The life of a villain in a courtyard

"Xingguo, where did you get so many eggs? To be honest, Third Uncle's family hasn't had meat in a long time."

"Uncle, these are all brought back by our colleagues in the purchasing department who worked hard to get them from the countryside. Our factory is particularly short of eggs recently, so these are to be delivered to the factory, so don't worry about it."

The words of the third uncle calmed Wu Xingguo down a little. Some things cannot be said casually, otherwise the factory director will not be able to save himself if a hat is put on him.

"Old Yi, what should we do now? We promised everyone before we came here, how are we going to explain it when we go back now?"

Wu Xingguo refused to listen to any persuasion and was turned away by the three gentlemen.

"Lao Yi, Lao Yan, I have something else to do at home, so I'll go back first."

Liu Haizhong felt ashamed that he had agreed to a task but couldn't complete it, so he simply found an excuse to go home. Anyway, it was Yi Zhonghai who agreed to it, so let him face it himself. Yan Fugui followed suit and found an excuse to run away. There were three people when they came out, but only one was left when they went back.

"Uncle, how about it, did Wu Xingguo agree?"

As soon as Yi Zhonghai entered the room, several people could no longer sit still and immediately surrounded him. Looking at everyone's hopeful eyes, even Yi Zhonghai could hardly bear it.

"Everyone, please sit down first. I know you haven't seen meat for a long time, but please calm down and listen to me first."

"The three of us just went to ask, and the baskets of eggs in Wu Xing's house were temporarily placed in his home by the food factory. They are public property and cannot be sold to everyone."

After hearing this, several people in the room left in great disappointment.

After returning home, Jia Zhang sat on the bed and sulked.

"Mom, what's wrong with you? Aren't you going to the uncle's house to discuss buying eggs? What did the uncle say?"

"Whatever you say, those eggs are from the food factory and can't be sold at all. When you left, you promised us that you could buy cheap eggs, but when you came back, you couldn't do anything. You're still a big shot, it's useless!"

"Awesome."

Jia Zhang scolded Yi Zhonghai for a long time and then called her eldest grandson out of the house to let him vent his anger.

"grandmother."

Banggeng was in the room making paper airplanes using the homework assigned by the teacher. When he heard Jia Zhang's voice, he immediately ran out.

"Bang Geng, do you want to eat eggs?"

"miss you!"

Hearing the word "eggs", Bang Geng swallowed hard. He hadn't eaten eggs for such a long time since the New Year. He had only eaten steamed corn bread and cabbage every day. He was so hungry that his eyes were green. He wanted to steal things but had no chance. His reputation as a habitual thief had spread in the yard. Whenever they saw him hanging around their doorstep, the people in the family would immediately put away all the valuable food so that he wouldn't even have a chance to steal.

"Grandma tells you, there are a lot of eggs in Wu Xingguo's house in the front yard. Find a chance to go to his house and steal a few!"

"Mom, what are you talking about? That's public property. If you let Banggeng steal it, it will hurt him!"

Qin Huairu ran over and grabbed Bang Geng, not allowing him to go outside to steal eggs. In the past, if someone stole something from other people in the yard, the uncle would always come out to help and smooth things over. At most, her family would pay some money and apologize, but if they really took public property, even Yi Zhonghai would not be able to help her family, and they would have to go to jail!

Jia Zhang was furious just now, so she said all these things to Bang Geng. Now that she has calmed down a little, she is starting to feel scared.

"Bang Geng, grandma just said that in anger. Don't go to the Wu family to get eggs. You will go to jail if you do that!"

"I see."

Although he said this, he didn't really think so in his heart. He was the best thief in the courtyard and had stolen so many times that he was very experienced. Even if he failed once or twice, he would be fine as long as he refused to admit it. It was not as serious as his grandmother said.

So Banggeng went out, using the excuse that he had finished his homework and wanted to go out and play.

When he came to the front yard, Bang Geng was catching ants on the ground while observing the surrounding environment. Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, he quickly ran towards the house. At this time, Wu Xingguo was reading a newspaper in the house, his wife went out to buy vegetables, his son was doing homework at home, and the basket of eggs was in the kitchen.

"What a bunch of fools who don't know how to put all these eggs in a safe place."

After entering the kitchen, Bang Geng looked at the three large baskets of eggs in front of him and began to imagine how he would eat them.

Boiled eggs, egg cakes, scrambled eggs, fried eggs, he was so greedy that his mouth was watering.

I saw Banggeng take out a piece of cloth from his pocket and put it on the ground, then began to take eggs from the basket carefully. He took more than ten eggs in a row and stopped only when there was no more room.

Looking at the remaining eggs on the stick in front of me, I decided to come back again later. There were so many eggs here that no one would notice if I took a few more.

The saying "Extreme joy leads to sorrow" is well reflected in Bang Geng. Wu Xingguo was in trouble with mice yesterday, so he put an open mousetrap in a corner of the kitchen. Unexpectedly, he didn't catch the mouse but caught Bang Geng today.

Banggeng focused all his attention on the eggs and did not notice the mousetrap at his feet. He picked up the eggs and tiptoed forward, then stepped on the mousetrap. Then a scream came from the kitchen, followed by the sound of something breaking.

When Wu Xingguo walked out of the house, he saw a stick covered in egg liquid sitting in a basket, wailing in pain.

“My eggs!”

Wu Xingguo shouted and pulled the stick off the ground and threw it aside. When Bang Geng fell, he pulled the basket down and swung it over. Hundreds of eggs fell out of the basket and egg liquid was all over the ground.

"I'm going to beat you to death, you little bastard!"

Wu Xingguo picked up a rolling pin from the side and hit Bang Geng hard, causing him to scream.

"What happened in Xingguo? Why are all the eggs broken? Why are you hitting the stick?"

The first person to rush over was naturally Yan Fugui, who lived in the front yard. Looking at the broken eggs on the ground in front of him, he felt as sad as if someone had died in his family. It would have been great if so many eggs were given to himself.

"Uncle, please don't stop me. I'm going to kill this little bastard today. He destroyed a basket of eggs for me. His life should be used to compensate me for this basket of eggs!"

"Xingguo, calm down. Stop watching. Hurry up and pull them away. If the fighting continues like this, someone will die!"

The people who came in to watch the fun rushed forward and held Wu Xingguo down.

"What's going on? What happened?"

When Yi Zhonghai heard that Banggeng was beaten for stealing, he hurried over.

"Uncle, the idiot has ruined someone's eggs. A whole basket of eggs is broken!"

"what!"

Yi Zhonghai ran into the house and saw only egg liquid all over the floor. Banggeng had really gotten into big trouble this time, and even he couldn't help him.

"Lao Liu's wife, go find Qin Huairu and Jia Zhang."

The woman who was watching the show on the side reluctantly left the crowd and walked towards the middle courtyard.

"Qin Huairu is in trouble, go check it out!"

"Bah, bah, bah, stop talking nonsense here. Our Banggeng is a good boy. How could he get into trouble?"

Jia Zhang pointed at the woman who came to report the news to her family and cursed her.

"Ms. Jia Zhang, you are really a fool. Your family's stick has ruined all of Wu Xingguo's eggs. I have told you what I mean. Believe it or not."

After saying that, he went back to the front yard to watch the show.

Qin Huairu was shocked. Could it be that Banggeng really went to steal eggs? Didn’t he just promise her that he wouldn’t go?

When she ran to the front yard and saw the egg shells all over the ground, her heart sank. Everything was over now. She couldn't afford to pay for so many eggs.

"Uncle, please save Banggeng. He is only in elementary school. If he goes to jail, his life will be ruined!"

Qin Huairu found Yi Zhonghai, who was directing people to pack up, and knelt down in front of him. Now Yi Zhonghai was the only one in the yard who could help Qin Huairu.

"Huai Ru, it's not that I don't want to help you, I just can't. I can't do anything with that basket of hundreds of eggs."