Courtyard House: My Hidden Wheat Seeds Caused a National Sensation

If there is a next time

They would have to be sent to a juvenile detention center.

Do you understand?

"Understood, understood!"

Police officer,

Then my mother, she…”

Your mother has confessed.

He is being held here temporarily.

Awaiting the court's verdict.

We will let you know if there is any news.

"But--"

"Let's go, Dongxu."

Yi Zhonghai tugged at Jia Dongxu's sleeve.

Then.

The two left the police station with the bang geng.

"master,

What should we do now?

Jia Dongxu's eyes reddened.

She had obviously just been crying.

"This is a difficult matter."

Yi Zhonghai sighed deeply.

Faced with this situation, he was at a loss.

Although he was only an eighth-grade worker, he was quite respected in the factory.

But ultimately they cannot interfere with the judiciary.

"I'll ask the old lady about my sister-in-law's matter later."

Don't worry too much.

What's urgent right now is...

It's your own situation.

"My situation?"

Jia Dongxu was taken aback.

"good."

Yi Zhonghai nodded.

"Your mother and son were detained in public."

This matter has a significant impact.

If handled improperly

Your and Banggeng's reputations are completely ruined.

"Master, what should we do?"

Jia Dongxu immediately became anxious.

He has tasted the bitterness of a damaged reputation—

If it weren't for Jia Zhangshi's bad reputation back then,

There's no shortage of girls in the city who wouldn't marry him.

In the end, he had no choice but to marry Qin Huairu, who came from the countryside.

Although Qin Huairu was outstanding in appearance,

In his eyes, however, they were always inferior.

This is one of the reasons why she was treated with contempt in the Jia family.

He absolutely cannot let his son fail to find a good wife in the future!

"go back.

Hold a hospital-wide meeting.

Yi Zhonghai took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "Put all the responsibility on Li Jianye's shoulders."

"That's a great idea!"

Upon hearing this, Jia Dongxu's spirits lifted.

He had long harbored a deep-seated hatred for Li Jianye.

If it weren't for this person

The master wouldn't have lost that much money yesterday.

Today, my mother would not be imprisoned.

"Master, how should we deal with him?"

"I'll say it then."

You just need to cooperate from the sidelines.

Yi Zhonghai pondered for a moment before answering.

"become."

Jia Dongxu nodded in agreement.

The three of them remained silent all the way back to the courtyard house.

In the afternoon, the tranquility of the courtyard was broken by the sound of a gong.

Yi Zhonghai stood beside the polished octagonal table in the center of the courtyard, his hands resting on the edge of the table, his eyes scanning the gradually gathering figures.

According to the rules of the courtyard house, when the patriarch strikes the gong, every household must put down what they are doing and come out.

It was just past lunchtime, the laziest time of day. Hearing that there was a meeting became an excuse to pass the time, and people gathered in twos and threes, dragging their small stools, to the central courtyard.

"Where's that kid Li Jianye?"

Yi Zhonghai's gaze swept across the crowd, and his brows furrowed.

"I just took the stroller out."

Yan Bugui leaned against the moon gate, smiling as he replied.

He guarded the front gate, and no one could escape his eyes from coming in or out.

"He said he was just buying some odds and ends and would be back in a bit."

Before the words had even finished, the soft sound of bicycle wheels rolling over the blue bricks came from the front yard.

Li Jianye pushed the half-new Flying Pigeon bicycle around the screen wall, a net bag hanging on the handlebars.

"Jianye! What a perfect timing!"

Yan Bugui raised his hand in greeting, "The conference is about to begin."

"Okay, I'll tidy up the car and bring the stools."

Li Jianye nodded and smiled, unhurriedly.

Before long, he returned to the crowd carrying a small stool.

He had just found a corner to sit down when he heard someone call out to him in a low voice, "Here! Jianye, come sit here!"

The one who shouted was Xu Damao, looking travel-worn, with his face tanned red from his time in the countryside.

Li Jianye walked over and nodded politely.

"Xu Damao, the one who projects movies at the Hongxing Film Factory, went to the countryside a few days ago and just got back today!"

Xu Damao warmly pulled him down to sit, his tongue darting around, "I heard you did something big as soon as you got back? Did you really get that old hag from the Jia family locked up?"

Before Li Jianye could answer, Yi Zhonghai cleared his throat and raised his voice, "Everyone, please be quiet and let's get down to business."

The buzzing in the courtyard subsided.

"The reason we've gathered everyone here today is to discuss the matter of Jia Zhangshi."

Yi Zhonghai straightened up, his voice steady yet clear, "The person is currently detained at the police station, and will likely have to go to jail in the future."

The charge against him is **.

The contents exploded as if boiling water had been poured into a pot of oil.

Everyone witnessed the farce that took place during the day.

The image of Jia Zhangshi holding her head high and patting her chest is still vivid in everyone's mind. Everyone thought it was all bark and no bite, but who would have thought that she would actually be handcuffed and taken away in the blink of an eye?

"Sir, what do you mean by that?"

"Didn't they say that the kid from Banggeng didn't take anything?"

"Could it be... that they really stole it?"

A barrage of questions came up.

"Quiet, everyone be quiet."

Yi Zhonghai raised his hand and pressed it down, a hint of satisfaction flashing in his eyes.

He waited for the commotion to subside before slowly speaking: "Bangeng indeed did not take a single needle or thread from Li Jianye's family."

But the police officer said that the child's behavior constituted a crime.

Considering his young age, he was given a warning and released. However, Jia Zhangshi, as an elder, failed to discipline him properly and even threw a tantrum and resisted the law, so he was detained.

My education is limited, and I can't explain many of the intricacies of the matter clearly.

But we have to trust the government and the police! Since they've arrested her, it must be because Jia Zhangshi herself has done something wrong!

Li Jianye, listening from the corner, chuckled inwardly.

Yi Zhonghai's words were truly watertight.

Every sentence sounds reasonable, and every sentence is based on the facts, but when put together, the meaning is completely different.

The unspoken hint, like an invisible thread, led everyone's thoughts into a dark alley—it was Li Jianye who pulled strings behind the scenes, relying on some unknown connection, to force an old woman who hadn't stolen anything into the alley.

Sure enough, the whispers around them gradually shifted.

"There's...something going on here, isn't there?"

"It's illegal to go empty-handed? This is the first time I've heard of such a thing!"

"They must have someone in high places..."

"**, it must be**!"

A restless atmosphere, a mixture of suspicion, curiosity, and a touch of unease, filled the air.

These days, that thick legal code is nowhere to be seen, and ordinary people have no concept of "law".

The words were far apart, and all I could see was a blurry yet majestic shadow.

Now, a hand suddenly reaches out from the shadows and snatches away someone they know well, and the reason is strange and inexplicable. Various private speculations spread silently like moss at the base of a wall.

Amid the murmurs of the crowd, Li Jianye took a step forward.

His voice wasn't loud, but it suppressed the surrounding noise: "The old man just missed a few key points in what he said."

First, failing to succeed does not equate to innocence.

The mere thought of stealing, and the act of actually doing it—regardless of whether anything was ultimately taken—is itself a violation of the law.

Bang Geng committed the crime of "attempted burglary".

Secondly, Jia Zhangshi's detention was not without reason.

She was charged with "inciting a minor to commit a crime."

After the words were spoken, the courtyard fell silent for a moment, then a murmur of whispers rose up like a tide.

"So that's how it is..."

"So, Bang Geng really did steal?"

"I never expected there would be a thief in our yard!"

The wind direction suddenly changed.

When many people looked in the direction of the Jia family again, their eyes were filled with undisguised contempt.

"Li Jianye!"

A loud, gruff voice suddenly rang out.

He Yuzhu squeezed out of the crowd, his face flushed red.

"I thought you were someone important! I didn't expect you to be so unscrupulous! At least I went to your house twice and didn't take anything. We're all neighbors, why did you have to call the police to arrest me? You're someone whom Deng Lao values, can't you be a little more magnanimous? Such pettiness, what kind of behavior is this!"

"What?!"

"Old Deng?!"

The courtyard erupted in uproar.

Everyone knows that Li Jianye, a man from the countryside, suddenly became a first-level researcher and a level 13 technician at the research institute, which must be due to the help of a benefactor.

But no one expected that the important person would be none other than Elder Deng, who frequently appeared in newspapers and on the radio.

Countless eyes once again focused on Li Jianye.

Although he had explained it clearly just now, at this moment, many people's scales were quietly tilted again - they didn't understand those legal terms, they just felt that since Li Jianye knew such a big shot, who could say that there weren't some twists and turns in this matter.

He Yuzhu is twenty-four years old this year. He is a cook in the canteen of the steel rolling mill and is not yet married.

He's impulsive, straightforward, and prone to acting rashly.

The neighbors secretly called him "Silly Pillar".

This nickname was something his father, who ran off with a widow, had casually given him years ago.

He always felt that he was soft-hearted, sentimental, and couldn't bear to see others suffer.

He had been secretly eyeing Qin Huairu, Jia Dongxu's wife, for many years.

As long as Qin Huairu begs him for help in a soft voice, he can't bring himself to refuse her in the slightest.

Even knowing that the other woman has a husband, and that her husband is narrow-minded, he still couldn't help but get closer to her.

Just now, he had helped Qin Huairu settle in with her cousin Qin Jingru, whom she had found from the countryside.

Hearing Li Jianye repeatedly call Bang Geng a thief, and seeing Qin Huairu wiping away tears with her head down, his anger flared up.

It darted up from the ground and jumped out without a second thought.

Little did he know that his step had led him right into the trap set by Yi Zhonghai, an old man.

Yi Zhonghai coldly observed the changing scene, and the corners of his mouth curved into an almost imperceptible smile.

"Li Jianye did indeed speak up in defense... and Sha Zhu couldn't hold back any longer and stepped forward as expected."

As he looked at the renewed suspicion in the eyes of his neighbors, a sense of superiority, as if he were in control of the situation, slowly crept into his heart.

"This time, this country bumpkin should finally get a taste of his own medicine."

Li Jianye glanced at the doubtful expressions on everyone's faces and sighed inwardly.

These days, there aren't many literate people, and even fewer who have received formal education.

Since a formal criminal law has not yet been promulgated, ordinary people have little understanding of the "law".

The understanding of this mostly comes from the old sayings passed down from the older generation: a life for a life, a debt for a debt, the stolen goods for a thief, and two people for an adulterer.

In their view, since Banggeng came out empty-handed, it didn't count as stealing; and since Jia Zhangshi herself didn't take anything, she was naturally even less guilty.

As for "instigation"

What does it mean? Nobody understands, and nobody wants to understand.

No matter how clearly he explained it, once people knew that someone like Deng Xiaoping was behind him, those explanations were immediately forgotten.

They only want to believe what they want to believe—a person with connections to the heavens, wouldn't it be easy to manipulate a small matter?

Legal provisions, in this time and place, are no match for the dark speculations deep in people's hearts.

As Li Jianye stood up, his gaze passed over He Yuzhu and landed directly on Yi Zhonghai's face.

There was an insurmountable gap in their perspectives between him and He Yuzhu, and any explanation would be futile.

At this moment, he had only one clear goal in mind—to make Yi Zhonghai personally acknowledge that responsibility at today's conference.

Yi Zhonghai nodded slowly and deliberately: "He Yuzhu is right."

Those who are valued by Deng Xiaoping should naturally have a broader perspective.

He then changed the subject, mentioning the Jia family's affairs, but his tone was as calm as if he were reading an official document: "As for the Jia family's affairs, we must ultimately trust the government's judgment."

These words, though seemingly impeccable, subtly sowed seeds of doubt in everyone's hearts.

Many eyes began to wander, and whispers began to grow in the corners—Yi Zhonghai's words were clearly loaded with hidden meaning, and people dared not speak out against him.

"Mother—"

The moment Jia Dongxu received Yi Zhonghai's gaze, he burst into tears.

He pounded his knees, his voice hoarse: "With you gone, the pillar of this family has collapsed! How are we going to survive from now on!"

Qin Huairu also lowered her head, her shoulders trembling slightly.

She didn't want to direct her anger at Li Jianye, but she was even more afraid of Jia Dongxu's fists and kicks.