Siheyuan: No One Can Be Left Behind

I returned to the courtyard early. I have to entertain Ran Qiuye well today. If nothing happens, it would be a waste of Ran's mother's efforts. But I don't know what Ran Qiuye is thinking.

After entering the courtyard, the door god, Uncle Three, was not there. It was obvious that he had not yet finished get off work. Li Dongfang hummed a song as he walked towards the central courtyard.

"You slut, are you hooking up with some strange man outside again?" Li Dongfang heard Jia Zhang's roar when passing by the door of Jia's house.

"Mom, don't talk nonsense. I didn't! I took these things from Li Dongfang's house." Zhao Juan's voice followed.

Li Dongfang's eyelids twitched immediately after hearing this. Well, you dare to steal things from my house so openly? !

But thinking about it, after all, I had slept with her, I decided to just turn a blind eye.

Just as he was about to continue walking towards the middle courtyard, he heard Jia Zhang's hoarse voice yelling, "What?! You...you...you took everything, why did you only take this little? Go, get me all the edible things from his house!"

Li Dongfang was almost laughed at by Jia Zhangshi, because he felt that if he took less, he would be at a loss.

"Mom! I have no choice today. If our family hadn't run out of food, I wouldn't dare to do such a thing. I don't know how to explain it to Li Dongfang later. How can I get all the money?"

"I don't care. You've already taken it. Go get some more right now. Then you can say you borrowed it from him and pay it back when we have money." Jia Zhang said righteously.

"I won't! I don't even know how to open my mouth to talk to others!" Zhao Juan was tough for once.

"Hmm? You care so much about him, do you like him? Do you want to have an affair with him?! I tell you, don't even think about it. If you dare to do anything to let down my Dongxu, I will tear you apart!"

"Mom! How can you say that? Don't you care about my reputation at all?"

"You still care about your reputation. I don't even know if Xiaodang is our Dongxu's child. Humph!" Jia Zhang's words were so vicious that Zhao Juan immediately fell silent, with only faint sobs coming out.

Li Dongfang shook his head after hearing this, but for him and Zhao Juan, it was just an accident, at least that's what Li Dongfang thought, so he didn't intend to meddle in the Jia family's affairs.

After returning home, Li Dongfang took a look at the kitchen, but he really didn't find anything missing. He probably didn't care how much was in the kitchen. He would just put in the missing items whenever he felt one was missing. He never thought that someone would come to steal anything.

Lin Shu still went straight to the bed to catch up on his sleep, and Li Dongfang also slipped into the space to take a shower.

When he came out, he saw Lin Shu holding a gasoline barrel on the kitchen stove and asking, "Who told you to steal? Tell me! How many times have you stolen? What did you steal?"

"Ouch, ouch, it hurts so much, this old woman is dying of pain, someone come quickly, someone is killing someone!" Jia Zhang was not afraid at all, instead she shouted for help at the top of her voice.

Li Dongfang thought that Jia Zhang was scared by his punishment and would not dare to provoke him again. He did not expect that she would dare to come. This was the result of her forgetting to come to his house to steal things.

Seeing Li Dongfang, Lin Shu turned around and asked, "Do you want to send him to the police station?"

When Jia Zhang heard that she was going to be sent to the police station, she stopped shouting and said with a pitiful look, "Dongfang, just let me go this time because we are from the same courtyard."

Before Li Dongfang could say anything, an old lady came over, poked her head in the doorway and asked, "Dongfang, is anyone home? I heard someone in your room shouting for help."

Li Dongfang turned around and said to the middle-aged woman at the door: "Mother, I'm at home. Please come in. I caught a thief. Please help me as a witness."

A middle-aged woman came in after hearing this and said in surprise: "No way, there has never been a little one in our courtyard..."

Seeing Jia Zhang at this time, the aunt immediately shut up. There had never been a thief in the courtyard, except for Jia Zhang.

"That... Dongfang, this..." The old lady suddenly didn't know what to say.

Li Dongfang didn't care and said, "Auntie, please be my witness. I am a thief who has stolen the stolen goods."

The aunt hesitated for a moment. This matter concerned the reputation of the courtyard. If things went wrong, the reputation of the civilized courtyard would be lost. She didn't know whether she should testify or not.

Li Dongfang seemed to have thought of Auntie's concerns and said, "Auntie, I don't want to make a big deal about this. The key is to see how Jia Zhang admits his mistakes, don't you think? As long as I am satisfied with his attitude of admitting his mistakes and he promises that he will never do it again, then we can let this matter go."

"Yes, yes! Jia Zhang, you should quickly apologize to Dongfang. How could you do such a thing?" The aunt quickly said to Jia Zhang.

"I'm sorry..." When Jia Zhang heard that she could let him go, she hurried to apologize.

Li Dongfang raised his hand to interrupt her and said, "You can't just say that lightly. You have to pay the price...Is it okay for me to talk to that middle-aged lady alone?"

The lady nodded immediately after hearing this and said, "It's as you should. You have to pay the price for your mistakes. You talk to her and I'll help you guard the door."

Li Dongfang turned his head and looked at Lin Shu and said, "Let her go. You go out and wait for a while."

Lin Shu immediately looked at Li Dongfang with a puzzled look, seeming to be a little worried.

Li Dongfang rolled his eyes and said, "Do you think she can harm me?"

Only then did Lin Shu release the hand that was clamped around Jia Zhang and walked out with the aunt.

Li Dongfang pulled a stool and sat at the kitchen door, leaning against the door frame and said to Jia Zhang: "You are incorrigible. Have you forgotten that you came to my house and stole things when I first moved in?"

Jia Zhang rubbed her painful shoulder from being twisted by Lin Shu and said, "My family is out of food, so I want to come to your house to borrow some."

Li Dongfang was so angry that he laughed, "You call this borrowing?"

"Our Juan just now...said that she would talk to you about borrowing grain later, and that she would pay you back when we have money." Jia Zhang almost let the cat out of the bag and exposed Zhao Juan.

Li Dongfang did not expose the truth and asked directly: "Since I have caught you, what do you say we should do?"

Jia Zhang's triangular eyes turned again and again, and after thinking for a long time, she said, "What do you think we should do?"

"You don't seem to be willing to solve the problem. Why don't I hand you over to the police station?" Li Dongfang pretended to stand up.

Jia Zhang said quickly, "No, no, we can talk it over. It's not that I don't want to compensate you, but my family has nothing. How about...how about giving Xiaodang to you as your daughter?"

Li Dongfang rolled his eyes immediately. You are thinking of something good. You want me to raise a child for your Jia family?

After thinking for a while, Li Dongfang said, "Think about what else is valuable in your family. As long as I am satisfied, this matter will be over."

Jia Zhang immediately crossed her arms and said, "In our family, besides me, Banggeng is the most valuable, but don't even think about it..."