1987 My Era

Chapter 98: The rich should not despise the poor, they have become the best (Please subscribe!)
There was a lot of commotion downstairs. Before Li Heng could get dressed and get out of bed, Li Jianguo and Tian Run'e came back from town.

Didn't come back empty-handed.

I bought meat, wonton wrappers, noodles, a fish, wine, sugar, and some miscellaneous daily necessities.

Well, Li Jianguo was holding a bag of Chinese medicine in his left hand.

What has the Li family been like over the years? How much wealth does the family have? The villagers have a rough idea of ​​what happened. When they saw the couple bringing so many things home, they immediately understood.

I understand that what Li Yan said is absolutely true.

Li Heng has really become a great writer. He really earned a huge sum of 3800 yuan with just one book!
Otherwise, how could Tian Run'e, who usually relies on selling rice to support her family, dare to spend so much?
Isn't that a total waste?

Although everyone knew the answer, someone still asked immediately:

"Auntie Tian, ​​has Li Heng really become a great writer?"

Tian Run'e smiled warmly and replied, "I'm not a great writer. I just wrote a book and made a little money."

Listen, I earned 3800 yuan just by writing a book!
3800 yuan!

It's one thing to guess, another to hear it with your own ears.

For a moment, the crowd fell into deathly silence, obviously stunned by the news.

But the silence did not last long, as the noise that followed was louder and more explosive than before.

Tian Run'e took out three pounds of paper-wrapped candy from the urea bag, placed it on a stone, opened it, and happily answered everyone's questions while inviting everyone to eat the wedding candy.

Wedding candy!

The Li family has distributed wedding candies, which means the matter is settled.

Those few people with dark hearts were jealous, angry, and crazy, but they had no choice but to bite the paper-wrapped candy in their mouths until it broke into pieces. Hum! It wasn't very sweet either.

But most people still had some good intentions. For a while, the door of Old Li's house was filled with people and it was very lively, returning to the glory of the time when Li Jianguo was the leader of the Education Bureau.

At noon, the villagers gradually dispersed, leaving only a few idle people who had nothing to do and kept asking Li Jianguo and Li Heng questions.

"Li Heng, Uncle Heng!"

Just as Li Heng was tirelessly dealing with his neighbors, a voice came from the other end of the street. Zhang Zhiyong was shouting.

Li Heng stood up and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Come and do me a favor."

"Oh, okay, here it comes!"

Finally freed, Li Heng happily ran towards Quxinyan.

"Fuck you! You are so proud today. I guess I will have to wait until the day I die to have such a grand occasion in my lifetime." Zhang Zhiyong said this with envy, jealousy and hatred in his eyes.

Li Heng smiled, showing his beautiful teeth: "Don't worry, I will help you to hold a more grand ceremony on the day you die."

"Fuck! You beast, are you really hoping for my death?" Zhang Zhiyong's eyes almost popped out, full of anger.

Li Heng reached out and touched his dog's head: "Everyone will die one day, either today or tomorrow, there is nothing to be afraid of."

"Fuck, don't touch me. I'm really fed up with you now. My whore-mongering dad has been catching me asking questions about you today. I've been talking so much that my mouth is dry. In the end, the old man came to one conclusion: if he wants to have a son, he should have Li Heng..." Zhang Zhiyong was very depressed and kept complaining about his father.

Li Heng was delighted to hear this, "Not bad, your father is well educated."

"Bah! What do you mean by cultural level? I would believe if you said that he's better at playing with women." Zhang Zhiyong was so angry when he said this.

Li Heng asked: "What happened again?"

Zhang Zhiyong glanced around and said angrily, "He slept with my mom first last night, and I heard the noises they made.

I didn't expect that he would go to the widow's bed next door in the middle of the night. Tell me! Tell me! Isn't my dad a slut? "

Li Heng was curious, "Did your mother catch you?"

Zhang Zhiyong hammered his hands in frustration, "My mom is no good. She doesn't learn her lesson. She sleeps like a pig. I followed her secretly."

Li Heng was surprised. "I didn't hear you guys quarreling last night. How did you handle it?"

Zhang Zhiyong took out a roll of money from his pocket, all in United Bank notes. "That bitch just threw a dozen notes at me and told me not to tell anyone."

Li Heng asked: "Do you agree?"

Zhang Zhiyong cursed and gesticulated, "I agree to nothing! Damn it! I rushed in, grabbed the widow's head and banged it against the wall for more than 20 times. There was blood on her forehead and the wall.

If that old woman hadn't held me back, I would have twisted her head off and used it as a urinal. Pah! I even slapped her eight times.

I wanted to slap her 365 times, but she passed out after the 8th one. She's too weak to take a beating, and I still haven't had enough."

Li Heng gave a thumbs up, "Then how do you deal with your father?"

Zhang Zhiyong took out four more rolls of money from his pocket, "Hey, a total of 4 for whore money."

With a responsible attitude towards gossip, Li Heng even deliberately took a detour and passed by the widow's house.

Sure enough, I saw that the widow had gauze tied on her forehead and the right side of her face was a little swollen.

The widow who was feeding the chickens in the yard saw how stupid he was and stopped feeding the chickens and hurried into the house.

Zhang Zhiyong winked and said, "See? I'm not bragging to you."

Li Heng gave a thumbs up again.

The so-called verbal help from the stupid guy was just to drive a tractor to the village office to pull corn and ask him to be the boss.

Sitting on the tractor, Li Heng asked, "Where are your parents? Call me."

Zhang Zhiyong said unhappily, "My old mother is useless and has no memory. After being coaxed by sweet words, she lost her way and took a shortcut to my grandmother's house with the old man. She just left the house not long ago."

The village office is about one or two miles away from the intersection, and is next to the women's director's house.

At this time, the women's director and her daughter Liu Juan were turning over and drying soybeans at the door of their home. When they saw Li Heng standing by, they smiled and joked:

"Happy events bring joy to people. Li Heng, you look good, much better than in the first month of the year."

Then the director of women's affairs said to her daughter, "Go, bring two stools over."

Yo!
I don’t know who held my daughter in the tractor truck in the first month of the year and prevented Liu Juan from talking to him?
From not allowing her daughter to get close to her in the past to now actively asking her daughter to bring a stool for her, isn't this mother's attitude change too big?
Do you have to be so obvious?

Not used to it, not used to it.

Li Heng took the stool, said thank you, sat down and asked Liu Juan who was stealing glances at him: "How many days of monthly leave do you have?"

The girl was fine at first, but when she spoke, her face turned red and she started to stutter. She lowered her head and said, "Three, three days."

Seeing her shy look, Li Heng couldn't help but asked with a smile, "Am I a tiger? Are you so afraid of me?"

Liu Juan looked up at him, then lowered her eyes again. As she picked up the beans irregularly with her hands, her ears turned red.

Seeing her daughter's failure, the head of the women's department said with a smile, "Li Heng, stop teasing her. She is just a country bumpkin who has never seen the world."

At this moment, an old lady beside him interrupted and said, "Fulian, a talented man has taken a fancy to your daughter. How about I be the matchmaker?"

Fulian was the director of the Women's Affairs Department. Although she usually asked her daughter to stay away from Li Heng, she had a good relationship with Tian Run'e. She smiled and said, "Sure, as long as Run'e agrees, I will marry her tomorrow."

Look, look, is this human language?
He was thinking about selling his daughter before she even graduated from high school.

Her biological mother is forgetful, but Liu Juan is not.

Thinking of what happened on the tractor half a year ago, hearing what was said now, and seeing Li Heng looking at her with a smile, she felt so ashamed that she stopped helping to dry the beans and started to run away in panic.

Maybe she was too anxious, or maybe she felt uncomfortable being stared at by Li Heng. She lost her composure while running and accidentally fell. When she got up, she covered her forehead with her right hand and went into the house.

"You are so careless and have no sense of responsibility." The women's director saw her daughter's behavior and scolded her.

The director of women affairs turned around and said to Li Heng, "I'm sorry to show you how ridiculous you are. Are you transporting corn?"

"Yes."

Li Heng is a celebrity now, with his own traffic. Not long after he sat down, people near the village office surrounded him and argued with him for a long time before they got away.

As the tractor slowly drove away, the old lady who was about to become a matchmaker said, "The rich should not despise the poor, and the poor should not have bad intentions. Look, the Li family is on the rise again, and someone wants to curry favor with them again."

The director of the Women's Affairs Department sighed, "Who says it's not true? I'm just afraid that those people were too ruthless in the past, and now it's hard to curry favor with them."

A newly married woman next to her said to the director of women's affairs, "Sister-in-law, Li Heng is a handsome man with great abilities. If you marry Xiaojuan to him, she will be able to enjoy a good life with him for the rest of her life."

The women's director smiled and didn't respond.

Because she knew in her heart that even though Li Heng had been chatting with her politely for so long just now, there was actually a sense of distance between them in his bones.

Maybe it was because I pulled my daughter behind me in the first month of the year that irritated him.

The head of the women's department thought to herself, if she had known that he could turn things around so quickly, she would have let her daughter talk to him at close range, and even if she really coaxed her daughter into bed, it wouldn't matter. At most, they could have just got engaged and got married after graduation.

...

On the tractor.

Zhang Zhiyong said sullenly, "Uncle Heng, you are really rich now. Those people just talked to you and I was just a nobody. I am so fucking unhappy!"

Li Heng joked, "Is it because you are a little ugly?"

Zhang Zhiyong touched his head with his free left hand. For the first time, he felt so unconfident: "Am I really that ugly?"

Li Heng joked: "It doesn't matter if you are ugly, as long as a man has money in his pocket."

Zhang Zhiyong felt desperate after hearing this: "But I don't have as much money as you do."

Li Heng said: "Then you have to rely on your father. If he continues to sleep with the widow, you will earn more money. Keep an eye on him. This is an endless source of income."

Zhang Zhiyong looked back at him, panting, but he felt that it made so much sense.

That bitch can make money driving a tractor and he only wins and never loses when playing cards. If he keeps a close eye on it, wouldn't all the money go into his pocket?

Thinking of this, the fool laughed like a pig, "That bitch and my uncle-in-law have discussed it and plan to go to Zijiang River to operate a sand dredging gold mining ship next month."

Li Heng didn't react much. The descendants of the Zhang family were doing this. He just asked curiously, "How much shares does your family own?"

Zhang Zhiyong said: "35%, my uncle-in-law got 35%, and the rest was used by my uncle-in-law to do favors."

Li Heng nodded: "Sand mining and gold panning are both high-risk and high-return industries. It will not work without someone to protect you."

Those who are good at sand mining and gold panning these days are all ruthless and have a group of capable people under them. If you don't have some hard power, you will end up dead on the river one day.

And the simple-minded father is a well-known gangster leader in Qianzhen. Although he does not harm the villagers, he is well-known outside and people are terrified of him. Generally, those rebellious people will immediately behave themselves when they meet him, otherwise his mother will not be able to control them.

It was already noon when I got home.

He simply ate a bowl of rice with the leftovers from the morning, and then went to his second uncle's house with two bags of sugar and two bottles of wine.

The second uncle's house is not far away, and is located in the same U-shaped courtyard as Yang Yingwen's house.

By the way, the wooden house that the Yang family lives in now used to belong to the second uncle. Later, the landlords were punished and the tyrants were divided. The fields, land, mountains and houses were confiscated and redistributed by the commune.

"Second uncle, I'm here to visit you, how are you doing lately?"

As soon as I entered the door, I saw the second uncle sitting under a pear tree to enjoy the cool air, drinking rice wine and instructing Yang Yingwen's father how to slaughter a dog.

Hearing the shout, the second uncle slowly turned his head, and when he saw that it was Li Heng, he said with his yellow teeth:

"You are here, kid. You showed off quite a bit today."

The two had a very good relationship and were familiar with each other. When he was a child, he didn't like to work. Apart from hiding in his room to read books, he would follow his father to catch fish and shrimps, and learned a lot of skills. Moreover, the second uncle was very loyal and would always give him some fish, shrimps and eels to ensure that their family could have a full meal.

Li Heng sat down next to him and said, "No, it's all thanks to you."

As he said this, he put the wine and candy next to him and said, "This is my gift to you, old man."

"Yes, this candy is not cheap. Yes, I love this wine. I have been craving it for years, but I have never had the money to buy it." The second uncle didn't bother to be polite with him. He stretched out his bony hand, grabbed the candy and looked at it, then grabbed the wine and looked at it. He couldn't help but be happy and kept praising it.

"As long as you like it, I'll buy it for you when I come back."

Just as he was chatting with the second uncle, Yang Yingwen heard the voice and came over.

Li Heng teased, "You dare to sit with me?"

Yang Yingwen instinctively wanted to rebuke him, but thinking that he had finally gotten his chance to shine today, he took back the bad words that were about to come out of his mouth:
"You are already in a relationship, so there is no need for me to be shy."

Li Heng glanced at her, "A beautiful flower with a master can conflict with a playboy. Haven't you always thought that I'm a playboy?"

Because there were outsiders present, Yang Yingwen did not argue with him about this matter, and instead said, "How about I cook two dishes for you, and you can drink with your uncle?"

Li Heng glanced at Yang's father who was killing a dog, and asked in a low voice: "Your father is usually so stingy, how dare you?"

Yang Yingwen didn't answer, she got up and went straight to the kitchen. She proved with her actions whether she dared or not.

After a while, a plate of peanuts, a plate of pickled peppers and a plate of smashed cucumbers arrived. Although they were not big dishes, they were definitely sincere and were great to go with wine.

Li Heng called her, "Old rag, come, let's drink together."

The second uncle didn't even call her, he had already poured a glass of wine and handed it to Yang Yingwen, and even chewed two peanuts before muttering to himself:
"I'll have one less meal to eat. Yang's cooking skills are getting better and better. I can't eat many more meals."

Yang Yingwen followed suit and called out to the second uncle, "Second uncle, don't talk nonsense. I think you have a body that can live a hundred years."

The second uncle stretched out his hand and slapped it. "Five months, at most five months. I'm afraid it will scare you if I tell you. Now many old friends come to chat with me every night."

Hearing this, Father Yang raised his head and said, "Last night, your old man was under the pear tree late at night, muttering to himself for a long time. Was he talking to someone?"

The second uncle didn't answer, but handed a glass of wine to Father Yang: "Come, have a drink. I have watched you grow up, and I have always wanted to say something to you."

Father Yang took the wine and poured it into his mouth. "What are you going to say next?"

The second uncle pointed at Yang Yingwen and said, "You have lived for more than 50 years and always boasted that you are smart, but in fact, in my eyes, you have always been a fool.

If you want to leave with dignity in the future, you have to be close to her. The three above you are not as good as one of her fingers."

Father Yang glanced at Yang Yingwen, then turned away angrily and continued to kill the dog.

The conversation ended suddenly in a bad mood.

Yang Yingwen didn't think of herself as an eyesore and immediately packed up her things and left. No matter how her mother and sister tried to persuade her, it was useless.

Li Heng chased after him, "Old rag, now there is no car, where can you go? Are you going to Xiao Han's house?"

Yang Yingwen was holding his breath now. "Tell me, if I find a man to marry now, will I regret it?"

What the hell is going on? Li Heng didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "You will definitely regret it in the future."

Yang Yingwen's face was filled with sadness. "Then I can only go to Xiao Han's house."

Li Heng asked: "Do you want me to take you there?"

"No need. Why would I need you to deliver something in broad daylight? Just go about your business. You have to go to school tomorrow morning anyway." Yang Yingwen refused bluntly.

After taking a few steps, she threatened again, "Li Heng, when I get into college, I will never come back."

"With your grades, you can go to college in a few months."

“I won’t be coming back for four years of college.”

"Then what do you eat?"

"As long as you have hands and feet you won't starve. If all else fails, just pick up trash and sell it."

Li Heng asked: "Where is your mother? Do you care about her?"

Yang Yingwen said: "I will take her away when I am able to do so."

Li Heng was silent for a while, then said: "If this day really comes, come to me, I might be able to give you some advice."

"Well, I'll remember what you said."

...

at dusk.

Li Heng heard Yang Yingwen's mother and Comrade Tian Run'e discussing the academic performance of their two children and complaining.

Tian Run'e comforted her, "Don't be sad. With your son Yingwen's grades, he will surely be admitted to Tsinghua University or Peking University. Your son will change his attitude by then."

Mother Yang sobbed quietly, "I'm afraid Xiao Si will be disappointed and won't come back."

Yang Yingwen is the fourth child in the family and adults call him Xiaosi.

Tian Run'e said: "How could that be? Her roots are here, and you are here. She is just saying it in anger, so there is no way she will not come back."

In fact, Li Heng didn't quite understand Yang's father's train of thought. Was he really stupid? Or was he just being stubborn and unable to put down his pride?

It is obvious that the old rag is much better than the three daughters above, but his mother just can't stand her and keeps finding fault with her.

Perhaps, it is still the feudal peasant mentality that is at work and the views have not changed.

He believed that no matter how good his daughter was, she would have to marry someone from a different family. He thought that Yang Yingwen had destroyed his last hope and that the Yang family had no male heir to inherit the family line, so he took out all his anger on his youngest daughter.

After dinner, my second sister always sat on the doorstep and ate melon seeds.

Seeing her brother coming over, she asked symbolically, "Do you want to eat something?"

Well, 200 yuan for a cheap word.

Li Heng was also speechless. He casually used his right foot to hook a small wooden stool and sat down: "You eat, I'm not very interested in these."

But the eldest sister came over, grabbed a handful and started eating with relish.

Glancing at his elder sister's optimistic look and her growing belly, Li Heng asked, "Did your brother-in-law come back to see you in the first half of the year?"

When she heard the word "brother-in-law", Li Lan gave him a look of contempt.

She was strongly opposed to her elder sister marrying a carpenter's apprentice, saying that the man had no looks, no talent, and no courage, so what was the use of being tall?

But the eldest sister fell in love with the man, and her parents didn't object, so she got married.

At that time, my second sister said: If you marry a short guy like this, I will not call him brother-in-law.

Facts have proved that this girl is what she says. In her previous life, she never called her brother-in-law "brother-in-law". On the day of her wedding, people used red envelopes to tempt her to call him brother-in-law, but she didn't say a word.

It would have been fine if she didn't shout herself, but she also didn't allow Li Heng to shout. Every time her brother shouted, she would find a false excuse to beat him up.

Who can you cry to when you encounter such a rude and unreasonable person?
The eldest sister said with satisfaction: "He came back to visit me twice, brought me hens, bought me meat, and Gastrodia elata."

It was quite thoughtful of me to make two trips back and forth from Huaihua in half a year. After all, it took several days to walk back and forth, and it was all through deep mountains and forests, which was not so easy.

There is a car to take.

But money is so precious these days, who would be willing to spend it easily? Most people usually take mountain roads.

Not to mention Huaihua, which is nearby, even if you go to the farther Nanyue Hengshan for pilgrimage, you still have to walk. Just bring some dry food and two sets of clothes and set off in a team.

I never brought any water with me. I would ask for water from people I met on the road. If there was spring water, that would be even better. But if that wasn't possible, I would just lie in the fields and drink.

Seriously, Li Heng drank from the water in the fields when he was a kid, and he could see leeches and small red nematodes in the water.

At first he didn't dare to drink it, but the adults would just pick a place without worms to eat, and then pat their bellies and say that it wouldn't make him sick if he ate it even if it wasn't clean, and they had never seen anyone get hurt.

Maybe, probably, it is because people of this era work frequently, have good physical fitness, and have become accustomed to and immune to such environmental hygiene.

Li Heng took out 100 yuan from his pocket, stuffed it into the elder sister's hand, and said, "I was in a hurry to come back this time, and I arrived in town very late. I didn't see any good things for sale, so I didn't buy anything. Sister, take this money and buy something you like or something you crave."

Li Yan was frightened by such a large amount of money and refused to take it, refusing it for a long time.

Later, Li Lan couldn't stand it anymore and said calmly: "Only a fool doesn't want money."

Li Yan turned around: "Huh?"

Li Lan held out her hand: "If you don't want it, give it to me. I'll remember your kindness. You have a man anyway, and I can give you eight or ten yuan a year."

Li Yan looked at her younger brother, then at her second sister, and squeaked the money in. "My mother-in-law is sick and needs money. I'll take it."

Li Lan glanced at her brother, as if to say: Use some thought and find the right remedy for the problem. Don't just pick up girls every day.

Li Heng responded with a rolled eye and ignored him.

The eldest sister is most afraid of people calling her a fool and cannot bear to hear the word "stupid". How could the second sister's provocation not work?

It’s not that he doesn’t understand, he just thinks it’s too unkind.

Someone from across the street called my elder sister to come over for a visit, hoping to get more gossip about Li Heng from her, and my elder sister went happily.

Li Lan and Li Heng did not stop them. Anyway, they never made too many demands on this elder sister. The most important thing was that she was happy.

After the people left, Li Lan asked him, "You gave me all the money, what do you use it for?"

Li Heng said: "I still have a scholarship."

Li Lan finally reacted, said "oh", and continued eating melon seeds.

After listening to the neighbors' chatter for a while on the doorstep, the two siblings went upstairs to read by light of lamplight.

A student from a medical school will graduate this year and will start working soon.

The college entrance examination is only a month away, and the academic workload is even more intense.

Before they parted on the second floor, Li Heng asked, "Was that guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes pursuing you last time?"

Li Lan raised her chin and said, "There are so many people chasing after me, all of them have thick eyebrows and big eyes."

Li Heng found it funny and said, "They are all licking dogs."

Li Lan was stunned by the word "licking dog", but she knew what it meant based on the literal meaning the next second, and immediately responded with a counterattack: "Are you Chen Zijin's licking dog?"

Li Heng glared at her.

Li Lan changed her name: "Song Yu's?"

Li Heng reached out and pushed her away, then walked past her to his own cubicle.

Li Lan said provocatively from behind: "If you can make Chen Xiaomi fall in love with you, I will admire you."

This girl is still harboring evil intentions. She has such bad intentions.

Li Heng was too lazy to talk nonsense with her. He opened the door with his foot and went in.

There was no conversation that night. He first reviewed Chinese, then did a set of math problems, then memorized some politics, and finally went to bed.

As I didn’t have a watch, I didn’t know what time it was when I lay on the bed. I just felt that it was very late at night and even the dog stopped barking.

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