District 9

In the courtyard.

Wu Tianyin quickened his pace when he heard the quarrel. When he came to the door, he lay down at the door and observed. He saw several neighbors in the side yard shouting at his father angrily.

Wu Tianyin was afraid that everyone would start fighting, so he immediately opened the door and walked into the house. He raised his head and asked, "What's wrong?"

Inside the house, Wu Tianyin's stepfather, mother, four neighbors in the side yard, and two half-brothers were all gathered in the living room.

"Look, he's back. Ask him to see if I lied!" A female neighbor in her forties pointed at Wu Tianyin and shouted.

"Ask me what?" Wu Tianyin responded with some confusion.

The stepfather looked at Wu Tianyin coldly and asked through gritted teeth: "Did you steal her electric car?"

"What?" Wu Tianyin looked confused: "What are you stealing?"

"Don't pretend, you stole it." A woman in her forties pointed at Wu Tianyin and shouted confidently.

"What do you mean, I don't understand?" Wu Tianyin was really confused and had no idea what they were talking about.

"Xiaoyin, they said you stole the small electric car in her yard, did you do it?" Mother asked urgently.

Wu Tianyin was stunned for a while, then frowned and replied: "Who said this? I don't even know if her family has an electric car, so why did she say I stole it?"

"Don't quibble there!"

Beside the cabinet, the male neighbor who had been hugging his shoulders and keeping silent saw Wu Tianyin talking and immediately spoke out: "Last night, didn't you hang around in front of my house for a long time?"

Wu Tianyin was stunned.

"I saw something was wrong with you wandering around, and I even locked the electric car. But when I came here this morning, there was only a damn chain next to the door bolt." The male neighbor frowned and scolded: "You said you were over thirty. Why do you do this in front of your home when you have arms and legs?"

"I didn't steal it." Wu Tianyin glared and asked, "Did you see me take it?"

"I asked Dalinzi in the front yard. He said that you were wandering on the street for more than two hours last night." The male neighbor frowned and asked: "Tell me, why are you wandering on the street when you have nothing to do? Come to my door. What are you wandering around for?"

"Can I prove that I stole it just by walking out of your house?" Wu Tianyin was shaking with anger and asked, clenching his fists.

The male neighbor looked at Wu Tianyin with disdain and said in a deep voice: "My electric car is four or five years old. It has been left in the yard all year round. The frozen battery is almost reaching the end of its life. That toy should be sold to a recycling plant. It’s worth ten or twenty yuan. Little brother, if you really don’t have enough money to drink, tell me?! We’ve been neighbors for so many years, and I’ll give you ten fucking dollars, what else can you do?”

Wu Tianyin's head was buzzing and he asked: "No, how can you infer that I stole this car?!"

"Stop pretending to be so high-spirited." The old lady cursed with her hands on her hips in a hot temper: "So many people have seen you wandering around in front of my house, why are you still making excuses? Then the fucking government has been dealing with you for so many years, why haven't you been punished? How about you become a good person?"

When Wu Tianyin heard this, he felt as if someone had stabbed his heart with a steel needle. No matter how others scold him, perhaps his experience and experience will not cause him to have an overreaction, but he is extremely sensitive if anyone brings up his past crimes and punishments.

"You said he stole it, then go report it and ask the superintendent's people to come over." The stepfather was also shaking with anger, waving his hands and yelling at the neighbor: "If you have evidence, arrest him."

"Is this your attitude?" the male neighbor asked angrily.

"Then what do you want to do? Otherwise, you will destroy my house?!" the stepfather roared furiously.

"I'm going to fucking slap you, do you believe it or not?" When the old ladies saw their stepfather's attitude, they went up to him and started to take action.

"Hey, don't move."

The male neighbor grabbed his wife, pointed at his stepfather and said: "There is no one in your family who is a good person, so the government has no need to let out such toys. Okay, isn't it just an electric car? I'll just sell it." Burn the paper for the thief."

"No, we can't just pull him down like this." The old women still yelled unforgivingly.

"If you don't pull her down, why are you beating them?" The male neighbor grabbed his daughter-in-law and dragged her out while cursing: "If you touch them, this family will blackmail you to death."

"Pooh!"

The old woman spat heavily at the door, pulled her neck and yelled at her two younger brothers: "Let's go."

After saying that, the four people cursed and left the compound.

Wu Tianyin looked numbly at the leaving neighbor and stood there speechless for a long time.

He did wander down the street last night, but the reason was that he didn't want to go home. Because he knew very well that no one in this family, including his mother, wanted to see him. In addition, after he lost his job, his relationship with his stepfather also reached a freezing point, so he felt very awkward at home. After dinner, he just wanted to go out for a walk, but he didn't expect that such a thing would happen.

Wu Tianyin felt that there was nothing wrong with his perspective on the world, but he had never thought before that the entire world looked at him from a different perspective.

Ever since he was released from prison, he has been labeled as someone who has committed a serious crime and is not a good person.

"Pah, pah!"

While Wu Tianyin was stunned, his stepfather suddenly walked over from the side, raised his arm and slapped him twice in the face.

Wu Tianyin was stunned for a moment and took two steps back.

"Did you steal it?!" the stepfather asked with eyes wide open.

"Why did I steal it? Just because I committed a crime, I was fired from the company, and I have no job now, right?!" Wu Tianyin asked with a trembling voice.

"Are you still quibbling? You didn't steal a car, why are you hanging around at the door of someone's courtyard?!" The stepfather reached out and touched Wu Tianyin's chest: "Don't you know what you have done yourself? The damn neighbors around you, I always take a detour when I see you, for fear that you won’t be able to survive, so you will go to someone’s house to grab something, steal something, and you’re shameless enough to wander around in front of someone’s house!”

Wu Tianyin retreated silently without saying a word.

The mother stood aside, looking up at her fierce-looking husband, but hesitated to speak.

"It's just this person, damn...!"

"Have you beaten enough?" Wu Tianyin asked coldly.

The stepfather was stunned when he heard the sound.

"...This family can't tolerate me, so I'll leave." After Wu Tianyin said this, he turned around and returned to his room.

In the hall, everyone was stunned.

Ten minutes later, Wu Tianyin walked back to the living room carrying the worthless luggage and clothes he had brought out from prison.

"Mom, I'm leaving." Wu Tianyin shouted with a trembling voice.

"Xiaoyin...!" Mother opened her mouth to speak.

"What are you going to do?" My stepfather shouted from the back bedroom: "You want to go with him on horseback? If you leave, don't come back. Get out of here. I'll save money on food."

The mother was shaken by the scolding and stood there at a loss.

With a smile on his face but tears in his eyes, Wu Tianyin picked up his luggage and left the home that he had missed for twelve years.

…

It's noon.

Qin Yu climbed up from Ma Lao Er's bed, looked up at the old cat and asked, "What time is it?"

"It's past 11 o'clock." Old Cat replied softly.

"Damn, I overslept." Qin Yu rubbed his eyes, lifted the quilt and asked, "Is everyone here?"

"They're all here."

"Call Wei Wei, Xu Yang, the second brother, and Uncle Zi, and let's go to the conference room together." Qin Yu got out of bed and said, "I'll wash my face, and then we'll have a meeting."