Duoduo's little hands tugged at the corner of her clothes, her eyes fixed on her toes, and her voice was as thin as a mosquito's hum: "I, I have a toothache..."
In fact, she didn't have a toothache, but she was worried when she saw the sticky candy.
"Huh, kids these days are so picky! Duoduo, you don't even have a mother, and you're still so picky. Aren't you afraid of being kicked out?"
Old Mrs. Wang curled her lips and wrapped up the remaining candy. "When we were little, we were lucky to have a piece of candy. Why would we be so picky?"
Duoduo lowered her head, her face flushed red.
It's not that she's ignorant, but that candy looks really...
She secretly glanced at her brothers and sisters who were running away and found that they didn't eat it either, but just stuffed the candy into their pockets.
When he saw that several little girls didn’t take it, Old Man Wang got angry!
"Hey! That little girl!" Old Wang suddenly popped his head out of the house, his eyes wide open. "Why don't you take the candy? Do you think my candy isn't good enough?"
The little girls were so frightened that they trembled and their faces turned pale: "No, Grandpa Wang... Mommy said we can't eat too much sugar..."
"Bullshit!" Old Wang slammed his pipe down on the table. "Your name is Duoduo, right? Now that your family is rich, you look down on us poor neighbors, don't you?"
When Duoduo was called, she froze for a moment, and her eyes turned red.
Her little hands were tightly clutching the corner of her clothes, and her new cotton shoes were rubbing against the ground. She didn't dare to look up.
Old Wang continued to grumble incessantly, "Kids these days are all snobs..."
Before he finished speaking, the youngest girl, Niu Niu, started crying loudly, and the other children also started sobbing.
Duoduo's tears fell like beads that had broken off the string, "pattering", wetting the front of her new clothes.
Aunt Zhang from next door heard the noise and hurried over to smooth things over: "Old Wang, why are you arguing with a child on New Year's Day? Duoduo, go and say Happy New Year to Grandpa Wang."
Duoduo sniffed and said softly, "Happy New Year, Grandpa Wang. I wish you... I wish you a long life..."
Then he grabbed a sticky piece of candy and ran away, his new cotton shoes leaving a trail of panicked footprints in the snow. The other kids saw this and grabbed a piece of candy too, crying "Wa ...
Old Wang was still mumbling in the background: "Kids these days, one by one..."
Aunt Zhang sighed and stuffed some freshly made sesame candy into his hand. "It's New Year's Day, why are you angry with the child..."
I just turned my face away and went back. I couldn't bear to look at the old Wang couple! They are really going backwards as they grow older. Their hearts are smaller than sesame seeds!
He was quite a decent person when he was young, but I didn't expect that he became more and more disrespectful as he got older. If you don't want to give it, why don't you just not open the door? Why do you have to bring out some expired candies and make people look disgusted? Who are you trying to disgust?
Also, did those words just now sound like something a human would say? You called the kid a snob. Why didn't Old Wang admit that he was a snob when he had an argument with the supply and marketing cooperative over half a pound of meat coupons?
I don’t know what he is thinking, forget it!
Just wait, before the New Year is over, some parents will come to settle accounts with these two idiots.
Sure enough, before noon, there was a commotion in front of Old Wang's house.
"Uncle Wang, what you did was really unfair!"
The Liu family mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, led Niuniu, who was crying like a little cat, and their voices were so loud that they could be heard halfway down the street.
"If you don't want candy, just tell me. The kids don't really need it. What's the point of scaring them to tears?"
Her mother-in-law was even more fiery-tempered. She put her hands on her hips and started scolding: "On New Year's Day, you scolded your child until he ran home crying. Did you have a good year, right?"
Yard No. 5 was bustling with activity. Everyone was free today, so they all crowded here to watch the fun. It was immediately surrounded by neighbors who came to watch the fun.
Aunt Zhang cracked melon seeds and shook her head: "Tsk tsk, the Wang family is in trouble this time. They've done too many dishonest things..."
Those who understand the implication will understand!
Uncle Li squatted at the foot of the wall, laughing down below: "Serves him right! He's so careless with his words!"
Old Wang Po hid behind the door and dared not say a word, but she could hear people talking outside:
"Yesterday he was borrowing vinegar from my family, but my family has nothing left. I don't know how he cursed in his heart!"
"Last year, when his grandson came home, I packed him some imported chocolate..."
"Oh, no wonder my son has to go to someone else's house. Look at that candy, it's so sticky it could be used as glue..."
Old Wang was so anxious that he kept pacing around in the room. How could he know that there were so many things to deal with just two babies?
I don't know where that bag of troublesome candy was put in.
Li Guifang was chatting with some old sisters in Lao Chen's store. They were talking excitedly when they heard a commotion outside.
She looked out and saw a group of people gathered in front of Old Wang's house.
"What's going on?"
Li Guifang squeezed into the crowd and was fed a mouthful of melon by her sister-in-law who had been watching the fun there!
Just as she was about to complain about the Wang family being dishonest, Aunt Liu grabbed her and said, "Guifang, you're finally here!"
Aunt Liu was so angry that she slapped her thigh and said, "You don't even know what the Wang family did!"
Li Guifang was originally confused!
After hearing the whole story, Li Guifang's face turned dark.
It turned out that after Niu Niu returned home, she told everything that happened at Lao Wang's house, even those harsh words that Lao Wang used to scold Duoduo, such as "You are a snobbish person just because your family is rich, and you are a motherless child."
Li Guifang felt like the sky was falling. She had been carefully protecting her two grandsons all this time, fearing that their parents' divorce would affect the children. Now, old Mrs. Wang was directly mocking the 6-year-old kids!
Fortunately, she still had some rationality. She suppressed her anger and ran home in two steps.
As soon as I pushed the door open, I saw several little grandchildren who should have been having fun outside. Now, they were all surrounding Duoduo, trying clumsily to make her happy.
Duoduo sat on a small stool, her eyes were as red as a little rabbit, and the corners of her clothes were twisted into a knot in her hands.
When she saw her grandma coming back, her little mouth pouted and tears started falling again.
Li Guifang's heart felt like it was being cut by a knife.
She took a deep breath and pulled her eldest grandson, Liu Shuhang, toward her. "Hanghang, look after your brothers and sisters. Grandma will be back soon."
After saying that, he picked up the broom behind the door and rushed out.
"Grandma, grandma!" Duoduo screamed in fear, but Li Guifang had already rushed to the door of Lao Wang's house.
She kicked open the gate to Wang's courtyard and slammed the broom into the ground: "Old Wang! Get out of here!"
This shout startled the old hen laying eggs next door, making it cluck.
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