Chapter 56 Living Alone
Let’s not talk about others for now.
The two little kids, Dalai and Sigaba, said goodbye happily at the field and went home happily to enjoy their dinner. As soon as they opened the gate, they were greeted not by the caring voice of their grandma, but by the terrifying broom and feather duster.
It's normal for this child to be naughty at times. It's okay if nothing happens. But what if he scares someone and gets hurt, what if the other person comes to the door to ask for compensation?
That would be a waste of money. If it's less, you'll have to pay at least three or five dollars. Who can afford to spend that kind of money?
The smiles on their faces disappeared in an instant, and they screamed and groaned from being beaten with a feather whisk.
Of course the smile would not disappear, it would just shift to Xia Zhizhi's face.
Two little brats, how dare you throw locusts at her.
It is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge.
That night, as soon as everyone fell asleep, she started doing radio gymnastics on the kang.
The four lesbians hugged each other in pairs, curled up their bodies as much as possible for fear of being stepped on by her, and watched her perform to her heart's content.
Is Xia Zhizhi someone they can easily get away with?
She pulled them up one by one and asked them to dance with her.
She led the exercise herself.
Very pleasant.
A few little girls, with only this little ability, dare to learn from others to bully and isolate others.
Come, come and have fun.
Now she is the only one who dominates them all.
She was also humane, letting them rest after every 15 minutes of dancing.
As soon as they fell asleep, he woke them up immediately, pulled them up and continued dancing.
By the third time, even someone as strong as Meng Shengnan had tears streaming down her face.
When Meng Shengnan first went to the countryside, it was the autumn harvest time. For a girl who had never done farm work before, she was in hell mode as soon as she arrived.
During the harvesting period, she had to stay on the front line even if she was slightly injured, and she couldn't even ask for leave. It was so hard. She didn't cry as much as she does now.
Not to mention Zhao Jinhua, Wei Zi and Luo Zhaodi.
After the dance, I burst into tears.
I dare not cry out loud.
Because Xia Zhizhi was cosplaying as the dean of studies, she got a particularly straight stick from somewhere, and when she swung it, you could hear the sound of it breaking through the air.
Pointing at them, he scolded them: "You girls don't study hard, your grades are poor, and you're not good at gymnastics. You cry when I say a few words to you. You just want to sleep. At your age, how can you sleep? Come and see who dares to cry!"
After saying this, she swung the stick twice vigorously.
The tears of several girls flowed down like a river bursting its dam.
I guess this is the first time I realized I could shed so many tears.
Xia Zhizhi tortured the four girls for the entire night until dawn, then let them sleep for an hour.
You know, it's so uncomfortable to have to get up immediately after just one hour of sleep. It's really nauseating and gives me a splitting headache.
Some people really couldn't stand it anymore. They had to work during the day and were exhausted. When they came home at night, they were still exhausted. Even donkeys and horses didn't dare to be used like this.
Wei Zi had dark circles under her eyes and she staggered off the bed, but she was so dizzy that her legs went limp and she fell to her knees.
She didn't get up either. She reached out and hugged Xia Zhizhi's legs, tears streaming down her face.
It was like a poor girl who was forced into prostitution by a vicious brothel owner, saying miserably: "Comrade Xia, please be kind and sleep in another room. I really feel like I can't live any longer like this!"
Xia Zhizhi covered her chest pitifully, her expression more aggrieved than the others: "Why do you want me to move out? Do you hate me? I'm actually a very nice person. You don't like me because you don't know me well. If we spend more time together, you won't hate me anymore!"
How could they be so lucky as to stay with her for such a long time?
Zhao Jinhua's head was buzzing.
Meng Shengnan held her hand and said sincerely, "I know you are a good person, and we all like you very much, but..."
She pointed at the faces of the four people and said, "Comrade Xia, you not only make a fuss at night, but you also beat people up. You make a fuss all night long. We still have to work during the day, and we can't even get an hour of sleep at night. We really can't take it!"
Zhao Jinhua echoed: "Comrade Xia, please move to another room and give us a chance to live!"
Luo Zhaodi wiped her tears and said, "I really want to sleep for a full night."
After they made such a fuss for a while, other educated youth came over and gathered at the door to watch the fun.
Cui Zijin said, "Comrade Xia is noisy at night. If we change rooms, what will happen to the other female educated youth?"
Wouldn't that be torturing Han Youran? He naturally didn't want that.
Guo De said, "There are only two rooms. I don't think it's appropriate to sleep in either one. Why don't we let Comrade Xia live there by himself?"
The other gay men were discussing the matter in a buzzing manner.
"You can't let her live alone in a room with eight other lesbians, right?"
"Eight people can't even stay here."
"Why don't we clean up that little side room and let her live there."
"That hut doesn't even have a kang. How do we survive in the winter?"
At this point, everyone looked at Xia Zhizhi.
Li Mao wanted to say something, but looking at the expressions of these four lesbians, he didn't know how to start.
As for Xia Zhizhi, I was worried that she was going to vomit blood, and I didn't know how to persuade her.
Just like that cowardly man who is caught in the middle of the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, he looks here and there without saying a word.
She is such a troublemaker. She will torture everyone in which room she is placed. Even if we move her to another room, it will not be fair to them.
Now there is no other place suitable for her to live except that small side house.
But if I really asked her to go into that little room, it would seem like bullying.
Xia Zhizhi was as aggrieved as the cabbage in the field, saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's all my fault. If I change to another room, the other educated youth will also be affected. Otherwise, let's follow everyone's wishes and clean up that small room. I can live there, right?"
It's as if everyone is forcing her...
Li Mao hesitated a bit and said, "There is no kang in that room. It is too cold here in winter. Without a kang, the doors and windows inside will be frozen and it will be impossible to sleep there."
"Then let's build a kang." Xia Zhizhi said.
Li Mao was silent. To build a kang, bricks are needed. Bricks are not cheap these days. To build a three-room brick house in the village, it would cost about 400 yuan including bricks, tiles and wood. And he would have to send a whole family to move the bricks. If he didn't send anyone, it would cost at least 500 yuan.
Villagers usually build houses during their free time. They mix mud and grass into the mud to make adobe bricks, and then slowly build the house after several years.
There are only a few houses in the village that are built entirely of bricks and tiles. Most people live in adobe houses. Those with better conditions have two rooms made of adobe and bricks.
If you want to find someone to build a kang for you, even if you don't buy red bricks, you still have to pay them to use the earthen bricks they made themselves. Including the labor and materials, and also repairing the doors and windows in the house, it will cost at least ten bricks.
And the consumption is far more than that.
In winter, we have to heat the kang, which is half of the year here, and the amount of firewood is not small.
After all, it is freezing cold in winter, and a little firewood cannot heat the kang. Looking at her appearance, it doesn't seem like she can go up the mountain to get enough firewood to last through the winter.
If she really built a kang, she would still have to buy coal.
Not only is the price of coal not cheap, it is also difficult to buy. A family is only allowed to have a few hundred kilograms of coal for the winter.
If she couldn't buy coal, she would have to buy firewood.
In fact, there was not enough firewood in every household. In winter, many families had seven or eight people sleeping on one kang, which was very crowded because it took too much firewood to burn another kang.
Xia Zhizhi didn't care about these things. There was plenty of fuel in her space. Even if there was no fuel in her space, nothing was difficult in the world. As long as she was willing to fool around, she could get it.
She made so much noise, and torturing her roommate was just a side effect. Her main purpose was to occupy a room of her own.
After all, she has her own space. How can she use it if she lives in a shop? It is not her style to have a golden finger and then suffer without doing anything.
If she came up and said directly that she would live in one room, no one would agree.
At this time, she struggled for a while, and then said that she would move in. Everyone burned incense to thank her for her kindness and praised her for having a kind heart.
She said sympathetically, "Everyone, please help clean up that storage room. I'll pay for the kang, and I'll find a way to get the firewood for the kang in winter. It would be embarrassing if I disturbed everyone's rest."
Li Mao thought that since she was willing to take so many medicines, she probably didn't need the money. It would be good if she was willing to move out to avoid causing trouble for everyone.
Before they came, Comrade Zhao Jinhua was considered a beauty in the village. But after just a few days, she looked as if she had smoked a lot of opium. Her face was pale, her eyes were dark, and her cheeks were sunken.
After all, we had been together for a long time and had always eaten from the same pot, so in my heart I was somewhat sympathetic to the old educated youth.
Li Mao said, "Okay, I'll have everyone help you tidy up that room. It's hot right now, so the kang will dry quickly."
When Li Mao went to work, he talked about this matter with the team leader, who agreed without much thought.
Anyway, the room is empty anyway, and it is a good thing that the educated youth are willing to pay for building a kang. The educated youth will have to go back to the city eventually, and it is impossible for them to dismantle the kang and take it away. Otherwise, it will become the property of the team.
The captain promised to find people, work and materials for her.
As for the money, she must pay for it herself.
The things in the utility room were quickly cleared out. Zhao Jinhua and the others probably feared that she would go back on her word if she saw that the conditions were not good, so they worked overtime and cleaned the room thoroughly.