Chapter 59 Chapter 59 Children fighting?

"How about..." Wang Nian frowned slightly, and after a few hesitations, she decided to speak out: "I have a recipe for a fertility-enhancing herbal diet, would you like to try it?"

Wang Nian also occasionally saw recipes for fertility-enhancing diets on the spice rack, but the prerequisite was that both the couple were healthy but unable to conceive.

Zhou Yuying herself is familiar with Chinese medicine, and she was a little worried that she couldn't tell the origins of some of the herbs.

"Really?" Zhou Yuying looked over with surprise, and without even asking anything else, she quickly said, "Of course I need it! I'll take the prescription and get the medicine tomorrow."

She is the one who doesn't treat herself, and Zhou Yuying is the one who seeks medical help from all directions when she is desperate.

Wang Nian waved his hands quickly and said, "This is the herb my aunt asked the barefoot doctor in the brigade to get. We have it ready at home. I'll give it to you later."

"Then you can just make it while you're at it. I'm totally clueless about cooking, so don't ruin the effect of the herbs... Just tell me what you want to buy."

Zhou Yuying gets a headache when it comes to cooking. She can get by with other things but she cannot be careless when it comes to the efficacy of the treatment.

"Okay!" Wang Nian agreed straightforwardly.

With the addition of purified water and space seasoning, the efficacy of medicinal food will definitely be greatly improved.

However, the recipe also said that it was only a high probability, not 100%, so Wang Nian still had to say something up front: "Don't blame me if it doesn't work."

"Am I that kind of person?" Zhou Yuying smiled, and when she looked up to the side, she was suddenly stunned, and then walked deeper into the greenhouse.

There was a large area of ​​red and black mixed with several unnamed fruit plants, with countless branches intertwined and climbing all over the racks. From a distance, it looked like a wall.

"What kind of fruit is this?"

When I got closer and took a closer look, Zhou Yuying still didn't recognize them. Each one was the size of a thumb and looked like a mini grape. Only when I got close and smelled them carefully could I smell a faint fruity fragrance.

No wonder I didn't notice it when I first came in. And when I looked to the side casually, I found a small patch of watermelon planted on the left side of the ground.

"Those are blackberries. I heard they are good for the eyes. I am the only one in my family who uses eyes. I'll grow some for them to eat."

"How come you can grow everything?" Zhou Yuying enviously plucked a few blackberries and stuffed them into her mouth. She blinked and became happy again: "I can eat them too, so I'm getting a bargain."

"Pick more. My little monkeys are coming back soon."

The nation has a unified holiday to commemorate Liberation Day. All schools have performances and celebrations in the morning, and the official seven-day holiday begins in the afternoon.

When the two came back from picking fruits and vegetables, the two men had already changed the door lock and returned to the yard.

"Old Xiao."

There was one more person in the yard. Old Xiao stood up with a simple smile and greeted them: "Hello, my two brothers and sisters."

Shi Xiangming smiled and said, "We just happened to meet Lao Xiao on the road. Let's get together at noon today."

"It's a good time for so many people to eat hot pot, it's lively." Wang Nian brought the fruit to the table between the people and put it down. He called He Jian who was reading in the room: "Brother-in-law, come out and have some fruit."

"Then I'll go tell Wenli not to cook at noon." said Lao Xiao.

"Don't go." Shi Xiangming pointed at the children who suddenly came in through the door and said, "Let my eldest son go and call them. You just sit down and drink your tea in peace."

Shi Shuwen handed the schoolbag to Shi Wan and turned to call for help from the next room.

Shi Feiying snatched her eldest brother's schoolbag, ran to Shi Xiangming and put it down, then blinked mysteriously and unzipped the schoolbag: "Dad... look!"

The rolled-up award certificate was slowly unrolled, and coupled with Shi Feiying's mysterious voice-over, it really made people look forward to it.

Wang Nian also went over to take a look and was immediately happy.

There are three big words "Shi Shuwen" written on the top of the first row. It is clearly the boss's award certificate, but that naughty boy acts as if he has won the award himself.

Three good students.

"and……"

Then there were two more award certificates with Shi Shuwen's name on them.

One is for outstanding class leader, and the other is for first prize in the essay writing competition.

"All of this belongs to your eldest brother. Why are you so happy?" Shi Xiangming shook his head and smiled. He took the award certificate, looked at it, and handed it to Wang Nian: "Shuwen actually became a class cadre?"

Within a semester of entering school, he not only became an official, but was also selected as a three-good student.

Wang Nian was more interested in the first prize in the essay competition. He took it, looked at it and said with a smile, "When Shuwen comes back, let's take a look at what the winning essay is about."

This was not the time for Shi Feiying to show off, and she looked at Shi Wan for help: "Second sister."

"The school sent us to the city to participate in the competition." Shi Wan also blinked mysteriously and took out her certificate happily: "Mom, I also got a certificate, and a prize."

Wang Nian took it and took a look—a little labor expert.

"It shows that our Xiaowan has outstanding labor skills." After racking his brains, Wang Nian finally thought of how to praise his daughter who looked like she was begging for praise: "No wonder your room is the cleanest in our house."

"Well, I can also help you wash the dishes and sweep the floor."

"We have two very outstanding children in our family." Wang Nian smiled widely and suddenly clapped his hands to the others in the courtyard: "Let's applaud them together."

Zhou Yuying laughed out loud and clapped her hands.

When Shi Wan saw the person, she jumped a few times in surprise: "Aunt Yuying, it's Aunt Yuying."

"Come and let me hug you. Look how much our Xiaowan has grown in this year."

Shi Wan ran over happily, and Shi Feiying turned around and hugged Wang Nian, pouting gloomily: "Mom, why don't you praise me."

"What are you praising?" Wang Nian smiled.

"I have been very obedient recently. The teachers praised me for my progress and gave me a red flower."

"What about your little red flower?"

"Well... Xiaobai bit it to pieces." Shi Feiying took out a torn velvet flower from her trouser pocket without hesitation: "It's all Xiaobai's fault!"

Wang Nian really couldn't brag anymore... because when he lowered his head, he saw two lumps of mud on Shi Feiying's knees.

I don't know how long I knelt in some corner playing with mud before I came back, and there was a lot of mud on the little red flower.

"It seems that our Feiying has performed very well." Shi Xiangming took the broken red flower, stood up and took Shi Feiying's hand: "Go wash your hands first, I will glue it together."

Wang Nian also said, "This little red flower is the first step for Shi Feiying to make progress. I'll stick it on the living room wall for you later so that anyone who comes can see your little red flower. How about that?"

"Hehe." Shi Feiying was a little embarrassed by the compliment. She worked hard to brush the gaps between her nails and declared that she would continue to improve: "Next month I want to get a certificate of merit for being a labor expert."

"Good!" Wang Nian clapped his hands enthusiastically.

Zhou Yuying was the one who laughed the loudest among them. She put strawberries into Shi Wan's mouth and laughed at Wang Nian, who was just a supporting role.

Meng Cheng put down his clapping hands and couldn't help but smile.

My wife was visibly happy today, unlike at home when she was always depressed and hiding in her room reading a book.

Although the two elders didn't say anything, the invisible pressure was suffocating.

Moving farther away from home might be the right decision.

***

After lunch, Zhou Yuying and Meng Cheng went home to pack up their things. Wang Nian thought that the two would come over for dinner in the evening, so he simply moved out the small clay stove to stew the medicinal soup.

Hu Wenli helped Shi Guizhi cut eggplant into pieces, planning to use them to make eggplant sauce later.

Seeing Wang Nian take out a bag of black dried herbs from the house and pour them into the pot, he couldn't help but ask curiously, "Is this the fertility soup that Zhou Yuying mentioned before she left?"

The words "praying for a child" are like radar; Hu Wenli can hear them no matter who says them.

Wang Nian was stunned, but still nodded truthfully: "There is a local doctor in the brigade of our hometown. Before I gave birth to our daughter Feiying, he specially prescribed herbal soup for me, saying that it can help me conceive."

"Anything else?" Hu Wenli asked hurriedly.

“Yes, there is…” Wang Nian said the same thing: “I just don’t know if it will work for you.”

"Eat until you die." Hu Wenli walked towards Wang Nian holding a kitchen knife, looking as if she was going to hit someone: "We should try our best. Anyway, I have taken dozens of Chinese medicines, if not a hundred. What does it matter if I eat a few more bowls?"

"Since you said so, I'll make three doses for you. The old doctor said that if you still can't get pregnant after taking three doses, don't count on it." Wang Nian explained the contraindications in the prescription in detail.

Hu Wenli took note of it and thought to herself that she would try it on her husband after drinking that night.

"Mom."

Led by Shi Xiangming, several children who had just posted their award certificates in the house rushed to Wang Nian to ask for rewards.

According to the number of award certificates received, Shi Shuwen received a reward of RMB 1.50, while Shi Wan and Shi Feiying received RMB 50 each.

"Mom, help me save it." Shi Shuwen took the money and before he could even warm it up, he gave Wang Nian another yuan: "Wait until the New Year to buy new clothes."

Shi Wan looked at the fifty cents she had just received reluctantly, but still handed it over honestly: "Mom, please save it for me too."

Only Shi Feiying put the money in her pocket and said proudly: "Brother, sister, I'll treat you to popsicles!"

"You are a man who really spends every penny he has. Your brothers and sisters will have new clothes to wear during the New Year, but you are still planning to wear your old pants?" Shi Xiangming patted Shi Feiying's butt.

I can't wear these pants for long even if they are ruined. I wonder when that naughty boy will come back home naked.

Shi Feiying also touched her buttocks and fell into a painful struggle.

“…”

"Okay!" Shi Feiying felt that her butt was more important, so she obediently gave her mother the fifty cents to buy pants.

Wang Nian happily put the money away and pointed to the refrigerator in the living room.

"Mom made a box of ice cream this morning and froze it. It should be ready to eat now."

"Ice cream... It's ice cream." Shi Feiying immediately became happy again, and rushed to the living room like a gust of wind. After a while, she ran out holding two aluminum lunch boxes: "Brother, let's go find Sister Shasha to eat together."

"Okay." Shi Shuwen nodded: "Then I'll get four spoons and we'll go eat outside."

Shi Feiying was naughty but generous to others. She gave a box to Shi Wan before she even left the room: "Second sister, you and sister Shasha will have one box, and my brother and I will have one box."

"Just eat a little. Eating too much will upset your stomach." Wang Nian hurriedly instructed from behind.

The three children discussed it together and went out with the ice cream.

"Sister Shasha, come and eat ice cream. Not popsicles, but ice cream—"

"Here I am."

The advantage of living next door is that you can hear what you shout at your doorstep.

Qiu Shasha ran over excitedly with a bag of popcorn in her arms, intending to share the snacks she had just gotten this morning with her friends.

"Wow..." Qiu Shasha exclaimed when she saw the aluminum lunch box, and then said with certainty: "It must be the ice cream made by Aunt Wang Nian."

"This is the ice cream my mother made. It's delicious!" Shi Feiying said quickly, even though he had never eaten it before.

There was a step next to the door, just enough space for four kids to sit in a row. Qiu Shasha sat next to Shi Wan and opened the bag of popcorn.

"Auntie Wang Nian is amazing. She can even make ice cream."

Shi Shuwen handed spoons to his younger brothers and sisters: "Eat the ice cream first, it will melt in a while." And the lunch boxes were quite cold in their hands.

"Brother, open it quickly." Shi Feiying urged repeatedly, waving a spoon.

"Wow--"

The second "wow" was a unified exclamation of surprise when they saw the lunch box decorated with black and red fruits.

The box that Shi Wan opened contained strawberry ice cream, which was fragrant and sweet and looked delicious.

"It's milk ice cream!" said Shi Shuwen.

In small shops, milk ice cream costs 20 cents each, which they cannot afford. Usually, they eat colored popsicles at 5 cents each to satisfy their cravings.

Shi Feiying couldn't wait to scoop up a big spoonful, and she was reluctant to stop even though her nose was freezing.

It’s fragrant and smooth... paired with sour blackberries, it’s ten thousand times more delicious than the milk ice cream in small shops.

In Shi Feiying's small head, she could only think of ten thousand times more.

"It slid down my throat before I even ate it." Shi Wan touched her chin in surprise: "I didn't even have to chew it."

“It’s delicious.”

You took a spoonful and I took a spoonful. Soon most of the ice cream in the lunch box disappeared. It was so cold that several people kept fidgeting.

"Let's save the rest for tomorrow." Shi Shuwen closed the lid and followed his mother's instructions. Seeing that Shi Feiying was still reluctant to eat, he said, "Think about it. If you have diarrhea today, will your mother let you eat tomorrow?"

Shi Feiying: “…”

I nodded honestly and licked the spoon clean.

"How poor! You can't afford ice cream so you use milk to deceive people!"

Suddenly, a few older kids walked past them, each licking an ice cream.

The boy with a look of contempt on his face looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old. He looked about 70% like his father with his pointed chin and monkey-like features.

"Fang Youming." Shi Shuwen called out the man's name coldly.

Fang Youming is the eldest son of Fang Caifu and Liu Min, and is in the same class as Shi Shuwen.

When they first moved to No. 15 Guanghua Street, Fang Youming was very enthusiastic about Shi Shuwen, and sometimes the two of them would even make plans to go to school together.

Later, when Shi Shuwen was singled out by the teacher for his academic performance, Fang Youming began to feel hostile.

In addition, the relationship between the parents was not good, so the children naturally stopped playing together, and the hostility became more and more obvious. "

"You know nothing." Shi Feiying was determined not to allow anyone to say anything bad about her mother. She jumped up and pointed her spoon at Fang Youming: "The ice cream we eat is 10,000 times better than the one you eat."

"Ten thousand times more! How do you, a little brat who has never even been to Guanghua Street, understand how much ten thousand times is?" others joked.

"You don't understand!" Shi Feiying shouted.

"Feiying." Shi Shuwen stood up and hugged Shi Feiying's shoulders, handing him the spoon: "Take the ice cream back and freeze it, it will melt in a while."

The oldest of these older kids was already in high school, and Shi Feiying, a little kid, would only suffer if she quarreled with them.

Shi Feiying said "Oh" and hurriedly picked up her lunch box and ran home.

They can have a quarrel later, but once the ice cream melts it will be gone, so Shi Feiying still knows what is more important.

"What's the matter...Are you afraid that we will beat up your brother?" Fang Youming smiled and stood at the curb: "He's not my biological brother, why are you so nervous?"

"Fang Youming." Shi Shuwen frowned.

"Brother!" Fang Youming's sister Fang Xue also looked at her brother disapprovingly at this time: "Didn't mom tell you not to go out and talk nonsense?"

"What are you afraid of?"

With his "good brother" by his side, Fang Youming felt that his sister's words made him lose face, and his tone suddenly became fierce.

"You're not allowed to say she's not your biological child... Only a fool would recognize his stepmother as his biological mother. If he gets sold tomorrow, he'll still be counting money for others!"

"Fang Youming, shut up!" Shi Wan's face wrinkled in anger, her eyes burned with rage, and her hands clenched into fists.

"The little girl still wants to hit someone." Fang Youming sneered, and the other children also laughed.

Shi Shuwen took a deep breath and turned around. "Let's go back. There's no need to quarrel with him."

"Oh! I'm so scared now..."

Fang Youming felt that Shi Shuwen was as timid as a mouse, and that he himself was like the gang boss on TV, who could scare people to death with just one word.

Therefore, the more he talked about it, the more excited he became.

"Your stepmother seduced your father and divorced your biological mother. She is a slut..."

"I fuck you, Grandpa."

Shi Shuwen, who had already walked to the door, suddenly jumped up and punched Fang Youming hard in the face. This punch was filled with anger and all his strength.

With a scream, Zhang Youming fell directly onto the curb.

"You can say it about me, but you can't say it about my mother!" It seemed that Shi Shuwen was still not satisfied. He rode on Fang Youming and slapped him in the face several times.

"Let my son go, you bastard!"

Shi Wan looked up at Liu Min who was running towards her from a distance, and said to Qiu Shasha, "Shasha, go call my mom."

Liu Min and Fang Caifu had been watching from the window on the second floor of their house. When they saw their son being knocked down by Shi Shuwen, they rushed downstairs in a hurry.

"Sister Shasha, why are you back?"

Before Qiu Shasha entered the house, she met Shi Feiying who was running out.

"Auntie Wang Nian, someone beat Brother Shuwen." Before Qiu Shasha could explain, she started shouting at the adults in the courtyard.

When Shi Feiying heard that someone was bullying her brother, her face immediately turned pale and she ran out of the house in a hurry.

"elder brother!"

As soon as she ran to the door, she saw with her own eyes that Gangfu kicked Shi Shuwen on the shoulder, and Liu Min was still tearing her hair relentlessly.

Shi Shuwen didn't have time to cry out in pain before his face was rubbed against the edge of the flowerbed next to him.

"Ah..." Shi Feiying screamed in panic, rushed over, hugged Fang Caifu's arm and bit it hard. Shi Wan picked up a small stone in the flower bed and hit Liu Min recklessly.

Wang Nian and Shi Xiangming, who rushed out after hearing the noise, only saw their three children falling down after being beaten by two adults.

Shi Feiying's head was pressed to the ground by Gang Caifu, and her face was covered with dirt and blood.

Wang Nian's breathing almost stopped, and her heart felt like it was being cut by a knife. The wooden spoon in her hand, which she had not put down in time, now became a way for her to vent her anger.

"Fuck you!"

The only time Wang Nian heard Shi Xiangming swear, he didn't have time to think about it and threw the big spoon at Liu Min's face.

Hu Wenli was no slower than Wang Nian. Without thinking, she grabbed Liu Min's hair and dragged her off Shi Shuwen.

Old Xiao had just come out of the house and hadn't figured out the whole story when he saw two parties fighting. Without saying a word, he rolled up his sleeves and joined in.

Fu was small in stature to begin with, and he was able to show off his power by bullying a ten-year-old kid just now. But now, he was kicked to the ground by Shi Xiangming, and he could only cry for mercy.

"You think I'm easy to bully just because I'm usually nice to you!"

Snap——

I don’t know how many slaps fell, but the anger in Wang Nian’s heart finally subsided a little.

Seeing this, Hu Wenli grabbed Liu Min's hair and pulled it to the side, saying, "Look at where the children are injured."

Wang Nian suddenly came back to his senses.

First, she lifted up Shi Wan, who was closest to her. Seeing that she had no injuries except tears on her face, she quickly picked up Shi Feiying and said, "Where does it hurt? Tell mom."

Shi Feiying laughed twice and wiped the blood from her mouth: "My tooth fell out."

Liu Min's two slaps knocked out two of Shi Feiying's already loose front teeth, and Shi Feiying bit her mouth, causing it to be filled with blood.

Wang Nian didn't have time to take a closer look and hurried to check Shi Shuwen.

Shi Shuwen's left face was injured the most seriously, probably because he hit it on the curb, so there were many large and small wounds on his face that were bleeding.

After a careful examination, Wang Nian was finally relieved. The wounds on the face were not deep and there was no problem with the movement of the hands and feet.

Just as I turned around to look at Shi Xiangming, I suddenly heard Shi Feiying crying.

"Mom! My hand hurts."

Wang Nian turned his head and his heart immediately began to hang in the air again. Shi Feiying's arm was hanging at a strange angle.

Maybe I neglected my hands because of the pain in my mouth, and when I relaxed, I realized I couldn't lift my hands.

Wang Nian exhaled with all his strength, trying to remain calm, and then yelled to Shi Xiangming: "Feiying has a broken bone!"

Based on the medical knowledge he learned in his previous life, Wang Nian asked the two older children to go back and get the ice cream lunch box and scissors.

"If my child's hand has any impact in the future, I will make sure that your family will never live in peace again." Shi Xiangming withdrew his hand.

"What's going on? This is..."

As soon as the fight subsided, a large crowd of people gathered around.

The tricycle that Meng Cheng called for moving was stuck in traffic and could not move forward, so it had to stop and push its way through the crowd.

"Sister Yuying, Feiying has a broken bone."

As soon as Wang Nian saw Zhou Yuying appear, he felt like he had seen a savior.

Zhou Yuying squatted down to check, and then breathed a sigh of relief: "It should be a fracture, but this part recovers quickly, don't worry."

Wang Nian was so worried that he broke out in cold sweats. He wasn't this scared even when he was kicked unconscious by Xu Jie that year. Now he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Xiang Ming, you take care of it here. I'll take Feiying and Shuwen to the hospital."

"Okay." Shi Xiangming waved to Shi Wan, "Come and tell Uncle Meng Cheng in detail what happened just now and why you two were arguing..."

"Okay." Shi Wan wiped away her tears and then remembered to throw away the stone in her hand.

"What happened today is no longer a simple fight between children. From the moment you got involved, it turned into intentional injury!" Shi Xiangming said coldly to the frightened Liu Min and Fang Caifu.

"We need to find... the police." Fang Caifu covered his face which was bruised and blue, and finally realized that Shi Xiangming's words did not count.

"Go to the police?" Meng Cheng smiled and pointed at himself: "I am the police. The police are not qualified to take care of your business."

Fu was so frightened that he fell to the ground.