Courtyard House: Purchasing Agents' Comeback from the Great Famine

The Intermediate People's Court, the Wang family.

Wang Feng and Qin Jingru returned to the Central Courtyard, only to find that Lu Banxia had returned ahead of schedule.

As soon as Qin Jingru saw Lu Banxia, ​​she went into the house, excitedly grabbed her hand, and said excitedly:

"Banxia, ​​you really had a blast beating up He Daqing just now. If Brother Wang Feng hadn't stopped me, I would have gone up and punched him a couple of times."

"Hehe, Sister Jingru, there will definitely be opportunities in the future. How about it? Are you satisfied with how I taught He Daqing a lesson for you this time? I did as you instructed and punched He Daqing in the mouth. I wonder if his front tooth fell out." Lu Banxia said with a smile.

Qin Jingru nodded emphatically: "Satisfied, satisfied, I'm extremely satisfied."

"Let's go outside and keep watch. He Daqing should be back in the hospital soon. I'd like to see how badly you beat him."

As she spoke, Qin Jingru pulled Lu Banxia outside, but neither of them brought out any chairs. Lu Banxia was about to start cooking, so the two of them stood at the door pretending to chat, but their eyes were fixed on the hanging flower gate.

Wang Feng smiled and shook his head, then walked outside and lit a cigarette to smoke.

In fact, he had already seen clearly with his spiritual sense how badly He Daqing had been beaten. Banxia had really gone all out this time, turning both of He Daqing's eyes into black eyes and almost knocking out his front teeth.

Before Wang Feng could finish his cigarette, He Daqing arrived at the Central Courtyard pushing his bicycle. At that moment, Qin Jingru and Lu Banxia both saw He Daqing.

When the two women saw that He Daqing's eyes had turned into panda eyes and that he was limping, they both covered their mouths and laughed, and then went back inside.

He Daqing was so ashamed and indignant that he wanted to die. He walked from the front yard to the middle yard. When people in the yard saw his two black eyes, they asked him countless times, but he tried to cover it up by saying that he had fallen.

But everyone in the compound knew that He Daqing had been put in a sack. As soon as Yan Jiecheng and his men returned to the compound, they spread the news, but everyone pretended not to know.

He Daqing suppressed his shame and indignation and finally returned to the house. As soon as he entered, he was seen by Sha Zhu.

"Dad, what happened to you? Did someone beat you up?"

After sweeping the streets today, Sha Zhu stayed at home and didn't go out. He didn't know about He Daqing's matter, but his father's condition clearly indicated that he had been beaten up.

He Daqing's face was terribly gloomy, and he roared, "Why aren't you getting me some liniment to rub on it?"

"Okay, I'll go right away."

Soon, Sha Zhu brought over some liniment, and He Daqing took off his clothes and pants, leaving only a pair of shorts.

Looking at his father's dark circles and bruises all over his body, Sha Zhu asked while applying liniment to He Daqing's wounds:

"Dad, did you offend someone? Who hit you?"

"Ouch, you idiot Zhu, go easy on me, are you trying to kill me with pain?"

"oh."

Sha Zhu did indeed feel a little lighter, but even so, He Daqing was still in so much pain that he grimaced, his eyes bloodshot, and he gritted his teeth as he said:

"Don't let me find out who you are, or I won't let you get away with this!"

Upon hearing this, Sha Zhu finally understood and asked in surprise, "Dad, you've been put in a sack?"

Sha Zhu used to put sacks over Xu Damao's head, and he also followed Yi Zhonghai's orders to put sacks over several troublemakers in the yard. They would beat people up, and no one would know who it was, or even if they did, there would be no evidence. He knew all too well the ins and outs of this business.

He Daqing nodded, his face grim: "I've never offended anyone at the steel rolling mill, nor have I ever flipped the wok for anyone. This person must not be from the factory."

"Dad, if it's not someone from the factory, then it must be someone from our compound. Think carefully, who have you offended recently?" Sha Zhu analyzed.

He Daqing pondered for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "If I had to name the people I've offended recently, it would only be Qin Huairu. If I hadn't gone to see Qin Jingru's parents last time, Qin Huairu's family wouldn't have come. But Qin Huairu probably doesn't have the guts. I just ran into her coming back to the hospital after get off work. She probably wouldn't be willing to spend money to hire someone to beat me up."

"If it's not Qin Huairu, then it must be Yi Zhonghai. Last time, we emptied Yi Zhonghai's coffers. That old fox smiles at us on the surface, but he must hate us to death in reality. Sha Zhu, let me tell you, that old fox Yi Zhonghai is cunning and ruthless behind the scenes."

Sha Zhu nodded in agreement: "I also felt that Qin Huairu wouldn't do such a thing. So, it must be that Yi Zhonghai paid someone to beat you up?"

He Daqing roared, "Who else could it be but him? Yi Zhonghai, you just wait, I won't let you get away with this!"

On the way back, he had been analyzing who this person was. Since he returned from Baoding, he had never offended anyone, except for this incident with Qin Huairu. But given Qin Huairu's personality, even if she had two lives, he wouldn't dare to pay someone to beat him up.

Yi Zhonghai is different. Others may not know Yi Zhonghai's background, but how could he not know? Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yi Zhonghai was a thug. He was absolutely capable of doing this kind of thing.

After hearing his father confirm that the person was Yi Zhonghai, Sha Zhu didn't want to say anything more. Since they wanted to fight, let them fight.

With a sigh, Sha Zhu said sullenly, "Dad, you lie down for a while, I'll go cook."

"Okay, go ahead."

......

The Intermediate People's Court, the Yi family.

When Yi Zhonghai returned to the house, he was in a particularly good mood, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily turned up slightly.

Seeing this, an older woman asked in surprise, "Old Yi, what's made you so happy today?"

Yi Zhonghai laughed and said, "I saw He Daqing on my way home from get off work just now. He'd been put in a sack and beaten black and blue. If it weren't for He Daqing, we wouldn't have lost all our life savings for retirement. Now that we see someone teaching him a lesson, isn't that something to be happy about?"

Hearing this, the middle-aged woman sighed and said, "Old Yi, this is someone else's business. We should mind our own business from now on. Let's just live our lives honestly. By the way, so much time has passed. How are your new apprentices doing? If they really don't want to support us in our old age, we should take advantage of the fact that you can still work and go to an orphanage to adopt one."

Upon hearing what the older woman said, Yi Zhonghai, who had been in a good mood, suddenly turned pale.

"Those ingrates, they've wasted all the time I've spent teaching them. When they hear that they'll take care of us in our old age, they won't even give me a straight answer. These ingrates are completely unreliable."

An older woman pursed her lips and continued to persuade him, "Old Yi, I think it's more reliable to raise a child yourself."

Yi Zhonghai waved his hand: "Alright, don't worry about this. Even if I agreed, don't you see what kind of year it is? Food is so expensive now! One more person, and how much more money will we have to spend each month?"

At this point, Yi Zhonghai sighed deeply: "We're not the same as before. We've run out of retirement savings and are barely surviving on my meager salary. If we adopt the child, we won't be able to save any money at all. What if the child grows up and becomes unfilial? Or what if he runs away with his biological parents? We won't even have any retirement savings then, and we'll just have to wait to die."

"Alright, fine, you figure it out then."