Chapter 52: This Cup of Green Tea Is No Longer Tasty

Li family's main hall.

Li Shun was busy with medicinal materials without a word.

Knowing that his son was preparing to move out, he couldn't tell if he was happy or sad.

The Deaf Old Lady was sitting at the Eight Immortals table looking at the sketch Li Xuewu drew when he went to work in the afternoon.

Li Xuewu sat opposite the Old Lady and looked at her, saying, "I drew it messily. Can you see if it can be renovated?"

Li Xuewu roughly estimated the dimensions of the four south-facing rooms the day before yesterday and looked at the structure inside the house. Now, with the area inside the screen door plus the west courtyard, the scope for development was even larger.

The Old Lady looked at the drawing and muttered, "The south-facing rooms are 21 meters long and 5.5 meters wide. Change four rooms into three. Divide the west room into two parts. Make the north side a living room and the south side a kitchen, roughly a seven-three split. Open a window on the west wall of the living room..."

Li Xuewu said, "It's okay, Old Lady. It's not like we're starting construction now. If it doesn't work, we'll just clean up one room first."

Seeing that Li Xuewu had a good attitude, the Old Lady stopped persuading him and said with a smile, "It takes so much time to start construction now, so I won't wait for you. I'll build a kang in the west courtyard house first, clean it up, and the two of us will move there first."

Li Xuewu nodded, "Okay."

Liu Yin said dissatisfiedly, "You two are in such a hurry to move out!"

Li Xuewu and the Old Lady both smiled and didn't answer.

Not mentioning Li Xuewu's plan to renovate his house, He Yu Shui pushed her bicycle into the middle courtyard in a panic.

As soon as He Yu Shui entered the middle courtyard, she called out to Seeing Sha Zhu, "Brother, Brother!"

Seeing Sha Zhu heard his sister's voice and came out lifting the door curtain.

"What's wrong?"

He Yu Shui set up her bicycle stand and said to Seeing Sha Zhu, "I heard there was a thief in our courtyard as soon as I entered the door?"

He Yuzhu looked at his sister, who was full of gossip, and said helplessly, "Who told you? It was Banggeng..."

He Yu Shui asked suspiciously, "Was that chicken really stolen by Banggeng?"

He Yuzhu nodded and said to his sister, "Xu Damao and his wife went to find Li Xuewu."

He Yu Shui asked puzzledly, "Why find Li Xuewu?"

He Yuzhu thought about how his sister hadn't been back for a few days, so he explained, "Li Xuewu has joined the Rolling Mill's Security Division as a section chief. Isn't this because Xu Damao wants to go public?"

Actually, Seeing Sha Zhu himself breathed a sigh of relief. Who would want to take the blame for others? Although this Li Xuewu was a bit uncompromising, he was kind enough to help him out of the siege.

He Yu Shui was still bragging for her brother, "I was just saying, the Third Master's wife just said you found a backer."

He Yuzhu didn't want his sister to get involved in the affairs of this courtyard.

"Alright, alright, don't mention this anymore. How are things with you?"

He Yu Shui said indifferently, "It's set. We'll get married during the Spring Festival."

Actually, He Yu Shui couldn't say how much she liked this boyfriend. She grew up like an orphan and was in a hurry to find a reliable man to marry off. This was the reason for finding this partner.

He Yuzhu said with satisfaction, "Okay, this is quite good. Do what you should do. Spring Festival, huh? Marry yourself off to this policeman quickly. It can be considered worthy of our mother's spirit in heaven. Alright, don't worry about my business. Go back to your room. Go back. It's fine now."

He Yu Shui saw that her brother must have some hidden secrets when he looked like this, but since her brother didn't want to say, she was too lazy to care. She carried her bag and went back to her room.

At this time, Qin Huairu, who was listening at the door, rushed out and stopped Seeing Sha Zhu.

"Seeing Sha Zhu!"

Seeing Sha Zhu turned around and saw it was Qin Huairu. He responded with a somewhat unpleasant feeling.

"Seeing Sha Zhu, sister wants to borrow 5 yuan from you. There's no clue for the money to buy chicken tomorrow..."

As soon as Seeing Sha Zhu heard it was borrowing money, he thought about it and took out 5 yuan and handed it over.

"Thank you, still thinking of helping me."

He Yuzhu said embarrassedly, "This... didn't help much either. Xuewu is also wearing that uniform and can't help himself. Just don't hate him."

Qin Huairu certainly couldn't speak ill of that bandit. She shifted the hatred with words: "You say the Third Master is also true. He just hates people not dying. This Xu Damao must have given him some small favors."

He Yuzhu thought about the Third Master digging a hole for him, nodded, and agreed fully: "This Yan Lao Kou is not a good person."

Qin Huairu added more ingredients: "The Second Master is also not a good person. He also said you..."

Qin Huairu just wanted to shift Seeing Sha Zhu's resentment and contradictions to the two masters. Today, Seeing Sha Zhu didn't look at her, which indicated that this Seeing Sha Zhu was slipping out of her control and had to be PUA'd back.

He Yuzhu got a word of thanks and shared hatred, feeling much more comfortable in his heart. He curled his lips and said, "There isn't a good person in this courtyard. They only think about calculating. Hey, I said, is there any news about the matter of introducing your cousin when you took my lunch box last time?"

Qin Huairu wanted to pick herself out in a few words and let Seeing Sha Zhu share hatred with her, but who knew Seeing Sha Zhu would say this.

Seeing Sha Zhu understood very clearly now. Stay as far away from the Jia family as possible, especially Li Xuewu's sentence, "If you don't want to be someone's father, don't spoil other people's children." It touched him greatly. He wasn't unable to marry a wife, so why raise someone else's child?

Widows are good, but don't be greedy.

Seeing Seeing Sha Zhu mention that matter again, Qin Huairu hurriedly fooled Seeing Sha Zhu.

"Do it, do it, do it. Tomorrow. You've helped me, can I not help you? I just told my mother-in-law, and she agreed, letting me introduce my cousin to you. Our two families will be related, and won't you help our family even more?"

Qin Huairu felt a little heartache when she said this. This unclear relationship was the best. She didn't lose anything and could continue to obtain. Once Seeing Sha Zhu got married, there would be many variables.

He Yuzhu joked happily, "That's right. I found that the smartest people in the world are widows."

Qin Huairu had been crying for a while, and her breath was somewhat insufficient. She said coquettishly, "Nonsense."

He Yuzhu got the news he wanted and didn't dare to stay with the widow Qin in the courtyard in the middle of the night. After all, he didn't have the moral shell of the First Master. He hurriedly said, "Rest quickly," and both returned to their rooms.

Early in the morning, Li Xuewu was called up by his mother to eat breakfast and walked to the Rolling Mill.

Because his bicycle was ridden away by Li Xuewen to his father-in-law's house and hadn't returned yet, he could only walk to work.

After arriving at the Rolling Mill and sorting out the affairs of the Security Division, he went downstairs and took the factory guard team to do morning exercises.

The original morning exercises were done as little as possible, and if they could be fooled, they would be fooled.

Li Xuewu didn't let them mess around in the small playground today. He gathered the team for a drill around the factory, and Li Xuewu also took the opportunity to run through the factory area.

"One, two, one!"

"One, two, one!"

"One, two, three, four!"

The Rolling Mill factory area was quite large. It was the scale after several factories merged, no wonder it was a department-level unit.

The entire factory area had two main gates, north and south. Workers and small cars entered and exited through the south gate, while trains, industrial materials, and large vehicles entered and exited through the north gate.

Between the north and south gates was a cement road, with workshops on both sides. Behind the workshops on the east side, close to the railway, were warehouses and material yards.

West of the workshops on the west side were the ice cream factory, food factory, club, auditorium, dormitories, and other areas, as well as a Tuanjie Lake for storing cooling water.

There was also a guesthouse by Tuanjie Lake, which had some entertainment facilities.

To the south was the office building area, with one main building, three annex buildings, and two laboratory buildings. This was the epitome of the factory at that time.

The factory was self-sufficient in everything, with its own kindergarten, primary school, middle school, its own canteen, club, cinema, non-staple food factory, tool factory, labor protection factory, and hospital.

It could be said to be a complete community. ===== CHAPTER 53 =====