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Chapter 2581 Price Gouging

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Sha Zhu suddenly realized that what he wanted to ask was why Xu Damao couldn't have children, not to discuss the quality of Qin Huairu's steamed buns with Xu Damao.

"I'm asking you, how exactly did you lose your virginity, and with whom? It wasn't with Qin Huairu, was it?"

I remember when she and Jia Dongxu had just married, Jia Zhangshi was keeping a close eye on Qin Huairu every day; you had no chance.

Sha Zhu knows this all too well.

At that time, although he was not bewitched by Qin Huairu and did not become her lapdog,

However, Qin Huairu is beautiful, and she hangs around the Intermediate People's Court every day.

He couldn't avoid watching it even if he wanted to.

Back then, even glancing at someone too long would earn you a good scolding from Jia Zhangshi.

He and Yi Zhonghai were the ones who received the most criticism.

He himself was innocent, so he assumed Yi Zhonghai was innocent as well.

Looking at it now, Yi Zhonghai is not innocent at all. He deliberately spied on the scene and was scolded, which is entirely justified.

Xu Damao couldn't brag, so he had to tell the truth: "If I wanted to, I could definitely sleep with him, but I don't want to."

"You're not willing anymore?" Sha Zhu looked at Xu Damao in confusion.

Xu Damao said, "Is it strange that I don't want to? She's second-hand, no, at least third-hand."

They want fifty yuan to let her sleep. Do they really think she's still a virgin?

When Jia Dongxu married her, he only paid a dowry of ten yuan.

"It's not like I can't find women, why would I be a sucker?"

"Fifty dollars." Sha Zhu was shocked.

You should know that it costs him ten yuan just to touch Qin Huairu's little hand.

Xu Damao thought he was getting a good deal, since he could get a good night's sleep for fifty yuan.

Of course, she can't compare to Jia Dongxu. Jia Dongxu paid ten yuan and not only could she sleep with Qin Huairu, but he could also make her have a child.

"What's wrong with fifty? Oh right, I forgot. You spent several thousand and didn't even get to sleep with her."

Seeing how shocked Sha Zhu was, Xu Damao realized that this innocent child had spent even more money.

Xu Damao continued, "In today's terms, what you're doing is price gouging."

If it weren't for you, two steamed buns and a dish would have been enough.

"It's all because of you that you raised her prices. Four steamed buns and a dish, and she's still not happy."

Sha Zhu had a dark expression and didn't want to pay any attention to Xu Damao.

Xu Damao, however, was not about to let him off the hook: "Yi Zhonghai is so much better. With a fool like you paying, he doesn't have to spend a single penny."

"That's enough." Sha Zhu couldn't take it anymore.

He wasn't angry at Xu Damao, but at Yi Zhonghai. If it weren't for Yi Zhonghai, he would never have obediently given money to the Jia family.

Xu Damao chuckled and pricked up his ears to listen to the Qin sisters' conversation.

Qin Jingru said to Qin Huairu, "If you have any filial piety, take some money and go see your brother."

I just went back to Changping a couple of days ago. Your brother's leg was hurting, and he's having surgery at the hospital.

Qin Huairu remained silent.

Her family members offered her no help, so why should she bother with them?

Upon hearing this, Sha Zhu asked, "What happened to Brother Qin Huairu?"

Xu Damao said, "He injured his leg while working and is currently receiving treatment at the hospital."

Speaking of which, he's your brother-in-law.

"What brother-in-law? I've never seen him except when Jia Dongxu got married," Sha Zhu denied.

Xu Damao thought about it and realized it made sense.

When Sha Zhu married Qin Huairu, Qin Huairu married Sha Zhu as a daughter-in-law of the Jia family.

By then, Qin Huairu had long since stopped having contact with her family.

After Sha Zhu married Qin Huairu, he never went back to Qin Huairu's parents' home with her.

The reason she didn't go back was actually quite simple: neither Jia Zhangshi nor Yi Zhonghai wanted her to return.

It's understandable what happened to Madam Jia Zhang. After Jia Dongxu's death, Madam Jia Zhang was worried that Qin Huairu might remarry, so she didn't send any news to the Qin family about Jia Dongxu's funeral. Her reason was that the family was struggling financially and couldn't afford a banquet.

Yi Zhonghai also strongly agreed, so no one dared to raise any objections.

Yi Zhonghai agreed for a similar reason to Jia Zhangshi: he was afraid that Qin Huairu would have too many people to be filial to.

His own father, his own mother, his own mother-in-law—they should all be ranked before him.

How could Yi Zhonghai possibly agree to that?

He wants everyone to be filial to him, even if they are not filial to their parents.

He couldn't accept that someone was ahead of him in line.

Speaking of this, Yi Zhonghai didn't have it easy either. On the one hand, he demanded that Qin Huairu be a filial person, and that she be filial to everyone.

On the other hand, he also hoped that Qin Huairu would not be filial to his parents.

Trying to instill such contradictory requirements in one person is no less difficult than having your own son.

Fortunately, he was lucky enough to run into Sha Zhu and Qin Huairu.

Sha Zhu wasn't thinking clearly; after being tricked, he did whatever he was told.

Qin Huairu was greedy for money; she would agree to anything as long as she was paid.

In order to obtain Yi Zhonghai's illegitimate children, she did whatever Yi Zhonghai asked of her.

Sha Zhu scratched his head and looked at Xu Damao: "Don't talk about me, what about you?"

Xu Damao asked, "What's wrong with me?"

“You haven’t been there many times either,” Sha Zhu said.

Xu Damao said smugly, "Don't compare yourself to me. When I made money in business, I spent five thousand yuan to build houses for them in the countryside."

Do you know what five thousand yuan meant in the 1980s?

"You really spent that much money? I've never heard of that before." Sha Zhu was a little skeptical.

"Would I lie to you? By the way, before they smuggled color TVs, Jingru came to me and said she wanted to build a house for her parents. I just gave her five thousand yuan." Xu Damao said with a smug look on his face.

It's true that they gave money and built houses, but the purposes were different.

Xu Damao was overjoyed at the thought of how he could have tricked both Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui in one fell swoop.

He couldn't say it out loud, so he had to express his happiness in this way.

Sha Zhu suddenly remembered: "I haven't asked you yet? Was it you who reported them for smuggling televisions?"

"It's me. What's wrong?" This time, Xu Damao didn't deny it and admitted it openly.

"I was the one who found Li Huaide to do the smuggling business. Those old bastards actually dared to cooperate with Li Huaide behind my back."

If I don't teach him a lesson, how am I supposed to stay in the underworld?

Sha Zhu pointed at Xu Damao: "I told you, you were the one who did that."

Those bastards, Yi Zhonghai, even tried to plead for you, saying it wasn't you.

Xu Damao felt incredibly smug thinking about how he had fooled so many people back then.

"Those few old codgers, if I wanted to mess with them, it would only take a word."

In the past, Sha Zhu would definitely have taught Xu Damao a lesson to vent his anger for Yi Zhonghai and the others.

Now he wouldn't, and he would even applaud Xu Damao's behavior.

"It's a pity we couldn't trick Yi Zhonghai back then."

Xu Damao said, "That's all your fault. Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu were worried that you would run away with Lou Xiao'e, so they didn't have the energy to get involved in this matter."

In fact, Qin Huairu really wanted to participate, but Yi Zhonghai didn't agree.

Qin Huairu is thinking about making money, while Yi Zhonghai is afraid that Qin Huairu will make money.

If Qin Huairu becomes rich, what will happen to his retirement? He can't rest easy unless Qin Huairu comes to beg him.

This is the same principle as Yi Zhonghai being afraid that Sha Zhu is rich.

Yi Zhonghai hopes that his caregivers will never surpass him. Only then will he be able to maintain control over them.

By a twist of fate, Yi Zhonghai escaped a calamity.

Later, as society developed too rapidly, Yi Zhonghai's retirement savings became insufficient, so he changed his mind and used Lou Xiao'e's money to establish a nursing home. (End of Chapter)