After getting off work in the afternoon, Ding Qiunan took Lou Xiaoe back first.
Li Chu bought stir-fried vegetables and rice at a restaurant and took them back.
While eating, Lou Xiao'e said in surprise: "I just said something less. Where are the children? Qiunan, where are your children?"
"Haha" Ding Qiunan laughed so hard: "You just remembered that my children were also taken back by my parents."
"It was so violent that I didn't react." Lou Xiao'e stuck out her tongue.
"Hey, Qiu Nan, let me tell you, the eldest son of the second uncle's family ran away after getting married."
"Run away? What do you mean?"
Li Chu also stopped using his chopsticks and looked at Lou Xiao'e, waiting for her explanation.
“Didn’t Liu Guangqi, the eldest son of the second uncle’s family, get married at the beginning of the year? As a result, he and his wife recently applied to be transferred to work in Tianjin City.
They didn't even tell his father about their job transfer this time, and his family didn't know until they left."
"Ah? Why did he do this?"
Lou Xiao'e shook her head: "Who knows, I only know that after Liu Guangqi left, his second and third sons were in bad luck. They were beaten every day for a small amount and every three days."
"Who's going to hit?" Ding Qiunan felt like he couldn't close his mouth.
At this time, Li Chu interrupted: "It must have been the second uncle who beat me."
"Yes, I was beaten badly, and the house was full of ghosts and wolves howling every day." Lou Xiao'e said while eating vegetables.
"Pfft." Li Chu thought about the scene in his mind and laughed out loud: "Now Guangtian and Guangfu of the second uncle's family are not having a good life at all."
"How can the second uncle beat his own son to death?" Ding Qiunan didn't believe that a father could beat his son like that.
"Qiu Nan, don't believe it. You are really fighting to death. Those two brothers are wearing colorful clothes almost every day. I was so scared when I heard it at home all day long."
"Are Guangtian and Guangfu the second uncle's biological children?" Ding Qiunan was a little dumbfounded and asked blankly.
"You have to ask the second aunt about this. No one else can know." Li Chu suddenly said something again.
"Haha..." His words made the two women burst into laughter.
"What's so funny about this?" Looking at the two women who couldn't stop laughing, Li Chu helplessly shrugged his shoulders and muttered to himself.
"Okay, you two, hurry up and eat. The food will be cold in a while." Li Chu patted the table and called.
After finally finishing their meal, Ding Qiunan and Lou Xiao'e didn't let Li Chu move. They took the initiative to wash the dishes and chopsticks.
Li Chu was sitting on the sofa, flipping through a book, looking at it casually, with one ear raised high, listening to the two women chatting about the gossip in the compound.
"I always feel that what Qin Huairu did was a bit dishonest. She didn't agree to marry He Yuzhu, and her mother-in-law also stopped her from remarrying. The family often eats the food brought back by others." Lou Xiao'e complained to Ding Qiunan there.
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"They are still entangled. Didn't Qin Huairu and her mother-in-law have a fight last time?"
"Once? Just make trouble every once in a while, okay? Our compound has become a joke in the alley now."
"Then you still want to eat He Yuzhu's food?"
"Well, life in the past two years has been much better than in the previous years. He Yuzhu's skills are also good now, and more people ask him to make banquets. He always brings some food when he comes back. Qin Huairu is waiting at the door when he sees the sky,
Whenever she sees He Yuzhu coming back with a lunch box, she will take it away."
"Is this still possible? Why should she take it?"
"Qin Huairu said that she helped He Yuzhu clean up the house, so these meals should be considered as payment."
Ding Qiunan's eyes widened and he looked at Lou Xiao'e in disbelief.
Lou Xiao'e took a bite of the canned fruit that Li Chu opened on the coffee table with a spoon, and said vaguely: "Don't look at me, someone said that, and I was quite speechless after hearing that.
I remember that in the summer, I don’t know who introduced someone to He Yuzhu. The girl seemed to be from a textile factory and came to He Yuzhu’s house as a guest. I heard that the conversation started going well.
As a result, Qin Huairu didn't even knock on the door. He opened the door and walked directly into He Yuzhu's house. In front of the girl, he started to make the bed, and even took the underwear that He Yuzhu had changed into to wash. The girl didn't even look up when she saw this gesture.
He came back and left."
When Ding Qiunan heard this, she no longer knew what to say. It could be said that her outlook on life had been refreshed.
Li Chucai listened with great interest. He was also wondering if he should go there and have a look in the past two days. The compound was becoming more and more interesting.
"Qiu Nan, tell me, you, a young man, and a widow are confused. Which girl can follow you? Who dares to follow you? This day is not enough to make you worry."
"Don't call me a girl, my parents can't agree to it either."
"That's right, our family Damao even told He Yuzhu twice to ask him to be careful, but he didn't understand good people. He also said that Damao was too lazy to worry about things. Damao was so angry that he ignored him again.
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Speaking of this Lou Xiao'e is also full of anger, why is this He Yuzhu so ignorant of praise?
"Then the uncle and the old lady in the backyard don't care?"
"The first uncle is busy looking after his son now. He almost doesn't care about the things in the compound now. But if you find him with anything, the first uncle will still help. As for the old lady, who knows what she thinks
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Li Chu knew that after the first uncle had a child, he would definitely not care too much about the affairs of the compound, and he no longer had to worry about his future pension. Who would want to do those thankless things.
"The situation of the Jia family should be fine now. Why is she still staring at He Yuzhu?" Ding Qiunan was a little confused about this question. When she had dealt with him before, she thought Qin Huairu was a good person.
Li Chu interjected from the side and said: "Who is willing to work hard when they have done so many things for nothing? I am sure that their family no longer does the work in the towel factory."
"Brother Chu, as you said, I really won't do it. The work originally done by their family has been assigned by the neighborhood committee to the family in the next yard."
Ding Qiunan shook her head when she heard this. She didn't expect how long it had just taken for the Jia family to become like this. Seeing that Qin Huairu's family was having a hard time at that time, she was the one who helped get the job at the towel factory under false pretenses. As a result,
If people say they won’t do it now, they won’t do it.
"Alas" Ding Qiunan sighed: "Isn't it good to rely on your own ability to make money to support the family? Their family's life was better than that of the third uncle's family back then. Why is it like this now?"
"I don't know what she was thinking." Lou Xiao'e also couldn't understand that Qin Huairu and her mother-in-law had changed so much in the years since she married into that yard.
Many people in the entire compound had changed so much that Lou Xiaoe was a little dizzy.