Siheyuan: Pretend to be a Pig and Eat the Tiger

Chapter 74 Three Letters of Report (Third update, please subscribe first!)

He Yuzhu looked at Xu Damao and smiled. Could he tell Xu Damao that white flour was added to the steamed bread? Although the proportion was not very high, the taste was greatly different!

Xu Damao left the courtyard and ran to the subdistrict office compound. He took advantage of the security guard in the guard room not paying attention, put the report into the reporting box, and ran away!

In order to facilitate reporting of suspicious elements, the street office has set up a special reporting box!

They are worried that some people would not dare to report bad elements even if they discover them, for fear that their families would be retaliated against!
After much deliberation, Director Wang combined her previous work experience and set up a reporting box. She is the only one who has the key to the reporting box, just to narrow the scope of people who know about it!
Every time she passes by the reporting box on the way to work, she checks to see if there is any gain. This has become her daily work. She has not gained anything since it was set up, but today she found three letters of complaint!

Director Wang smiled slightly. This was a good start. No matter what the content was, setting up a reporting box would still be of some use!

When he returned to the office and opened it, he frowned slightly. The words were really "abstract". The paper looked like a homework book. After looking carefully at the content, Director Wang found it more and more interesting. Although it was not coherent, it did explain the whole story clearly!

The second one is more subtle. It is made of words from newspapers pasted on it. This person really put a lot of thought into this letter!
All three letters were anonymous, and the contents were surprisingly consistent. The deaf old lady was dissatisfied that her name was not on the list of people receiving special assistance in the No. 95 courtyard. She was very dissatisfied. Last night, she put on a good show of “the deaf old lady is dissatisfied with the three uncles, and her walking stick pokes a hole in the window paper”!

Director Wang frowned slightly. Everyone's life is hard. If you break their window paper, won't you increase their life burden?
Elderly people should behave like elders. Elderly people with high moral character and prestige are indeed worthy of respect. First of all, you must be of high moral character and prestige. Without moral character, why should others respect you? Is it just because of your age?
After thinking about it, she decided to ask He Yuzhu about what happened last night. She couldn't make a direct judgment based on the report letter!
It is really disgusting that an old man in his sixties is so domineering. Should we control him? How to punish him? He cannot be lifted by his hands or carried by his shoulders!
No action? The complaint letter has come, but no response has damaged the prestige of the subdistrict office!

Director Wang felt it was a difficult situation. He couldn't handle it the same way as Jia Zhangshi, right? The farm had to be taken over as well!

It doesn't create value, and it adds burden to the farm. You may even have to bear medical expenses. Who would be willing to take it in?
He Yuzhu was stopped by someone from the subdistrict office, who said that Director Wang wanted to see him!
He could guess some things, and it was not about the deaf old lady. She was probably looking for him to find out the situation!
"Aunt Wang!"

"Is it raining? Come, have some candy!"

"Thank you, Aunt Wang!"

When He Yushui saw Director Wang, he came up to him and put the candy in Director Wang's arms. He Yuzhu didn't even bother to look at him. He Yuzhu added water to Director Wang's teacup and sat on the stool!
"Zhu Zi, what happened last night? Tell Aunt Wang!"

"Auntie Wang is like this. I was woken up and went to the backyard, where I saw the deaf old lady..."

Director Wang frowned. It was the first time she had heard of such a domineering old man!
You always sit at people's doorsteps and call yourself the ancestor. Do you think you are a village elder?

She didn't expect that there were such outdated customs and habits in the city. She had seen many such people in her previous base!
They are all the elders of the village, and their words are more effective than those of the government!

In the past, there was a saying that imperial power did not extend to the countryside. The root of this saying was the local gentry and village elders!
Many villages have one big surname mixed with several other surnames, and some villages even have only one surname!

Such villages usually have some people called elders, who are the oldest, have the most experience, and have the highest prestige!

Some elders advise people to be good and cooperate with the government, but some do not. They instigate villagers to engage in confrontation, which is quite difficult to deal with!
Although this deaf old lady didn't have such prestige, it was true that everyone in the compound was afraid to use force because of her age! "Zhu Zi, do you have any good ideas?"

"Hey, Aunt Wang, what can I do? The deaf old lady has been behaving like this for a long time. The neighbors finally have some meat to eat, and she smells it, so she comes to the door and won't leave unless she gives her food!

Although our government has come and our lives have become much better, but you also know that it is still difficult to eat meat. Many families can't see meat for a month!
I only buy some every few months, barely to satisfy my children’s cravings!
But the deaf old lady didn't care about all this. When she came to the house and couldn't get food, she started to slander the old lady wantonly. Everyone in the courtyard has suffered from the deaf old lady for a long time!

Aunt Wang, the storyteller said that the Black-faced Bao Gong is impartial and just. How about you play the role of the Black-faced Bao Gong once?
The deaf old lady has been placed in a shelter. I heard that we have started to build a nursing home!"

"What nonsense are you talking about? The deaf old lady has her own property, and Yi Zhonghai and his people are in charge of it. A shelter is definitely not suitable. It is set up for the homeless. In the future, these people will be gradually arranged to go out to work and contribute to national construction!
As for the nursing home, we do have some provisions in this regard, but the country has a lot of work to do and we can’t even provide for the parents of the heroes and martyrs who have made great contributions, so how can we have extra resources to provide for her!"

He Yuzhu deeply believed it. He was just testing whether the rumor about the deaf old lady's family sacrificing their lives for the country was true. In this era, nursing homes? It's really not something that ordinary people can enter!
"Hey, Aunt Wang, there is another way!"

"Tell me, you know the things in your compound best, it doesn't matter even if you are wrong!"

Director Wang rubbed his head, it was really a tricky problem!
Should it be solved? It must be solved, but she really couldn't think of a solution!

"Hey, wasn't it Yi Zhonghai who took the initiative to take care of the deaf old lady? There are a lot of rumors now. Could it be that Yi Zhonghai didn't take good care of her, causing the deaf old lady to be dissatisfied and apply for special hardship relief?
The deaf old lady's family is healthy and well-taken by Yi Zhonghai and his wife. Logically, it shouldn't be that they have any difficulties. In fact, they should be living better than most people in the compound!

I think Aunt Wang can have a good talk with Yi Zhonghai. If Yi Zhonghai's poor care has caused dissatisfaction among the deaf old lady, he must be severely criticized!
If Yi Zhonghai did his best, then it would be the fault of the deaf old lady. The country is in such a difficult situation, why doesn't she know how to be considerate of the country and even think about taking advantage of the country?

This should lead to even more criticism of Yi Zhonghai. We can even pair Yi Zhonghai and the deaf old lady up as a "helping pair" and provide long-term support!

The deaf old lady provided good help and did not bully her neighbors. She can be awarded the street’s “Moral Model” award. This is a reward from the street office to Yi Zhonghai!

If the deaf old lady continues to bully her neighbors, then we should publicly criticize Yi Zhonghai for not helping her enough. Isn't this the best of both worlds?"

"Zhu Zi, the title of 'moral model' of the street is not awarded casually, you must meet the requirements!"

"Hey, Aunt Wang, it's not easy to do this!"

He Yuzhu smiled mysteriously. If he really did it, it would be strange that the deaf old lady could resist a meal of braised pork. It was not that he looked down on the deaf old lady, but that the old lady was too greedy!
Although his cooking skills are not good enough, it is not difficult for him to deal with the gluttony of the deaf old lady. He Yuzhu has seen the gluttony of the deaf old lady in the play, which is why he doubts the identity of the deaf old lady!
If you were born in an ordinary family and were able to eat steamed corn bread during the war, you should be grateful to the society!
Meat? It’s a luxury. How can you become addicted to meat?
The specific historical background proves that different classes lead to different treatments, which is an eternal topic. The living habits of the deaf old lady show that her class is at least at the upper-middle level!
Please give me a monthly ticket!!!

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