Siheyuan: How the Little People Live

"make a deal"

Jia Zhang agreed with a proud look on his face. Now he also felt that if it were not for Ye Wenwu, he would not have gotten the 400 yuan at all.

Everyone's heads turned as they watched. The money they had to work hard for two or three years was used as a bargaining chip in front of the old man and Jia Zhang. They could not help but sigh for a moment.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Qin Huairu was not raped. Sha Zhu was already drunk, and yet he was compensated 400 yuan. Everyone secretly felt that it was not worth it for Sha Zhu.

After all, 400 yuan could have allowed him to marry a virgin girl from a very good family, but now he was given to a widow, who had given birth to two children and was pregnant. What's more important is that Sha Zhu didn't even get to play with her.

"Since the uncle has agreed, I think you should write a letter of apology as soon as possible, otherwise the 400 yuan will be gone and the other party will not recognize it."

Ye Wenwu was afraid that the uncle Yi Zhonghai would play some tricks again, so he gave him a warning.

When Jia Zhang heard this, she thought it was true and immediately shouted to Yi Zhonghai.

"Yi Zhonghai, write me a letter of understanding now and I'll sign it, but you have to give me 400 yuan first."

Yi Zhonghai wanted to pin Ye Wenwu to the ground and hammer him. He originally thought of agreeing to Jia Zhang first and then talking about it after Sha Zhu woke up tomorrow.

What he didn't expect was that Jia Zhang, this stupid teammate, would actually fall out with him over these few hundred dollars.

However, Yi Zhonghai never thought about paying the 400 yuan himself. Since Ye Wenwu exposed the affairs of Sha Zhu's father He Daqing last time, he lost nearly 1500 yuan in vain.

Although Sha Zhu's expenses were quite high recently and he had given some family division money to his sister He Yushui, he still had enough 400 yuan in his hand.

Yi Zhonghai squatted down and rummaged through Sha Zhu's clothes, pulling out a thick stack of money. Unfortunately, all of it was seen by a child behind him.

Yi Zhonghai counted out 40 big unity notes and handed them to Jia Zhang reluctantly.

Everyone's eyes turned red when they saw that Jia Zhang had obtained nearly 40 great unity certificates without any effort.

Unfortunately, the person next to him was an old man named Yi Zhonghai, an eighth-level fitter at the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, so everyone could only envy him silently in their hearts.

"Now that it's over, I need to go back to bed. I have a headache from drinking this wine."

Seeing that Yi Zhonghai and his men had failed to gain anything, Ye Wenwu smiled and prepared to go back. Halfway through the journey, he seemed to have thought of something and turned back to Jia Zhang and said:

"Ms. Jia Zhang, now that you have received the money, why don't you go back? You are still waiting to write a letter of apology. So many people are watching. What are you writing about?"

Afterwards, Ye Wenwu just patted his butt and ran away, for he was afraid that Yi Zhonghai would suddenly fight him to the death.

Yi Zhonghai looked at Jia Zhang with red eyes, which made Jia Zhang's heart beat fast.

However, deeply influenced by Ye Wenwu, Jia Zhang also felt that it didn't matter whether the letter of understanding was written or not.

"Well, I'm going to go back first, you guys continue."

Jia Zhang held the 40 Great Unity tickets in her hand, fearing that the duck she had caught would fly away. When she heard Ye Wenwu's words, she hurried into her room.

Uncle Yi Zhonghai just watched Jia Zhang run away.

"Okay, let's all disperse."

Yi Zhonghai said something weakly to everyone, then helped Sha Zhu up from the ground and walked into the house.

The deaf old lady stayed in the house the whole time. The wine she had just drunk at dinner made her feel a little groggy.

Seeing Yi Zhonghai carrying his grandson back in a daze, he was filled with questions.

"Alas! We have all been fooled by Ye Wenwu. This guy knew our intentions a long time ago and has been pretending to be nice to us. In the end, he used the same trick on us and tricked us."

Uncle Yi Zhonghai told the deaf old lady everything that had just happened.

The deaf old lady was so angry that she stomped her cane.

"What a cunning little beast."

"And this pretender is such a piece of shit. She doesn't even know what she should take and what she shouldn't take. Looks like I'm going to give her a good beating tomorrow. She even dared to extort my grandson's money."

Yi Zhonghai curled his lips. It seemed that Jia Zhang was more afraid of the deaf old lady, but it would not be easy to get a penny from him.

This old lady is even more stingy than the third uncle Yan Bugui.

The deaf old lady will most likely return empty-handed tomorrow.

The next morning, Sha Zhu woke up with a headache. He felt a burning sensation on the back of his head. He touched it and found that he had a tumor on the back of his head.

"Did someone hit me with a brick?"

His many years of experience in fighting taught him that he didn't fall down by himself. It looked like he was hit hard on the back of his head with a brick.

Sha Zhu couldn't stand the smell of alcohol on himself. He opened the door and went out to wash up.

But I saw that everyone looked at me strangely, as if I had violated the law of heaven.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Silly Zhu, don't you know what you did last night after drinking?"

Sha Zhu touched his head with a puzzled look on his face and put the toiletries into the sink.

"What can happen if I get drunk? I just go to sleep when I'm drunk."

"You don't even know that you got drunk last night and broke into the widow of the Jia family's house and tore off the widow Qin's clothes."

"Um"

Silly Zhu frowned.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Do you believe I will beat you? Sister Qin and I are innocent."

"Hahaha"

When Sha Zhu said this, everyone burst into laughter.

"Don't you feel that you are short of 400 yuan? You were drunk last night and broke into Jia's house. In the end, you were extorted 400 yuan. You are still a big man who can sit still. Otherwise, you would have to extort 1000 yuan."

"what!"

There were a hundred thousand questions in his mind, and he looked at everyone in confusion.

He felt that this person's words did not seem to be a joke, so he quickly reached into his pocket.

There should have been a thick stack of money, but now I found that there were only one or two bills left.

"No, you did say it was 400 yuan, not 1000 yuan, so why do I only have 40 yuan left in my pocket?"

Sha Zhu searched his other pockets and found that the total amount was less than 40 yuan.

Some people saw an old man rummaging through Sha Zhu's pockets last night and indeed took out a thick stack of money.

Seeing that Sha Zhu's money was really gone, everyone began to wonder if an old man had embezzled Sha Zhu's money, but no one dared to speak their mind.