Chapter 4: General Assembly (Major Changes)
Lin Hao started cooking after returning home. Looking at the corn flour in the clay pot, he felt a headache. This was too frugal!
There is no flour or rice at home, I am so worried.

You know, the most I had eaten before was steamed corn bread, the kind with stuffing and made of finely ground cornmeal.

"Forget it, let's just treat it as an experience of life! After all, in this day and age, it's good enough to have something to eat." As he said that, he took out the corn flour and started to cook dinner.

After eating the most unpalatable meal since he was born, Lin Hao was not someone who was willing to put himself in a difficult position, thinking about having to buy some flour, rice and meat tomorrow.

I also have to consider how to use my skills to get some money and food coupons to save up some assets for myself. If I continue to spend lavishly, it won't be long before all the money I saved is gone.

Lin Hao looked at the shabby house and thought it was time to renovate it. There wasn't even any decent furniture.

At this time, he heard some noise coming from outside and knew that a meeting of the whole school was about to be held. It was the first time for Lin Hao to attend such a meeting.

So I went out with great interest, and seeing that there were not many people in the yard, I strolled around the yard leisurely. I was quite curious about the courtyard houses of this era.

After a while, Lin Hao saw that almost everyone had arrived, so he found a stool and sat down.

In front of the square table, the three uncles sat in each direction, Yi Zhonghai sat in the middle, Yan Bugui and Liu Haizhong sat on both sides respectively.

Below Yan Bugui was Sha Zhu, Xu Damao and his wife sat below Liu Haizhong, and the rest of the people sat in several rows towards the bottom.

You know what, it looks quite realistic, a bit like a court trial.

When Liu Haizhong saw that everyone was present, he stood up and began to speak slowly and in a pretentious tone:

"Today, a meeting of the whole hospital was held. The only topic was that a chicken was stolen from Xu Damao's family. At this time, there was a chicken stewing on someone's stove. Maybe this is a coincidence. Maybe it is not a coincidence, right?"

Before Liu Haizhong could finish his words, Lin Hao couldn't help but interrupt him and said, "Second uncle, you don't stutter normally! Can you please speak straight?"

The crowd around burst into laughter. Other leaders were reciting the Three Character Classic to emphasize the key points, but Liu Haizhong was reciting the Three Character Classic so he couldn't even speak fluently.

Amidst the laughter, Liu Haizhong glanced at Lin Hao, his face a little embarrassed, and he stopped pretending:
"Okay, stop laughing. Let's invite the most experienced person in our hospital, the uncle, to preside over this meeting."

Yi Zhonghai took a sip of tea, and then said crisply:

"I won't say anything else, everyone knows the situation."

Then he shouted at Sha Zhu, "He Yuzhu, tell me the truth, did you steal the chicken from Xu Damao's house?"

"No, I'm not a thief. Why would I steal chickens?" Sha Zhu immediately said with a look of grievance.

Upon hearing this, Xu Damao asked without waiting for Yi Zhonghai to speak:
"Then let me ask you, where did the chicken in your pot come from? Where did it come from?"

Facing Xu Damao's questioning, Sha Zhu said impatiently:
"Why? So you are allowed to have chickens, but if other families eat chickens, they are stealing from you, right?"

"Since you didn't steal it, then tell me where this chicken came from. Could it be that you bought it?" Liu Haizhong also asked.

Yan Bugui smiled and echoed the sentiment:

"That's impossible. It takes at least 40 minutes to go from our courtyard to the nearest Chaoyang Vegetable Market, and that's not counting the time it takes you to buy and slaughter the chicken!"

When Sha Zhu heard Yan Bugui's question, his heart suddenly tightened. Fortunately, Lin Hao said before leaving this afternoon, "Think about where you bought the chicken!" "Oh~! Judging from the expressions of the second and third uncles, they have already determined that the chicken was stolen by me, right!
"So if there's not enough time to go to the market to buy chickens, then I can steal chickens, kill them, boil water, pluck their feathers, and make chicken soup in the yard after get off work. That should be enough time, right?"

Seeing that no one was saying anything, Sha Zhu said, "Our yard is so small. Could it be that all the hundreds of people in our yard are blind? No one saw me killing a chicken in the yard?"

The people in the courtyard are not fools. Everyone knows when Sha Zhu will come back, but no matter how late it is, it is not enough.

Yan Bugui and Liu Haizhong's faces turned dark and they were speechless!

Xu Damao said at this time: "Maybe you stole the chicken and killed it!"

Lou Xiao'e pulled Xu Damao and said, "You must be a fool!"

"You are the fool!" Xu Damao retorted to Lou Xiao'e.

"Xu Damao, Xu Damao, I think you should be called Sha Mao!" At this time, Sha Zhu had gone crazy with killing.

"Hahahahahahaha!" Everyone in the courtyard was amused by Xu Damao. Xu Damao really thought everyone was blind.

When Sha Zhu got off work, he returned to the yard, passed the front yard, the middle yard and the back yard, stole a chicken, then passed the middle yard, the front yard and went out, found a place to boil water, killed the chicken and brought it back to cook in the pot.

How many people must I have met along the way? It's impossible to imagine.

At this time, Liu Haizhong secretly reminded:

"Well, maybe, there is another possibility, that is, the chicken in this casserole may not be from Xu Damao's family."

"As everyone knows, Sha Zhu is the cook in our factory cafeteria. Maybe Sha Zhu brought him back from the cafeteria."

Liu Haizhong broke the window paper, and the onlookers began to talk about it.

Thinking that Sha Zhu is the cook in the factory, I can't help but think of the famous saying, "If the cook doesn't steal, the crops won't be harvested." It's nothing new. That won't do~!

Everyone in the courtyard looked at Sha Zhu with suspicion.

Yi Zhonghai had already sensed something was wrong. He felt that these two people seemed to be targeting He Yuzhu, treating him like an interrogation of a criminal. They seemed to be certain that he was the one who stole the things and were linking the matter to the factory.

Everyone knew something about Sha Zhu bringing back food from the cafeteria, but they were all leftovers, and he was the one who helped to mediate.

"Don't bring it up that way. Stealing a chicken from him is okay, but stealing a chicken from the factory is called stealing public property. We won't hold a meeting here, we'll hold a criticism meeting for the entire factory. Don't bring it up that way." Upon hearing this, Sha Zhu quickly denied it.

Liu Haizhong teased, "It depends on what I say. Every day after get off work, you leave a net bag with a lunch box in it. Who knows what's in that lunch box."

"Liu Haizhong, you want to torture me to death, right?" Sha Zhu pointed at Liu Haizhong's nose and cursed.

The situation is now very clear. If Sha Zhu admits to stealing the chicken, he will be branded as a thief. If he denies stealing the chicken, he will inevitably be considered to have stolen public property, which will be an even worse situation.

Sha Zhu knew it, Qin Huairu knew it, the three old men knew it, and even other people in the hospital probably guessed it a little, but most people remained silent.

(End of this chapter)