The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 196 It’s your own fault
The natural place to go home is to go back to parents. There is no special paternity leave now. Liu Hua is just a boy. He has no experience in taking care of people, so this matter has to be done by his mother.

Of course, my mother was also very happy because she could hold her grandson. Although it was hard to take care of him during the confinement period, she was happy to do it.

Liu Hua exchanged some ingredients that were helpful for confinement after childbirth from the system, and with some given by friends, Liu Feifei had more than she could finish.

Every day after get off work, he goes home to see his wife and son, and also has to finish the delicious food that Liu Feifei can't finish. He feels like he is getting fat.

The engineers from Shougang had already informed their own factory that their mentor Liu Hua’s child was about to be born. Just a few days later, the good things sent by the factory arrived.

Although they were unable to visit or see the children, they still gave all these things to Liu Hua to express their gratitude.

This is not in vain. In the future, their factory will definitely encounter various problems when building its own converter. With this friendship, it will be easier for them to ask Liu Hua for advice.

Time passed little by little, and the tacit understanding between Liu Hua and the team was greatly improved. Moreover, after Liu Hua had a son, although the working hours did not increase, his efficiency doubled.

By the end of the year, the hot rolling mill had taken shape. Before going on holiday, Li Huaide arranged for people to clean the experimental workshop and asked the security department to stay directly in the experimental workshop, not allowing anyone to approach, and continue work after the New Year.

This year there are three days of Spring Festival holiday, but this will be the last Spring Festival holiday in the past decade or so. Next year, at the call of national newspapers, the superiors have decided not to have a Spring Festival holiday in order to boost production.

This year's New Year was celebrated in a very sumptuous manner. When the eldest and second uncles knew that Liu Hua had given birth to a child, they sent local specialties from other places. Together with the gifts Liu Hua received, the New Year's Eve dinner table was no less sumptuous than that of later generations.

On New Year's Eve, Liu Hua took stock of his life. He had a son, became a level 6 engineer, and also received a family heirloom. This year had been a very fulfilling one.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the couple brought the child back to the compound. It was the first time that the child showed up in the courtyard, and everyone came to see the novelty. In addition, Liu Hua was now very popular in the steel rolling mill, so everyone heard a lot of compliments about him.

Liu Hua had amazing hearing. After seeing the child at Liu Hua's house, everyone went out to talk about the child. Only Jia Zhang was buzzing at Liu Hua behind his back.

Because she saw the salted chicken and bacon hanging in the house, she was very greedy, but she also knew that Liu Hua would never give her these things, and she didn't dare to steal them. She was so helpless and furious that she could only nag Liu Hua behind his back.

He didn't dare to shout loudly, so he just whispered a few words. Qin Huairu glared at him for these words, and he didn't dare to say anything else, because the person who brought Liu Hua back was Liu's father's driver.

Today the bus was used for private purposes, and the driver was wearing a uniform, a police uniform, which scared everyone in the courtyard. They used to think that Liu Hua's father was just an ordinary policeman, but when someone heard the conversation between Liu Hua and the driver, they realized that the driver was actually Liu Hua's father's driver. So he couldn't be a policeman. Even the chief of the police station in their street didn't have his own full-time driver. For a while, everyone was imagining about Liu Hua's father's position.

As usual, Liu Hua gave red envelopes to the children in the yard. This year, he gave them four yuan so that they could buy small firecrackers to play with. The children were very happy, as this was double the happiness of previous years.

Banggeng, a kid who rarely appears in the courtyard nowadays, has now become the king of the children in the yard. The child who was responsible for buying and distributing firecrackers there in previous years has grown up now and is not interested in firecrackers.

So this important task was handed over to Banggeng. This boy was extremely selfish. After buying firecrackers worth four yuan, he took advantage of his convenience and withheld a part of the money.

The other children played with only a little more firecrackers than in previous years. Banggeng's pockets were stuffed full of small firecrackers, and he held a stick of incense in his hand, throwing them wherever he went.

Fortunately, her mother warned him that the Liu family had a child and that he was not allowed to disturb the child. The boy went out to play with firecrackers. After a while, the boy came back crying, which made Sha Zhu very happy. He said mischievously: "Boy, you are so old, but you still urinate like a cat. Are you a man?"

Banggeng didn't pay any attention to Shazhu's teasing and went home crying. Qin Huairu was furious when she saw Banggeng. She had worked hard for a year and finally saved up some cloth and cotton coupons to buy new cotton clothes for Banggeng and Xiaodang.

It hadn't been long since he put on the clothes, but now half of Bang Geng's clothes had been blown black, the pockets were torn, and his face was pale with fear.

Qin Huairu asked sternly: "What did you do?"

Banggeng explained the whole thing while sobbing. He had set off so many firecrackers that they were almost piling up.

When he was setting off firecrackers, the incense stick accidentally brushed past and ignited the firecracker in his pocket. This triggered a chain reaction and caused a small explosion directly in his pocket, so his clothes became like this and he was pretty scared.

"Where did you get so many firecrackers?"

Bang Geng sobbed and said, "Liu Hua gave it to me."

All the adults in the courtyard knew that Liu Hua gave the children money to buy firecrackers. No one said a word against Liu Hua. Instead, they praised him for his kindness.

"I know Liu Hua gave it to me, but where did you get so much? It's almost overflowing."

“He gave four dollars this year.”

Qin Huairu nodded. It was understandable. Since the other person had a son this year, what was wrong with giving him a few more dollars out of joy?
"That won't fill your pockets."

Bang Geng said with a twitch, "I was in charge of distributing the firecrackers today, so I kept most of them for myself."

Qin Huairu was speechless. She finally understood what it meant to hurt yourself if you hurt others. This silly son of hers deserved it. If he had fewer firecrackers in his pocket, he wouldn't be set on fire by the incense in his hand.

"Let him pay." Jia Zhang said, "Who told him to pay more today? If he had paid less, wouldn't this have happened?"

"Mom, can you please say less? They gave me more money, but it still caused trouble." Qin Huairu sighed: "No matter how much you talk about this, you can't make them pay."

Jia Zhang was a talkative person. She had been domineering for so many years, but suddenly she couldn't show off her power anymore. She was extremely uncomfortable with it, as she was used to being talkative, because she was like a three-pound duck with a two-and-a-half-pound mouth.

"You are in junior high school now." Qin Huairu said helplessly: "Can't you just stay at home and read books? Your new clothes have become like this. Do you think I will still make new clothes for you in the future?"

(End of this chapter)