"To be honest, when we were in the production team, there were only a few people who hadn't stolen things from the team." Zhou Huaian patted him, "Tell everyone, no matter who received the Xiong family's goods, don't blame me for being ruthless if I find out."
"That's right!" Xu Hongbing thought about it and said, "Is there something wrong with Li Wu's brain? I told my mother about him several times today, and I almost said it out loud, but the damn guy didn't even react."
Zhou Yiding laughed, "Maybe they are willing to fight and be beaten, and you are just meddling in other people's business!"
Zhou Huaian: "That's right. If they don't care, you'd be a villain if you said something."
Xu Hongbing: "My mother said that no matter how useless a man is, he can't stand a green head. Li Wuren is actually quite good, but a little silly!"
Zhou Huaian felt that what he said was right, otherwise his son would not have been abused like that by Zou Cuifen.
"Just check his order, the rest is up to him!" He weighed the first-class goods he had picked out, "Yes, these four weigh 4.3 jin."
Xu Hongbing rubbed his hands happily, "Hehe! The big guy An Yi is still the best. He only sold four of them for 8.6 yuan."
Zhou Huaian felt that he had good luck today. "The first-class ones are not bad either, 11.6 jins... These inferior ones are 17 jins for 1.7 yuan, a total of 45.7 yuan."
Xu Hongbing smiled so hard that his teeth were exposed. "Hehe! It turns out that low-quality items can also be sold for money. I originally wanted to give them to you to make wine."
Zhou Huaian glanced at him and said, "I don't need to drink truffle wine! I'm saving the truffle wine to sell for money later."
"I know! I know!"
Xu Hongbing diligently helped to sort the truffles and put them into bamboo baskets, thinking that he had earned more than 60 yuan in two days, and he would have to hold on to Zhou Laoya's thighs in the future.
After taking the money and leaving Zhou's house, he trotted all the way to the brigade's drying dam with his hands behind his back. Li Wu came towards him and said, "I came to your house to look for you."
Xu Hongbing raised his head and glanced at him. "What do you want from me?"
Li Wu took a breath and said, "I have something to ask you." The things they talked about in the morning kept turning around in his mind...
Xu Hongbing knew what he wanted to ask from the look on his face, "What's the matter?"
He felt that Zhou Laoyao and Zhou Yiding were right. It was best to stay out of other people's family affairs to avoid being embarrassed by everyone.
Li Wu looked around and saw that there was no one around. He lowered his voice and asked, "What did you mean by what you said this morning? The more I think about it, the more confused I feel..."
"It's nothing! Don't think too much about it, Lao Li!" Xu Hongbing patted his shoulder sympathetically, "It's chilly, if you have anything to say, let's talk on the way tomorrow. I'm leaving now!"
Li Wu looked at Xu Hongbing who ran away like a dog, shook his head, scratched his head and walked back. When he got home, he saw his mother sitting in the living room with a baking basket waiting for him. "Mom, why don't you go to bed? Are Xiaoping and Xiaohui asleep?"
Aunt Li looked at him and said, "Go to sleep. I asked Xiaoping to cook some Stretching Grass. Go and scoop some to soak your feet and go to bed early. You have to get up early tomorrow."
"Okay!" Li Wu looked at the closed door and took the baking tray from her. "I'll help you back to your room."
Aunt Li nodded and let him help her back to her room. "Did something happen to you today? You were tired all day and only ate a bowl of rice?"
"I..." Li Wu hesitated for a moment, and repeated to her what Xu Hongbing and his mother had said this morning, "I always felt that something was wrong. Aunt Xu even asked you why you didn't go out to talk to your old sisters and get some news?"
Aunt Li listened to him with a sullen face, then slapped him in anger, "Foolish boy, I was pointing a finger at you. That bitch Zou Cuifen has a strange man outside and is cheating on you. No wonder your aunt told you the other day not to go carrying coal anymore. You work so hard to earn money and you don't even know how to use it..."
"Cuckold!" Li Wu didn't hear anything else. He stared at her blankly, his head buzzing...
Seeing him like this, Aunt Li remembered that she was the one who asked Zou Cuifen to be brought back last time after she was driven away. She regretted it so much that her intestines turned green. She pounded her chest and said, "Blame me, it's all my fault! I knew clearly that bitch was not a good person..."
Before she could finish her words, Li Wu ran out of the room like a gust of wind.
He crossed the hall in two or three steps and came to the door. He kicked the door open with a bang, "Bitch..."
Zou Cuifen was startled and looked at Li Wu who was standing in the dark, "What's wrong with you..."
"What did you do? You did a great job!" Li Wu walked forward with a ferocious look on his face, grabbed her and pulled her off the bed, pointing at her and said, "Tell me, what did you do outside?"
"What did I do? I was sleeping at home..." Zou Cuifen suddenly remembered the truffle digging incident, "Did Zhou Laoya say something to you? He was just talking nonsense..."
She looked at his ferocious look, not knowing whether it was because of the cold or fear, her teeth chattered uncontrollably.
Li Wu, who was still a little skeptical at first, was so angry that his eyes were red with anger. He kicked him and said, "How have I ever let you down? You want to..."
No wonder Zhou Laoyao and Xu Hongbing looked at me strangely, it turned out they all knew... The whole village knew that my family was green, but I was the only one kept in the dark.
Aunt Li stood in the main room with a cane and yelled at the people in the house, "Why are you still talking to her so much? Get that bitch out of here. If you keep someone like her at home, the future generations of the Li family will be corrupted by her."
Zou Cuifen thought that it had been several months since Zhou Laoyao and his wife discovered the incident, and the news about her and Xiong Laosan should not have come from the Zhou family, but most likely from the villagers who dug truffles with him.
If I had known earlier, I would have followed him to dig truffles, so that those people would not have the opportunity to gossip about him.
She didn't care about the pain and rushed over to hug Li Wu's legs. "I won't leave. They are talking nonsense. Don't believe them. I will go up the mountain with you to dig truffles tomorrow..."
“Bitch!” Li Wu wanted to die by banging his head against the wall, and picked her up. “I must have been unlucky for eight lifetimes to have ended up with a vicious and lowly whore like you…”
I can’t leave. If I leave this time, it will be over…
Zou Cuifen was grabbed by his big, pliers-like hands and dragged out. She hurriedly shouted towards the wing room, "Xiaohui, Xiaohui, come quickly, your old man is going to beat your mother to death..."
Li Hui was awakened from his sleep. He turned over and climbed up to sit on the bedside and cried loudly, "Mom, I want my mom, mom... woo woo..."
Li Xiaoping stood up and hugged him, "Your mother is not well behaved, and the old man is teaching her a lesson! Be good and don't cry, and tomorrow your brother will take you to roll the iron ring."
Li Hui looked out the dark window and sobbed, "Be good, Xiaohui, don't cry. Mom is not good..."
Li Wu quickened his pace and walked to the gate of the courtyard, unbolted the door and pushed her out. Then he closed the door and bolted it with a clang. He squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, tears streaming down his face uncontrollably.
Ever since she came into the family, he had never done anything unfair to her. He gave her all the money he earned from carrying coal and treated her daughter no differently than his own daughter.
But how did she treat herself? She abused Xiaoping, cuckolded him, and made the whole village laugh at him.
He couldn't understand why it was always the honest people who suffered losses?
Zou Cuifen was pulled out of her warm bed by Li Wu. She was only wearing a cotton sweater and was already shivering with cold. No matter how many good and bad things she said, he remained indifferent.
She gritted her teeth and slammed the gate, "Give me back my things, and I'll leave right away."
Li Wu took a deep breath, unbolted the door, grabbed her, and pushed her out, roaring in a low voice, "All those were bought with my money. I'd rather burn them than give them to you, bitch. Get out of here or not? If you don't, I'll drag you to the forest to feed the wild boars."
Zou Cuifen had never seen him like this before, and she was so scared that she got up and ran away.
Li Wu watched the dark shadow go farther and farther away. He turned around and closed the gate weakly. He saw his mother standing on the steps and walked over with feet that seemed to weigh a thousand pounds. "Go to bed early."
"I'm sleeping with Xiaoping and Xiaohui tonight." Aunt Li patted him on the shoulder. "You still have me and two sons. If anything happens to you, the three of us will starve to death."
"I know!" Li Wu walked towards the room.
Aunt Li listened to the sobbing sounds coming from the house and tears began to flow. After a while, she went to the room of Li Xiaoping and his brother with the help of a crutch.
She closed the door, groped her way to the bedside, got on the bed and hugged the sobbing Li Hui in her arms, "Be good, Xiaohui, grandma will cook you some gaga tomorrow!"
Li Hui nestled in her arms, "Grandma, my mom is not well behaved, I won't give her any quacks to eat tomorrow!"
Aunt Li wiped away her tears and said, "Well! Don't give her any to eat!" How will this poor child live in the future with a mother like that?
Li Xiaoping looked out the dark window and listened to the knocks on the door and the shouts from outside, "Grandma, I won't study tomorrow. I'm going to dig truffles with the old man."
"There are icicles everywhere on the mountain, what are you going to do, little kid?" Aunt Li pulled him and said, "Go to sleep!"
"Oh!" Li Xiaoping obediently lay down in the bed.
*****
Zhou Huaian was about to go to the backyard to help when Xu Erchun came in with Cai Ermei's wife Wang Chunhua and asked awkwardly, "Did the youngest eat?"
He knew Zhou Laoyao's temper. Although he looked eccentric, he was actually very kind-hearted. Even if he had a grudge against Cai Ermei, he would not take it out on a woman.
"Not yet!" Zhou Huaian glanced at the uneasy Wang Chunhua, "How was your harvest today?"
Xu Erchun put down the basket and said, "Not bad, a total of 40 to 50 kilograms."
Wang Chunhua hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward and said, "Youngest, it was my second sister who was wrong in the past. Since you two grew up together, please take these truffles I dug!"
Zhou Huaian pointed at the straw mat expressionlessly, "Put it on the straw mat!"
"Hey hey!" Wang Chunhua was stunned for a moment, then quickly put down the basket and poured the truffles on it.
She thought Zhou Laoya would scold her or ridicule her, but she didn't expect him to accept her truffles without saying a word.
Zhou Yiding came out of the kitchen and was stunned to see Wang Chunhua squatting there to help with the selection. He smiled and greeted Xu Erchun and squatted down to help with the selection. (End of this chapter)
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