Back in the yard, Li Rui took the basin to the yard to wash his underwear. There was no washing machine in the old house, so he had to wash his clothes by hand. He was too lazy to wash his long johns, so he only washed his underwear.
After a while, Ling Shuyao also came out to wash her clothes. She was a woman and liked cleanliness, so she had to wash all the clothes she took off.
The two squatted next to the water pressure machine and washed the clothes with their backs facing each other. They didn't disturb each other and didn't pay attention to each other.
Li Rui only washed one pair of underwear, so he washed it very quickly. After washing it, he wrung it dry and hung it on the clothesline in the yard. He inadvertently saw that Ling Shuyao had a lot of clothes to wash this time, but there was only one basin. Thinking that it was inconvenient for her to wash it, he kindly said, "You can use my basin to wash the clothes. I'm done washing them."
Ling Shuyao saw that he had just finished washing his underwear with a basin. Even if she didn't have a basin, she couldn't use this dirty and smelly basin of his. She suppressed the nausea in her stomach and said in annoyance, "Go do what you're supposed to do! It's not like I don't have a basin. Why should I use yours? Are you clean? "
Li Rui once again experienced her arrogance and indifference. He was very annoyed and wanted to mock her. However, after thinking about it, he didn't want to lower himself to the same level as this woman. It would lower his taste. So, he didn't say anything and went back to the house with the basin.
Back in the west house, he drank a cup of hot water before climbing onto the kang to think about the next step of poverty alleviation. According to the poverty alleviation plan, after the poverty alleviation mobilization meeting, a poverty alleviation program training class should be held for the industrial projects that the poor families were interested in. During the day, he had already discussed this matter with Wang Tiekui and Xie Sanping. For this training class, the village leaders were responsible for the training venue and reception work. They were also responsible for organizing the poor to participate in the training. The poverty alleviation departments at the city and county level were responsible for inviting or hiring experts in related industries to teach in the village. In other words, what he needed to do next was to contact the county's Poverty Alleviation Office and invite experts in related fields to the village.
He was currently in Little Dragon King Village, responsible for the front line poverty alleviation work and information collection. Naturally, he didn't have time to do these things. He planned to ask his boss, Song Chaoyang, to help coordinate this matter when he reported his daily work progress to him tomorrow morning. There were a lot of idle people in the Municipal Party Committee, such as the First General Department and the First Secretary Department. There were a lot of idle people, so it was best for them to coordinate this matter.
He was thinking about his work in his room. From time to time, he would hear the sound of Ling Shuyao washing clothes and the water press outside. He thought to himself, "Although this woman is not as shameless as Liu Liping, she can still be classified as a slut. Damn it, I was kind enough to lend her a washbasin, but she mocked me instead. It's just like the popular saying, 'bitches are pretentious'! "
At one of his most resentful moments, an idea flashed through his mind. He wanted to take revenge on her. Only by seeing her suffer would he be able to vent the anger in his heart. As for the method to take revenge on her, it was very simple. There were a lot of scorpions here. He would catch a live scorpion and secretly put it under her quilt while she was washing clothes outside. When she crawled into the quilt to sleep later, ah ha, it would be very interesting.
But soon, he felt that this method of revenge was too cruel. It would make him seem too unscrupulous and despicable. As a dignified man, teasing a female opponent was fine. But if it was too vicious and caused her physical harm, then he would become a despicable and shameless villain. Although he wasn't a gentleman, he didn't want to be a real villain. Moreover, he also had to consider the various unfavorable situations that would arise if she saw through his method. Not to mention anything else, if she reported this matter to his boss, his position in his boss's heart would plummet. Which leader would be willing to use such a despicable and vicious secretary?
This method wouldn't work!
Li Rui thought for a while. Suddenly, his eyes lit up. He thought of a variation of the vicious plan just now. Why don't he take a compromise? After catching the live scorpion, he would boil it with boiling water. Then he would remove the stinger from the scorpion and secretly put it under her quilt. This way, not only would it give her a big scare, it wouldn't cause her any physical harm. It should be considered a good plan, right? It just so happened that her mosquito net hadn't been bought back yet. If she felt that something was wrong and questioned him afterwards, he could say that the scorpion fell from the roof beam. How would she be able to tell if it was true?
"I've been in this small mountain village for more than a week. All day long, other than helping the poor, all I do is buy groceries, cook, wash dishes, and wash clothes. There's no entertainment at all. It's really boring. I'll just treat this prank on her as an entertainment activity, hehe! "
As soon as he thought of it, Li Rui got off the kang bed and put on his shoes. He found his thermos flask and poured out all the water inside to use it as a container for the live scorpion. He also found the chopsticks that he used for eating. They were tools to catch the scorpion. He couldn't use his hands to catch it, right? Then he took his mobile phone and went out to the courtyard. In order to prevent Ling Shuyao from discovering his evil deeds, he deliberately wandered outside the courtyard. He used his mobile phone to illuminate the area and searched through the cracks of the adobe walls.
Little Dragon King Village was really too poor. Up to now, eighty percent of the walls in the village were still made of adobe. There were gaps and holes in the adobe. Not only did the adobe provide shelter from wind and rain, but it also provided a place for many small insects and soft-tissue animals to reproduce. These insects and soft-tissue animals could also be used as food. This provided the best living environment for the local earth scorpions to grow and reproduce. If it were a brick wall, it was estimated that no small animals could survive in it except for spiders.
Because of this, Little Dragon King Village was abnormally rich in scorpions. Up until now, Li Rui had lived in this world for almost thirty years, but he had never seen a place with so many scorpions as Little Dragon King Village. Even in the zoo's insect museum, he had never seen a place with such a high density of scorpions. He only searched through two gaps and easily found a huge black scorpion.
This scorpion was motionless under the light of his mobile phone, as if it was dead. Only when Li Rui put his chopsticks in to catch it did it try to crawl into the depths of the gap. Li Rui's chopsticks were not very flexible in the gap. He didn't catch the scorpion's body, but caught its tail instead. As a result, the scorpion escaped. Fortunately, there were many scorpions here. Even if one escaped, there were more waiting for him to catch, so he didn't have to be depressed.
In less than three minutes, Li Rui had successfully caught a live scorpion. He used his chopsticks to pick it out from the gap in the wall and put it into a thermos flask in a hurry. He closed the lid and put it back into his trouser pocket. Then, he turned off the screen of his mobile phone and stuffed it back into his trouser pocket. Thinking of Ling Shuyao's reaction when he suddenly found a scorpion in his bed, he couldn't help but laugh sinisterly.
He stepped forward and was about to return to the courtyard when he suddenly saw the village committee opposite the entrance of the alley. It was brightly lit and there was a hubbub of voices. He didn't know what was going on, but it looked very lively. He couldn't help but want to go and see what was going on. For the time being, he didn't have time to tease Ling Shuyao and walked toward the village committee.
When he arrived at the entrance of the village committee, he saw three or four women dressed like village women walking out of the courtyard, talking and laughing. They were all holding either towels, soap, or washing powder in their hands. Suddenly, he remembered something. After today's poverty alleviation mobilization meeting, there were still one-third of the gifts that he and Ling Shuyao had bought that hadn't been distributed. At that time, they asked the village committee's cadres to move them to the village committee for temporary safekeeping. They were waiting to be awarded as prizes to poor families who were active in poverty alleviation. Now, these village women were holding towels, soap, and washing powder. If it wasn't his gifts, what else could it be?
Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered the gifts that were taken away by some rogue village women during the meeting today. He was so scared that his heart jumped. He rushed forward and stopped those village women. He shouted, "Where did you get these from?"
None of these village women knew him. Even if they knew him, they pretended not to know him. No one paid attention to him. They twisted their waists and wanted to walk past him.
Li Rui hurriedly stretched out his arm to stop them. He shouted, "Don't go. Explain everything clearly before you go."
When he stretched out his arm, a plump village woman rushed forward. Coincidentally, his arm just happened to block the village woman's chest. When the two collided, he immediately felt softness and elasticity.
The village woman wasn't angry. She laughed and said, "If you want to touch, then let's find a place where there's no one." When the other village women heard this, they laughed and made fun of Li Rui for taking advantage of them.
Li Rui's face turned red. He hurriedly withdrew his arm and took a few steps back. The village women took the opportunity to leave quickly. The village woman whose chest was touched by him was still provoking him. She turned around and shouted, "Handsome, if you want to touch, then follow me. My man isn't home. Haha."
Li Rui was ashamed and angry. He wanted to rush forward and stop them, but he didn't have the courage. He wasn't afraid of them, but he was afraid of being teased and pestered by them. He thought for a while and was about to walk into the village committee's courtyard. When he entered the courtyard, he bumped into two young village women coming out.
One of them had a towel in her hand, while the other had nothing in her hand. The one with the towel was comforting the one with nothing in her hand. "Don't be depressed. You'll get more in the future. Next time, you'll get more."
Li Rui was so angry that he lost his head. Without any explanation, he reached out and grabbed the towel in the village woman's hand.
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