sinovels Chapter 1655 The crowd was in high spirits and wanted to fight again.
Chapter 1655 The crowd was in high spirits and wanted to fight again.
Chapter 1655 The crowd was in high spirits and wanted to fight again.
In Northeastern Mandarin, there's a word called "circle kick".
The meaning of this word is easy to understand, but there is a limit to the number of people; it can only be accomplished by a group of eight or more.
At this moment, Xie Sunshi and Li Tongyun kicked Pang Gaoming repeatedly, and their kicks even resembled a circular kicking motion.
Seeing Pang Gaoming lying there motionless terrified Xing San.
Old Mountain Dog was all alone, but Xie Sunshi and Li Tongyun were not. Especially Li Tongyun, whose daughter hadn't even left home yet, and Xing San was afraid she would get into more trouble because of this.
So, Xing San began his clumsy attempt to break up the fight.
He reached out to Xie Sunshi, wanting to grab her, but then felt it wasn't right. He thought about grabbing Li Tongyun's arm, but then felt that would be even worse.
In desperation, Xing San grabbed Jie Sun's wide sleeve, but he couldn't hold on to it at all. Furthermore, Jie Sun's movements were so large that Xing San's fingernails were pulled painfully.
Having no other choice, Xing San shouted twice, but Xie Sunshi and Li Tongyun kicked and cursed at the same time, their voices completely drowning out Xing San's.
Just then, people came out from the family whose tent they had pushed down.
Inside the house, Wang Dalong saw that half of his tent was missing and that someone was doing something in his yard. He angrily pushed open the door and roared, "What are you doing?"
Just as they were getting into the swing of things, Xie Sunshi looked up and shouted, "Get lost!"
Having suffered at the hands of Xie Sunshi before, and seeing Xing San standing outside, Wang Dalong turned around and rushed into the house without saying a word.
"What's wrong?" At Wang Dalong's house, Wei Xiaojuan, heavily pregnant, held her belly with one hand and the door frame with the other, and asked, "Who is it? Are they having a fight in our house?"
"Honey, don't worry about it." Wang Dalong helped Wei Xiaojuan up and comforted her softly, "I'll take care of it later."
The fighting outside had subsided. Taking advantage of Xie Sunshi stopping to scold Wang Dalong, Xing San quickly stepped forward to stop Li Tongyun.
"Damn it!" Li Tongyun, who had been blocked by Xing San, kicked Pang Gaoming's leg again.
At this moment, Pang Gaoming was covered in blood and lay motionless on the ground, presumably unconscious.
Seeing the Pang family father and son lying on the ground, Xing San, who had lived for seventy years, was worried for the first time because of a fight.
"Big sister, Xiaoyun, what are you two doing?" Xing San, who would stab someone with a knife if he got angry, was now scolding Xie Sunshi and Li Tongyun, saying, "Why did you beat someone like this?"
"Old Xing, what are you saying?" Xie Sunshi glared at Xing San and said, "I thought he would push you so hard you would stumble, otherwise would I have done something to him?"
As soon as Xie Sun finished speaking, Li Tongyun retorted to Xing San with a straight face, "If he pushes you over and kicks my Aunt Sun, what am I supposed to do?"
Xing San: "..."
Although he was speechless after being questioned by the two, Xing San was deeply moved.
Because of his gratitude, Xing San didn't want Xie Sunshi and Li Tongyun to get involved.
"Sister, didn't you say you were going to arrange Xiaochen's wedding today?" Xing San said to Xie Sunshi, "You should leave now, you don't need to worry about this place."
“This…” Xie Sunshi glanced at the net bag containing glass shards and yellow peach petals, then shuffled over and picked up two yellow oil paper packets, saying, “This should still work.”
"What are you going to use it for?" Xing San said hurriedly when he saw this. "You just threw away that dry food, and it's all crumbs now. If you take it to them, do you think they'll do anything for you?"
As he spoke, Xing San took money out of his pocket and said, "I'll give you the money, you can buy another one."
"No, no!" Xie Sunshi quickly waved her hand and said, "How could I take your money? Besides, I have money in my pocket."
After saying this, Xie Sun handed the yellow oil paper package to Xing San and said, "Brother Xing San, if you don't mind, you can take this back. If you get hungry anytime, you can have a bite."
“Alright then.” Xing San wasn’t one to be coy. He reached out and took the dry rations, urging Xie Sunshi, “Go quickly and buy another portion to send to someone.”
"Well, I'm off then," Xie Sunshi said, glancing at Li Tongyun.
At this moment, Xing San also looked at Li Tongyun and asked, "Girl, why did you come out by yourself?"
"I..." Li Tongyun was stunned upon hearing this. She blinked her big eyes, turned her head and shouted to the surroundings, "Get out here!"
Wang Yongchang, who had been following the Pang family father and son all the way here and had been hiding in the shadows, was so frightened by Li Tongyun's shout that he trembled.
As he was debating whether to obey and show himself, he saw Li Ruhai emerge from behind the tree opposite him.
"What are you doing?" Li Tongyun was furious at Li Ruhai's timid and hesitant appearance. She immediately rushed up and yelled, "Are you afraid of getting your blood splattered all over you?"
"I..." Li Ruhai was about to say something when Xing San waved to him and said, "Ruhai, hurry up and take your young lady home."
"Third Uncle, what should we do?" Li Tongyun said, pointing to Pang Gaoming lying on the ground.
"That's none of your business," Xing San said, waving his hand. "You guys get out of here."
“Let’s go, Miss.” At this moment, Li Ruhai stepped forward and pulled Li Tongyun’s arm, saying, “Leave the cleanup to our Third Master.”
"You..." Li Tongyun was about to say something when Xing San urged, "Go! Go! All of you, go!"
Xing San was quite prestigious among this group of swordsmen and gunners. After he said that, Xie Sunshi and Li Tongyun left, looking back every few steps.
At this moment, Wang Dalong slipped out of the house again. But this time he didn't make a fuss. He ran up to Xing San, bowed and scraped, and greeted him, saying, "Uncle Xing."
Xing San didn't recognize the young man and only glanced at him with a frown. Wang Dalong was quite good at reading people's expressions, so he quickly took out a cigarette from his pocket and stepped forward, saying, "My name is Wang Meilan, no, my name is Wang Dalong. Wang Meilan is my fifth aunt."
In his panic, Wang Dalong said something wrong, but thankfully he quickly corrected himself.
Hearing this, Xing San's expression softened instantly, and he pushed away the cigarette that Wang Dalong offered him.
"I'm not smoking anymore, I need to leave first." As soon as Xing San said this, Wang Dalong's expression changed drastically. He glanced at Pang Zhendong lying on the ground, his head covered in blood, and hurriedly said to Xing San, "Grandpa, if you leave, what... what am I going to do?"
"You don't need to worry about it!" Xing San said, pointing to the two people lying on the ground, "I'm the one who beat them up, it has nothing to do with anyone else. I'll go back and get my knife, and I'll be right back."
Xing San wouldn't let Xie Sunshi and Li Tongyun get involved, but he wasn't going to let them off the hook. Since his wife and children left, Xing San hadn't been bullied at all, and today he'd been pushed twice and stumbled; he certainly couldn't let this go.
There was another reason for this: these two had come for the ginseng seedling, so Xing San was even less inclined to keep them.
Upon hearing Xing San's words, Wang Dalong broke out in a cold sweat.
"Grandpa! Grandpa!" Wang Dalong mustered his courage and stopped Xing San, saying, "This won't do, this is my house..."
"No, no." Out of respect for Wang Meilan, Xing San waved his hand at Wang Dalong and reassured him, saying, "Don't worry, I'll drag them over there and shove them."
As he spoke, Xing Sanyi pointed to the outhouse to the south.
Seeing this, Wang Dalong didn't know what to say. Just then, Xing San said, "Alright, man, I'm leaving. I'll be right back. Um... you go inside first. Wait until I drag them away before you come out. As for your curtains, you can put them back up yourself later."
"Hey! Hey!" Wang Dalong nodded repeatedly upon hearing this, "Grandpa, you don't need to worry about that."
Xing San glanced at Wang Dalong, then picked up the butter paper package and started walking home.
Wang Dalong stood at the courtyard gate, waved to Xing San, and called out, "Take care, sir!"
As soon as Wang Dalong finished speaking, he watched Xing San disappear around the corner. Wang Dalong's face darkened, and he let out a long sigh of relief.
Just as Wang Dalong turned around, Pang Gaoming, who was lying on the ground, suddenly sat up.
It suddenly appeared as if a zombie had risen from the dead, startling Wang Dalong once again.
"Oh my god!" Wang Dalong exclaimed. He saw Pang Gaoming quickly get up, grab his father from the side, hoist Pang Zhendong onto his back, and then run away.
When faced with dire circumstances, people often unleash their potential and unleash astonishing power.
Pang Gaoming woke up when Xing San chased away Sun Shi and Li Tongyun. But at that time, he was dizzy and had a splitting headache.
But as soon as Xing San said he was going to stab him with a knife, Pang Gaoming immediately perked up. After Xing San walked away, he got up, carried his father on his back, and ran.
"Hey? Hey!" Wang Dalong was frantic when Pang Gaoming ran away. Pang Gaoming was the person Xing Sanming wanted to stab. If he ran away, who would Xing San stab next?
Upon realizing this, Wang Dalong's expression changed, and he turned and ran back.
"Wife!" Wang Dalong called to Wei Xiaojuan as he entered the house, saying, "Quickly pack a couple of clothes, I'll take you back to your mother's house!"
"Huh?" Wei Xiaojuan asked Wang Dalong, completely bewildered, "What's wrong? What happened? Why didn't you help the tent up?"
"I think you're a liar!" Wang Dalong angrily climbed onto the kang (a heated brick bed), opened the cabinet, grabbed two pieces of Wei Xiaojuan's clothing, stuffed them into a triangular pocket, then took the family's money, and immediately got off the kang, helped Wei Xiaojuan, and ran away.
While Wang Dalong accompanied his wife back to her parents' home, Xing San was also preparing to flee. Lao Shan Gouzi packed two large bags of things, glanced longingly at his washing machine, then picked up his bundle, grabbed his knife, and headed towards Wang Dalong's house.
When Xing San arrived at Wang Dalong's house, there was no one left inside or outside the yard.
Just as Xing San was wondering what was going on, a jeep sped by.
The moment the jeep stopped in front of Xing San, all four doors were pushed open.
As soon as Zhao Youcai stepped out of the car, he asked Xing San, "Brother, are you alright?"
Before Xing San could speak, Wang Meilan, who had just gotten out of the car, shouted, "Brother, who stopped you? That person... um?"
Wang Meilan realized something was wrong halfway through her sentence and looked at Xing San, who was holding a load in one hand and a knife in the other, and asked, "Brother, what are you doing?"
"I..." Xing San paused for a moment, then said, "I was thinking of going up the mountain..."
"What mountain are we going to?" Wang Meilan glared at her and said, "What are we going to do up the mountain? Are we afraid of him?"
Xing San didn't mention his plan to stab someone and run away. He was already reluctant to give up his current comfortable life, and seeing Wang Meilan and the others made him even more reluctant. He figured since the father and son had already escaped, he'd let them go.
"Brother!" At this moment, Zhao Youcai walked up to Xing San and asked, "Who is it? What's going on?"
"Blind Pang," Xing San said, referring to Pang Zhendong's nickname, but didn't explain why the father and son had come.
"Blind Pang?" Zhao Youcai frowned upon hearing this, then asked Xing San, "Brother, did you have a relationship with him?"
Xing San shook his head, staring intently at Zhao Youcai.
Because Jin Xiaomei and Li Baoyu were nearby, Xing San couldn't bring up the ginseng. If he were to give them a meaningful look, Jin Xiaomei and Li Baoyu would immediately know that something was amiss.
Xing San knew that Zhao Youcai was quick-witted, and that if he looked at him like that, Zhao Youcai would definitely know that there was more to the story.
Sure enough, Zhao Youcai immediately stopped asking questions and simply waved his hand, saying, "Brother, it's alright. Whether someone has done something wrong or not, it's all the same. If they mess with us, we'll take care of them."
"Alright, buddy," Wang Meilan said, "Get in the car, we'll take your things back. Listen to me, we're not going anywhere, let's see who can do anything to us?"
"Exactly!" Li Baoyu finally found a chance to speak. He rolled up his sleeves and shouted, "If he dares to come again, I'll crush his balls!"
"What are you saying?" Jin Xiaomei slapped Li Baoyu after hearing her eldest son's vulgar words, then turned to Xing San and said, "Brother, get in the car quickly."
As she spoke, Jin Xiaomei patted Li Baoyu again and said, "Quickly, carry your Third Uncle's things up the cart."
Li Baoyu hurriedly stepped forward, took the load off Xing San's shoulder pole, and stuffed the two large bags of clothes into the cart.
When he turned around, he saw Zhao Youcai, Wang Meilan, and Jin Xiaomei helping to lift up Wang Dalong's tent.
"Is no one home, brother?" Wang Meilan asked. Xing San replied, "Yes, there is. There was someone just now."
"Don't worry about it, Auntie, let's go." Li Baoyu told the group to get in the car, and then drove towards Xing San's house.
Xing San's house was very close to the Zhao family compound. When they passed by the Zhao family compound, Li Baoyu said, "Shouldn't you have informed my brother about this?"
"Forget it," Xing San said hastily. "He went back to his wife's parents' home today. Let's talk to him first."
They arrived at Xing San's courtyard, where Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei helped him put his things down. They then stopped him from washing clothes, closed the courtyard gate, and pulled him towards the Zhao family's house.
When they returned to the Zhao family's old house, they saw Li Ruhai gesturing wildly and talking to Zhang Yuanmin.
Today, Zhang Yuanmin was wearing a woolen coat and leading a large goat.
Seeing the jeep stop, Zhang Yuanmin hurried over. As soon as Xing San peeked out from the passenger seat, Zhang Yuanmin shouted, "Who is it? Trying to give my third uncle a tumble?"
Xing San: "..."
Hearing Zhang Yuanmin's words, Xing San felt strange, as if he were a vulnerable person being bullied.
At this moment, Zhang Yuanmin led the sheep to Xing San and said, "Third Uncle, Ru Hai was just saying half a sentence to me. Who is he? Let's go get him!"
"Alright, Yuanmin." For the first time in his life, Xing San decided to let things go and advised Zhang Yuanmin, "That's enough. If he doesn't cause me any more trouble, then let it be."
“No way!” Zhang Yuanmin said firmly, “Tell me who it is. This can’t be done like that.”
“Yuanmin, what should we do? It’s up to Zhao to decide. Let’s wait until he and his wife come back from their homecoming.”
"Alright then." Hearing Xing San say that, Zhang Yuanmin stopped insisting. Immediately afterwards, Zhang Yuanmin handed the sheep rope to Zhao Youcai and said, "Uncle, you can eat this sheep."
"Huh?" Zhao Youcai was taken aback and looked at Zhang Yuanmin, asking, "Where did you get this sheep?"
“Yuanmin bought it,” Wang Meilan chimed in, then stepped forward to Zhang Yuanmin and said, “Yuanmin, our family isn’t short of money, why did you spend money on this?”
"Am I not going to treat you today?" Zhang Yuanmin laughed. "You're not coming anyway, so I'll just buy you a sheep."
Zhang Yuanmin has made a fortune since returning from Hebei.
Zhang Yuanmin, now rich, was burning with anxiety. But no matter how much money he had, he couldn't show it off to these families, which made him even more distressed.
Until one day, Zhang Yuanmin saw a sentence in a book that Li Tongyun had lent him: "To not return home in wealth and honor is like wearing brocade at night."
If you asked Zhang Yuanmin to translate this sentence word for word, he definitely couldn't do it. But after reading the general meaning, he felt that the sentence perfectly reflected his current state of mind.
To confirm his feeling, Zhang Yuanmin asked Li Baoyu for the meaning of the phrase. Li Baoyu, that rascal, explained it to Zhang Yuanmin as: "If you have money but don't flaunt it, all that money is useless."
Those vulgar words struck Zhang Yuanmin like a bolt of lightning, sending shivers down his spine.
Therefore, after bringing back the television, washing machine, refrigerator, and tape recorder yesterday afternoon, Zhang Yuanmin asked Li Baoyu to take him and Yang Yufeng to Yongfu, saying that he was hosting relatives and friends at home today and inviting Yang Yufeng's family members to the banquet.
Zhang Yuanmin couldn't show off to these families he was with every day, but he couldn't let them miss out on meals.
However, Wang Meilan politely declined the invitations from Zhang Yuanmin and Yang Yufeng. Her reason for refusing was simply that Zhang Yuanmin's house was too small to accommodate everyone.
The Zhang family's house consisted of only one east room and one outer room; it wasn't even large enough to be considered two rooms.
Although there was a separate courtyard, it used to be inhabited by two errand boys, and they were penniless errand boys at that. So the house that Yang Yufeng bought later was in a rather shabby state.
Zhang Yuanmin and Yang Yufeng plan to wait until spring returns to properly renovate the house, so they cannot start construction now.
If these families went, Old Yang would have nowhere to stay. So Wang Meilan said, "They're all family; the sentiment is enough." She decided to have Wang Qiang and Li Baoyu represent them tomorrow to support Zhang Yuanmin, and the others wouldn't go.
Zhang Yuanmin and Yang Yufeng both knew that Wang Meilan meant well. After discussing it at home, the couple decided to buy two sheep today, one for their own guests and the other to be delivered to the Zhao family for everyone to eat.
Hearing Zhang Yuanmin's words, Wang Meilan knew that this was a token of his goodwill. Without saying a word, she simply patted the sheep's hindquarters and said to Zhao Youcai, "Okay, Yuanmin bought it. Then we'll have hot pot tonight."
The sheep couldn't understand Wang Meilan's words, but the moment it saw Wang Meilan, it trembled all over and had the urge to kneel down on its front legs.
It's like even the fiercest dog will tuck its tail between its legs when it sees a dog-collecting truck or people killing dogs.
Seeing that Wang Meilan had accepted the sheep, Zhang Yuanmin happily bid farewell to everyone and left.
Zhao Youcai led the sheep to the backyard. When the others entered the house, Li Tongyun was in the east room telling Zhao Chun about how she had beaten up Pang Gaoming.
Hearing the door open, Zhao Chun carried Zhou Dao out and asked Xing San, "Third Uncle, I heard from Ru Hai that Pang Gaoming gave you a tumble?"
Xing San: "..."
Xing San suddenly felt his impressive image was about to crumble. Just then, he heard Zhao Chun yell, "Wait until my Jianjun comes back, then I'll have him go find them! Where the hell is everyone?"
When Zhao Chun said "nobody," he didn't mean that there was nobody in the Zhao family's area. It was just local slang, meaning that the Pang family seemed to have nobody.
The Zhou and Pang families lived in the same village, Yongsheng Village. They would greet each other when they met, but that was about it.
When Zhao Chun told Zhou Jianjun to go to Lao Pang's house, his words were full of confidence. Zhou Jianjun never fought with anyone, but that was because no one dared to fight with him.
After all, his status is what it is. Zhou Jianjun is equivalent to Zhao Ruilong of Yong'an. Unless he doesn't want to stay in this forest area anymore, no one will mess with him.
Seeing everyone standing up for him, Xing San was deeply moved. At this moment, Wang Meilan said to Zhao Chun, "Let your father and your uncle go with Jianjun."
Clearly, Wang Meilan wasn't going to let it go so easily.
"We don't need them." Zhao Chun stopped him, saying, "Xiao Yun and my Aunt Sun have already been taken down by those two."
"Huh?" Wang Meilan was taken aback. When Li Ruhai and Li Tongyun got home, they said that Xing San had been ambushed. Wang Meilan and Zhao Youcai rushed over in a hurry and didn't know about the tragic fate of the Pang family father and son.
"Was it damaged?" Zhao Youcai asked at this moment, "I think there's blood on the ground."
"Really?" Wang Meilan asked in surprise, "How come I didn't see it?"
“The ground is so muddy that you can’t see it unless you look closely,” Zhao Youcai said. At this time in Northeast China, the snow melts into water, freezes at night, and melts again during the day, repeating this cycle for several days.
Therefore, in rural Northeast China, as soon as it snows, every household clears the snow in time to avoid muddy doorways in the spring.
But Wang Dalong and his wife didn't stay home for many days before the New Year because of a fight. During those days, their neighbors helped them clean up the snow on the road in front of their house.
Since it wasn't their own home, they couldn't clean it up so meticulously. So the neighbors pushed some of the snow to the base of Wang Dalong's tent, and the snow gradually melted as spring arrived.
Even today, there's still some mud in front of Wang Dalong's house. With mud on the ground, the blood won't be visible.
"Xiaoyun!" Upon hearing their words, Jin Xiaomei hurried over to ask Li Tongyun, "Did you get hurt?"
"Auntie, I didn't hit her!" Li Tongyun, who had just been bragging to Zhao Chun, quickly waved her hand and said, "It was Aunt Sun who hit her!"
As she spoke, Li Tongyun gestured and said, "She stuffed that person with both the canned food jar and the wine bottle!"
Li Tongyun tried to pin the blame on Xie Sunshi, but when Xie Sunshi arrived, she said that Li Tongyun, who had displayed such great power that day, was just an assistant.
The two shifted blame to each other, not because they were afraid of taking responsibility, but because they were afraid of being accused of leading their children astray.
Seeing Xie Sunshi and Li Tongyun blaming each other, Xing San laughed. The injuries to the Pang family father and son had nothing to do with him; in fact, he was the victim.
Resolving the dispute between Sun and Li Tongyun didn't disrupt the family's mealtime. While everyone was taking their afternoon nap, and the men were resting, Wang Meilan ended the sheep's life with a single blow.
When Zhao Youcai, Li Baoyu, and the others woke up from their afternoon nap, the sheep had already been butchered. Since the meat wouldn't freeze, they couldn't use a slicer to roll the mutton; they had to cut it by hand.
Looking at the wide-eyed sheep's head, Jin Xiaomei said to Wang Meilan, "Sister-in-law, let's not wait for Jin Hui and his father anymore. Cow heads and wild boar heads can't be stored anymore. I've seen them before, and they're already smelling bad."
Hearing Jin Xiaomei's words, Wang Meilan smacked her lips and said, "Then let's pack up and go up the mountain tomorrow morning."
"Auntie!" As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, Li Baoyu asked, "Should we also notify those people in Xishantun?"
"Okay." Wang Meilan looked at Li Baoyu and said, "Baoyu, go to Xishantun and tell Zhang Xinglong."
"Okay." Li Baoyu agreed and walked out, just in time to run into Xie Chen, who was returning from the outhouse.
"Brother Li, where are you going?" Xie Chen asked. Li Baoyu replied, "I'm going to Xishantun to deliver an imperial edict."
“Then I’ll go with you!” Xie Chen said, and got into the jeep with Li Baoyu. At this moment, Li Ruhai ran out of the house, wanting to go too.
Li Baoyu had just started the jeep when he stopped again because he saw Zhao Jun and Ma Ling.
When a young couple returns to the bride's parents' home, they must leave before sunset and absolutely cannot stay overnight at the bride's parents' house. Even if they are from out of town, they cannot stay at the bride's parents' house, even if they stay with a neighbor.
According to custom, after Zhao Jun and Ma Ling came out, they went straight to their husbands' home. Seeing Zhao Jun and Ma Ling, everyone happily welcomed them into the house, and Li Baoyu and the other two were not in a hurry to leave.
After entering the house, the families all surrounded Ma Ling. Wang Meilan doted on her daughter-in-law and wouldn't let Ma Ling do any work.
Because they didn't want Ma Ling to hear, no one mentioned the conflict that started today.
And so it went until dinner. Everyone had returned from work, and once everyone was present, with men and women seated at separate tables in the east and west rooms, Zhao Youcai finally brought up the incident of the Pang family father and son intercepting Xing San earlier that day.
There were several elders at the table during the meal, so Zhao Jun couldn't make a lot of noise, but his expression was quite unpleasant.
The Pang father and son also looked unwell. Pang Zhendong and Pang Gaoming were injured, while Pang Gaosheng was angry.
"This is outrageous!" Pang Gaosheng roared. "They cracked my dad's skull open! This can't be allowed to continue like this! I'm going to gather some men and confront them tomorrow!"
(End of this chapter)