"Hey! I'm so lucky!"
Before Lin Mo could even recall the proverb, the village chief, who had kindly offered to deliver Buddha but was thrown onto the road halfway and fell face-first into the mud, came hobbling over in a fit of rage.
His running posture was uneven, with one step higher than the other.
He rushed over and unleashed a barrage of blows on Xu Zhenting:
"We're all human beings! How could we do such a despicable thing!"
"We're over fifty years old! Didn't they ever consider that we might fall and die!"
"They just grabbed him and threw him off the car like that! And the car was still moving so fast!"
The village chief was furious, and the pain from the fall made him roll around on the dirt road more than a dozen times before he finally stopped.
I've never experienced anything like this in my life!
"Hey village chief, stop hitting him! You'll have to pay for it if you break him."
Xu Zhenting only received three weak slaps to the face before Chen Gang led the donkey back, blocking the village chief, whose head was already in a rage.
This only made the village chief angrier:
"You're still the team leader of our Old Tree Village! You've really gone astray all these years!"
"They're tough on domestically, but act like a lapdog to foreign powers! You almost got killed, didn't you?!"
The village chief grabbed Xu Zhenting by the collar, the pain making him weak and unable to hit anyone, while he also cursed Chen Gang.
Chen Gang was also filled with resentment. One misunderstanding after another had created an intractable knot, leaving him extremely depressed.
Right now, I'm just really afraid that if I hit someone and cause problems, I'll have to bear the consequences myself.
But even with his mouth open, he couldn't say anything clearly.
Seeing the two of them arguing and grabbing at Xu Zhenting, Lin Mo looked up and exclaimed, "Damn it, our sidecar has already veered off the road and overturned!"
He hurriedly went to tinker with his sidecar motorcycle, drove it back onto the dirt road, and checked again to see if it was damaged.
It took several minutes to right the car and drive it back onto the dirt road.
Before he could even catch his breath, he suddenly heard a series of "Hey hey" and "Ouch" sounds behind him.
"You slut! Your belly is full of festering sores!"
"Stop right there! Don't run away!!"
The village chief was yelling incoherently, and Chen Gang was yelling incoherently as well.
In the darkness, nothing could be seen, but Lin Mo could make out two figures chasing after the village in the distance.
The third figure had already disappeared from sight.
"What the heck? They managed to get away?!" Lin Mo was utterly speechless.
Two people watching one can still chase it away, and they are both the village leaders. Are they really that useless?
"Hiss... Ah..."
In the silence, Lin Mo heard a groan, turned his head and looked around, oh dear, he had completely forgotten about Chen Xin.
The headlights of the sidecar shone on him, and Lin Mo could clearly see that his tattered coat was even more worn than before.
The ribcage, hip joint, and elbow were all worn through, and through the thick layer of mud and dust, traces of blood could still be faintly seen.
"Oh my..."
Lin Mo was somewhat surprised, because he could tell from Chen Xin's disheveled appearance how he ended up in this state—
That's exactly what happened – being tied to the back of the car and dragged around, causing all that wear and tear.
It's also reasonable to guess that when he realized Xu Zhenting was trying to steal the car, he was unable to fight back or even manage to snatch it.
Even after being kicked off the road, he didn't give up on getting the car back, which is why he was dragged away.
To achieve this effect, it would have to be dragged and worn down for at least ten meters.
Just imagining the scene makes my whole body ache.
"I thought someone who studies would be frail, but he runs so fast..." Chen Gang's weak voice came from behind.
"It's all your fault! You came over and didn't tie him up right away! You actually tried to stop us from slapping him!" The village chief's roar was full of energy, but in other words, it was all bark and no bite.
Even if I wanted to howl, I didn't have the confidence.
"I really don't know if we were blind before, giving you the vote. Our Old Tree Village has never been so blind!"
The village chief's insults never stopped, and Chen Gang, dejected, could only mutter one sentence:
"We were elected by the entire village; our decision is legal and legitimate."
The accusations went on and on, but at least the car wasn't stolen, and Lin Mo was grateful.
Although Chen Xin wasn't of much use, if he hadn't come along, the bike might have already been taken away.
"Stop yelling, village chief. Let's go to the clinic. You're not very strong, and you might hurt yourself somewhere."
"And Chen Xin, look at how worn out his coat is, tsk tsk tsk."
Lin Mo thoughtfully mentioned going to the health station.
However, rural people don't have this awareness. In the past, if they got injured, they would just deal with it at home and it would get better in a few days.
"I'm fine, just some minor injuries. Let's go back to the village." Chen Xin had money in his pocket, but he wasn't used to it. Poor people never rush to the hospital for the slightest injury.
He had 120 yuan in his pocket, which he was reluctant to spend. This money was earned by him working hard for four days straight, from morning till night, to pack clay for Lin Mo.
It's all hard-earned money; I can't bear to waste a single penny.
Although the effort he put in was almost negligible, probably less than 30% of what Miao Qingsong did, who helped with loading and unloading the truck.
Although the labor intensity is nowhere near as high, it is still definitely hard-earned money.
He planned to save the money to pay for his senior year of high school, as he would need it for university tuition after getting into university.
Because his family had been completely wiped out, and his parents had returned from the city to their hometown, a village in the neighboring Shuangshan Town, they were afraid that if he went back with them, the villagers would gossip about him. That's why they sent him to the unfamiliar Laoshu Village to work in the countryside, so that at least he could have some peace and quiet.
With tuition and living expenses in his senior year of high school, he should have about two hundred yuan in his pocket.
A year of university costs about 400 yuan, because tuition and miscellaneous fees add up to almost 300 yuan.
That's a total of 1800 yuan.
There are still about eight months until next year's college entrance examination, and he needs to find a way to earn enough money during this time.
It's also clear that staying in Laoshu Village is the only way to achieve this, because the village has already opened a door for self-interest.
In most other villages, the focus is still on the production team.
"No, no, stop making a fuss. What country bumpkin would rush to the hospital for a little scrape? Even if I went, the doctor would just give me the cold shoulder. People in the countryside aren't that delicate."
The frustrated village chief instinctively rejected going to the clinic, and it was also strange that Lin Mo said this.
“You’re an old man, and you can’t see injuries from falls and blows just by looking at the skin and flesh. You need advanced X-rays to see them clearly.”
"I'll pay for the checkup, don't dawdle."
Lin Mo insisted on going to the clinic, without thinking too much about it. The reason was just as simple as he said: he was worried that his old bones would break.
"Oh, you've got money now, huh?" The village chief, who was originally feeling annoyed, felt a sense of warmth in his heart after noticing Lin Mo's persistence.
That brat! Even when his mother was banged on, he never forced her to go to the clinic.
They're actually taking such good care of us now.
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