Chapter 71 Wine

"Go to sleep, Lao Yi, wait a while before going to sleep. They might throw stones again. See if you can catch that little bastard."

The deaf old lady ordered Yi Zhonghai around, but she herself turned around and lay on the bed.

Yi Zhonghai indeed thought so. He felt that Li Jiandong was a person who did not play by the rules and might really let people continue to smash the windows of his house.

But that night, Yi Zhonghai was destined to spend the night in vain, because Li Jiandong knew him too well.

The next morning, Yi Zhonghai got up, heated up breakfast for the old lady, and ran to the street office to complain.

He reported Li Jiandong for bullying the elderly and not giving those who wanted to reform a chance.

When the people in the street heard about it, they took it very seriously and sent someone to inquire about the situation before they officially started work.

Li Jiandong had just finished his meal and was about to go to the steel rolling mill when a street official walked in.

"Stationmaster Li, good morning."

The street officials still respect Li Jiandong very much.

Although he came to investigate the case of bullying of the elderly, he did not jump to conclusions and his tone was very polite.

Li Jiandong recognized the official's surname as Guo.

He smiled and said, "Why did Secretary Guo come so early today? Is there any urgent work to inform you?"

The other party smiled awkwardly and said:
"Stationmaster Li, today I didn't receive any work notifications. Instead, someone went to the street office to report that you bullied the elderly and drove the deaf old lady from her rented house. They also said that you were unwilling to accept reformed people and encouraged the people in the compound to isolate him. They also smashed the glass of his house. I wonder if these things happened?"

When Li Jiandong heard this, he knew that it was Yi Zhonghai who went to file a complaint.

He smiled slightly and said:
"Secretary Guo, it's wrong for you to ask me about this. How can I say that I did a bad job? If you want to ask, you should ask other people in our hospital and hear what they say. I still have to go to the steel mill, so I won't tell you until I get to work."

Li Jiandong said this with a smile, then walked past Secretary Guo and prepared to go to the steel rolling mill.

When Secretary Guo heard this, he felt that what Li Jiandong said made sense.

The men in the yard all had to go to work, but the women were still there, so Secretary Guo went to find out the situation from the women one by one.

After knowing the whole story, I made my own judgment.

The deaf old lady was woken up by the breaking of glass last night. She went to bed late and got up at noon in the morning.

At this time, the yard was filled with laughter, and the women were washing clothes and chatting.

The deaf old lady can't stand others living better than herself.

As soon as she opened the door, she started to curse: "It's so noisy. Don't you know that I'm sleeping? All you know is gossip. You can't even control your mouths when doing laundry."

Perhaps she felt that when she was showing off her power yesterday, the women in the courtyard didn't dare to speak out, so she thought that these women could be easily controlled, so the deaf old lady spoke in a very domineering tone.

However, Li Jiandong had already explained this to Jia Zhang, Old Liu and Old Yan last night.

As soon as the deaf old lady got angry today, Jia Zhang retorted:

"Old lady, you should watch your mouth first before you talk about others. There are so many people in our hospital, is there anyone with a fouler mouth than you, right, sisters?"

The deaf old lady didn't expect that besides Li Jiandong, there was someone else in this hospital who dared to go against her.

She raised her walking stick and rushed out, shouting, "You are a jinx who brought death to my husband. How dare you call me foul-mouthed? I will beat you to death."

Jia Zhang laughed loudly and deliberately provoked: "Come on, come on, hit me if you have the guts."

While mocking, he ran around the tap.

After all, the deaf old lady is old. Although there is actually no problem with her legs and feet, and she usually uses a cane to deceive people, she will definitely not be able to catch up with Jia Zhang if she really runs.

She chased him twice with her walking stick in her hand, and passed behind Old Liu's wife.

Hu Guiying suddenly stretched her foot backwards and tripped over the deaf old lady's feet.

"Ouch~"

The deaf old lady fell to the ground on the spot and several of her teeth were knocked out.

She covered her mouth with tears in her eyes and climbed up and cursed: "You youngsters, are you ganging up on me to bully me? Who tripped me just now? Come out now."

The women were all giggling, and no one intended to betray Hu Guiying.

Old Yan's wife Wang Chunmei smiled and said, "Old lady, what you said is wrong. We didn't bully you. We just don't want to be bullied by you."

"You're talking nonsense. What do you mean I'm bullying you? Isn't it wrong for me to ask you to keep your voice down?

The elderly don’t sleep well to begin with, isn’t it your responsibility as young people to take care of them?”

The deaf old lady shouted hysterically.

She had blood coming out of her mouth and tears in her eyes, and she looked very miserable, but no one in the yard felt sorry for her.

Jia Zhang stood not far away with her hands on her waist, looking at the deaf old lady with a sneer on her face.
"Old deaf man, don't always take advantage of your age in front of us. Taking care of the elderly is also taking care of our own elderly. You came out of the palace, what qualifications do you have for us to take care of you? Besides, the premise of taking care of the elderly is that you have to be a human being. Do you think you are a human being?"

She said what was in everyone's heart.

Liu Haizhong's wife also said: "Mrs. Zhang is right, are you still a human being? You are just an old beast."

Led by Jia Zhang and Hu Guiying, the other women also followed suit and started cursing.

Although the deaf old lady was fierce, she was no match for so many people. After exchanging a few words with them, she was scolded so badly that she hid back in the house and dared not come out again.

Jia Zhang and others laughed triumphantly, but not yet satisfied, they blocked Yi Zhonghai's door and cursed him.

The deaf old lady could only pretend not to hear it and wait until Yi Zhonghai came back in the evening. Only then did she stand up again.

"Old Yi, have you asked the street office? Why hasn't anyone come to deal with Li Jiandong all day? And those little bitches in our yard should also be reformed as soon as possible. A group of people scolded me, an old lady. Haven't they thought about the fact that they will also be old in the future?"

The deaf old lady looked aggrieved. When had she ever been scolded so badly?

Yi Zhonghai frowned slightly and asked, "Hasn't anyone from the street come before? Then I have to go and ask. Old lady, you should wait at home first. If you don't go to the street after get off work, you won't be able to find anyone."

The people in the street office were very efficient. After Yi Zhonghai reported Li Jiandong, they were immediately tempted.

At that time, the deaf old lady hadn't gotten up yet, so of course she didn't know anything.

Yi Zhonghai thought that no one was coming, so he put down his bag and went to the street without even washing his face. He found the officer on duty in the morning and asked,

"Secretary Guo, how do you do your job? I came this morning to report Li Jiandong bullying an old man, but you haven't dealt with it for a whole day? Are you guys so slow?"

Xiao Guo had been busy all day and was about to get off work. When he heard Yi Zhonghai's impolite words, his face furrowed.

"Master Yi, I went to look into the matter you reported. After I came back, I also reported it to the leader. The leader said that you should solve your own problems. If you have any problems, go to the head of your hospital."

Yi Zhonghai was stunned when he heard this.

Looking for uncle?
The person I reported was the uncle.

"No, Secretary Guo, you don't know who Li Jiandong is, do you? He is the boss of our hospital. Now he is leading the whole hospital to target me. I have no choice but to come to you."

Yi Zhonghai thought that Xiao Guo didn’t know Li Jiandong and didn’t know that he was the old man in the courtyard.

"Master Yi, I suggest you think about why Station Master Li is targeting you instead of others. What have you done? Don't you know the truth? Our street has always been pragmatic. It's not that whoever reports is right."

Xiao Guo sneered a few times.

I have been working as an official for three years, but I have never seen anyone as shameless as Yi Zhonghai.

It was time to get off work, so he picked up his things and left.

Yi Zhonghai was left confused.

He didn't expect that even the street office was bought by Li Jiandong.
Yi Zhonghai did not think that he had done anything wrong. Instead, he believed that Li Jiandong and the street office were protecting each other.

He was furious and wanted to report to the street office leaders, but the street leaders, who had already heard Officer Guo's report, said that they should let the compound solve the problem themselves.

In particular, Deputy Director Dai, who had a good relationship with Yi Zhonghai in the past, simply refused to see him.

Yi Zhonghai realized that the street office could no longer be relied upon, and could only return to the courtyard in frustration.

When the deaf old lady saw him coming back, she asked, "Zhonghai, how's it going? What did the street say?"

Yi Zhonghai shook his head and said, "Old lady, Li Jiandong is very powerful now. He even bribed the people in the street. He asked us to solve the problems in our courtyard by ourselves and said that it is inconvenient for them to intervene."

Yi Zhonghai looked helpless when he said these words.

"What? He even bought off the streets? No wonder he's not afraid of me causing trouble on the streets."

The deaf old lady whispered.

She didn't realize that she had done something wrong, and like Yi Zhonghai, she felt that she was on the right side.

Yi Zhonghai suddenly covered his stomach and said, "Old lady, I'm so angry that my stomach hurts. I'm going to the toilet first. You can heat up the steamed bread I made yesterday. Let's be patient for a few days and see what happens."

"There's a lot of shit and urine on the lazy donkey, so go quickly."

The deaf old lady said unhappily that usually others served her, and this was the first time she was asked to heat up the meal.

Yi Zhonghai picked up the toilet paper and walked out of the yard.

There is no toilet in the compound, so you can only go to the public toilet at the entrance of the alley outside.

And just as he walked out of the compound gate, Jia Dongxu and Yan Jiecheng also walked out of their houses.

"Big Brother, Yi Zhonghai just went out. Could he have gone to the toilet?"

Yan Jiecheng asked with some excitement.

Jia Dongxu chuckled: "Of course, what else can he do? I saw him holding toilet paper. Are the things that Master asked you to prepare ready?"

Yan Jiecheng also grinned, bent down and picked up a basin of water that had been placed on the veranda, and said, "It's been prepared a long time ago. My brother and I drank a lot of water for this basin of urine, saving it from last night until today."

Jia Dongxu took a look and was filled with the smell of urine.

He quickly turned his head to the side and said, "Xie Cheng, you may have had a fever recently. Let your junior sister prescribe some medicine for you. Your urine is yellow."

"Let's not talk about this for now. Let's get out of here quickly. Otherwise, when Yi Zhonghai comes out of the toilet in a little while, we'll miss our chance."

Yan Jiecheng nodded, and the two of them followed him out with the urinal.

A child was caught at the entrance of the alley. He was the second son of the widow Ma in the backyard, who had just come out of the tavern to study.

Jia Dongxu asked him to go to the toilet and see how many people were inside. It would be embarrassing if he poured water on the wrong person.

Yi Zhonghai was squatting in the toilet. Perhaps he was irritated by Li Jiandong recently and he had diarrhea frequently in the past two days.

Just when he was having a great time, a child suddenly ran in, looked at him, and ran out again.

"Isn't this Ma Cuihua's second son? Why did he come in here instead of going to the toilet?"

Yi Zhonghai was a little puzzled, but he didn't take it to heart. He felt a cramp in his stomach, and he took a deep breath and was about to push...

Wow!

A basin of yellow liquid was poured in from the top of the toilet wall, all over Yi Zhonghai's head, face and body.

"Hey, which wicked person with a smoking gun did this?"

Yi Zhonghai stood up cursing, and the sour smell all over his body made him vomit.

He vomited a few times but forced himself to hold it in. When he ran out of the bathroom and looked around, no one was there.
Only then did he remember that he didn't wipe his butt just now, and he was so angry that smoke came out of his forehead.

"You beast, you bastard, Li Jiandong, I know it was you who did it, get out here."

It would have been fine if Yi Zhonghai didn't speak. As soon as he spoke, the smell entered his mouth and nose, and he immediately started vomiting again.

In the distance, Jia Dongxu and Yan Jiecheng were hiding in the dormitory building of the tavern.

Looking out from the second-floor window, he saw Yi Zhonghai's embarrassed appearance and burst into laughter.

Other residents nearby also saw it, but no one wanted to meddle in it. Instead, they thought it was a great job.

"Brother, look! Yi Zhonghai is going home."

Yan Jiecheng pointed at Yi Zhonghai outside the window.

Jia Dongxu smiled and said, "Let's just wait here quietly. Yi Zhonghai will definitely come back later."

Several people in the room were waiting quietly.

After a while, Yi Zhonghai came out again as expected, and this time he walked towards the dormitory building of the tavern.

Someone nearby asked curiously, "Dongxu, how did you know that Lao Yi would come out?"

Yan Jiecheng responded quickly: "I'm saying, are you stupid? Yi Zhonghai is covered in yellow water, shouldn't he wash himself? The bathhouse is so far away, how can he walk there like this?"

"Besides, with his appearance, will they let him into the bathhouse? So he can only come to our dormitory building to take a bath."

After Yan Jiecheng's explanation, everyone suddenly understood.

The bathrooms in the tavern dormitory building are open all year round, except in winter when the temperature drops below zero.

Yi Zhonghai came to the bathroom door with his toiletries and clean clothes in his hands, took the key from the door frame, opened the door, walked in, put his clothes away, and started taking a shower.

In order to separate the wet and dry areas, there is a wall inside the bathroom as a partition.

Yi Zhonghai was taking a shower when he felt a breeze blowing in. He knew someone had come in and wanted to see who was outside.

It is not easy to see because of the partition.

Yi Zhonghai guessed that it might be someone from the dormitory building who noticed that there were still people taking a shower here in such a cold day, so he came over to take a look, so he didn't take it seriously and continued to wash.

The weather in late autumn was very cold, and Yi Zhonghai washed himself as quickly as possible.

He dried himself with a towel, raised his arm and put it under his nose to smell it, then sighed that there was no smell, then walked out of the shower area and came to the other side of the partition.

Then he looked at the changing chair and saw it was empty, and he was stunned.

"Where are my clothes?"

Yi Zhonghai suddenly remembered the gust of wind just now, and he didn't expect it was someone stealing clothes.

Now is not the time to investigate who stole his clothes. He is naked and has to find a way to get home first.

He opened the bathroom door and shouted through the crack:
"Is anyone there? Is anyone there?"

Jia Dongxu and others were on the second floor, but they had no intention of showing up.

Besides, it was dinner time now, and apart from them, there was no one else wandering outside the dormitory building, so naturally no one could hear Yi Zhonghai's shouting.

Yi Zhonghai shouted for a long time but no one responded. The weather was already very cold at this time. He was very cold after taking a shower just now. If he waited any longer, he would catch a cold.

It was getting dark outside.

So Yi Zhonghai decided to take a risk, protected himself with a towel and washbasin, and walked out of the bathroom.

There was no one in the dormitory building.

There was no one at the gate.

But when Yi Zhonghai walked to the entrance of the alley.

Suddenly, a large group of people gathered around. Jia Zhang, Hu Guiying, Wang Chunmei, as well as the young wives and old widows in the courtyard were all waiting there. When they saw Yi Zhonghai, they surrounded him.

"Yi Zhonghai, you are so old, and you still do this kind of thing."

"You seem to be so righteous and moral on weekdays, but I didn't expect you to be so frivolous behind the scenes."

"Everyone come and take a look, there is someone being a hooligan here."

The women surrounded Yi Zhonghai and mocked him to their heart's content. Even the people in the tavern at the entrance of the alley came out to watch the fun when they heard the noise.

Seeing more and more people coming, Yi Zhonghai finally broke down.

Wow.

Throw away the washbasin and towel,
Like a madman, he squeezed out of the crowd and ran towards the yard.

Siheyuan.

Middle Court.

The deaf old lady was eating at home when suddenly the door was kicked open.

When she turned around and saw Yi Zhonghai's appearance, she was stunned and even the steamed bread in her hand fell to the ground.

Yi Zhonghai ran to the closet like crazy, took out his clothes and quickly put them on.

The deaf old lady finally reacted and asked, "Zhong Hai, what are you doing?"

Yi Zhonghai's face flushed red, and he said angrily: "It was Li Jiandong, he must have hired someone to do it."

Yi Zhonghai knew that it must have been Li Jiandong who did it, but he didn't expect him to be so vicious.

When I went to the toilet, I had already formulated a series of conspiracies to embarrass myself in front of everyone.

Yi Zhonghai could even imagine what would happen in the next period of time.

The fact that he went home without clothes after taking a shower would definitely become a topic of conversation among the residents on the street, and even in the steel mill, it would be known as his great achievement.

And all this was because I helped this old lady, just because I took her in.

Yi Zhonghai finally regretted it now. He was a man who cared a lot about face.

But because he took in an old lady who was only good at talking and asking for meat, he ended up losing all his face today.

"Old lady, why don't you move out and live here for a few days?"

Yi Zhonghai said while gritting his teeth.

The feud between him and Li Jiandong was growing, and it was impossible for him to just give up like that, but the situation was pressing and he had to make concessions first.

However, it is easier to invite a god than to send him away. The deaf old lady heard that Yi Zhonghai wanted to drive her away.

At that moment, her face changed and she said, "You were the one who asked me to stay, and you are the one who asked me to leave now. What do you think of me, an old lady?"

Yi Zhonghai resisted the urge to curse.

Try to speak in a nice voice.
"Old lady, I have always respected you, but you have also seen that Li Jiandong is a man of endless vicious means. I asked you to leave first to protect you."

"I don't need your protection."

The deaf old lady was not stupid, how could she not see that Yi Zhonghai was afraid.

Since the voting ended last night, Li Jiandong seemed like a different person, smashing windows and asking people to trip her up.

After cleaning himself up, he started to clean up Yi Zhonghai.

It wasn't enough to pour dirty water on him in the toilet, but then someone took away his clothes while he was taking a shower.

To be honest, the deaf old lady was a little scared. She only dared to bully honest people. Where had she ever seen a hooligan like Li Jiandong who had both brains and a penchant for playing dirty tricks?

But where would she live if she moved out?
If she stayed here, at least she would have a place to live and someone would provide her with three meals a day.

If she moves out, how can we find her a place to stay if there is no house on the street?

By then, she will have no place to live and no one to provide her with food. How will she survive on only a 5 yuan subsidy a month?
Yi Zhonghai's face turned pale and he said, "Old lady, I advise you to think about it carefully. This is my home, my house. I took you in out of good intentions. Don't force me to do something impolite."

As soon as Yi Zhonghai finished speaking, a steamed bun hit him in the face.

The deaf old lady pointed at his nose and cursed: "You're being rude to me. You took me in out of kindness?"

"Oh! Fuck you. Do you think I don't know your little tricks? If it wasn't for helping you, would I have offended Li Jiandong? Now you're scared and want to throw me out, but I tell you, no way."

Diagonally opposite.

Six or seven people were sitting together in Li Jiandong's house, drinking wine and eating meat.

He Daqing, Liu Haizhong, Yan Bugui, Jia Zhangshi, Li Jiandong and Qin Huairu were gathering together to finish their meal.

They opened the window, and every sound from Yi Zhonghai's house across the street came through without missing a word.

He Daqing raised his finger and said admiringly: "Old Li, I really admire you. It's only been one day and the two of them are already fighting. You really have some skills."

Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui also nodded, expressing their deep agreement with He Daqing's statement.

Jia Zhang smiled and said, "Before, I always thought that Lao Li was an honest man, but today I know that he has so many bad ideas.

You didn't see it just now, when Old Liu's wife, Old Yan's wife and I blocked Yi Zhonghai.

Yi Zhonghai's face turned red, and he could never raise his head again in his life."

Thinking of the scene just now, Qin Huairu also laughed.

Although she was not on the front line just now, she also saw it from the tavern. Yi Zhonghai always opposed Li Jiandong. Qin Huairu was of course very happy to see him make a fool of himself today.

"Come on, let's drink together to celebrate Yi Zhonghai's humiliation."

Yan Bugui took the initiative to pick up the wine glass.

He usually eats a lot of food and drinks little at parties. This is the first time he actively asked for a drink, which shows that he is very happy today.
Li Jiandong picked up the wine glass, clinked it with everyone else and drank it all in one gulp.

(End of this chapter)