant, originally slated to open in five days, was forcibly pushed back by more than ten days.

Huaihua also earned a few days' wages from odd jobs; Jia Zhangshi inadvertently learned of this and then demanded money from Huaihua, making the two quite unhappy.

……

After experiencing a triple reversal by train, car, and donkey cart, Qin Huairu finally appeared before Bangeng.

This is after Bangeng was subjected to the honey trap by Shi Jiahong; after a year and a half, she saw her own son for the first time, eyes wide open, truly unable to believe that the person before her was her obedient son Bangeng.

Having left the siheyuan, Bangeng can be called a outstanding talent, a handsome young man in Jia Zhangshi's words.

Now standing before Qin Huairu, Bangeng looks almost like an elderly little old man; standing beside Qin Huairu, people could believe they are a married couple.

Over a year's time.

Bangeng has aged considerably.

Mainly due to excessive psychological pressure; before marrying Shi Jiahong, although he was also engaged in farming, he still had Liu Guangfu and Yan Jiekuang and their crowd around him.

When idle, they chatted, slapped their thighs, and talked nonsense.

After marrying Shi Jiahong, the burden of life immediately weighed on Bangeng's tender shoulders; later, because Yan Jiekuang and others left one after another, and there were no new townspeople coming here.

Loneliness.

Feeling of being abandoned.

The feeling of being unable to go back, a contradictory feeling.

Bangeng was crushed alive.

Looking at his own mother before him, like a wronged child, he flung himself into Qin Huairu's arms and burst into loud sobs.

Bangeng cried, heartbroken to the point of despair.

Qin Huairu also cried, weeping bitterly.

As a mother, how could she not feel sorry for her son, a young man in his twenties, who, just because he married the widow Shi Jiahong, had become worn out and looked like a little old man in his forties.

This feeling in his heart is unbearable.

It cannot be described in words.

The mother and son cried together into a mess.

Qin Huairu felt sorry for her son, Bangeng felt sorry for himself; the mother and son clung to each other, crying their hearts out.