Siheyuan: What bad intentions could a veterinarian like me have?

Chapter 37 Shazhu is good to the Jia family, it's all because of Huairu
"Cough, cough, cough, Old Yi, please stop smoking. You're almost choking me to death!" An old lady opened the window to get some fresh air while coughing, fanning herself frantically with a palm-leaf fan, her brows furrowed.

"Do you think I want to smoke? I'm in a bad mood!" An old man threw away a cigarette butt, started rolling another one, and lit it up with a snap.

The aunt turned around to clean up the mess on the table, glanced at her husband's face, and coughed, "You should smoke less, it's bad for your health! Over in Zhima Hutong, I heard this morning that several people got tuberculosis because of smoking! I don't want you to die!"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Yi Zhonghai waved his hand, "You know nothing, go wash the dishes!"

The lady threw the pot and bowl down and sat down. "You have something on your mind! And you're hiding it from me. What's the matter? Do you want to quarrel again?"

"..." Yi Zhonghai raised his head and glared at her. "I say, you old woman, are you done yet? Why do you want to quarrel again?"

"Then why are you so impatient with me?" The auntie twitched her nose as she spoke, and she started to cry, "I know that I haven't given birth to a child for your Yi family in all these years, and you despise me! Outsiders only know that you, Yi Zhonghai, are an eighth-level fitter, a big boss in the yard, a respected big brother of workers, and a model worker in the factory. But only I know that you work so hard, work overtime every day, and are busy every day, just because you don't want to go home and see me, a yellow-faced woman who has brought you no blessings!"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Yi Zhonghai was immediately angry when he heard the same old words, "How many times have I told you! I have never blamed you. I, Yi Zhonghai, have no children in this life. That is my fate. I don't blame you!"

"Haha, you don't blame me? Do you know what people outside say about us? They say we are so immoral, and that God is punishing us! They say that even though we are eighth-level fitters, model workers, or moral role models, we have only climbed up by stepping on the shoulders of others, and there are mountains of corpses and seas of blood behind us. What they say are so ugly! Lao Yi, you have no descendants, how can you not blame me! Even if you don't blame me, why have you treated me like this for so many years?" An old lady cried loudly, her eyes full of tears.

"Don't bring up this, I'm not upset because of you!" Yi Zhonghai slammed the table and said, "Don't be so self-indulgent! As for not having children, I've accepted my fate!"

"Then why?" Upon hearing this, the aunt raised her head and wiped her tears. The tears stopped immediately. It was obvious that the crying child had happened more than once or twice. Once the emotions were right, the tears would come immediately. "Lao Yi, if you still consider me your wife, don't hide it!"

Yi Zhonghai took another puff of cigarette and said irritably, "It's Jia Dongxu! It's Shazhu!"

"Them?" The aunt frowned. "Is their issue worth your annoyance? It's all good. Dongxu is your apprentice, and Shazhu is also close to you. His father ran away, but he has treated you as his father for so many years! These two kids are also good to us..."

"That's not what I meant!" Yi Zhonghai waved his hand, "I didn't say them and me, it was between the two of them!"

The aunt was stunned, not understanding what he meant. "The two of them? Lao Yi, what do you want to say? It's normal for young people in this courtyard to fight and quarrel with each other! Look at Xu Damao and silly Zhu Dongxu, they quarrel every day, but nothing has ever happened! Not to mention Li Xiangdong, he's an outlier! Generally speaking, everyone lives in peace and there are no conflicts!"

"Dongxu and Shazhu have been as close as brothers in recent years. What could possibly happen to them that would be worth your worry?"

Yi Zhonghai put out his cigarette, stood up and walked to the windowsill, closed the window, glanced at the empty courtyard, turned back and said, "Let me ask you, Dongxu got injured last night, don't you think it's strange?"

"Strange?" The aunt was stunned and said, "What's so strange about this?"

She paused before she finished her words and asked in surprise, "Old Yi, don't tell me that Dongxu fell down the stairs. It wasn't his intention. Was he pushed by someone?"

Yi Zhonghai nodded, then shook his head, "I suspect that Sha Zhu did it!" "Ah?" Auntie was horrified, and quickly leaned forward, lowering her voice and saying, "You can't talk nonsense, there must be evidence for everything! Sha Zhu and Dong Xu are like brothers, you see how good he has been to him over the years, they smoke together, drink together, and eat together. Every time Sha Zhu gets his salary, he buys delicious and fun things for Bang Geng and the others, he is very good to the Jia family!"

Yi Zhonghai sneered, "Then let me ask you, what about before?"

"Before?" The aunt scratched her head, reminiscing for a while, and said curiously: "If you mean before, then that's not right. They always fought each other before! No one could stand each other. Add in Xu Damao and Yan Jiecheng, who was always busy with his ideas, and the yard was in chaos!"

"Li Xiangdong is not involved. If he had been involved, our courtyard would have been in chaos! Forget it, I won't mention him today. I just want to ask you, when did this happen? If Qin Huairu hadn't married into the Jia family, Sha Zhu wouldn't have been so close to Dongxu! All this is because Huairu came into our courtyard! Sha Zhu let bygones be bygones with Dongxu. In other words, Sha Zhu is good to the Jia family because of Huairu!"

The aunt had never had such an in-depth conversation with Yi Zhonghai before, and was immediately shocked, "Old Yi, you can't say such things!"

"Have I told you about this before?" Yi Zhonghai sneered.

"That's not the case!" An old lady shook her head in horror.

"That's it!" Since the topic has come to this point, Yi Zhonghai doesn't plan to hide it. "Dongxu is my apprentice, and Shazhu is like a half son to me. If Dongxu can't take care of me in the future, I will still count on Shazhu. If Shazhu can't do it, I will have to count on Dongxu. If these two bastards fight and something really happens, it will be the end of us. Who will take care of us when we are old? We don't have any children!"

At this moment, the aunt was impressed by her man's foresight and knew why he was worried. "So, you are worried about this? You just said that Dongxu was injured last night and you suspected that Shazhu did it?"

"There are so many details in this matter. If Li Xiangdong hadn't reminded me, I really wouldn't have known there was such a thing behind it! Don't you think this kid is really strange. He actually discovered Sha Zhu's trick in the first place!"

Yi Zhonghai had a gloomy face and paused, recalling what happened last night.

"The stairs were built by Shazhu, and the nail that pierced Jia Dongxu was also nailed there by Shazhu! And let me tell you," Yi Zhonghai lowered his voice and said, "He also knew that Dongxu went out to drink at night because of the workshop team leader's matter, and he was the one who came back and told Huairu not to wait for Dongxu at night! In other words, Shazhu, that bastard, had already planned for Dongxu to get drunk at night. The guy designed a series of details that we didn't know about in order to make Dongxu fall to his death, but I don't know if it was not done well, so the plan did not succeed!"

"what?"

After learning the truth of the matter, the lady's face suddenly changed and tears immediately came out again. This time, she was not aggrieved, but afraid. She said nervously: "Lao Yi, then... should we report to the police? This is too scary!"

"Report to the police?" Yi Zhonghai sneered, "This is just my guess. How should I report to the police? If no evidence is found, then I will completely break up with Sha Zhu, and Dongxu will also break up with Sha Zhu. Without Sha Zhu's support, the Jia family will hate me to death. Will Dongxu also break up with me?"

The aunt was completely panicked. No matter how she handled this matter, it seemed wrong!
"Old Yi, what should we do?"

"Don't panic! We have to take three steps to deal with this matter!"

(End of this chapter)