Tian Tian's eyes lit up, and she quickly pulled her two little sisters over to watch the fun.
It was a pity that the man had surrounded them tightly, and Tian Tian was short, so no matter how high she jumped, she could only vaguely see that there seemed to be someone fighting in the educated youth's yard. She couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman, but she could only see that the fight was very intense.
"Auntie! What's going on at this youth cadre site?" Tian Tian asked, pulling the clothes of the old lady in front of her.
The lady didn't even turn her head. She felt someone pulling her, and after hearing Tian Tian's question, she said, "It was said that someone stole food. Now the person who stole the food has been caught, but he refuses to admit it, so the two of them started fighting."
Tian Tian's eyes lit up even more, and she asked excitedly, "Who is fighting with whom?"
"Who else could it be? It's Li Hong and Li Jiuniang, the troublemakers. They always quarrel, and this time they just started fighting. I think Li Jiuniang is at a disadvantage now. A lot of her hair was pulled out, and there are several bloody marks on her face. But Li Hong didn't get any advantage. Her hair was also pulled several times. You see, they both have the surname Li and are from the same family! How come their relationship is so bad? Ouch! They bit each other! Someone else came up to fight! Oh my God! Are the educated youth in this city so fierce? They start fighting at the slightest provocation?"
Tian Tian just asked the old lady a question, and the old lady consciously reported the battle situation to her. Listening to the old lady's increasingly excited voice, Tian Tian knew that the battle situation must be very exciting. She stood on tiptoe and stretched her neck to look inside. Seeing that she couldn't see anything, she squeezed in through the gap.
It was normal for the educated youth to quarrel over food in their settlement. During the autumn harvest, Li Hong and several other educated youth did not get enough food.
During this winter, because of the time they spent traveling to visit relatives and celebrating the New Year at home, they were away from the educated youth site for at least a month, which saved a month's worth of food.
When they came back, they didn't know how to plan their food. They cooked a little more for this meal and a little more for that meal, but the food would not last long.
Once the food is gone, they will starve. When they are hungry, they can do anything and have a bad temper. It would be strange if they don't fight with each other.
Shen Lingling and Tian Yun saw that among this large group of onlookers there were no girls of their age. They were either young wives, or elderly aunts and grandmothers. There were also a few old men standing in the back who, relying on their tall stature, were eating and drinking and acting silly.
Look at Tian Tian again, the little girl is still trying hard to squeeze in, but she was squeezed out again after just two steps. Even her shiny braids that she had combed in the morning were squeezed into a mess, and the big red hairband on her head was also squeezed crooked, hanging loosely on the braid, and was about to fall off. It was a pity that the basin with crickets in her hand did not move at all, not crooked at all.
They both felt embarrassed, and Tian Yun hurriedly grabbed Tian Tian's collar and pulled her out.
"Who? Who pulled me?!"
Tian Tian was about to squeeze in, but a huge force grabbed her by the throat and pulled her out all of a sudden.
Seeing that they were getting further and further away from the excitement, Tian Tian was so angry that her nose was crooked. She turned back with a grim look on her face and saw Shen Lingling and Tian Yun with red faces.
Seeing Tian Yun withdraw her hand, Tian Tian complained: "Sister Yunyun! Why are you holding me? I'm almost squeezing in!"
"Don't look at it, your dad and my dad are here!" Tian Yun pointed and said.
Tian Tian looked in the direction Tian Yun pointed, and saw her father and uncle rushing over. When she saw her father was about to look over, she quickly shrank her neck and hid behind the crowd holding the basin.
Fortunately, she was short and was blocked by the tall people, so Tian Lisong didn't have to watch his precious daughter come to watch the fun.
Thinking about the excitement so close by and her own father, Tian Tian gave up the idea of watching the fun and, with her two little sisters, took cover from the firewood piles on both sides of the road and stayed away from this place of trouble.
No one knew why, but Old Mrs. Tian never let her family go to watch the fun. She rarely talked about other people's fun at home and told them to avoid it when they saw the fun.
If Tian Lisong knew today that she was trying hard to squeeze in, she would definitely be scolded.
After Tian Tian and her little sister slipped away, she combed her messy hair again at the reminder of her little sister, agreed with the two of them to meet in the afternoon, and then took the cricket home.
Old Mrs. Tian was turning the soil in the vegetable garden, and no one knew where Tian Baobao and his two friends had gone to play.
"Grandma! I'm back!" Tian Tian said.
Old Mrs. Tian wiped the dirt off her hands, looked at Tian Tian holding her own basin, and asked, "Are you going to catch crickets?"
"Yeah!" Tian Tian nodded, "But the water is a little cold, so I plan to go catch some more with Lingling and the others in the afternoon.
Old Mrs. Tian looked at the crickets crawling around in Tian Tian's basin and said, "It's a little too few. There's not much meat on them. Two bites per person will be gone. Go catch some more in the afternoon. Put these in the water first and cook them for you tonight."
"Okay!" Tian Tian agreed happily.
She helped Old Lady Tian with some work, and then it was time for lunch. She and Old Lady Tian cooked lunch together, and waited for Tian Baobao and his two brothers, as well as Tian Lisong, to come back. Then they started to eat.
Lin Meiyu, her two sisters-in-law, and Tian Lilin took some dry food with them in the morning and would not be back for lunch.
There was one last piece of sauerkraut left at home, so Grandma Tian fried it and heated up the cornmeal buns she had made in the morning. It made a pretty good meal.
When Tian Tian saw Tian Lisong coming back, she wanted to ask how the problem with the educated youth was solved, but she didn't dare to ask.
Fortunately, Old Lady Tian took the initiative to ask, "Why did you come back so late today? Is there something wrong in the team again?"
Except for yesterday when Tian Lisong went out to do some errands, Tian Lisong always came back on time at noon in the previous few days, and was even able to help Old Lady Tian with cooking. Today, Old Lady Tian had to ask Tian Zhuo to go find Tian Lisong, and only then did he come back.
"Don't mention it. There's trouble again at the educated youth camp, and they've even started fighting this time." Tian Lisong said anxiously.
Ever since the activity of sending educated youth to the countryside started, there has not been a peaceful day in their brigade. Basically, every time something happens, it's caused by the educated youth, and they, the brigade cadres, have to go and mediate. Now that Li Hong's food is gone, they can't just watch Li Hong starve to death, so they have to find a way to squeeze out some food to send to Li Hong.
But we have to wait a few days before doing this. We have to let Li Hong starve for a few days to learn her lesson, so that she won't do such a stupid thing again next time.
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