Siheyuan: Struggle in the Red Era

Xiao Li stood up and asked loudly, "Yi Zhonghai, you are really good at avoiding the truth. What you have been doing in the past two years, has it deviated a bit? Without saying anything else, I want to ask you, after two years, why are people in our courtyard still not clear about what a traffic officer does? What are you trying to do by deliberately deceiving us?"

"And Yan Bugui, you are a teacher, don't say you don't understand these things, but why do you never explain these things to everyone? Did you discuss this with Yi Zhonghai to deceive the neighbors in the compound in order to achieve your ulterior motives?"

"Liu Haizhong, you asked your son to move the table. He must be used to it. He has tasted the high and mighty officials of the old times. He also wants to be an official and decide life and death at will, right?"

Yi Zhonghai quickly explained: "Xiao Li, you really misunderstood. I never thought of deceiving anyone. People call us uncles, but we are older. This is just a polite way to address older people. We really call them that out of habit."

"As for the traffic officers, since we became traffic officers, we have all followed the instructions of the street office and explained the policies to everyone when we came back. We have never deceived or concealed anything. Everyone knows this."

The people below thought about it and it seemed to be true. The three of them had indeed conveyed the policies in a timely manner. So many people nodded in agreement.

Yi Zhonghai was relieved a little, and then continued to explain: "We don't think too much about it. We just do what the street office tells us to do. We never thought about explaining to everyone what traffic officers do. Isn't this what we do all the time? Why do we need to explain it again?"

This time, more people nodded. They had already done it, so why did they still have to take off their pants to fart and then explain what they did.

Yan Bugui also went on to explain: "I apologize to everyone. We were so busy with our work that we forgot to explain to everyone what the traffic officer does. In the future, we must remember the lesson and make everything clear. We can't just work without knowing how to explain."

Liu Haizhong also wanted to speak, but Yi Zhonghai spoke first: "In addition, I always feel that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, so I always think that the neighbors in our compound are all one family. When a family has a quarrel, they understand and sympathize with each other. When there is a conflict, everyone gets together and talks it out, and then everything will be fine. We are all still good neighbors."

Yan Bugui followed up by saying, "Maybe we are old and have different ideas from young people. If you think our approach is wrong, can you please point it out? We are all from the same hospital. Just like what Lao Yi said, we are like family. If there is something, we should talk it out. There is no need to make a big fuss. Not only will it cause trouble to the street office, but it will also tarnish the reputation of the hospital."

Xiao Li laughed out of anger. These two bastards were really good at quibbling. The way they said that made it seem as if they were all good-natured people who only knew how to work hard and didn't know how to publicize, and he was just a troublemaker who brought discredit to the hospital.

It was also his fault that he chose the wrong point of attack, but these guys made up for it.

Chen Datou was not convinced, as he had suffered real losses.

"You talk nicely, but you don't do what you say. If you didn't force me, why would I work for everyone in the hospital for free? Not everyone in my family is as good as my family. Besides, working for everyone in the hospital for free has delayed a lot of my work and lost a lot of income."

Hu Meihua was sitting nearby. She didn't check and failed to control Chen Datou, causing him to speak. She was annoyed. Now, with the character of these neighbors in the yard, would they be happy for him to say that? She also helped Yi Zhonghai and the others out of trouble.

Sure enough, the others were unhappy. Who doesn't like to take advantage of others?

"Hey, Chen Datou, if you don't want to, just say it."

"You didn't say anything when you were doing it, but when you came back you started complaining. Are you a man?"

"Oh, everyone in our yard doesn't have a good relationship with your family, so you guys are not willing to help, right?"

Seeing the crowd getting excited, Hu Meihua quickly interrupted and said, "Don't get me wrong, everyone knows that Datou is a bit stupid, he just can't talk. We are definitely willing to help you, but we have to wait until we are free. Who would help their neighbors without doing their own work? Datou just doesn't like this. When you are free or have an emergency, you can always ask us for help."

Only then did everyone give up.

After all, we all know what's going on, right? Taking advantage is something we can do but not say.

However, everyone started to blame Xiao Li. If Xiao Li hadn't caused this incident, they could have continued to take advantage of him.

Now that the matter has been exposed, Chen Datou is unwilling to work for nothing, and they will not be able to take advantage of him in the future.

Everyone was whispering to each other below, and their attention naturally shifted again, which made the three old men in front feel a lot more relieved.

Chen Zhaodi looked at it and seemed to be thinking about something.

Perhaps it was because it was still early and these three uncles were not yet so courageous and still had some discretion in what they said and did. It was actually understandable that they favored the Jia family during the meeting yesterday.

For one thing, everyone absolutely cannot stand the fact that Xiao Li eats meat every day, and they will never be biased towards him when judging things. However, the Jia family used the example of a child who cried every day because of the smell of meat from the neighboring house, and they were naturally able to empathize with their neighbors. Therefore, even though Yi Zhonghai's butt was so biased yesterday, no one said anything.

As for not calling the police, this concerns the interests of the compound, so of course no one would agree to it.

Anyway, it’s not you who suffer the loss.

To sum it up, you won’t feel the pain unless the knife cuts you.

Chen Zhaodi didn't know how this fellow villager was feeling right now. Obviously, everyone benefited from everything he did, but now, she didn't know how many people blamed him for being nosy.

At this time, Secretary Wang spoke up: "Okay, Yi Zhonghai and the other three have already explained it. Do you agree with this explanation?"

Of course Xiao Li disagreed in his heart, but seeing everyone's reactions just now, he was too lazy to say anything more.

Although he, the troublemaker, kept silent, Chen Datou was also warned by Hu Meihua, so everyone agreed.

Seeing that no one below had any objections, Secretary Wang said, "In that case, then, the traffic officers of your compound will continue to be Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, and Yan Bugui. Do you have any objections?"

Everyone looked at each other, and it seemed that no one else was better than these three. When it came to other people, they seemed even more dissatisfied.

Then they all shook their heads again.

After making sure that no one had any objections, Secretary Wang announced, "Then, these three people will continue to serve as your compound's traffic officers. Today's meeting ends here."