Chapter 25: Yi and Deaf Collude

"Yes, Jia Dongxu's only economic source was his salary. The pension of Jia Dongxu's father was not in his hands at all, but in Jia Zhangshi's hands. Jia Zhangshi couldn't possibly give the money to Jia Dongxu, not even a cent."

"Jia Dongxu's total was 27.5 yuan. He gave his mother 3 yuan, and there were 24.5 yuan left. It should be said that 24.5 yuan was barely enough for a family's expenses, but the Jia family was different."

"Jia Zhangshi not only wanted to eat her fill, but also wanted to eat well. That is to say, in the past two years, Jia Zhangshi ate cornmeal buns. In the past, Jia Zhangshi had to eat cornmeal buns made of two kinds of flour at the very least, and had to eat meat from time to time."

"How could Jia Dongxu's little salary withstand such creation? Not only did he spend his monthly salary clean, but he also had to borrow money. Whose money to borrow? Naturally, it was Yi Zhonghai's."

"Yi Zhonghai borrowed money in name, but in reality, he was controlling Jia Dongxu economically and letting Jia Dongxu form a habit in his thinking, that is, he couldn't do it without Yi Zhonghai and had to rely on Yi Zhonghai. Yi Zhonghai then continued to brainwash and tame him so as to completely control Jia Dongxu."

"Why did Yi Zhonghai use his power to go through the back door to let Jia Dongxu become a Second-Grade Worker the year before last? That was because of reality. Everyone knows the situation in the past two years. Grain harvest was poor, rations were reduced, and Jia Dongxu's family could only go to the black market to buy high-priced grain if they wanted to survive."

"Yi Zhonghai didn't want to pay this money, so naturally he let the Rolling Mill pay, so he went through the back door to let Jia Dongxu become a Second-Grade Worker."

"Yi Zhonghai felt it was not safe to just control Jia Dongxu. He wanted to control everyone in the courtyard. If everyone in the courtyard was brainwashed by him and accepted his 'Will of the Courtyard' as truth, when Yi Zhonghai was old, as long as Jia Dongxu dared to abuse Yi Zhonghai, naturally there would be people to deal with Jia Dongxu, thereby forcing Jia Dongxu to have to treat Yi Zhonghai well."

"At this time, it was necessary to have a model, a model of respecting the elderly and loving the young. Very coincidentally, the Deaf Old Lady in the backyard was also a person without descendants and also needed someone to support her in her old age. The two hit it off."

"Yi Zhonghai held a full-courtyard meeting. At the meeting, Yi Zhonghai hid the fact that the Deaf Old Lady was a person with five guarantees, and in front of all the neighbors, expressed that he would support the Deaf Old Lady in her old age and recognized the Deaf Old Lady as his foster mother."

"Yi Zhonghai did this just to show the people in the courtyard, to be precise, to show the Jia Dongxu couple. The Deaf Old Lady couldn't just enjoy the benefits; she also had to do things."

"What the Deaf Old Lady had to do was to suppress those who were not convinced in the Siheyuan by considering herself as the ancestor. Speaking of which, the Deaf Old Lady was able to do this because she pulled the tiger skin of Factory Director Yang and Director Wang."

"The Deaf Old Lady secretly let Yi Zhonghai publicize that she had a friendship with Factory Director Yang, and then the Deaf Old Lady did indeed do some practical things for Yi Zhonghai as proof of the rumors. Factory Director Yang, was that thing the Deaf Old Lady did handled by you?" He Yuzhu laughed.

"Originally, with Yi Zhonghai's technology, he couldn't reach the level of an Eighth-Grade Worker. It was just that the Deaf Old Lady found me and asked me to return a favor. Moreover, almost all the Eighth-Grade Workers in the factory were transferred away, and the factory also needed people to support the facade, so I chose the tall one among the short ones and chose Yi Zhonghai," Factory Director Yang said with a bitter smile.

Factory Director Yang originally thought that this matter was done very secretly and no one knew, but he didn't expect that the Deaf Old Lady and Yi Zhonghai secretly publicized it, and even He Yuzhu, this cook, knew about it.

"How did the Deaf Old Lady borrow my power?" Director Wang asked with a gloomy face.

"The Deaf Old Lady is a person with five guarantees. You street office have to come to visit the Deaf Old Lady every New Year and festival," He Yuzhu spread his hands and said.

Director Wang understood in an instant. The street office came to visit the old lady according to regulations, and many times it was just a formality, but the people in the Siheyuan didn't know it.

Yi Zhonghai didn't say the real reason and only said that the Deaf Old Lady had a good relationship with Director Wang. This was pulling Director Wang's tiger skin to make a flag, bullying the people in the Siheyuan.

After Director Wang understood, she was instantly very angry.

"In this way, the Deaf Old Lady and Yi Zhonghai formed a community of interests. Yi Zhonghai used this to win over Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui so as to control the Siheyuan."

"This kind of control is not only control in behavior, but also control in ideology and thinking, forcing the people in the Siheyuan to accept Yi Zhonghai's 'Will of the Courtyard' as truth and to believe in it from the bottom of their hearts. 'Yi Zhonghai was able to tame Jia Dongxu into the shape he wanted, and he also believed that after decades of brainwashing and taming, the people in the Siheyuan, especially the new generation, could all be tamed into the shape he wanted.'"

"Since Yi Zhonghai and the Deaf Old Lady are a community of interests, for her own interests, the Deaf Old Lady naturally won't let Yi Zhonghai adopt a child. Once Yi Zhonghai adopts a child, he will focus on the child. Who will care about her, the Deaf Old Lady?"

"Others don't know the bottom line, but Yi Zhonghai knows the Deaf Old Lady's bottom line."

"To sum up, this is the reason why Yi Zhonghai refuses to adopt a child, doesn't allow Jia Zhangshi to leave the Siheyuan, and doesn't allow Qin Huairu to remarry. It is also the reason why Yi Zhonghai wants to control the Siheyuan in ideology and thinking," He Yuzhu said in a deep voice.

He Yuzhu didn't mention that Yi Zhonghai publicized that the Deaf Old Lady was a veteran, not because He Yuzhu was soft-hearted, but because it wasn't the time.

What He Yuzhu wanted to do was not just simply punish Yi Zhonghai.

What He Yuzhu wanted to do was to completely let Yi Zhonghai be ruined, not only physically, but also economically and spiritually, to completely finish off Yi Zhonghai, to let Yi Zhonghai be infamous for ten thousand years, to let Yi Zhonghai freeze to death in a bridge hole, and to follow Shazhu's ending.

To do this, one must go step by step, starting from squeezing Yi Zhonghai dry economically and ruining Yi Zhonghai in reputation.

The leaders present looked at each other, not expecting that a small Siheyuan was actually staging various conspiracies and plots.

"Did Yi Zhonghai's goal succeed?" Director Wang narrowed her eyes, and cold light appeared in her eyes as she asked.

This kind of control in thinking and ideology is even more terrifying. To a certain extent, Yi Zhonghai doing this can be said to be digging the roots of the new world.

Not only Director Wang was concerned, but Director Zheng was also concerned, because they were the ones doing this. If Yi Zhonghai succeeded, Director Wang and Director Zheng would have to take ruthless measures.

"No!" He Yuzhu said.

"No? According to reason, it should be successful," Director Wang asked strangely.

From the perspective of an outsider, Yi Zhonghai was very likely to succeed.

Yi Zhonghai's status and qualifications were placed there, managing the promotion channels of workers in the courtyard; pulling the tiger skin of Factory Director Yang and the street to make a flag, deceiving superiors and subordinates, and having the Deaf Old Lady fox-assuming-the-tiger's-majesty to suppress those who were not convinced.

"First, it's because there are three smart people in this Siheyuan who saw through Yi Zhonghai's purpose. Liu Guangqi, Xu Damao, and Yan Kuaigui."

"Liu Guangqi is currently the only technical secondary school student in this Siheyuan. Those who can be admitted to technical secondary school are the dragons and phoenixes among people, all smart people. Yi Zhonghai's set of things simply cannot deceive smart people, and Liu Guangqi happens not to be the kind of person who only reads books, so..." He Yuzhu said meaningfully.

"So, Liu Guangqi saw through Yi Zhonghai's conspiracy and told Liu Haizhong?" Director Wang subconsciously interfaced.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 26 =====