Siheyuan: Return to the Era of Prosperity

Chapter 19 No Hope
"What collective? It's a collective ruled by a shameless old man like you. I really can't unite with it. Why are you being generous to others and pretending to be a good person? You earn 77 yuan a month, but you don't even use it to help the poor households in our compound. Why do you only know how to favor the Jia family?" Shen Zhiyu will not indulge him.

"Grandson, what are you talking about?" At Yi Zhonghai's signal, Sha Zhu stood up and scolded Shen Zhiyu.

"Idiot." Shen Zhiyu didn't want to argue with him.

When Sha Zhu saw Qin Huairu crying, he had already wanted to please her, so he clenched his fist and hit Shen Zhiyu.

Shen Zhiyu is not a weak scholar. After being rewarded by the system, his physical fitness has increased dramatically.

With quick eyes and hands, he dodged Sha Zhu's fist, grabbed Sha Zhu's fist with his right hand, and kicked him in the chest, kicking Sha Zhu more than two meters away. He fell to the ground and vomited his dinner.

When Yi Zhonghai saw his No. 2 elderly caregiver being knocked to the ground by Shen Zhiyu, he shouted angrily, "Shen Zhiyu, what right do you have to hit someone? Look at what you've done to Sha Zhu."

Shen Zhiyu had long wanted to slap Yi Zhonghai, the old man, twice, but he couldn't take the initiative to attack, after all, the other party was old, so he could only fight back. He deliberately provoked him and said, "Get lost, are you blind? Can't you see that I am passively fighting back?"

Yi Zhonghai said anxiously: "You..."

"What do you mean by 'you'? I don't have time to talk nonsense with you. Don't try to take over my family's job in the future." Shen Zhiyu interrupted Yi Zhonghai.

Yi Zhonghai said angrily: "You don't unite with your neighbors and have no sense of collectivism. I will drive you out of the courtyard."

Shen Zhiyu walked up to Yi Zhonghai, pointed his finger at his forehead and said, "Why don't you try to chase one away? You old, hopeless person!"

"You are looking for death!" Yi Zhonghai had never suffered such an insult before, and said with gritted teeth.

"I'm waiting to see how you deal with me and drive me away. Who do you think you are?" Shen Zhiyu slapped Yi Zhonghai lightly on the face twice. Although it didn't hurt, it was extremely insulting.

"Hold a meeting. The kid from the Shen family cannot live in the courtyard house. Let's discuss this now." Yi Zhonghai shouted angrily.

"Yi Zhonghai, you have such great authority, who gave you the right to chase people away?"

At this time, a voice came from the front yard. It turned out that Tu Qifang didn't dare to let Yi Zhonghai continue speaking, for fear of affecting herself, so she hurriedly walked in from the front yard.

Tu Qifang could no longer stay in the front yard. Today she had witnessed what it meant to confuse right and wrong.

The three managers I chose really brought shame to me and brought disgrace upon myself at the Red Star Steel Mill.

When Yi Zhonghai heard Tu Qifang's voice, he felt a click and realized that the food was spoiled, so he hurried forward to remedy the situation.

"Secretary Tu, you're here. This Shen Zhiyu is really a rat that spoils the whole barrel. Look at what he did to Sha Zhu." Yi Zhonghai said preemptively.

Sha Zhu was originally sitting up with the help of his sister, but after hearing this, he pretended to be seriously injured, lay on the ground again, and began to whimper.

Tu Qifang ignored their performance and didn't even look at him.

She had seen everything Yi Zhonghai and the others did tonight. If Shen Zhiyu hadn't called her tonight, she really wouldn't have known that Yi Zhonghai was such a person. She had thought that Yi Zhonghai was an upright and dedicated senior technician. Now she realized that this person was a fake but loyal person.

"Shazhu was beaten. The security officers from our steel rolling mill have arrived and they will handle it." Tu Qifang said while suppressing his nausea.

Hong Wenyuan replied: "Someone come and take Sha Zhu to the hospital first, and we will deal with it after the investigation tomorrow."

Tu Qifang looked at the three managers standing in front of the table and really wanted to pry open their heads to see how they could come up with such a weird idea that the children of martyrs could be bullied at will.

"Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, Yan Bugui, the three of you can tell me, what are you doing with such a big scene tonight?" Tu Qifang asked.

"Secretary Tu, our hospital has always been led by an old man. It was he who requested to hold a meeting of the entire hospital and asked Shen Zhiyu to give up his job to Qin Huairu." Liu Haizhong heard the questioning of Secretary Tu as soon as he entered the Intermediate Court. Knowing that he could not fool around, he hurriedly explained.

Tu Qifang turned her gaze to Yan Bugui again. She wanted to hear Yan Bugui's explanation.

When Yan Bugui saw Tu Qifang and the security officer of the steel rolling mill, followed by Shen Zhifang and her brother, he knew that Shen Zhiyu had made preparations in advance. Tu Qifang had also seen everything, so there was no need to hide anything. Fortunately, the mistake he made was not big.

"Director Tu, I am wrong. I did not fulfill my duties as the Third Uncle. When my family was in financial difficulty, I coveted the small benefits of Yi Zhonghai..."

Yi Zhonghai didn't expect that the first person to backstab him was Yan Bugui, whom he had always looked down upon. He hurriedly said, "Third Uncle, you..."

Tu Qifang glared at Yi Zhonghai and said, "Shut up, Teacher Yan, and continue."

"In order to let his apprentice Jia Dongxu's wife Qin Huairu transfer her household registration and increase her income, the uncle came to me privately and gave me 50 yuan, asking me not to oppose him at the meeting. Firstly, I coveted Yi Zhonghai's benefits, and secondly, I didn't want to offend him, so I agreed. You should have seen the other things that happened at the meeting, so I won't say much." With reluctance, Yan Bugui took out 50 yuan and handed it to Tu Qifang.

Yan Bugui knew that the neighborhood office was involved and he had to take the initiative to explain. If he really had to hand it over to the judiciary, he might even lose his job. His family of six depended on his salary, and if something really happened, his family would be finished.

Tu Qifang glanced at Yan Bugui and said, "Put the money away first. We'll deal with your problem later."

Then she looked at Yi Zhonghai and continued to ask: "Yi Zhonghai, can you tell me something too?"

Yi Zhonghai glanced at Yan Bugui with hatred and replied, "Secretary Tu, there are five people in the Jia family, and only Jia Dongxu has a job. The others are all registered as rural residents. Jia Dongxu's food ration alone is not enough to eat. I saw that the Jia family was in trouble, so I thought that the job position in Shen Zhiyu's family was vacant anyway, so I let the Jia family's daughter-in-law use it first, and then I will return the position to his family."

Tu Qifang was speechless when she heard this, and immediately asked, "Yi Zhonghai, did you ask for his consent before you offered him his job as a favor?"

"Secretary Tu, I thought that we all live in the same courtyard and we'll see each other sooner or later, so we should help each other. I didn't expect Shen Zhiyu to be so selfish and have no sympathy or sense of collectivism." Yi Zhonghai retorted, and he used the moral blackmail without hesitation.

Jia Zhang also hurriedly took over the conversation and said, "His family has extra jobs, why don't they give them to my family and bully us orphans and widows?"

After listening to what the two people said, Tu Qifang was speechless. These two people were hopeless and she didn't want to listen to their nonsense anymore.

(End of this chapter)