Sha Zhu carried the deaf old woman out the door, coaxing her all the way.
"Grandma, you didn't handle this properly today. Sister Qin's matter was already difficult, and your meddling only made it worse."
The deaf old woman snorted, "I just want to help her resolve this as quickly as possible."
Sha Zhu smiled helplessly, knowing that the deaf old lady was blaming him for getting too close to Qin Huairu.
On the other side, Qin Huairu, inside the house, glanced gratefully in the direction where Sha Zhu had left.
Liu Haizhong looked at Qin Huairu and shook his head: "Huairu, it's not that I'm making things difficult for you, but this matter involves the reputation of the compound. However, since Shazhu has come to apologize, I will discuss it with the other two elders as soon as possible."
Qin Huairu nodded hurriedly: "Thank you, sir. I know I was wrong. I will definitely be more careful in the future."
After everyone left, the old woman came out of the house: "This old lady is so old and she's always causing trouble. Before, she had Yi Zhonghai backing her up, so she acted like everyone's ancestor. What, does she still want to walk sideways in the yard now?!"
"Okay, okay."
Liu Haizhong took a sip of tea and slammed the teacup down on the table. "It's been going on for a while now. Why are you arguing with her? You won't live much longer anyway."
"You might as well just die sooner rather than later; you won't leave any good memories for others while you're alive."
The middle-aged woman snorted coldly, left with a remark, and went off to cook.
Liu Haizhong picked up his teacup again, rinsed his mouth, got up and walked outside, thinking of going to Yan Bugui's place to discuss how to handle the matter.
Even if Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu didn't come to him, he still had to find a way to suppress the matter, otherwise it would be difficult to explain to the neighborhood committee if things got out of hand.
Strolling along the road to the front yard, I saw Yan Bugui talking to a young man from afar.
"Hey, Old Liu's here."
Yan Bugui quickly took two steps over and grabbed Liu Haizhong's sleeve. "Officer Sun, let me introduce you. This is Liu Haizhong, an old man in our institute, and also a level seven forging worker in the steel rolling mill."
"Hello, Uncle Liu, I'm not the cadre Teacher Yan mentioned, I'm just a street office worker."
The young man came over with a smile and shook hands with Liu Haizhong.
Upon hearing that the other party was a street-level cadre, Liu Haizhong immediately withdrew his protruding belly and brought his hands, which had been behind his back, to the front.
At the same time, my heart skipped a beat, and I had a bad feeling.
"Oh, it's Officer Sun. May I ask what brings you here?"
Liu Haizhong quickly asked the question he wanted to ask.
Yan Bugui chuckled beside him, "Let's go inside and talk, let's go inside and talk."
The three sat down at Yan Bugui's house, and his second aunt immediately brewed tea and whispered to Yan Bugui which type of tea she was using.
"There's no need to hide anything, I'll just say it straight. Someone from the neighborhood office reported that the atmosphere at Hongxing Courtyard is bad. So, the neighborhood office sent me down to investigate whether this is true or not."
After saying that, the street office clerk just stared at Liu Haizhong, waiting for his reply.
Liu Haizhong could clearly feel his hand trembling as he reached for his cigarette.
"Leader Sun, you must have heard the rumors outside, but they are not true."
Liu Haizhong offered him a cigarette, but it was refused; the clerk, Sun, didn't smoke.
"Give it to me." Yan Bugui quickly took the cigarette.
Clerk Sun nodded: "I saw Yi Zhonghai when he was sitting in the old man's room before. He really doesn't seem like the kind of person who would do such a thing, and he has a good reputation in this area."
Liu Haizhong: ......
"Oh, of course, Uncle Liu, your reputation is widespread. Now everyone knows that your courtyard held a film screening event under your leadership." Seeing the change in Liu Haizhong's expression, Clerk Sun added another sentence.
Liu Haizhong was actually disgusted by Yi Zhonghai.
He was hoping Yi Zhonghai would suffer, but this incident has now affected the reputation of the compound, and even the neighborhood committee has sent people to investigate.
Liu Haizhong was deeply troubled, but he could only swallow his bitterness. He really had to say a few words on behalf of Yi Zhonghai.
Next, Liu Haizhong mentally organized what Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu had just said and relayed it to Clerk Sun.
"So everyone misunderstood these two?"
Clerk Sun nodded after hearing this.
“That’s right. Yi Zhonghai cares about his reputation, and Qin Huairu is a widow. It’s really inconvenient for them to chat in the yard for too long, which is why there was a misunderstanding about the vegetable cellar.” Liu Haizhong gently patted the table, his face slightly angry. “I don’t know who was so tactless as to make up such a story. They’re afraid of dying without any offspring if they do this.”
Yan Bugui nodded repeatedly beside him: "That's right, Leader Sun, you said this matter had already passed in our institute, but it got out and out there and the rumors got more and more out of control. People can spread rumors with just a few words, but it takes a lot of legwork to refute them. It's really troubled for you to make a special trip to our institute."
After sitting for a while longer, and with Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui assuring him that it was a misunderstanding, Clerk Sun finally got up and left.
The two escorted Clerk Sun to the door, and only after watching him disappear did they return to Old Yan's house.
Yan Bugui started circling the table, muttering repeatedly, "What am I going to do?"
"What can we do? Let's just treat it as a misunderstanding. Anyway, the words have already been spoken. Otherwise, we'll all be punished." Liu Haizhong was annoyed as he watched Yan Bugui pacing around, so he slammed his hand on the table and shouted.
As a result, this shot brought out Yan Jiekuang, who was doing his homework in the inner room.
Yan Jiekuang lifted the curtain and gave Liu Haizhong a cold look, causing Liu Haizhong's hand, which was about to clap a second time, to stop in mid-air.
This kid is not to be trifled with. It wouldn't look good if someone his age got into a fight with a child.
"I'm doing my homework, please keep your voices down."
After exchanging a few words, Yan Jiekuang lowered the curtain and went back inside.
Liu Haizhong swallowed hard and waved for Yan Bugui to stop.
Yan Bugui sighed and sat back down in his chair.
"The things happening in our institute are really one problem after another."
Liu Haizhong rubbed his temples. "Now I just hope this matter will be resolved quickly. Let's not talk about anything else. Let's call Xu Damao over to discuss this. He was the one who discovered it first, so we need to get him to change his statement."
"How about we invite Da Bao over too? We should listen to Da Bao's opinion on things in the yard."
Yan Bugui suggested.
Liu Haizhong nodded: "Yes, thank goodness you reminded us, Lao Yan. We must hear what Da Bao has to say about this."
If it's just a matter of calling Xu Damao, then Yan Jiekuang can simply inform him.
If he were to be called Wang Dabao, then only Yan Bugui could invite him.
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