Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

But if you say Yan Bugui is bad, then it's not true. After Lin Geng lost his mother, Jia and Yi Zhonghai plotted against the Lin family's house, Liu Haizhong plotted against the work station that Lin's mother left for Lin Geng, but Yan Bugui did not participate in it, nor did he take the opportunity to add insult to injury and plot against Lin Geng.

Although Yi Zhonghai withheld the condolence money given to Lin Gengfa by the steel rolling mill, and took out part of the money to give to Yan Bugui to prepare a banquet and invite the neighbors in the yard to the banquet, Yan Bugui might have made some profit from it, but he was unaware of Yi Zhonghai's sinister calculations.

So Lin Geng really didn't hate Yan Bugui. Moreover, when Sha Zhu got into trouble after running a nursing home in the play, Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong were indifferent, but Yan Bugui put aside his pride and secretly ran out to pick up junk and sell it for money in order to subsidize Sha Zhu.

This shows that Yan Bugui still has good intentions, and is not as immoral as Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong. Just for this reason, Lin Geng feels that Yan Bugui is not that annoying.

Moreover, he had actually thought about it over the past month. He would be living in this courtyard for many years to come, including those stormy years. So if he wanted to live a good life, he really couldn't offend everyone in the courtyard and completely become a dictator.

If that happens, no matter what he does in the future, there will be a group of neighbors staring at him with magnifying glasses, ready to report him or frame him at any time. If he doesn't have an ally in the yard, he might really suffer.

So he had thought about it before. In the future, he would use one faction to fight against another faction in the yard and instigate infighting among some people in the courtyard. In this way, those beasts would not be able to target him alone in the future.

Take Xu Damao at the moment for example. Although Xu Damao is definitely not a good person and is a typical villain, others have never bullied him and no one is thinking of harming him now. Naturally, he would not hit a smiling person, and there is no harm in making friends with Xu Damao.

And there is Yan Bugui. After this incident, even if Yi Zhonghai, the old silver coin, and Liu Haizhong, the bad guy, forgave these two old guys and did not pursue their criminal responsibility and sent them back to the courtyard, their position as the manager would definitely not be able to continue. In the future, Yan Bugui might be the only manager left in this courtyard.

He also didn't mind making friends with Yan Bugui and some of the neighbors in the yard.

It is said that this courtyard is full of beasts, and except for Lou Xiao'e who is the only good person, there is no other good person. Lin Geng does not dare to agree with it.

There are not only these few families in this yard. There are many other residents in the front, middle and back yards. However, they are all passers-by in the plot. Even Lin Geng himself is actually a passer-by in the original plot.

These neighbors were not featured much in the plot, so they were ignored, and many people believed that this courtyard was full of beasts.

In fact, Lin Geng believes that things are not that absolute. Many people in this courtyard are not bad people, but just ordinary people. In this era of material scarcity, they naturally have to live frugally. Taking advantage of small bargains is their instinct to maintain life.

Most of the time they were just morally kidnapped by Yi Zhonghai, the moral master. Yi Zhonghai's constant PUA of the residents in these courtyards made them lose the ability to think independently and get used to being dominated by Yi Zhonghai, so they would help Yi Zhonghai to do evil without any bottom line.

In fact, it was not that they wanted to be bad guys. They just got used to being dominated by Yi Zhonghai, the old silver coin, and were used by him unconsciously.

It would be unfair to say that they are all beasts. They are just a group of ordinary people struggling to make a living.

So as long as no one causes trouble for him or wants to cheat him, he will not bully those neighbors. However, if anyone wants to cause trouble for him in the future and collude with Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong to deal with him, then he will naturally not be polite to them.

Now that Yan Bugui came on his own, Lin Geng didn't mind having a drink with him. After all, this meal was treated by Xu Damao, and the food and drinks were all Xu Damao's, so he didn't suffer any loss.

So Lin Geng nodded and said, "Since the Third Uncle is here, why not invite him to have a drink together? It will be more lively with more people, right? What do you think, Brother Damao?"

Lin Geng's call of "Brother Damao" immediately made Xu Damao feel flattered. Seeing that Lin Geng had no objection, Xu Damao pretended to be generous and said, "Okay, brother, since you said so, I can't be stingy. I'll listen to you!"

As he said this, he went to open the door and invited Yan Bugui in. Yan Bugui was carrying a bottle of wine without a label, and one could tell at a glance that it contained liquor bought from the supply and marketing cooperative. Given Yan Bugui's stinginess, he would definitely not be willing to take out a bottle of Fenjiu to treat Xu Damao and Lin Geng to a drink like Xu Damao did.

When Yan Bugui saw the sumptuous food and wine on Xu Damao's table, including chicken, fish and a plate full of greasy peanuts, his throat immediately moved involuntarily and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

For Yan Bugui, the stingy old man, this kind of food and wine may not have been seen for a long time. Maybe the last time he ate meat was when Yi Zhonghai used the condolence money that the steel rolling mill gave to Lin Geng to ask Yan Bugui to prepare the banquet. In the past two months, the Yan family probably never bought meat. At best, they may have eaten the soup made from the small fish that Yan Bugui caught in the river himself.

Moreover, considering Yan Bugui's stinginess, he probably wouldn't even add pepper to season the fish soup. At most, a little salt would be considered good enough.

If you ask why Yan Bugui did not eat the big fish he caught, it is very simple. He must have secretly sold it in exchange for money or cornmeal. In order to save money, the Yan family even replaced the fine grains on the grain book with cornmeal or sweet potato flour so that their family could fill their stomachs.

So when Yan Bugui saw chicken and fish on Xu Damao's table, his eyes widened and he swallowed involuntarily. His eyes were full of amazement and his greed was beyond words.

Seeing Yan Bugui staring at the dishes on the table in a daze, Lin Geng smiled. In later generations, he had never seen anyone drooling so greedily at such dishes. The material abundance in later generations was incomparable to this era. Let alone Yan Bugui, most people would probably swallow their saliva when seeing such dishes.

In fact, even Lin Geng himself had not eaten decent meat for a long time because of this body. Before he traveled here, he was so busy enriching his little world that he had not had time to enjoy the output of the little world.

So when this body saw these chickens and fish, it began to drool and its mouth secreted saliva crazily. The body's instinctive desire for meat made it unable to help but swallow its saliva continuously.

Therefore, he did not despise Yan Bugui's performance, but felt a little sad. It was really not easy for people in this era to live, and they had just experienced three difficult years. It was already very difficult to survive. This was also the case in Sijiu City, the best place in Longguo. The authorities had tried their best to ensure the supply of materials in Sijiu City, but it was only enough to prevent so many people from starving to death.

Yan Bugui's family has a low income and a large population. If they had not relied on Yan Bugui and his wife to live frugally, it would be hard to say whether their family could have survived these three years.

Even this year, the problem of food shortage has been alleviated to a certain extent after the summer harvest, and food supply has gradually recovered, but the vast majority of people are still not able to eat enough, and many people still have pale faces. Yan Bugui's family are all pitifully thin, with yellow skin on their faces, and they look like skin and bones, which is heartbreaking to see.

So Lin Geng smiled at Yan Bugui, stood up and said, "Third Master is here! Come on, come on, please sit down!"