lcionline Chapter 144 Send Xinxin Home
Chapter 144 Send Xinxin Home
Li Meir couldn't help but eat a lot.
She poured a bowl of water for each child, "It's spicy, drink some water."
The children ran to drink water reluctantly. Their mouths were red from the spicy taste, but they were reluctant to wipe them. Instead, they licked them with their tongues, savoring the delicious taste.
Honghong ran to Li Meier and said like a little fangirl, "Sister Meier, your cooking skills are really good. How come this broken conch is transformed into something else after you made it like this?"
Li Mei'er was about to say that this was Li Yu'er's idea, but when she received a look from Li Yu'er that understood her, she changed her words and said, "Hey! I was just thinking about it."
As she spoke, she brought another basin of hot water and said, "These conches are fried in oil. Your hands must be stained with a lot of oil. Come here and wash them. Use the hot water to remove the oil." As she spoke, she considerately placed the hand towel on a stool beside her.
Yougen said embarrassedly: "No need, I licked it all clean."
Hong Hong looked at her elder brother with disdain and said, "Humph! You're still saying that? How shameless! You're embarrassing me."
In fact, she also wanted to lick her hands just now, but fortunately she held back, otherwise her ladylike image would be ruined.
At this time, Wang Dagang and his wife got off the boat.
"Brother Dasheng, don't see me off. Let's go back quickly." Wang Dagang walked over here carrying the return gift.
Mrs. Bai saw the two children and scolded them with a smile: "You two little naughty monkeys, you make trouble as soon as you come. Mei'er, they didn't cause any trouble for you, did they?"
"How could that be possible? Yougen and Honghong are both good kids and very well behaved," said Li Meir.
"Hey!" Mrs. Bai then saw Xinxin who was following Li Yuer. "Isn't this Xinxin from Uncle Jiu's family? Why did your mother come back so early this year?"
Wang Dagang pulled her sleeve and gave her a wink.
Bai knew she had said the wrong thing, so she quickly made amends: "It's getting late, Yougen, Honghong, we should go home, or I won't have time to make dinner, so don't blame me if you're hungry later."
After walking a distance, Wang Dagang looked back at Xinxin and shook his head with pity.
On the day the village chief brought Li Juan back, he happened to be in the town and happened to see the Huang family driving people out.
It’s not that he didn’t want to go up and help his fellow villagers. No one would want to be seen by their fellow villagers doing that kind of thing.
But why is Xinxin at Uncle Eleven’s house?
He held the heavy return gift in his hands, and his heart felt heavy as well.
After Wang Dagang left, Old Man Li took the New Year gift to the village chief, and Old Lady Cai went to the village chief's house, holding the cloth in one hand and holding Xinxin's hand in the other.
"Xinxin, can Grandma Eleven take you to your grandparents' house?"
"Really? That's great."
Grandpa was very good to her, and she felt safe when she went to his house.
But she looked at Li Yuer again, with some reluctance in her eyes.
Li Yuer waved at her and said, "We live in the same village now. You can come and play with me anytime you have time."
After getting Li Yuer's promise, Xinxin happily followed Mrs. Cai and her husband.
The moment she saw Xinxin, Wang excitedly went forward and hugged her in her arms.
"Grandma's Xinxin, you're finally back!"
"Wow!" Maybe because the grievances he had suffered before had been suppressed for a long time, Xinxin burst into tears when he saw his loved ones.
Hearing Xinxin's crying, a disheveled woman rushed out of the cabin.
Her eye sockets were sunken, her face was haggard, and she looked lifeless. Only her pair of red and swollen eyes were staring at the daughter in Wang's arms.
"Xinxin! My Xinxin? Is it really you?"
After recognizing that it was his mother, Xinxin twisted his little body in Wang's arms and struggled desperately.
Wang let go of her hand, and Xinxin rushed into Li Juan's arms like a small cannonball.
Mother and daughter hugged each other and cried.
The village chief took Old Man Li's hand, motioned for the two to sit down, and said with a sigh, "Eleventh Brother, to be honest with you, my daughter was divorced by that bastard Huang Dafa. We were afraid of being embarrassed, so we kept it a secret."
He asked the old man Li and his wife in surprise, "Eleventh brother, where did you bring Xinxin back from?"
At this point, there was no need for Old Man Li to cover up for the Huang family, so he simply recounted what had happened.
Old Mrs. Cai took the basket in her hand and pushed it in front of the village head and his wife.
"This is the clothes Xinxin wore when she first came to my house."
The village head and his wife looked at the worn clothes in the basket, their hearts ached and they hated the Huang family again.
Old Mrs. Cai added, "There is also medicine for wounds in it. We have treated the wound on the child's arm before. It has become festered. We have to treat it. We have to keep using medicine until it scabs over."
After hearing what happened, the village chief was so angry that he threw the stool aside.
"You son of a bitch! I'm going to fight them!" As he spoke, the village chief's chest heaved. For a moment he was actually a little crazy. He picked up the fish knife in the corner and was about to walk out.
Fu Tou'er was so scared that he shrank into Wang's arms and dared not come out.
Old man Li quickly stopped him and held his arm tightly.
"Brother Jiu, don't get excited! The child was tricked back by my third brother and Erlang. If you rush over now, you're just walking into a tiger's mouth. Do you want them to take Xinxin back and sell her to the landlord?"
"Old man! I beg you, just listen to Old Eleven! For Juanzi and Xinxin, you can't be impulsive!" Wang cried.
Hearing his wife's shrill cries, the redness in the village chief's eyes gradually faded away and he regained some consciousness.
The village chief also has an older son, who lives in Tuwozi Village, but the two families have separated and do not live on the same boat.
Old Lady Cai then advised, "Brother Jiu, we have a contract to sell our bodies. My brother's family has a good relationship with the village chief's family. The village chief's eldest son is a clerk in charge of household registration in the county government. After the New Year, I will help you to smooth things over and see if we can set up a separate household for Juanzi and Xinxin."
"Eleventh brother's wife, is everything you said true? Look at me, everyone knows you, Cai Guihua. If you are not right, who else can be right?" Wang burst into laughter and said, "Look, I am a little crazy. I am sorry to make you laugh."
She wiped away her tears, but they couldn't stop. Maybe she was too sad, and the tears kept falling down uncontrollably.
"We are a family. It is only natural that we help each other when one of us encounters difficulties. If we all work together, there will be no Fire Mountain that we cannot overcome," said Mrs. Cai.
Old man Li took out the indenture worth a thousand gold from his bosom and said, "Brother Jiu, this is Xinxin's indenture. After the New Year, we will get through to you and arrange it. Then we will notify you to make an appointment to go to the county government office to handle the matter.
Brother Jiu, to be honest, I can't guarantee that I can do it, but with this indenture, Xinxin won't have to go back to the Huang family, so you must keep this thing well."
The village chief took the thin piece of paper with trembling hands and handed it to Wang, "Lock it in the box."
Then he turned to Old Man Li and said, "Old Eleven, Brother Nine will remember your kindness. If you need my help in the future, just let me know."
Old Mrs. Cai said, "Brother Jiu, what you said is too polite. Haven't we used you enough before? Let's not talk about the distant past. Just take the previous typhoon incident as an example. If it weren't for you to mobilize the villagers, my second brother and his wife and Yu Baoer wouldn't know what would happen to them now."