Siheyuan: He Yuzhu since 1958

"Ouch?! Jia Dongxu, where did you get this bicycle?!" Jia Dongxu had just arrived at the gate of the courtyard and was about to lift the bicycle over the threshold when Yan Bugui suddenly appeared in front of Jia Dongxu, looking at him as if to say, "Don't even think about getting in if you don't give me a benefit."

Jia Dongxu burped and replied, "Where else could it be from? Of course I bought it!" Then Jia Dongxu pretended to be mysterious, looked around, and then said, "Uncle, the repair shop sells old bicycles. The price is cheap, too."

Yan Bugui was not stupid. He immediately sensed something strange in Jia Dongxu's words: "A repair shop?! The nearest repair shop here is the one owned by Sun Quezi at the end of the alley. People are saying that Qin Huairu and Sun Quezi are having an affair. Is this true?! How much money and things does Jia Dongxu want to extort from Sun Quezi?!" At this moment, Yan Bugui's mind flashed back to the way Qin Huairu walked when she came back not long ago. He showed an enlightened expression on his face and said, "Dongxu, you are amazing! You are the fourth person in our yard who has a bicycle."

Jia Dongxu smiled and said, "Uncle San, you are wrong! I should be the third person in the hospital to have a bicycle. Although Xu Damao has a bicycle, his bicycle was provided by the factory, not bought by him himself."

Yan Bugui thought to himself, "Xu Damao didn't buy it himself, so did you?!" Yan Bugui smiled and agreed, "You're right." Then he asked, "Dongxu, buying a bicycle is a great thing. Shouldn't you celebrate?!"

Jia Dongxu replied: "It's time to celebrate! But I've already celebrated on my own. There's no need for you to worry about it, uncle." After that, Jia Dongxu pushed his bicycle away.

Looking at Jia Dongxu's back, Yan Bugui muttered angrily: "Buy a bicycle?! I think it's probably a scam! With your character, if you can afford a bicycle, a sow can climb a tree!"

Jia Dongxu returned home, kicked the door open, and moved the bicycle into the house. Seeing Qin Huairu lying on the kang like a dead person, Jia Dongxu closed the door, locked it, took the broom behind the door, walked to the kang, and hit Qin Huairu.

"Ah!" The neighbors who were eating or cooking heard Qin Huairu's screams and ran out of their homes.

"what's up?!"

"From the sound of that, it's Qin Huairu. I just saw Jia Dongxu come back. Could he be beating his wife?!"

"Although Jia Dongxu is a coward, he won't beat his wife. Is he mistaken?!"

The neighbor who just came back from work said, "Jia Dongxu bought a bicycle today. Could it be that he got a big purchase today and Qin Huairu didn't cook, which made Jia Dongxu unhappy?!"

"What do you know?!" The old lady from the Zhang family rolled her eyes at her neighbor and said, "You didn't see it this afternoon. The way Qin Huairu walked back home, she must have done something to offend Jia Dongxu outside, and Jia Dongxu knew about it."

The louder the neighbors talked, the harder Jia Dongxu beat her. Before long, Qin Huairu begged for mercy: "Dongxu, stop beating me! I won't do it again!"

"Don't dare?! Is there anything that you, Qin Huairu, don't dare to do?!" After saying that, Jia Dongxu threw away the broken broom, grabbed the belt with a broken belt head hanging on the door frame, and continued to hit Qin Huairu.

He Yushui heard Qin Huairu's screams, shuddered, and ran into the main room. He Yuzhu, who was cooking, heard the footsteps, turned around and asked, "What's going on?!"

He Yushui patted his chest and asked, "Brother, didn't you hear the shouting next door?!"

He Yuzhu replied, "I heard it!" Then he asked, "What's the matter?!"

He Yushui said: "The Jia family's daughter-in-law is too miserable, isn't she?!"

He Yuzhu said: "This is called Zhou Yu fighting Huang Gai, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to be beaten. Besides, they are a couple. Maybe they just like this?! We are outsiders, there is no need to care about them. We just need to live our own lives."

He Yushui asked: "Brother, can I stay at your place tonight?!"

He Yuzhu didn't even think about it and answered directly: "Of course. It's not like I don't have a room for you here."

"Brother! You are so nice!" He Yushui gave He Yuzhu a good guy card, and then said: "I'll get the quilt now!" After that, He Yushui ran out of the kitchen.

He Yuzhu sighed and muttered in a helpless manner: "This girl!" He unconsciously sped up the cooking process.

Not long after, He Yushui came back with a quilt, put it on the bed in the upstairs room, and then ran to He Yuzhu and asked excitedly, "Brother, what are we going to eat tonight?!"

He Yuzhu said, "I got some rice cakes. Today we're going to have rice cakes fried with shepherd's purse and shredded pork, plus a piece of fried pork chop for each person. I guarantee you'll want a second bite after every one."

"Ah!" At this moment, Qin Huairu screamed again. He Yushui shuddered unconsciously when he heard the scream. He Yuzhu comforted him, "Yushui, it's okay! I'm here, there's nothing to be afraid of! If the man you find in the future beats you like Jia Dongxu did, I will kill him!"

"I understand! Brother is still the best!" He Yushui echoed, with a relaxed expression on his face.

Qin Huairu's screams lasted for almost an hour. Tired of beating her, Jia Dongxu glared at Qin Huairu with disgust, threw the belt aside, walked to the bed outside, and fell asleep.

Qin Huairu lay on the kang for a while, regained some strength, and climbed up from the kang with difficulty. She sat on the kang and looked through the partition at Jia Dongxu who was sleeping soundly on the bed. Tears flowed from her eyes like a waterfall. Qin Huairu wanted to get up from the kang and kill Jia Dongxu with a knife. But it was not that Qin Huairu didn't want to move at this time, but that she felt pain all over her body when she moved slightly.

Time passed little by little, and just after ten o'clock in the evening, the whole courtyard was quiet. Jia Dongxu opened his eyes, stretched, and climbed out of bed. He glanced at Qin Huairu on the kang in the inner room, and walked to the chest of drawers where the photo of Lao Jia was placed. Jia Dongxu gently moved the chest of drawers, took out the tin box hidden in the back, and restored the chest of drawers. Jia Dongxu took out all the money in the tin box and put it together with the money on him. After counting, Jia Dongxu divided the money into two. Half was hidden in the interlayer of his underwear, and the other half was put into his trouser pocket. Then he walked to the door, opened it, and carried the bicycle out of the house.

After Jia Dongxu left, Qin Huairu opened her eyes and muttered to herself, "It's so late, where is he going?!"

After tasting the sweetness, Jia Dongxu left the courtyard and rode his bicycle straight to Doujiao Hutong. When Jia Dongxu arrived at the gate of the second courtyard, the police had already ambushed around. Jia Dongxu reached out and knocked on the door. Not long after, there was someone at the door. It was the burly man who opened the door in the early morning.

The burly man saw Jia Dongxu, smiled, made way for him, and said, "Go in!"

Jia Dongxu didn't say much and pushed his bicycle straight into the door. The burly man looked around and closed the door.

After about half an hour, Zhang Hu and He Ping felt that it was about time, and they led their men to the courtyard in front of them, which was suspected to be a gambling den.

Although the organizers of the gambling game had already thought about how to deal with emergencies, they did not expect the police to act so quickly. The gatekeepers were pinned to the ground before they could react, and they blocked their mouths with something to prevent them from screaming.

In just thirty minutes, the entire courtyard was under control of the police.