The Courtyard House: He Yuzhu, Who Defied Fate

The older woman nodded:

"Yes, he's not young anymore, he's seven or eight years old. If he's still like this, he'll probably end up in jail sooner or later!"

Yi873 Zhonghai said:

"Yes, thinking back to when He Yu was just a five-year-old child, she was already so sensible."

I heard they're all going to university now!

An older woman said:

"What? I know He Yu, isn't she only fourteen or fifteen years old?"

Yi Zhonghai nodded:

"Yes, I heard that He Yuzhu has been skipping grades and is now in college. After graduation, he will become a cadre."

We can't compare to someone like that at all!

An older woman said:

"We'll adopt a few more children then, send them to school, and maybe a few of them will become college students, so everyone can see that!"

Hearing what the older woman said, Yi Zhonghai nodded:

"That's right, I'll leave this to you!"

Then came the sound of Qin Huairu scolding Banggeng:

"Hey Banggeng, what's wrong with you? Am I starving you or thirsty?"

"I'll buy you whatever you want, so why did you steal from other people's houses?"

The stubborn stick said:

“I didn’t steal it, I went to take it. Grandma said that other families are so good, it would be a sin for them not to help our family.”

Taking their things is doing them a favor; they're worthless.

Not only are they ungrateful, but they also hit me!

Seeing Banggeng like this, Qin Huairu wished she could kill Jia Zhangshi. What a fine child, yet Jia Zhangshi had raised him to be like this.

Qin Huairu had no choice but to patiently explain:

“Your grandma is wrong. You’re not a child anymore. You can’t think like that.”

"Other people's things are their own. Now that Mom is earning money and our family is doing better, does that mean we should give them to someone else?"

Banggeng stretched his neck and shouted:

"Why should they? It's because they're incompetent. Incompetent people deserve to be poor!"

Everyone who overheard Qin Huairu and Bang Geng's conversation felt their worldviews crumble.

Is this how that lazy and gluttonous Jia Zhangshi teaches her children?

Such double standards! If others don't give her family a chance, she deserves to die; but if other families are having a hard time, she deserves it?

Who are these people?

At this moment, Yan Bugui came out, looked at the unconvinced Bang Geng, and sighed:

"Hey, Qin Huairu, listen to this, listen to this. It's not that I'm saying anything bad about your child."

It's not that your mother-in-law has ruined your child's education; if you don't correct him...

You'll get what's coming to you later!

Liu Haizhong also came out and said to Qin Huairu:

"Kids like that just need a good beating. Look at my two sons, anyone who dares to mess with them, I'll kill them!"

Chapter 213: Launching a Satellite

Hearing Liu Haizhong's words, Qin Huairu was speechless. "Isn't that just hitting a child for being disobedient?"

Instead, you hit whenever you're in a bad mood, or when you're in a good mood; you hit whenever you feel like it, or you hit a couple of times when you feel like it.

There's never a time when I don't hit my child.

However, these were Qin Huairu's true feelings, which she did not say aloud. Although in Qin Huairu's mind, Liu Haizhong was a good-for-nothing, he was also a good-for-nothing who held grudges.

A clueless fool.

He had already offended Yi Zhonghai. If he offended Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui as well, he would really not be able to survive in this compound.

After all, there was no other way; if he wanted to break free from Yi Zhonghai's control, he had to do this.

If he didn't do this, his life would be controlled by Yi Zhonghai.

This was something Qin Huairu couldn't accept, and she didn't want to be so subdued by Yi Zhonghai.

Therefore, in order to escape this fate, Qin Huairu completely broke ties with Yi Zhonghai.

Yi Zhonghai knew why Qin Huairu had turned against him, so after finding out, he stopped arguing with her.

Yi Zhonghai knew that if Qin Huairu revealed the truth, he would be completely finished.

The two continued living their lives without saying a word. Everyone thought that Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu were going to have a big fight, but unexpectedly, the two acted like strangers.

There was no conflict at all; we still greeted each other when we met, but the harmony of the past was gone.

Qin Huairu said to Liu Haizhong:

"Second Uncle is right, I'll go back and teach him a lesson!"

Upon hearing these words, Liu Haizhong knew that Qin Huairu was just trying to appease him.

Qin Huairu didn't teach Bang Geng a lesson when she got back; instead, she continued to spoil Bang Geng.

Reluctant to hit or scold him, Liu Haizhong shook his head and sighed as he went back.

Then came the sound of Liu Haizhong beating his son, followed by screams from Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu in the backyard.

And the angry curses in his bangs:

"If you two little brats are like Bang Geng, I'll beat you both to death."

Do you know?

Liu Guangtian quickly begged for mercy:

"Dad, Dad, Dad, I didn't! We didn't steal anything! We'd rather starve than steal anything!"

Hearing Liu Guangtian's words, Liu Haizhong became even angrier:

"You two still dare to argue? I'm warning you. I didn't say you stole anything. If you had, I wouldn't be hitting you."

I'll kill both of you, understand?!

The two brothers nodded quickly and agreed frantically, but they still got a severe beating.

After venting his anger, Liu Haizhong staggered back home.

Qin Huairu heard the noise from the backyard, shook her head helplessly, and then said to Banggeng:

"Bang Geng, how could you steal something?"

The stick still stubbornly said:

"That wasn't stealing at all. Are you still my mother? It wasn't my fault in the first place."

If Grandma is home, she always praises me.

You only know how to blame me!

Upon hearing Banggeng's words, Qin Huairu was speechless, because she knew that Banggeng still resented her for letting her grandmother return to the countryside.

However, we are still living in an era of egalitarianism, and if Jia Zhangshi were to return, some people would go hungry.

So no matter how much Bang Geng made a fuss, Qin Huairu did not let Jia Zhangshi come back.

In Qin Huairu's heart, only her own child was the most important thing; the life or death of Jia Zhangshi was no longer on her mind.

Qin Huairu only wanted to raise Jia Dongxu's son.

Qin Huairu would never think about such things.

Qin Huairu looked at the stick and said earnestly:

"Bang Geng, if you want your grandma to come back, that's fine, but then you won't have anything to eat anymore."

Because everyone's food rations are fixed, if you want to be full, your grandmother will have to eat in the countryside.

If you come back to eat, you'll be just like before, not getting enough to eat!

Having heard Qin Huairu's words, Bang Geng perfectly imitated Jia Zhangshi's selfishness:

"I don't want that! I want to eat! I don't want Grandma!"

Qin Huairu said:

"If you want to eat your fill, then you can't take things from other people's houses, understand?"

If you go to someone else's house to take something again, then Mom will have to pay them back the money she earned.