The Red Era: The Crowd in the Siheyuan

Chapter 526 Jia Zhangshi does not accept moral kidnapping
Although they didn't know what He Yuzhu was sending the telegram for, at least they could go to the south, so Lin Weidong and the others didn't ask.

He Xiao guessed something.
"Dad, did you send a telegram to Grandpa to invite him and Grandma to come back for the New Year?"

Inviting Lou Zhenhua and his wife to come back for the New Year was indeed one of He Yuzhu's purposes. He Yuzhu certainly would not deny it.

Hearing his father's affirmative answer, He Xiao immediately urged,

"Then Dad, please go to the telegraph office and send a telegram. I also want my grandma and grandpa to come to Beijing to celebrate the New Year. I haven't met my grandma yet."

Seeing He Xiao so anxious, He Yuzhu shook his head and pouted at Yi Zhonghai and Jia Zhangshi.
"Why are you panicking? Grandpa Yi and Grandma Zhang's issues haven't been resolved yet.

It won’t be too late to go after they have resolved the issue.”

At the entrance of the Yi family, Jia Zhang had been arguing with Yi Zhonghai for a long time. Seeing that he refused to agree, she was obviously getting impatient.
"I say, Lao Yi, you two don't have any children, and it's really a waste to live in such a big house. You might as well give it to Bang Geng. When he gets married, he will definitely respect you well in the future."

It was this sentence that made Banggeng respect him again.
Jia Zhang has been saying this for 20 years since Jia Dongxu's death, and Yi Zhonghai, who has no children and has been worried about his retirement, has believed it for 20 years.

But this time,
Yi Zhonghai said that he didn't dare to believe anything.

He had already realized over the years that life in old age was different;

The life of a deaf old lady in her 80s surrounded by her children and grandchildren is a kind of old age life. Liu Haizhong, 67, being in jail is a kind of old age life. Yan Bugui, 66, who spends all day dealing in antiques and making money is also a kind of old age life.

He, Yi Zhonghai, dared not say that he was as happy as the deaf old lady in her later years.
But I don't want to be kicked out of my house, or freeze to death or starve to death when I get old.

Therefore, he must not compromise on the issue of the house. If he doesn't have a place to live, how can he talk about retirement provision?

"Don't say anything, Sister Zhang, don't think about taking our room.

As for your temporary building, it doesn't even have a property certificate. It is neither private property nor public property. The reason why it is not demolished now is to ease the housing shortage problem.
When I have time someday, I definitely won’t keep it.

If I give the house to you, and the temporary construction is demolished, where will we live?"

Although Jia Zhang had indeed not thought about the future of Yi Zhonghai and his wife, for the sake of her grandson's marriage and the expansion of the Jia family, she could not care about so many things at this time.
Of course, it is a random promise made without any reason.

"Didn't I just tell you, Lao Yi, if you two have something interesting to deal with in the future, he will definitely find a way for you then."

After making the promise, Jia Zhang started to threaten again, using the carrot and the stick as the main tactics.
"But Lao Yi, Bang Geng'er is already 27 this year. If he doesn't get married, he will be a bachelor in the future. If he doesn't get married, how can you expect him to honor you in the future?"

Previously, Yi Zhonghai did not believe that Jia Zhang was just thinking about danger in times of peace and taking precautions.

But hearing her threat, Yi Zhonghai felt cold in his heart. Now it has become like this because of a small house. When he and his wife become a burden in the future, it will be even more miserable.

Thinking of this, Yi Zhonghai became more determined to keep his house.

For this reason, he began to morally blackmail Jia Zhang for the first time and began to list his contributions to the old Jia family in the past 30 years.
"Sister Zhang, I didn't expect you to be this kind of person. If I had known you were this kind of person earlier, I shouldn't have accepted Dongxu as my apprentice and taught him all the skills I knew when your old Jia was killed by the secret agents 31 years ago.
He shouldn't have helped the Jia family from time to time later on.

If I had known you were such a person, after Jia Dongxu died, I would definitely not have looked down on you, an orphan and a widow, and helped you every month.
Even the tuition for Banggeng, Xiaodang and Huaihua was paid by me.

If I had known that I was going to help someone as ungrateful as you, I would never have done it. "

Most of the neighbors in the Siheyuan moved into the Siheyuan after 1956 when the housing was rented out. They didn't know what happened when Old Jia died, but they saw how Yi Zhonghai treated Old Jia's family after Jia Dongxu died.
Although he wanted Qin Huairu and Bang Geng'er to take care of them in their old age,

But we are all ordinary people, not saints, so it is normal to have something to ask for.

There's nothing to blame.

After hearing Yi Zhonghai's almost accusatory speech, everyone felt that Jia Zhang was indeed going too far. She was really going to eat up Yi Zhonghai's entire family.

So they began to condemn Jia Zhang.
"Mrs. Jia Zhang, you are really going too far. We have seen how Old Yi has treated your Jia family over the years.

That is to treat Jia Dongxu as his own son and Bang Geng'er as his own grandson.
But what about you? You accepted Lao Yi's help with a clear conscience, and now you want to kick them out of the house. You are too cruel. "

"That's right, Jia Zhang, you are going to eat up the entire family of Old Yi. You are such a bastard."

As the saying goes, I have no morals, so you can't blackmail me morally. Jia Zhangshi was too lazy to listen to the facts that Yi Zhonghai said.

She didn't care at all about the neighbors' condemnation.
Over the years, their family has been eating and drinking Yi Zhonghai's food, just like Qin Huairu in the TV series who received Sha Zhu's salary before getting married. They have long taken it for granted.
The money has been given, so what if they give the house? In the end, they will be the ones who get it.

Giving early or late is giving,
Now it is appropriate to let Banggeng marry a wife, which is a two-birds-at-one-stone thing to do.

As for the neighbors saying what to eat and the whole family to be wiped out, what's wrong with that? It's because the Jia family is lucky and has food to eat. These neighbors must not have anything to eat and are just jealous.

Thinking of this, Jia Zhang spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on the ground and started yelling at the neighbors.

"I bother!
Why don't you look at yourselves? This is our Jia family and Yi family's business. When is it your turn to take care of it?

You guys still think it's 10 or 20 years ago, why are you so nosy?

If you want to intervene, why don't you deal with those little hooligans on the streets who are causing trouble everywhere? Why do you care about me, an ordinary citizen? Do you have that right?

Eat up the whole family, what do you mean eat up the whole family? It's something that we both agreed on, how can it be called eat up the whole family? That was something that Old Yi and our family had discussed long ago, that in the future, Bang Geng would take care of him in his old age, and everything in the Yi family would be left to Bang Geng.
It’s like the deaf old lady left the courtyard to Zhuzi.

I think you are just jealous, so you come and talk about it, otherwise you guys would never mind other people's business!"

When the neighbors heard that Yi Zhonghai and Jia Zhang had actually made a verbal commitment on this matter, they all found it a little unbelievable and turned to look at him.

(End of this chapter)