Chapter 233 Beating the Naughty Child
Every New Year’s Eve dinner consists of delicious fish and meat, as if to make up for what we didn’t eat in the past year.
Everyone chatted while eating, telling each other about their experiences today. Lin Heng and Xiulan talked about their time in the city, and their parents said that Li Shiwei and Lin Hai came to pay New Year's greetings today, and they would go back tomorrow to celebrate the festival.
In a blink of an eye, it was the next day. After warming up, Lin Heng picked up the compound bow and started shooting. It was a habitual exercise even if he didn't go up the mountain. He felt refreshed every time he shot an arrow.
"Well, let's go into the mountains from a different direction after a few days." Lin Heng put down his bow and arrow and said to himself.
It is impossible to give up going into the mountains. It is a hobby and also a way of life. He looks forward to the scenery deep in the mountains that no one has ever seen. He likes the feeling of fighting wits and courage with prey, and he likes the exploration of the unknown even more.
This mountain range is so huge, and there are still many places that have not been explored. The places he has visited are just a drop in the ocean.
He pulled out the arrow, wiped it, and put it in the bow bag. Then he went to wake Xiaoxia up. After dressing her and washing her, the father and daughter went together to feed the chickens, the horses, and the musk deer.
After feeding them, Xiulan's meal was ready. Although it was only breakfast for three people, it was quite sumptuous. The stir-fried donkey meat went well with rice, and the crucian carp and tofu soup was very nourishing to the stomach.
While eating, you can quietly watch the sun melt the frost. After eating, you can also enjoy the blooming wintersweets in the backyard. The koi in the pond seem to have some vitality.
After resting for a while, they got up and went to the mountain to pay New Year's greetings to his aunt's family. In the past, Lin Heng was not welcome, especially by Li Shiwei's wife Cao Haiyan, and Li Shiwei's grandmother also disliked him very much.
But this year was different. Before Lin Heng even arrived, their whole family came out to greet him. Cao Haiyan also became a well-behaved rabbit, speaking gently and pleasantly.
This surprised Lin Heng a little. It turned out that this woman also had this side.
Lin Heng gave all the gifts he brought to his aunt, showing his support for her. In the future, if others want to bully her, they have to think about the possible impact.
His family was large and they all lived in one house. Naturally, the food was far inferior to that of Lin Heng's family. Apart from pork and badgers and golden roosters caught from hunting, there was no beef, mutton or fish, let alone donkey meat.
But his aunt Lu Hongyun's cooking skills are pretty good, slightly better than his mother's.
After finishing the meal, Lin Heng left. It was not a good idea to stay for long during the New Year. Besides, there was not even a pond on this high mountain, so there was nothing fun at all.
When Lin Heng was about to leave, Li Baiquan asked with a smile: "Lin Heng, aren't you going to build a feed warehouse over at Hongfeng Mountain? When will the construction start?"
"It's not certain yet. How about this, uncle? When the work starts, I'll have someone bring you a letter." Lin Heng thought for a while and said that the details would depend on the situation, and he hasn't made a plan yet.
"That's fine. This year it's just Li Shiwei and I." Li Baiquan nodded with a smile. Working for Lin Heng is much more profitable than growing crops.
Lin Heng nodded, and said with a smile: "The plan for Hongfeng Mountain has not been completed yet, but I may ask you to help plant fruit trees in a few days. This one only provides food."
This is a kind of mutual help in farm work, which is part of friendship, so money is not a topic of conversation. If you mention money, they will feel embarrassed to ask you for help next time.
Li Baiquan smiled and said, "Haha, that's no problem. When the time comes, our whole family will come down to help you plant the trees."
After saying this, Lin Heng spoke a few words to Li Shiwei. Xiulan was chatting with her aunt Lu Hongyun, while Xiaoxia was reluctant to leave Li Shiwei's daughter Li Leyan. They were almost the same age and could play together very well.
Li Leyan especially likes Xiaoxia’s dog Laifu.
"Let's go, Xiaoxia!"
Lin Heng shouted.
Xiaoxia glanced at Lin Heng, feeling embarrassed and not wanting to leave.
Xiulan winked at her and smiled, "Then you play here, and we go back?"
"don't want."
Upon hearing this, Xiaoxia ran over with Lai Fu and threw herself into Lin Heng's arms.
"Then let's go, aunt and uncle."
Lin Heng hugged Xiaoxia and said something, then walked up and down with Xiulan.
After walking for a while, they saw Li Leyan running towards this side, reluctant to leave Xiaoxia, but was quickly stopped by his father.
When they got home and lit the fireplace to heat up the house, Lin Hai came over and said to Lin Heng, "Brother Lin, come to my house for dinner tonight."
"My brother and the others have gone there," Lin Heng said helplessly. The meals were one after another.
Lin Hai smiled helplessly and said, "This is my parents' order. If you don't go, I can only move on."
"Okay then, we'll go there by ourselves at night." Lin Heng nodded and agreed.
As a result, before it was even evening, his third mother Li Xue came to call them in person.
After Li Xue left, Lin Heng smiled at Xiulan and said, "It's amazing. Before, my third mother didn't even want me to drink water, but now she takes the initiative to invite people to eat."
Xiulan also laughed: "It's good that he admits his mistakes and corrects them. And you should keep your voice down, it's not good if someone hears you."
Lin Heng spread his hands. He believed that even if his third mother heard it, she would pretend not to hear it. Besides, he didn't like this person in the first place. If it wasn't for the sake of his third father and cousin Lin Hai, he wouldn't want to talk to her at all.
Whenever I think of the scene half a year ago when he mocked me for wanting to drink a sip of water when I passed by her house, I feel so angry.
Then he smiled and said, "Fortunately you are not that kind of person, otherwise I would have been kicked out of the house long ago."
It turns out how important it is to marry a good wife.
Xiulan poked him: "If you want to experience it, I can try to learn it."
"No, you can't learn this..."
…
The two chatted for a while and then took Xiaoxia over to have a meal.
His third aunt's cooking skills were mediocre, but of course Lin Heng wouldn't say it.
The next morning, my parents invited their family over for dinner again. This is how we would eat out together during the Chinese New Year.
At noon, two groups of guests came to his house to pay New Year's greetings. Lin Heng did not know any of them, so he left them all to his parents to deal with.
However, these two groups of relatives kept trying to get close to Lin Heng, saying things like how they had seen him when they were little. Lin Heng had no memory of any of this, but he did remember what they said about him being a spendthrift and a good-for-nothing.
Lin Heng didn't want to say anything more, but these people insisted on visiting his house and brought their children with them. The five-year-old boy climbed onto the tricycle as soon as he entered the yard, shaking and swaying, but no one cared.
Lin Heng wanted to remind him several times, but for the sake of his parents, he took a deep breath and let it go.
Lin Heng breathed a sigh of relief when he saw him getting out of the car, thinking that if it were his own child, he would have beaten him up.
"What a big dog! Its fur is so strong."
Suddenly, the little boy rushed towards Xiongba again, but fortunately Xiongba saw that the situation was not right and dodged.
He turned around and ran towards the little dog Fengshou, as if it was more his home than his own.
"Don't touch it, the dog is too small." Lin Heng couldn't help but speak out to stop him. It was obvious that the child had no sense of propriety.
Hearing Lin Heng's voice, the woman who was talking to Lin's mother turned around and shouted, "Liu Hao, come back, don't touch me!"
"Grandma, I didn't touch anything. I was just looking at the puppy." The little boy named Liu Hao stuck out his tongue and defended himself.
Lin Heng didn't bother to answer what was said. He turned around and went into the house and asked Xiaoxia to take the blue wolfhound Lai Fu and his toys back to the bedroom. It would be terrible if they were beaten by this naughty kid.
"call!"
Lin Heng sat in the bedroom and took a deep breath. His favorability towards these relatives had turned negative.
Hearing that Lin's mother had taken them to the backyard, he was too lazy to go out and show his hospitality. He just wanted to take the child away as soon as possible after the show. He didn't even want to keep them for dinner, so he let his mother cook for him.
"Dad, what's wrong?" Xiaoxia raised her head and asked curiously.
“Plop!!”
Just at this moment, there was a sudden plop sound from the backyard.
“Oh my god!!”
Lin Heng stood up, his anger rising rapidly.
When I ran out to the backyard, I saw that the naughty kid named Liu Hao picked up a volcanic rock by the fish pond and threw it into the water.
"What are you doing?" Lin Heng's face turned serious.
"You deserve a beating. You have such a mean hand!"
Her mother-in-law grabbed the boy and slapped him on the butt several times, beating and scolding him.
"I'm wrong, mother-in-law. I won't do it again!" Liu Hao begged for mercy while covering his buttocks, seeming to be in great pain.
However, Lin Heng felt that the hit was too light and it didn't hurt at all through his cotton pants.
"Apologize to your uncle Lin Heng quickly." The woman next to her, who was older than Lin's mother, said angrily.
"Uncle, I was wrong." Liu Hao looked at Lin Heng and said quickly.
Lin Heng wanted to come forward and give him two slaps, because he could see that he was not hurt at all and was pretending very well.
After taking a deep look at his mother and finding that the fish was not hurt, Lin Heng endured it again: "Just don't move around next time. Aunt, please hold this child, he is very naughty."
Her mother said that this was a distant cousin of hers who had been very kind to her when she was a child. And there were four people visiting his family, so he didn't want to make it bigger.
Lin Heng forgave the child, and his mother-in-law stopped beating the naughty child, but kept the child by her side.
"Lin Heng's house is not built in a rough way. I'm afraid it cost a lot of money."
"Yeah, it's so pretty."
"I've always thought Lin Heng is a very good kid since he was young. He really has a bright future."
The relatives nearby praised the house and tried to smooth things over.
Lin Heng felt relieved when he saw Liu Hao being held back. He replied casually with a few words, then said that he was going to pick up Xiulan and went out.
He did it on purpose. Now that he had gone out, it would be difficult for these people to continue staying in his house.
Xiulan and Caiyun had just gone to the river to wash clothes, and Lin Heng met them halfway there.
"Why are you here?" Xiulan handed a basket of clothes to Lin Heng and asked curiously.
"I'm almost driven crazy by my cousin's grandson." Lin Heng took the basket and complained, telling him everything that had just happened.
Caiyun couldn't help but agree after listening to half of it: "That's right, he came to my bedroom again and again and rummaged through my things, otherwise I wouldn't have locked the door and used the excuse of going out to wash clothes."
"I really want to kick him." Lin Heng said angrily.
Xiulan also frowned: "Don't the parents discipline this child?"
After taking a breath, she continued, "Hubby, don't be impulsive, otherwise my parents will be embarrassed. We'll leave in the afternoon anyway."
Lin Heng nodded and walked home with a basket in one hand.
When they arrived at the door of the house, they found that the group of people were still in the house. They were speechless. The three of them looked at each other and walked in.
He found that Lin's mother and four relatives were sitting in the main room, but the child was nowhere to be seen, and he suddenly felt panicked.
Xiulan and the others said goodbye and went to hang up the clothes, while Lin Heng hurried into the house to look for them.
As soon as he opened the study, he saw Liu Hao. The boy was standing on his chair, drawing with a brush. Lin Heng took a closer look and found that the paper he used was the one he bought for painting. He immediately became angry.
"Who allowed you to come in and mess around? Do you know how much this painting is worth?"
With a loud roar, Lin Heng rushed over, grabbed his neck and lifted him up, then picked up the ruler beside him and hit him hard on the butt.
He had reached the limit of his tolerance. Not to mention his relatives, he would beat them even if the emperor came.
"Woo woo, you son of a bitch, I'm going to fight you. If you hit me again,...wa wa wa..."
The naughty kid was hurt by Lin Heng's beating but still refused to give in, and wanted to grab and bite him. But Lin Heng had trained his strength every day, so he grabbed both of his hands and lifted them up with one hand to continue beating him.
"What's the matter?"
"Stop hitting him. The child is injured. You are hitting him too hard. He is still a child!"
Outside, the child's mother-in-law rushed in upon hearing the heart-wrenching cry, and stopped Lin Heng from hitting him without asking whether he was right or wrong.
Mother Lin was also stunned and hurried to help stop it. Xiulan, Caiyun and Xiaoxia all came in and could only try to stop it first.
Lin Heng was so angry at his mother-in-law's behavior that he laughed. He threw the naughty child over and pointed at the calligraphy and paintings on the table and said, "Okay, you don't want to hit me, right? Then you just have to pay me. I bought these calligraphy and paintings at the antique market yesterday, twenty yuan a pair, five yuan for the wolf-hair brush, and forget about the dark wooden table and chairs."
"Wuwuwu, you damn dog, just wait for me!" Liu Hao shrank behind his mother-in-law, rubbing her butt and cursing viciously.
"What?"
“So expensive?”
When they heard the price, their eyes widened. Liu Hao's mother was also confused. This thing cost more than 20 yuan? Several people looked at Lin's mother.
Mother Lin raised her hand and then retracted it, not knowing what to do for a moment.
Lin Hengze didn't look happy at all. He looked at his cousin and said, "This kid was shaking and swaying on my car, then he chased my dog, threw stones at the fish pond, and now he's messing with my valuables. I hit him and it was a mistake, right? You didn't care about him at all from the beginning to the end. I just want to ask if he has good manners?"
Then he waved his hand again and said, "Don't say so much, just tell me what to do, my things are broken too."
When Lin Heng asked this, his cousin's face turned red. Then she suddenly picked up another ruler on the table and hit her grandson on the butt.
"I told you not to move, I'll beat you to death, who told you to move? Kneel down and don't try to stop me with your hands..."
As the naughty kid cried miserably, his mother-in-law became more and more brutal.
Lin's mother Xiulan and the relatives who were accompanying her all went up to pull her, but the harder they pulled, the harder she hit him.
Obviously, it was waiting for Lin Heng to pull it.
But Lin Heng pretended not to see anything and watched with interest, feeling more and more comfortable.
Didn't he give him a chance? Didn't he like to stop him when he hit someone? Now he knows he can't afford the compensation? Does he know how to beat the child to get sympathy?
He won't pull it, let's see what you can do.
(End of this chapter)
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