Chapter 101: Heavily Knocking Xu Damao and the Deaf Old Lady

Seeing that He Yuzhu neither gave him gifts nor was very respectful to him, but instead spoke to him in a matter-of-fact tone, Liu Haizhong felt angry and prepared to slap the table and drive He Yuzhu away.

Just as Liu Haizhong was about to speak, his clothes corner was tugged by Liu Guangtian.

"Fool... Pillar, you go back first, I will consider your request," Liu Haizhong said, suppressing his indignation.

"Dad, what do you want to do? Pillar brother is a leader now. Even if you can't stand him, you can't offend Pillar brother. If you offend Pillar brother, Pillar brother says a few bad words in front of the leader, do you still want to be a leader?" Liu Guangdao.

"He dares?" Liu Haizhong shouted angrily.

"What does Pillar brother not dare to do? Maybe he doesn't have the ability to make you a leader, but adding trouble and sabotaging in secret, isn't that easy?" Liu Guangtian sneered.

No matter how unconvinced Liu Haizhong was, there was a trace of horror on his face.

"Besides, why did Pillar brother come to find you? It's because you have the most prestige in this courtyard house. Even the leader recognizes your prestige. You still don't take this opportunity to hold a full-courtyard meeting and sit on your prestige."

"You helped Pillar brother, Pillar brother will definitely help you too. Director Wang from the Street Office will also praise you after hearing about this. Maybe she will restore your status as the Second Grand Uncle, no, it should be the First Grand Uncle. Why not do it?" Liu Guangdao.

Upon hearing this, Liu Haizhong was happy. After thinking about it carefully, Liu Haizhong thought Liu Guangtian was really right.

"A leader like Shazhu has to ask me to hold a Siheyuan meeting when he returns to the Siheyuan, which shows that this Siheyuan can't do without me," Liu Haizhong thought to himself with complacency.

Subsequently, Liu Haizhong let Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu notify that a full-courtyard meeting would be held in ten minutes.

This was the first full-courtyard meeting held since Yi Zhonghai died. In the past, the Siheyuan held a full-courtyard meeting every few days. Not holding one for such a long time, everyone missed it a little.

At Liu Haizhong's strong request, the Deaf Old Lady also had to attend this full-courtyard meeting. The Deaf Old Lady vaguely felt something was wrong, so she used the excuse of leg pain to not go out.

Unfortunately, it was not the same as before. The Deaf Old Lady didn't have Yi Zhonghai to protect her. Liu Haizhong didn't care if your leg was really painful or not, directly ordering Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu to put the Deaf Old Lady on a chair, and then carry the person and the chair together to the middle courtyard to attend the full-courtyard meeting.

The entire Siheyuan, except for Qin Huairu who was in postpartum confinement at home and didn't come out, everyone else came.

Qin Huairu knew that the Jia family was in the most dangerous time now and couldn't afford any tossing, so she sent Qin Mu to attend the Siheyuan full-courtyard meeting to show respect to Liu Haizhong.

Liu Haizhong felt very satisfied with Qin Huairu's move. At first, he was a little floating, but then he saw Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu holding paper and books, intending to take notes, and the complacency in his heart immediately disappeared without a trace.

This was what He Yuzhu had instructed Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu to do. In the future, full-courtyard meetings must be equipped with recorders to record the content of the full-courtyard meeting and submit it to the Street Office, which greatly restricted the power of the Siheyuan Grand Uncles, saving them from taking chicken feathers as arrows and acting lawlessly.

"Tonight, I, this former Second Grand Uncle, at the request of Deputy Director He, hold a full-courtyard meeting. Now, please invite Deputy Director He to speak," Liu Haizhong said.

Liu Haizhong didn't talk at length or put on airs or play official jargon, because Liu Haizhong knew that his every word and action would be recorded. Fearing to cause Director Wang's resentment, Liu Haizhong suppressed his desire and kept everything simple.

Although the words were reduced, the prestige couldn't be shaken, because Liu Haizhong's words still had the meaning of stepping on He Yuzhu to show his ability.

He Yuzhu was too lazy to pay attention to Liu Haizhong and stood up directly and said: "I delayed everyone's time. In a while, I will take out two eggs to make a large pot of egg soup for everyone to drink, just to apologize to everyone."

When the beasts of the Siheyuan heard that there was a bargain to be had, they immediately got into the spirit and cheered in unison that He Yuzhu was righteous.

Two eggs to make a large pot of egg soup, although very thin, it was better than plain water.

"Today, I asked the former mediator of our courtyard, Liu Haizhong, to hold a full-courtyard meeting for a very simple purpose: to settle accounts with Xu Damao and the Deaf Old Lady!"

"Today is the day of my blind date with a girl, but Xu Damao and the Deaf Old Lady didn't do human things and insisted on ruining my good deed. Xu Damao took the opportunity of the girl going to the toilet to block the girl and desperately said bad things about me, splashing dirty water on me; while the Deaf Old Lady chased to the matchmaker's house after the matchmaker and the girl left, desperately ruining my good deed."

"It is often said: 'It is better to tear down ten temples than to destroy one marriage.' What kind of behavior is this? You are beasts! Beasts worse than pigs and dogs!"

"Xu Damao, Deaf Old Lady, if you don't give me an explanation today, don't blame me for being impolite!" He Yuzhu said sternly without any politeness.

"Shazhu, don't talk nonsense. When did I ruin your blind date?" Xu Damao shouted loudly with a look of being wronged.

Xu Damao naturally wouldn't admit such a thing. If he admitted it, Xu Damao would really become a natural bad seed, and his reputation would be completely stinking.

At this time, once the reputation stank, there was no possibility of progress at all.

Although the Deaf Old Lady was shocked in her heart, she was calm on the surface, lying on the chair like a sick person, feigning deafness and dumbness.

He Yuzhu sneered, looked coldly at the arrogant Xu Damao and the Deaf Old Lady, and beckoned to the house.

Wang Meipo and Wang Xiulan walked out of the house and told the story of what happened today.

Xu Damao and the Deaf Old Lady's faces changed instantly!

Whether it was Xu Damao or the Deaf Old Lady, neither expected He Yuzhu to play this hand, directly inviting people over, which was equivalent to tearing off the mask.

The reason the Deaf Old Lady dared to openly ruin He Yuzhu's blind date was that the Deaf Old Lady thought He Yuzhu wouldn't tear off his face, and in the end, he would only beat Xu Damao up and that would be it.

"You are in the same group. Who knows if you set the trap together?" Xu Damao rolled his eyes and said.

Xu Damao's main point was to be stubborn and refuse to admit it. This kind of thing could only be said by mouth, and there was no solid evidence. Xu Damao was determined that as long as he insisted on not admitting it, He Yuzhu couldn't do anything to him.

If He Yuzhu got anxious and beat him up, then He Yuzhu would be in the wrong even if he was in the right.

"I am not a public security officer, I don't talk about evidence. Since you don't admit it, then tomorrow I will notify the factory and the Street Office about this matter, and let the factory and the Street Office investigate."

"It just so happens that I heard that the Investigation Team still has a small group of people staying at the Rolling Mill on standby. They are experts in interrogation. I will go all out and ask them to help investigate. I don't believe they can't investigate this matter clearly."

"Xu Damao, Deaf Old Lady, don't blame me for not notifying you in advance. Once the matter is investigated and becomes big, Xu Damao, you will inevitably be labeled as morally corrupt. Even if the Rolling Mill doesn't fire you, you will never want to climb up in your life. No one will let a morally corrupt person be a leader. You can't even pass the simplest political review."

"And you, Deaf Old Lady, if you admit it now, it will be better. If you don't admit it, when they interrogate it out, you can only go to the nursing home to fend for yourself," He Yuzhu said coldly.

As soon as He Yuzhu's voice fell, Xu Damao and the Deaf Old Lady's faces turned deathly pale.

Even if they hadn't seen the Investigation Team's ability, they could imagine it. Neither of them had the confidence to survive round after round of investigation, especially the Deaf Old Lady, who might even die in the process of investigation.

"Pillar, don't, no, Brother Zhu, how big a matter is it to disturb the Investigation Team? I was wrong, I apologize to you, I deserve to be beaten, Brother Zhu, please let me off this time," Xu Damao said with a flattering smile on his face, while pretending to slap his own face.

He Yuzhu didn't speak, but looked at the Deaf Old Lady.

The Deaf Old Lady's face turned green, then red, then purple, then black... like opening a dyeing shop.

"Pillar, Grandma is doing it for your own good..." the Deaf Old Lady said, taking advantage as soon as she opened her mouth. "Stop! Old deaf woman, don't get close! So you admit that you ruined my blind date? How can you be so immoral, actually doing such despicable, shameless, and extremely low-down things?" He Yuzhu shouted angrily.

He Yuzhu wanted to nail the Deaf Old Lady to the pillar of shame. In the future, when people in the Siheyuan talked about the Deaf Old Lady, the first impression would be immoral, shameless, despicable, and low-down.

The Deaf Old Lady's future life could be imagined. No one would give the Deaf Old Lady a good look. When the Deaf Old Lady thought of this, her face turned deathly gray.

"Pillar, I really did it for your own good," the Deaf Old Lady struggled to say.

By now, the Deaf Old Lady had already seen that this was a trap set by He Yuzhu. Wang Meipo and Wang Xiulan were clearly invited by He Yuzhu to act as a formality. Unexpectedly, neither the Deaf Old Lady nor Xu Damao, nor everyone in the Siheyuan, saw this point.

Xu Damao and the Deaf Old Lady foolishly took the bait.

"I'm really stupid, really... how could I be so unable to hold my breath?" The Deaf Old Lady wished she could slap herself twice.

"Xu Damao, Deaf Old Lady, this matter is not over. If you want this matter to turn the page, then each of you will pay me five hundred yuan in reputation loss fees," He Yuzhu said calmly.

"What? Five hundred? Impossible! Five yuan at most, take it or leave it!" Xu Damao snorted coldly.

"Guangtian, go to the Rolling Mill Security Section to report the case; Guangfu, go and invite Director Wang from the Street Office to come over," He Yuzhu didn't bargain with Xu Damao at all and directly flipped the table.

"Don't! Brother Zhu, no, Grandpa Zhu, this is too much, right? Where do I have so much money? You are asking for a sky-high price, you have to allow us to bargain on the ground," Xu Damao said with a numb heart and a smiling face.

"This is not a business!" He Yuzhu said coldly, then looked at Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu.

Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu immediately ran towards the outside of the Siheyuan.

At this time, no one stood up to say anything like 'things in the Siheyuan should be solved in the courtyard'. Everyone was watching the excitement on the side.

Liu Haizhong wanted to stand up and shout such a sentence, but thinking that doing so would definitely be labeled with the black pot of acting arbitrarily, he didn't speak.

"Guangtian, Guangfu, stop for me!" Xu Damao couldn't help but shout loudly.

It would have been better if Xu Damao hadn't shouted. With this shout, the two ran even faster. In the blink of an eye, the two were about to run out of the middle courtyard. Once they ran out of the middle courtyard, it would be over.

"Stop! I admit defeat!" Xu Damao said dejectedly, but in his heart, he was thinking that as long as Shazhu really dared to take this money, he would turn around and sue him for extortion.

"Guangtian, come back. Old Lady, what do you say?" He Yuzhu sneered.

The reason He Yuzhu knocked Xu Damao and the Deaf Old Lady so hard was mainly to let the Deaf Old Lady reveal her wealth. Once the Deaf Old Lady revealed her wealth, the beasts of the Siheyuan would rush up like sharks smelling blood.

By then, who would win would depend on their own abilities.

"I have no money. I'll use an old object to top it," the Deaf Old Lady said, looking dejected as if her spirit had been drained.

Although Xu Damao had saved quite a bit of money, these five hundred yuan were not a small amount. It could be said that after He Yuzhu's wave of operation, Xu Damao's hard work for these years was in vain, and he returned to before liberation overnight.

Xu Damao took out five hundred yuan with tears and a crying face. Now, Xu Damao only had a dozen yuan left on his whole body.

He Yuzhu didn't take Xu Damao's money directly, but under the witness of everyone, let Xu Damao write a compensation letter, writing the whole process on it, not giving Xu Damao a chance to bite back.

Xu Damao had no choice but to write the compensation letter.

After He Yuzhu got the money, there was no movement on his face, but he stared tightly at the Deaf Old Lady.

"Pillar, come with me for a trip, carry me home," the Deaf Old Lady said.

"Deaf Old Lady, stop that! You pay or not, if you don't pay, forget it! Guangfu..." He Yuzhu shouted loudly.

"I'll pay! I'll pay!" the Deaf Old Lady said with extreme helplessness, and then, after glaring at He Yuzhu with extreme anger, she let Yan Jieceng and Yan Jiekuang carry her home.

The Deaf Old Lady drove Yan Jieceng and Yan Jiekuang out. After more than ten minutes, the Deaf Old Lady let Yan Jieceng and Yan Jiekuang carry her back to the middle courtyard.

After the Deaf Old Lady arrived at the middle courtyard, there was an extra small yellow fish in her hand.

The Deaf Old Lady didn't say a word, handed the small gold bar to He Yuzhu, and then let Yan Jieceng and Yan Jiekuang carry her back.

"Stop!" He Yuzhu shouted in a deep voice.

The Deaf Old Lady didn't speak, but looked at He Yuzhu silently.

"A small yellow fish is about thirty-one grams. Our gold price is about twenty yuan per gram. This small yellow fish is about six hundred and twenty yuan. I won't take advantage of you. I'll count it as seven hundred, and I'll return two hundred to you," He Yuzhu said, counting out twenty big black tens and stuffing them into the Deaf Old Lady's hand.

For the current He Yuzhu, He Yuzhu had mastered the right to distribute materials to a certain extent, so he naturally wouldn't care about this little money. Even, these things had become numbers in He Yuzhu's eyes, so He Yuzhu naturally wouldn't care.

He Yuzhu didn't care, but the beasts of the Siheyuan cared.

They didn't dare to snatch the small yellow fish in He Yuzhu's hand, but they dared to snatch the small yellow fish in the Deaf Old Lady's hand.

If the Deaf Old Lady could take out one small yellow fish, she could take out two. Heaven knew how many small yellow fish the Deaf Old Lady could take out.

The Deaf Old Lady looked at He Yuzhu very complexly, not understanding why He Yuzhu didn't take advantage of this, as she had clearly indicated that she would use the small yellow fish to replace these five hundred yuan.

Why did He Yuzhu calculate the fine account and not take a penny of her advantage?

The Deaf Old Lady didn't understand He Yuzhu, and He Yuzhu didn't understand the Deaf Old Lady either.

If the Deaf Old Lady had directly stated her intention to ask him to support her in her old age and displayed her financial power, maybe he would have supported the Deaf Old Lady. At worst, he would spend some money to hire San Dama to serve the Deaf Old Lady well.

But the Deaf Old Lady refused to do so and insisted on controlling other people's lives.

Is the human desire for control so strong?

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 102 =====