Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

After hearing what Lin Geng said, the faces of the first aunt, the second aunt and Qin Huairu became even darker. It was as if Lin Geng had peeled off their faces again in the yard, thrown them on the ground and stepped on them hard. They themselves were ashamed!

All the hard work they had put into creating these years had been completely destroyed by Lin Geng today. Even if the men in their family were released from now on, I'm afraid no one in this courtyard would respect them anymore.

At this moment, several people walked in from outside the yard. Led by them was Director Wang from the Street Office in their area. Also included were Deputy Director Zhou and Aunt Liu, who was in charge of managing this courtyard.

These people all looked very bad. Today was the weekend and they had finally had the chance to rest at home, but they encountered such a bad thing.

No. 75 Nanluoguxiang, which has always won the award for excellent courtyard houses, had such a horrific scandal, and it also involved the first uncle Yi Zhonghai and the second uncle Liu Haizhong, who were appointed by them and have always been considered to be quite good.

Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong actually assisted others, or personally took part in torturing a martyr's orphan in the yard, who had just lost his mother and had no relatives. They almost forced the orphan to death and almost scared them all to death. You know, this is a very big scandal. If it gets exposed, even the managers of the street office like them will be in trouble.

So after they heard the news, they immediately rushed back to the street office to hold a meeting to discuss how to resolve the matter. The meeting lasted until dark, and only then did they reach a preliminary consensus and come together to the courtyard to deal with the matter.

The third uncle was guarding the door as usual, when he suddenly saw several leaders from the street office coming together. He was startled and immediately guessed why they came to the courtyard.

So the third uncle quickly led them to the central courtyard and pointed out Lin Geng to them. It happened that Lin Geng was standing at the door of his house and angrily scolding the neighbors in the courtyard who were blaming him. They all heard the previous words clearly.

This made Director Wang, Deputy Director Zhou and Aunt Liu very angry again, and their faces looked even worse.

Director Wang walked into the middle courtyard with a gloomy face and told Yan Bugui to gather the residents in the courtyard. He wanted to announce something. While Yan Bugui was directing the four little kids in his family to run around the courtyard and greet people, Director Wang, together with Deputy Director Zhou, Aunt Liu and a clerk, came to Lin Geng.

Director Wang was quite surprised after taking a look at Lin Geng. He thought that Lin Geng had just recovered from a serious illness and must be pale and thin. However, when he saw Lin Geng, he found that Lin Geng was a young man with an upright figure, heroic spirit, handsome appearance and even a little delicate appearance.

No matter how you look at it, Lin Geng doesn't look like an orphan who had just recovered from a serious illness and was almost tortured to death by a bunch of beasts in the yard. This made Director Wang and Deputy Director Zhou a little confused. Only Aunt Liu had seen Lin Geng this morning and was not too surprised. The other people from the street office were a little surprised.

But Director Wang and Deputy Director Zhou were leaders after all, and they had some skills in maintaining their morale. Although they were surprised for a moment, they quickly recovered and immediately put on a look of deep sorrow on their faces. Director Wang immediately strode forward and extended his hands to Lin Geng.

Lin Geng was not nervous. Seeing Director Wang striding towards him with his hands outstretched, he immediately stretched out his hands and took Director Wang's hands.

"Hello, I'm Director Wang from the Street Office. You must be Xiao Lin. I didn't know about what happened this morning until noon. It's really because our Street Office didn't do its job well and you were wronged!

This is all the fault of a few uncles in charge of this courtyard. They usually deceive their superiors and hide the truth from their subordinates, hiding the situation in the courtyard. They act arrogantly here and deceive us, the leaders of the street office!

But this is ultimately caused by our carelessness in our daily work. We admit our mistake!

We came here tonight to apologize to you for letting you suffer such a great injustice! We will definitely deal with this matter seriously and seek justice for you! We must not let the families of our martyrs suffer such injustice!

By the way, how is your health now? Have you recovered? Alas! You have been ill for so long, and the people in the yard did not inform our street office, otherwise, we should have come to visit you a long time ago!

Old Liu, I am going to seriously criticize you in front of Xiaolin today. As the person directly responsible for managing this compound, you didn't even know about such things. After Xiaolin's mother passed away, you didn't even think of coming to visit and care about Xiaolin. This is dereliction of duty on your part!

Tomorrow you have to write a serious self-criticism. We will hold a meeting and you will publicly review your mistakes at the meeting. This will also serve as a warning to our comrades in the subdistrict office. We must prevent similar incidents from happening again in the future!"

After Director Wang held Lin Geng's hand, he immediately shook Lin Geng's hand with great sorrow, spoke in a very sincere tone, made a self-examination, and severely criticized Aunt Liu.

Lin Geng could see that they were really nervous, but he did not want to offend the people in the street office because of this matter. After all, the county magistrate was not as good as the current manager, and they were all the direct managers at the grassroots level. At this time, the power of the street office was still quite large. It can be said that they were in charge of a wide range of things, and they had the final say on many matters. The people living in the areas they were responsible for had to deal with them in all aspects of life.

This incident has indeed had a huge impact on them. If it gets reported to the higher-ups, then the leaders and staff of the street office will probably have to bear the brunt of the consequences and will definitely be punished. They may even end up ruining their careers.

So it is understandable that Director Wang is so nervous.

Moreover, he will have to stay in this courtyard for a long time in the future, and he will have to deal with the leaders and staff of the street office frequently. If he offends the street office, it will be difficult for him to do even a small thing in the future.

He couldn't always bring up his status as a martyr's orphan to pressure others, right? It would be fine once or twice, but if it happened too many times, people would have a bad impression of him, and they might find some evidence against him and give him a beating.

So be kind to others and don't think that he can get away with it now that he has the protection of the martyrs' orphans. Longguo is a society where personal relationships are important, and many times things depend on personal relationships. Therefore, he is unwilling to offend the leaders and staff of the street offices.

So he said quickly: "Director Wang, thank you for coming to do justice for me! My illness has been completely cured, thank you for your concern! Moreover, my illness this time turned out to be a blessing in disguise. I finally figured out one thing, I can't be so cowardly as before, otherwise, I will be bullied to death by some bad guys!

Please don't blame yourself or criticize Aunt Liu for this incident. Aunt Liu has taken good care of me. I am very grateful to Aunt Liu and you leaders of the Street Office!

You really can't be blamed for what happened this time! This is all because the first uncle Yi Zhonghai and the second uncle Liu Haizhong in the courtyard deliberately deceived their superiors and subordinates, saying that matters in the courtyard should be resolved in the courtyard, and that the residents in the courtyard were not allowed to report the matter to the street office or the police station!

Whenever something happens, they cover it up, saying that it will affect our courtyard's selection as an excellent courtyard, and force the residents not to tell anyone. If anyone disagrees, they will morally blackmail them, claiming that whoever tells anyone and affects our courtyard's selection as an excellent courtyard will be the sinner of the entire courtyard and will be collectively criticized in a meeting!

So over the years, they have used this method to conceal many things, and even deceived you leaders of the Street Office!

That's why you don't know what happened in our yard, because no one dared to tell you, they kept it all under wraps in the yard!

In this way, Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong can rely on their status as the eldest uncle and the second uncle to do whatever they want in the yard, making the yard a one-man show for Yi Zhonghai. If anyone disobeys, he will first use moral blackmail, and if that doesn't work, he will instigate He Yuzhu and his apprentice Jia Dongxu from our yard to beat up those who disobey their management!

Moreover, Yi Zhonghai often told people in the courtyard about respecting the elderly. Many years ago, he elevated the deaf old lady to the ancestor of everyone in our courtyard. He also fabricated a story with the deaf old lady that she was a martyr's relative and had donated straw sandals to the Red Army, so that the residents in the courtyard would respect her.

In this way, if he couldn't control the residents, he would move out the deaf old lady to suppress the residents who disobeyed him. The residents would think that the deaf old lady was a martyr's relative and had donated straw sandals to the Red Army, so they all respected her and dared not disobey her!

The deaf old lady also relied on this false identity to bully others in the yard. Whenever someone's family cooked something delicious, she would go to their house to eat. If they didn't give it to her, Yi Zhonghai would morally blackmail everyone and force everyone to offer the delicious food to the deaf old lady first!

If the deaf old lady heard that someone didn't listen to Yi Zhonghai, she would take advantage of her age and go to the person's house to beat them with her cane, and even knock on the person's windows. Everyone was angry but dared not say anything!

Then there is the Jia family. Jia Dongxu is Yi Zhonghai’s apprentice, and Yi Zhonghai favors the Jia family in everything…”