Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

To be honest, over the past year or so, Lin Geng had indeed helped many families in the yard. Everyone in the yard knew that Lin Geng was capable and could get rare things. If anyone had problems and needed some meat or fish, as long as they had no conflicts with Lin Geng, Lin Geng would basically help.

When a wife had just given birth and couldn't buy crucian carp to help her produce milk, they would find Lin Geng and tell him. He would go and help catch a few the next day. If someone was visiting relatives or entertaining friends and relatives and couldn't buy meat, they would just say hello to Lin Geng and he would help get some back.

Therefore, almost every household in the yard has received help from Lin Geng, but there are still some people who do not remember the kindness of Lin Geng. They envy and hate the comfortable life of Lin Geng. When they see Lin Geng in trouble, they begin to gloat over his misfortune, showing the ugliest side of human nature to the fullest.

However, this was not the case for all the neighbors. There were still some neighbors who could not stand the expressions of these people. After Sha Zhu and Xu Damao jumped out to curse, Aunt Liu and Zhao Erya, along with a group of women who supported Lin Geng, also stood in the yard and cursed the group of wicked beasts who had just gloated over the misfortune in the yard, cursing them to death. They cursed these people so much that they hid in the house and did not dare to fart.

Although the men of the families who were scolded were very angry and their ancestors were all cursed, they could not tolerate this anymore and wanted to rush out and beat people.

But when they opened the door and wanted to rush out, they saw Sha Zhu, Liu Guangtian, Liu Guangfu, Xu Damao and Hu Zi, each holding a wooden stick and staring at them with a gloomy face. So these guys got scared on the spot and quickly retreated back into the house, staying indoors and letting Aunt Liu and Zhao Erya block their door and continue to greet their ancestors.

As for Liu Haizhong and Qin Huairu, who had taken the lead in mocking Lin Geng in the yard just now, they were scolded so hard that they didn't even dare to fight back. They fled back home in shame, but were blocked at the door by Aunt Liu and her men and scolded for a long time. They scolded Qin Huairu for a whole day, and when one person got tired of scolding, someone else took over. It was not until late at night that Yan Bugui came forward to persuade them to go back in order to take care of the rest of the residents in the adjacent courtyard.

Lin Geng didn't know about these things after he was taken away. After he was taken to a place, he was locked up and began to be questioned. The questions were nothing more than whether he knew about the Lou family's departure, whether he was involved, and whether he helped the Lou family hide their property.

After all, when the Lou family left, their villa was completely cleaned out, with even the floor being taken away, which made some people who knew the situation of the Lou family a little furious.

In fact, they were not very concerned about the fact that the Lou family members had run away. They were more concerned about the whereabouts of the valuables that the Lou family had previously hidden. In the eyes of these people, the Lou family members ran away, but at least many of the valuables in the family should not be able to be taken away.

So some people began to covet these properties, and couldn't understand how the Lou family had managed to move away all the furniture in the house, even the mahogany stair railings, without anyone noticing. It was really hard to understand.

So they thought that someone must have helped the Lou family, so after investigation, they received a letter of complaint, reporting that Lin Geng had dated Lou Xiao'e, a young lady of the Lou family, for a period of time, and that he had helped the Lou family escape and hidden the Lou family's valuables. So they suspected Lin Geng and wanted to get some information about the whereabouts of the Lou family's property from Lin Geng.

Lin Geng was not nervous at all. After being taken to the interrogation location, he just evaded the question and said he knew nothing about anything. In a word, he had no idea that the Lou family had left and had only heard about it now.

As for him and Lou Xiao'e, he refused to admit that he had ever been in a relationship with Lou Xiao'e. He only admitted that he met Lou Xiao'e by accident and that he had a blind date with Lou Xiao'e through the introduction of Director Wang. Later, he thought that the two were not suitable for each other and did not continue to develop a relationship with Lou Xiao'e.

Director Wang can indeed testify for Lin Geng on this point, because after Lin Geng was introduced to Lou Xiao'e for a blind date, he did talk to Director Wang and said that the two of them were not suitable, so the two were not in a romantic relationship.

In addition, the process of Lin Geng and Lou Xiao'e's acquaintance can also be confirmed by the police station that handled the case of Lou Xiao'e's bag being stolen at that time. The two people did meet by accident. Lou Xiao'e fell in love with Lin Geng, and Lou's father asked Director Wang to introduce Lin Geng and Lou Xiao'e to a blind date.

However, the interrogators asked Lin Geng, saying that the people in their courtyard had seen it with their own eyes. Later, Lou Xiao'e had gone to the courtyard to find Lin Geng several times and had dinner at Lin Geng's house. Lin Geng had also gone out with Lou Xiao'e.

Lin Geng’s explanation for this was very simple. Although they were not suitable to be husband and wife, they could be considered friends. So there was nothing wrong with Lou Xiao’e going to the Siheyuan to find him, right?

Although there were not many men and women who were friends in this era, which was a bit unorthodox, the status of women had been greatly improved in this new country with a new atmosphere, so the people who interrogated Lin Geng could not find any faults.

The key point is that Lou Xiao'e left Sijiucheng several months earlier than Lou's father and mother. She left Sijiucheng before the end of last year. After that, the relevant departments did not find any private contact between Lin Geng and Lou's father and mother. Therefore, it is impossible to prove that Lin Geng had any connection with Lou's departure from the family.

However, the interrogator still asked Lin Geng to talk about his daily activities before and after Lou's father and mother left. After Lin Geng recalled the situation, he described his activities during this period.

Although the furniture in the Lou family villa and various large valuable items and antiques that were difficult to sell or take away were indeed taken away by Lin Geng at night, who could have imagined that Lin Geng would have a small world where he could easily collect so many things into his small world with a wave of his hand?

In the eyes of the relevant department personnel, if they wanted to empty and move so many things from the Lou family villa, it would definitely require a considerable amount of manpower, vehicles and time to do it. After some verification, they confirmed that Lin Geng had no possibility to do these things during this period.

Moreover, after a thorough search of Lin Geng's home, they did not find any items related to the Lou family, nor any valuables. Even some of the furniture in Lin Geng's home had long been secretly replaced by ordinary wooden furniture. So after three consecutive days of investigation, the relevant departments could only helplessly conclude that Lin Geng had nothing to do with the Lou family's departure.

In addition, relevant departments also found out that Lin Gengnai was the descendant of a martyr, and his father was a martyr with outstanding military exploits. He himself once risked his life to rescue a senior general, assisted security personnel in killing and capturing two enemy spies who were carrying out assassination missions, and in the past one or two years, he has bravely fought against criminals many times, helped the public security system capture many gangs of robbery criminals, and received many awards for his meritorious service.

The leaders of the steel rolling mill also spoke highly of Lin Geng. Whether it was Director Yang, Li Huaide, or even the leaders of the purchasing department and the security department, they all firmly believed that Lin Geng was a good comrade.