Chapter 267 Correctly guiding children's outlook on life and values
Zhou Yong took the hoe, and Li Baotian took the towel around his neck and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"Dad, didn't I tell you? Wait two days and I'll shovel the ground with you twice..."
Every family has to grow food-grain land and responsibility land, and the Li family is no exception.
Zhou Yong and Li Caiyun were busy with work, Zhang Guifang was unable to do farm work, and the five children were all in school, so the farm work had to be done by Li Baotian alone.
Li Baotian glanced at Zhou Yong and said, "When you have time, come with me to shovel the ground. I guess the grass in the ground will be taller than the corn seedlings..."
Zhou Yong smiled and said, "Dad, am I not busy?"
When Zhou Yong was the team leader of the production team, he had a lot of work to do. As the team staff was reduced, the workload of him as the new village chief increased day by day.
Li Baotian smiled somewhat unkindly: "Those who are capable should do more work, and work hard!"
Zhou Yong looked at the smile on his father-in-law's face and started muttering to himself.
In fact, Zhou Yong was happy for a while when his positions as team leader and timekeeper of the production team were revoked.
He thought that it was a good job for him to just be the director of a brick factory. Not only was the work leisurely, but he also had plenty of time to enjoy life.
But he was happy for only a few months before Li Baotian proposed to retire.
On the one hand, Li Baotian is old. If he does not seize this opportunity to retire, once Xu Jianmin is transferred away from Hongqi Township, the position of village chief will most likely fall into the hands of someone else.
To put it bluntly, Li Baotian chose to retire in order to give Zhou Yongteng the position of village chief.
Thinking about these things, Zhou Yong's face showed helplessness.
The father-in-law and son-in-law walked and stopped, and from time to time chatted with the villagers and neighbors who were returning home after shoveling the fields.
By the time they got home, it was dark.
When the nanny Jiang Yue'e saw the father-in-law and son-in-law coming back, she hurriedly brought the food to the table.
Zhang Guifang, who was enjoying the cool under the eaves, stood up from the recliner with a palm-leaf fan in her hand and asked: "Why are you back so late?"
Li Baotian took off his straw hat and said, "I have to say a few words to everyone I meet. I have already arrived home at this time without realizing it."
Zhang Guifang curled her lips and followed Li Baotian into the house.
Zhou Yong placed his hoe in front of the barn door, and Li Caiyun came out and called him into the house to eat.
“Here I come.”
The couple came into the house one after another. Zhou Yong washed his hands, and everyone sat around the dining table to eat.
Zhou Yong didn't notice anything unusual when he started eating. Halfway through the meal, he noticed that the brothers Li Jingen and Li Jingchu were behaving abnormally.
I kept my head slightly lowered while eating, feeling as if I had done something wrong!
"Goudan and Gousheng, both of you raise your heads."
The two brothers looked at each other, then slowly raised their heads.
Zhang Guifang immediately exclaimed: "Who did you fight with?"
Li Jingchu had a small bruise on his cheek and Li Jingen had a bruise on his forehead.
Li Caiyun frowned: "No wonder you two stayed in your respective rooms after school today. I thought you were studying hard, but it turns out you were afraid that others would see the injuries on your faces..."
Zhou Yong looked at Zhou Kexin, and the girl's eyes became evasive.
Before he could speak, Li Baotian said, "Let's eat first. Don't scold the child at the dinner table."
Li Caiyun sighed, and Zhou Yong's eyes swept across the faces of the brothers Li Jingchu and Li Jingen.
After dinner, Zhou Yong went to the yard to enjoy the cool air. Li Caiyun couldn't help asking how her two sons got the bruises on their faces.
Li Jingchu lowered his head and said nothing. Li Jingen was not in the mood to speak: "It's because of our surname..."
The Li family has five children, but they have two surnames. Therefore, some transfer students used their last names as an attack point and laughed at them.
Brothers Li Jingchu and Li Jingen naturally would not allow others to laugh at the three of them, and the children started fighting after a disagreement.
The two brothers were not seriously injured, but the children who fought with them were all injured.
One of the students was hit on the head with a wooden bench by Zhou Kexin and was bleeding. Then they went to find Ma San, fearing that the teacher would find their parents.
Ma San handled the matter because the teacher did not look for Zhou Yong and Li Caiyun.
But they knew the matter well and they couldn't keep it secret for long, so the three siblings were nervous when they came home from school.
Zhang Guifang was stunned, Li Baotian's eyes widened, and Li Caiyun felt a little nervous.
"Zhou Kexin, how could you hit a classmate on the head with a bench? This behavior is extremely dangerous. If it causes serious consequences, how will you deal with it?"
Although there are often frictions and disputes between children, these are part of growing up and everyone can understand.
But in any case, solving problems with violence is not advisable.
Li Caiyun was shocked by Zhou Kexin's behavior and hoped that she could realize how serious it was to hit a classmate with a bench.
Zhou Kexin lowered her head: "There were five or six of them beating up Goudan and Gousheng. Am I supposed to just stand there and watch? And they were the first to start..."
After hearing what her daughter said, Li Caiyun was suddenly at a loss for words.
Li Jingchu's eyes were slightly red, and his voice was trembling: "This is not the first time they have used our surname to exclude us. They even wantonly slandered my father..."
Nowadays, few people mention that Zhou Yong is the son-in-law of the Li family. Occasionally, adults will mention this matter when chatting at home, and then some ignorant children will spread it at school.
The news spread from one person to another, and gradually it spread throughout the school.
Some classmates knew about this and didn't take it seriously, but the transfer students were different. They always made fun of it.
After hearing Zhou Kexin's words, Li Caiyun realized how much injustice her five children had endured at school.
She felt very distressed, but as a mother, she had to guide her children's outlook on life and values correctly.
"When you encounter something like this, you should report the situation to the teacher instead of fighting with your classmates in private..."
Zhang Guifang glared at Li Caiyun: "Didn't you hear what Niuniu said? They were the first to attack, and if they don't fight back, are they just going to get beaten?"
Li Caiyun opened her mouth and Li Baotian cleared his throat: "Caiyun is educating her children, don't get involved."
Zhang Guifang was unwilling: "Don't you know what kind of temperament Niuniu, Goudan and Gousheng have? They are not the kind of children who will take the initiative to cause trouble..."
Li Baotian glanced at Zhang Guifang who was very excited: "So what do you want?"
Zhang Guifang was stunned by the question, and Li Baotian stood up: "You should go back to your room and watch TV!"
"You old thing, you only know how to scold me."
Zhang Guifang muttered something in dissatisfaction, then she got up and went back to the house.
Zhou Kerou finished her meal and was about to go back to her room to get away from the trouble. When Li Jingan saw her, he hurriedly said, "Second sister, wait for me."
Seeing that everyone had finished their meal, Jiang Yue'e began to clean up the dishes.
Li Caiyun sighed and stood up: "You three follow me back to the house."
When Zhou Yong entered the house, he saw that there was no one in the living room. He was puzzled and went back to his room.
Li Caiyun was educating the three siblings, all with their heads lowered.
"What's going on?"
Li Caiyun rubbed her temples and told Zhou Yong what happened.
Zhou Yong frowned after hearing this: "Dad has told you so many times, don't care what others say..."
Zhou Kexin choked up and said, "Dad, that's because you didn't hear the ugly words they said..."
Adults can deal with things calmly, but Zhou Kexin and her two siblings are currently unable to do so.
After all, they are all children and cannot tolerate others slandering Zhou Yong.
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