The Courtyard House: He Yuzhu, Who Defied Fate

"Alright, don't thank me anymore. There's still meat at home, take some back for Dad and Aunt Song to try!"

He Yu nodded.

After finishing his meal, He Yuzhu went back to work.

He Yu rode her bicycle to Mao'er Hutong, but He Daqing was not home; he had gone to work.

Song Ziyu was resting at home when He Yuqing saw He Yu arrive. He Yuqing called out to He Yu:

"elder sister!"

He and Yu took the things off the bicycle:

"Aunt Song, my eldest brother asked me to bring this over. Why haven't you come over these past few days?"

Song Ziyu said:

"You guys eat lavishly every day, and this is how you treat me when I visit? You feel bad about it!"

He Yu said with a smile:

"Aunt Song, you're overthinking it. We didn't treat you to anything. If you don't come, we'll eat the same thing."

As you know, we're all martial arts practitioners; if we didn't eat like this, we wouldn't be able to keep up!

Upon hearing He Yu's words, Song Ziyu said:

"I thought I'd be treated to a special meal when I got there."

He Yudao:

"If I were entertaining you, how could I possibly serve such common dishes?"

It has to be the kind of food we eat during Chinese New Year.

Song Ziyu asked curiously:

"By the way, where did all this meat come from?"

He Yu shook her head:

"I don't know either, and I won't ask. As long as I can eat, that's fine. You know what my brother's job is."

We can't ask around recklessly. If the government finds out, they'll say we're inquiring about state secrets.

"As long as you have food, why think so much?"

Song Ziyu nodded:

"That's true, you're very open-minded!"

He Yu asked curiously:

Do you know about the courtyard house incident?

Song Ziyu nodded:

"I know, I heard it from your dad. Actually, it's nothing, just that Jia Dongxu died."

But even in death, they find no peace!

He Yu was taken aback:

“My brother said that he and my dad both went, and it was handled quite well. Although it wasn’t a grand affair, it wasn’t bad either.”

Song Ziyu said:

"That's what your father said when he came back, but after your brother and father left, Jia Zhangshi didn't keep vigil and went back to sleep. Qin Huairu lost her energy because of Jia Dongxu."

He was in a daze, and I heard he only recovered in the last two days. He made a huge fuss after learning about Jia Dongxu's situation.

Let's talk about what happened after Zhu Zi and your dad passed away. Wasn't there no one to keep vigil? Bang Geng kept vigil for his dad.

But Bang Geng was a child, and he fell asleep. The funeral was burned, tsk tsk tsk. I heard that Jia Dongxu was half-cremated.

After the fire was extinguished, no funeral was held, and the body was hastily cremated and buried the next day.

Forget it, let's not go back. This has nothing to do with us!

Chapter 156: Deceiving the Japanese

He Yu nodded:

"Yes, but how could someone as good as Jia Dongxu be so unlucky!"

Song Ziyu said:

"With his mother, Jia Zhangshi, around, it would be strange if we could live a good life!"

He Yu said:

"Yeah, his mother was no good either!"

Song Ziyu nodded:

"That's right, Jia Dongxu and his wife are both great, it's just his mother, she's lazy and greedy!"

He Yu also agreed, saying:

"That's right, there's no one lazier than him in the whole compound, and he also doesn't get along well with the other people in the compound."

"If it weren't for Jia Zhangshi, and it were just Jia Dongxu and Qin Huairu living together, their lives would definitely be quite good!"

Song Ziyu also strongly agreed with He Yu's point of view:

"That's right!"

……

While He Yu was at home discussing the Jia family's affairs with Song Ziyu, Yi Zhonghai was thinking about his retirement.

"Wife, now that Dongxu is gone, who else can we rely on?"

An older woman sighed and said:

"There's no one left in our compound to rely on. Now we only have Banggeng. Zhuzi definitely won't be coming back."

If Zhuzi comes back, it would be great for him to take care of us in our old age!

Upon hearing what the older woman said, Yi Zhonghai said:

"Should we try to see if we can get the pillar back?"

An older woman said:

"Don't even think about it. Zhu Zi is someone we can't afford to mess with now. Besides, how powerful is He Yuzhu now? Even if you're powerful, are you more powerful than the director of the steel rolling mill?"

"Even the steel mill manager can't get Zhu Zi to the steel mill, so you think you can?"

Yi Zhonghai thought about it and agreed, then said:

"If all else fails, we'll have to resort to stick-sticking, but the stick-sticking has been turned into something awful by Jia Zhangshi!"

An older woman said to Yi Zhonghai:

"Why don't we adopt one?"

Yi Zhonghai said:

"We'll see when the time comes. Even if we're adopted, they might not take care of us in our old age!"

Upon hearing Yi Zhonghai's words, the older woman also sighed.

He Yuzhu had no idea that Yi Zhonghai still cared about him. If he had known, Yi Zhonghai would definitely have ignored him.

Unbeknownst to Yi Zhonghai, because of the previous incident, He Yuzhu had already begun to use his power to deal with him.

He Yuzhu seems safe now, but he's in another place.

"you sure?"

"Confirmed, this is intelligence sent by Butterfly. You know, Butterfly sacrificed herself to send out this intelligence!"

"I never expected it to be He Yuzhu. It seems we all underestimated him."

This He Yuzhu keeps a low profile at the research institute, and according to our intelligence, he's not researching these things.

Instead, it's about drip irrigation tape, seed optimization, and drilling equipment. Are you sure the intelligence is accurate?

"What? Is your information accurate?"

“My intelligence is like a nail that has been driven in. Although I haven’t made contact with the core, what He Yuzhu is doing in the Seventh Division is no secret.”

"But the information about Butterfly was obtained from Research Institute 403?"

"Could it be a smokescreen?"

"Whether it's a smokescreen or not, just grab him and question him! Better to kill than let him go!"

"That's right. By the way, haven't they found out about the mushroom egg thing yet?"

"No, our people still don't know who the people who manufactured the mushroom eggs were, where they went, or when the project was started!"

"Looks like we'll have to investigate further. Should we arrange for the Hurricane Squad?"

"No, we don't have many people left. We can leak this information to the Chrysanthemum Intelligence Organization. Japan will definitely be interested!"