Chapter 73 Rescue
Zhou Shuifang was furious when she found out that Chen Yongding went to the crematorium alone. She didn't dare yell at Grandpa Chen, so she just kept silent.
It was dark when Chen Yongding came back.
When Zhou Shuifang saw the man, she asked anxiously, "How much did it cost?"
Originally, everyone should have pooled the money together, but in the end, Chen Yongding was the only one in charge, and their family had to be the scapegoat. Why?
The more Zhou Shuifang thought about it, the more dissatisfied she became.
Chen Yongding frowned, "Get me something to eat first, I'm starving."
Grandpa Chen has already started making arrangements.
Chen Yongding took the opportunity to drink a large bowl of water. His smoking throat finally recovered and he sat down on the deck. "Someone paid at the crematorium. When I went there, they just asked me to put my fingerprints on it. They also took me to identify the body and asked me if I wanted to choose another day to burn it. If the body is kept for one more day, I have to pay more. I don't know who paid the money, let alone how much they paid. I was worried that there would not be enough money later, so I asked the crematorium to handle it directly. The matter is now completely resolved."
Zhou Shuifang was overjoyed, "You didn't spend any money?"
Chen Yongding nodded and said, "It cost me two dollars to take the bus back and forth, but I didn't spend money on food or drinks."
Two dollars is nothing compared to more than ten dollars! Zhou Shuifang was happy again and went to sleep in the rear cabin.
Without Zhou Shuifang, Grandpa Chen said quietly, "Tell everyone about the situation tomorrow so that everyone can have a general idea of what's going on."
Chen Wenjun only learned about this two days later when he encountered Chen Yongding's fishing boat while fishing in Nanxi.
Chen Yongding simply explained the matter and didn't want to hear what Chen Wenjun thought. He asked, "Is your house finished?"
During this period, many boat people saw Chen Wenjun's steel bars, red bricks and cement, and many people guessed that Chen Wenjun was going to build a big house or a small Western-style building.
Some people went to Nanyu to inquire, but they only saw a fenced-off gap and a high wall. No one knew what was going on inside.
Because he couldn't figure it out, the story became more and more bizarre, and Chen Yongding couldn't help being curious.
Chen Wenjun smiled and said, "It's not completely built yet. We plan to build two floors. The cement slab of the first floor has just been finished. We are saving money to build the second floor as well. It's still habitable now, but it's a little dirty, and the windows and doors haven't been installed yet. Aqin and I plan to save some more money and get the doors and windows done before the frost comes.
Uncle, you can come to my house when you have time, but now we live in a shed, it’s a bit shabby.”
Chen Yongding felt overwhelmed after hearing this and shook his head to refuse. "Your grandpa and I have to go out on the boat tomorrow. We have to work first today and don't have time."
After they finished talking, they went their separate ways and Chen Wenjun continued to work.
Zheng Aqiang's incident did not have any impact on Chen Wenjun and Lin Qin's lives. At the beginning, some boat people even gossiped about them behind their backs.
As some debt collectors came to find Zheng Aqiang and emptied his fishing boat, no one talked about Chen Wenjun anymore. Instead, they were particularly understanding of him.
If you get involved with a gambler like Zheng Aqiang, you will be skinned alive if not killed. The best thing to do is to stay away from him.
End of August.
The scorching sun is burning the earth.
Lin Qin and Chen Wenjun's new house has already had two floors built and all the doors and windows have been installed, but they don't have enough money. Fortunately, Zhang Yongquan is easy to talk to and agreed to help them first and then pay them back slowly later.
The house is habitable now, but it is bare, undecorated and quite dusty.
Even so, Lin Yi was very satisfied.
What he had always wanted was for his daughter and granddaughter to have a house. Now that they have this magnificent two-story house, he can hold his head high when he returns to the village.
Compared to Lin Yi's joy, Chen Wenjun and Lin Qin were very worried.
The school is about to start, but the two children’s education arrangements have not yet been completed.
During this period, Chen Wenjun went to the Education Bureau several times. At first, the Education Bureau asked them to find the principal of the nearest village primary school to ask. Chen Wenjun went, but ended up not even seeing the principal and was completely turned down.
He went back to the Education Bureau, but the person he had been looking for before had disappeared. A new person had replaced him. He had to explain the situation again, and the person said they would report it to the leader, so he could go back and wait for news.
Three days later, he went to ask, and was told that his leader was on a business trip and would be back in a week.
A week later, the staff member who contacted him was replaced again. This time he got anxious, and the other party started to play Tai Chi with him, saying that the only person who could be found for this matter was the principal of the village primary school, and the Education Bureau could only help make a phone call to inform them.
After pushing it back and forth, he no longer knew who to look for.
Now he is hesitating whether to ask Zheng Guoxing for help.
If you open your mouth, it will be difficult to repay the favor in the future.
While he was distracted, Lin Qin pulled up a big fish with a rod and said thoughtfully: "Why don't we take a few fish with us to school? This time, we can be thick-skinned and stay there. I don't believe the teachers in the school can still drive us away."
Chen Wenjun had no better idea, so he agreed.
To show their sincerity, the two men also used a cart to load two large buckets of things, one bucket was filled with big fish and the other bucket was filled with snails.
After pushing the cart across the road and down the slope, they arrived at the territory of Anshanshe. The person they were looking for was the principal of Anshanshe Primary School.
The roads in the village are difficult to walk on, and it takes two people to push the cart together to move forward smoothly.
Arriving at the fork in the road, Chen Wenjun paused as he looked at the vast rice fields and sugarcane fields. “It will only take ten minutes to get there via the sugarcane fields, but it’s hard to push a cart through. It will take about twenty minutes to get there via the main road.”
Just as Lin Qin was about to take the main road, she saw a person lying in the sugarcane field out of the corner of her eye. She screamed in fear, "Ah!"
Her shouting attracted some villagers who were working in the fields.
Several people rushed into the sugarcane field and carried the person out.
"Whose family is this? Why was he beaten like this? Is he still breathing?"
"I don't know? I don't think I've seen it before?"
"Can you see the blood clearly?"
"It doesn't matter if I can't see clearly, who in our village wears such a nice watch!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone looked at the watch and took in the attire of the man on the ground.
Chen Wenjun didn't want to get involved, but the more he looked, the more he felt something was wrong. "Oh no! This guy is Gao Lei!"
He had met Gao Lei several times, so the watch should be correct.
When the villagers heard that it was someone Chen Wenjun knew, and that he was not from their village, they didn't want to intervene.
Lin Qin was at a loss, "What should I do? Save him?"
Chen Wenjun was also hesitant. Reason told him that Gao Lei was a gangster, and that he must have offended someone powerful to be beaten like this. He should not interfere in such matters, but his conscience would not allow him to stand by and watch him die.
After thinking for a while, he gritted his teeth and stamped his feet and said, "Get the bucket down. I'll take him to the hospital on a cart and help call the police. I can't take care of the rest."
It is impossible to ask him to pay money to save people, but he can contribute some effort without feeling guilty.
Lin Qin immediately took the bucket down, and then helped Chen Wenjun lift Gao Lei onto the cart. The couple then pushed the cart onto the road.
Lin Qin watched Chen Wenjun leave before turning back.
Thinking that she couldn't move the two large buckets of stuff and couldn't go to school, she simply set up a stall in a shady place on the side of the road and sold them cheaply.
(End of this chapter)
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