Siheyuan: Happy Life of Jia Zhang Family

Zhang Dabao didn't know the suffering the deaf old lady had endured, but he was happy now.

"I can't believe it, Teacher Yan, that an old lady has a gun?" Zhang Dabao asked Yan Bugui with a look of disbelief.

"Everyone saw it, and the police told us the same thing," Yan Bugui found more witnesses, and the people in the courtyard nodded.

"Originally, it was said that Yi Zhonghai was a spy, but who would have thought that the spy was Yi Zhonghai's godmother? What a joke," Zhang Dabao said with a long sigh.

"Teacher Yan, I have bought all the tools. Don't forget to ask the children to help on Sunday." Zhang Dabao pushed his bicycle towards the backyard.

"Uncle Seventh, I don't go to school on Sunday. I will also go to help turn the soil." Bang Geng heard the conversation between Zhang Dabao and Yan Bugui and hurried over to say something.

"Okay, come over earlier then. I want to build a greenhouse for growing sweet potato seedlings first. How about we eat roasted sweet potatoes today? Let's try and see if the sweet potatoes we will grow in the future are delicious?" Zhang Dabao asked Banggeng.

"Can sweet potatoes be roasted? Aren't they usually boiled or added to porridge?" Banggeng followed Zhang Dabia to the backyard.

"What do you know? Roasted sweet potatoes are delicious. Once you peel off the skin, the yellow flesh is roasted and oily, and the oil is sweet. Take a bite and you'll have an endless aftertaste." Jia Dongxu caught up without knowing when.

"You only know how to eat. Why don't you come to help? You're worse than a child." Zhang Dabao got angry when he saw Jia Dongxu's look.

"I won't say it, but I will do it. He can only talk but not do it." Jia Dongxu was not angry after being scolded, but explained with a playful smile on his face.

"The child's words make people feel comfortable, but he gets angry when he sees you. Hurry up and take a few steps to light the fire. Can you roast it?" Zhang Dabao kicked Jia Dongxu.

"Of course I can bake, but I'll go call my mom first, she bakes better." Jia Dongxu ran away.

"My dad probably doesn't know how to bake, so he asked my grandma to do it," Banggeng said to Zhang Dabao.

"Your father was spoiled by your grandmother, so don't learn from him," Zhang Dabao said to Banggeng.

"If I don't learn from him, he won't be promoted and his friends will laugh at him. I don't want to be laughed at by others. I must become a second-level worker when I grow up." Bang Geng expressed his great ideal.

"Level 2 worker is your father's ideal, you can set your goal a little higher." Zhang Dabao laughed out loud when he heard Bang Geng's words.

"I'm a third-level worker," Banggeng said proudly.

"Okay, a level three worker can still earn 40 yuan a month, which is enough to support the family. Go call your aunt over and you can eat together." Zhang Dabao thought to himself that you Jia family members have such big ambitions, you really deserve to be the offspring of your blessed brother-in-law.

Jia Dongxu knew how to make a fire. Zhang Dabao took out the sweet potatoes to coax Zhang Cuihua, and asked his second sister to cook some more. They stewed a soup. It seemed that Zhang Cuihua had roasted sweet potatoes many times when she was a child, and she controlled the heat well. The soup was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, sweet and delicious.

"Sister, you have to pass on your skills to Dongxu. By then, it will be better for him to set up a small stall selling roasted sweet potatoes in front of the steel rolling mill than to work. A first-level worker is better off than you. You may be promoted to second-level in a year," Zhang Dabao said to Zhang Cuihua.

"I won't set up a stall. My mother told me not to play with fire." Jia Dongxu's reason was very strong.

"Did you listen to me when I told you to study hard? Did you listen to me when I told you to study hard? Why didn't you listen to me when I told you to do something?" Zhang Cuihua is now on par with Liu Haizhong, and she would attack Jia Dongxu at any time.

"Seventh uncle, aunt, please persuade my mother to stop beating me. I'm so old now." Jia Dongxu ran into the yard.

"Dongxu, my mother told me to mind my own business," said Zhang Lianhua.

Huang Xinsheng laughed so hard that the sweet potato spat out, and Zhang Dabao and others also laughed.

"Brother Dongxu, are you playing the game of beating children with Aunt Jia again?" He Yuzhu heard the noise and came over with his sister.

"What kind of game are you playing? Can't you see that I'm being beaten?" Jia Dongxu said angrily.

"Yes, you two mother were playing a game of beating children. You are the child. Who else should Aunt Jia beat if not you? You are her only child." After saying this, He Yuzhu walked into the house, picked up a piece of roasted sweet potato and started eating.

Zhang Dabao was actually telling the truth. He didn't want Jia Dongxu to work in workshop 1 anymore. According to the original trajectory, Jia Dongxu was destined to be hung on the wall long ago, but he was afraid that changing jobs would not change his fate.

Although Jia Dongxu is greedy and lazy, he is still filial and good to his mother. His ability is just a little lacking. He is also the only son of his eldest sister, and Zhang Dabao doesn't want him to get married too early.

After eating the sweet potatoes, everyone thought that the sweet potatoes Zhang Dabao bought this time were of good variety, sweet and big, so they decided to come to the backyard to help every Sunday, and Zhang Dabao agreed with a smile.

There is a seal on the door of the deaf old lady's room next door. It seems she will never come back.

The deaf old lady collapsed at this moment. No matter what she said, Director Wang didn't believe her. After asking her questions, she was still beaten up.

"I'm not a fox, I don't know what a fox is, and I don't have a machine gun," said the deaf old lady.

"What method do you use to make connections at the black market every day?" asked Director Wang.

"When I go shopping, I can sometimes save up some tickets and exchange them for money. I don't need to make any connections. I can just ask the price and it's done," said the deaf old lady.

"How many people have you traded with?" Director Wang asked again.

"There are too many. There are only two who often exchange tickets, Xiao Hu and Xiao Yang. There are so many who sell things that I can't remember them all," said the deaf old lady.

"Jin Jing'e, don't think that you will be fine if you don't confess. Tell me about the radio station first. Where is the code book?" Director Wang asked again.

"The radio is not mine and I don't know how to use it, really. Everything I said is true. If I lie to you, my whole family will be killed," the deaf old lady swore.

"Your whole family must have died a long time ago, yet you still want to deceive us. Let's increase our efforts." Director Wang felt a little frustrated. He found that all the spies nowadays are hard-core elements. Liu Yang is one, Guo Qinyuan is one, Brother Hai is one, and the deaf old lady is another.

The deaf old lady's miserable screams were heard again. The severe pain made her faint. A basin of cold water was poured on her. After she woke up, the interrogation continued.

After a day and a night, Director Wang did not get the answer he wanted, and the deaf old lady's physical condition could not withstand the torture. After consulting his superiors, the case of intercepting the execution ground planned by Fox was concluded. The gunman committed suicide out of fear of punishment, Fox was arrested, and Guo Qinhai and other subordinates were either killed or sentenced, which was considered a result for his superiors.

In order to prevent anyone from intercepting the execution ground again on Saturday, the deaf old lady was taken to the execution ground and shot.

Yi Zhonghai was depressed. He was taken to the police station because he was close to the deaf old lady. He explained that he was the manager of the courtyard. He took care of the deaf old lady because of the requirements of the street office and because he felt sorry for her because she was old. He was unaware of what she did. Since there was no evidence to prove that Yi Zhonghai was related to the spy case, he was released after being detained for two days. He went back home and secluded himself. He now doubted the identity of the deaf old lady. Was she really a spy? Did she have ulterior motives to get close to him?

No one told Yi Zhonghai the answer. He found out when he was released from the police station that the deaf old lady had been shot to death.

Also implicated by the deaf old lady were the ticket scalpers in the black market. Xiao Hu and Xiao Yang were the most suspicious as they often had contact with the deaf old lady, and they suffered a lot. After they were released, they made up their minds that they would never be ticket scalpers again because this job was too risky.