Siheyuan: Banggeng and I are classmates

Yan Bugui immediately recognized the person when he heard the voice and searched the crowd with his eyes: "Director Wang, why are you here?"

"We are organizing the whole courtyard to collect incense money and are preparing to go to Baiyun Temple together tomorrow to thank the headmaster for finding the deaf old lady, the traitor, for our courtyard!"

While Yan Bugui was talking, Director Wang and the clerk from last time had already walked to the table.

When Yan Bugui saw it, he quickly handed over the donation form.

"Director Wang, look, we have raised a total of 28 yuan as a thank-you gift. This is the neighbors' gratitude to the old immortal for catching the traitor, and it also represents the neighbors' hatred for the dog traitor!"

Director Wang took the donation list, glanced at it casually and said, "Yes! It is indeed a lot. Did you report to the street office in advance when you privately raised funds in the compound?"

"Uh, no report!"

Yan Bugui scratched his head, then hurriedly explained: "This money is just temporarily kept with me. We will go to Baiyun Temple together tomorrow, and then we will hand it over to the headmaster in person. This way--"

Seeing Yan Bugui panicking and explaining, Director Wang waved his hand and interrupted, "I see. Remember to pay attention next time. As a resident uncle, you should pay attention to your words and actions, and don't do anything that could easily cause misunderstandings among the neighbors and our street office!"

Hearing that Director Wang would not argue with him about this, Yan Bugui was delighted and immediately promised: "Yes, next time we will pay attention to the way we do things!"

Director Wang nodded and then spoke.

"I came here today because of the Jia family. The Jia family has been promoting superstitious ideas in the alleys before, and took the opportunity to collect a lot of food and property from the neighbors as offerings!"

After explaining his purpose, Director Wang looked at Qin Huairu and said, "Qin Huairu, I remember I told you very clearly yesterday."

"I told you to return the neighbors' things yourself. For the sake of the neighbors, I won't bother with you. Have you returned them now?"

"no!"

Qin Huairu shrank her head and spoke in a muffled voice.

"Then my advice is useless, and we still have to ask the police to come?" Director Wang's eyes fixed, no longer as careless as before.

Qin Huairu immediately agreed when she heard this, "No need to ask the police to come, we can do it now——"

Before Qin Huairu could finish, Jia Zhang hurriedly shouted, "If you don't want to return it, why should you return it? These are all things that our neighbors gave to our family voluntarily, why should we return them?

Your subdistrict office is overly broad-based!"

After howling at Director Wang, Jia Zhang turned around and shouted, "Everyone, tell me, did you give my family the things voluntarily? I didn't stop you at the time, and I didn't force you with a knife, right?"

Seeing her mother-in-law starting to make a fuss, Qin Huairu's face turned sad and she cried. No one could see the joy hidden deep in her tearful eyes.

When Jia Zhang said this, no neighbors could stand up to refute it. After all, it was they who were the first to give the gifts.

Seeing that no one refuted her, Jia Zhang couldn't help but feel a little proud.

Seeing that Director Wang was a little embarrassed, Yan Bugui quickly explained to him: "When we go to Baiyun Temple to thank the headmaster tomorrow, we will ask about Banggeng. If Banggeng is really a deity——"

"enough!"

Director Wang shouted angrily, and then angrily questioned: "Teacher Yan, you can even say such words. Are you still a glorious people's teacher and a firm materialist fighter?"

"What bullshit is this about being a god or a high-ranking official? Do you think the neighbors who were deceived and misled by you can change the fact that you committed a crime?"

Director Wang then turned his head and looked at the clerk who was standing in the crowd without coming forward.

"Officer Ma, go and notify the police to come over and tell them that someone in Compound No. 95 has been promoting feudal superstition recently and that it is related to Ruan Hongmei's traitor case. We need to handle the case together!"

"Okay, I'll go now." Secretary Ma nodded in agreement.

After that, Director Wang continued to scold Jia Zhang:

"A twelve-year-old child, who ranked last in the class in academic performance, has become a high-ranking official in your mouth and will lead the future development of the country. I seriously suspect that you are slandering our revolutionary leading cadres and are using feudal superstition to carry out counter-revolutionary activities in an organized and premeditated manner!

When your whole family is labeled as traitors and sentenced to labor camp or execution, I wonder if your gods can bless you and whether Banggeng can still become a high-ranking official in the future!"

After he finished speaking, there was still deathly silence in the yard. Jia Zhang stood there in a daze as if she had been struck by lightning. Director Wang's hat was really too scary.

Traitor, slandering the revolutionary cadre team, counter-revolutionary activities, labor reform, execution!

Every word in these few sentences was extremely scary, and even a hint of it could lead to being shot. Therefore, not only Jia Zhang, but everyone in the courtyard was silent at this moment, not even daring to breathe, for fear of being accused of any crime.

If they are involved in any of these serious sins, the rest of their lives will be ruined!

Qin Huairu was the one who reacted quickly. She grabbed Ma, who was running away, and dragged her away, turning back and yelling at Jia Zhang:

"Mom, what else do you want? Hurry up and return all the things to the neighbors! Do you really want our family to be labeled as traitors and be shot like the deaf old lady and the stupid Zhu?"

After being awakened by Qin Huairu's shout, Jia Zhang suddenly shouted:

"It's not me. It's not me who promoted feudal superstition. These were all said by the old immortal in Baiyun Temple. He said that my Bang Geng is the reincarnation of an immortal and will be a high-ranking official in the future. Today we went to Baiyun Temple, and he said that my Bang Geng is the reincarnation of the son of the toilet goddess Zi Gu. It's not me, it's really not me who said that..."

Jia Zhang looked like a madman, thrashing around and shouting to explain, as if she had been frightened out of her mind!

But everyone was in an uproar. After a long time of commotion, they finally understood what this Zi Gu goddess was. It turned out that she was really the toilet god!

It was a great learning experience, and everyone couldn't help but think: We go to the toilet every day but don't know what the Toilet God is. Now we know that the Toilet God lives in our own compound!

Seeing that Jia Zhang was still yelling, Qin Huairu quickly shouted again, "Mom, take out the things and return them to everyone first! What are you still waiting for? Are you really going to put our whole family to death?"

Seeing that Qin Huairu was still in a stalemate, Director Wang waved his hand to signal Director Ma not to go.

Qin Huairu then quickly let go of her hand.

"Director Wang, I'll be back soon. Wait for me..." Qin Huairu said as she ran towards her home.

"Qin Huairu!"

Before Qin Huairu finished speaking, Director Wang interrupted and said:

"I explained it very clearly to you yesterday, but you agreed but didn't do it. If thousands of residents in this street are like you, saying one thing in front of you and another behind your back, and randomly spreading feudal superstition and defaming state leaders in the alleys, will our street office still be able to manage it in the future?"

"I was wrong, I was wrong, we shouldn't--"

Qin Huairu immediately choked up and cried again, looking so miserable and sad that it made people feel distressed when they saw her.

But Director Wang is a woman and an experienced hand at community work, so she doesn't buy her tricks at all.

Without waiting for her to continue playing the victim to gain sympathy, he interrupted her and said, "Qin Huairu, I already heard your apology yesterday. Don't say it today. Let's be practical!"

After saying that, Director Wang looked at the many neighbors in the courtyard and said, "If you cheat me, I won't ask you to pay ten times, or even three times. I just want you to pay one.

All the things you have taken from your family will be returned double as a lesson and punishment. I will not pursue this matter any further!"

"Qin Huairu, can you accept my punishment for your family?"

Qin Huairu almost cried when she heard this, but Director Wang had said so, and if she didn't agree she would be beheaded, so she had no choice but to agree.