Siheyuan: Grassroots Counterattack

Two years ago, when the country was engaged in that great war, I don't know what got into Jia Zhang's mind, but she actually ran outside and said some bad things to people in other courtyards. She felt good about it, but she didn't expect that the woman who heard her words turned around and went to the street office.

Reporting Jia Zhang for spreading rumors and disseminating false information, and repeating what Jia Zhang said, Director Wang, as an old revolutionary, immediately noticed the problem here.

How did this woman, who had never left her hometown, know all this? What reason did she have to spread this information? Who taught her this? These questions all need to be clarified.

So Director Wang led the team and the people from the street office came to the courtyard in a mighty manner and took away Jia Zhang, who was sleeping on the kang, without any explanation.

Yi Zhonghai originally wanted to step forward to stop them, but when he saw Director Wang in the crowd, he immediately gave up the idea. After Director Wang took Jia Zhang and Jia Dongxu away, the compound immediately exploded. Some people said that Jia Zhang was an enemy spy, some said that Jia Zhang and Jia Dongxu killed people, anyway, there were all kinds of speculations.

Yi Zhonghai ignored these people and went directly to the backyard to ask the deaf old lady for advice.

The deaf old lady originally didn't want to get involved in this matter, but Yi Zhonghai begged her so hard that she had no choice but to let her go. The old lady couldn't be too disrespectful to Yi Zhonghai. After all, she still needed the couple's care, so she went to the street office with Yi Zhonghai.

Director Wang from the Street Office had already begun interrogating Jia Zhang. At this point, Jia Zhang was already frightened out of her wits. She answered whatever Director Wang asked, and soon the whole story became clear.

It turned out that when Jia Zhang went shopping, she heard others talking about these things. After she came back, she fabricated the news and spread it around. As for why she didn't talk about it in her own courtyard, it was because everyone in the courtyard knew that Jia Zhang didn't tell the truth and didn't believe her news, so she went to find people from other courtyards.

Although this matter did not involve other things, Director Wang really hated Jia Zhang's mouth. She had heard of Jia Zhang's reputation a long time ago. She was a street scoundrel who was always throwing tantrums and rolling around.

Director Wang wanted to take this opportunity to teach her a lesson, but the deaf old lady brought Yi Zhonghai to plead for mercy. In the end, Director Wang punished Jia Zhang to clean the toilet outside their courtyard for one month.

Everyone knows how dirty public toilets are, and coupled with the mess made by those ignorant children, Jia Zhang was disgusted for a month. During that time, Jia Zhang smelled bad and everyone in the yard avoided her. When she thinks about it now, Jia Zhang shudders.

When Jia Zhang heard Yi Zhonghai mention this matter again, she immediately assured him, "He is my uncle, don't worry, I will never gossip about him."

Yi Zhonghai was slightly relieved when he saw Jia Zhang's sincere expression, and then asked the question he was concerned about, "Sister-in-law, how is Dongxu's marriage going? Still no news?"

Speaking of marriage, Jia Dongxu's face darkened. Jia Dongxu is a handsome guy, about 30 meters tall. As he has been engaged in fitter work for many years, he has some muscles on his body and does not look thin. He is now a junior fitter and his salary is about yuan.

His conditions may not be the best, but at least they are pretty good. However, he is already twenty-one years old and has not yet married. The reason is all because of Jia Zhang.

Ever since the incident with Jia Zhang two years ago, none of the marriageable girls in the neighborhood agreed to go on a blind date with him. And those from farther away, after coming here to inquire and finding out about Jia Zhang's personality, no further contact was made.

So the marriage was delayed. Now the matchmakers in the neighborhood stopped coming and no longer did business with the Jia family. Both Jia Zhangshi and Jia Dongxu were very worried.

Seeing that Jia Zhangshi and Jia Dongxu were silent, Yi Zhonghai knew that the situation was still not good, so he suggested: "Sister-in-law Jia, if it really doesn't work, why don't you ask the matchmaker to go to the countryside to look for someone?"

Jia Dongxu's eyes lit up, but Jia Zhang was reluctant, "Old Yi, as Dongxu's master, how can you say such a thing? Our Dongxu is such an outstanding person, how could he marry that kind of country girl!"

Yi Zhonghai felt very tired. In the past few years, Jia Zhang had been making trouble in the compound, and Yi Zhonghai had to clean up the mess for her. He thought that Jia Zhang would be more restrained after that incident, but he didn't expect that she didn't change at all, and she always blamed Yi Zhonghai, which made Yi Zhonghai more and more disgusted with Jia Zhang.

"Then which girl do you want Dongxu to marry? Don't you know that Dongxu has been delayed because of your affairs?" Yi Zhonghai could no longer endure and made the matter clear.

Jia Zhang was so angry that she glared at Yi Zhonghai, but she didn't say a word for a long time. In fact, she knew in her heart that she had ruined the reputation of the Jia family, but she was unwilling to let her son marry a country girl, even though she was also from the countryside and her household registration was now in the countryside.

Seeing that Jia Zhang didn't say anything, Yi Zhonghai knew that he had hit her weak spot, so he planned to press on, "Old sister-in-law, don't be upset. Dongxu is already 21 years old. If we don't talk about marriage, it will be too late. Do you want to have a grandson when you are 70 or 80 years old?"

"Of course not, I can't let the Jia family be extinct." Jia Zhang yelled, and when Yi Zhonghai heard the word extinct, his face immediately turned ugly. He hated it most when people said words like extinct, no children, etc. He knew that this was Jia Zhang's revenge on him, revenge for him exposing her past just now.

The flash of satisfaction on Jia Zhang's face showed this point. Yi Zhonghai said nothing more, stood up and walked out.

After Yi Zhonghai left, Jia Dongxu immediately stepped forward and said, "Mom, why did you mention Master's weakness? This time, Master has been offended."

Listening to Jia Dongxu's complaints, Jia Zhang didn't take it seriously, "Son, don't worry, Yi Zhonghai will never be angry with you. He wants you to take care of him in his old age, so he doesn't dare to offend us easily."

"But isn't there still Shazhu? In the past few years, Master and his wife have taken good care of Shazhu and Yushui. Now little Yushui has already regarded Master's home as his own."

"Dongxu, you don't understand this." He looked out the window and said, "How do you think He Daqing left? Although I don't know what happened, Yi Zhonghai got the biggest benefit when He Daqing left, so He Daqing's matter is definitely not simple."

"Mom, please stop talking nonsense." Jia Dongxu was so scared that he opened the door and looked outside. Seeing that there was no one outside, he relaxed. "Mom, you really need to control your mouth."

"Humph, look at your cowardly look, do you think I'm the only one who knows about this? Almost everyone in this courtyard knows about it, but no one has said it explicitly. And Yi Zhonghai pretends to be ignorant even though he knows the truth, so everyone lives in confusion."