Chapter 19: Little Overlord
The captain was put in a sack and beaten some time ago. Now he doesn't dare to think that he is the boss or the third in command.
They became less arrogant and more wary of the town's commune leaders.
After he got into trouble, the police said they couldn't find the culprit, and the commune secretary even went to talk to him.
Seeing that these villagers were staring at him with unfriendly expressions, the sequelae of being put in the sack began to appear. He was afraid of being beaten again, so he quickly explained the main business: "These people were sent to your place for labor reform. The dirtiest and most tiring work is assigned to them..."
He went on and on listing their crimes.
Song Youliang was very angry: "How many families are there in our team? We don't have any extra rations, and we can't take on so many people."
If all the people who came were educated youth, even if they could not do farm work at first, they would be able to learn it after a long time.
Moreover, the educated youth are young and have no lack of strength.
Now he has four elderly people and three children to take care of, all of whom are sick. He is afraid that he will have to hold a funeral in a few days.
Relying on his biological father, his son has been a bit casual in his relationships with men and women in recent years. This time he has taken a fancy to the young, fresh and pretty Chu Dan, and he even told him privately that after bringing these people to Lingxia Village, he would also treat Chu Dan as an activist and absorb him into their team.
He also wanted his son to settle down, so he agreed.
However, seeing that the other daughter of the Song family was acting so aggressively and that she also disagreed with Chu Dan going to the town, she did not mention the matter and told everyone to get on the tractor and leave quickly.
The mountain road here is full of potholes and has many bends. They are worried that if they don't hurry up, the tractor driver will drive the tractor into a ditch when it gets dark.
Several elders in the village also began to ask Song Youliang: "What should we do with these people? It's so cold, and the cowshed is drafty and they can't survive."
For ordinary people, the biggest hope is peace in the world and being able to have enough food and warm clothing.
Especially those standing here, who have all experienced those difficult three years, have become particularly thrifty with food.
But even so, we will not ignore human life.
Someone else suggested: "Why not arrange for them to live where the educated youth live? There's an empty room there."
There were few educated youth in their team, and only three men and two women were assigned.
The female educated youth have all married villagers, and now the houses prepared for them are just sitting there empty.
Zhong Guobing was one of the male educated youth. Later he married Chu Hong and moved into the Chu family.
Song Youliang thought for a moment before speaking: "There are still empty rooms over at the warehouse. Let them squeeze in first. Let Dawei and the others repair the cowshed tomorrow."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Chu Hong and said, "Go get the key and open the door."
Chu Hong responded and pulled Chu Dan back.
Because she found that when those people were leaving, her cheap sister was flirting with one of the handsome men, as if she wanted to follow them.
Of course she didn't want to and held Chu Dan tightly.
Chu Dan had been hit several times by his second sister before, and it hurt a lot. He wanted to resist, but when he saw the way his second sister was staring at him, it was like a cat staring at a mouse.
Then I thought about the time when my second sister had a fight with someone and she would grab the person’s hair and bang his head against a tree.
When I deal with her, I'll beat her like I did today.
It’s scary to think about it. Unless she had the guts to do so, she wouldn’t have dared to resist and would have followed her back obediently like a little lamb.
Not far away, Wu Xiu also felt weak all over and was supported by her mother-in-law to go home.
Chu Hong saw that her grandmother and her stepmother had returned, so she said, "Grandma, please watch over Xiao San and don't let her go out. I'll give her the key first."
Old Lady Song agreed immediately and scolded her granddaughter in frustration: "Look at what you have done. Bringing these people here, isn't this embarrassing for your father?"
Chu Dan also felt wronged and cried, "I don't want to work in the fields every day. I also want to be protected from the wind and rain like my second sister, right?"
She felt that everyone in the family favored her second sister and only found a good job for her, while when it was her turn, she could only work in the fields.
"I'll try to find a job myself, and you guys still offended me."
Wu Xiu had never told her daughters about her parents' home before, for fear that if they let out a word, the whole family would be implicated.
But she had no good feelings towards those people in her heart. She slapped them in anger and cursed them viciously: "You want to go to town? Unless I die, you will go to work in the fields tomorrow. If you dare to go to town again, I will break your legs!"
Although Song Chudan felt that her family members were partial to her second sister, her family members had never hit her. At most, they would just scold her a few times.
This was the first time she was slapped by her own mother as far as she could remember. She was filled with fear and hatred, and ran back to her room crying.
Aunt Song saw her daughter-in-law's eyes turn red, so she whispered, "Don't worry, the child is still young. Besides, we have already said that we have food. Your matter has been cleared in front of the director, so you don't have to worry about them bringing up the past."
Wu Xiu wiped his eyes, sat down on the bamboo stool, and choked up and whispered: "That was also earned by Chu Hong's life, but this little one is so ignorant."
Chu Hong didn't know that her adopted sister had been beaten again. When she went over with the key, she saw they were all waiting at the door.
Song Youliang and a few other elderly people were still outside arranging how to repair the cowshed and where to get the wood for it, and asked his daughter to arrange it for them.
Chu Hong opened the door of an empty warehouse and invited them in: "You will stay here for two days. Don't go out. I will ask someone to get you some straw later."
This warehouse is really empty, even mice don't want to make a wasted trip here.
No matter how compassionate she was, she couldn't possibly prepare bedding for them, because her own bedding had only been patched up for three years.
We could only get them a few bundles of straw, and they could just lie in the straw.
Even the bedding under my own bed is made of straw, which is warm and environmentally friendly, but it makes a rustling sound when I turn over.
An old man with gray hair smiled at her ingratiatingly: "Thank you, comrade. They have a fever. Can you get us some firewood and hot water?"
He dared to speak because he felt that the female comrade was young and did not look disdainful towards them. Instead, she was very calm.
Chu Hong glanced at the other three old people who leaned against each other and sat slumped in the corner after entering the room. Their faces were strangely red. There were also two little boys and a little girl who looked at her with tears in their eyes. They were so pitiful that she couldn't say anything.
Chu Hong couldn't bear to refuse: "Wait a minute, I'll go back and look for it."
The original body was also a bully in the village. Nowadays, if a family does not have a son, they will be said to be extinct. If the original body heard that it was an adult who said this, he would rush up and sneer: "I know that you have not been educated, but you should have heard what the leaders said, that women can also hold up half the sky, right?"
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