Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

Seeing that her due date was approaching, Qin Huairu was a little panicked. She had offended all her neighbors because of reporting Lin Geng. Yi Zhonghai was dead, and Sha Zhu didn't even look at her. When the residents in the yard saw her, they all wanted to curse her. Now no one in the yard was willing to pay attention to her.

Qin Huairu saw that she was about to give birth, and there were only two children, Banggeng and Xiaodang, at home. It was impossible for them to take care of her during childbirth and confinement. So, in desperation, she wrote a letter to her family after the Chinese New Year, asking her parents if they could let her sister-in-law take care of her.

However, Qin Huairu's family members did not like her either, because since Qin Huairu married into the Jia family in the city, she had basically never returned to her parents' home and had never provided any support to them.

Jia Zhang, an old greedy woman who only cares about eating and not shitting, is very tight-lipped about the family's money and doesn't allow Qin Huairu to take anything back to her parents' home to help them. Jia Dongxu is also a mama's boy. Apart from giving Qin Huairu ten yuan a month and Jia Zhang five yuan for her retirement, he spends the rest of his money on squandering. He doesn't even give Qin Huairu money to let her go back to her parents' home or help them.

Qin Huairu herself was also an extremely selfish person, and also had the element of Pi Xiu. She felt that since she had married into the city, she was a city dweller. Even if she "borrowed" some money from Sha Zhu or other men in the yard, she would hide it secretly and had no intention of using it to help her parents' home.

Especially during the difficult three years before, life in the countryside was extremely hard, and her mother's family had no choice but to ask her brother and sister-in-law to come to the city to find Qin Huairu and ask the Jia family for help. But after they arrived at the Jia family, when Jia Zhang heard their purpose, she immediately spoke harshly to them, refused to give them any food or money, and even refused to give them a meal, and drove them away.

It wasn't that Qin Huairu had no money at that time, but she was still cruel and didn't give her brother and sister-in-law a penny. After crying poor, she sent her brother and sister-in-law away.

So since that incident, her family has never had any contact with Qin Huairu again, and now they have basically cut off ties with Qin Huairu.

In the letter, Qin Huairu explained the current situation of the Jia family to her parents, telling them that her life was really difficult now. Her mother-in-law was in jail, her husband was dead, and she was pregnant and about to give birth. She asked her sister-in-law from her natal family to take care of her for a while, even until she gave birth and went back to work after the confinement period.

For this reason, she sent ten dollars to her family for the first time, begging her parents to let her sister-in-law take care of her for a while.

After receiving the letter, Qin Huairu's parents were still very angry with their daughter Qin Huairu. However, after reading the letter and knowing Qin Huairu's current situation, they still felt sorry for their daughter. Finally, they gave the money to her brother and sister-in-law and asked her sister-in-law to come to the city to take care of Qin Huairu for a while.

So after the Chinese New Year, Qin Huairu's sister-in-law came to the courtyard and took on the responsibility of taking care of Qin Huairu, which made Qin Huairu's life a little better.

Qin Huairu's sister-in-law was an honest rural woman with a good heart. However, after arriving at the courtyard, she soon discovered that the people in the courtyard seemed to have a lot of resentment towards Qin Huairu, and even ignored her, her sister-in-law, so she was very strange.

So Qin Huairu's sister-in-law asked Qin Huairu what was going on. Qin Huairu could only reluctantly tell her sister-in-law about the conflict that their Jia family had with the neighbor Lin Geng some time ago.

Of course, she refused to admit how many wrong things the Jia family had done. She just avoided the main point and said that they just wanted to borrow the house of the neighboring Lin family, but they had a falling out. The kid from the neighboring Lin family sued them and extorted a large sum of money from them, bankrupting their family and sending her mother-in-law to jail.

Her husband was also arrested by the police station and detained for several days. He died in an accident on his first day back at work in the factory. It was all the fault of the kid from the Lin family.

So their Jia family and the neighboring Lin family are now mortal enemies. The young man from the Lin family relies on his popularity in the courtyard to bully them, an orphan and a widow, everywhere, and makes people in the courtyard exclude them. Even the neighbors opposite who used to be nice to them, the Jia family, are now dragged over by him to bully them.

Her sister-in-law was also a hot-tempered woman, and was considered not to be easily messed with in the countryside. However, after listening to Qin Huairu's one-sided story, she really thought that the boy from the Lin family next door was a big villain. The next morning, she blocked the yard and started to curse Lin in a sarcastic tone, calling him a good-for-nothing.

Of course, Lin Geng heard Qin Huairu's sister-in-law scolding him in the yard, so he didn't indulge her. He opened the door and walked outside. He looked at Qin Huairu's sister-in-law coldly and said to her unceremoniously: "Qin Huairu's sister-in-law, stop scolding me here! Before scolding me, you'd better ask around in the yard first to find out what bad things your sister-in-law's family has done before you scold me!

I won’t bother with you today, but if you dare to continue scolding me, don’t blame me for being rude to you!

Qin Huairu definitely didn't tell you that I'm a martyr's relative. If you scold me, I'll sue you and you'll be thrown into jail! No one can save you! Think it over carefully before you speak!"

Although Qin Huairu's sister-in-law is from the countryside, she also knows that the relatives of martyrs cannot be scolded. There was a female relative of a martyr in their village. A few years ago, a neighbor in the village quarreled with her and scolded her very badly. As a result, she sued the neighbor, and the neighbor who scolded her was arrested the next day and sentenced to many years in prison. He has not been released yet, and no one knows whether he is still alive.

So when Lin Geng said that he was a martyr's relative, Qin Huairu's sister-in-law was almost scared to death. She cursed Qin Huairu in her heart why she didn't tell her that this kid from the Lin family was actually a martyr's relative. Wasn't she trying to kill her?

Qin Huairu's sister-in-law choked on the spot, her face turned pale with fear, and she quickly apologized to Lin Geng. She fled back to the Jia family in disgrace, and never dared to confront Lin Geng again.

Qin Huairu's sister-in-law also realized that something seemed wrong at this time, so when she went out to buy things for Qin Huairu to give birth, she found Aunt Yan at the gate.

After a few days, she found out that Yan Bugui was the manager of this courtyard. She thought that the manager must be well aware of the conflict between the Jia and Lin families, so she shamelessly found Aunt Yan to inquire about the reason for the conflict between the Jia and Lin families.

Aunt Yan certainly would not side with the Jia family, so she told Qin Huairu's sister-in-law everything that the Jia family had done to Lin Geng in the past, even with some exaggeration, including the fact that Qin Huairu took advantage of Lin Geng's illness to cheat him of money, and also persuaded the opposite side Sha Zhu to help her threaten Lin Geng.

In addition, she also told Qin Huairu's sister-in-law about what Jia Zhang and Jia Dongxu had done over the years with Yi Zhonghai, the eldest master in the front yard who had already died, and also told Qin Huairu's sister-in-law about all the disgusting things Qin Huairu had done.