Siheyuan: Revenge of the Stupid Pillar

Liu Haizhong smiled and said, "Zhu Zi, don't be angry. Lao Yi must be old and his brain is not working well, so he is so outspoken."

"Just give Second Uncle some face and tell us where the chicken you stewed came from. This will also help clear your suspicion as soon as possible!"

He Yuzhu raised his eyebrows slightly, "Using Liu Haizhong to attack Yi Zhonghai is also a good idea."

He Yuzhu smiled and nodded to Liu Haizhong, "Second uncle is still very reasonable and insightful. Originally, I have no obligation to tell you the origin of chicken, but for Second uncle's sake, I might as well tell you."

He Yuzhu was about to speak, but Qin Huairu suddenly interrupted, "Silly Zhu, I'm doing this for your own good. You ate Xu Damao's chicken, so just compensate me with one. There's no need to make such a big fuss!"

As Qin Huairu spoke, she winked at He Yuzhu frantically. Her meaning was clear: she wanted him to take the blame for stealing the chicken.

Qin Huairu's request was so outrageous, but the key point was that he had agreed to it in his previous life. Thinking of this, he wished he could go back in time and slap himself in the face.

He Yuzhu looked at Qin Huairu fiercely and shouted, "Qin Huairu, are you also suffering from Alzheimer's disease like Yi Zhonghai?"

"I clearly didn't steal the chicken, but you insisted on putting the crime of stealing the chicken on my head. What on earth are you thinking, you vicious woman?"

Qin Huairu was stunned by He Yuzhu's yelling. It took her a long while to react. She looked at He Yuzhu with tears in her eyes, looking heartbroken.

"Zhu Zi, how could you think of me like this? Sister Qin is doing this for your own good!"

He Yuzhu sneered, "For my own good? Qin Huairu, ask yourself, who would believe you?"

"For my own good, you want me to be accused of stealing a chicken, and then have my reputation ruined and be cursed by the world?"

Qin Huairu saw that everyone was looking at him with strange eyes, and immediately acted aggrieved, "Zhu Zi, you misunderstood me, I really didn't mean that..."

Liu Haizhong interrupted impatiently: "Qin Huairu, you have nothing to do here, please shut up. Zhuzi, continue talking!"

He Yuzhu glared at Qin Huairu, turned back and nodded to Liu Haizhong, and said calmly:

"My sister came back today. I felt sorry for her hard work in school, so after get off work I went to Dongmen Market to buy a chicken and prepared to stew it for her tonight to nourish her body..."

Yi Zhonghai asked aggressively: "Who can prove it?"

He Yuzhu said calmly: "The chicken vendor can prove it, and the receipt I have on me can prove it too!"

He Yuzhu took out a receipt from his pocket and handed it to Liu Haizhong. Liu Haizhong looked up and chuckled, "This is indeed the receipt for buying a chicken!"

He Yuzhu continued, "If this is not enough, I have evidence. When I brought the chicken back, the third uncle in the front yard saw it, and several children in the middle yard also saw it."

Yan Bugui said loudly, "I did see it. It's impossible that Sha Zhu stole the chicken from Xu Damao's house!"

"I saw it too!"

"I saw it too. Uncle Zhuzi even plucked some chicken feathers and gave them to me to make a shuttlecock."

He Yuzhu turned to look at Xu Damao and said solemnly: "Xu Damao, if you still don't believe it, I have more evidence..."

"What you lost was a hen, but what I stewed was a rooster. The comb and feathers can prove it. I will serve it to you now."

He Yuzhu said this and walked towards the house, but Xu Damao grabbed him.

"Silly Zhu, no need, I believe you."

"I misunderstood you this time. I apologize to you!" Xu Damao said and bowed to He Yuzhu again.

At this time, Liu Haizhong smiled at Yi Zhonghai and said, "Old Yi, shouldn't you also apologize to Zhuzi? After all, you wronged him!"

Yi Zhonghai looked at the teasing smile on Liu Haizhong's face, feeling as if a fly had been eaten, but he had to force a smile and said:

"Zhu Zi, I'm sorry. I misunderstood you. It's all my fault that I cared about you too much. As the saying goes, the deeper the love, the more severe the blame!"

He Yuzhu looked at Yi Zhonghai's hypocritical face and felt so disgusted that he almost vomited.

Qin Huairu then said softly, "Zhu Zi, Sister Qin cares about you too much, that's why she lost her composure for a moment and hurt you with her words!"

"Ugh!" He Yuzhu really vomited this time.

Liu Haizhong asked in confusion: "Zhu Zi, what's wrong with you?"

He Yuzhu stroked his chest and said softly, "It's okay, I just feel sick!"

Upon hearing this, Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu's faces froze, then turned pale.

He Yuzhu didn't care about their expressions and sneered, "Xu Damao, Yi Zhonghai, Qin Huairu, you don't think that you can get away with just apologizing, do you?"

Xu Damao said dissatisfiedly: "What else do you want?"

He Yuzhu said in a loud voice: "Each of you must compensate me ten yuan for the loss of reputation, otherwise I will call the police immediately!"

"Snapped!"

Yi Zhonghai slammed the table and stood up, shouting angrily: "Zhu Zi, how can you be so unreasonable? We have been neighbors for more than ten years. We see each other every day. Just because of a careless remark, you want everyone to compensate you ten yuan?"

He Yuzhu sneered, "An unintentional remark?"

"Yi Zhonghai, how can you say that so easily? You accused me of being a chicken thief just because of a careless remark..."

"Chicken thief, what a serious crime! I might even go to jail. Tell me, I just said it carelessly."

"Still, if I go to prison, I will have a criminal record. I will have a stain on my life that cannot be erased. My life is stained. How can that girl still be willing to marry me?"

"You are not saying this unintentionally. You are trying to ruin my reputation, make me childless, and make me a family without descendants like you!"

The biggest pain in Yi Zhonghai's life was that he had no offspring. He Yuzhu's words "extinct" directly broke his defense, "He Yuzhu, you bastard..."

Looking at Yi Zhonghai's ferocious face, He Yuzhu was not afraid at all and said mercilessly: "I am a bastard, I think you are a hypocritical old bastard, everyone, tell me, was there anything wrong with what I said?"

The aunt said gently: "Zhu Zi, you should know how your uncle treats you. Why would he want to send you to prison? You misunderstood him..."

Lou Xiao'e echoed: "Shazhu, we don't want to send you to prison..."

He Yuzhu said stiffly: "If you don't want to send me to jail, why do you accuse me of stealing a chicken?"

"Isn't this a misunderstanding?"

"Misunderstanding? Why are there so many misunderstandings..."

Taking advantage of He Yuzhu's quarrel, Qin Huairu whispered to Jia Zhang: "Mother-in-law, can you lend me ten yuan?"

Jia Zhang said defensively, "Why do you want to borrow money?"

Qin Huairu said succinctly, "Pay it to Sha Zhu!"

"Pay compensation to Shazhu? Are you crazy or am I crazy?"

Jia Zhang looked at Qin Huairu as if she were a fool.

Qin Huairu patiently explained: "We have offended Sha Zhu today. If we don't ease the relationship with him, will he still help us like before?"

"Besides, if I pay him ten yuan today, I can get twenty yuan back tomorrow..."

Jia Zhang's eyes lit up when she heard this, "Then you must give me all the twenty yuan you want back tomorrow!"

Looking at the greedy Jia Zhang, a trace of disgust flashed across Qin Huairu's eyes, but she finally nodded.

After a rustling sound, Jia Zhang took out ten yuan from her underwear pocket and handed it to Qin Huairu.