Liu Honghua was beaten so hard that her mind went blank and half of her face was swollen.
When the men who came up to persuade them to stop fighting saw this, they couldn't help but gasp. They had no idea that Jiang Zhiqing, who was always too delicate to do any work, was so strong.
In her previous life, Jiang Lin had always been much stronger than ordinary people. After she came here, she found that she was quite strong. She carried Cheng Xiaobao for a long time without feeling tired. She was furious, and she used all her strength to slap him.
Liu Honghua felt wronged and stomped her feet and started howling. She immediately started to tickle Jiang Lin and tried to pull her hair.
Has Jiang Lin ever been afraid of fighting?
In her previous life, after dropping out of school, she worked on her own and always had to fight with some little girls who dropped out of school. I can’t say how powerful they were, but she was never afraid of a fight between women.
Without waiting for the men to come over to stop the fight, she tripped Liu Honghua and threw her to the ground, saying coldly: "Liu Honghua, your family is too much. Not only have you occupied our house, but you also said that I sold the child when I took him out? You have such vicious intentions. Do you want to take this opportunity to arrest me so that you can bully my mother-in-law? What the hell are you? You call me a little beast. You are really a beast and can't speak human words. Bah!"
She has been exposed to the swear words of the lower working class, so she is not afraid of a quarrel!
Liu Honghua was thrown down and felt dizzy. She was not able to recover for a while and could only howl. She was used to bullying the weak and fearing the strong. When she met someone who was not as good as her, she would pull their hair and slap their mouth. When she met someone who was stronger, she would cry and show weakness to gain sympathy.
"Are you blind? Didn't you see him throwing dirt at me?"
Jiang Lin: "You deserve it. The one who teases first is a slut! Throwing the dirt away is a bargain for you!"
You and your husband occupied someone else's house, and now you accuse someone of selling their son in public without any evidence. Aren't you bullying people?
Liu Honghua didn't expect that she couldn't beat her. Jiang Lin, who was usually delicate and afraid of pain and fatigue, was so strong? It was obvious that she was lazy and didn't work before! These cunning people who took the white-collar route should be criticized!
Jiang Lin looked at her with contempt, "Liu Honghua, go back and tell Cheng Ruhai that if we want to divide the family property, we should do it clearly and not be sneaky! Our furniture, farm tools, grain, houses, and private plots must all be taken away. Go back and calculate them clearly for me. I will settle the accounts later."
She turned around and said to the onlookers, "Let's walk properly. Liu Honghua is addicted to bullying people. Everyone has seen it. Let's all bear witness to it when the time comes."
Although people around him thought that Jiang Zhiqing was arrogant and looked down on others, Liu Honghua was not a good person either. She became more and more domineering after her husband became the production team leader.
By saying this, Jiang Lin invisibly brought her closer to the other members. She thanked them and took her two children home.
Over there, Cheng Xiaobao's two big black eyes were full of admiration, and he wanted to celebrate for his mother by beating drums and gongs.
Cheng Dabao was shocked and couldn't believe that this was his mother.
She actually protected him!
The last time he faced Qianbo in the city, he was just angry and didn't feel anything, but this time he truly felt that his mother was protecting him.
Seeing that Cheng Dabao didn't move, Jiang Lin reached out to touch his head and said, "Go home."
Cheng Dabao immediately dodged and refused to let her touch him. He ran home. He had to talk to his grandma.
Jiang Lin and her two children walked to the vicinity of the brigade and met Cheng Rushan's mother Yan Runzhi.
Yan Runzhi heard the noise and ran out to see what was happening. She was also very surprised to see Jiang Lin and the two children, but she immediately asked cautiously, "Bao'er's mother, why did you come back so soon if you didn't go back to the city to visit relatives?"
Jiang Lin laughed and said, "The babies came back because they weren't sold." Instead of letting those old mouths of Liu Honghua spread the news in the village that she sold the children, it was better to make fun of herself.
Cheng Xiaobao and Yan Runzhi laughed: "Haha, grandma, I'm too expensive, people can't afford me. Dabao is too fierce, people don't want me."
Yan Runzhi was as shocked as Cheng Dabao and looked at Jiang Lin in disbelief.
Cheng Dabao's face darkened again, and he didn't know who he was angry with. He pulled his brother and ran home.
Yan Runzhi quickly came back to her senses. Like Cheng Xiaobao, she would not take it seriously. She knew that her wife hated the two children and she kept saying things like "I'll throw you two away" and "Throw them out".
But she was as sensitive as Cheng Dabao to Jiang Lin's changes: Jiang Lin, who disliked the two children so much, actually clashed with Liu Honghua to protect Dabao. In the past, when Dabao fought with other children, she would not care, and would either scold him for his bandit habits or kick him.
Another thing, she used to be very impatient when talking to me, is she joking now? Yan Runzhi was sure that her daughter-in-law didn't roll her eyes at her now, saying that she was smiling when she sold the child, she was joking with her!
She was always cautious in front of her daughter-in-law, and it was no exaggeration to say that she was humble and submissive. However, Jiang Lin looked down on her from head to toe, and they hardly spoke seriously to each other, let alone joked.
Something must be wrong when something is out of the ordinary. Yan Runzhi was not surprised, but became uneasy and even more cautious.
Yan Runzhi was weighing her in his mind, and Jiang Lin was also sizing up Yan Runzhi.
Yan Runzhi is the second wife of Cheng Rushan's father. The two got married in the labor camp. After the situation eased, they were considered children who could be reformed, so Yan Runzhi took the children back to the village to work.
She is very beautiful, but also has a soft personality. Long-term criticism has made her accustomed to lowering herself to the dust.
The original owner felt that she was a working class person, and was oppressed by reality and had to marry the landlord's son Cheng Rushan. It was a huge injustice. She looked down on her mother-in-law, never looked at Yan Runzhi straight in the eye, and refused to speak to her directly, always speaking in a tone of "Hey, hey".
Yan Runzhi was used to being looked down upon and criticized, and did not find her daughter-in-law's cold eyes unbearable. She even felt that since her son was away from home all year round and had a bad background, it was a blessing that someone was willing to marry him.
When Cheng Ruhai spread the news that his son would never come back, Yan Runzhi became even more grateful to her daughter-in-law for giving her two grandsons, so even though her daughter-in-law looked down on her, she still served her well.
"Bao'er's mother, you must be thirsty. There is boiled water on the table. I'll cook for you right away." Yan Runzhi said and went to work.
Yan Runzhi didn't ask any more questions, and Jiang Lin breathed a sigh of relief.
She looked around the house and became more and more annoyed. After being driven out of Cheng's house by Cheng Ruhai, they lived in a shack outside the brigade's courtyard wall. The shack was low and cramped, and she had to lower her head to get in. The shack was a wooden frame covered with corn stalks and straw, and it leaked rain and wind. It was okay in summer and autumn, but wouldn't they freeze to death in winter?
There was no Kang in the shack, of course. There was a narrow wooden bed in a palm-sized space, which was for her to sleep on. The rest of the place was covered with thick hay, and Yan Runzhi and her two children slept on the floor. Two broken suitcases with cracks and a table with broken legs were placed under another thatched shed with only a roof.
There was no proper stove, only a small pit made of a few stones and mud, with a small iron pot with two handles on it, and a few other bowls, ladles, pots and soup pots, most of which were very worn out.
Damn, how can people live in such a bad environment?
She took a deep breath and said angrily, "We must get the house back!"
Yan Runzhi said cautiously: "Bao'er's mother, it's not that easy. Now he has become the production team leader through the relationship with the commune, and the team secretary and team leader have to give him face."
Jiang Lin: "Don't be afraid. We have the government's support. We must trust the Party and the government. Some people may be successful for a while, but they can't be arrogant forever."
Jiang Lin took out a notebook and found two diaries, but she had no interest in reading them and locked them back in her suitcase. She tore off two pages from the notebook and took a pencil, "Come on, grandma, tell me about our family's communal property so I can write it down. Let's divide the property with Cheng Ruhai properly."
She really couldn't call her mother, just like she was not used to Cheng Xiaobao calling her mother.
Yan Runzhi didn't care about this at all. She was so surprised that her daughter-in-law was willing to talk to her seriously that she didn't know what to do.
She told Jiang Lin that the large area of houses in the current brigade headquarters originally belonged to the Cheng family, and were taken over by the collective during the crackdown on local tyrants in 1947, so there was no need to worry about that.
She brought her three children back to live in a cowshed. When Cheng Rushan was 14 years old and followed the transport team to do long-distance transport, he redeemed a small courtyard with blue bricks and black tiles from the team for 200 yuan. They lived in this courtyard for nearly ten years, but now it was occupied by Cheng Ruhai, who drove them out. In addition, there were some farm tools, furniture, cooking utensils, etc. in the house, which she remembered very clearly. Although all the property was confiscated, what was redeemed was just ordinary wardrobes, closets, pots and pans, etc., but it was much better than ordinary families.
Yan Runzhi has a good memory and remembers everything exactly.
Jiang Lin wrote it all down.
Yan Runzhi didn't know why Jiang Lin suddenly changed her mind and wanted to seek justice for her family. This was impossible before. But no matter what her daughter-in-law's purpose was, she didn't want her to suffer.
"Bao'er's mother, don't be impulsive. I'll cook first and we'll eat. Then we can think of a solution."
Cheng Dabao heard this and took the tofu bun he brought back and said, "Grandma, this is for you."
He also glanced at Jiang Lin, meaning that Jiang Lin left it for her grandma.
Yan Runzhi's eyes suddenly became wet, and she said that her daughter-in-law was a good person at heart, and that even the coldest heart could be warmed over time. Unlike some people, who had received so much favor from the Cheng family in the past, if it weren't for the Cheng family's help, they would have starved to death long ago, but when the movement came, they were the ones who beat the Cheng family the most fiercely.
She sniffed and said, "Grandma doesn't want to eat it, you and your brother will eat it."
Jiang Lin: "We ate them all, this is for you."
She went to see a jar with a broken lid at the base of the wall. There was no real food in it. When they were driven out by Cheng Ruhai, they didn't get much food. The original owner also exchanged wheat and corn for food coupons. Now there were only some dried sweet potatoes in it. Those dried sweet potatoes were dried last autumn and were already moldy.
Yan Runzhi was afraid that she would dislike it, so she said, "I'll go borrow two bowls of flour from your aunt's house for you and the child to eat."
Jiang Lin grabbed her and pursed her lips, "No, I brought the food coupons back. I'll go to the brigade to exchange them."
Jiang Lin was just trying to find a clean clay pot to exchange for food when she saw Liu Honghua and two boys rushing over aggressively, shouting, "You stinky woman, don't run away if you have the guts!"
Yan Runzhi was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she immediately pushed Jiang Lin, "Bao'er's mother, take the two Bao'ers and hide. I'll stop them."
Jiang Lin said to Dabao, "Take your brother to the brigade headquarters." She pulled Yan Runzhi and said, "Let's go. Let's settle accounts with them today and get back what we deserve!"
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