Siheyuan: I am Banggeng's uncle

Chapter 1006: Setting an Example for Others!

At this moment, at the entrance of the courtyard, Xiao Dang, Huaihua, Jia Anmin, and Jia Anqing, the four siblings, were standing at the entrance, eagerly waiting for Jia Dongming to return soon so that he could install the color television and they could watch it tonight.

The behavior of the four siblings quickly attracted the attention of the neighbors. Yan Bugui asked Xiao Dang with curiosity, "Xiao Dang! Who are you four siblings waiting for outside the gate?"

Upon hearing Yan Bugui's question, Jia Anqing thought of the color television at home and replied with a haughty expression, "Teacher Yan! We are waiting for my dad to come home from get off work."

Upon hearing Jia Anqing's answer and seeing her smug expression, Yan Bugui immediately realized that something good must have happened in the Jia family. This made the opportunistic Yan Bugui's eyes light up, and he asked Jia Anqing with a smile, "Anqing! Is there some happy occasion in your family today? Otherwise, why would you and your siblings be waiting for Dongming to get off work at the gate?"

"Teacher Yan! Today is my uncle's birthday, so we're waiting here for him to come back." Xiao Dang, who was standing nearby, heard Yan Bugui ask Jia Anqing this question and immediately remembered what Bang Geng had said to her when he brought back the color TV at noon. Knowing that something bad was about to happen, she smiled and said to Yan Bugui before Jia Anqing could answer.

Upon hearing Xiao Dang's explanation, Yan Bugui's face showed a look of sudden realization. He smiled and tentatively asked Xiao Dang, "Xiao Dang! Your uncle's birthday is a big event in our courtyard. Hasn't your family thought about setting up a few tables in the courtyard and inviting all the neighbors to have a good drink?"

Hearing Yan Bugui's suggestion and seeing his hypocritical smile, Xiao Huaihua felt disgusted from the bottom of her heart. She sneered at Yan Bugui with a disdainful look, "Teacher Yan! If birthdays are such a big deal in the courtyard, why don't you Yan family members invite the neighbors to have a few drinks when you celebrate your birthdays?"

Hearing Xiao Huaihua's sarcasm, Yan Bugui was not embarrassed at all. Instead, he smiled and replied, "Xiao Huaihua! Your uncle is the only leader in our compound, while we other residents are just ordinary people. How can we be the same?"

“Teacher Yan! You are the only teacher in our department. Many of our peers are your former students. Why didn’t you invite us students to your home for a meal on your birthday?” Xiao Dang was furious when she saw that Yan Bugui was using Jia Dongming’s position as a cadre to put Jia Dongming in opposition to everyone in the department. She retorted to Yan Bugui’s words in a very cold tone.

"Sister! Have you forgotten? Teacher Yan was stripped of his teaching position by the school many years ago because of his poor professional ethics. Now he's just a cleaner at the school." Xiao Huaihua didn't know how sinister Yan Bugui's motives were, but she felt extremely disgusted by his behavior and immediately took the opportunity to mock him.

Although Yan Bugui was cunning, loved to take advantage of his neighbors, and was shameless enough, being publicly ridiculed by several younger people at the entrance of the courtyard made him feel embarrassed. He questioned Xiaodang and Huaihua with dissatisfaction, "Xiaodang! Huaihua! I am your elder, after all. Is this how you talk to your elder?"

"Xiao Dang! Huaihua! What happened?" Yan Bugui's scolding had barely ended when Qin Huairu, returning home from get off work, witnessed him reprimanding her children. Her face immediately darkened, and she asked Xiao Dang and Huaihua in a very serious tone. Hearing Qin Huairu's question and seeing her return from get off work, Xiao Dang seemed to have found her pillar of support and quickly complained to her, "Mom! We were waiting here for Uncle to come home from get off work, and when Yan Bugui saw us, he asked us why we were here..."

After hearing Xiao Dang's account, Qin Huairu finally had a general understanding of the whole story. Thinking of Yan Bugui's attempt to use Jia Dongming's position as a cadre to put Jia Dongming on the opposite side of everyone in the institute, Qin Huairu's eyes flashed with sharp light, and she coldly questioned Yan Bugui: "Yan Bugui! How can someone who can't even educate his own child be qualified to be our child's elder?"

"Sister Huairu! What happened?" Just as Qin Huairu angrily mocked Yan Bugui, Liang Ladi and Liang Lali, the two sisters, returned to the courtyard gate after get off work. Upon seeing the scene before her, Liang Ladi immediately went up to Qin Huairu and asked curiously.

Upon hearing Liang Ladi's question and seeing the crowd gathered around, Qin Huairu, wanting to teach Yan Bugui a lesson, addressed the onlookers: "Neighbors, please be our judges. Today is my Dongming's birthday, and the children are waiting for him to come home from work at the gate."

"When Yan Bugui saw this scene, he went up to ask our children why they were gathered at the gate of the courtyard. The children did not think much of it and told Yan Bugui the reason. As a result, when Yan Bugui learned that it was Dongming's birthday, he asked our children to treat us to a meal."

“Our child couldn’t take it anymore, so he did what Yan Bugui said and asked him why, as the only teacher in the school, he had never invited the children in the school to dinner on his birthday. As a result, Yan Bugui scolded our child for being ill-mannered and disrespectful to him as an elder because of our child’s question.”

"Everyone here has been our neighbors for many years. I believe you all have discerning eyes to see what kind of family our Jia family is. Now, please help us judge this. Does someone like Yan Bugui deserve to be an elder to our children?"

Qin Huairu's words were highly inflammatory, immediately putting Yan Bugui in a difficult position. Liang Ladi, with her fiery personality, learned the whole story and immediately mocked Yan Bugui: "Teacher Yan! You are supposed to be a glorious people's teacher, how could you do such a despicable thing? Don't you know the meaning of the four words 'being a role model for students'?"

The neighbors, upon hearing Qin Huairu's account and considering Yan Bugui's character, completely believed her words. Their gazes towards Yan Bugui were filled with contempt, and they all began to denounce him.

Yan Bugui never imagined that his intention to gain some advantage from the Jia family would end up making him a pariah. Faced with the condemnation from his neighbors, Yan Bugui, whose skin was thicker than a city wall, felt his cheeks burning and wished he could find a hole to crawl into. In the end, he could only pretend to faint and collapse to the ground.

(End of this chapter)