Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

Listening to the three women outside the door crying and begging for mercy, Lin Geng was really a little annoyed, so after thinking it over carefully, he finally made up his mind, so he stopped what he was doing, took out the box of Daqianmen that Xu Damao had just stuffed into his hand, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, then fumbled around the house and found half a box of matches to light a cigarette.

Then he slowly opened the door, leaned against the door frame lazily, and looked at the three women in front of him with a cigarette in his mouth, with a mischievous smile on his face.

The three women knelt outside the door, their eyes were swollen and their legs were numb from crying. Although they cursed Lin Geng a thousand times in their hearts, they did not dare to lose their temper. They could only try to use this method to ask Lin Geng to show mercy and let their families go.

The second aunt could no longer be arrogant. She knelt at the door again, crying bitterly, and begged Lin Geng to let her husband and children go. Of course, she might not care too much about her two sons Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu, but she cared very much about her eldest son Liu Guangqi.

Liu Guangqi was the apple of her and Liu Haizhong's eye. They loved him very much and showed partiality to him even to their grandmother's house. All the good food and drinks in the house were given to Liu Guangqi, the eldest son. She usually spoke softly to Liu Guangqi and rarely beat or scolded him.

Moreover, Liu Guangqi is a good student. He has been admitted to a technical secondary school. He will be assigned a job after graduation and may even become an administrative-level cadre. Therefore, Liu Guangqi has gained even more attention from Liu Haizhong and his wife, who are extremely partial to him.

Liu Haizhong is a blacksmith, which requires considerable strength, so Liu Haizhong usually has to fry an egg every night for nutrition, which is why he is the fattest man in the courtyard.

Only he and Liu Guangqi were qualified to eat the scrambled eggs in his house. As for his two sons, Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu, they could only stare and swallow their saliva. If they dared to use their chopsticks to secretly pick up a piece of the scrambled eggs, they would be beaten up.

Liu Haizhong and the second aunt and her husband treated their two sons, Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu, as if they were enemies. They were too lazy to even look at them. Liu Haizhong even treated these two sons as his punching bags. Whenever he was not satisfied, he would take his anger out on these two sons and beat them up. He would pull out the seven wolves from his waist and swing them with great force, often beating these sons until their skin was torn and their faces were bruised.

Now that Liu Haizhong and his three sons have been arrested by the police, Second Aunt is probably most worried about her two sons, Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu, but only about Liu Haizhong and her eldest son, Liu Guangqi.

Once they were sentenced, Liu Haizhong would definitely lose his job at the steel mill, and Liu Guangqi would definitely be expelled from school and his future would be ruined. So the second aunt was really anxious now. She wanted to strangle Lin Geng's neck and force Lin Geng to write a letter of understanding to his Liu Haizhong and Liu Guangqi and rescue them first.

But now, after seeing Lin Geng open the door and revealing his face with an expression that asked for a beating, and looking at the three of them teasingly, she was completely scared, and cried bitterly, raising her hands and slapping herself a few times, making loud slapping sounds.

"Xiao Lin, Xiao Lin! It was my fault just now. I apologize to you! Don't bother with me! After all, I raised you. I used to get along well with your mother. I beg you to show mercy and spare your uncle and Guangqi this time! If you are still not satisfied, you can just write a letter of apology to your uncle and Guangqi, and let Guangtian and Guangfu go to jail! I am begging you!"

When she saw Lin Geng, the second aunt slapped herself in the face, cried and kowtowed to Lin Geng, begging him to spare Liu Haizhong and Liu Guangqi.

However, she pushed the two brothers Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu out as scapegoats, and announced on the spot that she would give up on the two brothers and let them go to jail.

After hearing what Second Aunt said, Lin Geng had a strange expression on his face, his face twitched a few times, and he almost couldn't help but kick Second Aunt in the face.

At this time, there were actually some residents in the yard who had been secretly paying attention to Lin Geng's family, watching the three women, Auntie One, Auntie Two, and Qin Huairu, kneeling at the door of the Lin family and begging for mercy. They wanted to see how Lin Geng would deal with this matter in the end.

When people saw these three women, young and old, who had lost all their dignity in order to save their families, kneeling down to the young Lin Geng and begging him to spare their families, they began to feel sympathy for them and felt sorry for these three women.

So some people gathered at the hanging flower gate in the front and back yards and whispered, pointing at the three women, old and young, who were kneeling outside Lin Geng's door and Lin Geng's family.

Some said that these three families deserved it, they were eating other people’s food but doing nothing for them, and what they did to Lin Geng was really too dirty, they did not deserve it at all, and now their women were embarrassed here.

Some people were too virtuous and whispered: Although what these families did was indeed a bit excessive, after all, everyone has lived in the same courtyard for such a long time, and Lin Geng cannot kill them all. He should just ask them to pay some money and learn a lesson. After all, Lin Geng let the little girl He Yushui get up at the beginning, and asked Sha Zhu to pay fifty yuan before letting him go.

Since he could spare Sha Zhu, why couldn't he spare the first and second uncles and Jia Zhang and the others? At most, he could just let the three families pay some money.

In short, many residents in the yard at this moment did not go back to their homes to take care of their own affairs, but were gossiping and gathered at the hanging flower gates in the front and back yards, peeking their heads out and whispering to each other.

Those who had been offended by the First Uncle, the Second Uncle and the Jia family were now gloating over their misfortune. Some people who had a better relationship with these three families said that it was enough and there was no need to force others to death.

Everyone knows that if they are sentenced at this time, the backbones of these three families will probably be fired by the steel mill. The men in these three families all work in the steel mill. If they are fired, then all three families will be finished. Won't they all starve to death?

As for the deaf old lady, although she was not very popular in the yard and even made up lies that she was a martyr's relative and had once donated straw sandals to the Red Army, she was old after all.

In the past, the deaf old lady was highly respected in the courtyard. Occasionally, when Yi Zhonghai encountered something that he could not handle, the old lady would often appear to calm the situation. Moreover, once Jia Zhang made a scene in the courtyard, the deaf old lady came out and taught Jia Zhang a lesson with her cane and suppressed her.

Even though the deaf old lady had lied and was sometimes too biased towards Yi Zhonghai and Sha Zhu, some residents in the yard still had complaints about the fact that she was almost buried deep in the grave and was reported by Lin Geng and taken to the police station.

Now seeing these three women, young and old, kneeling and begging at the door of the Lin family for a long time, but Lin Geng ignored them and even angrily scolded the second aunt who tried to make a scene, many people began to feel sympathy for them and gradually felt that Lin Geng had gone too far.

However, just as they were whispering to each other, Lin Geng suddenly opened the door, leaned against the door frame with a cigarette in his mouth, and looked at the three women, young and old, with a playful look on his face.

Before Lin Geng could say anything, the second aunt made such a remark, shocking the neighbors who were peeking at her. They all looked at each other in bewilderment.

Finally, someone couldn't help but murmured, "Hey! Tell me, are the Liu brothers Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu the biological children of Liu Haizhong and his wife? The more I look at them, the more I feel that these two children are not their biological children. Do you think they might have picked them up? How can they be so partial? They are even partial to their grandmother's family!"

So you only want the eldest brother to be released, and the second and third brothers can go to jail? You can't be so biased, right?"

After hearing what Second Aunt said, Lin Geng's face twitched a few times. He resisted the urge to kick her in the face and said in a joking tone, "Hey! Second Aunt! I'm really curious now, are your second and third children your biological children? So you begged me to let your shopkeeper and eldest brother go, and do you care if the second and third children die?

This bias has even reached his grandmother's crotch, right? In your eyes, the two of you only care about your eldest son. Are the second and third sons the pig offal that comes with the pork belly?"