Chapter 57: Yushui Files a Complaint

After Xu Daming left.

Shazhu focused his thoughts on this cooking; the fish was made into chopped chili fish head, the chicken and duck were chopped by Shazhu, coated with flour and made into a steamed chicken and duck dish.

Shazhu also had a little thought in it.

The chicken, duck, and fish meat were chopped.

This made it convenient for Shazhu to profit.

Three fish, two chickens, two ducks; Shazhu at least dug out one fish, half a chicken, and half a duck.

On one hand, there were still more than ten days until the New Year.

Shazhu needed to prepare New Year supplies.

Ready-made things were placed before him.

No matter what, he had to get his hands oily.

On the other hand, Shazhu felt resentful.

The things of Yi Qinshou and Jia Bu Shi Ren were also given to Qin Huairu, who was scheming and white-lotus-like, to eat.

Just consider it revenge.

Shazhu's superb cooking concealed the inadequacy of the ingredients; the Jia family's matchmaking banquet and Xu Daming's feast, with everyone at the feast feeling satisfied, was the final outcome.

The time was eight o'clock in the evening.

Regarding Qin Huairu's behavior of living in the siheyuan.

Xu Daming and Shazhu happened to think of the same thing.

They mistakenly thought that Jia Dongxu and Qin Huairu were going to stage the big drama of turning raw rice into cooked rice.

In short, they were both wrong.

The reason Qin Huairu stayed in the siheyuan.

It was that Qin Huairu wanted to show off one of her strengths.

It was the ability praised by Yi Zhonghai—being handy both at home and abroad—that she wanted to show everyone.

Mainly to show it to Jia Zhangshi.

Qin Huairu wasn't stupid; seeing Jia Zhangshi's displeased face, she sensed Jia Zhangshi's disdain and wanted to show as much as possible that she was good in every way, thinking, "You can't still be dissatisfied with me."

The Jia family's matchmaking banquet ended in less than ten minutes.

Qin Huairu then tidied up the Jia family's place spotlessly.

Some people in the siheyuan had second thoughts.

For example, the Yan Fugui household.

Again, for example, the Liu Haizhong household.

If Jia Zhangshi disagreed with Jia Dongxu marrying Qin Huairu, these people would likely try to intervene; Qin Huairu's energetic cleaning won over the Second and Third Aunts, brought a rare smile to Jia Zhangshi's face, and even secured the betrothal money.

According to Yi Zhonghai's plan.

Qin Huairu was supposed to share a room with the deaf old lady in the rear courtyard, but since Yi Zhonghai and his wife were helping the Jia family, Shazhu also helped with cooking, Xu Daming invited the section chief to eat next to the deaf old lady's room, the deaf old lady was miraculously forgotten, and she became rather unhappy; the plan for Qin Huairu to sleep in the same room as the deaf old lady came to nothing.

Yi Zhonghai planned to let Yushui spend the night with Qin Huairu; Shazhu agreed, but Yushui disagreed, insisting on sleeping with Shazhu.

She was crying and sobbing.

This forced Shazhu to agree.

After Yi Zhonghai left.

He Yushui looked outside with a frightened little face, lowered his voice and said to Shazhu: "Brother, let me tell you, the eldest uncle and the old lady are not good people; they are scheming against you."

"What are they scheming against me?"

He Yushui pouted and recounted past events.

The little girl inadvertently overheard the conversation between Yi Zhonghai and the deaf old lady.

Yi Zhonghai said the eldest aunt wanted to adopt a child so that the child would later support Yi Zhonghai and his wife in their old age.

The deaf old lady firmly disagreed, saying adopting a child was worse than directly finding an honest person in the siheyuan to help Yi Zhonghai and his wife with their old-age support.

The siheyuan had suitable candidates for old-age support, yet they insisted on going to the orphanage to adopt this unrealistic person, who would then have to go to school and help find a wife.

Rather than waste all that miscellaneous money, it would be better to save it; with that sum, the other party would dare not be unfilial to Yi Zhonghai and his wife.

Whether it's adoption or scheming for old-age support,

none are Yi Zhonghai's bloodline.

Why bother with that?

Yi Zhonghai was persuaded by the deaf old lady; he said he would mention to the eldest aunt later that he planned to have Jia Dongxu support him in old age, reasoning that Jia Dongxu's family circumstances were not good, that well-off city women looked down on the Jia family, that those who liked the Jia family—Jia Zhangshi—didn't like others, and that if Jia Dongxu didn't dislike someone's looks, good-looking people would dislike the Jia family and Jia Zhangshi.

Yi Zhonghai had someone arrange a marriage for Jia Dongxu in Qin Family Village, saying that with this connection, he need not fear that the other party would refuse to support Yi Zhonghai and his wife in old age.

The deaf old lady said Yi Zhonghai had misjudged the person; the most suitable person in the siheyuan to support Yi Zhonghai and his wife in old age was actually Shazhu, so Yi Zhonghai should not waste time on Jia Dongxu but, while Shazhu was young and ignorant, quickly give him ideological education to make him respect the elderly and love the young, thereby achieving the goal of supporting Yi Zhonghai and his wife in old age.

Consider it a deal.

Yi Zhonghai would support the deaf old lady in her old age and see her through; the deaf old lady would help Yi Zhonghai scheme against Shazhu; the house where the deaf old lady lives would become a tool for her to scheme against Shazhu; she would properly tell Yi Zhonghai that she would leave the house to Shazhu after her death.

In that case, Shazhu would feel guilty for having taken what originally belonged to Yi Zhonghai, and that guilt would be compensated by helping Yi Zhonghai and his wife with their old-age support.

Only now did Shazhu feel relieved.

Why did the deaf old lady leave the house to me in my previous life?

Including Shazhu, many people thought the deaf old lady's house would go to Yi Zhonghai, after all, Yi Zhonghai and his wife had always been taking care of the deaf old lady.

What the deaf old lady said was not wrong.

Shazhu, who had taken the deaf old lady's house, would indeed feel guilty, always thinking he had taken what originally belonged to Yi Zhonghai; to make up for this guilt, he treated Yi Zhonghai and his wife as his own parents.

Now, thinking about it.

It really is a damn scheme.

They touched He Yushui's little head.

The little girl has achieved merit.

"Brother, there's still more!"

The little girl shifted her tone and started speaking again.

It was still the deal between Long Laotaitai and Yi Zhonghai.

This time it wasn't for supporting old age.

It is greed.

Long Laotaitai said she had no other hobbies, just a love for eating; her greatest wish in life was to sample all the famous foods across the country, eating at big restaurants, small restaurants, and snack stalls, one by one.

Yi Zhonghai said he didn't have that much ability, so the two of them turned their idea to Shazhu, saying Shazhu is the inheritor of Tan family cuisine and could cook for Long Laotaitai, letting Long Laotaitai go to Shazhu's house every night to mooch meals, in order to let Shazhu wholeheartedly take care of Long Laotaitai, Long Laotaitai asked Yi Zhonghai to find a boarding school for He Yushui.

Keeping a respectful distance from Long Laotaitai is correct.

Long Laotaitai loves gourmet food; using Stone's original words to describe her, this is Long Laotaitai's weakness. Shazhu plans to use this meal to thoroughly probe Long Laotaitai, to see if she is the legendary enemy agent; once the report letter is written, he himself could achieve merit.

"Brother knows all these things; do you know what you should do?"

"Don't say it out."

"You still know to keep secret; you're not stupid."