Wei Qiongfang didn't expect Jiang Lin to suddenly kick her and was completely unprepared. Jiang Lin kicked her on the shoulder and she fell backwards, feeling dizzy.
Jiang Lin was still not satisfied, and continued to kick Wei Qiongfang, cursing: "You have a stinky mouth? If you don't talk, others will suffocate you? The world is so big that it's not enough for you to be wild? Do you have to chew my tongue to feel pleasure? You are so cheap and you want to be beaten, I will help you!"
"What? What?" Ma Kaihua was startled and stood up immediately. Seeing that Jiang Lin wanted to continue kicking Wei Qiongfang, she quickly stretched out her arms to stop her and shouted, "Don't fight! Don't fight!" While stopping Jiang Lin, she winked at several other women, wanting them to help mediate the fight so that Wei Qiongfang could beat Jiang Lin.
Jiang Lin didn't bother to be polite with her. She grabbed the arm that Ma Kaihua stretched out to her, tripped her with her foot, and threw her to the ground.
Ma Kaihua didn't even understand how he fell. He just felt a dull pain in the back of his head, a swarm of hornets buzzing in his head, and stars in front of his eyes.
The other women wanted to go up and pull Jiang Lin, but Yan Runzhi asked Dabao to take Xiaobao to hide aside. She picked up her awl and pointed it at them fiercely, "Get out of here! I'll stab anyone who takes sides!"
Several women were frightened. They had seen Yan Runzhi before, always keeping her head down and being timid and cowardly when criticized. She had never dared to be fierce to anyone. They did not expect that she would show a fierce look at this moment. It was obvious that the landlord's wife had only pretended to repent before. They were afraid to step forward and could only try to stop the fight verbally.
Xiaobao clapped his hands and shouted, "Come on, Linlin! You're awesome!"
Wei Qiongfang got up and started fighting with Jiang Lin. She thought she was taller and stronger, so she wanted to tear Jiang Lin's hair, but Jiang Lin was more flexible than her. She jumped up and grabbed her hair, then pushed Wei Qiongfang down to the ground. Jiang Lin immediately rode on her back, pressed her arms with his knees, and grabbed her hair. He slapped her in the face, "If you keep talking nonsense, I'll see!"
Cheng Dabao saw Wei Qiongfang getting up and beating his mother, and rushed over anxiously to help. After running a few steps, he stood there stunned.
A woman tried to take sides with Jiang Lin in order to please Ma Kaihua, but Jiang Lin turned around and yelled, "Get out of here! If you dare to take sides, I'll beat you to death!"
Her pretty face showed a fierce look, which frightened the women so much that they quickly retreated to avoid being beaten or blamed by Jiang Lin. Two of them who were timid and afraid of Cheng Rushan just quietly slipped away.
Ma Kaihua finally got up and shouted, "Jiang Lin, stop talking nonsense. We are all educated youth. This is really embarrassing!"
Jiang Lin pressed Wei Qiongfang so hard that she couldn't move. She said, "Will you ever stop gossiping about me? When you gossip about me, don't you think I'll get angry and hit you? Do you think I'm afraid of losing face and not wanting to fight with you?"
What a double standard dog!
You talk behind people's backs and still act as if you are justified when you are caught. How can you be so thick-skinned?
If I don't splash a little, I don't know what kind of loss I will suffer! Good people are often bullied! Let's see who dares to gossip and spread rumors behind my back!
Ma Kaihua said: "If you don't do anything wrong, you don't have to worry about ghosts knocking on your door!"
"If you can't produce evidence, we're not done today." Jiang Lin looked at her coldly.
Jiang Lin was not afraid that Liu Honghua would report her for selling the child, because there were many cases in the countryside where children were not worthy of being raised or given away for some reason, and there was no relevant policy at present and no one cared. Moreover, she did not sell the child at all, and the child was well with her.
Her only concern was how her family would feel about this, and she didn't want to make them sad.
She had always treated the sale of her son as a joke, so Dabao, Xiaobao, Yan Runzhi, and Cheng Rushan didn't seem to take it seriously. However, the villagers were gossiping about it, which was hurtful to Dabao, Xiaobao, and Yan Runzhi, and she was worried that they would be hurt if they heard the gossip outside.
If Liu Honghua had really gone to the cart shop to ask, she would have known what happened. The original owner did go to sell her son, but unfortunately, he was knocked to death by her and she came through and failed to sell him.
The problem now is how can I explain myself when I go to the carriage inn? What should I do if the Zhao couple comes to confront me?
In fact, Jiang Lin was not afraid at all to confront the Zhao family. After all, she did not sell it, and she sold it for 10,000 yuan. The couple did not believe that she sold her son at all. Instead, they thought she was a psychopath who was playing tricks on them.
Jiang Lin thought the problem was how she could explain why she went to the Zhao family in the cart shop if she didn't sell her son. There had to be a reason, otherwise Yan Runzhi and Daxiaobao would definitely be sad.
She didn't want them to be sad.
Since Ma Kaihua and Wei Qiongfang were gossiping here and were heard by Yan Runzhi and Xiaobao, they might as well take this opportunity to talk it out.
Ma Kaihua's head was buzzing with pain, and she shouted, "Let her go first, and talk it over. Why are you fighting right away? Are there any laws? Go report to the director of public security and have her punished."
At this time, Cheng Yulian led a few women and ran over.
When women fight, the brigade secretary and the brigade leader are too lazy to intervene, and the director of public security doesn't even get involved. It's all the women's director who handles it.
Not to mention that it is difficult for a judge to judge family affairs, wives' affairs are ten thousand times more difficult to judge than family affairs. Basically, the husband says he is right and the wife says she is right. As long as no one is hurt, there is no need to alarm the government to judge the case. The matter is basically left unresolved. It all depends on whose man has the stronger fist and who has a higher status in the village. Then the two families will never have any contact with each other again after they fall out.
So when Jiang Lin and Wei Qiongfang fought, no one cared at all, only the director of the women's department came to mediate and persuade them to stop fighting.
Cheng Yulian rushed over and shouted, "What are you doing? How can you bully Jiang Zhiqing?"
Ma Kaihua: "You're talking nonsense. It was clearly her who beat people up. How could she watch us bullying her?"
At this moment, Jiang Lin was still riding on Wei Qiongfang, holding her arms and pulling her hair, and she actually said that she was bullied? You are so blind!
Cheng Yulian was also a discerning person. Country women, if they had mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, sisters-in-law, sisters, or neighborhood relationships, were basically experienced in many battles. She lied with her eyes open, "Look at how badly Jiang Zhiqing was beaten. His face is swollen. Oh, and a lot of his hair was pulled out. Tsk, tsk, does it hurt?"
Wei Qiongfang burst into tears. That was her hair that was pulled out by Jiang Lin!
Seeing her crying so hard and looking extremely aggrieved, Jiang Lin stood up and let her go, "If you don't want to get beaten, stop gossiping."
Cheng Xiaobao and Cheng Dabao immediately ran over, each holding one of her hands tightly.
Wei Qiongfang lay on the ground and cried. She had completely given up struggling. She was no match for Jiang Lin. She would just pull her hair and slap her, but Jiang Lin fought like a man, using elbows and knees, and attacking from a distance and close up. She couldn't stand this kind of fighting style where she was completely crushed.
As a result of this commotion, many members and educated youth who did not have to go to the fields but were working in the village came over to see what was going on.
Sun Qinghui: "Jiang Lin, what's going on?"
Jiang Lin pointed at Wei Qiongfang and said, "She said I sold out my son and bullied my grandma. I got so angry that I had a fight with her. Since she couldn't beat me, I cheated."
Sun Qinghui: “…”
He was also very angry, "Wei Qiongfang, you are going too far. I told you about it before when you asked about Jiang Lin selling her child, but you are still talking about it. This is too much." He really didn't deserve the beating.
Wei Qiongfang cried, "How could it be that I am being too much? Why would she do this if she didn't do anything wrong?"
Cheng Yulian: "Wei Zhiqing, did you do this on purpose? You said they sold their child, but did they sell yours? Their child is fine here, did they sell it? Why can't you see anything good in Jiang Zhiqing? If someone doesn't know, they would think you are up to something bad."
Wei Qiongfang felt even more aggrieved. "I have evidence. Someone went to the cart shop to ask about it. She did sell them. One hundred each."
Jiang Lin said coldly: "Call her over for a confrontation, and I'll ask her why she asked. One hundred? Did I sell it? My son wouldn't even sell it for ten thousand!"
Cheng Xiaobao shouted: "That's right, bad woman!"
Cheng Dabao: "Another old witch!"
"Director, our Baoer's mother is just like Dongsheng, she has a stubborn temper and cannot stand being wronged." Yan Runzhi began to wipe away tears, "The policies are getting better and better, the government doesn't say anything, why do you, Ma Kaihua, still scold me as a landlord's wife and want to beat me up and kill me all day long? Are you better than the government?"
Cheng Yulian took the opportunity to say, "Ma Kaihua, you are going too far. It should have been forbidden to talk about this two years ago, but you still keep talking about it. Is this the discipline that the family members of the brigade cadres should follow?"
Ma Kaihua was so angry that his face turned blue, but he had no way to refute.
Sun Qinghui said, "It's too irresponsible to say that Jiang Lin sold her child. The child is here, and you still say such things. Wei Qiongfang, you should apologize to Jiang Lin, or we will be ashamed to be associated with you."
Other educated youths also echoed Sun Qinghui, "Yes, Jiang Lin is doing so well now, so active and enthusiastic, she even repaired houses for the members."
"Wei Qiongfang, you should apologize right away. We are really embarrassed."
It would have been bad enough if he had just been mumbling at the educated youth center, but he even ran out to the street and talked about it, getting caught red-handed by Jiang Lin. Wasn't this obviously a fight?
Wei Qiongfang felt so wronged that she burst into tears, "You really sold her. What I said is true. Why should I apologize to you? Liu Honghua has already gone to the cart shop to ask, you really went to sell the child!"
They thought that they could create public opinion in the village to make everyone look down on Jiang Lin. Then they would report her to Liu Honghua. When the commune came to investigate, they would definitely arrest Jiang Lin and ask questions. The villagers had already spread the news that Jiang Lin sold her child. If the commune came to investigate, they would know for sure. Jiang Lin would be in trouble.
Little did they know that before anyone from the commune came, Jiang Lin would make a scene first, without any regard for feelings at all.
Jiang Lin: "Where's Liu Honghua? Let her come over for a confrontation."
Someone shouted, "Liu Honghua went to the commune this morning and hasn't come back yet."
Of course Jiang Lin knew that she went to the commune, but she didn't expect that the commune would not handle the matter. She could actually stay there and not come back. Was she planning a big move?
Ma Kaihua was secretly proud, because she had already sent someone to the inn to find the Zhao couple to confront them! If it's fast, it will be noon!
As long as the commune is willing to intervene, even if they cannot accuse Jiang Lin of a crime, they can at least discredit her. Let's see if she can still hold her head up in the village and still be able to repair her house and buy tiles!
Cheng Yulian said, "What you said is so funny to me. The child is fine at home, but you insist on accusing him of selling the child. Why are you so bored?"
They certainly don't do this out of concern for the children.
Wei Qiongfang wanted to use the incident of Jiang Lin selling her child to make Yan Runzhi and Cheng Rushan hate Jiang Lin and divorce her, but Ma Kaihua wanted to take the opportunity to suppress Yan Runzhi's family, discredit Jiang Lin, and continue to suppress Cheng Rushan's family.
Wei Qiongfang said proudly: "If you have the guts, don't run away, wait for Liu Honghua to come back and confront her!"
Jiang Lin said coldly: "Wait then. I'm waiting for you to kowtow to me and admit your mistake."
She took Dabao and Xiaobao's hands and said to Yan Runzhi, "Mom, let's go home." She called out very naturally and fluently, and she didn't call her mom, but followed Cheng Rushan's call.
Jiang Lin herself was stunned for a moment.
It was the first time that Yan Runzhi heard her call her mother, and her face turned red with excitement. "Let's go home and cook first, and then we can settle the score with that asshole wife after we're full."
Yan Runzhi went home carrying the needlework basket, walking away from the drunken steps of the imperial concubine.
Ma Kaihua had no idea how excited she was. He just thought she was feeling proud and spat at her in hatred.
Cheng Yulian sneered, "I say Ma Kaihua, you are going too far. Don't mention that Jiang Zhiqing didn't sell his child. Even if he did, what would happen? Aren't there many children in the countryside who are given away to be raised these days?"
Just as Ma Kaihua was about to push back, Cheng Yulian snorted, turned and left, making Ma Kaihua so angry that he jumped up and down.
"You old bitch, you're always meddling in other people's business!"
Cheng Yulian is obviously older than her, but she looks much younger than her.
After returning home, Yan Runzhi advised Jiang Lin: "Bao'er's mother, don't be angry. I tell you, you can scold and hit her when you need to, but you can't get angry yourself. If you get sick from anger, no one will take your place."
Jiang Lin nodded: "I know."
Cheng Dabao and Cheng Xiaobao squatted at the door and cursed the old witch, one old witch, two old witches...
Jiang Lin thought about how to tell Yan Runzhi, but Yan Runzhi said shyly: "Bao Niang'er, what did you call me just now?"
Jiang Lin was startled: "What?"
Yan Runzhi: “It was when I went home.”
Jiang Lin was actually a little embarrassed, because calling Yan Runzhi "mother" meant that she was determined to be Cheng Rushan's wife. Things had developed really quickly in just a few days.
But since she didn't want to leave Dabao and Xiaobao, there was no need for her to be coy and she said openly, "Mom."
Yan Runzhi responded happily, her face flushed, "Hey."
Cheng Dabao and Cheng Xiaobao turned their heads to look at her, "Why don't you call me mom?"
Jiang Lin smiled and said, "Children call her mom, and we adults call her mother." Hehe, so what if you just make excuses.
Yan Runzhi sang a little tune happily as she scooped flour and kneaded the dough, making steamed corn bread. She made some with pumpkin steamed in the morning and flour, and some with sorghum and corn flour. She also stewed a pot of eggplant sauce and steamed the corn bread on top to save firewood.
"I want to tell you something," Jiang Lin thought for a moment, "... a few days ago, on the day of the Great Heat, didn't I say I would bring Dabao and Xiaobao back to the city?"
Yan Runzhi: "Yes, and you didn't go later. Don't worry, our family has money now. Wait for Dongsheng to come back and let him accompany you, and buy more good things for your in-laws." She thought Jiang Lin was missing home and worried about her parents.
Jiang Lin looked at Dabao and Xiaobao who were playing the game of ants fighting the old witch at the door, "Actually, that day, I really wanted to use Dabao and Xiaobao..."
Cheng Dabao turned around suddenly and stared at her intently, his dark eyes full of nervousness, fearing that she would really sell him out.
Seeing how nervous he was, Jiang Lin felt sad that he couldn't bear to joke with her, so she said, "Go and cheat some money... Oh, I thought about it, it's not right to do this, it's not honest, so..."
Cheng Dabao breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that he was not being sold. That was great.
Yan Runzhi didn't understand, "How to cheat some money?"
Jiang Lin told the story of how Meng Yiyi said that the Zhao family in the cart shop had no son and wanted to buy a son. She also said that she went there to get some money, "I thought Dabao and Xiaobao were smart and remembered things, so I cheated them out of money first and then brought the children back..."
Whether this statement is credible or not, it is just an excuse to appease Yan Runzhi and the child and make them believe that she is not going to sell the child.
That's enough.
Yan Runzhi sighed. She didn't think Jiang Lin sold her son, she just thought her family was poor, Jiang Lin wanted to go back to her parents' home but had no money, and couldn't borrow money from everywhere, so she might think of other crooked ways.
Take the issue of selling children, for example. Yan Runzhi could not accept it emotionally, but she understood it rationally. In difficult times, many families could not afford to eat, and gave their children away to keep them alive. Some gave their children away in exchange for half a bag of food. Anyway, when people are hungry, they will do anything.
Cheng Xiaobao ran over and asked, "Linlin, what happened next?" He thought he was telling a story.
Jiang Lin: "First, it's not easy for them to make money. The old couple is so pitiful, I couldn't bear it. Second,..." She looked at the two children and said slowly: "Although I used to find you two annoying, but if I really want to give you two to others, I feel like I will never get you back. I suddenly feel so scared of losing you, I don't want to let you go. I feel that I was wrong before, I can't do that anymore, I have to treat you better. I can't bear to give you to others even for a day..."
As she spoke, she became emotional again, her eyes ached and tears flowed down unconsciously.
She knew how it felt to be abandoned, and she didn't want them to have the same trauma.
"Mom~~" Cheng Xiaobao threw himself into her arms, hugged Jiang Lin and burst into tears, "Mom, I love you so much. You are really my good mother."
Cheng Dabao's tears were also falling and he was sobbing. Yan Runzhi waved at him, and he ran over and lay on Jiang Lin's lap and cried.
Yan Runzhi wiped her tears, but ended up with flour all over her face. Her tears were streaming down her face, and she was afraid that their tears would fall into the wash basin, so she quickly covered them with her apron.
Jiang Lin held the two children and kissed them one by one, "Can you forgive me?"
Cheng Dabao sniffed, wiped his red eyes, frowned and said very seriously: "If you admit your mistakes and correct them, I forgive you."
Cheng Xiaobao burst into laughter, "Linlin, can you give me ten pieces of candy?"
Jiang Lin: “…”
Cheng Xiaobao still had crystal tears on his cheeks, and a row of diamond-like tears on his curved eyelashes. He stared at Jiang Lin and thought, "My mother doesn't agree with ten yuan? Then five yuan?"
He tried to test her: "Mom, three dollars, just three dollars, okay? Give me three dollars and I'll forgive you."
He stretched out three slender white little fingers and said, "Only three dollars."
In fact, he didn't take it seriously at all and never blamed his mother. As long as his mother was good to him, it was better than anything else. However, he took the opportunity to ask for a few candies, which was still right. He absolutely could not miss such a good opportunity.
Yan Runzhi had been crying so hard that she couldn't make a sound, but now she started laughing and patted her belly, "If you don't know me, you would think I'm a crazy woman."
The four of them talked, laughed and cried for a while, and Jiang Lin went to get candy for the child.
Jiang Lin was afraid that Cheng Xiaobao would steal some, so she hid the candy and closed the door when she took it out. Cheng Xiaobao leaned over to see through the crack in the door, but Cheng Dabao pulled him aside and told him not to peek.
Cheng Xiaobao pouted, the corners of her eyes were red from crying, she looked incredibly pretty, and she looked extremely aggrieved, "Dabao, why aren't you being good anymore?"
Cheng Dabao: "Listen to your mother."
Cheng Xiaobao: "I listened very well."
Jiang Lin came out and gave each of them two pieces.
Cheng Xiaobao's eyes dimmed. It was only two pieces. He thought there were three pieces.
Jiang Lin: "If you are unhappy, then give it back to me."
Cheng Xiaobao immediately smiled happily, "Thank you, Mom. I'm very happy."
Cheng Dabao: "Thank you, Mom. I'm very happy too."
Jiang Lin smiled.
Cheng Xiaobao couldn't help but asked, "Linlin, am I still worth ten thousand?"
He is particularly persistent about this.
Jiang Lin: "Of course it's worth it, I wouldn't give it up even if it's ten thousand."
Cheng Xiaobao felt that he was still the most precious child in the village. He happily took Cheng Dabao to watch ants fighting for food, and then told them stories about the tragic war in the ant kingdom.
After talking about this with Yan Runzhi and the child, Jiang Lin felt relieved. Otherwise, she had been holding this matter in her mind. Although she could get away with it by making jokes, it could not protect the family members she cared about from being hurt by the rumors.
Especially for children, if they have doubts in their hearts that their mother sold them, it will be very detrimental to their psychological growth.
Yan Runzhi, however, felt that a prodigal son’s return was worth more than gold, and that Baoer’s mother’s willingness to return was better than anything else.
No matter whether she was selling her children or defrauding money or whatever, she was unwilling to give up her children. Now she is treating her two children very well, and Yan Runzhi feels that it is really good.
After all, she is an experienced person and understands the mouths of Liu Honghua's wives. She doesn't want them to say things like Bao'er's mother sold her child all day long. Although her own family doesn't believe it, there's nothing she can do about it, but it's not nice to hear them say it all day long.
She said to Jiang Lin, "Don't be afraid, Bao'er's mother. We are upright and the children are at home. How can we let them talk nonsense? After lunch, we will go to the commune to complain to all those bastard wives and see who dares to talk nonsense again. If they still talk nonsense, we will wait for Dongsheng to come back and beat them up, and then they will be quiet."
Jiang Lin smiled and said, "Okay."
In fact, she had a better idea, but it would take time. It would be inconvenient to take a taxi if she went out now, and it would be too late to walk there and back, so she had to leave tomorrow morning.
The family was having dinner when Liu Honghua's smug voice came from outside, "Jiang Lin, get out here! I'm going to invite the Zhao family to confront you. You are such a black-hearted person that you even sold your own son. He is a descendant of the Cheng family. How can you let him be sold casually?"
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