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

Chapter 36: The Deaf Old Woman Faints from Fright
"Li Hongbing, how dare you disrespect the old lady?"

Li Hongbing's actions not only stunned everyone, but also made the deaf old woman so angry that she felt dizzy, and even Wang Guihua took a while to react.

No one expected that Li Hongbing would dare to be so bold.

"What? She's allowed to swear, but others aren't allowed to talk back?"

Li Hongbing sneered.

Wang Guihua looked at Li Hongbing with disbelief and asked, "How did the old lady scold you?"

See this.

Li Hongbing shrugged and said nonchalantly, "Since that's the case, then naturally I didn't disrespect her!"

Seeing Li Hongbing playing riddles with her, Wang Guihua was so angry she wanted to curse him. She immediately "exposed" him, saying, "This old lady is the ancestor of our courtyard. How can this be an insult to you? Li Hongbing, you're just pretending to be stupid!"

"What kind of ancestor is this? When has our Li family ever produced such a person?"

Looking at Wang Guihua's indignant face, Li Hongbing couldn't help but mock her: "Aunt Yi, you and Yi Zhonghai are indeed a couple who sleep in the same bed. You both like to recognize elders everywhere and find your ancestors."

This is your own business, and I can't control you, but it's wrong of you to drag others into your own messes..."

In other people's eyes, Wang Guihua is a harmless, kind-hearted person who never argues or fights and never gets into fights with anyone.

But it's not like that with Li Hongbing.

Two kinds of people cannot sleep in the same bed.

Regardless of the original drama or the schemes and plots Yi Zhonghai had made in the past, Li Hongbing did not believe that Wang Guihua, as his wife, was completely unaware of them.

Not only that, she even acted as a behind-the-scenes helper.

Just like in the original drama, at every crucial moment, Wang Guihua would always appear at just the right time, supporting the deaf old lady and standing up for Yi Zhonghai and Sha Zhu, making everything develop in the direction they expected.

only.

All attention was drawn to Yi Zhonghai and Sha Zhu, so hardly anyone noticed her.

One point cannot be ignored.

She and Yi Zhonghai are the most deeply intertwined community of interests; they share both prosperity and adversity.

"Li Hongbing, how can you talk like that?"

Wang Guihua was furious.

This is not the first time.

When Li Hongbing starts arguing, few people can withstand his sharp tongue.

"Guihua, step back."

Seeing that Wang Guihua was losing ground in just a few words, the deaf old woman's eyes narrowed, and she stepped forward with her cane, swinging it at Li Hongbing while angrily cursing, "Li Hongbing, you bad boy, today your ancestor is going to teach you a lesson on behalf of your sister."

Exactly.

What everyone imagined did not happen.

Under the astonished gazes of the crowd, Li Hongbing reached out and snatched the cane from the deaf old woman's hand.

How much strength can a woman who is almost seventy years old have?

Others might be afraid of hurting her, but Li Hongbing wasn't.

Although the deaf old lady is already old, she is still very healthy and has another 10 or 20 years to live. She is not so fragile.

The key is.

Li Hongbing couldn't just stand by and watch her abuse her age and get beaten up.

Li Hongbing threw the cane he had snatched to the ground and said disdainfully, "Old lady, even my sister wouldn't dare to hit me. What right do you have to discipline me on her behalf? Do you even deserve it?"

Even if Li Hongmei were here, let alone if she weren't, she wouldn't stand by and watch the deaf old woman lay a hand on Li Hongbing.

Li Hongmei could clearly distinguish between the importance of an unrelated outsider and her own younger brother.

He was usually polite to the deaf old woman simply to avoid trouble; it didn't mean she held a high position in Li Hongmei's heart. "Kid, if your father were here, you'd have to call me 'Grandma,' understand?"

Faced with Li Hongbing's outrageous behavior, the deaf old woman, with a gloomy face, uttered the following words.

"fart!"

"Don't think that just because someone is gone, you can act superior and pat yourself on the back."

"You haven't forgotten when we moved here, have you?"

"On the eve of the liberation of Beijing!"

"Before this, we didn't even know you. Grandma? Go to hell."

"..."

The moment the deaf old woman uttered those words, Li Hongbing was so enraged that he immediately started cursing.

Shameless!
That's absolutely shameless.

On the eve of the liberation of Beijing, the two armies were locked in a standoff. Some people with shady pasts were afraid that our army would invade and purge them, so they began to sell off their assets and flee.

Just when housing prices were plummeting, Li Fushun took a gamble and used all his savings to buy the three rooms in the east wing of the front yard, where he moved in with Li Hongmei and Li Hongbing.

It was from that time that they began to become members of the courtyard house.

Before this, they didn't know any of the people in the compound.

The following year, Li Fushun died in an accident at the factory, which led to Li Hongmei taking over the job.

All in all, Li Fushun had only stayed in this courtyard for about a year. How could he possibly have mistaken a complete stranger for his grandmother?

Randomly claiming to be an elder and acting as someone's grandson is not a tradition of the Li family.

The deaf old woman thought Li Hongbing was young and assumed he wouldn't understand these things, so she shamelessly made up stories to claim seniority for herself.

Li Hongbing saw through her act on the spot and exposed her in front of everyone, showing her no mercy whatsoever. The deaf old woman was extremely embarrassed and couldn't find any words to say, so she simply fell silent.

"No matter what, the old lady is still an elder in the courtyard. Li Hongbing, please speak with some respect."

The deaf old woman gave up, and Wang Guihua, who had just been defeated, had obviously readjusted herself and stepped forward again to criticize: "You are an educated person, and the most educated young person in our courtyard. Don't you understand the principle of respecting the elderly and caring for the young?"

"And what about elders?"

"I'm too lazy to even talk about what that deaf old lady did, but since you're so interested, Aunt Yi, I'll chat with you about it!"

"This old lady, relying on her advanced age, spends all her time eating and drinking in the yard, acting like she's the matriarch. If anyone displeases her, she'll bang on their window, and the unlucky one will even get a couple of whacks with a stick..."

"This is indeed an ancestor, a damn living ancestor!"

"The Qing Dynasty has been gone for so many years, yet there are still people who dare to ride roughshod over the common people and claim to be their ancestors. I think some of them don't want to live anymore."

"Do they really think this is still a primitive society, and consider themselves Empress Dowager Cixi?"

"..."

The more Li Hongbing said these words, the more alarming they became.

Suddenly.

The deaf old woman felt a throbbing sensation in her forehead, her vision suddenly went black, and she collapsed to the ground.

"Oh dear, ma'am, what's wrong?"

"I'm dizzy... dizzy, Guihua, I can't take it anymore..."

"quick!"

"Someone come quickly!"

"Take the old lady to the hospital!"

"..."

(End of this chapter)