The conspiracy of the courtyard

Chapter 212 Every family has its own experience

Chen Ping originally thought that this matter had little to do with her. At most, as a good neighbor who helps each other, she helped to testify at the police station that the quality of the food in the small canteen was indeed worrying, and then she promised to urge improvements.

Unexpectedly, before it got dark, someone from the police station came to inform Chen Ping to cooperate with the work, saying that Yi Zhonghai and the Jia family unanimously accused Chen Ping of being jealous of the canteen making money and deliberately poisoned and framed her. Chen Ping was so angry that she was speechless.

Chen Ping was complaining in Director Zhou's office.

"Since they believe that I have framed them, they should at least tell me when and where I poisoned them, right? It's ridiculous that I have to take responsibility for them just because they slandered me without any reason."

Director Zhou immediately comforted him:

"I don't want to trouble you to make this trip, but Director Liu just came to me and gave me a lot of advice, saying that Yi Zhonghai was framed and demanded a thorough investigation.

I have already notified the Health Bureau to send someone to investigate the poisoning. There will be results soon. I asked you to come here just to go through the motions and shut Director Liu up so he doesn't say I was covering up for him in the district."

Chen Ping had no choice but to follow Director Zhou's instructions and go to the reception room to wait for the results of the investigation. When she was bored, she heard a noisy scolding coming from the yard.

"Zhaoxia, stop being so stubborn. Was it easy for your parents to raise you and your siblings? How could you be so unfilial?"

"Why am I so miserable that I gave birth to such a troublesome girl like you!"

"It must have been given to the two sisters of the Kong family. Those two girls have been as smart as monkeys since they were young, and now that they have grown up, they have become even more cunning."

"Alright, alright, stop arguing and let the police station help handle it."

Then Chen Ping saw Sister Liu, with whom she used to work at the street office, leading a group of people into the reception room and rushing straight towards the police who were working.

Sister Liu waved her hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said to the police officer:

"Comrade Public Security, I'm Liu Jin, an officer of the subdistrict office. This family's surname is Zhang. They suspect their daughter has been defrauded. Our subdistrict office can't handle it. Please help us solve it."

The policeman nodded to show that he understood, then looked at the seven or eight people who followed him in, frowned and said:

"There are too many of you. Please leave one or two parties to explain the situation. The others should go out and wait for a while."

Then he turned around and said to Chen Ping:

Comrade Chen Ping, please leave for a while. I have some official business to attend to."

Chen Ping first smiled and nodded to Sister Liu who looked back in shock, then replied "OK" and went out, followed by the people brought by Sister Liu who also filed out.

As soon as they went out, Chen Ping and Sister Liu couldn't wait to speak at the same time.

"Sister Liu, what's going on?"

"Xiao Chen, why are you here?"

They both laughed at the same time again.

Chen Ping said indifferently:

"Someone in our courtyard's small canteen got food poisoning. I'm here to testify and wait for the results of the Health Bureau's investigation."

Sister Liu frowned nervously and asked:

"Are you okay? You're not in charge anymore, so why are you still meddling in so many trivial matters? Don't let others take advantage of you, silly girl.

No wonder Xiao Zhao came to inform me of a meeting tomorrow, it must be about this."

After looking around, he said:

"Where's Xiaoxuan? I haven't seen him in several years. I miss him so much."

Chen Ping patted Sister Liu's arm twice to show her reassurance.

"It's okay, I'm just here to go through the motions. I'll have nothing to do with it once they finish their investigation. Xuanxuan is out playing with his Grandpa Chen.

What's going on? Are there still scammers here?"

Sister Liu relaxed her frown and said with a smile:

"Well, it's not a scam, just some dirty things between young people. Anyway, there's nothing to do. Let's go sit over there for a while and just chat."

The Zhang family brought by Sister Liu lived in a two-courtyard house that she was responsible for. They were a family of four with good financial conditions.

Zhang's father is a primary school teacher, and Zhang's mother used to work in a state-owned store. Last year, due to poor health, she gave her job to her unemployed daughter Zhang Zhaoxia. Zhang Zhaoxia has an older brother named Zhang Chaoyang, who works as a third-level worker in a steel rolling mill.

The Zhang family is definitely one of the few wealthy families in this area. They do not have any feudal ideas of favoring boys over girls. They only stipulate that the brother and sister must hand over half of their salary as dowry when they get married, and take it back to their respective families.

But Zhang Chaoxia disagreed and proposed to keep her salary alone, but was rejected by her parents. Finally, Zhang Chaoxia went on a hunger strike for two days before her parents compromised.

Three months ago, Zhang's mother introduced a man to Zhang Zhaoxia. The man was a retired soldier. Although he was not the son of a high-ranking official, he had climbed to the position of platoon leader through various military merits. He was also smart and capable and had no bad habits.

If his parents had not been reluctant to let their only son take the risk and forced him to change his career, he would have definitely achieved great things in the future. Even if he changed his career, he would have had a good job. Except for his age, which was 6 years older than Zhang Chaoxia, he was almost impeccable.

Zhang Zhaoxia had already agreed to the blind date, but changed her mind the day before the date, saying that she had just turned 18 and was still young and did not want to get married too early, and wanted to spend two more years with her parents.

Zhang's father also didn't quite agree with his daughter doing housework too early, so Zhang's mother could only apologize and politely decline the marriage proposal. Zhang Zhaoxia took the opportunity to ask to find a partner herself and did not allow her family to interfere in her marriage.

Naturally, Zhang's parents would not agree to this unreasonable request. Although their family does not care about being well-matched, the man's character and family background must be examined by his parents.

But he was once again forced to back down by Zhang Zhaoxia's threat of a hunger strike.

In fact, Zhang's father and mother had already guessed Zhang Zhaoxia's thoughts, and from that day on, the three of them began to take turns following her secretly.

But to their disappointment, they hadn't found anything in the past two months. Apart from the Kong sisters from the neighboring compound, who came to her regularly every week to exchange books, she hadn't come into contact with any boys, so they stopped following her.

It was not until yesterday that Zhang's father received a letter asking for help from his hometown. When Zhang's mother counted the food coupons, she found that a lot of money coupons were missing. It was obvious that they were taken by family members.

As soon as the family of four confronted each other, they knew it was Zhang Chaoxia who took it, but she didn't say a word except crying.

Zhang Chaoyang wanted to get some information from the Kong sisters this morning, but before he could get close, the two sisters ran away in a panic. Doesn't this mean they are guilty?

Sister Liu sighed twice and concluded:

"Zhang's parents were too embarrassed to ask the two younger generations for the money in a big way, and they were even less sure whether Zhang Zhaoxia had given the money to the two sisters, so they could only come to the street office to ask me for help.

As a result, after waiting for half a day but no one showed up, I had no choice but to bring them here.

I really don’t want to get involved in this matter. The Kong family is not easy to deal with. One worker supports a family of five…”

The Kong family used to be considered a wealthy family. The courtyard that the Zhang family rents now used to belong entirely to the Kong family, but old man Kong acted too ostentatiously and was kidnapped by bandits before liberation.

Because he had not cared much about his family in the past, he had two concubines and seven children, and no one was willing to pay to redeem him, so he was killed.

After that, the whole family split up, the yard was sold, and all the family members disappeared. Only the youngest son, Kong's father, remained in the old city.

The Kong family, who were used to extravagance and debauchery, did not know how to be frugal. They spent all their savings a few years ago. As a last resort, Kong's father could only find a job as a worker with an old acquaintance from the coal factory and rent a house in a nearby slum.

The Kong family now has five people. In addition to the couple, there are one son and two daughters, namely 20-year-old son Kong Zhao, 17-year-old Kong Lin and 14-year-old daughters Kong Na.

Fortunately, Kong Zhao was a successful person. No matter how difficult his life was, he did not spend the tuition and living expenses left for him by his grandfather. He also used the money to get into university. After graduation, his family's life should be greatly improved.