Siheyuan: It’s so nice to be Lao Liu

When Jia Zhang heard her second uncle Liu Haizhong talking about her family's fraudulent donations, she immediately quit and shifted her focus from Qin Huairu to Liu Haizhong.

"You fat bastard, what are you talking about? My family can't afford food, so what's wrong with you neighbors donating some money to my family? I want your donations because I think highly of you. When my son Bang Geng grows up and becomes a big shot, he can help you poor neighbors."

As soon as Jia Zhang's words came out, Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu, who were also allies, were furious and kept cursing Jia Zhang in their hearts, calling her an idiot. How could she say such words?

As soon as Jia Zhang opened her mouth, she started a big move that immediately ignited the residents who were already full of anger. Each of them had a furious look on their face and wanted to rush out and beat her up.

Seeing this scene, Yan Jiefang couldn't help but laugh. This was in line with the old saying, you are not to be afraid of god-like opponents, but to be afraid of pig-like teammates. Yi Zhonghai did everything he could to favor the Jia family, and used a series of moral kidnapping to make the residents help the Jia family. As a beneficiary, it would be fine if you didn't say a few nice words to thank everyone, but you actually mocked Laman. Who can stand it?

As the second uncle in the courtyard, Liu Haizhong was also very angry. In this courtyard, he was the most face-conscious person. After being fooled by the first uncle Yi Zhonghai, he was very upset to donate ten yuan. After Jia Zhangshi did this, he couldn't bear it anymore. He took back the ten yuan he had just donated with his right hand and said angrily: "The Jia family is not short of money. This is obviously deceiving the residents of our courtyard."

It may also be that anger made the second uncle Liu Haizhong's brain work better. He could take this opportunity to attack the authority of the first uncle Yi Zhonghai. He looked at Yi Zhonghai next to him and said angrily: "First uncle, you need to be responsible for this matter. It was you who said that the Jia family was in trouble and deceived everyone to donate. The Jia family needs to return the money donated by our hospital in the past three years to everyone."

As soon as the second uncle Liu Haizhong finished speaking, and before the first uncle Yi Zhonghai could say anything more, Jia Zhangshi was the first to be unhappy and shouted loudly: "Why? Our Jia family is in trouble, you should help our family. The money donated to our family belongs to our family. You fat man Liu, you bastard."

He sat down, slapped the ground with his hands, and howled loudly: "Lao Jia, Dong Xu, come up and take a look. The three uncles in the yard are leading the way in bullying our family. They want to force our family to die. Come up and take them away!"

"That's enough, Jia Zhang, get up!"

Yi Zhonghai's face flushed red, and he was very angry with Jia Zhangshi. He was helping her, but she even scolded him.

Seeing the crowd's excitement, Yi Zhonghai also knew that tonight's donation was gone. The situation of the Jia family had been exposed, and his prestige among the residents had been reduced a lot. It was unlikely that he would donate to the Jia family again in the future.

Thinking that he still had to rely on the Jia family to support him in his old age, in order to calm the anger of the residents, Yi Zhonghai knocked on the enamel pot in his hand, stood up, and said loudly: "I apologize to everyone here. I was careless for a moment and believed what Jia Zhang said. I thought her family really couldn't make ends meet. Based on the principle of mutual assistance among neighbors, I asked everyone to donate to her family. It's all my fault."

Yi Zhonghai's apology calmed down the angry crowd and they began to listen to what Yi Zhonghai was saying.

Seeing that the residents were reassured by him, the uncle Yi Zhonghai continued, "The money donated by everyone has been spent by the Jia family. There is no statistics on how much money was donated. It's not easy for their family either. We are all neighbors. Otherwise, everyone will suffer a loss and forget about the money!"

In order to remove Yi Zhonghai from his position as the first uncle, the second uncle Liu Haizhong, who had a high IQ, immediately replied: "Old Yan has counted the number of donations."

The second uncle Liu Haizhong looked at Yan Bugui, who paused and said calmly, "In the past three years, I have donated nine times, a total of 412.30 yuan."

Yan Bugui just finished speaking and took out a notebook from behind. After looking at the notebook, he said, "I have recorded everything here. The person who donated and the amount of each donation are very clear. There will be no mistakes."

When everyone heard this, they immediately lost their composure. What does four hundred and twelve yuan mean? It is a huge sum of money that many unemployed residents cannot earn even if they go without food or drink for three years.

The anger of the crowd, which had originally cooled, rose again.

He Yuzhu looked at the lively scene and added fuel to the fire, saying, "The Jia family has a lot of valuable things, including sewing machines and gold rings. If we sell them to the trust store, we will have money."

As soon as He Yuzhu finished speaking, the discussions in the crowd suddenly started again.

"That's right. The Jia family is so rich, they should pay it back."

"The Jia family cheated us out of our money, give it back."

"..."

Qin Huairu stood up, tears streaming from her eyes, and shouted at He Yuzhu with a wronged look on her face: "Silly Zhu, you want to force our family to death before you can feel comfortable, right?"

He Yuzhu narrowed his eyes slightly and sneered, "Haha, force you to death? When you, the Jia family, and Yi Zhonghai, the hypocrite, were plotting against me, why didn't you think of giving me a way out?"

"Don't mess with me in the future, or I don't mind looking into the back account."

Then he looked at Yi Zhonghai and said to the residents around him, "This uncle makes more than 100 yuan a month including bonuses. He spends 30 yuan a month and can save more than 70 yuan, which means he saves more than 800 yuan a year. He actually wants us to support his apprentice. What's his intention? Now that his conspiracy has been exposed, he still wants to shirk his debt. What a fair and just uncle!"

The way the surrounding residents looked at Yi Zhonghai changed, from respect to disgust and hatred.

Yi Zhonghai saw that the situation was not good, so he gave a look to the aunt and asked her to go to the backyard to ask the deaf old lady to calm the situation down for him.

But what he didn't know was that Yan Jiefang and He Yuzhu had already confronted the deaf old lady. Even if he invited the deaf old lady, she would only try to smooth things over and would not stand on his side.

Yi Zhonghai explained: "Auntie is in poor health and needs to take medicine all year round. My monthly salary is basically spent on buying medicine, and there is not much money left."

He knew that if the donations could not be returned, this problem would not be easy to solve today, so he promised: "Don't worry, the Jia family will definitely pay back the money. If his family can't pay it back, I will take out all my savings to help everyone pay it back."

With Yi Zhonghai's guarantee, the residents calmed down. As long as they could get the money, it didn't matter who gave it.

On the other side, an old lady walked to the backyard of the deaf old lady's house, knocked on the door a few times, and shouted into the house: "Old lady, open the door."

The deaf old lady was a very smart person. She knew that there would be a meeting of the whole hospital today. The lady came to her to ask her to go out and help Yi Zhonghai. She had already received the promise from her good grandson He Yuzhu that he would take care of her in her old age. Yi Zhonghai and He Yuzhu were not getting along well, so how could she go out to help Yi Zhonghai?

The deaf old lady did not open the door for the aunt, and said to the outside: "Madam, I am not feeling well and don't want to go out. I have already gone to bed."

The aunt had no choice. Since the deaf old lady was uncomfortable, she couldn't force her and could only walk back to the central courtyard alone.

When Uncle Yi Zhonghai saw Auntie coming back alone, he felt a little resentful towards the deaf old lady. The current situation was very unfavorable to him. The old lady didn't come out to help him. His prestige would suffer a great blow.