1952: Walking through Nantongluo Alley

Time flies, the years are like a shuttle.

Half a year passed quickly.

More than half a year has passed since Jia Dongxu last compensated Sha Zhu 200 yuan.

During the past six months, Chen Xiao shuttled between the steel rolling mill and the konjac factory every day.

In half a year, Chen Xiao earned a total of more than 30 yuan in cash from Mokong Shuang, and this was after deducting the dividends given to Qin Huaiguo and others.

Chen Xiao in the purchasing department has also stabilized and delivers 5000 kilograms of flour to the steel mill every week.

That day, Chen Xiao got off work at the steel mill. He first bought a stewed pig's trotter from the Old Drum Tower Street before going home.

"Huai Ru, I'm back."

Chen Xiao parked his bicycle and returned to the house carrying the stewed pig's trotters in his hand.

"Look at my memory. How could I have forgotten to do it for you again?"

As she spoke, Qin Huairu got up from the bed, rubbed her slightly tired head, and prepared to cook for Chen Xiao.

"Huai Ru, go back to your room and rest. Let me take care of the cooking."

"I'm fine. You're already very tired from work, and I have nothing to do at home every day. Let me cook."

"obedient......"

Chen Xiao helped Qin Huairu sit on the bed again.

Then Chen Xiao squatted down and put his head next to Qin Huairu's belly to listen to the sounds inside.

"Our baby will probably be born in the next few days. Just rest peacefully and don't do anything!"

Qin Huairu's pretty face turned slightly red.

She asked with a blushing face.

"Chen Xiao, we haven't chosen a name for our child yet. You're the only one in our family who's educated, so why don't we choose a name now?"

"Choose a name..."

At this time, Chen Xiao was still lying next to Qin Huairu's belly, listening to the movement inside.

In his two lifetimes, this was the first time he became a father.

The joy in my heart is beyond words.

"The girl's name is Chen Mo."

"If it's a boy, he'll also be named Chen Mo."

"Chen Mo???" Qin Huairu looked curious.

"Are you talking about the "Mo" in Kuroiunmo? Is that also the name for girls?"

Chen Xiao shook his head.

"My daughter definitely can't be Kuroikunmo, that would be too unfashionable."

"My daughter's ink is the ink for brushes, paper and inkstone."

"Oh." Qin Huairu repeated the child's name in her heart.

"You know what, it sounds pretty nice. As expected of the most learned person in our family, the names he gave me are just different."

"I heard from Second Aunt that Jia Dongxu has also chosen a name for their child."

"It seems so. The boy is named Banggeng, and the girls are named Xiaodang and Huaihua..."

"Such a rustic name can't even compare to our Chen Mo's name."

Chen Xiao smiled.

Is the world line beginning to converge?

In his previous life, Jia Dongxu married Qin Huairu, who gave birth to a son and two daughters for him.

And they were not born in the same year.

Now Jia Dongxu has named three children at the same time. I'm afraid Jia Dongxu is about to go offline.

"Huai Ru, what if you were pregnant with twins? Two girls?"

"Twins? Impossible?" Qin Huairu was obviously a little unconvinced.

The chance of twins is so small, how can it be so easy to get pregnant?

Even if she really gets pregnant, he still hopes it will be twins, a boy and a girl.

"Nothing is absolute, what if?"

"Why don't I pick another name..."

"The ink for the brush, inkstone, paper, and inkstone has been used up, and the remaining three characters are not suitable for a name. So let's use qin, chess, calligraphy, and painting."

"If they are twin daughters, one will be named Chen Mo and the other will be named Chen Qin!"

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Today is a sunny and breezy day, a special day filled with joy and anticipation for the Jia family. The reason is simply that Jia Zhang is finally going to be freed after her imprisonment ends!

Jia Dongxu was so excited when he heard the news that he wanted to take his mother home to reunite with her as soon as possible. To this end, he applied for and was granted a half-day leave from the factory without hesitation.

In addition, in order to make the journey to welcome his mother smoother and more comfortable, Jia Dongxu specially borrowed the sturdy and durable cart from his second uncle.

At this moment, Tingting, heavily pregnant, was about to give birth, just like Qin Huairu, and her pregnancy was even a few days longer. With great difficulty, Tingting, her enormous belly in her arms, slowly climbed onto the cart. Jia Dongxu stood in front, gripping the cart's handles tightly, ready to pull it towards the detention center.

Time ticked by, until it finally reached two o'clock in the afternoon. With a heavy creaking sound, the long-closed door of the detention center slowly opened...

The shabby door slowly opened, and out walked a hunched old woman in ragged clothes. Her clothes were tattered, as if they had been through countless storms and looked extremely messy.

Even her white hair, which should have been neatly combed, was now growing wildly like weeds, scattered on her shoulders in a disorderly manner, making her look like a mad woman.

"Mom!" A cry filled with joy and excitement was heard. Jia Dongxu saw Jia Zhang from afar and waved his hands excitedly.

More than half a year had passed. When Jia Zhang finally saw her long-awaited son again, tears flowed like a flood, instantly blurring her eyes.

Tear marks were clearly visible on her wrinkled face, and her cloudy eyes were filled with deep longing and concern for her son.

"Dongxu..." Jia Zhang's lips trembled as she called out her son's name with difficulty. Her voice was hoarse but full of tenderness.

Before they had finished speaking, mother and son were already running towards each other impatiently, their steps quick and determined, as if they were afraid that this brief moment of reunion would suddenly slip away.

Finally, when they were only a few steps away from each other, they suddenly stopped, opened their arms, and hugged each other tightly.

"Mom, I'm sorry for making you suffer these days..." Jia Dongxu buried his head deep in his mother's thin shoulders and said in a choked voice.

Hearing her son's words, Jia Zhang's body trembled slightly.

In fact, at this moment, she still felt a trace of resentment in her heart. If Jia Dongxu had listened to her advice and compensated Chen Xiao, perhaps she would not have ended up in jail.

However, at this moment, when she truly felt her son's warm embrace, she could not utter those words of complaint.

Because the person in front of her is her own flesh and blood, whom she raised with great difficulty!

No matter what mistakes her son makes, as a mother, she will always choose to forgive him unconditionally.

"It's not hard, Dongxu. As long as I can see you again, everything I do is worth it. Let's go home..." Jia Zhang gently patted her son's back and comforted him softly. After that, Jia Zhang looked towards the cart.

At this time, Tingting was sitting on the cart with a big belly. Looking at her belly, she was probably going to give birth in a few days.

"Dongxu, Tingting is pregnant???" Jia Zhang asked excitedly.

"Yes, I guess she'll be giving birth in the next two days." Jia Dongxu nodded.

"That's great! It really is God's blessing on our Jia family."

At first, Jia Zhang thought that the bloodline of their Jia family would be cut off in her generation, but she didn't expect that Jia Dongxu would be so successful.

And judging by the size of the belly, it's at least twins.

Otherwise I wouldn’t have such a big belly.

"Dongxu, let's go home quickly. Mom made dumplings specially for you today!" Jia Zhang said with a smile on her face.

Hearing this, Tingting quickly responded: "Mother-in-law, don't work so hard just after you come out. I will prepare dinner this afternoon." As she spoke, Tingting smiled and appeared very polite and sensible.

However, Jia Zhang repeatedly waved her hands, firmly disagreeing: "No, no, look at your belly, it's so big, how can I let you cook? What if something goes wrong? Let me do it!"

As she spoke, Jia Zhang gently touched Tingting's bulging belly, her eyes full of concern and expectation.

After all, Tingting is carrying the only blood of their Jia family in her belly, so there must be no mistakes.

At this moment, Tingting saw that Jia Zhang was so determined, so she stopped refusing and nodded in response, "Okay, thank you for your hard work, mother-in-law."

So, Jia Zhang carefully helped Tingting sit on the cart, while Jia Dongxu pulled the cart hard in the front.

Along the way, the three of them talked and laughed, and the atmosphere was particularly harmonious.

Not long after, they finally returned to the courtyard.

Jia Zhang stepped over the threshold, took a deep breath, and murmured to herself, "Siheyuan... I, Jia Zhang, am finally back."

More than half a year has passed, and I wonder how many people in the courtyard still remember her, Jia Zhang.

Jia Zhang walked into the courtyard with her head held high and her chest puffed out.

"Sister-in-law, you're back?"

The third aunt was holding a baby and enjoying the cool in the courtyard. The baby was her three-month-old child, Yan Jie saw.

The third aunt stood up holding Yan Jiedi and greeted him.

"Yes, I just got out of the detention center. I was really suffocated for the past six months." Jia Zhang did not shy away from the fact that she had been forced to work in a squatting area.

She is thick-skinned, so what if she does some squatting?

"Third Auntie, let's not talk about this for now. We can talk about it another day. I have to go home and make dumplings for my son and daughter-in-law."

Jia Zhang said goodbye to the third aunt, then opened the door of her room and began to prepare dinner.

The third aunt quickly told the news to other neighbors. In a short while, almost the entire courtyard knew that Jia Zhang was released from prison today.

In the room.

While Jia Zhang was busy making dumpling wrappers, she also interrupted to talk about Chen Xiao's family affairs.

"Dongxu, how is Chen Xiao's family doing recently?"

"That's about it..." Jia Dongxu's face showed jealousy as he spoke.

That was the most derogatory thing he could say about Chen Xiao.

Ever since Qin Huairu's belly got bigger and bigger, Chen Xiao's family has been eating meat almost every day, which makes him envious.

Even Tingting would ask him to buy her meat from time to time, but Jia Dongxu's monthly salary was only 27.5 yuan, which was not enough to support their family to buy meat every day.

Why are they all workers in a steel mill? Why does Chen Xiao eat meat every day, while Jia Dongxu can only afford to buy half a pound of pork every few days?

"Did his wife give birth? Was it a boy or a girl?" Jia Zhang continued to ask.

Jia Dongxu shook his head.

"Not yet. I heard from the aunt in the hospital that Qin Huairu's pregnancy is a few days later than Tingting's."

"Oh, so that's it." Jia Zhang thought thoughtfully.

Then her expression changed slightly and she cursed viciously.

"His family is definitely not going to be able to give birth to a son. Just wait and see."

The three of them finished wrapping the dumplings, and Jia Zhang filled the bowls with rice, looking out the window and muttering to herself.

"Strange, what's going on today? Today is the day I'm released from prison, but not a single person came to congratulate me."

"It's okay for others, but as Dongxu's master, it's a bit unreasonable for you, Yi Zhonghai, not to come and visit."

At this time, Jia Zhang did not know that her son Jia Dongxu had severed his master-disciple relationship with Yi Zhonghai.

Jia Zhang brought another porcelain bowl and filled it for Yi Zhonghai.

After serving, he shouted at Jia Dongxu.

"Dongxu, go give your master a bowl of dumplings."

It took a long time before Jia Dongxu's response came.

"Mom, Yi Zhonghai is no longer my master. I have severed our relationship as master and apprentice."

"Son, what did you say? You said that you have severed the master-disciple relationship with Yi Zhonghai?" Jia Zhang was stunned when she heard this.

I was only in prison for half a year, how could such a big thing happen at home?

No wonder Yi Zhonghai didn’t visit her in the detention center for several months. It turned out that he and Dongxu had severed their master-disciple relationship.

"It's nothing, just a small matter." Jia Dongxu said hesitantly.

"It's really no big deal. He's just a master. It doesn't matter whether I have him or not. I've already become a first-class fitter in the steel mill thanks to my talent."

"Really..." Jia Zhang felt a little worried.

Jia Dongxu was interested in Yi Zhonghai's skills, while Jia Zhang was interested in his connections in the compound.

Not to mention anything else, just talk about some trivial things that happen in the compound on a daily basis. That time, Yi Zhonghai was partial to their family.

Even if there was a big thing, Yi Zhonghai would always try his best to make a big thing small or a small thing nothing.

Now that this relationship is gone, the Jia family will have a hard time living in the compound in the future.

After dinner, Jia Zhang decided to ask Yi Zhonghai to accept Jia Dongxu as his apprentice again.

"Uncle, are you home?" Jia Zhang knocked on the door.

"Sister-in-law? Why are you here?"

When he opened the door and saw that it was Jia Zhang, Yi Zhonghai subconsciously prepared to close the door.

Unfortunately, Jia Zhang was quicker and squeezed in directly.

"Master, why did I hear that you and Dongxu severed your master-disciple relationship? Dongxu has been your disciple for several years. Even if he has no merits, he has worked hard. How can this relationship be severed just like that?"

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