Chapter 11 Do you think I am someone who can be bullied by others?
Knowing that it was my turn to cook today, I shouldn’t have done the laundry first when I got home.
Everyone understands this truth, but Bai Jie relies on her pretty face and always treats the agreement between the four people as a mere decoration.
Lao Gao is a simple and honest man. He has been in Huaixi Village for several years. He is not good at speaking and can't say anything, so he just smiled simple and honestly.
Zhou Wenfeng, an educated youth standing nearby, glanced at Bai Jie and said, "You only bully honest people."
Bai Jie glanced at the talkative Zhou Wenfeng. She kept a cold face and said nothing, pretending not to understand what he said.
The lunch for four people was simple, with millet rice, potato sauce and a portion of pickles.
Zhou Wenfeng said while eating: "Brother Gao, I don't know if your application for returning home has been approved..."
Lao Gao was the first educated youth to come to Huaixi Village. With the quota to return home, he had great hopes of returning to the city.
"I don't know. I'll ask the village chief later."
Zhou Wenfeng nodded: "Brother Gao, you are going back, don't forget your brothers."
Lao Gao smiled naively: "Don't worry, I won't forget you, after all, we have lived together for several years, you are like a family member to me..."
While eating, Xu Yanmei glanced at the simple-minded Lao Gao, and then glanced at the silent Bai Jie.
Bai Jie and Xu Yanmei are not only fellow villagers, but they also know each other inside and out. Moreover, they both came to Huaixi Village at the same time. Even if there are places to return home, it will not be their turn.
But if you have a relationship, that's a different story.
Xu Yanmei also wanted to return home, but unfortunately she was plain-looking, and she looked down on Bai Jie's despicable methods.
"Bai Jie, why don't you speak?"
Bai Jie looked at Xu Yanmei and said, "Don't you understand the principle of not talking while eating and not talking while sleeping?"
Xu Yanmei felt bored and pouted as she continued to eat. Zhou Wenfeng raised an eyebrow. He looked down on Bai Jie from the bottom of his heart because she only knew how to flirt with others.
Because we were both educated youth, it was difficult to expose her true identity.
Among these four people, only Lao Gao could not see Bai Jie's true face.
Bai Jie was eating and planning to talk to Zhou Yong about the quota to return home. She only had this one chance, and if she didn't seize it, she didn't know when she would have another chance to return home.
While Bai Jie was thinking about how to trick Zhou Yong into getting a place to return home, the Li family was bustling with activity.
Zhou Yong hunted two pheasants and two rabbits and brought back home. The news alarmed his neighbors, who all stopped eating lunch and came to ask him where he caught the prey.
Zhang Guifang warmly saw everyone off and said with a smile, "Are you all hungry? Set up the table and let's eat."
Li Baotian limped and tried to move the kang table, but Zhou Yong stopped his father-in-law.
"Dad, I'll do it."
Li Baotian smiled and nodded, then walked into the house while talking to Zhou Yong.
Li Caiyun and Zhang Guifang brought the food into the house, and soon the four of them were sitting around the table on the kang.
For lunch, Zhang Guifang cooked green beans, a home-cooked cold dish, and the two pickles from the morning. The staple food was two kinds of rice.
"Zhou Yong, you have only been up the mountain for a few hours, and you have gained so much. Dad is jealous."
Zhou Yong didn't expect that his luck would be so good. He was about to speak, but Li Caiyun said while holding the bowl, "Dad, you don't know that the rope of the trap we set last night was cut by someone, otherwise we could have caught two more prey..."
Li Baotian paused and frowned: "How could such a thing exist?"
Li Caiyun nodded: "That's not bad, these people are too evil, how could they do this, just take the prey, why cut the rope?"
Not only is it time-consuming to make hemp rope, but most importantly, it can only be made in autumn.
Zhang Guifang frowned: "Who did this? It's really immoral."
Li Baotian was not thinking about making a living, and someone cut the rope that Zhou Yong used to trap and hunt. Wasn't this a slap in the face of him as the village chief?
After all, the old saying is there, you need to look at the owner before beating a dog. Zhou Yong is Li Baotian's son-in-law. Someone is targeting his son-in-law like this, obviously not taking him, the village chief, seriously.
Li Baotian narrowed his eyes and said nothing. Zhou Yong glanced at his father-in-law and guessed what he was thinking.
"Dad, no matter who did this, forget it. After all, I did something wrong before, so it's normal for someone to pick on me privately to make me unhappy..."
Zhou Yong wants to take revenge himself and doesn't want to use others to do it.
Especially since this person is Li Baotian, the head of the village. If he causes trouble for everyone because of this matter, what will people say about him behind his back?
Besides, there is not even a suspect at the moment, and Zhou Yong doesn't want to implicate innocent people because of a trivial matter.
The most important thing is that he had done a lot of wrong things before and he would quarrel with others all the time. Zhou Yong had no idea who was behind it.
He had suspected Li Hongjun before, but after discovering those details, he denied those speculations.
Li Baotian glanced at Zhou Yong and said, "Some anger can be tolerated, but some anger cannot be tolerated. Those idiots, they are all laughing and joking on the surface, but they are very cunning in private..."
There are a few troublemakers in every village. Li Baotian knows this clearly. Just because he usually ignores those people, it doesn't mean that anyone can bully his son-in-law.
After hearing what Li Baotian said, Zhou Yong felt a warm feeling in his heart.
"Dad, do you think I am someone who can be bullied?"
Li Baotian glanced at Zhou Yong and chuckled: "Although you are not someone who can be bullied, you are not a hard-hearted person either."
Zhou Yong thought to himself: That's because you haven't seen my hard-hearted side.
"Dad, this matter is over, don't mention it again."
Li Baotian was a little unhappy, and Zhou Yong added: "Dad, you are the village chief, you can't abuse your power for personal gain, otherwise how will people look at you?"
Zhang Guifang agreed with her son-in-law: "Dad, what Zhou Yong said makes sense. You can't do something that will not win you any reputation."
How could Li Baotian challenge those troublemakers without a good excuse?
He couldn't say that someone cut the rope that Zhou Yong set to hunt and interrogate him, right?
Li Baotian narrowed his eyes and said nothing more, but he was still making a gamble in his heart.
Before the four members of the Li family had finished their lunch, Lao Gao came to the Li family.
"Hey, Lao Gao is here, please take a seat..."
Lao Gao is very popular in the village, and he completes any task assigned to him very well.
"Village leader, you guys eat, I'm not an outsider."
Li Baotian smiled and said, "I only have one mouthful of rice left."
Lao Gao responded, and Li Baotian shoveled the last bite of rice into his mouth, put down his bowl and chopsticks, and got off the kang.
"Village chief, what's wrong with your foot?"
"It's okay, I just sprained it."
Lao Gao expressed his concern for Li Baotian for a few words, and then got back to the point.
It has been some time since he applied for a place to return home, but there has been no response yet, and Lao Gao has been unable to sleep or eat.
When Li Baotian learned of Lao Gao's intention, he glanced at Zhou Yong who had put down his bowl and chopsticks and said, "Lao Gao, this matter cannot be rushed. We need to hold a meeting to discuss before making a decision."
Lao Gao sighed: "Village Chief, you know my family situation well. My eldest brother died of electric shock while working in the factory last year. My mother is bedridden due to illness. My sister-in-law is the one who supports the family. If I don't go back, our family will fall apart..."
Lao Gao, who was nearly thirty years old, started crying as he spoke.
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