Chapter 57 Oddities

Lu Zheng sent his eldest brother and sister-in-law back after only four days. He submitted an application to the organization to retire from the military and asked his brother to transfer his household registration here after he returned. He said he would stay here from now on and did not want to go back to the capital.

And so He Yuping rented her courtyard to Lu Zhiheng. Seeing that his wounds were healing well, Dr. Wu finally relented 10 days later and allowed him to go home to recuperate.

Before returning home, Sister-in-law Lu had tidied up the courtyard inside and out, just waiting for Lu Zhiheng to come back and move in.

He Caiwei wanted to secretly add some water from her space to help him heal, but they all had hand pumps, so adding spiritual spring water to the wells was completely impossible.

I could only visit him occasionally after school and secretly add some tea to his cup.

Perhaps it was because Lu Zhiheng had a strong self-healing ability, and with He Caiwei secretly adding some water from her space, Lu Zhiheng's bones healed much better than Dr. Wu had expected in just over a month.

Dr. Wu can finally go back to Kyoto. All he needs to do now is rest and recover from his injury. He just needs to avoid heavy work, running, and jumping.

He Yuping received a job recommendation because she had previously subdued two bad elements who wanted to assassinate Lu Zheng, and He Caiwei had also provided clues about the identities of these two people.

Director Zhang knew that she had attended a girls' high school before, so he recommended her to work as a librarian at the library near Pengcheng Girls' Junior High School. He Yuping thought the job was quite easy, so she agreed.

The current wage for an ordinary apprentice is 18 yuan. He Yuping went to work as a librarian. Her initial wage was 26.5 yuan. After three months, when she was officially promoted, her wage was 29.5 yuan. She would continue to receive wages at this rate afterward.

He Yuping now goes to school with her daughter every day, and her daughter waits for her to come home together after school.

The old man has stopped brewing wine. The wine he brewed before is still stored in the cellar. Since He Yuping went to work, the old man has been cooking dinner for the mother and daughter to eat together when they come back.

Lu Zhiheng is not a well-behaved person. Ever since he moved in next door, he has never been still. He often manages to create "chance" encounters with the mother and daughter who leave early and return late every day.

When He Caiwei returned to her front door again, she saw him sitting in a wheelchair facing the door. He Caiwei actually ran over and asked him what he wanted to do.

Sitting in the dark at the doorway, it was quite frightening at first glance: "Uncle Lu, can we stop scaring people here? What's wrong? Tell us, and we can solve it together. What's the point of you sitting here watching us every day?"

Lu Zhiheng found the girl's words quite amusing. He was too afraid to confess his feelings because of his legs, and he had been watching her every day, which must have annoyed her.

"Should we go inside to talk? Wouldn't it be inappropriate to do this like this?" Lu Zhiheng suppressed a laugh and gently beckoned her inside.

“Uncle Lu knows this is not a good influence, so what are you looking at every day as you sit here looking out?” He Caiwei stepped into the gate and pushed his wheelchair into the yard.

To make it accessible to wheelchair users, all the steps in the courtyard have been leveled. Apart from the leveled steps, there is now a stone table and six stone benches under the longan tree in the courtyard.

He Caiwei pushed the wheelchair to the stone bench, sat down on it herself, poured a cup of warm water with a small drop of her spatial water in it, and handed it to Lu Zhiheng.

Lu Zhiheng also saw her little gesture of putting her hand into the water, but he never exposed her. If it weren't for the little girl and her daughter, he would have died countless times already.

Moreover, the water that the little girl touched tasted different to him than the water he usually poured himself.

"Uncle Lu, tell me, what do you want to do?" The little girl crossed her arms and looked at Lu Zhiheng, who was drinking water.

After more than a month of recuperation, Lu Zhiheng has recovered very well. The whip marks and burns on his body have been reduced to faint scars, and his fingers have almost recovered as well. Although he looks no different from usual now, he can still feel that his hand drums are not very strong when he holds things.

Eating, drinking, writing—all of that is fine, but my handwriting isn't as neat as it used to be. It will take time to improve. A couple of days ago, Director Zhang came here and had a pair of horizontal bars made in the yard, just like the parallel bars in a stadium.

Director Zhang told him to stand up and move around every day while holding onto the parallel bars. Now he can stand up by himself while holding onto things, but it's still a bit difficult for him to walk. His kneecaps may not have healed yet, and they hurt a lot when he moves.

"I heard from Aunt Xu in the neighborhood that your mother is looking for a husband recently, is that true?" Lu Zhiheng said, while his eyes were still observing the little girl's expression.

"Yes, I've mentioned it before. But none of the men Aunt Xu found were to my mother's liking. These days, every family lives together. Those men who are interested in my mother are just after our house. They're thinking that after they get married, their whole family will move in with us. They're really dreaming." He Caiwei was truly speechless about this.

Previously, Aunt Xu had somehow acquired a real oddball. He was decent-looking, but his words were incredibly harsh. He kept saying that He Yuping was a widow, unlucky, and had a child with her. He said she should be grateful that anyone wanted her. He also said that this courtyard had to be part of her dowry, and after the wedding, her whole family would move into this courtyard and the courtyard would be registered under her parents' names.

Even the matchmaker, Aunt Xu, was dumbfounded as she listened to the mother and son rambling on about their demands. Her jaw almost dropped; she never imagined that this mother and son would be this kind of people.

Aunt Xu was about to turn around and apologize to He Yuping when she saw He Yuping take a large broom from the yard and start sweeping the mother and son wildly, making them howl in pain.

The mother and son slunk away. Perhaps the old woman, seeing such a large yard, was resentful and started spreading rumors that He Yuping was a jinx to her husbands.

Aunt Xu led the neighborhood committee staff to their door. She was truly regretful. If she had known this family was like this, she would never have brought them to the He family's daughter for a blind date.

The mother and son were her mother-in-law, a distant cousin. When she heard her mention that He Yuping wanted to find someone else, her mother-in-law recommended the mother and son to her.

She's really regretting it now. How could she have been so blinded by her mother-in-law's words and brought this person over? If this causes any unnecessary trouble for this He family girl in the future, the sin will be enormous.

That's why when she heard the mother and son start gossiping about He's daughter, she immediately led her people to their door and spread the word about their bizarre demands throughout the entire street.