Chapter 12 Chapter 12 Team gossip.
While we were chatting, a few old women came carrying eggs.
When the car was almost full, Uncle Wang didn't wait for anyone and drove away with the cows.
Mu Mian was the only child in the car, and these days only a few parents would take their children out to play.
Not to mention children, even adults rarely go to the city unless they have important business.
The roads in the countryside are not easy to travel on, and the ox cart can't actually go very fast. The main thing is to be able to relax a little. When Mu Mian looked back, he could see some people walking to the end of the road.
As the ox cart swayed, Mu Mian's attention quickly shifted from the people in the distance back to the cart.
A few aunts and old women got together and they were like a civilian intelligence organization. One moment they said that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the east family were fighting, and the next moment they said that the first and second rooms in the west family were not getting along.
Baba blah, you and I kept talking.
Mu Mian sat among several aunts and old women, his little head moving around, looking at this and that, like a civet cub in a melon field, listening with great interest.
When they were halfway through the journey, Cao Chunfeng suddenly lowered her voice and whispered, "Hey! Did you hear anything last night? I heard that the little bully from the second branch of the Shi family robbed Tian Hongjuan's little girl of her things and beat her up. It seems that her head was broken."
Mu Mian's eyes widened, "Which Shi family?"
Speaking of which, Qingfeng Brigade is the largest brigade under the Red Star Commune, with a large area and a large population.
Because when it was first established, several villages were merged together, and the surnames were mixed.
Unlike the Yangliu Brigade, where half of the people are surnamed Liu, half are surnamed Yang, and only a small part are surnamed mixed.
Mu Mian had a child's brain. There were so many people in the team, how could she remember them all? For a moment, she really couldn't react which family it was.
Cao Chunfeng continued: "Which Shi family could it be? Shi Dabao's family."
Aunt Wang frowned, "Shi Dabao is really outrageous. He is spoiled by the second wife of the Shi family and has no law to follow. How can a ten-year-old boy bully a seven-year-old girl!"
Zhao Meihua interrupted, "Shi Chuncao is a man with a confused mind."
Aunt Li agreed, "Sooner or later, he will shoot himself in the foot. What future can Shi Dabao have? I think he will have to sit behind the fence in the future."
After listening for a while, Mu Mian finally matched the name with his memory.
There are several families with the surname Shi in their brigade. Among them, the old man is named Shi Dazhu and the old lady is named Shi Chuncao. It is said that when Shi Chuncao was a child, her family was poor, so she was sold to Shi Dazhu's family as a child bride, so Shi Chuncao has always followed her husband's surname.
The couple has six children. The eldest is a son, the youngest is also a son, and the middle four are daughters.
When it comes to the two sons of the Shi family, there is so much to say.
There are so many people in the Qingfeng Brigade, there must be one or two promising ones. The most promising among the younger generation is Mu Zhuo, who went to high school and joined the army.
Among the previous generation, although Mu Fugui also had a job in the commune, he was not the most successful one.
The most promising one was Shi Dazhu and Shi Chuncao's eldest son, Shi Xingfu. He was smart, went to middle school, and was hardworking. He started as an apprentice in the city and later became a skilled worker in the factory.
He married a wife and had two daughters, Shi Xiaozhu and Shi Xiaolian.
Unfortunately, he died young. A fire broke out in the factory and Shi Xingfu died trying to save a machine. It is said that the factory later gave him compensation.
But after his death, Shi Xiaolian and her mother and daughter could no longer live in the factory's staff quarters, as those houses were allocated to employees.
The mother and her two daughters had no choice but to return to the brigade. They now live in the southwest corner of the brigade, which is quite remote and they rarely see people there.
Compared with Shi Xingfu, Shi Xinggui, the youngest of the Shi family, is a good-for-nothing. He has no brains and no strength. The work points he earns in a whole year are not as many as those of a boy of eleven or twelve years old.
Even so, Mr. Shi and Mrs. Shi were still very kind to their youngest son. Besides the fact that Shi Xinggui was the youngest son, there was another reason, that was that he and his wife Li Guiyan had Shi Dabao, their only child.
It is said that the youngest son and the eldest grandson are the lifeblood of an old lady.
Shi Xinggui's family has it all.
Besides, Old Lady Shi is extremely patriarchal. No matter how promising her eldest son is, what’s the use if she has no sons? !
After Shi Xingfu passed away, Old Mrs. Shi insisted on taking all the compensation given by the factory and did not want to leave a single cent for the mother and her two daughters.
In the end, it was only after Shi Xingfu's wife Tian Hongjuan threatened to commit suicide, and with the mediation of the brigade and the factory, that half of the money was retained.
Mu Mian looked at Cao Chunfeng and asked, "Was it Shi Xiaolian who was beaten?"
Cao Chunfeng nodded, "It was that little girl. He said he saw the little girl pick up pheasant eggs. Shi Dabao wanted to snatch them, but Lian girl refused to give them to him, so the brat beat him up."
Mu Mian frowned, "Is it serious?"
Cao Chunfeng sighed, "How can it not be serious? She was bleeding! The little girl fainted and was carried to Lao Li. Guizhi and the captain were both there. Didn't you hear anything at home?"
Lao Li is the barefoot doctor of their team. His skills are not very good, but he can still treat things like heatstroke and stopping bleeding.
Mu Mian shook her head. Her cousin and aunt were at her house last night, and they were so busy talking that they didn't pay attention to what the neighbors were doing.
An old woman asked, "How did you deal with it in the end?"
Cao Chunfeng: "What else can I do? Pay the money."
Aunt Li sighed and said, "Will Shi Chuncao, that stingy girl, agree to this?"
In the eyes of that old woman, all the good things should be given to her grandson. Paying compensation to the girl she dislikes, isn't that the same as cutting off her own flesh?
Cao Chunfeng sneered, "She had to agree even if she didn't want to. Zhu Yatou was ruthless and said she would go to the commune to sue Shi Dabao if he didn't give an explanation. That bastard was a piece of paper. When he heard that he was going to be taken to the Public Security Bureau, his legs went limp with fear and he cried and asked his grandmother to give him the money."
Zhao Meihua sighed, "This mother and her two daughters are pitiful. Fortunately, there is Zhu Yatou."
Cao Chunfeng nodded, "Yes, it's a pity."
The aunts were still talking to each other, and Mu Mian leaned on her grandmother, matching the people in their conversations with his memory.
Speaking of which, she was very familiar with Shi Xiaozhu, because Shi Xiaozhu was the elementary school Chinese teacher in the team.
She is only seventeen years old this year. Like her father, she is a smart child. After graduating from junior high school, she was admitted to high school. However, due to the sudden death of Shi Xingfu, she was unable to continue her studies in high school.
After all, her mother Tian Hongjuan was not in good health, and her sister Shi Xiaolian was still young. How could she feel at ease leaving the mother and daughter alone in the countryside, not to mention that her uncle and grandmother's family were in the brigade.
So Shi Xiaozhu followed him back to the team. The team leader wanted to take care of her family. Plus, Shi Xiaozhu was indeed a capable person, so she became an elementary school teacher.
The Shi family's affairs had not been discussed for long when several aunts started talking about
Then he took it to another house.
Time passed by unknowingly as I was wandering around.
After getting off the ox cart, everyone carried baskets and backpacks and ran straight to the purchasing station. There were not many eggs in Zhao Meihua's basket, so she counted them quickly. When she took out the money, she saw her granddaughter standing obediently at the door, looking around.
Zhao Meihua: "Want to go play? Your dad and the others probably won't be here for a while."
Mu Mian shook his head, "If you don't want to play, I'll just watch."
There is actually nothing fun in the commune. There is no cinema or zoo. These are things that only exist in the county and you have to take a shuttle bus to get there.
Mu Mian looked at the old lady, "Grandma, are you going to buy something?"
She just saw that several middle-aged women, after selling their goods, went straight to the supply and marketing cooperative, walking and running, as if the good things would be snatched away if they went too late.
Zhao Meihua: "We just need a few boxes of matches at home. I'm too lazy to go and buy some, so I asked your Aunt Chunfeng to bring them to me."
After Zhao Meihua finished speaking, she paused as she led her granddaughter toward the post office. She thought for a moment and said, "I estimate it will take another hour or so for your brother to call. Let's go get a bundle of newspapers from the scrap shop first."
The wall of her house is peeling off and needs another layer of plaster.
Mu Mian's eyes widened a little, "A scrap recycling station?"
Zhao Meihua looked at her granddaughter's sparkling eyes and said with a smile, "It's not a fun place."
Mu Mian chuckled. It was indeed not fun, but she had read a lot of novels. In those period novels, the hero and heroine could pick up good things as soon as they arrived at the scrap collection station.
She is lucky and wants to try it too! !
Picking up a bargain is just a matter of luck.
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The scrap collection station is not very big, and there is only an old man guarding it. There are not many things, and it is relatively not particularly dirty and messy, and it is still presentable.
But in two or three years, this place will probably become more and more chaotic.
Thinking about the future, Mu Mian sighed subconsciously. By that time, there might be too much messy waste here to pile up.
Zhao Meihua didn't pay attention to the child's changeable mood and shouted to the old man, "Big brother! I'll get a bundle of newspapers."
The old man was a little hard of hearing, so Zhao Meihua called him twice before he responded, "10 cents, take it yourself."
Zhao Meihua walked towards the pile of newspapers, and after seeing them clearly, she said in disgust: "Why are they all scattered? Why don't you tie them up?"
This time the old man's hearing was not bad, and he replied loudly, "I'm too lazy to do it, tie it up yourself."
Zhao Meihua: “………………”
Mu Mian wanted to help, but Zhao Meihua waved her hand, "No, it's dusty here, don't dirty your new shoes, I'm too lazy to clean them."
Mu Mian looked down and saw that she was indeed wearing new shoes today. They were bought for her by the little boy's mother. They looked good but were not as resistant to dirt as cloth shoes.
Mu Mian had nothing to do, so she just looked around casually. Apart from newspapers, there were only some discarded bottles and cans, tables, chairs and benches.
There isn't a single good bottle or jar left, they are either broken or chipped.
There were some broken furniture piled up in the southeast corner. Some of them were broken here, and some were missing arms or legs. I guess they can only be chopped up and used as firewood.
Mu Mian looked around and found that they were indeed all waste: "………………"
It seems her luck is not that good!
Her eyes fell to the southeast corner, and Mu Mian found that the pattern on a cabinet was quite beautiful, so she walked closer to take a closer look.
Unfortunately, the cabinet is too broken to be repaired.
Mu Mian was about to leave after reading it when he suddenly discovered a small box with the same pattern placed in the corner of the cabinet.
The box was not big, it was quite small, only slightly longer than half her arm. The padlock was broken, and one of the four corners was also a little torn. It could barely be used after washing.
When Zhao Meihua came back from bundling the newspapers, she saw her granddaughter holding a small box. "Want to use it to store your gadgets?"
Mu Mian did want it a little, mainly because he liked the pattern. It should be hand-carved and very beautiful. It was also the only one that was still good-looking among this pile of broken tables, chairs and benches.
Hehe, she actually managed to dig out something usable, so happy! !
Mu Mian just nodded, and the old man next to him saw it and shouted, "Three cents!"
Mu Mian, who had only one cent in savings and hadn’t taken it out yet, said: “………………”
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