Siheyuan: At the beginning, I can integrate everything!

"Did you take a picture?"

Inside the black Volga sedan.

Lou Xiao'e took off her sunglasses, revealing eyes that were once gentle and graceful, but were now bloodshot and filled with a chilling frost.

"Ms. Lou, rest assured, these snapshots are very clear."

The short-haired man sitting in the passenger seat turned around.

He was a professional private investigator, and he was carrying a Leica camera.

"The scenes of Xu Damao and that woman embracing and even kissing in the teahouse have all been recorded."

"These photos will be developed first thing tomorrow morning."

The middle-aged lawyer next to him adjusted his glasses, his tone calm and professional.

"With the infertility diagnosis you received earlier, the chain of evidence is now perfectly closed."

"With the mediation of the neighborhood committee, not only can Xu Damao be forced to leave with nothing, but the large courtyard house that was originally purchased by your Lou family can also be successfully recovered."

After listening, Lou Xiao'e let out a long sigh of relief.

She looked out the window at Xu Damao, who was still fawning over Qin Jingru and boasting about how wealthy he was.

A mocking sneer curled at the corner of his lips.

"it is good."

"Tomorrow morning, Nanluoguxiang Subdistrict Office."

"I will make Xu Damao utterly disgraced and lose everything!"

The car drove away from the alley entrance without making a sound.

Meanwhile, Xu Damao in the teahouse was still dreaming of getting promoted, making a fortune, and marrying beautiful wives and concubines.

the next day.

The cold wind was still biting.

The residents of Hongxing Courtyard had just finished breakfast and were getting ready to go to work.

But they found a brand new military green jeep parked in the front yard.

That was Director Wang's car from the neighborhood office.

Director Wang, with a stern face, strode into the backyard with two staff members.

"Xu Damao! You come out here!"

Director Wang's powerful roar startled Xu Damao, who was brushing his teeth in the room, causing him to shudder and spray foam all over his clothes.

"Oh, Director Wang, what brings you here?"

Xu Damao quickly wiped his mouth, put on a smile, and went out to greet them.

But when he went outside and saw the person standing next to Director Wang...

Xu Damao's smile froze instantly.

Lou Xiao'e!

She was wearing a black wool coat today, with a cold expression, and a lawyer in a suit was with her beside her.

Xu Damao's heart skipped a beat, and the ominous premonition from yesterday surged back into his mind.

"E'zi, what's wrong with you...?"

"Shut up! Don't call me by my name, it disgusts me!"

Lou Xiao'e interrupted him without hesitation, throwing a thick file folder onto the stone table in the courtyard.

"Xu Damao, let's settle our accounts today, in front of Director Wang and the neighbors!"

The commotion was so great that neighbors from the front and middle yards all gathered around.

The three old men, Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, and Yan Bugui, also squeezed to the front.

Everyone was wondering what had gotten into Lou Xiao'e, who was usually mild-mannered, that made her so angry in public.

"Director Wang, this is this beast's 'Peking Union Medical College Hospital Urology Diagnosis Report'!"

Lou Xiao'e pulled a yellowed piece of paper from the file bag. Her voice trembled with extreme anger, but every word was clear and carried throughout the entire backyard.

"Congenitally low sperm survival rate! Infertility!"

"He was a eunuch, but he kept it from me for three whole years!"

"I was subjected to endless scorn in the yard, and his mother even called me a 'barren hen'!"

boom--!

This statement was like a bombshell, causing an uproar in the courtyard.

"What?!"

"Xu Damao can't have children?!"

"My God, this is huge news!"

The neighbors stared wide-eyed, exclaiming in surprise, their eyes instantly filled with shock, disdain, and ridicule as they looked at Xu Damao.

Xu Damao's face drained of all color instantly, turning deathly pale.

His legs went weak and he almost collapsed to the ground.

The secret he feared most and wanted to hide was ruthlessly torn open by Lou Xiao'e in front of the entire hospital!

"E'zi! What nonsense are you spouting!"

Xu Damao jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, attempting a final struggle.

"That was a misdiagnosis by a quack! I'm perfectly healthy!"

"You're making baseless accusations and trying to slander me!"

"Slandering you?"

Lou Xiao'e sneered, and then threw a stack of black and white photos out of the file bag.

The photos were scattered on the stone table, clearly printed on them.

Yesterday afternoon, in the teahouse.

Xu Damao and Qin Jingru were seen embracing and playfully teasing each other!

"And what about these photos? Are those also used to slander you?!"

Lou Xiao'e pointed at the photo and questioned her sternly.

"Xu Damao! You're not only a conman who tricked people into marriage, you're a shameless scoundrel!"

"He cheated on his wife and hooked up with a country girl!"

"What else do you have to say?!"

If the diagnosis just now was a bombshell...

These photos are the nuclear weapons that will completely destroy Xu Damao.

In this era when conduct is a matter of utmost importance.

These few photos are enough to send Xu Damao to jail!

Everyone in the hospital was stunned.

Even Yan Bugui, who usually loved watching a good show, was so frightened that he swallowed hard and dared not utter a sound.

Director Wang's face turned ashen, and he slammed his hand hard on the stone table.

"Xu Damao! You are utterly lawless!"

"It corrupts social morals and deceives the revolutionary masses!"

"This marriage must end today!"

Director Wang turned to look at Lou Xiao'e's lawyer.

"Comrade, according to the national marriage law and related special policies, how should the party at fault be dealt with?"

The lawyer adjusted his glasses and read the statement in a businesslike manner:

"Due to the husband's egregious behavior of concealing a serious illness and committing adultery during the marriage."

"At our insistence, the woman requests a divorce."

"Furthermore, the man must leave with nothing!"

"These two large brick houses in the backyard were originally purchased by the Lou family, and the property rights have now been fully returned to Ms. Lou Xiao'e!"

"The bicycle, sewing machine, and other property under Xu Damao's name shall be awarded to the woman as compensation for emotional distress!"

This series of verdicts was like a series of heavy hammer blows, making Xu Damao see stars.

Leave with nothing!

Confiscate the property!

Confiscate property!

"No! This is impossible! I refuse to accept this!"

Xu Damao completely broke down. He knelt down with a thud, hugged Director Wang's leg, and wailed.

"Director Wang, that's the house I live in! You can't kick me out!"

"I was wrong, E'zi, I was really wrong, please forgive me just this once!"

He burst into tears, his nose running and tears streaming down his face.

But at this moment, no one sympathized with him.

Everyone looked at him with the eyes of someone looking at trash, their faces full of disgust.

"Don't touch me!"

Lou Xiao'e kicked Xu Damao's hand away in disgust.

"Xu Damao, I'm giving you the last bit of face by not sending you to the police station."

"You'd better sign and put your fingerprint on it obediently."

"Otherwise, I'll take these photos to Director Yang at the steel mill right now and make sure you lose even your job cleaning toilets!"

Upon hearing that he was going to report him to the factory, Xu Damao finally gave in.

He collapsed to the ground like a lump of mud, his hands trembling as he pressed his fingerprint onto the divorce agreement.

Less than half an hour.

In the presence of the neighborhood committee and all the neighbors in the compound.

Xu Damao was kicked out of the house.

Lou Xiao'e only allowed him to take a few changes of his worn-out clothes and a moldy old quilt.

The projectionist who used to be so arrogant in the theater.

At this moment, all I can do is clutch my bedding roll, like a stray dog.

They were driven to the far corner of the backyard, to that dilapidated woodshed that was usually used to store miscellaneous items and was drafty on all sides.

The woodshed was small and dilapidated, without even a heated kang (a traditional heated brick bed), only a bed made of a few broken wooden planks.

Living inside during a heavy snowfall is hardly better than sleeping on the street.

"E'zi, you're absolutely...you're too ruthless..."

Xu Damao huddled at the door of the woodshed, shivering from the cold, his eyes filled with resentment.

He looked at the large brick house he used to live in, now with new locks.

My heart is bleeding.

But at this moment, what he was most worried about was not that he would suffer from cold and hunger.

Instead—it's Qin Jingru!

Yesterday, he was still bragging to Qin Jingru in the teahouse that this big brick house was his and that he would put her name on the deed after they got married.

If Qin Jingru came to the city and saw that he was now living in this dilapidated woodshed.

Then he won't even be able to keep this last piece of "fig leaf"!

"No! Jingru absolutely cannot find out!"

Xu Damao gritted his teeth and pulled out paper and pen from the tattered quilt.

I lay on the cold, muddy floor of the woodshed, using the faint light filtering through the crack in the door.

He started writing letters to Qin Jingru.

In his letter, he used the most flowery language imaginable.

"Jingru, I have some good news for you."

"The factory is planning to give me a bigger and better apartment to take care of me, the projectionist!"

"In response to the factory's call, I voluntarily gave up my current large brick house and lent it to the factory as a temporary warehouse."

"Brother, I'll have to make do with staying in the woodshed for a few days for now."

"Don't worry, after we get our marriage certificate, I'll take you to live in a heated apartment building!"

After finishing the letter, Xu Damao let out a long sigh of relief.

He figured that Qin Jingru, with her naive and unsophisticated mind, would definitely be fooled by his words.

Once you've lured her in and made it a fait accompli, she won't be able to escape even if she wants to!

Xu Damao sealed the letter and carefully tucked it into his pocket.

I plan to have someone deliver it to my hometown first thing tomorrow morning.

He imagined Qin Jingru being moved to tears after receiving the letter.

A smug and lewd smile even appeared on his lips.

"Lou Xiao'e, you just wait."

"Wait till I marry Jingru, then I'll show you who really can't have children!"

Xu Damao wrapped himself tightly in his tattered quilt, huddled in the corner of the woodshed, and dreamt sweet dreams in the cold wind.

however.

He didn't know.

At the entrance of the east wing of the front yard.

A five-year-old child is sitting on a small stool, holding half an apple in his hand.

Silently watching everything that happened in the backyard.