Xu Damao was furious: "Bah! Hasn't this old woman hurt me enough? She can forget about it!"

"It's almost Chinese New Year again, and Qin Huairu breaks into your room again to wash your dirty clothes. You tell her there's 30 yuan in the drawer, and tell her to use it to make meat dumplings for the children and buy them some new clothes."

Xu Damao rolled his eyes and said, "Am I stupid?"

"I emphasize again that you are now an idiot. It turns out that you received a letter that Ran Qiuye wrote to you half a year ago. In the letter, she told you that she would never come back and asked you to forget her."

Xu Damao became more and more convinced that this person was Lou Xiaoe!

"Your heart is dead. You have finally decided to accept Qin Huairu and treat her three children as your own. You are tired. Destroy it..."

Xu Damao was incoherent: "Then, you'll just watch me, no, Shazhu and Qin Huairu get married?"

"How can that be possible! Don't you have a good friend?"

Xu Damao wrote "迷" on his left eye and "茫" on his right eye: "What about that grandson of Shazhu? Does he have any friends?"

"People are all made of flesh and blood. You have been with Qin Huairu for so many years, and you have feelings for her. And Qin Huairu also has you in her heart. In the past, she was always worried about this and that, and didn't dare to move forward; but after what happened with Ran Qiuye, she regarded you as a life-saving straw."

Xu Dacan threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stomped it out: "You two have overcome all difficulties. You even convinced Jia Zhang."

This is intolerable! Xu Damao refuted him: "Impossible! That old woman would never let her daughter-in-law remarry, otherwise how would she eat?"

Xu Damao really knows the Jia family well, and he is much clearer than Sha Zhu!

"You agree to call Jia Zhang your mother from now on, and agree to give her 5 yuan a month."

Xu Damao blurted out: "I can't be so stupid!" Then he realized that he was now "Shazhu", and helplessly stamped out the cigarette butt, sighing: "Shazhu can really do it..."

Xu Dacan gave him a provocative look and said, "You two started preparing for your wedding, with wedding candies and cigarettes, but the guy in charge of issuing letters of introduction at the factory is out on a business trip and won't be back until next Monday."

Xu Damao had a hunch: "Will Sha Zhu not be able to get married again?"

"You are right. Your good friend Xu Damao mentioned earlier..."

Before he could finish, Xu Damao exploded: "I have tolerated you for a long time! You are Sha Zhu's best friend!"

Xu Dacan rolled his eyes: "Really? Listen to me. Xu Damao gave Liu Guangfu and Yan Jiekuang 10 yuan each."

Xu Damao was shocked when he heard this: "Wow, this is 20!"

"Liu Guangfu and Yan Jiekuang took the money and gathered Zhao Jiaqing, Li Erzhu, Zhang Jinxi, Ma Tiezhang and other ruffians to block Banggeng on his way home from school."

Xu Damao became excited again: "It's blocked, then what?"

"Then they tied Bang Geng up and hung a broken shoe around his neck, and said his mother had found him a stepfather named Sha Zhu!"

Xu Damao sat down on the ground, muttering to himself, "Oh my god, this is too cruel. Only someone like Xu Damao can do this..."

Xu Dacan tried hard to hold back his laughter: "That's it. Banggeng, that little bastard, didn't say a word to you for eight years. Your marriage with Qin Huairu is ruined again."

Xu Damao began to sympathize with Sha Zhu this time: "Hey, Sha Zhu is so miserable!"

"Listen carefully, here comes the key point. In 77, Banggeng came back from working in the countryside, and because he couldn't find a job, he stayed at home unemployed. You used all the connections you had accumulated in your life to find Banggeng a job as a driver in a production department, and this grandson finally agreed to let you marry Qin Huairu."

Xu Damao has already given up resistance. He said that even gods cannot save this bastard Sha Zhu!

"Another seven years passed, and it's 7, which is now. You and Qin Huairu have been married for seven years. She was almost menopausal when she married you, so of course you didn't have any children. Just then, Ran Qiuye came back with your child. She gave birth to a son for you!"

Xu Damao stood up and said, "I don't want to play anymore. No wonder you said you wanted to play the peak match right away. There's no point in playing. I'm sure you'll lose!"

Xu Dacan still refused to let him go: "Yes, Shazhu is miserable enough, but Xu Damao is even more miserable than him!"

Xu Damao subconsciously asked: "How miserable is he?"

"Xu Damao still doesn't have a son. You should take your son to him right away and tell him to open his eyes and see clearly. This is my son! The son of Lou Xiao'e and I!"

After saying that, before Xu Damao could get mad, he quickly apologized: "Pooh, pooh, pooh, look at my mouth, I've lost my tongue..."

Xu Dacan ran away after saying this, leaving no chance for Damao to catch him.

Xu Damao was completely confused. For some reason, the words "Xu Damao, look carefully, this is the son of Lou Xiao'e and me" kept echoing in his ears.

"..."

That night, Xu Damao disappeared!

After dinner, Yu Li was the first to notice that Xu Damao had not returned yet, and she immediately exploded: "Great! He hasn't come back yet, tell me where Lou Xiao'e lives!"

Xu Dacan said, "There's a phone at the Peace Hotel. Sister-in-law, why don't you just call them?"

Yu Li took two deep breaths and dialed Lou Xiao'e's number.

When the call was connected, before Lou Xiao'e could say anything, she started to speak: "Lou Xiao'e, Xu Damao is my husband, and I am Xu Damao's wife!"

Lou Xiao'e was stunned on the other end of the phone: "What are you showing off to me?"

"Tell Xu Damao to come over and answer the phone!" Yu Li almost yelled.

Lou Xiao'e was very surprised: "Xu Damao? He's not here."

Yu Li was angry: "Lou Xiao'e, you must wait for me to knock on your door, right?"

Lou Xiao'e was also angry: "Yu Li, what do you mean? I said Xu Damao is not here, and he is not here!"

Then, the whole family knew that Xu Damao was missing...

Seeing that Yu Li was extremely anxious, they had to mobilize everyone to go out and look for her.

After Lou Xiao'e learned that Xu Damao was missing, it only took her 15 minutes to appear in the courtyard.

Seeing that everyone had gone out to look for Xu Damao, Xu Dacan took Liu Yueru leisurely back to the courtyard.

Liu Yueru asked him: "Did you do this?"

Xu Dacan sighed: "My brother is in the vegetable cellar, alone."

Vegetable cellar? Isn't that Qin Huairu's exclusive place for isolation?

Liu Yueru forced Xu Dacan to the door of the vegetable cellar. When she pulled the door handle, she found that the door was bolted from the inside.

She was so anxious that she kept shouting, "Brother, I'm your brother. Can't we come out and discuss what's going on?"