Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

Seeing Yan Fugui looking at him expectantly, Yi Zhonghai didn't waste any words and directly expressed his thoughts: "Old Yan..."

"You are a teacher and you often read newspapers. You should know about the big pot meals in rural communes..."

Yan Fugui nodded: "I've heard of it..."

"The whole village works together and eats from the same big pot..."

At this point, a bold idea suddenly popped up in Yan Fugui's mind: "Old Yan, you don't want the residents in the yard to eat together in a big pot, do you?"

Yi Zhonghai immediately showed a serious expression and said: "Old Yan..."

"We are the masters of the courtyard and we should consider the residents in the courtyard."

"Supplies in the city are becoming increasingly scarce, and the food supplies listed in the food ration books are becoming less and less. I heard that several families in the courtyard are running out of food, and they can only eat cornmeal steamed bread once a day."

"We are a civilized courtyard, and we must not let people starve to death."

"The best solution is to gather all the residents in the compound together, gather all the food in their homes, and share it equally among everyone to tide over the difficulties together..."

“I believe that this proposal will be supported by most residents in the yard.”

"As long as the residents are on our side, Wang Dong will have to take out the leftovers he brings back from the canteen kitchen every day no matter how reluctant he is."

In Yan Fugui's opinion, the method proposed by Yi Zhonghai was tantamount to robbing the rich to help the poor.

It is most beneficial to the poor households in the yard, as they can feed their families with the least amount of money.

But he forgot one thing, in terms of poverty, Wang Dong's family was not much better off than his.

As for Huang Longfei and Tang Dashan's families, they are much poorer than theirs. If they really had a big pot of food in the yard, they would not suffer any loss even if Wang Dong distributed the leftovers he brought back from the canteen every day to everyone.

More importantly, Yi Zhonghai was only interested in making money from the leftovers that Wang Dong brought back every day, forgetting that he was the richest person in the courtyard.

If they really set up a big pot in the courtyard and robbed the rich to help the poor, he would be the one who suffered the most.

But at this moment, Yi Zhonghai was already blinded by anger, and he only wanted to plot against Wang Dong again, and at the same time push Yan Fugui completely to the opposite side of Wang Dong, so that he would always stand with him.

Yan Fugui became more and more excited as he thought about it, and immediately stood up to support him: "Old Yi..."

"I totally agree that we should have a big pot in the courtyard, collect all the food together, and tide over the difficulties together..."

"Why don't we bring this up at the general meeting soon? As long as most of the residents in the courtyard agree, we can make it a done deal, leaving Wang Dong with no way to refute it."

Once bitten, twice shy.

Yi Zhonghai has suffered too many losses at the hands of Wang Dong.

He would never rashly attack Wang Dong unless he was absolutely sure, even if Yan Fugui agreed with his idea.

He shook his head and replied, "Forget about today's whole hospital meeting..."

"And it's not enough for just the two of us to agree on this..."

"Tomorrow we will go to see Lao Liu, get his support, and then find a few residents in the yard to ask them what they think..."

"As long as the three of us support it, as well as several of the main residents in the courtyard, then this matter is almost certain to be accomplished."

"Now that we have your support, as long as we convince Old Liu, we can hold a general meeting of the courtyard whenever we want. No one can stop us."

"Let's find a time in two days to hold another meeting of the whole institute."

"The main task tonight is to help Zhuzi solve the problem and give Zhuzi justice. Otherwise, how will the remaining young men in the yard find dates and get married in the future?" Yan Jiecheng, the eldest son of the Yan family, is also going to get married soon.

There must not be anyone in the yard who would ruin the neighbors' blind dates, so Yan Fugui took this matter very seriously, otherwise his own family would be the one that would suffer in the end.

Nodding immediately: "Okay..."

"Tonight we will only deal with those who ruin Zhu's blind date."

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The central courtyard of a quadrangle.

Except for the elderly and children, most of the residents of the courtyard gathered here, waiting for the general meeting to begin.

Wang Dong was no exception and sat with Chen Jun on the chair he brought.

In the past, when the Siheyuan held a general meeting, except for the three uncles, everyone else would basically stand around to show their support for the three uncles.

Yi Zhonghai and others are also happy to see this situation.

While others stood at the general meeting, I was the only one sitting, which invisibly showed everyone my status and prestige in the courtyard.

But ever since Wang Dong made Yi Zhonghai lose face many times at the whole hospital meeting, and took the lead in bringing stools to the whole staff meeting.

After that, every time the whole institute held a meeting, except for those who were just there to watch and stand around, those who actually came to the meeting all brought their small stools.

Yi Zhonghai was very dissatisfied with this situation.

He felt that as a senior official, he should sit in the general meeting.

The others are just ordinary residents in the yard, how can they be on an equal footing with me?

But his prestige in the yard had dropped to the lowest point, and there was nothing he could do about the situation.

If they were forced to stand during the meeting, Wang Dong would accuse them of having "privileges".

Seeing that all the residents in the yard had arrived, Yi Zhonghai cleared his throat and stood up from his chair: "Good evening, everyone..."

"The reason why the second uncle, the third uncle and I convened this meeting of the whole courtyard is because a very bad thing happened in our courtyard this morning."

"Today at noon was Zhuzi's blind date day, but someone in our courtyard said bad things about Zhuzi in front of his blind date, and also said that Zhuzi and Qin Huairu had an unclear relationship, and whoever married Zhuzi would be jumping into a fire pit..."

"Once this rumor gets out, how will Zhuzi find a wife in the future?"

"I'm giving you a chance now."

"If the person who spread the rumors is a resident of the courtyard, and he takes the initiative to come forward, we will criticize him and compensate his master for some losses."

"If no one takes the initiative to come forward and it is eventually discovered, it will not be easy to have a good ending."

"There are many young people in our yard who are about to get married. You can say bad things about Zhuzi outside and ruin his blind date. You can definitely say bad things about other young people in the yard and ruin other people's blind dates."

"We will never allow such bad elements to exist in our courtyard."

We have to admit that Yi Zhonghai's remarks are somewhat inflammatory.

As soon as the words came out, the residents whose children were getting married in the yard became anxious and discussed with each other who was ruining He Yuzhu's blind date. Some young people with more impatient tempers even cursed directly, as if this happened to them. (End of this chapter)