boyutpedia Chapter 43: Using money to force a sale, the courtyard house is breached!
Chapter 43: Using money to force a sale, the courtyard house is breached!
What parents? Zhou Jihong frowned and looked over.
Liu Haizhong pointed at Zhang Chengfei: "This Zhang technician is Zhang Erya's third uncle. Zhang Erya listens to him."
Yan Bugui chimed in, "Technician Zhang is a vocational school graduate, the most educated person in our entire courtyard. With him on the case, we're not worried about Zhang Erya not being able to get rid of her illiteracy."
Zhou Jihong's gaze fell on Zhang Chengfei again. She had knocked on Zhang Chengfei's door just now because Yan Bugui had told her that Zhang Erya was there.
As for the relationship between the two, and Zhang Chengfei's background, she really didn't know.
The man in front of her was only eighteen or nineteen years old. How could he be Zhang Erya's uncle?
Seeing her doubts, Zhang Chengfei explained, "My father and Er Ya's grandfather are brothers. Er Ya's grandfather is the eldest, and my father is the youngest."
Er Ya is the eldest daughter of her grandfather's eldest son. I am my father's youngest son...
Zhou Jihong realized: "Then, does Zhang Erya listen to you?"
They really listened to Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui's advice!
Zhang Chengfei was about to refuse, but then stopped himself. Wasn't he going to increase his dislike points anyway? What difference did it make whose dislike he increased them from?
Is there a difference in how much people dislike Yi Zhonghai and Er Ya? No!
Er Ya acted like she'd seen a ghost when she saw Zhou Jihong, clearly resisting literacy classes. If I forced her to learn to read and write every day, Er Ya's level of dislike would just...
hiss! !
After thinking it through, Zhang Chengfei smiled with "gratification": "Erya is a good girl, very sensible, and she listens to me, her elder. As long as I ask, she will agree to anything."
Zhou Jihong's eyes lit up: "Then, Third Uncle, could you help urge her to learn to read and write?"
Fearing that Zhang Chengfei would refuse, she added, "I won't let you work for nothing. I can help you apply for subsidies from the neighborhood committee."
In reality, the neighborhood committee wouldn't provide any subsidies; she planned to pay for it herself. She wasn't short of ten or twenty yuan anyway; getting Zhang Erya removed from the poverty list and meeting her own work targets were the most important things.
Zhang Chengfei shook his head, indicating that the money was unnecessary. Helping people become literate was a good thing, so how could they waste public funds from the neighborhood committee?
"Leave this to me," he assured him.
Having received the promise, Zhou Jihong immediately took out the literacy teacher's lesson plan from her bag and handed it over: "Comrade Zhang Chengfei, thank you for your help."
"No trouble at all." Zhang Chengfei took the two books and flipped through them casually.
There's no need for either a "Literacy Textbook for Urban Working People" or a "Quick Literacy Course." He plans to use a high-pressure approach with Er Ya.
After seeing Zhou Jihong off, Zhang Erya secretly glanced at Zhang Chengfei, whose expression was gloomy and unreadable: "Third Uncle, are you really planning to teach me to read?"
Zhang Chengfei nodded.
Just as Zhang Erya was about to say, "But I really can't learn it," Zhang Chengfei continued, "Study hard, and I'll give you money."
"Money?" Zhang Erya and the other people in the courtyard who were watching the commotion stared wide-eyed.
Zhang Chengfei continued, "I'll give you five cents for recognizing a character, and one cent for learning to write a character."
Hiss! Everyone in the courtyard gasped in shock.
This is ridiculous... In Beijing, the standard for literacy among the staff is to know 2,000 characters and be able to write 500 commonly used characters.
If Zhang Erya can successfully regain her sight, she will earn at least fifteen yuan!
Fifteen yuan, that's enough for a family of three to eat for a month!!
The people in the courtyard were first shocked, then envious, then jealous, and finally hated Zhang Chengfei.
She resented him for not being her third uncle, and she resented him for misjudging people.
Zhang Erya is clearly a lump of mud and a pile of excrement, yet he insists on plastering mud on the wall and carving flowers on the excrement...
Everyone wanted to vent and say something, but Zhang Chengfei's behavior was so righteous and noble that they couldn't say anything.
What else can be said?
They're even willing to pay out of their own pockets to help their chubby niece improve and to reduce the illiteracy rate in the neighborhood to zero.
This behavior is so politically correct; if they whisper about it behind your back and it gets out, you'll be the one who suffers.
A massive amount of dislike instantly surged from everyone's hearts.
In the crowd, Yi Zhonghai stroked his chin and sized up Zhang Chengfei, feeling that something was off about his behavior.
If Zhang Chengfei initially became close to the Jia family before he truly understood their character, it would be understandable.
But now, he has been living in the courtyard for several days. The gossip and the occasional glimpses of Zhang Erya's true nature should be enough to make him have ulterior motives, and even discover the true nature of Zhang Erya's family.
Yi Zhonghai thought that since Zhang Chengfei was able to get into a vocational school, he must be quite smart to become a cadre.
But for someone as clever as him, he was completely devoted to Zhang Erya, which was abnormal, extremely abnormal.
Something unusual is bound to happen, and all the oddities will eventually point to interests.
Yi Zhonghai felt that Zhang Chengfei must have some unspeakable secrets waiting for him to uncover!
Having made up his mind, Yi Zhonghai turned and left.
Zhang Chengfei quickly harvested a wave of emotional points, inwardly praising his own cleverness. He could harvest one now, and then settle the accounts in the yard when he taught Er Ya to read, harvesting another wave every day.
Then, besides these people's emotional value, under his devilish teaching, the overburdened Er Ya will also have a dislike value. So, hey, isn't that a win?
That evening, after dinner, Zhang Chengfei prepared to test Zhang Erya's literacy skills, who had already undergone four literacy classes, to see how many words she actually knew.
Zhang Chengfei sat with Er Ya at the stone table, with several small slips of paper in front of Er Ya with words written on them.
She would point to whichever piece of paper Zhang Chengfei was referring to.
Zhang Chengfei: "Radish."
Zhang Erya picked up the paper with the words "radish" written on it and handed it over.
Zhang Chengfei praised, "So clever!"
"Paper," he said again.
Zhang Erya picked the right one again, and Zhang Chengfei gave her a thumbs up and handed her a penny.
Zhang Erya was overjoyed, but Sha Zhu, who had been squatting nearby watching the commotion, objected: "No, Aunt Zhang already knew these characters, shouldn't she be paid for them?"
Before Zhang Chengfei could speak, Zhang Erya suddenly sprang to her feet, pointing at Shazhu and cursing, "What do you know, you idiot? You know nothing! No wonder your father, He Daqing, ran off with the widow and abandoned you!!"
What business is it of yours if my third uncle gives me money? If you dare say another word, I'll have Old Jia take you away!
After she finished cursing, she suddenly remembered that her third uncle was still there! Zhang Erya came to her senses in a panic, feeling as if the sky had fallen.
The other people in the courtyard were overjoyed to see her finally reveal her true nature in front of Zhang Chengfei.
They looked at Zhang Chengfei, wanting to see how he would react.
Xu Damao used to call Zhang Erya a shrew, and Zhang Chengfei would defend her. Now that he's seen it with his own eyes, he should believe it, right?
The thought that Zhang Chengfei might sever ties with Zhang Erya because of this, and that Zhang Erya's family would have to return to the lowest level of the courtyard house, and that Zhang Erya would no longer be able to show off to everyone, made everyone so happy that they couldn't hide it and it was written all over their faces.
Seeing their happy expressions, Zhang Erya cursed inwardly, but dared not show her teeth on the surface. She pretended to be a plump quail, looking at Zhang Chengfei, hesitating about how to explain:
"Third Uncle, it's not my fault, it's him, Sha Zhu..."
Zhang Chengfei smiled faintly: "Third Uncle knows it's not your fault. Even a rabbit will bite when cornered. It was Brother Zhu who really went too far. He denied all your hard work, and you were so angry that you snapped, right?"
Zhang Erya was on the verge of tears: "Third Uncle is right, that's how it is."
Everyone in the courtyard was going crazy. What did they mean by "even a rabbit will bite when cornered"? Zhang Erya was nothing like a rabbit; she was clearly a fat pig!
Is Zhang Chengfei out of his mind? Are you sure he's out of his mind?
Even Qin Huairu, a member of the Jia family, felt a surge of disdain. She was jealous—jealous that her mother-in-law was lazy and greedy, yet somehow had the good fortune to have a relative like Zhang Chengfei.
She's beautiful and capable, so why can't Zhang Chengfei be her third uncle...? No, not third uncle... If only she and Zhang Chengfei weren't related...
Thinking of this, she looked at Zhang Chengfei with a resentful expression.
Seeing the overwhelming dislike points, Zhang Chengfei was overjoyed. This was nothing compared to what he had just witnessed.
Just wait, he has a backup plan!