After meeting Zhou Huiling in the literacy class, the two listened quietly to a class and then talked to each other about what they had done today. Meng Tao told Zhou Huiling that the educated youth in her family were vying to be her teacher. He Huijuan and Jiang Limei had quarreled because of Zhao Ming. Zhou Huiling laughed after hearing it and whispered gossip in her ear: He Huijuan and Jiang Limei were from the same place as Zhao Ming, and everyone in the team knew that the two girls were vying to like the same man, but Zhao Ming ignored everyone.

Meng Tao thought, no wonder.

After class, a group of people walked back to the village chatting and laughing. Luo Lihua, a girl who lived close to the Tian family, told Meng Tao that she heard crying and making noise in the Tian family yard again this evening, and Wang Shuifeng was cursing Meng Tao loudly. Meng Tao smiled and said let her curse as long as she had the strength, because she couldn't hear it anyway and couldn't curse anyone to death.

However, Meng Tao admired Wang Shuifeng very much. Maybe it was because she was sick and took a lot of medicine in her early years, which made her physique strong. After experiencing the sticky grass incident, the whole family became like this. She knew it was Meng Tao who did it, but she didn't get so angry that she fell ill. She is really amazing and can be called an old woman of steel.

Late at night, Meng Tao locked the doors and windows and entered the space. Looking at the stone platform that was so messy that she could hardly stand on it due to the things she had piled up, Meng Tao no longer dared to think about how the immortal would scold her. Perhaps he was too lazy to scold her and would just give her a thunderbolt to get rid of it.

This was really outrageous. She even felt that she had to find a way to get rid of this pile of firewood first.

She started to build the frame. She specially cut a few thick bamboos, which could be inserted into the cracks in the rocks as the base. Then she continued with some medium-thick bamboos, which were long enough and tied with vines. She built a wide four-legged frame that directly covered the entire stone platform and allowed the vines to climb up. No matter whether they were cucumbers, pumpkins, gourds, or cowpeas, all would climb up to form a large green shed. When the time came, the fruits and vegetables would be hanging down, and she could sit on the stone platform with a chair under her feet to pick the fruits and vegetables. The scene of the harvest would be so beautiful!

Meng Tao went to see the two peach trees again. They had grown to the same level as the stone platform, with branches stretching out and perhaps growing even higher. The tomatoes and peppers were actually blooming. Not bad, six tomato plants and four pepper plants. If they produced a lot, they could make sauce.

There are still a dozen or so cabbages that have matured, but unfortunately they are stuck in the cracks of the rocks, which are ten feet above the platform. There is no way to get them up at the moment, so I can't eat them even if I want to.

The white enamel basin under the pine tree that collects dew from pine needles has accumulated to one or two bowls of dew, and you can use a small ladle tied to a bamboo pole to draw up the dew. But you still have to wait until the basin is fuller before you can do that. Don't be impatient.

The pile of lemons picked from the mountain were put into the calligraphy and painting jar where literati and scholars used to store famous paintings and scrolls. The jar was full of sour lemons. Alas, what an insult to elegance. Meng Tao said that she did not mean it. Who knew that these lemons would find a hiding place after they were collected? The fish tank and lotus tank were placed together, but they did not go in.

When you have some free time in a few days, go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some jars, take out the lemons on a sunny day, wash and dry them, and then pickle them.

Meng Tao came out of the space, opened the new quilt, made the bed and went to sleep. There was no quilt cover on it yet, so she just wrapped herself in cloth and slept for one night. She would hurry up and sew the quilt cover when she got home from work tomorrow.

After breakfast the next day, Meng Tao obediently followed the educated youth to work, carrying a hoe. If she didn't go to work in the production team, she was afraid that team leader Bao Shunfeng would come to kill her.

During the collective labor, there were bound to be many people talking. The girls and wives all gathered around Meng Tao, asking her many questions while she worked. Naturally, they were all about this trip to the provincial capital, and the attitudes of Tian Zhigao and his wife in the city. Meng Tao answered them all truthfully, and everyone cursed Tian Zhigao and the Tian family harshly.

Some people can't stand being nagged. A few days later, Tian Zhigao suddenly returned to Linshui Village.

Meng Tao was not surprised to hear the news. She had told Tian Zhigao at the provincial capital railway station that his father and sister were both admitted to the commune health center. Even if he didn't believe it, he would definitely go to the post office to send a telegram to ask. When she met Wang Shuifeng and Tian Yalan in the commune that day, they might have received Tian Zhigao's telegram and rushed to the post office to contact him.

Wang Shuifeng didn't want her promising son to come back, for fear that he would be affected by the Tian family scandal. But when Tian Zhigao learned that Tian Agui and Tian Xianglan were really sick and injured, he would definitely come back to see them before he could feel at ease. After all, they were his biological father and sister.

Meng Tao guessed that Wang Shuifeng would probably exaggerate and put the entire blame on her for the sticky grass incident, saying that she had harmed the Tian family, and that Tian Zhigao might come to "settle accounts" with her later.

However, he did not expect that Tian Zhigao would come so quickly. He returned to Linshui Village at noon. When the production team finished work in the evening, he came to the gate of Meng's courtyard and stopped Meng Tao.

"Taohua, come with me, I want to talk to you." Tian Zhigao's face was gloomy and his eyes were a little red.

Meng Tao was so dumbfounded that she followed him and pointed to the courtyard gate: "I just finished work and haven't washed my hands and face yet. Let's go in and talk."

"There's no need to be so particular. Just follow me now!" Tian Zhigao stretched out his hand and grabbed Meng Tao's left arm. Meng Tao felt a pain, which showed how much force he used.

Meng Tao remembered that he had also held her like this when she was at the Qianjin Steel Plant. He relied on his strength as a man and didn't consider women's feelings at all. What a hateful scumbag! Meng Tao suddenly became furious and swung the sickle at Tian Zhigao with his right hand. If Tian Zhigao didn't let go and jump away in time, the sharp sickle would either chop him on the head or cut his neck directly.

Tian Zhigao took three steps back, his face filled with shock and disbelief: "Meng Taohua, are you crazy? Do you want to kill someone? Do you know what the consequences will be if you cut my artery?"

Meng Tao glared at him: "If I were really crazy, I would kill you without any consequences. Now that I am not crazy, I can kill you, but I don't need to pay with my life, because you came to my house, insulted and beat me, and I had no choice but to defend myself."

"Yes, that's right! Taohua, this is called self-defense. I saw it, and I can testify!"

"We all saw it, and we can testify for Taohua at any time."

Jiang Xiaodong came over from the left intersection carrying a hoe, while Sun Yutang, Xu Guoliang and Qian Liang came up the stone steps from the right. The four young men surrounded Tian Zhigao. Xu Guoliang said, "What's the point of bullying a weak woman? If you want to fight, tell me. We'll be there for you!"

Zhao Ming and three female educated youth also came up from the stone steps. Hearing this, Zhao Ming thought they were going to have a fight and hurried forward to stop them: "What are you doing? Why are you fighting? Hey, Jiang Xiaodong, why don't you say anything and just let them do whatever they want?"

Jiang Xiaodong snorted, "I haven't arrived yet, and the fight has already started. It was this guy who started it. We are trying to stop him from continuing."

"What? He...you, why are you having an affair? Who are you?" Zhao Ming pointed at Tian Zhigao and questioned.

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