Episode 20 recap: The world needs meddlesome aunties.
Yang Defu and Wang Yutian went to the square dance together, but when they arrived at the entrance, they found that the door was locked. Even though they were homeowners, they still needed a card to enter. Yang Defu and Wang Yutian thought they would just get a card, but they didn't expect that they not only had to pay for the card, but also had to pay protection and management fees. Wang Yutian and Yang Defu immediately questioned this, but the man wearing a large gold chain didn't care at all. He even threatened them, saying that he knew where their families lived.
Upon hearing this, Wang Yutian became angry and openly declared that they would change the property management and establish a homeowners' committee. However, they soon discovered that the community already had a homeowners' committee, managed by Liu Xiaojing. Liu Xiaojing knew that Wang Yutian was difficult to deal with, so she didn't dare to admit that she collected protection fees. Instead, she claimed that she spent money on surveillance, access control, and equipment to regulate the square dance activities. Yang Defu immediately pointed out that everyone paid property fees, totaling over 900,000 yuan a year. Liu Xiaojing insisted that she didn't take any of the property fees, and her position as the manager of the homeowners' committee was obtained through following the regulations step by step.
At that moment, the man with the gold chain came to ask Liu Xiaojing where to transfer the protection fees. Liu Xiaojing hinted that there were no protection fees, but the man didn't understand and suspected that Liu Xiaojing had a bad memory due to her old age. Liu Xiaojing had no choice but to admit that she collected protection fees.
Wang Yutian tried to mobilize the homeowners in the community to change the homeowners' committee, but no one responded. Later, they learned from an elderly resident that similar disputes had occurred before, but the people who initiated them stopped making noise after receiving benefits, and everyone else was too lazy to continue the conflict. Wang Yutian refused to give up and went door-to-door, but he only managed to gather signatures from fifty homeowners, which was less than the required two-thirds majority. Just when he was feeling frustrated, he discovered that Liu Xiaojing had quietly established the homeowners' committee, leaving only her own name. This made him determined to fight her to the end.
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