Chapter 81: The long-awaited full-courtyard meeting

The reason Yi Zhonghai was able to get everyone in the courtyard to agree to hold this full-courtyard meeting was by taking advantage of the opportunity of Yan Bugui returning the money. After all, when Yan Bugui returned the money, everyone made money, and Yi Zhonghai also gave money to get them to play along with his act. The people in the Siheyuan didn't want to offend Yi Zhonghai, so they just played along.

Under these circumstances, even if He Yuzhu, as the supervisor, wanted to stop it, he couldn't, and furthermore, He Yuzhu didn't want to stop it.

After a while, footsteps came from outside the door, and the people in the Siheyuan began to attend the full-courtyard meeting.

Yi Zhonghai and the others waited until everyone had arrived before letting Yan Jiecheng notify He Yuzhu.

Only after receiving the notification did He Yuzhu slowly open his door and come into the courtyard.

It was the classic seating arrangement, the classic look.

Yi Zhonghai sat in the middle, Liu Haizhong on the right, and Yan Bugui on the left. The three of them sat behind an Eight Immortals table facing south, looking arrogant. To their left were the Yan brothers, to their right were the Liu brothers, and behind them was the Deaf Old Lady, looking like a three-court joint trial or a regency behind the curtain.

All that was missing was for the Yan and Liu brothers to shout "Mighty!" in unison.

He Yuzhu chuckled, didn't say anything, and found a seat to sit down. Following closely, He Yushui came out of her room and sat with He Yuzhu.

"Silly Brother, the First Great Uncle and the others are coming with ill intent," He Yushui said worriedly.

"Little sister, you don't understand. Our Siheyuan is full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers," He Yuzhu said, looking like a thinker.

"What?" He Yushui was puzzled.

"It means that within this Siheyuan, as long as I am here, if you are a dragon, you have to hide, and if you are a tiger, you have to lie down for me. Have you ever seen a fist the size of a sandbag?" He Yuzhu laughed.

"Silly Brother, force alone cannot solve problems," He Yushui said, frowning.

"But it can solve the person who creates the problem. People say force cannot solve problems because the force isn't strong enough. If the force is strong enough, what problem can't be solved?"

"Truth only exists within the range of the cannons, and dignity only exists on the edge of the sword," He Yuzhu said arrogantly.

He Yushui found that she couldn't quite understand her Silly Brother anymore.

Seeing that He Yuzhu didn't oppose his convening of the full-courtyard meeting, Yi Zhonghai couldn't help but feel secretly proud.

Yi Zhonghai thought that no matter how crazy He Yuzhu was, he wouldn't dare to go against the whole courtyard. As long as he involved the whole courtyard in his future actions and used moral kidnapping from time to time, He Yuzhu would eventually become the Silly Zhu again.

"Tonight's full-courtyard meeting is held at the request of the First Great Uncle. Now, let our respected First Great Uncle speak," Liu Haizhong said.

Ever since Liu Haizhong learned that his every word and action would be recorded, he didn't dare to say much and directly handed the speaking power to Yi Zhonghai.

"Tonight's full-courtyard meeting is held, first of all, to thank the Rolling Mill, the Security Section, the Street Office, and the Police Station. It is precisely because of their tireless work that the rumors about our Siheyuan have been cleared."

"Everyone knows about the rumors from a few days ago. The person who spread the rumors not only severely smeared the reputation of our Siheyuan but also wanted to smear the reputation of our Rolling Mill and the Street Office, thereby striking at our enthusiasm to achieve their ulterior motives."

"Fortunately, the factory saw through it and cleared the suspicion, which allowed me to restore my status as an Eighth-Grade Senior Technician. Here, I plan to write a joint thank-you letter with everyone to thank the Rolling Mill, the factory Security Section, the Street Office, and the Police Station."

"If it weren't for them, the reputation of our Siheyuan wouldn't just be stinking in the streets, it would have spread throughout Sijiucheng. By then, which family's girl would still marry into our courtyard? Could the girls in our courtyard still get married?" Yi Zhonghai said indignantly. "Old Yi is right, we really should write a thank-you letter," Yan Bugui said.

Watching Yi Zhonghai and Yan Bugui singing in harmony, He Yuzhu couldn't help but sneer in his heart. This Yi Zhonghai really knew how to swap concepts and distort facts.

He tied himself and the others to the Siheyuan right from the start. It was clearly just rumors about Yi Zhonghai and his group, yet Yi Zhonghai insisted on calling it rumors about the Siheyuan, and cleverly pointed out that this matter was related to everyone's interests.

Yi Zhonghai's words could only fool those who were dim-witted; anyone with a brain couldn't be fooled.

"Does anyone have any objections? If there are no objections, I will have Old Yan draft the thank-you letter tomorrow, and everyone just needs to sign it," Yi Zhonghai said.

"No objections, this is a good thing, how could there be objections?" Yan Jiecheng shouted first.

Needless to say, Yi Zhonghai must have given Yan Jiecheng money; otherwise, Yan Jiecheng wouldn't be so actively echoing and stirring up the atmosphere.

Just as Yan Jiecheng said, this was a good thing, so naturally, everyone had no objections. For a time, everyone shouted in agreement.

Yi Zhonghai looked at all this with satisfaction, then pressed his hands down and said in a deep voice: "That's settled then. Let's talk about the second thing."

"It's about the Jia family. Everyone knows what happened to the Jia family. Now, only Qin Huairu and the two children are left in the Jia family, and Qin Huairu is still pregnant and unable to work."

"Our Siheyuan is a civilized and advanced Siheyuan, and helping each other is a virtue. Everyone has times of trouble. Today, if you lend a hand when others are in trouble, when you are in trouble one day, others will also help you."

"Now, the Qin Huairu family is in trouble. As the saying goes, when one side is in trouble, all sides support. I hope everyone will lend a helping hand to help Qin Huairu, who is in trouble," Yi Zhonghai said loudly.

At this moment, Yi Zhonghai seemed to be standing in the light; he was the light!

The light of righteousness shone on the big buttocks.

"I didn't want to trouble everyone, after all, everyone isn't living very well either, but my family is really too difficult, we can't survive at all. Here, on behalf of my whole family, I thank everyone," Qin Huairu said, tears streaming down her face, looking extremely miserable.

At this time, the beasts in the Siheyuan didn't have the look of having lost their parents like before; instead, they were laughing and joking, indicating that they would help Qin Huairu and would donate enthusiastically.

Needless to say, this was all because Yi Zhonghai had given them money in advance, and they were just playing along, specifically acting for He Yuzhu alone, and they were happy to watch the show.

Xu Damao wasn't here; if he were, he would probably be acting as Xu Damao too.

"Good! That's how it should be! Only by helping each other can we win back the Flowing Red Flag of the civilized and advanced Siheyuan. Here, I'll set an example, I'll donate thirty yuan," Yi Zhonghai said, taking out thirty yuan and putting it into the donation box.

"Since the First Great Uncle donated thirty yuan, I, as the Second Great Uncle, cannot fall behind. Then I'll donate twenty yuan," Liu Haizhong said, taking out twenty yuan.

He Yuzhu suspected that this twenty yuan was Liu Haizhong's own. As long as this big-headed Liu Haizhong was fooled a few times, he would be so happy he couldn't find north. It just so happened that Yi Zhonghai was the best at fooling people.

"Everyone knows my family's situation. As the Third Great Uncle, I'll donate five yuan," Yan Bugui said, taking out five yuan and putting it into the donation box.

Yi Zhonghai couldn't help but glare fiercely at Yan Bugui.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 82 =====