Chapter 79 Chapter 79 Getting Beaten

15 Kwong Wah Street.

The shop, which had been vacant for more than half a month after being renovated, began to make the clanging sound of decoration again, this time coming from the two pointed attics.

The two attics are the same size as the basement. After removing the original decorative ceiling, the height of the second floor is more than three meters, which is more than enough for people to move around.

Initially, Wang Nian was going to use it as a warehouse, but after going upstairs to see the actual structure, he had a new idea in his mind.

All the windows facing the courtyard were rebuilt with bricks, and the original small windows facing the road were demolished and a row of windows were opened.

This will not only not affect the lighting of the second floor, but will also increase the floor area by more than 150 square meters in a blink of an eye.

The attic and the first-floor shop are separated in the middle. The left side connected to the kitchen is for personal use, while the right side can be rented out.

After this change in the house, all the neighbors knew that the small western-style building at No. 15 was Wang Nian’s own house and not a public housing.

"I'm really jealous of you now!"

Hu Wenli came to Wang Nian early in the morning with insoles to brag about it. He saw with his own eyes that she was directing the workers to drill holes in the kitchen wall.

The envy she mentioned included both the house and Shi Xiangming's unconditional support for Wang Nian.

How many men can completely leave the entire home to their wives and never ask any questions? Even if Wang Nian demolishes the house and rebuilds it, Shi Xiangming probably won't say a word.

"Kangping passed the entrance examination and I heard that his grades were pretty good. What else are you dissatisfied with?" Wang Nian smiled.

Hu Wenli now looks content with having a son, and even her temper has become much softer. Anyone with a discerning eye can see it.

"Well, I have to thank you for that."

"No need to thank me!" Wang Nian said, without stopping washing the sugar cane: "Help me make sugar later if you have nothing to do."

"Where did you find this thing?" Hu Wenli pointed to two barrel-shaped stones at her feet and said, "I've lived in Anhuai for decades, and this is the first time I've seen this."

"It's used to make sugar cane. The day before yesterday, when I was buying new clothes for Shi Wan on Beimenzi Street, I saw the owner using it as a stone table, so I spent some money to buy it and try it out..."

Wang Nian couldn’t name the stone used to press sugarcane. If he hadn’t seen the real thing in a museum, he probably wouldn’t have recognized it.

"No wonder you bought so much sugar cane today. You're not in confinement, so why are you buying all that brown sugar?"

Even if she understood it, Hu Wenli still didn't understand why she had to go through so much trouble to make it herself when she could buy several kilograms for a few yuan in the store.

"Sister Yuying is due to give birth next month. I will make some brown sugar for her during the confinement period." Wang Nian smiled.

"You are really nice to Zhou Yuying."

"I'm just not good enough to you. You don't want to do it?" Wang Nian laughed.

"Of course. With our relationship, you can't leave me behind."

"You better work harder at that time, don't waste so much sugar cane."

There were three bundles of sugarcane, almost a hundred pieces. After washing the mud off with water, they were piled on the washing table to dry, and then he started washing the two stone blocks.

"The second and third children were taken away by Shi Xiangming's ex-wife?"

Hu Wenli put down her insoles and really started to help Wang Nian. The two chatted while washing the stone pillars.

"I called yesterday and said I've arrived. I guess I'll go to the playground today." Wang Nian smiled, seeming to enjoy the rare quietness at home: "How else can my home be so quiet?"

The blocks were scrubbed clean and a bucket was placed in the groove on the slope. Wang Nian asked Hu Wenli to put the sugarcane between the two stone blocks and she turned the handle.

As the stone pier rotated, green sugarcane juice gradually flowed out of the groove.

The creaking sound continued, not too strenuous but extremely slow. Wang Nian turned around and looked at the shop that was in full swing.

“Are you really planning to open a store?”

"Yeah." Wang Nian smiled, then sighed with emotion: "Although I always complain about the noise made by the children at home, once Feiying started elementary school, the house... became too quiet."

In his last life, he had to be busy, but in this life, he could lie down. However, Wang Nian didn’t want to lie down.

"Don't mention it was you...did the door ring?"

Hu Wenli was just about to add a few words of emotion when she suddenly heard a light knock at the door. If Wang Nian had not stopped just in time, she would not have heard it at all.

Knock knock knock——

Wang Nian finally heard the knock on the door, which sounded like a cat scratching.

"Who?"

There was a knock on the door, and the person outside the door took a long time to reply, "Auntie, it's me."

"Shi Jun?" Wang Nian recognized the voice and was a little surprised why he suddenly came to him.

Half a month ago, Shi Jun almost fled from home. When he left, there were two strings of tears on his face. He wiped his face and lowered his head to rush out.

If Shi Xiangming hadn't said that he didn't do anything, Wang Nian would have suspected that this man was crying because he was beaten.

It’s really... I cried so hard!

The door opened, and outside was not only Shi Jun, but also Shi Yuehua, whose half face was black and blue.

Looking at Shi Jun more closely, he was actually injured, but the most serious one was on his chin, which looked as if it had been treated casually. His collar was covered in coagulated blood.

"What's wrong with you?"

Wang Nian looked outside the door and saw no one behind him, so it didn't look like he had been beaten by Wu Laosan and his ilk.

He quickly took the brother and sister into the yard and asked them again: "Who beat you?"

"My dad." Shi Yuehua raised her hand and gently touched her right cheek. She immediately gasped in pain. "If we hadn't run fast, my brother would have been beaten to death."

"Why would he hit you?"

It was still possible that Wang Nian was beaten by Shi Guoqiang, but how could Shi Xiangqian, who was so frightened that he didn't even dare to look at him, become so angry and beat his children so severely?

"Dad drank...my brother said a few good words about Uncle San, and he accused us of being disloyal..." Shi Yuehua's voice became lower and lower.

The scene was so horrific that Shi Xiangqian jumped up like a madman and started beating and scolding them.

The two of them ran to their grandparents' house, and he chased them there to continue beating them.

Finally, I had no choice but to hide at my third uncle's house.

Wang Nian could only say that Shi Xiangqian was a lunatic for doing such a heavy hand to his own children...

"You guys sit down first, I'll go to the pharmacy to buy some iodine..."

Wang Nian saw that Shi Jun's chin was still bleeding. When he stood up, Hu Wenli immediately held him down and said, "I'll ask Zhou Yuying to come over and take a look. If it's serious, he'll have to go to the hospital for stitches."

Wang Nian thought so too, but did not sit down. Instead, he went into the house and took out two aluminum lunch boxes.

"Put it on your face to reduce swelling." After wrapping it in a thin towel and handing it to the brother and sister, Wang Nian looked at the time and saw that it was already past two o'clock, so he hurriedly asked, "Have you had lunch?"

Shi Yuehua shook her head: "My dad overturned the table just as I was having lunch, and I didn't get to eat a single bite."

"Then I'll go make you some noodles. Let's eat first and talk about everything else."

Just as the water started to boil, Zhou Yuying arrived, staggering over with a medical kit in hand. Seeing how hard she was walking, Wang Nian estimated that she would have to give birth within a month.

After checking the wound, Zhou Yuying also breathed a sigh of relief.

"The wound on my chin is a bit long, but it's just a superficial wound. I'll put some medicine on it and be careful when washing your face in the next few days."

Shi Yuehua was slapped twice, and except for some redness and swelling on her face, she had no other injuries on her body. However, Shi Jun was beaten so badly that not a single part of his body was intact, and when his clothes were lifted up, they were all bruised.

"I'll cook the noodles first, and then we'll talk about other things after we finish eating."

Two bowls of noodles with shrimp oil were quickly served. Although they looked light, they tasted extremely delicious.

Shi Yuehua ate voraciously. She finished the same big bowl even faster than Shi Jun.

I felt a little warm in my stomach, and immediately recalled what had just happened at home. My nose suddenly felt sour and my eyes slowly turned red.

Shi Jun's expression, on the other hand, was very numb. After finishing his meal, he just stared at the soup in the bowl in a daze, and no one knew what he was thinking.

"Third Auntie, thank you." Shi Yuehua raised her arms to wipe away her tears, but the tears flowed more and more fiercely: "If it weren't for you, my brother and I wouldn't know where to go."

"Tell Auntie what happened?" Wang Nian tore off a piece of toilet paper and handed it over: "Why would your father be so harsh?"

Although I had a bad impression of Shi Yuehua on the New Year's Day, she was just a girl of sixteen or seventeen years old, not a vicious person.

"A guest came to my house at noon..."

This story begins when a guest came to their house at noon. At first, the brother and sister thought that the man was a friend of their parents, until before dinner, the man suddenly said something about a betrothal gift.

It turned out that she was a matchmaker, and she came today to introduce a partner to Shi Yuehua.

Shi Yuehua was only seventeen years old and wanted to be a singing star. She had never thought about blind dating or getting married, so she just said a few words that she didn't want to go on a blind date.

Hu Xiumei scolded Shi Yuehua twice, but Shi Xiangqian didn't say anything.

If it had happened in the past, the matter would have passed, but unexpectedly, Shi Jun would speak up to help at this time, and the person he helped was Shi Yuehua.

Not only did Shi Jun oppose his sister's marriage, he also offered to pay for Shi Yuehua to study at a beauty and hairdressing skills school.

The reason why Shi Xiangqian was furious was because of Shi Jun's words.

"Brother said he planned to follow Third Uncle's advice and go to the construction site to learn a craft." Shi Yuehua secretly glanced at Wang Nian, and when she saw that she was not angry, she continued: "Brother also said that he would pay back the tuition paid by Third Uncle when he made money, and Dad suddenly got angry..."

During the conversation that day, Shi Jun seemed to realize how incompetent he was from Shi Xiangming's various examples. He didn't even have a junior high school diploma, so even if he wanted to take over his grandfather's job, he couldn't even pass the first hurdle.

Seeing that he was crying, Wang Nian suggested that he could learn a skill first.

Right now, all walks of life are experiencing a period of vigorous development. We should start by learning the most basic skills. Beauty and hairdressing is just one of the industries that Wang Nian mentioned casually.

Unexpectedly, Shi Jun remembered all of it and even arranged the study direction for his sister.

"Dad said we were eating from outside and taking advantage of others. He even hit me on the head with a bench, saying that I just wanted to live a good life at Uncle San's house and that I thought he, as a father, was incompetent..."

Shi Xiangqian's sudden outburst frightened Hu Xiumei so much that she was unable to stop him. She tried to stop the fight and was almost beaten.

Finally, there was no other choice, so Hu Xiumei told them to run, and Shi Xiangqian chased them to his grandparents' house.

At that time, Shi Yuehua smelled that Shi Xiangqian must have drunk a lot of alcohol, and Shi Jun was afraid that he would destroy the house, so he hurriedly took his sister and ran away from home.

The two wandered the streets for more than an hour, penniless and dizzy with hunger, and this was the only thing they could think of in the end.

"Although Third Uncle is very serious, I know he does it for my own good." Shi Jun suddenly said.

He was very afraid of his uncle, but he could understand what his uncle said and could tell good words from bad.

So when he had nowhere to go, Shi Jun knew that this was the only place where he could rest.

In the eyes of other relatives and friends, Shi Jun... is just a gangster.