Chapter 60: Domestic Violence in the 1980s 15

Lin Xia had only been relaxing for a few days when she heard some bad news.

"Team leader, what did you say? We have to go to work the day after tomorrow!" The team leader was also reluctant to come to the Sun family, but the team leader insisted that he must come.

"Yes, the autumn harvest will start the day after tomorrow. Even the primary school students in the commune have to take a break to come back and help. How can you, an adult, just sit there doing nothing?"

"I'm so embarrassed!"

"Lin Xiaoqing, you have a low level of ideological awareness and are avoiding labor. It's a pity that you are an educated youth." He once said that Sun Changjian's boomerang turned around and stabbed himself.

"Hey, captain, don't be angry. You see I look healthy now, but I haven't rested for several years. My body is broken and I can't do heavy work."

Lin Xia's tone softened. The team leader was actually very caring towards the original owner and never made things difficult for her in terms of division of labor, so she was willing to have a good talk with him.

The team leader didn't force himself to scold, but he still retorted, "I saw you running all over the back mountain yesterday, don't use your poor health as an excuse."

"Captain, I just went for a walk in the back mountain for a while. I didn't do any work, so I wasn't tired. If you don't believe me, let's go to the county hospital to see if I'm in poor health." Lin Xia really didn't want to work. It was enough to have Sun Changjian do the work. Anyway, she could have enough to eat.

"Okay, I don't want to talk to you about this. You have to work. I'll give you an easier job when the time comes."

......

"Well, captain, just give me three or four work points a day. I can't handle more than that."

The team leader was speechless. Only a child would get such few work points. He wanted to say something, but then he thought better of it and left without saying anything else.

Xiaolin did have a hard life in the past.

The team leader is called Li Qingshan. He is usually responsible for allocating work in Shunxing Brigade and also manages the farm work of the team members. He does have some authority to help Lin Xia get an easy job.

The depressed Lin Xia went into the mountains and angrily beat a few pheasants. The last time she did farm work was decades ago. The hardship she experienced then was still vivid in her mind. She really didn't want to do farm work.

Thinking that she needed to understand the ways of the world, she took half a pheasant to Li Qingshan's house and gave it to Li Qingshan's wife.

Li Qingshan and the other man were shocked. Was such a large gift necessary? Even if he didn't send her off, he would still assign her some easy work.

"If it weren't for the captain's care in the past, I wouldn't be alive today. Sisters-in-law, please accept it. I'll have to trouble the captain more in the future if I have any problems."

Lin Xia was speaking politely, and Li Qingshan's wife was pushing her. The two sides were pulling each other violently. People who didn't know the situation thought they were fighting.

"Xiao Lin, you're welcome. We know your health condition. Keep this for yourself."

"I still have half of it at home, which is enough for me to eat. If the team leader feels embarrassed, you can give it all to Sun Changjian to find a high-work-point job in the future. After all, he has to support me."

......

So it is to make trouble for Sun Changjian?

Li Qingshan had always looked down on Sun Changjian, and he looked down on him even more after what happened some time ago, so he agreed immediately.

The Li family felt a little embarrassed after receiving such a big gift. Li's sister-in-law smiled and said, "Tomorrow your brother Li will go to the county to pick up new educated youth. What do you want to buy? I will ask your brother Li to bring it back for you when the time comes."

Lin Xia's eyes lit up, but she didn't have a ticket, so she tried to ask her: "Sister-in-law, I don't have a ticket. Do you have any extra tickets? I'll exchange them with you."

It turned out that they really had the coupons, which were the cloth and cotton coupons that were in short supply in the city, but they didn't have ordinary food coupons.

"You don't have any more tickets?"

There was a reason why Mrs. Li asked this. Shunxing Brigade grew cotton, so each household could get a lot of cloth coupons and cotton coupons every year.

Lin Xia recalled the memories in her mind, damn it, I’m going to beat Sun Changjian up when I get back.

Since the original owner went to the countryside, she had never seen the tickets. All the tickets were collected by Sun Changjian. She and his mother ate coarse food and their clothes were full of patches. Sun Changjian's clothes were replaced every year, and he would use them for himself when he got the tickets.

"No, I haven't seen any tickets before. They were all taken by Sun Changjian."

The Li couple looked at Lin Xia sympathetically.

Lin Xia exchanged five feet of cloth coupons and two kilograms of cotton coupons. She had cloth and cotton in her space, but the coupons could be exchanged for other coupons.

Seeing that the Li family was still weaving homespun cloth, Lin Xia ordered two sets of clothes from the Li family for a total of 5 yuan.

"Excuse me, sister-in-law. Brother Li doesn't need to carry my things tomorrow. I plan to go to the county for a stroll. Will the team's oxcart leave at the usual time? I would like to take the car with you when the time comes."

After eating half a pheasant, Lin Xia readily became close to the Li family, and the team leader immediately became Brother Li.

"There's no market tomorrow. The oxcart is going to pick people up. You don't have to go too early. I heard that their car leaves at 10 o'clock, so they don't leave until 8 o'clock. You can go with the car and go back and forth. You don't have to pay for the fare." Li Qingshan said that the car would be shared tomorrow and he would not charge any money for the trip.

"Okay, thank you Brother Li. Will there be many educated youth tomorrow?" If there were many, there would definitely not be enough space for them to sit when she returned.

"This year there are not as many as last year. Last year there were seven. I thought there would be no more this year, but it's October and there are still three. Oh~"

Li Qingshan sighed. The educated youth didn't know anything when they first arrived. They needed at least a year of training, and they had to be given food subsidies. They were always causing trouble, so the work was difficult.

"When the time comes, leave it to the captain. He is the best at managing people."

"Haha, that's true." Why didn't Mrs. Li think that Xiao Lin was a wonderful person before?

Li Qingshan also smiled. Anyway, he only needed to bring the people back. If the new educated youth wanted to be assigned jobs, they would go to the team leader. It was none of his business. He would just follow the arrangements.

The next morning.

Lin Xia slept in today, a rare occasion, and did not get up early to practice.

She lazily turned over and got up. When she woke up, there was no one at home. The rice was still warming in the pot. She finished her meal just in time to catch the ox cart.

"Xiao Lin, I thought you wouldn't come today." Li Qingshan joked while sitting in the driver's seat of the ox cart.

"I got up late by accident. I was afraid I would miss it. Sorry to trouble you, Brother Li, to wait for me." Lin Xia's tone was full of embarrassment.

"It's not time yet, so it can't be considered waiting for you. It's still early to go now." Li Qingshan waved his hand indifferently, watched Lin Xia get in the car, and drove away.

"It's really inconvenient to check the time without a watch. I wish there was a place where I could get a watch ticket."

"This is a rare item. Watch tickets are hard to come by. If you want to buy one, you can ask those people at the educated youth center. I see a few people have watches. Maybe they have a way to get tickets. But Xiaolin, do you have money?"

Li Qingshan was very confused. Wasn’t the Sun family quite poor?

"Brother Li, you don't know, about the last incident with Zhang Qiang, he felt sorry for me, so he insisted on giving me 198 as compensation, so I took it."

Li Qingshan was so shocked that he didn't look at the road. He turned around and looked at Lin Xia, "Really? He is so generous?"

"Of course not. Give me the dead piston. I can't refuse it. It's really embarrassing to say that you destroyed my family."

Although Lin Xia's tone was sincere, Li Qingshan could tell at a glance that this was the same tone that Xiao Lin usually used when he beat up Sun Changjian and then turned around and said that they had a good relationship.

He understood that Zhang Qiang had definitely suffered a lot at the hands of Xiao Lin.