When Zhang Zhanshan's family of three went home to get money to redeem someone, Zhao Jun had already fallen asleep.
It was almost seven o'clock before Zhao Youcai came to his room and woke up Zhao Jun.
Zhao Jun got up, washed his face, and went into the east room to eat. They ate the same food as the villagers who helped. The staple food was the steamed cake that Li Dayong handed over from the wall.
Wang Meilan was not at home at this time, so she and Jin Xiaomei went to the construction site with their meals. They had to wait for the villagers to finish their meal, put away the dishes and bring them back to wash, and then prepare to make lunch.
After making lunch, they had to deliver it to the construction site. After everyone finished eating, they still collected the dishes and came back.
It can be said that at the end of the day, Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei had little chance to rest, and even had to take time to eat.
There is nothing we can do about it. The four villages in Yongzipian are all like this. Although they exist in the form of villages, they are not rural areas. They are forest farm family areas. Usually men go to the forest farm to work, and everything at home and outside the home is done.
Pressed on the woman.
Provide care for the elderly, take care of children, do laundry, cook, farm, feed livestock...
It is true that women can hold up half of the sky, and most of it.
This is also the reason why women have a relatively high status in this village.
Not only because they contribute a lot, but the key is not to mess with them.
If someone is in a hurry, they will leave the child and go back to their natal family; if their natal parents are gone, they will go to the natal brother's house; if there is no one left in the natal family, then they will go to the house of the women's director.
As soon as the woman left, the house immediately became chaotic, with no one to take care of the children and no one to feed the animals, forcing the men to pick them up.
But it’s not something you can pick up with just a smile.
Instead of being petty, why not coax her at home?
Just because Wang Meilan is not at home, Zhao Jun and Zhao Youcai have to take care of the two little girls to eat.
At this time, Zhao Jun saw a stack of unity cards lying next to him, about fifty of them. He raised his head and looked out the window, and found that Zhang Laibao, who was tied up in the corner, had disappeared, so he asked Zhao Youcai: "Dad, what is this?"
Is it Zhang Zhanshan who compensated my Uncle Li?"
"Well, your Uncle Zhao just left, and he brought it to you." Zhao Youcai nodded and said, "After dinner, you picked up the bowl. I have to leave first. There is something going on today. You can give this money to your Uncle Li."
Past."
"Okay! I just happened to take a look at Baoyu." Zhao Jun agreed, reached out and grabbed a piece of cake, and was about to put it into his mouth, but stopped and asked Zhao Youcai: "Dad, are you really going to let them go like this?"
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Zhao Youcai took a sip of the radish soup, put half of the radish sticks into his mouth, chewed it, and then said, "How can I fix it if I don't put it in?"
"Didn't you say that you would pick up Zhang Laibao and carry him around the streets?" Zhao Jun asked with a smile, "You also said that you would carry him around."
"Who will carry it? You carry it? Or should I carry it?" Zhao Youcai chewed the steamed buns and said vaguely: "It's the fault of that bastard family to kill someone with a nod, but we men have to do it right.
What do these people in the village say? What do the workers in the factory discuss?
There are some people who don’t feel pain in their backs when they stand and talk, and they don’t care who is right or wrong. When they see Zhang Laibao miserable, they say it’s our fault and that we bully others. There are too many of these people! You and I
, your reputation is just like this, but you and Baoyu, Ruhai, you are still young."
As soon as Zhao Youcai finished speaking, Wang Meilan came back with a large basin and a large bucket, and the basins and buckets were filled with used dishes and chopsticks.
Wang Meilan put down her things and came to the back room. She asked with a curious smile: "I just listened to you two chatting outside the door. What did you two say?"
Zhao Jun raised his head, smiled at Wang Meilan, and then said jokingly: "Why is my dad's reputation so bad?"
Upon hearing this, Wang Meilan immediately turned sideways and sat on the edge of the kang, ready to complain.
But Zhao Youcai didn't give her this chance at all. He put the steamed cake he was holding in his chopsticks into the bowl and said to Zhao Jun: "Ever since I was sensible, your uncle has been in poor health. Others bullied him and he still had to treat me as his younger brother.
I wanted to stand up for him. Later, in the first ten or twenty years, the world was not peaceful, and your mother..."
When Zhao Youcai said this, he glanced at Wang Meilan, and then spoke faster and said: "It's still a mess. How about if I don't become more powerful?"
The complaint failed, but Zhao Youcai insisted on it, but Wang Meilan just smiled and said nothing.
In those years, Zhao Youcai not only protected the family, but also helped her mother-in-law's family on several occasions. Wang Meilan kept these things in mind.
After the family finished eating, Zhao Youcai got dressed and went to catch the commuter train, while Zhao Jun picked up the five hundred yuan and went out to climb over the wall to Li Baoyu's house.
At this time, Li Dayong had also left. They arranged to have a meeting today, otherwise Zhao Jun would not have been allowed to accompany Li Baoyu to watch the night at Baomi Field last night.
When Zhao Jun entered the house, he handed all the money to Jin Xiaomei. Jin Xiaomei didn't count it and put it directly into her pocket.
Then, Zhao Jun went to the back room to see Li Baoyu.
"How's it going, Baoyu?"
"It's okay." Li Baoyu said with a smile: "It's just a little swollen and a little painful. It will be fine in a few days."
Zhao Jun took the cattail leaf fan next to him, fanned Li Baoyu, and said: "It's a hot day, I'm going to suffer a little."
"What a sin this is." Jin Xiaomei said from the side: "If it weren't for you yesterday, Baoyu would have been doomed."
"Hey, aunt, let's not talk about that." Zhao Jun put down the cattail leaf fan and smiled at Jin Xiaomei: "Aren't Baoyu and I brothers?"
Saying that, Zhao Jun looked around and asked Jin Xiaomei: "Aunt, where is Ruhai?"
"Who knows where he went?" Jin Xiaomei said angrily: "This kid, your mother and I went to deliver food this morning. When we got there, no one was there, and he hasn't come back yet."
Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu looked at each other and smiled. Just when they were about to say something, they heard the dogs in the yard outside the house barking.
"Is there someone here?" Zhao Jun stretched his neck and looked out the window.
Jin Xiaomei walked out of the house quickly, scolded the dog twice, talked to someone while the dog barked, and walked into the house.
Zhao Jun saw the person coming clearly through the window, turned around and smiled at Li Baoyu: "Baoyu, guess who came to see you?"
"Ah? Who is it?" Li Baoyu was a little curious when he heard this. Lin Xiangshun came to see him in the morning and told Li Baoyu that he would ask for leave from the venue for him, so that Li Baoyu could rest in peace.
Besides Lin Xiangshun and his relatives, Li Baoyu couldn't think of anyone else who could come to see him.
Suddenly, Li Baoyu thought of someone, his eyes lit up immediately, and he asked Zhao Jun, "Is Liu Mei here? I..."
Li Baoyu said that he was about to get off the kang, but Zhao Jun held him down and said: "No."
"Ah..."
Before Li Baoyu had time to be disappointed, he saw Zhang Yuanmin coming in carrying a net bag with four cans in it.
"Baoyu, I'm here to see you!" Zhang Yuanmin came in, first said something to Li Baoyu, then looked at Zhao Jun and said, "Brother is here too."
"Yeah." Zhao Jun responded and moved his butt inside, "Brother, you get on the kang."
Zhang Yuanmin was not polite, put the can in front of Li Baoyu, went straight to the kang and sat cross-legged, looked at Li Baoyu and asked: "Brother, how are you doing?"
"It's okay, just take care of it for a while and you'll be fine." Li Baoyu responded with a smile: "I'll let my eldest brother take a trip."
Immediately afterwards, Li Baoyu added another sentence, saying: "Brother, you can come as soon as you say you want to come. Why are you doing shopping?"
"I'm afraid you'll get angry." Zhang Yuanmin said with a smile: "I'll buy you two bottles of canned food to drink lightly. I'll ask my aunt to put them in the cellar for you later. Take them out before eating to cool down."
"Then thank you, brother!" Li Baoyu thanked Zhang Yuanmin from the bottom of his heart. He was still young and had not had many human connections in the village. There were not many people who came to see him.
"Brother, why are we so polite?" Zhang Yuanmin waved his hand, but then he remembered something and asked Li Baoyu, "What's going on? I heard that it was the old Zhang family that caused the trouble? That Zhang Laibao deserves a beating. One day
I touched him and beat him!"
"Ah!" Li Baoyu smiled when he heard this and said: "Brother, you are very well informed. You know it so quickly."
"Haha..." Zhang Yuanmin chuckled and said to Li Baoyu: "Then how can the eldest brother be so well-informed? That's because your family is as quick as the sea."
Speaking of this, Zhang Yuanmin said to Zhao Jun beside him: "Early in the morning, my old aunt and my aunt Li went to deliver food, and Ruhai also followed. After that, we talked in plain language. I guess..." At this time, Zhang Yuanmin couldn't hold back his joy and said with a smile: "Now half of the village knows about it."
Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu didn't know what to say after hearing what he said.
Zhang Yuanmin asked again: "How was the matter resolved in the end?"
Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu looked at each other, and Zhao Jun gave Zhang Yuanmin a brief explanation.
After Zhang Yuanmin heard this, he glanced at Li Baoyu, then at Zhao Jun, and said: "Brother, my uncle handled this matter very well. But I guess Zhang Zhanshan can't stop it!"
"That's right!" Li Baoyu heard Zhang Yuanmin's words and said to Zhao Jun: "Brother, because of Liu Mei's matter, Zhang Laibao now wants to kill me. Because of those two little black brats, their family still hates Brother Zhang. As for your family,
Not to mention it. If this happens again, I'm afraid they will stab us in the back again!"
When Zhao Jun heard this, he also fell silent. Now the grievances between him and Zhang Zhanshan are getting more and more serious, but he cannot destroy them. In the current situation, it is best to cause some trouble for the old Zhang family and make them
I am so exhausted that I have no time to trouble myself.
Seeing that Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu were both speechless, Zhang Yuanmin raised the corner of his mouth slightly, reached out to grab the cattail leaf fan that Zhao Jun had placed on the kang, and lightly fanned it twice. He looked enigmatic and moved his eyes on their faces and said: "Two
Dear brother, I have a plan to ruin Zhang Zhanshan’s family’s reputation!”
As soon as Zhang Yuanmin finished speaking, he saw Jin Xiaomei coming in with a tea vat of brown sugar water. She was boiling water in the outer room. At this time, she placed the enamel tea vat in front of Zhang Yuanmin and said with a smile: "Yuanmin, drink some water." Zhang Yuanmin took the teapot with both hands. He didn't have time to explain his clever idea, so he only thanked Jin Xiaomei: "Thank you, Auntie."
"Drink!" Jin Xiaomei turned around and walked to the outhouse. Before stepping out of the door, she thought to herself: "You are still ruined. How can you speak idioms after studying for three days?"
But Jin Xiaomei slowed down at the door and pricked up her ears, wanting to hear what Zhang Yuanmin had to say!
