Chapter 161: Doesn’t Want To Be Smashed To Pieces
Everyone in the room reacted at this moment.
The Old Ding Woman was so scared that her legs went weak and she collapsed on the floor.
Old Ding Man just felt his heart stop beating.
Sister Qiao rushed forward in one stride and shouted at Chen Ying: “Where’s your rope? Where do you have a rope? Hurry up!”
Lu Qiaoge looked at the already completely panicked Chen Ying and the Ding Family members; none of them could be relied on.
“Sister Qiao, go get their bed sheet!”
Sister Qiao ran to the bedroom, yanked the bed sheet down, held it, and rushed to the window, handing the bed sheet to Lu Qiaoge.
Lu Qiaoge was grabbing Ding Jianshe’s back collar with her right hand; she took the bed sheet with her other hand and threw it at Ding Jianshe, shouting: “If you don’t want to fall and smash into pieces, don’t want to scare your youngest daughter into mental illness, grab the bed sheet quickly.”
This time was work time, but the school was on summer vacation now, and there were some on exchange leave, so there were quite a few people coming and going downstairs.
Even though the weather was hot, people still had to go about their business, and those who needed to buy vegetables still had to buy them.
There were also old people taking children to find a cool place to escape the heat.
The commotion on the seventh floor was quickly noticed by the people below.
Everyone looked up, and simultaneously let out bursts of screams.
“What’s going on?”
“Oh my god, isn’t that Ding Jianshe? What’s wrong with him?”
“Did he fall from upstairs?”
“Such a big person, how could he be so careless?”
“Oh, look quickly, isn’t there a young woman holding him?”
“My eyesight is bad; I can’t see clearly.”
“Isn’t that Lu Qiaoge from the Neighborhood Committee?”
“Oh, I know—the two cadres from the Neighborhood Committee went to his house for mediation.”
The discussions arose in an instant.
Ding Jianshe’s mind gradually cleared.
The desire to live once again occupied his entire body and mind.
His two hands grabbed the bed sheet thrown by Lu Qiaoge, and he stared wide-eyed in terror at Lu Qiaoge leaning on the window sill.
Then an old worker who was retired below shouted loudly: “What the hell are you all looking at? Hurry home and get quilts and blankets to pad underneath; if he falls, it can cushion him.”
After saying that, he looked up and shouted to those above: “Ding Jianshe, hold on; we’ll go get quilts right away.”
Just as Ding Jianshe grabbed the bed sheet, the buttons on his shirt all burst open from the strain.
Lu Qiaoge pulling his shirt no longer had any meaning.
Lu Qiaoge let go of her right hand.
Both hands grabbed the bed sheet.
People living nearby were already hugging quilts and running down frantically.
Soon, they stacked up a thick big layer.
Four more people, under the old worker’s command, grabbed the four corners of a big blanket.
Seeing that Ding Jianshe had firmly grabbed the bed sheet, Lu Qiaoge exerted force and pulled him up.
Then she dragged the person into the room and threw him on the floorboard.
Ding Jianshe sprawled on the floorboard—perhaps from tension, perhaps from suffocation earlier when he was strangled—coughing nonstop on the ground.
Lu Qiaoge leaned on the window sill and waved to the people below: “Thank you all; it’s fine now. Hurry and take the quilts back.”
Then she waved for Xiao Hui to fly away quickly.
The people standing downstairs all let out a long sigh of relief.
Ding Jianshe’s house was completely quiet; everyone’s faces were deathly pale.
In the room, there was only the sound of Ding Jianshe coughing nonstop.
Sister Qiao was truly extremely annoyed.
What was this all about?
Who mediates like this?
It almost cost a life; if he really jumped from in front of her, could she feel at ease for the rest of her life?
Was this matter worth it?
If they don’t want to support you, then don’t; how did it come to jumping off a building?
Unfortunately, she didn’t dare ask a single word now.
At this time, Chen Ying’s face was also deathly pale.
She originally wanted to say some harsh words, but looking at her disheveled husband, she gritted her teeth and swallowed back what she wanted to say.
The Old Ding Woman suddenly burst into loud wailing, then pounced over, hugged Ding Jianshe, and patted his back hard: “You unfilial dog thing, what are you doing? If you don’t let us live here, then we won’t; that’s us two old things being confused and sorry to you all, but how could you go jump off a building? If something really happened to you, your dad and I truly wouldn’t be able to live; why didn’t you think about your wife and child?”
Ding Jianshe let his mother thump him, head lowered, not making a sound.
Lu Qiaoge even felt a headache.
In this situation, if she were a man, what could she do?
To preserve reputation and keep the family intact, the only way was to cover it up.
Ding Jianshe wasn’t a bad person; otherwise, he couldn’t let Chen Ying torment her like this.
But then again, what had Chen Ying done wrong? Why should she bear what she shouldn’t have to bear?
Why should she be disgusted by her cheating husband year after year?
And still send money to that illegitimate child day in and day out for twelve years.
Just thinking about it was suffocating!
The one suffering the most here was Chen Ying.
Lu Qiaoge glanced at everyone in the room, took out the notebook she had thrown on the window sill earlier, and flipped to the page recording the real estate information.
“I have a method; I wanted to say it earlier. Do you want to hear it?”
Old Ding Man quickly walked over, wiped the tears from his face, and bowed deeply to Lu Qiaoge: “Comrade Lu, thank you, thank you so much; thank you for saving my son’s life.”
And also saved his and his old woman’s lives!
Lu Qiaoge hurriedly dodged and waved her hand: “It’s what I should do, what I should do.”
Only then did Ding Laoda react, also hurriedly thanking Lu Qiaoge.
Lu Qiaoge gave him a sidelong glance and said nothing.
Ding Laoda shamefully and fearfully lowered his head.
If his little brother really died, wouldn’t he become the sinner?
Chen Ying, with her pale face, said: “Comrade Lu, thank you so much.”
Lu Qiaoge waved her hand: “Don’t rush to say thanks; let’s resolve this dispute first.”
Old Ding Woman wiped her tears and hurriedly said: “Yes, yes, yes; Comrade Lu, you say, you say.”
Lu Qiaoge: “I have a bungalow of over thirty square meters here; it’s one of the earliest batch from the housing reform, and one unit is vacant now. In principle, they’re rented to families with particular housing difficulties.
This is also public housing, one yuan rent per month. You don’t meet the other conditions, but you do meet the age requirement.
And for practical difficulties, it can somewhat apply, in the bungalow area north of District One. If you think it’s feasible, I suggest Grandpa Ding and Grandma Ding rent this house, then the rent is shared by your children; as for taking care of the elderly, the children take turns.”
Hearing this, everyone’s eyes in the room lit up instantly.
It had to be said, it was truly an excellent idea.
Ding Tou and the Old Ding Woman had the brightest eyes upon hearing this.
The two of them could still move and take care of themselves, and cook for themselves.
If there really was such a place, wouldn’t it be a hundred times better than living at their son’s house!
He had had enough of sleeping on the floorboard.
And Comrade Lu also said the children would take turns caring for them, with rent shared among them.
This was simply a pie falling from the sky!
The grief, anger, and fear stimulated by their son hadn’t even subsided yet; at this moment, Old Ding Man was both excited and uneasy: “I agree, I agree; no need for them to pay the rent; I have retirement salary, I can bear it myself. But, does it need approval? Can I rent it?”
First, immense gratitude to the treasures for the monthly passes, follow-up reading, and rewards thrown in those last few days of the month; the moment the list stabilized, my heart was filled with endless gratitude to the treasures. May all wishes of every treasure who cast a monthly pass come true!
