Chapter 176 Taking Sides
If he hadn't shivered, these words would have been quite harsh, what a pity!
Lu Dongping ignored her completely and pulled Li Xiaohu's hand hard, and Li Xiaohu screamed like a pig being slaughtered.
It was as if his arm was really broken. Zhao Pingan was so scared that he quickly shouted at him: "Secretary Lu, Lu Dongping, let go immediately. Why are you holding on to the child when the adults are arguing? It's outrageous!"
Lu Dongping ignored him completely and looked at Li Xiaohu's mother and said, "Go and find out if I, Lu Dongping, was scared out of my wits and has come to extort money from others. Can I pay to send him to the hospital?" As he said that, he pinched Li Xiaohu again.
Hearing the cries, Li Xiaohu's mother, no matter how powerful she was, had to soften her stance. She was wrong. She shouldn't have come alone. She should have called her wife to come along. The idea that women were more capable and that no matter how much trouble they caused, there was nothing they could do was simply nonsense.
That bastard Lu Dongping doesn't care whether you are a man, a woman, an adult or a child.
She pounced on Lu Dongping and tore him apart: "Let go, let go!"
Lu Dongping didn't give her the chance to get close to him. He dragged Li Xiaohu staggeringly and said, "Let go. You don't want the money. If I let go, how am I going to spend this money?"
"No, I don't want the money anymore, let go, let go!"
"Don't want it anymore? I can't believe that there are people who don't want it even if they are paid."
Li Xiaohu's mother had to give birth to three daughters before she finally had this one son. She felt so much pain that it hurt like the apple of her eye. Now, when she heard Li Huzi crying like a pig being slaughtered, she didn't even remember the money. She was going crazy: "Let go, I don't want the money anymore, I don't want it anymore, let him go."
He wanted to skin Lu Dongping alive, but his son was in someone else's hands, and there were people standing by watching the show without helping, so he had no choice but to give in.
Lu Dongping raised his eyebrows: "Everyone is listening, the school teachers, the principal, the brigade cadres, the health center staff, and the students of the school. So many people heard it. If you don't want the money, don't turn around and deny it. If you make a fuss again, I won't care so much. I'm easy to talk to if you are easy to talk to. If you make me uncomfortable, we will all be uncomfortable together. I'm not the kind of unreasonable person. Your son hit my brother and went home last night and yelled all night saying his arm hurt, and I haven't come to you yet. If you don't make a fuss, we can each treat our own injuries. If you want to make a fuss, then we can go to the hospital and I'll treat your child and you can treat mine. I have no objection at all."
After saying that, he loosened his grip and Li Xiaohu quickly ran away with his arms folded.
Li Xiaohu's mother hurriedly chased them away: "Huzi, Huzi, you pig-headed idiot, come here so I can see what's wrong with your arm."
Li Xiaohu had been dragged by her all morning and didn't want to get close to her anymore. He shook his arm and said, "Huh? Doesn't it hurt anymore?"
His mother slapped her thigh in anger and sat down on the ground, crying, "This is unjust! You're not giving us a chance to live. You officials are protecting each other and not letting us live."
"If I don't let you extort two dollars, I won't let you live?"
Wen Wan stood there, looking at her with a stern face: "Keep yelling and scolding, I wonder what else you can come up with."
Li Xiaohu's mother was sitting on the ground, and the others were standing not far away, watching her crying and yelling as if they were watching an opera.
No one responded, and she couldn't continue making a fuss. She stood up cursing and was about to leave when Wen Wan stopped her.
"Don't be in such a hurry to leave. The child's matter is settled, but our matter is not yet over! Everyone is here now, the Xihe Brigade, the adults and children from several production teams are all here. Let's talk it out. You keep saying I'm shameless. I don't understand. How am I shameless? Did I eat your rice or drink your water?"
"They say someone like me is unqualified to teach. I got my teaching position by sleeping with men. Come on, tell me clearly, which man did I sleep with?"
Wang Xiannian said, "That's not nonsense. All our elementary school teachers have been tested. Teacher Wen's test paper is still there, and she got a perfect score. Last semester's final exam, Teacher Wen's class performed very well, winning first place in the entire commune's second grade. They were just commended not long ago."
He finally solved the problem, and Li Xiaohu's mother was speechless.
Wen Wan continued, "You said I was shameless, that I was throwing myself at someone, that I was shameless enough to live with someone before I was even married. How do you know so much? You're a maggot in the Lu family's toilet. You know everything about every fart that happens in the family, young or old, and you know it?"
Lu Dongping's brows twitched when he heard this. Oh, the little girl is so angry that she even swears.
But come to think of it, she has probably never seen such a scene in her life, and has never been scolded like this.
He narrowed his eyes and glanced at Li Xiaohu's mother.
Li Xiaohu's mother suddenly got up from the ground and pointed at her with great momentum: "You don't know the bad things you have done, but who in your team doesn't know it? You look like a vixen, afraid that no man will want you. You run away to other people's homes before you get married and even stay there at night. With your behavior, you still want to be a teacher? Bah!"
Lu Dongping pulled Wen Wan behind him and said, "Put your hand down. Where are you pointing?"
"Everyone in the production team knew about it, how could I not know? Tell me, who in our team knew about it, and who told you? My wife was an educated youth and lived with us. Everyone in the team knew about it. Later, she lived with us, but we got married. With the marriage certificate, we were married. What's wrong with her living with us? You're meddling in my affairs. It's like the God of Land is fighting the God of City.
He didn't need to ask, he knew how the news spread and who spread it. It must have been discussed behind the scenes for a long time. Today happened to be an opportunity, otherwise there would be no way to talk about this matter.
Zhao Ping'an chimed in, "I know a little about this. They got the marriage certificate first and then had the wedding banquet. You women, you have nothing to do all day long and just talk nonsense. This has only happened in the past two years. If you had said such nonsense a few years ago, you would have been labeled like those bad elements in the cowshed. You've only had a few days of leisure time, but you've already let your mouth off and said whatever you want. What's it to you what others do? Just plant your own two mu of land well, why do you care if someone else's wheat grows rice?"
After saying that, he glanced around and said to Li Xiaohu's mother: "What are you doing in school? The matter has been resolved. Why don't you go back to work? What are you doing here?"
Wen Wan took over the conversation immediately: "Leave? Are you just throwing dirty water on me and then leaving me alone? I have been unlucky for eight lifetimes and that's what I have to bear? Things haven't been explained yet. If you want to leave now, you should ask me for permission. You are making up stories without any basis and ruining my reputation. Fortunately, there are some people on the team who know the situation well and are reasonable. Otherwise, your words would make people think I am really shameless. I can't wash myself clean even if I jump into the West River."
Li Xiaohu's mother spat at her feet and said, "What's the matter? You are the king of the world, you are more powerful than the brigade secretary, Xihe Brigade is your home, so I can't leave if you don't let me? Who are you relying on for power? A person with integrity has nothing to fear. If your conduct is fine, would others say anything about you? You rely on your foxy looks to confuse a bunch of blind people. Who are you trying to scare with your large numbers?" At this point, even the people around her started to curse.
"Whose power does the dog rely on? She relies on mine!" Zhang Hongying roared, rushing over fiercely and stretching out her hand to scratch Li Xiaohu's mother's mouth: "You rotten woman, I'm not dead yet, how can I let you shit and piss on my son and daughter-in-law? You come to the school to chew maggots and blackmail people, and you think that we in Lujiazui are all fools, and you can bully us however you want!"
"Hey, Lu Dongping, Dongping, hurry up, quickly grab your mother, how can you do anything?"
Even without Zhao Ping'an telling him to, Lu Dongping had to intervene and take sides. His mother looked like she'd just run from the fields in one breath, panting so hard she was practically gasping for breath. How could she possibly be a match for the Li family's woman? It didn't matter if he took advantage or not, but he definitely couldn't suffer any loss.
So Wen Wan truly experienced what it meant to take sides.
Lu Dongping pulled Zhang Hongying and advised: "Mom, stop making trouble. Let's not argue with her. Just curse her back." While advising, he let Zhang Hongying and Li Xiaohu's mother fight. Seeing that the situation was not right, he quickly pulled them back. Zhang Hongying's hair was pulled, but she pulled a strand of it directly and slapped the other person in the face, jumping up and down and cursing.
Zhao Ping'an and the others pushed Li Xiaohu's mother and told her to leave quickly, pretending to stand on her side to block her.
Wen Wan felt that she had really learned something new and could do it this way.
Li Xiaohu's mother was persuaded by the brigade cadres to go outside the school, where she was still jumping and cursing.
Zhang Hongying seemed to be mad with anger. She broke free from Lu Dongping's hands and chased after him.
Zhao Pingan stood at the gate and yelled "Hey!", then said to Li Xiaohu's mother, "Why are you still making trouble? Hurry up--"
When Zhang Hongying ran out, the woman ran away with her. She still felt unsatisfied, so she stood at the school gate with her hands on her hips and cursed at the Hujiawan Production Team.
Wen Wan then went over and stretched out her hand to pull her: "Mom, take a rest. Come to my office and I'll get you some water."
Zhang Hongying finally stopped and said, "No, what's the point of drinking water? Is it time for class? Why are there no children here? Go to class quickly, don't delay."
Okay!
Wen Wan went into the classroom.
Even from a distance away, she could still hear Zhang Hongying's voice, talking to Zhao Ping'an and Wang Xiannian.
"Oh, I'm sorry to have caused trouble for Secretary Zhao and Principal Wang. I really am sorry to have made you laugh. Our Wen Wan is from the city. She has never seen such a vicious woman or such a thing. She must be scared silly. Asking her to quarrel with others is totally impossible. Dongping is a man, and he can't yell at her, a woman. If he really does that, it will really make people laugh. Let alone use violence. If he moves, it will be like poking a hole in the sky. I, an old woman, am not afraid. I have lived for most of my life, and I haven't done anything wrong. How can I let others point their noses at my son and daughter-in-law and bully them? Anyway, my face is as thick as the bark of an old tree. I am not afraid of being laughed at."
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