Silly Zhu's Moving: The Old Neighbor's Nightmare

Chapter 114 Group of 3

"By the way, Rainwater, have you forgotten something?"

"What's up,"

"Go ahead, show off your boxing skills in our living room."

"I dont go,"

"Really?"

Rain sat in the deck chair, eating pastries, without answering Sha Zhu's question.

"Okay, then I'll replace the white flour steamed buns and meat buns with cornbread from now on."

Braised pork belly, twice-cooked pork, mutton soup, milk—that's all gone. From now on, we'll just have pickled vegetables. I've prepared several jars of pickled vegetables in the cellar in the yard.”

"Why?"

"Because if you don't exercise, the meat you eat is hard to digest, and you'll become a chubby girl in no time."

I'll give you some cornbread; it helps with digestion and weight loss. Eating cornbread regularly is good for your health.

This is a health food. Look at other families, they all eat cornbread every day, right? Who eats meat every day, right?

“Brother, you’re lying. It’s because their family doesn’t buy them meat. They’re poor and can’t afford meat.”

"Our family is almost out of money, so just tell me if you want to practice or not."

"Brother, I'll practice if you practice, and I won't practice if you don't."

"Alright," Sha Zhu replied, and after the two of them had comfortably read for a while,

Sha Zhu got up from the recliner and pulled up the reluctant Yu Shui as well, and the two of them started practicing martial arts in the living room.

The living room was already too hot due to the heat from the fireplace, and with the two of them practicing martial arts, they were soon covered in sweat.

After the two finished practicing, Yu Shui rested in the living room, while Sha Zhu went to prepare hot water for her to take a shower later.

Police station, rooms for temporarily detaining prisoners.

Jia Zhangshi, Yi Zhonghai, and Liu Haizhong, who had just been disciplined, gathered together at this moment.

Jia Zhangshi, disheveled and filthy, squatted on the ground, tears and snot streaming down her face, smearing herself everywhere.

When she first came in, Jia Zhangshi tried to act like a spoiled brat and summon Old Jia, but the police officers taught her a lesson and she ended up begging for mercy.

Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong, the two of them, spoke their minds frankly.

He was just taking a nap at home when someone suddenly hung him from a tree without his knowledge.

The two were still a little dazed when they were woken up. They were only wearing their underwear, and the cold wind in the early morning made them feel like their bodies weren't even their own anymore.

After the police station entered the courtyard and investigated the situation of the three families, they were also speechless, wondering who these three families had offended.

Not only were the doors and windows splashed with "Oli Ge" (a type of ketchup), but with such a commotion outside, the family members were still fast asleep.

After confirming that they had been drugged with a sleeping potion, they didn't release the three people. There had been a spy incident at the Jia family's wedding in this very courtyard.

This time, they've had all three of them, along with the enemy agents, arrested. Although it's been determined that these three have no connection to the enemy agents, every time something goes wrong, it seems to be related to this institute.

These three old geezers must have offended someone, otherwise why would they hang them up along with three enemy agents? It's like they want to kill all three of them.

They couldn't get any information out of them about who they had offended. After obtaining two lists of suspects, they kept the three locked up. It was impossible to release them so soon before the matter was clarified.

The identities of the other three agents who were hanged were verified, and after a search of their homes, they were taken to the city police station.

These three spies must have offended some powerful figure; not only were their identities exposed, but their homes were also ransacked.

In the silence, Yi Zhonghai suddenly spoke, "Old Liu, ouch!" Yi Zhonghai sneezed and wiped his mouth hard with his hand.

He continued, "Old Liu, tell me, who did we offend? We've only taught Zhang Qiang's family a lesson twice in our neighborhood, and we didn't do anything to them."

Liu Haizhong sat on the ground, utterly dejected. Hearing Yi Zhonghai's words, he said angrily,

"Zhang Qiang's family? Impossible. Someone like him wouldn't dare hang us up. It definitely wasn't him."

He doesn't have that much ability. Besides, you offended him by standing up for the Jia family, what does that have to do with me, Liu Haizhong? I didn't provoke his family,"

"Why not? Have you forgotten that you also criticized others during the meeting?"

Besides, Zhang Qiang sent his family to the countryside these past two days; he must have hired people to kill us.

"I don't think so. Wasn't it because Jia Zhangshi bullied other people's families too much that Zhang Qiang sent her to the countryside to find some peace and quiet?"

Zhang Qiang wouldn't do something like that, considering they're from the same workshop.

"Everyone knows who he is. If it really was him, you didn't mention it when the police asked you about it," Liu Haizhong said doubtfully.

“I did tell you, of course I told you. I even mentioned He Daqing as the suspect,” Yi Zhonghai said dejectedly.

"What does this have to do with He Daqing? Hasn't he been gone for months?" Liu Haizhong was even more puzzled. Jia Zhangshi stopped sobbing upon hearing He Daqing's name.

Yi Zhonghai said sinisterly, "Have you forgotten how bad things were said about He Daqing all over the alley and streets back then?"

As a result, He Daqing ran away. Do you think that, given He Daqing's personality, he might blame our department for this?

"Look, after he moved away, he entrusted his child to Master Shazhu's care and refused to trust anyone in our courtyard."

"Old Yi, it shouldn't be like that, right? If it really was He Daqing who did it, he wouldn't care about his own child."

"Shazhu and his sister have moved back to Nanluoguxiang, which isn't far from where we live." Liu Haizhong was a little incredulous.

Yi Zhonghai shook his head and said, "It wasn't Zhang Qiang who hired them. It's just He Daqing retaliating against us for what happened before."

And it's very likely He Daqing. Look at the place He Daqing found for his two kids—it's right next to the neighborhood office. We wouldn't dare go to the neighborhood office to cause trouble for Sha Zhu.”

"Old Yi, I think you've gone mad. I still don't quite believe it. Sha Zhu works in our factory."

"You don't need to go to his house to cause trouble for his son," Liu Haizhong said dismissively.

Sobbing, Jia Zhangshi interjected, "It must have been Zhang Qiang and He Daqing who did it. All I did was take some things from Zhang Qiang's house."

As for He Daqing, she didn't mention that she herself had been secretly chatting with other neighbors back then.

I feel guilty and a little scared now that I've spread He Daqing's lies.

Liu Haizhong and Yi Zhonghai didn't want to talk to Jia Zhangshi. If their house hadn't been burgled,

For the past two months, Jia Zhangshi has frequently argued with her neighbors. The two of them have almost gotten used to it and would have beaten her up long ago.

If they didn't hear Jia Zhangshi's wolf howls one day, the two of them would feel a little uneasy.

Yi Zhonghai was overthinking things. Ever since He Daqing left, he'd been plagued by bad luck.

Leaving aside the fact that he went to the factory to scheme against Sha Zhu, he was just unlucky enough to be implicated by the canteen manager, falling down the stairs and breaking his arm, ending up in the hospital.

But the fact that he was later hospitalized after his apprentice's wedding was definitely a setup.

Adding to this, he was stripped naked and hung up a tree, then surrounded by people with those spies. They must have wanted him dead.

He Daqing doesn't have that ability, but he knows a lot of people. This must be He Daqing hiring someone to mess with him. Besides He Daqing, he hasn't offended anyone else.

The more Yi Zhonghai thought about it, the more he felt he had grasped the truth.

If it really was He Daqing who did it, then He Daqing is a ruthless man. Not only did he rob the entire hospital, but he also took revenge on me severely. Every time something happened, enemy agents were implicated.

What should I do? If I go looking for trouble with Sha Zhu again, will He Daqing just kill me?

Yi Zhonghai is now a little scared. The key issue is that even if he tells the police station, there is no evidence that He Daqing did it.

Yi Zhonghai decided to stop thinking about it and focus on figuring out how to get out of here this time.

The next morning, without Sha Zhu waking Yu Shui up, Yu Shui quickly got up.

After breakfast, she went to school with her new friends, leaving her older brother behind.

Watching the raindrops go to school with the neighbor's children, I didn't have anything to worry about.

Sha Zhu rode his bicycle through two alleys, and in no time, more than a dozen of his friends emerged from the alleys.

Seeing Yu Shui and a dozen or so children chatting and laughing as they went to school together, Sha Zhu put his worries aside and rode his bicycle to work at the steel mill.