Chapter 49 Is it a good match?

"But I still want to thank Little Peach Blossom."

"Yes, thank you, Little Peach Blossom."

"Little Peach Blossom is amazing. We wouldn't be able to eat it without her."

"Yes, yes!" Everyone nodded vigorously.

Little Peach Blossom was so flattered by the praise that she said, "Well, it's alright."

A group of people surrounded Little Peach Blossom, praising her and expressing their shared indignation at the older boy in town. It was quite lively. When it was time for dinner, all the children went home on their own.

At the dinner table, Xiao Taohua looked at the braised pork on the table with great joy: "Thank you, Second Aunt. It's so kind of you to cook braised pork for Xiao Taohua."

"Hey, no need to thank me, eat more if you like it."

"Okay, Little Peach Blossom, don't be polite." With that, she picked up a piece of braised pork and didn't hold back at all.

Yin Qing watched her daughter work with a smile, finding her daughter more and more adorable. Unlike other people's daughters, who were timid and hesitant, her daughter was generous and magnanimous!

"Um, sister-in-law, did my brother go out to study?" Lin Guangyi asked cautiously.

Yin Qing glanced at him and gave a nonchalant "hmm".

"Studying is good, studying is the best."

Yin Qing ignored him.

Lin Guangyi is now filled with regret. It's all his wife's fault, and he has to take the blame. He's heard that he was supposed to be promoted to the commune, but his wife ruined it, and now he's stuck as the brigade leader. And somehow, his wife has also offended the brigade secretary's wife.

Good heavens, he hasn't received a pleasant look from many brigade secretaries these past few days.

For several days after learning the truth, Lin Guangyi ignored Wang Qiu and even secretly gave her a beating. If sending her back to her parents' home would upset his elder brother and sister-in-law, he probably would have done it long ago!

Today, there was braised pork on the table, but the couple, and even Old Man Lin and Old Woman Lin, didn't dare to take a bite. Only Little Peach Blossom and Yin Qing ate happily. The others, the adults, didn't dare, and the children didn't dare either unless the adults said so. They could only drool over the braised pork.

But no matter how much I drooled, it was no use; my aunt had bought it.

Little Peach Blossom ate a few bites, then squinted her eyes happily. Seeing that her older brother Lin Yuqing and the others hadn't touched their food, she enthusiastically put a piece of meat in each child's bowl.

"Don't be shy about what my sister gave me," Yin Qing said.

"Thank you, sister. Thank you, aunt."

"Um."

Okay, now the kids got to eat, but the adults still didn't.

Grandma Lin stared at the braised pork, wanting to reach for her chopsticks, but ultimately decided to ignore it.

Wang Qiu wanted to eat too. She hadn't eaten meat in so long, and these days she could only eat some mixed grain rice every day, and she didn't even dare to take too many vegetables.

The meal ended in this atmosphere. Fortunately, Xiao Taohua didn't notice anything strange about the atmosphere. After eating, she happily went to play in the yard with Lin Yuqing and the others. Then it was time to wash up and go to bed.

In her dream, she even dreamed about the older brother from today. Little Peach Blossom was especially brave and bit him, making him howl in pain. Little Peach Blossom then smiled broadly, thinking, "Oh, I got my revenge!"

Well, it's because the older brother tried to take the meat from him and had such a bad attitude!

Li Zhen felt he didn't sleep well last night, not at all. He dreamt that someone was biting him, biting and biting, and he couldn't break free. When he woke up the next day, he felt listless and even more depressed.

When Tieguai Li saw that his grandson had woken up, he beckoned him over to have some porridge. Seeing his grandson like this, he couldn't help but ask him a few questions, but he thought to himself, "I wonder what my grandson did last night. His dark circles are so heavy."

After a good breakfast, Tieguai Li, who rarely felt like going out for a stroll, ignored his grandson and wandered around the town by himself, leaning on his cane and with his hands behind his back.

"Hey, Old Li, out for a stroll?"

"That's right, I haven't been out for a long time, I wonder how the town is now?"

"It's still the same as before, but there are a lot more educated youth. Look, those are the educated youth. They look different from the people here. I heard that many of them are from big cities and their families are working-class."

Tieguai Li glanced at it and nodded: "It is different."

"Right. I don't know what these educated youth can do here. I've heard that those educated youth who were sent down here all despise this place. Even the people in the production team despise those educated youth. It's just that they hate each other."

"If you don't want to see it, then just ignore it."

"It's easy to say, but who dares to do it? The educated youth were sent down from above, and they could only go back if the higher-ups gave the order."

"Sigh, it's not easy for anyone, leaving their hometowns behind."

"More or less. By the way, is your grandson's illness really incurable?"

Tieguai Li was stunned for a moment. What illness did his grandson have? He was perfectly healthy! Then he suddenly remembered his well-intentioned lie, and his face twisted: "He can't be cured."

"It's such a pity. If you, as the grandfather, can't cure it, then I'm afraid no one else can either."

"Hey, you're making it sound like I'm some kind of great doctor. I'm just a barefoot doctor."

"Old Li, you're being too modest."

Tieguai Li waved his hand.

"Oh, right, there's something I need to tell you. Just yesterday, your grandson went to buy meat, but someone else bought it before he could. Do you know who it was? It was Fuwa Xiaotaohua. Your grandson's attitude was bad yesterday. I think if possible, you should have your grandson apologize to Fuwa, otherwise it might not be a good thing."

"Fuwa?" What Fuwa? He'd never heard of them. Was this some kind of superstitious thing someone came up with? Tsk, this guy's got some nerve. Didn't he see the crackdown on this?

"you do not know?"

"What should I know?"

"Come, come, let me tell you..." Then she told him about the earth-shattering story of how Little Peach Blossom was protected by God, and of course, she couldn't leave out the story of her becoming a happy baby.

After hearing this, Tieguai Li wondered if the other party was telling a myth or if such things really existed in reality.

"Don't look at me like that, I'm telling the truth!"

Tieguai Li curled his lip, increasingly convinced that it was something someone else had deliberately created: "This is all so mystical and superstitious. There's no such thing in this world."

"Don't say anything more, or you might offend God."

"No, you used to be the least believer in these things."

The other person said awkwardly, "That was before. Now I believe in Little Peach Blossom. Look, I still have a picture of Little Peach Blossom in my hand. See if it's particularly effective?"

Tieguai Li was speechless, but also quite curious, so he took a look...

Um?

Their gazes froze instantly!

"Right? Doesn't it feel incredibly spiritual? Only the Fuwa mascots have that aura; most people don't. So you should take your grandson to apologize to the Fuwa mascots, otherwise you'll have nowhere to turn if you run into trouble later. Don't argue with me, let me tell you..."

Then he was interrupted: "Okay, you need to know the place to apologize, right? Tell me the place."

"Okay, remember that."

As for where the Fuwa mascots live, everyone who knows about them knows, but few have the courage to go there.

They are the Fuwa mascots; do they even deserve to be there?!

(End of this chapter)