1959Siheyuan, a Turnaround

From this day on, the Li family's life seemed to have entered a new stage, full of hope and vitality.

Life became easier, and even the fishing team consisting of Li Weimin and a few other guys could earn a stable income of dozens of yuan a day.

The Li family's days are getting better and better, and their prosperity is already evident.

Everyone in the courtyard saw the changes in the Li family, with envy and confusion mixed in their hearts.

Everyone was privately speculating about what kind of good fortune the Li family had that allowed them to have such a huge change in just half a month.

Yi Zhonghai's home in the Central Courtyard was shrouded in gloom at the moment.

Yi Zhonghai frowned and paced back and forth in the room, his steps hurried and heavy.

These days, he felt his eyelids twitching constantly, as if foreshadowing that something big was about to happen.

He also tried to contact Boss Hu and his gang, but he couldn't get in touch with them, as if they had suddenly disappeared from the world.

This situation of losing contact made Yi Zhonghai feel more and more uneasy.

He sat in a chair, rubbing his temple with one hand, his mind full of thoughts.

"Where on earth did Boss Hu go? Why did he suddenly disappear without a trace?"

Yi Zhonghai murmured to himself, his eyes revealing anxiety and worry.

He recalled his past cooperation with Boss Hu, all those covert deals and unspeakable secrets, which were now in jeopardy due to Boss Hu's disappearance.

Yi Zhonghai knew very well that if anything went wrong with Boss Hu, he would not be able to escape unscathed.

"No, we can't just sit there and wait for death."

Yi Zhonghai stood up, clenched his fists, and secretly made up his mind to find out the truth of the matter.

These days, the situation in the courtyard has been changing unconsciously.

The Li family's life is getting better and better, and the relationship between Sha Zhu and the Li family seems to have become much closer.

Recently, when the old lady of the Li family cooks dinner, she often makes extra food and asks He Yuzhu and his sister to eat in the front yard.

To outsiders, they look like a happy family.

When Yi Zhonghai saw this scene, his sense of crisis became stronger.

He realized that his control over the Siheyuan was gradually weakening.

Ever since he was stripped of his status as the boss, Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui no longer discussed anything with him.

Especially Liu Haizhong, his eagerness to replace him and become the boss was almost undisguised.

Yi Zhonghai sat at the table, looking at the yard outside the window, his heart full of resentment and helplessness.

"This Liu Haizhong looks unreliable on weekdays, but I didn't expect that he would dare to covet my position as an uncle now."

He gritted his teeth and said bitterly.

He thought back to the days when he had the final say in the courtyard, but his glory days were gone.

Yi Zhonghai felt sad. He knew that if he did not take action, his position in the Siheyuan would be completely lost.

At night, Yi Zhonghai lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.

Everything about Boss Hu and the Li family kept appearing in his mind.

At this moment, he made up his mind to restore his status as the eldest master as soon as possible and prevent the situation in the courtyard from continuing to develop in a direction that he could not control.

While Yi Zhonghai was still racking his brains in the courtyard to figure out how to restore his identity as a great uncle, he had no idea that Captain Chen of the police station had already led his team members to quietly launch an in-depth investigation into his past crimes.

Captain Chen and his team first rushed to Baocheng and found He Daqing.

When Captain Chen asked He Daqing about the money he had sent to He Yushui over the years, He Daqing's face showed a complicated expression.

"Starting from the second month after I started working in Baocheng, I would send ten yuan every month to my children in the old city.

Although this amount of money is not much, it is definitely enough for them to eat and drink. Comrade Gong'an specially came from the Forbidden City to ask about this matter. Could it be that something happened that I don't know about?"

He looked at the two public security comrades in surprise, but they did not answer his question. Instead, they asked him something he did not expect.

"Comrade He Daqing, how did you meet your current wife?"

He Daqing tried hard to recall what happened that year. He said slowly, "It was not a coincidence that I met the White Widow that year. It was the place where Yi Zhonghai took me that we met!"

Captain Chen's eyes turned serious and he wrote down things quickly in his notebook.

Then Captain Chen specifically told He Daqing that they must keep their visit confidential.

Although He Daqing didn't know why the public security comrades asked him to do this, he still had doubts in his heart.

Didn’t his children in Beijing receive the money he sent?

Thinking of this, He Daqing rushed straight to the post office. After asking the staff, he found out that the money he sent was collected by someone on his son's behalf every month, and that person was Yi Zhonghai!

Although the whole matter seemed strange, He Daqing did not continue to investigate.

After all, Yi Zhonghai is still the neighbor of his children. Maybe Sha Zhu asked Yi Zhonghai to collect the money on his behalf.

After Captain Chen and his team left Baoding, they returned to the Red Star Steel Mill without stopping.

In order to avoid alerting the enemy, they secretly found the head of the security department, Ma Haitao, and began to investigate the entire process of Li Dajiang's injury.

In a small office, Ma Haitao lowered his voice and said, "That incident was indeed strange. They only targeted Dajiang. Now that I think about it, some of those people's behaviors are indeed hard to understand."

Captain Chen frowned and asked, "Are there any other abnormalities?"

Ma Haitao pondered for a moment and said, "Before Li Dajiang got into trouble, I seemed to see Yi Zhonghai wandering around there..."

As the investigation deepened, past events were uncovered one after another.

Captain Chen and his team followed the clues provided by Boss Hu and unraveled the case, discovering that Yi Zhonghai played a disgraceful role in many events.

When they went to ask colleagues who had worked in the same workshop with Lao Jia, those old comrades were initially full of confusion.

But when they learned that they were investigating Yi Zhonghai, expressions of horror appeared on their faces.

"Oh, police comrade, now that you mentioned it, I think back carefully. On the day when Lao Jia got into trouble, Yi Zhonghai did go near that machine!"

An old master said in a trembling voice.

Another worker echoed, "Yeah, I didn't think so before, but now I think about it, it's terrible! He looks like a kind person, but I didn't expect he could do such a thing behind the scenes!"

As Captain Chen and his team listened to these testimonies, they became more and more shocked.

"I never thought that Yi Zhonghai was hiding so deeply."

A young public security officer couldn't help but say, his face full of disbelief.

Captain Chen looked solemn and said, "Keep digging deeper and don't miss any details."