Courtyard House: Drunk and barging into the Xu family's house, I woke up numb.

"Also, she is a recipient of the 'Five Guarantees' in our neighborhood, which includes food, clothing, medical care, housing, and burial."

"We rely on subsidies for our daily lives, how could we possibly have gold?"

"Is there some misunderstanding here?"

Fan Kuandao.

“We caught the deaf old lady making a deal with someone on the spot. We have all the evidence, and we are absolutely not wronging her.”

"She made a profit of 155 yuan from this speculative activity, and the banknotes were in her possession when they were seized."

After a brief explanation, Fan Kuan and the others followed Yan Bugui, Liu Haizhong, and others to the backyard.

Cao Xu was in the yard repairing a table leg with an axe when he saw this large group of people and was startled.

He stood up, axe in hand, and asked.

"Hey, Second Uncle, Third Uncle, what's going on here?"

Liu Haizhong shook his head.

"The deaf old lady was arrested for speculation and profiteering; they came to raid her house."

Fan Kuan glared at Liu Haizhong upon hearing this.

"Can't you speak properly, comrade? What do you mean by 'confiscating a home'?"

Do you think this is the old society?

"We are conducting a search under orders!"

Cao Xu wondered to himself, is there a difference?

Even if they're all put together, isn't it still the same as confiscating property?

Fan Kuan frowned slightly as he looked at the locked door. Wasn't this courtyard supposed to be a civilized compound?

Back then, people were saying things like "doors are left unlocked at night and lost items are not picked up on the road," so why is it locked now?

Little did he know that a thief named Banggeng had appeared in this courtyard.

Ever since Banggeng returned from the juvenile detention center, most of the houses in this compound have locked their doors.

Fan Kuan approached Cao Xu and pointed to the axe in his hand.

"Comrade, could we borrow your axe for a moment?"

Cao Xu picked up the axe and handed it over.

"Sure, take it and use it, Fen."

Fan Kuan thanked her, picked up the axe, and walked to the door of the deaf old woman's house.

With a swift stroke of the axe, the lock on the door fell to the ground in no time.

Fan Kuan waved his hand forward and shouted to the people behind him.

"Search immediately!"

After the man went inside, Fan Kuan approached Cao Xu and handed him the axe.

"Comrade, thank you for your axe. It's returned to its rightful owner."

After saying that, he turned around and went into the house, and then a series of loud noises came from inside.

Looking at everything that was happening before his eyes, Cao Xu thought to himself: This is still just confiscating property!

Cao Xu knew in his heart that regardless of whether anything else could be found in the house, the deaf old lady was doomed this time.

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Half an hour later, the task force members withdrew from the deaf old lady's room, taking with them a small locked box.

Fan Kuan borrowed the axe from Cao Xu again and quickly smashed the lock to open the box.

The other items in the box went unnoticed, but the nine gleaming gold ingots were truly dazzling.

Looking at the gold ingot with its excellent color and purity, Cao Xu realized that it was a ten-tael gold ingot from the previous dynasty.

Adding the ingot the deaf old woman had traded earlier, which is ten ingots of gold, the total is one hundred taels of gold.

In today's era of extremely low gold prices, a hundred taels of gold would be worth over ten thousand, and even in a private transaction, it would fetch a little over two thousand.

Such a fortune, even if all the savings of everyone in the entire courtyard except the Cao family were added together, would not be as much as these ten ingots of silver.

The deaf old lady's actions were truly astonishing; it's just a mystery where she got such high-quality gold.

With the gold confiscated, the search operation came to an end, and Fan Kuan and his entourage left the courtyard with the box containing the gold.

According to the rules, to prevent unauthorized entry, the deaf old lady's house was relocked.

The three old men in charge of the courtyard were speechless at the sight, and even He Daqing, who had reported the deaf old lady, was stunned.

He Daqing's purpose was nothing more than to target Yi Zhonghai and the Jia family.

Reporting the deaf old lady was just to teach her a small lesson, after all, the deaf old lady had played a part in his departure from Beijing back then.

Who would have thought that the deaf old lady was so secretive? If she can't explain herself properly this time, she'll probably have to spend her old age there.

After everyone had left, He Daqing approached Yi Zhonghai and asked.

"Old Yi, are you aware of this?"

Yi Zhonghai was startled by He Daqing's question. He looked around and said...

“How could I possibly know? If I had known she had that thing, how could I have let her sell it herself?”

Yi Zhonghai is right. If he knew the deaf old woman had gold, he would definitely have come up with a safe way to protect it.

Whether you go to the pigeon market or find a private individual, you won't go out and exchange money with someone in broad daylight.

"It's good that you don't know. Let's call it a day."

When the music ended and the crowd dispersed, He Daqing returned home and looked at He Yuzhu, exchanging no words, but they did not argue again.

Yi Zhonghai returned home and sat down to drink tea in silence, knowing that he had no hope this time.

The deaf old lady collapsed, He Daqing returned, and there was no way for him to turn things around.

"Wife, I want to apply for a position in the Third Front."

The older woman immediately refused upon hearing this.

"No, absolutely not."

"Yi Zhonghai, you'll be fifty-five after National Day."

"Just wait patiently for retirement and don't think about those unnecessary things."

"Isn't 870 just cleaning toilets?"

"Just stick to it for about half a year and it'll be over. Besides, you're not necessarily required to keep sweeping forever."

"Go talk to Director Yang later and see if you can't keep going. If you can't hold on, then take a long-term sick leave and wait until you retire."

"We don't need your salary for the next six months. In short, whether you want to go to the third-tier city or a branch factory, it's not allowed. I don't agree!"

Yi Zhonghai's forehead was furrowed.

"But what about Old He..."

An older woman sighed.

"Brother Daqing is just holding his breath. Let him vent his anger and it will be over."

"And this is my last warning to you: stay out of the Jia family's business."

"Qin Huairu was clearly using you as a pawn. If He Daqing hadn't come back, this would have been understandable."

"Won't things just get worse if He Daqing comes back?"

“If anything happens in the future, just push it onto Liu Haizhong or Yan Bugui, and we’ll just shut ourselves in and live our own lives.”

At the Jia family home, Banggeng looked at his mother and grandmother sitting at the table and, seeing that they remained silent, he couldn't help but feel a little impatient.

"Mom, grandma."

Are we having New Year's Eve dinner together tonight?

Qin Huairu said.

"Eat, eat, all you know is eating. How can we eat when things have gotten this bad?"

Mrs. Jia Zhang snorted coldly.

"That's right, that old bastard He Daqing ruined a perfectly good New Year's Eve dinner."

"After today's commotion, will the He and Yi families still be able to sit at the same table?"

"He Daqing implied that we were clinging to the He family and taking advantage of them."

"If someone insults our family, how low would I have to be to invite them to New Year's Eve dinner?"

"Not to mention the old lady, she might just go in and eat, so we don't need to worry about her."