Chapter 1257

Weekend.

Nanluoguxiang.

Early in the morning, Cao Weiguo's house became lively.

Because of his meritorious service in anti-corruption, the higher-level unit commended Cao Weiguo, and Deputy Factory Director Nie personally presented Cao Weiguo with a certificate of merit.

Such a happy event, of course, had to be celebrated.

Sure enough, not long after dawn, several apprentices, led by Liu Limin, came to the door, followed by Zhao Mancang, Section Chief Feng, and others.

Seeing Cao Weiguo's house full of guests, the neighbors of the Red Star Sihe Academy were extremely jealous.

"Look at how glorious this Cao Weiguo is!"

"I heard he caught a corrupt cadre and received quite a few commendations."

"Cao Weiguo is really not what he used to be."

"Shazhu, tell me, why don't you learn more from Cao Weiguo?"

"What are you talking about! Learn from him? Bah! He's just a sycophant!"

"Shazhu, what are you saying! Do you believe I'll tell Section Chief Cao!"

"You! You're also a bootlicker and a snitch!"

"Section Chief Xu! Are you going out!"

Shazhu was arguing with a group of neighbors when Xu Damao walked over carrying two bottles of Moutai.

Yan Jiecheng stared at the two bottles of Moutai with eyes shining: "Section Chief Xu, are you going to visit relatives? Moutai! You are really generous."

Xu Damao boasted: "Hi! Weiguo and I are iron brothers. Weiguo has performed meritorious service, so I, as an older brother, have to show something. I really didn't have anything presentable at home, so I only found two bottles of Moutai after searching around."

Hearing that Xu Damao was going to Cao Weiguo's house, Yan Jiecheng felt unhappy.

Shazhu sneered and mocked from the side: "Bootlicker!"

Xu Damao glared: "Shazhu! You're so noble, right! Let's wait and see!"

Leaving behind a sentence, Xu Damao strode away with the wine.

Yi Zhonghai looked at the arrogant Shazhu and couldn't help but feel tired.

If Shazhu could be half as slick as Xu Damao, he wouldn't have ended up in this state.

Jia Zhangshi sat at the door, viciously stitching the sole of a shoe, muttering with a face full of venom: "Every one of them is a dog that looks down on people! They only care about eating and drinking themselves and don't know how to help neighbors in difficulty. Sooner or later, they will face retribution..."

Qin Huairu was already accustomed to Jia Zhangshi's behavior and walked toward the water pool with a full basin of dirty clothes.

Banggeng was a naughty child and would dirty a set of clothes in a day.

Plus the dirty clothes of herself, Xiaodang, Huaihua, and Jia Zhangshi, a pile would accumulate in two or three days.

After getting water from the pool, Qin Huairu washed the clothes with her butt stuck out.

Outsiders saw her washing clothes, but Qin Huairu's mind had long since flown away.

Thinking of Cao Weiguo doing better and better, she felt more and more anxious.

It had been so long, and her relationship with Cao Weiguo was still lukewarm.

Although they occasionally exchanged life experiences, Cao Weiguo would not acknowledge it after pulling up his pants.

Apart from money and goods being cleared, he didn't take care of her at all.

She complained that the work in the workshop was tiring and begged Cao Weiguo several times to help her change positions.

But Cao Weiguo didn't pay any attention to her, which made her teeth itch with anger.

It was a waste of her attentive service; her knees were even bruised...

Qin Huairu was full of resentment, and Shazhu was peeking from not far away.

Just by peeking at those plump curves, Shazhu had a reaction.

"Zhuzi, what are you looking at!"

Yi Zhonghai said with a smile, scaring Shazhu into a shudder: "I'm not looking at anything."

In a short while, He Wenjie led Xu Rui, who had changed into new clothes, past the middle courtyard.

That meticulously dressed, beautiful face made a group of men stare without blinking.

Even Shazhu peeked several times, secretly cursing that a fresh flower had been stuck in cow dung.

How could such a beautiful widow marry Xu Damao?

Wasn't he, Shazhu, a thousand times better than that bad seed Xu Damao who couldn't have children?

Qin Huairu looked at He Wenjie, who was dressed brightly and beautifully, and felt uncomfortable and unconvinced.

She was clearly more beautiful and better at managing a household than He Wenjie; how could she live worse than He Wenjie?

Why was she so unlucky to have married into the Jia family, which was like a fire pit?

If it weren't for the burden of the evil mother-in-law Jia Zhangshi, perhaps she would have remarried long ago, and remarried better than He Wenjie!

Should she drive Jia Zhangshi away?

This thought welled up in her heart once again.

Jia Zhangshi saw He Wenjie leading the child out, and a gleam of light flashed in her eyes.

The Xu Damao family of three had all gone out, so there was no one at home.

Putting down the half-stitched shoe sole, Jia Zhangshi stood up and turned back into the room.

"Eldest grandson!"

Inside the room, Jia Zhangshi walked to Banggeng's side and said in a low voice: "The Xu Damao family of three have all gone out."

Banggeng, who was sleeping in, sat up abruptly as if he had springs installed: "Then I'll go to the backyard to look around."

Rolling off the bed, he put on his clothes in a flurry, and Banggeng first ran to the toilet.

Then he called Xiaodang and Huaihua to run to the backyard to play games.

The three children played hide-and-seek, with Banggeng catching and Xiaodang and Huaihua hiding.

But Banggeng's mind was not on the game at all, and his eyes kept peeking at the Xu family.

Soon, Banggeng found his target; there were quite a few red dates drying on the windowsill of Xu Damao's house.

Under the guise of playing hide-and-seek, Banggeng sneaked to the Xu family's windowsill.

Taking advantage of no one paying attention, he nimbly stuffed the red dates into his pockets. ===== CHAPTER 1259 =====