Siheyuan: I am Banggeng's uncle

Chapter 793 Falling for Money!
Around 6 p.m., Jia Dongming returned to the courtyard house after get off work. As soon as he entered the front yard, he heard a crying sound coming from the west wing of the front yard. Some nosy neighbors were standing in twos and threes in the yard, whispering among themselves.

Upon hearing the crying coming from the west wing, Jia Dongming immediately recognized it as the sobbing of Yan Bugui's daughter, Yan Jiedi. Curious, he asked the neighbors in the courtyard, "Aunt Zhang! Has something happened to the Yan family? Why is Yan Jiedi crying so sadly?"

Upon hearing Jia Dongming's question, Aunt Zhang immediately introduced him, saying, "Director Jia! Wasn't Yan Bugui hospitalized the day before yesterday because He Daqing scolded him? It turns out he was diagnosed with cancer in the hospital and they said he needs to have surgery."

In the original storyline of the Siheyuan, there was no plot about Yan Bugui getting cancer. Now, someone suddenly tells Jia Dongming that Yan Bugui has cancer, which is quite unexpected for Jia Dongming.

Thinking about the current situation of the courtyard house, Jia Dongming immediately realized that his appearance as a little butterfly had completely changed the plot of the courtyard house.

Upon learning that Yan Bugui had cancer, Jia Dongming asked Aunt Zhang curiously, "Aunt Zhang! Yan Bugui has cancer, but Yan Jiedi isn't going to the hospital to take care of him. Why is she hiding at home crying all the time?"

When Aunt Zhang heard Jia Dongming ask why Yan Jiedi was crying, she remembered that at noon, when she was mending clothes in the yard, she had accidentally heard a commotion coming from the west wing. She then told Jia Dongming, "Director Jia! I don't know the specifics of why Yan Jiedi is crying so sadly."

"However, around noon, Yan's parents came back from the hospital and cursed Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang as beasts, saying that Yan Bugui had such a serious illness, and the two children didn't care about Yan Bugui's life or death."

Yan Bugui was fond of scheming, even scheming against his own children. As a result, the children of the Yan family followed suit and were fond of scheming in everything they did. In fact, they were even more scheming than Yan Bugui.

Upon hearing Aunt Zhang's account and learning that the Yan brothers had disregarded Yan Bugui's life or death, Jia Dongming immediately understood the reason. As he pushed his bicycle towards the central courtyard, he muttered to himself, "Heaven's sins can be forgiven, but self-inflicted sins cannot! Perhaps this is retribution!"

Jia Dongming pushed his bicycle through the hanging flower gate into the central courtyard. The neighbors in the courtyard were also discussing the Yan family's affairs. When they saw Jia Dongming return, they all stopped talking and greeted him warmly.

"Dongming! Why are you so late coming back today?" Aunt Yi Tanshi, who was washing clothes, greeted Jia Dongming warmly as soon as she saw him return from get off work.

Upon hearing Yi Tanshi's words, Jia Dongming smiled and said to her, "Aunt Tan! I had some things to do at work today, so I came back a little late."

"Brother Dongming! Have you heard what happened to the Yan family? The old lady in the backyard said that Yan Bugui was scheming like this every day, and sooner or later he would scheme away all the family ties. Now it seems that the old lady was right." Shazhu said to Jia Dongming with schadenfreude as he thought about what happened to the Yan family.

Hearing Sha Zhu's words and seeing his gloating expression, Jia Dongming smiled and reminded him, "Zhu Zi! Although Yan Bugui is indeed a bad person, he is still our neighbor. Some things are best left unsaid; if you speak out, outsiders will only think you're a bad person, especially since Yan Bugui has cancer." Sha Zhu understood Jia Dongming's meaning, but remembering the rumors he'd overheard in the factory canteen at noon, he couldn't help but tell Jia Dongming, "Brother Dongming! It's not that I'm kicking someone when they're down, but the Yan family's situation has spread not only in our alley but also in our factory."

Upon hearing Sha Zhu's words and seeing his expression, Jia Dongming instinctively stopped and asked Sha Zhu curiously, "Zhu Zi! Yan Bugui isn't an employee of our factory. How did the news of his illness reach our factory? What exactly happened?"

Upon hearing Jia Dongming's question, Sha Zhu, recalling the news he had overheard in the cafeteria at noon, quickly explained to Jia Dongming, "Brother Dongming! Here's the situation: Yan Bugui was diagnosed with cancer, right? The doctor informed him that he needs to have surgery immediately, and that Comrade Yang Ruihua and Yan Jiecheng should go to the hospital."

"At noon, Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang received a call from Yang Ruihua and went to the hospital. When Yan Bugui saw the two brothers, he asked them to pay for his surgery, but the two Yan brothers refused to pay."

"Yan Jiecheng said that he had become a live-in son-in-law and, as originally agreed, would give Yan Bugui and his wife ten yuan a month as alimony. He said that Yan Bugui's medical expenses had nothing to do with him."

"Yan Jiefang said that he used to keep only two yuan a month from the money he earned from odd jobs. The rest of the money was taken away by Yan Bugui under the pretext of paying for food and lodging. Now he has no money at all."

"Yan Bugui was so angry with the two that he said in front of the patients and their families that Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang were his sons and should pay for his treatment. If they didn't pay, he would make up for the cost of the seeds and the ten months of rent."

"When the two Yan brothers heard Yan Bugui's bizarre remarks, they argued with him directly in the hospital. They even made public Yan Bugui's past actions in front of everyone. Eventually, the news that Yan Bugui was asking his sons for seed fees and house fees spread like wildfire throughout the People's Hospital."

"I don't know how the news got to our factory. Some of the workers in the factory, when they learned that I lived in the same compound as Yan Bugui, came to the canteen to ask me about the Yan family. When I came back from get off work, I heard that Yan Jiedi's boyfriend's family did not agree to their son dating Yan Jiedi because of Yan Bugui's bizarre theory."

After hearing Sha Zhu's explanation, Jia Dongming finally understood why Yan Jiedi was crying so sadly at home. Thinking about the seed fee and house fee that Yan Bugui had proposed, Jia Dongming couldn't help but want to laugh out loud.

Thinking about Yan Bugui's future fate, Jia Dongming couldn't help but sigh: "I used to think that Yan Bugui was scheming in order to raise Yan Jiecheng and his three siblings. Now it seems that Yan Bugui has fallen into the trap of money and doesn't even care about family ties and reputation for money."

(End of this chapter)