Siheyuan: Seventeen-year-old He Yuzhu

Xu Damao lied, "Uncle, you know that I have a grudge against that guy Jia Dongxu. Just now, when I was walking in the yard, I got angrier and angrier, so I came here to see if there was a chance to teach him a lesson."

"When I realized there was no chance, I wanted to go back, and then I ran into you."

Yi Zhonghai didn't quite believe what Xu Damao said. It didn't sound very reasonable.

Xu Damao knew there was a loophole in what he said, so he quickly changed the subject and asked, "Uncle, it's so late, why are you not sleeping and opening the door?"

Yi Zhonghai said: "I couldn't sleep either, so I came out for a walk."

"Oh, so that's it."

Xu Damao gave Yi Zhonghai a meaningful look and said, "Uncle, Auntie, haven't you come back from your mother's home yet?"

Yi Zhonghai said: "No, it will probably take some time."

Xu Damao thought to himself, now that he has met Yi Zhonghai, and there is no one outside in the middle of the night, why not make things clear and use this as an excuse to get some money.

"A uncle, that's not right, I think I saw an aunt today."

Yi Zhonghai knew that the person was lying in the house, and said, "Da Mao, you must have seen it wrong."

Xu Damao said: "I didn't even tell you where I saw it, how can you say I saw it wrong?"

"I saw an old lady buying vegetables at the market this afternoon. I even went up to chat with her. I was definitely not seeing things."

Yi Zhonghai frowned. He was indeed not at home in the afternoon, but the first thing he did when he came back was to go to the inner room and find that he was still there, no different from before he left.

There was no way she would appear at the market.

Why did Xu Damao say that?

No, I have to try it out.

Yi Zhonghai said: "Da Mao, are you sure you didn't see it wrong?"

Xu Damao nodded. "We are from the same courtyard. It has been so many years. How could I have made a mistake?"

Yi Zhonghai said: "Maybe he went to the market to buy some things, and then went back. Anyway, he didn't come back."

"You said, it's been so many days, it's time to come back."

"I was planning to go to my mother-in-law's house and pick her up in a few days."

Xu Damao was happy in his heart, you are quite good at pretending.

Xu Damao said, "That's not right. Auntie told me that she had left home. She has been at home all these days and has not returned to her parents' home at all."

Yi Zhonghai felt a chill in his heart when he heard this. Just then a cold wind blew and he shivered. "What...what?"

He was really panicked and felt a little scared.

I secretly told myself that I was clearly at home and there was no way I could go out. Yes, there was no way I could go out.

Xu Damao is trying to trick me, he must be tricking me, I can't fall for it.

Yi Zhonghai felt that Xu Damao must have noticed something when he said this, so he was testing him like this.

But Xu Damao definitely doesn't know what's going on. As long as I keep calm, there will be no problem.

Seeing Yi Zhonghai panicking, Xu Damao smiled and said, "Oh, I remember now. Auntie also said that she was in a lot of pain. There were rope marks all over her body. She was all red and swollen. She went to the market just to buy medicine."

Yi Zhonghai's face changed, he took a step back, and almost tripped over the threshold.

I was shocked.

How did he know, how did he know the rope?

Did Xu Damao see it?

impossible.

The person has been hiding in the house and has never come out once. How did Xu Damao know?

Yi Zhonghai was extremely panicked and his whole body was cold.

Xu Damao continued, "Auntie talked to me for a long time. She said that she had a cloth gagged at home and couldn't speak every day. She felt suffocated, so she talked to me for so long."

"Uncle, this is your fault. How can you use a cloth to cover an aunt's mouth?"

As soon as these words came out, Yi Zhonghai's head exploded and he sat down on the ground.

Now it is certain that Xu Damao must have known about this matter, otherwise he would not have been able to describe it in such detail.

he......

How on earth did he know that?

There is no time to find the reason now. I don’t know what Xu Damao wants to do by saying it now.

He said tremblingly: "Da Mao...you...what you said...is too outrageous..."

"She went back to her parents' home...what rope, what mark...what cloth...I don't know..."

Xu Damao looked at Yi Zhonghai's expression, listened to what he said, and sneered in his heart. It was already this time, but he was still being stubborn.

"Really? Uncle?"

"Why don't we go inside and take a look?"

"Auntie told me that she had been lying in the inner room the whole time."

As he said that, he was about to walk towards Yi Zhonghai's house.

Yi Zhonghai quickly got up from the ground and pulled Xu Damao outside.

"Da...Da Mao..."

"There's nothing in the back room."

Xu Damao said: "Why would that lady lie to me? No, I have to go and take a look."

As he said this, he was about to break into the house.

Yi Zhonghai held him back with all his strength and refused to let him in.

"Da Mao, no need, there's really nothing in the inner room."

"Well, you were hospitalized a while ago. As the eldest uncle in the courtyard, I should have visited you, but I had too many things to do and didn't go."

"I have fifty dollars here. You can use it to buy some food to replenish your body."

He picked up the coat that had just fallen from the ground and took out fifty dollars from it.

This is what he brought with him when he went out with Qin Huairu this afternoon. He brought a hundred dollars in total and gave fifty to Qin Huairu, leaving exactly fifty left.

Now that everything has been brought out at once, I just hope Xu Damao can let it go and not tell anyone.

He thought, I will take the person away later, and then even if you tell him, you won’t be able to find him.

Xu Damao didn't even reach out to take the money. He felt very disdainful. It was just fifty yuan, and he was giving it to a beggar.

He said, "Uncle, what are you doing? I'm already cured, I don't need to take any more medicine."

"It's the old lady. She has her mouth blocked with cloth all day. I don't know if she can eat well. You should give her the money to buy some food."

Yi Zhonghai's face twitched. Does he look down on this fifty yuan?

He became ruthless and said, "Da Mao, I am stingy."

"You were injured so badly last time, you should be well mended. Wait a moment, I'll go to the house to get you the money."

He ran into the house, took out a hundred yuan, added the fifty yuan, and gave it to Xu Damao.

Xu Damao still didn't answer, "Uncle, you misunderstood me. I don't think the money is too little."

When Yi Zhonghai heard this, he said, if you don’t want money, then what do you want to do?

Xu Damao continued, "I can't take your money for nothing."

Yi Zhonghai said: "This is the money I use to buy you things and take care of your health. It's nothing."

Xu Damao said: "I don't want the money."

"But, I do have something I want your help with."

Yi Zhonghai asked: "What's the matter?"