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Du Dongliang was shocked to hear that all three families' children had run away.

The current neighborhood offices are different from those of the past.

In the past, the neighborhood committees handled everything. If someone lost a clove of garlic, they would come to the neighborhood committee director.

Nowadays, neighborhood committees don't manage things as much. It's extremely difficult for ordinary people to see leaders.

Such trivial matters would not reach Du Dongliang's ears.

Du Dongliang had heard of unfilial behavior, but he had never heard of anyone like Yi Zhonghai.

After all, it's understandable if one or two neighbors in the same courtyard are unfilial.

It is extremely rare for a family like Yi Zhonghai's three children to be so unfilial.

Du Dongliang wanted to ask Yi Zhonghai and his two companions if they had deliberately raised their children to be unfilial.

Is he telling the truth?

Qin Huairu certainly didn't want her son to be branded as unfilial, so she immediately stepped forward to explain.

“My son is not unfilial, he was just scared by what they said, so he moved out.”

Neither the Liu nor the Yan family offered an explanation. Even if they did, no one would believe them.

The ingrate nature of the thief hasn't been exposed yet, so there's still room for explanation.

It's common knowledge that the children from those two families are unfilial.

Da Dao also did not want to admit to the crime Qin Huairu had accused him of.

He retorted, "Then your child is really filial, only caring about his wife and child, not even taking care of his own mother and grandmother."

Qin Huairu wanted to argue, but Da Dao ignored her.

These people have dealt with government officials, police officers, and court officials a lot, so they have long had ways of dealing with these situations.

"Director Du, if you don't believe me, you can investigate. Everyone in the neighborhood knows that there aren't many filial sons or daughters in their compound."

Our money is hard-earned; we can't let it go to waste.

If I knew they were borrowing money to undermine the country, I wouldn't have lent them any.

I really regret it.

It was a very touching story, but Du Dongliang didn't believe it.

He even suspected that this was a trap deliberately set for Yi Zhonghai by Da Dao.

The reason is that these people, including Da Dao, were loan sharks. However, the interest on the money lent to Yi Zhonghai was not high, and it was within the range permitted by the state.

Suspicion cannot be used as evidence.

Du Dongliang couldn't and didn't want to: "You can live here, but you can't disturb the neighbors."

Also, we mustn't take their food anymore.

"No problem, we promise we won't rob you." Big Knife agreed readily.

In fact, even if they snatched Yi Zhonghai's cornbread, they wouldn't eat it. They did it just to force Yi Zhonghai and his people to move.

If they won't let us grab the cornbread, then we'll find another way.

Du Dongliang decided to leave it at that and said to Yi Zhonghai, "I've taken care of things for you."

You should try to find a way to return the money to them as soon as possible.

Repaying debts is justified.

If you don't pay me back, there's nothing I can do.

Yi Zhonghai and the others' expressions changed, and they began to panic.

"Director Du, you can't do this. This house is our lifeline. If we give it to them as compensation, where will we live?"

“Don’t you have a son? Why don’t you stay at your son’s house?” Big Knife interrupted.

His task was to drive Yi Zhonghai and the others out of the courtyard house.

Du Dongliang felt a pang of gratitude when he heard Da Dao speak. There were some things Da Dao could say, but he couldn't.

“If you don’t want to stay at the child’s house, you can ask the child to pay back the money first.”

Yi Zhonghai and the others felt bitter inside.

If the children in the family are obedient, they won't have to worry.

“If your children are disobedient, you can call the police or sue them for filial impiety.”

Seeing that Yi Zhonghai and the others looked unwell, Du Dongliang thoughtfully offered some advice.

But as soon as this idea came out, the expressions on their faces turned even uglier. Fearing that Yi Zhonghai and his group would cause more trouble, Du Dongliang quickly led his men away.

Da Dao looked smugly at Yi Zhonghai and the others: "Did you hear that?"

Director Du also told you to obediently return the money and even gave you some advice.

I'll give Director Du face and wait until the loan is due before I ask you for the money back.

You should take advantage of this time to quickly raise the money.

"Brothers, go buy some good food and come back so we can continue drinking."

Yi Zhonghai and the other two stood there, looking at each other, unsure of what to do.

If even the neighborhood committee doesn't care about them, who else can?

I can't really call the police to arrest my own son, can I?

Qin Huairu burst into tears: "Zhonghai, what do we do now?"

Yi Zhonghai went straight home without saying a word.

The courtyard was full of men wielding broadswords, and he didn't want them to laugh at him.

Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui followed Yi Zhonghai to his house in tacit agreement.

Madam Jia nudged Qin Huairu, signaling her to go and take a look.

In Jia Zhangshi's mind, Yi Zhonghai was no good. Jia Zhangshi feared that Yi Zhonghai, for her sake, would follow Du Dongliang's example and report Bang Geng.

Qin Huairu understood Jia Zhangshi's thoughts and went with her.

The atmosphere inside was heavy, and no one spoke.

Yi Zhonghai's face was ashen, his fists clenched, and his eyes flashed with a fierce light.

Yan Bugui's eyes darted around, as if he were plotting something.

Liu Haizhong looked somewhat bewildered, as if troubled by an unsolved mystery.

Qin Huai took a deep breath and asked in a low voice, "What should we do next?"

None of the three Yi Zhonghai answered her immediately.

At this point, there's very little they can do anymore.

Precisely because there are so few of them, this question doesn't actually need an answer.

They all knew in their hearts what to do next.

Finally, Yi Zhonghai spoke up: "Let's go find Sha Zhu, and find He Daqing and Xu Fugui."

I refuse to believe they would be so heartless as to completely ignore us.

Liu Haizhong was somewhat displeased: "What's the use of looking? We can't even see them."

People travel by car and walk right past us without us even seeing them.

Yi Zhonghai was already furious, and when he heard Liu Haizhong dare to voice his opposition, he couldn't take it anymore.

"This won't work, that won't work, tell me, what should we do?"

Liu Haizhong never expected that Yi Zhonghai would lose his temper with him, and his face immediately turned red.

"Am I not telling the truth? How many times have we gone to see Sha Zhu? When have we ever actually seen him?"

Seeing that things were going badly, Yan Bugui quickly stood up and stopped them, saying, "You should all keep quiet. Arguing won't solve anything."

"Then what do you suggest we do?" Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong turned their attention to Yan Bugui.

Yan Bugui was annoyed when he saw the two men pointing their guns at him.

"If I had a way, I would have said so already. Would I have waited until now?"

Qin Huairu never expected that her words would cause such a big problem.

She quickly tried to persuade him, "Why don't we go to the newspaper? We definitely won't be able to see Sha Zhu on our own."

I think the only way we can get Sha Zhu to come see us is to let everyone know through the newspapers.

Yan Bugui thought to himself, what's the use of contacting the newspaper for this kind of thing?

They couldn't very well tell the newspaper that their neighbor, He Yuzhu, was unfilial, so they had to publish an article exposing He Yuzhu's unfilial behavior.

If that happens, the newspapers will laugh their heads off.

Yi Zhonghai thought this was a good idea: "This is a good idea. Let's write a letter to Sha Zhu first, and if that doesn't work, we can go to the newspaper."

Seeing Yi Zhonghai's resolute attitude, Yan Bugui couldn't utter a word of objection. (End of Chapter)