Chapter 22: The Smiling Tiger

Hua Mei came home from school and walked outside the yard to meet Wang Yanqing. His family lives in Kowloon Town and is the nephew of Liu Sanniang in the town. Since he was a child, he often came to his aunt's house to play, and he is very familiar with the people in the same place. He was fifteen or sixteen years old, with a smile on his round face, and he looked like a city man. In the eyes of the neighbors, he is simply a chic and dignified fan. But after going to school, he repeated a grade three times, and now he is only in the graduating class of high school. 's father is the director of the Office of the District Revolutionary Committee, and Liu Sanniang often shows off.

During the winter vacation of one year, Wang Yanqing went to her aunt's house to play, and rescued cats with the children. He saw that he was about to lose a game, so he stared at the opponent's strong opponent Erwazi who was chasing and saving the cat, and said, "Huamei, you guard the camp and watch me." After that, he rushed up and forced the second baby to a ridge, suddenly pounced forward, secretly swept his legs, and the second baby fell down, he jumped down, and took the opportunity to stomp on the back of the second baby.

After the gang broke up, Wang Yanqing followed behind the second child, secretly chewing the bitter taste of losing. When he walked to the middle of Tiankan, he pretended to fall and secretly slapped him, and the second baby was pushed into the cold and biting winter paddy field, and he was so cold that he was shivering and sneezing, but he scolded the second baby for harming people. As a result, the second baby had a high fever and almost lost his life.

Hua Mei saw it in her eyes and looked down on him from then on. At this time, he took the initiative to greet again: "Yo, Huamei, what a coincidence." "You didn't have classes?" "It's none of my business to have a sports meeting." He stopped, looked at her in a daze, and said, "I happened to go to your house to borrow the stairs for my aunt." "yes, I have something to find Qiaoqiao."

Hua Mei turned around and left, and said with contempt in her heart: "Phew! Smiling Tiger. She deliberately played a big game before going home, but she didn't expect Wang Yanqing to still lie in the hall to set up a dragon gate array, so she went straight to her room. Wang Yanqing secretly glanced at her back, and said in her heart, "Hmph, we'll see." She continued to chat with her father, the master.

After dinner, the master sat at the door of the hall and smoked a cigarette with a calm face, thinking: "A big girl, the family comes and goes, and there is no greeting and entertainment, so she is confused by reading." "Three generations of the master's family have made a living from the crafts of stonemasonry, and he has learned a unique job from his father since he was a child, and he has a large group of apprentices and grandchildren, which is particularly respected. He firmly believes that "a woman is virtuous if she is not talented", the eldest daughter Huarong is illiterate and married to Beidou Town, the second daughter Huafang did not finish her junior high school and married in the suburbs of Chengdu, and the third daughter Huamei finally relied on reading to the high school. As for his only son Hua Song, he is blindly pampered, and has always provided favorable conditions to return to his hometown after finishing high school, and is accustomed to serving as a son-in-law.

Hua Mei's mother sat next to her spinning, her mother's composition was not good, and a landed phoenix was married to the master. She was frail and sickly, and could only do household chores. Bear eight children, and feed these four. What makes her heart the most entangled is Hua Mei, who has a stubborn personality and is born with a backbone.

When he was a few years old, the master approached the secretary of the commune and asked Hua Mei to call her uncle, forcing her to cry and not open her mouth. Hua Mei is soft on the outside and rigid on the inside, looking like a sister Lin. But once she made up her mind, she didn't want to pull her back.

After Hua Mei had dinner, the kitchen was cleaned up, and the master called her to the hall and said, "Wang Yanqing came in the afternoon, why didn't you even say hello?" "I didn't pay attention at the time." "A big living person, you can't see? Don't you know that his father is the chief director of the Office of the District Revolutionary Committee? Drop a piece of meat with a bang? "Don't you often say that the big girl's family can't talk too much in front of people."

Hua Mei's mother secretly teased her, and the master said: "You and your parents don't know the level in front of you, and you dare to talk back, they are all let you read books." I see that you will forget about it after reading the past few days. "The second sister came back last time and said okay, I was admitted to junior high school. Dad, you forced your second sister to drop out of school at that time, do you know how bitter she is now? "Reverse? Who's in this room? ”

It came out on the radio: Comrades of the club, now the full text of Yang Huamei's speech at the conference is broadcast.

When the master heard this, he stood up, as if he had been humiliated, and shouted: "The eldest girl's family, I am really ashamed to show my head in front of everyone." Hum! With that, he knocked off the cigarette pot at the foot of the bench, picked up the dry tobacco stick, put his hands behind his back, and rushed out of the yard angrily.

Hua Mei threw herself on her mother's shoulder, full of grievances, and said with tears: "Mom, I didn't dare to say it when I came back from school, I won the first place in today's lecture, but my dad ......" "Alas, he's a dead brain, don't care about him." ”

Da Hung lay on the bed, listened to the radio at this time, fell asleep leisurely, and the dream came again, but the original little girl became today's Huamei......