Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

Lin Geng's performance this year made the leaders of the steel rolling mill very satisfied. In addition to significantly exceeding the tasks assigned by the purchasing department every month, Lin Geng also established good relationships with many leaders in the factory. He had enough free meat on hand and gave gifts to the leaders from time to time.

The leaders could also tell from the gifts Lin Geng gave them that Lin Geng was a capable man. To be able to get so much meat so easily, he must have a lot of connections behind him. So they did not dare to underestimate him and were willing to make friends with him. Everyone would encounter emergencies. Once they urgently needed something that could not be bought on the market, they could ask Lin Geng for help. Lin Geng could always meet their needs, so Lin Geng naturally had a very good popularity in the steel rolling mill. Anyone who mentioned Lin Geng would give him a thumbs up.

But compared with Lin Geng, Liu Haizhong, Li Ergou and Gou Laosan had a hard time in the past six months. Ever since the news of their reporting on Lin Geng came out, everyone in the steel rolling mill knew that these people were ungrateful villains who couldn't stand others doing well. So the workers in the workshop were very disdainful of them, and kept their distance from them, or even simply refused to deal with them.

Even their workshop leaders were not happy to see them. They were critical of their work and would scold them whenever they got the chance. They were assigned to do all the dirty and tiring work in the workshop, and the people in the workshop kept a close eye on them. If they were a little lazy, their leaders would scold them. These three guys were exhausted every day and suffered terribly.

As a result, Liu Haizhong and his two companions became completely hated people in the steel rolling mill. No one wanted to pay attention to them. Even some of Liu Haizhong's apprentices were excluded. They began to complain and be dissatisfied with Liu Haizhong, and they were no longer obedient to their master Liu Haizhong.

What's even more tragic is that Liu Haizhong and his friends' behavior also angered the people in the cafeteria. Every time they went to the cafeteria to get food, the people serving food would shake the spoons in front of them when they saw them. They spent the same amount of money but could never get as much food as others. They always had less than others and were never full. They were starving every afternoon when they went to work, which made these three guys miserable.

At this point, Liu Haizhong completely gave up the idea of ​​becoming an official. He was listless in the factory every day, ordered around by his superiors. He did not have enough food to eat every day in the factory, and he still did physical work. He was often so hungry in the afternoon that he felt dizzy and his limbs were weak. When his family was well off, he ate scrambled eggs every day to supplement his nutrition, so he became fat and big.

But now all his family's savings had been extorted by Lin Geng. The family was short of money. He was also fined his wages and demoted to a fifth-level worker. His income dropped sharply, so he dared not eat eggs. He did not have enough to eat at noon in the factory, and was ordered around by his superiors to do hard work. In half a year, Liu Haizhong lost a lot of weight, his belly disappeared, his face skin drooped, and his complexion became sallow, like a tuberculosis patient.

What made Liu Haizhong even more devastated was that his beloved eldest son, Liu Guangqi, had a hard time finding a job after graduation because he was punished. He could not even think about being included in the cadre system and could only work as a screwdriver in a factory. So in June, Liu Guangqi secretly applied to support the Northwest.

As a result, the application was immediately approved and he was assigned to work in Northwest China. After receiving the letter of introduction, Liu Guangqi went home without saying a word. He packed his things at night and found the pension book with more than 200 yuan hidden by Liu Haizhong. Before dawn, he left a letter for Liu Haizhong and his wife and ran away.

When Liu Haizhong got up in the morning, when his wife called Liu Guangqi to eat, she found that Liu Guangqi's room was empty and only a letter was left. So she hurried to call Liu Haizhong. When Liu Haizhong saw it, he almost fainted on the spot. The couple hurried to check the last bit of money they had hidden, and found that the last 200 yuan they had hidden was also gone.

So Liu Haizhong's wife immediately sat on the ground and cried and slapped her thighs, cursing Liu Guangqi for being an ungrateful person. He ran away without saying a word and went to the northwest without even leaving them a detailed address. Who knew if he would come back? What should they do?

Now, because of Lin Geng's appearance, Liu Guangqi ran away early, Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu also broke up with Liu Haizhong and his wife early, and moved out of the courtyard to set up their own homes. Liu Haizhong and his wife, who originally had three sons, lost their three sons in just a few months. Although the family is not extinct, it is almost the same.

Liu Haizhong's face looked very ugly. He sat in the room without saying a word. His eyes were dull and his thin face was shaking from time to time. He looked very scary and he looked like a fool. After a long time, he sighed deeply, as if he had aged many years in an instant.

However, few people in the courtyard expressed sympathy for the couple's experience. Some even laughed secretly, saying that they deserved it. They had three sons, but they only favored the eldest son, and treated the second and youngest sons like enemies, beating and scolding them. Now the eldest son has become an ungrateful person, and the second and youngest sons could not stand Liu Haizhong's abuse either, so they cut off ties with them, moved out of the courtyard, and swear to never have anything to do with them again until they die.

It can be said that Liu Haizhong's current fate is his own fault. It is worse than the extinction of his entire family. Although he has three sons, he is facing the situation of no one to take care of them in their old age.

Fortunately, Liu Haizhong has completely behaved himself since he reported Lin Geng for speculation. No matter how stupid Liu Haizhong was, after Yi Zhonghai was put in by Lin Geng and Sha Zhu, he heard that Yi Zhonghai committed suicide, which completely frightened Liu Haizhong. He also completely understood that once Lin Geng took revenge on someone, he would aim to kill them.

So Liu Haizhong became completely obedient and never caused trouble for Lin Geng again. Lin Geng also disdained to cause trouble for Liu Haizhong, so the two sides lived in peace for more than half a year.

A few days after Liu Guangqi ran away, Lin Geng was cooking at home. Although Lin Geng had lived with the He family for a long time before, after Sha Zhu and Zhao Erya got married, Lin Geng thought about it and decided to start cooking on his own. He couldn't always live with Sha Zhu's family as the other person had a family now. No matter how good their relationship was, he was still an outsider. So Lin Geng started cooking on his own shortly after Sha Zhu got married.

Sha Zhu was also an honest man, and he tried to persuade Lin Geng several times to continue partnering with them, not because he was reluctant to give up Lin Geng's advantage.

Director Wang from the Street Office and Aunt Liu saw that Lin Geng was already 20 years old this year, so they began to urge Lin Geng to find a wife and get married as soon as possible. Before, Lin Geng always felt that he was too young and was a little reluctant to get married so early.

But as he grew another year older, he saw Sha Zhu and Zhao Erya, the couple, going out together and being affectionate with each other every day. Especially at night, his damn sensitive hearing, hearing the indescribable noises coming from Sha Zhu's house and other neighbors' houses not far away, made Lin Geng toss and turn in bed. He had no choice but to stuff two balls of cotton in his ears and simply block out the noise before he could fall asleep.

Gradually, living alone, Lin Geng began to change his mind. He felt that he should find a wife. Otherwise, the long nights would be too hard to sleep alone, and his life would be a bit lonely.