Get something in the courtyard

A week later, the postman came to deliver the letter.

"Is Qin Huairu at home?"

Yi Zhonghai happened to be playing chess in the front yard, at the door of Yan Bugui. When he saw the postman, he felt very disgusted. If the postman had not leaked the secret, his embezzlement of He Daqing's money would not have been exposed, and He Yushui would not have been able to cheat all his pension money.

However, when he heard that the postman was looking for Qin Huairu, he couldn't help but ask.

"Comrade, Huairu is at work today. What do you want to talk to her about?"

"Old comrade, I'm here to deliver a letter to Qin Huairu. Is there anyone else at home?" The person delivering the letter was a young postman who was not in charge of this area before. The postman in charge of this area retired, so he was transferred here.

"I'm her neighbor, just give me the letter." Yi Zhonghai planned to take Qin Huairu's letter first.

The postman shook his head and said, "That won't work. We have a rule that it must be delivered to the person in question or a relative. Comrade, it's not that I don't trust you. It's just that a while ago, a man used someone else's neighbor's identity to receive letters. As a result, he coveted the money in the letter and intercepted the letter for ten years."

Isn’t this talking about Yi Zhonghai?

He never thought that after so many years, someone would still bring up this matter.

"How can you say that, comrade? The neighbor may not be greedy for the money, he is just helping the man save it."

"Old comrade, please don't be so funny. Who doesn't keep their own money and let their neighbors keep it?"

The postman really didn't understand why the old man, who had just looked so kind, suddenly changed his expression and spoke in an unpleasant tone. The two old men playing chess next to him also had very strange expressions and laughed secretly with their hands covering their mouths.

"Hmph." The more he talked, the more embarrassing it became. Yi Zhonghai turned around and left.

The postman asked Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui in confusion: "What happened to him, sirs?"

What could the two of them say? They couldn't tell the postman that Yi Zhonghai was the one who withheld other people's money.

"It's nothing. He's in a bad mood. Don't worry about it."

"Oh, by the way, is there anyone else at Qin Huairu's house?"

Yan Bugui shouted into the house, "Yang Ruihua, go see if there is anyone else at the Jia family? Ask them to come over and collect the letters from home."

The third aunt walked out of the house and went to the middle courtyard, and Xiaodang followed her out soon.

"Comrade, I am Qin Huairu's daughter. Who sent the letter to our family?"

"It's not a letter, it's a telegram. It's sent from the northwest." The postman confirmed Xiaodang's identity and handed the telegram to her.

"It came from the northwest. It was sent by Banggeng. Xiaodang, don't blame me for saying something unpleasant. It would be great if he could write a letter back. Why did your brother still spend money to send a telegram?" Yan Bugui asked curiously.

Liu Haizhong said in a lecturing tone: "Young people nowadays just don't know how to live. Your family's life is so difficult, and Banggeng doesn't know how to cherish it at all."

Xiao Dang ignored the two and opened the telegram to read it. After just two glances, her expression changed drastically.

There were six big words written on Banggeng's letter: 'I'm married and can't come back'.

Xiaodang turned around and ran home, but she was very happy. If Banggeng didn't come back, the status of the two sisters in the family would be much higher.

When she got home, she said anxiously, "Grandma, it's bad. My brother got married in the northwest."

"I'll beat you to death, you shameless girl. Banggeng is your real brother. When he took the chicken from Xu Damao's house when he was a child, he was on your side. How can you curse him to get married in the northwest?" Jia Zhang cursed without thinking. Every time they wrote to Banggeng, they would tell him not to get married. The last time Banggeng wrote to them, he didn't mention marriage. How could he get married suddenly when he was about to come back?

"Can you please stop scolding me? How could I tell a lie? My brother sent me a telegram, take a look." Xiao Dang said aggrievedly.

Jia Zhang looked at the telegram paper in front of her and was a little panicked. She couldn't read, but she had seen telegram paper before.

"This is really sent by Bang Geng, could it be a mistake?"

"How could the people at the post office make a mistake? It clearly says here that I'm married and can't come back."

Seeing that Xiao Dang didn't seem to be lying, Jia Zhang immediately burst into tears: "My poor Bang Geng, why are you so depressed? Those slutty girls in the countryside are nothing good. You should find a girl from the city."

"Grandma, don't cry, think of a solution quickly."

Jia Zhang ignored all this and continued crying. Her mind was in a mess and she couldn't think of any solution.

The crying here had already attracted Yi Zhonghai's attention. If he hadn't been worried about being scolded by Jia Zhang, he would have come to read the message sent by Bang Geng.

Hearing that something was wrong with the Jia family, Yi Zhonghai walked in without worrying, "Old sister-in-law, what's wrong with you? Xiaodang, how did you offend your grandma again? Your grandma is so old, don't you know how to give in to her?"

Xiao Dang rolled her eyes and wanted to slap Yi Zhonghai. Over the years, Yi Zhonghai couldn't fool others, and others didn't give him face. But he couldn't help it, so he changed the candidates to fool them to their sisters.

The two sisters knew that the family's livelihood still depended on Yi Zhonghai, so in the face of Yi Zhonghai's deception, they could only pretend to obey him.

"Grandpa, this is none of my business. My grandma is mad at my brother."

As she said that, she handed the telegram to Yi Zhonghai.

Yi Zhonghai looked at Xiaodang in confusion. A telegram could make Jia Zhang so angry. It couldn't be that Banggeng had died.

Thinking of this, Yi Zhonghai panicked. When Jia Dongxu died, he still had Sha Zhu to back him up. If Bang Geng died, who would he turn to for a backing? Sha Zhu was simply not going to do it, even if Sha Zhu was willing. He didn't dare to believe it. Unless Sha Zhu divorced his current wife, drove her and his son away, and then married Qin Huairu.

"I'm married and can't come back."

After reading these six words, Yi Zhonghai's face turned pale and his eyes were dull: "Bang Geng is married. How can Bang Geng get married? I haven't agreed yet, how can Bang Geng get married?"

Jia Zhang was angry. When she heard Yi Zhonghai say this, how could she let him go? "You shameless bastard, what does my grandson's marriage have to do with you?"

Yi Zhonghai was so angry that he almost said that Banggeng was his son. In desperation, he had to say, "Sister-in-law, please stop making a fuss. The most important thing now is to find out what happened to Banggeng. What will you do if Banggeng settles down in the northwest?"

This question stumped Jia Zhang. She really didn't know what to do. She couldn't follow Banggeng to the northwest. The conditions there were not good and she was unfamiliar with the place. She was not willing to go there.

No matter how bad the siheyuan is, it is still Beijing, the capital of the emperor, much better than the barren northwest.

"He's an uncle, I'm just very worried, don't blame me. Please help our family think of a solution. Banggeng can't stay in the northwest. If Banggeng doesn't come back, who will take care of you in your old age?"

Yi Zhonghai didn't have time to argue with Jia Zhangshi, and said to Xiao Dang: "Hurry to the steel mill and call your mother and Sha Zhu over."

Xiao Dang didn't want to be scolded, so he went to the steel mill and looked for Qin Huairu. After he told Qin Huairu, her first reaction was to faint. Fortunately, Xiao Dang pinched her Ren Zhong in time and saved her.

After waking up, her first reaction was not to go home, but to go to the cafeteria to see Sha Zhu. After making a fuss outside the cafeteria for a while, she reluctantly gave up. (End of this chapter)