That day, Xuemei just arrived at the intersection of her home and saw Accountant Li and his wife He Laidie standing at the gate of her yard. The two of them were pushing each other, and she didn't know what they were doing.
"Uncle Li, Aunt He, is there anything I can help you with?" Xuemei asked as she pushed her bicycle in front of them.
"Xuemei, you're back. Your aunt and I have something to discuss with your parents." Accountant Li replied, while He Lai Di avoided Xuemei's eyes.
"Is the door locked?" Xuemei asked. The Liu family usually waited until Xuemei came back from work before locking the yard door from the inside.
Xuemei glanced at Accountant Li and his wife, then called out into the yard, "Ruirui, Feifei, come open the door! I'm back."
Not long after, footsteps were heard from inside, and then the bolt opened with a clang.
"Dad, come and open the door. By the way, Accountant Liu and the others seem to want to talk to you about something?" Xuemei said.
"Okay, push your bike in first and don't come out of the room." Father Liu looked at Accountant Li and his wife and said to Xuemei.
After Xuemei entered the house, Father Liu said to Accountant Li and his wife with a sullen face, "How come you've taken money and grain from other families, and now it's our turn to ask for it?"
He Lai Di looked at Liu's father's dark face and ran behind Accountant Li in fear. Accountant Li blushed and said, "Brother Liu, that's not the case. It was the child's mother who went berserk this morning. We are here to sincerely apologize."
Father Liu snorted and walked into the yard. After a few steps, he realized that Accountant Li and the others hadn't followed him. He turned back and said, "What's going on? Are you two going to be gate gods at my gate? Why don't you come in?"
Accountant Liu and his wife quickly followed, and after entering the yard, they closed the door.
"Sister, you're back?" Qingya is on holiday today and just got back.
"Your midterm exam results are out. How did you do?" Xuemei asked after putting down her schoolbag.
"Sister, you ask this as soon as you come back," Qingya said unhappily.
"You have to know it anyway. It doesn't matter whether you tell it sooner or later. Come on, tell me." Xuemei turned her head and looked at Qingya and said.
"Okay, I'll tell you, my ranking is still the same as last time, 20th in the grade, but my total score is ten points higher than last time," Qingya said in a low voice.
"If your ranking doesn't improve, there will be no reward. You have to work harder. If you want to get into high school, you have to be ranked 15th in your grade. If you have time, take a look at my notes and then analyze your own weaknesses based on your own learning situation."
"Sister, I know. Is that Accountant Li and his wife outside? Ruirui saw them while climbing on the wall just now. If you hadn't come back, they would definitely not be embarrassed to come in. Because of what Accountant Li's wife did, they have offended a lot of people today." Qing Ya changed the subject.
Xuemei saw what Qingya was thinking and didn't intend to continue talking about her study problems. She would get annoyed if she talked too much, so she followed Qingya's words and asked, "You came back an hour or two earlier than me, so you know what happened today."
"When I went to Grandpa's house to look for chrysanthemums, Lanhua told me on the way. Big sister, do you want to know?" Qingya said proudly.
"If you want to say something, say it now. If you don't, I won't listen."
"Sister, can't you cooperate with me? Tell me quickly, you really want to know!" Qingya pulled Xuemei's hand and said coquettishly.
Xuemei pressed two fingers against Qingya's forehead as she leaned in, then said seriously, "Qingya, what happened today? I really want to know. Can you tell me?"
Qing Ya finally smiled and said, "Sister, Li Quanmin is back. The Li Quanmin who went to join the revolution is back today. But he has a broken leg. This morning, after you went to work, Dad took Accountant Li and his wife to the county hospital in an ox cart to pick him up. Li Quanmin's leg is seriously injured, and he'll have to use a cane to walk from now on. He definitely won't be able to work in the fields in the village anymore."
"Li Quanmin is injured so seriously, could it be that Aunt He is throwing a tantrum again?" Xuemei guessed.
He Lai Di is recognized as the most stubborn and unreasonable crazy woman in the village. The villagers secretly call her Crazy Woman He.
"Pretty much. Anyway, I heard Crazy He came back from the county town crying all the way back. After bringing Li Quanmin home, for some reason she got herself into trouble and went to the brigade headquarters, using Accountant Li's name. She used a loudspeaker to call the families of the boys who wanted to go with Li Quanmin last time, saying they had something important to discuss at the brigade headquarters. Big sister, guess what it was?"
"What's the matter? What is she trying to do?" Xuemei asked puzzledly.
"Sister, you'd never guess. She asked these families to help you with the medical expenses for Li Quanmin's injury. It seems they paid fifty yuan when they came to pick him up today. I heard that Li Quanmin had spent several hundred yuan in Beijing before.
Crazy He even said that for the sake of being from the same village, as long as you give a subsidy of 200 yuan, you will bear a large part of the responsibility. It's all your fault that you didn't drag Li Quanmin along, which led to Accountant Li not getting her son back. So you have to pay 50 yuan, and the other eight families will share the remaining 150 yuan. Those who don't have money will pay for the grain. "Qing Ya said angrily.
"She is really out of her mind, what nonsense is she talking about? Not to mention my mother, it is impossible for her not to be beaten by other aunts."
"Sister, that's right. He was beaten by the other aunts. Although his face looked fine, his hair was messed up and his body must have been bruised in many places.
Later, she was still not convinced and said she would go to the Revolutionary Committee to complain, saying that her father was irresponsible and that his failure to find her son had caused her son's misfortune. However, her father was so angry that he had a tantrum at the brigade headquarters. After his outburst, he returned home without caring about anything else.
Crazy He was later scolded by many villagers, who accused the Li family of being ungrateful. If Liujia Village hadn't kept them, who knows where they would be now? Crazy He was still unconvinced and immediately wanted to run to the commune, but was later taken back home by Accountant Li and her eldest son. "Qingya said.
"So she has figured it out now." Xuemei asked doubtfully.
"I don't know if she has figured it out. Anyway, when I arrived at my grandfather's house, Accountant Li was taking Crazy Grandma He to apologize to my second uncle and second aunt. Anyway, I heard from Sister Lanhua that they arrived at our house first, but my parents were not at home, so they started apologizing to the older families in the village." Qingya continued.
"It seems that there are still sober people in the Li family." Xuemei said.
"Sister, I want to go out and listen to how Accountant Li and the others apologize. Dad and the others are talking in the yard, I can't hear them at all now." Qing Ya said to Father Liu and the others while looking out the window.
"Just stay in your room. Dad doesn't want us to listen, so don't meddle in other people's business. Just do your homework." Xuemei instructed.
Qingya curled her lips, but still didn't dare to resist. She took out her homework from her schoolbag and started doing it.
A few minutes later, the door was opened with a bang. Mother Liu said to the inside, "Xuemei, something happened at Accountant Li's house. Your father and I are going to take a look. You can just go to the kitchen and do something."
Before Xuemei and Qingya could react, Liu's mother had already run out.
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