"Brother Chaosheng, if you need any help, be sure to call me!" Wei He greatly admired Lin Chaosheng and wanted to learn more from him.
Lin Chaosheng nodded solemnly, "That's for sure! There's a lot of work to be done, so don't complain about being tired."
Wei He shook his head: "No, I'm very grateful that you're willing to teach me so much!"
After paying, the two rode their bicycles back to the village, chatting as they went.
An elderly woman sitting at the village entrance chatting spotted two figures riding bicycles from afar.
"Who are those two? Could it be someone from higher up?"
"That can't be right, nothing much has happened in our village lately."
"Who else could it be, coming by bicycle?"
As Lin Chaosheng and Wei He rode closer, everyone finally saw who the newcomers were.
"My God! Lin Chaosheng?!"
"Why is he still riding a bicycle? Could he have bought it himself?"
"There are two of them! They must have been borrowed from someone else, right?"
Lin Chaosheng spotted the old woman at the village entrance staring at them and quickly whispered a warning, "Ride faster later, or they'll pester you with questions."
Wei He knew exactly what these people were thinking, and didn't want to talk to them too much, so he just rode closely behind Lin Chaosheng.
They originally wanted to stop Lin Chaosheng to ask him more questions, but Lin Chaosheng showed no intention of slowing down. They didn't dare to step forward to stop him, because being hit by this bicycle would be a real disaster!
Since they didn't dare to stop him, Lin Chaosheng happily went home with Wei Heqi.
"Xiaomei, come and see!" Lin Chaosheng and Wei He carried the bicycle into the yard.
Hearing the noise, Liang Mei came out of the room. "What's wrong? What happened?"
"Look what this is!" Lin Chaosheng snorted, pushing the bicycle next to Liang Mei.
"A bicycle?!" Liang Mei looked at her in disbelief. "You just said you were going out to run errands, and you mean buying a bicycle?"
"What the hell is a bicycle?" Lin Shanhai walked back from outside and heard Liang Mei's surprised shout from afar.
He was startled the moment he walked in, exclaiming, "A bicycle?!"
Lin Shanhai rushed forward and gently stroked every part of the bicycle. "Did you buy this, Chaosheng?"
"Of course I bought it, or did I find it?" Lin Chaosheng asked with amusement.
Liang Mei hurriedly asked, "Did you buy a bicycle just because I said it was inconvenient to go out? That's such a waste!"
Lin Chaosheng reassured Liang Mei, "We have money now, so don't worry. Besides, who said this bicycle is only for getting around? If there's any emergency in the future, we can't ride a donkey cart every day, can we?"
Liang Mei thought so too, so she didn't say anything more and curiously touched the bicycle.
Lin Shanhai had lived to this age without ever owning a bicycle. He had only ridden one a few times when he was working for others. Now that he finally had a bicycle, he was overjoyed.
"Chaosheng, can I ride this bike back now?" Lin Shanhai was eager and excited.
"Go ahead and ride it. This was originally bought for our family to use together. If you want to ride it, just ride it. Why are you asking me?"
Lin Shanhai immediately pushed his bicycle out the gate and carefully rode it on.
At first, he was a little hesitant to speed up, but he quickly became more skilled and increased his speed.
Just as I was enjoying the comfort of the gentle breeze, a familiar voice suddenly rang in my ears: "Old man, where did you come from?"
He looked closely and realized that it was Zhao Shufang and Liang Fu who had returned from their stall.
So he quickly jumped off the bicycle and said excitedly, "This was bought by Chaosheng. There's another one at home. You two come back with me to take a look!"
When Zhao Shufang heard that Lin Chaosheng had bought the bicycles, and even two of them, she immediately became angry.
"That brat, he's going to spend all the money he's earned, isn't he? And he's wasting it on this useless stuff!" Zhao Shufang said, throwing the things at Lin Shanhai and storming home.
"You little brat, you're just wasting money like this, aren't you?" Zhao Shufang shouted.
Lin Chaosheng came out, looking at Zhao Shufang with a bewildered expression, "What's wrong, Mom?"
"You're asking me what's wrong?" Zhao Shufang grabbed Lin Chaosheng's ear and pointed at Lin Shanhai, who was pushing the bicycle in. "Did you buy this thing?"
"Ouch! That hurts!" Lin Chaosheng cried out in pain as he held his ear that had been pinched.
"I bet you don't feel pain!" Zhao Shufang finally released Lin Chaosheng's ear. "Why don't you feel the pain when you're spending money?"
"Oh my god! This bicycle is really useful!" Lin Chaosheng hurriedly explained.
"Who bought this bicycle?" Lin Shansheng had just returned from outside and excitedly pushed another bicycle placed in the corner of the courtyard gate towards Lin Chaosheng and the others.
"You really bought two?!" Zhao Shufang angrily searched for a stick. "I'm going to beat you to death today, you piece of trash!"
Lin Shansheng thought Zhao Shufang was going to beat him up, so he dropped his bicycle and ran away in a panic: "I didn't buy it, Mom! I just got back and saw it there!"
Lin Chaosheng saw that Zhao Shufang wanted to beat him up, so he ran away in the yard.
The two brothers ran around the yard shouting as they ran.
"Quiet down, all of you! Stop making noise!" Lin Shanhai shouted urgently, his head aching from the commotion.
Zhao Shufang had actually found a stick and was preparing to give Lin Chaosheng a good beating.
Seeing this, Liang Mei quickly stepped forward to stop Zhao Shufang, "Mother, if you want to hit someone, hit me instead. This bicycle was bought by Chaosheng for me."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Shufang put down the stick in her hand. "Why did you buy it for you again?"
Liang Mei winked at Lin Chaosheng: "I was planning to go to the market today to buy you two pieces of cloth to make clothes, but as you can see, I'm heavily pregnant and it's hard for me to walk, so Chaosheng went to the market to buy a bicycle instead."
After hearing this, Zhao Shufang was not so angry anymore. Liang Mei saw that Zhao Shufang's expression changed slightly and continued, "Moreover, Chaosheng discussed it with me. He was worried that if something happened to me during childbirth, the donkey cart wouldn't be able to keep up."
"Pah, pah, pah," Zhao Shufang quickly stopped Liang Mei when she heard her say that, "There's no such thing as 'what if', you and the baby in your belly will definitely be safe and sound!"
Liang Mei quickly nodded, "Yes, both I and the baby in my belly will definitely be safe and sound. I'm so sorry, Mother, for not discussing this with you beforehand."
Zhao Shufang sighed and patted Liang Mei's head: "It's nothing, you're doing this for the baby in your belly."
Seeing that Zhao Shufang's complexion had improved slightly, Lin Chaosheng quickly stepped forward and said, "That's right, Mother! And when this child grows up, he'll definitely need to go to the market to buy many things. You'll have to go out to set up your stall, and Father will have to go deliver goods and fish. Our whole family will be so busy, and one donkey cart certainly won't be enough!"
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