Chapter 176

Pulling chestnuts from the fire

When Erdan woke up, there was already a lot of noise outside, and people were starting to smash things.

He came out and saw his mother sweeping the yard. There was some food on the living room steps. He picked up a doughnut that had been bitten into pieces and took a bite. "It's delicious."

The autumn sun was shining brightly. Nie Gong took a telescope and sat on the steps of the living room, holding a drawing paper in his hand, drawing something.

"Mom, do you think my sister is missing us now?" Sandan rubbed his eyes and got up.

The worker frowned. "I guess she has cried so much. We really need to go home as soon as possible."

Chen Lina was even more anxious. Didn't she see the pears on the big pear tree in the backyard falling down? They were so big. So she called Erdan and Sandan, "Go, take all the pears off the tree and sell them outside. We'll sell them for as much as we can. It's a pity to leave them all rotten in the yard."

The worker adjusted his glasses from time to time and continued to draw his drawings.

Xiao Nie helped Chen Lina with hygiene, and the family and their neighbors got along peacefully for the day.

Because we had no place to sleep last night, the couple spent the entire night squeezed in the car, causing us to have sore backs.

Chen Lina went out today and came back with some bedding. She slept on a kang in the backyard, next to the children.

The kang is not like a bed. No one has slept on it for a long time, and it makes people feel suffocated.

"This Ma Xiaofang is really experienced. She has been here all day, and she didn't come to check the place out herself?" Chen Lina said.

As for Ma Xiaofang, after all, she was his childhood goddess, and he still had some fantasies about her. After observing her all day, he sighed endlessly, "I observed today, and basically, those who came to hang out in front of our house or appeared in the shed next door were all my old acquaintances. After all, Xiaofang has been in Hongyan and has a wide network of contacts. Now I don't know if Leng Qi is involved in this matter."

"What if Leng Qi also gets involved?" Chen Lina asked.

Nie Gong said, "If Leng Qi hadn't been involved, it wouldn't have been a problem for us to get out of Hongyan, but if he got involved, after all, he was the head of the logistics department and had great influence. I'm afraid we won't be able to get out."

"Where is that thing? Tell me."

The worker had other ideas. He got up and turned over Miss Chen, whispering, "This is my old house. Let's have some fun, Miss Chen. It's very meaningful."

"Without a condom, what if I get pregnant?" Chen Lina was now guarding her pants tightly because she had a younger sister and it would be easy for the laborer to succeed.

"Just give birth to the baby if you get pregnant. It shouldn't be too much trouble to raise a child," said Nie Gong.

Chen Lina kicked him down with one foot. "You have never taken care of a child before. How can you take care of a child and work at the same time? Go and try it yourself."

"Come on, have a try, and I'll tell you where the stuff is," said the laborer.

Chen Lina was so angry that she was about to grab the worker's ear, but Nie Weimin next door said, "Oh, under the big pillar, okay, go to sleep quickly."

The worker paused for a long time, but in the end he still didn't say anything.

Well, he chose to transfer the responsibility of educating his son to Chen Lina.

The laborer can no longer take care of this son.

It was warm in September in this big house with high beams and a high roof, and it was very comfortable to sleep in it. The only problem was that there was constant banging and clanging from the provincial party committee next door.

In fact, although Nie Gong and Chen Lina were sleeping soundly, they had been waiting for an opportunity and thought that Ma Xiaofang would take action tonight.

Unexpectedly, the night was peaceful and nothing happened.

Chen Lina woke up early in the morning and looked at the pale sky, feeling anxious and worried.

At this moment, a quarrel broke out next door.

"Captain Zhang, what on earth is going on here? If I hadn't been on patrol last night, your people would have smashed the roof of Commander Nie's house. Do you know that?"

"Hey, Xiao Nie, this area of ​​ours is not yours to take charge of."

"That yard belongs to my cousin, so it belongs to me. Should I help her look after it?"

Chen Lina found the voice particularly familiar, and she and Nie Gong looked at each other and said at the same time, "Nie Guodong."

Apparently, the people on the construction site were preparing to take action and destroy the house last night, but Nie Guodong must have stopped them when he passed by on his patrol.

It's no wonder, we waited all night last night but they didn't take any action.

Chen Lina wanted to go over to see her cousin, but Nie Gong waved her off, "Don't make things complicated. If you want to find Guozhu, maybe we'll have to wait for a few more days."

Engineer Nie's hair is almost turning white from waiting for people to demolish his house. What he fears most now is that someone will have affairs with him. But, unfortunately, an overly enthusiastic Nie Guozhu shows up. Don't you think he is worried?

Nie Guozhu was waiting to enter the construction site when suddenly Director Gao from their dispatched office came on a bicycle and said, "Guozhu, there is an emergency mission. We need to transfer you to Dashizi for duty. Hurry up."

"Leader, we are the local police, not the traffic police. Besides, Dashizi is not our jurisdiction, so why do you want me to be on duty?"

"You have been transferred to the traffic police team, do you understand?" said Chief Gao.

Nie Guodong was very irritable. He pointed at Director Gao's nose and yelled, "Director Gao, don't team up with them to bully others. That house belongs to my brother-in-law. Don't think I don't know that those bastards on the construction team are planning to secretly destroy someone's house."

"Nie Bozhao is at home, why are you meddling in his business? I'm telling you, this is an order, hurry up and get on duty."

Nie Guozhu was angry. "Director Gao, if you transfer me away now, it's clear that you are in cahoots with them."

"Nie Guozhu, don't be so stubborn. I came here for you to be the police officer."

"If you have the guts, take my job away. I have to stay here. I won't leave."

As he said this, he took off his hat, ran to the next door and knocked on the door. "Lina, Lina, are you really here?"

Chen Lina hadn't seen Nie Guozhu for a long time. After hearing him and Director Gao arguing in the yard, she realized that her cousin had been transferred to a local police station.

Although he never wrote to her, he always thought of her and remembered helping her take care of the yard.

When Nie Gong saw Chen Lina was about to open the door, he said, "According to the situation, there are also Ma Xiaofang's people at the police station. If you let him in now, it will be troublesome. If he talks big, Ma Xiaofang will not dare to act tonight."

But by the time the worker wanted to stop it, it was too late.

Because Erdan rushed out from the backyard, shouting Uncle Nie, and pulled the door open.

"Hey, is this Erdan?" As soon as Nie Guozhu came in and saw Erdan, he immediately reached out his hand to pick him up. However, Erdan was too strong and he couldn't pick him up.

Sandan at the back stretched out his arms, and Nie Guozhu picked him up and threw him into the air. "My God, these kids have grown so big."

"Guozhu, have you changed your job now?" said Nie Gong.

Nie Guozhu scratched his head and said, "Just be a child police officer. The treatment is not bad. It's pretty good."

Chen Lina said, "You are still at work, go to work quickly, don't bother with us, we are just here to take a look at the yard and we will leave tomorrow."

In the shed next door, Xiao Zhang was looking over here with his arms folded. It was obvious that he was also very anxious.

Nie Guozhu sat on the steps of the living room. When he saw Chen Lina bringing in pears, he grabbed one and took a big bite. He whispered, "There are many people involved in this renovation project of the provincial party committee, but the work sheds didn't need to extend so far. When the sheds were finally built, I was suspicious in my heart and have been watching over them for you recently.

I didn’t expect to find the problem when I passed by last night. The gang directly hoisted the tower crane to the roof of your house. If I hadn’t shouted, your house would have been destroyed if it had fallen down.”

"There are bound to be some mistakes during the construction process. Cousin, you are too nervous." Chen Lina glared at him and said.

"Nie Gong, tell me yourself, is there any problem with this gang?" Nie Guozhu yelled angrily.

Nie Gong's whole personality had the kind of temperament that made Nie Guozhu want to beat him up.

He said, "That's not the case. I'm telling you, Guozhu, there's nothing in this room of mine. You should hurry up and go to work."

Nie Guozhu was furious. “You can be on guard against others, but why are you on guard against me? I’m not trying to steal anything from you.”

Chen Lina dropped her pears on the ground. "What are you doing standing by my door all day, Guozhu? We are relatives, but this house is mine, not yours. You keep coming back and forth, and I feel like you have bad intentions. Get out of here, leave quickly, I don't want to see you at all."

"I haven't seen Lina for many years. How did I offend you?" Nie Guozhu was as confused as Erdan.

Chen Lina said, "You and Gong Hongxing are the same kind of people. Do you think I don't know? Get out of here right now. I don't want to see you."

Nie Guozhu looked at Nie Gong on the left, then at Chen Lina on the right. He was scolded by the couple, but he didn't leave. Instead, he went to find Erdan. "Boy, I haven't seen you for several years. You guys must miss me. Come on, take me to visit your yard, okay?"

Erdan thinks that since mom scolds so harshly, it’s probably not appropriate to take the child out for a walk.

Nie Weimin has been able to make his own decisions since he was young. He patted Nie Guozhu on the back and said, "Let's go to the backyard and play chess."

So, Nie Guozhu shamelessly stayed at Nie Bozhao's house.

He insisted on squatting, and Chen Lina had no choice but to ask him about his current situation.

If you don’t ask, you won’t know. After asking, I realized that Nie Guozhu is in trouble now.

First of all, although he and Gong Hongxing were divorced at the time, Gong Hongxing's affairs still had a huge impact on him, and he retired from the army at that time.

After retiring, he lived in his hometown for several years. He said that his life was not as good as his previous life.

Director Gao was an old comrade of his, and seeing that he felt sorry for having nowhere to go, he processed his transfer and recruited him into the police station.

He launched into a long lecture on persecution, but when he saw that Chen Lina and Nie Gong were unwilling to pay any attention to him, he left in a huff.

Just when Nie Gong and Chen Lina looked at each other and thought that they would have to wait all night again, in the middle of the night, they heard a loud noise outside and the whole house was shaking.

Sure enough, the courageous Ma Xiaofang still disregarded everything and took advantage of the situation.

Chen Lina screamed, "Are they crazy? Are these people crazy? Why are you destroying my yard?" She rushed out and saw that the roof of the living room in the front yard had been blown through.

Xiao Zhang was also shouting, "I'm sorry, Director Chen, our technicians made a mistake, but those antique building materials are very precious. I'm sorry, we have to come to your house to get our building materials."

But in the blink of an eye, dozens of people didn't even use the door, they just jumped down from the shed next door and jumped over.

They did throw all the things on the crane onto the beams of Nie Gong's house. In name, they came to take their things.

But after they came in, they moved their own things and also moved the workers' things.

Especially the cross beams, ribs and rafters of the worker's house. Those that were broken were broken and then lifted up onto the tower crane.

Oh, once the crane is up, no matter what it is, it’s all taken away like a demolition team.

"Nie Bozhao, hurry up and hold them back. Our beams are about to be taken away." Chen Lina said, trying her best to grab one beam, as the other one had already been hoisted onto the tower.

"Report it to the police, we want to report it." The laborer was also jumping up and down. "Lina, wait a minute, there is no law in broad daylight, I want to report it to the police."

Sandan just climbed out of bed and stood at the door, trembling and crying.

Erdan wanted to rush out, but Nie Weimin pointed at his nose and said, "Stand still, don't go out. Have you forgotten what your parents just said? I told you not to be impulsive. You should learn from Nie Guozhu."

Nie Weimin also knew that his parents outside were acting, so he pushed the impulsive Erdan to look outside, thinking that these people were really a gang of bandits. If his parents hadn't warned him repeatedly, he really wanted to rush out and knock Xiao Zhang to the ground with a brick.

He finally experienced how dark Hongyan was.

The police station was not far from here, and the local police arrived at the scene quickly.

However, there was a pile of rubble and the police couldn’t tell which ones belonged to the workers and which ones belonged to the provincial party committee’s construction team.

In short, it's a mess.

"What did I say? I said they were here to steal your things, right?" Nie Guozhu also rushed in from outside, looked around, and suddenly picked up a brick and smashed it on the head of a young man from the construction team.

When Nie Gong wanted to stop it, it was too late. Chen Lina screamed, and Director Gao had already handcuffed Nie Guozhu. "Police beat people, do you really not want to work anymore?"

"The other party is bullying us, leader. Are you just going to watch it?"

Miss Chen was crying, Engineer Nie was cursing, and Director Gao was yelling loudly. He tortured Xiao Zhang from the construction team and several people who rushed over to beat Nie Guozhu. Only then did he calm down the scene.

Erdan finally pushed Nie Weimin aside and rushed out, wanting to hit Director Gao with a brick, but Chen Lina grabbed him by the waist.

What are they called? Dark forces, definitely evil dark forces, they just bullied an entire family like that.

When the construction team came in like a swarm of locusts, the roof of the landlord's large courtyard was turned into a pile of tiles. As a family member of a laborer, she had not slept in the living room for a whole day and could see the moon when she looked up.

Chen Lina howled for half the night, and the worker stood among the tiles, looking at each other with a look of defeat and resignation.

"I've been bullied for nothing. How did your provincial party committee arrange the bidding? The construction team they hired are simply hooligans. They ripped off the roof of my house and moved away all the rafters. I don't want to live anymore. I want to visit. I want to visit Beijing." Chen Lina was still crying. Finally, after the construction team left and the police promised her that they would negotiate with the construction team tomorrow to compensate her for her losses, she stopped crying.

By the time everyone had left, it was almost four in the morning.

Chen Lina stood up and patted the dirt off herself, saying, "Worker, is it easy to get the things? We have to start from there."

The moonlight was bright and clear. Those who really wanted to steal things had already moved the beams of the worker's house and went to dig out the treasures somewhere else.

Nie Gong looked at Nie Weimin and said, "What are you doing standing there? Get to work."

The landlord's big house has a beam on the top and pillars on all four sides. But if the pillars are removed, the house will definitely collapse.

What the laborers dismantled were several large pillars of this room.

If the roots of the pillars were dug, the vibrations caused would be enough to collapse the already decaying house.

Therefore, the workers did not dare to go to great lengths.

But now it's possible. The house has been demolished in half, and the other party has taken away what they wanted to take. The moonlight is bright and their hearts are clear. They can steal things quietly.

Nie Weimin was the only one who helped his father and took something. "Dad, Landlord Ma is really rich. Besides, this thing can't be eaten, why is he hiding it?"

"During the Anti-Japanese War, landlords all over the country donated money, grain, and goods. Only the landlord Ma refused to donate even if he died. He sold his property for yellow croaker and saved it all. In the end, none of it belonged to him."

Nie Gong said.

"It's great that it's ours now," said Nie Weimin.

Nie Gong stopped and stood in the rubble, and asked Nie Weimin, "If this wasn't an act, would you feel humiliated?"

Nie Weimin said nothing.

It's humiliating, real humiliation. If he had a gun, he would draw it. If he had a brick, he would pick it up and beat people with it.

The workers used hammers to hit the bottom and dig, and once they dug something out, the pillar basically collapsed on its own.

"Inheritance, inheritance, these things are all the inheritance of Landlord Ma. When he first built the walls and the house, why did he lay all the bricks under the pillars?

Because he hopes that his children and grandchildren will not live off their old capital, but create wealth for themselves with their own hands. Therefore, unless the house collapses, the gold bricks will not come out, but for the people of Wei, if the house collapses, then there will be nothing left, do you understand?"

The old-fashioned wealthy left a mountain of gold to his children and grandchildren, but at the same time, he did not allow them to touch the gold mountain easily, or to rely on the mountain to make a living. Instead, he hoped that they could create wealth on their own. In a word, he also had his own wisdom.

Gently knock on the bottom and take out the bricks, and soon, another wall collapsed.

However, the only ones who took the things were the worker and Nie Weimin. The eldest son was safe, because he was the only one who knew how many yellow croakers the worker had dug out from under the foundation.

Sandan, Erdan and Chen Lina are putting things in the garage.

Erdan didn't quite understand what had happened. He only knew one thing, that is, someone had demolished his house. Demolition was what his parents had always hoped for. After the old house was demolished, they could get the subsidy to buy a new one without having to spend any money themselves. Also, he and his mother had to move all the instruments and throw them away.

"Throw it away, throw it away, throw away all these evil things," he said.

Sandan was also working hard to move things. "Mom, don't cry. At worst, the three of us brothers can fix up our living room together, okay?"

Chen Lina was making such a fuss and cursing that even if someone was staring at her, they would not look at the dimly lit living room, but would focus all their attention on her.

With so many eyes watching, the worker, his three sons and Chen Lina moved all the yellow croakers away right under everyone's noses.