Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

"Clap clap clap..."

As soon as Yi Zhonghai finished speaking, a slightly hurried knock on the door sounded next to Yi Zhonghai's ears.

When Aunt Yi opened the door, she saw Qin Huairu standing at the door. She pretended to be worried and said, "Godmother... I heard from the people in the yard that godfather is back, so I hurried over to check..."

"Has everything that happened in the yard this morning been resolved?"

"If godfather and godmother have any difficulties, my Jia family will definitely help solve them."

"Huai Ru is here, come in quickly..." Yi Zhonghai's expression quickly turned from gloomy to bright, and he said to Qin Huai Ru who was standing at the door with a smile on his face.

He had already thought it through. Before he could save his relationship with He Yuzhu, Qin Huairu was the only person in this courtyard who could take care of him in his old age. Even if it cost him some price, he had to build a good relationship between the two of them.

After Qin Huairu came in and sat down, Yi Zhonghai spoke again: "Everything that happened this morning has been resolved."

"Your Aunt Yi paid a 200 yuan fine, and the police cancelled the detention."

"I won't be affected in any way tomorrow and can go to work as usual..."

"Don't worry, Huairu: the conditions I promised the Jia family before will definitely not be affected by this incident."

"Tomorrow I will ask someone to come and divide the east wing into two, leaving one room for Banggen to live in."

Qin Huairu had already calculated such a result.

Now Yi Zhonghai and He Yuzhu have completely parted ways, and Yi Zhonghai has no choice but to rely on himself to support him in his old age.

But Qin Huairu wanted much more than that.

What he was interested in was not only the east wing where Yi Zhonghai and his wife lived, but also the retirement money that Yi Zhonghai and his wife had saved up with great difficulty.

Although the east wing of the central courtyard is very important, its value is only about four or five hundred yuan.

If it weren't for today's accident, Yi Zhonghai would have saved at least 5,000 yuan for his retirement.

If you calculate 30% to 40% by yourself, you will have 2,000 yuan, which is enough to buy four or five houses like this.

So in Qin Huairu's eyes, pension money is the biggest part of her plan to cheat Yi Zhonghai.

The reason why he came here in a hurry was, on the one hand, to solve Banggeng's housing problem, and on the other hand, to find out how much pension money Yi Zhonghai had in his hands, and how much money he could put into his own pocket from it.

If it is less, continuing to promise to provide retirement support to Yi Zhonghai would definitely be a losing deal.

Then the retirement conditions that he had previously discussed with Yi Zhonghai must be changed, otherwise he would be the one who suffers in the end.

Although Yi Zhonghai took the initiative to offer Bang Geng a blow across the house to catch Qin Huairu off guard, Qin Huairu was a white lotus who only took advantage and never suffered any loss. She was very thick-skinned and did not feel embarrassed because of Yi Zhonghai's initiative to give in.

Facing Yi Zhonghai's sincere gaze, he asked directly: "Uncle Yi..."

"I promised to help you two in your old age, and I, Qin Huairu, will definitely not go back on my word easily."

"But today you took out 4,000 yuan to compensate Sha Zhu. I want to know how much retirement money you two have left so that I can prepare it in advance."

"If you don't have much money for retirement, your retirement life will definitely not be very good in the future."

"After all, my own salary is very low, and it is already very difficult to support the Jia family. I definitely can't come up with extra money to help you two old people."

"If it doesn't work, let's have dinner together now."

"Cooking with one stove will definitely save a lot of money. You two old people can save more money. When Grandpa Yi retires, your retirement life will definitely be much better."

Yi Zhonghai didn't expect Qin Huairu to be so shameless.

I have already agreed to give Banggeng a separate room to live in, but he still wants to take advantage of my retirement money. Although Yi Zhonghai was mentally prepared before, he had calculated that Qin Huairu would take advantage of his retirement money.

But that will happen after I retire.

I didn't expect Qin Huairu to be so impetuous and start calculating his retirement money so early.

He is now a level 6 fitter in a steel rolling mill and earns 60 to 70 yuan a month.

The old couple's food, clothing and other expenses add up to less than 20 yuan. After deducting the money for medicine, their monthly expenses will definitely not exceed 25 yuan.

If nothing goes wrong, I will be able to save at least forty-five dollars every month in the future.

Even if they spend all the money they saved for retirement, they can still save at least 4,000 yuan from now until retirement, and the old couple can still live a good life in the courtyard.

But if we had dinner with the Jia family, the result would be different.

If a couple eats out alone, the average living expense per person per month is a little over ten yuan.

If the two families eat together, the per capita living expenses will definitely be reduced without affecting their own savings.

After all, Qin Huairu's monthly salary was only 18 yuan, but she had to support five members of the Jia family.

Adding the more than 20 yuan of living expenses of their own family every month, the living expenses of the two families added up to only 40 yuan. Equally distributed among seven people, each person can only get less than 6 yuan.

It is exactly half less than the original ten yuan.

The huge gap made Yi Zhonghai subconsciously reject Qin Huairu's proposal.

But he swallowed the words back when they came to his lips.

Qin Huairu is now the couple's only elderly care provider. If they offend her, they will lose their only elderly care provider in the courtyard, which is a result that Yi Zhonghai absolutely cannot accept.

In order to stabilize Qin Huairu, the pension recipient, Yi Zhonghai decided to accept Qin Huairu's proposal and suffer a little loss himself, even though he would suffer a great loss if the two families had a meal together.

At worst, they could just take less money for living expenses in the future, deduct some money privately, and then the couple could buy some delicious food to satisfy their hunger.

After thinking for a full minute, he told Qin Huairu his decision: "Huairu..."

"Since you have promised to provide for our old age, our two families will gather together for dinner sooner or later, so it's okay to get used to it first."

"so……"

"My husband and I have 20 yuan a month for living expenses. After deducting the money for medicine, we save 45 yuan a month."

"I'll pay you based on this standard."

"Every month when I get my salary, I'll give you 20 yuan as living expenses for the two of us."

Qin Huairu originally thought that Yi Zhonghai could give her more than ten yuan a month, and she would be lucky to earn two or three yuan from it.

Unexpectedly, Yi Zhonghai asked for twenty yuan.

Based on the average living expenses of five yuan per person, I can earn at least five yuan per month.

That’s sixty dollars a year.

There are still seven or eight years before Yi Zhonghai retires, which adds up to four or five hundred yuan.

More importantly, with the 20 yuan living expenses that Yi Zhonghai gave out, the Jia family's living standards will be greatly improved.

From eating cornmeal steamed bread every meal to eating two-grain flour steamed bread every meal. (End of this chapter)