Chapter 261: The Jia Family loses out, the eldest aunt benefits, and the neighbors settle their grudge

Shazhu returned from overtime work at the Yagangchang. Block

Just arrived home.

Hasn't caught breath yet.

Yu Li took the opportunity while Shazhu was taking off his outer garment to tell him everything that had happened in the Siheyuan during this period, in detail.

Shazhu was stunned.

Didn't expect that this little matter between the eldest aunt and the Jia Family would blow up so much, a meeting was held in the courtyard, and they even specially invited street office staff.

The Jia Family insisted that Yi Zhonghai had given Qin Huairu over three hundred yuan; this money could go to the eldest aunt, but as Yi Zhonghai's daughter-in-law, the eldest aunt must fulfill certain responsibilities after his death.

In short. Block

It's just about money.

Jia Zhangshi, who considers picking up nothing while walking a loss, could not possibly support Yi Zhonghai's daughter for free; she used the pretext that Huaihua was Yi Zhonghai's daughter to demand maintenance fees from the eldest aunt.

According to Jia Zhangshi's plan, she would return the full amount Yi Zhonghai had given to the eldest aunt, then demand money from her in the name of maintaining Huaihua.

Give money first, then ask for money — small out, big in.

This is Jia Zhangshi's strategy.

But they didn't expect the eldest aunt to deviate from the script: she took the over three hundred yuan Jia Zhangshi handed her, turned and was about to leave, saying she wouldn't pay any maintenance fee for Huaihua.

Watching the Jia Family about to suffer a loss, Jia Zhangshi. Block

She became anxious.

Pointing at the eldest aunt's nose, she loudly cursed her, saying the eldest aunt was a beast and unworthy to be Yi Zhonghai's daughter-in-law.

The eldest aunt retorted, calling Jia Zhangshi an ungrateful white-eyed wolf who had eaten much from the Yi family and now wanted to bleed the Yi family dry by using Huaihua as an excuse; if she really gave the money to the Jia Family, it would be unclear whether it was spent by Jia Zhangshi or used for Huaihua.

Their quarrel was extremely fierce.

Jia Zhangshi asked the neighbors to judge.

The eldest aunt wanted the neighbors to reason.

Seeing the situation turn bad, Liu Haizhong interjected, saying they should hold a meeting in the Dayuan to discuss the Jia Family and the eldest aunt, and also sent people to invite street office comrades. Block

In front of the street office staff and the neighbors, Jia Zhangshi repeated her old talking points, recounting again how much money Huaihua needed to grow up, that the Jia Family couldn't suffer a loss, that Huaihua couldn't be without a mother, and so on.

She said she had returned the money Yi Zhonghai gave Qin Huairu, and asked whether the eldest aunt should give the Jia Family maintenance fees for Huaihua.

This maintenance fee.

Jia Zhangshi set the amount at one thousand yuan.

She bluntly said the eldest aunt had money, noting that Yi Zhonghai earned ninety-nine yuan a month, so one thousand yuan was just about ten months of his wages.

Yi Zhonghai's money.

As Yi Zhonghai's daughter, Huaihua had the right to spend this money. Block

The eldest aunt countered sharply.

She said that a few days earlier Qin Huairu and Jia Zhangshi had claimed that the Jia Family's savings of over two thousand yuan were entirely from Yi Zhonghai, and that this statement had been heard not just by one neighbor but by over a hundred people in the courtyard, who heard it loud and clear.

Yi Zhonghai is dead.

But the eldest aunt is still alive.

She also did not deny that Huaihua is Yi Zhonghai's daughter.

The eldest aunt spoke with conviction: if Yi Zhonghai had given Qin Huairu only three hundred yuan, then the Jia Family would have savings of seventeen hundred yuan!

Having so much money, yet asking Yi Zhonghai to organize the neighbors to donate money and goods to the Jia Family is a typical malicious fraud, a blatant blood‑sucking act. Block

Qin Huairu was dumbfounded.

Jia Zhangshi was stunned.

The two widows of the Jia Family finally experienced what it means to lift a rock only to drop it on one's own foot.

The charge of deceiving the neighbors and extorting money from them.

This forced Qin Huairu and Jia Zhangshi to shift the blame onto Yi Zhonghai.

Shifting the blame onto Yi Zhonghai is better than bleeding the neighbors.

The latter. Block

Qin Huairu reckoned she might not even get a chance to work at the Yagangchang, and anxiously she still had to go study at the street office.

Which is more important?

Jia Zhangshi understood clearly; this was also why she had not opposed Qin Huairu initially and had even spoken in her favor.

Yet they didn't expect the eldest aunt to fire back with a counterattack, nor did they expect the neighbors to take the Jia Family widows' false excuses as truth and, in front of the street office staff, firmly support the eldest aunt with conviction.

They said that since Jia Dongxu's mishap, Yi Zhonghai had used the Jia Family's inability to afford a pot as an excuse to call on neighbors to donate money and goods to the Jia Family; at the donation meeting, Jia Zhangshi and Qin Huairu tearily claimed how poor they were, how they couldn't afford a pot, how they ate only one meal a day, a meal being just a steamed bun, and so on.

If those over two thousand yuan were indeed the Jia Family's own savings, then their act of feigning poverty to coerce donations would have to be treated as a typical case to be cracked down on.

Could the Jia Family still be the Jia Family? Block

Someone in the crowd shouted the slogan that the Jia Family are vampires!

This charge is no ordinary big deal.

If they really got labeled with that, the Jia Family duo of widows led by Jia Zhangshi would have nothing good to eat, and Bangeng and Xiao Dang would also suffer misfortune.

One is a matter of nature.

One is a matter of morality.

How to choose?

Naturally it's the latter. Block

Being pointed at is better than going to jail.

Jia Zhangshi and Qin Huairu wisely chose to stay silent.

This mute loss.

They must eat.

At the time, they admitted that the over two thousand were given by Yi Zhonghai, and the date of giving was a few days before Yi Zhonghai's accident.

The parties involved admitted.

Moreover, over a hundred people from the courtyard gave collective testimony. Railings.

The street office gave specific handling opinions; Yi Zhonghai gave the Jia family over two thousand, a big aunt took five hundred, the remaining one thousand five hundred, in the form of Huaihua's upkeep fees, stayed with the Jia family; to prevent this money from not actually reaching Huaihua, the courtyard formed a support group for Huaihua led by Liu Haizhong and Yan Fugui to monitor the Jia family, with Liu Haizhong as group leader, Yan Fugui as deputy leader, and over a dozen big aunts as members.

The big aunt profited.

The neighbors vented their resentment.

The Jia family suffered a loss.

Such a result.

Shazhu didn't know what to say.

Perhaps evildoers will someday get their due. Railings.

Also blaming the Jia family people for being too greedy, only thinking about eating and drinking off the neighbors.

In the past, the cause.

Today, the fruit.

If it weren't for the Jia family's greed, there wouldn't be this self-inflicted suffering.

Shazhu shook his head.

He turned his gaze toward his own son.

It was also very strange. Railings.

During the day, no matter how you called, he wouldn't wake up.

At night, no matter what you said, he wouldn't sleep.

He babbled incomprehensible sounds that Shazhu couldn't understand; when in a good mood he urinated, when in a bad mood he defecated.

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The Jia family.

Since the meeting ended.

Jia Zhangshi has remained like this wooden person, staring straight ahead, her expression uncertain. Railings.

Qin Huairu knew Jia Zhangshi was angry.

To speak frankly.

Doesn't she have any anger?

This old lady.

She throws tantrums regardless of the occasion.

Sometimes, throwing a tantrum solves everything; sometimes, it backfires. Tonight, if it weren't for Jia Zhangshi's greed, the Jia family wouldn't have lost so much money.

Five hundred. Railings.

Just like that, without blinking, they gave five hundred to the big aunt.

The problem is that after the big aunt took the money, she didn't feel grateful to the Jia family, acting completely self-satisfied.

His gaze turned toward Huaihua.

With the neighbors helping to keep watch, Huaihua's life will surely be easy; the only one having a hard time is Jia Zhangshi.