I make a living solving crimes.

Wang Zengqi said in his "Hutong Culture" that the courtyard house is a box.

Since it is a box, it can hold a lot of things.

With so many things, bumps and bruises are inevitable.

So Chang Wei has always been looking forward to having his own house and yard.

Although the courtyard of the back house is small, Chang Wei is very satisfied with it.

Today's dinner was eaten in the small courtyard. A simple square table was placed in the middle of the courtyard. On the table were braised hairtail fish, steamed eggs, braised beef, fried cabbage, tomato soup, and fragrant rice.

"What are the red particles in the egg custard?" He Yushui picked it up with chopsticks and tasted it. It was sweet and melted in the mouth.

Chang Wei said calmly: "Wild fruit."

"It's delicious." He Yushui fanned her cheeks with her little hands, "Why is it still so hot at night? It hasn't rained in Beijing for a long time."

"It's good that it's not raining, as the countryside is in the midst of the double harvest."

“When did you start caring about agriculture?”

"My grandparents live in the countryside."

Yang Min interjected, "Go see them when you have time. You went there when you just had your holiday."

Chang Wei nodded and added one of the physical fitness fruits to the egg custard tonight, and left the remaining one for the three elders. He had to find time to go there.

Leisure time is rare, and after staying up all night, Chang Wei prepared to go to bed early tonight, but things often go against one's wishes. Just as he had cleaned up the dishes, someone shouted outside the wall.

Chang Wei walked around the back house and left the yard. He was surprised to see Yi Zhonghai coming over.

There was no life-and-death feud between the two, but they had completely fallen out after the incident with He Yushui. Whenever they met, they would turn their heads away and not speak.

Seeing Yi Zhonghai was hesitant and unable to open his mouth, Chang Wei said expressionlessly: "What's the matter?"

Chang Wei neither called him "Uncle" nor "Yi Zhonghai". His meaning was very simple: there is no friendship between us. If you have something to say, just say it. If not, get out of here.

Yi Zhonghai was relieved. He was most afraid that Chang Wei would turn around and leave when he saw him. He calmed down and looked around and said, "Chang Wei, can we go in and talk?"

Seeing that he wanted to enter his own yard, Chang Wei could only say to him: You are dreaming.

He didn't move, just stood there and looked at Yi Zhonghai.

The situation is stronger than people. Now the young man is fierce and he is asking for help. Yi Zhonghai quickly calmed down and said, "Chang Wei, Jia Dongxu was taken away by the police station in the factory today."

Chang Wei frowned and asked, "Why?"

Yi Zhonghai said: "They said it was because of gambling."

Chang Wei raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Don't tell me that he was captured by the Drum Tower?"

Chang Wei spoke out what Yi Zhonghai had been brewing for a long time, and he simply said "Yes." He choked for a long time before he could utter it.

Chang Wei laughed, "You don't think I sent someone to catch him, do you?"

Yi Zhonghai waved his hands in embarrassment, "No, no."

After a moment's silence, Chang Wei took out a cigarette and handed it to Yi Zhonghai. When he was rejected, he remembered that Yi Zhonghai didn't smoke, so he lit one for himself and slowly spoke.

"I don't need to explain to you, but since we live in the same courtyard, I still want to be as harmonious as possible. I took a day off today and didn't go to work. I didn't know that Jia Dongxu was arrested."

During the moment of silence just now, he thought a lot.

He can be willful, but he still has a mother and brothers and sisters living in this yard.

Jia Dongxu was arrested for gambling. As a public security officer, he could naturally stand on the commanding heights of law, morality, and public order and good customs to launch ruthless criticism.

But society is not like this.

The government hopes to sacrifice relatives for the greater good, but the people’s feelings are very simple. They will “protect their relatives” and they hope that “distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors.”

Being impartial and impartial is often associated with being heartless and disloyal.

Chang Wei usually would make any kind of noise in the yard because of neighborhood conflicts, as long as the conflict could be resolved in the end, the matter would never go beyond the yard, even though he often used the police station and the street office to scare people.

But if something really happened in the yard, he couldn't hide away when he could help.

This is how people in Beijing get along with their neighbors.

There weren't many of them on ordinary days, but when there was something going on in someone's family, such as a wedding or a funeral, one had to give a contribution, to express congratulations or annoyance, otherwise it would be "impertinent".

He Yuzhu was often arrested for fighting on the overpass, and it was Chang Wei's father who went to bring him back.

Yi Zhonghai had done his homework before coming to find Chang Wei today. He first went to the police station and then went back to the yard to inquire. Naturally, he knew that Chang Wei had gone home in the morning, and Jia Dongxu was taken away from the factory at four o'clock in the afternoon.

I dare not say that Chang Wei was completely unaware of it, but if I say that he did something bad in it, given this kid's unscrupulous style, it seems unnecessary to deliberately avoid it.

If revenge is really wanted, this guy can take the lead in going into the factory to arrest people.

Yi Zhonghai knew that his status as an uncle would not work with Chang Wei, and he did not dare to mention the neighborly harmony that he always talked about in the past. With a little care, he said softly: Chang Wei, I know it has nothing to do with you, but I just want to ask you to help me make an exception? "

Chang Wei didn't want to talk about this outside the wall. This place was next to the hanging flower gate, and people coming in and out could be seen. He pointed to the house in the east wing and said as he walked, "Did Jia Dongxu admit it?"

Yi Zhonghai nodded dejectedly, "Seven or eight people bit him, and he admitted it himself."

Crossing the steps of the hanging flower gate, Chang Wei, holding on to the porch column with a cigarette in his mouth, bit the sand in his cloth shoes. The courtyard was being re-paved with bluestone slabs today, and the ground was covered with sand and gravel.

Putting his shoes back on, he continued to ask, "What is the advice given by the institute?"

Yi Zhonghai stood beside him and sighed heavily, "A fine of thirty dollars, and a year of service in a labor camp."

Back in the front yard, Qin Huairu, the pregnant daughter-in-law of the Jia family, stood timidly in front of the door of the east wing. Seeing Chang Wei and Yi Zhonghai coming over, she hurriedly stepped forward and greeted them: "Brother Chang Wei."

There was a wisp of mist in her eyes, and she glanced around vaguely with three parts of coquettishness and seven parts of charm. She was indeed a beautiful white lotus.

Chang Wei could only show 30% indifference, 30% ridicule, 40% indifference, and the remaining 90% righteousness. He nodded lightly and said, "Sister Qin, please come in and sit down."

It would be more appropriate for him to call her sister-in-law, but he doesn't want to have a brother like Jia Dongxu.

The three of them did not enter the house. They took out benches and chairs and sat under the eaves in front of the door. Originally, they wanted Chang Wei to sit in the middle. He shook the cigarette butt in his hand and said, "Sister Qin is pregnant. I'll stay away."

So Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu sat on the right side of the door, and Chang Wei pulled a small stool and sat far to the left side of the gate.

He asked seriously, "Do you not want to pay the fine, or do you not want to work?"

Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu looked at each other and hesitated, "Is this labor the same as reeducation through labor?"

Chang Wei shook his head. "It's different. The labor team just sweeps the streets and alleys for two hours every day. It doesn't affect normal work and life."

The two of them relaxed a little. Everyone knew about the labor team's affairs and praised them all day long.

Yi Zhonghai thought about it for a while and asked tentatively: "Chang Wei, can we not inform the factory about this?"

Chang Wei asked curiously, "Wasn't he arrested in the factory?"

Yi Zhonghai smiled awkwardly, lowered his voice, and whispered, "As long as the police station doesn't report this to the factory, we'll say they arrested the wrong person."

Seeing Chang Wei's unhappy expression, he quickly explained, "The main reason is that there will be an evaluation next year. If the factory knew about this, his evaluation would definitely be in vain, and he would have to wait another three years."

Before Chang Wei could speak, Qin Huairu cried out in a long and charming voice, "Brother Chang Wei~!"

Goose bumps all over my body.