Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

Yi Zhonghai stared at Lin Geng's back with gritted teeth, cursed in his heart, and walked towards the office building. He kept his head down along the way, not daring to look up, for fear of running into leaders in the factory who knew him or people from other departments, and being looked down upon by them.

Fortunately, although Yi Zhonghai was only an eighth-level worker in the factory, the steel rolling mill was a large factory with tens of thousands of employees after all. Yi Zhonghai worked in the workshop and rarely interacted with people from other departments. Even if they had heard of him as an eighth-level worker, many people had never seen him and did not know him. So after entering the office building, few people he met on the road knew him, which allowed Yi Zhonghai to avoid many contemptuous looks and successfully arrived outside Director Yang's office.

But just as Yi Zhonghai was about to knock on the door, he was stopped by Secretary Chen who came out from the side after hearing the noise. Secretary Chen looked at Yi Zhonghai, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and although he tried his best to conceal it, a hint of contempt still appeared on his face.

"Master Yi, do you have something to do with Director Yang?" Secretary Chen stopped Yi Zhonghai who was about to knock on Director Yang's office door and asked him directly.

Yi Zhonghai quickly took out a cigarette and smiled bitterly, then said to Secretary Chen: "Secretary Chen, I just had a misunderstanding and some unpleasant things happened at home, which delayed my work!

I'm back to work today, and I want to meet Director Yang and explain everything to him! This time, it's all a misunderstanding, and I hope Director Yang doesn't misunderstand me! Secretary Chen, please help me ask Director Yang if he has time?"

Secretary Chen now dislikes Yi Zhonghai, who looks so honest and loyal. He knew Yi Zhonghai before and always felt that Yi Zhonghai, the old master, was an honest and upright person, so he had a good impression of him.

But this time, Yi Zhonghai brought a group of people from their courtyard to bully Lin Geng, an orphan of a martyr, and even did a dirty thing of embezzling the condolence money given to Lin Geng by the factory. This completely changed his impression of Yi Zhonghai, and he saw clearly that this old man with a loyal face was actually a selfish and arrogant hypocrite.

So when he saw Yi Zhonghai, his first thought was to drive this old guy away to avoid being an eyesore.

But after thinking about it, he still did not drive Yi Zhonghai away, because he also knew that a deaf old lady in Yi Zhonghai's yard seemed to have some private relationship with Director Yang.

This time, it was because of the deaf old lady's request that Director Yang had to swallow his pride and send him to find Lin Geng to plead for Yi Zhonghai and the others, asking Lin Geng to consider Director Yang's face and make the matter smaller and minimize the impact of the incident as much as possible.

For this purpose, Director Yang took out a lot of tickets, even a bicycle ticket and gave it to Lin Geng, giving Lin Geng enough face.

Finally, Lin Gengcai, for the sake of Director Yang's face, agreed to claim compensation from Yi Zhonghai and others, and to settle the matter with money, and no longer demanded that the police severely punish Yi Zhonghai and others.

So since there is a relationship between Yi Zhonghai and Director Yang regarding the deaf old lady, it would be inconvenient for him to make things too ugly and directly drive Yi Zhonghai away.

So after thinking about it, Secretary Chen did not take the cigarette handed over by Yi Zhonghai, but said lightly: "Wait here for a moment, I will go and talk to Director Yang first to see if Director Yang has time to see you!"

Yi Zhonghai thanked Secretary Chen profusely, and then waited for Secretary Chen's reply at the stairs.

After Secretary Chen knocked on the door and entered the factory director's office, he told Director Yang that Yi Zhonghai wanted to see him. Director Yang was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Let him in! I was just about to give him a good scolding!"

Secretary Chen then left and called Yi Zhonghai over, asking him to go into Director Yang's office. He did not pour tea for Yi Zhonghai, but left and closed the door of Director Yang's office.

When Director Yang saw Yi Zhonghai, he was furious. He immediately looked at Yi Zhonghai with a gloomy face and angrily scolded him in a cold voice: "I am talking to you, Old Yi! You are also an old employee of the steel rolling mill. You have always done a good job and can be regarded as a respected old worker in the factory!

But I never thought that you could do such a thing in your courtyard. In order to help your apprentice, you actually teamed up with your apprentice's family to bully an orphan of a martyr who lost his parents!

Tell me, what were you thinking? You actually embezzled the consolation money given to Xiaolin by the factory!

If the deaf old lady hadn't begged me, I would have personally dragged you guys to the shooting range to practice! ..."

Director Yang became angrier and angrier as he spoke, and finally he slammed the table in anger, scolding Yi Zhonghai so much that his face turned pale, his lips trembled, and he didn't dare to say a word for a long time.

It was not until Director Yang had finished his rage and scolded until his mouth was dry and he took a sip of water to moisten his throat that Yi Zhonghai seized the opportunity to defend himself tremblingly: "Director Yang, please calm down! Calm down first! I did something wrong this time, but this is indeed a misunderstanding! You know me! I would never do such a cruel thing!

Over the years, I have been the uncle of our courtyard, and I have always told the residents in the courtyard that they must be united and friendly, help each other, respect the elderly and love the young. Over the years, under my leadership, our courtyard has always been an excellent courtyard in the street!

This time it happened because I saw that Jia Dongxu's family had too many people but only two small rooms. Now Jia Dongxu's wife is pregnant again, and the house is really not big enough. It happened that Yu Xiuying of the Lin family passed away, and only Lin Geng was left living in two houses. So I thought about helping the Jia family and wanted to rent a house from the Lin family!

But I also didn't expect that Jia Dongxu's mother, Jia Zhang, would be so greedy and want to occupy both rooms of the Lin family. I only realized that he committed the crime after I heard that Lin Geng had beaten Jia Dongxu and Jia Zhang!

After all, Jia Zhang is considered to be Lin Geng's elder. How can a younger generation hit an elder? Even if Jia Zhang did something wrong, he should complain to me, the uncle, and I will naturally help him deal with it!

So I criticized him a few times, but I didn't expect that Lin was even younger and full of anger, and even hit me. Shazhu also wanted to call him violent because he saw me being beaten! In the end, he was also beaten!

Think about it, the deaf old lady was already in her seventies or eighties, and she just said a few words to him, but he didn't even let her go, and slapped her more than a dozen times! This Lin Geng is definitely not a good person!

As for the 200 yuan consolation money that the factory gave him, it is true that I received it, but the reason I didn't give it to him was because I thought he was a young man who spent money lavishly. As an elder, I felt sorry for him because he had no parents, so I wanted to keep it for him first and give it to him when he gets married in the future!

But I didn't expect that not only did he not appreciate it, but he insisted that I wanted to embezzle his compensation!

Think about it, I am an eighth-level worker, and my monthly salary is only 99 yuan, plus subsidies for special workpieces and subsidies for taking apprentices, which makes more than 100 yuan a month. How could I possibly be interested in his 200 yuan?

So this matter is actually just a misunderstanding! Please don't believe the rumors! I am really wronged!"

Director Yang drank tea while listening to Yi Zhonghai's sophistry. He felt somewhat dissatisfied with Lin Geng, but he did not believe Yi Zhonghai's sophistry. Because of this matter, he specially sent Secretary Chen to find the staff of the street office and the director and deputy director of the police station to inquire about it.

The fact is that Yi Zhonghai assisted the Jia family in occupying Lin Geng's house and almost forced Lin Geng to death. He also concealed the 200 yuan consolation money given to Lin Geng by the factory. After the incident, he also tried to report false accounts, saying that he made the decision on behalf of Lin Geng, watched the people in the yard help Lin Geng deal with Lin's mother's funeral, and invited the people in the yard to have a meal.

These words are simply a bunch of bullshit. The street office and the public security comrades have investigated the matter clearly, but Yi Zhonghai has not admitted his mistake until now. He thinks that he should do so and that it is all Lin Geng's fault. As a result, Director Yang's impression of Yi Zhonghai has become even worse.