"Jiajia, are you sick? Or do you have a toothache?"
"I have something to do at home, so I have to go back early." Yang Jiabo kicked the ground with his toes depressedly. He was afraid that if he went back late, his mother would get into trouble with others.
"That's such a pity." The enthusiastic and generous child Wei Feng expressed regret that he couldn't share delicious snacks with his friend.
"Yes." Yang Jiabo's whole body wilted.
"It's okay, I'll bring it to you tomorrow." Wei Jing couldn't help but reached out and touched the child's head.
"Brother Wei, you are so kind." Yang Jiabo immediately resurrected with full health and looked at Wei Jing with shining eyes.
"Jiajia, I'm also very good to you, and I'll take care of you too." Wei Feng came up and patted his chest to assure him.
"Okay, okay, I'll invite you to my house for dinner on the weekend." Yang Jiabo waved his tender paws proudly, making such a happy decision. How could he not express his gratitude when taking someone else's food?
As soon as school was over, Yang Jiabo ran out in a hurry. It was his little aunt who came to pick him up in the afternoon. He get on the bicycle and urged his aunt to go home.
Yang Meizhen joked with a smile. "Are you hungry and anxious to go home for dinner?"
"No, I have to study hard, make progress every day, and race against time to complete the tasks assigned by the teacher." Yang Jiabo said nonsense seriously.
"Well, if you get a hundred points on the exam, I'll give you two cents."
"It's a deal, it's such a happy decision." Yang Jiabo smiled. Although the money was not much, it was free money after all.
The aunt and nephew returned home happily, not knowing that there was already a turmoil at home.
Yang Jiabo felt his eyelids twitching along the way. As soon as he arrived at the door of his home, he saw a large group of familiar people blocking the door. The corner of his lips twitched, he thought that what was supposed to come came.
His mother was from a village deep in the mountains. His grandmother gave birth to a total of three sons and six daughters. Except for the second uncle who still stayed at the old house, they all moved into the city. The eldest uncle and the third uncle became door-to-door sons-in-law in the same village on the edge of the city, and the other five aunts also all married into the city.
Now all these aunts and uncles were here. There were also cousins who had just come of age. This large group of people were aggressive and looked like they were ready for a fight at any moment.
Yang Jiabo stepped forward and called everyone one by one before asking: "Uncle, where are my parents?"
His eldest uncle Zhou Wensheng was the leader of the production team. Although he wasn't a big official, he was somewhat capable. Although he wasn't tall, he was the bellwether of this large family.
"Your father went to the hospital with your mother." His eldest uncle looked at his little aunt. "Meizhen, please take care of Jiajia."
"Brother-in-law, what's going on?" Yang Meizhen called him after Li Guizhen.
"Your second sister-in-law and her sister injured my third sister. We're here to ask for an explanation." The eldest uncle was very angry.
Suddenly, those aunts exploded like firecrackers, and started cursing at the door. Each person's words were not repeated, which made people deeply understand that cursing was also a technical job. If their words were collected and compiled, it could be made into a book called a collection of dirty words.
Yang Jiabo quietly lit the candle for his aunt and her sister. They had stirred up a hornets' nest. To be honest, his mother was the one with the weakest fighting ability in the Li family. There were so many brothers and sisters in the Li family. Although there were many internal conflicts, as long as there was a problem, they would definitely unite to face the outside world.
[捅马蜂窝 tǒng mǎ fēng wō: lit. stir up a hornets' nest; fig. create chaos]
If the opponents didn't agree, they would fight them to death, whether with words or with hands. Especially many years later, when everyone of Yang Jiabo's generation grew up and had families, their fighting power soared like a rocket.
Yang Meizhen asked about the situation, but was too lazy to care about this nonsense and took Yang Jiabo to the hospital. When Yang Jiabo saw his mother in the hospital, he almost didn't recognize her. There was a bald patch on his head, probably because her hair had been torn out. Her originally thin face was swollen like a pig's head, her arms were hanging in front of her chest, she was walking with a limp, and her clothes were dirty and stained with blood.
According to Yang Jiabo's observation, his mother must have been grabbed by the hair and pressed to the ground. There were several cuts made by the fingernails on her face, and the bloodstains on her clothes must have been stained that way.
"Mom, grandma won't even recognize you when you look like this." Yang Jiabo circled around Li Guizhen. He thought it was really a fierce battle.
Tsk tsk, seeing how majestic she usually is at home, shouting and roaring like a tiger descending from the mountain, but she was beaten like this by a little girl and a little wife.
"Why are you here?" Yang Jianjun was surprised.
"My little aunt brought me here. She went to park the bicycle. Eldest uncle and the others blocked my third uncle's house. The house is too messy."
When Li Guizhen heard that her backers had come, she immediately ignited her fighting spirit. She said full of vigor, "Let's go back. I want to teach that bitch a lesson."
Yang Jiabo rolled his eyes. "Mom, you're in such a state now, just take a good rest in the hospital."
"Do you think it's free to stay in the hospital? This little skin injury can be recuperated at home." Li Guizhen insisted on going home.
Yang Jiabo's eyes rolled, and he felt bad in his heart. "The person who injured you must pay for the hospital bills. You can't go to work like this, so they have to pay for the missed wages. Look at how injured you are. You have to keep up with nutrition. They also have to pay for it. "
People at this time were simple and honest, and most people didn't know about lost wages and nutritional expenses. Yang Jiabo could only explain to them in detail.
Li Guizhen's eyes lit up, and her love for petty gains was immediately exposed. "Jiajia is so smart, why didn't I think of that?"
Seeing his wife and son discussing to plot against his younger brother, the simple and honest Yang Jianjun felt embarrassed.
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