Siheyuan: Walking the Path of Qin Huairu

That night, He Yuzhu went to Qian Jinlai's house with food on his back. The Qian family entertained He Yuzhu very warmly, and the excessive enthusiasm made He Yuzhu a little at a loss.

Qian Jinlai pulled He Yuzhu into his room and said smugly, "Brother-in-law, I was just about to look for you and you came. Isn't this Qiao'er's mother opening the door for Qiao'er? Is Qiao'er home?"

He Yuzhu asked: "What do you want to see me for?"

Qian Jinlai smiled mysteriously and whispered, "He Yongqiang's matter has been settled! Brother-in-law, let me tell you, money makes the world go round..."

Qian Jinlai recounted the entire story of Xu Huizhi's cheating, and then, with an unsatisfied look, said, "I think the sky has fallen on He Yongqiang's family. After the storm has died down, I will send someone to find out the follow-up results."

He Yuzhu: "Come in, are we going a little too far?"

Qian Jinlai glared at him and said, "What are you talking about? Brother-in-law, the last time Xu Huizhi came to bother my sister, I took people to Lijiazhuang to warn them not to bother my sister again. They forgot what I said. They didn't take me, Qian Jinlai, seriously. If I could let them off easily, I wouldn't be named Qian!"

He Yuzhu didn't know there was such a thing. It seemed that Qian Jinlai was really righteous. Of course, he also knew that there was no gain without profit, and there was a transfer of interests between Qian Jinlai and his wife.

Qian came in: "Brother-in-law, this is your first time to come to my house. You don't come here for no reason. Tell me, what do you want to see me about?"

He Yuzhu coughed twice, took out some money from his pocket, slapped it on the table and said, "Help me deal with this guy. It's Yi Zhonghai from our courtyard. Break one of his hands, or even one of his fingers. He's a fitter in the steel mill, and if his hands are broken he can't do the job. The food is for hard work, and this money is for keeping quiet, do you understand?"

Qian Jin said: "I understand, but if something goes wrong, I can't involve you."

He Yuzhu nodded and said, "If someone accidentally gets arrested and taken to the police station, as long as he keeps his mouth shut, I won't stand idly by and I will find a way to rescue him."

Qian Jinlai asked, "It seems that Yi Zhonghai has offended you badly?"

He Yuzhu said: "I have a huge grudge against him! Let's not talk about the distant ones, let's talk about the recent ones. He once paid someone to block us on the road and wanted to beat my wife to a cripple. Just for this one thing, I will not forgive him!"

Qian Jinlai said: "This bastard is tired of living. He dares to touch my sister. Let me show you how I will deal with him!"

He Yuzhu quickly comforted him, "Don't kill anyone. Just cripple one of his hands and we'll be done with it. By the way, he recently had an affair with the widow Qin in the courtyard in the cellar and was caught by the people in the courtyard. This matter has become known to everyone. We can use this incident to beat him up and leave some loopholes so that he can think of the widow Qin's family. This is called diverting trouble, don't you understand?"

Qian Jinlai patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, brother-in-law, I will definitely handle this for you. I will check out the area first, and when we take action, I will tell you in advance. You must have an alibi witness, so that you will not be implicated."

The two men whispered for a while and discussed some details, and He Yuzhu was about to get up and say goodbye.

Qian Jinlai stuffed the money on the table back to He Yuzhu and said, "I'll take the food. To be honest, no one can refuse food these days, but you take the money back. My brother-in-law came to me for something, which means he thinks highly of Qian Jinlai. How can I accept the money?"

He Yuzhu pushed the money back again: "One thing is one thing, your people also need to eat, and they have to take risks."

Qian came in: "They are idle anyway, brother-in-law, just think of me when you have good things, hehe."

He Yuzhu knew that Xu Huizhen sold all the seafood he brought back from Tianjin and the specialties Xu Jianshe occasionally brought back from other places to Qian Jinlai. It was because of the interests involved that he dared to ask Qian Jinlai to do these shameful things.

Qian came in and refused to take the money, so He Yuzhu had no choice but to say, "I'll get you some dried meat and milk powder later."

Qian Jinlai smiled and said, "That's great, thank you brother-in-law."

He Yuzhu has always kept in touch with Tegexi in Inner Mongolia. He transferred money to Tegexi in the name of the steel rolling mill and asked Tegexi to buy him milk powder or send him dried meat.

Although the policy does not allow private transactions, there are countermeasures for every policy. I am not stupid, there are always loopholes to find diamonds.

The postal system of this era is not as trustworthy as the SF Express of later generations. If you mail food to a private person, it is normal for some of it to be lost or missing. Mailing to a steel mill is safer, and no one will tamper with it. Now that Gangtie is in charge, it will be troublesome if he is accidentally accused of sabotaging national construction.

Qian Jinlai, along with a few brothers, watched Yi Zhonghai for several days in a row and found that this old man rarely went out and went home after work. He went from the factory to the courtyard every day and was never alone, so it was difficult to take action.

Everyone brainstormed and finally decided on an action plan.

On this day, Yi Zhonghai was at work when the security guard came to him and said someone was looking for him outside.

When Yi Zhonghai left the factory, a man said to him, "You are Yi Zhonghai, right?"

Yi Zhonghai nodded and asked, "Are you looking for me?"

The man said, "I'm from Qinjiazhuang, and I want to talk to you." When Yi Zhonghai heard the name Qinjiazhuang and knew that Qin Huairu was from Qinjiazhuang, he had a bad feeling.

The man said, "It's not convenient to talk here, let's go over there."

Yi Zhonghai wanted to refuse, but he was afraid that the man would make a scene at the factory gate and bring up his ugly deeds again. He couldn't afford to lose face. People who have done something wrong have a guilty conscience.

The two men came to a small woods not far away. Yi Zhonghai refused to leave and asked the man to speak his mind.

The man said expressionlessly: "Yi Zhonghai, are the women in our Qinjiazhuang so easy to bully?"

Yi Zhonghai didn't recognize the person in front of him. He had seen Qin Huairu's brother before, but he didn't look like this.

It is impossible to admit.

So he said, "I don't even know you, let alone what you are talking about! It's okay, I'm going back to work."

The man said, "Don't pretend. You look decent, but you are full of thieves and prostitutes. Do you believe me, I will go to the steel mill to talk to your leader?"

Yi Zhonghai: "You, who are you?"

Yi Zhonghai's attention was all on the man, and he didn't notice that several people were tiptoeing around him.

Suddenly, I felt something cold on my neck. I turned around and saw a dagger on my neck, and the man opposite me also had a knife on his neck. The man holding the knife covered his face and growled, "Take out all the money you have, quickly!"

Yi Zhonghai was groaning in his heart, what was going on? Yi Zhonghai guessed that these people were extremely hungry and wanted to rob some money. If he really killed someone, he probably wouldn't have the courage to do so, so he was hesitating.

The man opposite pretended to search his pocket, then bent down, got rid of the knife from his neck, and ran away.

Yi Zhonghai also wanted to run away reflexively, but he was not so lucky. His mouth was blocked by a towel, and then he felt a sharp pain in his hand. He collapsed to the ground.

The masked man ran away and disappeared in an instant. When Yi Zhonghai woke up from the great pain, he saw that his thumb and index finger on his right hand were cut off in half. Half of the thumb fell off completely, and the index finger still had some flesh attached to it, and blood was still flowing out.

He used his left hand to tear the towel out of his mouth and shouted for help. When someone came over after hearing the noise, Yi Zhonghai breathed a sigh of relief and fainted.

When he woke up again, he was lying in the hospital, his hands wrapped in thick gauze, and guarding him by the bed was Officer Li from the Security Department of the Steel Mill.

When Officer Li saw him wake up, he asked, "Master Yi, you're awake? How do you feel?"

Yi Zhonghai rolled his eyes, feeling hopeless. His thumb was gone, and even if his index finger could be reattached, it probably wouldn't be able to be used flexibly. With his hand disabled, he couldn't do locksmith work.

At this moment, he was too busy to answer Secretary Li's words. He was recalling what had happened in his mind.

He wondered if it was an accident or if someone had done it on purpose.

Is the man who called him out in cahoots with the masked man?

The person who brought in this money is also a talented person. He also set up a game within a game and set up two firewalls.

If the man was caught, he could still insist that he was sent by someone to find Yi Zhonghai to argue with him about bullying the widow Qin, but he didn't expect to be robbed. Robbery is common these days.

In this way, he was also a victim, and if he had not been smart, he would have been robbed by the masked man.

If you want to say that they are in the same group, it is useless without evidence. As for the robbers, they were well prepared, with people to pick them up, escape routes, and hiding places. It is a bit difficult to catch them. This era is not like the later generations, where there are cameras everywhere and the law is strict. The crime solving rate is quite low, and there are many fish that slip through the net.