Ruan Yuehua was not interested in where the grapes came from. He came over and sat at the table, stretched out his hand to shake Sun Xiaohui's arm, and looked very uncomfortable: "Mom, I want to eat grapes too."
Sun Xiaohui was shaken by his shaking, and said in a good temper: "Your grandparents didn't let you eat the food they cooked last night, and you still want to eat their grapes? They are stolen things, we don't eat them."
Ruan Yuehua was still very greedy, "But I want to eat them, and my eldest brother wants to eat them too."
As he said that, he began to shake his head and act like a scoundrel, "I want to eat grapes, I want to eat grapes... ..."
Sun Xiaohui was very patient with Ruan Yuehua and continued to coax him, "Don't listen to them saying that it is sweet. I tell you that the grapes look very sour, and they can make your teeth sour."
Ruan Yuehua swallowed his saliva and still twisted, "I want to eat sour ones, too."
Ruan Changgui still had the dignity of a father in front of Ruan Yuejin and Ruan Yuehua. He couldn't bear to see Ruan Yuehua's useless look, so he raised the chopsticks in his hand and said with a gloomy face, "If you twist again, I will beat you, believe it or not!"
Ruan Yuehua was so scared that he quickly let go of Sun Xiaohui's arm and sat down at the table.
Ruan Yuejin said at this time: "We have already separated the family, I don't want anything from his family."
Ruan Changgui felt better after hearing this, staring at Ruan Yuehua and said: "You should learn from your brother!"
Ruan Yuehua lowered his head and pouted, not listening at all, his mind was still full of - I want to eat grapes.
When he lay in bed at night, he still saw bunches of grapes in front of him.
Sun Xiaohui and Ruan Changgui were lying on the bed. Before Ruan Changgui started snoring, Sun Xiaohui said, "I've thought about it and it's certain that Xiaoxi stole the grapes. I have to report this to the Revolutionary Committee of the Jinguan Brigade."
Ruan Changgui pricked his eyelids and said, "Why should I report this to the Revolutionary Committee of the Brigade? I
can just give her a reprimand at home." Sun Xiaohui turned her head to look at him and said, "Will she admit it? Stealing needles when she was a child and stealing gold when she grows up is not a small matter. Your parents let her do everything. If we don't care, this girl will end up in jail sooner or later."
Ruan Changgui took a deep breath and In a tone of voice, "If you report it, won't you be arrested and sent to the Mass Dictatorship Office? You will have to hang a sign at the criticism meeting, and you may even be sent to labor camp. Don't worry about it. Whether she goes to jail or not has nothing to do with us."
Sun Xiaohui: "Why is it nothing to do with us? What is advocated now is to sacrifice relatives for the sake of justice. You can't protect your relatives out of selfishness. Since she made a mistake, she must accept the punishment she deserves. We can't cover up for her..."
As she was talking, she heard Ruan Changgui snoring, and knew that he was tired and fell asleep, so she stopped talking. Then she turned over and sat on her side, thinking in her mind for a while, and she didn't feel sleepy anymore.
She thought that she had to teach Ruan Xi a lesson, to kill her arrogance and relieve her anger. Take her to the Mass Dictatorship Office and beat her with a stick, let her attend a criticism meeting and reflect in public, or even better, take her to labor education and let her suffer more on the construction site!
Sun Xiaohui tossed and turned several times like this, barely falling asleep for a few hours.
The next day, before the roosters crowed, she got up at night. She secretly took the flashlight from home, went out in the dark, and went down the mountain road to find Jinguan Village, and then found the home of the brigade secretary. When she
met Secretary Wang from Jinguan Village, she explained her purpose directly: "Someone stole grapes from the old tailor's house in your brigade and took a bunch home. If this kind of evil trend is not rectified, it will shake everyone's revolutionary will!"
She took out a handful of grape skins and showed them to Secretary Wang, "This is stolen property, irrefutable evidence!"
Secretary Wang's eyes slowly sank when he saw the grape skins in her hand.
In the early morning, Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie got up after hearing the rooster crow. They washed, cooked and did housework as usual. After finishing the housework and eating, they went out and went about their own business.
Before leaving, Ruan Xi said hello to Liu Xinghua and said that she would not be back for lunch.
When she arrived at the old tailor's house, she did not ask the old tailor to learn the craft first, nor did she talk to him about learning the craft. Instead, she cleaned up the house inside and out. When they were about to sit down and rest after cleaning up, a woman in a plaid shirt suddenly came to the door.
She stood outside the courtyard gate and did not come in. She turned her head and waited for a while. When a young girl appeared in the door frame, she waved her hand lightly and stepped over the threshold to enter the courtyard.
After entering, the woman in the plaid shirt greeted the old tailor first with a polite face, saying that she was here to make clothes.
The old tailor cleared his throat, got up from the rocking chair, and took the woman in the plaid shirt and the girl into the house.
Ruan Xi was tactful. He washed his hands and helped to entertain them. He went into the stove room to get two white porcelain bowls and poured a bowl of hot water for the woman in the plaid shirt and the girl beside her.
The hot water was brought to the main room. The plaid shirt lady drank half a bowl of water and said, "This is my daughter-in-law. She is getting married in a few days, so she needs to make some new clothes. I have already cut the cloth and brought it here. Please take a look at it. Make two sets for daily wear and one for the wedding day. They should be festive and beautiful."
The old tailor said nothing. He looked at the cloth brought by the plaid shirt lady and called the girl, "Stand up."
The girl was also a person of few words. She stood up from the bench directly, with a shy and embarrassed look on her face.
The old tailor didn't care what expression she had on her face. After looking her up and down, he turned to Ruan Xi and said, "Okay, I have an idea in my mind. You can measure her size."
Ruan Xi hurried to get the tape measure.
But when she came over with the tape measure, the smile on the plaid shirt lady's face was gone, and she said with some displeasure: "You asked her to measure, can she do it?"
She looked like a half-grown child, about fourteen or fifteen years old. She was making clothes for her daughter-in-law, who would wear them for others to see at the wedding. She spent so much money, and she couldn't afford any mistakes.
The old tailor always spoke directly and unpleasantly, and
he always humiliated people. "She is my apprentice, and if I say it's okay, it's okay. If you think it's not okay, then you can find someone else to do it." The plaid shirt lady's face froze, and she almost fell down.
If she wasn't the only tailor on Fengming Mountain, she would never have suffered this injustice!
Ruan Xi saw how difficult it was to get along with this tailor, and how he could talk to customers like this. She saw that the plaid shirt lady looked unhappy, so she smiled at her and said, "I have learned well from my master, don't worry, there will be no problem."
The plaid shirt lady regained some face and said nothing more.
Ruan Xi measured the girl's size and wrote it down with a pencil. When measuring the size, she praised the girl as a fairy, and praised the plaid shirt lady as a good mother-in-law, saying that the girl was lucky, which made both of them smile. After measuring the size
, she made an appointment with the plaid shirt lady to come to her house to make clothes, and she saw her out.
The woman in the plaid shirt walked away with the girl, holding the cloth. When they entered the mountain path, she said, "When did the old tailor accept this apprentice? I don't know whose girl is so rude to the old tailor?"
The girl turned her head and said, "If she can really learn, it's worth it to endure a little."
The woman in the plaid shirt said, "That's true. I think she can learn well."
In fact, it's mainly because she has a good temper and is good at talking, which makes her feel good.
Ruan Xi stood outside the courtyard gate and watched the woman in the plaid shirt and the girl walk away. He turned around and picked up Da Mi at his feet, went back to the main room and said to the old tailor, "Old comrade, you are too rude when talking to people."
The old tailor snorted and said, "The salesperson in the supply and marketing cooperative is much more rude than me."
Ruan Xi blinked and was stunned for a moment. Thinking about it, this era is different from the later era. Later, all those who had anything to do with service had to pretend to be grandsons in front of customers or clients, but now they are all living grandfathers.
Let's not talk about this. Ruan Xi held Da Mi and sat down on the bench in front of the old tailor. She tilted her head slightly, looked at him and asked, "Master, what are you going to teach me today?"
The old tailor looked at her and before he could say anything, a few people suddenly came in from the courtyard door. The
old tailor turned around and saw that it was Secretary Wang from their team, and the others were also cadres from the village. Looking at the expressions on their faces, they didn't look like they were here to make clothes, nor did they look like they were here to drink water and chat.
As the old tailor guessed, Secretary Wang led the cadres straight to the main house, sat down after entering the house, looked at the old tailor and said, "Master Song, we received a report from someone that someone stole a bunch of grapes from your house, so we came to investigate."
As he said that, he took out a newspaper from his pocket and unfolded it in front of the old tailor.
Inside was a handful of half-dried grape skins.
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