Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

Although they secretly hated Lin Geng, when Qin Huairu and Liu Haizhong tried to win them over privately and wanted to join forces with them to deal with Lin Geng, these families chose to refuse.

Because they are not stupid. They can see that Liu Haizhong, that idiot, and Qin Huairu, that slut, can never be Lin Geng's match. If they piss Lin Geng off again, God knows how Lin Geng will retaliate against them.

They are all ordinary people, and their lives are already difficult enough. If they create a powerful enemy for themselves and worry about revenge by Lin Geng every day, they will not be able to live.

Qin Huairu was very disappointed by these families' rejection. This time she found Liu Haizhong, wanting him to come forward to win over these neighbors who were disliked by Lin Geng, and wanting him to join forces to fight against Lin Geng. However, she overestimated Liu Haizhong's appeal and their own abilities.

But the result was not ideal. The neighbors of the courtyard houses targeted by Lin Gengxin basically backed down and refused to join forces with them to deal with Lin Geng. They said that they were at fault this time and did not want to fight with Lin Geng again. They could not afford to offend Lin Geng and had to live a good life in the future. They did not want to be like Liu Haizhong and Qin Huairu, who were now living like their grandsons.

This made Qin Huairu and Liu Haizhong very angry. After returning home, they sat at home sulking and cursing those families for being cowards. At the same time, they thought about the kind of life they were living now, and couldn't help but sigh again.

Liu Haizhong, in particular, sat at home drinking cheap liquor with a small dish of pickled vegetables, thinking about his current life and couldn't help sighing.

Thinking about the life their family lives now, it is really hard to describe. He used to be the second uncle in the Siheyuan. Although he cannot be said to be respected by everyone, he is at least one of the three giants in the Siheyuan, and his words still carry some weight. At least when the residents in the yard see him, they have to politely call him the second uncle. Although his words do not carry as much weight as Yi Zhonghai's, his life is still pretty good.

But look at him now, the people living in his yard hate him as a dog. Most of them are too lazy to pay attention to him when they see him. Rolling their eyes at him is considered polite. They call him by his name. People often spit on his back when he walks by.

It turned out that he was a seventh-level blacksmith in the factory. Although he was not as good as Yi Zhonghai's eighth-level fitter, he was also considered a senior worker in the factory. He was highly respected and valued. Everyone who saw him would politely call him Master Liu.

What about now? He was demoted from a level 7 worker to a level 5 worker. Although he was still a senior worker, his status was far inferior to that of a level 7 worker. Everyone in the factory called him by his first name and ordered him around. He finally survived the days of cleaning toilets in the sanitation team. After returning to the workshop, the workshop director didn't like him and sent him to do the hardest and most tiring work every day. Like some low-level workers, he had to swing a sledgehammer to hit the burnt red rough parts. He was exhausted and smelled every day. When it was hot, he felt like dying from the heat.

Even because of what he did to Lin Geng, after it spread in the factory, even his disciples have distanced themselves from him and no longer respect him as much as before.

Moreover, when he was getting food in the canteen, he became the target of all the canteen staff in the factory. He never got enough food again. Not having a full stomach at noon became the norm. Every night after get off work, he returned home, feeling so hungry as if he had been eaten by a wolf.

The savings that the family had worked so hard to save over the years have now been almost all extorted by Lin Geng. His salary has also dropped from more than 80 yuan to more than 50 yuan now, a big drop. In order to save some money for retirement, he dares not eat scrambled eggs every day like before. He eats cornmeal porridge and pickled vegetable steamed buns every day, and he has obviously lost a lot of weight.

What he could not accept the most was that, because of Lin Geng, his beloved eldest son, Liu Guangqi, was punished at school, was almost expelled, and was despised everywhere. After finally graduating, he could not be assigned a good job. Unable to bear the contempt of people around him, he resolutely signed up to go to the Northwest to support construction. After leaving, he did not even leave an address for the couple.

Now they don’t know where his son is working in the Northwest. He has completely cut off contact with them and now they don’t even know whether he is alive or dead. This makes Liu Haizhong and his wife very worried. After all, all their hopes were placed on Liu Guangqi. Even if Liu Guangqi ran away from home, they still kept their hearts on Liu Guangqi.

What made them even more indignant was that their two sons, Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu, were regarded as ungrateful wolves by them. Although Liu Haizhong had beaten them since they were young and was not kind to them, they still believed that it was they who raised Liu Guangtian and the other two, but now they had cut off ties with them and followed Lin Geng, becoming Lin Geng's loyal lackeys.

Now, even if Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu returned to the Siheyuan, they would not go home, but would just go to the Central Courtyard to find Lin Geng, completely ignoring the old couple, which made the old couple so angry that they cursed Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu as ungrateful people.

At first, they were still full of resentment towards Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu, but after Liu Guangqi ran away for a while, the two of them were the only ones at home staring at each other every day, and Liu Haizhong gradually began to regret it.

In the past, their family of five had a chaotic life because he often beat the children, but at least they were popular! But now the family is deserted. Although they have three sons, they have become the former Yi Zhonghai.

Finally, Liu Haizhong's wife began to regret her decision. During this period, she started to complain about her two sons, Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu. Although she still called them ungrateful, she also occasionally began to complain about Liu Haizhong for being too harsh on Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu in the past.

Liu Haizhong was very impatient and said that he was following the tradition of his ancestors, the education method of "a good son is born under the stick", and that children cannot be successful without being beaten. However, he became autistic after being scolded by his wife. His wife only said one sentence: "A good son is born under the stick. If you beat them away, will they still be filial to us?"

Now Liu Haizhong has begun to feel a sense of crisis. His eldest son has gone far away and has no news from him. He also doesn't know whether his eldest son will come back to Sijiucheng in this life, because the couple had placed all their hopes for their future retirement on their eldest son Liu Guangqi.

Now Liu Guangqi has left his hometown without saying a word and has not been heard from since. If Liu Guangqi does not come back, who will take care of them in the future?

If Liu Guangqi never comes back, then the old couple can only rely on Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu in the future. But now these two boys have long cut off all ties with them and no longer recognize them as their parents. Even if they meet them occasionally, they look at the couple as enemies.

Liu Haizhong then developed a strong sense of crisis and wanted Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu to come back, but when he found Liu Guangtian's factory, Liu Guangtian refused to see them at all. Liu Guangtian was also a purchasing agent and basically rarely stayed in the factory. He went there several times but couldn't find Liu Guangtian.

So he took his wife to the school to find Liu Guangfu, but when they arrived at the school, Liu Guangfu ignored them. He wanted to lose his temper and take off his belt to beat Liu Guangfu, but was stopped by Liu Guangfu's teacher, who warned them that if they dared to make trouble in the school, they would immediately report to the police and have him arrested.