Siheyuan: Grassroots Counterattack

Based on Yi Zhonghai's understanding of his wife, she had nowhere to go. Apart from chatting with these old ladies in the yard, she went out to buy groceries, or chatted with the deaf old lady.

She is not at home now. Yi Zhonghai didn't see anyone when he entered the yard just now. She must have gone to buy vegetables or to the backyard.

Yi Zhonghai came to the door of the deaf old lady. The old lady was basking in the sun at the door. When she saw Yi Zhonghai, she said nothing and got up and went back to the house.

Yi Zhonghai hurriedly followed, and after entering the house and closing the door, Yi Zhonghai knelt on the ground with a plop, "Godmother, please save me."

The deaf old lady sat on the chair with her eyes closed, not saying a word. Yi Zhonghai slapped himself in the face when he saw this. "Godmother, I know I was wrong. I will listen to you in the future. Please save me this time."

After Yi Zhonghai slapped her several times, the deaf old lady finally said, "Okay, stop."

The deaf old lady opened her eyes and looked at Yi Zhonghai sharply. She had never thought that Yi Zhonghai would have such thoughts. After this incident, she finally understood why Yi Zhonghai had been trying to match Sha Zhu and Qin Huairu.

This is to let Sha Zhu be the scapegoat, and Yi Zhonghai wants the child but doesn't want to raise it himself. What a good plan.

"Xiao Yi, your calculations are too deep. Do you really think that you are the only smart person and everyone else is a fool?"

"Old lady, I don't know what you mean?" Yi Zhonghai still wanted to play dumb and get away with it.

But the deaf old lady didn't give him a chance and said directly, "I don't know what you mean. You just want Qin Huairu to give birth to a child for you, and then you want Sha Zhu to raise the child for you."

"What a good plan!" The deaf old lady looked at Yi Zhonghai sarcastically.

Yi Zhonghai was trembling all over at this time. The saying was true: old people are wise, and old horses are smart. His thoughts were not enough in front of the deaf old lady.

Yi Zhonghai had no choice but to admit his mistake. He thought the punishment from the street office was acceptable. What he feared most was the steel mill. If they fired him and he lost his job, how could he force Qin Huairu to give birth to a child for him?

At this moment, Yi Zhonghai was still fantasizing that Qin Huairu would give him a big fat boy. When the deaf old lady saw that he just admitted his mistake and didn't mention anything else, she knew that Yi Zhonghai didn't think he was wrong at all and he just wanted to help him get through this difficult time.

The deaf old lady sighed, "Xiao Yi, you should go back first. I am old and useless."

Yi Zhonghai had no choice but to leave. As for the matter of the aunt, Yi Zhonghai didn't dare to ask the old lady.

After Yi Zhonghai left, the old lady who had closed her eyes to rest looked outside, then said to herself: "Shufen, it's better for you to leave. Following such a thing, ah, it's really hard for you, a child."

When Yi Zhonghai returned home, he saw that the old lady had not come back yet. He was wondering why it took so long for her to buy groceries today.

Yi Zhonghai was worried, so he went to the yard. He wanted to find a neighbor to ask, but the neighbors in the yard avoided him when they saw him and no one was willing to talk to him.

Yi Zhonghai had no choice but to go to the front yard to find the third aunt. Originally, the third aunt didn't want to talk to him, but Yi Zhonghai directly blocked the door. The third aunt had no choice but to entertain Yi Zhonghai with a stiff face as they lived in the same yard and she couldn't offend anyone too much.

"Auntie, have you seen my wife?"

The three aunts were so angry that they wanted to roll their eyes when he called her his wife. Yi Zhonghai, he knew he had a wife? Why was he still involved with that slutty vixen from the middle courtyard?

"He's an uncle. I saw an aunt carrying a basket of vegetables out this morning." The third aunt replied with a wooden face.

Yi Zhonghai knew where his wife was, so he was not in a hurry, so he said goodbye and went home. This was a time of embarrassment for him, and he didn't want to come out at all.

At noon, Auntie still hadn't come back. Yi Zhonghai was really worried. Now that he had caused such a thing, he was worried that Auntie couldn't accept it and would commit suicide. Then he would have one more crime to bear.

There was no other way, there was nothing to eat at home, Yi Zhonghai had to go out to eat something, and then go to several vegetable markets in the old city to find an aunt.

But after looking around, no one had seen the old lady. Yi Zhonghai returned to the courtyard in a daze. At this time, everyone in the courtyard had already gone off work. After seeing Yi Zhonghai, no one came forward to greet him, but just stood in the distance and pointed at him.

Liu Haizhong stood in the middle courtyard with his pot belly, looking at Yi Zhonghai with contempt. Because of what happened to Yi Zhonghai this time, he had been relieved of his post as the most important person in the courtyard. Just now, the clerk from the street office had come to the courtyard to notify them, and would also notify Yi Zhonghai that the punishment for them would begin tomorrow.

Liu Haizhong felt that it was necessary to hold a general meeting of the entire courtyard to criticize this unhealthy trend.

Just when he wanted to find Yan Bugui to discuss the meeting, a shrill scream suddenly came from Yi Zhonghai's house, and then Yi Zhonghai was seen stumbling out of the house holding a box, and then went straight out the door.

Indeed, Yi Zhonghai felt more and more that something was wrong in the room, so he moved the cabinet away and took out a wooden box from the wall. Yi Zhonghai opened the wooden box, and found that the box, which was originally filled to the brim, was now half empty.

Yi Zhonghai's family originally had three savings books, with 1000, 3000, and 5000 yuan in them respectively, plus some daily pocket money, bills, and five small yellow croakers in a wooden box.

But now there are only a few dozen yuan and a passbook left, the one with 1000 yuan in it, and everything else is gone.

Yi Zhonghai's first feeling was that there was a burglar in the house, but then he rejected his guess. There didn't seem to be any signs of someone breaking into the house, and there were always people in the courtyard all year round, so strangers couldn't get in at all.

Thinking of this, Yi Zhonghai suddenly thought of his daughter-in-law who had been missing for a day. He was shocked. Could it be that the old lady had run away with the money?

As soon as this thought came into his mind, Yi Zhonghai felt dizzy and his vision went dark, but he still forced himself to run outside.

Yi Zhonghai ran to the street office panting, but the gatekeeper stopped him and wouldn't let him in. Yi Zhonghai said all the nice things he could and he was allowed to enter.

The clerk on duty was found. The clerk didn't want to pay any attention to this bad guy, but Yi Zhonghai kept nagging in his ear, so the clerk had no choice but to ask him what he was doing at the street office.

Yi Zhonghai told the story of the aunt, and then he saw the clerk looking at him with contempt. Yi Zhonghai blushed and lowered his head, and then he heard the clerk say: "Zhou Shufen came to the street office this morning to apply for a divorce from you. Director Wang considered it for a long time and agreed to process it. Now Comrade Zhou Shufen has left the city."