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The two carried Yi Zhonghai's New Year's Eve dinner to the backyard.

Qin Huairu saw it, but pretended not to see anything and went back to sit down at the table.

The Jia family's New Year's Eve dinner wasn't particularly good, but it wasn't bad either. There were at least four dishes on the table, and each person had a full bowl of dumplings.

"Zhonghai went to the backyard. Let's eat to our hearts' content."

In the backyard, Xu Damao and his wife weren't home; they had gone to Xu Fugui's place.

The two men entered Liu's house: "Old Liu, we've come to have a drink with you."

The meals at Liu Haizhong's home were quite plentiful. His apprentices had given him several kilograms of meat, which he had his second aunt cook all of.

However, after the meal was prepared, the couple had little appetite.

None of her three sons came back.

How can they possibly eat like that?

When Liu Haizhong saw the two of them coming over, he wasn't very welcoming: "I have no appetite and don't want to drink."

Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong exchanged a glance, both understanding why Liu Haizhong was acting this way.

Yan Bugui spoke first: "We didn't have any appetite either, that's why we came to find you."

Old Liu, I totally understand you.

I have four children. Yan Jiecheng lives in the same courtyard as me, but he never eats with me.

The others were even more outrageous.

Especially Yan Jiedi, that wretched girl, she came to the courtyard to deliver gifts to Sha Zhu during the New Year, and didn't even bother to stop by and see me.

Yi Zhonghai said, "Old Liu, you still have Guangqi. He can't come back from out of town, so you can't blame him."

One of them played the victim to give Liu Haizhong a sense of superiority, while the other talked about Liu Haizhong's proudest achievement to make him happy.

With just two simple tricks, I managed to fix my bangs.

The three sat down, and Liu Haizhong asked his second aunt to bring a bottle of good wine and invited the two of them.

"Old Yi, Old Yan, tell me, why is life so frustrating?"

Back in the day, the three of us were the most prestigious people in the courtyard. Everyone who saw us would respectfully call us "Grandpa."

What now?
Nobody looks down on us.

Wu Tiezhu's two sons ran out to set off firecrackers and bumped into me, but they didn't even bother to call out to me.

Yi Zhonghai felt this most deeply; among the three, he was the one who cared about these things the most.

"It's all Sha Zhu's fault. If it weren't for his meddling when we were selecting liaison officers, we would have been the big shots in charge."

If he had listened to everything we said, none of those things would have happened.

Liu Haizhong followed his words and said, "That's right."

Sha Zhu is a troublemaker; he's ruined the atmosphere in our courtyard.

The children in the compound are unfilial; it's all his fault.

Dissatisfaction with He Yuzhu was a shared feeling among the three. The other two started criticizing He Yuzhu, and Yan Bugui wasn't going to be left behind.

"That's right. We were doing it for his own good back then. Not only did he not appreciate it, but he also deliberately went against us."

The three of them then launched into a rant about He Yuzhu.

Outside, Wu Tiezhu was carrying a bottle of wine, preparing to go to He Yuzhu's house.

As he passed by Liu Haizhong's door, he overheard them criticizing He Yuzhu. He paused for a moment, then left with his wife.

Chen Xiaofang said, "Are these three old men crazy? It's been so many years, and they're still scheming against Brother Zhu."

Did Brother Zhu dig up their ancestral graves?

Wu Tiezhu said, "It's none of your business."

When they arrived at He Yuzhu's house, Chen Xiaofang asked He Yuzhu how he had offended them.

He Yuzhu said, "I don't know if I've offended them. I just know that no matter what I do, they won't appreciate it."

They're a bunch of ingrates; they eat your food, drink your water, and then badmouth you behind your back.

If Wu Tiezhu hadn't realized his mistake back then, he would be working like a slave for them now.

They would also get drunk and curse Wu Tiezhu at home.

Wu Tiezhu said with a dark face, "We agreed not to mention what happened back then. Why are you bringing it up again?"

He Yuzhu smiled and said, "I was just using an analogy."

Honestly, if you hadn't realized this back then, it wouldn't have been Yi Zhonghai who married Qin Huairu later.

Wu Tiezhu's face darkened even more. Chen Xiaofang said, "Brother Zhu, please stop bullying our Tiezhu."

He was deceived by Yi Zhonghai back then.

Who could have known he would be so hypocritical?

He Yuzhu said, "I'll give Xiaofang some face and not say anything more."

Don't pay any attention to those three.

Those three old guys are looking for a sucker.

At this time, whoever gets close to them is the one who will be taken advantage of.

Li Dagen also brought Li Zhenjiang in, and asked with a smile, "What are you two talking about?"

He Yuzhu gestured for the two to sit down and said, "They didn't say anything, did they? It's just that Wu Tiezhu came back from the backyard and heard Yi Zhonghai and the other two criticizing me again."

Li Dagen said, "Did the three of them get together again?"

He Yuzhu said, "Isn't it normal for the three of them to get together?"

Li Dagen said, "What's normal about it? Putting everything else aside, just look at Liu Haizhong."

He diligently taught his disciples, and his life was more comfortable than anyone else's.

But he insisted on hanging out with Yi Zhonghai and Yan Bugui.

Now even his son won't come back.

He Yuzhu said, "Uncle Li, it was destined long ago that the Liu family's children would be unfilial."

The saying "If parents are not kind, their children will not be filial" was said by the deaf old lady to her three sons.

I heard from Xu Damao that when Liu Guangqi was a child, the sentence he repeated most often was this one.

Wu Tiezhu said, "So, the Liu family children's filial impiety is backed by the deaf old lady?"

He Yuzhu explained, "That's right. Think about it carefully. Many times, the beatings of the Liu Guangtian brothers were related to Yi Zhonghai."

Yi Zhonghai's actions in instigating Liu Haizhong to beat the child were not exactly secretive.

With careful observation, you can always tell.

His most cunning move was to sow discord between the father and son in the Yan family.

He tolerated Yan Bugui's scheming, turning the father-son relationship in the Yan family into a relationship based on money.

Apart from He Yuzhu, who knew what happened later, no one else could see this.

Everyone would think that the Yan family's children were unfilial, and that it was entirely Yan Bugui's own fault.

Even Yan Bugui could not have imagined that Yi Zhonghai would play such an important role.

On his deathbed, Yan Bugui expressed his gratitude to Yi Zhonghai for allowing him to live a good life in his later years.

He should indeed be grateful to Yi Zhonghai.

If Yi Zhonghai hadn't schemed against Sha Zhu, given his appearance, he definitely wouldn't have been living such a good life.

You should know that in their later years, they ate dishes prepared by restaurant chefs, which alone puts them ahead of 90% of the population.

The key is that they don't have to worry about anything. Whatever they want, they just tell Sha Zhu, and Sha Zhu will do it.

"Forget it, let's not talk about them."

The group then started talking about other things.

He Yuzhu was unaware that Yi Zhonghai had already begun to explore the possibility of the two of them jointly supporting each other in old age.

Yi Zhonghai had a very difficult life. He felt that he couldn't completely control Qin Huairu on his own.

He desperately needs someone to help him.

The best candidates are Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui.

He had barely started when both of them rejected him.

Liu Haizhong was not without hope for his old age; he still had Liu Guangqi as his last hope.

Yan Bugui, on the other hand, was very clear that it was not worthwhile to let Qin Huairu retire in his old age.

In his view, as long as he has money, his children will definitely come back to support him in his old age.

To get these two to compromise, we must wait until their hopes are dashed.

Yi Zhonghai wished he could swear to the two of them that he would take care of them in their old age even if he had no children.

However, he was afraid of being beaten by the two of them, so he dared not say anything. (End of Chapter)