Courtyard House: Purchasing Agents' Comeback from the Great Famine

Chapter 475 Another school-wide meeting held, continuing the search for the "sticky" idea.

Courtyard 28.

At noon, Lou Xiao'e cooked two main dishes: braised beef with potatoes and braised pork.

Lou Xiao'e's cooking skills are now almost as good as Qin Jingru's, and the dishes she makes are delicious. After Wang Feng finished eating and drinking, he rode his bicycle towards No. 68 Dongzhimen Courtyard.

Along the way, he saw wanted posters for the second brother and his five accomplices on several walls. Fortunately, he was cautious and took the second brother's wife and children away a day in advance, otherwise they would definitely have been monitored.

After all, the second brother and his gang are all serious criminals, sentenced to more than ten years in prison. In addition, this prison break makes their crimes quite serious.

Wang Feng rode his bike for about twenty minutes to a secluded alley near No. 68 Dongzhimen Courtyard, where he took out ten catties of pork, ten catties of beef, and ten catties of mutton from his spatial storage.

Upon arriving at courtyard number 68, seeing that no one was passing by, he stored his bicycle in his spatial storage, then went to the side wall of the courtyard and climbed over.

"Young...Young Master!"

Wang Feng had just climbed over the courtyard wall when he was spotted by Cuilan, the second son's wife. She was hanging clothes to dry in the yard at the moment. When she saw that her young master was not using the main gate but instead climbing over the wall, she was momentarily taken aback.

"Hehe, it's me. Here are ten catties of pork, ten catties of beef, and ten catties of mutton. Take them to the kitchen quickly," Wang Feng said with a smile.

"Why."

Cuilan agreed, took the sack from Wang Feng, and went to the kitchen.

"Young Master."

"Young Master."

At this moment, the children playing in the yard also saw Wang Feng and came over to greet him.

Wang Feng patted the children's heads, took out a dozen or so White Rabbit milk candies from his pocket, and gave two to each child.

"From now on, you'll call me Uncle Wang, understand?"

"Understood, Uncle Wang."

Wang Feng smiled slightly and let them go play. He also asked his second son, Dayong, to watch over them and tell them not to make too much noise while they were playing.

The second son, Dayong, is eight years old, making him the oldest among the children.

Wang Feng entered the main room and saw Ninth Master and the other four men sitting there drinking tea. Wang Feng smiled and said:

"You guys seem pretty relaxed?"

"Young Master."

The group stood up and quickly greeted Wang Feng respectfully.

Wang Feng gestured with his hand: "Alright, there aren't so many rules here. Have you all eaten?"

"We've eaten. Thank you so much, young master, for bringing us so much meat. We don't usually get to eat this well," Wang Jiu said gratefully.

"Well, you work for me, this is the most basic treatment. I've said before, as long as you don't betray me, I can make sure you live a life free from worries about food and clothing."

"Ninth Master, starting today, I will come here every afternoon to learn traditional Chinese medicine from you. Let's begin now," Wang Feng said.

Wang Jiu nodded: "Alright, second brother, if you don't like learning medicine, then go out and don't let them bother me and the young master."

"Yes."

The five people respectfully responded, then left the room and closed the door.

After the others left, Wang Jiu poured Wang Feng a cup of tea and said, "Young Master, let's begin now."

"Um."

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5:30 p.m.

When Wang Feng returned to courtyard number 95, he had just entered the front yard when he heard Yan Jiekuang shouting.

"A hospital-wide meeting is being held."

"A college-wide meeting is starting! Come out here and start a college-wide meeting!"

Wang Feng was slightly taken aback. The entire college had just held a meeting yesterday, and now they're holding another one today? Could it be about the joke again?

He walked to the central courtyard and saw that the eight-immortal table had already been set up, and Qin Jingru and Lu Banxia were already sitting in the front row.

"Brother Wang Feng, over here."

When Qin Jingru saw Wang Feng return, she quickly waved to him.

Wang Feng walked over and sat down. At this time, people in the courtyard also came over one after another.

The people in the compound have just come back from get off work and haven't eaten yet. If you call them, they'll all come within a few minutes.

Sure enough, everyone in the courtyard arrived in less than five minutes.

An octagonal table was set up in front of the three old men, reverting to the posture of a joint trial. Seeing that everyone had arrived, Yan Fugui stood up and loudly proclaimed:

"As you all know, Bang Geng went missing yesterday. There are two things I want to tell you about today's hospital-wide meeting."

"First, recently, child abduction has become rampant in our Nanluoguxiang area. Yesterday, Captain Zhang told me that more than a dozen children have gone missing in the past two months in this area."

"Those of us in the compound who have children must keep a close eye on them. If any of them attend Hongxing Primary School, it's best to pick them up and drop them off at school to prevent child traffickers from taking advantage of them."

"The second thing is, Qin Huairu just asked me to organize everyone to work hard again tonight and help find some 'bang geng' (a type of medicinal herb). Does anyone have any objections?"

"Uncle, I have no objection. Banggeng is a child from our compound. Now that the child is missing, it's only right that we look for him. But we've searched all the places we could last night. Even if we search again, it won't make much of a difference, will it?"

"Yes, Uncle, our legs were killing us last night. We walked over twenty miles back and forth, and our throats were hoarse from shouting. If we had found it, that would have been great, but we searched everywhere and couldn't find Banggeng. Even if we searched all the places we searched yesterday again tonight, it wouldn't make any difference, would it?"

Qin Huairu stood below the stage, her eyes bloodshot. Seeing that the crowd was somewhat reluctant to help her find the stick, she wiped away her tears, hurriedly walked to the octagonal table, and knelt down in front of everyone in the courtyard with a thud.

"Dear aunties and uncles, brothers and sisters-in-law, I, Qin Huairu, am begging you all, please help me! Banggeng is my life. I know it's very hard for everyone to help search for her so late at night, but I really have no other choice, sob sob sob!"

"Qin Huairu, get up, get up! I promised, I'll go find it for you after dinner!"

"And I won big."

"Count me in."

When everyone in the courtyard saw Qin Huairu kneeling down, they all showed expressions of pity. After all, they had been neighbors for so many years, and it wouldn't be right not to help with this little thing. At worst, they would just make a wasted trip like last night.