Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

Chapter 310 The old deaf man is going to the steel mill

When they were walking out of the door, Lin Geng even helped her up considerately, and said with a grin, "Old lady, please be careful. Goodbye, I won't see you off. You are so old now, I think you should stay out of trouble. Maybe you can live a few more days. If you still want to trick my brother Zhuzi into being a pawn for Yi Zhonghai, don't blame me for being rude!

From now on, I will protect Brother Zhuzi, and no one can deceive him again. As long as my eyes are not blind, no one can fool me!"

The old deaf man glared at Lin Geng fiercely but said nothing. He turned his head and looked at Sha Zhu who was hiding far away. He felt sad and a little regretful. He knew that Sha Zhu still had a little affection for her. If she hadn't come here today to talk about reconciliation between Sha Zhu and Yi Zhonghai, Sha Zhu wouldn't have been so heartless to her.

If she had known that Sha Zhu had completely hated Yi Zhonghai due to Lin Geng's instigation, she would not have come to Sha Zhu to persuade him to reconcile with Yi Zhonghai. But now, she has exhausted the last bit of affection Sha Zhu had for her. She has completely offended Sha Zhu. It will probably be difficult for her to eat the delicious food made by Sha Zhu in the future.

The old deaf man glanced at Sha Zhu, sighed deeply, and said tiredly: "Zhu Zi, don't blame me, I really have no choice. I can't ignore Xiao Yi's affairs. Don't hate grandma!"

Sha Zhu looked at the deaf old lady without saying anything. He felt very complicated at the moment. He really couldn't see the old lady in front of him clearly, and he couldn't understand her. On the one hand, he hated her for helping Yi Zhonghai deceive him, but on the other hand, she was very nice to him. He hated her and felt sorry for her at the same time.

In the end, he just watched silently as the old deaf man walked out of his house trembling with every step and headed towards Qin Huairu's house across the street.

Lin Geng waved his hand at Sha Zhu and said, "Brother Zhu, don't just stand there. I'm going to bring back our winter vegetables. Hurry up and help unload them into the cellar! Tomorrow I'll also bring back our coal. On Sunday, there will be too many people and we'll have to queue up!"

When Sha Zhu heard this, he came to his senses, quickly agreed and ran out. He saw that Lin Geng's tricycle was filled with cabbage, white radishes and two large bags of potatoes. These were the vegetables that ordinary city dwellers in this era needed to sustain themselves for the winter. Every household had to stock up some, otherwise, when the weather got really cold, they might not even have pickled vegetables to eat.

Sha Zhu was a little surprised when he saw it, because the amount of cabbage, white radish and potatoes that Lin Geng brought back this time was really large, and they looked so juicy, as if they had just been pulled out of the ground. The quantity far exceeded their normal years.

It turned out that the subdistrict office had just received the winter-stored vegetables sent to the city by the commune today, and had not had time to send out a notice. Coincidentally, Lin Geng was delivering fish to the subdistrict office this afternoon and caught up with it, so he was the first to bring back the winter-stored vegetables from his family and Sha Zhu's family.

Director Wang from the Street Office ordered some fish from Lin Geng a few days ago, intending to improve the lives of the staff of the Street Office. After Lin Geng agreed, he decided to deliver the ordered fish to the Street Office before going to the countryside this week. So he didn't rush to the countryside today, and just happened to be the first one to buy some winter vegetables.

On the way, he saw that the two families did not have much vegetables, and it would be a stretch to last until next spring, so he secretly took some cabbage, radishes, and potatoes from his own little world and threw them into the car. However, there were not many, just a little more than in previous years.

The cabbages, radishes and potatoes in his little world were growing very well. They were not only big but also juicy. They looked very good indeed, which made the neighbors in the courtyard a little jealous.

But although they were jealous, they were not too jealous. After all, they all knew that Lin Geng had a good relationship with the street office and the police station, and he was the first to take action, so it was not surprising that he could get the best cabbage and radish.

When the residents in the yard heard that the winter vegetables had been delivered to the street office, they immediately became anxious. The weather had indeed gotten colder, and it was time to purchase winter vegetables and heating coal. So each household began to plan to buy vegetables or coal early tomorrow morning and then go home for dinner.

The old deaf man walked to Qin Huairu's house trembling with anger. In fact, Qin Huairu had heard the noise made by the old deaf man going to Sha Zhu's house a long time ago. She had been lying on the door trying to peek over there. When the old deaf man was driven out by Lin Geng like a duck and walked towards her house, Qin Huairu hurriedly opened the door and welcomed the old deaf man in.

The old deaf man was supported by Qin Huairu and walked into the house tremblingly. He sat down on a stool, gasping for breath, pounding his chest, his face full of anger and misery, and muttered, "No, no, now you don't even take my old bones seriously. Sha Zhu has also learned bad things from that little beast from the Lin family, and now he doesn't respect his grandma! I'm so angry!"

Qin Huairu hurried over to pat the old deaf man's chest and back, helping him to calm down, and said, "Calm down, old man! Things are not the same as before. Sha Zhu is no longer on the same page with us. I don't think it will be easy to bring him back! You want Sha Zhu to be like before and listen to Uncle Yi. Now that Lin Geng is here, it seems that it is not easy! Let's wait and see!"

You must have known that Uncle Yi was locked up by the security department, right? You see, what can we do? The most important thing right now is to get Uncle Yi back as soon as possible!"

The old deaf man drank the hot water that Qin Huairu brought to her, sighed, and said, "Forget it, let's not talk about Sha Zhu for now. He is also an ungrateful little wolf! It's a pity that I was so nice to him before!

Go find Yan Bugui and ask him to arrange for someone to find a cart to take me to the steel mill. I want to ask why the security department locked Xiao Yi up! If they don’t give me an explanation, I will hang myself at the gate of their steel mill!"

Qin Huairu thought that this was the only solution at the moment. If she went to the steel mill by herself, no one would pay attention to her. But the deaf old lady was different. After all, she had some relationship with Director Yang. Last time, Director Yang sent someone to find Lin Geng to plead for Yi Zhonghai, all for the deaf old lady's sake.

Now we can only rely on the deaf old lady to go to the steel mill to fish out Yi Zhonghai.

In fact, Qin Huairu had already guessed why Yi Zhonghai was locked up by the security department of the steel rolling mill this time. She was very confident that Yi Zhonghai had reported Lin Geng, but now Lin Geng was fine while he was in trouble. She guessed that the security department had traced the problem to Yi Zhonghai, so they locked Yi Zhonghai up.

But even if she guessed it, there was no way to rescue Yi Zhonghai, and now she could only rely on the deaf old lady.

So she agreed, went out to the front yard, found Yan Bugui, and asked Yan Bugui to help find a cart and arrange for a young man in the yard to take the deaf old lady to the steel mill.

But Yan Bugui is a person who will not do anything without profit. He just heard Lin Geng angrily scolding the deaf old lady in the Central Courtyard. He has a good relationship with Lin Geng now. When Lin Geng came back with vegetables on the tricycle, he called his sons to help Lin Geng lift the tricycle and get it back into the yard.

Lin Geng was also very generous. He gave him a juicy cabbage on the spot and also threw him two big potatoes. The two potatoes alone weighed more than one kilogram, which made Yan Bugui very happy.

Now when he heard Qin Huairu asking him to find a cart and arrange for someone to take the deaf old lady to the steel mill, he already knew why. Although Liu Haizhong did not tell him that Yi Zhonghai was in trouble, he also found out that Yi Zhonghai had not returned yet. He took a stroll in the Central Courtyard and happened to hear Qin Huairu asking Sha Zhu to go to the steel mill to inquire about Yi Zhonghai's affairs.

He was sure that Yi Zhonghai must have been in trouble again, thinking to himself that Yi Zhonghai deserved it! It was possible that this time it was because of Lin Geng again, and he could even guess that Yi Zhonghai might have been angry about Lin Geng extorting another 200 yuan from him because of the large piece of wild boar meat that Lin Geng brought back a few days ago, and reported Lin Geng out of anger.

Now seeing that Lin Geng was fine and Yi Zhonghai had not returned, Yan Bugui guessed that Yi Zhonghai might have betrayed him again this time. Not only did he fail to bring down Lin Geng, but he was also arrested by the security department for his failed report.