Chapter 44: Pun Deduction
"Didn't you go to borrow the kettle?" Hao Mei couldn't help asking when she saw her daughter coming back empty-handed.
"My sister-in-law is not at home, and I don't want to talk to her boyfriend."
Hao Mei didn't doubt it and nodded, then let's use the small pot to boil it a few more times.
The reason why Hao Mei didn't think much about it was that the atmosphere at that time was relatively conservative. After all, Rutang was a grown-up girl, so it was normal for her to keep a distance from men.
Rutang wanted to tell her mother about Lao Zhang, but then she thought again and didn't know where to start.
After all, Lao Zhang just glanced at her chest with a greasy look, and he didn't insult her with words or actions. If she were to tell her mother everything, her mother would no longer be able to be neighbors with Lao Zhang.
Rutang suppressed her unhappiness and went out to boil water. She sat in front of the stove and fanned the fire. Lao Zhang actually came out of the house, came to the stove and started talking.
The first few sentences were normal everyday conversation, but something seemed wrong as time went on.
"Sister Rutang, I heard that you are getting married? You are so thin, it may be difficult for you to get pregnant. My relatives are as thin as you, and they don't have milk to give birth." Lao Zhang said as he glanced at Rutang's chest. After glancing at her, he said something that made things even more obvious.
"I often talk about this with married female colleagues in the workshop. Do you care about female comrades?"
Hao Mei was packing things in the house and didn't hear the conversation outside. Ru Tang was sitting on a bench fanning himself with a gloomy face.
It seems that her feeling was correct. This Old Zhang was not a good person. He was not caring at all. He was clearly coming here to test her bottom line.
If she were a young girl with no social experience, she might have been so scared that she wouldn't know what to do.
Many middle-aged men like to tell such borderline jokes. If you get angry with him, he will put on an expression as if to say, "Hey, why can't you take a joke?", as if the woman is making a fuss out of nothing.
When encountering such a veteran in the workplace and being taken advantage of verbally, many simple and kind-hearted young girls who have just entered the society dare not get angry and can only pretend not to understand.
When Lao Zhang saw that Rutang was fair-skinned and looked like a good girl, and heard from his wife that Rutang was a high school student who had just graduated from school, he preconceivedly regarded her as a girl with no social experience. He thought Rutang was easy to control, so he came over to test Rutang's bottom line.
Rutang knew that if she pretended to be deaf and dumb this time, next time when Lao Zhang got the chance, he might tell her some dirty jokes.
Old Zhang didn't know that Rutang had seen through his true colors. Seeing that Rutang didn't say anything, he started making another "joke" that had no bottom line and was not funny.
Facing Rutang's frail body, he pretended to be a talented and romantic man and even recited a poem of his own.
"Little sister Rutang, are you skinny? A skinny horse, a skinny horse from Dali Village~ What do you think of Brother Zhang's literary talent? If I hadn't been born at the wrong time and hadn't taken the college entrance examination when I was studying, maybe I could have become a college student, hahaha!"
After saying this, he wiped his greasy hair humorously and laughed to himself.
Skinny horse, this is not a good word. It was used to describe young prostitutes in ancient times.
Lao Zhang dared to say this because, on the one hand, he thought Rutang couldn't understand, and on the other hand, he felt that even if Rutang understood, she would be embarrassed to reply to him in person. Even if Rutang dared to reply to him, he would say with an innocent expression, "I mean, the clothes you are wearing are a skinny size, a skinny size. You are a little girl, and you can't take any jokes at all."
Seeing him smiling so happily, Rutang opened her mouth and said, "Zhang Lang, the big cockroach, are you cheap? Eunuch, Zhang Lang, the eunuch from the candy factory."
Lao Zhang's smile froze on his face. His full name was Zhang Lang. He used puns and Rutang also used puns.
Old Zhang had often taken advantage of the young girls and wives in the factory with his greasy and indirect jokes, but this was the first time he had met an opponent.
After Rutang finished speaking, he repeated it angrily and even counted on his fingers. He was afraid that Zhang Lang was not angry enough, so he pronounced each word very clearly.
"Eunuch Zhang Lang from the candy factory, I use the same number of words as you, but my words may not be as elegant and full of allusions as yours, so just bear with me. Brother Zhang, why do you look unhappy? Are you overthinking it? I simply hate cockroaches, the animal kind."
It would have been better if I hadn’t explained the last sentence. Explaining it almost pissed Zhang Lang off to death, but he couldn’t get angry at all.
Aren't what Rutang said the usual rhetoric he used when bullying other girls? He took advantage of her by joking, and Rutang would also jokingly fight back, making him so angry that he couldn't say anything wrong.
He could only stand up with a gloomy face and walk towards the house, Rutang snorted.
With your low level, you still want to take advantage of her? Trash.
Just as Rutang finished boiling the water, Li Hua came back with a bundle of Chinese medicines wrapped in small yellow paper packages. One package was for one day, and there were several packages in a bundle. It looked like they were meant to be taken continuously.
"Here, grab some popcorn!" Li Hua opened the cloth bag in his hand. Inside was the steaming popcorn that had just popped out. These days, people brought their own rice for processing and just had to pay some processing fees.
Li Hua is a straightforward person and gets along well with Rutang. Whenever he sees something delicious, he wants Rutang to try it.
Seeing how nice Li Hua was, Rutang felt upset when she thought about how greasy Old Zhang was just now.
This is really a flower stuck in cow dung.
Lao Zhang came out of the house and shouted at Li Hua angrily: "Where have you been? You've been hanging out outside all day long. Come back and cook!"
As soon as Rutang heard it, he knew that she was taking out her anger for calling him a eunuch on her.
"I've gone to get the medicine. What are you yelling about? I'll cook right away." Li Hua grabbed a handful of popcorn from the bag and stuffed it into Rutang's pocket, then rushed into the house.
As soon as the door closed, a clanging sound came from inside.
The couple started fighting.
Zhang Lang took advantage of the situation and vented his anger on Li Hua. Li Hua also had a bad temper, and seeing that Zhang Lang was not giving in, he rolled up his sleeves and started fighting with him. The couple started to fight, and Li Hua, relying on his fatness and strength, pinned Zhang Lang to the ground and beat him.
"Ah, should we go and break up a fight?" Hao Mei came out and heard a fight in the main house, and asked her daughter worriedly.
"It's okay to go and take a look." Rutang was just about to go with her mother when the door to the main house opened and Zhang Lang rushed out with panda eyes and walked towards the door without looking back.
Li Hua chased after him, holding a feather duster in her hand. She grabbed the head of the feather duster and pointed the wooden handle at Zhang Lang's back, shouting, "If you have the guts, die outside and don't come back!"
Zhang Lang turned around and pointed at her and cursed: "You chicken that can't lay eggs, I will divorce you sooner or later!"
Li Hua chased after him with a feather duster, and Zhang Lang knew he couldn't win, so he turned around and ran away.
"You bastard!" Li Hua chased him to the door and cursed. When Lao Zhang's figure disappeared at the end of the road, she leaned against the door, the fierce look on her face faded, leaving a desolate look.
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