1952: Walking through Nantongluo Alley

"Fight, quickly, fight!"

Xu Damao, who was sitting next to his parents, had an excited look on his face, as if he was afraid that the world would not be in chaos, and he couldn't wait for a fight to start.

"Da Mao, what nonsense are you talking about?"

With a bang, Xu Damao's father hit him on the head.

Xu Damao wilted after being hit on the head.

At this time, a deaf old lady came over outside the conference with a cane.

She yelled at the top of her lungs.

"What are you arguing about? Are you going to let me take a nap?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the originally noisy meeting suddenly became quiet.

Chen Xiao also gave the deaf old lady some face, snorted coldly and sat down.

After all, the system has not been activated yet. If a fight really breaks out, I'm afraid I will suffer some losses, which is something Chen Xiao doesn't want to see.

"Sister-in-law, Dongxu, please stop making trouble. Don't worry, I will give you justice today." Yi Zhonghai said.

The deaf old lady walked in slowly with a cane, came to the eight-immortals table, and sat directly in Yi Zhonghai's seat.

Yi Zhonghai didn't dare to say anything. The deaf old lady had a very high status in the courtyard. He heard from the street office that when she was young, the deaf old lady had woven straw sandals for the army and even donated a lot of things. She was also a martyr's family member and an anti-Japanese war hero who supported the country.

Any one of these identities is not comparable to Yi Zhonghai.

The deaf old lady looked around and then spoke to everyone while leaning on her crutch.

"Old lady, do you need me to call the police over? Can't we just sit down and talk it out? Do we have to start a fight?"

Yi Zhonghai repeated the deaf old lady's words.

"The deaf old lady is right. Tell me, why can't you just talk it out peacefully? Why do you have to fight?"

Mrs. Jia Zhang snorted coldly.

Others were afraid of the deaf old lady, but Jia Zhang was not.

"What's the use of talking nicely? It's all because Old Jia died early. Now anyone can bully us mother and daughter."

"I know my Dongxu isn't particularly handsome, but at least he's decent looking. Even though the matchmaker has introduced many girls from the city to him over the past two years, none of them like my Dongxu."

"But this time the matchmaker introduced a woman from the countryside, and Qin Huairu also said that she only required a sewing machine, so my mother and I went to buy a sewing machine early this morning."

Yi Zhonghai sighed.

He knew Jia Zhangshi, and if things continued like this, she would probably be about to die.

He looked at Chen Xiao again.

"Chen Xiao, what the old sister-in-law said makes sense. If they didn't fancy Qin Huairu, why would they go buy a sewing machine so early in the morning?"

"Master, I've already told you that this is just wishful thinking on the part of the Jia family. Do you want me to call the matchmaker over now? Let Aunt Wang, the matchmaker, come and judge the situation?"

As soon as Chen Xiao finished speaking, another voice sounded behind him.

"No need to shout, my Aunt Wang is here."

When everyone heard the sound, they looked back and found that the matchmaker Aunt Wang and Master Lei, a famous carpenter in the city, had come over at some point.

The matchmaker Aunt Wang started by criticizing Jia Zhang.

"Jia Zhang, you really have no shame at all. I just scolded you and you're now talking nonsense in the courtyard again."

Aunt Wang nodded to Yi Zhonghai and then came to the eight-immortals table.

Then he told everything about how Jia Zhang had made such a big fuss in his home.

The more Aunt Wang spoke, the darker Yi Zhonghai's face became.

Finally, his whole face turned gloomy and he looked at Jia Zhang coldly.

"Old sister-in-law, is everything the matchmaker said true?"

At this time, Jia Zhang lowered her head and didn't know what to say.

She never expected that Aunt Wang would appear at this time.

Seeing Jia Zhang being humiliated, Aunt Wang laughed a few times and then continued to speak to everyone.

"There's one more thing I forgot to tell you. Everyone knows that proposing a marriage requires a matchmaker, but Jia Zhang and her son actually ran away to Qinjia Village to propose marriage without my knowledge."

"Everyone in Qinjia Village knows about this. Chen Xiao is getting married next week. When the time comes, everyone can ask the people in Qinjia Village and they will know whether what I said is true or not."

After Aunt Wang finished speaking, there was a burst of booing from the audience.

"Mrs. Jia Zhang is truly shameless. She actually went behind the matchmaker's back to propose marriage."

"No one is so stingy as to do this. To save a few cents on a red envelope, he actually did this."

……

Listening to the discussions around her, Jia Zhang's old face turned red. She knew she couldn't stay any longer, so she called Jia Dongxu and prepared to leave.

"Dongxu, let's go home."

"Mom, I won't leave!!!"

It’s a pity that Chen Xiao didn’t cancel the engagement, so how could Jia Dongxu go back obediently?

"Dongxu, go back quickly, otherwise I will no longer have you as my disciple." Yi Zhonghai shouted coldly.

At this moment, he was deeply regretful in his heart. Why did he accept Jia Dongxu as his disciple?

However, for the sake of his future retirement, he endured it.

After all, an apprentice is half a son. In this era, the status of an apprentice is second only to that of a biological son.

"Master..." Jia Dongxu begged.

"I told you to go back, did you hear me?"

In an instant, Yi Zhonghai seemed to have aged dozens of years. Looking at Chen Xiao in the crowd, he wondered why he had never thought of taking him as his apprentice.

After what happened today, I'm afraid that even if I want to take Chen Xiao as my apprentice in the future, he won't agree.

After Jia Zhang and Jia Dongxu left, Yi Zhonghai smiled at Chen Xiao.

"Chen Xiao, it's my fault today. I wrongly blamed you. I shouldn't have blamed you without knowing the inside story."

Chen Xiao chuckled twice.

"So the ones who are at fault are Jia Zhang and her son?"

"Since they were in the wrong, why did you let them go without even saying an apology to me?"

"Master, you are truly selfless..."

Every word cut into Yi Zhonghai's heart like a knife.

"Chen Xiao, stop talking. He is a big shot after all. It will not do you any good in the future if you offend him. Be careful or he will make things difficult for you." Yan Bugui reminded him.

"Third Uncle, I know everything you said, but I, Chen Xiao, am not someone who can be bullied."

Chen Xiao stood up with the bench and repeated what he had said before to everyone present.

"Dear uncles and aunts, everyone knows what kind of person I, Chen Xiao, have been since I was a child."

"Honest, simple, honest, and genuine. These words have always accompanied me as I grew up."

"What the Jia family did today was too much for me, a usually honest person. They're simply going too far! You're saying I stole Jia Dongxu's wife? Don't you even look at what he looks like? Do I need to steal his wife?"

Everyone nodded in agreement with Chen Xiao's words.

Without saying anything more, Chen Xiao said goodbye to everyone and headed home with Aunt Wang and Master Lei.

"Aunt Wang, I'm sorry to have made you laugh today. There's nothing I can do because I'm alone at home. Everyone wants to come and bully me." Chen Xiao said with a wry smile as he opened the door.