Siheyuan: Relieve stress and relieve worries

Chapter 1026 A New Revenge
Monday in Courtyard No. 95 was destined to be an extraordinary Monday, as both Yi Zhonghai's family and the deaf old lady's family experienced accidents at the same time, and both were sent to the hospital.

As evening approached, the first to wake up was the deaf old lady. She slowly woke up, a little dazed, and turned her head to see Director Wang sitting by the bed, watching over her. There were also two policemen sitting at the door.

The deaf old woman asked, "Where am I?"

"Auntie, you're awake. You're in the hospital. The police officers brought you here," Director Wang said, holding her hand.

At this moment, the two policemen at the door also heard the commotion, came over to take a look, and then one of them left the ward to report to the station.

The other person, seeing that the old lady had just woken up, didn't rush to ask anything and retreated to sit down by the door.

Director Wang released the old lady's hand, poured her a glass of water, placed it on the bedside table, then helped the deaf old lady sit up against the headboard and handed her the water.

Director Wang sat down by the bedside, watched the deaf old lady finish a glass of water, and then asked softly, "Auntie, can you still remember what happened last night?"

The deaf old woman was initially confused, then her eyes widened, and finally her expression turned to terror as she cried out, "Oh dear, my gold!"

Director Wang reacted quickly, stood up, covered her mouth, and whispered in the deaf old lady's ear, "Don't mention the gold bars, or something terrible will happen."

The deaf old lady instantly regained her senses, signaled to Director Wang that she was alright, and then leaned against the headboard, calmly closing her eyes to rest.

Director Wang didn't sit back down, but said directly, "Alright, Auntie, I have something to attend to, so I'll go take care of it first. I estimate that Director Qi will bring people to question you in a little while. I don't need to remind you what you should and shouldn't say."

Director Wang ignored the deaf old lady and turned to leave. The old lady could sense that Director Wang's attitude had become cold. After Director Wang left, the old lady opened her eyes, looked in the direction of the ward door, and said, "He's just a greedy man."

In the mechanical design classroom, Professor Xie was giving a lecture attentively on the podium. Wang Zhan listened attentively below, occasionally taking notes. Professor Xie Yun highly valued the students' learning attitude, so he lectured with great effort and depth.

After finishing his classes in the morning, Wang Zhan carried his schoolbag and lunchbox and went to the cafeteria alone. Because he did not live on campus, he had little contact with his classmates. Over time, everyone thought that he was aloof and did not like to make friends, and gradually, the impression that Wang Zhan always acted alone came about.

Wang Zhan himself didn't think much of it, but Professor Xie Yun had a lot of opinions about him. How could someone who didn't unite with his comrades make better contributions?

Wang Zhan himself was unaware that Professor Xie Yun would be holding back against him for a long time to come.

After lunch, Wang Zhan prepared to go home. Since he didn't have any classes in the afternoon, he could either go to the library or study in the cafeteria if he stayed at school. He didn't like either option and preferred to be free and at home.

On his way home, Wang Zhan made a point of lingering for a while at the abandoned courtyard where he had arranged to meet Wu Ergou. He lit a cigarette and, while seemingly just strolling aimlessly through the streets, was actually keeping a close eye on the courtyard.

After finishing a cigarette, Wang Zhan rode his bicycle home. Back in Yu'er Hutong, he opened his front gate, pushed his bicycle inside (he usually parked behind the screen wall), and closed the gate. He then checked the rooms in the front yard; finding nothing amiss and no sign of Grandpa Liu, he passed through the hanging flower gate back to the backyard. He first brewed a pot of water and placed it on the iron stove in the main room. Then he took out his gaiwan tea set and a box of tea from the cabinet, placing them on the square table. Finally, he found a bamboo ashtray and placed it on the table as well.

After the water boiled, Wang Zhan first washed his hands before making tea. Then he opened the door and the window, lit a cigarette, and started smoking while looking out the window.

After finishing a pot of tea, Wang Zhan released Jinbao and pointed to the front yard. Jinbao immediately ran off. He sent Jinbao to the front yard so that it could alert Wang Zhan if anyone came.

Wang Zhan returned to his bedroom, and in a flash, he entered the Jade Void Space and went directly to the courtyard of the small house. He saw that the courtyard was cluttered with many things. After looking around, Wang Zhan dug a large pit by the river. The pit was very deep, about fifteen or sixteen meters deep.

Wang Zhan turned all the furniture into firewood and piled it outside the storeroom. He buried everything else, except for the ironware and porcelain, in the pit, then filled it in. He put the ironware and porcelain in the storeroom, leaving only two boxes, one iron and one sandalwood. Wang Zhan carried one in each hand into the study.

Wang Zhan didn't rush to open it. He lit a cigarette first and thought back. He really didn't expect Yi Zhonghai to be so rich, with nearly seven thousand yuan in cash alone. The deaf old lady had very little cash, less than five hundred yuan.

Yi Zhonghai's family had a lot of receipts, all kinds of things, but the most meat receipts, a full thirty catties. You have to know that the rationing was just reduced this year, and each family only had four ounces of meat receipts per month.

The deaf old lady's family had a lot of grain coupons, all of which were national grain coupons, weighing more than 80 jin (40 kg).

Here's the important part: the iron box was dug out from under Yi Zhonghai's house, and similarly, the sandalwood box was dug out from under the deaf old lady's house. They were brought back last night, and Wang Zhan hasn't seen them yet; he's quite curious about them.

After finishing a cigarette, Wang Zhan began to pry open the lock on Yi Zhonghai's iron box. Once it was open, Wang Zhan gasped. Inside was half a box of gold bars, with two oil paper packets on top of them. Without even opening them, Wang Zhan knew what they were.

One oil paper package contained a Mauser pistol, and the other oil paper package contained bullets, totaling more than fifty rounds. Wang Zhan counted the following items: fifteen large yellow croakers and twenty-one small yellow croakers.

Only then did Wang Zhan realize that Yi Zhonghai before liberation was definitely not a simple person. But when his Aunt Wang was alive, she always said that Yi Zhonghai and his wife had fled from Henan. It seems that Yi Zhonghai had deceived many people.

Wang Zhan calmed himself down and then opened the sandalwood box next to him. The sandalwood box was very large, 80 centimeters wide and 1.2 meters long, but it was not locked. After opening it, Wang Zhan was even more surprised. On top of it was a gun, a Browning pistol, and it was fully loaded and chambered.

Wang Zhan understood that the old lady was determined to fight to the death at any time, so she put the gun in the box just in case. The other items were the same, but there were more porcelain and gold items, especially a set of phoenix coronet and wedding robes, which looked like they came from the palace and were extremely exquisite.

Wang Zhan didn't bother counting the gold bars inside. He simply closed the two boxes and sent them to the storage room on the left side of the main room, leaving only the Browning rifle and its accompanying bullets on the bookshelf in the study.

Wang Zhan flashed out of the Jade Void Space and sat in the main room of his house. He brewed another pot of water and drank the tea while thinking about the two people.

(End of this chapter)