sbdcsierra Chapter 1414: A Successor, the Useless Boy
Chapter 1414: A Successor, the Useless Boy
Chapter 1414: A Successor, the Useless Boy
Tonight, the Zhao family still had a table full of dishes, but most of them were vegetarian dishes, and the only meat dish was braised bear paw.
There is no way. Zhao Jun has been too busy recently and has not been up the mountain much. Even the Zhao family has no meat left.
But there are still a lot of bear paws left, so I stewed six of them today and let everyone chew them like pig's trotters.
This bear paw was cooked by Zhao Youcai himself, who had redeemed himself for his crime, and it tasted really good.
After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, the women were cleaning up in the outer room. There was a TV in the east room, and the children, the old lady, Xie Sun, Li Tongyun, and Li Ruhai were watching it on the kang, while the men were sitting on benches under the kang.
Today's dinner was not very sumptuous, but there were a lot of snacks after dinner. In the middle of the kang table was a basin with frozen pears and persimmons. Around the basin were melon seeds, peanuts, and small naughty snacks.
The men ate food and drank wine at the table, and rarely had snacks afterwards. But Zhao Youcai and his men drank Maojian and smoked Shilin, which was the first time in the forest area.
There is strength in numbers, and the women quickly cleaned up the mess. Lin Xue and Xu Chunyan carried the swill bucket out to dump the dirty water. Wang Meilan called Jin Xiaomei and Zhao Ling and said, "It's early today, let's all watch TV and chat for a while before leaving."
Jin Xiaomei and Zhao Ling responded one after another, and at this time Lin Xue and Xu Chunyan came back.
But when they went out, there were two of them, and when they came back, there were three of them.
"Ouch!" Wang Meilan was stunned when she saw the person coming and said, "Feng'er, why are you here so late? Is there something going on at home?"
It's already past seven o'clock, and it's almost eight o'clock. Yang Yufeng must have something going on for her to come so late.
Hearing the noise in the outer room, Li Ruhai, who was sitting on the kang in the east room, stretched his neck to look outside, then turned back and said to the old lady, "My sister-in-law Zhang is here."
"Ah... so late?" The old lady frowned when she heard this.
But at this moment, Li Xiaoqiao, who was sitting at the head of the kang, heard Li Ruhai's words, and hurriedly moved her butt and hid herself behind the old lady.
In the outer room, under the gaze of Wang Meilan and the other two, Yang Yufeng said to Wang Meilan, "Aunt, I just went to the toilet and heard the second daughter-in-law of the old Sun family tell me something."
"What's the matter?" Wang Meilan asked. Yang Yufeng smiled bitterly and said, "Our little bastards have beaten up the children of Chen Dalai again."
"Ah?" Wang Meilan was startled when she heard this and blurted out, "Did he offend Lingling again?"
Wang Meilan subconsciously thought that Chen Youliang from Chen Dalai's family had provoked Xiao Lingdang again.
After Wang Meilan finished speaking, Zhao Ling also spoke to Xiao Lingdang, saying, "Feng'er, don't talk about Lingdang when you go back. Don't we know what kind of child we have? Lingdang is not a child who invites disasters and causes troubles."
"Not really." Xu Chunyan also agreed, saying, "I have never seen anyone as sensible as our Lingdang. I have been telling my Shunzi that if Xiaobao could be as sensible as Lingdang, we would be very lucky."
Jin Xiaomei was about to speak, but Lin Xue pulled her back secretly. After all, she was working outside, and Lin Xue was keenly aware that something was wrong. If it was Xiao Lingdang who led the fight, Yang Yufeng would not come here at this time.
After being persuaded by Wang Meilan and the others, Yang Yufeng didn't know what to say.
"Lingdang's mother, what's going on?" This question was asked by Zhao Youcai who came out of the house. Little Lingdang was indeed a popular child, and everyone in this group was proud of her.
At this time, Xie Sun got down from the kang and shouted, "What's going on? Who bullied our Lingling?"
"That's enough, Sister Sun!" Wang Meilan hurried over to hold down Jie Sun. This old lady had a hot temper and was protective of her own people. If she wasn't stopped, she would easily go to the Chen family.
After Zhao Youcai asked and Xie Sun quarreled, Zhao Ling and Xu Chunyan pulled Yang Yufeng into the east room, and Jin Xiaomei and Lin Xue followed them in.
In an instant, the east room was filled with people.
Everyone stopped watching TV. The men leaned towards the north window, and the women sat down on the edge of the kang.
Before sitting down, Yang Yufeng glanced at Zhao Hong, and then at Li Xiaoqiao who was hiding behind the old lady.
The old lady didn't know she was looking at Li Xiaoqiao. When she met Yang Yufeng's gaze, she asked, "What's going on, Feng'er?"
"Well..." Yang Yufeng organized her words in her mind and said, "I also heard it from the second daughter-in-law of the old Sun family in our previous room."
"What did she say?" Wang Meilan asked. Yang Yufeng said, "She said that around four o'clock, she went to the grocery store to buy soy sauce. She saw our children walking back, and then the kid from Chen Dalai's family came behind them and started fighting with our children..."
"Bang!" Yang Yufeng was interrupted by a voice before she could finish her words. Xing San slammed the big teapot in his hand onto the table against the wall. Then the old man glared and shouted, "Who is that Lai?"
Yang Yufeng was startled, and then she heard Jie Sun yelling, "Which boy has no balls? Fuck you! I'll break his legs off!"
Li Tongyun raised her eyebrows, pulled Li Xiaoqiao out from behind the old lady, and asked loudly, "Why didn't you tell me when you were bullied outside?"
Li Xiaoqiao, whose arm was pulled by Li Tongyun, grimaced, and the child only felt pain in his arm.
"No...no...no." Yang Yufeng saw that something was wrong and quickly explained, "Our children were not bullied. It was those girls who got beaten up by that kid."
As soon as Yang Yufeng said this, the heavy atmosphere in the room eased instantly. Xing San picked up the big teapot again, Xie Sun put her hands into her sleeves, and Li Tongyun let go of Li Xiaoqiao.
"This girl." Wang Meilan pointed her finger at Zhao Hong's head and asked, "What are you hugging for this time?"
"Why not support him?" Zhao Hong curled her lips and said, "Just beat him up, what else can I do?"
"You kid!" Wang Meilan glared at him, and in anger she spoke without thinking, and shouted directly: "Who did you learn how to use swords and guns from?"
Hearing Wang Meilan's words, Xing San suddenly raised his head to look at Li Tongyun. At this moment, Li Tongyun was also looking at him.
The old man and the young man met each other's eyes, and then turned to Xie Sun in unison.
Xie Sun, who was looking around, was startled. Among the three people, she had been in the Zhao family for the longest time, and the child was influenced by her. However, Xie Sun did not think there was anything wrong with this.
"Auntie, auntie." Yang Yufeng held Wang Meilan and said, "This matter is not our child's fault."
"Hmm?" Wang Meilan was stunned and said, "What's going on, Feng'er, tell me about it."
"I asked Lingdang when I got home." Yang Yufeng said, "Lingdang said that when they came back from school, the kid from Old Chen's family started to make a fuss, saying that our dog stole his roe deer, and then these girls beat him up!"
After hearing what Yang Yufeng said, Zhao Youcai, Wang Meilan, Jin Xiaomei and others all frowned.
The child said this because he must have heard what the adults said. His dog stole his roe deer, but he still paid compensation, and it was double the compensation. If the Chen family keeps complaining, that's outrageous.
"What kind of family is this?" Xie Sun glared and shouted, "Didn't we give them all the money for the roe deer?"
"Just beat him up!" Li Tongyun touched Li Xiaoqiao's head to show his appreciation, then glanced at Li Ruhai and said, "That rude guy should be beaten up."
After Li Tongyun finished speaking, Lin Xue slapped him. Seeing that Li Tongyun looked at him unkindly, Li Ruhai shrank his neck, and then heard Xing San say over there: "Go to his house tomorrow, what the hell is this!"
"Brother, it's not that necessary." Zhao Youcai hurriedly comforted Xing San. The Chen family was in big trouble, but it was not necessary for Xing San to take action.
After saying a few words to Xing San, Zhao Youcai looked up at Wang Meilan and said, "Lan, you go tomorrow. When you get there, just say that our child beat up his child and you are here to apologize."
"Well, okay." Wang Meilan understood what Zhao Youcai meant. When she visited the Chen family tomorrow, she would definitely make the Chen couple blush.
At this time, Wang Meilan also knew the purpose of Yang Yufeng's visit. Yang Yufeng came here in the middle of the night not because the children were fighting, but because the matter of the dog eating roe deer had to be explained clearly, otherwise it would affect the reputation of the Zhao family.
"It's all thanks to Lingling." Wang Meilan smiled and patted Yang Yufeng's hand, saying with emotion: "I take these kids to and from school every day. If it weren't for Lingling today, my little one would have fought with others. Wouldn't he have suffered a loss?"
Everyone around agreed with Wang Meilan's words. Chen Dalai's kid is eleven years old this year, and Zhao Hong is only seven years old. Can he beat him?
But what Wang Meilan didn't expect was that as soon as she finished speaking, Yang Yufeng smiled and said, "Auntie, at the beginning of today, Lingling really didn't reach out?"
"Huh?" Wang Meilan was startled, and then she heard Yang Yufeng say, "Our Xiaohong and Xiaoqiao were taken care of by that boy."
After hearing what Yang Yufeng said, everyone looked at Zhao Hong and Li Xiaoqiao in surprise.
"Oh?" The old lady hugged Zhao Hong and asked, "My child, how come you are so amazing?"
Zhao Hong was not good at speaking, and Li Xiaoqiao felt that she should not speak out, so neither of the two girls said anything.
At this moment, Wang Tian from Wang Qiang's family stood up. The child was still young and not very tall when standing on the kang.
"My second sister, just go up and beat her up." Wang Tian clenched his fists and performed a set of turtle punches.
When Xie Sun heard this, her eyes lit up instantly.
Then, Wang Tian put away his fist, raised his foot and kicked in the air in front of him, saying, "It's over, Sister Qiao, I'll go over and kick Chen Youliang down directly!"
"Hmm?" Li Tongyun looked at Li Xiaoqiao with a little more appreciation. At the same time, he made up his mind to give his little sister less homework tomorrow and let her learn more boxing.
Xing San, who was sitting on the bench, looked at Zhao Hong and then at Li Xiaoqiao, and finally picked up the large teacup silently.
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"This is called having successors!" At Zhao Weipeng's home in Jinxi, when Grandpa Zhao heard that Zhao Jun's family had been hunting for three generations and that they were all excellent gunners, he couldn't help but sigh.
Today, Zhao Jun and his party set out in the morning and arrived in Jinxi in the evening. Their arrival was warmly welcomed and entertained by the Zhao family.
There were giant prawns, crabs, abalone, scallops, sea cucumbers, as well as some strange-looking sea fish and a kind of monster insect with many legs that looked weird to Li Baoyu and Jie Chen.
Zhao Jun knew about mantis shrimp, but he had no reason to know it, so he could only pretend not to know it.
After eating and drinking, Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu and Jie Chen returned to the room arranged for them by the Zhao family to rest.
After a whole day of traveling, the three of them were really tired.
The room they lived in was the room of Zhao Weipeng's son. The room was very neat and tidy, and a small kang could easily accommodate four or five people.
There was a row of cabinets at the end of the kang, and under the kang there was a desk and a bookshelf against the wall, with many books on the bookshelf. On the wall opposite the bookshelf hung a calligraphy with the characters written in a flamboyant style.
Xie Chen stood in front of the calligraphy with his hands behind his back and looked at it for a few seconds, then turned back and asked Zhao Jun, "Brother Jun, what is he writing? Why can't I recognize a single word?"
The other person wrote in cursive script, and Xie Chen asked the right person when he asked Zhao Jun.
"How can I know him?" Zhao Jun smiled and asked Li Baoyu, "Baoyu, what do you think of his handwriting?"
"The handwriting is good!" Li Baoyu looked at the calligraphy and nodded slightly, saying, "It's just that the lyrics are not that good."
"What's that?" Xie Chen asked. Li Baoyu frowned and looked at the words on the left, saying, "Useless boy..."
At this point, Li Baoyu fell silent and squinted his eyes to recognize the next words.
At this time, Zhao Weipeng's voice came from outside the room: "Are you lying down?"
"No, uncle." Zhao Jun quickly got up and went to open the door for Zhao Weipeng.
"Is it cold?" Zhao Weipeng asked Zhao Jun as he entered the room, "Is the kang warm?"
"It's hot, hot." Zhao Jun glanced at the row of radiators under the window and said with a smile, "Look, we've all taken off our clothes."
At this time, the three members of the Zhao army were wearing cotton trousers on the lower body and only hurdle vests on the upper body.
"As long as it's warm, it's fine." After glancing at the three of them, Zhao Weipeng felt relieved. He nodded and said, "Don't be in a hurry to leave when you get home. Stay at home for a few more days."
"Okay, uncle." Zhao Jun agreed with a smile, and at this time Xie Chen pointed at the calligraphy on the wall and asked Zhao Weipeng: "Uncle, did you write this?"
"That's not true." Zhao Weipeng smiled and waved his fat hands, saying, "How could your uncle be that capable?"
Zhao Weipeng pointed at the calligraphy on the wall and said, "This was given to me by a friend. Your brother said it was very good, so he hung it in his room."
"Huh?" Zhao Jun and Jie Chen were stunned when they heard the words, and they both looked at Li Baoyu. Why did the other person say the exact opposite of what Li Baoyu said?
Seeing the two people looking at him, Li Baoyu coughed lightly and turned his face away.
"Uncle." Xie Chen asked Zhao Weipeng again, "What lyrics are these?"
Zhao Weipeng stood up and walked to the calligraphy, pointing to each character from top to bottom and from right to left, and read: "Heaven moves vigorously, and a gentleman should constantly strive for self-improvement. Earth is in a low position, and a gentleman should carry all things with great virtue."
After hearing what Zhao Weipeng said, Zhao Jun and Jie Chen were amused. The three words "载物厚" made Li Baoyu read it as a useless boy.
"What are you laughing at?" Zhao Weipeng asked the two in confusion, "Isn't calligraphy read from right to left?"
"It's okay, it's okay." Li Baoyu took over the conversation and waved his hands repeatedly.
As soon as Li Baoyu finished speaking, Zhao Weipeng's wife Liang Xuemei appeared at the door holding three quilts.
Liang Xuemei is not tall and a little plump, but she is a very nice person and is very enthusiastic towards Zhao Jun and his two companions.
She came in with three quilts in her arms, and Zhao Weipeng quickly got up to take them.
After handing the quilt to Zhao Weipeng, Liang Xuemei told Zhao Jun and the other two, "It's cold in the second half of the night, you guys put on this quilt."
"Yes, auntie." Zhao Jun said with a smile, "I'm sorry to trouble you."
"What is this kid talking about?" Liang Xuemei said, "Your uncle coming to your house also causes trouble for you."
"That's no trouble." Zhao Jun said with a smile, "My uncle got along well with us. If he left suddenly, my dad and I would be in trouble."
"What else is there to say?" Liang Xuemei smiled and waved her hand, saying, "You are home now. You have worked hard all day today, so have a good sleep. After that, your brother will come back tomorrow and take you out to play."
Zhao Jun agreed with a smile, and at this moment, Liang Xuemei frowned slightly, and then said to Zhao Jun: "Child, let me ask you something."
"Aunt, tell me." Zhao Jun said so. Liang Xuemei pointed at Zhao Weipeng who was passing cigarettes to Li Baoyu and Jie Chen and said, "How come your uncle has nightmares since he came back?"
"Ah?" Zhao Jun was stunned, and then he heard Liang Xuemei ask again: "You were dreaming, and you were screaming so loudly."
Hearing this, Zhao Weipeng stood up suddenly, but heard Zhao Jun ask: "What are you shouting?"
Zhao Jun was curious too!
"Why are you shouting 'It wasn't me who hit him, it wasn't me who hit him.'" Liang Xuemei said, "I was wondering if he had a fight with someone and who got him hurt?"
Zhao Weipeng: "..."
Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu, and Xie Chen: "?"
(End of this chapter)