Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

When Yi Zhonghai heard this, he became anxious again and wanted to interrupt Lin Geng immediately to prevent him from saying more of his dirty thoughts. However, as soon as he opened his mouth to speak, he was glared at by Lin Geng.

Lin Geng pointed at Yi Zhonghai and threatened him in a cold tone: "If you dare to interrupt me again, I will beat your mouth to pieces! If you don't believe me, try it!"

Yi Zhonghai looked at Lin Geng's cold eyes and his heart suddenly tightened. He believed that Lin Geng now could do what he said. Anyway, he had already beaten him, and Lin Geng definitely didn't mind slapping him a few more times. If that happened, he would not only suffer the pain but also lose face even more.

So Yi Zhonghai swallowed hard and opened his mouth, but did not dare to interrupt Lin Geng. He could only look at Lin Geng with hatred in his eyes, his face ashen.

Lin Geng paused for a moment and then continued, "What about other families? Most of them are one person working to support a family, and their average income is not higher than that of the Jia family. But Yi Zhonghai, as an uncle, have you ever helped these families over the years? Have you organized donations for them?

Two years ago, Grandpa Lu in the backyard fell ill. His family was so poor that they could not afford to eat. The children cried because they were hungry. Later, Grandpa Lu had no money to see a doctor or buy food. He came to you, Yi Zhonghai, for help. Did you, Yi Zhonghai, help them at all? You just said it, but I didn't see you organize donations for them!

It was my mother who squeezed out 20 kilograms of corn flour, added five dollars, and gave it to Uncle Lu so that he could see a doctor. This saved them from starving to death!

But you used various reasons and excuses to organize donations for the Jia family six times in two years! Either Jia Zhang was sick, Bang Geng was sick, or Jia Dongxu lost his salary! You always found an excuse to force everyone in the hospital to donate to the Jia family!

Even the poor Third Uncle, Old Wang, and Aunt Liu had to squeeze out a few pounds of corn flour to donate to the Jia family! Jia Zhang still thought it was not enough, and blocked the door and scolded them for two or three days! As an uncle, have you ever taken care of Jia Zhang?

Bah! You old shameless hypocrite, you have the nerve to brag here that you are fair and just! How can you be so shameless?

Think about it, everyone. Is this what I said?

Don't be impatient, there's more! I haven't finished yet! Why did Yi Zhonghai do this? Can't you see it? He, Yi Zhonghai, has no children, and he accepted Jia Dongxu as his apprentice. As the saying goes, an apprentice is half a son. He just wants Jia Dongxu to take care of him in his old age!

As a master, you want Jia Dongxu to support you in your old age, but we have no control over that. You are a level eight worker, earning ninety-nine yuan a month, plus overtime pay and apprentice subsidies, that’s more than a hundred yuan a month, right?

All in all, you, Yi Zhonghai, can be considered the person with the highest income in our courtyard, and there are only you and an aunt in your family. With such a high salary, you two don’t waste it, and you must have saved a lot of money, right?

You want Jia Dongxu to take care of you in your old age, why don't you help the Jia family? But you force the whole hospital to hold a fundraising meeting, and force all the residents in the hospital to donate money and food to the Jia family!

Everyone, open your eyes and look at what this old hag Jia Zhang has become like after eating so much! In our courtyard, apart from the blacksmith, Second Master, who else is fatter than Jia Zhang? She has become so fat that she looks like a wild boar!

Look at Jia Dongxu's family again. Everyone has a rosy complexion, and Banggeng is white and plump. There are no patches on the clothes of the whole Jia family!

Most of you have children in your families. Look at what you are wearing and then look at the faces of your children. Who can compare with the Jia family?

Yi Zhonghai, are you blind? Can't you see this? How can the Jia family look like poor people who can't make ends meet? Do they need you to organize donations for them?

Besides, you residents in the courtyard are all living in poverty, but you still have to listen to Yi Zhonghai and be morally blackmailed by him to donate money and food to the Jia family, who eat and wear much better than you. If you donate less, you will be scolded! Are you all blind? Or do you have no brains at all?

Yi Zhonghai just wanted to avoid paying for himself, so he used moral blackmail to get everyone to raise money for him to help the Jia family! He used the same trick he used on the old deaf man! But you are still foolishly speaking for him! Support him! He sold you out, and you still help him count the money!

I am too lazy to say anything to you guys, brains are good things, please grow some brains and think more, okay?"

When he said this, Lin Geng closed his mouth temporarily. The yard was suddenly in an uproar, especially Yan Bugui. After hearing what Lin Geng said, he almost burst into tears. As the third uncle, he was often morally kidnapped by Yi Zhonghai and roasted on the fire over the years. It was obvious that his family lived a much tighter life than the Jia family, but he still had to reluctantly cooperate with Yi Zhonghai to donate money to the Jia family.

Now, finally, there was someone in the yard who understood the situation and made the matter clear, and also understood how difficult it was for him. This made Yan Bugui's eyes fill with tears immediately, and he almost broke down in tears on the spot.

Yan Bugui couldn't help but think in his heart that this Xiao Lin was really not an ordinary person. He could see such things so clearly. It seemed that he would have to maintain a good relationship with Lin Geng no matter what he said in the future. As long as Lin Geng could get through this disaster safely this time, he would no longer have to look at Yi Zhonghai's face in the yard in the future.

Just when Yan Bugui secretly made up his mind to make friends with Lin Geng after Lin Geng survived today's ordeal, the other residents in the yard were suddenly in an uproar. Lin Geng's words were like a second thunderclap, waking them all up.

According to Lin Geng's statement, after they thought about it for a while, they found that what Lin Geng said was true. Yi Zhonghai was really a good-for-nothing. He was just treating them like fools. He used his status as a rich old man and moral kidnapping to force all the residents in the courtyard to not only help him support the deaf old lady, but also to help him feed the nest of leeches in the Jia family.

What Lin Geng said was right. If Yi Zhonghai wanted Jia Dongxu to support him in his old age, then with his salary, there would be no problem in giving some of it to help the Jia family. Besides, the Jia family was not living a bad life to begin with, and Jia Dongxu's salary was more than enough to support the whole family.

Since Jia Dongxu married Qin Huairu, Jia Zhang officially started her retirement life at the age of forty. She no longer did any work and spent the whole day at home ordering Qin Huairu around and directing her to work. She either ate and slept, or took a shoe sole to the yard to chat with the aunts or young wives there. In name, she was making shoe soles, but the soles were almost patinated by her, but she never finished them.

Moreover, since Qin Huairu came into the family, Jia Zhang has been eating more and more fat, and now she is as fat as a pig. You have to know that the three-year difficult period has just passed, and after the summer harvest of 1962, the grain supply has just been restored. Every household is still in a half-hungry state, and the food supply is still very tight.

However, Jia Zhangshi did not starve or lose weight during these three difficult years. Instead, she gained weight. Does this mean that the Jia family had a hard time?

And looking at the other people in the Jia family, although Jia Dongxu is not fat, he is not thin either. At least his complexion is much better than most people in the yard, and it is obvious that he is not short of food.

Banggeng was even fatter, just like Xiguataro. He didn't look hungry at all. He was much fatter than all the other kids in the yard.

The same goes for Qin Huairu. She didn't lose weight at all during the three difficult years. Although she couldn't compare with Jia Zhangshi and didn't gain weight, she still maintained a plump figure, fair skin, and rosy complexion, and she didn't suffer from any malnutrition at all.

Even Xiaodang, who had always been unpopular in the Jia family, although not as white and plump as Banggeng, at least did not look pale.

And look at the clothes that the Jia family members wear. There are not even any patches on them. How can they look like poor people?

Looking at most people in the courtyard, how many of them didn't look pale in the past three years? How many people's faces could compare to the Jia family's?

But even so, Yi Zhonghai forced all the residents in the courtyard to donate money to the Jia family five or six times over a period of two years, not counting the donations from previous years.

These people can't even fill their stomachs, but they still follow Yi Zhonghai's instructions and donate some of the money and food they saved from their frugality to the Jia family. Is this something human beings can do?

After hearing what Lin Geng said, Yi Zhonghai was completely panicked. He hated Lin Geng to death in his heart. This guy was really crazy today. Not only did he see through all his little thoughts, but he also saw through them very clearly. He even exposed his true colors in front of everyone in the hospital, leaving him nothing but his underwear.

He had spent so many years and had worked so hard to build up the image of a gentleman in the yard, but all his efforts were completely destroyed by just a few words.