Now there was no need to keep an eye on him. Wang Yongshun was shocked beyond words. He couldn't understand why his son wanted to steal money. He even told his son all the secrets, but he never expected that his son would do this to him.
When Li Chunjuan heard that her son was injured in the hospital, she lost all energy to argue with Xu Shuang's cousin and immediately packed up to go to the county town.
Money is a small matter, but my son’s injury is a big deal!
It happened that the bus time had already passed. Li Chunjuan didn't know what was going on in her mind, so she went to find Xu Shuang: "I'm going to borrow Wang Ying's bicycle!"
Otherwise, if the two of us walk to the county town, it will be dark by the time we get there.
Xu Shuang's cousin looked incredulous, no, is this woman sick
"You just complained about my sister-in-law stealing your money, and now you want to borrow a bicycle. How dare you be so shameless!"
Not to mention that today is someone's wedding day, just based on the scolding attitude you had just now, where on earth did you get the illusion that you still have the face to borrow
Xu Shuang's three cousins were really enlightened. What kind of family are they
Li Chunjuan didn't think she was wrong, she stiffened her neck and cried: "My Yaozong is in trouble, why shouldn't she lend it to me!"
The three cousins looked at each other and felt that this was not the right way to do it.
Now that we've let the person out, this woman goes to the wedding banquet again to make trouble, wouldn't that ruin the fun
Wang Yongshun was packing up and preparing to go out, but was stopped in the house again.
The person who came to notify Wang Yongshun did not leave. He leaned on the door and looked around. He asked on behalf of Wang Yongshun, "Hey, what are you doing, young man? Yongshun's child is still in the hospital. Why don't you ask him to leave?"
The burly cousin said in a loud voice, "Why are you leaving? You can't leave unless you make things clear today. If you want to leave, we will have to escort you out."
Wang Yongshun just recovered from his shock and asked, "What do you mean?"
The cousin counted on his fingers and said, "You guys' wedding trouble today, this account must be settled first. And you framed my sister-in-law for stealing money, this can't be let go. If you want to leave, settle these two things for me."
Wang Yongshun said numbly: "What do you want to do? Beat me up?"
My cousin shook his head: "Beating you won't make me feel better. You, both of you should write a letter of apology!"
The three cousins grew up under the care of their mother. Grandma Su was in charge of everything at home and outside. She had always taught her children to be punished for the things they disliked the most. The three cousins were not good at studying, so Grandma Su loved to punish them by making them write letters of apology.
At this moment, the cousins found a solution: "We told you to write it, and when you're done, give us a fingerprint!"
Wang Yongshun: “I can’t write.”
Actually, he would write it, but Wang Yongshun didn't want to write it. What's the point of admitting fault in such a matter? Even if he wronged Wang Ying, he didn't cause her any loss, right? Besides, no matter how bad his son was, he was in the hospital now, which also worried Wang Yongshun. He was anxious to go to the hospital to see his son.
My cousin pretended to close the door: "Then don't go out."
The man at the door watched the excitement for free and couldn't help but interrupt: "Why frame Wang Ying for stealing money? What did Yongshun and his wife do?"
One of my cousins explained the whole story to others: "Their child stole 80 yuan by himself, but he put the blame on my brother and sister-in-law. Do you think it's excessive? He even made a scene at the door of the wedding to pick up the people..."
The person at the door: “Ah~”
Wang Yongshun didn't seem to be such a fool before, and Li Chunjuan was the only suspect. But now it seems that the couple are both equally confused. It's true that people who sleep in the same bed look different.
Wang Yongshun was adamant and refused to write, while Li Chunjuan started crying and wanted to bang her head against the wall and door.
"My son is in the hospital, and you still don't ask us to leave! You are so heartless, aren't you afraid that God will strike you to death?"
"Write it. If you write it, I'll let you out. Not only will I let you out, I'll also send you to the roadside."
As for going out to borrow Wang Ying's car, forget it. Just wait by the roadside as early as possible to see if there is a passing car you can get on.
Wang Yongshun's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, but he finally agreed to write it.
Cousin: "I told you to write that I, Wang Yongshun, and my wife Li Chunjuan falsely accused my niece of stealing money and deliberately causing trouble. This behavior is wrong and shameless. I am sorry to my niece and niece-in-law. I promise not to do it again in the future."
Wang Yongshun took the pen and wrote it down word by word.
My cousin got the apology letter and read it: "This part is not written clearly. Why is the word shameless not written there?"
Wang Yongshun: "Don't go too far!"
My cousin scratched his ear and said, "It won't work if you don't add this."
The three brothers had experience in being punished to write letters of apology. Old Mrs. Su was not so educated, so she always asked her three sons to write down the words she had used to scold them.
Today, I saw that they were in a hurry to leave, so I didn't ask him to write too long. How dare you cut corners
Wang Yongshun was so angry that his chest hurt, but he could do nothing but tear up the paper and write another one.
The three cousins were finally satisfied: "Okay, put your two fingers on it!"
Wang Yongshun pressed Li Chunjuan and pressed his finger print: "Is that all right?"
"Okay, let's go, I'll take you to the roadside.
Wang Yongshun knew that he couldn't borrow the bicycle, so Li Chunjuan had no choice but to accept it.
The three cousins walked the man to the roadside, holding a letter of apology in their pockets: "Come on, come on, if you hurry back now you can still have some leftovers."
It was not necessary to just eat the last bit. When the three of them arrived, the dishes had just been served.
Xu Shuang was not pretending to be so arrogant. Life was hard these days. In the past few years when the weather was bad, few people in the brigade held wedding banquets. They just got together for a meal, shared some candy with their fellow villagers, and then bowed to the Chairman's statue and that was it.
So Xu Shuang said that she was holding a wedding banquet this time and invited about forty or fifty people, but in fact there were only two large tables of people.
The dishes are also very good. Wild boar meat is stewed in a big pot with some dried beans, potatoes and vermicelli, and rabbit meat is fried into cubes. In addition, there are some fried potatoes and Chinese cabbage stewed with tofu.
There aren’t many dishes, but they’re all outstanding.
The steamed buns are made of two-grain flour, and there are not many of them. Finally, a plate of dumplings is served.
With just this one table, it is rare to see such luxury in the brigade.
The relatives who came to eat were all amazed: "Frost boy is really capable."
How else could they afford to set up two tables? It seems the Xu family is still wealthy.
The big slices of meat and the big chunks of meat make people salivate just by smelling them.
Old Mrs. Xu sat at the top, with her elder sister sitting next to her. Both old ladies were extremely happy.
Old Lady Xu called out to everyone, "Come eat, we are all very familiar with each other, don't ask me to persuade everyone one by one. Come here, Ying girl, I will take you to recognize the people."
Wang Ying and Xu Shuang also sat at the main table. Old Lady Xu introduced Wang Ying: "This is your aunt. I've met her before. She lives in the brigade next door. She has three boys, all older than Xu Shuang."
Old Lady Su waved her hand generously: "This girl is good to look at. She is good in every way. You are more likely to have a daughter-in-law than I am."
Several of Old Lady Su's daughters-in-law were also present, and they all had different expressions when they heard what was said.
Old Mrs. Xu then introduced: "This is the youngest daughter of his third aunt, named Sun Mei. She is about your age, but younger than Xu Shuang. You can just call her cousin."
Wang Ying didn't ask why a cousin came to her third aunt's house, and greeted her generously, "Hello, cousin."
Sun Mei didn't look happy, and rolled her eyes when Old Lady Xu wasn't looking: "Hello, sister-in-law."
Xu Shuang was sitting next to Wang Ying and serving her food, so she didn't see Sun Mei's rolling eyes.
"This is from my uncle's family, you can just call him cousin."
…
Old Mrs. Xu introduced everyone at the table. Actually, Wang Ying didn’t remember who was who, but she greeted each of them anyway.
When we went to another table, there were more familiar people. Tian Youfu was also there. He brought little Shitou with him today. As soon as little Shitou saw Wang Ying coming, he wanted to hug her.
An older woman immediately joked, "Hurry up and hug your baby Ying, maybe you'll have your own baby next year."
Wang Ying smiled awkwardly, but the more embarrassed she was, the more people teased her.
Xu Shuang came over to help her out and brought her back to the main table.
Not long after the dishes were served, the three cousins came back.
Xu Shuang introduced them to Wang Ying: "This is Big Brother Niu, Second Brother Niu, and Third Brother Niu."
Old Mrs. Su was uneducated, so the name she chose was so simple and plain, and it also expressed her most honest wish - she wanted to have a cow.
But it was useless to think like that, as private cattle breeding was not allowed now. Cattle were the valuable property of the brigade.
Wang Ying greeted her three cousins, but they were acting mysterious and pulled Xu Shuang aside to say something. After a while, Xu Shuang came back and looked normal.
Everyone was smiling from ear to ear during this meal. The wild boar meat had been stewed for a long time, so the skin was crispy and the meat was tender. Chen Dong was a good cook after all, and he was very good at removing the fishy smell. The whole pot of meat smelled delicious.
Each of us had a bowl of braised wild boar meat, some vegetables, and two steamed buns. By the time the dumplings were served, we were already a little full. We forced ourselves to share a few more dumplings, and when we left, we held our waists.
After finishing the meal, the rest of the afternoon was not relaxing at all.
The guests had to be sent away one by one. Xu Shuang packed some mountain products for her master and gave a red envelope to her senior brother Liu Duo. Liu Duo came here yesterday on a bicycle, and now he wanted to take his uncle with him.
Old Mrs. Xu chatted with people for half the afternoon, and it was not until the evening that she finished the busy work of welcoming and seeing off guests.
Wang Ying was already a little tired, so Xu Shuang took her hand and went home.
When she entered the door, she found that Wang Yongshun and his wife next door had not returned from the county town yet. The air around them was so quiet that Wang Ying felt unusually awkward.
Xu Shuang: "Let's go take a shower and go to bed?"
Wang Ying: “… Yeah.”
Xu Shuang was busy running around, boiling a large pot of hot water. It was a rare time for the two of them to be together, so they didn't speak to each other and washed up in silence.
It was not until the oil lamp was blown out and Wang Ying lay down on the inside of the bed that she felt Xu Shuang getting very close.
Xu Shuang: "Are you asleep?"
Wang Ying lied with her eyes open: "I slept."
Xu Shuang held Wang Ying's hand, and Wang Ying could feel the hot air coming out of her ears.
Xu Shuang's voice was steady, but Wang Ying didn't know why, but she felt like he was laughing.
"I don't believe it."
Wang Ying thought, it’s a good thing there is no electricity now. If the lights were on, she would have curled up in the quilt by now.
Xu Shuang did not give her a chance to hide in the quilt. Her big, bony hand moved up along her wrist, causing waves of trembling...
Wang Yongshun and his wife tried to stop a car on the roadside, but they couldn't get one after a long time, so they could only walk towards the county town in the cold wind.
It was almost dark when they reached the county town. The two men groped their way to the county hospital and found Wang Yaozong without much effort.
The moment she saw Wang Yaozong, Li Chunjuan burst into tears.
The noise was so loud that it scared the nurse in the next ward out.
Nurse: "What are you arguing about? Don't you know that loud noises are prohibited in hospitals?"
Everyone here is slightly injured, is it necessary for them to cry like this
Wang Yaozong was beaten in plain sight, with his nose and face swollen and his cheeks so swollen that his original appearance could hardly be seen. But to be fair, the injuries were not serious, and the scary skin injuries would only take ten days or half a month to recover.
But just this alone was enough to make Li Chunjuan so distressed that she threw herself at the sick man and began to howl: "Yaozong, what happened to you? Does it hurt? You've taken out my heart! Who the hell beat you like this?"
Wang Yongshun's original anger towards his son disappeared after he saw his injuries. He felt extremely distressed that his son had been beaten like this.
Wang Yaozong was only slightly injured, but after Li Chunjuan cried like that, he pretended to be pitiful: "Dad, Mom, I'm in so much pain. Why did you come just now?"
Li Chunjuan held her son's head and cried, "Mom is here, I will seek justice for you! That damn guy beat you up like this, I will never let him go!"
Wang Yongshun also sat silently beside the bed: "Your mother is right, we can't be bullied like this."
Wang Yaozong coughed twice and said angrily, "It's too late! That person ran away a long time ago!"
Li Chunjuan was stunned: "Didn't they say someone was taken to the Public Security Bureau?"
Wang Yaozong slapped the bed, his eyes turning black with anger: "Bullshit! That guy is just pretending!"
Wang Yaozong regretted it. He took the 80 yuan from his family to buy a watch. The school was in chaos now, and there were more than just students from his school among the students every day. Wang Yaozong met two people who were older than him among these social people.
These two people told him that they could get him second-hand watches. They were called second-hand watches, but in fact they were all new, and the source was definitely not legitimate.
But Wang Yaozong wanted a watch very much.
There are only one or two people in the school who have them. They look so cool when worn on their hands, and all the girls gather around them.
Wang Yaozong thought, his father told him to find a job, but the family didn't have enough money to buy one. So he might as well hook up with a girl from a well-off family at school. Anyway, at this age, the second-year students in school are also considering their careers. If he could find a girl from a working-class family in the town, wouldn't the money from both families be enough for him to buy a job in the city
So Wang Yaozong stole 80 yuan from his home, thinking that it was not much for him, so he bought a second-hand watch with 80 yuan to keep things going.
"It turned out that the two men didn't have a watch at all. They beat me up and took all my money!"
Wang Yaozong gritted his teeth and said, "When they beat me, someone saw it. They were afraid that he would call the militia to deal with it. So one of them pretended to be a hero, and the other one admitted it and said that he was the one who beat me."
Wang Yaozong was so angry that he couldn't speak. He was beaten so badly that he couldn't speak. He had to watch the person who beat him perform in front of him.
The following events were logical. He pretended to be a hero and asked a passerby to take him to the hospital, and asked someone to go to the brigade to find his parents. Then he pretended to send the man to the police station, but in fact he had already run away with the money!
Wang Yaozong was sent to the hospital because he was knocked unconscious on purpose. By the time he woke up and explained what had happened to him, it was already irreversible.
The hospital called the police for him, but there was no evidence for this and the man had already run away and no one knew where he was. In addition, the other party had staged that scene to buy the best time to escape, and now he had no idea where he was with the money.
Wang Yongshun's eyes widened: "You mean... they took all the 80 yuan?"
Wang Yaozong shrank his neck and said, "More than eighty, all the money and food coupons I have..."
Wang Yongshun could not sit still any longer, and he was about to slide down the hospital bed. He originally had only 180 yuan in his family savings, and now he only had 100 yuan left.
What can one hundred do
Even giving gifts to build relationships may not be enough!
Wang Yaozong swallowed his saliva and said, "Dad, I'm thinking of finding you a daughter-in-law who can help share the difficulties of our family."
Wang Yongshun: “Did you find it?”
Wang Yaozong: "... I didn't buy a watch, Dad. You said if I had a watch on my hand, I would definitely be able to find a... "
Wang Yaozong couldn't continue speaking because Wang Yongshun's eyes were filled with indifference.
Li Chunjuan also slapped her son twice: "Why are you so confused? That watch is so difficult to fix. You just believe whatever they say!"
Wang Yaozong was still unconvinced: "There is such a thing. I heard that someone in our school got his watch that way."
Wang Yongshun seemed to have aged a dozen years in an instant. "You only thought about your watch. I told you to go to the city to find a temporary job and then get a permanent job. Why didn't you follow my instructions? Now that you've taken the money, it will be even harder for you to go back on this path. It won't be easy to go to the city again."
Wang Yaozong was rebellious at that time, and he would kick his ass from time to time when he was flattered. He was unhappy when he heard what Wang Yongshun said: "According to what you said, I have to wait for many years. There are so few job openings now... Can't I find a wife to work with me? If that doesn't work, I can just find a job in town."
Wang Yongshun: "Girls in the town, you really dare to dream. There are hundreds of people in our brigade. Have you ever seen a girl from the town marrying someone from a lower class? Don't they know how to go to the city or look for a husband in the town?"
Wang Yaozong: "Then what do you say we should do? The money is gone, what can we do now?"
Wang Yongshun sat down on the ground. He didn't know what to do.
But Wang Yaozong kept saying, "Dad, please go and pay the bill for me. I don't have any money and I still owe the hospital money."
Wang Yongshun: …
What's the point of living! He might as well just die!
On the second day after their wedding, Wang Ying woke up much later than usual. When she woke up, she found herself still held in Xu Shuang's arms. Xu Shuang looked thin, but her arms were very strong, and the purple veins could be seen when she exerted force.
Wang Ying’s first reaction was that this blood vessel should be easy to puncture.
I couldn't help but touch it. Although my movements were very gentle, I heard a magnetic hum coming from behind.
His body moved instantly and Xu Shuang's arms tightened.
"woke up?"
Xu Shuang didn't stay in bed. She rubbed the crook of Wang Ying's neck and got up before the atmosphere became dangerous.
"Lie down for a while. I'll go boil some water."
Wang Ying was lying in bed in a daze, and through the window she saw Xu Shuang busy inside and outside.
After a while, Xu Shuang brought in hot water and asked her, "What do you want to eat in the morning?"
In fact, it is not morning yet. Wang Ying looked at the pocket watch hanging beside the bed and said, "Let's have breakfast and lunch together. Just make something."
There was no sound from next door, and the young couple felt very comfortable after getting up. Wang Ying secretly sprinkled some spiritual spring water in her own water tank. She had never given it to Xu Shuang to drink before because she was afraid that Xu Shuang would get suspicious. Now that they lived together, she added some to the water tank so that they could drink together.
At noon, the two had brunch.
Add red-skinned peanuts to the millet porridge, a plate of stir-fried cabbage, mixed flour steamed buns with dried radish and pickles, and a plate of potato slices fried with wild boar meat.
Wang Ying enjoyed the meal very much. The millet porridge was sticky, the peanuts were cooked softly, the spicy and sour cabbage was particularly appetizing, the pickled radish was chewy, and it was paired with the crispy fried potato and meat slices, which was very flavorful.
After the two finished their meal, they were not in a hurry to go out. Xu Shuang put her clothes together with Wang Ying's, and the two fed the pigs together.
Wang Ying was still thinking about the fish in the mountains: "Should we go there in the next two days?"
She was afraid that if she went too late, the fish pond would be frozen and difficult to catch.
Xu Shuang: "Let's go a few days later, when it's almost snowing."
We caught the fish during the snow and dug a snow cellar in the yard. We put the fish in the cellar and froze them so that we could eat them all winter.
Wang Ying wanted so badly to have endless fish to eat that she was literally counting the days on her fingers.
After just four or five days, the sky began to turn gloomy, the sun was blocked, and the air was filled with biting cold winds. Xu Shuang weighed it and thought it was almost time for a heavy snowfall. So the two of them went into the mountains to catch fish while their neighbors were not at home.