After walking a short distance, the chubby boy still didn't give up. He didn't believe that Xiaoyu wouldn't call her grandpa.
Seeing him like this, the others did not follow him. Their family members told them not to bother with the people who came to the village today without asking for money, otherwise they would break their legs.
Seeing that they had all left, he stood outside the house next to Xiaoyu's house and waited. He didn't even use the thin stick he brought with him, and was about to beat her to death.
"elder sister."
Tian Xiaolan felt her hands trembling, held her hands, and said to her: "Don't think about them, think about the crabs in the pot that will be ready soon!"
"Let's go find your grandpa and go home for dinner!"
The crabs in the pot have been cooked for almost twenty minutes. If they are cooked for too long, they will not taste good. Use chopsticks to pick up the crabs one by one and put them away.
Zhu Zhi said to Tian Xiaolan, "You guys go ahead. I'm watching over them here, so they won't dare to mess around."
"Thanks for your hard work."
"It's okay, just go ahead. If they block you, run back and call me!"
"Okay." Tian Xiaolan agreed and calmed him down first.
The two of them walked out, and after a few steps, Tian Xiaolan saw his thin strips of paper and understood what he was up to.
Pick up a stone on the ground and throw it over.
He had already thought of how to beat her when he saw Xiaoyu walking in front, followed by the relative who claimed to be his cousin. He thought he would beat both of them equally. He decided to wait for them to come over and scare them.
He was so frightened that he ran out with a stick and waved it around randomly, but he didn't hit anyone.
Tian Xiaolan suppressed her laughter and asked, "What are you doing?"
He was annoyed when he heard her talking, and said impatiently: "You have no right to control what I do. If you know what's good for you, just give me back my crabs, and I won't beat you!"
"You can try. If you can beat me, I'll give it back to you."
The little boy was swinging the stick in his hand up and down, left and right, trying to hurt Tian Xiaolan. Tian Xiaolan grabbed the stick he was swinging with one hand, pried open his palm with the other hand, took the stick from his hand, and said to him, "I'll come find you later, wait at home!"
Tian Xiaolan didn't beat him. The thin strip was so smooth that it was obvious that it had been used a lot. She decided to wait for his family to come and teach him a lesson.
His weapon was taken away, so he wanted to run away. He didn't take Tian Xiaolan's words seriously. She must have come to scare him. He was not afraid of being scared. "Come if you have the guts!"
"Wait for me!"
He ran away without looking back to see if anyone was chasing him.
Xiaoyu opened her mouth slightly, not expecting Sister Tian to be so powerful.
"Okay, let's go." Tian Xiaolan took the thin strip in her hand, as it would be useful later.
When he went to call Uncle Li back for dinner, he received everyone's envious looks again. The team leader also asked him to go home first so as not to make Tian Xiaolan wait for a long time, and told him that he still had to come to work overtime after dinner.
On the way, Lao Li asked, "How many crabs did you catch?"
Xiaoyu said happily: "There is a big basin!"
"You haven't caught them all, have you?" If that were the case, what would the others eat?
Tian Xiaolan: "No, I still have some left."
"Uncle Li, where is Fang Dagang's home?"
"Why are you asking him all of a sudden? Is his kid causing trouble for you?"
Xiaoyu started to complain: "He wants to beat us!"
"Let me see where you were hit." Uncle Li looked around at Xiaoyu but couldn't tell where she was hit.
"Sister Tian stopped him, otherwise he would have hit us."
"Tian Mei'er, if it weren't for you, your child would have been bullied!" She said this with tears in her eyes.
Based on their attitude towards Xiaoyu, Tian Xiaolan knew that she was not welcome. The specific reason was obvious. Even if she was here now, she could only watch over them for a while, and Xiaoyu would be bullied again after she left.
No, she must solve this problem from the root. The little boy just now is the leader among them. Subduing him can keep Xiaoyu safe.
"It's okay, he just needs to be punished."
As they talked and walked, Tian Xiaolan also roughly understood the situation of his family. It turned out that the little boy was called Fang Ming. Because he was the only son in the family, his grandmother let him do everything and Fang Dagang had no say, which led to his bad behavior. After his grandmother passed away, Fang Dagang had to correct his bad habits. If he was not watched, he would be like a scoundrel.
The crabs were served on the table, along with some leftover porridge from lunch to fill our stomachs.
After Tian Xiaolan had eaten a crab, Uncle Li was still holding the bowl and drinking slowly. Tian Xiaolan was about to pick one for him, "There are so many, why don't you eat it?"
Uncle Li took the bowl away and stopped her from eating. “I’m not used to eating this. If you like it, eat more.”
Seeing that he refused to eat, he put the crab into Xiaoyu's bowl. He then brought the bowl back and said to Xiaoyu, who was eating happily, "Eat less. Eating too much is not good for your health."
In fact, these small crabs, the size of two fingers, do not have much meat, and occasionally there is some crab roe that can be eaten with porridge.
After eating, Tian Xiaolan planned to go find Li Dagang. Xiaoyu saw her put down her chopsticks and stopped eating too.
"Eat your meal first, I'll wait for you."
After agreeing to Xiaoyu's request, she sat aside and waited for her. It was the first time she had eaten crabs in such a long time. In real life, crabs were only affordable for rich people, but here they were used to fill the stomach.
After dinner, Uncle Li had to wash the pot and Zhu Zhi had to go thresh the grain, otherwise it would be a waste to leave the grain they harvested piled up on the ground to dry.
Tian Xiaolan said hello to Uncle Li: "Uncle Li, I'll take Xiaoyu away first."
Uncle Li felt relieved when he saw Xiaoyu happily following Tian Xiaolan. Otherwise, they would have to work late into the night and it would be unacceptable to leave her alone at home.
"Slow down and see the road."
"good."
Without a clock, Tian Xiaolan didn't know the time and could only tell the time by looking at the sky. While it was still light, Tian Xiaolan took Xiaoyu to Li Dagang's house.
As they approached, they saw smoke rising from his house. The door was open, and Tian Xiaolan took Xiaoyu in.
"You actually came! You are not welcome in my house, get out!" As he said that, he picked up a broom and wanted to burn them out.
Li Dagang heard the noise outside in the kitchen and came out to see that it was the girl he had been talking about today! Now she was at his house, could it be that his boy was causing trouble again?
I went over and grabbed the broom from his hand: "Tell me, did you hit someone with the slingshot again?"
"No, they caught my crabs!"
Xiaoyu said: "That crab belongs to everyone, not you."
"Did you hear that? Even Xiaoyu knows about it." Li Dagang said to Fang Ming with a stern face, "You little bastard, are you going to make trouble again because no one is watching?"
Tian Xiaolan took out the thin stick he had used to beat someone today and said, "He wanted to beat us with this today. We didn't provoke him, but he only knew how to bully weak women like us!"
"Is what they say true?"
Li Ming quickly shook his head. He knew that if he admitted it, Li Dagang would make him eat a meal of "stir-fried bamboo shoots with pork".
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