"Lin Tao, what are you doing here? Did you eat your shoes?"
Yesterday they were met with all sorts of sarcastic remarks, but today they actually have the nerve to line up, and the crowd started to jeer.
Lin Tao said nonchalantly, "I'm only doing this to give them face. Otherwise, if so much cotton can't be sold, it will just rot in the warehouse."
Lin Chen was busy shipping orders when he saw this face of his, and came over with his fists clenched.
"If you know what's good for you, get out of here! You're not welcome here! Have you forgotten what you said? If you've got the guts, go ahead and eat my shoe!"
He slanders his wife behind her back and still wants cotton? Dream on!
Lin Tao never expected that his brothers would collude with others to target him, and he left the team with a belly full of anger.
Forget it, I'm too lazy to argue with such a narrow-minded person.
After returning home, seeing Gao Qiang personally deliver the cotton from Lin Chen's house, she felt resentful.
"Mom, isn't Captain Gao your cousin? How can he not show you any consideration?" he said angrily.
Yu Xiaofeng rolled her eyes at him and said, "Shut up! It's all because of your mouth that the Party Secretary and the team leader have lost face. Otherwise, they wouldn't treat us like this!"
I'm afraid I'll wake up cold again tonight. The old lady's blanket is a thick one; could you move it over tonight?
Unable to get cotton, people started targeting the old lady.
At night, the north wind howled, slapping tree branches against the wall.
Wang Xiufen couldn't bear to see the old lady freezing in the house, so after asking Jiang Ning's opinion, she asked Lin Qiao to bring her a cotton quilt.
The old lady was lying in the quilt, shivering and lamenting her fate, when she saw Lin Qiao carefully covering her with a quilt.
She immediately felt much warmer, and her cloudy eyes became moist.
To everyone's surprise, a few minutes later, Lin Tao walked in, noticed that she had two blankets on her, picked one up and walked out.
Just as she reached the door, Lin Qiao saw him and went up to argue with him:
"This is the blanket I gave to Grandma, why are you taking it away!"
Lin Tao snorted coldly: "Your mother's blanket, I can take it whenever I want, do I need your permission? Get out of the way!"
He shoved the blanket at her, and Lin Qiao stumbled back a step, almost falling. Lin Chen arrived just in time and steadied her.
"What's going on?" Lin Chen frowned, his sharp eyes looking at Lin Tao.
Lin Tao ignored him and continued walking home with the blanket in his arms.
"Brother, the blanket was given by Mom to Grandma." Lin Qiao said anxiously.
Upon hearing this, Lin Chen rushed forward and punched Lin Tao in the face.
"You only behave when you get beaten, huh?"
Lin Tao plopped down on the ground, and the blanket covered his head.
Lin Qiao stepped forward and punched him twice on the head, then took the quilt back to Lin Zhou Shi.
Lin Tao covered his head, kicking his feet in anger, "This Lin Chen is getting more and more outrageous, hitting people at the drop of a hat."
When Lin Chen returned, Wang Xiufen quickly explained to him that she had sent the quilt because she was afraid the old lady would freeze to death.
He didn't say anything. The old lady was a bit unreasonable, but she was still an elderly person, and he couldn't just watch her freeze to death.
Perhaps after this experience, she understands in her heart how wrong she was before.
Just as the group was talking, Lin Fugui arrived with several unfamiliar faces.
"Let me introduce you, this is Jiang Zhiqing."
"This is Comrade Zhang Changgui, the deputy township head."
Lin Fugui introduced the two sides to each other.
Jiang Ning hurriedly brought them chairs and asked them to sit down, and then busied herself making tea.
"Don't bother, I have something to ask of you," Mayor Zhang said bluntly.
Jiang Ning then sat down, and Wang Xiufen took the kettle from her hand.
After listening for a while, she understood that it was because an elderly person in the neighboring village had frozen to death, and the township was taking it very seriously, so they tried to send them winter supplies.
But there weren't that many cotton quilts and cotton-padded coats in the village, and they couldn't buy them in a short time. When they heard that a truckload of cotton had arrived in Chayuan Village, they wondered if there were any left over.
There are more than 100 households in Chayuan Village. By the time they all buy cotton, there probably won't be much left. So Lin Fugui simply brought Zhang Changgui here.
Jiang Ning chuckled, "Mayor Zhang, you flatter me. It took a lot of effort to buy this truckload."
Zhang Changgui said sincerely, "Jiang Zhiqing, you are so young and promising, and you are famous in the surrounding villages. Please think of another way, even if it's just 500 jin! There are more than 100 people in the whole township who are on welfare. We plan to allocate 2,000 yuan to them to buy winter supplies."
Don't worry, if you bring in the cotton, I'll settle the payment with you at the market price.
Since the township head said so, Jiang Ning didn't refuse. She remembered that she had quite a bit of cotton in her storage space, which she could take out, so she agreed:
“Then I’ll give it a try. Send a car to pick me up at the village entrance tomorrow.”
With the matter resolved, Zhang Changgui shook Jiang Ning's hand to express his gratitude, and then hurried outside.
To everyone's surprise, when they reached the eaves, an icicle hanging there fell down.
Just as it was about to hit him, Luo Guangming, who had come to find Lin Chen, pushed him away.
The ice pick struck his leg squarely.
Zhang Changgui quickly came over and asked, "Young man, are you alright?"
Luo Guangming frowned and shook his head.
Even through his cotton-padded trousers, he could feel a piercing pain, but he endured it and didn't show it.
Zhang Changgui didn't think much of it, asked a few questions, and then left.
Lin Qiao, however, had sharp eyes and noticed that his cotton trousers seemed to be soaked with blood. She quickly told him to roll up the trouser legs to take a look.
Luo Guangming rolled up his trouser legs, and Lin Qiao gasped in shock.
"Are you alright? Come inside and put some medicine on."
Lin Chen quickly helped him into the house, made him sit down, and fetched water to clean his wounds.
Aunt Luo, who was helping out inside, came out and saw his injury, her eyes filled with heartache.
However, after seeing Lin Qiao come out with cotton swabs and iodine, he went back inside.
Lin Qiao used a cotton ball soaked in iodine to clean his wound. The wound was more than ten centimeters long, and the deepest part was estimated to be one centimeter. After cleaning the wound, she closed the wound as close together as possible, sprinkled on wound powder, and then wrapped it with gauze.
"Thank you." Luo Guangming looked up and saw the little girl doing all this for him with a cold face, but his heart was warmed.
What a wonderful girl! Whoever marries her will be so lucky.
Afterwards, Lin Qiao offered to walk Luo Guangming home. When they were almost there, she took a scarf from her pocket and handed it to him.
"Brother Guangming, thank you for helping me in the competition last time. This is a scarf I knitted myself, please accept it!"
In this freezing weather, he went around with his neck bare, without wearing a hat, not even afraid of getting cold.
Luo Guangming took the scarf with a smile: "Thank you."
When I got home, I would have jumped for joy if it weren't for my leg injury.
He immediately wrapped the scarf around his neck, looked at it from left to right, and was reluctant to take it off.
The next day, Jiang Ning got into the truck sent by Zhang Changgui and went to the county town again...
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