Chapter 65: Xu Damao wants to help Yi Zhonghai adopt children

The deaf old lady was taken away.

She left so helplessly.

Everyone in the courtyard was happy.

Shazhu saw clearly that Yi Zhonghai and his wife both wore the relieved expression of having a burden lifted.

It seems.

The deaf old lady really gave Yi Zhonghai and his wife a bit too much to handle; otherwise, they wouldn't have been so relaxed after she was taken away.

The main character is gone.

There's nothing interesting to watch anymore.

Everyone went back to their own homes.

What puzzled Shazhu.

Xu Damao came back following Shazhu again.

A despicable look.

One look and you know he's holding back a foul fart.

"Xu Damao, did you walk on the wrong leg? Go home."

"It's almost mealtime, and you're telling me to go home?"

Shazhu sucked in a breath of cold air.

Xu Damao is clearly trying to mooch a meal!

And he's doing it so righteously.

Who gave you the guts?

"What are we eating tonight?"

"Steamed corn buns, sorghum millet porridge."

"Can't we have something better?" Xu Damao brought up Yushui, pointing to He Yushui beside him, "Look, you've starved Yushui thin."

"Is something wrong with your eyes?" Shazhu's voice carried a hint of fury, "Look at Yushui—does she look starved to you?"

He Daqing has been gone for a little over two months.

Shazhu's any achievement pales in comparison to the glory of fattening He Yushui up.

White flour buns and meat dishes.

He had eaten He Yushui into a little fat pig.

"We have guests at home; you should give them better food."

"What kind of guest are you?"

Xu Damao pulled out five hundred from his pocket.

He handed it to He Yushui.

"Yushui, Damao bro, is that enough? Go buy some candy."

He Yushui looked at Shazhu.

The little girl gets this right.

When others give her something, she first asks Shazhu; if he agrees, He Yushui takes it, otherwise she refuses.

Shazhu saw that Xu Damao had something to say to him but didn't want He Yushui to hear, so he planned to use the five hundred to play a diversion, luring He Yushui away to the lake.

"Yushui, take this, go play with Yan Jie Di in the front courtyard; I'll call you when the rice is ready."

He Yushui took Xu Damao's five hundred and went to play with Yan Jie Di.

Only Shazhu and Xu Damao remained inside.

"Speak."

"How do you know I have something going on?"

"I don't even know you yet!"

Xu Damao stared at Shazhu seriously.

He looked solemn.

It made Shazhu feel twelve times doubtful.

Because in Shazhu's memory, he'd never met such a serious Xu Damao before.

This bastard.

He should tell Shazhu something very important.

"Shazhu, I've been thinking: the eldest master and his wife now have no heirs; they took Jia Dongxu as an apprentice, even helped find him a wife, not hesitating to give a brand‑new sewing machine; Yi Zhonghai never does a losing deal—his fuss over the Jia family is actually so Jia Dongxu will support him in his old age."

Shazhu glanced at Xu Damao with renewed respect.

The plot to secure old age was so secretive that, besides the deaf old lady and Shazhu, no one else in the courtyard would know.

Even the office‑obsessed Liu Haizhong was kept in the dark.

Liu Haizhong was stabbed in the back by his two sons; panicking, he fainted at home.

When Yi Zhonghai comforted Liu Haizhong, he said these few words: he'd been planning for old age thirty years ago, initially intending for Jia Dongxu to support him; after Jia Dongxu died in an accident, Yi Zhonghai made the backup Shazhu official, saying the deaf old lady had reminded him, and that Shazhu was more suited than Jia Dongxu to support him and his wife in their old age.

Shazhu happened to overhear those words.

The hypocrite's mind is heavy.

Liu Haizhong was kept in the dark by him.

Let alone mention Xu Damao.

I never expected Xu Damao to see through Yi Zhonghai's tricks.

"Don't look at me like that—this is what my dad told me." After explaining, Xu Damao continued, "Yi Zhonghai and his wife are scheming to have Jia Dongxu support them in old age; as I just said, if I help Yi Zhonghai adopt two children, I don't want anything from them—just don't squeeze me out of the courtyard, Xu Damao. Shazhu, do you think this could actually work?"

"I just told you, the matter of adopting a child, you need to discuss it with the couple Yi Zhonghai, don't make them unhappy, what will you do then?" Shazhu said earnestly: "I worry that your good intentions will turn into a bad deed; Yi Zhonghai doesn't seem very keen on adopting a child."

"He has no heir, yet he still won't adopt a child?" Xu Damiao didn't believe Shazhu's statement of fact, "If we tell this to the Yi Zhonghai couple, how else could we give them a surprise?"

Xu Damiao appeared calm, as if the Yi Zhonghai couple would accept this child.

Some things.

Said.

The key is the other party doesn't believe it.

No way.

Can only watch the show.

"I've been pondering this matter for several days; I've inquired, in the Capital City there is a place that specializes in adopting orphans, and the orphans there are not all defective, there are healthy children; I help the Yi Zhonghai couple adopt a child, the state eases its burden, the Yi Zhonghai couple solve their old-age support, the orphan also gets family warmth, a three-in-one good thing; why wouldn't Yi Zhonghai agree? He isn't still taking care of the deaf old lady in the rear courtyard, right? If he can take care of the deaf old lady, he can adopt this child."

Shazhu felt Xu Damiao's words were somewhat familiar.

Think about it.

Back when we ate dumplings at Yi Zhonghai's house, we also used these words to persuade Yi Zhonghai.

Damn Xu Damiao.

You're plagiarizing.

"You already have an idea in mind, what are you telling me for?"

Xu Damiao stared blankly.

He came to his senses.

"Exactly, I've already figured out what to do, why discuss it with you? It made me waste five hundred yuan for nothing, Shazhu, keep this matter a secret from my older brother."

"You are now my younger brother, you are one year younger than me."

"Boring."

Xu Damiao got up and left.

"Where are you going?"

"Going to my mother's house."

"Pathetic."

Shazhu muttered a curse under his breath.

Suddenly he stopped dead in his tracks.

The current Xu Damiao has gone down a rabbit hole, he is single-mindedly thinking of helping the Yi Zhonghai couple adopt a child, thereby solving their lack of heirs, so they don't have to calculate for old-age support; Xu Damiao believes he is doing a good deed and also wants to give the Yi Zhonghai couple a surprise.

He reckons it will turn into a fright.

The biggest obstacle to the Yi Zhonghai couple adopting a child is the deaf old lady Long Laotaitai; Long Laotaitai worries that if the Yi Zhonghai couple have a child, they will lack the energy, time, and financial resources to take care of her, not giving her good food, Long Laotaitai opposes the Yi Zhonghai couple adopting a child.

If it were before.

The Yi Zhonghai couple might still be stuck at this hurdle of adopting a child.

Now it really is possible for Xu Damiao to get this done.

The main obstacle, Long Laotaitai, has been taken away.

He reckons she won't be back anytime soon.

"This is Xu Damiao's chance to help the Yi Zhonghai couple adopt a child."