The Beginning of a Courtyard House: Sixty Years of Internal Strength

"Okay, Lao Yi, you should rest and recover from your injury. I'll look for someone again in four or five months after you've healed."

If you have a conflict with him and then Li Jianguo gets into trouble, the police will suspect you first.

"Okay, I understand. I'll just have to endure it for a few months."

"Damn it, just wait and see how I torture him bit by bit!"

Yi Zhonghai harbored resentment, vowing that he would not let any of Wang Yao off the hook.

"What about the old lady? Li Jianguo has ruined everything."

Li Cuilan mentioned the old lady; she certainly wouldn't go to serve her.

"Isn't there He Yushui? Now Dongxu and Shazhu are both injured."

It's not realistic to ask them to take care of me. I'll go find Sha Zhu tomorrow and have him arrange for the rainwater to be sent. You can just give instructions.

"Okay, I understand."

After rubbing for a while, he had applied almost all of it. Yi Zhonghai looked at the bottle of safflower oil, which was still about half full.

"Take the rest of the safflower oil to Dongxu's family. After all, his whole family got beaten up because of this. I didn't expect Li Jianguo to be so ruthless, even going so far as to lay a hand on Qin Huairu."

"How did I manage to hurt your little darling? Are you worried?"

As she spoke, Li Cuilan patted Yi Zhonghai on the shoulder.

Yi Zhonghai shuddered in pain.

"What nonsense are you talking about? I just said I didn't expect Li Jianguo to be so ruthless, even hitting women."

Oh, Cuilan, go to the backyard and check on the old lady. Tell her what happened today.

I told you I'd arrange for someone to take care of her in a couple of days, and I'll also mention my injury.

"Let's see if we can get some money from her. So many people have been beaten because of her; we can't just leave them without paying any medical expenses."

Li Cuilan nodded, took the safflower oil, and went out.

The three members of the Jia family started cursing as soon as they entered the house.

"Damn it, that Li Jianguo is ruthless. We have to get revenge and knock him out of the way."

"Yes, my son must get revenge. He'll beat even this old woman like me."

At this moment, it was Qin Huairu who was the most clear-headed and quickly stopped it.

"Dongxu, we don't need to lift a finger for Grandma. Yi Zhonghai was beaten even worse; he will definitely retaliate against Li Jianguo."

If we take action and get caught, we'll likely end up in jail. Right now, we don't need to do anything; we can just watch the show.

Moreover, there are some benefits to our whole family being beaten today.

This time, we've truly sided with Yi Zhonghai. Dongxu, he'll definitely feel comfortable letting you retire comfortably.

Upon hearing this, Jia Dongxu felt that Qin Huairu's words made a lot of sense; every cloud has a silver lining.

Although he was beaten up today, Yi Zhong saw his loyalty and was one step closer to inheriting his money.

I immediately cheered up and wanted to smile, but then my lips were pulled so hard that I gasped in pain.

"Yes, Huai Ru, you're right. We just need to wait."

Just then, there was a knock at the door. "Qin Huairu, go see who it is."

Qin Huairou rubbed her face and walked to the door. When she opened the door and saw Li Cuilan, she quickly became very enthusiastic.

"Auntie, what brings you here? Is Uncle alright? Dongxu wanted to go see him, but he's in so much pain all over his body that he can't move."

"Oh, it's nothing, no need. Just stay home and rest. I saw you were all beaten up, so I quickly brought over some safflower oil. Rub it in a lot, it'll help you heal faster."

"Okay, thank you so much, ma'am. You're such a good person. Li Jianguo is a real scoundrel."

"Alright, you haven't applied the medicine yet, I'm going to go see the old lady now."

Li Cuilan had just walked into the courtyard when no one was there anymore; Sha Zhu had gone home sometime earlier.

When Li Cuilan arrived at the old lady's house, she saw that the old lady had urinated again, and she frowned.

I had no choice but to be patient and tidy up while talking about what happened tonight.

"Grandma, many people in the yard have been beaten, and now your matter has been ruined too."

Li Jianguo is truly despicable; everyone needs to see a doctor and take medicine.

The old lady immediately understood what Li Cuilan meant.

However, since so many people have been beaten because of my own actions, if I don't speak up, I probably won't get any help from anyone later.

"Cuilan? Move this cabinet aside. There's some money inside the third brick from the bottom. Go take it and check everyone's injuries. Also, please say thank you for me."

Seeing that she had achieved her goal, Li Cuilan was overjoyed.

"Thank you so much, ma'am. Once everyone has recovered, we'll take turns looking after you."

After saying that, Li Cuilan went to move the cabinet and take out the money. Unexpectedly, she pulled out two small yellow croakers from it and hurriedly put them into her bosom.

"Grandma, please rest for now. If you need anything, just call someone. I've already spoken to the people in the backyard. I'll go get them some medicine."

"Alright, Cuilan, you can go."

Now, every household is enthusiastically discussing tonight's meeting.

The Xu family. Xu Damao jumped and danced with excitement.

"Today was truly amazing! I never expected Li Jianguo to be so incredible."

They'd all get a beating if I held them down, but they wouldn't even dare call the police. Looks like I've really beaten them into submission.

Xu Damao continued to speak and gesture, as if he were the one who could win.

"Alright, stop getting excited. Li Jianguo was too impulsive. He beat up that old scoundrel Yi Zhonghai so badly."

"Look at this, they'll definitely take revenge on Li Jianguo later, and they'll probably be in even worse shape than Yi Zhonghai."

"Dad, really? Yi Zhonghai's already been beaten like this, isn't he afraid of getting beaten again?"

"What do you know? I've told you so many times, don't act impulsively in the future, do it secretly."

That way, if you hit him openly and honestly, everyone will know it was you who did it.

They'll all retaliate against you directly. You can't be so impulsive in the future; you have to do it secretly, understand?

Xu's father began to teach by example.

"Dad, I understand."

Xu Damao nodded thoughtfully.

At the Liu family home, Liu Haizhong was happily drinking and eating scrambled eggs.

That's great! Yi Zhonghai has lost so much face, how can he still act like a big shot? Maybe it won't be long before it's my turn to be the big shot.

Thinking of this, Liu Haizhong took another sip of wine with a satisfied smile.

He Jia, Sha Zhu was helped home by Yu Shui. Sha Zhu rummaged through his stomach and drank some wine to relieve the pain. He was determined to find a chance to stab Li Jianguo in the back.

At the Yan family residence, Yan Bugui was disciplining the children, telling them to stop provoking Li Jianguo.

"You all need to be careful from now on. Look how fiercely Li Jianguo beat people. Even if our whole family joined forces, we probably couldn't beat him, understand?"

"What's there to be afraid of? Do you think he can just act recklessly? We'll just call the police and have him arrested." Yan Jiefang curled his lip in dissatisfaction.

"You don't know anything. These days, if you get into a fight and your injuries aren't serious, the police will at most mediate and give you some money in compensation."

Unless he is seriously injured, he could really be sentenced to several decades.

Even if you're detained for two days, who knows what kind of beating you will get when you're released? You'd better use your brain.

When Sha Zhu assaulted someone, no one called the police. Was it really just because of Yi Zhonghai's influence?

That's because calling the police is useless. Liu Laogen's son from the next alley gets beaten up by thugs every few days.

Even if you bring the police, they'll just try to mediate and make you pay compensation. They didn't cripple or kill you, so how could they give you a severe sentence?

Yan Bugui gave Yan Jiefang a stern scolding.

Upon hearing that Liu Laogen was his son, Yan Jiefang immediately fell silent.