Chapter 468: Visiting Jia Zhang
Chapter 468: Visiting Jia Zhang
the next day.
"Master Li, I'm sorry to bother you today."
"It's just a small matter. It's the same as always. I'll wait for you."
"Good."
As soon as he arrived at the steel rolling mill, the canteen director Zhao Gang asked him for help, as usual, and asked people to go to the countryside to dig wild vegetables.
Many people in the transport team envied such an easy job, after all, they had to spend the whole morning doing nothing.
But after all, it was Li Kailang who was initially invited to this task, so it should be Li Kailang who goes. Only when Li Kailang doesn't go will it be someone else's turn.
This means that you can do this leisurely task in the middle or end of the month, but not at the beginning of the month.
Speaking of wild vegetable dumplings, ever since Director Yang started to like eating them, these weekly wild vegetable dumplings have become a "fixed item".
If we were to say which department hates Monday the most, it would be the people who have to go to the cafeteria to pick wild vegetables. Every trip would cause them to have backaches for several days. When they think about picking wild vegetables tomorrow, they become anxious and cannot sleep well all night.
Fortunately, everyone took turns, so no one was exhausted.
Soon, each canteen sent people to form a transport team.
"Everyone is here, let's go."
As usual, Li Kailang drove his people to the countryside to pick wild vegetables.
When they arrived at the destination, they got out of the car and started digging, and Li Kailang lay in the car leisurely.
"Oh, it's so boring!"
Li Kailang was lying there with nothing to do, so he thought about finding something to do.
"Read a book? Forget it. I'm a little tired. I can't sleep. It's too tiring to go dig. It's difficult!"
"Forget it, let's go out for a walk."
Thinking of this, Li Kailang talked to the person in charge of the canteen who was collecting wild vegetables this time, agreed on a time to come back, and then drove out for a walk.
After wandering around aimlessly, I came to a place and saw a familiar figure.
"Why does this figure look so familiar?" Li Kailang narrowed his eyes and took a closer look. The more he looked, the more familiar it looked.
Soon, the truck drove up to the familiar figure.
"Isn't this Qin Huairu? How did she get here?"
Li Kailang suddenly felt puzzled, and thought about whether there was any special place around him, and there was only one.
"Could it be that Qin Huairu is here to see Jia Zhang?"
Li Kailang was right. Qin Huairu came to see Jia Zhang.
There is less than half a year left before Jia Zhang is released from prison, which is September. Qin Huairu wanted to take a look at Jia Zhang before she is released.
This is to prevent Jia Zhang from being released from prison and people outside saying that she has no conscience, while she herself stayed in prison without even looking at her, thus ruining Qin Huairu's innocent reputation.
None of the above thoughts drove Qin Huairu to visit Jia Zhang in prison, but Jia Dongxu was really too troublesome.
Her back and waist ached from all the torment. She really couldn't bear it anymore and had to find something to divert Jia Dongxu's attention.
Qin Huairu was afraid that she would not be worked to death, nor would she be scolded to death by Jia Zhang, but would be tortured to death in bed by Jia Dongxu.
Meanwhile, in prison.
"After you finish weaving, move on to the next one. Don't be lazy and don't weave badly. If you don't weave well, you have to start over." The prison guard was patrolling on the side, watching the prisoners work.
"Old woman, weave faster, you are the only one missing."
"I'm weaving, I'm weaving, it's almost done." Jia Zhang hurriedly speeded up the weaving process.
In prison, I just thought about staying there without doing any work, thinking that it was just a simple imprisonment and I didn't have to do anything.
This might have been true in the past, but it is different now.
There are so many prisoners in the prison, and the food and money allocated by the higher authorities are not much, so the warden has to find other ways to make money and food to "support his family."
We can't let people starve to death in prison.
During the few months that Jia Zhang was in prison, she did more weaving work than she had done in the past few decades.
"Hurry up, old woman! If you can't finish it, I'll go back and beat you up tonight."
"That's right, if you get involved in this, we will definitely show you how powerful we are."
"That's right. Not only will I beat you, but you won't even be able to have lunch. I'll starve you to death!"
Several female prisoners cursed Jia Zhang one after another.
Jia Zhang shrank her head and lowered it, not daring to refute a word. She could only speed up the work at hand.
Seeing this, Tingting, who was standing by, didn't dare to say anything, for fear of bringing trouble upon herself and making herself unable to take care of herself.
The prison implements a system of collective responsibility, and if there is unfinished work, others have to help out.
They are already exhausted, so how could they be willing to help others?
Jia Zhang was crying in her heart. If the work had been divided equally, she would have finished it long ago. But these days, they bullied her because she was old and assigned some work to her.
One person is not too many, but when several people add up, it is too many. Jia Zhang is already old and is exhausted and out of breath.
"Zhang Cuihua, Zhang Cuihua." the prison guard suddenly said.
"Here!" Jia Zhang quickly stood up and responded.
"Follow me." The prison guard left a word and walked away.
Jia Zhang quickly put down the work in her hands and immediately followed the prison guard.
"You guys, hurry up and finish Zhang Cuihua's job." The prison guard reminded immediately.
Several female prisoners had no choice but to pick up the work that Jia Zhang had not done and start doing it.
As soon as Jia Zhang walked out of the workshop, she breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, she didn't have to work anymore. Her fingers were sore from exhaustion.
Jia Zhang paused for a moment and asked carefully, "Comrade prison guard, what do you want from me?"
"Your family is here to see you."
"Family member? Is it Dongxu? Dongxu came to see me. My son is the best. He hasn't forgotten his mother."
Jia Zhang's eyes lit up, she finally got a visit from her family.
Jia Zhang followed the prison guard to the visiting window, but what she saw was not Jia Dongxu, whom she had been thinking about, but Qin Huairu.
Her face darkened instantly, and she became an unreasonable shrew again, scolding Qin Huairu directly:
"Are you dead? You took so long to come see me. Are you waiting until I'm dead to come and see me? Are you coming to collect my body? Ah!"
"Do you know how much I was wronged and beaten in there?"
"Don't act like you've been wronged. You've been wronged as much as I have! Don't act like that with me. You're just a little immature."
Without waiting for Qin Huairu to say anything, Jia Zhang started talking nonstop, which was the reason why Qin Huairu was unwilling to come.
Jia Zhang hasn't finished exporting yet.
"I have been here for such a long time, but you are only here now. Didn't I ask someone to let you come before? Why are you here only now?"
"Are you deliberately not coming, leaving me to be bullied in vain, ah!"
Qin Huairu looked puzzled, "Mom, when are you going to call someone?"
"Of course not. Didn't Tingting's parents come here before? I asked them to call you."
"No, Tingting's parents never called her that." Qin Huairu said.
Jia Zhang didn't believe it, "No, it's impossible. I told him in person, it's impossible that there is no such thing. Did you not come on purpose?"
"Really not. If you had called me later, I would have come a long time ago."
"You're still here, are you kidding me? I've been in there for half a year, and you're just here now. If you wanted to come earlier, you would have come a long time ago. You're still a little naive to try to trick me!"
Qin Huairu didn't speak.
"Don't talk? You think it's okay if you don't talk, Qin Huairu, don't think I don't know what's going on in your mind. Wait until I get out and see that I'm here, I'll do it to you!"
Jia Zhang continued to speak in a burst of words.
After talking for several minutes, Jia Zhang finally stopped talking until her mouth was dry. "I'm starving. I can't eat enough all day. I'm getting skinny. Hurry up and bring out the food. Do you have any meat? Let me satisfy my craving!"
Qin Huairu had just been severely beaten up by Jia Zhangshi, so how could she feel at peace? If there was meat, it would not be given to her, but unfortunately there was no meat.
"Mom, don't you see what's going on outside? How can we get meat? We're lucky to have steamed buns."
Jia Zhang's face turned red with anger: "Okay, Qin Huairu, you want to piss me off to death. I've suffered so much here, and you don't even want to give me meat to eat. You're so good!"
"Qin Huairu, just wait for me. When I come out, I will punish you and make you not even give me meat to eat!"
"When I get out, I'm going to eat meat every day to piss you off to death. I'll even feed you to a dog instead of giving you a bite of meat!"
Jia Zhang was so angry that she started scolding Qin Huairu again.
"Bang, bang, bang!" Suddenly, there was a sound of knocking on the iron doors and windows.
"What a shame to be making so much noise, do you want to get back to work?"
The prison guard couldn't stand Jia Zhang's cursing, which was so damn dirty.
Your daughter-in-law came to see you with good intentions, and you are like this, no wonder she came in, no wonder no one looked at her.
After the visit is over, I have to arrange more work for Jia Zhangshi. It’s better to be tired. When she is tired, she won’t want to talk and it can cure her bad breath.
When Jia Zhang heard the noise, she was so scared that she retreated like a turtle and whispered, "It's fine."
Qin Huairu felt even more contemptuous when she saw this.
Jia Zhang is only capable of bullying at home, and becomes extremely timid when meeting outsiders.
Seeing that the prison guard didn't reply, Jia Zhang felt relieved, but she didn't dare to make a scene anymore: "Hurry up and bring out the food. I'm hungry."
"Mom, calm down. I have two steamed buns here. Eat them while you can."
As soon as Qin Huairu handed it over, Jia Zhang grabbed it and gobbled it up like a hungry wolf.
In just a few seconds, two steamed buns went into his mouth, filling his mouth up.
"Mmmmm~"
Jia Zhang patted her chest, swallowed hard, and swallowed the steamed bun into her stomach.
Qin Huairu looked at the steamed bun stuck in her throat and suddenly wished that the bun would stay there tightly and suffocate Jia Zhang to death.
"Hmm!" With a heavy sound, the steamed bun finally went into the stomach, and Qin Huairu did not get what she wanted.
Jia Zhang licked her lips, obviously still not full.
"Are there any more? I'm starving, take them out quickly, I couldn't taste them just now."
It seems that Jia Zhang is really starving.
The food shortage naturally affected the prison.
Previously, the prison could ensure that the prisoners were 6% to % full, but now it is only % at most. They can neither eat enough nor starve to death, and yet they still have to work, which makes them even hungrier.
The old and weak Jia Zhang naturally became the object of everyone's competition. If it weren't for Tingting's intimidation, she would have starved to death long ago.
Before going to prison, Jia Zhang was plump and had a lot of fat on her body.
After half a year, all the fat was consumed and I became a skinny guy. Losing dozens of pounds directly is not more effective than fitness.
Those who want to lose weight can’t, and those who don’t want to lose weight just become skin and bones.
"Mom, I still have a few steamed buns here."
Jia Zhang looked at the steamed bun that was handed to her, and she didn't dislike it. She started to eat it in big mouthfuls. It was good enough to have something to eat.
After finishing the meal, Jia Zhang finally had the mood to ask about the situation.
"By the way, how's things going at home?"
"Everything is fine at home. Banggeng will go to school in the fall, Xiaodang."
When Qin Huairu heard about Xiaodang, Jia Zhangshi lost interest. "Is Banggeng going to school? How old is Banggeng? Why is he going to school so early? Maybe next year."
"Mom, Banggeng isn't a kid anymore. He's six or seven years old. It's time for him to go to school. Other kids go to school at the same age. We can't let Banggeng fall behind."
When Qin Huairu said this, the Jia Zhang family had no choice but to agree, but they couldn't let Bang Geng fall behind others.
"What happened in the yard?"
"There are a lot of things going on in the yard, and the changes are huge."
"Tell me how big it is."
Hearing this, Qin Huairu was about to explain everything, but Jia Zhang suddenly changed the subject, "How are the third aunt and the other bitches?"
"It was them who put me in jail. They must be having a hard time, right?"
Jia Zhang stared at Qin Huairu with sharp eyes, hoping to get news from her that the third aunt and others were not doing well.
Obviously, things went against her will. Qin Huairu was silent for a while, "Mom, they are doing well, nothing happened."
"Nothing? That's impossible. The third aunt, that bitch, and her bastards are not good people. Why should they have an easy life? Why?!"
Watching Jia Zhang's impotent rage and venting her emotions, Qin Huairu could only say one thing that was not a good thing.
"Mom, don't worry, this is a good thing."
"Say it!"
"Among those of Dongxu's generation, Yan Jiecheng is the only one who is still unmarried. He doesn't even have a partner. I heard that the matchmaker has never come to his house. He despises her so much!"
Hearing this, Jia Zhang laughed so hard that she fell backwards: "Okay, okay, no one wants the bastard born by the Third Aunt!"
I laughed for a while, but suddenly realized something.
"What did you just say? You said that only Yan Jiecheng was not married. Could it be that Sha Zhu, Xu Damao and the others were married?"
Qin Huairu nodded: "They are all married. Sha Zhu got married a few days ago, and Xu Damao got married after the New Year."
"How come the yard has become so white after I've only been here for half a year? Can you tell me in detail what happened in the yard?"
Jia Zhang's understanding of the courtyard suddenly became blurred. This was not what she wanted to see.
As people get older, their ability to accept new things decreases, and they don’t expect the world to change so drastically all of a sudden once they get out.
"A lot of things have changed in the yard, so I'll start from the beginning." Qin Huairu really wanted to start telling the story.
"Bang bang bang!"
'Okay, it's almost time for the prison visit.'
The voice of the prison guard came, interrupting the conversation between the two.
"Qin Huairu, please come and see me more often when you have time. Mom is having a hard time in there. She doesn't have enough to eat or warm clothes to wear. Please come and see me more often so that I can have enough to eat."
Seeing that she was about to leave, Jia Zhang quickly begged for mercy.
"I know, Mom. I'll come when I'm free." Qin Huairu nodded in response.
"We agreed that you must come to see me!" Jia Zhang repeated before leaving, and finally left the visiting room.
As soon as Jia Zhang left, Qin Huairu's face changed instantly.
"You still want me to come and see you? You wish!"
Qin Huairu came to the prison just to give Jia Dongxu an explanation.
If Jia Zhang hadn't scolded her, she might have come again.
"Comrade, visiting time is up." The prison guard reminded.
"Oh, thank you for the trouble." Qin Huairu replied in a low voice, picked up her things and left the prison.
Looking back at the prison, Qin Huairu promised not to come back for the next six months.
I will come again when Jia Zhang is released from prison in September.
At this time, Qin Huairu didn't know, and no one in the yard knew either.
It will be less than two months before Jia Zhang and Tingting are released from prison, which will be several months earlier than originally scheduled.
When the two of them returned to the yard, there was no peace in the yard.
(End of this chapter)