"Hmph, where were you when the fire was being put out?"
Jia Dongxu pouted in dissatisfaction, feeling that the people at the street office were all useless, neither helping to put out the fire nor providing accommodation, and certainly not allowing Chen Jun to compensate him.
Huh!
The thought of losing money suddenly lit up Jia Dongxu's eyes.
"Clerk, you just asked about the cause of the fire? You have to stand up for me! If it weren't for that damned Chen Jun, our house would never have caught fire!"
“If it weren’t for this fire, the three of us wouldn’t have had to spend a night at a relief center. You probably don’t know what it’s like inside a relief center; it’s no different from sleeping on the streets!”
Jia Dongxu put on a pitiful look, then pushed his wheelchair forward and grabbed the clerk's arm: "Comrade, you have to stand up for me and make Chen Jun compensate us."
The clerk shook off Jia Dongxu's hand with some disdain and frowned as he asked, "The Chen Jun you mentioned, is he the Chen Jun from the steel mill canteen?"
If I remember correctly, Director Wang from the neighborhood committee came to the courtyard house at No. 95 yesterday for a banquet; it was Chen Jun's wedding banquet.
Someone who can be treated like this by Director Wang must be no ordinary person, right?
"Yes, that's him!"
The clerk thought for a moment and then asked, "Did he set the fire?"
If it was arson, then the matter is very serious, no less egregious than robbery in the street.
Even if Chen Jun and Director Wang know each other, this matter must be handled officially!
"More or less." Jia Dongxu replied vaguely, "Anyway, it was because of Chen Jun that the fire started. When I asked him for an explanation, he yelled that he wanted to slap me."
"More bandit-like than bandits!"
"He's going to hit someone again?" The clerk frowned even more deeply.
Just as the clerk was about to press for more information, Qin Huairu suddenly came over and said with a forced smile, "Clerk, don't listen to his nonsense. Our house caught fire because we weren't watching the fire properly while cooking, and we accidentally set the firewood on fire. It has nothing to do with Chen Jun."
"My man isn't feeling well here, please don't mind." Qin Huairu pointed to her head.
The clerk looked at Jia Dongxu with some suspicion upon seeing this.
He doesn't look like he has a mental illness.
“Comrade, he is indeed mentally ill. We even had someone give him acupuncture.” The three women standing nearby added.
have to!
The clerk put away the notebook, somewhat speechless. He almost thought he was about to make a contribution, but he didn't expect to encounter a mentally ill person.
"Alright, since the fire was started accidentally, be more careful in the future. Be sure to guard against fire, theft, and enemy agents!"
After saying that, the clerk left the courtyard.
Jia Dongxu was unhappy about this.
He doesn't have a mental illness at all!
He's perfectly normal!
The reason he admitted to having a mental illness was that he didn't want Xu Damao and his group to confine him to a shackled house for feudal superstition.
But as the rumors spread, it seemed that everyone in the hospital believed he did indeed have a mental illness.
No, is that right?
"Qin Huairu, can you stop talking nonsense? Now everyone is saying that I have a mental illness."
Back inside, Jia Dongxu couldn't help but complain.
"I'm doing this for your own good!"
"Okay, you watch over Bang Geng for now, I'll go tidy up the kitchen."
After pushing Jia Dongxu into the house, Qin Huairu began tidying up, and her response to Jia Dongxu was perfunctory.
The situation inside the house was similar to yesterday, except that there wasn't as much standing water on the floor.
However, it's impossible to clean it completely in less than two or three days.
Most importantly, simply cleaning up isn't enough; we also need to find someone to repair the house, such as the roof, which has a large section leaking.
"You should rinse the pot first and then cook the rice!"
Seeing that Qin Huairu was busy tidying up the house, Jia Dongxu didn't pursue the matter of her mental illness any further.
The most important thing right now is to fill our stomachs.
It was evening.
Chen Jun pushed his bicycle into the yard, with ribs and a fish hanging on the handlebars.
For dinner, he planned to make a pot of fish soup and a garlic pork rib dish so that Chen Xueru could have a delicious meal.
After all, you need to be well-fed to have the energy to work.
"Oh, did you buy this fish?"
Uncle Yan Bugui spotted the good stuff on the handlebars at a glance. To be precise, at this time, no matter who it was or what they were buying, as long as they passed by the front yard, they couldn't escape Yan Bugui's eyes.
"Yeah, I didn't have time to go fishing, so I just bought one," Chen Jun replied.
"Sigh, this is too extravagant." Yan Bugui grimaced, feeling a little distressed.
With Chen Jun's fishing skills, he would never need to spend money to buy fish in his life, so Yan Bugui felt it was a waste. He could catch one on his way home from get off work, so why spend money?
"Haha, let's go fishing together another day, that way we won't have to spend money." Chen Jun smiled, then pointed towards the direction of the central courtyard and asked curiously, "What's going on over there? It sounds like a huge commotion."
"Oh, Jia Dongxu is back from the relief association, and they're all watching the spectacle," Yan Bugui explained.
Oh, so that's what it is.
Chen Jun nodded, uninterested in watching the Jia family make a fool of themselves, so he pushed the cart back to the backyard.
Xu Damao's situation is different. His greatest joy now is causing trouble for the Jia family and watching them make a scene.
"Oh dear, would you rather starve or freeze to death outside than come back into the yard?"
"It's only been a day, Jia Dongxu, aren't you ashamed?"
Xu Damao stood at the door and made a couple of provocative remarks, but there was no sound from inside for a long time.
Um?
This time, not only Xu Damao was puzzled, but the other residents who were waiting to see what would happen were also wondering.
Has Jia Dongxu changed his personality?
Or is he just too lazy to bother with Xu Damao?
"Jia Dongxu? Jia Dongxu?"
After calling out several more times, Xu Damao realized something was wrong.
Logically speaking, Jia Dongxu should have retaliated long ago, but there's been no reaction at all, so something must have happened.
"Xu Damao, go inside and take a look." Liu Haizhong also sensed that something was wrong.
Xu Damao shook his head without even thinking.
Who knows what might be going on inside? He dared not go in rashly, what if he got scammed?
"Let's go together!" Liu Haizhong changed his mind.
With a few people by his side, Xu Damao grew bolder and led the way into the house.
The Jia family only had one room, with a cloth curtain separating the dining and sleeping areas.
Xu Damao lifted the curtain and glanced inside, then said to Liu Haizhong behind him, "Second Uncle, Jia Dongxu is lying on the bed. He's probably deliberately ignoring us."
“Well then, since you’re the elder in our compound, you go in first and give him a good scolding.”
Liu Haizhong glanced at Xu Damao with a complicated expression, clicked his tongue, and said, "Why are you scolding him for no reason? You go inside and talk about the situation first, I'll follow behind you."
"If he starts swearing at you, I'll help you scold him."
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