Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

However, Yi Zhonghai was in a different mood from the other three. He worked until dark, and finally asked Yan Bugui to help find a few people in the yard to help the Jia family. Yi Zhonghai paid money and sent people to help Jia Dongxu get a thin-skinned coffin. After dark, they collected Jia Dongxu's body and placed it at the door of the Jia family.

In order to ask Yan Bugui to find people in the yard to help deal with Jia Dongxu's funeral, Yi Zhonghai had to hold his nose and took out thirty yuan and gave it to Yan Bugui, asking Yan Bugui to be responsible for setting up a few tables of banquets in the yard in two days to thank the neighbors in the yard who helped the Jia family.

After receiving the money, Yan Bugui agreed with a smile. If he was asked to do this, he would definitely be able to make some profits from it. Moreover, after the banquet, he could pack up some leftovers and let their family eat for a few more days. Yan Bugui got an advantage, so he naturally agreed to help the Jia family deal with Jia Dongxu's funeral.

It was at this time that Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu remembered that they had to notify Jia Zhang, who was still detained in the police station, about Jia Dongxu's death. After all, Jia Zhang was Jia Dongxu's biological mother, and it would be unreasonable not to tell her.

So after dark, Yi Zhonghai asked Yan Bugui to go to the police station again and ask the public security comrades to inform Jia Zhang, who was waiting for the final verdict, of Jia Dongxu's death.

Yan Bugui was unwilling to go, and Yi Zhonghai had no choice but to give Yan Bugui another dollar. Only then did Yan Bugui happily run to the police station.

After finishing all these things, Yi Zhonghai returned home exhausted, but he saw that his wife had only left him a bowl of cornmeal porridge, two cornmeal steamed buns, and a pile of pickles on the table, while his wife had turned off the lights and lay down to sleep.

Yi Zhonghai suddenly felt very unhappy. He felt that his wife's behavior was a little strange these days. She was no longer obedient to him like before, nor did she care about him as much as before. He always saw her with a gloomy face and in a daze from time to time, as if something was on her mind.

Today he was busy arranging Jia Dongxu's funeral. His wife only showed her head once and woke him up after being knocked unconscious by Lin Geng. She didn't care about Qin Huairu, Banggeng and Xiaodang, and went home on her own. She never showed her head again.

He and Qin Huairu were busy for a long time, but Qin Huairu didn't cook. Banggeng and Xiaodang smelled that Shazhu from the Lin family next door was stir-frying chicken, stewing chicken soup, stir-frying shredded potatoes with vinegar, and frying peanuts. The two little ones from the Jia family were very greedy. Banggeng cried and asked Qin Huairu for meat.

But Qin Huairu was in no mood to care about Banggeng at this time. She was annoyed by him and slapped Banggeng in the face. Banggeng was stunned and choked with sobs and dared not cry anymore.

From childhood to adulthood, neither Jia Zhang nor Qin Huairu had ever said a harsh word to Banggeng. Especially when Jia Zhang was at home, she spoiled Banggeng to no end. At such a young age, if he heard or smelled that someone's family was making something delicious, he would immediately cry and make a fuss at home, demanding the delicious food.

Jia Zhang would never scold Banggeng. She would personally or force Qin Huairu to go to someone else's house to "borrow" food, claiming that Banggeng was young and growing up.

If someone's family didn't give, Jia Zhang would immediately go to their house and curse, blocking the door, swearing, rolling on the ground, slapping the ground and crying, calling for her old Jia to come up and take a look, saying that someone's family had made delicious food and refused to lend it to them. This was bullying them and destroying the unity of the courtyard. She asked old Jia to come up and take the family away.

Then Yi Zhonghai would come on stage and start wielding the moral stick to stand up for Jia Zhang, accusing them of being ignorant, not knowing how to unite their neighbors, destroying the mutual help in the courtyard, not knowing how to respect the elderly and love the young, and forcing them to send their delicious food to the Jia family.

Because Yi Zhonghai had accumulated great power in the courtyard. He was not only the boss of the courtyard, but also an eighth-level worker in the steel rolling mill. Over the years, his word was final and no one dared to offend him, for fear that if they contradicted Yi Zhonghai, Yi Zhonghai would join forces with other residents in the courtyard to isolate their family. So they could only blame themselves for their bad luck and send the delicious food at home to the Jia family.

Therefore, Banggeng developed the habit since he was a child that if someone's family had something delicious, they would give it to him. If he couldn't get any, he would immediately start throwing a tantrum, but he had never been punished by Jia Zhang's mother and son and Qin Huairu.

The reason why Banggeng didn't dare to go to the Lin family to ask for food by himself was that he had tried several times in the past few days, but not only did he fail to get meat from the Lin family, he was also slapped by Lin Geng, which hurt his face for a long time.

Bang Geng is just like Jia Zhangshi and Jia Dongxu, bullying the weak and fearing the strong. Seeing that Lin Geng is so difficult to deal with now, he doesn't dare to go to the Lin family and ask for trouble, so he habitually goes to make trouble with his mother.

Qin Huairu actually dotes on Banggeng very much. She herself is a male chauvinist and thinks that only if she gives birth to Banggeng can the Jia family truly have a successor. Usually, she dotes on Banggeng and is very partial to him.

In addition, Banggeng is usually protected by the old pious woman Jia Zhang, so Qin Huairu dare not teach Banggeng a lesson even if she wants to. Otherwise, if she dares to scold Banggeng or slap him, she will definitely be severely punished by Jia Zhang with both beatings and scoldings.

Therefore, Banggeng has always been fearless in their Jia family, thinking that as long as he makes a fuss, he can get what he wants. But today, because he made a fuss about wanting to eat the chicken fried by the Lin family, his mother Qin Huairu slapped him hard in the face, which made Banggeng dumbfounded.

Banggeng was stunned for a long time before he started crying again, rolling on the ground and asking his grandmother to come back, shouting that his mother Qin Huairu did not give him meat to eat and even beat him.

Qin Huairu felt helpless watching Banggeng making trouble, so she looked at Yi Zhonghai. Yi Zhonghai knew at this time that he and Qin Huairu had no face at all in front of Lin Geng, and it was impossible to ask Lin Geng to give Banggeng a bowl of chicken.

So he wanted to ask his wife to take Banggeng and Xiaodang back to his home to look after them and get them some food, but when he turned around, he couldn't find his wife, nor was she at home. After asking, he found out that after eating, his wife left the courtyard and no one knew where she went.

Yi Zhonghai was already very angry about this, but when he got home after work, he found that his wife had returned at some point and had only left him some cold steamed bread and cornmeal porridge, a plate of pickles, and then went to sleep.

Yi Zhonghai became even angrier. Looking at the cold cornmeal steamed bread and cornmeal porridge on the table, he rushed into the bedroom and yelled at his wife lying on the bed:

"What did you do last night? Didn't you know that Huairu and I were busy dealing with Dongxu's funeral? Why didn't you go over to help take care of Banggeng and Xiaodang? I don't know where you went? What happened to you these days? Why have you become so ignorant?"

Aunt Yi heard Yi Zhonghai yelling at her, so she sat up with a cold face, put on her clothes, looked at Yi Zhonghai, and said coldly: "Old Yi, are you blaming me?"

Yi Zhonghai was stunned for a moment, looked at his wife in surprise, and asked her uncertainly: "Why are you crazy today?"