Siheyuan: Me! He Yuzhu defies fate and changes destiny

"Old man, I am sorry for the loss. The Jia family has lost its mainstay, so you have to be strong.

If Brother Jia knew about this, he wouldn't want you to be depressed like this."

Yi Zhonghai looked confused and said nothing.

He Yuzhu knew in his heart that Jia Dongxu was Yi Zhonghai's future support. As long as he was there, Yi Zhonghai would not have to worry about his later years.

But now that Jia Dongxu is gone, Yi Zhonghai has lost his future.

According to the original plot, Yi Zhonghai still had a backup plan - He Yuzhu. But now, He Yuzhu had no intention of paying attention to him.

Yi Zhonghai looked at He Yuzhu, his eyes lost their luster, and he lowered his head silently.

Seeing Yi Zhonghai's condition, He Yuzhu had no choice but to walk up to Jia Zhang:

"Ms. Jia Zhang, your son has passed away, there is no point just crying there.

Do you want to prepare a farewell party for your son? If you don't, I'm leaving!"

After listening to He Yuzhu's words, Jia Zhang realized that if she didn't hold a farewell banquet, she would not be able to hold her head up in the compound in the future.

And if there was no such banquet, how could I collect favors from others?

She then said:

"Hold it, of course we have to hold it!"

He Yuzhu continued:

“Since it’s a farewell party, we have to raise money and organize everyone to go shopping. We can still buy things before dark.

Everybody buy some food. I don't know how the small canteen in your compound operates, but you can't use public resources to handle personal matters, right?

Please ask the person in charge of purchasing in the compound to bring your ID and go buy what you need!" Hearing this, Jia Zhang was immediately dissatisfied:

"What did you say? Take money? Where does my family have money? We are already living in such poverty. The money should be paid by the steel mill where Jia Dongxu works."

He Yuzhu explained:

"The steel mill has almost finished the discussion and will officially notify you of the results in the next two days.

My father, as the canteen director, revealed at a meeting that according to regulations, Jia Ge would be compensated with one year's salary.

His current monthly salary is 45.2 yuan, which is 542.4 yuan in total for 12 months.

Plus various compensations such as funeral expenses.”

He Yuzhu then added: "If you are inconvenient now, you can just deduct it from the amount when the compensation arrives."

If you still don't agree, then forget it. No one will give gifts then. We will just help bury Brother Jia."

After hearing what He Yuzhu said, Jia Zhang knew that if she didn't give gifts, it would be a loss for everyone, because everyone wanted to eat good food. But she felt distressed when she thought that her son's compensation had been spent. She remembered some of the money she was reluctant to exchange before.

Jia Zhang quickly got up and went back to get a square iron box. Qin Huairu saw this and knew what was going on. Jia Zhang immediately handed the iron box to He Yuzhu and said:

"This is all our family savings. I'll give it to you. Use the money to buy something."

He Yuzhu was stunned. He didn't expect that Jia Zhang was willing to pay so much for her son. He opened the iron box and was amused by the banknotes inside. The box was full of first edition RMB, including a small number of 50,000 yuan harvester banknotes, and most of them were 10,000 yuan horse herding pictures.

Seeing this, everyone was stunned. Liu Haizhong said:

"Why do you still have so much money hidden at home? This money can no longer be used!"

Jia Zhang responded with a lack of confidence:

"I thought I could exchange 10,000 yuan for 1 yuan, but I was reluctant to do it. Who knew I couldn't exchange it later and couldn't use it!"

Everyone knew that the money had no actual value, so they looked at He Yuzhu. He Yuzhu was secretly happy because there were nearly 50 or 60 ten thousand RMB notes with herding horse patterns, each of which was worth two or three million in modern society, totaling more than 100 million. These notes could be worth at least more than 100 million yuan in the future.

Seeing He Yuzhu remained silent, Jia Zhang hurriedly added:

"This money is all our property. If you don't like it, forget it. After all, my son's compensation is my retirement money. If anyone dares to touch it, I will fight him to the death!"

He Yuzhu pretended to sigh and said:

"Forget it, it's just my bad luck. Brother Jia was such a good man when he was alive, how could he have met such a mother. Then who among us will do the shopping?"

Yan Bugui said:

"I, I'm the yard's buyer."

He Yuzhu closed the box and took out ten ten-yuan notes from his pocket, a total of one hundred yuan. He said to Yan Bugui:

"I haven't counted the money in the box, but it doesn't look like much, probably only 60 or 70 yuan at most. This is the last time I can do something for Brother Jia, and everyone knows that I have the highest salary, so I will change the change into cash first. I have 100 yuan here, you can use it to buy food, vegetables and meat. Brother Jia's departure should also be accompanied by a proper ceremony, and you know the number of people in the yard, so just purchase according to your needs!"

When Jia Zhang saw He Yuzhu take out so much cash, she tried to rob him:

"Does it cost so much to hold such a ceremony?"

He Yuzhu avoided her and explained:

"Ms. Jia Zhang, if you continue to make trouble unreasonably, I will not bear the cost. You can buy it yourself with the money!"

At this time, the deaf old lady who had been silent said, "Miss Zhang, if you continue to make trouble, no one will help you. We don't have any relatives in this yard, we are all neighbors, even if we don't care about your business, no one will say anything."

Others were also discussing: "How shameless! If Zhuzi wasn't kind, the money would have been useless long ago."

Someone said: "Yeah, it's not even a million dollars, let alone ten dollars, no one would care."

"That's right. Zhuzi is so kind and righteous. He's his biological son. Isn't he afraid that he will come to find you at night?" "That's right. If this happens, Brother Jia will never be able to rest in peace!"

Everyone was talking about it. After hearing these words, Jia Zhang became a little scared and looked at the hundred yuan in He Yuzhu's hand with greedy eyes.

Seeing that Jia Zhang stopped talking, He Yuzhu said, "Uncle, please help me buy these things. We all trust you!"

Although Yan Bugui had some small calculations, he was a good person and would not embezzle public funds. Liu Haizhong also knew Yan Bugui's character and said to him, "Old Yan, we all trust you. That Jia Zhang is making trouble for no reason. I will take care of it for you. A pile of waste paper was exchanged for a hundred yuan for Zhuzi, but you are still not satisfied. If it weren't for Dongxu's incident, no one would even want five yuan!"

Liu Haizhong's words resonated with everyone, and they all expressed their agreement: "That's right!"

"If it weren't for Zhu, there wouldn't even be a mourning hall." "People should have some conscience and not be so unreasonable!"

Jia Zhang knew that everyone was very dissatisfied with her, but she was still reluctant to give up the 100 yuan. She thought that if she was given 20 or 30 yuan to do it, she could get these things done. This 100 yuan could buy a lot of delicious food. But she also knew that if she continued to make trouble, He Yuzhu might not help her anymore, so she could only use Jia Dongxu's compensation.

Then Jia Zhang stopped making a fuss and remained silent. Seeing this, Yan Bugui took the money, got on his bicycle and left.

After seeing Yan Bugui walking away, He Yuzhu said to Liu Haizhong: "Second Uncle, I am the younger generation, and I have done everything I should do. You are one of the parents of this compound, so please take care of other things!"

Hearing what He Yuzhu said, Liu Haizhong happily began to direct people to move out tables and chairs from each household and set up a simple kitchen.

Everything went smoothly and everyone was busy. He Yuzhu and He Daqing also took the initiative to help.

After a while, Yan Bugui came back with the purchased items, including cabbage, pork, white flour, cornmeal, chicken and fish.

Seeing so many things bought, Jia Zhang was so heartbroken that she could hardly breathe. These things should have belonged to her. Yan Bugui said:

"Zhuzi, these things are enough. I spent about ninety-five yuan, and there are five yuan left!" In fact, it was more than five yuan, but He Yuzhu didn't care, so he said:

"Put the remaining five dollars in the gift book!"

No one objected to He Yuzhu's words, after all, he bought all these things out of his own pocket. Moreover, He Yuzhu could have chosen to record a gift of 100 yuan, but he only recorded 5 yuan, which was also to give everyone a way out.

Otherwise, they are neighbors, and if he gave 100 yuan, how would others follow him? Moreover, everyone is not well off now. So He Daqing also took out five yuan and handed it to Yan Bugui, saying:

"I'll take five too. Zhuzi and I both have our own families, so we can each take our own."

Seeing that He Daqing also gave five yuan, Liu Haizhong immediately took out five yuan and said, "Then I, the second master, will also give five yuan!"

Xu Damao took out two yuan and said, "I'll take these two yuan!"

You know, if other people didn't give the same amount, Xu Damao might not even want to pay two yuan. Then, other people took out their own money, some gave one yuan, some gave fifty cents, and soon more than 20 families had given their gifts.

Yan Bugui registered everything promptly.

Looking at the gifts from each family, Jia Zhang's eyes almost turned red. Seeing this, He Yuzhu scolded:

"Ms. Jia Zhang, you are still thinking about this little money at this time. Go burn some incense for your son!"

Seeing Qin Huairu **, Jia Zhang rushed forward and slapped her angrily: "What are you thinking about? The incense is about to go out, don't you know to refill it?"

Qin Huairu did not react at all, and everyone present blamed Jia Zhangshi. Jia Zhangshi saw that her behavior had angered everyone, so she could only do what she had to do.

As for Jia Dongxu's funeral hall, after helping to set it up, no one cared about it anymore. After all, they were just neighbors. Helping to clean it up was already a favor. Under He Yuzhu's command, everyone quickly prepared the banquet.

Seeing that the banquet was ready, no one greeted them, and everyone took their seats. After all, this meal was paid for by He Yuzhu. The food was rich, with chicken, fish, etc. Everyone hadn't eaten such a sumptuous meal for a long time. Seeing everyone feasting, Jia Zhang was very dissatisfied.

But in desperation, Jia Zhang had to sit down with the stick stem and wolf it down. Fortunately, Yi Zhonghai, who was at the same table with her, was still immersed in grief and didn't eat much. Several people around her were very disdainful of Jia Zhang.

However, no matter how much Jia Zhang and Bang Geng ate, they couldn't eat much. Most of the food in the yard had been eaten by everyone. People at other tables also began to share the leftovers.

Just as people were talking about tomorrow's affairs, suddenly Jia Zhang shouted loudly:

"Don't move, these are all mine!"