Chapter 37 Unexpected Fortune
Ren Yongsheng: "!!!"
Liu Xiaohong: "!!!"
"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, Yongsheng, it's my fault for not watching where I was going." Liu Xiaohong hurriedly picked up the cloth bag and gave Ren Yongsheng a few perfunctory words before running out.
Ren Yongsheng could tell at a glance that the rectangular block with sharp edges and corners was money, and judging from its thickness, it was at least a hundred pieces thick.
He thought bitterly, "Why is it that my family lost money while other families still have so much money?"
Before he could think any further, another figure rushed out from behind, knocking him off balance again.
"Mom, Mom, stop right there!" Bao Dayan cried anxiously, chasing after Liu Xiaohong like a gust of wind.
"Holy crap, are these two crazy?!"
After being hit twice in a row, Ren Yongsheng cursed angrily.
...
Bao Dayan was still filled with anger and disbelief.
Her mother, her mother actually stole her money?!
Without even asking, Bao Dayan knew it was for her good-for-nothing uncle. Her mother used to use family money to subsidize her uncle, but her father found out and gave her a good beating, which made her behave herself. Over the years, Bao Chunming hadn't let her manage the money, so even when Liu Xiaohong subsidized her family, it was only a small amount, and Bao Dayan thought she had given up on the idea.
Who would have thought, who would have thought, that the money she had just brought home, still warm from the cold, would be targeted by her mother?!
When Bao Dayan caught up with Liu Xiaohong, she was handing Liu Xiaodi a familiar cloth bag.
Bao Dayan's eyes were bloodshot as she roared, "My money! That's my money! Give it back to me!"
The two men trembled in fright. Liu Xiaohong quickly shoved the things into Liu Xiaodi's hands, gesturing for him to leave, before turning back to her eldest daughter with a frown. "What? Your money? Da Yan, what are you doing?"
Bao Dayan ignored her completely and charged straight at Liu Xiaodi, reaching out to snatch his money.
"Give me my money back!"
Liu Xiaodi nimbly dodged to the side, put the money behind his back, and cursed, "What do you mean your money? This is my money!"
Bao Dayan grabbed the man's cheeks and pulled at his collar like a madwoman, yelling, "Give it back! Give it back! Give it back!"
Liu Xiaohong watched anxiously from the side and scolded, "Da Yan, how could you hit your uncle? You're being so outrageous!"
With a few quick swishes, several marks were left on Liu Xiaodi's cheek. He was also annoyed and kicked her, causing Bao Dayan to fall to the ground instantly.
"You damn good-for-nothing, how dare you hit me? You don't want to live anymore!"
Bao Dayan rushed forward with bloodshot eyes. She had risked her life to get this from Zheng Haicheng, so why should she give it to this uncle who had always bullied her since childhood?!
He kicked the man in his most vulnerable spot, causing Liu Xiaodi to curl up in pain.
"Damn it, you bastard!" Even so, he held onto the cloth bag containing the money tightly and wouldn't let go.
Liu quickly recovered, and the two of them instantly started fighting, exchanging blows.
Liu Xiaohong quickly joined in to help.
Of course, it was mainly Bao Dayan who beat Liu Xiaodi, and Liu Xiaohong who helped Liu Xiaodi beat her own daughter.
The three of them were pinching and hitting each other in a chaotic mess when suddenly a loud shout rang out, "What are you doing?! What are you doing?!"
The three turned around and saw two men in police uniforms striding towards them, and their expressions changed drastically.
Bao Dayan realized where the money came from, thought she had been exposed, her face changed, and she scrambled to her feet and ran away.
Liu Xiaodi wasn't exactly a clean freak, and when he saw the police, he assumed they were there to arrest him, so he ran even faster than Bao Dayan. Liu Xiaohong, on the other hand, felt guilty about how her daughter had gotten the money and ran after her as well.
Before the police officers could do anything, the three of them were already racing each other, each trying to outrun the other, running like madmen for fear of falling behind.
"Aaaaaah! Run!"
Bao Dayan, with her wicked heart, pulled Liu Xiaodi along, wanting him to take the fall.
Little Liu stumbled and, in his panic, bumped into a passerby, sending him sprawling. "Ouch!"
He didn't have time to look around; he scrambled to his feet and ran. He couldn't let the police catch him! He couldn't let the police catch him! If the police caught him, he was finished!
The other two didn't even bother to look at the pedestrians around them; they just kept their heads down and ran, disappearing from sight in no time.
The two police officers behind: "..."
They were just asking out of habit when they saw a fight, so why did these three people get up and run away like they'd seen a ghost?
Never mind, they have important business to attend to right now.
Of the three who were running wildly, Liu Xiaohong was the first to give up. After all, she was getting on in years and had been a housewife for so many years, so how could she keep up with the other two?
Bao Dayan kept a close eye on Liu Xiaodi; her money, her money was still in Liu Xiaodi's hands! She couldn't stop!
But Bao Dayan was a woman after all. She had just escaped the police and had exhausted all her strength. She couldn't keep up with Liu Xiaodi with her remaining energy. She chased him for three alleys but still fell behind him.
She leaned against the wall and roared, "Stop! Stop!"
"Damn it, stop right there!"
Not only did Little Liu fail to stop, he took off running faster and faster, and soon he turned a corner and disappeared from sight.
Bao Dayan: "..."
On the other side, Liu Xiaodi ran through several streets and only breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there was no one behind him. He slowly stopped.
He cursed and muttered, "What a fucking bad luck!"
He knew to some extent that Bao Chunming managed all the money in the Bao family. Where would his eldest sister get so much money for him? He was afraid that, as his niece said, his eldest sister had stolen the money she had saved.
But what does it matter to him? As long as he can get the money, who cares where it came from! Isn't his daughter's money his mother's money?
What's wrong with an older sister giving her younger brother some money? Isn't that just a matter of course?
Little Brother Liu thought to himself smugly.
But when he touched his chest, he was dumbfounded.
"Holy crap, where's my money?!"
"Where's my money?!"
"That brat must have picked her up! Yes, it must be her! No wonder she stopped chasing me!"
Liu Xiaodi immediately jumped up and angrily cursed Bao Dayan.
...
On the other side of the alley, Yu Junsheng, a passerby who had been knocked over, exclaimed: "!!!"
Yu Junsheng stared wide-eyed at the cloth bag in front of him that looked like it was filled with money. Was this some kind of windfall?
He glanced at the group of people who looked like they were being chased by dogs, and then they disappeared in a flash.
Indeed, life is always full of surprises.
You tell me, he was walking home from get off work in peace, and suddenly someone brought him money. Isn't that like God feeding him?
If we don't take it, we'll really be letting him down.
Yu Junsheng certainly couldn't disappoint the old man, so he quickly picked it up and stuffed it into his pocket, then pretended nothing had happened and walked back while cursing.
Once inside the courtyard, he calmly greeted the aunties and older women there as usual before returning home.
He scanned the house but didn't see anyone. He then called out familiarly towards the Guo family's house next door, "Wife, I'm home!"
Sure enough, a short while later, his wife came running over from the Guo family home.
"Here I am! Here I am!"
Needless to say, he was probably gossiping with Aunt Cao again. But he also enjoyed listening to the gossip from the courtyard.
Later, I'll ask my wife to tell me what's new in the yard.
He glanced at the backs of those figures who had just fled like dogs and found them somewhat familiar. They seemed to be Bao Dayan and Liu Xiaohong.
Who knows what kind of trouble has happened in the yard this time?
As soon as Cheng Jiajia entered the room, she saw Yu Junsheng grinning slyly like a cat that had just stolen some fish, and she knew something was up.
She raised an eyebrow. "Judging from your expression, is something good happening?"
Yu Junsheng chuckled twice, and without saying a word, he grabbed Cheng Jiajia's little hand, pulled her into the inner room, bolted the door, and started rummaging in his pocket, pulling out a cloth bag.
Cheng Jiajia's heart skipped a beat when she saw the familiar rectangular square. She subconsciously glanced at the windows around her and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the curtains were all drawn.
She asked suspiciously, "Where did you get this? You didn't collect it from repairing radios, did you?" As far as she knew, there weren't many old radios these days, so how could Yu Junsheng have come across one so quickly?
She was afraid he had gone to the black market.
Yu Junsheng knew what his wife was thinking at a glance. He pulled her into his arms, gave her a quick kiss on the cheek, and chuckled, "Don't worry, your man doesn't have the ability to get involved in the black market!"
Then he leaned close to someone's ear and whispered about how he had gotten incredibly lucky on his way home that day.
Cheng Jiajia: "!!!"
To be honest, this guy is incredibly lucky. He just walks down the street and money just pops up at his door. It's really...enviable!
Cheng Jiajia was envious. Why had she never encountered such good fortune?
Noticing his wife's jealous look, Yu Junsheng quickly and desperately shoved the cloth bag into Cheng Jiajia's hands. "Wife, wife, what's mine is yours. If I find money, doesn't that mean you find money too? It's all the same!" Please don't get angry, my little body can't take a kick from you!
Seeing that the man was so sensible, Cheng Jiajia was very satisfied and stopped worrying about why she wasn't so lucky.
As she counted the money, she suddenly said, "They won't come knocking on our door asking for the money back, will they?" Yu Junsheng had just said that it seemed the person who lost the money was Bao Dayan from the front yard.
Yu Junsheng chuckled mischievously and whispered, "I reckon they didn't even recognize who I am."
He raised an eyebrow and said in a very shameless manner, "Besides, would I admit it just because they came to my door? It's such a long way, how could they be sure that I was the one who picked it up?"
Yu Junsheng wasn't guilty at all for picking up the money Bao Dayan dropped. Not to mention that Bao Dayan had been trying to scheme against him to help her, just look at how she acted like a cat seeing a mouse when she saw the police today. He figured the money probably didn't come from any legitimate source, and this was just a case of double-crossing.
He was never a good person to begin with. He might not be able to intentionally harm others, but he was quite adept at ripping off people who had wronged him in the past.
Cheng Jiajia thought so too.
Hehe, I have to say, they actually share pretty similar values, no wonder they can stay together.
Then he started telling people about the gossip that had been going on in the yard that day.
When Yu Junsheng heard Aunt Yan sever ties between Qin Ziwen and Bai Xiaohui in just a few words, and even ruin her reputation, he raised an eyebrow.
"Just wait and see, things are bound to get chaotic in the yard soon."
After what happened to the Ren family, and with Aunt Yan publicly linking her to Ren Yongsheng, cutting off any future options for Qin Ziwen, Bai Xiaohui might be about to make her move.
Cheng Jiajia wholeheartedly agreed, then added with a gossipy look, "Hehe, I just wonder who will come out on top?"
The young couple were talking when a commotion suddenly broke out outside. Yu Junsheng peeked through the curtains and was startled.
"Holy crap, holy crap, the police are here?!"
Cheng Jiajia panicked for a moment and hurriedly began to tidy up the money on the table.
For a moment, the two men thought the police had come to retrieve the money from Yu Junsheng, and thought they should just hand it over. But upon closer inspection, they realized that the two police officers were heading towards the Zheng family's house, and they breathed a sigh of relief.
Cheng Jiajia patted her chest, "Thank goodness, they're not here for us. We can keep the money."
The two exchanged a glance, and with perfect understanding, they put the money away, hid it deep inside the cabinet, and tidied everything up before opening the door.
Two heads popped out of the door at the same time, looking across at each other in a typical "watching the show" pose.
Aunt Cao, who was also watching the commotion from the doorway, was speechless.
These two kids are really something, so young, yet they enjoy watching the excitement even more than I do.
"Oh dear, what's going on? What did the Zheng family do wrong?"
"Really? Ever since Zheng Haiyang got injured, that old shrew Chang Dafeng has gotten into fewer fights."
Who knows?
The crowd was abuzz with discussion and speculation.
The group saw that not long after the police went in, Chang Dafeng's heart-wrenching cries came from the Zheng family across the street.
"My son, my Haicheng, you have suffered so much! Who was that heartless bastard who harmed you!"
Then, very quickly, Chang Dafeng followed the two police officers out.
Everyone immediately went up and asked questions all at once.
"Chang Dafeng, what did your Zheng Haicheng do wrong? Is he going to be jailed?" This was gloating.
"Oh dear, Zheng Haicheng is in trouble? What happened to him?"
"To be honest, I haven't seen him all day." This shows genuine concern.
Chang Dafeng wiped away her tears and glared fiercely at the gloating Guan Ailian. "Pah! Your Ren Yongsheng and Ren Wenhua are the ones who got into trouble. Be careful, they might end up in jail one day! My Haicheng is perfectly fine!"
Guan Ailian's face stiffened. Chang Dafeng's words had struck a nerve, and she didn't dare to say anything more.
The police officers understood that their arrival had caused a misunderstanding among the neighbors, so they took the initiative to explain, "Comrade Zheng Haicheng was found unconscious on the street. After someone reported it to the police, we came to inform his family to go to the hospital. Please don't misunderstand."
The crowd gasped in shock, "Good heavens! How could this happen? Another one has been beaten. Do you know who did it, officers?"
The police officer said seriously, "We are currently investigating. If anyone notices anything unusual in the past few days, please let us know."
"Why are there so many messy things happening lately?"
Grandpa Zou was very worried. "Police officers, lately we've been getting beaten up one after another, and people have even had their homes robbed. The security situation is terrible. Police officers, when you patrol, you must make sure to patrol around our area more often to deter those thieves!" The key issue is that all these major incidents have happened in their yard recently, and he, the yard manager, is having a real headache.
The veteran police officer said he would definitely have his colleagues patrol the area more often. He also kept an eye on things, feeling there was some connection between the recent incidents. Otherwise, why were other compounds fine, while this one kept having problems every few days?
After the police took Chang Dafeng away, everyone started talking about the Zheng family again.
...
Jiang Qiubai was taking care of Zheng Haiyang alone at home. Seeing his gloomy expression, she assumed he was worried about Zheng Haicheng and comforted him, "Brother Haiyang, the police said Haicheng's injuries aren't serious. Don't worry, he'll definitely be alright."
Zheng Haiyang hesitated, "Qiu Bai, I'm not worried about Haicheng, I'm worried about our family's reputation in the future. Our compound is fine, but what if outsiders misunderstand and think that my mother committed a crime, which is why she was taken away by the police? What will they say about our family behind our backs, and what will they say about you? I'm worried that you will be wronged."
"What?!"
Jiang Qiubai was surprised for a moment, but then she reacted and said with emotion, "Brother Haiyang, don't worry, don't worry. As long as I hear them saying bad things about my mother-in-law, I will definitely go up and explain to them clearly. I will definitely not let them misunderstand my mother-in-law or ruin our family's reputation. I will not be wronged."
Her Ocean Brother is so nice!
Even at this point, she's still worried that she might be wronged. She definitely didn't choose the wrong person!
Having achieved his goal, Zheng Haiyang gave a soft "hmm" and gently pulled the person into his arms. "Qiu Bai, it's a good thing you're here, otherwise how could our family have survived?"
Jiang Qiubai buried her head shyly in Zheng Haiyang's arms and said coquettishly, "We're husband and wife, you can't say things like that."
Zheng Haiyang smiled but didn't say anything.
At the Ren family home, Guan Ailian said harshly to Ren Wenhua, "We don't even know what he did wrong. Look, the police have come to our house. It's shameful. He's ruining the reputation of our compound. People like him should be reported to the neighborhood committee and kicked out!"
Although the police officer said that Comrade Chang Dafeng went to the hospital to pick up the person, Guan Ailian didn't believe it. She felt that the police officer was just making up an excuse to save face for the Zheng family.
Ren Wenhua nodded in agreement: "That's right, how can someone like that live in our compound!"
He added in a sinister tone, "It would be best if you committed a serious crime and went inside to eat peanuts!"
"Hmph, let's see if Chang Dafeng will still be so arrogant then!"
Guan Ailian and Ren Wenhua are having a hard time themselves, and they're hoping other families will suffer misfortune, preferably big misfortune!
Why is it that when everyone else is suffering so much, others can live a peaceful and stable life?
Therefore, they do not hesitate to speculate about their neighbors in the courtyard with the utmost malice.
Dong Xiangxiang, who overheard this from outside, curled her lips and thought to herself that these two old bastards were really vicious, so wicked they were practically dripping with malice.
...
Cheng Jiajia and Yu Junsheng also chatted about the Zheng family for a while, but they were both quite puzzled: "Who knocked Zheng Haicheng unconscious? Why would they knock him unconscious?"
He doesn't look like a wealthy person, nor does he seem like someone who would dare to fight with others.
As the two were analyzing the situation, they heard a loud knocking on the door. Yu Junsheng went to open it and saw Aunt Hao walk in with a big smile on her face.
"Xiao Cheng, Jun Sheng, Auntie has some good news for you!"
It turned out that Aunt Hao and her friends had found a lot of fish in a puddle outside the city. Their relatives and friends couldn't catch them all, so they came to ask Cheng Jiajia if she wanted to go with them.
Cheng Jiajia's eyes lit up instantly. "Go, go, go! Aunt Hao, I'm going! It's all meat! Why wouldn't I go?"
Fish are not abundant in Beicheng to begin with, and with it being winter, the vegetable market had very little fish available. Even when it did have some, it was quickly snapped up. By the time Cheng Jiajia arrived, it was all gone.
Although I've eaten meat a few times since coming to this world, I've really eaten very little fish.
Now that she had a rare opportunity to catch fish without paying, she certainly wasn't going to let it pass!
Moreover, tomorrow is a public holiday, so Yu Junsheng can also go fishing together.
The three of them happily made their decision!
After notifying the Second Hospital, Aunt Hao went to the Third Hospital. Aunt Hao was very thorough in her work. She either didn't notify anyone at all, or if she did, she couldn't leave anyone out, otherwise people would say that her husband, who was in charge of the hospital, was being unfair.
The second day was a public holiday, and apart from a few places that were really too busy, quite a few people went.
Not only did Cheng Jiajia bring Yu Junsheng, but Aunt Hao also brought her youngest son, as well as Bao Dayan and Bao Eryan from the front yard, Zhu Ziqiang and Old Lady Zhu, Aunt Yan and Qin Ziwen from the third yard, Aunt Cao and Uncle Guo, and so on.
However, when Cheng Jiajia saw Bai Xiaohui, she raised an eyebrow. She had a feeling that catching fish today wouldn't be easy.
This premonition became even stronger when he caught Bai Xiaohui looking at Qin Ziwen with such a resentful gaze.
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