Siheyuan: I just want to live

Chen Feng left the space and went to the bedroom to check the alarm clock. It was not yet four o'clock, so he adjusted the time on his watch. He touched his stomach and felt hungry again. It seemed that he could not stay in the space all the time, otherwise he would have to eat more meals, which was too much food.

Because I worked for more than ten hours in the space this afternoon, I was tired and hungry. I had never done such a long and intensive work in my previous life, and I was never so tired even when I was busy with farming.

I simply fried some vegetarian cabbage and made some mixed flour pancakes, filled my stomach, and went to the bedroom to sleep. Soon I fell into a sweet dream.

The home of Yi Zhonghai, an uncle of the Central Court

"Hey!" Yi Zhonghai sat at the table and picked up the teacup with the words "Serve the People" printed on it and wanted to take a sip, but he sighed and put it down.

"Oh!" He stood up, put his hands behind his back and lowered his head, walked back and forth in the narrow living room, and sighed.

He turned around and went into the room and lay on the bed. He tossed and turned but felt uncomfortable no matter how he lay there. "Oh!" Then he sighed again.

He immediately stood up, walked to the table, sat down heavily, slammed the table fiercely, and said fiercely, "Hold a meeting! Hold a meeting of the whole hospital! We must punish that little bastard from the Chen family today!"

Today, Chen Feng's words really made him angry in the Intermediate Court. He was restless all day and couldn't even eat his lunch properly.

Who has dared to speak to Yi Zhonghai in such a tone over the years? No one has dared!

This loophole cannot be opened. Once it is opened, what will we do if the young people in the courtyard follow suit?

We must kill Chen Feng for bringing this evil spirit! Otherwise, how will he manage the compound in the future?

We must establish a good atmosphere of respecting the elderly and loving the young, helping the poor and the weak! Only in this way can we be rated as a civilized courtyard and demonstrate his management ability.

This is the only way to re-establish his dignity as a great uncle! It will be convenient for him to promote his ideas and ensure that his future retirement plan will be worry-free!

Let all the young people in the hospital learn from him and take care of themselves like he took care of the deaf old lady! No! We should take better care of them than the deaf old lady!

Therefore, this full-house meeting must be held today!

Then he ordered the auntie, "Auntie! Go call Jia Dongxu over. I have something to tell him!"

"Okay!" The aunt responded straightforwardly, turned around and left the room, walking towards the Jia family opposite.

When they arrived at the Jia family's door, an old lady standing at the door started calling out "Jia Dongxu is coming" without going in.

"Dongxu! Is Xudong at home? I'm your aunt! I have something to talk to you about, please come out!"

Jia Dongxu was lying on the kang in the room. He didn't go to work today, so the Jia family didn't have lunch.

The whole family lies on the kang to rest and reduce exercise so that they won’t feel hungry.

"Hey! Master's wife, I'm at home! Wait a minute, I'll open the door for you!"

Jia Dongxu hurriedly got off the kang, put on his clothes and shoes, trotted to the door and opened it.

The old lady looked inside from outside the door, but couldn't see what was going on inside the house.

The Jia family had only one room, and Jia Dongxu used a curtain made of sorghum stalks and hemp ropes to divide the room into two spaces, and then pasted newspapers on both sides of the curtain.

A small door was left on the wall for easy entry and exit, and it was also covered with a curtain made of scraps of cloth.

From the door, you can only see the living room outside, but not the space behind the curtain. So the auntie couldn't see anything.

After opening the door, Jia Dongxu respectfully asked the aunt, "Master's wife! What do you want to talk to me about?"

The lady withdrew her gaze and replied, "Your master wants to see you for something! Let me come over to call you, come with me!"

Jia Dongxu quickly agreed and said, "Okay, let's go right away."

Having said that, Jia Dongxu walked out of the door, turned around and closed the door.

If the door is not closed, cold air will enter the house, and the room temperature will drop, and the kang needs to be heated again. Coal briquettes are very expensive for the Jia family, and they cannot afford to burn too many coal briquettes!

Jia Dongxu followed the aunt back to the Yi family and felt a heat wave as soon as he entered the door.

Obviously Yi Zhonghai was not short of money for those coal briquettes. He provided enough coal briquettes, the stove was burning brightly and the house was warm. Compared with the Jia family, there was a world of difference between them.

"Master, what do you want me to do?" Jia Dongxu asked respectfully as soon as he entered the room, without waiting for Yi Zhonghai to speak.

"It's nothing serious. I just have to hold a meeting for the entire hospital today. Go and tell everyone to have breakfast and come to the meeting on time at six o'clock."

Yi Zhonghai thought for a moment and said, "Hmm~! By the way! Chen Feng, go call him when the meeting starts!"

Yi Zhonghai thought: Chen Feng will probably finish his meal at six o'clock! I want him to come to the meeting without even eating!

Yi Zhonghai wanted to disgust Chen Feng, but he didn't know that Chen Feng had already eaten and was sleeping comfortably in the room. At six o'clock, he should be chatting happily with Zhou Gong's daughter! Yi Zhonghai's calculation was doomed to fail.

"Okay! I got it. I'll go inform everyone right away." Jia Dongxu then asked carefully, "Do you want to ask the second and third uncles to come over first? So you can discuss the content of the meeting?"

Yi Zhonghai immediately spoke up and Qian Gang said confidently, "No need to call them over in advance. I will host the meeting myself."

"Okay! I'll go over and inform everyone." After saying this, Jia Dongxu hurriedly turned around and left the Yi family, going door to door in the yard to inform everyone that there would be a meeting at six o'clock in the evening.

"Aunt Jiang! The meeting starts at 6pm! Don't be late!"

"Oh! I get it! I won't be late!"

"Is Uncle Three home? The meeting starts at 6pm! Don't be late!"

Uncle Three, Yan Fugui, heard the noise and came out of the room and asked, "Who wants to hold a meeting? What kind of meeting? Why didn't you discuss it with me in advance?"

Jia Dongxu was about to leave when he heard Yan Fugui ask him, so he answered, "My master is going to have a meeting! He didn't tell me what the meeting was about, so he asked me to inform everyone!"

"Why didn't he discuss this with you? I don't know! You can ask him yourself later."

"I still have other people to notify! I'll go notify everyone first! See you later!"

After answering his question, Jia Dongxu turned around and left to inform others.

It took Jia Xudong a while to notify everyone in the hospital. He was very obedient and did not call Chen Feng.

Chen Feng was sleeping soundly at the moment and did not hear any noise in the yard.

Just like that, as Chen Feng was sleeping comfortably, time soon came to six o'clock.

All the families in the open space of the middle courtyard have arrived, except for the three uncles, Chen Feng and the deaf old lady. Generally, the deaf old lady would not appear in the whole courtyard meeting unless it was about her or Sha Zhu.

Soon, three old men came from different directions, each carrying a teacup, and sat down at the eight-immortal table placed in the open space in the middle courtyard.

Yi Zhonghai first took a look at the crowd below, and was very satisfied that someone from each family had arrived, so he was the first to speak and asked knowingly, "Is Chen Feng here?"

At this time, Jia Dongxu actively responded in the crowd and shouted, "Chen Feng hasn't come yet!"

Yi Zhonghai knew this was the result, so he pretended to be very angry and said, "This Chen Feng is too unruly! We've already notified everyone to hold a meeting, and now everyone is waiting for him! How presumptuous!"

Seeing Yi Zhonghai angry, Yan Fugui tried to smooth things over by saying, "Old Yi, don't be angry. If he doesn't want to come, then don't come! Let's have a meeting first! Whoever sees him tomorrow can just tell him what was discussed in tonight's meeting!"

Liu Haizhong also said, "That's right, it doesn't matter if he doesn't come! Let's have a meeting first! It's cold enough today, let's finish the meeting early and go home to sleep!"

"No! Today's meeting is held for him! How can he not come!" Yi Zhonghai still spoke in a stern tone.

Then he said to the Jia family's position in the crowd, "Jia Dongxu, go and ask him to come to the meeting."

Jia Xudong responded in the crowd, "Okay, I'll go right away!" Then he ran out of the crowd and ran towards the backyard.

When Jia Dongxu arrived at the backyard, he saw that the door of Chen Feng's house was closed but not locked, and there was no light in the room, so he guessed that he had gone to bed.

So, he stood at the door and began to bang on Chen Feng's door, shouting as he banged, "Chen Feng, wake up! It's time for a meeting. Chen Feng, wake up! The uncle is calling you to a meeting!"

Chen Feng was very depressed in the room. He was woken up from his dream by Jia Dongxu again. This was the second time he was woken up by him in three days.

"What are you yelling for? Are you trying to call for my soul? How can you knock on the door like that? I'm telling you, do you want to be scolded every day?"

Chen Feng was very angry! He was very angry when he woke up! He opened his eyes and started cursing in bed.

Then he turned on the light, put on his clothes and shoes, and got out of bed. With a gloomy face, he walked into the main room and opened the door.

When Jia Dongxu saw his gloomy face, he was frightened, fearing that Chen Feng would suddenly get up and beat him up.

He hurriedly said, "Uncle Chen Feng is calling you for a meeting, hurry over! I'm leaving first!"

After saying that, he ran as if there was a dog chasing him, without even looking back! Chen Feng looked at Jia Dongxu running away speechlessly, thinking to himself: Am I so scary?

Then he locked the door and walked slowly towards the central courtyard.

"Chen Feng, don't stand in the crowd at the back anymore, come stand in the front! Today's meeting is your business!"

When Yi Zhonghai saw Chen Feng coming, he quickly called Chen Feng to stand in the open space in front of the Eight Immortals Table.

Chen Feng squeezed through the crowd and stood in front of the Eight Immortals Table. Then he said to the old man, "What is the matter that you want to have a meeting with me today? If it is about exchanging rooms with the Jia family, then don't say anything. I will not agree to it!"

Yi Zhonghai did not respond to his words, but only glanced at him from behind the eight-immortal table. Then he stood up and said to everyone, "The purpose of holding this meeting today is to discuss and vote on the matter of expelling Chen Feng from the courtyard."

When Yi Zhonghai finished speaking, there was a burst of quiet discussions from below, which sounded like a buzzing sound.

Someone asked the person next to him, "Hey, what did Chen Feng do outside?"

"I haven't heard of it! I don't know either!"

"But you've offended an old man, haven't you?" the person behind him whispered.

The man stepped back and asked in a low voice, "How did you offend me? How come I didn't know about it?"

The person behind him responded in a low voice, "That day the Jia family wanted to exchange rooms with Chen Feng, but he didn't agree? Maybe that's how he got offended!"

Yan Fugui and Liu Haizhong, who were sitting on both sides of the table, looked at each other, wondering what kind of vinegar was in Yi Zhonghai's bottle?

Without saying a word, they both picked up the teacups in tacit understanding and communicated with their eye contact.

Yi Zhonghai watched the two's little movements without saying anything and was very satisfied with their attitudes.

Chen Feng listened to the discussions in the crowd and did not rush to question Yi Zhonghai, waiting for him to continue.

Yi Zhonghai picked up his iconic teacup with the words "Serve the People" printed on it, took a sip of tea, and glanced at the people below through the cover of the teacup.

When he saw that the people below had almost finished discussing, he covered the teacup, used it to prop up the eight-immortals table and said, "Okay! Stop discussing and listen to me! Be quiet and listen to me!"