Chapter 111: Honest Eyes
She opened her mouth for a long time, not knowing what to say.
Lu Mingjiang was usually slow and good-tempered with Lu Dongping and the others, but this time he was clearly furious. Still not satisfied after beating someone up, he walked into the yard and started yelling, "Why don't you learn your lesson? Are you three and a half years old or something? Don't you know what kind of people these two families are? You've been working yourself to death all day, and now you're full and have nowhere else to expend your energy, so you're working the fields? Where else are you going to go? You're not convinced, but what's there to be dissatisfied about? You're thinking of soaring to the sky before you've even grown wings yet? You should see if you have what it takes!"
"I'm not dissatisfied, but why do you believe others and not me? We played together, every time, it was like this? They beat me up too. I was covered in mud, and my eyes were almost blinded. I washed myself clean before coming back. I didn't complain to you and ask you to cause trouble for them. I know that if they complained to their family, we would definitely not play together anymore. You said you didn't want to play anymore, but you still hit me? You are so powerful, why don't you beat up my brother? You are just bullying the weak!"
Wenwan:——
Can't you just shut up and curse for a while? You're just asking for a beating!
Sure enough, Lu Mingjiang saw Wen Wan outside and was not going to curse anymore, but he was annoyed by Wen Wan's words of bullying the weak. The anger that had just been suppressed suddenly surged up again. He raised the stick and hit Lu Donglin again: "I am a bully, so what? You bastard, if I don't beat you for three days, you will climb up the roof and tear down the tiles. I can still move, how can I keep you alive if I don't beat you?"
Lu Donglin was still afraid of him, especially when he was really being beaten. He dared to run when Zhang Hongying beat him, and he didn't dare to move when Lu Mingjiang beat him. It's not that he didn't run, he just ran, but he didn't run away, and he was caught and beaten up.
Zhang Hongying glanced at it and then looked away, it was the same as if she had seen nothing.
Lu Mingjiang hit Lu Donglin with a stick and he jumped up in pain, crying out loud.
Wen Wan looked at this and that, then stood up and shouted, "Uncle! He knows it hurts. If it hurts, then he's been punished. He must know he's wrong. Stop hitting him!"
The stick didn't hit her, but she felt pain just by looking at it.
It would have been fine if she didn't say anything, but once she opened her mouth, Lu Donglin cried even louder.
She thought that since she had already spoken and stood up, she might as well play the good guy to the end.
He went to the middle of the yard and pulled Lu Donglin onto the eaves.
Lu Donglin followed her to the door of the main hall, crying out of breath.
In the summer, he wore thin clothes, and his exposed arms and calves were covered with marks from being beaten with bamboo sticks, red, swollen, and purple, one after another.
"Don't cry, but remember, don't fight with others in the future. What's the point of fighting? If you lose, you will feel pain, and if you win, you will also feel pain."
"Sister, no, we didn't really fight. We were just playing, playing BL tag. We play like this all the time, but who knew they would actually go and complain? What a snitch! I'm never going to play with them again."
Today was supposed to be a particularly happy day. It was the first time in his life that he went to the county town, he had a new pair of shoes, and he could eat big meat dumplings in the evening. But who knew that before the dumplings even reached his mouth, stir-fried bamboo shoots with human meat were served.
Zhang Hongying finished peeling the green onions that Wen Wan hadn't finished peeling at the kitchen door. When she heard him say, "Why don't you try to play tricks on them again? Do you believe I'll really let your father break your legs next time? Our house is so big that there's no room for you? How can you sneak into someone else's house with a basket on your back to pick pig grass? What are you doing in someone else's house? Are you short of food or water at home? That thief Jian Zhaodi pointed at my nose and scolded me today, saying that you were a thief when you went into someone else's house. Everyone on the ground was listening and watching. That name of a thief is so easy to bear. This whole family will never go out and won't raise their heads because of you anymore?"
Wen Wan was stunned for a moment. It turned out that it was not just a fight, there was also this?
She took some red medicine and smeared it on the parts of his body that were hit harder. "Okay, stop crying. We'll have dumplings tonight. Wash your hands later and let's go make some. It's already this late and I'm starving."
Lu Donglin was obviously in great pain. He sat on a small stool with his arms around his knees and cried.
Wen Wan didn't know what to say. She couldn't just say the same thing as Zhang Hongying and the others, asking him to remember not to visit others or play with them in the future?
The situation is still uncertain!
She looked at Lu Donglin sobbing uncontrollably, went into the house, took out some candy, peeled it and fed it to him: "Okay, don't cry anymore, the pain is over, just wait a night, and tomorrow will be a good day again! Okay?"
Lu Donglin wanted to laugh, but he couldn't smile.
Wen Wan coaxed him for a while, then got up to scoop some water for him to wash his face and hands, and then they all went to the kitchen to make dumplings around the table.
Pork and leek dumplings, with only green onions and a little salt in them, have a rich aroma that you can smell even before they are cooked.
Lu Donglin was beaten and then healed by Jiaozi.
After dinner, Wen Wan told Lu Dongping, "I'll ask Zhou Jianmin what's going on. There must be a misunderstanding. It's normal for kids to play around and visit each other. How did they get into trouble and get Donglin beaten like that? He can't just take this beating for nothing."
Lu Dongping said, "Don't worry about it. I know what's going on. That brat Lu Donglin deserves a beating. He'll learn his lesson. Not to mention Zhou Guicai's family, Jian Zhaodi has always been at odds with ours. Even though we're still the Lu family for several generations, we haven't been in touch for years. That nagging woman is the worst kind of person. She can't stay quiet all year round without causing trouble. It's just that Lu Donglin was unlucky this time. He deserves to be punished, but I won't let him get beaten in vain."
The name of a thief is not easy to bear, and he won't want to bear it. He may have been too well-behaved in the past two years, so the people on the team have forgotten what kind of temper he has.
Wen Wan thought that it would be great if he knew what was going on.
After dinner, Zhang Hongying and Lu Mingjiang were still awake. Lu Dongping chopped up the big bones he brought back, blanched them in boiling water, then added half a pot of water and salt, brought it to a boil, and added some hard firewood to simmer it slowly.
Wen Wan and Lu Chun'e used the flashlight in the main room to organize the wires they had made in the afternoon.
He packed the colored silk threads separately and then asked Lu Chun'e to call Zhang Hongying.
"Mom, Sister Wen Wan brought back a lot of cotton and hemp thread. She was delayed in sorting it out this afternoon and is sorting it out now. She asked you to go take a look and take some if you need it. She will collect the rest later."
Zhang Hongying got up, wiped her hands and went to the main room.
Wenwan had already put away the cloth inside the lid, but she hadn't dealt with the pile of thread yet.
Seeing Zhang Hongying coming over, she said, "Aunt, I bought some thread by the way. Please collect any that you find useful."
Zhang Hongying was stunned for a moment when she looked at it with the help of the flashlight. "Why did you buy so much thread? If you have cloth coupons, you can buy more cloth. Thread is very durable. One or two will last a long time."
"It's not that I bought more cloth, but I got a discount, so I brought some extra. I figured I'd need it anyway, and I need to make some things this year, so I need a lot of thread too!"
Zhang Hongying asked for a black thread and a red thread: "I'll take the red one. Dongping will bring back the fluffed cotton later to tie the quilt for you. Red thread is best for your wedding."
Wen Wan nodded: "Then I'll have to trouble my aunt."
"You kid, you're still being polite to me about this. When you get married, your in-laws will sew quilts for you. This is a popular thing wherever you go."
Wen Wan took the shoes she had bought out of the sack and said, "I heard that you have to make shoes for your in-laws when you get married, but I don't know how to sew shoe soles, so I bought you and your cousin a pair of shoes today. They're Liberation Shoes. They're not expensive, but they're a little token of my appreciation."
Before Zhang Hongying could open her mouth, she heard Lu Chun'e say, "Mom, my sister also bought shoes for me and Lu Donglin. My pair of shoes looks great."
Zhang Hongying repeatedly squeezed the Liberation shoes in her hand, her lips trembling. It took a long time for her to speak: "You child, how can you be so naive? I say that, but with the conditions now, let alone buying shoes, even making them is impossible. If you can make a pair of insoles for me, it would be great."
Wen Wan said, "I can also make insoles. Aunt, when you have some free time later, you can make some old clothes into jackets. I went to the scrap yard with Lu Dongping today and got a lot of newspapers. You can use them when pasting. Then, wrap them with a layer of white cloth. I want to make insoles."
"You're using white cloth to make insoles? Won't that make them less resistant to dirt?"
Wen Wan put away the remaining thread and said, "White cloth is definitely not suitable for daily wear, but I need a few pairs of white ones, yes, for weddings, and they need to be embroidered." After saying that, she rubbed her slightly hot face and said, "Just, you, your cousin, and Lu Dongping, just follow the sizes."
Zhang Hongying looked at her in surprise: "You can also embroider?"
"My grandma can do it, my mom can do it too, I'm not very good at it, I can just make an insole for my shoes."
“That’s pretty impressive.”
Wen Wan was cheerful. She also felt that she was quite capable. Except for her lack of strength and ability to work, she could do a little bit of everything else.
After buying the paint, Lu Dongping brought back the cotton wool, a few hinges and some nails when he returned from the commune the next day.
The doors and windows of the new house need to be installed, and then painted. With the doors and windows, things can be placed inside, and the bed can be set up, so the head of the bed also needs to be painted.
Lu Donglin and Lu Mingjiang were both there helping him hold the door open. They worked very quickly, hammering the door frame into the wall with nails, then connecting the door panel to one side of the door frame with hinges.
After waiting for a while, I finally managed to fix the window frame before I could eat.
It gets dark late when it’s hot. It’s already eight o’clock, but it’s still not too dark. The family members sit casually under the eaves, each holding a bowl in their hands, and eat.
Mosquitoes were buzzing everywhere, trying to join in the fun.
Zhang Hongying slapped him and said, "In summer, this thing is the most annoying. It stares at you wherever you go." Especially at night when it is pitch dark and no one can see, mosquitoes are not affected at all, as if they have night vision.
Wen Wan said, "I bought a lot of cotton yarn yesterday, planning to make mosquito nets. I forgot to count how many I could make. With that stuff, at least I can sleep more peacefully."
"Mosquito net?" Zhang Hongying was stunned. She had heard of it but had never seen it.
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