Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

After returning home, Lin Geng closed the door and began to set up mousetraps. He specially placed several in the kitchen, where children could not see them, but where they had to climb to reach the hanging meat.

As for the croton, he thought it was useless for the time being. After setting the mousetrap, he took out his fishing gear again, pushed his bicycle out of the house, went out and pretended that he had forgotten to lock the door, whistled and hummed a song, and leisurely rode out of the courtyard towards Qianhai.

Banggeng lay on the window and stared at the Lin family. When he saw Lin Geng push his bicycle and go out with his fishing gear, he suddenly became excited.

His eyes turned around a few times, and he didn't call Qin Huairu. Instead, he leaned on the window to observe the movements in the yard. He saw that the women in the yard began to go out with their baskets to buy vegetables, some carried benches to mend shoe soles outside the yard, and some went to chat. The yard gradually became quiet.

Bang Geng turned his head and glanced at Qin Huairu who was busy sewing clothes in the house. A sinister smile that didn't match his age appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said to Qin Huairu: "Mom! I'm going out to play for a while!"

Qin Huairu didn't think much about it. After all, Banggeng was only five years old. Children of this age haven't started school yet and like to play in the yard or outside the gate.

Because the Jia family had been exposed by Lin Geng for repeatedly defrauding donations some time ago, and Jia Zhang's temper had offended everyone in the yard, so now the adults in the yard were unwilling to let their children play with Banggeng, so Banggeng and Xiaodang were isolated by the children in the yard.

Banggeng was very depressed these days, and he took the initiative to find other children to play with. However, other children did not want to play with him. Banggeng was very angry and even fought with other children twice.

If it were the old Jia Zhang who was still around, she wouldn't care who was responsible and would definitely go to the house with a stick, block the door, curse and throw a tantrum, and make a big fuss even if the person was unreasonable.

Often at this time Yi Zhonghai would jump out and morally blackmail the neighbors, and finally ask the neighbors to apologize to Jia Zhang and Bang Geng, and finally compensate Jia Zhang with some money or property, before Jia Zhang would let it go.

So after a long time, everyone in the yard told their children not to conflict with Banggeng. As a result, Banggeng, who used to be protected by Jia Zhang, Yi Zhonghai and his father Jia Dongxu in the yard, became accustomed to being domineering at a young age.

But ever since Jia Zhang was arrested and Yi Zhonghai was stripped of his job as a great master, the children in the yard realized that Banggeng no longer had any backing, so they began to isolate him and no longer gave in to him as before. Once Banggeng started hitting someone, a group of children would beat him together.

Because of this, Banggeng has been having a hard time these days. Other kids won't play with him, and if he starts a fight he will be beaten up by other kids. He can't win no matter how hard he tries, or how hard he tries to scold them. Now that Jia Zhang is no longer backing him up, Banggeng doesn't want to go out to play these days.

Today, Banggeng asked to go out and play. Qin Huairu was a little relieved, thinking that at Banggeng's age, he should play with other children in the yard. So she waved her hand and let Banggeng go play by himself. She just told him not to run out of the yard, and even if he went out, he could only play outside the yard where there were adults watching.

Banggeng agreed, then immediately opened the door and ran out. Xiaodang called Banggeng, wanting him to take her out to play, but Banggeng didn't even turn his head or pay attention to Xiaodang. He ran out of the house quickly and observed the yard with a sly look. He made sure that there was no one in the middle courtyard at this moment, and the adults were all busy with their own things.

So he turned around and headed straight for Lin Geng's house, pushed the door open and rushed in, then closed the door behind him. Then he glanced around Lin Geng's house with a smug smirk on his face, muttering to himself, "You damned little bastard, I told you not to give me meat and I beat me up, you finally forgot to lock the door today, didn't you? I'll evict everyone from your house! Humph!"

At his age, he actually doesn't care much about things like money and notes. Although he knows that money can buy things, he still doesn't have much concept of it. So he doesn't pay much attention to things like money and notes, but his attention is basically on food.

He saw Lin Geng bring back a large piece of pork last night and this morning. He hadn't eaten meat for a long time. Now, let alone seeing others eat meat, even thinking about the taste of meat would make his mouth water.

But during this period of time, after sending his grandmother to jail, Lin Geng had been eating and drinking with delicious fish and meat in the yard every day. He often invited Yan Laokou from the yard, Wang Laohan from the front yard, Xu Damao and even Sha Zhu to eat and drink together. He even gave fish to the people who repaired his house. The fragrance wafted to their house every day, which made him very greedy.

He just wanted to go to the Lin family to ask for some meat, but Lin Geng not only refused to give him any, he even dared to beat him. This made Bang Geng hate Lin Geng to death. What was even more hateful was that since that day on, Lin Geng would lock the door when he went out, making it impossible for him to enter the Lin family to find something delicious. Otherwise, he would not have smashed three panes of glass in Lin Geng's house with stones yesterday when no one was in the yard.

Today he finally waited for Lin Geng to go out and forget to lock the door. How could he miss such a good opportunity? He must steal the big piece of meat from Lin Geng's house and have a good meal. Such a big piece of meat would surely last their family a long time, right?

So he immediately went straight to the kitchen, and as soon as he entered the kitchen, he saw a large piece of greasy meat with fat and lean parts hanging on the beam of the kitchen.

Bang Geng's eyes were immediately fixed on the big piece of meat. He was so greedy that he began to secrete a lot of saliva again, and his saliva flowed down the corners of his mouth unconsciously.

Bang Geng immediately jumped twice, trying to reach the piece of meat, but he was too small, and he couldn't reach it no matter how he jumped. So he looked around and found a stool in the house. He moved it to the kitchen, stood on the stool first, and then grabbed the edge of the cupboard next to him, trying to reach the big piece of meat.

But just when he put his hand on the cupboard, he seemed to touch something, and then he heard a snapping sound, and then he felt several fingers on his hand were clamped heavily, and felt a heart-wrenching pain.

Banggeng was originally standing on a bench. When his finger was pinched by something, he let out a shrill scream in pain, then fell over with his limbs spread out, knocking the bench over and dropping to the ground with a bang.

When Banggeng fell, he instinctively stretched out his other hand and grabbed around, trying to steady himself. As a result, he pulled an iron pot off the stove. When he fell to the ground, a black object fell from the sky in front of him, and it was infinitely magnified in his eyes. Banggeng quickly closed his eyes and raised his left arm to block it, but the object hit his little head with a bang.

The edge of the iron pot hit his forehead and made a cut on the spot. Banggeng let out another heart-wrenching scream and rolled on the ground in pain. He had a large mousetrap in his right hand, so he started crying hysterically.

Qin Huairu was doing housework at home when she suddenly heard a child's scream outside, followed by another scream, and then the hysterical crying of a child. She also vaguely heard the sound of a child shouting for help.

Qin Huairu's heart tightened when she heard the voice. Wasn't it her dog's voice? Qin Huairu immediately dropped the rag in her hand in panic and ran towards the yard with her big belly.

When Qin Huairu ran into the yard, Li Xiangyun had already walked out of the room where she lived and was walking towards the Lin family following the sound of Banggeng's screams with a puzzled look on her face.

At this time, the people at home in the yard also heard the crying and screaming of Banggeng, and they all walked out of their homes, listening curiously to the source of the sound. When they confirmed that the crying and screaming came from the Lin family, the aunts and grandmas who had not gone out also walked towards the Lin family curiously.

Banggeng's screams, cries, and cries for help even reached the front and back yards. People who didn't go out of the front and back yards heard it and started running towards the middle yard.