Siheyuan: I just want to live

Under Yi Zhonghai's watchful eyes, Qian Dali finally opened the box. When he saw that the box was full of letters, Qian Dali seemed a little excited.

He secretly wondered, "Could these be the contact letters between Yi Zhonghai and the enemy spies?"

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little excited, as if he had found an important clue.

So he couldn't wait to pick up a letter and opened it quickly. However, when he saw the dense handwriting on the letter, he was suddenly stunned.

It turned out that he was so excited that he forgot that he was illiterate! After realizing this, Qian Dali scratched his head awkwardly, with a hint of helplessness on his face.

However, Qian Dali was only embarrassed for a moment, then he changed his mind and thought, it's just that he can't read, Fangzi can just join the army and practice his skills to kill the enemy, it doesn't matter whether he can read or not, there are clerks in the company anyway.

Thinking of this, Qian Dali immediately shouted loudly: "Jianjun! Where is Jianjun?"

As his shout rang out, a soldier who was searching Sha Zhu's house immediately responded loudly: "Captain! I'm here!"

Then, the soldier quickly ran out of Shazhu's house and came to Qian Dali. He saluted Qian Dali with a standard military salute and said firmly: "Captain, are you looking for me?"

When Qian Dali saw the soldier, he stuffed the letter in his hand into his hand without hesitation, and said anxiously: "Jianjun, here is a letter, take a look quickly, is this the letter used by the enemy spies to communicate?"

Jianjun took the letter from Qian Dali, quickly scanned the words on the letter, then frowned slightly and replied: "Captain, this doesn't seem to be the letter used by the enemy spies to communicate?"

When Qian Dali heard Jianjun's words, he showed a trace of doubt on his face and asked, "If it's not a letter from the enemy spies, then what could it be?"

Jianjun picked up the letter, looked at the words on it carefully, then looked up and said to Qian Dali: "Company Commander, this letter is from a man named He Daqing to a man named Yushui." Then he read out the contents of the letter in detail.

"The letter expressed his longing for Yu Shui, but he was too busy with work to go home to visit her. At the end of the letter, he mentioned that he had sent Yu Shui ten yuan, and told her not to save money, and if she needed more money, she could write again to let her know."

After listening to Jianjun's report, Qian Dali frowned and asked, "Is that all? Is there no other important information or hidden meaning?"

Jianjun shook his head and replied, "Captain, I checked carefully and found nothing else unusual."

Qian Dali thought for a moment and then said, "Jianjun, there are still many letters here. You continue to check the remaining letters. See if you can find any clues from them. See if these letters are written in code by enemy spies!"

Jianjun nodded and said, "Okay, Captain, I'll check it right away!"

So Jianjun took the box from Qian Dali, then sat on the steps and started reading the letters in the box one by one.

Although Qian Dali could not read, he still sat down with Jianjun, then stretched his head to look at the letter in Jianjun's hand.

Just as Qian Dali and Jianjun were studying He Daqing's family letter, other people in the courtyard couldn't help but start discussing the conversation between Jianjun and Qian Dali.

After hearing the conversation between Qian Dali and Jianjun, everyone showed surprised expressions. They really didn't expect that He Daqing actually sent money back to Yushui, and the amount was not small, ten yuan every month.

This surprised everyone present. After all, in their impression, He Daqing never contacted his family again after he left, let alone sent money back home.

Today they suddenly found out that He Daqing still sent money to Yu Shui. How could they not be surprised?

However, Yan Fugui, who was in the crowd, frowned, his heart full of doubts.

He thought to himself, "How come the third uncle who lives at the gate of the courtyard didn't know about He Daqing's letter? Besides, I haven't seen Yi Zhonghai give rainwater money."

These questions kept lingering in his mind, making him more suspicious of the matter.

Then, Yan Fugui looked at Yu Shui's skinny body again, and he became more certain that there must be something wrong.

According to common sense, if Yu Shui really had ten dollars a month for living expenses, even if she was reluctant to spend money, she would not starve herself, right?

If she could eat her fill, she shouldn't be so thin.

However, the facts before him were completely different from what he had imagined. Yu Shui was so hungry that he was skin and bones. This made Yan Fugui feel very strange.

Yan Fugui thought to himself: "I use ten dollars to support a large family, but none of my children are as thin as Yu Shui?"

This made him more and more convinced that there must be some hidden story. The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong, and he felt that there must be some inside story that he, the third uncle, didn't know!

Old Yi must be hiding something from his uncle.

At this time, Chief Zhang of the police station was also shocked when he heard the conversation between Qian Dali and others.

Zhang Chaoyang heard clearly what they said just now. Isn't He Daqing the father-in-law of his son?

But didn't I hear from my daughter-in-law that he had no contact with Yu Shui since he went to Baoding? How come He Daqing's letter appeared now?

Could it be that Yu Shui was lying to her? But Yu Shui herself knew that she was not the kind of person who would lie to her on this issue.

But then again, the appearance of this family letter does complicate things. If it is true as the letter says, then He Daqing may have been paying attention to the situation of his family.

I must investigate the matter here clearly, so I need to investigate it further. After all, this kind of matter involving family relationships and affection cannot be sloppy.

Thinking of this, Zhang Chaoyang decided not to tell Yu Shui about this matter first, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble. He planned to go to Baoding in person after today's matter was over, and talk to He Daqing to see what the situation was.

At this time, Yi Zhonghai was already sitting on the ground with a deathly pale face, just when the soldier named Jianjun read out He Daqing's letter.

Yi Zhonghai sighed inwardly, knowing that he was finished. The prestige he had accumulated in the courtyard over the past decade might be lost today.

In fact, Yi Zhonghai had thought about making up a random excuse to fool people, but when he saw Qian Dali's expression, Yi Zhonghai knew that he would not give up until he had thoroughly investigated the ins and outs of these letters.

But what to do after finding out? Yi Zhonghai saw that Yu Shuiduo's husband and father-in-law were there! Yi Zhonghai knew that they were not as easy to fool as Sha Zhu, who could be fooled by just finding an excuse.

Yi Zhonghai felt like a wild beast cornered by a hunter. No matter which direction he went, he would die.

His heart was filled with despair and helplessness, and he didn't know how to face the situation that was about to happen.

An old lady standing by felt so distressed when she saw Yi Zhonghai like this that she quickly walked over to his side, reached out her hand and gently stroked Yi Zhonghai's chest, trying to calm him down.

She said gently, "Old man, you must cheer up! Everything you do is for the good of Yu Shui and Sha Zhu, so that they won't spend money recklessly. What we do is actually helping them save some money! We will give it to Sha Zhu in the future!"

When Yi Zhonghai heard his wife's words of comfort, a warm current suddenly surged in his heart, as if he had found a glimmer of hope. He tightly grasped this life-saving straw and nodded repeatedly to show his agreement.

He murmured to himself, "Yes! I am not greedy for their money, but I really want to help them save this money. When Shazhu gets married, this money will come in handy and can be used to repair the house, pay the bride price, etc."

Yi Zhonghai was trying to find excuses for himself, trying to make it more reasonable for him to withhold the child support from He Yushui. He kept muttering to himself while trying to convince himself.

However, in fact, He Daqing had already made it clear in the letter that the money was specifically reserved for Yu Shui as alimony.

But in Yi Zhonghai's opinion, Yu Shui is just a girl and she doesn't need so much child support.

In his eyes, the money from He Daqing was actually for Sha Zhu, but he was worried that Sha Zhu would not be willing to accept it, so he left it in the name of rain water.

The more Yi Zhonghai thought about it, the more he felt that he was right. He firmly believed that his judgment was correct.

He hypnotized himself that this was not only for Sha Zhu's good, but also for the harmony of the whole family. He believed that his behavior was not wrong and that he did it for Sha Zhu's good.

However, in fact, all this was just Yi Zhonghai's self-hypnosis. In fact, Yi Zhonghai had his own little calculations from the beginning. When he saw that Sha Zhu and Yu Shui were left unattended after He Daqing left, he came up with a plan.

He wanted to train Sha Zhu to be his second choice for retirement support, so he deliberately withheld the child support that He Daqing left for Yu Shui.

In this way, if the money is not deducted, Sha Zhu will have ten more yuan in his hand every month, and it will become easy for him to support Yu Shui.

In this case, how could Yi Zhonghai continue to help Sha Zhu? And if he could not continue to help Sha Zhu, how could Sha Zhu be grateful to Yi Zhonghai, let alone obey his orders.

At that time, Yi Zhonghai secretly thought in his heart: "As long as I withhold this money, Sha Zhu will be in trouble and have to rely on my help. In this way, he will be grateful to me and may even regard me as a family member."

So, he withheld the child support left by He Daqing without hesitation, leaving Sha Zhu in financial distress.

Later, when Sha Zhu was about to fall on hard times, he lent some money to Sha Zhu, and then instilled in Sha Zhu the idea of ​​respecting himself as an elder and loving the young in the Jia family.

Moreover, he did not teach Sha Zhu some principles of dealing with people, and eventually turned Sha Zhu into what he is now.