Chapter 90: Labor Reform and Change (Two Chapters, Words)
In the front yard, under the corridor.

When Jia Zhang heard Yan Bugui's voice, she felt as if she heard the sound of nature. She lay on the ground, curled up like a shrimp, protecting her head with her hands, and shouted:

"Old Yan, it's me, come and save me."

Although the voice was a little leaky, I could still tell it was hers.

"Stop, all of you, stop it." Yan Bugui raised the wooden stick to give himself courage, then took two steps back and said loudly.

At this time, several other neighbors in the front yard also came out wearing clothes, and many people in the middle yard were also woken up and prepared to come over to check what was going on.

Seeing so many people around, Wang Mengde and the other two stopped.

"Uncle San, you're here just in time. Damao, Guangqi and I caught a thief who broke into the yard and stole the electric meter."

"Oh, I was just about to go to the toilet, and you three bastards beat me up for no reason and called me a thief. Old Yan, quickly call Old Yi to take charge of this matter. This matter is not over yet."

Jia Zhang spat out a mouthful of blood. One of her front teeth had been kicked out by someone. Her face was swollen and her body was covered with footprints.

"Sister-in-law, why are you like this? Who hit you?"

When Yi Zhonghai heard Jia Zhang's wailing, he immediately frowned. He led several neighbors from the middle courtyard to the front yard, shone a flashlight, saw Jia Zhang's miserable appearance, and hurried forward to ask.

"Old Yi, wow, wow, Wang Mengde, Xu Damao, and Li Guangqi beat me for no reason, you have to take charge of this for me."

Seeing Yi Zhonghai coming, Jia Zhang seemed to have found a backbone and said miserably.

"Zhu Zi, go call Dong Xu." Yi Zhonghai ordered Sha Zhu, then turned to look at Wang Mengde and the other two and shouted, "Why are you three hitting people?"

"Uncle, the three of us drank some wine at my house tonight and chatted until late. When we were about to go to the bathroom, we saw a man holding a bamboo pole and hitting the electric meter box..."

Before he finished speaking, Jia Zhang got anxious and retorted, "When did I hit the meter box? I clearly hit the switch."

"Oh, what are you doing hitting the switch?" Wang Mengde asked with a smile.

He deliberately said the wrong thing just now in order to lure her into the trap, and just as he expected, Jia Zhang fell for it.

Jia Zhang was speechless for a moment, and finally said in a shameless way: "What I do is none of your business."

"Hey, no wonder the gates in the yard have been falling down so often recently. It turns out this is the cause." Yan Bugui couldn't help but say on the side.

"Uncle, there's something even more coincidental. Every time when my child is feeding or changing diapers, as long as I turn on the light, the power will be cut off after a while." Wang Mengde added.

"No wonder you asked me about the power outage a few days ago. This is the reason." Yan Bugui said with sudden realization.

After saying this, he looked at Jia Zhang with a scrutinizing expression.

"No way, how could Jia Zhang do such a thing? This is our neighbor. She turned off the power when she was changing the baby's diaper in the middle of the night."

"Haha, how is that impossible? You can only know a person's face but not his heart. There is nothing she can't do."

"It's so vicious. Send him to the streets."

"Yes, it's so immoral. Send it to the street and let the street leaders deal with it."

After listening to the conversation between Yan Bugui and Wang Mengde, and thinking about how Jia Zhang came to switch on the electric switch in the middle of the night, the neighbors immediately guessed what had happened.

When she heard that she was going to be sent to the street, Jia Zhang felt scared. She hurriedly looked at Yi Zhonghai, her eyes full of pleading.

If she ends up in the street this time, she will definitely suffer the consequences for the immoral things she has done.

Yi Zhonghai frowned even more tightly. He knew without asking that the power outage must have been caused by Jia Zhang.

But there was no way, because he had a good relationship with Lao Jia in the past, and Dongxu was his apprentice and the person he chose to take care of him in his future retirement.

"Ahem, Meng De, it's too late today. It's not good to trouble the street leaders in the middle of the night. How about this, let's hold a meeting of the whole hospital to deal with this matter after get off work tomorrow."

He was using the tactic of procrastination, preparing to give the Jia family some buffer time. With this day, he would think of a solution.

Moreover, the whole hospital held a meeting to deal with it, and its meaning was very clear that it wanted to solve the problem internally and did not intend to alarm the streets.

As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Huairu and Jia Dongxu came over from the middle courtyard. She could hear the neighbors' discussions from a distance and knew that her mother-in-law was causing trouble again.

When she got closer, she said softly with an embarrassed look on her face: "Meng De, I'm sorry, it's all my mother-in-law's fault. She was worried about the electricity bill, so she made a mistake in the heat of the moment. I apologize to you."

As he said this, he was about to bend down to apologize.

Jia Dongxu came to Jia Zhang with an angry face, helped her up, and said angrily: "Mom, who hit you? Tell me."

"No, Qin Souzi, you don't have to apologize to me. The street leaders will come later, you can tell them about this matter." Wang Mengde said, turning sideways.

"Ah, you looked for the street?"

"That's right. Yan Jiecheng went to look for the street leader at the beginning. He is probably here soon." Wang Mengde nodded and said calmly. Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu's faces turned ugly instantly. Oh no, this is troublesome.

Jia Zhang was standing there. She was terrified when she heard that the street leader was coming. Soon, a foul odor emanated from her body, causing the neighbors to step back.

Ever since she was scared by He Shengnan and pulled her pants last time, she has developed a problem where she can't control herself whenever she's frightened.

Smelling the foul odor, Yi Zhonghai was about to take the opportunity to let Jia Zhang go home, when the street official Wang hurried in from outside the yard with two clerks, and Yan Jiecheng followed behind her arrogantly.

Secretary Wang still had short hair, wore a Zhongshan suit, a belt around his waist, and a gun slung across his shoulder. The two clerks also had guns slung across their shoulders.

After entering the yard and seeing so many people gathered around, she looked at them sharply and asked, "Did you catch the thief?"

When Liu Haizhong saw the street leader coming, he squeezed through the crowd, came up to her, bent down and lowered his head to tell her what had happened.

He arrived late, but Liu Guangqi, as the person involved, had just told him what happened.

After explaining what happened, he finally said, "Old Yi just said that we should hold a meeting of the whole hospital to deal with it. We all disagreed. This matter has such a bad impact that it must be dealt with seriously."

This sentence made Yi Zhonghai's face even uglier. He stared at Liu Haizhong, then turned his head and forced a smile towards Secretary Wang and said:

"Secretary Wang, I just thought that we were all neighbors and didn't think too much about it. Now that I think about it, what I said just now was indeed inappropriate."

"Humph."

Secretary Wang ignored him and looked at Jia Zhang. He smelled a foul odor on her body and knew that she had pooped in her pants. He looked at Liu Haizhong and said, "Call a few people to change her pants into clean ones first."

Liu Haizhong immediately called a few aunts, dragged Jia Zhang into the Jia family's house, and asked her to change her pants.

After coming out, Director Wang waved his hand and said to the two clerks with a serious face: "Take them away." Then he looked at Wang Mengde and the others and said: "And the three of you, come with us to assist in the investigation."

The two clerks behind them rushed up and carried Jia Zhang out.

Jia Zhang was so frightened that her soul flew out of her body. She slid down, ignoring the wounds on her face and mouth, and shouted loudly: "Lao Yi, Dong Xu, save me quickly, I don't want to go to the street."

Jia Dongxu anxiously called out "Mom" twice from behind, then looked at his master, hoping that he could help his family get through this difficult time again.

Unfortunately, Yi Zhonghai couldn't protect himself. He stood there with a gloomy face and didn't say anything.

When they arrived at the street, the story was very simple. After Wang Mengde and a few others assisted in the investigation, they returned together. As for Jia Zhang, it was estimated that she would not be able to return in a short time.

Early the next morning, Ran Xiaomei asked curiously, "Meng De, what happened last night? There was such a commotion in the front yard."

Last night, she also heard some noise in the front yard, but because her two grandchildren were too young, she was afraid something might have happened, so she didn't go over to see what was going on.

Wang Mengde briefly recounted what had happened.

"I said that there must be someone behind the frequent power outages these nights. Sure enough, if I had known earlier, I would have gone to the front yard yesterday and slapped her hard a few times."

Ran Xiaomei said angrily.

"Mom, don't be angry. She's in serious trouble this time. She will probably have to stay in there for a while before she can come out." Wang Mengde hurriedly persuaded.

His guess was really accurate. When he came back from get off work, he happened to meet the third uncle Yan Bugui. No, now Yan Bugui has been promoted to the second uncle in the courtyard.

"Meng De, Secretary Wang came to the hospital just now and announced two things. The first is that Lao Liu is now the eldest uncle, and I am the second uncle. As for Lao Yi, he will no longer be the eldest uncle in the hospital."

Yan Bugui said with a smile.

"Ah? Who is the third uncle in the courtyard?" Unexpectedly, Yi Zhonghai stepped down like this. At the same time, Wang Mengde was also more concerned about who would become the third uncle in the courtyard.

"There is no candidate yet. If your father didn't move away, he would definitely be the boss in the compound." Yan Bugui said with some relief.

"Old He ran off with a widow two years ago. There is no one suitable among the remaining families in the Central Courtyard, so the Third Uncle's house is vacant for the time being."

Well, what he said was indeed the truth. The few families left in the Central Courtyard were all obedient and could not resist at all.

"The second thing is Dongxu's mother. Director Wang announced the punishment. She will be sentenced to three months of labor reform. She can only be released if her performance is satisfactory."

"Three months." Wang Mengde counted on his fingers and said, "That doesn't mean I can only come back on New Year's Day. I have to spend the whole year in there."

"Yes, we will celebrate the New Year in there." Yan Bugui nodded.

Back in the central courtyard, the doors of the Jia and Yi families were closed, but Wang Mengde didn't care.

Three days passed quickly, and the people in the courtyard had already adapted to the days when Jia Zhang was away, and winter storage was about to begin.

"Meng De, buy more cabbage this year," He Shengnan instructed.

(End of this chapter)