Chapter XVIII The Cold War

Chifeng Township has just set up a brick and tile factory funded and organized by the township enterprise office, with the aim of better solving the employment problem of the families of the staff members of various township departments. Li Kemin also entered the factory as a temporary worker through the relationship of a distant relative who worked as an accountant in the township finance office.

Li Kemin has already learned the craft of tile making, and the technical movements are quite skilled, his daily output is more than double that of others, and the quality is good. The other people who entered this factory are the children and families of the township leaders, and it doesn't matter how much or how little they do, anyway, they will get a lot of wages. But Li Kemin is different, he has no immediate family members working in the township government department, and his relatives have already mobilized a lot of connections when he is sent here, so his relatives have repeatedly told him to cherish such an opportunity, still do more work by himself, and never offend other colleagues. Li Kemin is quite competitive, not only did he not embarrass his relatives, but also handled the relationship in the factory very well. Later, a hard-working factory director was transferred, and Li Kemin's salary was more than twice as high as others, and he only left a little bit of the salary as his own living expenses, and handed over everything else to his wife. Since her husband became a brickyard worker, Fang Caihe's waist bag has begun to bulge, her throat is much louder than before, her head is also high, and the frequency of buying snacks and fruits is rising sharply. Since there is no shortage of pocket money in her hands, she naturally prefers to dress herself up beautifully. The business that I used to work with Mr. Li gradually disappeared, and I wandered around the village all day long. When she saw someone gambling, she squeezed in, and when she saw the itching in her hand, she bet on it. Fang Caihe has a flexible mind and can learn anything as soon as he learns it. Gambling sometimes depends on a little luck, and sometimes on one's own means. Fang Caihe won more and lost less in the casino, which made her very happy, feeling that the money came quickly, her mentality was more inflated, and the stakes began to get bigger and bigger. It's a pity that it didn't take long for her to start losing money frequently. Fang Caihe was a little puzzled: "I always won money in the past, why do I keep losing money recently?" The same scene and the same person, is it because of his bad luck? Or has someone else's technology improved? She also once suspected that the dealer was cheating, but there was no evidence, and she couldn't talk nonsense. Fang Caihe spent a small part of the money Li Kemin gave her to buy snacks and fruits, and lost most of the rest in the casino.

Li Kemin is going to pay his salary again in the next few days, and Fang Caihe is looking forward to the arrival of this day. Today finally waited for the day when Li Kemin went home and sent the money. Li Kemin has never been absent from going home the day after his paycheck. Therefore, Fang Caihe specially went to get meat on credit, made her husband's favorite braised pork, and waited for Li Kemin's arrival.

Li Kemin came home a little late today, and he was still noon after noon. Fang Caihe walked out of the village entrance to meet him. The children were clamoring to eat, and Zhang Xueyun arranged for her grandson to go to the table to eat. couldn't wait for her husband, Fang Caihe was naturally not in a good mood, and when she came home and saw the children eating a bowl full of braised pork until only a few pieces of fat were left, she was angry, and it happened that the eldest son Fang Binyang slipped into the kitchen and was ready to steal the few pieces of meat left in the bowl, which made her even more intolerable. Fang Binyang was grabbed by his mother's hair: "I'll let you eat enough, you starving ghost." As he spoke, he dragged him to the bowl on the table and pushed his whole head into the bowl. The child's cry was terrible and exaggerated, Zhang Xueyun hurriedly ran over, and while pushing Caihe's hand away, she scolded: "You it, how can there be such a vicious mother like you in the world, the old stepmother (stepmother) is not as vicious as you, you want to beat and kill my old woman, why are you torturing my grandson like this?" ”

Fang Caihe also yelled at her mother: "What's wrong with me educating my own children? What's your business, you'd better leave them alone, see whose children are like ours, spoiled endlessly, you will wait for them to be unlucky in the future. ”

"I said Caihe, why do you curse my grandson? Don't I know how you're doing? ”

"What's wrong with me? You have nothing else to do, my son I have taught him to be righteous, and I advise you not to meddle in your affairs. ”

"Okay, you have a kind, I'm self-inflicted, your wings are also stiff, you don't need me, an old immortal, you just take a handful of pesticides and poison me, I won't have much more peace of mind."

"Don't threaten me, don't you know who I am? Your tricks work on others, but they don't work for me. ”

"Then I'll die myself to show you, anyway, I'm tired of living a long time ago, and you all wish I died early." Zhang Xueyun was about to go out of the kitchen to the farm tool cabinet to find pesticides, Li Kemin just stepped in and collided with Zhang Xueyun.

"You should let me get out of here." Zhang Xueyun yelled at Li Kemin, who had just entered the door.

Li Kemin stepped aside, and saw Fang Caihe's face pale, and the eldest son was crying, knowing that the mother and daughter were at war again, and the boss was uncomfortable.

Fang Caihe said: "What are you doing, hurry up and pull my mother back, she is going to find death and life." ”

Li Kemin had no choice but to turn around and chase after his mother-in-law. Zhang Xueyun had already walked into the hall, and when she heard someone chasing her, she pretended to take out a bottle of pesticide from the cabinet and wanted to open the lid and drink it.

Li Kemin rushed over and snatched it down: "Have you two made enough trouble, can you stop making noise for a day?" ”

Zhang Xueyun pointed at Li Kemin's nose and opened her mouth to scold: "You are an outsider, you are not qualified to teach me a lesson, it is not for you, why should we quarrel with you today." ”

Li Kemin said: "I haven't arrived home yet, and you guys will put all the feces and urine on my head when you quarrel, and you still don't make a little sense?" Zhang Xueyun scolded him again: "If you don't want to eat braised pork, my grandson won't be beaten, but now he is beaten and scolded, and he is scolded, I don't even allow a judgment, is this family still humane?" ”

Fang Caihe also arrived, and when he saw that Li Kemin was still holding a pesticide in his hand, he snatched it over and said, "If you want to die, it's not your turn to die, just let me die, it's a hundred." ”

Li Kemin snatched it again, and slapped his wife with ease, this slap was both loud and powerful, almost fanning Fang Caihe into the courtyard patio.

Zhang Xueyun chased after him, and grabbed Li Kemin's face, and Li Kemin's right face immediately saw a red blood mark. Li Kemin was furious, raised his hand to smash the pesticide bottle, and also picked up his palm and slapped Zhang Xueyun.

"Oh my god! The unfilial son raised by the thief mother, the elders are coming, you it, you can't die well. Zhang Xueyun cried and fought back, and scolded unrelentingly.

"I'm going to die, and the whole family is going to die together." Fang Caihe also helped her mother participate in the melee, they surrounded Li Kemin one on the left and one on the right, one in front and one behind, grabbing and beating, kicking and biting.

Neighbors rushed over from various homes, and everyone persuaded them to separate the three of them with mops. Li Kemin's face was covered with blood stains from his fingers scratching his skin. Fang Caihe's eye socket was blackened and swollen by Li Kemin's fist, and Zhang Xueyun was not much better, and a handful of hair on her forehead had been torn off. Li Kemin's shirt was also torn into strips of silk-like cloth, hanging sparsely on his body, and his chest and back were exposed with blood marks on his muscles. Several male neighbors dragged the still indignant Li Kemin away from the scene and dragged him to their home, where several women were trying to comfort the mother and daughter. A few more women entered Fang Caihe's room and rummaged through the closet for clothes that Li Kemin could change.

"Don't persuade me, I'm going to end up with this family. Don't blame me for not giving you face, I've made up my mind, today I must kill these two evil spirits first, and it doesn't matter if I kill my head and shoot myself. ”

"Kemin, you must be calm now, you must not say stupid things or do stupid things, you have three or four lovely children now; You destroyed your own family, do you think you are a hero? In fact, you are clearly a coward when you think like this, you are evading responsibility, you are not living well, and you still want to drag these children into it? You can't be so rash, think about it, everyone didn't come to see your family's jokes to persuade each other, everyone really hopes that your family will get along in harmony and be affectionate. Zhangshu poured a cup of warm boiled water and handed it over, persuading while handing it over. Li Kemin didn't reach out to pick it up, and his chest fell together. Several male neighbors also came to persuade them.

The mother and daughter in Fang Caihe's family somehow began to quarrel again. Everyone hurriedly persuaded the mother and daughter to leave their respective rooms.

Fang Caihe was extremely dissatisfied with her mother's performance today, and saw her angrily complaining to the neighbors: "It's not me who is an old immortal, I don't need to eat Kemin's fist today, she has become crazy, everything has to be inserted, originally I cooked a good dish and waited for Kemin to come home to eat." I went out of the village to pick up Kemin for a while, and the children ate all the dishes I had cooked. ”

The neighbors all persuaded: "The matter has passed, you have to be calm and calm, this is not a big deal, and it is a family of relatives, there is no hatred and resentment to remember, don't say anything else, everyone will tolerate it in the future, the family is precious to harmony, Caihe yourself said, is this the truth." ”

Fang Caihe said: "I made my uncles and aunts laugh, I have no face to live, and I have to burn high incense if I don't make trouble at home, but unfortunately my family just can't do it." I know that my temper is not very good, I didn't expect that the rest of my family is also the same as me, I have to earn a tall ugly needle to Mai Mang, uncle, how difficult do you say I am a man? ”

Zhang Xueyun didn't cry or make trouble at this time, just sat in a room trembling all over. Everyone was afraid that something would happen to her when she was sick, so someone came out to discuss with everyone. Everyone thinks that they should ask Fang Caihe's opinion first to see if they should send her to the hospital.

Fang Caihe said: "You can just go and make her a pot of ginger soup and pour it for her, she has an old problem, and it is useless to go to the hospital." So some neighbors went to boil ginger soup and tea, and they all persuaded Zhang Xueyun to drink it while it was hot.

At this time, the merchant at the gate of the stage picked up a load of pears and put them at the door of the stage, and when he saw so many people gathered at the door of Fang Caihe's house, he began to shout loudly: "Gong pears, freshly picked fresh, big, sweet and crisp Gong pears, sell them cheaply!" It's time to buy it. Fang Yunhai walked over, kicked him hard with his foot and roared: "Don't you have water in your eyes?" Everyone is already looking for death and life, you are still here to ask for your own boring, was discovered by her man, and killed you with a kitchen knife, who do you go to seek revenge? When the merchant heard this, he picked up his burden and ran away without a trace.