Chapter 306: Sha Zhu goes on a blind date with the widow again

Li Shengli said goodbye to Sha Zhu and went out. After going out, Li Shengli looked in the direction of Jia's house and saw the door curtain of Jia's house shaking. Did he hear him say goodbye and hurried home? He looked at the window of Jia's house and saw a big face looking out.

Li Shengli left a contemptuous smile and went back to the front yard without looking back, leaving the old woman in the Jia family's house in helplessness and rage.

In the following period of time, Li Shengli was very honest. Every day during the day when he was at work, he would show off his skills in the restaurant's kitchen and teach his apprentices.

Time passed quickly and it was already 1986. After a long period of preparation, the big hotel invested by Lou Xiao'e was opened. As a Hong Kong businessman, Lou Xiao'e's investment was approved by the leadership. In addition, the management had been very strict recently, so there were no ignorant hooligans coming to cause trouble.

Lou Xiao'e kept her word and, considering that they used to be neighbors, she paid Sha Zhu 2,500 yuan a month. The salaries of other people were calculated separately. Sha Zhu saw that Lou Xiao'e was generous and brought his apprentice Ma Hua over.

Li Shengli had nothing to do all day long. His own restaurant business was pretty good, so he would work as a guest chef in the restaurant from time to time. He also took in two apprentices, and these two apprentices usually practiced their skills in the hotel with his other apprentices.

In the courtyard, Qin Huairu and Qin Jingru saw Sha Zhu's attractive salary, and both of them were tempted, but Qin Jingru was wavering between Sha Zhu and Xu Damao, while Sha Zhu was wavering between Qin Huairu and Qin Jingru.

Xu Damao also noticed that something was wrong. In the past two years, Xu Damao had been looking for a young girl hoping to have a child. Unfortunately, Xu Damao had been trying hard with the young widow for a long time but there was no movement in her belly.

Sha Zhu is busy with the work in the kitchen of Lou Xiao'e Hotel every day. Lou Xiao'e has also met Sha Zhu. Of course, there is no love between them, but they just sigh a little about what Sha Zhu did to Xu Damao in the past.

After three years, Qin Huairu aged three years and now she completely lost the possibility of getting pregnant. Yi Zhonghai had no way to stop Sha Zhu. In fact, Yi Zhonghai had rarely mentioned Sha Zhu in the past two years. Even if Sha Zhu and Qin Huairu were divorced, he still took care of her. There was a reason why Yi Zhonghai wanted to stop Sha Zhu and Lou Xiao'e in the original plot. Yi Zhonghai was afraid that Sha Zhu would follow Lou Xiao'e to Hong Kong.

In fact, it can be seen on TV that after Sha Zhu lost the dividends from the restaurant, the living standards of his family have obviously declined. Qin Huairu takes good care of people, but it won't work without an economic foundation. If Sha Zhu wants to eat well every day, his high salary plays a very important role in this.

If Sha Zhu and Lou Xiao'e left, then there would be no one to support Yi Zhonghai after his death, and his quality of life would obviously decline. Yi Zhonghai understood who Jia Zhang and Qin Huairu were. If Sha Zhu's salary was gone, then his pension would have to support the entire Jia family.

Yi Zhonghai actually doesn't have any good solutions. These are all his own choices. Qin Huairu knows how to take care of people, but this family is very calculating. For Qin Huairu, their family's monthly living expenses are fixed, which is certainly not enough for them to eat meat every day. Now with the addition of Yi Zhonghai's pension, Yi Zhonghai's pension is higher than their living expenses combined.

Li Shengli returned home humming a little tune. The comfortable life in the past few years really made Li Shengli relax. This year, Li Chengqin was admitted to university, so Li Shengli was in a good mood recently. Han Qiuyun had not worked in the woolen mill for a long time. When he opened his own small restaurant, he was afraid that his wife would be tired and did not let her quit. At that time, being a waitress was much harder than being a female worker in the woolen mill. Now that his own big restaurant has been put on the right track, Li Shengli certainly will not let his wife continue to suffer in the woolen mill.

Working in a woolen mill not only makes the air bad, but also causes calluses on the hands. Now Li Shengli has given the position of restaurant manager to Han Qiuyun. Neither Li Shengli nor Han Qiuyun are the kind of people who are cunning and deceitful, so with Li Shengli's guidance, Han Qiuyun quickly got the hang of things.

That day, Li Shengli and Han Qiuyun rode their bikes back to the courtyard from the hotel. The central courtyard was quite lively today. Li Shengli saw a group of people gathered at the hanging flower gate between the Qin Courtyard and the Central Courtyard, watching the excitement in the central courtyard. Li Shengli was very curious and went over.

According to the neighbors' stories, it turned out that Sha Zhu was going on a blind date again. This time, the girl he was going on a blind date with was a widow named Sun who was in her forties. She had two children, and the adults in her family were still alive.

After hearing what these people said, Li Shengli couldn't help but admire Sha Zhu. It would not be easy for Sha Zhu to marry someone. He has been held back by the people in the compound. If he marries this widow, it depends on what choice he will make. Will he choose to move out and live with the widow like his father did, or will he marry the widow and support the widow's family, Qin Huairu's family, and Yi Zhonghai by himself?

Lee Seung-ri was very curious about Sha Zhu's choice, but Lee Seung-ri estimated that he would not be the same as his father. After all, Sha Zhu and his father did not have a good relationship.

"Do you think this Sha Zhu will marry someone?" Yan Bugui also started gossiping. At this time, Yan Bugui's family was still very rich, but he did not come forward to live with Sha Zhu.

"No way, if Sha Zhu moves out of this compound, he will be the same as his father." The third aunt thought about it and thought that Sha Zhu never mentioned his father, so he would not learn from his father.

"It's hard to say, Teacher Yan. Sha Zhu doesn't have any children. As long as that widow Sun gives him a child, what's wrong with him moving in with her?" Li Shengli held a different opinion. If it were Li Shengli's choice, he would not care about Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu's family in the yard. Since he knew that Qin Huairu had an IUD, Sha Zhu should have stopped contacting her family.

I don’t know if Yi Zhonghai brainwashed Sha Zhu too severely, but now Sha Zhu’s life is no different from before except that his salary has not been taken away by Qin Huairu.

Widow Sun also discussed with Sha Zhu for a long time. Sha Zhu also told Widow Sun his conditions. He had to support Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu's family in this courtyard. Of course, Widow Sun was unwilling to do so. If she married Sha Zhu, then Sha Zhu would use his family's money to support another widow and the widow's mother - another old widow. Who could tolerate such a thing?

The final result, of course, was that Widow Sun slammed the door and walked out in anger. Even the matchmaker looked at Sha Zhu speechlessly, saying that there were only wrong names but no wrong nicknames. This Sha Zhu was really stupid.

(End of this chapter)