Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

Yan Bugui and his wife both looked unhappy, but they still managed to force a smile and said to Li, "No, no! Xiao Yu, don't get me wrong, we are here to apologize to you!

Yesterday I lost my mind for a moment and said some wrong things. When I went back home last night and thought about it, I realized it was indeed my fault. So I came here early in the morning with your aunt to apologize to you!

You are a magnanimous person, so don't bother with me! I did do something wrong this time, and I will never do it again!"

When Yu Li saw that Yan Bugui and his wife were here to apologize, her expression improved a little. She nodded coldly and said, "Oh! Okay, I get it! Please go back!"

Yan Bugui and his wife looked at Yu Li's expression and knew that she was still angry, so they didn't dare to say anything more. They just nodded and bowed with a smile on their faces and went home.

Lin Geng was out for three days. When he returned home, he pulled a cart of mountain products collected from the countryside. He also brought back a wild boar weighing more than 200 kilograms and a badger weighing more than ten kilograms. The harvest was still good.

After completing the task of transporting the wild boar and mountain products to the factory, the badger stayed behind and took them back to his courtyard home.

As soon as he got home, someone told Lin Geng about what happened a few days ago when Yan Bugui came to his house to make trouble with Yu Li after he left. Lin Geng's face suddenly darkened and he turned around to find trouble with Yan Bugui and his wife.

But just when he put the badger down and wanted to turn around to look for Yan Bugui and his wife in the front yard, Yan Jiecheng came over first. When he saw Lin Geng, he smiled and said, "Brother Lin, you're back?"

Lin Geng looked at Yan Jiecheng with a dark face, snorted coldly, and asked Yan Jiecheng: "Why did you come to see me?"

Yan Jiecheng quickly took out a box of economical cigarettes from his pocket and handed one to Lin Geng. This was the only cigarette he could afford at the moment. He couldn't afford more expensive cigarettes.

But Lin Geng was not used to this economic cigarette, and did not take the economic cigarette handed over by Yan Jiecheng. He asked coldly: "If you have something to say, just say it. I am not used to this economic cigarette!"

Yan Jiecheng was not embarrassed. Following his parents, everyone in the Yan family had developed a thick skin. So he smiled and said to Lin Geng, "Brother Lin, my father is not at home. I came here to apologize to you on behalf of my father! There is also something I want to discuss with you, Brother Linzi! Can I come into the house and talk to you for a few words?"

Lin Geng looked at Yan Jiecheng with a somewhat complicated mood. No matter what, according to the original plot, Yu Li should have married Yan Jiecheng, but because of his appearance, he accidentally intercepted Yan Jiecheng's plan and married Yu Li first.

This made him feel a little sorry for Yan Jiecheng every time he saw Yan Jiecheng.

In addition, Yan Jiecheng has indeed been very respectful to him in the past two years. As soon as he sees him, he calls him brother. If there is anything, he will ask him to run errands. This guy will run very quickly and never ask for conditions. Although Lin Geng has indeed never asked him to run errands for nothing, there is nothing to say about his attitude towards Lin Geng.

Lin thought for a while and let Yan Jiecheng into the house. He threw a Red Double Happiness cigarette to Yan Jiecheng, sat down and asked Yan Jiecheng, "Just tell me what you want to say! Let's not beat around the bush!"

Yan Jiecheng lit up the cigarette and took a deep puff. After he exhaled the smoke, he looked depressed and said to Lin Geng, "Brother Linzi! I apologize to you again for the matter that my dad asked you to find jobs for me and Jiefang this time! I also told my dad not to let him scheme against you, but you know what kind of person he is. He is used to being stingy. It's really hard to ask him not to scheme against you!

Even when it comes to us brothers and sisters, he is calculating in the same way. He records all the money we have spent since we were young in an account book, and tells us that we have to pay him back once we start working!

Even after we reconciled and agreed not to go to school, he still had to charge us for eating and sleeping at home. Do you think it's possible that he won't charge us?

Jiefang and I had a fight with him and my mom about this, but it was useless. He is just that kind of person. Otherwise, the people in the yard wouldn't have given him the nickname "Calculator"! "

After listening to this, Lin Geng thought about it and realized that what Yan Jiecheng said was indeed right. Yan Bugui's cleverness and calculations had evolved over decades and were now engraved into his bones. Calculations had become a subconscious instinct for him to consider problems and a fixed way of thinking. It was basically impossible for him not to calculate.

It was bad luck for Yan Jiecheng and his siblings to be born in a family like theirs and meet such parents. It is no wonder that in the original drama, when Yan Bugui and his wife got old, Yan Jiecheng and his other four siblings were unwilling to take care of them, and they were always nitpicking with each other, which led to Yan Bugui's miserable old age.

In fact, it cannot be entirely blamed on Yan Jiecheng and his siblings for being ungrateful. Rather, they have lived in such a family environment since childhood. Under the influence of what they have seen and heard, they naturally learned to calculate and developed egoism deep in their bones.

The unfilial behavior of Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu can be attributed to the unkind father and unfilial sons, and the unfilial behavior of Yan Jiecheng's four brothers and sisters can also be attributed to the unkind father and unfilial sons. After all, as a parent, Yan Bugui taught his children not loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, but taught them to be sophisticated and selfish. Therefore, the miserable old age of Yan Bugui and his wife, and their children's neglect of them, is also their own fault.

Lin Geng nodded and said, "Yes! I understand what you said! What else do you want to talk to me about?"

After hesitating for a while, Yan Jiecheng finally spoke up: "Brother Lin, I know you are capable, you know a lot of leaders, and you have a lot of connections. Look, it's been more than three years since I graduated from junior high school. I'm almost 20 years old, but I still don't have a stable job!

I would like to ask you to help me find a job, even if it’s a little far away!

But I also understand that it is impossible to expect my dad to give me money! With his stingy personality, it is impossible to ask him to pay for me to buy a workstation!

So I just want to ask you, for the sake of me treating you like a brother over the past few years, can you lend me some money? I will write you an IOU and help me buy a workstation. Once I start working, I will pay you back ten dollars a month until I pay it back! I will never owe you money and not pay it back! "

After listening to this, Lin Geng's heart was moved. Although Yan Jiecheng had no future and was petty, he was not stupid. He just followed Yan Bugui and developed a selfish and calculating character. With such a character, he was destined to never achieve anything great in his life. His vision had been limited by Yan Bugui and his wife since he was a child.

But the fact that Yan Jiecheng could find him today and make such a request was a bit beyond Lin Geng's expectation. It meant that Yan Jiecheng had completely given up his dream of relying on Yan Bugui to find him a job, and decided to bypass Yan Bugui and fight for a future for himself.