Chapter Twenty-Eight: Capsizing in the Gutter
The two of them went to the kang and it was already early in the morning.
Pulling out the lights, Li Weidong leaned over, and as soon as his daughter-in-law was in her arms, she heard the big iron door outside being slammed.
Li Weidong scolded and jumped up, "Daughter-in-law, you lie down, I'll go see who it is." ”
People move quickly, pick up their clothes and jump off the kang, and they have already rushed to the courtyard in a few steps.
Tong Lin was lying on the kang, and he could still hear Li Weidong's scolding in the courtyard, "If there is no urgent matter to disturb Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will break his legs." ”
Tong Lin sat up with a smile and got dressed in the dark.
At this time, I rushed over, something must have happened, and I was afraid that I couldn't sleep.
While wearing clothes, Tong Lin also paid attention to the movement in the courtyard, and faintly heard the words that the house was burning.
She frowned, and turned on the lights in the room as she got off the kang.
At this time, the door of the outhouse rang, and Li Weidong's words also came in, "Daughter-in-law, are you up?" ”
"Come in." Tong Lin's voice lagged behind, and Li Weidong also came in with Fan Er.
There is also a slightly chubby black-faced man behind the two, with a pair of inverted eyebrows, and his appearance is very easy to remember.
Tong Lin also knows, called the big name Xu Hai, who is called the fourth child on weekdays, and is also a bastard in the town.
After he came in, he warmly called Tong Lin sister-in-law, Tong Lin nodded, Li Weidong had already rolled up the futon at this time, and Tong Lin let the two of them sit.
Fan Er's exaggerated hand patted his thigh, "Sister-in-law, you and the boss don't have to go back to the village to get married, just do it in the town." The people in the village don't recognize it, and after you go out, you don't know which king and lamb set the boss's house on fire and burned it for three days before falling to the shelf. ”
After Tong Lin heard this, the first thing he thought about was Li Weidong's feelings, Li Weidong's father went early, and his mother remarried when he was young, I heard that Li Weidong is very similar to his father, and he has had a good relationship with his father since he was a child, and he has been living in the village all these years, just because he is reluctant to leave the house where his father lived.
Now that the only thought has been burned, does Li Weidong really not care?
touched Li Weidong's eyes, even if Li Weidong immediately laughed at her, Tong Lin also found that his eyes were red.
"How is it possible to have a good house? If someone accidentally catches fire, shouting someone in the village can put it out in time. This is a sincere fire, right? Tong Lin asked Xu Hai.
Fan Er didn't know it on the road, but now he knows, that's what he heard from Xu Hai.
Xu Hai said hatefully, "Widow Wang and the village accountant are in a uproar, there are many families surnamed Wang in the village, and some people propose to drive Widow Wang out of the village, so the commune so Wang Accountant also put pressure on the village chief of Wangjia Village, and two days ago he picked up the quota of Wangjia Village's five guarantee households. ”
"The widow Wang herself did not keep her duty, why did she blame the boss for the fault? The people in Wangjia Village are also too unreasonable. ”
Xu Hai snorted, "Just because the widow Wang's surname is Wang, the village chief of Wangjia Village is her eldest brother." ”
"Boss, what should I do about this?" Fan Er asked Li Weidong.
Li Weidong smiled, "The fire is ruthless, no one can be blamed for this, we can endure it when it falls on us, and they have to endure it when it falls on them." ”
Fan Er's eyes turned, he glanced at Tong Lin again, and said with a smile, "What the boss said is right." ”
Xu Hai was confused, "Boss, are you really so enduring?" ”
Fan Er winked at him, and Xu Hai didn't understand it anymore.
But fortunately, he wasn't so stupid, knowing that Tong Lin was on the side, he didn't ask any more.
Fan Er's eyebrows and eyes and the lawsuit Tong Lin could see that she understood Li Weidong's words better, the people in Wangjia Village are not particular, and the wicked have their own wicked grinding.
"You go back to sleep first." Li Weidong drove people away.
The two were obedient, but Fan Er still pulled Li Weidong, "Boss, you come out and lock the door." ”
Obviously whispering, with such a lame excuse.
Tong Lin sees through and does not pick and choose.
Li Weidong came back quickly, and she leaned over to him, "Do you want to talk to me?" ”
"It's fine." Li Weidong said, "The old house has long been uninhabitable, and now it has burned down, saving me from thinking about whether to rebuild it." ”
Li Weidong picked the person up, "Daughter-in-law, sleep." ”
Tong Lin buried her face in his arms, he didn't say anything, but she could feel his depression.
And this night, the two slept in their arms and did nothing.
The next day, Tong Lin was in a daze and heard Li Weidong say in her ear, "Daughter-in-law, you sleep for a while, I'll go buy you breakfast." ”
Tong Lin responded in a daze, but he didn't know that it was still dark outside, Li Weidong placed his daughter-in-law, jumped off the kang lightly, and whispered out of the house.
Outside the big iron gate, Fan Er silently counted the time in his heart, it had been an hour, why hadn't the boss come out yet, wouldn't his daughter-in-law be in his arms, and he had forgotten what they had agreed on, right?
Then I heard the sound of something falling behind me.
Fan Er stood up suddenly, "Boss, how did you get out of the wall?" ”
"There is a sound at the door, what should I do if I make a noise to my daughter-in-law?" Li Weidong didn't talk nonsense with him, "Where is the car?" ”
"Up front." Fan Er followed.
Xu Hai followed silently.
In the dark, only a faint moonlight shone down from the top of his head, and Li Weidong's face was dim in the light, revealing a chill.
Fan Er glanced at it inadvertently, and couldn't help but snort.
The three got into the truck and drove all the way north of the town, stopping when they were still a kilometer away from Wangjia Village.
Xu Hai jumped into the car, took out two bottles of gasoline from the car, and after getting out of the car, he also weighed the oil drum in his hand, "Boss, who to start with?" ”
"Widow Wang is not at home these days?" Li Weidong's voice could not be heard with joy or anger.
"Since I was beaten by Accountant Wang's daughter-in-law, I went back to my mother-in-law's house." Xu Hai replied.
"No one is good."
Fan Er immediately understood, "Hey, hey, hey, then use the widow of the king to stand up." ”
Before dawn, when the families were still sleeping, I don't know who shouted that there was a fire, which woke up the sleeping village, and when the families rushed out, they saw that the whole house next to the village chief's house was shrouded in flames.
The village chief's family, which was next to the widow's house, was moving things out of the house, for fear that the house would be implicated and set the contents on fire.
Although the autumn is dry, but the village is not on the mountain, where is it said that the fire will be lit, first Li Weidong's second bastard house was burned when no one lived, and now it is the widow's house again.
Those who saw this scene were glad that there was no one at home when the two families caught fire.
But even so, if the house burns and the contents are burned, it is also a big loss, and if you want to build the house again, you have to tighten your hands for a few years or ten or eight years.
The people in the village watched as Widow Wang's house was burned to pieces, but there was nothing they could do.
At this time, it was already dawn, and the widow Wang, whose mother lived in the next village, got the letter and rushed back, and when she saw that the house was gone, she sat on the ground and slapped her legs and cried, crying and scolding at the same time.
In the town, Li Weidong walked home carrying the fritters and soy milk he bought at the breakfast stall, as soon as he pushed the door, Tong Lin was woken up, and when she sat up, Li Weidong had already entered the house with breakfast.