Siheyuan: The Cellar

With a nervous and complicated mood, Chen Guoliang stepped into this famous courtyard.

And the worst thing is that his house is right in the backyard which is full of time travelers.

In 54, the two cultural attractions of the Siheyuan, the Flower-Watering Door God and the Washing Lady, were not in place yet.

We reached the central courtyard without any obstruction along the way.

Although Chen Guoliang knew from the original owner's memory that there was no laundry lady in the central courtyard, after seeing it with his own eyes, Chen Guoliang still felt that this legendary courtyard was always missing something.

Just at this moment, a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties and had a kind face walked out from the east wing.

"Hey, Doctor Liu is back? I heard from Old Xu next door that your kid fell into the ditch today. How is he? Is he okay?"

Seeing the person coming, Liu Li smiled and replied in an engineer-like manner: "Oh, Master Yi. Thank you for your concern, but the child is just naughty. Is everything okay?"

This person is naturally Yi Zhonghai, the Moral God, a sick patient who is obsessed with finding someone else's son to take care of him in his old age.

Since the street government was abolished in May and replaced with a pilot project of setting up a street office, he didn't know how he had managed to become the liaison officer of the Dongzhimen Guanxiang, the middle courtyard of this quadrangle.

He has been in high spirits recently, even walking with his hands behind his back, acting like a feudal patriarch at all times, wanting to give orders to everyone.

"That's good. Little boy, you should be more polite. Doctor Liu, I'm not saying anything bad about you. Guoliang has been playing too wild recently. You have to take good care of him.

The high school kids in our school are not good, none of them are as naughty as him. If he is expelled for playing around, our whole school will be embarrassed. "

Liu Li, who was originally talking to Yi Zhonghai in a friendly manner, immediately became unhappy when she heard what Yi Zhonghai said.

He said directly: "Master Yi, what do you mean by this? Our family has not provoked you. Why did you curse our Guoliang to be expelled for no reason?"

Yi Zhonghai was naturally unhappy when he heard Liu Li's sarcastic words. Since he became the liaison officer of the Siheyuan six months ago, he had to respectfully call him "Uncle".

As for this ungrateful Liu Li, she always called him Master Yi every time they met, and she had absolutely no respect for him.

Today, he also heard Liu Li calling him Master Yi, and found it particularly irritating. Then he spoke a few words.

Who knows, Liu Li is still unwilling.

Can Yi Zhonghai tolerate this? The answer is of course no.

"Hey, Doctor Liu, how can you be so ungrateful? I think your Guoliang has been playing too much lately, so I kindly reminded you, but you are so ungrateful and are blaming me for what I have done."

Hearing Yi Zhonghai's words, Chen Guoliang, who had been acting like a good boy beside Liu Li, couldn't help laughing for a moment.

The Lord of Morality is the Lord of Morality, and his reputation is well-deserved.

At any time and any place, he always puts himself on the moral high ground, so that he can be invincible.

Immediately, Liu Li, the mother who was more brave than wise, turned to look at Chen Guoliang and asked in confusion: "Guoliang, what are you laughing at? Didn't you see mom talking to Master Yi? He just said you were rude."

"Oh! I'm sorry, Master Yi, I just couldn't help myself. I'm still a child, please forgive me?"

Yi Zhonghai felt much happier when he heard Chen Guoliang's apology. Reading more books is good for him. Listen to the level of his speech. Unlike his mother, she is just a crazy woman.

But Yi Zhonghai felt that something was wrong with Chen Guoliang's words before he could even feel happy for two seconds. What do you mean you are still a child? Although you are a little thinner, you are almost taller than me? Are you sure you are still a child?

However, before Yi Zhonghai could think about it, Chen Guoliang's next words directly pierced his heart.

After apologizing to Yi Zhonghai, Chen Guoliang turned around and explained to his mother, "Mom, I was just thinking that Master Yi likes to take care of children so much, he will definitely be able to take good care of his children in the future. When I think of this, I am particularly envious of the unborn child."

Liu Li said with some dissatisfaction: "What do you mean? Are you saying that I, your mother, didn't discipline you well? Fine! Your mother will discipline you well today."

Having said that, he pulled Chen Guoliang straight towards the backyard.

As for Yi Zhonghai, he just stood there in a daze, thinking about his life.

My child? I think I have a son. Am I good at managing him? He seems to be quite good. At least that's what everyone says.

But is this really my son? He should be! Otherwise, I wouldn’t have…

In the backyard, Chen Guoliang's house is next to the deaf old lady's main house, with a total of two rooms.

The house was quite spacious, and unlike many people in the courtyard, the two rooms in his house were bought by his parents with real money when he was 2 years old.

As for the deaf old lady, she was already living here at the time, but I heard that she was doing business and was often not at home. Of course, she was not an old lady with bound feet.

It was not until 45 that the deaf old lady finally settled down here. As for the reason, it was said that her son died and she wanted to return to her hometown.

In the 50s, people from the Military Control Commission also suspected the identity of this old lady, but after several investigations they could not find out anything.

Finally, the Military Control Commission saw that the old lady was alone and helpless, so they gave her the status of a "specially destitute person".

This is the name used in the embryonic stage of the Five Guarantees system.

Of course, she is not called the deaf old lady now, because at this time, her household registration book shows that she is less than 60 years old and has not yet started to pretend to be deaf.

She just looked older. If the Chen family had not arrived early, they would probably have thought, like everyone else in the courtyard, that the old lady was over 70 years old.

Chen Guoliang heard from Liu Li that at that time the military control committee called the old lady Jin Chengzhen, so the old lady's surname was not Long at all.

Because the old lady looked too old, she was always called "old lady". As for her real name, few people mentioned it.

After saying hello to the deaf old lady, Liu Li pulled Chen Guoliang into the house.

"You said so too. You know that Yi Zhonghai's biggest pain is that he has no children, why do you have to rub salt into his wounds?

Fortunately, your mother is smart, otherwise you would have been beaten today."

Liu Li's words surprised Chen Guoliang a little, because in the original owner's memory, his biological mother had always been a quick-tempered person who never indulged anyone.

I don’t know why everyone in the hospital was so accommodating to her at that time.

But now that I think about it carefully, it seems that she is not that brave and her IQ is low.

But after thinking about it, it became clear. After all, he was an orphan with a widowed mother. If his mother was really a person with low IQ, she would have been gnawed to death by these beasts in the yard.