Chapter 95

Seeing Li Xuewu offer a cigarette, the driver thought for a moment and accepted it.

They had joined the army at the same time and were in the same period.

The two asked each other about their unit numbers, chatted about military service, chatted about their respective troop lives, and sometimes laughed out loud. There was no longer the caution and restraint in the villa, and even less the unnaturalness when facing power and indifference.

After smoking two cigarettes and wanting to light a third, Dong Wenxue and Director Ren came out. Seeing Li Xuewu standing in front of the car, Dong Wenxue looked at Li Xuewu with a complicated expression but said nothing.

Li Xuewu opened the car door for the two, and he also jumped into the passenger seat without looking at the villa again.

The driver was still the same as when he came, starting the car and returning along the original route without saying a word.

On this journey, the three people in the car all looked out the window without talking, but Li Xuewu felt inexplicably relaxed.

The GAZ jeep sent the three back to the front of Dong Wenxue's house and then turned around and left.

The two whispered a few words, and Dong Wenxue politely sent Director Ren away.

Li Xuewu also proposed to leave, saying there was still something to do at home.

Dong Wenxue knew their family situation, so he didn't keep him much, telling him to come over and sit for a while whenever he was free on Sundays.

Li Xuewu agreed and took his bicycle to ride back.

It was already four o'clock in the afternoon when he arrived home. Just as he put up the bicycle stand and prepared to enter the house, he heard Liu Guangfu in the courtyard shouting and conveying the instructions of the three masters to hold a full courtyard meeting to every household.

Li Xuewu lifted the thick cloth curtain and entered the house, saying to his mother Liu Yin, "Why are there so many meetings? Even opera singers wouldn't dare to be this frequent."

Liu Yin, who was pouring water for him to wash his hands, said, "Xu Damao in the back courtyard beat his wife. They say Xu Damao was fooling around outside, and the three masters are going to handle it."

Li Xuewu remembered what was going on. It turned out to be the work directed by Sha Zhu last night.

Last night, Sha Zhu stripped Xu Damao naked and left him hanging for the night, while Sha Zhu himself slept in the cafeteria for the night.

It has to be said that this Sha Zhu is a person who will stop at nothing to take revenge, a stubborn person who even gave up on his own blind date.

In the morning, Xu Damao woke up from his drunken stupor and was also frozen awake. Seeing himself tied up and becoming a fish on the chopping block, he had no choice but to call Sha Zhu "Grandpa" before being untied.

But Sha Zhu wouldn't let him off the hook, saying Xu Damao wanted to rape a female comrade and he stopped it, and Xu Damao should thank him.

Good heavens, even if Xu Damao had a blackout, he couldn't think of any reason for Sha Zhu to save him; it would be good enough if he didn't watch the fun from the side.

Xu Damao couldn't believe Sha Zhu's nonsense, but he had no choice but to make threats, but he couldn't find his underwear and had to go home in a dejected mood.

On the way home, Xu Damao vaguely remembered what he had said and done last night.

He had been brought out by Li Xuewu's people, and now that he was being cleaned up by Sha Zhu, it must be that Li Xuewu and Sha Zhu had colluded to clean him up.

In fact, the underwear had been secretly stuffed into the stove by Sha Zhu; he didn't even mind that it was dirty, just to retaliate against Xu Damao for undermining him.

When Xu Damao returned to the courtyard, he saw Aunt San and Jia Zhangshi and others gathered by the water faucet looking towards the Li family in the front courtyard and whispering. He guessed that it must be Li Xuewu who had returned with the child.

Xu Damao didn't want to gossip with a group of old women. He didn't deliberately avoid them and wanted to bypass them to go home, but when he walked past, he was glared at by Jia Zhangshi, who spat at him.

Fine! It was all because of that incident with Banggeng. This old woman was still holding a grudge against him.

He went to work every day, and Watching Lou Xiaoe was someone who didn't care about anything and always ran to her parents' house.

But this Jia Zhangshi was at home every day. It was hard to say when he would be ruined by this old woman. No, he had to find something for her to do.

"Yo~ are you ladies chatting?"

Seeing Xu Damao come over to strike up a conversation, these old women felt surprised.

This projectionist Xu was very arrogant. Usually, his family had the best life, and he didn't pay any attention to these "poor people" at all. Why did he come over to strike up a conversation today?

Aunt San lived at the entrance of the front courtyard, and Master San often took advantage of Xu Damao, so the two families were the closest. Aunt San replied, "Damao, did you just get back?"

Xu Damao was afraid that others would know about this matter, so he gave two dry laughs and asked, "I heard you talking about the Li family just now. What happened to the Li family?"

These women didn't know the relationship between Xu Damao and the Li family, so naturally, they wouldn't answer Xu Damao's question.

But Jia Zhangshi knew that the Xu family and the Li family didn't have much of a relationship, and when Xu Damao's father lived here, he didn't get along very well with the Li family.

"We were just talking about the sound of a child crying in the Li family's house. What? Do you know?"

Seeing Jia Zhangshi take the bait, Xu Damao thought to himself, "I was waiting for you. Once I let it slip, you can go and gossip. Then the Li family will definitely clean you up, and the Li family won't have a good time either. This is called killing two birds with one stone."

The Jia family stole his hen, and the Li family was as arrogant as a rooster.

He could ruin these two chickens with a little trick.

"I don't know anything, but it seems I saw Section Chief Li holding a bundle for a child and leaving the assembly workshop yesterday. I don't know anything else."

Xu Damao walked home after finishing his gossip.

What he said seemed to mean something, but also seemed to mean nothing at all, making these women even more suspicious.

"I just said there was the sound of a child crying in their house."

"It really is."

"Could it be picked up?"

"Nonsense, Li Xuewu is only 19 years old, how could he pick up a child? In this day and age, do you think it's the past? Where would he pick one up?"

"But it couldn't be adopted, could it? His brother has only been married for a few months, it's not to the point where they can't have children and need to adopt."

"Not necessarily, it might also be Li Xuewu's. That kid used to be a bad seed, who knows how old the child is and who gave birth to it for him."

"It's really hard to say."

Aunt San curled her lips, thinking to herself that her reminder to Yu Li was really correct.

Let's not mention these few people gossiping here.

Xu Damao walked home to rest, telling his wife about his grievances.

Watching Lou Xiaoe cursed while tidying up Xu Damao's clothes to wash them, but she couldn't find his underwear after looking for a long time. Thinking of the past, she thought Xu Damao had gone out fooling around again.

The couple started tearing at each other, and the fight was quite fierce.

Sha Zhu, who returned shortly after Xu Damao, finally remembered that he had a blind date waiting at home, so he ran home in a hurry.

Because he was thinking about his blind date, he didn't even enter his house after entering the courtyard and ran to Jia Zhangshi to ask if Qin Jingru was there.

Jia Zhangshi was gossiping happily with several old women in the courtyard, having analyzed how Li Xuewu would arrange the child. Seeing Sha Zhu run over, she didn't pay any attention.

Jia Zhangshi also felt that Sha Zhu was unreliable. They had an appointment to meet for a blind date last night, but he disappeared without a trace, so she had nothing good to say about him.

Sha Zhu ran home excitedly, but he never expected to hear from Jia Zhangshi that Qin Jingru had gone back, having left early in the morning.

Sha Zhu was stunned. He wanted to ask if Qin Huairu was there to inquire about the situation, but Qin Huairu was still on duty today.

Although it was a pity that he didn't see his blind date, he suddenly heard the sound of Xu Damao and his wife fighting, knowing that his scheme had succeeded, which vented some of his anger.

But hearing the tone of these old ladies, something didn't taste right.