Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

Everyone whispered about it, saying that the couple were really good-for-nothings, scheming about this and that every day, and even not sparing their own children. No wonder Yan Jiecheng found a job and moved to the factory to live and eat and never come back. No one would be willing to stay at home and be sucked dry by their own parents.

At this time, Yan Bugui's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and his wife cried as if her own father had died. The couple felt so heartbroken that they could not breathe when they thought that they would no longer be able to get the eight yuan for accommodation and food expenses from Yan Jiecheng from now on. The more Yan Bugui's wife thought about it, the more upset she became. She sat on the ground and cried until she almost rolled over.

But Yan Jiefang's eyes flickered at this time. He hid behind the crowd and did not go up to help his mother. Instead, he looked towards the entrance of the alley, as if he was thinking about something.

Yan Bugui saw that everyone in the yard had come out, surrounding the couple to watch the fun, pointing and talking at them, with a look of gloating on their faces, so he couldn't help but pull his wife up and cursed: "You stinky woman, don't you think our family is shameful enough? Go home quickly!"

After everyone saw Yan Bugui and his wife return home, they dispersed with laughter and talk, but they did not avoid the Yan family at all. They spoke loudly and said that the couple deserved it. They were scheming against their own children and were not afraid of retribution. Some even said bluntly that if they continued like this, when Yan Bugui and his wife got old, it would be a miracle if their children were filial to them.

Yan Bugui and his wife returned home and listened to the discussions of people in the yard. They felt very uncomfortable. However, they did not reflect on their own mistakes. Instead, they gnashed their teeth in hatred and cursed Yan Jiecheng as an unfilial boy. Yan Bugui even said that they could not let it go like this. He would go to Yan Jiecheng's factory to find him tomorrow and must bring Yan Jiecheng back. He could not let him get away with it so easily.

Yan Bugui's wife also nodded in agreement, saying that she would go with Yan Bugui to find Yan Jiecheng and must bring Yan Jiecheng back to live with them.

The next morning, Yan Bugui really took a leave, wanting to go to the agricultural machinery factory to find Yan Jiecheng, but he was reluctant to spend the money on bus tickets. After all, he had to change buses three times, and each time cost two cents, so three times would cost six cents, which means a round trip of 12 cents. If the couple went together, it would cost 24 cents round trip. Yan Bugui really couldn't bear to spend this money.

So he shamelessly took his wife to ask Lin Geng to borrow a bicycle, intending to ride the bicycle with his wife to the agricultural machinery factory to find Yan Jiecheng, but as expected, Lin Geng flatly refused, saying that he had something else to do and would not lend it.

Seeing that Lin Geng refused to lend him his bicycle, Yan Bugui set his sights on Lin Geng's public tricycle. However, Lin Geng refused to lend him the tricycle, saying that it was public property and could not be lent to private individuals.

Yan Bugui was very angry, so he went to find Xu Damao. Now Xu Damao followed Lin Geng's lead in everything. He knew that Yan Bugui was plotting against Lin Geng and had a falling out with Lin Geng. So he stopped indulging Yan Bugui and said that he had to go to the countryside today and ride a bicycle. He also refused Yan Bugui and his wife.

Now, the only one who has a bicycle in the yard is Sha Zhu. After Sha Zhu married Zhao Erya, his salary was given to Zhao Erya to manage. He was also promoted to a higher grade and became the monitor of the second canteen. His monthly salary is now more than 50 yuan. Although it is not as much as Lin Geng's, it is considered a high income in this courtyard.

In addition to Zhao Erya's monthly salary of more than 27 yuan, and occasionally Sha Zhu would prepare banquets for others to earn some extra money, the couple's income was nearly 100 yuan a month. Although Zhao Erya brought Hu Zi, they still had to raise Hu Zi, but He Yushui had grown up now and was admitted to a technical secondary school. She would graduate and be assigned a job this year. With He Daqing supporting her, the couple did not have much pressure, so they bought bicycles and rode to work together every day.

So Yan Bugui shamelessly came to Sha Zhu to borrow a bicycle again, but as soon as he opened his mouth, before Sha Zhu had a chance to refuse, Zhao Erya started to scold Yan Bugui. She had disliked Yan Bugui for a long time. In the past two years, whenever their family and the Lin family had something good to eat, or when Sha Zhu went out to prepare a banquet and brought back something good, Yan Bugui would either block the door and shamelessly ask for it, or just come to their house and shamelessly eat for free.

At the beginning, Zhao Erya endured and kept silent. After all, Lin Geng and Yan Bugui had a good relationship, and Yan Bugui was also the manager of the courtyard. Zhao Erya had been tolerating him, but she had long been dissatisfied with him.

But now Yan Bugui had plotted against Lin Geng, and Lin Geng had fallen out with Yan Bugui. Zhao Erya naturally couldn't stand Yan Bugui anymore, so she caught Yan Bugui and scolded him, telling him clearly that their two families should have less contact in the future, and if he wanted to take advantage of his family again, he wouldn't have any windows, let alone doors.

Yan Bugui's face turned ashen after being scolded by Zhao Erya. He realized the consequences of offending Lin Geng at this time. Most people in the whole yard no longer tolerated him. It would be really difficult for him to take advantage of the yard in the future. He, the so-called manager, was nothing in the courtyard now. Most people only looked at Lin Geng's face.

Yan Bugui regretted it very much at this moment, but there was nothing he could do. He couldn't borrow a bicycle, so he had to take the bus with his wife reluctantly. As a result, it took three buses to get to the agricultural machinery factory, and it took two or three hours to get there. They also had to walk a long way in between, which made the old couple feel very uncomfortable. Aunt Yan was also carsick and vomited her breakfast. It was a pity for both of them and they cried out that they had lost a lot of money.

After arriving at the agricultural machinery factory, they were stopped by the guards at the door. Yan Bugui said he wanted to look for Yan Jiecheng, but the people from the security department said they didn't know Yan Jiecheng and wouldn't let them in.

Yan Jiecheng had just joined the factory, and no one in the security department knew him. Moreover, Yan Bugui didn't know which department Yan Jiecheng was in at the agricultural machinery factory. He couldn't clearly tell which department Yan Jiecheng was in, and the people in the security department wouldn't let them in.

The couple was a little dumbfounded. They couldn't get into the factory, and they couldn't find Yan Jiecheng no matter who they asked. No one knew him, and there was no way to catch Yan Jiecheng and bring him home. The two of them waited outside the agricultural machinery factory for most of the day. They knew that if they didn't go home, they might not even be able to get on the bus, so they could only rush home in despair.

However, they only caught one bus to go home. When they got off and prepared to take the next one, it was already dark and the bus had stopped running. They were completely dumbfounded.

So the old couple could only rely on their own two feet to get home. It took them more than three hours to walk home, and they didn't get back to the courtyard until after nine o'clock in the evening. Yan Bugui and his wife were almost exhausted to death.

The two hadn't eaten all day and were starving, but they were reluctant to find a place to eat on the way and were reluctant to spend that little money, so they just walked back home hungry. When they got home, they were hungry, thirsty and exhausted. They both had blisters on the soles of their feet, their legs were so tired that they couldn't lift them, and their feet were in unbearable pain.