1959Siheyuan, a Turnaround

He hurriedly searched everywhere, hoping to find the money, but the house was so small that there was no trace of the money.

"Mom, please think carefully, maybe you put it in the wrong place?" Jia Dongxu asked while searching.

Jia Zhang cried out loudly, "I kept it in the bottom compartment of the box and never moved it. How could it be gone?"

Jia Dongxu was extremely worried at this time. "What should we do? How can our family survive without this money?"

Jia Zhang suddenly grabbed Jia Dongxu's arm, "Was it that bitch Qin Huairu who took it? It must be her!"

Jia Dongxu shook off his mother's hand and said, "Mom, don't talk nonsense. Huairu is not that kind of person."

"Who else could it be if not her? There are only a few of us in this family." Jia Zhang refused to give in.

Jia Dongxu yelled irritably: "Don't guess blindly, maybe you remembered the wrong place."

"How could I remember it wrong? That's my life!" Jia Zhang continued to cry.

At this moment, Qin Huairu came in with Xiaodang. After hearing what Jia Zhang said, she said aggrievedly, "Mom, I didn't take your money. You can't wrongly accuse me."

Jia Zhang rushed forward and tried to hit Qin Huairu, "If not you, who else could it be?"

Jia Dongxu quickly stopped his mother and said, "Mom, don't be impulsive. Let's find the money first."

The family was in chaos in the house, with cries and curses mixed together.

When the other neighbors in the courtyard heard the noise, they all gathered around.

Yi Zhonghai stood at the door and asked gloomily, "What happened again?"

When Jia Zhang saw Yi Zhonghai, she felt like she saw a savior. "Old Yi, my pension money is gone. I can't live like this anymore."

Yi Zhonghai's heart sank. You actually still have pension money, so why didn't you take it out in the first place!

Humph! He must be calculating his hard-earned money! Jia Dongxu is indeed an ungrateful person.

He walked into the room with a dark face and looked at the chaotic scene. "Don't worry, think carefully about whether there is something that you have neglected. Dongxu, help me look for it again..."

"I searched the whole house, but there's really nothing!"

Jia Dongxu was also distraught. He knew his family was rich, but he didn't tell them when he rescued Bang Geng and his mother.

He just wanted to leave some money for his family, but now all the money is lost and his family really has nothing left!

Jia Zhang sat on the ground, howling in despair: "This is going to kill me, God, please open your eyes!"

Jia Dongxu was at a loss, not knowing what to do. Qin Huairu hugged the child and cried silently.

More and more people gathered in the yard, all surrounding the Jia family and talking about the matter.

When Xu Damao heard Jia Zhang's cries, he rushed out of his house impatiently like a cat smelling blood and squeezed to the front of the crowd.

He folded his hands in front of his chest, with the corners of his mouth raised high, with a sly and complacent smile on his face. It seemed as if the smile was engraved on his face and he couldn't stop it.

"Hey! Jia Zhang still has money for retirement? Isn't your family in a very difficult situation? You often ask people in the courtyard to help your family and donate money to your family. It seems that your family has money saved and lets everyone support you!"

When the other residents heard this, they thought what Xu Damao said made sense, as they donated a lot of money to the Jia family on a daily basis.

"It's true that you can only judge a person by his appearance but not his heart. Jia Zhang is really good at pretending..."

"That's right. Every time she comes to my house to ask for food, she says her family is in financial difficulty. It turns out she was always trying to steal my food! This is a big loss!"

Everyone was talking in a low voice. Of course, Xu Damao's gloating look and words soon aroused the dissatisfaction of some people.

Yi Zhonghai frowned, glared at Xu Damao fiercely, and scolded: "Xu Damao, it's already this time, stop saying those sarcastic words!"

At this time, Liu Haizhong also stood up, glaring at Xu Damao and shouting, "Xu Damao, you have no sympathy at all. The Jia family is in such a state, and you are still here to add insult to injury!"

The third uncle Yan Bugui curled his lips and said sarcastically: "Da Mao, you can't be so dishonest. Everyone has difficulties sometimes."

The second aunt also accused: "Da Mao, you have such a bad heart, can't you be more kind with your words?"

The neighbors in the courtyard all cast contemptuous glances at him, and some even whispered, "Xu Damao usually loves to do bad things, and now he doesn't forget to step on him."

When Xu Damao saw that everyone was targeting him, the smile on his face suddenly froze. Although he was not convinced in his heart, he did not dare to say anything more.

He had no choice but to shut his mouth in disappointment and quietly took a few steps back, but there was still a look of unwillingness in his eyes.

"I didn't say anything wrong! If you ask me to donate money to the Jia family again, I won't do it!"

Although this sentence was muttered in a low voice, it was heard by other families in the courtyard.

Although they didn't show it on their faces, they had made up their minds in their hearts that they would never donate money to the Jia family again.

Auntie now dislikes everyone in the Jia family. Although Jia Zhang is rich, she has borrowed a lot of money from her family over the years, openly or secretly. Now she doesn't want her husband to go to the Jia family.

The Jia family is a huge hole that can never be filled!

Jia Zhang collapsed on the ground, crying at the top of her lungs. Her cries were like a sharp knife, piercing one's eardrums.

She kept slapping the ground with her hands, her face covered with tears and snot, and she kept yelling incoherently: "My money! How can I live like this?"

Jia Dongxu was like a deflated ball, squatting in the corner with his head in his hands, his eyes empty and desperate.

His hair was disheveled, as if he was completely crushed by this sudden blow.

Yi Zhonghai looked at the scene at the Jia family, shook his head helplessly, and sighed deeply.

He knew that at this moment, no one in the Jia family could hold on.

At the critical moment, he had to step up and take charge of the situation: "Jie Cheng, go to the police station and report the case, saying that the Jia family's savings are lost!"

Yan Jiecheng did not refute. The meal at home was not ready yet, so he just ran there obediently.

Not long after, Captain Chen from the police station rushed over with the two police comrades from last time.

As soon as he entered the Jia family's house, Captain Chen asked loudly, "What is going on?"

Jia Zhang seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and cried even more heartbreakingly: "Comrades in the Public Security Bureau, my 500-plus yuan pension money is gone!"

Upon hearing that five hundred yuan was lost, the two public security comrades looked at each other in shock.

One of the younger police officers couldn't help but ask, "Five hundred yuan? Your family just paid a thousand yuan in compensation, and you lost so much money now? You are really not mistaken, where did your family get this money from?"

Jia Zhang was also very embarrassed at this moment, especially the residents of the courtyard, who all gasped when they heard this.

The Jia family actually has 1,500 yuan?

At this time, Jia Dongxu stood up and said awkwardly: "Comrade Public Security, I borrowed the compensation money. What I lost this time was the compensation money for my father's accident in the factory!"

As a result, the expressions of the two public security comrades eased a lot.