Seeing that the blood on Liu Sanzhuang's head could not be stopped, An Baoling was unwilling to ask him where he put his wages in front of Sun Shi - who knew if Sun Shi and Liu Sizhuang heard it, they would grab it? So she asked Liu Erzhuang for help.
Unfortunately, when the production team distributed dividends, although Liu Erzhuang said that each branch would receive its own share, he still couldn't handle the unreasonable Sun family when he got home, and in the end the dividends of the second and third branches still went to Sun family. Even this year, the dividends have not been distributed to each branch, and Liu Erzhuang couldn't come up with any money.
For the sake of Liu Sanzhuang, An Baoling was willing to risk her life. She asked her two sons to hold Sun and Liu Sizhuang one by one, and then she ran out to ask Xia Juhua for help, which led to a series of events that followed.
"Mom, I think Third Aunt is really mad this time and is really going to punish Fourth Uncle." Liu Zhishuang finished his porridge and said.
An Baoling really didn't want to let Liu Sizhuang go.
Why let him go? An Baoling is not Sun's family. If she wants to be partial, she should be partial to Liu Sanzhuang. After the doctor at the county hospital confirmed that Liu Sanzhuang's injuries were sufficient for him to go home and recuperate, she told Liu Erzhuang that Liu Sanzhuang was fine now and that she could take the children and push him home slowly. Liu Erzhuang still had the production team to deal with, so it was more important for him to go back and arrange the production team's affairs first.
Liu Erzhuang also felt that if such a thing happened in his family, who knows what the villagers would say about it. If he didn't go back to suppress it, there would definitely be people who wouldn't even go to work and would just block his door to watch the commotion.
Although his family was often watched and laughed at by others, his mother didn't get the money from Liu Sanzhuang this time, and he didn't know what bad things she would say in front of others. If people talked about him too much, he would have no chance of being the production team leader.
Liu Erzhuang worked hard as the production team leader and never thought of taking advantage of the public. However, because he became the production team leader after Liu Dazhuang's death, this position meant a lot to him, just like his brother was still watching over him.
The other Liu Erzhuang also knew that given his mother's character, if he didn't become the production team leader, his mother would use the same methods she used against Liu Sanzhuang to deal with them, and would even take back all the interest he had earned over the years for being disobedient.
Liu Erzhuang didn't want his family to suffer the same fate as Liu Sanzhuang's family, and he didn't want to be the next person to be pushed to the county hospital by a cart. So he had to go back and show up when the people in Ping'an Village didn't talk about it. In this way, even if the villagers talked about it, they could only talk about it behind his back because they were afraid of him as the production team leader.
As soon as Liu Erzhuang left, An Baoling did not stay in the hospital. She took her two brothers and pushed Liu Sanzhuang back. However, when they reached the commune, she stopped and instructed her son to push Liu Sanzhuang to the commune office.
□□ was already old enough to earn all the work points. He suddenly thought of what An Baoling wanted to do. He stood still, holding the handlebars of the cart with his hands: "Mom, is it possible? How about we discuss it with my second eldest master when we get home?"
An Baoling shook her head: "What's wrong with that? Your father is injured like this, and your second uncle is still thinking about preserving the Liu family's reputation. He doesn't care about his brothers, but I care about my man. Our family can't eat this loss for nothing, otherwise your fourth uncle's family will shit on our necks in the future. If Liu Sizhuang doesn't go to the study class, I won't be able to get through this New Year."
The two brothers □□ and Liu Zhiguo had been worried all night, their eyes were full of bloodshot. After hearing what their mother said, they stopped trying to persuade her and pushed their carts towards the commune office.
An Baoling had already made the decision to go to the commune to file a complaint when the doctor told her about Liu Sanzhuang's injury. She had thought that Liu Erzhuang might have some opinions about her after she filed a complaint with the commune. But she had been insulted and scolded by the Sun family and criticized by Sun Guizhi over the years, so she didn't care whether others had opinions about her or not, and just wanted to vent her anger.
What's more, An Baoling was not just venting her own anger, she was also doing it for Liu Sanzhuang.
Looking at Liu Sanzhuang lying on the cart without saying a word, An Baoling couldn't stop crying. Since Liu Sizhuang broke his head yesterday, Liu Sanzhuang has not spoken a word. His eyes are also straight. He doesn't respond to anyone talking to him. The county doctor said that he might have been stimulated by something, so he needs to go home and take good care of himself.
Liu Sanzhuang was still staring at the gray sky. No one knew if he heard An Baoling's angry words. An Baoling felt as if a knife was slowly stabbing her heart. She felt so painful that she wanted to cry loudly.
What kind of life did the third room live these years? They dared not delay working in the fields for a day, and they had to do the housework as well. As a result, they had the worst food and clothing, and were scolded every day. In the end, Liu Sanzhuang was even chopped off the head by Liu Sizhuang, that damn horse. How could he have the heart to do that?
If we don't teach him a lesson, will he stab the entire family of the third wife with a knife next time? !
An Baoling gritted her teeth and tried hard to keep up with her sons. Liu Erzhuang still wanted to cover up the matter, but An Baoling refused to admit it.
Liu Erzhuang also wants to cry now.
He arrived at Ping'an Village more than an hour later than Liu Zhishuang, but he was not as lucky as Liu Zhishuang - Liu Zhishuang had hot corn cakes to eat when he entered the house, but what was waiting for Liu Erzhuang was Sun's curse:
"How dare you come back? Didn't I tell you yesterday that whoever leaves the Liu family's courtyard should never come back? You just left, and your wife has ruined the whole family. She steamed a big pot of pancakes in the early morning, but I didn't know which wild man she gave them to..."
"Mom!" Liu Erzhuang had expected that his mother would not let him go easily, but he did not expect her to speak so outrageously. What did she mean by not knowing which wild man Li Daya gave the cake to? Did she forget that he and the third family were waiting for dinner in the county hospital?
Does the mother think that since she and the third son are from the same family, they should just work and not eat?
Sun was even more angry after being yelled at by Liu Erzhuang: "You unfilial son, how dare you yell at your mother. Come and see, Liu Erzhuang has become the production team leader and he doesn't want to support his mother anymore. He wants to starve her to death with his wife."
When Liu Erzhuang came back, there were already a few people standing at the gate of the courtyard watching the fun - everyone heard the big commotion in the Liu family last night, but Liu Erzhuang couldn't watch the fun openly and only heard half of it. Now they all wanted to ask Liu Erzhuang about Liu Sanzhuang's situation, but they didn't expect to hear Sun scolding Liu Erzhuang first.
What was even more unexpected was that Liu Erzhuang, who had always let Sun do whatever she wanted, looked at Sun tiredly and asked in a hoarse voice: "If mother thinks I am unfilial, can I live separately?"
Sun's voice suddenly disappeared, and she looked at her second son in surprise, as if she didn't understand what he meant. Liu Erzhuang rubbed his face, squatted on the ground and stopped talking, waiting for Sun's answer.
"What are you talking about? You want to split up the family? No way!" Sun's reaction was to crush Liu Erzhuang's idea of splitting up the family: "You killed your eldest brother, and now you want to stop supporting me. Why doesn't God strike you dead with a bolt of lightning, you unfilial thing?"
"Even if God wants to thunder, it won't hit Erzhuang." Li Daya stood beside Liu Erzhuang without pulling him up. She looked straight at Sun and said, "We all know how our eldest brother died. Everyone knows it, but mother doesn't know it? Then why did the third brother go to the county hospital? Mother can't be unaware of it."
"You, you bastard, are going to piss me off to death." Sun had always been used to bully her two older daughters-in-law, and even though Li Daya had been silently resisting, she still didn't say much. Last night, Li Daya had already scolded Liu Sizhuang in front of Sun, and today she actually scolded herself directly, and Sun was so angry that she sat on the ground again.
Just when she was about to slap her thighs and cry, Li Daya said desperately: "Mom, don't cry anymore. Save some energy and wait for the commune to come. It's not too late to cry later."
"Someone from the commune is coming, who is it?" Sun Shi stopped crying and stared at Li Daya. Liu Erzhuang also stood up suddenly and asked, "What did the third daughter-in-law say to you?" In the morning, when Li Daya went to deliver food, she talked to the third daughter-in-law alone for a while. Liu Erzhuang didn't pay attention to it at that time, but now he felt cold in his heart when he thought about it.
Li Daya did not answer Liu Erzhuang's words. She felt that An Baoling was right: Liu Erzhuang was too obsessed with face to suffer in life. In order to prevent outsiders from laughing at the discord between the Liu brothers, he always thought of giving in. But would it be useful for only the two families to give in?
They have been giving in for more than ten or twenty years, but they have never received a single polite word from the Sun family and the fourth branch, except that they have made the Sun family and the fourth branch even more aggressive. Others have taken their concessions for granted, and if they are not taught a lesson, they will definitely go even further.
Liu Erzhuang didn't get an answer. Based on his and Li Daya's years of understanding as husband and wife, he knew that Li Daya agreed with An Baoling's approach. He couldn't help but sigh and squatted down on the ground weakly.
Sun was still questioning Li Daya, but she couldn't answer questions that Li Daya didn't want to answer, so she could only vent her anger by cursing. In the past, when she cursed, Liu Erzhuang was afraid that others would hear and be embarrassed, so he would persuade her, beg her, and agree to her unreasonable demands. This time, Liu Erzhuang was like someone had his bones pulled out, he could only sigh one after another, and didn't even say a word of advice.
The ground was very cold after the winter. Most of the benefits that Sun got from the brothers Liu Erzhuang and Liu Sanzhuang were used to support Liu Sizhuang alone. Not much was used on himself. The cotton trousers he wore were lined with old cotton and were very thin. After a while, he felt his buttocks and legs were freezing cold and he couldn't even sit still.
Sun moved her butt and looked around, hoping someone would come to persuade her or help her up so that she could get down the hill. But no one came.
No matter whether they were family members in the courtyard or outsiders who came to watch the excitement, everyone seemed to be unaware of how cold the ground was. They all looked at Sun and Li Daya, and even ignored Liu Erzhuang who was squatting on the ground.
Like Sun, everyone didn't want to believe it, but they didn't want to alarm the people of the commune just because of a fight between brothers. In the countryside today, most people still believe that family disgrace should not be made public, so if brothers fight, they will just fight, and at most ask the cadres of the production team or the respected elders to come forward to mediate. Even the people in the brigade rarely get alarmed, unless the militia captain takes the initiative to ask, how can Li Daya be so sure that people from the commune will come?
Even though Li Daya always gave everyone the impression of being a person of her word, people still couldn't believe it.
Things that you cannot believe may become reality. For example, a cart appeared at the entrance of Pingan Village. On the cart was a person with a thick bandage on his head. Behind the cart were several red squads wearing red armbands.
When the Red Team passed by Xia Juhua's house, they sniffed at the same time and asked An Baoling, "Whose house is this? They are frying peanuts, right? Where did they get the peanuts? You can tell from the smell that they fry a lot of them."
An Baoling heard the red armband's unfriendly tone, and her heart, which had been tense all the time, rose to her throat. She said softly, "This is my eldest sister-in-law's house. She is a good cook, and the supply and marketing cooperative asked her to fry the peanuts for us."
One of the Red Team members had obviously tried it before and asked An Baoling, "Are they the peanuts with icing sugar?" Seeing An Baoling nod, several Red Team members looked at each other and stopped moving forward, "Even if the supply and marketing cooperative ordered us to fry them, we can't do that. As a member, we should focus on the production tasks of the production team. How can we give up our work in the production team and work for the supply and marketing cooperative? Isn't this destroying agricultural production?"
The Red Team had always been active in the commune, so they knew that the supply and marketing cooperative would not let people work for free. The last time they were tasked with making quilts, they were paid a lot of money. Since they had been discovered by them, the Red Team thought they could go into this house to scare them, or at least give each of them a few pounds of peanuts to try.
An Baoling's face turned pale when she heard this. She didn't want to implicate Xia Juhua because she brought the Red Team with her. She tried to smile and said, "She didn't help the supply and marketing cooperative on her own initiative. The supply and marketing cooperative asked her to help because they saw that the production team had no work in the winter."
Hearing that the supply and marketing cooperative had informed the production team, the members of the Red Team showed disappointment on their faces - the supply and marketing cooperative was a hot commodity in the eyes of the Commune Revolutionary Committee, and they could not openly go against the supply and marketing cooperative. Just now, they wanted to scare people with this company that secretly took the work of the supply and marketing cooperative, but the supply and marketing cooperative had already informed the production team, so there was no point in scaring them.
The disappointed Red Team continued to follow An Baoling and the others towards Old Liu's house. Without An Baoling pointing them out specifically, as soon as they saw a group of people gathered at the empty door, they knew it was the house An Baoling was talking about.
This is how it is in the countryside. If something new happens in someone's family, there will always be people who come to watch the excitement. The Red Team of the commune has been rampant in the countryside for so many years that it has a clear understanding of everyone's habits.
So before they even reached the gate, the leading Red Team had already started shouting, "Make way, make way, and hand over the bad guy Liu Sizhuang."
The members who were still wondering why Li Daya was so determined to get the people from the commune, when they heard the Red Team's shouting, they reflexively made way for them to enter Old Liu's house, and then focused their attention on Liu Sanzhuang lying on the cart.
There was no way. No matter who saw Liu Sanzhuang's current situation, they would feel something was wrong: he was lying too quietly. Whether it was the movement of the car or the shouting of the Red Team, he could not react at all. And his eyes were too empty, staring straight at the sky without moving his eyeballs.
"Has San Zhuang been beaten stupid?"
"Liu Sizhuang is really guilty. Sanzhuang is his biological brother, how could he have the heart to do that to him?"
"That's just what old Mrs. Liu is used to. She's always talking about Si Zhuang, as if Si Zhuang is her only biological son, and the two brothers are doing the work for Liu Si Zhuang."
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Everyone was talking without trying to suppress their voices, and every word was heard in the courtyard of Old Liu's house. Liu Erzhuang, who was squatting on the ground, stood up suddenly, ignoring the Red Team who were already shouting to enter the hospital, and rushed to the front of the cart. Seeing that Liu Sanzhuang was not much better than when he left the hospital, he could not help but shouting: "Sanzhuang, Sanzhuang?"
Liu Sanzhuang still did not respond.
An Baoling's tears flowed even faster: "Second brother, Sanzhuang has been beaten stupid, how are we going to live in the future?"
□□, who was pushing the cart, and Liu Zhiguo, who was supporting his mother, also shed tears. They said to An Baoling with determination, "Mom, you still have us. We support you and my father. We are splitting up and we will not live here anymore. Even if we have to live in a shed in the production team like Auntie, we will not live with them."
Sun Shi climbed up slowly by herself without anyone to persuade or help her. She had not expected that Liu Sanzhuang was so badly injured. If he was really stupid, wouldn't he be unable to work in the fields and could no longer earn any work points?
Although An Baoling and □□ are still able to go out, □□ and Liu Zhiguo are about to get married, and Liu Sanzhuang has to recuperate. Can An Baoling afford the bride price by herself?
With her mind in turmoil, Sun approached the cart and saw that Liu Sanzhuang was just like what everyone had said. He was lying motionless on the cart and didn't even say hello to her. She howled:
"Third brother, what's wrong with you? You are trying to break my heart. You can't get hurt. If you get hurt, I won't live anymore. Come on, if you want to split the family property, just tell me. Why are you so angry that you hit your head and made such a big hole. If I had known you were so angry, I would have agreed to you earlier, third brother..."
What? Liu Sanzhuang was not beaten by Liu Sizhuang, but hit his head by himself? The Red Team was stunned, and the people in Pingan Village were also stunned. They always knew that Sun was a person who was sharp-tongued and mean, and they thought she was only to outsiders, but she didn't expect that she would be like this to her own son, and even worse.
An Baoling pushed away Liu Zhiguo who was supporting her like crazy and rushed to Sun. If it weren't for the Red Team members in front of her, she wanted to slap Sun: "You said that the third child hurt himself, then what did he hurt himself to be like this? Even if he hurt himself, if you really feel so sorry for him, you should pay to send him to see a doctor. Why are you asking me to borrow money from everywhere?"
Sun was startled by An Baoling's eyes and habitually reached out to slap An Baoling. In the past, when she saw Sun reaching out, An Baoling would turn around and let her slap land on her back - her back was thick, so it didn't hurt much after two slaps.
But this time, An Baoling just stood there straight, staring at Sun with eyes blazing with fire, making her feel like she was in a dilemma whether to slap him or not. The leader of the Red Team spoke at this time:
"That old lady, you said Liu Sanzhuang hit himself, then show us where he hit himself. You," he pointed at An Baoling again, "you said Liu Sanzhuang was beaten by Liu Sizhuang, then find out what Liu Sizhuang used to beat him, let us see who dares to hide the revolutionary young general!"
Sun's hand, which was raised in the air, fell powerlessly on her thigh. She wanted to slap them but was afraid that the Red Team would be disgusted. She wanted to point out to the Red Team where Liu Sanzhuang had touched her but had nowhere to point. Her face turned blue and red and she was speechless.
At this time, Li Daya took action and ran to the east room where she lived to take out the bench that Liu Sanzhuang had used to beat people and handed it to An Baoling. An Baoling looked at Li Daya gratefully, and Li Daya turned around without any expression to guard Liu Sanzhuang on the cart.
"Captain, Liu Sizhuang beat my man with this bench. After beating him, he didn't let me take my man to treatment, and he had to steal the money my man earned from carrying food bags. If my man had been treated earlier, he might not have been so stupid." An Baoling handed the bench to the leading Red Team, sniffing and explaining the matter clearly.
There was still blood on the bench, and anyone who saw it would associate the blood with the wound on Liu Sanzhuang's head. The leader of the Red Team shouted, "Where is the bad guy Liu Sizhuang?"
Yes, where is Liu Sizhuang? From the time Liu Erzhuang returned home to the time the Red Team arrived, no one had seen Liu Sizhuang, waiting to see the lively members. When Liu Erzhuang saw Li Daya bring out the bench, his vision went dark, and he knew that the old Liu family member was doomed. He struggled to walk over and whispered to Sun: "Mom, where is Sizhuang?"
When Sun saw Liu Erzhuang approaching, she felt more confident and shouted in a shrill voice, "Our Sizhuang is hard-working and a good member of the production team, not a bad element. He is not at home. He went to help his father-in-law."
Besides, Li Changwang's family had been standing in front of Old Liu's house early in the morning to watch the excitement. When they saw that the people from the Red Team really followed An Baoling to Ping'an Village, they ran to tell Xia Juhua the news. Li Changwang's family believed that Xia Juhua should be very happy to see Old Liu's family making fun of her. If she told Xia Juhua the news, Xia Juhua would realize that she was really good to her, and would be the first to teach her any new tricks in the future.
Xia Juhua was dragged here without any intention of going into the hospital, but stood on the street and listened to the movements of the Liu family. After hearing Sun's shameless words, Xia Juhua was shocked along with everyone else: she beat her own brother into the hospital, and she herself went to help her father-in-law even though she was fine?
How could she not know what was going on at the old Sun family? If she wanted to help, shouldn't Sun Hongmei also be involved? Xia Juhua looked at Li Changwang's family with some gratitude. If she hadn't been dragged here by her, she wouldn't have known that the Sun family's shamelessness had reached a new level.
Li Changwang gave Xia Juhua a very proud look in return, her ears still pricked up to listen to the movements in Old Liu's yard - the Red Team were not from Ping'an Village, they should not be fooled by Sun, otherwise she would have dragged Xia Juhua to watch the fun in vain.
Fortunately, the Red Team did not agree with Sun's evaluation of Liu Sizhuang. They asked one question: where is Liu Sizhuang's father-in-law's home? They wanted to capture Liu Sizhuang and bring him back to accept the people's dictatorship!
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