Chapter 28: Humiliation
Today, work ended earlier than usual. When Xu Hexiao arrived at the cave, Lin Qi was cooking.
"It smells so good. What are we having for dinner tonight?" Xu Hexiao moved closer to the fire and talked about what to eat, but his eyes did not look at the clay pot or the stone slab that was used as a wok. Instead, he stared at Lin Qi's little face.
"Yam cake and fried pork with garlic sprouts." Lin Qi said.
"Lin Qi, have you noticed that you seem to speak more fluently?" Xu Hexiao said.
Lin Qi hummed. Not only did she speak fluently, her limbs became more coordinated and she walked faster. However, when there were many people around, she still walked slowly.
The identity of a fool is good and free, and she doesn’t want to become “normal” for the time being.
"The team will be on holiday starting tomorrow and will last until September." Xu Hexiao said suddenly.
"Holiday?" Lin Qi was puzzled. It was mid-August now and the holiday would last until September, which meant fifteen days. Why did the holiday have to be so long?
"Yes, it's a holiday. The team will start the autumn harvest in September. The captain gives everyone a holiday so that everyone can rest and take care of their health so that they won't be exhausted during the autumn harvest." Xu Hexiao explained.
Lin Qi frowned. When the holiday came, there would definitely be a lot of people in the mountains. If they wanted to come to the cave, they would have to be more careful.
"Everyone is on holiday, I have to herd cattle. I won't come to the cave during the day, only at night." Xu Hexiao said. Others were on holiday, but he had no holiday. He had to undergo reform.
"Me neither, I don't take holidays." The pigs still need to eat, so she still has to cut grass for them.
However, what Lin Qi did not expect was that her lawn mowing job was taken away by someone else.
Fifty kilograms of pig grass is worth two work points, which is not too little for the team members. They cut grass all morning and rest in the afternoon, which is also considered a break.
So, Lin Qi also became free.
No need to cut grass for the pigs, Lin Qi went to the cave again.
The pork had been smoked day and night and was now completely dry. The yams had also been dried and dried, and were now dry. Lin Qi planned to go to town tomorrow to mail the smoked pork and yams.
When Xu Hexiao came to the cave at night, he saw Lin Qi putting smoked meat into a cloth bag.
"Do you want to move your position?" he asked, with a nervousness in his tone that he himself didn't even notice.
"Send it back home." Lin Qi replied.
Upon hearing this, Xu Hexiao came over to help.
Lin Qi packed a cloth bag of smoked meat and another cloth bag of dried yam. There were about forty to fifty kilograms of smoked meat and more than twenty kilograms of dried yam.
"I'm going to town. What do you want to buy?" Lin Qi asked.
Xu Hexiao listened and smiled bitterly, "I lack everything, but I dare not ask for anything."
As long as there was something good in the straw hut, others would come and take it away. Later, he simply stopped buying anything. Even the malted milk he bought for his grandfather was hidden in the mountains. After he brewed it, he put it in a bamboo tube and took it back for his grandfather to drink.
Lin Qi was stunned. She looked at Xu Hexiao, who was dressed in rags and looked like a beggar, and pursed her lips. "I'll bring you some meat buns."
"Okay." Xu Hexiao grinned foolishly.
The next day, before dawn, Lin Qi left the educated youth point.
She first went to the mountains, took bacon and dried yams from the cave, and then set out from the mountains and headed straight for the town.
It was the uncle who greeted Lin Qi again. As soon as Lin Qi appeared at the door of the post office, the uncle came to greet her.
"Niece, you haven't been here for a while. What are you busy with?" the uncle asked kindly.
"Cutting grass for pigs." Lin Qi replied.
The uncle took the backpack from Lin Qi's back naturally and asked, "Do you want to mail the things in these two cloth bags?"
Lin Qi agreed, "Yes."
The uncle stroked the cloth bag calmly and asked, "Are both bags going to the same place?"
Lin Qi hummed again.
"Okay. Uncle will help you weigh them, then tie the two bags together and put another bag on the outside." said the uncle.
Twenty minutes later, Lin Qi returned to the uncle's courtyard.
"Girl, what good things did you give to your uncle this time?" The uncle's eyes were fixed on Lin Qi's backpack.
"Smoked meat and wild boar." Lin Qi didn't want to sell them, but she still needed cloth bags and various tickets.
When the uncle heard there was meat, his eyes lit up, "No matter how much you have, uncle will buy it all, and the price will satisfy you."
After leaving the uncle's house, Lin Qi had three more cloth bags in her backpack, with five more cloth coupons, two industrial coupons, and six yuan in the pockets.
The last time she came to town, she had no money or tickets, and she didn't go around town. This time was different, she brought both money and tickets.
The first place she wanted to go was the supply and marketing cooperative.
The supply and marketing cooperative in the town is not as big as the one in the county, but it is not small either. It has two floors, and each floor is 100 square meters.
This was the first time Lin Qi visited the supply and marketing cooperative since coming to this world.
Lin Qi's clothes were washed white, with several holes in them that were not mended, revealing her snow-white skin.
You can tell he's poor at first glance.
But it’s too beautiful!
The whole person is thin and small, with a pair of clear eyes, distinct pink and white, without a trace of impurities, just like a newborn baby.
The salesperson, who was always arrogant and sarcastic, opened his mouth and wanted to make a sarcastic remark, but swallowed the words back.
Forget it, as long as she doesn’t get the goods dirty, she can look at them if she wants.
Lin Qi planned to buy herself two pieces of underwear and two pairs of shoes.
Running in the mountains every day wears out my shoes.
Clothes are easy to buy, but shoes——
Lin Qi fell in love with the leather shoes in the cabinet at first sight, but when she saw the price, she silently looked away. They were too expensive!
"I want to buy a pair of Jiefang shoes."
A loud voice came from the side.
Lin Qi turned her head and saw a young man pointing at the army green canvas rubber-soled shoes.
"These shoes are good. The canvas is stronger than the fabric, and the rubber sole is also durable and not likely to rot." said a person traveling with me.
Lin Qi raised her eyebrows. She knew what to buy.
Anliang Commune was on holiday, and many people came to the town. Lin Qi carried food back and forth, and her walking speed was almost the same as that of a normal person, but she didn't want others to know, so she could only avoid them.
Lin Qi returned to the Anliang Brigade. Instead of going back to the educated youth point, she went straight to the mountain.
At this time, at the place where Lin Qi usually cut grass for pigs, a group of teenagers were forming a circle. These teenagers were either making a fuss, shouting, or swearing. It was very lively.
And the person standing at the center of the circle was none other than Xu Hexiao.
"Xu Hexiao, hand over the jujube in your hand." Luo Da stood on a stone, looking down at Xu Hexiao.
"I found this, why should I give it to you!" Xu Hexiao tightly grasped the basket in his hand, staring directly at Luo Da with eyes darker than those of ordinary people. His aura was no less than that of the other.
"Why?" Luo Da sneered, "Because you are one of the five black categories! A bad element! You don't deserve to eat the wild fruits all over the mountain!"
"That's right. This mountain and these wild fruits belong to us. They don't belong to you, a bad element like you."
"He was herding cattle today, why did he go to pick wild fruits? Isn't this slacking off? I want to report him to the captain!"
"For reporting him, he shouldn't be in the Anliang Brigade. He should be sent to reform!"
"His grandfather also went for reform. Their blood is dirty. We cannot taint the land of our Anliang Brigade!"
“........”
A group of young people were talking to each other, and each word they said was more unpleasant than the last.
This was not the first time Xu Hexiao had heard these words. He had not thought much of it before, but now when he heard that they wanted to kick him and his grandfather out of the Anliang Brigade, he panicked.
A calm, delicate face flashed through his mind.
There was no other place without her, and he didn't want to leave here.
"It's for you."
Xu Hexiao took two steps forward and put the basket in front of Luo Da. The jujubes on the nearby mountains had been picked almost completely, and he was lucky today as he found a jujube tree on a steep peak. This jujube tree didn't produce many jujubes, but the fruits were large and dark in color, and you could tell at a glance that the fruits were definitely sweet.
This was the jujube he intended to give to Lin Qi.
But now, in order to continue staying in the Anliang Brigade, he had to hand over the jujube.
Lin Qi, I'm sorry, Xu Hexiao said silently in his heart.
This was not the first time that Luo Da bullied Xu Hexiao. Every time he bullied Xu Hexiao, he felt great pleasure in his heart. The more Xu Hexiao resisted, the more aggrieved and painful he felt, the happier he felt.
But what happened today? Xu Hexiao actually listened obediently!
Luo Da frowned, not very satisfied with the result. He had rolled up his sleeves and was ready to fight, but Xu Hexiao just gave in and admitted defeat?
It feels like the breath is stuck in the throat but can't come out, it's very depressing.
He hoped that the other party would be beaten by him until he had to submit, but could do nothing about it, and hated him but could not do anything to him!
To put it bluntly, he was unwilling to let Xu Hexiao go so easily.
Luo Da rolled his eyes and smiled.
He jumped down from the stone, stood in front of Xu Hexiao, smiled at him meaningfully, and didn't even glance at the basket of jujubes.
He didn't come here for the jujube.
Xu Hexiao had a bad feeling.
The next second, Luo Da avoided him and walked behind him.
What is Rhoda going to do?
Xu Hexiao turned his head, and just then a black shadow flew towards him. He turned his head subconsciously, and the black shadow hit his face.
With a snap, the liquid-solid object splashed. Xu Hexiao realized at this time that it was not black, but a color similar to fermented grass. He had just seen this color not long ago.
The color of cow dung!
Rhoda hit him with cow dung!
An unprecedented sense of humiliation crept into his heart.
"Ha ha ha ha--"
Luo Da held the short shovel used to shovel cow dung in both hands and laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his back.
Luo Da laughed, and the people around him laughed too.
"What are you all standing there for? Let's smash it together!"
Thus, the one-sided humiliation began.
Xu Hexiao was hit by the wet and sticky cow dung and couldn't open his eyes. He could only keep his mouth tightly shut. He didn't know how to react. He was stunned and stupid.
No matter how hard and tiring the past few years were, I mostly faced verbal insults, but this was the first time I faced physical insults.
Cow dung is soft and won’t hurt a person. The people who were watching originally joined in, big and small, more than 20 people in total, each with two hands. The cow dung flying towards him was as dense as raindrops, and he couldn’t see anything clearly. He didn’t know how to resist, and he forgot to resist.
It seemed like a few minutes, but also like half a lifetime. Xu Hexiao felt that everything in the world was moving away from him, until a cold shout came, "What are you doing!"
"The captain is here, run away!"
"See you at the river, guys. Run!"
More than twenty people scattered and ran in all directions.
Xu Hexiao slowly came back to his senses and opened his eyes, only to see Captain Luo Feng striding towards him. However, his mind was on the girl behind Luo Feng.
The moment their eyes met, Xu Hexiao turned his head and ran away.
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