Siheyuan: Fighting against the beasts under the pressure of the system

I came to the inner courtyard and found Director Wang’s office. I took out two cans and 20 eggs from the space and put them in a small basket.

Bought this just a few days ago.

I looked around and saw no one was paying attention to this place. I knocked on the door twice and someone said "Come in".

After entering the room, I found Director Wang writing documents at his desk. He heard someone coming in slowly and looked up.

"Oh, it's Minghui. Come over here quickly and let Aunt Wang take a good look at him."

When Aunt Wang saw Zhang Minghui coming into the room, a sincere smile appeared on her face.

"Auntie Wang, now that you are much better, I came to see you."

"It's fine for you to come and see me, kid, but why are you bringing things with you? Take these things back quickly and take good care of yourself. Your Aunt Wang's family doesn't lack these things."

"You are too weak now. You should eat something nutritious."

"By the way, I'll get you some milk powder tickets in a couple of days. Milk powder can strengthen your body and will definitely be good for your health."

"Don't worry, Aunt Wang, I will take good care of myself. I am still looking forward to contributing to the country when I grow up! I must take good care of my health and contribute to the four modernizations."

"Haha, you are quite conscious. By the way, now that you are well, how is the school handling it? Are you still planning to take the technical secondary school entrance exam?"

Aunt Wang asked with concern.

"Auntie Wang, I went to school and talked to the principal the day before yesterday. I'll take the exam next month and get my junior high school diploma."

"As for technical secondary school, forget it. I still have a long way to go in terms of academics. I'd better wait to take over my dad's class!"

Zhang Minghui said with some shame.

"Damn it, how shameful! I was a college student in my previous life but now I have no place to go."

Zhang Minghui considered it carefully in private.

"My system is obviously designed for the beasts in the courtyard. If I really pass the technical secondary school, I will have to live on campus. If I fail to complete the task, I will be screwed."

"I don't want to lose any part of my body, so I have no choice but to give up the opportunity to enter a technical secondary school."

"That's fine. There's no distinction between high and low jobs. You can work anywhere."

As she spoke, Aunt Wang pulled Zhang Minghui to sit on a stool nearby.

"But you can't take over now at your age. You have to wait two years, which is a long time. You are the only one at home. Can you do it?"

Aunt Wang said with a worried look on her face.

"It's okay, Aunt Wang, don't worry! I'm already 14 years old, I'm a man, and it's time for me to establish myself. We can't let our Zhang family break up."

"Even if no one took care of me, I still managed to get through it. I think it was my parents who were blessing me from heaven!"

"Good children have ambitions, that's what they should do."

"No, you said no one took care of you. Didn't the three uncles in your courtyard take care of you?"

Aunt Wang asked with a puzzled look on her face.

Blinking his eyes, trying to make the corners of his eyes red, with tears hanging in his eye sockets, Zhang Minghui answered with a sob.

"Auntie Wang, you're the only one who's been to my house twice during this time. No one else has been to my house to see me."

After hearing this, Aunt Wang was furious and her eyes widened.

"How can Lao Yi and his gang do anything? If they can't even do this, what's the point of having them? Wait, I'll take you to find them."

After saying that, he stood up and was about to pull Zhang Minghui away.

"Auntie Wang, Auntie Wang, don't be anxious, sit down first."

"Auntie Wang, I know what those people in the compound are thinking. They just want to wipe out the whole family."

"After burying my parents, I had a mental breakdown and people in the hospital said I carried the aura of death."

"So no one wants to take care of me, they just want me to die and then they can get some benefits."

Aunt Wang slapped her thigh and said, "Let's see who dares."

"Now that the new China has been established, we will not allow the extinction of a family."

Aunt Wang's face was full of anger and she was gritting her teeth in anger.

"Auntie Wang, don't get excited. People's minds are hard to predict. We are all ordinary people, all calculating our lives. Such things happen everywhere."

"Ah," Aunt Wang sighed, "people's hearts are hard to predict. Minghui, it's just that you are suffering here."

"Hey, Aunt Wang, this is nothing, but this illness really made me grow up a lot, and I also felt the evil of human nature."

"'No wonder my father kept talking to me about Yi Zhonghai when he was alive.'

"What's wrong with Yi Zhonghai?"

Aunt Wang also became interested and wanted to know more about the courtyard house.

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Zhang Minghui stood up and looked outside the door cautiously, "Auntie Wang, I have something to tell you in secret."

"Last year, after drinking, my dad said something to me and my mom. I didn't quite understand it before, but now I understand it a little bit."

After this set of actions, Aunt Wang's interest was aroused, and she was eager to hear some inside information.

"Auntie Wang, my father said that Yi Zhonghai is a very hypocritical person. He doesn't teach his apprentices seriously at all. None of his apprentices have even passed the third-level worker examination."

"Unlike our second uncle Liu Haizhong, all his apprentices have passed the fifth level exam. Second uncle's apprentices often visit him with gifts."

"But the master never had any apprentices to visit him."

Aunt Wang was surprised when she heard this. She didn't expect there was such an inside story.

"And my dad said that an uncle and his wife can't have children themselves."

"So I decided to train an apprentice to take care of them in their old age, and I chose Jia Dongxu from our school. I have been his apprentice for almost 10 years, and he is still a second-level worker."

"My dad said that the eldest uncle just wanted to control the Jia family and didn't want to teach Jia Dongxu real skills."

“They are afraid that when Jia Dongxu gets promoted and his salary increases and he can support the family, he will be out of control and won’t be able to provide for them in their old age.”

"No way!"

Aunt Wang also fell into deep thought and didn't speak for a long time.

"Aunt Wang, I didn't believe it before, but you see, the apprentices that Second Master took in, who were in the same batch as Jia Dongxu, the worst ones have passed the third level, and the best ones have passed the fifth level."

"You think, Yi Zhonghai is a level 7 worker. If he really wants to teach, how could he not have even a level 3 worker among his apprentices?"

"Now the Jia family's food ration is insufficient. Jia Dongxu has to buy expensive food every month. Yi Zhonghai has to give Jia Dongxu some subsidies every month. The eldest uncle also asked the whole hospital to donate money to the Jia family."

“Why didn’t the street receive any notification about the donation to the Jia family?”

Aunt Wang's face immediately darkened.

"Aunt Wang, I remember donating to the Jia family several times!"

"Yi Zhonghai is almost becoming the local emperor of our hospital. Isn't Auntie taking care of the deaf old lady in our hospital?"

An old man also promoted it.

"The deaf old lady once sent shoes to the Red Army. She is the ancestor of the courtyard. If anyone dares to offend the deaf old lady, she will go to their house and smash the windows."

"Hey, I just don't understand. The people are the masters of the country, so why are there still people riding on our necks and shitting and pissing on us?"

Aunt Wang's face turned pale and blue. She was so angry that she stood up and went to deal with the matter.