Chapter 72 Pretending
Wang Shuanghua was not very used to these street slangs, and said to Shen Zhiyu and others: “Shen Zhiyu, it’s getting late today, let’s go home. The following work will be handed over to you three managers. If you have any questions, please contact me or contact other people in the street office directly.”

After sending the three street office staff out of the compound, Shen Zhiyu whispered to Liu Haizhong, “Second Uncle, why didn’t I see the deaf old lady tonight?”

Based on Shen Zhiyu’s understanding of the deaf old lady, she would definitely show up tonight and find a way to get Yi Zhonghai to run for election or canvass votes for Sha Zhu. It was incredible that she didn’t come out today.

Liu Haizhong whispered, “She seems to be sick. She is lying in bed and cannot get up. At her age, will she be bedridden?”

Shen Zhiyu smiled and said, “Didn’t Yi Zhonghai send the deaf old lady to the hospital?”

“No, it seems that the deaf old lady didn’t want to go. She said that she would be fine after a good sleep.” Huang Chunzhi interrupted.

Shen Zhiyu shook his head and stopped talking about the deaf old lady. He said to the two of them, “You two should notify them. We will have a meeting tomorrow to discuss the matter of Jia Dongxu’s family.”

Both of them nodded in agreement, and then went to the central courtyard together to move the table back to Liu Haizhong’s house.

The election was finally over.

In the evening, when we just got home, my younger brothers and sisters were all very happy.

His younger brother Shen Zhihua said excitedly: “Brother, you are a great uncle now, so you are no longer afraid of being bullied.”

Looking at his naive brothers and sisters, Shen Zhiyu hated Yi Zhonghai very much, because because of him, his brothers and sisters felt much less secure.

“Don’t worry, with me here, no one dares to bully you.” Shen Zhiyu comforted.

The four siblings talked about studying. Starting in the second half of the year, the younger brother would go to junior high school, the older sister would go to technical secondary school, and the youngest sister would be in fifth grade.

……

“This is outrageous and too much! Why should this little beast be the boss? What right does he have?” Yi Zhonghai roared in a low voice, scaring the old lady so much that she dared not say a word.

Yi Zhonghai is a narrow-minded person. The old lady, who has no children in her life, feels ashamed and is often insulted by Yi Zhonghai.

It’s just that Yi Zhonghai is good at pretending. He shows respect to the old lady in front of others, but beats and scolds her behind her back.

“Wait, I will definitely drive that little beast away.” Yi Zhonghai said gritting his teeth.

He felt that Shen Zhiyu was his doomed star, because he lost his manager, was demoted three levels from a respected sixth-level fitter, and was forced to leave Sijiu City for more than half a year.

He had worked so hard to plan for the retirement, but Shen Zhiyu took advantage of him. He was so angry that he wanted to strangle Shen Zhiyu to death.

Yan Bugui did the same. After returning home, he went to bed without saying a word.

Yan Bugui was very sad that he failed to be elected as the manager. Without this identity, no one would give him some odds and ends.

That night, the person talked about the most in the entire courtyard was Shen Zhiyu. They all felt that the old Shen family had not collapsed, and Shen Zhiyu had become a successful family, supporting the old Shen family’s reputation.

The next morning.

Everyone in the courtyard, those who have jobs go to work as usual, while those who don’t have jobs stay at home to look after the children and do housework.

However, one change was that the way Shen Zhiyu was addressed changed from Zhiyu to “Uncle”, which made Shen Zhiyu a little uncomfortable at first.

On that day, Shen Zhiyu was still familiarizing himself with the materials, or following Lu Zhongliang to the production workshop to test product quality. His work was very easy.

At night, still in the middle courtyard, at a square table, Shen Zhiyu sat in the middle, with Liu Haizhong on the left and Huang Chunzhi (later Aunt Huang) on ​​the right.

Liu Haizhong spoke first: “Ahem, everyone, be quiet. Today is the first time that the three of us have called everyone to a meeting. The meeting is very important. It is about Jia Dongxu’s family. Next, we would like to invite our respected uncle to preside over this meeting.”

As soon as Liu Haizhong finished speaking, his sons started applauding, probably because they were afraid of being beaten.

Everyone started to applaud.

Shen Zhiyu motioned for everyone to stop applauding and began to speak: “As we all know, Aunt Jia suffered a great loss for trying to take advantage of a small advantage, but that’s all in the past. Let’s not pursue these things, it’s meaningless. The problem now is that Dongxu is the only one in the family who earns money and has food rations. Jia Zhang, Qin Huairu, Banggeng, and Xiaodang have no food rations and need to buy them. With Dongxu’s income, it’s simply not enough to feed the whole family. Everyone knows about the situation of Dongxu’s family, so tell us what you can do.”

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, Huang Chunzhi said, “Uncle, what do you think about donating money to his family?”

“Well, you have a conscience.”

Jia Zhang began to praise Huang Chunzhi.

Shen Zhiyu shook his head and said, “Donating money is only a temporary solution and cannot solve the actual situation of her family.”

Yi Zhonghai didn’t like Shen Zhiyu and deliberately picked a quarrel with him: “Uncle Xinyi, you don’t want to send Jia Zhang back to the countryside, do you?”

“Did you give me…”

Jia Zhang was just about to start scolding.

Jia Dongxu immediately grabbed her and said with red eyes: “Mom, can you please stop talking? Hasn’t our family been harmed enough by you?”

Jia Zhang was originally preparing to throw a tantrum, but when she saw Jia Dongxu, she realized she was in the wrong.

At the beginning, she threatened to hang herself and had her entire family, except Jia Dongxu, registered as rural residents. Now that things have turned out like this, she doesn’t know what to say and can only throw a tantrum to ease the embarrassment.

Shen Zhiyu was just planning how to direct the fire to Yi Zhonghai, but he didn’t expect that he would bump into him himself. Now he was in trouble.

Shen Zhiyu was just about to drag Yi Zhonghai into the water, but he didn’t expect that Yi Zhonghai would step forward on his own initiative. This time he must dig a hole for Yi Zhonghai to jump in by himself.

These thoughts flashed through Shen Zhiyu’s mind, and he said, “Whether to send Jia Zhang off or not is not up to me and everyone present, but up to Jia Zhang herself and you, Master Yi.”

“what do you mean?”

Shen Zhiyu looked at everyone’s confused expressions and said with a smile: “As neighbors in a large compound, naturally, no one would think of sending Jia Zhang back to the countryside. But if Jia Zhang herself doesn’t know how to behave, and goes to scold this family today and that family tomorrow, we may have to send her back to the countryside.”

Just as Jia Zhang was about to retort, she was stopped by Jia Dongxu.

Jia Dongxu felt that based on his understanding of Shen Zhiyu, it would never be that simple and there must be something going on.

Shen Zhiyu ignored their little actions and continued, “As for you, Master Yi, it makes sense.”

“Nonsense, what does it have to do with me?” Yi Zhonghai shouted angrily, as if Shen Zhiyu was insulting him.

Shen Zhiyu glanced at Yi Zhonghai calmly and said, “Everyone knows that Dongxu’s family is in trouble, but I believe that with Dongxu’s intelligence, as long as there is a good master to teach him seriously, he should be able to improve his level quickly and overcome the current difficulties.”

Liu Haizhong asked in confusion: “Isn’t Dongxu Lao Yi’s apprentice? With Lao Yi’s level, it should be more than enough for him to teach Dongxu. Why would he need to find a good master?”

(End of this chapter)