novel-bin Chapter 127 Director Wang Brings People to the Door
Chapter 127 Director Wang Brings People to the Door
Wang Xia said, "Madam, let's go in and talk!" After that, Wang Xia helped the deaf old lady into the main door of the street office. After entering the office, Wang Xia asked the deaf old lady to sit down, pulled a chair over and sat down next to the deaf old lady, and asked, "Madam, what's the matter? You can tell me now."
The deaf old lady took out the certificate from her pocket, handed it to Wang Xia, and asked, "Director Wang, is this certificate still useful now?!"
Wang Xia took the certificate, looked at it, and nodded: "It's useful."
The deaf old lady continued, "Director Wang, I am also old. Although you have given me a five-guarantee household, so I don't have to worry about food and clothing, I am getting older and older and need someone to take care of me. Yi Zhonghai and his wife took care of me. After Yi Zhonghai died, his wife also left. The Jia family took care of me some time ago. Now, Jia Dongxu has had another accident, and Qin Huairu has remarried. I would like to ask you to help me find a family with many children or an orphan. I will give him a job and a place to live. Let him take care of me in my old age."
Wang Xia stared at the deaf old lady for a while and said, "Old lady, have you really thought it through?! Don't you want to consider going to a nursing home?!"
The deaf old lady said, "Director Wang, you know the situation in the nursing home better than I do. I don't think I'm suitable to go there."
Wang Xia sighed silently in her heart and said, "Okay! I'll keep an eye on this for you. If there's a suitable person, I'll bring him to you."
"Hey!" The deaf old lady responded with a smile, put away the certificate, and said, "Director Wang, I'm going back first!"
"Have a nice day!" After sending the deaf old lady out of the office, Wang Xia gave an unconscious bitter smile and muttered, "This old lady is really a smart person."
There is no such thing as a wall without cracks. The news of the deaf old lady looking for Wang Xia spread out at noon. Originally, the residents of the courtyard planned to wait until the deaf old lady died before taking her house. But now it was rumored that the deaf old lady still had a job. The residents of the courtyard, like flies smelling fishy smell, began to flap their wings and pounce on the deaf old lady.
"Old Yan, you're back!" A little after three o'clock in the afternoon, when the third aunt saw her husband coming back, a bright smile immediately appeared on her face.
When Yan Bugui saw his wife's appearance, he felt at a loss for words and asked, "Wife, what's wrong with you?!"
The third aunt also reacted at this time and said, "Old Yan, do you know what the deaf old lady went out to do this morning?!"
Yan Bugui replied: "She often goes out for a walk alone, what's the big deal?!"
The third aunt said, "She went to see Director Wang from the Street Office today. She asked Director Wang to help her find someone to take care of her. I heard that the deaf old lady still has a job."
"What?!" Yan Bugui showed a surprised expression on his face. After a while, Yan Bugui came to his senses and muttered to himself: "I really misjudged it."
The third aunt asked, "Old Yan, if our family takes care of the deaf old lady in the future, do you think we can give her job to us?"
Yan Bugui rolled his eyes back and forth for a few times, shook his head, and said, "This is not easy to handle!"
The third aunt said, "It's just a matter of adding a pair of chopsticks. Why is it so difficult?!"
Yan Bugui said, "You think too simply. If it's just a matter of a pair of chopsticks, the deaf old lady can go to a nursing home. She doesn't want to go because she's greedy. Don't you know the food situation in our hospital? Can it satisfy the deaf old lady? You can't just cook for her. The most suitable person in our hospital is He Yuzhu. Shazhu is not stupid now, and there is no shortage of work. In our hospital, some are too full to eat, and some are too hungry to eat. We don't want to care about the ones who are full, and we don't care about the ones who are hungry."
The third aunt then asked, "Are we just going to watch outsiders enter our courtyard?!"
Yan Bugui said thoughtfully: "Let's wait and see how other companies react."
In fact, the deaf old lady had already calculated that she could not hide the fact that she had a job. She deliberately threw it out to test the waters and see how people in the courtyard would react. If no one in the courtyard took the initiative, she would not mind letting an outsider take care of her. At her age, and being alone, she did not have any high demands, that is, to have good food, warm clothes, and someone to take care of her in her old age.
It turns out that the deaf old lady liked He Yuzhu, but He Yuzhu has made it clear that he will not provide for her in her old age, let alone take care of her. As Yi Zhonghai's family and the Jia family met with troubles one after another, several families in the courtyard wanted to take care of the deaf old lady, but they were all afraid. Although feudal superstitions have been eliminated now, who among those who came from the old society is not superstitious? They all think that the deaf old lady is a disaster star, and whoever gets her will be unlucky. Yi Zhonghai and the Jia family are good examples.
As the time for get off work ended, people who worked outside returned to the courtyard one after another. Everyone in the courtyard knew that the deaf old lady had a job and wanted to find someone to take care of her.
While eating, the second aunt asked, "Old Liu, what do you think about the deaf old lady looking for someone to take care of her?!"
Liu Haizhong replied, "What else can I see? We don't need the job she has. Besides, is this old lady so easy to serve? I'm not like Yi Zhonghai. Yi Zhonghai is a family without a son, so he needs someone to take care of him, so he has to show off first. We have Guangqi, so we don't have to worry about her. Whoever in our hospital is willing to take care of her, let them do it!"
The second aunt nodded thoughtfully and agreed, "What you said really makes sense." Then she asked, "Why haven't I seen Xu Damao recently?!"
Liu Haizhong put a piece of scrambled egg in his mouth, chewed it twice and swallowed it, and replied with a smile: "I don't know who this kid offended. Their section chief arranged for him to go to the countryside to show movies. This time he went to a farther place and more places. It's good that this kid can complete the task and come back before the New Year."
As time went by, the matter of the deaf old lady looking for someone to take care of her continued to ferment. Anyway, no one in the courtyard of No. 95 Nanluoguxiang was willing to take care of her. It was not because they were afraid that the deaf old lady could eat, but because they were afraid that she would bring bad luck to her.
On the first Monday after New Year's Day in 1959, Wang Xia walked into the courtyard early in the morning with a mother and daughter. When the third aunt saw Wang Xia, she hurried out of the house and greeted her: "Director Wang, what's up?!"
Wang Xia said, "Doesn't the deaf old lady in your hospital want to find someone to take care of her in her old age? I found one for her. Bring him here for her to see. You go ahead and do your thing. I'll take the mother and daughter in first." After that, Wang Xia took the mother and daughter to the backyard.
After Wang Xia left, the neighbors immediately gathered around Auntie 3 and asked, "Auntie 3, could that mother and daughter be the ones Director Wang hired to take care of the deaf old lady?!"
The third aunt replied, "That's them. They look like a nice couple. I just don't know if they can get along well."
Old Madam Li added: "No matter how difficult it is to get along with her, she is better than Jia Zhang."
"That's true. Speaking of Jia Zhang, I wonder what happened to Jia Dongxu?!"
The third aunt said, "Let's just live a good life and don't bother with them." At this time, the third aunt's heart had already followed Director Wang to the backyard.