Chapter 401 Stand still, let me slap you.
Chapter 401 Stand still, let me slap you.
The next morning, Lu Yao went to the production team to pick up the horse-drawn cart.
We need to hitch a ride to take my mother and sister into the city to take a bath.
We need to hurry, otherwise the bathhouse will be closed by noon.
It's all my fault for being so careless, a grown man, and not thinking of these things. Otherwise, I would have gone to wash earlier and wouldn't have been in such a rush.
Before they even reached the brigade's stables, they saw three people walking back with hunched backs.
Lu Fa, who was ahead of him, jogged along, with a blanket draped over his shoulders.
"Oh my god, I'm freezing! It's finally dawn!"
Upon seeing Lu Yao, he was taken aback for a moment, then quickly put on a smile:
"Tuwazi, we'll get through this! The three of us slept huddled together last night, we just couldn't sleep!"
Behind them, Lu Changyou was supporting the old lady Lu Zhangshi, whose bound feet were trembling as she walked.
Upon seeing Lu Yao, his lips trembled, his beard twitched, but he said nothing.
With a straw stick on her head, Lu Zhangshi wiped the snot from her face:
"TuTu...TuWaZi...Can we go home now?"
Lu Yao laughed and asked, "How was it living in the stable?"
"It was awful. I'm lucky to have survived, even though I'm an old man. Luckily, there was plenty of hay in the stable, and we were in a haystack, otherwise we could have frozen to death!"
Lu Yao couldn't help but think of his previous life, when his family of three also huddled together in a haystack.
Now that it's past the thirtieth, even the poorest families are filled with laughter and joy.
Their own family, however, was suffering from hunger.
Later, Uncle Lao Ba came to pick them up and took them to his house for the rest of the night.
Xiaoqian had a fever of 40 degrees Celsius.
The next day, Huang Yuejuan gave her an injection to bring down the fever.
Fearing that Xiaoqian would freeze to death, her mother went to find the ferryman again and married Xiaoqian to him.
Later, Uncle Lao Ba and Gou Shengzi helped build an earthen stove in the horse pen, and that's how he and his mother got through the period from the Spring Festival of 74 to the beginning of spring.
Now that Lu Changyou's family has also experienced this, they breathed a sigh of relief:
"Now that you know how painful it is, behave well and be kind to others, otherwise I'll really tear down your houses, and you won't even have a stable to live in!"
Lu Fa bowed repeatedly:
"Yes, that's right, you little bumpkin, I'll never dare to do it again!"
He didn't dare to do it before, but after hearing Liu Laowu say that Lu Yao had offended a big shot, he felt that the time for revenge had come.
Little did I know it was a trap; Director Shi and Tuwazi were in cahoots.
The country bumpkin didn't hit himself, but Director Shi certainly disciplined him.
His buttocks are all blackened from being slapped.
Lu Changyou was resentful but dared not show it.
He remained silent with a cold expression.
Even Lu Zhangshi, an old woman who bullies the weak and fears the strong, was now repeatedly bowing with both hands clasped.
"You little country bumpkin, Grandma is impressed."
"Shut up! My real grandmother died a long time ago. Whose grandmother are you? You're not destined to have grandchildren!"
"..."
Madam Lu remained silent, her head bowed.
After a long silence, the three dared to look up and saw that Lu Yao had already left.
I can't be bothered to say another word to them.
The family of three walked back.
Lu Changyou said fiercely, "Third brother, have some ambition! Do a good job in the militia from now on, surpass Tuwazi, and make him listen to you! As the saying goes, a gentleman's revenge is never too late..."
"Alright, alright... shut up now!"
Startled, Mrs. Lu looked around quickly and complained to her husband:
"Watch your mouth from now on. This village is full of country bumpkins. If word gets out, you'll regret it!"
Startled, Lu Changyou quickly looked around.
"Oops, I was careless. Let's talk about it when we get home!"
Lu Fa remained silent.
I was thinking to myself, what can I use to surpass that country bumpkin? I've got an idea.
I don't have that ability either.
Needless to say, I couldn't even win over my second sister-in-law, so how did that country bumpkin manage to do it?
Lu Yao harnessed the horse to the carriage and then drove it out with a large whip.
When I was a child, I would be happy for half a day if I could secretly drive a horse-drawn carriage around the street.
Unfortunately, after his father died, Cao Erdan forbade him from moving the carriage.
The thought of how Cao Erdan had bullied her in her previous life made her angry.
But oh well, at least he gave up his wife for life, so I'll forgive him.
As they drove the horse-drawn carriage back, everyone who met Lu Yao greeted him first, offering New Year's wishes.
In my previous life, my family of three rarely got any attention when we walked down the street.
True poverty goes unnoticed on the streets.
That's human nature, so the villagers can't be entirely blamed.
If you have no ability, people will be afraid to even talk to you because they're afraid you'll ask them for grain. Back then, everyone was poor, so who wouldn't be afraid?
Lu Yao didn't resent the commune members who didn't help his family back then; at least they didn't bully his family.
As long as no one kicks someone when they're down, that's fine; it's just normal human mentality.
What's most hateful is that they pressure their own people and take the opportunity to trample on and squeeze others.
A man walked towards us with his hands in his pockets, adopting a typical Northeastern posture; it was commune member Li Youtian.
He greeted another person on the roadside:
"Wangcai, how many dishes are you going to make later?"
"Four! My wife is preparing them at home right now."
The person standing by the roadside is He Wangcai.
People were poor back then, and the first thing they asked each other when they met was, "Have you eaten?"
On New Year's Day, when people meet, they always ask each other how many dishes other families are cooking for lunch on New Year's Eve.
Li Youtian smiled and stretched out his hand:
"My sister-in-law made six, and I said four would be enough, but she insisted on making two more."
"Yes, you have a lot of kids, so you need six dishes. What are they?"
Shredded potatoes, dried tofu...
Just then, he looked up and saw that it was Lu Yao driving the cart, and he was immediately stunned.
Both of them had been beaten up by Lu Yao, and although they didn't dare to seek revenge, they still felt awkward when they saw Lu Yao.
Li Youtian turned around and was about to leave.
Lu Yao lashed out with his whip:
"You fucking stop right there, stand at attention!"
Lu Yao was thinking about his past life when he saw these two losers.
In his previous life, Li Youtian was a scoundrel.
He snatched away the firewood sticks that the production team had dropped, which he had picked up on the street to keep warm, saying that if he dared to steal public firewood, he was undermining socialism.
I still get angry when I think about it now.
Not only did they steal firewood, they also verbally abused Jiang Guizhi several times.
In his previous life, Lu Yao was timid; even if he could beat him, he wouldn't dare to make a move.
She was so angry that she squatted in the corner and cried.
Seeing that Lu Yao was calling him and he couldn't avoid it, Li Youtian came over with a forced smile:
"What's wrong, you country bumpkin?"
Lu Yao cracked his whip: "Stand still, let me give you a few lashes."
Li Youtian was extremely embarrassed.
Ever since Lu Yao knocked me unconscious during the last fight over tiger meat, I've avoided Lu Yao whenever I see him again.
At first, he was a little vengeful, but as Lu Yao became more and more powerful, he gave up on the matter.
Fortunately, Lu Yao didn't contact him again.
I can't avoid it today. Lu Yao is going to bully me, and I'm a little unwilling to say nice things to him.
But they didn't dare to go against Lu Yao.
Looking at He Wangcai, she thought to herself, "You better hold me back, and I'll leave as soon as I can."
Otherwise, it would be too embarrassing for me, a man in my thirties, to be beaten like an animal in the street.
He Wangcai and Li Youtian are good friends, so he quickly put on a smiling face:
"Country bumpkin..."
"Get out of my way and stand there, or I'll go to your house and sleep with your wife!"
"Why……"
He Wangcai was startled.
Why would a country bumpkin have such a thought?
Are we really going to go?
My wife always praises Tuwazi at home, saying how great he is. If she were to actually stay with Tuwazi, I wouldn't dare to interfere!
His wife was just an ordinary rural female commune member, big and burly, and Lu Yao had no interest in her.
It was because He Wangcai used to bully Uncle Ba and intentionally or unintentionally flirt with Aunt Ba that Lu Yao said such a thing.
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