Ling Er invited Ling Daishan and Ling Dailiang over to stay but the two of them rejected him without hesitation.
It wasn't just the two of them who came to Xiuhe. There were also Big Brother-in-law, Second Brother-in-law, cousins, Liu Guangxing, Huang Guoyu and the others. Even if the Ling Family could afford food and a place to stay, they wouldn't be able to handle the ruckus.
It wasn't something that could be done in a day or two. They had to work at the construction site for at least half a month.
Where was the face to harm a bunch of children?
The weather wasn't cold and they had a shed to sleep in so it wasn't too bad.
Big Sister felt bad for them and would send two pots of meat buns over every few days. She would also bring their dirty clothes over to wash and mend them.
Ling Long would sleep in the bathroom at night and would occasionally come over to Ling Er's place to change his meals. He was young but he was a far cry from his father and uncle in terms of tenacity.
He had been squatting in the toilet for half an hour.
"Hey, do you want some Casserole?" Ling Er shouted towards the toilet.
There was no response from the toilet. After a while, Ling Long came out and covered his buttocks. "Yesterday afternoon, I made sweet potato dough. Today, I cooked rice and sweet potatoes together. I stewed rape leaves, amaranth, and vermicelli. There was no oil at all. I haven't gone to the toilet in three days."
He went into the kitchen and poured some rapeseed oil into his bowl before forcing it into his mouth.
Ling Er didn't laugh but felt a little bitter. It wasn't just Ling Long.
Five ate the bug repellent and squatted at the door, using a small stick to chase away Da Huang that was circling around her butt.
"How disgusting." He kicked Da Huang far away. Da Huang whimpered and ran away with its tail curled up.
"There are no bugs." Big Sister was pleasantly surprised.
Ling Er said, "Drink well water and tap water from now on. Don't drink river water anymore."
Even if the river water was precipitated by alum, there would still be parasites.
The sky gradually darkened. Ling Long ate and drank to his heart's content at Ling Er's house. He carried a pot of braised pork and brought it over to his father, uncles and son-in-law to improve their meals.
He came back very late. It was already past nine. Ling Er was about to go out to pick up Third Brother.
"Are you going to drink there again?" Ling Er asked with a smile.
Ling Long said, "I'm here to watch the show."
"What's so lively about?" Ling Two asked.
Ling Long said, "The people from the Eastern Dike and Old Ying have started fighting. They're using shovels and carrying poles."
"No one died, right?" Ling Two's heart skipped a beat. Although this kind of thing was normal, he still felt uncomfortable.
Ling Long said, "No, they can't get over it. Relatives talk to relatives, and there are a lot of people talking to each other. Only Wang Dongshun's arm was injured by Wu Fengben's shovel, and he's bandaging it in the clinic."
When Ling Two went to fetch his third brother, he purposely took a detour around the river.
Torches and torches were everywhere on both sides of the river. Curses could still be heard from the crowd from time to time.
"If anyone doesn't behave, we'll take them away." A policeman with a megaphone in his hand walked on both sides of the river.
"Who are you trying to scare?"
"Come at me if you have the guts …"
"It's good to provide food …"
From time to time, someone would sing a different tune.
Ling Two's ears perked up, but he didn't hear most of it clearly.
He slept until midnight, but he could still hear the commotion on both sides of the river.
The next morning, Ling Two received news that his uncle, Ling Dailiang, Ling Daishan, and Liu Guangxing had been taken away. The reason was that Ling Dailiang's brother-in-law was Old Ying's, and he couldn't let his brother-in-law suffer.
Ling Daishan couldn't let his brother, Ling Dailiang, suffer either, so he waved his pole and hugged anyone he saw. The people from Wadong Village naturally helped the two brothers, and it became a chaotic battle.
Next, Gaolao Village and Qianjin Village also joined in. Since the eldest son-in-law and the second son-in-law were from these two villages, they were simply helping their own relatives.
Ling Two applied for leave and accompanied Ling Long to the police station.
The police station had a small courtyard with two tile-roofed houses. It couldn't possibly fit three to five hundred people. Most of them were at the entrance, covered in mud, squatting or standing. Some were even snoring under the shade of a tree.
Ling Daishan and Ling Dailiang were smoking at the entrance with Huang Guoyu and the others.
Ling Daishan said, "You guys have nothing better to do. Little Er, go to your class. Don't worry about me."
Ling Two smiled and said, "Are you alright?"
Huang Guoyu pointed to the window of the small courtyard and said, "The leaders of the various villages are inside. They should be out soon."
Ling Long pressed on his father's head and wiped the blood. Seeing that it was just a long pole and the wound wasn't deep, he heaved a sigh of relief.
He then went to the breakfast shop and bought a bunch of buns. He gave one to anyone he knew.
Seeing his eldest son-in-law, Wang Fuqiang, give the buns in his hand to a child not far away, he quickly went to buy a bunch of buns and gave them all to his eldest son-in-law and second son-in-law, Zhang Erhua, so that they could distribute them to Qianjin Village and Gaolao Village.
Liu Guangxing only came out when the sun rose.
The police station didn't say much, so everyone went to Ling Two's house together.
More than twenty people squeezed into the front yard. Big Sister was cooking porridge on the stove, but there weren't enough bowls. In the end, she had to borrow some from Pan Youcheng.
Ling Dailiang had cut open someone's head and was on tenterhooks, mainly because he was afraid of losing money.
Seeing Liu Guangxing finish a bowl of porridge, he asked, "You can't expect me to treat him, right?"
"Dream on." Liu Guangxing laughed. "If I could agree, wouldn't I have come out long ago? It's a dog skin dispute anyway, so it doesn't matter who's responsible. Since everyone has injuries on their heads, let's write it off. "
Only then did Ling Dailiang heave a sigh of relief.
Ling Two listened to their conversation without interrupting, but he finally understood the whole story.
It was because one person had spat on the wind, and the wind blew on the other person's face.
Before the two people involved could say anything, the relatives next to them started arguing.
Up until now, it was still a mystery who started the fight and who started the scolding first.
After eating at the Ling Family's house, everyone continued to work at the river bank, but they had all moved to another place. There were people in the surrounding villages that they didn't know.
After repairing the river bank, First Uncle, Second Uncle, and the rest didn't say goodbye and left with the tractor.
The dam was opened, and the river was two feet wide. The sand-sucking boat roared again, rumbling day and night. There was another gravel yard on the other side of the river.
The people were gray, and the sky was gray. There wasn't a bit of light.
The high school entrance exam was approaching, and compared to the previous mock exam, Third Brother's score had increased by forty points.
"Keep up the good work." Ling Two looked through the mimeographed paper from beginning to end, and he wasn't too dissatisfied. It was a good thing that there was improvement.
Third Brother was a child who could enter high school, and if he failed in his studies because of him, he would feel guilty for the rest of his life.
He took the paper and analyzed it for Third Brother from beginning to end. After that, he found the original questions in the textbook and compared them one by one. In the end, he concluded that most of the content of the exam was still related to the textbook.
No matter how much it changed, it was still the same.
He didn't ask Third Brother to improve, only to return to the textbook.
Compared to Third Brother, the one he was least worried about was Four. Although she was playful and gluttonous, she wasn't sloppy in her studies.
Four was rich now, dressed well, and knew how to play the harmonica. In addition to her good grades, she was already a popular person in the class.
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