Yang Chunyan knew that there were people like this who bullied the weak and feared the strong in every village. "Can't the brigade cadres control them?"
"How can we manage it? Those who can deny it will deny it, and those who can't will admit their mistakes with a drooling face. Once the cadres leave, it's like a nephew holding a lantern and the same old things will continue!"
Su Tianfen looked at Zhao Xiu Na who was feeding the chickens and whispered, "I heard from the second branch of the Zou family that Boss Zou has taken a fancy to Mina and wants to marry her to his boss.
Don't you even look at his eldest brother, who is so dark and short that he looks like nothing? How dare he set his sights on Mina?
In the final analysis, they are just bullying the family because there are no adults in the family. They think that if they can scare a few children, they will get a good daughter-in-law.
In fact, the most vicious ones are the Zhao couple, who abandoned their children and ignored them. In the past two years, the two girls have grown up to be more beautiful, and I am worried about them. "
Yang Chunyan thought about her previous life. The Zhao family only came after the children grew up, and she didn’t know who Mina married.
"We live far away and can't help the children much. As the old saying goes, a distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor. Mina also often said that all these years it was all thanks to her Aunt Su who took care of them and helped them, otherwise they would have died long ago."
Su Tianfen said: "The siblings are all pitiful. In the village, only his family and the old bachelor feel sorry for the children, and everyone else will lend a hand if they can.
We also want to help a few more children, but the two families are not related, and the family across the street is just standing there, and they are all from the same village, so sometimes we can't intervene too much. We can only lend a hand when we see what they are doing."
"Yes, everyone feels sorry for the children and can't bear to see them suffer."
"Aunt Su, Aunt Yang, Uncle Zhou." Zhao Meina pushed her bicycle into the yard and greeted the three of them with a smile.
Su Tianfen stood up and said with a smile: "Mina is back, I will go back to cook too."
Zhao Meina smiled and said, "Aunt Su will eat at my house."
"If I'm alone, I'll eat with you. I have a whole family waiting for me at home!" Su Tianfen said as she walked away.
Zhao Meina put down her schoolbag, sat down in front of Yang Chunyan, and said gratefully: "Aunt Yang, don't worry, I've gone to the police station to ask, and if they dare to bully us again, I'll go to the police station to sue them!"
Yang Chunyan thought about the fact that the eldest son of the Zou family wanted her to be his daughter-in-law, and also thought that the Zhao family depended on her to support the family and could not treat her as a child. "Do you know what the Zou family is planning?"
Zhao Meina glanced at her brother and sister-in-law and nodded, "Aunt Su told me that I won't be afraid of them."
"Be alert at night and remember to lock the gates to your yard and your room. Don't open the door no matter who shouts." Yang Chunyan thought for a moment and said, "Let's go back. I'll ask your uncle Zhou to send Da Huang home to give you courage."
Zhou Huaian took over and said, "Da Huang is a coyote dog. He is now taller than Lai Fu and Wang Cai. He has a fierce look on his face and is very good at protecting the family."
Zhao Meina nodded repeatedly, "Thank you, Uncle Zhou, Aunt Yang, I will feed it well."
"Dahlia is not picky about food. When it's hungry, it can even eat a whole bowl of pig food. There's no need to feed it anything good." Yang Chunyan thought about her studies. "You'll take the high school entrance exam next year. Last time I heard Jiaming say that you were going to Ning'an to study in high school.
Xiu Na will also take the junior high school entrance exam next year, why don't you all go to Ning'an? Auntie asked someone and it's possible for Xiao Chuan to transfer to Ning'an Chengguan Primary School.
My family has a house opposite the station, but no one has lived there. Your grandmother Zhou said that a house will deteriorate quickly if it is not occupied. If you can move in, you can also help take care of it for us.
Also, we are planning to start a pickle factory in partnership with someone else, and you can use some of your savings to invest in it."
"Okay! We will study hard, and I will come back to help you when I have learned some skills." Zhao Meina knew clearly that Aunt Yang said that because she hoped that she would accept their help without any burden. The only thing she could do now was to live up to their kindness.
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Then we will wait for the future top students to come back to the village after they finish their studies and help me run the factory!"
"Yes! I will do my best!" Zhao Meina responded confidently.
Zhao Xiaochuan looked at the others and smiled so hard that his teeth were showing. "Uncle Zhou, will I go to Ning'an to study with my sister next year?"
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian nodded with a smile, "You will all go to Ning'an next year, but don't tell anyone yet. Tell them when you leave."
If only his little Jiuer could be as sensible and obedient as Mina and her brother. It would be great if he could have ten or eight children like her!
After they talked for a while, Yang Chunyan and the other person said goodbye and left Zhao Meina's house. They saw a short and sturdy young man less than 1.6 meters tall standing at the corner of the field. He looked to be about 18 or 19 years old.
As soon as Zhao Meina saw him, her face darkened and she whispered, “Aunt, he is Zou Xin. The last time Jiaming and I came back together, he scolded us.”
Zhou Huaian saw that Zou Xin looked at Zhao Meina blankly, and it was obvious that he didn't have much brains. He stared at Zou Xin coldly, "Next time you meet a mad dog, come back and call us, and smash his mouth."
Zou Xin looked at Zhou Huaian with a gloomy face, then looked at Zhao Meina, turned and left.
Yang Chunyan looked at Zhao Meina, who was becoming more and more beautiful, and warned her, "Don't pay attention to him if you meet him on the road in the future. The more you pay attention to this kind of person, the more excited he will be."
"It's cold and it gets dark early, so close the door when you go home. We'll bring the dog over when we get back." Zhou Huaian felt that a young man like Zou Xin, who was young and naive, might do something bad when he got excited.
Zhao Meina nodded seriously, "I remember it."
"You guys go back, you don't have to see us off." After saying this, Yang Chunyan and the other person got on their bicycles and left.
Zhao Meina and her brother watched the two people turn the corner before going in and closing the gate. The two sisters began to feed the pigs and cook.
Zhao Xiu Na scooped the pig food into the pig food bucket and said, "Sister, let's go live in Ning'an. Will we come back to pick mushrooms and dig truffles during the winter and summer vacations?"
"Come back during the holidays." Zhao Meina put a handful of rapeseed stalks into the stove, "Listen to auntie, don't tell anyone, so that others won't bother auntie."
"I remember that." Zhao Xiuna picked up the pig food bucket and walked a few steps, then turned back and said, "I cut three green sticks. If he dares to come to our house, I will beat the shit out of him."
Zhao Meina pretended to be relaxed and said, "You laugh at Jialiang every day for always saying who the shit was beaten out, and now you say it too."
Zhao Xiu Na laughed and said, "Jia Liang said he learned Mi Zong Quan and he was very active every day. The physical education teacher punished him to do 50 frog jumps that day, but he couldn't do 20."
Zhao Meina also laughed after hearing this, "This is the difference between fake kung fu and real kung fu!"
"The teacher said so too!" Zhao Xiu Na walked away carrying the pig food bucket.
Zhao Meina scooped a bowl of rice, washed it and put it into the pot. She asked Zhao Xiaochuan to watch the stove while she went to wash the vegetables.
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Yang Chunyan and Zhou Huaian rode their bikes to Guanyin intersection, turned and went to Yang Xiaoxue's house. Seeing that the gate was locked, they turned around and rode their bikes back.
As soon as I arrived at the brigade's sunbathing area, I saw Zhou Yiding coming out of the agency store with a pack of cigarettes. Seeing the two of them, he walked over with a smile and said, "I heard from Jiakang that you went to Guanyin. What happened to Mina's family?"
"I'll tell you later." Zhou Huaian took the cigarette and turned to look at Yang Chunyan, "I still have to go to Uncle Xia's place. How about you go back first and ask Jiaming to send the dog to Mina's house?"
"Okay! It's time to eat, come back early." Yang Chunyan reminded and rode away on her bicycle.
Zhou Yiding walked side by side with him to Lao Xiazi's house. After listening to him talk about Mina's family, he said with a sullen face:
"What do you want to do? How about calling Hongbing, Erchun and the others to beat them up, and then each of them carrying a load of manure to Guanyin and pouring it all over the gate?"
The old man also liked the three siblings of the Zhao family. He said that they were very sensible and did not look like children of their age at all. He also asked him to help them more.
Zhou Huaian whispered, "I heard that he often waits for Mina by the mountain road, and he scolded Jiaming that day. We have nothing to do these days, so let's go and wait to give him a good beating. Throwing manure on them is too easy for them, is there any better way?"
I remember Uncle Daqing once told us what those fake Taoist priests used to trick people and cheat them out of their money. I just thought about it for a long time at the Zhao family but couldn’t remember it.
Zhou Yiding thought for a moment, "I remember someone spread something fishy on the roof of the house opposite us, which attracted dogs and crows to the house to cause trouble. I can't remember anything else. I'll ask Uncle Xia later and we'll know."
"That's right, these soldiers know more strange things than us."
"I didn't hear it when I was a soldier. I heard it when I was watching the prisoners."
"Uncle Xia said that their troops are not regular troops. They are all conscripted men. There are all kinds of people in them." Zhou Huaian thought about it and said, "The leather I asked him to tannin last time should be ready."
"Did you go to Uncle Xia's place to get the nitrated leather?"
"I bought him two pairs of shoes and went to get some tanned leather. Also, some of my elders said it's not cold here and two fur coats would be enough, so they asked us to sell the leather for money."
"It's not cold here, but the provincial capital is. Give the leather to Wang Zhen and let him give it to others to build relationships."
"That's fine!" Zhou Huaian stopped his bike, pushed open the fence door and walked in. "Uncle Xia, what are you doing?"
"Eat some hot buns. Your old man brought them to you." Old Shrimp came out cheerfully. "Yiding is here too. Want to eat with us?"
Zhou Yiding smiled and shook his head, "No, my second father also sent buns to my family."
Zhou Huaian took the big toe shoes out of his jacket and said, "I bought some for the elderly in my family, and I bought two pairs for you as well."
"Thanks!" Old Shrimp happily took it, carried it into the house and brought out a few skins, "Take the skins back with you."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian took it and put it in his back.
Zhou Yiding handed over the wages, and Lao Xiazi glared at him, "You kid want to slap me in the face, right?"
"Okay, I won't pay you." Zhou Yiding smiled and took it back. "Uncle Xia, you know the Zhao siblings from Guanyin Brigade! They have so many siblings... You are so knowledgeable, how can you deal with them?"
Old Shrimp sighed, "I've heard a lot of ways to deal with people before."
Zhou Huaian pulled a bamboo chair over to him and said, "Uncle Xia, sit down and talk slowly!" (End of this chapter)
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