Chapter 165

Yan Jiecheng ultimately compromised. The trick of going to Zhongnanhai to smash into the stone lions was simply an unsolvable ultimate killer move. Unless it was a case of mutual destruction, anyone who encountered this move would have to compromise.

"You first get my household registration transferred back," Yan Jiekua said.

"Shouldn't we buy the job first?" Yan Jiecheng said.

"Are you stupid? If we buy the job first and then go to the Street Office to register, the people at the Street Office will definitely know you took the family's money; otherwise, where would you get the money to buy me a job?"

"Transfer the household registration back first, then you quietly buy the job for me. If the Street Office asks, just say you borrowed the money from someone. What else can Director Wang say? As for our dad, I will give him a call and tell him I'm staying in Sijiucheng. If our dad still wants to make trouble, I'll threaten him by going to the front of Zhongnanhai to smash into the stone lions."

"If I really did that and spilled all his dirty secrets, our dad wouldn't just be teaching in the Third Front; he'd have to go repair the earth, and if things went badly, he might even eat a peanut 【bullet】. Our dad is so timid, he wouldn't dare gamble that I'd do that. This matter would eventually be left unsettled," Yan Jiekua said.

"You're ruthless! Let's do as you say," Yan Jiecheng said.

Afterwards, the two went to the Street Office and found Street Director Wang.

"My dad wants me to stay by my big brother's side," Yan Jiekua said very straightforwardly.

Director Wang thought about it; anyway, those above only ordered Yan Bugui to go to the Third Front, and didn't force the Yan family to go to the Third Front together, so she processed the paperwork for Yan Jiekua.

Yan Jiekua took the opportunity to rent the back-facing room right next to Yan Jiecheng.

Yan Jiekua had originally intended to live in the same room as Yan Jiecheng, but Yan Jiecheng refused to allow it no matter what. Yan Jiecheng felt that Yan Jiekua had come to suck his blood, so naturally, he was unwilling to give Yan Jiekua the chance to do so, and made Yan Jiekua rent his own room. Yan Jiekua could only rent that back-facing room next door.

After Yan Jiekua finished his registration, he went to the post office to make a call to Yan Bugui. Although the phone bill was very expensive, this call had to be made, and this phone bill could only be paid by Yan Jiekua himself.

Fortunately, Yan Jiecheng had given Yan Jiekua two hundred yuan; otherwise, Yan Jiekua wouldn't even be able to afford the phone bill.

"Dad, I've arrived in Sijiucheng. The phone bill is very expensive, so I'll talk and you listen. I've decided to stay in Sijiucheng, and my household registration has been transferred back. Let's just drop the matter of asking my brother for money. If you continue to act willfully, then my brother and I will have no choice but to go to the front of the Zhongnanhai gate and smash our heads against the stone lions, and spill all your dirty secrets from the past."

"By then, you won't just be sent to the Third Front to teach, but will be repairing the earth or eating a peanut. However, please rest assured, you raised me, and I will support you in your old age. When you retire, my brother and I will each give you ten yuan every month."

"Think about which way to go. Once you've thought it through, just send me a letter," Yan Jiekua said and hung up the phone.

Yan Jiekua saying that when Yan Bugui retired, each of them would give him ten yuan a month was naturally a lie to him, intended to prevent Yan Bugui from jumping over the wall like a cornered dog.

No one knows a son better than his father; similarly, no one knows a father better than his son. Yan Jiekua had already figured out Yan Bugui's character thoroughly and naturally arranged everything clearly.

"That was what you said, I didn't say it. I've already severed ties with him; it's impossible for me to take this money," Yan Jiecheng said.

"That was to fool him, to prevent him from jumping over the wall like a cornered dog. By the time he retires, it will be more than ten years away. In such a long time, who knows what will happen?" Yan Jiekua said.

Once Yan Jiekua said this, Yan Jiecheng felt relieved.

Yan Bugui, far away in the Third Front, heard Yan Jiekua say this and knew he had fallen for Yan Jiekua's trick. Yan Bugui couldn't help but curse loudly.

However, no matter how much Yan Bugui cursed, it was of no use, because Yan Jiekua had long since hung up the phone.

Yan Bugui, having calmed down, also knew that the money must have been taken by Yan Jiecheng. Yan Bugui had originally thought about calling the police again, but he took Yan Jiekua's warning and the "big pie" he had drawn to heart.

Yan Bugui couldn't help but calculate: "The two of them give twenty yuan a month, two hundred and forty a year. In eight years, I'll break even, and after that, it's profit. Hmm, mutual destruction isn't worth it. Ten yuan is too little, I have to make them add more."

After Yan Bugui was forced to think it through, he could only console himself. After Yan Bugui convinced himself, he then convinced San Dama, and then wrote a letter to Yan Jiekua.

Yan Bugui couldn't bear to make phone calls; the phone bill was too expensive, so he could only write letters.

After Yan Jiekua received Yan Bugui's letter, he couldn't help but sneer in his heart, knowing that Yan Bugui had compromised again.

Yan Jiekua burned the letter Yan Bugui wrote directly, and then wrote a reply, starting to haggle in the letter. However, Yan Jiekua never mentioned the specific amount of money in his reply, all to prevent Yan Bugui from using it as evidence to blackmail him.

From then on, the Yan family fell into a state of long-term haggling, and haggling through letters also became a kind of sustenance for Yan Bugui.

During this period, Yan Jiecheng spent six hundred yuan to buy a job at a machine factory for Yan Jiekua. After Yan Jiekua started his job, his life gradually got on the right track, and Yan Bugui, San Dama, and others gradually faded from people's sight.

After Qin Huairu left, He Yuzhu took Qin Jingru and He Yushui back to the Siheyuan. The brothers Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiekua couldn't affect He Yuzhu at all; in fact, the two brothers were even afraid of He Yuzhu, which could be seen from the fact that they didn't buy job positions at the Rolling Mill.

The Rolling Mill was the boss in the vicinity, with good benefits and good treatment, yet Yan Jiecheng went to a printing factory and Yan Jiekua went to a machine factory, which pointed to this fact.

He Yuzhu was in a very happy mood, but He Yuzhu was only happy for one day. When He Yuzhu returned to the Siheyuan and discovered the person walking out of Qin Huairu's house, He Yuzhu's good mood vanished instantly.

The person walking out of Qin Huairu's house was none other than Tian Wenjiao. When Tian Wenjiao had a blind date with He Yuzhu, He Yuzhu had followed Tian Wenjiao until Tian Wenjiao finally entered a compound with extremely strict security, and He Yuzhu determined Tian Wenjiao's identity.

Clearly, Tian Wenjiao was a figure similar to the secret agent 007; such a person could only be watched from afar and not played with, nor could one have any involvement with her.

However, on the surface, one could not show it too obviously, otherwise, the cover would be blown.

"Why are you here?" Seeing Tian Wenjiao, He Yuzhu instinctively wanted to stay away from her, but suddenly realized that doing so would make him look too guilty, so he couldn't help but pretend to be surprised and asked aloud.

"Why can't I be here? This is the house the Street Office assigned to me," Tian Wenjiao said.

"Brother Zhuzi, who is she?" Qin Jingru looked at Tian Wenjiao and said, full of hostility.

"Little sister, I am your Brother Zhuzi's blind date," Tian Wenjiao smiled and patted Qin Jingru's head, then deliberately straightened her body and said with a smile.

"You're the little sister! So what if you're Brother Zhuzi's blind date? I am Brother Zhuzi's wife, the kind with a marriage certificate," Qin Jingru said, puffing out her chest like a proud peacock.

However, the gap between the two was simply too great—the gap between a high mountain and a hill.

Qin Jingru also knew that whether comparing appearance or figure, she couldn't beat Tian Wenjiao, so she pulled He Yuzhu away indignantly.

"Interesting little girl," Tian Wenjiao couldn't help but sneer. After returning to the room, Tian Wenjiao pulled a long face and regained her composure.

He Yuzhu's performance was full of flaws in Tian Wenjiao's eyes, while Qin Jingru was just a typical country bumpkin. That He Yuzhu would rather choose Qin Jingru than her made Tian Wenjiao have to suspect that there was something wrong with He Yuzhu. "Could it be that I revealed a flaw without knowing it?" Tian Wenjiao frowned and thought to herself. Immediately, Tian Wenjiao stopped dwelling on this problem; Tian Wenjiao believed that as time went on, He Yuzhu would eventually reveal his flaws.

The timing, the location, and the people are all on my side; the advantage is mine.

Tian Wenjiao was originally sent by those above to monitor He Yuzhu. Originally, those above had already given up on monitoring He Yuzhu and were preparing to withdraw the Xu Zhongyi couple and the Ming Tai couple who were monitoring He Yuzhu.

As a result, the weapons depot in Qin Family Village exploded. Naturally, the leaders of Qin Family Village were wiped out in one fell swoop, but He Yuzhu re-entered the sight of the upper echelons.

Those above felt that Xu Zhongyi and Ming Tai were not safe, so they sent Tian Wenjiao over, and at the same time, sent Lu Ming over. Tian Wenjiao moved into the Siheyuan as a worker at the Rolling Mill, living in Qin Huairu's house, which made it convenient for Tian Wenjiao to monitor He Yuzhu.

Lu Ming moved into the Siheyuan as the squad leader of the Third Brigade of the Security Section, living in Yan Bugui's house.

In this way, there were people from above in the front courtyard, the middle courtyard, and the back courtyard, tightly surrounding He Yuzhu.

He Yuzhu also thought of this point, but He Yuzhu didn't care, because for the next period of time, He Yuzhu was prepared to lie low.

"Brother Zhuzi, what is that person's name? Is she really your blind date?" Qin Jingru asked, holding He Yuzhu's arm tightly.

"Her name is Tian Wenjiao. It was Matchmaker Zhang who brought her over to have a blind date with me, but I didn't take a liking to her," He Yuzhu said very frankly.

He Yuzhu saw it at a glance: Tian Wenjiao deliberately provoked Qin Jingru, which was looking for a breakthrough point in Qin Jingru.

"Why didn't you take a liking to her?" Qin Jingru asked nervously, as if she were afraid that He Yuzhu would run away.

"Because I feel there's something going on here. Yushui, bring me a piece of paper and a pen," He Yuzhu said.

He Yushui obediently brought He Yuzhu a piece of paper and a pen, and then she and Qin Jingru looked at He Yuzhu in confusion.

He Yuzhu began to draw an administrative rank table. After drawing it, He Yuzhu spoke.

"I am currently the Deputy Director of the Canteen. Although I am called a leader, I am not in the official leadership hierarchy. Strictly speaking, I am at the twentieth administrative rank, which is a second-grade staff member."

"The official Director of the Canteen is a first-grade staff member, and further up are the official leaders, the eighteenth-grade deputy section-level leaders. Between the nineteenth and eighteenth grades is a huge chasm. For an ordinary person like me, without a special miracle, I wouldn't be able to cross it in my entire life. In my life, I will at most be a nineteenth-grade first-grade staff member."

"In the eyes of outsiders, I am indeed a leader, but to the real leadership level, I am nothing."

"For those second-generation leaders, their starting point is often higher than our end point. That is to say, their starting point is the eighteenth-grade deputy section-level leader. Of course, some people, in order to shut the mouths of those below, will pretend to go through the motions, stay below for a year or two, and then get promoted. Those who understand, understand."

"Let's talk about Tian Wenjiao. Is she beautiful? Absolutely beautiful. Looking at the entire Sijiucheng, even if she doesn't rank first, she is definitely in the top ten."

"The problem arises: she is so beautiful, why would she take a liking to me? If I had a father who was a high-ranking official, if I had a strong family background, this could be understood. But I have no background at all, and no bright future. Why would she take a liking to me?"

"My greatest characteristic is not that I have good culinary skills, but that I have self-knowledge. I am not worthy of her, so the moment she said she was interested in me, I turned and ran."

"Jingru, Yushui, remember this sentence: a barren land cannot grow beautiful flowers. If one grows, it means the flower is poisonous. I just want to live my life peacefully, understand?" He Yuzhu said.

He Yushui could roughly understand, but Qin Jingru was confused, not quite understanding. Just those administrative rank divisions were enough to make Qin Jingru dizzy, let alone the rest.

"Jingru, don't think about anything. As long as we close the door and live our own little life, that's all," He Yuzhu said.

"Then... then why don't you let me sleep with you?" Qin Jingru said without hesitation, regardless of He Yushui's presence.

"You are too thin and too young. You need to be nourished first; you have to be fed until you are plump and white. Otherwise, you are so thin and your body is weak; what if you get pregnant and have a difficult labor? I don't want to lose you, so your task now is not to think about those messy things."

"At work, you just muddle along. That means, if you can avoid working, don't work; if you can sit, don't stand; just slack off."

"At home, keep the house clean. Whatever I make, you eat. You must eat until you are full, build up your body, and then give birth to a few more big, fat boys and big, fat girls for me, you know?" He Yuzhu said.

Once Qin Jingru heard He Yuzhu say this, she immediately understood and nodded repeatedly.

In fact, Qin Jingru's bottom line was very broad. As long as He Yuzhu didn't drive her away, let her eat her fill, and let her be the main wife, everything else could be discussed.

It wasn't that Qin Jingru was afraid of He Yuzhu cheating outside, but that He Yuzhu gave too much. It could be said that He Yuzhu changed the fate of Qin Jingru's entire family with his own strength.

He Yuzhu not only found a job for Qin Jingru but also found jobs for her two brothers. At this stage, a job represented an iron rice bowl. Qin Jingru hadn't even heard of such things before, let alone seen them.

The story of Qin Jingru's family had become a legendary tale in Qin Family Village and was spreading to other villages at an extremely fast speed. Countless women waiting to be married were extremely envious of Qin Jingru.

Any woman with some beauty took Qin Jingru as her goal.

Early the next morning, looking at Liu Lan, who was waiting to be fed, He Yuzhu originally wanted to pull Liu Lan into the office, let her welcome him with open arms, and then let her return fully loaded, to eliminate the anger from yesterday.

However, when He Yuzhu saw Tian Wenjiao appear in the kitchen, he couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"Why are you here?" He Yuzhu asked in shock.

"Comrade Tian Wenjiao is the new kitchen helper. Director He, please take good care of her," Li Huaide's voice suddenly came.

He Yuzhu was dumbfounded: "Good fellow, monitoring in the Siheyuan wasn't enough, she even ran to the kitchen to monitor me."

"Factory Director Li, what exactly is going on here?" He Yuzhu pulled Li Huaide to the side and asked in a low voice.

"A relative of an old comrade-in-arms of mine asked me to arrange a job for her, so I arranged her in the kitchen," Li Huaide said.

He Yuzhu was somewhat suspicious of the truthfulness of Li Huaide's words. Let's wait and see. If Li Huaide had the intention of making a move on Tian Wenjiao, it would mean Li Huaide's words were true. After all, such things were very common, and with the ability of Tian Wenjiao and the organization behind her, it was normal to arrange Tian Wenjiao into the Rolling Mill in this way.

If Li Huaide didn't dare to have such intentions toward Tian Wenjiao at all, it meant that even if Li Huaide didn't know the truth, he could still guess some things. Then, one would have to be careful when going to Li Huaide's place in the future.

(End of chapter)