Seeing that it was still early before lunchtime, Li Chu braved the heavy snow and ran to his sister's office.
"Why are you here at this hour?" Li Qin asked as she walked to the doorway, seeing her younger brother brushing the snow off him.
"I was bored at the hospital, so I came here to visit. Remember to come over tomorrow, and call your brother-in-law and sixth brother too."
"No problem, we'll be there at noon. Is there anything else we need?"
"We have everything we need, just come over." Li Chu poured himself a glass of water as he walked into the office.
"Hey, do you know what happened in your compound?" Li Qin suddenly remembered what she had heard this morning and asked.
"Our compound?" Li Chu was a little confused.
"Oh, it's this courtyard house over here."
"Oh, what happened in the yard? How did the news get to you?"
Li Qin sat down behind her desk, took a sip of water, and then said, "About the Jia family."
"What happened to their family?" Li Chu immediately became interested.
He discovered that everything that happened in that courtyard, big or small, was inextricably linked to the Jia family.
"Two things happened. One was that the grandson of the Jia family, what was his name again? He got into a fight with a classmate and broke his arm. The classmate's parents came to the door demanding compensation, but the old woman from the Jia family acted like a rogue and refused to pay. So the classmate's parents called the police from the local police station."
Aunt Jia is absolutely capable of doing this; she spoils her grandson too much.
"What happened when the police arrived?"
"Of course we have to compensate them, otherwise the police would have taken her grandson away."
"How much money did you lose?"
"Oh dear, I think I charged her five or six yuan, but I don't know the exact amount."
"And what's the second thing?"
Li Qin picked up her cup and took another sip of water. Instead of answering directly, she asked, "What's the relationship between that guy named Zhu and the Jia family?"
"Sister, you mean He Yuzhu, right?"
"Yes, yes, that's the name. What's their relationship?"
"We have no relation whatsoever, we're just neighbors."
"Then why did the Jia family make He Yuzhu pay this money?"
"No way, they're going directly to He Yuzhu to ask for money?"
Li Qin nodded: "Yes, that's what the neighborhood committee people over there said."
"Even the neighborhood committee was alerted?" Li Chu was even more surprised now.
"The neighborhood committee just happened to be there. They were visiting elderly people living alone. Every courtyard has one, and they just happened to run into them when they went there. Otherwise, how do you think I knew?"
"Sister, tell me what happened in the end." Li Chu wished she had peanuts or melon seeds on hand.
Li Qin smiled as she looked at her younger brother's enthusiastic expression.
"Actually, there wasn't much else after that. When it came time to pay compensation, Jia's daughter-in-law asked He Yuzhu for money, but He Yuzhu refused, saying he had no money. He didn't say anything at the time, and they paid for it themselves."
After the police officers and the parents of the student who had been beaten left, the old woman from the Jia family started cursing and swearing in the yard, and no one could stop her.
"The neighborhood committee members are right there, and she still dares to curse them?" Li Chu asked in surprise.
"At that time, they hadn't noticed anything. The neighborhood committee members were also there. After those comrades went over and found out what was happening in the courtyard, they didn't say a word. They just hid in the back and watched. It wasn't until later, when the old woman from the Jia family started cursing and the people in the courtyard couldn't stop her, that the comrades from the neighborhood committee showed up."
Why was she cursing?
"What else could it be? They were cursing the people in the courtyard for helping outsiders bully their family, saying no one was helping them. In short, they blamed everyone else, and they especially criticized He Yuzhu for not paying for their family's expenses."
Li Chu felt that his worldview had been refreshed once again.
Why has Aunt Jia changed so much? Is it really because her son died that she was so traumatized?
That doesn't make sense either; things weren't like this right after Jia Dongxu died.
"Did the neighborhood committee members finally step in?"
Li Qin nodded again: "Yes, they couldn't stand it anymore either. Normally, the neighborhood committee members are not very willing to get involved in these kinds of neighborhood disputes. It's best if the people in the courtyard can resolve it themselves. But later, things got so bad that they started throwing tantrums and rolling around on the ground."
Later, Xiao Zhang from the neighborhood committee intervened and said that if she continued to cause trouble, she should go back to where she came from. He also instructed everyone in the compound to monitor her, and if she continued to cause trouble, they should inform the neighborhood committee, and he would be responsible for sending the old woman from the Jia family back to her hometown. Only then did she quiet down and go home.
"Sigh," Li Chu sighed and said, "This Aunt Jia wasn't like this before. Maybe it's because her husband died recently, and then her son died a few years later. Her mentality has changed. Now she's worried that her daughter-in-law will remarry, so..."
"Remarried? Her daughter-in-law found someone else?"
"It's that He Yuzhu, he's taken a fancy to his daughter-in-law, and he's been making trouble almost every day before."
"Xiao Chu, do you mean that old woman from the Jia family is preventing her daughter-in-law from remarrying?"
"Uh..." How was he supposed to say that?
When her sister suddenly asked this question, Li Chu understood what she was thinking. The country was now advocating that widows remarry, and anyone who dared to stop them would be going against the country.
The subdistrict offices, neighborhood committees, and women's federations are responsible for this.
"Sister, it can't really be said that Aunt Jia was obstructing us. The key is that her daughter-in-law, Qin Huairu, didn't say a word of advice."
"I'm getting more and more confused. Can you explain it to me more clearly?"
Li Chu thought for a moment and organized his thoughts: "It's like this, He Yuzhu does have some feelings for Qin Huairu, but Qin Huairu herself hasn't expressed her desire to be with him, so you can't say that Aunt Jia is stopping her."
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"Oh, I understand what you mean. But I still need to remind the neighborhood committee and the women's federation to keep an eye on this. If anyone dares to stop someone from remarrying, we will definitely intervene."
These were all part of his sister's job duties as the director of the neighborhood office, and Li Chu offered no comment. He also didn't care whether or not the widow was allowed to remarry.
These are not things that an ordinary citizen like him should worry about.
He's just a bystander now. Every now and then, a big juicy story comes out of the courtyard house, making him feel like he's missed out on a fortune.
I always feel a bit unsatisfied because I can only hear other people's descriptions afterward.
But if you really suggest moving back in, he absolutely won't agree.
It's fine to eat other people's melons, but if you take them back, you might end up eating your own melons instead.
None of the people living in that courtyard are easy to deal with.
"By the way, Xiao Chu, if I remember correctly, Qiu Nan introduced a job to the Jia family before, doing hemming work on towels. Logically speaking, her family should be well-off, so why is the old woman from the Jia family still complaining that she and her orphan have no money?"
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