Chapter 7: Forced Donations

The mountain wind is howling, the bamboo leaves are flying, and in the depths of a verdant bamboo forest, a boy wearing only shorts and shirtless, showing his bulging muscles, is struggling to beat and kick the thick bamboo around him with his hands and feet. The bamboo leaves that fell one after another due to the force were blown by the strong wind brought out by the fists and feet, forming a circle of bamboo leaves around the boy.

"Dream Bear, Dream Bear, where are you? Your grandma is calling you home! ”

Wang Mengxiong, who practiced the Yue's loose hands in the bamboo forest, stopped his movements, listened attentively, and made sure that he was calling him, so he hurriedly took off the white coat from the bamboo branch on the side and put it on, answered loudly, hurried through the bamboo forest, and ran in the direction where the sound came from.

Out of the bamboo forest, along the country road, a short distance to see a half-grown boy, standing on a big stone on the side of the road pulling his neck and shouting. Seeing Wang Mengxiong running over, he hurriedly jumped down from the stone and said anxiously: "Mengxiong, your aunt asked me to go to the private school to find you, but you are not there." That old Li asked me to stand on this stone and call you, saying that you can definitely hear you. But I'm a little curious, what are you doing here instead of studying in a private school? If your grandma knows, see if she will spare you! ”

"Little Uncle Seven, if you don't say it, Grandma, she won't know! Besides, I just didn't recite the article, and I was punished by my husband to go to the bamboo forest to take a horse step, why didn't I go to school? Don't talk nonsense in front of your grandma, if you are scolded by her, see if I don't clean you up! ”

Being threatened by Wang Mengxiong like this, Uncle Xiao Qi looked at the little nephew's exposed thick arms with some fear, stuck out his tongue, and really stopped nagging. Although he is Wang Mengxiong's seventh uncle, it is only because of his seniority, in fact, he is younger than Wang Mengxiong, no matter what, he can't beat the little nephew who is careless.

Wang Mengxiong went to the private school first, asked for leave with his husband, and then went home with Uncle Xiaoqi. Halfway down the road, Wang Mengxiong asked, "Little Uncle Seven, is there something wrong with my grandmother calling me home in such a hurry?" ”

Uncle Xiao Qi scratched his head, tilted his head and thought about it, and finally said with certainty: "Nothing happened, but I saw a letter on the table, it seems to have been sent by your father, maybe there is something wrong with him!" ”

I didn't get a detailed answer here from Uncle Xiaoqi, although I was still a little confused, but as long as there was no accident at home, everything was easy to say. With a concern in his heart, his steps naturally became faster and faster, so that Uncle Xiao Qi was gradually left behind, panting and shouting: "Mengxiong, what are you doing walking so fast?" It's all right, you're going to exhaust me to death! ”

"Cut, if you are seventy or eighty, you are only six years old now, and you are thinking too far, right?"

Wang Mengxiong was stunned after speaking, "I said that Uncle Xiaoqi just pretended to be old, what does this cut mean?" How could I say that? ”

Thinking about it, he felt that the left side of his head began to ache again, as if he had forgotten something, and he didn't remember it even if he wanted to break it. But Uncle Xiaoqi knew about his problem, and when he saw him stop, he covered his head with his hands, and hurriedly ran over to persuade: "Mengxiong, did you have a headache again?" Don't think about it, I promise you it's okay at home. If I give you a headache because of me, Sister will definitely scold me if she knows it! ”

The sister mentioned by Uncle Xiaoqi is Wang Mengxiong's mother, in the countryside of Xikou, she attaches great importance to family and nostalgia, and the respect and humility of the elders and young are even more ambiguous. So even if Uncle Xiaoqi is one year younger than seven-year-old Wang Mengxiong, he still needs to call Sun Su'e as his sister.

Although Wang Mengxiong's house is not as grand as those landlords and gentry's mansions, it is also very exquisite, with white walls and black tiles, and authentic Jiangsu and Zhejiang buildings. After crossing the small bridge at the entrance of the village, walk 50 meters forward to his house.

Wang Mengxiong's father, Wang Shihe, went out to work hard, and only he and his mother lived at home. It's just that the door that was originally deserted suddenly had a sliding bar sedan chair today, and a few thieves and rat-eyed men were scattered around, giggling and laughing, not paying attention to the two children running over in the distance.

"Strange, what are the doglegs of the Wang Baochang family doing here? I didn't see these people when I left my sister's place! ”

Uncle Xiao Qi was still muttering, Wang Mengxiong had already jumped out in an arrow step, passed by these dogs like a gust of wind, and entered the mansion along the open gate.

"Hey, I said, brothers, did someone run in just now?"

A talking dog-legged asked unconfidently, just now he was stunned, only to feel a black shadow passing in front of him, and his nerves had not yet reacted, but the residual image in the perspective reminded him that it seemed that someone had entered.

"It seems to be a kid from the old Wang family, and he runs very fast. It's okay, a little kid, what can you do, don't worry, Wang Baochang won't blame you for not keeping the door well! ”

Uncle Xiao Qi saw that these people had some ill intentions, so he had an extra heart, and did not follow Wang Mengxiong in, but turned around and changed directions, and secretly ran in the direction of the ancestral hall of his family.

As soon as Wang Mengxiong ran to the patio, he heard the extremely disgusting voice of a male duck.

"Mrs. Wang, this peace donation is not something I added privately, but the money that our Yang Shande overseer in Zhejiang Province wants to collect to protect the territory and the people. Yang Dujun is a big man from Beiyang, who dares not to give him the face of his old man? ”

Although Sun Su'e is a woman, she is also a strong woman who traveled to Japan with a seven-month-old belly and her husband to open her eyes, and she naturally has her rebuttal to Wang Baochang's words.

"Chief Wang, what kind of peace donation, that's not all up to you. However, my beloved is away from home, and I haven't sent money home for a long time. I also have a seven-year-old child to raise, as the saying goes, half the size, eat Huang Laozi. Not to mention the five silver dollars that my family apportioned, if you reduce it to one silver dollar for me, I can't even take it out. ”

The meaning of Sun Su'e's words is obvious, that is, if you want money, you can do whatever you like! When Bao Chang Wang heard this, he was not happy, and immediately became angry and said, "Mrs. Wang, if you say that, it will not be authentic. It is a matter of course for the people to donate food. Besides, this is the first donation that Yang Dujun came to our Zhejiang to collect, and if anyone dares to resist the donation, he will lose his head. If I can't collect this money, the above will not spare me! But if you can make me ...... It's not impossible to pay this money for you! ”

The more Wang Bao spoke, the more obscene he became, and the male duck let out a lewd laugh in his throat, and actually began to pull and pull, intending to do something wrong.

Sun Su'e has a fiery personality, but after all, she is a woman, and she scolded Wang Baochang for being despicable and obscene, and resisted desperately, but she still couldn't break free. At this moment, Wang Mengxiong's lungs in the patio were about to explode, rushed in from the open door, grabbed Wang Baochang's collar with one hand, pulled him away from his grandma, and then punched him in the chin, and the whole person flew into the air, directly from the door to the courtyard, and fell heavily in the patio. The blood lines thrown from mid-air were also mixed with a few teeth, clearly discernible in the sunlight.