dognovel Chapter 1360: Not a Kiss
Chapter 1360: Not a Kiss
Chapter 1360: Not a Kiss
How stubborn can this kid Banggeng be?
Let me put it this way, my determination was so great that it couldn't fit in one luggage roll. In addition, I packed my clothes for four seasons into two cloth bags.
Just as Qin Huairu entered the room, she saw her son cleaning up the pots and pans, and putting the chopsticks in his pocket.
"What are you doing?" Qin Huairu's eyes were about to burst into anger, "Are you trying to piss me off to death?"
"Why can't this family accommodate you? Why do you insist on going to the countryside to suffer? Do you think you came out of a crack in a rock?"
"I didn't come out of a crack in the rock." Bang Geng was busy cleaning up, but he said harsh words, "But I don't have a home anymore, and I don't have a mother anymore. You don't need to care where I live in the future."
"How can you talk like that, Bang Geng!"
Jia Zhang had just gone to the school to pick up Xiaodang and Huaihua. When she heard the noise in the corridor, she hurried back.
Needless to say, the mother and daughter started arguing again. This was not the first time, but it was probably the last time.
"Great! What are you doing?!"
Seeing her eldest grandson packing his luggage, Jia Zhang, who spoiled her child, was startled and hurried over to stop him.
But Banggeng was a stubborn boy, so he would never listen to his grandmother. Jia Zhang took off one bundle, and he put that one in. Jia Zhang tried to grab the bowl, and he put away the spoon, and the mother and daughter started to fight again.
Qin Huairu's face was pale as she stood at the door in a daze. Her son's words were like thousands of arrows piercing her heart, hurting her completely. She felt suffocated, frustrated and stunned.
She never expected that these words would come out of her son's mouth, and she couldn't imagine how long he endured before saying them.
She has no home and no mother. Is her eldest son, who has raised her for more than ten years, going to sever the mother-son relationship with her?
Then why had she struggled so hard to survive for the past ten years? Just to hear his heartless words today?
"Bang Geng!" There was no way Jia Zhang could snatch her grandson away from him. While she was making trouble, Bang Geng had already packed his luggage.
"Grandma, don't worry about me." Banggeng put his luggage on his back and was about to leave without even looking at his mother. He said resolutely: "I will take you home when my grandson earns money to buy a house."
"Where are you going?" Jia Zhang panicked, pulling Banggeng's luggage and crying, "Isn't this your home?"
"This is not my home!" Bang Geng gritted his teeth and roared, "She can be a stepmother to others with a shameless face, but I don't have the heart to be a filial son to others."
Snapped--
Who said that one hand can't clap? Qin Huairu's slap on her son's face made a loud noise.
Not only was Bang Geng, who was being beaten, stunned, but even Qin Huairu, who was beating him, was dumbfounded. Jia Zhang, who was standing behind Bang Geng, was furious and reached out to grab Qin Huairu's face, but was stopped by Liu Guoyou, who had been standing outside the door for a long time.
"Old lady, don't be impulsive. Huairu is also doing this for the child—"
"Get out - get out of here!" Jia Zhang was like a madman, her eyes full of cruelty and resentment.
While they were tearing each other apart, Qin Huairu seemed to be completely unaware. Seeing Banggeng turn around and leave, she came to her senses and grabbed her son's luggage.
Bang Geng tore it with all his strength, turned around and glared at her angrily, "I can leave even without this luggage, I'll just give it to you, just in case I don't owe you anything."
After saying that, Zhen stopped arguing with his mother, threw down his luggage and ran out the door.
Unfortunately, as soon as I walked out the door, I ran into the two "sisters" who lived opposite me. They were Liu Guoyou's two daughters.
The two sisters stood quietly at the door and looked at him. They saw the bustle going on opposite to them, their eyes full of mockery and contempt.
This look hurt Bang Geng's sensitive nerves even more. He ran down the stairs without any lingering feelings or reluctance.
Behind him, Jia Zhang had gone mad, pushing Liu Guoyou and pointing outside the door, crying, "Bang Geng! Come back! Bang Geng!"
Qin Huairu was already numb, the luggage bags in her hands were scattered all over the floor, Xiaodang and Huaihua were crying breathlessly.
Looking at the sister next door, she really feels like she has shot herself in the foot. It is not easy to be a stepmother.
Liu Guoyou was not a bad person. He stopped the old lady because he was afraid that Jia Zhang would catch Qin Huairu. Now that Banggeng had run away, he wanted to abandon the old lady and chase the child, but he was afraid that the mother and daughter would fight.
"Huai Ru! Go after him!"
He let go of the old lady, grabbed Qin Huairu's hand, untied the luggage straps, and ran out with her.
Qin Huairu's eyes were still on the two sisters next door. Liu Guoyou had no time to care about these things. He just felt a headache.
From the day they got engaged, he knew this would happen. Banggeng looked at him as if he were an enemy.
Little did he know that even Dorgon couldn't solve the problem, and he was still full of fantasies about unknown troubles. Isn't this just asking for trouble?
In Banggeng's eyes, the person who stole his mother was either an enemy or his father.
You little brat, you don't understand anything.
Ever since his mother got married, Banggeng has never looked at him straight in the eye or spoken a word to him.
Originally, Liu Guoyou was thinking about finding an opportunity to talk to his stepson, even if it was just about a common hobby.
Unfortunately, he never had the time. After getting married, he started to clean up the house and decorate two houses, and he was also busy with work at the company.
After finally moving and living together, he thought about what things could not be said when the two of them got together.
As a result, within two days, Banggeng started to make trouble. On the first day, he decided not to go to school, and on the second day, he decided to move to the countryside.
Who's in the country?
You know what, Banggeng really has relatives. His grandparents and uncles are all in the countryside, in the Red Star Commune, and he also set his sights on the mountains.
But Qin Huairu couldn't bear to let her son suffer, and she was determined to persuade her son, even if it meant learning cooking from Sha Zhu.
As long as you stay in the city, you will have the opportunity to succeed. A cripple like Yan Jiefang can support his family, let alone Bang Geng.
She had already made up her mind that if her son didn't want to go to school, she wouldn't force him to go down this path. He could just study for two more years to recuperate.
When he graduated from junior high school, he came down to learn cooking from Sha Zhu. With her ability and connections, it was not easy to arrange for her son to work in the guesthouse.
There is really no backdoor access to general positions in the group, only these special talents have room for negotiation.
Don't laugh, in Director Li's opinion, cooks are considered special talents.
If you want to know what is so special about Banggeng, it’s because he has a mother. What a special relationship they have.
It's just that she planned it very well, but she didn't explain it clearly to her son. Now even if she explained it clearly, Banggeng would not agree. Banggeng wanted to leave this family as soon as possible to avoid seeing her become a stepmother to others.
The root of the conflict was not how she wanted to arrange for her son, but that her decision to get married did not take her son's feelings into consideration.
This was all her own fault. She always said that she would live with her son, hoping that he would grow up and start his own family.
Banggeng has heard this since he was a child. Although he usually appears impatient, he has already established the ideal of supporting the family and protecting the whole family in his heart.
What happened? His mother found someone to rely on and even moved out to become someone else's stepmother.
The first night after moving upstairs, Banggeng couldn't sleep. Although he had his own room and a proper bed, he didn't feel a sense of belonging to this building.
But his grandmother was happy, his two younger sisters were happy, and the whole family was happy, and if he didn't accept it reluctantly, he would make them sad.
Banggeng, who was already like a little adult, tried hard to hold back for two weeks, but he couldn't hold it back in the end. The trigger was that slap.
Not to mention that Liu Guoyou and Qin Huairu ran all over the Workers' New Village but couldn't find Banggeng, nor did they mention that they would face Jia Zhang's anger and curses after returning, let alone the crying of the whole family.
Where did Banggeng go?
"Hey! Brat, what are you doing?!"
Sha Zhu was riding his bicycle back from a restaurant in East City when he met an angry big-faced cat on the way.
Having grown up watching Bang Geng, there was no way he could make a mistake. Even though it was dark, there was no mistaking that chubby big face.
Banggeng turned around and saw that it was him, but turned his head away, not wanting his uncle to see the slap mark on his face.
But his attempt to cover up his mistake did attract the attention of Shazhu, who kicked the bike hard and stopped it horizontally in front of Banggeng.
"Let me take a look." He stretched out his hand and pinched Bang Geng's face, and before Bang Geng could dodge, he had seen it clearly.
"Who hit you?" Sha Zhu frowned and asked, "Did you fight with your classmates?"
"Come on, I'll take you to his house!"
He was a bit reckless and couldn't stand seeing Bang Geng getting beaten, so he pulled him into the car and wanted to go back.
Bang Geng had already seen the slap marks on his face, so there was no way he could hide. He just shook his hand and said, "No need, I hit myself."
"Bullshit!" Sha Zhu raised his eyebrows and cursed: "Where is your strength, you coward, I will take you to get revenge."
"Really, there's no need for that—" Bang Geng dodged his pull, walked around him and walked forward, faster and faster.
The more he acted like this, the more worried Sha Zhu became. How could he let Banggeng walk into the city alone in such a cold day?
Only when he thought of this did he realize something was wrong. Banggeng's family had already moved away, so why did he come back?
"Bang Geng, tell me, what happened?"
He pushed the cart and chased after him, holding Bang Geng's shoulder and said, "I'm your master, and you don't even trust me?"
"Master?" Banggeng suddenly stopped and murmured, looking up at Shazhu. Yes, this was his master.
"You are stupid, if I am not your master then who am I?"
Sha Zhu raised his hand and gently wiped the slap on Big Face Cat's face, but he was hit so hard that his face was bruised.
"Your mother beat you, didn't she?"
At this point, how could he not figure out why Banggeng ran away from home.
"Did you make your mother angry again? What on earth is it because of? Didn't I tell you last time not to make your mother angry?"
"Master, do you believe me or her?"
Banggeng seemed to have found his backbone, looking into his master's eyes and waiting for his answer.
Sha Zhu was also stunned for a moment, then he gently slapped Bang Geng on the other side of his face and cursed: "You bastard, you are my disciple, who else can I trust if I don't trust you?"
"Woo——" Although he was slapped by his master, Banggeng didn't feel any pain at all. He just felt wronged.
Seeing Bang Geng suddenly burst into tears, Sha Zhu panicked and quickly hugged his apprentice and asked, "Did I hurt you?"
Banggeng hugged his master and cried loudly, as if he wanted to cry out all the grievances in his heart.
He never thought this cheap master was so great before, until today he realized that he was his only support.
When Sha Zhu saw the child crying and shaking his head, he thought that the mother and daughter were quarreling again, so he quickly tried to coax him.
Just now I had to say that I trusted this disciple. If there was any hesitation, this kid would not have done this.
But the fact that he could cry like this with me shows that he trusts me, so there is always room for negotiation.
"Okay, stop crying. It's so cold, your face will be covered with sobs. You look like a potato."
Sha Zhu rubbed his big head and asked, "I'll give you two choices. Either I take you home and talk to your mother..."
"I won't go home!" Bang Geng broke free from his arms and shouted, "I will never go back to that house again. That's not my home!"
"Then come home with me." Sha Zhu said straightforwardly, pointing to the back seat and saying, "When your aunt comes back tonight, we'll make chicken stewed with mushrooms. It's delicious."
"Hurry up!" Seeing that Banggeng was still dawdling, Shazhu glared at him and said, "My family is waiting for me to cook. Let's go."
Banggeng knew that he could not escape the clutches of his master, so he could only get into the car from the back, but his tears began to fall again.
Young people don’t understand the differences between close and distant relatives, and sometimes they can’t even tell who is truly good to them.
But young people are also innocent. They can feel who is good to them and they want to give all their trust to the other person.
Sha Zhu pedaled hard against the cold wind, turned his head to look at his apprentice in the back seat and asked, "You wanted to go back to the compound?"
"Hmm..." Bang Geng hesitated for a moment and explained, "I didn't bring any luggage when I came out, so I wanted to go back and spend the night there."
"And then?" Sha Zhu followed up his words and asked, "Where are you going tomorrow?"
He asked wheezingly, "Even if you run away from home, you have to have somewhere to go, right? Can you sleep under a bridge?"
"I'm going to my grandpa's house in Miyun tomorrow." Banggeng was a simple-minded man and told his master everything.
"I want to raise chickens. I know how to raise chickens. I will raise a flock of chickens."
He grabbed the hem of his master's clothes and tried to explain his grand wish, "Chickens lay eggs, and eggs lay chickens. As long as I take good care of these chickens, I will never lack money in my life."
"I want to buy a house, a car, and bring my grandmother and sister out to live with me..."
"Have you ever thought about how to live in the mountains?"
Sha Zhu didn't mind pouring a basin of cold water on his little apprentice to calm him down in the coldest days of winter.
"Let's not talk about the cost of raising chickens and the money for feed. Let's just talk about how you can survive in the mountains."
He pedaled the bike and said, "Do you think you are a stone man? If you don't eat or drink, where will the food come from?"
"You are the rice and flour jar, you make rice and flour yourself, right? Your mother worked hard to earn money to buy them."
"I can cook for myself." Banggeng defended himself, "I won't starve to death. At worst, I can borrow some food from my grandfather."
"You've really grown in patience."
Sha Zhu also found this childish talk funny, and continued to ask, "Have you ever thought about where you would live, in a cellar?"
"I never thought about it before, but now I don't have to think about it."
Banggeng didn't want to cry anymore as he was imagining his future career with his master. He patted his master on the back and said, "I'll listen to you. I'll just live in a cellar in the mountains."
"Hey - I'm your advisor!" Sha Zhu said jokingly, "Silly boy, it's so cold down there, how much colder must it be up there? The ground there is as hard as iron."
No matter how carefully Banggeng considered his career, he never expected that it would be so difficult to survive independently.
Did you ever dream of traveling around the world with a sword, but later canceled your plan because you were hungry?
***
"Hey, Seventh Brother, why are you back again?"
Sha Zhu pushed his bicycle into the yard and saw Lao Qi standing in the gatehouse, so he greeted him with a smile.
Lao Qi's eyes were fixed on the stick in the back seat of his car, and he said with a smile, "It's all for this living ancestor."
"Bang Geng, your mother is looking for you all over the world. She's almost going crazy. Why are you so ignorant... Hey! Bang Geng!"
Lao Qi dared to swear to heaven that he said these words out of good intentions, but they touched Bang Geng's stubborn reverse scale.
When the kid heard what Uncle Seven said, he turned around quickly and ran out as if he was afraid of being blocked in the courtyard.
The seventh brother had just taught him a lesson, but when he saw the kid running away again, he didn't dare to say anything more.
He came out of the gatehouse, but Shazhu quickly parked the bike and ran out with Banggeng, chasing Banggeng together.
It was pitch dark. It gets dark after 4:30, and now it's past 6:30 and there's still no light in the alley.
Banggeng was like a little black mouse, hiding in dark corners where no one could find him. He almost drove Shazhu and Laoqi to death in anxiety.
Fortunately, Li Xuewu's car came into the alley, and under the light, Banggeng, who was hiding behind the trash can, had nowhere to hide.
"You little bastard, you're trying to play tricks on me!"
Lao Qi was so angry. It was a good thing that they ran slowly and Li Xuewu's car lights came quickly, otherwise they would have been out of the alley.
What was Banggeng thinking? He must be waiting for them to find him out and then running away from the other side. How could he be caught by them?
"You've used all your cleverness on this, haven't you?" Lao Qi was really scared. If he lost Qin Huairu's son again, he would definitely be blamed.
Lao Qi wanted to catch him, but Bang Geng just stood on the side of the road motionless, looking at Uncle Wu who got off the car, tears streaming down his face uncontrollably, as if he had seen a relative.
"What are you doing? Are you playing eagle catches chicken?"
Li Xuewu closed the car door, looked at the three people standing there with cross-eyed faces, and waved, "Come here."
Banggeng was no longer as cunning as before and walked towards this side obediently. Shazhu and Laoqi were both angry and amused.
He was still unconvinced and unwilling to accept the challenge when the two of us were competing with him in wits and courage, but when he saw Li Xuewu, he was like a kitten.
"Uncle Wu——" Banggeng greeted him in a hoarse voice.
"Well, what's wrong with you?" Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows, looked at him, and asked, "Is he blocked by someone?"
"Hehe, he was beaten by his mother." Shazhu and Laoqi came over, glanced at Banggeng, and explained with a smile.
Lao Qi explained somewhat sheepishly, "I just got off work from the factory, and I saw Sister Qin frantically looking for her child. She said Banggeng had escaped, and asked me to help look for him."
"I thought this guy might come to the compound, so I took a shortcut and rushed back, hoping to stop him."
"I also picked him up on the way." Sha Zhu added, "I saw him walking back alone and was worried that something might happen to him."
"That's enough. There are no tears left."
Li Xuewu reached out his hand to wipe the cold tears off Big Face Cat's face and reminded him, "You have a wound on your face. If you keep freezing, you will suffer in the future."
"Wow, Uncle Wu." Bang Geng raised his hand and wiped away his tears, saying, "Men don't shed tears easily, but they are just not too sad. I am really sad, wow--"
"Hey, don't bother with me with your literary talent."
Li Xuewu put his arm around Big Face Cat's shoulders and teased him, "Look at your flesh and blood, and you're still sad. How can you be kind? Even if you have grown up, this flesh and blood has made you petty."
With his teasing and coaxing, Big Face Cat didn't cry so hard and let him lead it to the yard.
When Lao Qi saw that the person had been caught, he said he wanted to go home because his family was waiting for him to have dinner and he also had to bring a letter to Qin Huairu.
"Why are you leaving? It's not easy to come back."
Sha Zhu stopped him, pointed to the courtyard and said, "We'll have chicken stewed with mushrooms tonight. Let's have a drink here."
"That won't do. Sister Qin's family is worried." Lao Qi explained, "When I came out, she looked very anxious. I don't know where she's going to look for me now."
"Call the duty room." Li Xuewu turned around and said to Lao Qi, "I'll eat here tonight too, brother Qi, don't leave."
"This-this is so embarrassing."
Lao Qi thought about it and a smile appeared on his face. He was not greedy for the chicken stewed with mushrooms, nor was he greedy for the wine.
What is Li Xuewu’s identity?
Don't listen to the nonsense of those nagging people in the office. There are very few good people in the Li family. They are more cunning than honeycomb briquettes.
Who would believe that Li Xuewu is going to be finished?
Anyway, Lao Qi didn't believe it. Even if Li Huaide was said to be finished, he didn't believe that Li Xuewu was going to be finished.
When drinking with Li Xuewu, I don't care how much he can take care of me, I just want this identity and qualification. It will be so impressive if I tell others about it.
He really didn't expect to ask Li Xuewu for anything, but after this drink, he would dare to brag to his classmates tomorrow about the meal and wine he had with the secretary-general. This is the glory he wanted.
"You're from Salem, why are you doing this?" Sha Zhu laughed and scolded him as he pushed him towards the yard, still talking about making a phone call.
Does Qin Huairu have a phone at home?
Of course not. Not to mention the director of a guesthouse, even the cadres at the section level rarely have telephones installed in their homes.
The reason why Li Xuewu's family called was because he was the deputy director of the Security Department and also the head of the department.
However, a public telephone is installed in every five residential buildings in the Workers' New Village, and someone is on duty to answer calls and manage it.
Sha Zhu called the duty room and asked them to contact Qin Huairu's home and tell them that the child had been found in the compound.
After finishing the work, he put on his apron and went to the kitchen to cook. The house was bustling with activity because Li Xuewu had returned.
***
"Seventh Brother, how does it feel to live upstairs?"
Xiaoyan came in and poured hot water for them, while Shen Guodong helped and amused Lao Qi who was sitting on the kang.
Lao Qi touched the heated kang under his buttocks and said with a chuckle, "It's good, it's clean, but it doesn't have this."
"I really miss this heated bed. I froze to death sleeping on the wooden bed in the middle of the night, and finally got warm in the second half of the night. I had to get up to work after sleeping for a while. No matter how I think about it, I feel so bad."
"Hahaha--"
In fact, living upstairs is not as weird as he said. It’s just that Lao Qi likes to make a lot of noise and his words are a performance.
Naturally, everyone enjoyed listening to what he said. They laughed, asked him questions, and teased him to continue talking.
There were no mobile phones for entertainment these days. After work, if we didn’t turn off the lights and play tricks on others, we would just get together and chat.
Say whatever you want in heaven and on earth.
It's only been two weeks since he moved upstairs, but Lao Qi already misses the life in this compound.
"You don't know, when I get home from work and walk upstairs, I can talk to people for a while."
He introduced with gestures: "Once you enter the house and close the door, no one can see each other."
"You said you wanted to talk to someone, but the door was closed. How dare you knock on it?"
He sighed as he said this, "I've been feeling suffocated these days. I wouldn't have come to this building earlier."
"You should behave well when you get a bargain, right?"
Sha Zhu worked quickly. When he was almost done in the kitchen, he stood at the door and teased Ke Zi.
"Who laughed at me for being so stubborn and insisting on living in this shanty town when there are high-rise buildings available? Was it you?"
"I'm wrong, I'm wrong, okay?"
The seventh brother cupped his hands and said with a smile: "If I had known this would happen, I would have listened to you. Why would I have wasted my time?"
"Just because you can't find anyone to talk to, you don't want to move?"
He Yushui also went home today after a day off. She also bought an apartment, and it was her brother who took care of the tidying up of it.
Perhaps he felt that he owed his sister, so Sha Zhu decorated He Yushui's house inside and out.
Even the furniture and daily necessities were prepared by the couple, so you can really move in right away.
Yu Shui didn't miss the people in the compound at all, but she couldn't help missing her brother, sister-in-law, and the fat boy He Zhuang.
Besides, most of the people in the compound have moved away, and no one is talking about her behind her back, so there is no pressure to come back here.
She really didn't know that Li Xuewu was coming back tonight. It was only after she got off work that she found out that Uncle Li and his wife had gone to the Northeast, and Li Xuewu went to see his parents off.
Listening to Old Seven's lively talk, Yu Shui also took over the conversation with a smile, "You feel inconvenient, but those who are impatient to talk feel quiet now. In the past, this courtyard was only filled with noise from you."
"Hahaha--"
They were all peers, so there was nothing wrong with He Yushui joking with him, and Lao Qi also felt amused when someone continued the conversation.
"Come to think of it, going upstairs is more convenient for going to work. I don't have to get up early, and I have time to cook in the evening."
The seventh child took a sip of tea and said with emotion: "It is even more convenient for children to go to school and go out to play. They can just run a few steps to school."
"In the past, we had to take the bus and the school bus, but now we can save on everything. Even going to the hospital for medical treatment has become much more convenient."
……
"I can't bear to leave. I really can't bear to leave this compound." Even after dinner, Lao Qi was still sighing as he picked up his glass of wine, "I am very happy to move upstairs, but I am also very sad to leave the compound."
"You get all the good things?"
Shazhu picked up a piece of chicken with chopsticks and said with a smile: "Why don't you move back home?"
The slap marks on Banggeng's face were greasy after he applied ointment, but it didn't affect his meal, but he was a little silent at the moment.
Everyone in the room had already seen him being beaten. There was nothing to hide, but it would be embarrassing to say it out loud.
Fortunately, although there were a lot of people today, no one chased him to ask about the injury on his face or why he came back today.
Li Xuewen and Zhao Yafang are not coming back to stay tonight as the snow is heavy on the road, so they are staying overnight in the room they have been assigned at school.
Ji Yuxiu was on duty tonight, and Li Xuecai was also on night duty, so neither of them came home. Only the old lady was with Li Xue and Li Tang.
Not only were there orders for the people in the courtyard to be transferred, but there were also a few fewer people at every gathering in the back room.
Wen Saner quietly returned to the capital to recuperate without telling anyone. Only Fei Shanying took a long vacation to go home and take care of him.
Without the second master, the eldest grandmother seemed a little lonely. She didn't like to talk or join in the fun, so she just held her glass and watched the young people talking and making noise.
"Secretary General, I have one more question."
After listening to Old Seven's nonsense, Sha Zhu turned around, raised his glass and asked Li Xuewu with a smile, "The house in this courtyard has been vacated, so what's the next step?"
I just mentioned that the seventh brother is moving back home. The houses are ready. He just needs to give up the house in the Workers' New Village.
The seventh brother sighed and said that there was no way he could go back.
It is true that it cannot be returned, as the house procedures have been changed. Although the house here is temporarily vacant, it is not ownerless.
Shazhu also knew this, and was just asking him about this out of idle chatter.
"This is no secret. Maybe it will be announced before the New Year or the New Year." Li Xuewu put down his chopsticks and nodded, saying, "The group is considering whether to set up a property management company."
"If a property management company is established, the property management of the workers' new village and the riverside community under construction, as well as the current vacated and replaced houses, will be under the management of the property management company."
He introduced: "If a company is not established, these businesses will be matched to the business management department according to actual management responsibilities."
"As for logistics work, we can't get around them."
Li Xuewu picked up his chopsticks and took a bite of the food before continuing, "The vacant compound will be repaired according to the actual situation, increasing the building area and restoring its integrity."
"Repair the old yard?" Sha Zhu asked in surprise, "What for? Will it be distributed to the factory workers? Or to the leaders?"
"It's impossible to divide it further." Li Xuewu shook his head slightly and explained: "Such a compound can be used for the office of the group's branches, such as banks, restaurants, guesthouses, etc."
"It is also possible that the entire yard will be rented out to other units for office or residential use, but it will not be rented to individuals, and changes to the existing building structure and function are not allowed."
"What about a compound like ours?"
Sha Zhu was still concerned about this, raised his eyebrows and asked, "You can't really stuff more people in like you said before, right?"
"It's inevitable, it will happen." Li Xuewu said confidently. He smiled and explained, "The courtyards or housing groups that have not been completely vacated will coordinate and relocate the remaining residents to vacate as many courtyards as possible."
"Of course, even coordination and collection require time and procedures, and cannot be completed in a short period of time."
He saw the worry in Sha Zhu and the others' eyes, and explained helplessly: "For this type of housing group, we will carry out unified repairs and management, and the residents who have been transferred here will also be compensated for the moving expenses. We will try our best to ensure that they are resettled nearby and properly."
"If our group were to coordinate the resettlement ourselves, it wouldn't be so troublesome, after all, there are residents from other units."
Li Xuewu nodded and introduced: "This is the condition set by Dongcheng District. It is to protect the interests of existing residents."
"What about our courtyard?"
Sha Zhu was reluctant to give up his main house, which he had renovated with great difficulty and was in such a good location, so how could he bear to give it away?
Li Xuewu glanced at him and consoled him: "Even if we need to resettle them, the minority must be integrated into the majority."
"And there are many factors to consider here, such as the principle of proximity for residents of the same unit, the principle of distinguishing between conflicting residents, and so on."
He explained all the ins and outs of this to the people in the room, so that they wouldn't have to worry about it and keep asking him questions.
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Everyone in the room was talking and drinking, when Qin Huairu and her husband came into the courtyard braving the wind and snow.
Both of them looked unhappy. Qin Huairu still had tears on her face, and she looked like she was frozen into ice lumps.
The family is in turmoil, the children cause chaos, the couple is in discord, and the troubles are endless.
The liveliness at the table was interrupted by the sudden arrival of the couple. Everyone in the room looked at them in surprise.
The couple looked really miserable. Not to mention the mud splashed all over their bodies, they looked so terrified and scared when they saw the stick.
When Bang Gengda saw his mother enter the room, he put down his chopsticks, sat there with his head down, and said nothing, his body trembling.
Seeing her son sitting there with his head down, with a swollen slap mark on his face facing them, Qin Huairu felt as if her heart was being cut by a knife. Even if she was feeling very upset, she couldn't say it out.
She wished she could die outside so that her son wouldn't treat her like an enemy and not want to pay any attention to her.
"Sister Qin, Brother Liu, get on the bed quickly."
Xiaoyan jumped off the kang and quickly made way for them in her slippers. Shen Guodong also made arrangements to move the table for drinking.
"Stop working, we're not hungry."
How could Liu Guoyou have the heart to eat? He was too ashamed to face his neighbors at this time.
If Banggeng was his own son, he would be fine, but he ran away from home? Leizi slapped him in the ears and made him behave himself.
But after all, he is not her biological son. Qin Huairu would glare at her if she said one more word or interfered with him.
You can't even say anything, let alone hit me.
The child ran over with a slap mark on his face, and even though the neighbors here knew that he didn't hit the child, he would still blush.
People would probably say that if there is a stepfather, there must be a stepmother, and that he was the one who instigated Qin Huairu to beat the child.
Otherwise, why didn't this happen before they got married? It's just that he is an extra person.
So being a stepmother is difficult, and being a stepfather is even more difficult.
"I've been looking for the child all night, and he still says he's not hungry."
Shen Guodong also got down from the ground, and together with Xiaoyan, he pulled Liu Guoyou and Qin Huairu onto the kang, and sat on the kang table.
Qin Huairu's eyes could not leave her son for a single second, and the tears on her face seemed to be flowing like a thread.
She didn't say anything, just cried. The atmosphere at the dinner table was depressing because of her crying. Who dared to persuade her?
Bang Geng was right next to Li Xuewu, and his hand under the table was grabbing his pants and wouldn't let go.
"Are you scared now?"
Li Xuewu glanced at the couple, picked up the wine bottle and poured white wine into the two glasses that Xiaoyan found.
Shen Guodong sat next to them, placed the wine glasses in front of them, and urged them to have a drink to warm themselves up.
"You feel relieved after giving him this slap, but you don't even think about the fact that Banggeng is no longer a child. Do you want your son or not?"
"Bang Geng, do you hate me so much?"
Qin Huairu burst into tears after hearing what Li Xuewu said. She looked at her son and asked, "You don't even want to call me mom?"
Banggeng has calmed down a lot now and can't say things like "I don't have a mother" in front of so many people.
Although he lowered his head, he could still see his mother crying as she sat opposite him. However, the resentment in his heart blocked his throat and he couldn't speak.
"Yes, it was wrong of me to hit you, but you have to let me, your mother, have something to say, right?"
Qin Huairu cried and said, "I worked so hard to raise you, just wanting you to go to school for another two years so that you can learn more knowledge and skills. How can I be sorry for advising you like this?"
"Yes, I am sorry to you, to your father, to your grandmother, and to your Jia family."
The more she spoke, the more tears came into her eyes. She let them flow into her mouth without wiping them away, and cried hoarsely, "I'm sorry to everyone, but you don't have to ruin yourself to punish me."
"I gave birth to you and raised you. If I ever feel sorry for you, please tell me and I will die to make you feel better."
"Okay, that's enough."
Li Xuewu raised his hand and twisted Banggeng's head, revealing the slap mark and said, "If the mother and daughter fight, both of them will be injured."
"I also grew up at this age. I was so stubborn back then. Now when I think about it, I want to slap myself in the face."
He let go of my hand and continued, "But the only people in this world who can tolerate the me of that time are my father and my mother."
"Sometimes, even though we can reason with them, parents just try to save trouble and solve the problem with a slap. Now think about it, can a slap solve all problems? It just makes the problem bigger and bigger."
"What can I do—"
Qin Huairu glared at Li Xuewu and cried, "He skipped classes and came back to tell me that he didn't want to study anymore and wanted to go to the mountains to raise chickens."
"I just wanted him to get better, but I couldn't explain it. I went to Teacher Ran with all my stuff and begged him. What could I do?"
"Teacher Ran hasn't talked to him yet. When I got home, I saw him packing his luggage to leave, and he was arguing with his grandmother..."
"Uncle Wu, stop talking." Bang Geng raised his head and looked at Li Xuewu pleadingly, saying, "Can you please send me off?"
"Okay, but you have to make it clear."
Li Xuewu nodded and said, "Haven't you heard that if you are right, you can go anywhere, but if you are wrong, you can't go anywhere."
He patted the big-faced cat's head and taught him, "If you can't figure out the principles at home, you won't be able to do it outside."
"I...I don't want to talk anymore." Bang Geng lowered his head again and said in a deep voice, "She doesn't understand what I'm saying, and doesn't want to listen to me. There's no point in talking, so just send me away."
"Child, if you leave like this, your mother will die in front of you." Liu Guoyou advised with a bitter face: "If it's because of me and your mother that you are upset, then your uncle is here to apologize to you."
As he said this, he actually raised his glass to toast Bang Geng. Bang Geng was also stunned when he heard his words. He is still a child after all.