Chapter 923 A Few More Years, Changes in the Courtyard

One year passed quickly, and Zhou Chen's progress on the main mission has made another step forward.

He has been in the world of Siheyuan for more than twenty years. When he lived in the Siheyuan before, there were a lot of trivial things. But later he moved out of the Siheyuan and came back to live occasionally, and things became much less common.

In fact, Zhou Chen still likes to live outside, living outside and having relatives. Living in this courtyard always feels uncomfortable, but he has to live here because of the system tasks.

A year later, Shazhu and Qin Huairu still did not divorce. In the end, Shazhu did not get tough. He just moved from the backyard back to his middle yard and kicked Bangge out of his house.

But the result was that Xiaodang and Huaihua moved to the backyard, Jia Zhang lived in He Yuyu's house, and Bang Jie returned to his own house and lived alone.

Zhou Chen was shocked when he heard this result.

He Yuzhu is so tolerant that he can be called a Ninja Turtle.

It was one thing that He Yuzhu could endure it, but Qin Huairu's clever methods also played a decisive role.

Qin Huairu not only invited the uncle Yi Zhonghai to help intercede, but also called He Yuzhu's sister He Yuyu. He Yuzhu was really a good sister of He Yuzhu. After all, she actually helped Qin Huairu speak for her. She said it was great. Geng is He Yuzhu's son. I should give up the throne to my son. It is inheritance and so on.

Anyway, after Zhou Chen heard this, his views really exploded. The people in this courtyard are really awesome. They are all talented people, especially Shazhu.

"Lao Liu in the backyard is dying, you don't know yet, right?"

When Yan Bugui told Zhou Chen about this, Zhou Chen was very surprised. Liu Haizhong's family is now very low-key in the courtyard. He has not heard about their family for a long time.

I only know that none of Liu Haizhong's three sons care about the old couple, and because of their old age, the old couple has a very difficult life with the little retirement salary Liu Haizhong receives.

In fact, if Liu Haizhong retired normally, his retirement salary would be enough to support the elderly couple.

But Liu Haizhong didn't retire normally, and after Liu Haizhong came out from prison, his health became very poor. He often got sick and took medicine. The second aunt's health didn't get much better either. Both of them were very good at taking medicine.

So Liu Haizhong couldn't survive with just that little salary. Fortunately, Yi Zhonghai would always help. When Qin Huairu and Sha Zhu lived in the backyard, Qin Huairu would also give Liu Hai some of the food Sha Zhu brought back. In the middle family, the two old people can live a long life with their eloquence.

But now they are both over seventy years old. They have lived a miserable life for many years, coupled with the torment of illness, and now they have reached the point where their fuel is exhausted.

"Old Liu's life will be miserable."

Listening to Yan Bugui's emotion, Zhou Chen said lightly: "In this world, there are many people who are more miserable than him. What he really did wrong was that he failed to educate his son well. As long as he can raise a filial son, he will We won’t end up like this.”

Yan Bugui's expression froze. Although Zhou Chen was talking about Liu Haizhong, he always felt that Zhou Chen meant what he meant, because his sons were no better than Liu Haizhong's sons.

"Do you still remember the fact that he framed you back then?"

"I will never forget it, but as he went to jail, I stopped thinking about it. Have you seen me targeting him over the years?"

"That's true. Although you can be very bad sometimes, you are not as wicked and reckless as Xu Damao."

"Third uncle, are you praising me or hurting me with your words?"

"Praise, of course, praise, let's get down to business. Lao Liu is ill and hospitalized. Lao Yi called on all of us in the hospital to donate money for Lao Liu's treatment. What do you think of this?"

Yan Bugui's eyes flashed. He had some opinions on the matter of donating money. He was calculating and not generous, but in Liu Haizhong's current situation, he had no objection to asking him to donate some money.

But the problem is, Liu Haizhong is suffering from a serious disease, the kind of disease that even spending a lot of money may not be able to cure, so this donation will be a big problem.

How much to donate? How many times do you donate?

Yi Zhonghai is an old couple, with a high retirement salary and a lot of savings. It doesn't matter whether he donates more or less, but he is different. He wants to keep pension money.

Zhou Chen said: "Third uncle, it's pointless for you to ask me about this. You know my relationship with Liu Haizhong. It's good if you don't add insult to injury. He also wants me to donate to him. Sorry, I'm not such a tolerant person."

"You really don't want to donate?" Yan Bugui asked in surprise.

"No donation."

Zhou Chen shook his head. He was not short of money, but he was not happy and did not want to donate money to Liu Haizhong.

"If you don't donate, the neighbors in the courtyard may have opinions about you." Yan Bugui said.

But Zhou Chen just sneered. He was really not afraid of this. He continued to live in the courtyard just for his mission. In the past few years, he had helped these neighbors to see doctors. If the neighbors had opinions about him because of this matter, Then it’s okay not to have these neighbors.

Yi Zhonghai did start to call people to donate money for Liu Haizhong, and also found Zhou Chen, but was flatly rejected by Zhou Chen.

Although Yi Zhonghai was not very happy, he didn't say anything. After all, when his wife almost died of a heart attack, it was Zhou Chen who rescued her. He was not qualified to point fingers at Zhou Chen.

Everyone in the courtyard donated money to Liu Haizhong, but it did not have much effect. Liu Haizhong was not discharged from the hospital and died in the hospital.

Once Liu Haizhong died, the second aunt didn't last long. She didn't even arrive for a month, and people left with her.

After the funeral, the three sons of the Liu family began to fight for the last inheritance of the old couple. They started fighting over the house in the courtyard during the funeral. After the funeral, they started to snatch and make a big fuss many times. Everything was turned upside down.

Courtyard No. 95, which was already famous in Nanluogu Alley, has become a joke to countless people in the alley.

Zhou Chen also saw the fights between the sons of the Liu family and could only sigh with emotion, what a talent they are.

The Liu family was in big trouble, and Yan Jiecheng and Banggeng were in big trouble.

Banggeng worked for Yan Jiecheng for more than a year, and then he started to have trouble. He asked Yan Jiecheng and his wife to give him a salary increase, but how could Yan Jiecheng and his wife agree, so the two parties also started to quarrel.

The good news is that he gave up the job without reaching an agreement and refused to go to Yan Jiecheng's restaurant to threaten Yan Jiecheng. Even if Yan Jiecheng invited him several times, he would not go. In the end, he said that unless he was given a double salary increase and the future Everything in the kitchen is taken care of by him, otherwise he will not go back.

How could Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li compromise and went to find Qin Huairu again, but Qin Huairu didn't care about it at all. They wanted to find He Yuzhu again, but they couldn't lose face.

In the end, Yan Jiecheng and Banggeng still couldn't reach a consensus, but Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li were ruthless enough. Since you gave up on Banggeng, we are not vegetarians either.

So, while the restaurant was still booming, the two of them partnered with Yu Li's sister Yu Haitang to directly turn the restaurant into a hot pot restaurant, ushering in the era of hot pot restaurants.

This operation made Banggeng dumbfounded. He originally wanted to force Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li to submit, but he didn't expect them to be so ruthless. Now it was good. His salary was not increased, and he even lost his job.

But he was very angry, but he didn't care too much. He had skills anyway, so he went to another restaurant to find trouble.

But he underestimated the abilities of Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li. After all, they were also people who had opened popular restaurants. They knew all the restaurant owners in the surrounding area, and they had already spread the news about Bangge's deeds.

Although the hotel owners also want to make money, they don't want to be recruited by a white-eyed wolf like Bangge. Even if he is good at his craftsmanship, Yan Jiecheng's popular restaurant has been destroyed, and they don't want to make the same mistake again.

As a result, there are a lot of people around who are good at cooking, but they can't find a job.

What made him even more desperate was that when his girlfriend, whom he had been dating for more than half a year, saw that he had no job, she kicked him without hesitation.

Banggeng was so angry that he went to find Yan Jiecheng, and the two of them started having sex on the spot, and they were really bloody.

Over the past year or so, No. 95 Courtyard has been really busy. Various father-son bureaus, brother bureaus, boss-employee bureaus, and fights have occurred seven or eight times...

Another two years passed in a flash, and the time came to the 1990s.

No. 95 Siheyuan has been peaceful for more than a year, and there has been no major turmoil.

The biggest change is that Qin Huairu used up all his savings and helped Banggeng open a small restaurant. Now Banggeng is the owner and chef of the restaurant, while Qin Huairu takes Xiaodang and Huaihua as waiters and runs the business. It's quite good.

He Yuzhu has also retired from the steel rolling mill, but because of the conflict between him and Banggeng, although he later stopped tit-for-tat with Qin Huairu's mediation, he did not go to the restaurant to help. Instead, Qin Huairu would often bring him food from the restaurant. The food comes back.

Because of this incident, Jia Zhangshi, Banggan, Xiaodang and Huaihua were dissatisfied. After Jia Zhangshi's dislike, He Yuzhu couldn't help but quarreled with her.

From then on, He Yuzhu no longer ate any of the food Qin Huairu brought back from the restaurant.

Although He Yuzhu and Qin Huairu are still husband and wife, his relationship with Jia Zhang and the Jia family's three children has dropped to a freezing point.

"They are really three white-eyed wolves."

Even Zhou Chen, who had no good impression of He Yuzhu, felt sympathy for He Yuzhu's experience after learning about it.

The three children of the Jia family really lived up to his opinion at all. They were really three white-eyed wolves. He Yuzhu had raised them for so many years, but in the end, they fell out with He Yuzhu because of these things.

You must know that it was Bang Gang who played a trick on He Yuzhu, and in the end it seemed as if the Jia family became the victims and He Yuzhu became the perpetrator.

By the 1990s, the third uncle had become older. Fortunately, he was still in good spirits. He was now the oldest man in the courtyard besides Yi Zhonghai and Jia Zhang.

Mrs. Jia Zhang really agreed with her words. The scourge will last for thousands of years. This old guy can be said to be one of the most demonic and most inhuman beasts in the courtyard, but he has lived longer than anyone else.

Yi Zhonghai's wife, Auntie, also passed away last year. The reason was still heart disease, but it can be regarded as the end of her life.

At Zhou Chen's house, the third uncle clinked glasses with Zhou Chen. He no longer drank as before, but took a small sip.

"Old, really old."

"Don't say you are old. I am almost the same, in my fifties."

Yan Bugui looked at Zhou Chen's black hair and said with a smile: "With your appearance, if you go out and tell people that you are in your thirties, others will believe you. You are indeed a famous doctor, and you are better at maintaining health than the rest of us."

"I exercise every day, can you?"

"Then I can't. If I have that time, I might as well plant vegetables and water the flowers."

Yan Bugui smiled, then straightened his face and said, "Yesterday our family's Jie Cheng came to me and said that Xu Damao was looking for him and wanted to cooperate in foreign trade. Jie Cheng came to me to invest in shares. Do you think we can do it?"

Xu Damao has started a business in the past two years, and he is doing well. It is said to be foreign trade, but in fact it is smuggling.

Zhou Chen said calmly: "If you are not afraid of losing your security at the end of the year, then do it with Xu Damao."

He knew that in the TV plot, the Yan family cooperated with the Liu family and ended up losing everything. Although this time was different, he became a more cunning Xu Damao. How could the third uncle and his family outplay Xu Damao.

Yan Bugui said: "Jie Cheng said that Xu Damao not only came to our house, but also to Bang Gang. That boy Bang Gang is still rich now, and Jie Cheng said that Xu Damao is transporting goods from the north this time, and the profit can be several times, guaranteed profit without loss."

Zhou Chen advised: "Third uncle, if you were twenty years younger, I wouldn't advise you, but you are at this age now, why are you still bothering? Let me tell you, if Xu Damao does this, Sooner or later something will happen, so don't just follow it around."

Yan Bugui remained silent. He was a typical old-hearted person who still wanted to make a lot of money. He did not fully listen to Zhou Chen's persuasion.

Zhou Chen also saw that Yan Bugui's will was not firm and said a few more words. Seeing that Yan Bugui still had no intention of giving up, he said no more.

It's hard to persuade the damned Cui. After all, he's just a neighbor, not a close relative. He can't force Yan Bugui to listen to him.

However, Yan Bugui's words reminded Zhou Chen that this was a way to deal with Xu Damao.

Xu Damao plotted against him back then, and although he had already secretly messed with Xu Damao, more than twenty years later, and it was not far from the completion of his mission, he still wanted to mess with Xu Damao again.

So for the next period of time, he stayed in the courtyard, observing the movements of Xu Damao and the third uncle and their family.

After all, Yan Bugui didn't listen to what he said. He formed a partnership with his eldest son Yan Jiecheng and bought a stake in Xu Damao's business. Together with Bang Gang, several parties raised a sum of money. Xu Damao took the lead and began to use their connections to smuggle.

Maybe he felt that he was about to make a lot of money, so Yan Bugui always went to Zhou Chen for drinks these days. When he was in the mood, he even sang a few lines to Zhou Chen, which made him very proud.