Courtyard House: Purchasing Agents' Comeback from the Great Famine

Seeing that most of the people were applauding, Liu Haizhong was very satisfied with everyone's performance. He was about to say a few more words when Yi Zhonghai pulled him down to sit.

"Old Liu, that's enough."

Ignoring Liu Haizhong's angry glare, Yi Zhonghai looked at everyone in the courtyard and spoke in a deep voice:

"We are holding this hospital-wide meeting today because another serious incident has occurred in our hospital. Liu Yuhua and Jia Zhangshi, you two come forward."

Without any hesitation, Jia Zhangshi stood in front, looked at the Yan family members, and defiantly snorted at them.

Liu Yuhua was not familiar with the rules of the general meeting, so she did not stand at the front. Instead, she looked at Yan Jiecheng and saw him nod at her. She then went to the front and stood next to Jia Zhangshi.

Jia Zhangshi was about 1.5 meters tall and weighed about 200 kilograms. She was simply fat, like a big fat pig. Liu Yuhua, on the other hand, was just sturdy and tall. When the two of them stood together, it looked like an adult standing next to a big fat pig.

Yi Zhonghai carefully examined Liu Yuhua, and a look of shock appeared on his face. However, he quickly regained his composure, looked at everyone, and spoke in a deep voice:

"Our facility has been awarded the title of Advanced Facility for several consecutive years. Why? It's because our facility has always upheld the traditional virtues of respecting the elderly and caring for the young. Hitting the elderly is absolutely unacceptable in our facility."

"Think about it, everyone will get old eventually. If young people get angry and beat up the elderly when we're old, wouldn't that create chaos?"

At this point, he looked at Liu Yuhua and asked in a deep voice:

"Liu Yuhua, today is your first day as a new bride. I heard that you took advantage of your youth and tall stature to beat up Jia Zhangshi. You must change your violent behavior and be severely punished."

"Yes, yes, Liu Yuhua bullied an old woman like me. She must be severely punished. She must pay me three hundred, no, five hundred yuan, or I will never let the Yan family off the hook!" Jia Zhangshi shouted.

Liu Yuhua looked at Yi Zhonghai, her face grim: "Master Yi, aren't you going to ask why I hit this old hag?"

Yi Zhonghai waved his hand, his tone leaving no room for doubt: "No matter what your reason is, you can't hit an old person in our compound. Also, don't call me Master Yi. It's after get off work hours now. Call me Grandpa."

Just as Liu Yuhua was about to get angry, she heard Yan Jiecheng shout, "Uncle, it's Yuhua's first day here, and Jia Zhangshi came and mocked us. Shouldn't she be beaten?"

Yan Fugui said with a gloomy face, "Old Yi, although hitting an old person is wrong, it depends on the situation. You can't say that just because you're old, you can bully young people at will. If that's the case, does that mean I can beat and scold Jia Dongxu at will, and he can't fight back?"

Yan Fugui was already very unhappy with Yi Zhonghai. Today, the entire hospital was to hold a meeting without even consulting him. This showed that they didn't respect him, their "third uncle," at all.

"Yan Jiecheng, you damned little bastard, tell me, when did I ever laugh at you? I was clearly there to offer my congratulations."

As she spoke, Jia Zhangshi plopped down on the snow and slapped her thighs repeatedly with both hands.

"I don't want to live anymore! I don't want to live anymore!"

"Old Jia, come up here quickly! The people in this yard are all bad people. Yan's wife hit me and now she's trying to frame me. Come up here and take them away."

"Pfft."

Seeing that Jia Zhangshi dared to sit on the ground and perform a ritual to summon the spirit in the snow, Qin Jingru could no longer help but burst out laughing.

"Hahaha, Jia Zhangshi, doesn't your ass get cold?"

"Jia Zhangshi, can't you just stand there and perform the soul-summoning ritual? It's snowing now, you should learn how to do it standing up, hahaha."

Liu Yuhua laughed when she saw this ridiculous scene of Jia Zhangshi, the old pious woman.

Seeing this, Jia Dongxu quickly tugged at Jia Zhangshi's clothes and whispered, "Mom, the ground is covered in snow, get up quickly, don't get your pants wet."

"Oh, oh, I forgot."

Upon hearing Jia Dongxu's words, Jia Zhangshi remembered and quickly stood up. But in just a short while, her trousers were already soaked by the snow.

Seeing that Jia Zhangshi had already stood up, Yi Zhonghai stopped scolding her.

"Liu Yuhua, tell me, did Jia Zhangshi actually come to your door to mock you, and how did she mock you?"

Before Liu Yuhua could speak, Yan Jiecheng interjected:

"Uncle, this morning, Jia Zhangshi and a group of older women came to our house and asked my mom to call Yuhua out so everyone could see her. After Yuhua and I came out, she said to me, 'Be careful tonight, or you might get crushed.' Tell me, isn't that mocking me?"

"Hahaha, Jiecheng, Jia Zhangshi wasn't wrong, was she? You really need to be careful tonight," Xu Damao laughed loudly.

When the people in the courtyard saw Liu Yuhua's tall and strong figure, and then looked at Yan Jiecheng, who had become as thin as a bamboo pole, they all felt that Xu Damao's words made a lot of sense, but no one dared to say it.

Xu Damao immediately regretted his words. He saw Liu Yuhua staring at him with angry eyes, which almost scared him into running away on the spot.

Just then, Jia Zhangshi shouted, "Listen to this, everyone! I was just telling that little beast Yan Jiecheng to be careful. I was just concerned about him. How did that turn into mocking him? Pay up! You have to pay up! If you don't have five hundred yuan, I'm not done with the Yan family!"

"Bang."

Yi Zhonghai slammed his hand on the table and said in a deep voice, "Sister-in-law, stop making trouble. You keep bringing up five hundred yuan. Do you even know how much five hundred yuan is?"

"Exactly, Jia Zhangshi, you think you're worth five hundred yuan? Outside, five hundred yuan would be enough to buy several of your lives." Old Hu said with a face full of disdain.

"Old devil Hu, my Jia family is a prestigious and wealthy family. How come I'm not worth five hundred yuan? I think you want to start a fight again, don't you? Come on! Who's afraid of who?" Jia Zhangshi shouted at the top of her lungs.

"Alright."

Yi Zhonghai waved his hand, looked at Liu Yuhua, and said in a deep voice, "Liu Yuhua, it's an undeniable fact that you hit an elder on your first day as a new bride. And even if Jia Zhangshi's words were mocking you, you didn't need to hit her, did you?"

"I've made the decision. You'll have to pay Jia Zhangshi five yuan and then sweep the snow in the yard for a month. If you ever dare to hit an old woman again, this won't be so easy to talk to."

Before the Yan family could speak, Jia Zhangshi shouted, "No, no, what good is five yuan? I've been beaten so badly, look, everyone look, my face is all swollen. It has to be at least fifty, no, a hundred yuan, or I'm not done with it."

Liu Yuhua looked at Yi Zhonghai with a gloomy expression and said coldly, "Uncle, you say you're in charge, but what gives you the right to make decisions for me? I don't agree."