Siheyuan: Being a fisherman in 1962

Yi Zhonghai was carrying a heavy bag of flour and walking hurriedly on his way home.

He was thinking about how to use this bag of flour to provide food and clothing for the old and young in his family, but he never expected that this night would completely change his fate.

"Oh!" A scream broke the silence of the night. Qin Huairu, the always gentle and lovely neighbor, suddenly rushed out from the darkness, holding a wooden stick in her hand, pointing at Yi Zhonghai with a horrified face, and her voice trembled: "You...what are you doing!"

Yi Zhonghai was stunned and almost dropped the bag of flour in his hand.

He hurriedly explained: "Qin Huairu, you misunderstood, I just..."

Before he could finish his words, Qin Huairu's screams resounded through the night sky, and her terrified eyes seemed to nail him to the pillar of shame.

The air around him froze instantly, and Yi Zhonghai felt a chill running from the soles of his feet straight to his heart. He tried to get closer and explain things clearly, but Qin Huairu's screams and struggles left him helpless.

Despair surged over him like a tide. Yi Zhonghai felt a black screen before his eyes, and he lost consciousness and fell to the cold ground.

At the same time, not far away, Chen Fei had just finished a busy day and was preparing to go home to rest.

Suddenly, a rapid cry for help pierced through the night and hit his eardrums.

"Help! There's a rapist!" The voice belonged to Qin Huairu.

Chen Fei's heart trembled, and without any hesitation, he ran towards the source of the sound.

When he arrived, he saw Qin Huairu with her clothes disheveled and her face covered with tears, while Yi Zhonghai was lying on the ground, unconscious.

"What's going on?" Fade Chen asked anxiously, his eyes flicking back and forth between the two of them.

When Qin Huairu saw Fade Chen, she pointed at Yi Zhonghai and cried, "He...he..."

At this moment, Yan Jiecheng walked out from the shadows and wanted to lock the cellar door in the chaos, but had to change his plan because of Qin Huairu's cry for help.

He pretended to be calm, pretending to have just heard the noise and rushed over, and asked with concern: "What's wrong? What happened?"

When Qin Huairu saw someone coming, she became even more excited and unbuttoned two buttons at random. Tears and sweat mixed together, making her look even more pitiful.

"He...he wanted to do something bad to me!" She pointed at Yi Zhonghai, her voice full of despair and helplessness.

This scene quickly attracted other residents in the courtyard.

In the backyard, lights were turned on one after another, and people were talking and talking.

Liu Haizhong, an elderly resident who had just been discharged from the hospital, leaned on a cane and squeezed into the crowd with a serious face to inquire about what had happened.

Seeing this, Qin Huairu burst into tears. She cleverly used her own weakness and grievance to portray the whole incident as a thrilling encounter, in which she was the innocent victim.

The sympathy and anger of the people around him were instantly ignited, and accusations against Yi Zhonghai rose one after another.

However, in this chaos, Fade Chen remained calm.

The truth is often hidden beneath appearances.

He silently observed everyone, secretly planning in his heart, and vowed to unravel the mystery and clear Yi Zhonghai's name.

Qin Huairu's face was full of determination at this moment. She stood in the yard and slowly told the neighbors who gathered around her about the thrilling night.

"That night, the moon was dark and the wind was strong. I was about to go home, but I was attacked from behind. A brute force dragged me into the deep cellar..." Although her voice was trembling slightly, it was extremely clear. Every word was like a heavy hammer, hitting everyone's heart.

There was an unyielding light in Qin Huairu's eyes, which was the anger towards evil and the desire to survive.

"I struggled with all my might and fought back with all my strength. Finally, when that man relaxed, I found an opportunity and knocked him to the ground with a heavy punch." When she said this, Qin Huairu's fists unconsciously clenched, as if the courage and strength at that moment had returned to her.

Upon hearing this, the residents were all filled with righteous indignation, and expressed their desire to catch the audacious villain and give Qin Huairu justice.

Jia Zhang, a woman known for her fierceness, was the first to stand up and shout, "We cannot tolerate evil, we must punish them severely!"

The voice was sharp and powerful, piercing through the night and igniting the anger of everyone present.

Sha Zhu, the seemingly honest but kind-hearted cook, frowned at this moment, his eyes revealing an unprecedented determination:

"Yes, we can't let Qin Huairu suffer in vain. We have to let that bastard know that the people in our Siheyuan are not to be trifled with!"

Liu Haizhong, as one of the elders in the courtyard, also looked particularly serious at this time.

"Qin Huairu, did you see the man clearly?" Qin Huairu shook her head and sighed, "It was very dark, I couldn't see anything clearly, I only knew that the man was tall and powerful."

Liu Haizhong frowned when he heard this, then as if he thought of something, he turned around and ran home.

After a while, he returned in a hurry, holding a high-powered flashlight.

Upon seeing this, everyone gathered around and prepared to follow him down to the cellar to check.

At the entrance of the cellar, the cold wind was howling, and the light of the flashlight cut through the darkness, illuminating an area ahead.

Qin Huairu, Yan Jiecheng and Yan Bugui followed closely behind Liu Haizhong, feeling both nervous and expectant.

When the light finally fell on the face of the man on the ground, everyone couldn't help but gasp.

"This... isn't this Chen Fei?" Qin Huairu's voice trembled as she looked at the figure on the ground in disbelief.

Yan Jiecheng and Yan Bugui looked at each other in astonishment. How could Chen Fei, the usually unknown and even somewhat dull young man, be the perpetrator tonight?

However, the facts are before our eyes and cannot be doubted.

Under the light of the flashlight, Chen Fei's face was as pale as paper, and there was still blood on his forehead, which was obviously the mark left after being knocked unconscious by Qin Huairu.

For a moment, the courtyard fell into deathly silence. Only the light of the flashlight kept flickering, as if telling the story of this incredible thing.

"This...how is this possible?" Liu Haizhong muttered to himself, and almost dropped the flashlight in his hand.

He could never have imagined that his good neighbor would do such a cruel thing.

Everyone looked at each other.

Angry, shocked, confused...

Various emotions intertwined together, forming an indescribable complex atmosphere.

And after experiencing all this, Qin Huairu's eyes flashed with a strange light.

Chen Fei lay quietly in his little room, breathing evenly, completely unaware of what was happening in the outside world.

At this moment, at the other end of the courtyard, a sudden change is quietly changing the fate of everyone.

"Yi Zhonghai! How could you do such a thing!" Liu Haizhong's voice exploded in the yard like thunder, breaking the tranquility of the night.

His face was livid, his fingers almost poked Yi Zhonghai's nose, and his eyes were full of disbelief and anger.

The surrounding residents gathered around upon hearing the noise, talking among themselves, with expressions of shock and confusion on their faces.