After beating Sun Xiaohui, Liu Xinghua rolled up her sleeves, pointed at her and cursed: "You wicked woman, you even want to harm your own niece! You want to kill her, right? I will fight you to the death today!"
She slapped Sun Xiaohui so hard that she was stunned. Then, without giving Sun Xiaohui time to recover from her daze, she raised her hand, pulled the hat off Sun Xiaohui's head, and started beating her hard on the face.
The people around took a moment to react and rushed over to pull Liu Xinghua.
Several people pulled Liu Xinghua and Sun Xiaohui apart. Ruan Xi came over and held Liu Xinghua's arm. She put her other hand on her back to calm her down and said to her, "Grandma, anger is bad for your health. Don't be so angry."
Liu Xinghua rushed over after hearing the news. She had just used all her strength to beat Sun Xiaohui and was now gasping for breath. She took a breath before she said, "She's trying to hurt you on purpose. How can I not be angry?!"
After taking a breath, he said, "Now it's over, I've let out some steam."
Ruan Xi continued to massage Liu Xinghua's back to help her calm down, and when he saw that she had vented her anger, he didn't say anything else.
She turned to look at Sun Xiaohui again, only to see that Sun Xiaohui's hair was all messed up by Liu Xinghua, and there were several bruises on her face.
After Sun Xiaohui came to her senses, she was being pulled and couldn't move. She simply sat down on the ground and started crying.
She cried and said that she was only doing it for justice and to correct evil practices. She had no selfish motives and no intention to harm anyone, and it was impossible for her to maliciously harm her own niece.
She said she really didn't know that the old tailor took Ruan Xi as his apprentice. She talked about how great the old tailor was, and who would have thought that he would seriously teach Ruan Xi the craft. She also said she never expected that the old tailor would give Ruan Xi grapes.
Seeing her crying so pitifully and hearing that she certainly didn't seem to be deliberately framing Ruan Xi, someone said to Secretary Wang and Liu Xinghua, "She's already been beaten to this point and scolded enough, so let it go."
Secretary Wang really doesn't want to get involved in this matter anymore. Now it has become a purely family matter. He waved his hand and told everyone to disperse and get back to work. The women who were watching dispersed and left, and two of them pulled Sun Xiaohui along with them.
Sun Xiaohui stood up, sniffed, and tied her hair up roughly. She took the straw hat handed to her by the woman, put it on without even looking at Liu Xinghua and Ruan Xi. Her eyes and nose were red from crying, and she went into the cornfield with a wronged look on her face.
Secretary Wang advised Liu Xinghua again, saying that family matters should be resolved at home to avoid making a scene outside and making a fool of oneself. After saying that, he and several cadres around him went to look for the old tailor, but the old tailor had disappeared.
Secretary Wang then said to Liu Xinghua, "Auntie, we're leaving now. Mr. Song is old, and it's not easy for him to walk up the mountain. Someone must watch him go down the mountain. We have to hurry up and catch up."
The old tailor was older than herself, so Liu Xinghua could understand how much effort it took for him to come up here, so she nodded and said, "Go ahead, thank you for your help."
Ruan Xi saw that Liu Xinghua had almost calmed down. She was also thinking about the old tailor, so she handed Liu Xinghua to Ruan Jie and said to her, "Grandma, you and Xiaojie go home first. I'll go over to see my master."
Liu Xinghua knew how much face the old tailor had given Ruan Xi by coming here this time. He has always been cold-hearted and doesn't care about other people's lives. Because of his weird personality, he doesn't like to interact with others. This time is really the first time he has done that.
She patted Ruan Xi's arm and said, "Go quickly."
This piece of farmland was not far from her home. She and Ruan Jie could reach home in just a few steps, so there was no need for Ruan Xi to stay with them.
Ruan Jie turned around with his schoolbag on his back and ran after the old tailor. When he caught up with him, Secretary Wang and another cadre were already supporting him. She didn't say anything and followed him silently to Jinguan Village.
Secretary Wang and a few others safely sent the old tailor home, said goodbye and left.
Not long after leaving the hospital, one of the cadres said, "What the hell is this?"
After all this going back and forth, the old tailor was so exhausted that he lay in the rocking chair under the grape trellis without moving at all.
Ruan Xi moved a small stool and sat down in front of him, looking at him and saying, "Master, thank you."
I walked so many mountain roads and went through all this for her.
The old tailor didn't respond, and just said, "I'm too tired today, I don't have time to teach you, you can go back first."
Ruan Xi stood up, took off his schoolbag and put it on the small stool behind him. "Just take a rest. I won't learn the craft from you today. I'll stay and help you with the work."
The old tailor said unceremoniously, "It's up to you."
After all this trouble, it was almost noon.
Ruan Xi tidied up everything that could be tidied inside and outside the house, then went to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables and started cooking lunch.
It was still rice and two dishes, which made the old tailor very satisfied.
After lunch she was not idle either, and went to help the old tailor clean up his private plot. She randomly found an old piece of clothes to wear to work, pulled out the weeds in the field, and pinched her nose to fertilize the fruits and vegetables in the field. She almost died after finishing the work.
After finishing all these things, the sun was setting.
Ruan Xi was so tired that her waist and arms ached, so she didn't stay in the old tailor's house any longer. She took off her old work clothes, washed her hands and face with soap, said goodbye to the old tailor and went home.
We walked slowly on the road, and then we saw Ling Yao herding pigs on the hillside.
The bad mood and bad things of the day suddenly dissipated a lot the moment I saw the boy on the hillside. She felt that it was pretty good to be like Ling Yao, living in his own little world, and the troubles of the outside world would never have anything to do with him.
She walked on the grass on the hillside, approached Ling Yao, and made up a nickname to greet him: "Yaoyao cub?"
Ling Yao raised his head when he heard the voice, squinted his eyes due to the glare of the sunlight, and gave her a smile that came from the bottom of his heart.
Ruan Xi felt very healed when she saw his smiling face, and she felt more relaxed. She breathed a sigh of relief, bent down and sat down next to him, looked at the piece of wood in his hand, and asked him with a smile: "Why don't you read a book today?"
Ling Yao said in a gentle voice: "It's not like I read every day."
In his hands he had a knife and a piece of wood, which he was carving today.
Ruan Xi asked again: "What are you carving?"
Ling Yao raised the corner of his mouth slightly, "I'll do it well for you to see."
Then Ruan Xi sat next to him and watched him concentrate on carving wood with a knife. Watching a piece of wood with an indescribable shape turn into a small double-winged airplane in his hands.
After carving the last cut, Ling Yao handed the model to Ruan Xi and said to her, "Plane."
Ruan Xi took the plane with a smile, looked it up and down, left and right for a while, "You can actually do this, you are really amazing..." After thinking for a while, he continued, "I have never seen a plane in my life."
Ling Yao said: "It's not that great, I just carved it for fun."
Ruan Xi looked at the plane in her hand again and asked, "Can you give it to me?"
Ling Yao nodded directly, "Okay, I'll carve something for you if you want it."
Ruan Xi held the plane in his hand and looked at the sky for a moment, then looked at Ling Yao, "Pig, I am a pig."
Ling Yao nodded again and replied, "Okay."
Ruan Xi felt very relaxed being with Ling Yao, so she sat with him until the evening. When Ling Yao saw the sun setting and drove the pigs back home, she also got up and went back to her home with her schoolbag on her back.
This night, the Ruan family was destined to be in unrest.
At noon, someone from the production team cooked a big pot of rice and delivered lunch to the copper mine. Ruan Zhigao, Ruan Changgui and Ruan Changsheng did not come back at noon, but they all heard about what happened during the day from others.
When they got home from work in the evening, the three men's faces were more stinky than each other, and the atmosphere was so tense that a spit could spark a fight. The only one who had a violent aura in his stench was Ruan Changsheng.
However, Ruan Zhigao didn't want others to continue to laugh at him, and he learned that Sun Xiaohui had already been taught a lesson by Liu Xinghua and was beaten severely, so he forbade Ruan Changsheng to cause trouble for Sun Xiaohui again.
Ruan Changgui was so confused that he called Sun Xiaohui into the room and asked her with a frown, "What are you doing? Didn't I tell you last night not to get involved? Why did you go and expose it?!"
Sun Xiaohui felt guilty and her head was almost buried in her chest.
She hesitantly said, "Me too... I also can't stand people who act sneakily..."
Ruan Changgui was so angry that he slapped the camphorwood box beside him. "Are you satisfied now? Xiaoxi didn't steal it. The old tailor gave it to her personally. The old tailor not only took her as an apprentice, but also came out to support her. You stole the limelight today and made the whole team laugh at you. I don't know what they will say about us behind our backs. Are you satisfied?"
Thinking of what happened in the cornfield today, Sun Xiaohui was so upset that she was speechless.
Ruan Changgui didn't care about the wound on her face, frowned and continued: "Before, we just lived separately, which was nothing. Now that you're making such a fuss, it's considered a breakup. How are you going to get along with my parents and Changsheng Xiaoxi in the future?"
Sun Xiaohui lowered her head and muttered, "What good is that..."
Ruan Changgui was so angry that he slapped the box again, "What do you think? How could I be so foolish as to believe your lies and divide the family. You said Xiao Wuzi and Xiaoxi were both prodigals, but now look at Xiao Wuzi, who works harder than us on the construction site. The calf's strength is like free money, he works hard and earns a lot of work points. Look at Xiaoxi, the old tailor not only taught her the craft but also stood up for her and supported her. She is the next tailor of Fengming Mountain!"
Everyone knows what the next tailor means, it's an enviable thing!
Sun Xiaohui didn't think so. She looked up at Ruan Changgui and said, "Xiao Wuzi works so hard to find a wife for himself. If the family is not divided, it won't be good for us. Xiaoxi can't even sew well. She was not born to be a tailor. Even if she coaxes the old tailor to teach her patiently, she will definitely not be able to learn it."
Ruan Changgui looked at Sun Xiaohui and felt that what she said was unreasonable, but also felt that she was not wrong.
He took a deep breath, and immediately lost his temper and stopped talking.
Sun Xiaohui went over to rub his shoulders and said, "I didn't understand clearly this time. I made a mistake. I have learned my lesson. I will definitely listen to you in the future."
Ruan Changgui snorted: "You'd better remember this lesson, otherwise I won't care if you get beaten to death!"
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