Chapter 011
Ruan Yuehua was not interested in where the grapes came from. He came over and sat down at the table, reached out and shook Sun Xiaohui's arm, looking greedy and felt uncomfortable: "Mom, I also want to eat grapes."
Sun Xiaohui was shaken by him. He said with a good temper, "Your grandparents were not allowed to eat when cooking last night. Do you still want to eat their grapes?" That's stolen. We don't eat it."
Ruan Yuehua is still greedy. "But I want to eat it, and my eldest brother also wants to eat it."
With that, he began to shake his head and tail, "I want to eat grapes, I want to eat grapes..."
Sun Xiaohui was very patient with Ruan Yuehua and continued to coax him, "Don't listen to them say it's sweet. Let me tell you that the grape looks sour and can make your teeth sour."
Ruan Yuehua swallowed a sip of water and twisted it. "I also want to eat it sour."
Ruan Changgui still has the dignity of being a father in front of Ruan Yuejin and Ruan Yuehua. He couldn't see Ruan Yuehua's worthless appearance. He pinched chopsticks in his hand and suddenly stood up. He said with a gloomy face and said, "Don't believe it again!"
Ruan Yuehua was scared by him to quickly loosen Sun Xiaohui's arm and sat down at the table.
Ruan Yuejin said beside him, "The house has been separated. I don't eat his food, and I don't want it either."
Ruan Changgui felt a little more comfortable when he heard this. He stared at Ruan Yuehua and said, "Learn from your brother!"
Ruan Yuehua lowered his head and pursed his mouth. Where could he hear it, his mind was still full of - I want to eat grapes.
Lying in bed at night, there is still a big bunch of grapes in front of you.
Sun Xiaohui and Ruan Changgui lay in bed. Before Ruan Changgui's snoring, Sun Xiaohui said, "I want to think about it. The grape must have been stolen by Xiaoxi. I have to report it to the Revolutionary Committee of the Golden Crown Brigade."
Ruan Changgui held his eyelids and said, "This matter doesn't need to be reported by the Brigade Revolutionary Committee. Just teach me a lesson at home."
Sun Xiaohui turned her head to him and said, "Can she admit it? Stealing needles when you are young and stealing gold when you grow up is not a small matter. Your parents spoil her for everything. If we don't care, this girl will go to prison sooner or later.
Ruan Changgui took a soft breath and said, "Isn't that going to be arrested in the mass dictatorship office?" You have to put up the sign at the critical meeting, and maybe you may be dragged into re-education through labor. Just leave it alone. It has nothing to do with us whether she will go to prison or not in prison in the future.
Sun Xiaohui: "Why doesn't it matter? What is advocated now is the destruction of relatives in great righteousness, and we should not defend them privately because they are relatives. Since you have made a mistake, you have to accept the punishment you deserve. We can't cover her up..."
As she spoke, she heard Ruan Changgui's snore and knew that he was too tired to fall asleep, so she stopped talking and didn't go on. Then she turned over and got up, thinking about it in her heart for a while, and she was not sleepy for a long time.
She thought that she had to let Ruan Xi learn a lesson, kill her prestige, and relieve her anger. Grab her to the mass dictatorship office and let her criticize and reflect in public. It's better to pull her to re-education through labor and let her suffer more on the construction site!
Sun Xiaohui turned over several times like this and barely fell asleep for a few hours.
Before the rooster crowed the next day, she got up at night. She secretly took the flashlight at home, went out in the dark, went down the mountain road to find Jinguan Village, and then found the home of the brigade secretary.
Seeing Secretary Wang in Jinguan Village, she directly explained her intention: "Someone stole grapes from your old tailor's brigade and stole a bunch of grapes home. If this kind of crooked wind and evil spirit is not rectified, it will be shaken by everyone's revolutionary will!"
With that, she took out a handful of grape skins and showed it to Secretary Wang, "This is the stolen goods, the evidence of iron fight!"
When Secretary Wang saw the grape skin in her hand, his eyes slowly sank.
In the morning, Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie got up after hearing the rooster's crowing. They washed, cooked and did housework as usual. After finishing their family affairs, they went out after dinner. They were busy.
Before Ruan Xi left, he greeted Liu Xinghua and said that she would not come back for lunch.
When she arrived at the old tailor's house, she did not ask the old tailor to learn craftsmanship or tell him about learning craftsmanship, but cleaned up the house inside and outside. While she was about to sit down and rest, a woman in a plaid shirt suddenly came outside the door.
She stood outside the door of the yard and didn't come in first. She turned her head and looked outside and waited for a while. When another young girl appeared in the door frame, she waved her hand and crossed the threshold and entered the yard.
After coming in, the plaid woman greeted the old tailor first, politely and said that she was here to make clothes.
The old tailor cleared his throat, got up from the rocking chair, and entered the room with plaid women and girls.
Ruan Xi was self-sighted. He washed his hands to help the waiter, went into the stove room to get two white porcelain bowls, and poured a bowl of hot water for the plaid woman and the girls around her.
The hot water ended to the main room. The plaid-shirt woman drank half a bowl of water and said, "This is my daughter-in-law. Aren't you going to get married in a few days? You have to make some new clothes. I've pulled all the cloth and brought it here. Please show me. Make two sets of things you wear on weekdays and one set on wedding day. You have to be more festive and look better in style.
The old tailor didn't talk much. He looked at the cloth brought by the plaid woman and called the girl, "Stand up."
The girl is also silent. She stood up directly from the bench with some shyness and embarrassment on her face.
No matter what look on her face, the old tailor looked at her up and down, turned his head directly to Ruan Xi and said, "Okay, I have an idea in my mind. Please help her measure the size."
Ruan Xi hurried to get the ruler when he heard the words.
But when she came over with a leather ruler, the smile on the plaid woman's face couldn't stand it. She said with some unhappily, "Can she let her measure it?"
It just looks like a half-year-old child, 14 or fifteen years old. She made clothes for her daughter-in-law and was going to wear it for others when she got married. She spent so much money that she couldn't make any mistakes.
The old tailor always spoke directly and didn't sound very well, and straightened people's face off. "She's my apprentice, as long as I say. If you don't think so, you can find someone else's house to do it.
The plaid woman's face stiffened by what he said and almost didn't sit still.
If it hadn't been for the only tailor on Fengming Mountain, she would not have been wronged!
Ruan Xi finally saw how difficult the tailor was to get along with and could talk to the guests like this. She saw that the plaid woman looked ugly, so she hurriedly smiled at her and said, "I have learned a good relationship with Master. Don't worry, there must be no problem."
The plaid woman found some face, so she didn't say anything else.
Ruan Xi measured the size of the girl and took the pencil and wrote it down one by one. When measuring the size, she praised the girl like a fairy, and then praised that the plaid-shirt woman was a good mother-in-law. She said that the girl's life was good, so that both of them had smiling faces.
After measuring the size, she made an appointment with the plaid woman to come to make clothes, and she sent someone out.
The plaid woman took the girl away with a cloth and said when she entered the mountain road, "When did the old tailor take up his apprentice?" I don't know whose girl can stand the old tailor?
The girl turned around and said, "If you can really learn, it's worth being angry."
The plaid woman said, "That's true. I think she learned it well."
In fact, the main reason is that she has a good temper and can talk, which makes her in a good mood.
Ruan Xi stood outside the courtyard and watched the plaid-shirted woman and girl go away. He turned around and picked up the big tits at his feet, returned to the main room and said to the old tailor, "Old Comrade, it's too rude of you to talk to people."
The old tailor snorted when he heard this, "The salesperson of the supply and marketing agency is much more polite than me."
Ruan Xi blinked and was slightly stunned. Thinking about it, this era is different from the later era. Later, all practitioners who had something to do with the service had to pretend to be grandchildren in front of customers or A. Now they are all living uncles.
Without saying that, Ruan Xi sat down on the bench in front of the old tailor with his big tits in his arms, tilted his head slightly, looked at him and asked, "Master, what are you going to teach me what to do today?"
The old tailor looked at her before she could speak, and a few people suddenly came in outside the yard.
The old tailor turned his head and saw Secretary Wang of their brigade, and the other cadres in the village. Look at the look on their faces, it doesn't look like they are here to make clothes, or they are not here to drink water and chat.
As the old tailor conjected, Secretary Wang took those cadres straight to the main room, sat down after entering the house, looked at the old tailor and said, "Uncle Song, we received a report that someone had stolen a bunch of grapes from your house, so come and inquire."
With that, he took out the newspaper from his pocket and unfolded it in front of the old tailor.
There is a handful of half-dry grape skin in the bread.
Chapter 012
The old tailor looked at the half-dry grape skin, looked up at Secretary Wang, and asked with a goat, "Which son of the turtle stole my grapes?"
His grapes are in the yard. It's impossible for him to watch it outside all the time, and there are always food and work in the house. Especially when he sleeps so long at night, he doesn't know if someone climbs over the courtyard wall.
There are not many grapes on the shelf, but he hasn't counted them in a string. He can't see one or two strings, and he can't find it.
Secretary Wang looked at him and asked, "So it seems that... don't you know about it?"
The old tailor snorted, "If I knew, can I let the son of the turtle run away?"
Secretary Wang cleared his throat and wrapped the grape skin again. "The informant said that it was from the Phoenix Eye Brigade, that is, the granddaughter of Secretary Ruan Zhigao. His name is Ruan Xi. We have to ask her again..."
"Stop, stop, stop..."
Before Secretary Wang finished speaking, the old tailor raised his hand and stopped.
Secretary Wang stopped the ending. The old tailor frowned and asked, "Who did you just say?" Stealed my grapes?"
When Secretary Wang saw him talking like this, he thought he was old and the back of his ear, so he raised his voice a few degrees and solemnly repeated, "The granddaughter of the secretary of the Phoenix Eye Brigade is Ruan Xi."
"Nonsense!"
The old tailor slammed the small table at hand, which scared Secretary Wang and several people.
Ruan Xi was originally a bystander. When he heard that he was actually the protagonist of the theft, he was speechless and ridiculous on his face.
She cleared her throat and looked at Secretary Wang and said, "Secretary Wang, I'm the Ruan Xi you mentioned."
What?
Secretary Wang turned his head and looked at her - what's going on?
Is the thief stealing at the old tailor's house?
The old tailor said angrily, "She is my new apprentice. When she came home last night, I picked a bunch of grapes for her. How did it steal it? You made it clear to me, who report this?"
Before Secretary Wang spoke out, Ruan Xi said, "It's Sun Xiaohui, my second mother."
This...
Secretary Wang was silent...
Ruan Xi gritted his teeth in his breath, and his pinch fist suddenly beat him on the table.
After pounding, she stood up, picked up her schoolbag and went out.
After a few steps, she folded back and said coldly to Secretary Wang, "Don't you want to find out the truth? Then go with me to find Sun Xiaohui." I didn't steal anything. You always have to pay me back a clean and can't let her slander me.
Secretary Wang has come to find out the truth. As a result, he doesn't really want to confront Sun Xiaohui again. Thinking that this matter is over. This is a misunderstanding, and that's not a big deal.
Ruan Xi saw from Secretary Wang's face that he didn't want to toss around, so before he could excuse him, he quickly said, "If you don't go, she probably thinks you cover up me, and she has to sue."
Secretary Wang stared, "Does she dare to do this?"
Ruan Xi pinched his fingers and put his schoolbag strap: "Why doesn't she dare? She dares to report that I stole grapes from you based on her own assumptions and malicious speculation without any evidence.
Secretary Wang lowered his eyebrows and thought for a moment. He got up and said, "Let's go together!"
He is not afraid that Sun Xiaohui will sue him again. After all, the truth is the truth. It's just that he doesn't want this matter to go on again. He wants to make it clear at once, so as not to regenerate other branches.
Ruan Xi carried his schoolbag and went to the farmland of the Fengyan Brigade with Secretary Wang. Each member of the team has a different division of labor, some digging copper in the mine, some fertilizing in the field, and collecting grass in the field.
Sun Xiaohui and a group of women collected grass in the cornfield.
Find the land of the cornfield. The corn grows tall and leafy, and you can't see anyone in it at all. Ruan Xi rolled his trumpet and shouted several times at the ground: "Sun Xiaohui!" Come out!"
After shouting for a few minutes, Sun Xiaohui came out of the corn bushes in a sunshade hat.
Seeing the few people of Secretary Wang and the dark-seeked Ruan Xi, she subconsciously felt that there was nothing good.
But she still took off her straw hat and walked to Secretary Wang and Ruan Xi. She fanned the wind in the face with a straw hat and asked, "What's the matter?"
Ruan Xi looked at Sun Xiaohui and threw the newspaper on the ground fiercely at the same time. The newspaper group just landed at Sun Xiaohui's feet and let go, sprinkling a handful of grape skin inside.
She stared at Sun Xiaohui: "What's wrong?"
As soon as Ruan Xi finished saying this, the heads of several women poked out of the cornfield. They all heard what was going on and heard that Ruan Xi was quarreling with Sun Xiaohui, so they tacitly came out of the field to watch the excitement.
Seeing the grape skin sprinkled on the ground, Sun Xiaohui said confidently, "If you steal something, you should be educated!"
Ruan Xi still stared at her, "Who told you that I stole the grapes? This is my master, the old tailor of the Golden Crown Brigade, who gave me food. You have no evidence. Why did I say that I stole the grapes?!"
More and more women came out of the cornfield. They slowly gathered together and began to whisper.
Sun Xiaohui sneered and suddenly turned around and smashed the palm of her hand at all the women watching the lively. "Let's talk about whether this is a big joke. She actually said that the old tailor was her master and sent her grapes. Is it possible?"
Many women next to them shook their heads together. "It's really unlikely."
Ruan Xi stared sharply at Sun Xiaohui before he could speak. Secretary Wang cleared his throat and said, "Speaking of which, I have to come out to prove that we have just come out of Uncle Song's house. Uncle Song really seriously accepted Ruan Xi as an apprentice. And the bunch of grapes last night, Uncle Song also said that he gave it to Ruan Xi.
Hearing this, Sun Xiaohui stared, "Hey, Secretary Wang, it's okay if you don't punish her if she steals something. Why did you lie for her? I'm her second mother, and I didn't cover her up. This kind of thing can't be sheltered, and it will hurt her. You didn't lie for her grandfather's sake, did you?"
Sure enough, if you only give a question and the result of the inquiry to be explained in person, I don't know what kind of comments will come out. Even if he follows here now, Sun Xiaohui can only believe what he wants to believe.
As long as things don't match her imagination, she feels that others have ghosts.
Secretary Wang turned black and looked at Sun Xiaohui and said, "Comrade, how do you say it?" As cadres, we do things based on conscience and evidence and truth! It doesn't depend on whose face!"
Sun Xiaohui was not afraid of him at all. "Don't shout at me. What's the ability to shout at me?" Ask others present to see if they believe you and this girl. Everyone knows who the old tailor is!"
After she finished speaking, a woman said beside her, "It's really what you said. Just ask the old tailor to say something, right? If the old tailor comes to speak in person, who can't believe it?"
Hearing this, the cadre next to Secretary Wang said, "Uncle Song is old and inconvenient to his legs and feet. He usually goes up the mountain and down the mountain to make clothes in other people's homes. It's all carried away. What are he doing?"
Sun Xiaohui sneered, "Then you are talking nonsense!" Anyway, the old tailor is not here. You can say whatever you open your mouth. If you were not afraid of the old tailor coming to confront him, just bring him here. I think you are just guilty and dare not shout!"
Ruan Xi gritted his teeth and looked at Sun Xiaohui: "Then wait for me. I'll find someone to carry him up now!"
As a result, before she turned around, she heard the voice of the old tailor behind her. His voice was not as breathable as usual, empty and gasped. He said angrily, "Don't lift it!" I'm here!"
Hearing the sound, everyone turned their heads and looked over.
Ruan Xi turned around and saw the old tailor coming step by step with a snake head crutch in his hand.
Many of the onlookers showed surprise on their faces, and some people spoke--
"Look, look, is the old tailor coming?"
"I'm not dazzled, am I? I'm really an old tailor!"
"Isn't he usually not going out to hang out? Except for making clothes, he doesn't deal with people. Why did he come here?"
"Does he really recognize Xiaoxi as his apprentice?"
"It's impossible, right? Maybe it's to identify the stream stealing grapes.
"Let's see what he said."
...
When watching the woman talking, the look on Sun Xiaohui's face also fluctuated, changing and changing. Finally, she felt that the old tailor might have come to identify Ruan Xi, so the expression on her face relaxed a little.
Ruan Xi didn't care what the onlookers said. She quickly recovered and hurried to the old tailor, held his arm and said, "Why did you come here by yourself?"
The old tailor stopped in two steps and breathed a sigh of relief.
He gasped and said in a hoarse voice, "You have to take my mantle. I can't let people bully you!"
With that, he turned his head and asked directly, "Who is Sun Xiaohui?"
"!!!"
The onlookers and Sun Xiaohui were stunned and almost lost their eyes - the old tailor did not come to identify Ruan Xi stealing grapes, but came to support her! He really regards Ruan Xi as his own apprentice!
Looking at the old tailor, the expression on Sun Xiaohui's face collapsed in an instant, leaving a face full of unwillingness to believe and disbelieving, and almost burst out a sentence - this is impossible! How is this possible?!
If this kind of thing can happen, the sun can hit the west, and a hundred can come out at a time!
Seeing that no one said anything, the old tailor asked again, "Who is Sun Xiaohui?"
Sun Xiaohui was called back to his senses, but he also pinched the straw hat in his hand and didn't make a sound. She shrank her head with her chest and couldn't wait to turn around the cornfield next to a drill, and she also hated that she had just shouted to bring the old tailor over to confront him.
This feeling of someone helping her waist can be said to be very good. Ruan Xi unconsciously picked up more momentum and stood next to the old tailor and raised his finger to Sun Xiaohui. "Master, she is Sun Xiaohui, my second mother."
"Second mother?" The old tailor spat: "Hammer!"
After spating, he looked at Sun Xiaohui and said, "Today, I saw it clearly and heard clearly. This is my serious apprentice. I can't change it. I brought the grapes to my apprentice home last night. What else do you want to say?"
Everyone blocked his eyes and slapped invisibly on his face. What else can Sun Xiaohui say?
Looking at by so many people, she only felt hot on her face. She quickly put on her straw hat on her head, turned around to drill into the cornfield, and said, "I don't have time to chat with you here. I'm going to work."
But just as she was about to turn around, the cadres next to Secretary Wang pulled her back.
Sun Xiaohui patted the cadre's hand crazily, pulled the corners of his clothes and said, "What are you doing?"
The cadre said, "I haven't finished yet. What are you in a hurry to go?"
Sun Xiaohui raised her hand and pulled the brim of her hat down. "Aren't that clear?" I misunderstood the stream, but I didn't mean to slander her. If Uncle Song hadn't come out and said, who would have believed that Uncle Song would have sent her grapes to eat?
Secretary Wang picked up his posture and rightful attitude and called Sun Xiaohui: "Since it has been confirmed that it is a misunderstanding, you can compensate Ruan Xi for it. This matter will be over."
Let her elders pay a younger generation in front of so many people, right? Does she lose face?
Sun Xiaohui said a hundred unwillingly, "I have admitted to misunderstood her. What else do you want me to pay?" I'm her second mother. It's all right to beat her and scold her for discipline her. What's wrong with her?
Secretary Wang was about to speak, but before he could speak out, he saw an old man, one young and two suddenly rushed out of the crowd. The young one followed the old one and walked in a hurry, and the old man looked fierce.
Secretary Wang is not known to the people of the outer village. Ruan Xi and the onlookers and Sun Xiaohui know each other. The old and young are the old, the old one is Ruan Xi's grandmother Liu Xinghua, and the young one is Ruan Xi's cousin Ruan Jie.
Everyone forgot to say hello. Liu Xinghua rushed straight to Sun Xiaohui with a black face. Before everyone could react, he gritted her teeth and slapped Sun Xiaohui in the face.
"Pop--"
Sun Xiaohui's left face instantly swollen four fingerprints.