Chapter 504: Bangeng, you need to learn to straddle two boats

Seeing Jia Zhangshi tell Huaihua to call Dang Xianghong over to eat roast chicken.

Qin Huairu, Bangeng, and Huaihua were instantly dumbfounded, standing there, you look at me, I look at you, not understanding why Jia Zhangshi would suddenly call Dang Xianghong over to eat roast chicken.

The He family and the Jia family basically have no interaction, and can even be described as enemies; as a distant relative of Shazhu, You Fengxia, could she come over to eat the Jia family's roast chicken?

Bangeng and Dang Xianghong had just met, they hadn't exchanged many words, and Dang Xianghong's impression of Bangeng wasn't very good.

Asking someone to come over to eat roast chicken is a bit hard to explain, and logically it doesn't make sense.

Shazhu's family also isn't lacking this roast chicken.

The one lacking roast chicken is the Jia family; even if Huaihua listens to Jia Zhangshi and goes to call Dang Xianghong, Huaihua will end up being turned away empty-handed.

In Qin Huairu's mind, Jia Zhangshi is just rushing to let Huaihua go find trouble.

Huaihua and Bangeng basically have the same idea.

The three women all have some resentment.

Jia Zhangshi, upon seeing the expressions on Qin Huairu and the other two's faces, knew that these three were typically clueless, or perhaps they didn't understand the hidden meaning behind her actions.

She let out a sigh.

She flicked Bangeng's hand reaching for the roast chicken with her chopsticks.

She began to explain to Bangeng, Qin Huairu, and Huaihua.

"You guys, can't you think more about the truth behind things? Do you think I don't know that our family doesn't associate with Shazhu's family? Do you think I don't know that even if Huaihua goes to call Dang Xianghong, the result would be being turned away? You're all superficial! I'm thinking of things you don't know!"

"Mom, you mean it's intentional."

"Dang Xianghong looks good, and she works at Shazhu's restaurant; I heard she's also some kind of cadre, although she has a rural household registration, but in other aspects she's fine. Some of the young people in our courtyard all want to marry Dang Xianghong as their wife. If someone else gets ahead, our Jia family would have nothing. At the very least, Bangeng needs a room to get married! Huaihua is also grown up; our family of four crammed into one room is always inconvenient, so we can only resort to this wicked scheme."

"Grandma, what do you mean?"

"Bangeng's reputation as Chen Shimei can't be shaken; I just went to the toilet and many people said Bangeng is Chen Shimei, he should be called Jia Shimei instead. Girls with jobs in the city are out of the question; the people in our courtyard will definitely speak ill of Bangeng, and his face has another scar."

Jia Zhangshi looked at Bangeng's face, which was almost disfigured.

She cursed the eight generations of Shi Jiahong's ancestors in her heart.

This woman.

She's really fucking ruthless.

She actually ruined his eldest grandson's appearance.

If Bangeng's appearance weren't so unsatisfactory, Jia Zhangshi wouldn't worry about You Fengxia being taken by someone else; having no choice, she came up with this so-called solution that isn't really a solution.

"I told Huaihua to call Dang Xianghong over to eat roast chicken; regardless of whether Dang Xianghong comes, our Jia family benefits. Some things, even if not true, become true if enough people say them. Bangeng just returned to the city and called Dang Xianghong over to eat roast chicken, showing that our two families have a connection. Otherwise, could this old woman call Dang Xianghong over to eat roast chicken? Dang Xianghong can ignore Bangeng, and we don't fear that; over time, she'll become an old maid who can't marry, so wouldn't she then only be able to marry Bangeng? As Shazhu is the only relative of Dang Xianghong in this world, we're asking him for two rooms as dowry; that's not excessive, is it?"

Qin Huairu felt Jia Zhangshi's idea.

She found it somewhat familiar.

She pondered it carefully.

She felt relieved.

Isn't this just a repeat of when Qin Huairu first became a widow, when Yi Zhonghai wanted to use Shazhu as a pawn in his scheme to rope in the Jia family?

Under the banner of relief, they were doing things to ruin Shazhu's reputation, wanting to saddle him with an ambiguous reputation regarding widows, so he could never marry.

Jia Zhangshi is trying to reuse her old trick, using this roast chicken to cement the fact that Bangeng and You Fengxia have a story, thereby cutting off certain people's designs on You Fengxia.

It must be said.

Jia Zhangshi is just Jia Zhangshi.

This idea can be called a scheme to exterminate the line.

No wonder Qin Huairu has never been a match for Jia Zhangshi.

Huaihua is younger and less experienced than Qin Huairu; she didn't react to what Qin Huairu had thought of, but seeing Qin Huairu's face show understanding, she spoke up and asked a question.

"Why not let my brother go call? Wouldn't it be better if he went to call Dang Xianghong?"

"The time isn't right." Jia Zhangshi glanced at the speaking Huaihua and answered lightly: "Food must be eaten bite by bite, water must be drunk sip by sip."

"Huaihua, listen to your grandmother and go across to call Dang Xianghong over to eat roast chicken."

"Remember, you must shout loudly, so that everyone in the courtyard knows that our Jia family called Dang Xianghong to eat roast chicken."

Huaihua nodded.

She stepped out of the Jia family's gate.

She walked toward the diagonal opposite Shazhu's home.

Jia Zhangshi took the opportunity while Huaihua was indisposed to give Qin Huairu a few instructions, not discussing some of Bangeng's factory matters; according to Jia Zhangshi's words, Bangeng is a once-in-a-century talent at the Yagangchang factory, and cannot go work as an ordinary laborer there; she wanted the factory leaders to give Bangeng a cadre position, such as a workshop chief.

Qin Huairu said nothing.

She didn't know how to respond to Jia Zhangshi.

If Bangeng goes to work at the factory, Qin Huairu has already burned high incense for that result, and still wants to directly become a cadre; do they really think Qin Huairu is made of gold? Anyone who sees her would like her too much.

After finishing instructing Qin Huairu, she then turned to Bangeng, telling him to work well at the factory, not to indulge in idle thoughts, that the widow incident is already past, and after Bangeng enters the factory, relying on her own status as a Yagangchang worker, to properly discuss with You Fengxia; if there are female coworkers in the factory with better conditions than You Fengxia, don't let Bangeng reject them, talking about things like paying for goods bought elsewhere, let alone the major matter of taking a wife.

Marry a virtuous wife.

One must also carefully look around.

Even before anything is set in stone, Jia Zhangshi has already taught Bangeng how to straddle two boats.

Bangeng, contrary to expectation, believed Jia Zhangshi's nonsense, and couldn't help but think of You Fengxia.

Regarding the matter of taking a wife,

Bangeng is comparable to Jia Dongxu in this regard.

Aside from other demands, he just requires the wife to be good-looking!

Jia Dongxu originally married Qin Huairu just for her pretty face, and Bangeng now is pursuing a match also because of You Fengxia's good looks.

……

On the other side.

Huaihua

Having heard Jia Zhangshi's words, she walked to the front of You Fengxia's hut, saw that no one was inside, then went to Shazhu's house; through the window she saw Shazhu and his wife whispering something with You Fengxia, and, following Jia Zhangshi's arrangement, she shouted loudly into the house.

"Sister Xianghong, we bought a roasted chicken at home; my grandmother called you over to eat together!"