Courtyard Houses: Starting with the principle of hard work paying off

Chapter 207 The brat ruins his father's life, and Bang Geng gets a beating!

The two resounding slaps not only stunned Jia Dongxu but also shocked everyone else.

No one expected that Li Hongbing would suddenly take action against Jia Dongxu.

Seeing his apprentice being beaten, Yi Zhonghai's expression changed drastically. He quickly stepped forward and rebuked Li Hongbing, saying, "Li Hongbing, a gentleman uses words, not fists. You've gone too far."

Li Hongbing thought Bang Geng was just a child and that he would be helpless against him, but he didn't expect that Bang Geng would not play by the rules at all and would directly attack Jia Dongxu, showing no martial ethics whatsoever.

“Yi Zhonghai, you are a hypocrite, but I am no gentleman. Your tactic of talking without fighting won’t work on me.”

Li Hongbing chuckled, but in doing so, he exposed Yi Zhonghai's past wounds in front of everyone.

Yi Zhonghai and Jia Dongxu are in cahoots and are now on opposing sides again, so Li Hongbing has no need to be polite to him.

The term "hypocrite" is incredibly apt when applied to Yi Zhonghai, and it's common knowledge within the institute.

When He Daqing returned, Sha Zhu and his son came to settle scores. Everything Yi Zhonghai had done to them in the past was laid bare before everyone, and his image was completely overturned, losing even the last bit of his halo.

"Jia Dongxu, Yi Zhonghai, if you're not satisfied, you're welcome to fight back. You two, master and disciple, can come at me together. I'll stand right here."

As soon as Li Hongbing uttered those words, Yi Zhonghai and Jia Dongxu's expressions changed.

Yi Zhonghai knew perfectly well that even if he and his apprentice joined forces, they would be no match for Li Hongbing. If they were to actually fight, they would be falling right into Li Hongbing's trap.

Obvious.

This was a trap deliberately set by Li Hongbing to target them.

Once they start fighting, Li Hongbing will have even more reason to beat them up.

Understanding Li Hongbing's scheme, Yi Zhonghai's face darkened. Fearing that Jia Dongxu would fall into the trap, he quickly spoke up: "Li Hongbing, this is not the place for you to act recklessly. Don't think that just because you have some brute strength you can be unreasonable."

Yi Zhonghai's words were not only a condemnation of Li Hongbing, but also a reminder to Jia Dongxu that he was no match for Li Hongbing and should not act rashly.

really.

Upon hearing Yi Zhonghai's voice, Jia Dongxu, who had initially been eager to try and wonder if he and Yi Zhonghai could team up to give Li Hongbing a hard time, gradually calmed down.

"I'm willing to reason with you, but if you don't, I'll have no choice but to resort to my fists."

Li Hongbing smiled, his gaze falling on Jia Dongxu, and said disdainfully, "A grown man who can't even teach his own child properly, does he deserve to be a father? Raising a child without teaching him is unworthy of being a parent. Banggeng is the way he is now entirely because he was born into your Jia family. I don't know what sins he committed in his past life."

A person's growth is closely related to their environment and the family education they receive.

As Li Hongbing just said, Banggeng's transformation into a spoiled child is absolutely related to Jia Zhangshi's past pampering and indulgence, and the inaction of his parents, Jia Dongxu and Qin Huairu, is also an important reason.

Unruly children are all spoiled.

Most children, if properly disciplined, will likely achieve great things in the future, but few will be like Bang Geng, especially the Bang Geng in the drama.

How the Jia family raised their children was none of Li Hongbing's business, but today, this brat Banggeng had acted out of line, so Li Hongbing couldn't remain indifferent.

"Li Hongbing, you've gone too far! Banggeng is still a child. How can you treat him like this? Are you even human?"

After hearing Li Hongbing's speech and conclusion, Wang Guihua "bravely" stood up and questioned him in public.

"Wang Guihua, which ear of yours heard me say bad things about Bang Geng?"

Seeing Wang Guihua, a member of the Jia-Yi Alliance, make her move, Li Hongbing glanced at her and immediately complained, "I'm talking about the Jia family, Jia Zhangshi and Jia Dongxu. They are immoral and have harmed Banggeng."

Spoiling a child is like killing a child. It's such a simple principle, but Jia Dongxu, that idiot, doesn't understand it. You can't be unaware of it, can you?
Or are you deliberately trying to make the Jia family raise the pheasant to be useless?
If that's the case, then I have to question your motives.

This is wrong!

It's one thing for others, but Yi Zhonghai and Wang Guihua, as Jia Dongxu's master and mistress, you didn't even remind or advise him about this..."

Li Hongbing's words not only caused Yi Zhonghai and Wang Guihua's expressions to change, but also made the onlookers cast speculative glances at them, wondering if they had ulterior motives.

"Li Hongbing, you're talking nonsense..."

Yi Zhonghai was so angry he felt like his lungs were about to explode.

Li Hongbing's move to sow discord was absolutely ruthless.

With ulterior motives!

Yi Zhonghai and Wang Guihua wanted to help educate Bang Geng, but since Jia Zhangshi was still alive, and even Jia Dongxu and Qin Huairu, as his biological parents, couldn't get involved, why should they overstep their bounds?

Doing so would only provoke dissatisfaction and hostility from Jia Zhangshi, causing a rift between the two families.

Although they were master and apprentice, the relationship between Yi Zhonghai and Jia Dongxu lacked the purity and closeness of a traditional master-apprentice relationship; it was mixed with too much calculation.

"How am I talking nonsense?"

Seeing Yi Zhonghai trembling with anger, Li Hongbing said with a smile, "The relationship between master and disciple is like that of father and son. This is not just a saying. Jia Dongxu's biological father is gone. Although you, Yi Zhonghai, are not Jia Dongxu's father, you are still an elder, and your status is not much different from that of a biological father."

"You two families live right across the street, you must know how Jia Zhangshi and Jia Dongxu usually discipline Bang Geng. You've seen it all, yet you act as if you don't know anything, remaining silent. It seems you don't consider Jia Dongxu your true disciple..."

It's said that it only takes a mouth to spread rumors, but it takes a lot of legwork to refute them. Li Hongbing's few nonsensical remarks almost made Yi Zhonghai so angry that he vomited blood.

In front of so many people in the courtyard, especially in front of Jia Dongxu himself, Li Hongbing said these provocative words. It was as clear as day, and anyone with a brain could see through it. But these words were truly scathing.

Once doubt arises, the problem already exists, regardless of whether there are facts or not.

Seeing that Yi Zhonghai had recently started to cause trouble again, Li Hongbing naturally didn't mind stirring up some trouble for him.

Just now.

He Daqing, who was in the crowd, burst out laughing when he heard Li Hongbing say these words. He said, "Yi Zhonghai took Jia Dongxu as his apprentice so that Jia Dongxu could support them in their old age. His motives were not pure. Whether he truly regarded Jia Dongxu as his apprentice is not necessarily true."

As for the servants, Yi Zhonghai and his group can rely on Jia Dongxu and Qin Huairu for their retirement; they don't need servants at all. It's normal that they don't care about what happens to these servants in the future, whether they are raised well or poorly.

Anyway, a hundred years from now, with his apprentice Jia Dongxu to see him off, Yi Zhonghai will be done with it. What does it matter what happens after he's gone? Whether Bang Geng and the Jia family are good or bad, what does it have to do with a dead man like him?

He Daqing, Yi Zhonghai's mortal enemy, made these extremely venomous words, which were practically tantamount to cursing Yi Zhonghai to his death.

The people present were not surprised by He Daqing's words, after all, Yi Zhonghai had schemed against He Daqing and Sha Zhu and his son for his retirement.

He Daqing will remember this grudge for the rest of his life.

Moreover, Sha Zhu's blind dates have not gone smoothly over the past year. Because of the incident where Sha Zhu's leg was broken during a blind date, which was publicized everywhere by Xu Damao, Yi Zhonghai and Jia Dongxu, the master and apprentice, did a lot of work behind the scenes, resulting in damage to Sha Zhu's reputation.

Originally, neither family wanted to pursue the matter, but after Xu Damao and Yi Zhonghai publicized it, even deliberately exaggerating the shortcomings and secretly adding dirt on him, it became difficult for He Daqing to make amends.

With both old and new grudges at stake, and now that Li Hongbing is leading the charge, He Daqing has no choice but to lend a hand and give Yi Zhonghai a piece of his mind.

"Yi Zhonghai, Jia Dongxu, you should take this issue that Hongbing mentioned seriously!"

"This little guy is only five years old, and he dares to smash someone's window. How can he be like this? He needs to be disciplined!"

"If this continues, you'll ruin such a good child."

"Jia Dongxu, if you don't teach your son properly, it's the father's fault. Those two slaps Hongbing just gave you weren't for nothing!"

“It’s no big deal! Stop dawdling and quickly call your son out to apologize to Li Hongbing and his mother-in-law, so that everyone can see how ridiculous this is.”

"..."

Following He Daqing, Xu Fugui also stepped forward to "stir things up," not only badmouthing Jia Dongxu but also supporting Li Hongbing and actively befriending him.

Xu Fugui and He Daqing, one with a grudge against the Jia family and the other a mortal enemy of Yi Zhonghai, had some minor frictions before, but at this moment, they tacitly put those aside and joined forces to kick Jia Dongxu and Yi Zhonghai when they were down, and to support Li Hongbing.

Not only them, but also the residents of the compound, including the caretakers Yan Bugui and Du Jianguo, as well as most of the residents, spoke up and stood on Li Hongbing's side.

The whole thing is just a case of the wrong joke.

Li Hongbing's request was not excessive; he simply wanted Bang Geng to apologize in person.

Jia Dongxu is in the wrong, blindly protecting his own without distinguishing right from wrong, but he also lacks the ability to do so. Even if people wanted to take sides, they wouldn't side with him.

"Dongxu, let the sticky stalk come out!"

Seeing things develop to this point, Yi Zhonghai sighed helplessly.

At this moment.

Yi Zhonghai knew that there was no room for discussion or opposition in this matter.

Knowing that Li Hongbing was not someone to be trifled with, Yi Zhonghai hadn't expected him to have gained such power. He didn't want to be forced to stand against the entire courtyard over such a trivial matter. Originally, Yi Zhonghai had thought he could gain some advantage by using Banggeng's status as a child.

But now it seems that he was just daydreaming.

If Li Hongbing were so easy to deal with, he wouldn't be Li Hongbing.

"Master?"

Jia Dongxu was somewhat unhappy that Yi Zhonghai had given in so quickly, but seeing the people who were pressuring him along with Li Hongbing, he felt immense pressure and had no choice but to ask Qin Huairu to bring the stick out from inside the house.

soon.

As Banggeng was brought out of Qin Huairu's house, Jia Dongxu looked at the crowd waiting for him to make Banggeng apologize to Li Hongbing. His face was somewhat ugly, and he said to Banggeng with a humiliated expression, "Banggeng, say sorry to Li Hongbing and the others."

"I do not!"

"Why?"

"Dad, you broke your promise. You said I didn't need to apologize to their family."

"You said it yourself, I didn't do anything wrong, so it was good that the glass was broken!"

Why should I apologize?

"I won't apologize. I'll smash their windows again next time!"

"..."

The original intention was to get Bang Geng to apologize and compromise to end the matter, but Bang Geng's "innocent remarks" caused Jia Dongxu and Qin Huairu's expressions to change instantly.

As Yi Zhonghai looked up at the sky, everyone present was surprised and astonished, and they all shook their heads.

"Tsk tsk, Jia Dongxu, is this how you teach a hamster? You're such a good father! With someone like you as a father, how could a hamster not be ruined?"

Li Hongbing, who had also heard Bang Geng's words, did not miss the opportunity and immediately mocked him.

It wasn't directed at Jia Dongxu, but rather a genuine expression of contempt.

Although children may speak without thinking, anyone could tell that what Bang Geng just said was taught to him by Jia Dongxu.

It's one thing for a parent not to encourage their child to do good, but to teach them to do evil.

Someone like Jia Dongxu doesn't even deserve to be a father.

What a disgrace to be a father!

Faced with Li Hongbing's open mockery and the pointing fingers and criticisms from others around him, Jia Dongxu was numb, but he had no way to explain or lash out.

Bang Geng's actions have really screwed him over.

In this situation, Jia Dongxu naturally wanted to slip away, but since Bang Geng wouldn't apologize, Li Hongbing clearly wouldn't let them leave easily.

Without any choice.

Jia Dongxu tried everything he could, from persuasion and bribery to even threats, but he never expected that Bang Geng would be such a stubborn guy, and he actually clashed with him at this moment, refusing to compromise no matter what.

“Jia Dongxu, I don’t think Bang Geng did this on purpose. You shouldn’t pressure him like this.”

Just as Jia Dongxu was having a headache, Li Hongbing's sudden words stunned him.

Not only Jia Dongxu, but also Qin Huairu, Yi Zhonghai, and everyone else in the courtyard looked at Li Hongbing in surprise, thinking that he was soft-hearted and would let Banggeng and Jia Dongxu off the hook because Banggeng was a child.

result.

Just as these thoughts came to mind, Li Hongbing said, "Bang Geng made it very clear just now that it was most likely Jia Dongxu who instructed Bang Geng to smash our windows."

Bang Geng himself said that Jia Dongxu praised him for breaking the glass well, encouraged him to continue breaking it next time, and made him apologize. He also said that Jia Dongxu didn't keep his word, and who knows what benefits Jia Dongxu might have promised to get Bang Geng to break our glass.

This was clearly premeditated!

Jia Dongxu, since you instigated and mastermind this matter, don't let a child like Bang Geng take the blame for you. I won't pursue Bang Geng's responsibility anymore.

But...

What you did was extremely malicious.

Next, I will contact the local street office and go to your steel rolling mill to speak with the mill's leaders. Then we'll see how the street office and the mill handle you. Be prepared!

"Li Hongbing, don't frame me! It was clearly Bang Geng who did it, but you're trying to pin the blame on me. You're obviously up to no good!"

Upon discovering Li Hongbing's true intentions, Jia Dongxu broke out in a cold sweat and was completely bewildered.

The accusations and charges leveled against Li Hongbing are far too harsh.

For something as trivial as Bang Geng smashing a glass, they actually want to ruin him.

"Since it was done by a Korean actor, then make him apologize!"

Seeing Jia Dongxu immediately shift the blame back onto Banggeng, Li Hongbing almost burst out laughing, but then pretended to be serious and said, "If Banggeng doesn't apologize, then you ordered it to be done, and you can't shirk that responsibility!"

Li Hongbing didn't care about the details; he just wanted to give Jia Dongxu and his son Banggeng an explanation.

It's not impossible for a father to take over for his son.

"Bang Geng, are you going to apologize or not?"

"No! I won't apologize!"

"You've gone too far! You don't even listen to your father. If you don't behave, believe me, I'll beat you!"

"Grandma, where are you? Come back quickly, Daddy's going to hit me!"

"Grandma, come back soon, I miss you..."

"..."

Not wanting Li Hongbing to escalate the matter to the street office and the steel mill, Jia Dongxu could only continue to make Bang Geng apologize. However, when he threatened to take action, Bang Geng instead loudly summoned his grandmother, Jia Zhangshi, showing a similar demeanor to Jia Zhangshi.

If Jia Zhangshi weren't still alive, these summoning techniques could have been upgraded to the Undead Summoning Technique, completely inheriting the Jia Zhangshi lineage.

"Jia Dongxu, things are already like this, what are you going to do if you don't fight?"

"Exactly, you can't learn without being beaten. How much of a father are you acting like?"

"You can't even control a child, I really don't know what to say to you."

"Hey, all you do is scare people, you don't even dare to lay a hand on them, you're not even as good as a child."

"Bang Geng, don't be afraid, your dad won't hit you, keep crying! Haha..."

"..."

Among the crowd, seeing Jia Dongxu's inability to cure a small child like Bang Geng, everyone started to jeer.

It's common for naughty kids to get beaten.

Kebang Geng has been pampered by Jia Zhangshi since birth and has never been beaten. Now everyone is looking forward to this delightful scene.

Feeling embarrassed, Jia Dongxu couldn't resist having the same thought amidst the jeers of the crowd.

Before he could even make a move, the "clever" Bang Geng seemed to have sensed this and immediately ran away, causing Jia Dongxu to miss and drawing boos from the surrounding crowd.

Fortunately, there were many people in the yard, and even more kind-hearted people who directly stopped Jia Dongxu from eating the stick and personally handed it back to him.

After this ordeal, Jia Dongxu, who had initially intended to protect Banggeng and put on a show, was now completely enraged. After all, Banggeng had repeatedly sabotaged him and caused him trouble, pushing him step by step to this point where he not only lost face but was also unable to back down.

only.

Jia Dongxu has very little experience in educating children, especially when it comes to disciplining them, where he is particularly clumsy.

The kind-hearted neighbors couldn't bear to see it and offered their advice, with some even bringing rattan canes and leather belts from their homes to help.

soon.

The screams of the man being beaten echoed throughout the courtyard.

(End of this chapter)