Life in siheyuan era

The Third Master used a needle-like remark to seal Shut up, Silly Zhu's mouth.

Seeing Silly Zhu shut up, the Second Master said, "There's also a possibility that the chicken in the casserole doesn't belong to Xu Damao's family..."

The Second Master's statement caused dissatisfaction from Xu Damao, who glared at the Second Master and was about to speak when Lou Xiao'e tugged at his sleeve.

Xu Damao shut his mouth and listened to the Second Master continue, "As everyone knows, Silly Zhu is a cook at our steel factory's cafeteria. Maybe Silly Zhu brought it back from the cafeteria."

Hearing this, Silly Zhu immediately shouted, "Hey, hey, hey, don't go there. Stealing a chicken from him is nothing, but stealing a chicken from the factory is stealing public property. We won't just have a meeting here, the whole factory will hold a criticism session. Stop talking nonsense."

Silly Zhu refuted the Second Master's words, and the Third Master said slowly and methodically, "That depends on how you say it, Silly Zhu. Let me ask you, what do you carry in your mesh bag every day after work? What's in that lunch box?"

The Third Master got to the root of the matter, and the First Master immediately interjected, "Alright, stop talking about other things. The factory's affairs are the factory's affairs, and our courtyard is our courtyard's affairs. He Yuzhu, I'll give you another chance. Did you steal Xu Damao's chicken or not?"

In this short while, the Second Master and Third Master sang in harmony, their words irrefutable. The First Master hurriedly controlled the meeting to prevent the situation from escalating.

Silly Zhu had been forced into a corner. If he didn't admit it, he would have to reveal the person who stole the chicken. His eyes turned to Qin Huairu, seeing her head lowered, while Jia Zhang氏 gave him a pleading look.

He knew the truth. This afternoon, Bang梗 went to the kitchen to steal soy sauce, acting suspiciously.

Silly Zhu came out for a stroll in the afternoon and saw Bang梗, with Xiao Dang and Huaihua, hiding in a secret place at the factory gate eating beggar's chicken.

He knew where Xu Damao's chicken had gone, and he also knew the consequences of telling the truth.

If the label of theft was placed on Bang梗's head, he would become a hated child, and his future schooling would be a problem. Once this kind of thing was said, it couldn't be concealed, and Bang梗 would become the object of ridicule for his classmates.

Thinking of this, Silly Zhu sighed softly and said, "Okay, I admit that I stole Xu Damao's chicken."

Silly Zhu admitted it, and Xu Damao jumped up and shouted, "Silly Zhu admitted it! Turn him over to the police station!"

The Third Master nodded, the Second Master got up to grab Silly Zhu's arm, and the First Master remained silent with a stern face.

At this moment, Zhou Zining suddenly said, "That's not right..."

Zhou Zhiyuan smiled and continued, "Brother, I just got back. How about I show my face in front of the three masters and all the neighbors?"

Hearing him speak, Zhou Zining stopped talking, while Zhou Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Please, Second Master, return to your seat for the time being. This junior has a question I'd like to clarify."

When he said, "Please, Second Master, return to your seat for the time being," the Second Master loved hearing those words. He released his large hand grabbing Silly Zhu's arm and returned to his seat, sitting upright.

The eyes of more than twenty people in the entire courtyard all turned to Zhou Zhiyuan.

Zhou Zhiyuan said slowly and methodically, "When I was in the army, our leader first grasped the cause when dealing with problems, fundamentally preventing the problem from happening again."

"The three masters are the leaders of this courtyard and will definitely be like our leader, first figuring out the reason why Comrade He Yuzhu stole the chicken before dealing with it."

Zhou Zhiyuan first defined the nature of the act and then said, "We can imagine the scene. The chicken coop in Comrade Xu Damao's house wasn't closed tightly, and the chicken took the opportunity to run out, strolling leisurely from the backyard to the middle courtyard..."

When he said a chicken "strolling leisurely to the middle courtyard," it immediately caused laughter from the crowd, and even the First Master's tense face showed a smile.

Lou Xiao'e laughed so hard that she bent over. Xu Damao smiled, then suddenly felt something was wrong. He looked at the laughing crowd, then at Lou Xiao'e beside him, revealing an inexplicable expression.

Silly Zhu laughed and said, "That's right, it was a chicken strolling leisurely."

Silly Zhu took the opportunity to show his humor, but his voice was drowned out by the laughter of the crowd.

After the laughter subsided, Zhou Zhiyuan continued, "When you came back, you happened to see this chicken and knew it was Comrade Xu Damao's chicken, and you suddenly had the intention of revenge, killing and stewing the chicken to relieve your hatred. Is that right?"

These words made Silly Zhu react, and he jumped up and shouted, "That's right, I wanted to take revenge on Xu Damao. If I couldn't beat him, I'd eat his chicken."

Silly Zhu admitted it, and the cause of the case was found.

Zhou Zhiyuan began to preach legal knowledge: "Judging from the cause of this case, Comrade He Yuzhu's actions do not constitute theft. His act of revenge also did not cause any physical harm to Comrade Xu Damao. According to the law, Comrade He Yuzhu does not need to bear legal responsibility, but should be severely criticized and bear the responsibility of compensation."

Zhou Zhiyuan knew the law. Although it was the law of decades later, it had a better effect of bluffing people when used now.

Sure enough, he used the law to speak and bluffed everyone. Lou Xiao'e turned to look at him, with a surprised look on her face.

Qin Huairu hurriedly said, "Zhiyuan is right, we should handle it according to the law."

Everyone nodded, and even the First Master's Wife, who never spoke at meetings, actually spoke: "Zhiyuan is knowledgeable about the law, we should listen to him."

The Old Deaf Woman laughed "hehe" twice and said slowly, "It's clear, let's do it that way."

Xu Damao stood up abruptly. He wanted to speak, Zhou Zhiyuan's blatant protection of Silly Zhu's crime was absolutely unacceptable.

But Lou Xiao'e reached out and grabbed his sleeve, pulled it, and turned to Silly Zhu and said, "You have to compensate for a chicken."

"Compensate, let's calculate the money," Silly Zhu replied quickly.

Hearing about compensation, Xu Damao slowly sat down. The law at this time did not have the provision of both beating and compensation. If Silly Zhu was arrested, Xu Damao would not get a penny.

"Two yuan," Lou Xiao'e offered, holding out two fingers.

In the vegetable market, a live chicken costs less than one yuan. Lou Xiao'e said "two yuan," which could at least buy two chickens.

But Xu Damao didn't agree. He wanted to calculate the accounts. "Silly Zhu stole an old hen that lays two eggs every day, twenty in ten days, sixty in a month..." He wanted to continue calculating, this old hen lays more than seven hundred eggs a year.

But Silly Zhu interrupted him, "That's someone else's old hen. Can yours lay eggs? It's been almost a year and I haven't seen a shadow of an egg."

He said these words to Lou Xiao'e, Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e have been married for nearly a year, and there was no sign of pregnancy in Lou Xiao'e's belly.

Lou Xiao'e was furious and shouted, "You bastard!"

Silly Zhu laughed and said, "Don't mention the egg matter."

The crowd burst into laughter, only the First Master's Wife looked at Silly Zhu with dissatisfaction.

After the laughter subsided, Zhou Zhiyuan said loudly, "I heard a story from a comrade-in-arms. A young man in his courtyard had been married for several years without children, so he took his lover to a famous old Chinese medicine doctor for a pulse diagnosis. After the old Chinese medicine doctor took his lover's pulse, he turned to the young man and said, 'Let me take your pulse.'"

Saying this, he stopped talking, and everyone carefully savored the meaning of these words. Silly Zhu was the first to react and jumped up and shouted, "It's Xu Damao's problem!"

Everyone followed suit and looked at Xu Damao. The First Master's Wife glanced at the First Master with resentment and followed up, "Men also have a responsibility for not having children."

The First Master's Wife had been holding this back for so many years, and finally found the reason for not having children.

The First Master frowned and looked up at Zhou Zhiyuan. Xu Damao jumped up and shouted, "Zhou Zhiyuan, what do you mean?"

Zhou Zining immediately replied, "Xu Damao, what are you shouting about?"

Zhou Zhiyuan shouted instead, "Comrade Xu Damao, what did I say?"

Xu Damao was stunned. What did Zhou Zhiyuan say? He told a story about a young man getting his pulse taken, and it was Silly Zhu who said he had a problem.

Xu Damao understood and turned to Silly Zhu and shouted, "Who has a problem?"

"It's you, your problem is very serious..." Silly Zhu jumped up and replied solemnly, "Quickly find an old Chinese medicine doctor to take your pulse."

"You're the one with the problem..." Xu Damao shouted, "You have a problem with your brain. You should be the one going for a pulse diagnosis."

"That's right..." Silly Zhu replied seriously, "I'll go see a brain doctor, you go see what's below."

Boom... a burst of laughter rang out again in the scene.

This burst of laughter once again caused chaos in the meeting. The First Master had a stern face, while the Second and Third Masters laughed along.

And Xu Damao's face was ashen, Silly Zhu had a smiling face, like two roosters preparing to fight, standing opposite each other five steps apart, ready to pounce and fight at any time.

Lou Xiao'e turned to look at Zhou Zhiyuan, seeing his serious expression, she couldn't help but smile slightly.

Qin Huairu also turned to look at him, then turned her gaze to Zhou Zining's face, seeing Zhou Zining's smiling face, she couldn't help but let out a soft sigh.

And Yu Li smiled and looked at Zhou Zhiyuan, wondering in her heart at his serious profile.

At this time, the First Master withdrew his gaze. Zhou Zhiyuan's serious face made him feel a little better.

Turning to look at the First Master's Wife, the First Master's Wife's resentful face made him feel sad. He sighed softly, knocked on the table to quiet everyone down, and said in a deep voice, "The matter of the chicken has been clarified. How much money will Silly Zhu compensate Xu Damao? What are the opinions of the two masters?"

The Third Master put away his smiling face. He was an expert when it came to money matters. He said solemnly, "Let Silly Zhu compensate Xu Damao five yuan."

"What?" Silly Zhu shouted.

"What are you talking about? You earn thirty-eight yuan and sixty cents a month, you can afford to compensate Xu Damao five yuan. Take the money," The Second Master supported the Third Master's handling opinion.

"It's settled then," The First Master finally made the decision, slammed the table, got up and left. The Second and Third Masters got up, letting Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e go to Silly Zhu's house to take away the pot of chicken, and collect five yuan in compensation.

Zhou Zhiyuan's first courtyard meeting after returning home came to an end.