Courtyard House: Wudang Disciple Sweeps Through the Compound

At this moment, a heavy and oppressive atmosphere filled the deaf old lady's room, making people feel suffocated.

Only Yi Zhonghai and the deaf old woman were in the house. Earlier, after Sha Zhu carefully escorted the deaf old woman back to her room, he turned and went back to his own room with a livid face.

He was kicked away hard by Chen Wenqi, and even now his chest still aches faintly, with waves of dull pain constantly assaulting him.

Sha Zhu had long harbored a deep hatred for Chen Wenqi and was determined to avenge this humiliation and resentment tenfold. After all, Sha Zhu was the "God of War" recognized in the courtyard. When had he ever suffered such a great loss?

Today, he was publicly knocked to the ground by a mere fourteen-year-old boy, which was a huge loss of face for him. He could not swallow this insult.

"Pfft—" The more Sha Zhu recalled the embarrassing scene of being kicked away, the more his anger surged. His chest heaved, and he spat out a mouthful of bright red blood again.

Just then, He Yushui quietly walked in from outside the door. She immediately noticed the glaring bloodstain on the ground and trembled with fright. Although she had already understood what was happening,

Her brother was completely used as a pawn by Yi Zhonghai and the Jia family, and he was utterly hopeless. But blood is thicker than water, and Sha Zhu was still her own brother.

"Brother, how are you? Should we go to the hospital to get checked out?" He Yushui asked with a worried expression, her tone revealing her undisguised anxiety.

"It's nothing, I'll be fine after lying down for a while." Sha Zhu gritted his teeth, enduring the sharp pain in his chest, and said, "That little bastard Chen Wenqi, I'll kill him sooner or later!"

"Brother, what does this have to do with you? Didn't you go and provoke Chen Wenqi yourself?" He Yushui could no longer suppress her anger and retorted with a frown.

"What do you mean I provoked him? It was clearly that little bastard Chen Wenqi who bullied Sister Qin first, and I couldn't stand it, so I taught him a lesson!" Sha Zhu stuck out his neck, his face full of indignation as he argued, his words full of stubbornness.

"Can that be called bullying? Chen Wenqi caught the fish himself and didn't want to give it to Sister Qin. That's his right. How does that become bullying? Besides, Qin Huairu has her husband Jia Dongxu. When did it become your place to stand up for her?" He Yushui became angrier and angrier as she spoke, and her tone became more and more agitated.

"Yushui, you ingrate! Sister Qin has always been so good to you, always thinking of you when she has something good. How can you say such ungrateful things!" Shazhu was instantly enraged by his sister's words and roared at He Yushui, his voice shaking the room slightly.

"You...you're hopeless!" He Yushui's eyes reddened from the shout, and she stomped her feet in anger. She knew in her heart that this stubborn and foolish brother was completely beyond persuasion, so she simply ignored him and turned to leave the room quickly.

The heavy, oppressive atmosphere in the deaf old woman's room had not yet dissipated, and it still made it hard to breathe.

"Grandma, that little beast from the Chen family doesn't respect you at all! If this lawless fellow continues to stay in the courtyard, he'll definitely cause a huge mess in the future, and none of us will have peace then." Yi Zhonghai said with a gloomy face and a tone full of resentment.

The deaf old woman slowly raised her eyelids, her gaze sharp as a knife as she swept over Yi Zhonghai, and then slowly said, "Old Yi, you know the cause and effect of today's matter better than anyone else."

"I'm getting old, and all I want now is to enjoy my retirement peacefully and have a few days of peace and quiet. Besides, times have changed; those old methods might not work now."

The deaf old lady is no ordinary person. Having survived all the way from the old society to the present, she is as meticulous as a fine sieve. How could she not see through the tricks of the trade? In the end, today's turmoil is entirely the fault of the Jia family, and no one else is to blame.

Yi Zhonghai's words clearly indicated that he wanted to use her to deal with a fourteen-year-old boy. He had a wishful plan, but unfortunately, he used it in the wrong place.

Yi Zhonghai was still somewhat unwilling and pressed on, "Are we just going to let this go like this? Are we just going to stand by and watch that little beast act so arrogantly and do nothing?"

"Old Yi, I warned you long ago that the Jia family is completely unreliable. They are ungrateful wretches who can never be satisfied. But you insist on getting close to them and treating them like treasures."

In this courtyard house, the only one who can truly care for you in your old age and see you off in your final days is Sha Zhuzi. If you continue to be so stubborn, sooner or later you will be dragged down by the Jia family and suffer eternal damnation, and it will be too late for regrets.”

The deaf old woman spoke in a calm and even tone, as if she were talking about something trivial, but every word she uttered precisely hit Yi Zhonghai's sore spot.

Yi Zhonghai was well aware of the Jia family's character.

However, a lingering doubt remained in his mind: he suspected that Banggeng was actually his biological son, which explained his unwavering favoritism and indulgence towards the Jia family.

Even though Jia Zhangshi would often point at him and call him "childless," he mostly swallowed his anger and didn't bother with it.

Back then, he was already in his late thirties, almost forty, and still had no children to carry on the family line. He was extremely anxious and spent his days frowning and depressed.

So he hatched a wicked plan: to go to the countryside and find a young, strong, and fertile girl to see if he could leave behind his bloodline and end his regret.

By chance, he met Qin Huairu and was immediately drawn to her voluptuous figure and full hips, which made her look like she was likely to have children. He then had inappropriate thoughts.

Yi Zhonghai used sweet words and deception to coax and deceive Qin Huairu, and secretly slipped her some money, thus engaging in an improper relationship with her and committing a crime.

Not long after, he took the initiative to ask a matchmaker to arrange a blind date between Qin Huairu and Jia Dongxu. Jia Dongxu was a naive and inexperienced young man who had never seen the world before. When he first saw a charming girl like Qin Huairu, he was immediately captivated and lost all sense of direction.

The next day, he rushed to the countryside to propose marriage, fearing that if he was too late, someone else would snatch her away.

To cover up his scandalous affair with Qin Huairu, Yi Zhonghai even generously gifted Jia Dongxu a sewing machine as a congratulatory present—this is the origin of the old sewing machine in the Jia family, hiding such a shameful secret.

"Grandma, but I just can't swallow this!" Yi Zhonghai didn't want to talk about the Jia family anymore, afraid that saying a few more words would expose his secret, so he quickly turned the topic back to Chen Wenqi.

"He's just a greenhorn, he'll never amount to anything. You can do whatever you want with him, don't bother asking me anymore. This old woman is too lazy to meddle in these things."

The deaf old woman slowly closed her eyes and said indifferently, having lost all interest in continuing the conversation.

She naturally harbored deep hatred for Chen Wenqi. This brat dared to expose her past in public, showing no regard for her, the "ancestor" of the courtyard. However, she did not want to easily resort to those hidden connections unless absolutely necessary.