Siheyuan: Grassroots Counterattack

Time flies, and three years have passed in a blink of an eye. During these three years, Yan Bugui has passed the elementary Russian translation certificate and started to take translation work in Xinhua Bookstore. Although he does not earn as much as Li Tianyi, he still contributes at least 50 yuan to his family every month.

Adding Yan Bugui's original salary of about 30 yuan, the Yan family's monthly income is not small. However, no one in the yard knows about this except Li Tianyi, and the Li and Yan families tacitly keep the secret for each other.

So in the eyes of the people in the compound, the Yan family is still the same Yan family, just living on Yan Bugui's salary. But stinginess may have been embedded in Yan Bugui's bones. Although his income has increased, he is still stingy both internally and externally. Of course, the Yan family's life is definitely better than before. Yan Bugui is also very grateful to Li Tianyi for taking special care of Huzi and Xiaomei at school.

Moreover, since there were three more uncles in the courtyard, holding meetings has become a tradition of the Siheyuan. A general meeting of the whole courtyard is held whenever there is nothing to do. Although there is no call for donations to the Jia family, Yi Zhonghai's prestige is increasing with the help of the deaf old lady, the Jia family, and Sha Zhu. Now whoever sees the three of them has to call them uncles.

Li Tianyi seldom interferes in matters in the yard, as they are all trivial matters, so he just lets them make a fuss, as it doesn't involve the Li family anyway.

Li Tianyi took the college entrance examination in June this year. He even stopped his usual translation work and devoted all his efforts to prepare for the exam, striving to get into a QH university.

Li Tianyi's translation certificate was also upgraded to the intermediate level. Of course, it was not because Li Tianyi's ability was so high, but the application requirement for the advanced translation certificate was a certain number of years of work experience, and this one factor blocked Li Tianyi's path to promotion.

When Li Tianyi returned to the courtyard after school that day, he felt that something was wrong in the atmosphere. Everyone was gathered together whispering.

Mr. and Mrs. Li were also chatting with the third uncle. When Li Tianyi moved closer, he heard them discussing the public-private partnership.

At the beginning of this year, the government started large-scale public-private partnership. From factories to breakfast shops, everyone was waiting and watching, even though government workers had visited people to explain the meaning of public-private partnership.

But they are all their family businesses, so who would be willing to give them away? The workers in the factory are also worried about whether there will be layoffs after the public-private partnership. Their families rely on this job to make a living, so if they lose their jobs, how will they survive?

Of course, the Yan and Li families have the easiest time in this courtyard. The third uncle of the Yan family is a teacher, and the public-private partnership does not involve the school, so the third uncle is not in danger of being fired.

The combined salary of Li's father and mother is not as much as Li Tianyi's monthly translation fee. Since Li Tianyi first received his royalties, he gave 50 yuan to Li's mother, and the payment has not stopped in the following years. Therefore, Li's mother has saved about 3000 million yuan, which is more than the Li family's original savings, so the Li family has no pressure at all.

Li Tianyi stood there and listened for a while, then he understood what his parents were wondering about, so he started to explain: "Mom and Dad, you don't have to worry about being fired."

Seeing that the three uncles were looking at him, Li Tianyi continued, "What kind of country is ours? It's a country where the people are the masters. And what is public-private partnership? It's to clear private capital out of factories and shops, and then the government will take over the factories. If you think the people are the masters, then when the government takes over the factories, the factories will belong to the people, and your jobs will become iron rice bowls."

The third uncle thought about it and it made sense, and Mr. and Mrs. Li became happy. They had only seen their son's abilities before, and since their son said it was okay, then it must be okay.

At this moment, a voice attracted everyone's attention. "Tianyi said it well. You are indeed a high school student. You have a thorough understanding of the policy."

Li Tianyi looked back and saw Director Wang from the Street Office walking into the courtyard with Xiao Zhang. The third uncle hurried over to greet them.

"Auntie Wang, how come you have time to come here today?" Li Tianyi came forward to greet her, and then asked. In the past three years, the Military Control Commission has completely withdrawn from urban management, and the Street Office is responsible for handling affairs within the area. Naturally, Director Wang knows the situation in this area very well.

The Li family in the courtyard not only has bicycles, but they also bought radios and sewing machines. Although no one reported it, the street office would also receive the news and would of course investigate the part of the Li family's income that exceeds the salary of Li's father and mother.

After that, Li Tianyi started working as a translator at the age of 11. The information that he has now become an intermediate translator is placed on Director Wang's desk, along with the royalties of Li Tianyi issued by QH University.

Looking at the numbers above, Director Wang was also deeply shocked. The amount was close to 8000 million yuan, so it was reasonable for the Li family to buy these things.

What Director Wang appreciated most was that Li Tianyi gave free tutoring to Yan Bugui, turning Yan Bugui, a Chinese teacher, into a junior translator.

The Yan family's life has also improved, but they have not advertised it everywhere and are just studying in a low-key manner. Director Wang believes that Li Tianyi may be the first college student in their alley.

So Director Wang called Li Tianyi to the street office and had a good chat with him. Director Wang even asked Li Tianyi to call her Aunt Wang, and Li Tianyi also asked Director Wang to keep it a secret, as he did not want to be too famous and just wanted to study quietly.

Director Wang walked into the middle courtyard accompanied by the third uncle. Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong also came closer. "Old Yi, gather everyone in the courtyard. I'm here to explain the public-private partnership to everyone today."

Soon everyone came to the Intermediate Court, and Director Wang carefully explained to everyone the benefits and necessity of public-private partnership, asking everyone to rest assured and work with peace of mind, not to have wild thoughts or spread gossip. When he said this, he glanced at Jia Zhang, who scared her so much that she shrank her neck.

Since the death of old Jia, Jia Zhang's personality changed drastically. Not only did she become aggressive and scoundrel, she also liked to spread gossip everywhere. Her reputation had spread throughout the neighborhood, so Director Wang also paid special attention to her.

Afterwards, the three uncles sent Director Wang out. At this time, the people in the Central Courtyard had already dispersed. Yi Zhonghai did not go home, but went to the Jia family's house.

When Yi Zhonghai entered, he saw Jia Zhangshi lying on the kang without cooking, and Jia Dongxu was sitting beside her trying to persuade her.

Seeing Yi Zhonghai coming, Jia Dongxu quickly stood up and asked Yi Zhonghai to sit down, but Jia Zhang didn't even raise her eyelids.

Yi Zhonghai didn't want to stay any longer. He planned to leave as soon as he finished talking, so he said to Jia Zhang: "Sister-in-law, don't go out these days and don't gossip. Director Wang specifically pointed out this matter today, which means he is dissatisfied with you."

When Jia Zhang heard him mention Director Wang, she shrank back and bad memories flooded into her mind.