Chapter 98: Yi Zhonghai

The method the Deaf Old Lady thought of was to find a wife for He Yuzhu.

The Deaf Old Lady knew that He Yuzhu liked beautiful wives. Since that was the case, she would find a beautiful wife for He Yuzhu, and then control He Yuzhu by controlling his wife.

Girls in the city were hard to find, but girls in the countryside were everywhere.

After the Deaf Old Lady thought of this point, her hanging heart was let go, and then she fell asleep happily.

Little did she know, the Deaf Old Lady had become obsessed for the sake of old-age support.

In the past, the Deaf Old Lady, as an outsider, was in a situation where the bystander sees clearly, sitting and watching Yi Zhonghai use various methods to achieve the goal of controlling He Yuzhu. The Deaf Old Lady could naturally see clearly which aspects of Yi Zhonghai's methods had flaws and were not done well enough.

Now, the Deaf Old Lady was personally involved in the game, in a state where the person involved is confused. Not only did she not see the clumsiness of her own strategy, but she also thought she was proud of it.

The Yi Zhonghai incident scared the beasts of the Siheyuan quite a bit. The beasts of the Siheyuan all subconsciously stayed away from He Yuzhu. In the past, every day when they went to work, the beasts of the Siheyuan would greet He Yuzhu. Now, when they saw He Yuzhu, they all subconsciously dodged, not even daring to make eye contact with him.

He Yuzhu was happy to be idle. In the later generations, who knew who? Living in the same building in the same residential area, living for decades, you might not even know each other.

Although He Yuzhu was happy to be idle, he still went to work according to the rules during this period, not daring to be late or leave early. For no other reason, the Investigation Team had been staying at the Rolling Mill.

The Investigation Team's work was also not going smoothly. The Investigation Team almost turned the entire Rolling Mill upside down, but didn't find any clues. The Investigation Team still wanted to dig deeper, but the group of Rolling Mill leaders led by Li Huaide couldn't hold on anymore.

After all, many people's backsides were not clean, especially Li Huaide's. If the Investigation Team continued to dig deeper, it would definitely implicate a large group.

The group of Rolling Mill leaders didn't dare to openly confront the Investigation Team, so they could only superficially adopt an attitude of active cooperation, while secretly stopping work and production to confront the Investigation Team.

This matter caused not only Li Huaide's backer, his father-in-law, to be in a state of distress, but even the Great Leader was the same.

It was impossible for the Great Leader not to know about Li Huaide's little tricks. However, the Great Leader was not someone who couldn't tolerate sand in his eyes; instead, he was someone who acted according to personal preferences. Otherwise, in the original drama, the Great Leader wouldn't have favored He Yuzhu and driven away Ji Zaimao based on personal preference.

In the end, the Great Leader also couldn't withstand the pressure and proposed at a meeting, on the grounds of not delaying production, that the Investigation Team stop the investigation into the interior of the Rolling Mill and instead conduct a detailed investigation into the interior of the Security Section.

Li Huaide's backer, his father-in-law, rarely didn't go against the Great Leader, but instead had the intention of vaguely joining forces. After all, Li Huaide's father-in-law didn't want anything to happen to the Rolling Mill either.

The Great Leader pointed out at the meeting that this explosion incident in the Security Section was clearly caused by lax management within the Security Section. Otherwise, in terms of destructive power and impact, if it were hostile forces causing destruction, they wouldn't have bombed the Security Section, but the Rolling Mill.

After all, if they could bomb the Security Section, they could bomb the Rolling Mill.

In fact, many leaders also tended to believe that this incident was an explosion caused by lax management within the Security Section.

After discussion, those above unanimously required focusing on investigating the Security Section first. In fact, the Investigation Team also did so. With the order from above, the Investigation Team began to investigate with all its might.

With this investigation, many dirty things done by the people in the Security Section were uncovered.

The Security Section was also not clean. Once they held power, they would issue orders. The people in the Security Section held great power, and once someone provoked them, they would definitely seize the opportunity to retaliate with all their might.

If there was no opportunity, they would create one.

He Yuzhu had always thought that the Security Section's power was too great, because they could frame others at will like Section Chief Chu.

Power without checks is terrifying, and power that can determine life and death with a single word is even more terrifying.

After such an investigation, although the Security Section was turned upside down from top to bottom, there was still no result regarding the explosion incident and the disappearance of the five people including Section Chief Chu.

In the end, after a decision from the upper levels, the Security Section underwent a major reshuffle. At the same time, when the Security Section needed to question and examine the workers of the Rolling Mill, they had to have the cooperation of the Factory Labor Union.

The Investigation Team also left a small group to stay at the Rolling Mill on standby.

This disturbance lasted for a month before it was considered over. During this month, the beasts of the Siheyuan were all honest, and no one dared to come out and make trouble.

When Yi Zhonghai was executed, not a single person went to see him off, not even the Deaf Old Lady.

Xu Damao did go once before Yi Zhonghai's departure, but Xu Damao wasn't there to see Yi Zhonghai off, but to ridicule and mock Yi Zhonghai.

Xu Damao was a true villain who believed in 'an eye for an eye'. Not only did he believe in it, but he also acted on it.

Xu Damao had been bullied by Yi Zhonghai to the extreme in the past. If he didn't go to mock and ridicule Yi Zhonghai now, when would he? Did he have to wait until Yi Zhonghai ate a lead bullet and was buried in a mass grave?

Xu Damao went excitedly and returned laughing wildly, which showed Xu Damao's level of excitement. The more excited Xu Damao was, the more miserable Yi Zhonghai was.

Yi Zhonghai's ashes were finally delivered to the Deaf Old Lady by the Street Office, because cremation had just been promoted at this time, and there were subsidies for cremation, so even if Yi Zhonghai didn't pay, the Street Office took Yi Zhonghai's body for cremation.

The Deaf Old Lady didn't accept Yi Zhonghai's ashes either, but used the excuse of her lame leg and inconvenience in movement to request the Street Office to find a pit to bury Yi Zhonghai's ashes.

The Street Office staff were very helpless. In the end, it was the Street Office staff who buried Yi Zhonghai's ashes in the Shijingshan Cemetery.

Yi Zhonghai, who used to have the final say in the Siheyuan, was gone just like that, silently. Almost no one felt sorry for Yi Zhonghai. After all, everyone had to work hard to survive. Only in their spare time would they occasionally sigh a few times when mentioning Yi Zhonghai.

During this month, three other major events occurred.

The first major event was that the marriage between Xu Damao and Lou Xiaoe fell through.

Because of the events during this period, the Lou family conducted a careful investigation and found that Xu Damao was not a good match for Lou Xiaoe. To be precise, Xu Damao had performed extremely poorly recently. Lou Bancheng believed that with Xu Damao's ability, he couldn't protect Lou Xiaoe at all, so he simply and neatly canceled this marriage and dismissed Xu Mu, who was a servant.

Another major event was that Qin Huairu gave birth to Huai Hua.

Because Jia Zhangshi was working in the countryside, before giving birth, Qin Huairu borrowed the hospital's phone and made a call to Qin Family Village, asking Qin Mu to come over to serve her during her production until she finished her postpartum confinement.

Qin Mu originally didn't want to come, but after hearing Qin Huairu say that Jia Zhangshi had been sent down to the countryside to work and there was really no one left at home, she had no choice but to come. As for feeling guilty about taking Qin Huairu's money, Qin Mu didn't have such emotions at all.

Qin Mu believed this was as it should be; a daughter subsidizing her maiden family was as it should be, although this daughter wasn't doing it voluntarily.

After Qin Mu came, Qin Huairu finally breathed a sigh of relief. When Qin Huairu gave birth to Huai Hua and returned home for her postpartum confinement, she finally had the mood and time to consider her future path.

After careful consideration, Qin Huairu found that she still couldn't give up on He Yuzhu. Otherwise, it would be very difficult for her to survive alone with three children in this Siheyuan full of beasts.

In the past, when Yi Zhonghai was alive and Jia Zhangshi was also staying in the Siheyuan, Qin Huairu was not only protected by Jia Zhangshi but also helped by Yi Zhonghai, so she naturally didn't have to worry about being bullied.

Now, Qin Huairu had to set her sights on He Yuzhu.

The third thing was that after the Investigation Team withdrew from the surface, in order to eliminate the negative impact caused by the Security Section explosion, the Rolling Mill began to establish He Yuzhu as a model of individual advancement according to the plan.

Not only was He Yuzhu promoted to Deputy Director of the Canteen, but the Advanced Individual award was also given to He Yuzhu. Moreover, the newspapers also reported extensively on the two songs created by He Yuzhu: "Ying Shan Hong" and "Shining Red Star".

For a time, He Yuzhu was in the limelight.

Everyone in the Rolling Mill focused their attention on He Yuzhu.

"How is it possible? How is it possible? I haven't become a leader yet, how did that big fool Shazhu become a leader?" Liu Haizhong said through gritted teeth in the workshop after hearing the broadcast.

"No! No! No! How can Shazhu become a leader?" Xu Damao roared to the sky in the Propaganda Department in a state of desperation.

If you want to say who in the Siheyuan was most unwilling for He Yuzhu to become a leader, it naturally had to be Xu Damao.

After learning that He Yuzhu not only became a leader but also won the Advanced Individual award, Xu Damao was so hateful that his teeth itched. He wished he could eat He Yuzhu's flesh and drink He Yuzhu's blood.

After Xu Damao finished venting, he began to ponder how to pull He Yuzhu down from his horse.

For Xu Damao, anyone could be a leader, but He Yuzhu could not. Xu Damao seeing He Yuzhu get promoted was more uncomfortable than Xu Damao himself getting demoted.

After Yan Bugui learned that He Yuzhu not only became a leader but was also established as an individual model, he knew that He Yuzhu had completely opened up and the general trend was set. He couldn't treat He Yuzhu like before and had to actively move closer to He Yuzhu.

After the Deaf Old Lady learned about He Yuzhu's affairs, she became even more determined to control He Yuzhu.

Similarly, Qin Huairu thought the same, but Qin Huairu didn't have the ambition to control He Yuzhu, she just wanted to climb onto He Yuzhu and suck He Yuzhu's blood to support the three siblings of Bang Geng.

It was very interesting that Qin Huairu also wanted to climb onto He Yuzhu by introducing a wife to He Yuzhu.

"Mom, is there any suitable beautiful girl in our village? I plan to let her marry Shazhu," Qin Huairu asked.

"Shazhu? You mean the Director He who is being talked about everywhere in the courtyard? You still call him Shazhu now? He is not stupid at all. Can a fool become a leader?"

"There is no suitable one in our village. The most suitable one is Qin Jingru. However, although Jingru is beautiful, she is too young. Besides, Director He may not look down on country people. With his conditions, he can completely find a city girl," Qin Mu said indifferently.

Qin Mu didn't look favorably on this kind of thing at all.

Qin Mu also knew her daughter's little thoughts. Similarly, Qin Mu didn't look favorably on Qin Huairu. If Qin Huairu hadn't married yet and He Yuzhu hadn't become a leader, maybe the two of them would have had hope.

Now, Qin Huairu was already the mother of three children. In Qin Mu's view, even if Qin Huairu rushed to be He Yuzhu's concubine, He Yuzhu might not be willing.

However, Qin Mu was here to serve Qin Huairu during her postpartum confinement, and Qin Mu didn't want to cause trouble, so she saw through it but didn't say it.

Upon hearing this, Qin Huairu couldn't help but feel a little discouraged. However, Qin Huairu then cheered up again, because Qin Huairu remembered the look in He Yuzhu's eyes when he looked at her in the past.

Qin Huairu was sure she hadn't seen it wrong!

"Since there is no suitable one, then I will go myself. No matter what, I cannot let He Yuzhu escape from my palm," Qin Huairu said to herself.

Qin Huairu looked at her body and couldn't help but sigh. No matter what, she had to finish her postpartum confinement first.

In order to squeeze more money from her mother, Qin Huairu told her mother about her plan.

Qin Mu immediately expressed that she didn't look favorably on this matter.

"Mom, you believe me, I will definitely be able to handle Shazhu. Although Shazhu ignores me now, I can't forget the look in Shazhu's eyes. I definitely won't see it wrong," Qin Huairu said firmly.

Qin Mu knew that Qin Huairu had her own ideas since she was a child, and once she had an idea, she wouldn't give up easily, so she stopped opposing. Anyway, this kind of thing was normal. If it succeeded, it would be better; if it didn't, it wouldn't matter.

Seeing that Qin Mu was unmoved, Qin Huairu continued to persuade her.

Qin Mu naturally knew that Qin Huairu's purpose was to ask for money from her hands. Qin Mu still felt sorry for her daughter. When she came, she brought fifty yuan, which was enough for Qin Huairu to finish her postpartum confinement and hold on until Qin Huairu went to work.

Money was available, but the lack of coupons was also a troublesome matter. Qin Huairu knew that she couldn't cause He Yuzhu's resentment now, so she set her sights on Xu Damao, wanting to get through the current difficulties through Xu Damao first.

Xu Damao also had lingering desires for Qin Huairu. Just like this, Qin Huairu let Xu Damao take small advantages from time to time, and then got some food, meat, eggs, and other things from Xu Damao's hands.

Qin Huairu was very smart. She didn't ask for money or coupons, only food, eggs, and meat. At this time, even with money and coupons, you might not be able to buy food and meat. Ready-made food and meat were the most realistic.

He Yuzhu only wanted to live his own little life and didn't pay attention to the beasts of the Siheyuan at all. Naturally, he didn't know that Qin Huairu had already colluded with Xu Damao and hooked up together.

If it weren't for Qin Huairu's body not allowing it, it might be that Qin Huairu had already had an in-depth exchange with Xu Damao.

After the Investigation Team left, the Rolling Mill returned to its previous state. He Yuzhu went to Li Huaide's office at the first opportunity to state his position, saying that he was only responsible for cooking special meals in the kitchen and would not manage anything else. At the same time, He Yuzhu also asked Li Huaide to partition an office for him in the small warehouse next to the kitchen for rest.

Li Huaide was naturally very satisfied with He Yuzhu's statement. Li Huaide liked people like He Yuzhu—skilled, no ambition, and quite loyal. Li Huaide immediately satisfied He Yuzhu's request, immediately had someone partition an office for He Yuzhu, and equipped He Yuzhu with the tables, chairs, and benches needed for the office.

Finally, Li Huaide also thoughtfully equipped He Yuzhu with a bed for rest.

He Yuzhu was also very satisfied. At noon that day, he made a large plate of chicken for Li Huaide under the name of testing a new dish.

Li Huaide was even more satisfied with He Yuzhu.

Reciprocity, right? Anyway, it was all using the factory's materials to win his own favor. Why not do it?

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