Siheyuan: Relieve stress and relieve worries

Chapter 80 Suddenly
The spring of 1963 arrived

Yan Jiekuang started the second semester of his high school year. During this period, he also had to learn agriculture, which was also part of his studies. Yan Jiekuang stopped all extracurricular group activities and concentrated on studying. But every weekend he would go back to the courtyard, which was his home.

There was a temporary calm in the courtyard. The most talked about thing in the compound now was that Yi Zhonghai and his wife brought back a child from their hometown, a five-year-old boy named Yi Jicheng.

Li Cuilan likes this child very much, and now her life revolves around this child. Yi Zhonghai also likes her, but he has not shown it excessively.

Liu Haizhong now hangs around Xu Damao all day long, trying to build connections with Xu Damao to see if he can be promoted to team leader.

Xu Damao just revolves around his wife and goes home to do laundry and cooking after get off work. He is a typical good man.

He Yuzhu's case was simple. He would go back to his parents' home whenever he had time. He Yushui had a good relationship with He Yumei, but she was getting further and further away from her brother and became a stranger to him. He Yumei noticed this, but He Yuzhu knew nothing about it.

The front yard was much simpler. Uncle Zhao left, and his whole family left with him. The house was empty for half a month, and a family named Yang Ruian moved in. You must be familiar with this name. Yan Jiekuang moved his uncle to Sijiucheng, and Yang Donghu and Yang Dongle also came to Sijiucheng.

Yan Jiekuang planned to send Yang Donghu to join the army as well. Yang Donghu was so happy that he didn't know what to do. Yang Donghu and Yan Jiekuang were in the same school but he was one year older than him. Yang Dongle went to Yan Jiekuang's school to study in the first grade of junior high school. He also got in after taking the exam. Of course, Principal Chen helped a lot.

The whole compound knew that this was the woman’s family, so they were always polite when they met them.

Yang Donghu usually lives in Yan Jiekuang's small courtyard. When he first entered the courtyard, he fell in love with it at first sight and persuaded Yan Jiekuang for a long time. Yan Jiekuang thought about it and agreed since he only came back once a week anyway.

Yang Dongle and Yan Jiedi are so familiar with each other that Yan Jiedi almost told Lele where the money is hidden at home.

Xiaodang is also Yang Dongle's follower. Fortunately, he always went home on time for dinner before. But after a while, everyone found that Xiaodang had become a frequent visitor to the Yan family. Yang Ruiping didn't care. Didn't he see that his grandmother also came often?

Jia Geng went to the sports school and almost never came back, but Qin Huairu and Jia Mu often visited him.

Since Jia Dongxu became the security officer, he has kept a low profile. He goes to work when it is time to go to work and goes home after get off work. The Jia family has been getting further and further away from the Yi family. Now they seldom say hello to each other when they meet, especially Qin Huairu, who is still brooding over what happened before.

Yang Donghu was already quite old, and after graduation he stayed at home, not going anywhere, just waiting to join the army.

During the summer vacation, Yan Bugui and Yan Jiekuang took gifts and formally visited Zhang Wenchang's father, Commander Zhang.

In August, Yang Donghu left. Yan Jiefang was very envious, but he had already agreed to stay with Zhang Wenchang.

Yan Bugui felt relieved as he no longer had any worries at home, and now he began his life of fishing and growing flowers.

When he had nothing to do, he would play chess with Station Master Du at the gate. Later, Liu Haizhong also joined in.

Yuer Hutong
It was the beginning of another school year. Yan Jiekuang packed his schoolbag, ate a steamed bun and a bowl of porridge, and walked out of Yuer Hutong.

There were few pedestrians on the road. Yan Jiekuang walked along Jingshan Avenue straight to the Drum Tower, bypassed Nanluoguxiang, and headed straight to the school.

Yan Jiekuang has a very strong physique and is very fast, so he arrived at school in a short while.

He felt that he should have arrived early, but to his surprise, the old principal, Principal Wen, and Principal Chen were both at the gate, as well as a few people he didn't recognize.

I walked up to him and greeted him respectfully. Just as I was about to go inside, Principal Chen said, "Jie Kuang, we are waiting for you. Come, sit in my office for a while."

Yan Jiekuang's mind was racing, examining himself to see if he had made any mistakes, but he was saying, "Principal Chen, I didn't make any mistakes. I'm timid, please don't scare me."

Principal Chen said, "No, no, we were just chatting. Didn't you see that the old principal is here? You are a talented person, we have to protect you."

Yan Jiekuang understood what Lao Chen meant. He knew that he couldn't handle these people, so he asked the old principal to take charge.

"How big of a deal is this?" Yan Jiekuang's mind was racing as he thought to himself, "I've been behaving myself in recent years, and nothing out of the ordinary has happened to me."

Yan Jiekuang followed a few people to the principal's office. Principal Chen introduced them directly, "This is from the Commercial Security Bureau. We need your cooperation in the investigation. You answer truthfully, but if it is not your business, then it is not your business. You have the old principal and I behind you."

The person from the Commercial Security Bureau next to him was embarrassed and said, "Old Chen, we just asked for cooperation, we didn't say anything."

Principal Chen stopped talking. The person from the Commercial Security Bureau looked at Yan Jiekuang and introduced himself, saying, "My name is Wang Qiang, and I'm the section chief of the Commercial Security Bureau. I came here today to talk to you about something. In order not to disturb your life, we chose to meet you at school. Please cooperate."

Yan Jiekuang looked at Wang Qiang and said, "Okay, here?"

Section Chief Wang turned around and asked Principal Chen, "Old Chen, can we find a quieter place?"

Principal Chen said unhappily, "With you all here, there's no place to be quiet. Let's just stay here. Principal Wen and I will go greet the students."

After Principal Chen left, only Section Chief Wang, his partner, and Yan Jiekuang were left in the office.

There were a few people outside, probably from the Commercial Security Bureau. Section Chief Wang sat down in the principal's seat and said, "Sit down, let's get straight to the point."

Yan Jiekuang thought to himself, "What can I talk to you about?" But he still sat obediently opposite. The person next to him took out a pen and paper and started asking questions directly.

"Name"

"Wait, are you guys conducting an interrogation?"

Section Chief Wang took out a cigarette, lit one for himself, and then handed the cigarette and matches to his colleague.

"Not really, but the procedure must be followed to understand the situation."

"Okay, go ahead and ask. By the way, smoking is not allowed in Principal Chen's office," said Yan Jiekuang.

The two pretended not to hear Yan Jiekuang's words and asked directly, "Name?"

"Yan Jiekuang"

"gender?"

"male."

"age?"

"Twelve years old."

The person from the Commercial Security Bureau who was questioning him looked up at him and said, "Are you lying? You look like you are still a child if you are only fifteen or sixteen."

"I am indeed twelve years old, I just have good development."

"Home address?"

"No. 12, Front Yard, No. , Nanluoguxiang."

At this time, Section Chief Wang said, "Lou Bancheng, do you know?"

"I know."

"do you know it?"

"know."

"Can you tell me how you met?" Section Chief Wang said.

Yan Jiekuang knew in his heart that it was the Lou family that had left, but he still said calmly: "I met his daughter, Lou Xiao'e, when I was one year old. She seemed to be ten years old at that time. She gave me a popsicle, and I thought she was a nice person, so I got to know her."

The colleague next to him couldn't stand it anymore and said, "One year old, are you speaking clearly? We know each other at the age of one, are you kidding me?"

Section Chief Wang was also a little unconvinced, "Which year?"

"It was in 1952. On that day, we had a third-day-of-life banquet in our compound. Everyone in that alley knew about it."

You look at me, I look at you, and then you say, "Go on."

"The last time we met was in 1955. My sister and I were playing at the doorstep and we ran into Lou Xiao'e who was learning to drive, so we played together. After that, I treated her to a meal, and then his mother and he treated my sister and me to a meal at her house, and that's how I got to know his father. After that, we would visit each other every New Year, mainly because my family was poor and he helped my family. We didn't have any contact until I moved to Yu'er Hutong and focused on my studies. We should have stopped contacting each other after 1961." After Yan Jiekuang finished speaking, he sat there looking at Section Chief Wang.

The two people also looked at each other.

Section Chief Wang said, "Okay, I need to investigate the facts. Please sign and put your fingerprints on them."

Yan Jiekuang walked over and did as he was told.

The people from the Commercial Security Bureau left, and Principal Chen let Yan Jiekuang go to class without asking anything.

As Yan Jiekuang was walking on the way to the classroom, a name "Xu Damao" emerged in his mind.

(End of this chapter)