Chapter 188

Yu Li diverted the topic to Yu Haitang.

Shazhu's long-sealed memory was also opened; speaking bluntly, he had forgotten Yu Haitang.

A figure of renown at Yagangchang, equal in fame to Qin Huairu.

Known by countless people.

Qin Huairu is the Qiao Gua Fu renowned throughout Yagangchang.

Yu Haitang is the beautiful factory flower known to all at Yagangchang.

In the previous life.

Shazhu and Qin Huairu have an ambiguous relationship and enjoy it, unable to extricate themselves for a long time.

He Yushui saw this, worried that Shazhu would remain a bachelor, so wanted to introduce her classmate Yu Haitang to Shazhu as a wife.

In the end, amidst the mistakes, Yu Haitang unexpectedly met Xu Daming, and they talked very enthusiastically.

At that time, Xu Daming had just ruined Shazhu's blind date with Qin Jingru, and had an indescribable affair with Qin Jingru; if Qin Huairu hadn't noticed something was wrong, she would have faked a pregnancy certificate to threaten Xu Daming, forcing him to marry Qin Jingru; Yu Haitang might then have truly become Xu Daming's wife.

Deep down.

Also a vain person.

Yu Haitang and Yu Li are basically two extremes.

Yu Li is capable both at home and outside, taking care of her husband and her sister-in-law, without complaint or regret.

Looking at Yu Haitang, inside and out she shows a tendency to change affection for novelty; otherwise she couldn't have gone on a blind date with Shazhu and then turned to meet Xu Daming.

Shazhu's brows were tightly furrowed.

The future beautiful factory flower of Yagangchang came to the siheyuan; what's the matter?

The gaze carried a hint of contemplation.

Also a worry arose: if Yu Haitang met Xu Daming in the courtyard, they might spark love, making things interesting.

What's there to fear?

And yet, what came?

He habitually shook his head.

He let out a faint sigh.

Seeing Shazhu like that, Yu Li mistakenly thought Shazhu didn't welcome Yu Haitang's arrival, reached out and grabbed Shazhu's ear, asserting her feminine authority.

"You look like you don't welcome my sister."

"Wife, look at what you're saying, your sister is my sister, we're all one family, how could we not welcome her?" Shazhu accompanied with a smile; a pregnant woman is truly not to be provoked, "I just can't understand—with such heavy studies, why did she come to the siheyuan? And Yushui!"

Shazhu, who had completely forgotten his biological sister He Yushui, finally remembered this ill-fated sister of his.

His whole body involuntarily shuddered.

He panicked.

He knows some things; He Yushui also had a hard fate, yet he happened to meet her.

……

The staff took Long Laotaitai back to Jiēdào.

Along the way, I really worried that Long Laotaitai would be drowned by the neighbors' spit.

Better to demolish ten temples than destroy a family bond.

This principle is known even to children over ten; you, old and with one foot already in the coffin, doing the thing of splitting up a couple and destroying their marriage.

This wicked deed cannot be described merely as 'lacking virtue'; it's extremely lacking virtue, lacking great virtue, basically not something a person would do; people couldn't do such a thing.

After learning the inside story, the neighbors who knew Long Laotaitai had done a wicked deed warmly expressed their most sincere greetings to her.

Originally it only needed over thirty minutes.

Because too many people came to watch the excitement.

They ended up walking for over two hours.

During the 120-minute journey, Long Laotaitai was scolded to the point of being covered in dog's blood.

For a mouthful of food and drink, to destroy someone's marriage.

You lack virtue.

Inside the siheyuan.

Has Yi Zhonghai as a backer.

Long Laotaitai calls herself the ancestor of the great courtyard.

Every household respects and offers to her; when there's tasty food that improves life, under Yi Zhonghai's moral coercion, even if they don't eat it themselves they must reluctantly send it to Long Laotaitai.

They call it care and filial piety.

They truly have brought the four characters 'abusing power and imposing punishment' to the extreme.

Now that Yi Zhonghai's support is gone, Long Laotaitai has become nothing.

Everyone cried.

Tears uncontrollably welled up from the eye sockets.

This also made Long Laotaitai increasingly resent Yi Zhonghai in her heart; she is convinced that this matter is Yi Zhonghai meddling behind the scenes.

A very clever scheme of killing with a borrowed knife.

Ah!

A sigh rose in the heart.

Unconsciously thinking of Shazhu; if Yi Zhonghai were replaced by Shazhu, Shazhu's cooking would satisfy her appetite, and Yu Li's filial piety would make her old age very happy.

Just a thought.

Long Laotaitai's gluttony made Shazhu and his wife keep their distance from her, naturally also eliminating any possibility of caring for her.

Too late for regrets!

Siheyuan

Yan Family

Yan Fugui looked at his eldest son with a troubled expression.

He didn't know what to do.

To tell the truth.

He regretted it.

Had he known that Yu Li was such a good daughter-in-law with that personality, Yan Fugui wouldn't have begrudged a few cents for the matchmaker, and wouldn't have let Shazhu get the upper hand.

As a result, his eldest son still can't forget Yu Li.

It also made the Yan family completely a laughingstock.

The neighbors were all making fun of Yan Fugui over Yu Li's matter, constantly saying that, to save five cents of matchmaker fee, he gave such a good daughter-in-law as Yu Li to Shazhu, completely disregarding Yu Li at the time—she didn't even know Yan Jiefang, and she and Shazhu had taken a liking to each other.

Ah!

A sigh escaped.

Mixed feelings.

"Eldest son, don't blame me, your father. You and Yu Li have no fate. I heard that Shazhu already knew Yu Li. When I asked you to have me find a matchmaker to talk about Yu Li, Yu Li's parents had already met Shazhu and agreed to let Yu Li marry him."

Yan Jiefang glanced at Yan Fugui, then turned and left the Yan family.

He also knew he was only enthusiastic at first.

But who made him care about Yu Li?

Seeing Yu Li wholeheartedly handling Shazhu's household chores, Yan Jiefang felt envy, and also a surge of indignation; if he had married Yu Li, he certainly wouldn't have let her work so hard.

He was also an idealist.

Completely disregarding the Yan family's scheming family tradition.

Given Yan Fugui's scheming nature to the core, Yu Li marrying into the Yan family would truly be falling into a pit of fire—she'd have to pay rent for housing, pay for meals, and hand over part of her earnings to Yan Fugui.

That's like now, in Shazhu's household, Shazhu turns over all his money and documents without holding back, and He Yushui also shows increased respect and obedience to Yu Li as his sister-in-law.

Watching Yan Jiefang's retreating back.

Third Aunt was furious.

"You say, if your scheming fails you end up poor; now it's great—your scheming has left you without even a daughter-in-law."

Bringing up this matter.

Yan Fugui was also seething with anger.

"How can this be blamed on me? Everyone already had their eyes on Shazhu; even if I asked someone to make the match, it would have come to nothing. It's just a daughter-in-law—worst case, I'll spend money to find one."

"Do you have a target?" Third Aunt exclaimed in surprise; Yan Jiefang's feelings for Yu Li truly worried her. "If the eldest son takes a liking, we'll talk later; if not, it's useless."

"Yu Li has a sister named Yu Haitang."

"That classmate He Yushui is still in school."

A street worker who didn't know the situation saw the deaf old lady dressed like a beggar woman and felt curious.

The ancestors of the siheyuan's main courtyard.

Unexpectedly, he has fallen so low.

What happened?

Even the deaf old lady has suffered a loss.

"Old Wang, what's wrong with the old lady?"

Old Wang glanced at the deaf old lady, curled his lip, and said in a disdainful tone: "Old Li, you say she's been scolded for doing bad deeds!"

They're all thousand-year-old foxes.

What kind of Liaozhai trick are they playing?

In Old Li's mind, four words immediately appeared.

You ***

His heart filled with endless curiosity.

The deaf old lady is said to be deeply supported by the residents of the Red Star Courtyard; even now, the neighbors still actively send them the meat and vegetables they use to improve their livelihood.

It's strange.

How could the old lady be in such a sorry state!

"Stop beating around the bush, just tell me what's up."

"This old lady, she lacks great virtue." Old Wang deliberately turned his head toward the deaf old lady, speaking loudly about her glorious past: "In their main courtyard there is a film projectionist named Xu Daming."

"I know, he married the daughter of a Yagangchang shareholder, named Lou Xiaoe; back then I helped with the household registration—what's between Xu Daming, Lou Xiaoe, and the deaf old lady?"

"This old lady says Xu Daming is no good, that marrying Lou Xiaoe to him is like jumping into a fire pit, urging Lou Xiaoe to bravely pursue her own happiness."

The people around changed their expressions.

Saying they're pursuing happiness.

It's just stirring up someone else's divorce.

Destroying someone's marriage!

No wonder they look so unlucky and miserable.

"This old lady is a bit shameless; yesterday she even badmouthed Xu Daming to Lou Xiaoe's face, and Xu Daming heard it."

"Now I understand, Xu Daming reported this old lady."

It wasn't Dama Xu who reported it; our leader received a report this morning, and the letter listed a series of crimes by the deaf old lady. Guess what else she did besides breaking up Dama Xu's marriage?

……

The deaf old lady's brain was racing.

The street office's words seemed to confirm the deaf old lady's guess; her current predicament showed that the mastermind was Yi Zhonghai.

The report letter is the evidence.

If it were Dama Xu, he would definitely report it under his real name.

Last night, both sides were already at the point of tearing each other's faces apart.

There was no affection left.

Naturally, they had no scruples.

Writing a report letter, taking off pants to fart—such a pointless act.

Only those who disliked the deaf old lady and wanted to frame Dama Xu would write a report letter with the idea of borrowing a knife to kill.

Yi Zhonghai!

Besides him.

No one else either.

How strange.

Isn't he afraid of exposing his relationship with Huaihua?

The deaf old lady couldn't understand; in her view, Yi Zhonghai wasn't such a reckless person, and Huaihua was his soft spot.

Where did things go wrong?

The deaf old lady tried to think of remedial measures, but she suddenly realized that if the report letter was indeed written by Yi Zhonghai, then he had already prepared himself mentally to break with her.

In that case.

Her situation then became perilous.

There's shit under her buttocks.

That's all.

How should it end?

Lost in thought, the deaf old lady didn't notice as Old Wang handed a report letter to Old Li; Old Li opened it and immediately gasped, 'This is too much!'

Several workers who leaned in to look at the letter were also stunned.

Breaking up someone's marriage is already wicked enough.

And there's more.

I thought the deaf old lady only had one disgusting matter.

I didn't expect her to be a jack-of-all-trades.

Many disgusting things.

It's almost beyond description.

Two pages of paper, densely filled with the deaf old lady's crimes.

In the big courtyard, she ran amok relying on Yi Zhonghai's backing, looking down on the neighbors; whoever angered the deaf old lady would have their windows smashed with bricks at night.

This is the first.

This is the second.

In the central courtyard, Shazhu, a cook by trade, the deaf old lady eyed him, wanting him to cook Tan family dishes for her without providing ingredients, just waiting to eat for free.

Shazhu saw through the deaf old lady's tricks, ignored her, so she teamed up with Yi Zhonghai to morally blackmail him; when that failed, she spread rumors that Shazhu was a disrespectful scoundrel who didn't even care for his own sister, He Yushui.

Shazhu himself asked a matchmaker to propose to Yu Li, but the deaf old lady spread rumors that Shazhu was shameless, that he found someone himself to propose, and after his marriage claimed he lacked martial virtue for stealing Yan Fugui's daughter-in-law.

……

Siheyuan.

Yi Zhonghai stopped Qin Huairu as she came out of the toilet at the gate.

"Elder, what do you need?"

In front of outsiders.

Qin Huairu's relationship with Yi Zhonghai naturally became that of master and apprentice.

"Is it still about the workshop? I know I'm slow; give me some time, I promise not to hold back my coworkers."

"Workshop matters—work harder and aim to become permanent soon." Yi Zhonghai, taking advantage of the neighbors' distraction, whispered, "That woman just now seemed somewhat familiar; who is she?"

Qin Huairu's heart.

It gave a thump.

She certainly knew whom Yi Zhonghai meant by that woman.

Zhao Hongxia.

She forced herself to calm down.

"You must be mistaken; I don't know that person."

Yi Zhonghai didn't think much of it; he stopped Qin Huairu mainly about the report letter.

The deaf old lady's guess was correct.

The report letter was written by Yi Zhonghai.

Considering the deaf old lady a burden who occasionally threatened him with Huaihua and a cudgel, Yi Zhonghai, in a fit of anger, wrote this report letter.

He called out to Qin Huairu.

It was to check the road and make up for deficiencies.

He signed an offensive-defensive alliance with Qin Huairu.

This is the matter concerning Huaihua and the club!

As long as Qin Huairu insists that Huaihua and the club are Jia Dongxu's bloodline, and the deaf old lady who bears the blame for ruining Xu Daming's marriage, in the absence of a persona, she is merely a bug that Yi Zhonghai can step on anytime, anywhere, and naturally her words are not believed by the neighbors.

This is the first.

The second point that follows is the key.

Only the dead can keep a secret.

Yi Zhonghai will eliminate all uncertain factors affecting Huaihua and the club!

The deaf old lady.

The eldest aunt.

Jia Zhangshi.

And so on.

When necessary, Shazhu can be dealt with by him.

The more dangerous the place, the safer it is.

Who would have thought that the two of them would, in public, speak secrets that could get them killed?

This is called "the darkness under the lamp".

"The letter was written by me." Yi Zhonghai glanced left and right, lowered his voice, and spoke in a tone only the two of them could hear: "The deaf old lady suspects that Huaihua and the club are related to me, suspects that I have designs on you; you should know what to do."

Qin Huairu nodded.

The arrow is on the bowstring; it has to be released.

It's nothing more than gritting one's teeth and refusing to admit it, to the death.