Silly Zhu's Moving: The Old Neighbor's Nightmare

Chapter 137 Cai Quanwu

After a short while, Sha Zhu lit the fire in the kang (heated brick bed).

Then they lit a coal briquette with holes from the kitchen, which also lit the stove in the house.

At this moment, Director Wang was talking to Cai Quanwu, who had just woken up.

Seeing this, Sha Zhu glanced at the two people talking, then ran outside to get a piece of coal to add to the fire. He opened the fire door to its maximum and prepared to go over and listen in.

Director Wang saw that Sha Zhu had not only lit the kang (heated brick bed), but also the stove in the room.

Seeing what Sha Zhu was doing out of the corner of his eye, he asked in surprise,

"Zhu Zi, where did you buy the stove in your house?"

None of the neighbors use these perforated coal briquettes; this is the first time I've ever seen one in your house.

Sha Zhu explained, "I heard from people at the coal mine that these perforated coal briquettes save more coal."

I bought some, because these stoves are hard to find and very expensive.

I went to several markets before I could buy them; I almost used these perforated coal briquettes as regular coal briquettes.

Director Wang, however, became interested and stopped asking Cai Quanwu questions.

He said, "Zhu Zi, this is your uncle. He's here to see your father."

You can talk to me again after I leave. Let me know first.

What's the difference between using these perforated coal briquettes and the solid ones? How much coal can be saved?

Sha Zhu shook his head and said, "Director Wang, I know what you mean."

You just want to promote it, but don't even think about it for now.

This specialized stove costs dozens of times more than a regular stove.

None of the neighbors would be willing to buy it.

I was young and got scammed into buying it.

Later I learned that this furnace was extremely difficult to make; if the craftsmanship wasn't up to standard, it couldn't be mass-produced.

The price remains high, and it's not easy to buy in the market, making it difficult for ordinary people to access it.

Director Wang looked at Sha Zhu with an unfriendly gaze and said...

"It's extremely difficult for ordinary people to use it, but you've already gotten to use it first."

"Alright, make sure your uncle feels better. He needs to go to the neighborhood office tomorrow to register. I'm heading back now."

After Director Wang left, Cai Quanwu got up from the heated kang (a traditional Chinese bed-stove) and sat up.

Looking at Sha Zhu, who was also looking at Cai Quanwu, the two stared at each other, unsure of what to say.

Just as Cai Quanwu was about to speak,

Sha Zhu turned around and took a cotton coat from the wardrobe, saying...

"Put this coat on first, it's still a bit cold in the room."

I'll go to the kitchen and make you a bowl of noodles. Oh, there's hot water on the table,"

Without mentioning that Cai Quanwu got off the heated kang and went to the stove to warm himself, he looked around at the furnishings in the room.

Sha Zhu went to the kitchen to boil water and prepare two bowls of noodles, which would also solve his own dinner problem.

Director Wang didn't mention assigning anyone to his room today; he probably went back to find out what was going on.

Director Wang just said that Cai Quanwu came to see He Daqing, which surprised Sha Zhu quite a bit.

Perhaps Cai Quanwu has just come to the city from the countryside and hasn't started working as a rickshaw puller yet; we'll have to find out later.

Sha Zhu cooked two bowls of noodles in the kitchen, and then took out two large spoonfuls of stir-fried mutton slices from his spatial storage to make a sauce.

He filled a small bowl with braised pork, took a few cloves of garlic, placed them on a tray he had made himself, and carried it into the house.

After Sha Zhu placed the food on the tray onto the table, he said to Cai Quanwu, "Um, Uncle, come and eat."

When Cai Quanwu came over and sat down at the table, he spoke weakly.

"I heard Director Wang call you Zhuzi. Is your father really He Daqing?"

"Yes, that's right. I didn't hear your conversation with Director Wang just now."

However, judging from your appearance, if you weren't a bit younger, I would definitely mistake you for my father.

Director Wang said, "You're my uncle, can you tell me what exactly happened?"

But I can tell you must be really hungry right now, why don't you eat something first?

Cai Quanwu looked at the food on the table. The braised pork, with its red and white colors, exuded an unparalleled deliciousness, challenging his desires.

The large bowl of mutton noodles in front of me is challenging my taste buds.

My stomach rumbled at an inopportune moment.

He swallowed involuntarily a couple of times, enduring his hunger as he spoke.

"My name is Cai Quanwu. I share the same father as your father, but my mother was someone your grandfather found outside."

Later, amidst the chaos of war, even the city became unsafe.

Your grandfather left my older brother and your father in the city. At that time, your father was already married.

Your grandfather took my mother back to the countryside.

Life was fine in the countryside, and even during years of famine, your grandfather never let his family go hungry.

Unfortunately, there are bad people among the villagers who envy and are jealous of our good life.

So I secretly lured the Japanese soldiers over. I happened to be in the mountains that time.

When I returned, not a single person in the entire village, including the one who led the way, was left alive except for me.

I got the news from people in other villages.

I wasn't very old at the time, and I only knew that there was an older brother in the city. I had never traveled far from home myself.

They survived by hiding in nearby villages and mountains.

Later, during the census, I saw that some landlords in other places had been sent to the guillotine.

Thinking about my family's previous life, I didn't dare to register my household registration.

He was afraid that some people from the neighboring village would recognize him.

I was a little scared myself, and after hiding for a while, I had no other choice but to come to the city to seek refuge with your father.

"Uncle Cai, you didn't tell Director Wang any of this, did you?" Sha Zhu asked.

"Don't worry about that. I only told you that I couldn't make a living in the countryside anymore."

"They came to seek refuge with your father, but they didn't say anything specific. Then you came in," Cai Quanwu said.

Sha Zhu said, "Okay, Uncle Cai, let's eat first. We'll talk about it in detail after we finish eating."

Sha Zhu handed the chopsticks to Cai Quanwu.

After taking big bites of the noodles in his bowl, Cai Quanwu finally started using his chopsticks.

Sha Zhu thought to himself, "The Japanese surrendered in 45. In Uncle Cai's village, only one person survived the massacres 45 years ago."

There is no problem with normal registration in this situation, but you can't say everything; you still have to conceal what needs to be concealed.

Even if you tell me everything now, there won't be any problem.

But the problem is that you told everything.

Later on, when they want to get back at you, if your family is well-off, then you're definitely part of the landlord class.

They're blatantly framing you, and they don't care which year your family was wiped out by the Japanese.

Unless, as before, Cai is particularly low-key, even his marriage is done secretly, and he has become almost invisible.

However, the plot has now deviated from its intended course.

We need to plan for the future; things that don't need to be said should be left unsaid and not written down.

Even if the government investigates, there won't be any problems now.

If it's registered, and then the wind picks up, it might attract the attention of bad elements, which could become an excuse for an attack.

Cai Quanwu was originally a man of few words, but it depends on where you place him.

Different environments bring different impacts.

If you want to live in Nanluoguxiang long-term, but you can't integrate with the locals initially, and you're not a true resident of the area,

There will be a lot of trouble later on, so it's better to let Uncle Cai continue living in the Qianmen area.

After all, the area has a developed commercial sector, a dense population, and people from all over the country, making it easy to integrate.

Even when the wind picks up, only the wealthy will be targeted.