Hearing that she was actually going to marry her daughter to Wensheng, Jiang Lin didn't get angry but laughed instead, "You guys are good at thinking about good things. No matter if your daughter is good or bad, just because she has parents like you, I don't want to have anything to do with her in my life!"
Do you think you can live a happy life without cultivating virtue? You are only slapping your parents in the face and ruining the future of your children.
To put it bluntly, you have to check the pen before buying a pig!
With parents like you, who would dare to marry you?
Liu Dapeng and his wife's faces were purple and swollen, as if they were slapped in the face. Liu Dapeng said angrily: "How can you be so unreasonable, woman? We are willing to settle with you privately and marry our daughter to you, why do you still despise us? It was your husband who ruined our daughter's innocence. If you don't take responsibility, who should we marry?" She didn't mention saving her life at all, as if saving her life was not as important as her innocence.
His wife also echoed: "We don't want you to pay us money, and we don't despise your idiot. You are not grateful, so why are you humiliating us?"
Guo Minying was also there shouting: "Let's go to the officials and see who is afraid! Hooliganism requires a gun..."
Jiang Lin slapped her hard before she could finish her words, "Get out of here and shut up!"
Liu Honghua clenched her fists and said in her heart, "Okay, let you guys have a taste of her slap. It hurts a lot. My face and ears hurt!"
Guo Minying didn't expect Jiang Lin to hit someone suddenly, so she immediately came up to scratch him.
How could Jiang Lin be afraid of her scratching? Without waiting for Guo Minying to stretch out her arm, she kicked him and knocked Guo Minying to the ground.
"Why are you still beating people up? You're bullying me!" The men and women of the Liu family immediately came over to help. Someone grabbed Cheng Ruhai and Liu Honghua and started beating them, and now they were fighting again.
On the contrary, no one dared to approach Jiang Lin because Wensheng was next to her. The men and women came up and kicked him aside. There were only seven or eight of them, but there were many neighbor ladies here.
Wensheng knocked them to the ground one by one and clapped his hands, "You are bullying my mother, I will beat you to death!"
Jiang Lin laughed and said, "Beat them down, then you can speak human language!"
At this time, Cheng Yulian and the director of public security got the news and came over to ask what was going on.
Jiang Lin told the story of how Wensheng saved a girl who fell into the water, but was blackmailed by her family, who even wanted to marry their daughter to him.
Cheng Yulian was furious: "I said, do you think our Shuihuai Village is easy to bully? I saved your daughter, but instead of thanking you, I came to blackmail someone to marry your daughter!"
Cheng Yulian didn't know what to say. If a normal person came to propose marriage, Jiang Lin would not agree. She had asked Jiang Lin before. Seeing that Wensheng was in a stable condition and had no problems, why not find him a wife to leave a descendant? But Jiang Lin felt that Wensheng was not suitable for marriage in his current condition. He had no sense of men and women and was as innocent as a child. Even if he got married, he would not understand. It was meaningless to marry for the sake of leaving a descendant, and it was not fair to the woman.
Although Wensheng developed a problem halfway through his life and did not have the genetic genes, Jiang Lin and Cheng Rushan still did not want to force it.
I didn't expect that saving people would also cause trouble.
The director of public security couldn't help but say, "You guys are doing this, aren't you harming people? If others knew that they were blamed for saving a girl, who would dare to save people in the future?"
Guo Minying was not convinced. "He said he would save you? And there are people watching him... We are good girls who married you, what's wrong with that? Are you wronged? We don't mind, so why do you despise us?"
If it were someone else, an old fool saving a virgin girl, wouldn't he immediately blame her?
It's obvious no matter how you look at it that the Cheng family is taking advantage, so why don't they agree?
Could it be that this family are all fools?
In fact, things are not complicated.
Liu Xiaoxia was washing clothes by the river this afternoon. In order to make them dry quickly, she hung them on branches by the river after washing each piece. When she finished washing, some of them were almost half dry, so she took them back to hang them before wearing them.
It was windy today, and the clothes she hung were unstable, so one of them fell into the river. She rushed to pick it up, but she slipped and fell into the river.
She got her pants dirty during her period, and she didn't have any extra pants to change into, so she had to borrow her grandma's pants. Today she wore the old lady's pants, which were wide and had no loops, so the waistband couldn't be put in to secure it, so it had to be tied directly around the waist. She fell into the water and struggled, and although the belt was still around her waist, her pants slipped out, and her wide waist and fat legs were washed away by the water.
At that time, Wensheng, Dabao and Xiaobao used glass bottles to catch insects and grasshoppers, and took them back to feed the chickens to lay eggs. They also picked beautiful wild flowers and brought them back to grandma and Jianglin. The riverside was lush with water plants, and all kinds of wild flowers were in full bloom. There were also many insects, so they played there.
It happened that Liu Xiaoxia fell into the water.
Dabao and Xiaobao pulled Vincent over to take a look, and saw a woman floating in the river, struggling and shouting for help.
Dabao and Xiaobao immediately put their hands to their mouths and helped shout for help, but no one came after they shouted a few times.
The woman in the river splashed and then sank. Vincent immediately took off his coat and pants and went to rescue her in shorts.
Dabao and Xiaobao pulled him and said, "Wensheng, mother won't let you go into the water." Although Wensheng can swim, Jiang Lin is afraid that he may have a mental breakdown in the water, which may lead to an accident, so she won't let him swim even in summer.
Wensheng: "She'll drown!" He jumped into the water and swam over. He was a good swimmer and quickly pulled Liu Xiaoxia out of the water. Three men from her village happened to pass by and asked, "Who fell into the water?"
Vincent carried the semi-conscious girl ashore.
"Oh, why is she naked!" a man shouted, and the other men hurried to see. They stared at her shyly and greedily, especially since she was a village girl, who could show off for a year after seeing her.
Wensheng was so focused on saving people that he didn't notice that Dabao and Xiaobao quickly went to pull clothes from the shore to cover her.
Vincent put the girl on the shore, but didn't know what to do. He looked at the other three men.
Several men smiled at him. Adult men always tell dirty jokes in private. Now that they had the ready-made material, they had the desire but not the courage to do it. One of them urged Wensheng: "Touch her chest."
Wensheng thought they wanted him to save someone, so he tried to touch it.
Dabao and Xiaobao rushed over and grabbed his hands, saying to Wensheng, "Hurry up and put on your clothes, or you'll be doomed if you catch a cold!"
Vincent pointed at the drowned woman and asked, "Is she dead?"
Dabao and Xiaobao looked at each other, but they didn't know what to do. Dabao looked at the men, and although he didn't know what they meant, he saw that their expressions were strange, as if they wanted to stare at her but didn't dare to look, but their eyes were sneaky.
Dabao said angrily: "What are you doing? Why don't you save people?"
A man said, "Hasn't she been rescued? She's fine. She choked on the water. Just control herself." Several men thought that it would be a waste to miss such a good opportunity. Besides, the person would not die after being rescued. There was nothing they could do and they dared not touch her.
Dabao asked Wensheng to turn the girl over and give her some water. Liu Xiaoxia choked on the water and fainted. She coughed for a while and woke up after coughing out the water.
When the men saw that she woke up, they felt embarrassed to stare at her any longer. They looked at each other with an expression that showed they were really lucky, then quickly walked away with a snicker.
Seeing that the girl had woken up, Wensheng, Dabao and Xiaobao were no longer worried and ran to continue catching insects.
Liu Xiaoxia found herself naked, and she felt so ashamed that she felt dizzy and wanted to die. She finally put on her wet clothes and went home with the basket. Her hair was wet, her face was pale, and her steps were weak. When her aunt Guo Minying saw her, she immediately asked what happened. She said that she fell into the water while washing clothes and had finally climbed out, and she didn't dare to mention the man.
As a result, the three men couldn't help but brag to other men about seeing Liu Xiaoxia's butt. After the word spread, many men knew about it in an afternoon. When it reached Liu's father and uncle's ears, the two men were very embarrassed. Liu Dapeng went home and wanted to beat his daughter to death with a stick without asking any questions, thinking that she was not behaving properly outside. Liu Xiaoxia had to tell the story of how she fell into the river and was rescued by a man and saw it.
The first thought of Liu Dapeng and his wife was not to care about their daughter who almost drowned in the river, but to blame her for being stupid and letting someone take advantage of her with her pants off and her bottom naked. If no one else knew, it would be fine, and they would just suffer a loss in silence, and it would be in vain to touch her. But now the men in the village have seen it, and everyone in the village knows about it. How can the daughter get married in the future? Who dares to marry her? If she can't get married, won't she rot at home? Isn't it a disgrace to her family? It will also affect her brothers and sisters from getting married in the future! So this matter is very serious.
Liu Dapeng and his wife just blamed their daughter, but they didn't intend to blackmail anyone.
Guo Minying went to ask someone who saved her niece. The three men who spread the rumor had no choice but to tell her. They didn't know Wensheng, but they had an impression of him. They told Guo Minying's family, "That man is very handsome, tall and handsome. The two boys might be his sons. They look exactly the same and are very handsome."
After they said this, they asked around and someone said it must be the family of Director Jiang of the brick kiln factory. Her husband is tall and handsome, and her two sons are twins, who are exactly the same and very handsome.
Guo Minying thought that since the brick kiln factory was rich, she could extort a large sum of money from it, as long as it was more than the dowry that Liu Xiaoxia would pay when she got married.
She discussed it with her parents-in-law, brother and sister-in-law. Liu Dapeng and his wife didn't dare to do it at first, because it would be so embarrassing if they were caught blackmailing others. But Guo Minying told them not to be afraid, and said they were hooligans at the beginning to scare them. Even if they were caught, it would be okay, because it was true that the man touched the girl's buttocks, and he couldn't deny it, so he had to compensate her, right?
When Liu Dapeng and his wife heard that they could get a sum of money, which was more than the bride price for their daughter in the future, and could help their son, they were happy. So, they followed Guo Minying's instructions and found seven or eight of their uncles, brothers, sisters-in-law, and went to Shuihuai Village together to ask the members first.
As a result, I heard that the tall guy was definitely not Director Jiang’s husband. Her husband was working in transportation and was not at home. It must be the idiot Wensheng in their family.
Guo Minying found out about Wensheng's situation. Although he was stupid, he was the eldest son of the Cheng family! All the family property would be his in the future!
Besides, he has no wife!
She was even more proud, saying that Liu Dapeng and his wife had gotten an advantage, first they frightened the other party by playing hooligans, and then they solved the problem by marrying each other. In this way, the two families married each other, Wensheng was a fool, and if the family was divided, wouldn't Xiaoxia have the final say?
Little did they know that Jiang Lin actually disagreed, so Liu Dapeng and his wife and Guo Minying were very confused and angry.
In their family, daughters are raised to exchange for dowry for sons. When life gets better, the dowry for sons in the countryside becomes more complicated and cumbersome. For example, one hook of cloth is needed before, but now two hooks are needed, and other food, meat, and eggs have to be added. Guo Minying's two sons have no daughters, so she is counting on getting three daughters from her eldest sister-in-law's family. Anyway, they still live together and have not separated, so she makes extra efforts to arrange things for her niece.
Jiang Lin didn't care what their plans were.
Zeng Hongjie immediately ran over with a camera after hearing this and started taking photos of Guo Minying and the others. "Okay, I have evidence here. I'll go to the police station and report the case. I'll say that you intended to disrupt public order and plot..."
"No, no, no, we have nothing!" Liu Dapeng and his wife were terrified. They didn't dare to see the officials. They just wanted to marry their daughter to the Cheng family. Although Wensheng was stupid, he didn't hit anyone. He was as cheerful as a child all day long. His family had land, houses, brick kilns, and embroidery shops. Although he was the second wife's son, the second wife's child was still young. Everyone in the family treated him well, and they would definitely help him when he got married.
The Shuihuai Village Security Director rode his bike to Mopan Village to find their Security Director, and then brought the three men and Liu Xiaoxia over.
Liu Xiaoxia wrapped her head with a torn towel, looking as if she was too embarrassed to face anyone, but the three men seemed to be as comfortable and happy as if they had eaten magic fruit, as if they were being worshipped by all the people.
Liu Xiaoxia was so embarrassed that she wished she could find a hole to crawl into, but when the director of public security asked her, she had to tell him.
They had been advised by Guo Minying to insist that it was Wensheng who bullied them and not to mention the drowning incident. But they were all ordinary members and had no other skills. When threatened by the brigade cadres, they all told the truth. How could they dare to make up stories?
The three men did see Vincent fish Liu Xiaoxia out of the river. As for the accusation of bullying, that was what Guo Minying said herself.
Jiang Lin asked a few key questions and explained them clearly in a few words.
She scolded Liu Dapeng and his wife: "Do you think everyone else is stupid? You only heard that your daughter was not wearing pants, but you didn't see that she was about to drown? If you can't exchange your daughter for money, it's better for her to drown."
Liu Dapeng was so ashamed that he felt embarrassed. It was not that he felt he was wrong, but being questioned like this in public was as shameful as those who were being fought against.
Liu Xiaoxia's mother couldn't help but ask, "Can a woman's innocence be destroyed so easily? How can she get married in the future?"
Jiang Lin: "Did we ruin it? Wasn't it you, the parents, who ruined it?"
When Liu Dapeng and his wife saw Jiang Lin accusing them, their faces immediately turned red and their necks became thick. "It's us, we don't know anything. It was your men who got it and hugged it, and they were the ones who talked."
They glared at the three men hatefully.
The three men did not feel guilty, "Well... we didn't mean to look, she was not wearing pants..." It would be a waste not to look, compared to those who hid at the back of the toilet and peeked at women's buttocks, what did they do wrong?
Dabao and Xiaobao held a stick as thick as a finger in their hands, and when they were not paying attention, they hit their hands, "Even children know not to look at girls' butts, so why are you, the boss's people, still looking? You stinky hooligans!"
The three of them then lowered their heads.
The security director and brigade secretary of Mopan Village also felt ashamed.
Liu Dapeng and his wife are a rare family in their village. They favor sons over daughters, but they treat their three daughters like pigs. They only care about their daughters’ food and clothing. They think it’s a waste if they eat one more meal or wear one more piece of clothing. They feel sorry for them. Liu Xiaoxia started to look for marriage proposals when she was thirteen or fourteen years old. They asked for more betrothal gifts every year, hoping to earn the betrothal gifts for her son.
Secretary Liu scolded Liu Dapeng and Guo Minying: "It's fine if you make a fool of yourself in the village, but you also make trouble in the neighboring village, and the whole village is embarrassed because of you. If people don't know, they will think that everyone in Mopan Village is like you."
He quickly smiled at Jiang Lin, Cheng Yulian and the others and said, "Please don't get me wrong. Most of the people in our village are good people, just like us. They are grateful when they are saved and angry when they are bullied. It will never be like this!"
Jiang Lin: "That's strange. We are clearly saving people, so why do you say we are bullying you? If we are really accused of hooliganism, then won't we, Wensheng, be in trouble?"
If your family doesn't have any skills and you save someone but are accused of being a hooligan, and if you really get shot, who will be held responsible?
If we don't teach them a lesson, they will think there's nothing wrong with blackmailing others.
Liu Xiaoxia's mother turned to look at Guo Minying, "It's all your bad advice."
Guo Minying exploded, "Why me? Didn't you ask me for help because you were afraid that your daughter would be embarrassed if someone touched her? I just asked for some money, and you thought it would be better to get married."
They started quarrelling among themselves again.
Jiang Lin: "Shut up. Either go to the police station to report the case, or pay compensation."
"Compensation? Compensation for what?" Liu Dapeng was anxious. Their daughter was taken advantage of, why should they be asked to compensate without giving them money?
Cheng Ruhai shouted: "Of course you have to pay compensation! If you want to extort money, just pay it!" He finally felt proud.
Cheng Yulian glanced at him and said, "You told the truth. It's true. I will pay you as much as you want to extort! I won't wrong you, and I don't need you to pay for my life."
Guo Minying: "We didn't want to extort money, we wanted to get married. You men are taking advantage of our girls, isn't it right for you to get married?"
Cheng Yulian: "Then why don't you want a betrothal gift to repay your life-saving grace?"
Liu Xiaoxia's mother was anxious: "How can you marry off your daughter without giving a gift? Our daughter is less than 18 years old, pretty, skillful and capable, and your man is stupid. We don't ask for much, just give us four hooks of cloth, 20 kilograms of lint, and 200 yuan..."
This was all discussed at home, and she thought of reducing it by half so that the other party wouldn't think it was too much.
Jiang Lin was getting impatient. "All right, stop dreaming here. No matter how pretty or clever your daughter is, we don't want her. Keep her for yourself. As for you being ungrateful for saving our lives and instead trying to blackmail us, you should compensate us with four hooks of cloth, twenty kilograms of lint, and two hundred yuan."
"What?" The Liu family became anxious and stared at Jiang Lin.
Jiang Lin smiled and said, "Isn't that right? If the girl drowns, you will lose the betrothal gifts you want. We didn't save the girl, we saved your betrothal gifts."
"I, we are not about to come yet!" Liu Xiaoxia's mother was anxious.
Jiang Lin: "That has nothing to do with us. Either you pay compensation or go to court! Let's see if you can find a wife for your son in the future!"
Country people are afraid of seeing officials, and if they have been arrested, it will be difficult to find a wife. Jiang Lin heard from their words that they despised her daughter and raised her as a cash cow to earn money for their son to marry a wife, and they didn't think about their daughter's feelings at all.
Liu Dapeng and his wife immediately became timid and blamed Guo Minying for giving them blind advice. As a result, not only did they not get the money or get married, but they were blackmailed instead.
Before, they only thought that their daughter was taken advantage of, her innocence was ruined, she couldn't get married, couldn't get a dowry, couldn't help her son, and didn't think about anything else. Now that they saw that Jiang Lin's family was not easy to bully, they immediately became cowardly and started to scold their daughter for being an unlucky jinx who brought shame to themselves and their family, and ruined the marriages of their brothers and sisters.
Liu Dapeng hung his head and sighed. Liu Xiaoxia's mother couldn't help but hit her daughter. "You stupid girl, you caused trouble just by washing clothes. What else can you do with your life? Why don't I drown you!"
She beat her daughter repeatedly.
She was timid in front of outsiders, but acted like a tigress towards her daughter, beating Liu Xiaoxia so hard that she could only hold her head and cry.
Cheng Yulian couldn't bear it anymore and pulled Liu's mother away, "Are you done yet? We said you were here to blackmail us, who cares about your education of your daughter? If you want to fight, go and fight at home."
The cadres on both sides discussed how to punish them, and Cheng Fujun asked Jiang Lin: "Director Jiang, what do you think we should do?"
Jiang Lin: "Seeing that they can't even pay when asked for money, they just keep owing it and forget about it. I think, since they want our brick kiln so much, we'll punish them by sending them to the kiln to make bricks. After work in the afternoon, they'll come to make bricks until each person makes 10,000 yuan. If you dare not come before you've made all the money, I'll report it to the police station and have them arrest you, and use loudspeakers to shout at you!"
She pointed at Liu Dapeng and his wife, "None of you can escape." She then scolded the three men, "Don't you have a mother, a wife, or a daughter? Do you feel so comfortable taking advantage of others? You see others in trouble and don't help them, but are smug about it? What are you showing off? Since you like to see naked butts so much, why don't you take off your pants and walk around our team with drums and gongs!"
"No, no, that won't do!" The three men's faces changed and they quickly waved their hands.
"No? Then why do you like looking at other people's butts so much? They are so beautiful, why don't you let others see yours too." Jiang Lin glanced at them and saw that the three men were already trembling and felt like they were going to pee their pants.
She said coldly: "You don't have to parade in the streets. Go to the brick kiln to make bricks. Each person makes 20,000 yuan!"
If they don't suffer a little, how can they know how to handle the situation? They still think that extorting money is just a matter of saying something and they don't have to bear any responsibility.
The three men wanted to bargain, but were glared at by their brigade secretary.
Jiang Lin glanced at Liu Xiaoxia, who was shaking in the corner. She was wearing a baggy gray coat and pants. She looked good, but she looked so depressed that she looked ashamed.
She said, "You were wearing clothes that day, and the stinky men spread rumors and made nonsense. They were punished to make bricks."
Liu Xiaoxia thought she had heard it wrongly, and looked at Jiang Lin in disbelief, but she didn't dare to look up at him.
Jiang Lin looked at the three men and asked, "Did you see her naked butt?"
One man was about to say that he saw it with all his heart, but was rebuked by another man. The three men quickly said, "No, no, it's all... we just made it up."
The three of them slapped themselves in the face and said, "I'll let you talk nonsense."
Dabao immediately said: "No light, I'm wearing pants!"
Vince and Xiaobao also said they were wearing clothes.
Jiang Lin glanced at Liu Dapeng and his wife and said sarcastically, "You two are so stupid that you even called our daughter stupid. At that time, we only had three children, Wensheng, Dabao and Xiaobao, and they didn't know anything. Besides, there was no one watching, but you didn't go and slap those three stinky men, but went home and beat our daughter. You are so stupid! After beating our daughter, you listened to the instigation of this wicked wife and came to my house to blackmail her. You are so stupid! If you came to discuss how to preserve our daughter's innocence, I would respect you as good parents and would help you no matter what, but I didn't expect you to be like this. It's really unlucky for my daughter to grow up in your family!"
Liu Dapeng and his wife didn't dare to fart, and if they did, they had to keep it to themselves.
Jiang Lin continued, "If I know that you guys beat my daughter and humiliated her because of this, I will not be polite!"
"No, we dare not." The couple quickly begged for mercy.
Jiang Lin thought they were just stupid. They were either setting up a trap to frame Wensheng or blackmail him, otherwise she would have sent them to accompany Cheng Fugui.
Jiang Lin then said to Guo Minying: "You are such a vicious wife. Your daughter is not yours, yet you are stirring up trouble. What kind of heart do you have? Not only do you harm your niece, but you also want to take the opportunity to blackmail us."
"I didn't! I didn't! I did it for my niece..."
"Okay?" Jiang Lin sneered, "We Wensheng are here to save people. There are three men watching, and your niece knows that. Are you so sure that they will help you change your story and blackmail us?"
Guo Minying wanted to refute Jiang Lin but she ignored her and turned to the director of public security and said, "It's best to hand this kind of person over to the public security bureau and sentence her to a few years in prison."
Guo Minying got anxious when she heard this and shouted, "No, no, why are you locking me up? I'm just helping my niece, you're locking them up too."
She pointed at Liu Dapeng and his wife.
Liu Dapeng's wife was so angry that she wanted to tear her apart. "It was all your idea. You insisted that Xiaoxia's innocence was ruined and she couldn't get married..."
Although Jiang Lin hated Liu Dapeng and his wife, they did not dare to take the initiative to harm others. Guo Minying, on the other hand, would take advantage of others to benefit herself whenever she got the chance. If the economy improved in the future, she would be very lucky!
So Jiang Lin insisted on sending Guo Minying to the Public Security Bureau and making her do two years of forced labor.
It was late today, and it was past nine o'clock and no one had dinner yet. The cadres were also annoyed, so they detained Guo Minying here and asked the others to go back and make trouble at home.
In the evening, Zeng Hongjie followed him to Jiang Lin's house. She asked Wensheng, "Will you dare to save people again in the future?"
Vincent wondered, “Isn’t it wrong to save people?”
Zeng Hongjie: “…Yes.”
Wensheng: "Then why don't you save him? I can swim."
Although Cheng Yunzhi was also angry with the Liu family, he was also proud of Wensheng because Wensheng was like his father, upright and saving people from danger. Although his ending was not good, the character passed down from father to son could not be changed easily.
The next morning, Guo Minying's family came to plead for mercy, hoping that Jiang Lin and the Yanghong Brigade would show mercy and release Guo Minying instead of sending her to the public security bureau.
"We'll make bricks for you, lots of them!" Guo Minying's men and sons had no choice but to bow their heads.
Finally, the two teams discussed it and hoped that Jiang Lin would also take a step back, so that Guo Minying would publicly apologize in front of the Yanghong Team while beating the gong, saying that Wensheng saved people and she became greedy and wanted to take the opportunity to extort money, etc.
Although the Liu family was afraid that this would affect their sons' reputation, they had no choice but to do so. After all, shouting a few times like this was better than being taken to the police station. Anyway, everyone in the nearby villages knew about Guo Minying's case, so the embarrassment would only happen at home, and they would not embarrass themselves outside.
As for Liu Xiaoxia, Jiang Lin asked the three men to beat the gong in their village to clarify the matter, saying that the woman was fine and it was they who spread the rumors because they were despicable. They then beat the gong and paraded through the streets for three days to clarify the matter.
This can also save Liu Xiaoxia's face. It is better to be slandered than to have her naked butt exposed.
As a result, Liu Xiaoxia became a celebrity in the nearby villages, and some people even went to see her. Liu Dapeng and his wife had to work during the day and make bricks for the brick kiln at night because they had been threatened by Jiang Lin. They had no time to take care of her, so Liu Xiaoxia's life became better than before.
Although Guo Minying was not arrested, he was taken back by the brigade to a meeting to be criticized, and he had to ring a gong to admit his mistake. He also had to make bricks for the brick kiln factory.
Jiang Lin took Wensheng Dabao, Xiaobao and Zeng Hongjie to the county, handed the embroidery to Tao Zhen, settled the previous accounts, and said goodbye to Zeng Hongjie before walking around the county to observe the situation. Compared with last year, there are more and more people secretly setting up stalls in front of the factory and on the street, mainly selling food, eggs, food coupons, etc. There are also some daily necessities, which are secretly sold from the factory.
Jiang Lin saw someone selling big buns stuffed with tofu and vermicelli. Each bun was as big as Xiaobao’s face. No ticket was required, and they were 1 cent each.
She bought four, Wensheng ate two by himself, and she, Dabao and Xiaobao didn't eat any of the two together, so Wensheng ate them in the end.
After a while, a man came towards Vincent stealthily and asked in a low voice, "Glass and steel, do you want them?"
Vince: “Yes.”
The man looked around and winked, "Follow me."
Wensheng stuffed the last bite of the bun into his mouth and shouted to Jiang Lin, who was taking Dabao and Xiaobao to look at the used bookstall: "Mom, there are glass and steel here. Don't you want to buy some glass for the windows?"
When he shouted like that, everyone looked over immediately, and the reseller ran away in fear.
Wensheng: "Hey, don't run, we want you."
Jiang Lin quickly pulled him and said with a smile, "It's okay, we'll buy it later." She also taught Wensheng to speak quietly when buying things.
Vincent didn't quite understand: "Aren't there so many people selling it?"
Everyone was setting up stalls, why was that guy acting so sneaky?
Reselling industrial materials and secretly selling food are different in nature. He didn't understand what Jiang Lin explained, so she told him that the man might be selling them secretly and the goods were not his own.
Wen Sheng said angrily: "He is selling something that is not his. I will catch him and send him to the police station."
Dabao laughed and said, "The sellers are arrested, but the buyers are not arrested. He is afraid."
Xiaobao: "This is called speculation."
Jiang Lin: "Let's ignore them and go to the bookstore."
She wanted to buy some reference books but couldn't find any suitable ones, so she had to go home.
On the afternoon of the 14th, Jiang Lin took a look at the brick kiln factory. Although she did not work, she was very strict in supervising the details, especially in terms of safety. If anyone did not follow the rules, he would be asked to leave immediately and would not be tolerated. Accidents should not occur due to carelessness, otherwise it would not be worth the loss, so it would be better not to do it.
Because it is the busy farming season and the autumn harvest is in progress, most of the labor force in the brick kiln factory has been reduced, and only some skilled workers are left.
The brigade has tractors and other agricultural machinery, which saves a lot of effort in pulling crops, plowing, harrowing and sowing, and also supports each family to have a strong laborer to make bricks. Compared with the conflicts between agricultural production and sideline businesses in other brigades, Shuihuai Village basically does not have so many problems.
Jiang Lin went to see Liu Dapeng and the others.
The two brothers were really regretful. It was originally a good thing that their daughter fell into the water and was rescued, but they never knew that this would happen and they had to make bricks for free to pay off their debt.
At first they thought that everyone was doing this, so what was wrong with just saying something? Even if it was a misunderstanding, they could just apologize and forget about it, but how could it be against the law? They should be arrested and whatnot.
In the past few days, they had to find time to make bricks after work, which made them exhausted. Making bricks requires a lot of effort, which is different from working in a large team. Working in a large team, you can slack off, but how can you slack off here? Others are busy and exhausted, and you can't just stand there alone guarding a pile of mud, right?
So, we have to move.
Jiang Lin: "Work hard, feel tired and feel pain, then you can reflect on what you did wrong, and never make mistakes again in the future."
What else could the two of them say? They could only blame themselves for their bad luck, not to mention how aggrieved they were.
Guo Minying is also here. This is a special request from the brigade, so she has to come and make bricks for an hour every day!
She's exhausted in just one hour!
After all, we still have to go to the brigade to harvest in the autumn during the day!
After just two days, she was so exhausted that she was staggering and her face was pale. She no longer had the energy to come up with any bad ideas.
Jiang Lin looked at it, then went to the river to wash her feet and handkerchief contentedly, then took Wensheng home. As soon as they walked to the North-South Avenue, they saw a large army green truck parked there.
"Wensheng, your father is back!" Jiang Lin shouted happily and ran home.
Wensheng was so happy that he grabbed Jiang Lin's arm and ran home with her.
Jiang Lin: “…”
Cheng Rushan, Dai Guohua and Zhu Junjie were just moving things. When they saw Wensheng running back with Jiang Lin in his arms, they almost ran away.
The grown men were silent for a moment.
Zhu Junjie chuckled and said, "Sister-in-law, you have really practiced floating on water."
Wensheng gently put Jiang Lin down and went over to help Cheng Rushan carry things.
Dabao and Xiaobao were just twisting the steering wheel in the cab, beeping, beeping, Mei~~~~
"Vincent, come and drive!" Xiaobao called him.
Vincent hesitated for a moment and said, "Let me move the things first."
Jiang Lin glanced at Cheng Rushan over there. He was hot from moving things, so he unbuttoned his clothes, revealing his chest. His face had darkened from being exposed to the sun and wind for a long time, and his chest looked particularly white. She stared at it for a moment, and her face actually became hot. She quickly looked away and smiled at him, "I thought you would be back tomorrow."
Cheng Rushan saw that her forehead and nose were covered with sweat from running, so he wiped her face with the back of his hand, took out a pomegranate from the car, broke it open with his bare hands and handed it to her, "It's sweet."
The wine-red pomegranates were crystal clear and very tempting. Jiang Lin tasted them and her eyes curved. "It's really sweet!"
Seeing her smile so happily, Cheng Rushan felt that it was worth it no matter how tired he was. How come she was getting more and more beautiful? Was it because he saw her too little in the past, or was it because they were together less and apart more, and he always missed her during the separation?
Since the New Year, he has not been home more than once.
There was pomegranate juice on her face, and Cheng Rushan wiped it off with the back of his finger. Jiang Lin picked up a handful of pomegranate seeds and handed them to him to eat. Cheng Rushan lowered his head and kissed the base of her white palm, then continued to move things.
Dabao and Xiaobao tilted their heads from the cab to look at the rearview mirror and laughed, "Linlin~~"
Jiang Lin ran over and said, "You two, get down quickly, don't damage the car."
Dabao: "If the key isn't there, how could it break?"
Xiaobao: "Linlin, come here and teach us how to drive."
Jiang Lin went up to them and gave them pomegranates to eat, and told them not to fiddle with the steering wheel, "It will break."
Dabao and Xiaobao came down obediently and helped to move things. Dai Guohua took down a roll of dehaired tanned leather and said to Jiang Lin, "Sister-in-law, this is what Brother Rushan brought back for you."
Jiang Lin asked curiously, "What skin?"
"We have both cowhide and sheepskin. We can make leather jackets, leather shoes, and leather bags. They are very useful." Dai Guohua carried them in.
They also brought back some pomegranates, cantaloupes, raisins and wolfberries. These fruits have a relatively long shelf life, so when they were transporting the materials for the mission, they bought half a carriage to test the waters. Unfortunately, they were all sold out in the provincial capital before they could even get them home. Cheng Rushan finally kept two baskets and shared them among the people. Dai Guohua and the others were reluctant to part with them, thinking that instead of bringing them all back from far away, they might as well sell them. Cheng Rushan had a different idea, and told them, "We come out to make money, don't we? No matter how good the things are, take them home to try them out first. There are plenty of opportunities to make money."
With him and Dai Guohua, a few others also changed their minds. They brought the good things home to give to their parents, wives and children first. Seeing them happy, they felt that all their hard work was worth it, and they were happy too.
Zhu Junjie ran over, carrying a basket of fruits, and winked at Jiang Lin, "Sister-in-law, don't you know about my brother's good deeds?"
Jiang Lin: "What good news? You haven't told me yet."
Zhu Junjie chuckled and said, "Then let me tell you myself." He trotted over to deliver the things.
After carrying Cheng Rushan's share down, they pushed up the car's tailgate, locked it, and then went to eat.
They brought back some yak jerky, a jar of local wine, and some food, such as cheese, big naan, oil tea noodles, etc. Jiang Lin asked and found out that they went to the northwest area, took a tour, and bought a lot of local specialties. These were the first in the local area, and no one else had seen them. Dabao and Xiaobao were enlightened and would tell their classmates about them later.
Yan Runzhi and Cheng Yunzhi cooked for them. Since there were so many people, they didn't care about the fine details. They rolled out a big pot of noodles and made them into mixed noodles and soup noodles. The toppings included scrambled eggs with green onions, minced meat and chili sauce, and sesame and peanut sauce. Everyone mixed their own sauce.
Dai Guohua and Zhu Junjie were about to drive away, and they played the scissors, blanket and hammer game in order to get a chance to drink. Zhu Junjie lost and couldn't drink.
Dai Guohua proudly pulled Cheng Rushan to drink happily.
Along the way, except for stopping to stay overnight, Cheng Rushan didn't allow drinking as long as he was on the road, even if he wasn't driving, which made him very depressed.
Cheng Rushan drank a lot with him, and Dai Guohua was so drunk that he could hardly raise his head. He wanted to test how much Cheng Rushan could drink, but ended up getting himself drunk.
"Drink, but you..."
Cheng Rushan smiled, put down his wine glass and started eating noodles. After he finished, Jiang Lin served him more, and he actually ate four large bowls.
Jiang Lin whispered, "Eat less at night."
It's not the time for you to grow, so why eat so much and feel full?
Cheng Rushan smiled at her, "It's okay, I'm not holding on."
Yan Runzhi said to Jiang Lin, "Dong was short of food when he was growing up, so he was always hungry. Now that he can eat a full meal, he doesn't even know how much he eats."
Jiang Lin felt distressed when she said this. She touched Cheng Rushan's back and said, "This poor child, luckily he didn't delay his growth."
Cheng Rushan put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth with a towel, held Jiang Lin's hand, and said with a smile: "Mother doesn't know, but I'm not hungry. When I was on the farm, I often stole fish in the middle of the night. At that time, I was afraid of open flames, so I wrapped them in mud, dug a hole in the ground, and burned them. They smelled very good."
Everybody started laughing. Dabao, Xiaobao and Vincent didn't understand, but they thought it was fun and also said they wanted to go and grill some fish.
Cheng Yunzhi and Yan Runzhi knew how sad it was at that time. Cheng Rushan was so hungry that he caught frogs, snakes, and voles, secretly cooked them and took them home to eat, and he was afraid that the patrol would see him. Cheng Rushan knew every hole on the farm wall. Later, when he grew up, he could easily climb out. Even if there were barbed wire or spikes on it, he was not afraid. He could climb out in one go with something to cushion it.
Jiang Lin gently stroked his lower back with her small hand to comfort him, which made his heart beat fast.
After dinner, everyone talked about the fun things that happened outside. Dai Guohua was drunk and didn't care about his words. He revealed a lot of his embarrassing stories, which were very sexy. Dabao and Xiaobao were very excited to hear them, and they kept asking questions, and ended up finding out a lot of Dai Guohua's little secrets.
"Mom, I want to go out with Dad too!" Dabao and Xiaobao came to Jiang Lin's side. Dabao sat properly, but Xiaobao twisted in Jiang Lin's arms like a candy. "Mom, is it okay?"
Jiang Lin: "But I don't drive, so what I say doesn't count. You have to ask dad."
Xiaobao went to Cheng Rushan's arms again and said, "Dad, Dabao and I will go too next time."
Cheng Rushan held him and tossed him gently as he wished, causing Xiaobao to giggle, "You need to go to school. Besides, you are still young. Wait until you are ten years old."
Vincent: “Then I can do it!”
Dabao and Xiaobao immediately looked at him enviously.
Cheng Rushan: "If you go, who will protect mother?"
Vincent slapped his head and said, "Yeah, I can't go either."
Zhu Junjie slurped up the noodles, wiped his mouth, and smiled at Yan Runzhi: "Aunt, your cooking is so delicious."
Yan Runzhi laughed, "Eat your fill here, don't be picky."
"Aunt, I have loosened my belt three times. Do you think I am being too cautious? I will ask my wife to learn how to cook from you in the future." Zhu Junjie touched his belly. Pork chops have a lot of meat on their bodies, and nowadays they all have a trembling little belly.
He said to Cheng Rushan, "Brother, you learned Kung Fu when you were a child, why didn't you teach Dabao and Xiaobao?"
Cheng Rushan smiled and said, "It's too hard to learn those things. They don't need them." He couldn't bear to let his wife and children suffer. He just wanted them to grow up healthily like other children.
Dabao and Xiaobao asked Wensheng to write down the interesting stories told by Dai Guohua and others, and to edit them to include Linlin, and then tell them to their other children later.
Dai Guohua had already taken a nap, and when he woke up he said goodbye and went home.
The family walked them to the intersection and then watched them drive away.
Yan Runzhi: "Bao'er's mother, you and Dongsheng go for a walk. Your father and I will take Wensheng, Dabao and Xiaobao to find some people to play with." After dinner, they went to the brigade to help peel corn husks and talk to the elderly they knew. This is also one of their current activities.
No matter what happened back then, it has been so long, and everyone needs to forget some things. The old acquaintances are all old, a few died last winter, and a few are in poor health this year, so there is no one missing. Yan Runzhi accompanied Cheng Yunzhi to see and talk, and after talking more, he was able to slowly let go of some things in his heart.
As the sun sets in the west, the young couple walks side by side along the river bank. When the commune members who are leaving work meet them, they greet them warmly.
As the number of people decreased, Cheng Rushan held her hand and walked slowly along the river.
The willows by the river dance lightly in the wind, wild flowers bloom freely on the shore, the setting sun casts sparkling golden light on the water, and flocks of white geese and ducks swim leisurely and contentedly on the river. Looking at such a scenery, it feels like time has slowed down.
Jiang Lin told Cheng Rushan about Wensheng's rescue, "It's really infuriating that there are such parents in the world."
Cheng Rushan put his arm around her shoulders and squeezed them gently, "There are all kinds of people in the world, but except for those who love you, none of them is worth your anger."
Jiang Lin laughed, "I'm not angry, they were angry because I asked them to make bricks."
The setting sun seemed to fall into her eyes. Cheng Rushan stared at her, lowered his head, held her cheek and kissed her.
…
As night fell, the two walked home hand in hand. Jiang Lin smiled and said, "We always watch the sunset. Next time, we want to watch the sunrise!"
Cheng Rushan smiled gently and put his arm around her waist, "I want to watch the sunrise with you, too, but I'm afraid you can't get up."
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