Ruan Yuehua was not interested in where the grapes came from. He came over and sat at the table, stretched out his hand to shake Sun Xiaohui's arm, and looked so greedy that he felt uncomfortable all over: "Mom, I want to eat grapes too."
Sun Xiaohui was shaken by him and said in a good-tempered manner, "Your grandparents didn't even let you eat the food they cooked last night, and you still want to eat their grapes? They were stolen, we won't eat them."
Ruan Yuehua was still very greedy, "But I want to eat it, and my brother wants to eat it too."
As he said this, he began to shake his head and wag his tail, acting like a spoiled child. "I want to eat grapes, I want to eat grapes..."
Sun Xiaohui was very patient with Ruan Yuehua and continued to coax him, "Don't listen to them saying that it's sweet. I tell you that the grapes look very sour. They'll make your teeth fall out."
Ruan Yuehua swallowed his saliva and still twisted, "I want to eat sour ones too."
Ruan Changgui still had the authority of a father in front of Ruan Yuejin and Ruan Yuehua. He couldn't bear to see Ruan Yuehua's useless appearance, so he held the chopsticks upright and said with a gloomy face: "If you twist again, I will beat you, believe it or not!"
Ruan Yuehua was so frightened that he quickly let go of Sun Xiaohui's arm and sat down at the table.
Ruan Yuejin said at the side: "We have already separated. I don't want to eat his food."
Ruan Changgui felt better after hearing this. He glared at Ruan Yuehua and said, "You should learn from your brother!"
Ruan Yuehua lowered her head and pouted. She wasn't listening at all. Her mind was still filled with the thought - I want to eat grapes.
When I lie in bed at night, I still see bunches of grapes in front of me.
Sun Xiaohui and Ruan Changgui were lying on the bed. Before Ruan Changgui started snoring, Sun Xiaohui said, "I've thought about it and I think Xiaoxi must have stolen the grapes. I have to report it to the Revolutionary Committee of the Jinguan Brigade."
Ruan Changgui held up his eyelids and said, "There's no need to report this to the brigade's revolutionary committee. Just teach him a lesson at home."
Sun Xiaohui turned her head to look at him, "Will she admit it? She stole needles when she was young, and stole gold when she grew up. This is not a small matter. Your parents spoil her in everything. If we don't do anything, this girl will end up in jail sooner or later."
Ruan Changgui took a deep breath, "If we report it, won't we be arrested and taken to the mass dictatorship office? We'll have to hang a sign at the criticism meeting, and we might even send her to labor camp. Just don't worry about it. Whether she goes to jail or not is none of our business."
Sun Xiaohui: "Why is it okay? What we advocate now is to sacrifice relatives for the greater good. We can't protect her just because she is our relative. Since she made a mistake, she must accept the due punishment. We can't cover up for her..."
As she was talking, she heard Ruan Changgui snoring. She knew he was so tired that he fell asleep, so she stopped talking and didn't continue. Then she turned over and lay on her side, thinking for a while, but she didn't feel sleepy at all.
She thought that she had to teach Ruan Xi a lesson, to reduce her arrogance and to relieve her anger. Take her to the mass dictatorship office and beat her with a stick, make her reflect in public at a criticism meeting, or even better, send her to a labor camp and let her suffer more on the construction site!
Sun Xiaohui tossed and turned several times like this and managed to fall asleep for a few hours.
The next day, she got up at night before the rooster crowed. She secretly took the flashlight from home, went out in the dark, went down the mountain road to find Jinguan Village, and then found the home of the brigade secretary.
When she met Secretary Wang of Jinguan Village, she explained her purpose directly: "Someone stole grapes from the old tailor's house in your brigade and took a bunch home. If this kind of evil trend is not corrected, it will shake everyone's revolutionary will!"
As she spoke, she took out a handful of grape skins and showed them to Secretary Wang, "This is stolen property, irrefutable evidence!"
When Secretary Wang saw the grape skins in her hand, his eyes slowly darkened.
Early in the morning, Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie got up after hearing the rooster crowing, washed, cooked, and did housework as usual. After finishing the housework and eating, they went out and then went about their own business.
Before leaving, Ruan Xi said goodbye to Liu Xinghua and said she would not be back for lunch.
When she arrived at the old tailor's house, she did not go to him to learn the craft, nor did she talk to him about learning the craft. Instead, she cleaned the house inside and out. When I had cleaned up and was about to sit down to rest, a woman in a plaid shirt suddenly came to the door.
She stood outside the gate of the yard and didn't come in yet. She turned her head and looked outside and waited for a while. When a young girl appeared in the door frame again, she waved her hand lightly and stepped over the threshold and entered the yard.
After coming in, the woman in the plaid shirt first greeted the old tailor with a polite look on her face, and said that she was here to make clothes.
The old tailor cleared his throat, got up from the rocking chair, and took the plaid woman and the girl into the house.
Ruan Xi was very considerate. She washed her hands and helped in the reception. She went into the kitchen to get two white porcelain bowls and poured a bowl of hot water for the woman in the plaid shirt and the girl beside her.
The hot water was brought to the main room. The woman in the plaid shirt drank half a bowl of water and said, "This is my daughter-in-law. She is getting married soon, so she needs to make several new clothes. I have already torn the cloth and brought it here. Please take a look and make two sets for her to wear on weekdays and one for the wedding day. They should all be festive and beautiful in style."
The old tailor said little. He looked at the cloth that the woman in the plaid shirt brought over and called the girl, "Stand up."
The girl was also silent. She just stood up from the bench with a shy and embarrassed look on her face.
The old tailor didn't care what expression she had on her face. After looking her up and down, he turned to Ruan Xi and said, "Okay, I have an idea in mind. Please help her measure the size."
Upon hearing this, Ruan Xi hurried to get the tape measure.
But when she brought the tape measure over, the plaid-shirted lady couldn't hold back her smile, and said in a somewhat unhappy tone, "Can she measure it?"
He looks like a teenager, about fourteen or fifteen years old. She was making the dress for her daughter-in-law, who would wear it in front of others at the wedding. She had spent so much money on it, so she couldn't afford to make any mistakes.
The old tailor always spoke directly and unpleasantly, always humiliating people. "She is my apprentice, and if I say it's okay, then it's okay. If you think it's not okay, then you can find someone else to do it for you."
The woman in the plaid shirt's face froze and she almost fell down.
If he wasn't the only tailor on Fengming Mountain, she would never have suffered this injustice!
Ruan Xi had witnessed how difficult it was to get along with this tailor, as he could even speak like that to his customers. She noticed that the plaid shirt lady had an unhappy expression on her face, so she smiled at her and said, "I have learned well from my master, don't worry, there will be no problem."
The woman in the plaid shirt regained some of her face and said nothing more.
Ruan Xi measured the girl's measurements and wrote them down one by one with a pencil. When measuring the size, she praised the girl as a fairy, and praised the woman in the plaid shirt as a good mother-in-law, saying that the girl was lucky, which made both of them smile.
After taking the measurements, I made an appointment with the woman in the plaid shirt for her to come and make the clothes, and then she saw her off.
The woman in the plaid shirt walked away with the girl, holding the cloth. When they entered the mountain path, she said, "When did this old tailor accept an apprentice? I wonder whose girl is so tolerant of this old tailor?"
The girl turned her head and said, "If I can really learn it, it will be worth it even if I suffer a little."
The woman in the plaid shirt said, "That's true. I think she has learned it quite well."
In fact, it’s mainly because he has a good temper and is good at talking, which makes her feel good.
Ruan Xi stood outside the courtyard gate and watched the plaid shirt woman and the girl walk away. He turned around, picked up Da Mi at his feet, returned to the main room and said to the old tailor, "Old comrade, you are too rude when talking to people."
The old tailor snorted when he heard this, "The salesperson at the supply and marketing cooperative is much more rude than me."
Ruan Xi blinked and was stunned for a moment. Come to think of it, this era was different from the later eras. Later, all the employees who had anything to do with service had to act like grandsons in front of customers or Party A, but now they are all real uncles.
Let's not talk about this anymore. Ruan Xi held Da Mi and sat down on the bench in front of the old tailor. She tilted her head slightly, looked at him and asked, "Master, what are you going to teach me today?"
The old tailor looked at her and before she could say anything, a few people suddenly came in from outside the yard gate.
The old tailor turned around and saw that it was Secretary Wang from their team who came, and the others were also village cadres. Judging from the expressions on their faces, they didn't look like they were here to make clothes, nor did they look like they were here to drink water or chat.
As the old tailor guessed, Secretary Wang led the cadres straight to the main house, sat down after entering the house, looked at the old tailor and said, "Uncle Song, we received a report from someone that someone stole a bunch of grapes from your house, so we came to investigate."
As he said this he took the newspaper from his pocket and unfolded it in front of the old tailor.
It was filled with a handful of half-dried grape skins.
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