Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

Sha Zhu was busy cutting vegetables in the kitchen. When he heard Liu Lan calling him and saying that Yi Zhonghai was looking for him, he frowned, but still put down the kitchen knife and left the kitchen. When he saw Yi Zhonghai, he asked Yi Zhonghai with a stern face, "Why did you come to see me?"

As soon as Yi Zhonghai saw Sha Zhu, he immediately said anxiously: "Sha Zhu, your sister Qin just fainted in the yard because of the injury of the stick. Now they have both been sent to the hospital. Come with me to see them!"

As he said this, he walked forward and grabbed Sha Zhu's wrist, wanting to take Sha Zhu to the hospital with him to see Qin Huairu.

When Sha Zhu heard this, his face twitched at first, but he shook his hand away from Yi Zhonghai's hand, frowned and said to Yi Zhonghai: "I say, Yi Zhonghai, what does Bang Geng's injury and Qin Huairu's fainting have to do with me? Why did you come to me?"

Yi Zhonghai showed displeasure when he heard this, and said to Sha Zhu with a gloomy face: "Sha Zhu, what's wrong with you now? Haven't I always taught you that neighbors in the yard should help each other? Moreover, you used to be so good to your sister Qin. Now I heard that she fainted, why are you like this?

Although what Huairu did before was a bit wrong, we are neighbors and she has returned the money to you. What else do you want?

Now Dongxu is gone, Huairu and his family are orphans and widows, their lives must be so difficult, don’t you feel sad seeing this?

Come with me now, let's go see them together! Take this opportunity to improve your relationship with Huairu!"

When Sha Zhu heard this, he frowned even more tightly, stared at Yi Zhonghai and said, "Yi Zhonghai, do you still want to play me like a fool? Our relationship is like this now, and you still want to play me!

What is the relationship between Qin Huairu and me? Isn't she my neighbor? Don't you know how she treated me before?

You all treat me like a fool. I was stupid before and didn’t understand. Now do you think I will still be treated like a fool by you?

Aren’t you just trying to trick me into helping you support Qin Huairu because Jia Dongxu is dead and Qin Huairu is having a hard time now?

I tell you Yi Zhonghai, you are dreaming! I am not the same person I used to be. I have seen clearly that you are still treacherous and want to deceive me to help you support Qin Huairu! You'd better stop dreaming! "

After hearing what Sha Zhu said, Yi Zhonghai's face turned even darker, and he suppressed his anger and said to Sha Zhu: "Zhu Zi, I admit that I did have some selfish motives in the past, but don't you remember anything about how I treated you in the past?

When you were bullied in the yard before, wasn't it me who stood up for you? When you and Yu Shui had no food to eat and Yu Shui cried because of hunger, didn't I ask your aunt to feed you?

Just because of the rumors spread by that little beast Lin Geng, have you forgotten all the good things I did for you in the past?

Even if I am a little selfish, I am still doing this for your own good!"

"For my own good? Then tell me what's good for me about it?" Sha Zhu got a little angry when he heard it, and questioned Yi Zhonghai while staring at him.

Yi Zhonghai said shamelessly: "After your father He Daqing didn't want you and ran away with the White Widow, didn't I teach you how to be a man?"

Although Sha Zhu's brain is not very good, it does not mean that he is a fool. Lin Geng has been explaining Yi Zhonghai's evil intentions to him from time to time these days, and he now knows Yi Zhonghai's little thoughts very well.

So he sneered at Yi Zhonghai and said, "Yi Zhonghai, you should put away your old ways! Teach me how to be a man? How do you teach me how to be a man? You tell me every day that we should unite with our neighbors, help each other, respect the elderly and love the young!

But which neighbors did you ask me to unite with? Whenever someone in the yard disobeys you or talks back at you, you ask me to beat them up. Is this what you teach me to unite with neighbors? You ask me to be your thug and suppress the neighbors in the yard. Is this what you call unity?

Help each other! Then let me ask you, how many times did you help me after my father and the widow ran away? I just remembered now that it was not you who helped me the most at that time, but Aunt Yu!

You only asked Aunt Li to give us mixed flour steamed bread when Yu Shui and I were really in trouble, and you didn't allow Aunt Li to help us on her own! Sometimes Aunt Li secretly gave Yu Shui and me some food without telling you, and you would scold me if you found out! Aunt Li told me everything!

Is this what you call mutual help? Aren't you just trying to take advantage of me?

Later, you tried every possible means to win me over, giving me small favors from time to time to make me listen to you. In order to make me distance myself from Aunt Yu and Lin Geng, you kept saying bad things about Aunt Yu to me, saying that Aunt Yu had bad intentions towards me and Yu Shui. This made me distance myself from Aunt Yu and even help you bully Xiao Lin!

Is this what you mean by helping each other? What have you done for Xiaolin? What have you done for those poor neighbors in the yard? Isn't it just lip service? But you really worked hard for the Jia family!

The Jia family is so rich, with more than a thousand dollars saved, and you asked us to donate money and food to the Jia family at every turn, and even tricked me into bringing lunch boxes from the factory to the Jia family! Your mutual assistance is only limited to helping the Jia family, right? Who else has the Jia family helped?

Aunt Yu passed away. What did you do to help Xiaolin? You embezzled the condolence money given to Xiaolin by the factory. You used the money given to Xiaolin by the factory to hold a banquet in the courtyard? You even wanted to extort more money from Xiaolin afterwards! Is this what you call neighbors helping each other?

You are also helping the Jia family and want to drive Xiaolin out of his house and force Xiaolin to live in a storage room that is not even as good as a cattle shed. This is what you call mutual help. I think you are just helping the Jia family to bully their neighbors!

Respect the old and love the young! Don't you just want me to help you honor the deaf old lady? In this way, you don't have to spend more money on her. With me honoring her and buying meat for her, you can save money, right?

Is this what you want to teach me? You want me to be your dog and fool, is this what you want to teach me?

When Yi Zhonghai listened to Sha Zhu's words, he felt that every word pierced his heart. He never thought that Sha Zhu was not stupid anymore and understood all these things. But after thinking about it, he guessed that these things must have been told to Sha Zhu by that little beast Lin Geng.

His little tricks might fool Sha Zhu, but they couldn't fool that little beast Lin Geng, and probably couldn't fool that bad guy Xu Damao either. It must be that Lin Geng and Xu Damao took advantage of the last opportunity to tell Sha Zhu all his little tricks, and only then did Sha Zhu stop being stupid and stop listening to his nonsense.

So Yi Zhonghai covered his chest in anger, with a look of great pain, pointing at Sha Zhu: "You, you, you...Sha Zhu! You disappoint me so much! I've been so good to you, and this is how you see me? Isn't it those two bad guys Lin Geng and Xu Damao who told you bad things about me? You believe everything they say? Am I really such a bad person in your eyes?"

Sha Zhu has indeed figured out a lot of things now. He has completely seen through Yi Zhonghai's tricks and knows that his words today have hit Yi Zhonghai's sore spot. This has revealed Yi Zhonghai's little thoughts, which made Yi Zhonghai so angry.

Sha Zhu took out a pack of cigarettes, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, then lit it for himself without passing one to Yi Zhonghai. He took a puff and spit out the cigarette, sneered at Yi Zhonghai and said, "I say, Yi Zhonghai, you know best whether you have such thoughts or not! Now I'm telling you, I don't owe you anything, and I've helped you a lot over the years, and you and I both know it very well!

Although I am not smart enough, once someone gives me a hint, I can still tell who is good to me and who is playing me for a fool! I still say that from now on, we are neighbors, and it is best for us to never have any contact with each other! You go your way, I go mine, and we don't care about each other anymore!

Are you okay? If you are, leave now. Don’t you still want to go see Qin Huairu and Bang Geng? I have to go back to cook!"