Siheyuan, my new life

Xu Fugui's wife has been following her husband's teachings over the years, secretly bringing home a small item every one or two months.

Since the Lou family often received guests, there were all kinds of people among them, including wealthy businessmen, high-ranking officials, and some military officers and policemen from humble origins. Therefore, if one or two small items were occasionally lost in the study or living room, Lou Zhenhua did not take it seriously. Perhaps a guest was excited to see the small items but was too embarrassed to ask for them, so he secretly took them away.

Among Lou Zhenhua's friends, there is a wealthy guy who is such a "hipster". No matter whose house he visits, he will take some small things with him before leaving. He even made a so-called "treasure house" at home to display the items he took from other people's homes, and also marked the origin of the items and the specific time they were taken back. Sometimes he would invite the "owners" to his "treasure house" to see his spoils, but he would not take other people's things for nothing. He would give them some compensation or help afterwards.

Lianxiang once discovered that a guest secretly put a small antique ornament from the antique shelf in Lou Zhenhua's living room into a handbag. She immediately found the butler Lou Cheng and told him about her discovery. To Lianxiang's surprise, Lou Cheng did not ask the other party for the lost property. Instead, he told Lianxiang not to make it public to avoid losing face.

With these people taking the blame, Lianxiang became bolder. She used to steal things once every one or two months, but later on, whenever there were several customers coming to her house, she would secretly take home the things she had observed in advance.

Over the years, Xu Fugui's home had nearly two large boxes of various valuable small items, all of which were hidden by the couple in a hole they secretly dug under the bed.

Now that the Lou family has completely collapsed, although his wife Lianxiang has lost her promising job, Xu Fugui does not feel sad about it. After all, his wife has brought back so many valuable things from the Lou family over the years. Sometimes he even worries that if his wife is caught, all his money will be lost.

The reason why Xu Fugui never touched those things was that, in addition to the fact that his family was indeed not short of money, the couple's apparent income was more than 100 yuan per month, and their son and daughter were both in school, so they didn't need much money at all; the most important reason was that he was worried that his wife might make a mistake, so he returned all these things to the Lou family intact, hoping that the Lou family would show mercy and let his family go.

Xu Fugui, who had been driving a car for Lou Zhenhua for several years, knew a little about the ruthlessness of his boss. He had witnessed the entire process of Lou Cheng killing people twice.

The first time was when Xu Fugui had just worked as Lou Zhenhua's driver for less than two years. The owner of a Lou family store embezzled nearly 30,000 yuan by falsely reporting prices and making false accounts. The owner and his wife, children and a family of five were put into sacks, tied with stones and thrown into the moat by Lou Cheng. The second time was three years later. Lou Cheng personally tortured an assassin who was going to kill Lou Zhenhua half to death, and then had a big pit dug to bury the assassin alive.

With Xu Fugui's smart brain, how could he not realize that Lou Cheng deliberately killed people in front of him, which might also be a warning to him.

It was also because of that assassination that Lou Cheng asked a master he had personally trained to serve as Lou Zhenhua's driver and personal bodyguard, replacing Xu Fugui's job.

However, the Lou family treated Xu Fugui quite well. In addition to giving him one thousand yuan, they also arranged a job for him as a movie projectionist at the Lou's Steel Rolling Mill.

Xu Fugui also once thought that if his wife was not Lou Tan's personal maid, he would most likely be killed.

Now that Lou Zhenhua has been arrested and the Lou family's property has been ransacked, Xu Fugui is completely relieved, because no one will investigate the things his wife took out of the Lou family anymore. But for safety reasons, he'd better keep those things hidden in the cave.

In fact, Xu Fugui was very disappointed that he was not able to meet Lou Tan and Lou Xiao'e in person this morning.

Yesterday, after learning from Captain Yao of the Municipal Public Security Brigade that not only were Lou Tan and Lou Xiao'e not implicated by Lou Zhenhua, but they were also able to take away their dowries and a courtyard house from the Lou family, Xu Fugui's heart suddenly surged with a strong desire for greed.

From the information he had received so far, Xu Fugui felt that Lou Zhenhua was doomed this time. He colluded with both internal and external forces to steal and sell special steel worth 20 to 30 million yuan from the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. This one charge alone was enough to get him shot several times.

Now the Lou family is completely finished, and the only survivors, Lou Tan and her daughter, are now isolated and helpless. What's more, these two people have such a large amount of property on them. Xu Fugui feels that his chance has come.

Not to mention that he used to be a driver in the Lou family, not to mention the special relationship between his wife Lianxiang and Lou Tan, which has created excellent conditions for him to get close to Lou Tan's mother and daughter.

Xu Fugui was very confident in his own intelligence and talent. He felt that as long as his wife Lianxiang continued to maintain a good relationship with Lou Tan's mother and daughter, when the other party's family was broken up, his family would be one of the few close people to Lou Tan's mother and daughter.

Xu Fugui believed that if one works hard enough, one can grind an iron rod into a needle. With the special relationship between his family and the mother and daughter of the Lou Tan family, he would have a chance to get those properties in the future. Xu Fugui even had an idea in his mind that if he waited a few years until his son Xu Damao reached the age of marriage, he would find a way to marry Lou Xiao'e. Then, wouldn't the properties in Lou Tan's hands naturally go to the Xu family?

But something happened that was beyond Xu Fugui's expectations. When he went to the Municipal Public Security Bureau to pick someone up this morning, he did not see Lou Tan's mother and daughter.

Although Captain Yao of the Public Security Brigade said that the Criminal Investigation Department still had things to ask Lou Tan’s mother and daughter, Xu Fugui always felt that something was wrong. Yesterday, they had already said that Lou Tan’s mother and daughter had nothing to do with Lou Zhenhua’s case, and asked him to pick them up together this morning. Now suddenly the Criminal Investigation Department had something else to ask. Could something have happened?

If Lou Tan's mother and daughter were implicated in other things of the Lou family, would the huge amount of property be confiscated? Xu Fugui was drinking and thinking to himself that if the property was gone, the lives of Lou Tan's mother and daughter would be in trouble in the future, because Lou Tan's family had moved to Hong Kong long before the peaceful liberation of the city.

For a moment, Xu Fugui was in a dilemma. If Lou Tan's mother and daughter lost the property, his family would be the closest people to them in the capital. If he stood idly by, people would definitely gossip about him behind his back. But if he helped them, wouldn't that add a considerable amount of expenses out of thin air?