Courtyard House: My Wife is Xu Huizhen

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"He works in an office, who would dare to bully her? Is she on her period?"

He Yuzhu knew that he was the one who could bully Xu Xiaomei, so he certainly wouldn't admit it.

“But this isn’t when she’s on her period.” Xu Zhaodi was a little confused.

He Yuzhu said, "I don't know, but no one in the factory bullies her."

It's not entirely wrong to say that I was bullied on the street.

He Yuzhu quickly picked up the child and changed the subject to the child.

Xu Zhaodi suddenly sighed and said, "Zhuzi, when my father went in, I wasn't even married yet. Now the child is all grown up, and my father has only just come out. Thinking about it, I hate Yi Zhonghai to death."

“We’ve already been released, in less than four years. Think about it, our neighbors still live here.”

"How can that be the same? I mean, my dad definitely won't have a job now that he's out here."

He Yuzhu nodded and said, "This matter is not urgent, we'll talk about it later."

The two chatted for a while, and suddenly the small door opened, and Xu Wude walked out surrounded by people.

Zhao Di immediately opened the car door, ran over, and threw herself into her father's arms, bursting into tears.

He Yuzhu also got out of the car and called out to Uncle Xu.

"Thank you so much, Zhu Zi was even able to borrow a car to pick me up."

Then he paused for a moment, looking at the child in He Yuzhu's arms, reaching out his hands as if to hug him.

"My dear grandson, let Grandpa hold you."

But the child is still young, and when he sees a stranger like this, he turns his head and hides.

The younger sister took the child from him and then said to his father, "This child is shy."

After chatting for a few minutes in the wind, Xu Damao's mother urged him to get in the car quickly so the child wouldn't get cold.

After putting their luggage in the trunk, the group squeezed in and then closed the car door.

When they returned to the courtyard house, Xu Wude stood outside the door for two minutes before entering the yard.

Once inside the central courtyard, Xu Wude glared resentfully at the east wing, but the gate was tightly shut and guarded by iron bars; the Yi Zhonghai family had vanished without a trace.

Xu Damao said, "Dad, a gentleman takes revenge even after 10 years. We'll settle the score with them later."

Xu Wude nodded and said, "Yes, the home is here. I'll see if he can run away."

He Yuzhu simply helped carry the luggage in, and then got up to say goodbye.

Having just been released from prison, the family had much to say.

Xu Wude served nearly four years in prison. Upon his release, several families in the courtyard took turns inviting him to dinner.

He Yuzhu was no exception. Right there in the courtyard, He Yuzhu personally cooked eight dishes to entertain Xu Wude.

After drinking three cups of wine in front of the door, Xu Wude started talking about life in prison.

When you first go in, you have to do labor. The prison has its own farmland, and there's always work to be done.

Even if there's no work in the fields, there are countless jobs available. At this time, the packaging of various products all need to be done by hand, such as pasting matchboxes. These are all done by odd jobs, and there are many similar jobs in prisons.

It's difficult for most people to adapt at first, especially for someone like Xu Wude who usually lives a very comfortable life.

After the first two months, someone suddenly asked him if he could show movies again; it turned out that the previous projectionist had been released from prison.

Hürwood was overjoyed. After showing one film, he changed jobs and became a full-time projectionist.

After that, life became much easier; I could rest and not work on the day the movie was shown.

If there's no film-related task, you still have to participate in labor, but it's easier than before.

After chatting about prison for a while, Xu Wude said, "I never want to stay in prison again in my life."

Chapter 263 Blast Furnace

Xu Wude was scared. Life inside was really unbearable. The work was tiring, and he was also bullied by other prisoners.

Just like Jia Dongxu before, because he was fair-skinned and tender, he was taken as a wife by someone else while he was in prison.

Fortunately, Hüwood was too old to be treated like that.

After talking about prison matters for a while, he inevitably brought up his feud with Yi Zhonghai.

Xu Wude said, "Actually, Yi Zhonghai has visited me in prison in the past two years, trying to resolve the conflict, but it's not that easy."

Xu Wude spoke of Yi Zhonghai with deep resentment, saying it was all Yi's fault for reporting him and bringing shame upon himself.

All I did was beat him up to vent my anger, and then, to make up for my losses, I stole some of his things. I never expected that damned Yi Zhonghai would call the police and send me to jail.

He Yuzhu said, "It's all in the past. You should look forward. You also said that you can't do anything illegal."

"Yes, I will never do anything illegal again. Prison is not a place for humans."

Xu Wude didn't want to go back to jail and felt that beating Yi Zhonghai would be too lenient.

Xu Wude wished Yi Zhonghai were dead, but he had no idea how to deal with Yi Zhonghai.

He Yuzhu only offered a few words of advice and then said nothing more. He disliked Yi Zhonghai and hated how Yi Zhonghai had schemed against He Yuzhu's entire life, ultimately leading to his death by freezing under a bridge.

Xu Wude was no good either; he had previously plotted against him, wanting him to be his son-in-law, but luckily he managed to escape.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have introduced Xu Zhaodi to He Yongqiang, not only getting Zhaodi to have his child, but also flirting with Xu Xiaomei.

However, as He Yuzhu has had more and more children over the years, he has focused more on his children and rarely gets involved in the affairs of the courtyard house anymore.

Inviting Xu Wude to dinner is also a tradition, after all, he is the maternal grandfather of myself and Zhaodi's child, so I should give him face.

In the following days, He Yuzhu continued to immerse himself in the machinery factory, studying machine tools and steelmaking.

Li Hongying was stunned when He Yuzhu voiced his idea.

"Why do you act on a whim? Why do you want to smelt iron at this time?"

"Isn't this because we want to produce our own raw materials?"

Since he was willing to do it, I had no choice but to agree.

"Alright, then let's build another iron smelting workshop in our neighborhood, also under the name of the machinery factory."

Li Hongying almost never objects to the things He Yuzhu proposes, precisely because the cannery and machinery factory solved the employment problem in the neighborhood.

At its peak, a cannery only employed around 100 people, while a machinery factory provided employment for even more people.

There are more than 300 skilled workers alone, and with other staff, there are no ordinary people waiting for work on the streets right now.

This made Li Hongying's work much easier, unlike other neighborhoods where people rack their brains every day trying to solve employment problems.

Li Hongying then asked, "Now that the machinery factory is managed by you, Lao Shen is just a figurehead. I'm thinking, should we remove Lao Shen from the position of factory director and have you take over as the director?"

He Yuzhu quickly shook his head: "I think things are fine as they are. Let Lao Shen be the factory director. I'll just be the director of an office."

He Yuzhu is currently the director of the machinery factory, as well as the head of the technical department and the head of the sales department.

In reality, He Yuzhu is now in charge of almost the entire machinery factory.

Li Hongying planned to make He Yuzhu the top leader, so that it would be legitimate to say so.

But He Yuzhu was determined to decline the position.

"Alright, since you insist on not wanting to be the factory manager, we'll talk about it later."

He Yuzhu said, "Then you should contact the recycling company and we'll buy all the scrap copper and iron they collect."

"Okay, no problem, it's nothing."

Li Hongying, as the director of the subdistrict, is also the director with the best performance in the fifth district, and is quite capable in the district.

After discussing the matter with Li Hongying, He Yuzhu rode his bicycle to the heavy machinery factory.

"You want to buy a small blast furnace?" Tong Zhi was quite surprised.

He Yuzhu repeated his reasons.

Tong Zhi said, "That makes sense, but don't you have any skilled workers?"

"Isn't this simple? Do you have anyone here who knows how?"

Tong Zhi shook his head and said, "We can manufacture it, but we don't smelt steel ourselves!"

"Alright, then I'll go find the steel rolling mill."

As a steel rolling mill specializing in steel smelting, it's quite easy for them to provide a technician and then instruct a few apprentices.

To be honest, there isn't much technology involved in smelting steel using a blast furnace; all you need to do is know how to operate it.

"Okay, how many sets do you want?"

"I want two sets first, and then two more sets."

"Okay, I'll take you to the sales department."

Tong Zhi followed He Yuzhu to the sales department, where the two parties had a cooperative relationship, and He Yuzhu obtained a relatively favorable price.

After settling things off with the blast furnace, He Yuzhu returned to his office and immediately called Secretary Zhang at the steel rolling mill.

"Master He, you're stealing business from our steel rolling mill!" Secretary Zhang said with a smile.