Chapter 97 Chapter 97 Jumping into the River
When Song Ruan and Han Zhenzhen rushed over, the scene had already been surrounded by three layers of fences - after all, the team leader was the most respectable person in their village, and he had always been the one to mediate conflicts in other people's families. This was the first time that a bomb exploded in his own home!
Moreover, the person who detonated the bomb was the person who was the talk of the village a few days ago - the nephew and niece who came to seek refuge with the captain. It was even more exciting and thrilling to hear about it.
If they don't enjoy the fun, they won't be at peace even if they die in the ground!
As for whether it would be bad to watch the excitement at the top leader’s home - hey, their team has a tradition of liking to watch the excitement, how does that word come about, the law does not hold everyone responsible!
Hehehe, it’s so lively.
Before Song Ruan squeezed in, she heard a hysterical soprano screaming inside: "Wang! Xue! Are you a fool?! Are you disabled? You can't even do such a small thing, how dare you stay here and eat for free every day!"
Song Ruan cheered up, dragged Han Zhenzhen, and squeezed in through the gap with brute force, reaching the first row of VIP viewing seats.
Han Zhenzhen's face was squeezed so hard that it was deformed. Her round apple face was twisted into a long purple eggplant. But she remained strong and didn't even make a sound. Her eyes were staring at the captain's yard - drama can relieve pain!
The captain's second daughter-in-law, Bai Fangfang, was seen with her hands on her waist, shaking her head wildly, her hair flying in the wind, her eyes were deep bloodshot, and she looked so crazy that she wanted to bite off Wang Xue's head in one bite:
"You jinx! You brought disaster to your parents, and now you're bringing trouble to our family. We serve you like a maid, and when we asked you to help with some work, you washed a whole basin of clothes!"
She took a deep breath, then screamed even louder: "Why don't you fall into the river together? Why don't you just die!"
Wang Xue in front of her had a flushed face and lowered her head in tears, her slender body looked shaky. Bai Fangfang, who had been doing farm work for many years and was burly, stood in front of her and yelled at her, looking like a landlord bully oppressing the common people.
Immediately, someone who had just squeezed in and didn't know what was going on said in disapproval: "After all, she is the captain's niece. How can she, as a daughter-in-law, speak like that? This is too harsh!"
——In the eyes of some pedantic old-fashioned or spiritual old-fashioned people, a daughter-in-law is an outsider, and a niece with the same surname is a relative of the family.
Another thing is that I can't bear to see the daughter-in-law being so arrogant. It's really disgraceful for a woman from another family to yell and act so bossy at home!
Someone who had watched for a while and knew what happened said, "You can't blame Wang Er's wife. She was pregnant, so she asked Wang Xue to help with the laundry. Wang Xue just threw away a whole basin of clothes. This is really annoying... a basin of clothes!"
The old conservative barely suppressed the female virtue precepts that were on the tip of her tongue and asked incredulously, "What do you mean by losing a whole basin of laundry?"
"She said she had never washed clothes by the river before. In the city, people used pipes to wash clothes. She was quite scared the first time she washed clothes by the river. Her foot slipped and she kicked the basin over. She almost held on to the basin, but the clothes inside floated away with the water."
"What?!" The people who came one step behind all exclaimed, "All the clothes in the basin are gone?"
"Yes, I heard that there were outer clothes and trousers inside, and there was also a new coat made specifically for the child. All of them are gone."
"Oh my."
The people around frowned when they heard this.
"It's no wonder that Wang Er's wife got so angry!"
"You're such a grown-up, how can you still throw away your laundry? My daughter was already seven or eight years old and could go to the river to wash her clothes by herself. They were so clean and she never dropped a piece of it!"
"You said that the clothes could be washed, she didn't do it on purpose, did she?"
"No way, this is clothes! It's a basin!"
Everyone was chattering, and the weight of a basin of clothes made them quickly change sides.
What is the status of a basin of clothes in this era? Let’s put it this way, it’s comparable to the flood of mobile phones in later generations - maybe even more than that. After all, mentally speaking, if you go outside without your mobile phone, it’s at most a little inconvenient and uncomfortable. If you go outside without clothes... who dares to go outside without clothes?
If we calculate it based on actual material, it would be even easier: the cheapest white cloth in the supply and marketing cooperative is two or three cents a foot, and a set of clothes requires at least ten feet, which costs two or three yuan.
But this does not include cloth coupons. You have to know that for rural people like them, coupons are even more rare.
Even village officials like the team leader would only issue one or two cloth coupons at the end of the year. If they didn't have enough, they would have to go to the black market to exchange them. Those people dared to directly shout "one price" - that is, the price of selling one foot of cloth coupons was the same as buying one foot of cloth!
The total amount is four or five dollars - a chicken is only a little over two dollars!
Not to mention it was a basin of clothes! A basin!
The villagers who were watching the fun felt heartache after listening to it.
You should know that in the Dongfeng Brigade, some children from poor families even have only two sets of clothes, one set of thin clothes for spring, autumn and summer, and one set of cotton clothes for winter. When it is late autumn and early spring when it is still cold but not cold enough to wear cotton clothes, they can only wear the thin clothes. They are so cold that they shiver like black chickens and quails, which is really pitiful to look at.
But even with such tight financial conditions, it was considered a good life in that era - I heard that in the more remote mountain brigades, some families and even all the children only had one pair of pants, and they usually lay naked on the kang, and whoever went out had to wear the pants.
The more they thought about it, the more distressed they felt. When they looked at the pitiful Wang Xue, they no longer had any sympathy for her. Instead, they all started to criticize her:
"You are really wrong. A basin of clothes is gone just like that. What a waste."
Li Caixia, who was standing aside, nodded silently. She felt sorry for her sister-in-law and was secretly glad: Fortunately, the clothes in their room were washed a few days ago, otherwise if she had put them in today, wouldn’t she be unlucky too?
Amitabha, luckily, only the clothes of the second family were lost... It is not very fair to my brother and sister-in-law to think this way, but as the saying goes, I would rather die than let my fellow Taoist die.
As for Wang Xue's claim that she dropped it accidentally, Li Caixia didn't believe a word of it.
Ha, you saw your clothes fall off, why didn’t you go down and pick them up? Even if you are afraid of water, wouldn't it be possible to use a tree branch to hook two pieces out to reduce the loss? When Wang Xue came back, even her cuffs weren't wet. How could it look like anyone really took the trouble to rescue her? ?
The most important thing is that Li Caixia has been washing clothes for most of her life, but she just couldn't figure out what kind of frightened posture could cause her to kick a basin of clothes into the water, and have the clothes all fall out of the basin and scatter instantly. When she reached out to pick up the basin, all the clothes flew away without a single piece left - this would require kicking the basin completely over, right?
But this wash basin is made of wood and is quite heavy, with clothes inside. If my niece was just careless, she would not have kicked it like this. This delicate girl who can barely carry bath water does not have the strength to do that.
…
In other words, this niece did it on purpose!
Li Caixia took a breath of cold air.
No, if you don’t want to work then don’t do it. It’s better to bring the dirty clothes back in the same condition than to throw them away! Do you know how valuable clothes are to those rural people?
Some girls can only get a new set of clothes when they get married!
If Li Caixia could figure it out, how could the captain who was trying to mediate among the group of talented people in the Dongfeng Brigade every day not figure it out? Couldn't the captain's wife, who was half the women's director and often dealt with the wives and mothers-in-law of various families, figure it out?
So even though Bai Fangfang was furious and scolded Wang Xue, they just watched with sullen faces and had no intention of mediating.
——It also meant to let Bai Fangfang vent her anger and let Wang Xue learn a lesson.
They have done their best by being willing to take in this niece, but their family is not well off. They can't really support a young lady who has to live on nothing, right?
She was just asked to do some work - washing clothes is not a heavy job, and a girl of seven or eight years old can do it - but she just overturned the table and threw a basin of clothes into it. Does that mean they will have to serve her from now on?
Why? Their own grandchildren have to work! Asking a niece to act arrogantly?
Wang Xue saw that Bai Fangfang was yelling at her like that and none of the elders in the Wang family came out to stop her. Wang Hao was cowering like a mouse and didn't dare to make a sound. Bai Fangfang was getting more and more excited and was about to raise her hands. Wang Erge also had a bad look on his face and didn't make any move to stop her. She knew that they really wanted to teach her a lesson.
——They still want to take action!
Just a few pieces of tattered clothes, what’s the big deal?
She thought angrily, covered her face, and sobbed, "I'm sorry, sister-in-law, I didn't mean it. It was really my first time taking a bath and I was scared because I had no experience. I'll go look for it downstream! I won't come back if I can't find it!"
She turned her head, pushed away the onlookers gathered at the door, and stumbled out.
One of the main characters had left. No matter how loudly Bai Fangfang cursed, it was just a one-man show. Everyone left one after another.
Just ending like this? I just cursed a few words, but you haven’t even hit me yet?
Song Ruan felt attracted by the trailer which was so sensational, treacherous and seemed as if the two teams were eager to kill each other, but in the actual movie, the two teams pulled out water guns and sprayed each other. He shook his head and walked back home.
This melon doesn't taste good.
I didn't expect that not long after I got home and sat down, just as I was about to put on my boxing gloves to test the results of Jinhua's teaching, I heard someone running towards me on the village road outside the door, shouting at the top of his voice:
"Oh no! The captain's niece jumped into the river!"
Then I heard Grandma Sun's casual comment: "Oh, this girl has such a bad temper..."
"Mrs. Sun, how can you still sit there? Your Weijun just happened to come back and rescued him. You didn't see the scene. The captain's niece hugged Weijun so tightly that we couldn't pull her away!"
"Your second daughter-in-law went up and slapped him with her claws, and then slapped him back into the river! When we pulled him out, he was unconscious and we couldn't wake him up even if we shook him!"
"It seems that Weijun still has some injuries on his body, which have broken open. The two of them were sent to the hospital together."
“What?!” Granny Sun screamed strangely, no longer able to maintain her calm demeanor as an outsider, and ran outside while screaming, “My Weijun!!!”
The man subconsciously chased after her and shouted, "Grandma Sun, bring some money! Maybe you need to pay?"
It seemed as if Mrs. Sun was too excited to hear and she ran away howling.
Song Ruan slapped her thigh and began to put on her shoes: "I said, our Fengyun Brigade can't just stay quiet like this!"
He threw the battle-ready white scarf into Jinhua's arms again and said, "You can carry it for a while."
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