Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

The other people who did not sleep in the yard that night included the first aunt, the second aunt and Qin Huairu. After returning home, the three of them lay on the bed, thinking about the money that Lin Geng had extorted from their families. They were so heartbroken that they could not breathe. They cursed Lin Geng's eight generations of ancestors in their hearts and wished they could strangle Lin Geng to death.

But no matter how much they cursed Lin Geng, they did not dare to do anything to him at this time. They could only lie on the bed in helplessness and rage.

Of course, there were still many residents in the yard who were thinking about the huge amount of money that Lin Geng had extorted from the Yi, Liu and Jia families. They were so envious and jealous that they could not sleep and wished they could snatch all the money. However, with the previous examples of Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, the mother and son of the Jia family, and even the deaf old lady and Sha Zhu, they could only think about it and gradually fell asleep with envy and jealousy.

After all, although money is very tempting, it is other people's money after all. They can neither rob nor steal it. They have to go on with their lives. Apart from envy, jealousy and hatred, they really can't do anything.

At daybreak, Auntie One, Auntie Two and Qin Huairu left the courtyard before the police station opened, and rushed to the police station with the letter of apology they had received from Lin Geng to rescue their family members.

After a good night's sleep, Lin Geng slept until dawn. He opened his eyes lazily, stretched hard in the quilt, lay on the bed, turned his head and looked around his house.

The walls of the house were covered with a lot of old newspapers, and the wall paint had cracked and fallen off in many places, revealing the bricks underneath. The house was dark and dirty, and even the roof looked black, which made Lin Geng, who was used to living in a clean and bright house, feel a little uncomfortable.

Moreover, his house is still in a mess. Although he got back many things that Jia Zhang had stolen from the Jia family, several pieces of furniture in the house were sold by Jia Zhang as junk for money. Even if Lin Geng got the things back, he had no place to put many of them, so they could only be piled up in the corner.

Moreover, Lin Geng was also disgusted by the bedding and clothes he brought back from the Jia family. These things were meant to be used close to the body, and after the Jia family used them, he felt really disgusted and planned to buy new ones. But then he changed his mind and realized that buying these things would require a lot of cotton and cloth coupons.

Yesterday, Director Yang and the Street Office, in order to suppress the matter as much as possible and reduce the impact, took the initiative to give Lin Geng a lot of tickets. Director Yang was even very generous and gave Lin Geng a bicycle ticket. However, there were only some cloth tickets among them, but no cotton tickets.

In that era, cotton was still a scarce commodity. Although some was distributed to the people every year, the quantity was limited. If one wanted to replace all the bedding, cotton clothes, and trousers in the house with new ones at once, there would be no place to get the cotton coupons.

Although he now has a lot of money, if he is willing to pay a high price, he can buy cotton tickets on the black market or the pigeon market. However, Lin Geng thought again. He has offended many beasts in the yard, and also extorted a lot of money from the Yi family and other families. Now there must be many people in the yard who are jealous of him.

Now if he went to exchange a lot of cotton coupons at once and replaced all the bedding, cotton clothes and trousers in his home with new ones, although everyone would know that he was rich, they would not be able to explain the origin of his cotton and cloth coupons.

If he was reported by someone who was jealous and red-eyed because of envy, then even if the police and the street office showed leniency to him because of his status as a martyr's relative, it would still cause considerable damage to his reputation.

After much thought, he could only settle for the second best. He first took apart the quilts, cotton coats and trousers, dried them in the sun, sent them to a cotton fluffer to have the cotton fluffed again, bought some cloth and just replaced the quilt covers and mattress covers, which would be enough. It was time to replace the cotton coats and trousers with new ones, so he could buy less cotton and replace them with new ones.

So he did it as he thought. He got up and got a few eggs from the small world, and made a few cornmeal cakes, and cooked them in a pot. In later lives, he liked to eat cornmeal cakes very much and thought they were very sweet. So in this era, he had no objection to eating cornmeal. However, the cornmeal at this time and the cornmeal in later lives are not the same thing.

The cornmeal nowadays is ground together with the corn cob and mixed into cornmeal. Therefore, it tastes harder on the throat than the pure cornmeal eaten in later generations, so it is not popular.

When Lin Geng went to buy food yesterday, he did not buy cheap cornmeal, but relatively expensive pure cornmeal. This way, he would not attract attention or arouse jealousy when eating it.

With the cornmeal pancakes, Lin Geng fried a plate of chopped green onion eggs. He ate a few cornmeal pancakes and scrambled eggs in one breath, then filled his stomach. He started to work. Since it was a sunny day today, he first pulled a rope outside the door and then took apart the quilts and cotton clothes and trousers.

After the third aunt had finished her breakfast, she was washing pots and dishes in the courtyard sink when she saw Lin Geng clumsily taking apart the bedding. She greeted him, went back to put her things down and came over to help.

Although the third aunt had learned to be petty and calculating after following Yan Bugui for so many years, she was only taking small advantages and had not done anything particularly evil.

Yesterday, Lin Geng and Yan Bugui went fishing, and when they came back they were given three big fishes. They were told not to sell them for money or to exchange them for cornmeal, but to cook them for the whole family.

So for the first time, their family ate a very big fish in one go. It was the first time in all these years that the whole family ate so much, and the food they ate was fish, which was truly the first time in history.

Yan Bugui also repeated to the third aunt what Lin Geng had said to him, saying that she had really suffered a lot following him for so many years. After hearing this, the third aunt burst into tears while eating the delicious fish.

In the past, she followed Yan Bugui, and after a long time, she got used to this frugal life and didn't feel it was too hard. But when Lin Geng said that she had followed Yan Bugui for so many years and could hardly have a full meal, and had given birth to four children for Yan Bugui, Lin Gengdou felt a little uncomfortable, so she forced Yan Bugui to stew such a big fish so that the whole family could have a good meal.

The third aunt was so moved that tears immediately welled up in her eyes. She herself had not realized that she had lived such a hard life for so many years. Her husband Yan Bugui did not notice it either. But an outsider like Lin Geng saw it. How could the third aunt not be moved?

At this moment, Third Aunt felt that Lin Geng was really a good person. Not only did he see things clearly, but he was also kind-hearted. Although he had dealt with the entire Jia family, Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong and his son, and even the respected deaf old lady in the yard, in one fell swoop yesterday morning, and had also beaten the arrogant and domineering Sha Zhu in the yard to the ground, she still felt that Lin Geng was really going too far.

Although she was afraid of Lin Geng, she was just afraid of Lin Geng. It didn't mean that she thought Lin Geng was a good person.

But when Lin Geng gave their family three big fish and learned what Lin Geng said, the three aunts' impression of Lin Geng suddenly changed drastically. They felt that Lin Geng was actually a kind-hearted person.

In addition, the police and the street office also found out yesterday what dirty things Yi Zhonghai and his gang had done to Lin Geng. The reason why Lin Geng beat them up so violently was that that group of people forced Lin Geng into a dead end. With no way to retreat, he was finally forced to explode completely.

Yi Zhonghai and his men deserved their bad luck. What they did was truly insane and simply not something human beings should do. It can be said that they brought this upon themselves and suffered such a fate!