Chapter 133 Country bumpkin

Chapter 133 Country bumpkin

Chapter 133 Country bumpkin

"I know. They are bad guys. I will watch the door and not let them go in and make grandma cry." Li Xiaohai glanced at Zhou Hongbin, whose face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and took Li Xiaozhou to stand at the door.

The two brothers were like two generals, standing one on each side in front of the open wooden door. Li Xiaozhou also said that next time he would bring his small wooden gun to take the bad guys and shoot them.

Li Changle turned to look at Zhou Hongbin and discovered that when he was young, his features were somewhat similar to Zhou Ruonan's. Seeing that he looked down on others, she wanted to irritate him.

She touched her belly and looked at the couple proudly, "My mother-in-law just felt sorry for us, so she ate lychees, longans, brown sugar eggs, and wrapped dumplings for us to eat. Now she is busy steaming blue crabs, roasting large yellow croaker and wangchao."

Then he turned to his two sons and said, "Don't sit there and watch TV. Jump around a bit to digest the snacks and dumplings in your stomach first, so you can eat more later."

The vicious woman was afraid that Anan would come home to grab the family property after Zhou's father was rehabilitated, so she instigated Zhou Hongbin to go to the neighborhood committee to report that Anan had married and had children in the countryside and was working as a substitute teacher.

When Zhou's mother found out, she rushed to the neighborhood committee with a big broom and beat the couple so hard that they ran away in panic.

The couple jumped up and down and made a fool of themselves, but in the end they got nothing.

Lin Xuefang spat angrily, "Country bumpkin, you haven't seen greasy food for eight hundred years..."

"What's wrong with being a country bumpkin?" Li Changle sneered, "The vegetables in your basket and the rice you're carrying are all grown by country bumpkins in their rice fields. Why don't you eat them if you have the guts?"

"If you count three generations back, who isn't a country bumpkin? The mud on your legs hasn't even been washed clean, and you've only had a few days of full meals, but you're already looking down on others and despising farmers."

Li Xiaohai asked curiously: "Dad, what is a rice field? How do you grow rice and vegetables?"

"Silly boy!" Li Changle said with a smile, "You don't even know what rice fields are, they're just manure. Your father is also an educated man!"

"Oh!" Li Xiaohai suddenly realized, "I understand now. Grandma always scooped manure from the toilet to fertilize the vegetables. Manure is called rice field fertilizer!"

Li Xiaozhou thought about it and said seriously: "Dad, there is no rice field on the rice and vegetables, so it can be eaten."

The vegetable vendors couldn't hold back any longer and burst out laughing. They started talking among themselves, "Axia's son-in-law is really good at talking."

"Ah Xia and her husband have such a good relationship. If Ah Bin hadn't pissed off Teacher Zhou, he wouldn't have passed away so early. It's a sin to raise a son like this!"

"Ugh..." Lin Xuefang was disgusted by Li Changle and his son. She angrily pulled Zhou Hongbin and said, "Are you blind? You watched the country bumpkins bully me and said nothing."

Zhou Hongbin looked at A Xiangpo and the others and said, "You too, what's there to say to a country bumpkin?"

"Why not?" Lin Xuefang whispered, "Akai will be going to junior high school soon, and Aling is also grown up. There are many places in the family where we need money!"

"Every time they come, they bring a lot of bags. Your mother spends all her money on them. How can there be any money left in the future?"

Li Changle didn't know that the two of them were now eyeing her mother-in-law's money. She knew that they would definitely spit in their faces.

Zhou Hongbin thought about it and it was true. He walked up to Li Changle with a dark face and said, "Go call An Nan out. I have something to say to her."

"Anan, Anan, who are you?" Li Changle looked at him with sarcasm on his face, "How can a scum like you who sells out your father for fame call me my wife by my name?"

He took a step forward and whispered, "Are you qualified to teach? I'm warning you, take care of your stinking bitch. If she dares to harass my mother-in-law again,
I will go to your school and publicize the good things you two have done. Then, I will see which parents are willing to give their children to a bastard like you who doesn’t even recognize his own parents.”

Zhou Hongbin was so angry that his blood pressure soared. "I won't talk to people like you. Call An Nan out. I can't explain the whole story to a scoundrel like you who has no education and relies on his wife for support."

Li Changle pulled over a bamboo chair and sat down, leaning against the back of the chair with his legs crossed, looking at the two people with a squinting eye, "So what if you are uneducated? So what if you rely on your wife for support!"

"At least I'm still a human being, and I do human things. I'm a hundred times better than a piece of trash like you who can even sell out your parents."

"You, who are you calling trash..." Zhou Hongbin was so angry that his hands started shaking as he pointed at him. "You are unreasonable. I can't explain it to you clearly. Call An Nan out."

They were forced into a corner at the beginning. He was a son, but he was also a father. He couldn't just watch his child being bullied by those kids and being called a bastard.

"An uneducated country bumpkin!" Lin Xuefang was so angry that the muscles on her face were shaking. "Why bother saying so much to him? This is our home too. Go in and find Zhou Ruonan and ask her to talk to this rascal."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk! Do you know how to curse? You keep calling me country bumpkins. Come on, change your curses so that others won't say I'm bullying you two ungrateful people."

Li Xiaohai and his brother opened their arms and said, "Dad, don't let them in. They are all bad people and always make grandma cry."

"Don't be afraid. Grandma's big broom is still behind the door. If they want to be chased all over the street by the broom, just go in and try." Li Changle said with a smile while shaking her legs and looking at Zhou Hongbin and his wife.

"You country bumpkin, what's the point of staying at my house? This house won't be ours in the future."

At this time, people who were buying groceries were looking over here, and a few teachers from the school also came. Several colleagues asked knowingly, "Teacher Zhou, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, nothing." Zhou Hongbin was furious. He was afraid that his colleagues would laugh at him, so he didn't dare to argue with Li Changle in front of them. The couple left in embarrassment.

The Li Xiaohai brothers jumped for joy and excitedly pulled Li Changle, "Dad, we won, the bad guys are gone!"

"Don't tell grandma when you get home. She'll be angry if you know what she's doing."

"Yeah!" Li Xiaohai pulled his brother, "Let's go watch TV."

"Go ahead, sit further away, or you'll look like a four-eyed dog."

Li Changle gave the two children some instructions, turned around and looked at Zhou Hongbin and his wife who were walking away in embarrassment, went over to greet Zhou's mother and several old neighbors, and asked them not to tell her about this to avoid making her angry, and they readily agreed.

After a while, Zhou Ruonan came with the cut melons, and Li Changle told her that Zhou Hongbin had been there.

"Don't pay attention to him. He came to see my mother a few days ago and said that Acong is going to take the junior high school entrance exam. His house is too small and stuffy, so he wants to move here to live for a semester."

Zhou Ruonan paused, "My mother didn't agree, saying that she had no sons or grandchildren. My eldest sister-in-law also said that she was cruel. In order to avenge them, she couldn't even tolerate her own children and grandchildren. My mother was so angry that she didn't set up the stall for a few days."

"Why doesn't he think about his own son? He has been taught by them to not even recognize his grandfather or grandmother."

"My father fainted from anger at the time, and the next day, I learned that they had severed ties with him."

"I will never forgive them. If it weren't for them, my father wouldn't have taken this desperate path, and my mother wouldn't have to endure her life alone."

"Please persuade mother more and tell her not to dwell on the past. It's not good for her health." It was the first time that Li Changle heard about Zhou's father being hit by a stone by his grandson. She was so angry that she almost burst into cursing.

"Mother says she has let it go, but I know she is keeping it to herself." Zhou Ruonan also told him that her mother had advised her to move Xiaohai and Xiaozhou's household registration to the city so that they could study in the city.

"Forget about studying in the city. I'll send them here to accompany her during the holidays."

Li Changle has seen too many left-behind children and thinks it is better for children to stay with their parents. Besides, his son passed the exam from the village primary school in his previous life, so as long as he does not go astray in this life, it will be no problem for him to pass the exam.

"I didn't agree either." Zhou Ruonan said, "My mother wanted to transfer Xiaohai and Xiaozhou's household registration here, with the idea of ​​giving us the house. I didn't want to get into trouble with my brother and sister-in-law, so I didn't agree."

Li Changle remembered that Zhou Ruonan had never told him these things in his previous life. "It's right not to agree. If you want a house in the city, I will buy it for you when I make money."

Zhou Ruonan glanced at him and said, "The new house hasn't been built yet, and you're talking about buying a house in the city. You're just making empty promises to me every day."

"Believe in your man. As long as he works hard, he will have a new house and a house in the city." Li Changle said this and suddenly remembered that the son of A Xiangpo next door sold his old house not long after he was transferred to Shanghai.

"Anan, talk to my mother and ask her to keep an eye out. If there is anyone selling a house in the old street, we can buy one nearby."

Zhou Ruonan rolled her eyes at him and said, "Where's the money for buying a house?"

"Just because we don't have it now doesn't mean we won't have it in the future!" Li Changle said with a smile, "Tell your mother-in-law about it, and we'll buy it when we have the money, so we don't miss out on the news and have it snatched away by someone else."

"I understand. If I run out of money, I will sell you in exchange for a house." Zhou Ruonan said fiercely.

Li Changle gave her a slight turn and said with a playful smile, "Can you bear to sell me for a house?"

"Why wouldn't you be reluctant? As long as I have a son and a house, that's enough." Zhou Ruonan looked content as if she had a son.

The couple chatted for a while, and Zhou Ruonan went back to the kitchen to help. Li Changle took his son for a walk on the street. They saw people selling egg white and lamb tail, eggs with ginger juice, and many other authentic delicacies, but their stomachs were full.

More than two hours later, the three of them returned to the backyard and saw the fish he had washed when he came drying on a bamboo flat plate. The weather was too hot and there was no refrigerator to keep the fish fresh, so they could only dry the fish and eat it as jerky.

On the table were large yellow croaker, blanched mullet, steamed blue crab with aged wine, stir-fried green beans, and a pot of old duck soup in the middle.

Li Xiaohai patted his belly and said, "Grandma, this is the third meal we have eaten this morning. We eat more than the little piglets at Lao Wai's house."

"It's better for boys to be able to eat!" Zhou's mother said happily, "Boys should be tall and big to look good."

Li Xiaohai nodded, "I want to grow as tall as my father."

(End of this chapter)