Meng Tao took Xiao Wangcai out of the yard and saw that it was Lin Sanmeng again.

Lin Sanmeng now looked even more miserable than when he was beaten just now. He was only wearing a thin old sweater with at least a dozen holes in it, and he was shirtless. There were whip marks all over his face, neck, and arms, and a bamboo whip was tied to his back with a dry rattan stick.

He knelt right in front of the courtyard gate, his face blue and lips black and purple from the cold, trembling and crying, "Auntie Taohua, help me! I was wrong! Please let me go to the Golden Bull Room to warm myself by the fire, I'm freezing to death... I won't dare to do it again!"

Meng Tao said, "Lin Sanmeng, do you know that today is the first day of the Chinese New Year? You have brought bad luck to me once or twice, and now you are screaming and howling at my doorstep? I am still alive and well, but you are itching for a beating, aren't you?"

"I was wrong, I was wrong! I won't dare to do it again! I'll let you beat me! Let's go inside and by the fire, and you can beat me as much as you want!"

Lin Sanmeng really couldn't stand the cold. His teeth were chattering and he sneezed several times. Two long streams of clear snot flowed down his nose. Not to mention letting him into the house, he felt sick just kneeling at the door.

"Get out!"

"No! I won't leave! My brother will kill me!"

At this time, Lin Erhu and Lin Dagang came over from the intersection. When they got close, Lin Erhu raised his leg and kicked his brother, shouting, "Kneel down honestly! Brainless idiot, Taohua sister and Jinniu brother will not forgive you. Don't even think about it until we beat you with this whip until it breaks!"

Lin Sanmeng fell sideways, then got up and knelt, crying to Meng Tao: "Auntie! Please forgive me, and whip me with this whip!"

Meng Tao: “…”

Lin Dagang said to Meng Tao, "We all know what happened. This kid has grown up in vain. He doesn't know what he should know. Taohua, you were right to hit him. You should teach him a lesson. Don't be angry, okay?"

Lin Erhu also apologized: "I'm sorry Taohua, this kid is so irritating! My dad has had rheumatism these days and can only lie down. He can't come. He asked me to tell you something: just beat this kid to death, it's okay! It's our fault! As long as you calm down, Taohua!"

Meng Tao smiled and said, "Lin Sanmeng wants to represent the entire Lin family and make enemies with my Meng family. He wants to break off all ties with us."

Lin Erhu was so angry that he kicked his brother twice again: "Don't believe it, Taohua, he has lost his mind! He can't even represent himself, how can he represent the entire Lin family? It's a joke! My dad still often talks about how he and your grandfather guarded the wheat field and inspected the rice seedling field together, and were washed away by the flood when the flood came. If your grandfather hadn't grabbed him quickly, I don't know if my dad would still be alive today. He remembers the friendship.

I just interrogated this idiot. He brought Tian Laoliu to your house this morning. Guess what? It was Tian Laoliu who bought him a pack of cigarettes! The beating you gave him was too light. He even ran back to me to "avenge" him. My dad heard it and was almost mad to death! He asked me to beat him with bamboo whip and fried meat. He also asked him to come over with a whip on his back to apologize. Taohua, you should continue to beat him until he calms down and is satisfied! "

Of course, you can't really fight against peach blossoms.

Lin Sanmeng's own stupid actions cannot represent the Lin family. The Lin family punished Lin Sanmeng and showed sincerity, so she went down the ladder.

He invited Lin Erhu and Lin Dagang to sit in the house, but did not let Lin Sanmeng in, telling him to go home and put on his clothes: "I said, for the sake of your brother Erhu and cousin Dagang, I didn't hurt you, and this matter is over. It's your freedom to play with whoever you want and protect whoever you want, but if you dare to provoke me again, I will beat you up, and I will never be polite! Get out now!"

Lin Erhu and Lin Dagang came into the house to chat with Jinniu. Lin Erhu pushed Jinniu's wheelchair and said with a smile: "Is your chair with wheels comfortable to sit on? I carried it back from the bridgehead for you that day!"

The two of them were cheerful and friendly, calling each other brothers. Meng Tao was puzzled as she watched: According to the plot of the novel, it seems that this autumn or next year, Lin Erhu will sign up to go to another place to participate in the construction of a large hydropower station, but he died in an accident. His wife Ge Xiangqin became a widow with three children. Soon Meng Jinniu also brought Geng Caiyue's three children to Linshui Village, and married Ge Xiangqin through a matchmaker. The two raised six children together...

Fortunately, no one was reborn to realize the memories of their past lives, otherwise, with Lin Erhu’s explosive temper, he would not be able to talk to Meng Jinniu so well.

Lin Erhu and Ge Xiangqin have a very good relationship. Ge Xiangqin didn't want to remarry at first. She wanted to stay with Lin Erhu for the rest of her life. But she couldn't stand the pressure from her family. The Lin family didn't seem to be able to help her either. It was really hard for a woman to raise three children, and she was still young, only in her twenties. In the end, she had to get married.

Meng Tao thought, now that she is here and knows the direction, she can interfere and make Lin Erhu give up building the hydroelectric power station and avoid the disaster. Then, everything should be fine.

Zhou Cuiling came over in the evening. When she heard that Lin Sanmeng had brought Tian Laoliu into the Meng family's yard, she was so angry that she cursed Lin Sanmeng as a good-for-nothing. She threatened to go back to her grandmother's house in two days and encourage her cousin to break up with Lin Sanmeng.

Meng Tao only then realized that Lin Sanmeng was pursuing Zhou Cuiling's cousin.

On the second day of junior high school, Meng Tao and Zhou Cuiling did not go out to play. They stayed in Meng Tao's room, looked at the instruction manual, and installed the sewing machine, which made it much more convenient for them to do some needlework.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Zhang Guoqing came to his father-in-law's house to pay New Year's greetings and also visited Meng Tao's house for a while. In the afternoon, Aunt Yang brought her son-in-law and the whole family back to her mother's house to pay New Year's greetings. Zhou Cuiling said that going to her grandmother's house to pay New Year's greetings was also a big project, with four uncles, and they would have to eat at one house and another, so they would not be back until two days later.

Meng Tao and Jin Niu had nowhere to go to pay New Year's greetings, so they took advantage of the sunny day to take off the sheets and quilt covers that the last guests had slept on. After breakfast on the fourth morning, they took them to the river to wash them.

They arrived early and there was no one by the river except Meng Tao. She picked up a big rock and soaked the clothes and sheets in water first. Then she took out two pieces of cabbage, put them in a bamboo basket, and lured fish and shrimps like last time.

The bamboo basket was placed on the rocks at the bottom of the water. Ten minutes later, more than a dozen fish of all sizes swam in, competing for the cabbage. Meng Tao did not move, thinking that the fish were not big enough. She waited for a while, and finally two big fat fish as long as her arms came in, each weighing about ten pounds. Meng Tao then exerted force and lifted the bamboo basket, catching six or seven fish!

She fished three times in a row, but she didn't want any fish weighing less than two kilograms. She picked and threw them back into the river, only those weighing more than five or six kilograms.

When she fished them up for the last time, she didn't have time to select them because she heard voices on the shore, as if someone was coming down to do laundry. Meng Tao looked at the two full buckets of fish and thought it would be difficult to explain, so she simply put them into the space and kept them in the two lotus pots for the time being.

This was the first time she put a living creature into the space, and she thought that it would not become a spirit after just one or two days.

(End of this chapter)