sbdcsierra Chapter 1951 Shen Qiushan's Blow Leads to Hemorrhage; Pretty Night Demon Stands Up with a Stick
Chapter 1951 Shen Qiushan's Blow Leads to Hemorrhage; Pretty Night Demon Stands Up with a Stick
Chapter 1951 Shen Qiushan's Blow Leads to Hemorrhage; Pretty Night Demon Stands Up with a Stick in Shanhe County
"Go tell Fifth Uncle that I'm carrying the King of Ginseng, Miao, and tell him to quickly find all those bosses. I'll cover their food and lodging!"
When Shen Qiushan said this, his eyes, which still showed slight double vision, were filled with longing for a better life!
"It's on your tab?" Wang Guixia's voice changed upon hearing Shen Qiushan's words. As a married couple, she had heard Shen Qiushan mention how much Wu Baoguo charged for each ginseng king's gathering.
Of course, during the normal ginseng king meeting, each leader would throw Wu Baoguo two or three hundred yuan before leaving, so Wu Baoguo would be able to break even.
But Shen Qiushan said he would pay for the food and lodging of those big bosses, which would cost several hundred yuan, which was like cutting off a piece of flesh and bleeding Wang Guixia.
"It's on me." Shen Qiushan lay on the pillow and said weakly, "I'm feeling unwell, so stop nagging. When the time comes, we'll sell it to that bastard in the cellar, and everything will come out."
Upon hearing Shen Qiushan say he felt unwell, Wang Guixia glanced at him guiltily before turning and walking outside.
Wang Guixia went to the forest farm after leaving home. She borrowed a phone through connections and called Wu Baoguo.
……
"Hello, this is Wang Meilan from Xishan." Wang Meilan answered the phone from the Zhao family in Yong'an Village and introduced herself. Then she heard the voice of Zhang Shaowen, the head of Yushu Township, on the other end of the line.
"Hello, Mayor Zhang. Ah, please speak, please speak." Wang Meilan held the microphone and listened to the work content that Zhang Shaowen conveyed to her.
On the wooden sofa to the side, Zhao Youcai, who was smoking, glanced at the back of Wang Meilan's head with his eyelids, his heart filled with dissatisfaction with Wang Meilan.
In the past few days, Wang Meilan has been strictly controlling Zhao Youcai. Without Wang Meilan's permission, Zhao Youcai is not allowed to leave Yong'an Village, nor can he go to Nan Dadi.
Suddenly, Wang Meilan hung up the phone, and Zhao Youcai quickly looked away.
“His father.” At this moment, Wang Meilan turned around and said to Zhao Youcai, “You ride your motorcycle and take me to Xishantun.”
"Where are you going?" Zhao Youcai asked. Wang Meilan replied, "The township asked me to focus on... family planning. I have to go to the village to convey their message."
"You look energetic!" Zhao Youcai said with a sneer, "All the men in that village have been sent up the mountain to work by you and your mother for months. What kind of fertility problem could you possibly have?"
Hearing Zhao Youcai's words, Wang Meilan was slightly taken aback, feeling that there was nothing wrong with what he said.
But at that moment, the image of her distant nephew from her maternal family appeared in Wang Meilan's mind.
Wang Meilan suddenly realized something and said to Zhao Youcai, "What you said reminded me. I have to go there and give them a heads-up so they don't make any big mistakes."
Zhao Youcai didn't understand what Wang Meilan said, but seeing that Wang Meilan was determined to leave, he got up and went to the outer room. Then he called out to the west corridor, "My dear girl, your mother and I are going out for a bit. Do you want to go to the west courtyard or to your Grandma Jiang's house?"
Ma Ling wasn't showing yet, but she was already the focus of the family's protection. Wang Meilan and Zhao Youcai wouldn't let her be home alone.
About five seconds after Zhao Youcai finished speaking, Ma Ling came out of the west wing and said to Zhao Youcai, "Dad, I want to go back to Mom's house for a visit."
Ma Ling called out "Dad," but the "Mom" she just mentioned wasn't Wang Meilan; she was going back to her parents' home.
“That works too.” Zhao Youcai agreed readily, saying, “Then Dad will take you.”
"No need, Dad," Ma Ling said with a smile. "I'm a grown woman, do I still need to be seen off?"
After Ma Ling finished speaking, Wang Meilan came out through the east corridor and said to her, "My dear girl, Mom has some work to take care of in Xishantun. When I'm done, I'll come back and pick you up."
When Zhao Youcai heard Wang Meilan say that she had work to take care of, he immediately grimaced.
Ma Ling responded and left the house with Wang Meilan and Zhao Youcai. The three reached the gate, and Zhao Youcai went to the adjacent storage room to get his motorcycle, while Wang Meilan and her mother-in-law went out of the yard first.
As soon as Wang Meilan came out, she saw a jeep slowly driving in from the west.
"Oh!" A surge of joy flashed through Wang Meilan's heart, but after seeing the license plate, her joy turned to disappointment. She said to Ma Ling, "Your Uncle Zhao is back."
"Hmm." Like Wang Meilan, Ma Ling knew that Zhao Jun couldn't possibly be back so early, but when she saw the jeep, she still hoped that the person inside was Zhao Jun.
The jeep stopped in front of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the driver's side window open. Zhao Weipeng asked Wang Meilan, "Sister-in-law, where are you going?"
“Brother, I’m going to Xishantun,” Wang Meilan said. “I have some work to take care of.”
As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, the person who got out of the passenger seat said to her, "Auntie, I'm going with you too."
The person speaking was Li Tongyun, who had been away from home for many days.
When Zhao Weipeng left home, Li Tongyun followed him down the mountain to Shanhe County to visit her old classmate and best friend, Chu Xiaoxue.
Yesterday, Zhao Weipeng went to Shanhe to drink and reminisce with Chu Anmin, showing him heroic photos of himself fighting a tiger. This morning, he returned from the county, bringing Li Tongyun with him.
"Xiaoyun." Seeing that it was Li Tongyun, Wang Meilan asked with a smile, "Are you doing well staying in the city? Your dad said he would come to pick you up, but you didn't come back."
“Hehe…” Li Tongyun chuckled, and just as she was about to say something, Zhao Weipeng remarked, “Hmm, she’d be perfectly fine staying in the city.”
Wang Meilan was an old yin-yang master. As soon as she heard Zhao Weipeng's words, she knew there was something hidden in them. Wang Meilan didn't interrupt, and Zhao Weipeng continued, "She and the old Chu family's daughter are killing everyone."
"Huh?" Wang Meilan and Ma Ling were both surprised. Li Tongyun hurriedly called out "Uncle Peng", but she couldn't stop Zhao Weipeng from saying, "They do things with customers, they do things with our supermarket employees, and then they even do things with the employees of the department store across the street."
Wang Meilan and Ma Ling looked at Li Tongyun in shock, only to hear Li Tongyun hurriedly explain, "Auntie, it's not my fault. Those customers who come to buy things are so annoying. Today they're short two cents, tomorrow they're short five cents. They have some in their pockets, but they don't want to give it to me. If I don't give it to them, they say I'm stingy and that I'm petty."
Wang Meilan and Ma Ling: "..."
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law thought to themselves: You're not very petty, otherwise why would you fight with someone over something like this?
Seeing the speechless expressions on the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law's faces, Li Tongyun quickly added, "The person we hired is always sneaking things into the house, like laundry detergent and toothpaste. Xiaoxue has caught her several times. Auntie, tell me, if I see her like that, how can I not teach her a lesson?"
Wang Meilan thought Li Tongyun handled the matter perfectly.
Just then, Zhao Weipeng chimed in, saying to Wang Meilan, "Xiaoyun almost broke someone's finger. Then the person got angry, and her husband came looking for her. Xiaoyun kicked him in the stomach, and he was sent to the hospital right there."
Zhao Weipeng wanted to say he should kick the second son, but since there were women in front of him, he couldn't say that.
Wang Meilan and Ma Ling both looked at Li Tongyun again. Li Tongyun hurriedly explained, "Well... those men came at me cursing and swearing. If I didn't strike first, wouldn't I suffer the consequences if I did?"
Wang Meilan was completely speechless. At this moment, Ma Ling whispered to Li Tongyun, "Xiaoyun, why are you fighting with the people from the department store?"
“They say our goods are no good!” Li Tongyun said confidently, “They’re all the same kind of goods, how can they be no good? They sell them at higher prices, so they definitely can’t outsell us!”
Upon hearing this, Wang Meilan and Ma Ling, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, blinked in unison. They both agreed that Li Tongyun was right, and that if they were to have a conflict with her over this, it wouldn't be their fault.
"No, Xiaoyun?" Ma Ling asked Li Tongyun again, "There were so many people in the department store, you didn't get ripped off, did you?"
"No, no," Li Tongyun replied with a smile, trying to steer the conversation away from the topic.
But just then, Zhao Weipeng, who was sitting in the car, spoke again.
"Do you think she'll suffer a loss?" Zhao Weipeng laughed. "The people in the department store, the ones on the first floor didn't get involved, and the ones selling home appliances and clothes on the second floor didn't care either. It was just the four women selling daily necessities who got into a fight with the two of them. Old Chu's daughter fought one, and she fought three. The department store manager came out to break up the fight, but as soon as he stepped forward, she kicked him in the stomach."
"You went to the hospital again?" the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law asked loudly in unison. Li Tongyun quickly replied, "No, no!"
Hearing Li Tongyun's words, Wang Meilan sensed something was amiss. Although Zhao Weipeng didn't reveal Li Tongyun's true colors at this moment, Wang Meilan knew there was more to the story from his pursed lips.
If Zhao Weipeng isn't saying anything, it means this is no small matter. Wang Meilan quickly pulled Li Tongyun over, and Ma Ling followed suit.
"Xiaoyun," Wang Meilan asked Li Tongyun seriously, "Tell your aunt, what exactly happened?"
Li Tongyun frowned and whispered to Wang Meilan, "Auntie, the department store manager is a woman. She was on her period that day. Afterwards, she saw that no one had come in the morning, so she went to work. As a result, I kicked her, and she sat on her butt and fell out."
Wang Meilan and Ma Ling: "..."
Li Tongyun continued, "The people from the department store helped her up. When they saw the blood on her skirt and the blood on the ground, they thought I had kicked her and hurt her, so she screamed."
Wang Meilan and Ma Ling: "..."
Regarding the three things Li Tongyun mentioned, the fault in the cause was not actually hers; Li Tongyun's mistake was that she was too strong in combat.
"Xiaoyun," Wang Meilan asked Li Tongyun, "Um...did you cover their expenses during the war?"
"No, no..." Li Tongyun denied repeatedly, then Zhao Weipeng said, "Nothing much, there were seven battles in total, and it cost a total of two hundred yuan. She paid one hundred, and the old Chu family's daughter paid one hundred."
When Li Tongyun left, Li Dazhi and his wife gave her two hundred yuan, telling her to buy some fruit and canned goods when she went to Chu Anmin's house, and also to buy some things for Chu's elderly mother and Liu Hongmei. The rest of the money was for Li Tongyun's pocket money.
Li Tongyun spent over eighty yuan on things for the Chu family. She and Chu Xiaoxue spent about ten yuan on playing and eating, and the rest was all lost.
At this point, Wang Meilan and Ma Ling finally understood why Li Dazhi and Lin Xue, both formal employees of the forest farm and with only one child, had not saved any money.
"Lan'er." Suddenly, Zhao Youcai's voice came from inside the door.
Everyone looked over and heard Zhao Youcai, who was pushing his motorcycle out, say, "Give Xiaoyun a hundred yuan later, we'll pay for it!"
He really knows how to do favors!
But Wang Meilan took out money from her pocket without hesitation after hearing this.
"Auntie, I don't want it!" Li Tongyun hurriedly declined, but Wang Meilan stuffed twelve ten-yuan bills into her hand.
"Here you go, Xiaoyun," Wang Meilan said. "As long as you weren't wronged or taken advantage of, that's fine."
Hearing Wang Meilan's words, Zhao Weipeng's chubby face twitched. He thought to himself, "This girl is already like this, and Wang Meilan still spoils her. She spends money on war, and Wang Meilan reimburses her afterwards. Isn't that encouraging her to fight?"
But Zhao Weipeng wasn't Li Tongyun's parent, so he couldn't say anything at this point. Thinking about what his relative, the manager of Yong'an Supermarket, had told him—that the fight between Li Tongyun and the department store employees had alarmed three streets nearby—Zhao Weipeng couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.
"Brother," Zhao Weipeng asked Zhao Youcai, "where are you going with your motorcycle? Going hunting?"
"What's with the hunting?" Zhao Youcai glanced at Wang Meilan beside him, then said to Zhao Weipeng, "Now that your sister-in-law is an official, she has to find a driver. That's why I'm taking her down to the village on my motorcycle."
"Hehe..." Zhao Weipeng and Ma Ling laughed when they heard Zhao Youcai's words.
"Alright, brother, stop fussing." Zhao Weipeng said to Zhao Youcai, "I'll drive and take my sister-in-law there."
"Come on, brother," Zhao Youcai said. "You've been gone for so long, why don't you go back and check on your parents? I'll take them there on my motorcycle."
After Zhao Youcai finished speaking, Wang Meilan also said to Zhao Weipeng, "Brother, we don't need you. You've been driving all morning. Go home and rest."
Hearing what the couple said, Zhao Weipeng didn't stand on ceremony anymore. He said goodbye to Zhao Youcai and the others, and drove off in his jeep.
Watching Zhao Weipeng leave, Wang Meilan looked at Li Tongyun and asked, "Xiaoyun, are you coming with us too?"
Wang Meilan did not object to Li Tongyun going to Xishantun. Not only did her daughter serve as the accountant of Xishantun, but Xishantun also allocated her a plot of land for food rations.
It can be said that this is the only piece of land with enough food for Li Dazhi's family of three.
"I'll go!" Li Tongyun said without hesitation. "I'll go see the villagers, and then I'll check on my six mu of land."
“Then you don’t need to look,” Wang Meilan said with a smile. “Director Xiaolan said that she will take good care of our place.”
Li Tongyun owns land in Xishantun, let alone Wang Meilan?
Given the affection the people of Xishantun had for Wang Meilan, when they heard that the Zhao family of five had no land to feed them, Xishantun not only allocated land to Wang Meilan, but also to Zhao Youcai, Zhao Jun, Zhao Hong, and Zhao Na.
If one person has six mu, then five people would have thirty mu.
The Zhao family certainly couldn't possibly consume all the grain harvested from these lands.
Chinese people are proud of their houses and land. In the past, other families had land, but her family did not, which always made Wang Meilan feel uneasy.
So when Xishantun allocated land to her family, Wang Meilan wanted to move her whole family there.
Zhao Youcai got on the motorcycle, Wang Meilan sat behind him, and Li Tongyun sat behind Wang Meilan. Zhao Youcai started the motorcycle, and they hadn't gone far when they ran into the old lady who had come to the Zhao family, Xie Sunshi, and Liu Lanying.
Wang Meilan patted Zhao Youcai on the shoulder, signaling him to stop the car.
Zhao Youcai parked his motorcycle in front of the three of them, and Xie Sunshi shouted in a loud voice, "Sister, where are you going?"
"I'm going up West Mountain for a bit," Wang Meilan said, taking out her keys from her pocket and handing them to the old lady. "Auntie, you go home first, and then you can arrange lunch."
The old lady responded, and at that moment, Xie Sun noticed Li Tongyun sitting at the back of the motorcycle and immediately asked, "Xiaoyun is back."
"You're back, Auntie." Li Tongyun responded to Sun Shi, and then greeted the old lady and Liu Lanying.
"How's it going for Xiaoyun to have fun in the city?" Xie Sun asked with a smile. Before Li Tongyun could speak, she continued, "I heard from my second son that his brother Jun told them to all go to the city to buy houses. I'm thinking it's fine to buy houses too. When we have nothing to do, we can all go to the city together for a few days."
Upon hearing Sun's words, Li Tongyun chuckled. Wang Meilan thought to herself: "If Li Tongyun goes, she'll lose two hundred. If you go again, she might not even be able to stop at eight hundred."