Chapter 822 Poor Junior Brother

"Master, are you going to enter the 'Jing' state? That's a great joy. I'm pretty good at preparing medicinal materials. I'll prepare the medicine for you in the next few days."

"Well, my eyesight is not as good as before now. I'm afraid I can't control the timing if I make medicine. But it's only a few days away from the Chinese New Year. Let's wait until after the Chinese New Year. By the way, I accepted an apprentice some time ago."

Then Master Li talked about the situation of this apprentice. The new apprentice is called Hao Guangchun. He is 12 years old this year. His father is an old friend of Master Li who has a good relationship with him. He was an officer in the mechanical department of Mentougou Coal Mine, one of the eight major mines in western Beijing.

This spring, Hao Guangchun's father died in an accident. When his mother heard the news, she was sent directly to the hospital. After his father died, his work position was vacant. His mother couldn't go to work due to health reasons. Her son was too young to meet the requirements for work. She could only leave the work position vacant and wait for her son to grow up before going to work.

At this time, Hao Guangchun's grandmother, grandfather, and cousin were tempted, but the job was reserved for their own son, and Hao Guangchun's mother said she would not agree to it.

So his biased grandmother made trouble, threatened, and tormented Hao Guangchun's family for her grandson, and spread some messy news in the mining area and the family compound, all kinds of unfilial, unlucky, and gossip were put on his mother's head.

Most people would be good if they didn't add fuel to the fire in such a matter, not to mention that it involved a widow whose husband had just died. Even if some people wanted to help, they couldn't, because once they did, the old lady who was throwing a tantrum would make him the protagonist of the gossip.

Later, the police station came forward, but it was useless. At most, they could criticize and educate the old lady, and they couldn't do anything to an old lady who was about to be buried. Since that day, the matter has been spread more and more, and the old lady has become more and more serious.

Due to various circumstances, Hao Guangchun's mother was sent to the hospital again. She was in a coma for several days in the hospital. After waking up, she dragged her sick body and her child to Master Li's door.

Master Li initially thought that she would just take care of Hao Guangchun for a while, so he agreed.

But no one expected that Hao Guangchun's mother would find the leader of the coal mine and tell everything. After getting the leader's promise that her husband's work position would definitely be left to her son.

She called Hao Guangchun's grandmother and cousin to the mine yard on the pretext of handing over work, and called many people over. After crying and complaining, she drank pesticide on the spot. Although she was immediately sent to the hospital, her health was already bad, and she was not rescued in the end.

A person was forced to death in public, and no one dared to cover up this lid. The mine security department and the local police station took joint action and directly arrested Hao Guangchun's grandmother, grandfather, and cousin.

Let’s not talk about what will happen to them, but Hao Guangchun has not only become an orphan, but was also forced by his aunt and uncle to go to the police station to testify at his mother’s funeral. If Master Li and the people from the mining union were not present at the time, it is hard to say how things would develop to that point.

But the matter did not end here. Those people went to Hao Guangchun’s house every few days to make trouble and cry. He was also beaten several times by his uncle, who said that he was unfilial for signing the letter of apology, etc.

The neighbors in the family compound could help once or twice, but they could not help every time by chance. In the end, they could only ask the security department to send someone to the family compound to prevent the family from coming in to cause trouble.

Since they couldn't get into the family compound, these people went to Hao Guangchun's school in batches to make trouble. Later, they threatened Hao Guangchun's classmates not to play with him.

Hao Guangchun couldn't stand it. He took out a kitchen knife from his schoolbag and wanted to chop his aunt. If the teacher hadn't stopped him, he would have done it. Later, the police station severely warned the family, saying that if they continued like this, they would increase the punishment for those who were arrested but not sentenced.

This also made the family smarter. They found a group of half-grown children to block Hao Guangchun all day long. When the children were caught fighting, they would at most be warned, but more often they couldn't be caught. The police officers in the police station couldn't always protect Hao Guangchun closely.

All kinds of circumstances added up, Hao Guangchun came to Master Li's house again.

In this case, even if Master Li wanted to help Hao Guangchun, he had to have a reason to stand up, so he accepted this apprentice.

You have to know that in this day and age, the title of this master is very useful, and in some cases it is more useful than the father.

The relationship between each other is the same. For example, every time Han Li comes back from his own place, his first stop is always his master. Helping his master with cleaning and cooking is child's play.

When the master is sick or injured, the apprentice takes care of him without taking off his clothes, taking care of his excrement and urine. This is normal.

After the master's death, the apprentice not only has to bear part of the funeral expenses, but also has to wear mourning clothes, keep vigil, and carry banners like a filial son and grandson. The apprentice's family must also give a big gift, and this gift money must be able to suppress the scene.

(The father of the master is the same as the father of the father, which is not comparable to the master's master. The master is generally used between strangers or acquaintances. Out of courtesy or respect, you can call the other party a master.)

After Hao Guangchun paid homage to his master, Master Li took him to find the leader of the mining area to explain the situation, and temporarily rented out the two houses in the coal mine family compound in Qingniangou. Finally, he went to the school to handle the transfer procedures.

All these people knew about Hao Guangchun's situation, and they felt very sorry for the child. However, it was difficult for an honest official to judge family affairs, and no one could interfere too much in it without a legitimate reason. Now it was great to have a master to support the situation, so these things went very smoothly.

From that day on, Hao Guangchun officially lived in Master Li's house and moved the school to a nearby place.

After Master Li finished talking about Hao Guangchun's situation, Han Li had a bad feeling in his heart.

In fact, Han Li wished that his master had more apprentices. First, he had a little apprentice to serve him, and second, he didn't have to worry about not being around when his master was not feeling well, or not being able to rush back.

What really worried Han Li was Hao Guangchun's situation. He was 12 years old, and he remembered everything. His father died unexpectedly, and his mother was forced by her grandmother, uncle, and cousin to drink pesticides in public to commit suicide to prove her innocence.

Those people made Hao Guangchun an orphan, and later he was beaten and scolded by his uncle and aunt, forcing him to have no home to return to. Can he get out of this psychological shadow? If he couldn't get out, what would happen after learning Xingyiquan?

If these things happened to Han Li, he would definitely not get out. If he didn't find a chance to crush them to death, he would definitely not be able to get out of this anger in his heart.

However, Han Li could only suppress this guess in his heart and pay more attention to Hao Guangchun's situation in the future.

Then Han Li said that the situation has been getting better and better in recent years, and advised the master to accept more apprentices. It doesn't matter if the qualifications are not good. Anyway, it is now a legal society, and there are not many times when fists and feet are really used. As long as the person's character is not bad, it's fine.

Then he went to the yard to personally instruct the original seven gourd brothers, and helped Hao Guangchun correct and suppress the "stance work".

At noon, he personally cooked and cooked, accompanied the master to drink a few glasses, and kept picking up food for Hao Guangchun. In addition to telling him to study hard, he didn't say anything else, not even mentioning the practice of boxing.

At the end of the afternoon, when it was almost time to get off work, Han Li rode his bicycle to the Dongcheng District Labor Bureau near Juer Hutong in Naner Tiao. There were several bags hanging on the handlebars of the bicycle, and a bulging snakeskin bag was tied to the back seat.

As soon as Han Li rode into the yard of the Labor Bureau, the Yun sisters who had been paying attention immediately came out of the house with bags.

"Brother Li, is everything okay with the master?"

"No, have you said hello to the leader?"

"Yes, I have, but it doesn't matter if you don't say hello, anyway, we will go to school soon."

"Little sister, what nonsense are you talking about again? Even if we graduate, we will stay in the city. If the reputation of disrespecting the leader spreads, you will never get it back for many years."

"I know, sister, you are becoming more and more like our dad."

Han Li looked at the two sisters bickering as always, and wanted to say that it didn't matter whether they went to this class or not, and they could support themselves even if they didn't work, but thinking about the future situation, if the unit was bad, people would gossip about it, not to mention those who didn't have a unit.

For a long time, the establishment represented the ability, status and future benefits of a person. These things are not comparable to "ten thousand yuan households". There is a famous saying in later generations called "the end of the universe is the establishment", so these words were changed by Han Li.

"Since we have asked for leave, let's go. We must get home before our parents."

Because Yun Yingying told Yun's mother that he was going home in the evening after meeting Han Li in the morning, the three of them still got home after Yun's mother.

And Yun's mother had already stewed the ribs and cut some other dishes.

Needless to say, the mother-in-law saw her son-in-law's enthusiasm and directed the two sisters to pour tea and get snacks.

Finally, she took Yun Jingjing to the kitchen to cook, leaving the space for Han Li and Yun Yingying.

After returning, Yun's father asked about Han Li's recent situation, of course, he and Yun Yingying's wedding situation, until the eldest brother-in-law came home to eat.

At the dinner table, Han Li not only secretly fed them one-tenth of the powerful pills, but also cheated to get his father-in-law and brother-in-law drunk in order to go home early to talk to Yun Yingying.

But what Han Li didn't expect was that Yun's mother didn't let him take one of the sisters away as usual.

She also said that the New Year was coming soon and the wedding would be held after the New Year, so the two of them should restrain themselves, otherwise if the people in the tube building found out, Yun's father would be embarrassed.