The Jia family mother and son just disappeared from everyone’s view, and as the crowd discussed the situation they prepared to leave, for they had to go to work tomorrow.
Director Wang also turned to leave when Zhang Yu called out to her, "Director Wang."
"My house is a mess, should the Jia family be the ones to clean it up?" There were so many pieces on the ground, and it was not that Zhang Yu couldn’t clean up.
But since Qin Huairu was still there from the Jia family, of course, she should be the one to do the work.
Qin Huairu, having seen her husband and mother-in-law taken away, was in a very bad mood, and what worried her most was the prospect of Jia Dongxu actually being imprisoned and ending up in jail. How would her own family survive then?
Was she really going to go back to the countryside to farm the land? She had finally married into the city and become a city person.
Even if the Jia family mother and son were unbearable, she had persisted, not because she liked Jia Dongxu, but because she did not want to go back to being a farmer.
What to do? Qin Huairu was feeling very upset, constantly thinking about how to resolve the situation, but one thing was clear—she absolutely wouldn’t go back.
To her surprise, she was now expected to clean up, which she naturally didn’t want to do. "I..."
Zhang Yu knew that Qin Huairu was unwilling, "Director Wang, what do you think?"
"Qin Huairu, you clean up. It was your husband Jia Dongxu who caused this mess, after all."
With Director Wang having spoken, Qin Huairu, no matter how reluctant, had to do the work, as whether she would be sent back to the countryside was somewhat in the Director’s power to decide.
"Also, this afternoon, Yi Zhonghai signed an assurance agreement, promising to restrain the Jia family. But now, they have come charging over to fight, and all he did was stand by and watch."
"Of course, he did try to stop them, just by shouting a name, but should he be responsible for any compensation?" The matter won’t wait overnight; it had to be resolved now.
Yi Zhonghai originally wanted to slip away, but to his surprise, the issue was indeed brought up, "Director Wang..."
"He should compensate," Director Wang confirmed.
The neighbors, who left slowly, upon hearing Zhang Yu bring up the agreement, knew this girl was about to stir up trouble again and were glad they had lingered to listen.
"Well, I, I will compensate," Yi Zhonghai no longer argued. Just now, the police did not take him away, but they also said they might summon him to the station any moment.
Director Wang pondered a moment, unsure of how to compensate since there was no record of the incident.
She could only look to Zhang Yu, waiting for her to decide.
Zhang Yu wasn’t going to just name a price outright, "I really have no idea."
"I just know that Jia Dongxu broke quite a few things in my house, and there was all this fighting, oh, and two doors. I really don’t know what to do about it today."
"And I have to go to work at my unit tomorrow, it’s my first day on the job, who takes a leave of absence on their very first day?"
"But if I don’t take leave, what if my belongings go missing?"
"It’s really quite a fortune to have such a thuggish neighbor and an unfair Steward."
Thinking about having to ask for leave tomorrow, Zhang Yu really felt exhausted, "Not to mention my reputation, everyone probably thinks I’m a shrew."
"Just thinking about it is upsetting." Zhang Yu looked up at Director Wang, "Director, what do you think we should do?"
The onlookers all felt that the Jia family had gone too far, breaking doors like that, how could two young girls feel safe enough to sleep?
And they have to go to work tomorrow, "The Jia family really are committing sins."
"If it weren’t for Yi Zhonghai’s support, who initially scolded and stopped Jia Dongxu, things would never have gotten to this point."
"Who knows, maybe he lost face because of the afternoon’s incident and expected his apprentice to restore his honor."
"It’s very likely." The crowd agreed that this was something Yi Zhonghai was capable of. "Calculating against everyone in the courtyard, helping him choose who to spend his old age with, and picking the Jia family, what wouldn’t he do?"
Listening to everyone, Yi Zhonghai wanted to say that wasn’t the case, but before he could explain, someone stated, "So when Zhang Yu and Xu Damao spoke up earlier, he did not object."
With that comment, Yi Zhonghai, who originally wanted to object, had to retreat, thinking about what to do now as he didn’t voice any objection earlier. Who would believe him now if he said it wasn’t so?
"I, I’ll pay, I’ll give three hundred," Yi Zhonghai decided, steeling his heart and gritting his teeth.
"For my parents’ reputation, for my little sister and myself, nearly being killed by Jia Dongxu, let’s not even talk about the property loss."
"And now you’re offering only three hundred?"
"This afternoon, Lady Jia Zhang herself ran into the wall, and Yi Zhonghai still wanted me to apologize and compensate fifty."
Zhang Yu hadn’t discussed the fifty yuan compensation with Yi Zhonghai in the afternoon, and now it was the perfect time to bring it up.
"Right, it was clearly Lady Jia Zhang herself who bumped into the wall, and you wanted Zhang Yu to compensate fifty."
"For causing such a big scene now, how can you only give three hundred?"
Everyone knew that Zhang Yu wouldn’t take the money herself; she would have the community center handle it so that even if each child ended up with just a pen and two notebooks, it would still be a good deed.
Fighting for Zhang Yu was the same as fighting for their own children’s benefit.
Zhang Yule couldn’t help but smile, "See? When it comes to everyone’s interests, then you all jump out."
"Yi Zhonghai, everyone is saying this, how do you think this should be handled?"
"I remember last time Sha Zhu hit Xu Damao, and Damao hit back, yet you had Damao pay twenty, didn’t you?"
"Really biased." Zhang Yu didn’t mind letting Director Wang know more about Yi Zhonghai’s unfair ways.
Yi Zhonghai knew that Zhang Yu hadn’t mentioned a specific amount, but if he didn’t offer a satisfactory sum, the issues concerning the courtyard would keep coming one after another.
To shut Zhang Yu up, Yi Zhonghai knew he couldn’t be stingy. Closing his eyes and resolving himself, he bit his teeth hard, "I’ll give a thousand."
"And for the gates of the courtyard, your house’s door, I’ll have someone come and fix it," Yi Zhonghai said.
"Install them now; after all, my house is right at the entrance, and what if someone breaks in? It’s very unsafe," Zhang Yu stated.
"As for new doors, let’s forget it, I think the Jia family will still compensate." Zhang Yu was not unreasonable.
Install them now? In the middle of the night, where would one even buy doors? Yi Zhonghai glared at Zhang Yu fiercely, thinking she had a vicious mind.
"If that’s not possible, there’s always the old door."
"What would we do if something else happens?"
"After all, these troubles were provoked by Jia Dongxu," Zhang Yu stared at Yi Zhonghai, "Don’t think I’m being too much."
"I didn’t bother with him, thinking he’d make a fuss and it would be over, but I didn’t expect..."
Zhang Yu let out a soft sigh, "Some things only when punished severely, will they feel the pain and stop making the same mistakes."
"Right, Comrade Yi?" she snorted, if someone dared to bully them sisters again next time.
Sorry, but she definitely wouldn’t let it go, just to see how much wealth Huo Huo could flaunt.
Even though Yi Zhonghai was part of the high-income bracket, his yearly income might not reach a thousand and after a few such instances, who knows how much would be left of his nest egg.
Yi Zhonghai always felt that this girl was targeting him, but he didn’t dare to ask, worrying it might really scare him to death.
When Director Wang left, she reminded Yi Zhonghai to bring the money over as soon as possible.