Siheyuan: I am the Smart Pillar

When you fall in love with someone, no matter what that person does, you will agree to him unconditionally. Qin Huairu is such a person. The couple doesn't want to care about the affairs of the Jia family now. After cooking and eating, the couple poured a cup of tea each and chatted while drinking tea.

He Yuzhu thought about it and still felt like speaking out his inner thoughts. After all, Qin Huairu was his bedmate, so there was no need to hide this from his wife. It happened that his sister He Yushui had fallen asleep, so she coughed and said, "Wife, I have something I want to discuss with you. What do you think?"

Qin Huairu was stunned. Although her man was not a male chauvinist, he would handle small matters by himself. Today he was so cautious, there must be something big going on. So she nodded and said with a smile, "Zhu Zi, if you have anything to discuss with me, just tell me."

He Yuzhu frowned and said, "Last weekend when we went to Baocheng, we heard about what Yi Zhonghai did. I have been thinking of a way to deal a heavy blow to Yi Zhonghai. What do you think if I secretly write a letter to Yi Zhonghai, saying that I already know that you have withheld child support from He Yuzhu and his sister. We can extort some money from him, what do you think?"

Qin Huairu fell into deep thought, her beautiful eyes blinked, and after thinking for a while she said, "But didn't my father-in-law say that? We should make more evidence of Yi Zhonghai's crime. Then we can call the police. If you alert the enemy like this, and Yi Zhonghai returns the money we demanded, what should we do? I think that doing this will definitely hinder my father-in-law's plan. How about we just hold back for now?"

He Yuzhu shook his head and said, "You don't understand Yi Zhonghai's character. To put it bluntly, he will not change his mind once he has made up his mind. In this courtyard, Jia Dongxu and I are both his choices for retirement support, and he will not return the money to me easily. Because if that happens, I will no longer resent my father, and may even reconcile with my father. Then he will have no chance of getting me to support him in his old age."

Qin Huairu thought about it and felt that what her husband said was not completely unreasonable. On the contrary, she felt that it made a lot of sense. Qin Huairu had never been a very pedantic person. Her husband's family had been harmed so badly, so it was understandable for him to do this.

He Yuzhu thought for a while and said, "I actually have a way. No one in the entire courtyard knows that we two have gone to Baocheng to see Dad. There is a way to persuade Yi Zhonghai to return the money. It's just that I'm a bit unfair to you, you see." Qin Huairu asked curiously, "Oh, do you have any good ideas? As long as it's not too excessive, I can cooperate with you."

He Yuzhu smiled and told Qin Huairu about his method. Qin Huairu thought about it and felt that it made sense. "Hey, your method is really good. I agree. Let's perform the play tomorrow morning. How much money do you think we should extort from Yi Zhonghai? It seems that our family is still short of a sewing machine."

Qin Huairu's playful expression made He Yuzhu extremely satisfied. He said to Qin Huairu, "I thought you would oppose me, but I didn't expect you to agree." Qin Huairu smiled bitterly and said, "I'm not a pedantic person. Yi Zhonghai and the old lady have hurt our family so badly. We must teach them a profound lesson. But this is the only time we can do this. Do you understand what I mean, Zhuzi?"

A smart and virtuous wife can often help her husband walk on the right path. He Yuzhu is naturally not a fool, and he can understand the unfinished meaning in Qin Huairu's words. It's just that this kind of thing can only be done once and can't be used on others. How could He Yuzhu not understand it? He nodded and said with a smile, "Wife, don't worry, I'm not a bad person. The two of us are just punishing evil and promoting good, and giving bad people like Yi Zhonghai a retribution."

Seeing that her husband understood her feelings, Qin Huairu finally let go of her worries. The couple simply discussed it. He Yuzhu deliberately wrote the words like a dog crawling. When it was completely dark and everyone in the courtyard was asleep, Yi Zhonghai's window was broken again.

The huge noise in the silent night woke up everyone in the courtyard. He Yuzhu had been hiding in a dark corner for a long time, and followed the people watching the excitement in the yard to the backyard as if nothing had happened. Bai Xiuying burst into tears, and Yi Zhonghai pulled her away from the bed. Just as he was about to curse, he found a big stone on the ground, and a piece of paper was tied to the big stone.

Bai Xiuying cried and cursed, "You beasts, beasts, how did our family offend you? Why did you smash our windows again? No, we must call the police and ask the street office and the police station to come. This matter is simply endless." Bai Xiuying wanted to get out of bed, put on her clothes and call the police, but was held back by Yi Zhonghai who was standing beside her.

Bai Xiuying looked unhappy and was about to ask Yi Zhonghai why he stopped her. Yi Zhonghai took the paper off the stone and looked at it under the light bulb. His expression changed immediately. Bai Xiuying also looked over curiously. There were literacy classes in the city after liberation in the early years. Bai Xiuying had learned a few words from the girls and wives in the yard before, but the words on this white paper seemed very difficult to Bai Xiuying.

But Yi Zhonghai's face was very ugly. On the white paper was written "Yi Zhonghai, a hypocritical hypocrite. Others may not know you, but I know you. I heard that after He Daqing passed away, he gave He Yuzhu and his sister 10 yuan a month for living expenses, and you embezzled all of it. What do you think would happen to you if He Yuzhu and his sister knew this news?"

"I'm a little short of money recently, so I want to borrow some pocket money from you. I'm a very honest person, so I don't want to borrow much. Just give me 300 yuan, and you must put the money in the hole of the dead willow tree outside the door tomorrow morning. Once your money is in place, I will definitely keep the secret between us. But if you dare to play tricks or refuse to do it, don't say I didn't warn you. Signed, "A most familiar stranger."

Yi Zhonghai's face was very gloomy. He didn't expect that the thing he was worried about would happen so early. He asked his friend in the post office to do this, how come it was exposed so quickly? If He Yuzhu knew about this, it wouldn't be a big deal for him to be in trouble, but the person in the post office was the one that Old Lady Long had hired. If the person in the post office was in trouble, wouldn't it be Old Lady Long's trouble?