Siheyuan: All the birds want to die, I enjoy happiness

"Yi Zhonghai, is there anything you can do? It's getting late. If you have nothing to do late at night, go back. We are going to sleep." Su Xingchen said.

"There is something. It's about you. Okay, let me go in and talk." Yi Zhonghai walked all the way back from the hospital. An aunt was taking care of a deaf old lady in the hospital. The wind was biting cold all the way. As soon as Su Xingchen opened the door, Yi Zhonghai felt the warmth coming towards him. He definitely wanted to go in and warm up.

"No need, let's talk outside. We don't have anything to talk about inside." Su Xingchen said with a frown.

Yi Zhonghai wanted to say something, but thinking of Su Xingchen's boxing skills, he calmed down and said, "You also know the old lady, because you are now in the hospital, the old lady decided not to bother with you this time because you are a junior, but your family needs to send someone to the hospital to take care of the old lady's eating, drinking, defecating and urinating, and wait until the old lady is fully recovered."

Su Xingchen almost laughed out of anger after hearing what Yi Zhonghai said, "Yi Zhonghai, didn't you go to the hospital to check your brain? I didn't hurt the deaf old lady, it was obviously Jia Zhang who hit her, why do you want my family to take care of her now? If it really doesn't work, Yi Zhonghai, go to the hospital to get your brain healed and then come out to talk to me."

"What are you talking about? If you hadn't broken the old lady's walking stick, wouldn't nothing have happened? All this is because of you. Su Xingchen, now we're giving you a chance, otherwise we will go to the street office and your school to report the situation. If the school finds out that you disrespected and beat the elderly, you can forget about becoming a cadre." Yi Zhonghai said viciously.

Before Su Xingchen could speak, Liu Lihua said, "Okay, then go ahead. By the way, ask the street office to let me quit my job. Everyone in the compound should wake up. Yi Zhonghai is bullying us, an orphan and a widow. How can we live? Is it easy for me to raise a child alone?" After saying that, Liu Lihua started crying. If Su Xingchen hadn't seen her mother wink at her, she would have thought it was true. It turned out that her mother was a good actress.

Most of the people in the compound were still awake. When they heard the noise outside the compound, they quickly put on their clothes and walked out. They saw Yi Zhonghai standing at the door of Su Xingchen's house and heard Liu Lihua say that Yi Zhonghai was bullying people. The people in the compound notified each other one by one:

"Come out and eat the melons quickly, an old man is bullying people."

"Oh, this is rare. I have to go and have a look."

"Ah, is this true? Let's go, wife, and take a look."

Soon, people gathered in the front yard and saw an old man standing at the door of Su Xingchen's house where Liu Lihua was crying. People felt as if they had eaten a huge melon.

Yi Zhonghai saw more and more people gathering in the yard and said, "Everyone go back, there's nothing to worry about."

"Old Yi, we heard Lihua say that you bullied people. How can we go back?" It was Liu Haizhong who spoke. He was feeling bad because his second uncle was gone. When he heard people in the yard saying that Yi Zhonghai bullied people, he quickly got up from the bed. He couldn't be the second uncle anymore, so Yi Zhonghai, the first uncle, couldn't be either. He even suspected that Yi Zhonghai had complained about him beating his children. Why did Director Wang come by such a coincidence?

Hearing Liu Haizhong's words, everyone in the compound began to whisper. Yi Zhonghai heard that everyone in the compound was talking about him, so he had to speak up: "Everyone listen to me, it's not what you think. The deaf old lady was hospitalized because of Su Xingchen. The old lady said she would not argue with the younger generation, but just asked him to ask his family to send someone to take care of the old lady. Liu Lihua then accused me of bullying them, an orphan and a widow. I..."

Before Yi Zhonghai finished speaking, He Daqing said, "Old Yi, this is not right. Although I was not at home this afternoon, I heard that it was Jia Zhang who hit the old lady. How come it is now the fault of Chen Zi's family? Aren't you just bullying them?"

"That's right." People in the compound echoed.

"I'm saying this, Old Yi, as a great man, you should set a good example. You can't mess around here... that's ungrateful. If you can't judge this case well, I can ask Director Wang for you." Liu Haizhong saw that it was almost done, so he spoke up himself. Fortunately, he didn't say "mess around" or he wouldn't know how he would be laughed at by the people in the yard. But Liu Haizhong had made up his mind, he would make Yi Zhonghai suffer.

Yi Zhonghai's face changed immediately after hearing what Liu Haizhong said. He also knew that the current situation was beyond his control, so he said, "Old Liu, how can we trouble the street office with our courtyard's affairs? We should solve our courtyard's affairs ourselves. Let's put it this way. I was reckless today. Chenzi, Lihua, I was wrong today. As for taking care of the old lady, I will think of a way. Everyone, please go away."

"Yi Zhonghai, you keep bringing trouble to my family. What's wrong? Did our family provoke you? Are you telling me now that what you did was wrong? Every time you haven't said it, you still do it. I tell you, from today on, in this courtyard, don't come to me or provoke me with the troubles of your family, Yi Zhonghai, the Jia family, and the deaf old lady." Su Xingchen didn't want to be involved with Yi Zhonghai every day, so he decided to just break up with him so that he wouldn't have to come to his doorstep every day to embarrass himself.

"Also, you know how hard my fist is. I don't know whether you have anyone to take care of you in your old age, but if you push me to the limit, if I really want you to sit in a wheelchair for the rest of your life, I'm not going to help you. As for the deaf old lady, just wrap her in a straw mat and bury her in advance." Su Xingchen said as he approached Yi Zhonghai.

"You...you..." Yi Zhonghai's face turned red but he couldn't say anything. He was really scared of Su Xingchen's threat. If he became disabled, he would not be able to go to the steel mill. How could he control Jia Dongxu to provide for his retirement? Without Jia Dongxu and his money, he would really have no one to provide for his retirement.

Su Xingchen didn't know what old Yi Zhonghai was thinking, so she pulled her mother inside and locked the door. Seeing that there was nothing to see in the yard, everyone went home. They didn't feel anything when they first came out, but it was cold now. Yi Zhonghai was stunned at the door of Su Xingchen's house for a while, and then went home dejectedly. He knew that if he dared to embarrass Su Xingchen again, he would probably have to sit in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

As for helping the deaf old lady to vent her anger? That's fine. Originally, being filial to the deaf old lady would give him a certain say in the compound. If he became disabled, what would be the use of this old man? Everything was just for the sake of old-age care. Wasn't the deaf old lady using him to help her in her old age and see her to the end of her life? They were using each other, so no one should say that the other was immoral.

"Mom, don't stay with them in the future. It's troublesome. If you see their families, just take a detour." Su Xingchen said to Li Lihua.

"Okay, mom, do you need me to tell you? But only a middle-aged woman is better. A middle-aged woman is quite pitiful."

"Good? She is not much better. Let's put it this way, there must be something hateful about a pitiful person. Doesn't she know that everything Yi Zhonghai did was wrong? She didn't stop it, but acquiesced. This is aiding and abetting the evil." Su Xingchen said disdainfully.

"What do you know? It's because the aunt feels guilty and thinks she can't give birth to a child for Yi Zhonghai. Otherwise, why do you think the aunt obeys Yi Zhonghai's words and treats the deaf old lady like her mother-in-law?" Liu Lihua retorted.

"Mom, do you mean that Yi Zhonghai... do you know something?" Su Xingchen was already feeling sleepy and was about to go back to sleep, but he instantly smelled a hint of gossip.

"Okay, it seems that if I don't tell you, you will be anxious to death today. Yi Zhonghai used to go to the Eight Great Hutongs frequently, and later he got an internal organ disease and left a root of illness. He was young and didn't take it seriously. If he had been treated earlier, he wouldn't have become like this now. When we found out later, he actually spent money to find a young girl to borrow sperm, saying that she would give more money as long as she got pregnant with his child." Liu Lihua took a sip of water, and Su Xingchen was anxious to death.

"There's more, Mom."

"Why are you so anxious, kid? Then he found several country girls, but none of them got pregnant. Later, I don't know where Yi Zhonghai brought an old lady from, and the two got married. Not many people knew about this, let alone the old lady." Liu Lihua said.

"That's awesome, Mom. How did you know that?" Su Xingchen became even more curious.

"Do you remember Aunt Liu from the street office?" Liu Lihua asked.

"Of course I remember. What's the matter? Did she say it?"

"Before Yi Zhonghai came to the steel mill, your aunt Liu lived next door to her compound and told me secretly. Director Wang didn't even know about it. You better not go out and spread it. Okay, now you can still sleep, right?" Liu Lihua said, rolling her eyes at Su Xingchen.

"That's right. If you didn't tell me, I would not be able to sleep all night. Hahaha, then I'll go to sleep." After saying that, Su Xingchen went back to his room to sleep.