Back to 1984: Hunting in the Mountains

Chapter 114: Judging from your attitude, are you going to eat me?

"thump!"

Yu Qiushi fell to his knees.

A man who knows the times is a hero. In front of his mother, he had no spine at all and knelt without hesitation.

"Tell me, why are you back so late?"

"I……"

"I'm warning you, Yu Qiushi, if you dare to tell a lie, I'll just be fine if I don't know. If I do, I'll either skin you alive or I, Chen Meidi, will take your surname Yu."

The lie Yu Qiushi was about to tell was stuck in his throat. He subconsciously turned his head to look at Yu Xiaowei and others standing at the door of the old kitchen, and reluctantly began to reveal what had happened.

While he was telling the story, Yu Qiutang briefly told Yu Chunmei the whole story.

Yu Chunmei was also frightened when she heard that the school asked her to drop out.

She had never seen the world and thought that school teachers were all great figures, no different from officials.

Now that’s great. If the other party doesn’t want the two children, it will be troublesome.

"What should I do, Tangtang? How about... buy some things and go to school to find the teacher and say something good to him? How can this child not study? If he doesn't study, he will be like me, blind and unable to read. How will he live in the future when he enters society?"

Yu Chunmei had no idea what studying was at first.

But after a period of time, after the two children learned knowledge in school, they are much clearer about accounting and can also help her recognize words. She has personally experienced the importance of reading.

In addition, Yu Qiutang often mentioned things in the city, which made her more determined to let her children read.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of this. Just stay in the kitchen and don't come out."

Yu Qiutang was very calm.

He was actually waiting for Yu Dejin to come back.

Chen Meidi is just a coward with a fierce appearance. Although she looks very arrogant, if Yu Dejin shows any sign of harm to her, she will immediately shut up.

In this barbaric era, husbands have absolute power over their wives.

It's not only about the economy, but also about the use of force to suppress it.

If something doesn't go your way, just punch and kick. It's no use running to the end of the world.

Sometimes, even when a wife is beaten at her husband's house, she will not receive support when she runs back to her parents' home, as people think this is a normal conflict between husband and wife.

Because my parents and brothers on my mother's side are actually the same.

No one will blame anyone.

Yu Qiutang knew this very well, so he didn't take Chen Meidi to heart.

there.

When Chen Meidi heard that Yu Qiushi was going to be expelled from school for helping Yu Xiaowei fight, she was really angry and shocked.

"Oh, my little ancestor, what sin did you commit in your previous life to give birth to a little bastard like you? Why do you always cause trouble for me every day? Are you uncomfortable seeing that I am living well, and wishing that I would die sooner?!"

She was about to stand up to get the broom, but Yu Qiushi was quick-eyed and quick-handed. He grabbed the broom before her and ran towards Yu Qiutang.

"Brother, help, help!!"

He ran over here, went straight into the old kitchen and closed the door from the inside.

After all, Chen Meidi ran slowly. When she got here, she saw the door closed and Yu Xiaowei and Yu Xiaoyun standing at the door. She was immediately furious.

"I say, you two little troublemakers, if you don't want to go to school, then don't go. You are already this age, but you still have to go to school.

I don’t know what the hell I can learn.

Just go, study hard and learn how to read, why do you want to fight with others?
Now, it doesn’t matter if you don’t study, but you also bring trouble to our Qiushi. Tell me, who do you think you are! ! "

Firstly, Yu Xiaoyun and Yu Xiaowei were in the wrong. Secondly, they had been accustomed to Chen Meidi's ridicule before the separation. Now, hearing her say this, they felt ashamed and kept their heads down in silence.

Seeing them like this, Chen Meidi was still unwilling to let them go, "I said you two have no parents..."

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Yu Xiaowei's eyes suddenly turned red, and he looked up and stared at Chen Meidi fiercely.

His parents are his Achilles' heel.

It explodes at one point.

"Hey, looking at your momentum, are you going to eat me?!"

Chen Meidi’s momentum is almost as high as Yu Xiaowei’s. If the kid fights hard, Chen Meidi may not be his opponent.

But when adults and children stand together, even if the adults are shorter, they still have certain advantages, which has a psychological effect.

"Anyway, don't talk nonsense. I'm not without a father or a mother..."

"What's wrong? Don't tell me. If your father were still alive, why has it been so many years..."

"okay."

Yu Qiutang interrupted Chen Meidi unhappily, "Why would you argue with a child? He can't speak. You are an adult, and you don't use your brain before speaking?"

"You...you're talking about me?"

Chen Meidi took a step back.

She had only just seen Yu Qiutang’s angry look. He had thrown out adult men like Yu Daner, let alone a woman like her.

She had also seen Yu Qiutang carrying water. The bucket looked to be several dozen pounds, and he was able to carry it with an iron shoulder pole. It was unknown how much strength he really had.

Who knows if you offend him too much, he might suddenly get angry, and then it’s hard to say who will suffer.

"Yu Qiutang, even if you don't like me, I am still your elder. No matter how arrogant you are, you are still of the same generation as my son, and he just calls you brother..."

"I know, so I hope you can pay attention to your identity. I'm here, what are you talking about with these two kids?"

Yu Qiutang smiled faintly.

"Also, my sister-in-law has been dead for so many years, and my brother's life or death is unknown. These are the things that my children and I least want to talk about. You are not an ignorant child, and it is not appropriate to keep bringing it up.

You are right, you are Qiushi’s mother.

Qiushi is my younger brother.

That's why I gave you some face. I didn't want to embarrass you in front of Qiushi.

But you also have to know your limits.

Don't lose this little bit of face completely. If we end up falling out, things will be difficult to resolve.

You don’t want to see us get to that point, do you?”

Yu Qiutang's tone was very cold, but his voice was not loud, which showed that he did not have much emotion when he said these words and was quite rational.

In Chen Meidi's eyes, this attitude was undoubtedly a threat and warning.

It's even more intimidating than yelling at her in person.

For a moment, she felt a little scared.

His mind raced as he came up with a new excuse, "So what do you think we should do? The school is asking you to drop out. Are you two nephews and nieces causing trouble?"

"We didn't cause any trouble. It was Xue Fufa who bullied me first. He and other classmates hung my schoolbag in the boys' toilet."

Yu Xiaoyun whispered in defense from behind.

"Oh, really? Then tell me, there are so many people in the class and the school, why did they take your bag and not others'?"

"I...I don't know."

Yu Xiaoyun really didn’t know. She just couldn’t understand why these classmates were so mean. She clearly didn’t provoke them, but they came to bully her for no reason.

"You can't explain it, right? I knew you couldn't make sense," Chen Meidi seized on this opportunity and continued, "It's because you didn't learn from me in school and provoked..."

"I don't!"

"Still making excuses!!"

"No means no. Yunyun said no, but you couldn't hear it. If you don't believe me, ask your son!"

Yu Xiaowei couldn't hold back any longer when he saw his sister crying out of anger.

"I've asked, and it's you who caused this trouble. I'm telling you, stay away from our Qiushi from now on. Nothing good will happen if I get involved with you."

Chen Meidi glared at the two children with contempt, then came to her senses and suddenly remembered that she was talking to Yu Qiutang just now.

Then he looked at the latter, looking at her indifferently.

"Are you done asking?"

"Is it not okay for me to ask? You are not the one who was fired, so you can act so pretentiously," Chen Meidi was a little timid in her heart, but on the surface she did not give up at all, "If you have the ability to solve this matter, I will listen to whatever you want to say."

"Ha~"

Yu Qiutang looked at the time and estimated that his father should be back soon.

Yu Dejin worked as a cabinet builder in a family's home in the team. Food and accommodation were not provided, but he would go home to eat at mealtime.

He didn't want to say the same thing twice.

Let’s wait until Yu Dejin comes back and solve the problem together.

"Yu Qiushi, get out of here. Can you hide in there forever?"

Seeing that Yu Qiutang didn't say anything for the time being, Chen Meidi turned her attention to her son.

He first stood at the door and shouted a few times, but when there was no response, he simply walked forward and started hitting and kicking the wooden door of the kitchen.

"You are acting like a grandson and being cowardly now, but why weren't you cowardly when you were fighting with others at school?

You have the ability to hit people, but you don’t have the ability to talk to your mother?

If you really have guts, just open the door and come out. What's the point of hiding inside, you useless bastard! !"

"Mom, put the broom down before I come out. I won't come out if you hold it."

Yu Qiushi shouted from inside, "I'm not a fool. I came out obediently for you to beat me. Anyway, my father will beat me later, so it's unnecessary for you to beat me now.

I won’t come out. Only a fool would come out.”

"Okay, okay, you dare to play tricks on me, you won't come out, right? I told you not to come out!!"

Chen Meidi gathered her strength and prepared to continue kicking the door.

Yu Qiutang pulled him aside.

"This old kitchen door is already several decades old. It can't withstand your kicking like this. With a door, we can still use it as a place to cook and sleep. If you really kick it, we can only move to your kiln and exchange places with you, and you can live there."

"Just change it, I have nothing to be afraid of!"

Chen Meidi still said that she was not willing to give in, but her body was very real. She just moved her feet symbolically and had no intention of really going forward to kick or smash things.

While everyone was still making a fuss here, they heard the door being pushed open with a creaky sound, and Yu Dejin walked in with a carpenter's canvas bag on his back. He originally wanted to go back to the kiln directly, but when he glanced over here accidentally, he found that everyone was gathered at the door of the old kitchen, and he was a little confused.

"What are you doing around there?"

I simply threw the bag at the entrance of the cave and looked over there.

Yu Dejin's dominant position in the family is obvious. Yu Xiaowei and Yu Xiaoyun were able to refute Chen Meidi just now, but now they dared not speak at all. They quietly retreated to the back, each hiding half of their bodies.

When Chen Meidi saw her husband come back, she was also stunned. At first, she wanted to tell her husband about this directly and let him judge it.

But she soon thought that if her husband knew, he would definitely beat her son.

The way Yu Dejin beat his son was completely different from how she beat herself. It looked like she was beating him, but in fact she only had a little strength, and when she saw her son crying, she would quickly become soft-hearted and gradually unable to bring herself to beat him.

But the husband is different.

Once he gets angry, he will really hit you.

He will never stop unless he gets rid of his anger completely. When the child cries, she will be the one who feels sorry for him.

Suddenly I felt a little uneasy.

She was no better than the three children who had made mistakes. Thinking of this, she began to prepare her words, how to use the simplest language to lightly push all the blame onto Yu Xiaowei and Yu Xiaoyun, and praise her son as a hero who "helped others when he saw injustice".

In this way, you may suffer less physical pain.

As for dropping out of school...

She glanced at Yu Qiutang.

Just now he seemed to say that he had a trick, so let's see how he prepares for the test. He hasn't been very active recently, so let's work on it.

The only one who was relaxed was Yu Qiutang.

Once he no longer regards his father as superior, his father will not put pressure on him.

Just an ordinary person on the same level as him.

What is there to be afraid of between two ordinary people?

Yu Qiutang walked towards his father, picked up a stool on the way, and sat down next to his father.

Seeing this, Chen Meidi also came back and stood at the door of the kiln where they were sleeping, watching.

Yu Dejin didn't understand what the atmosphere was like at home.

He looked at this, looked at that, and finally his eyes fell on Yu Qiutang who was sitting next to him.

"What's going on?"

"Don't you smoke a pipe?" Yu Qiutang asked with a smile, looking at the pipe on his father's waist.

Yu Dejin also looked down, casually took out the pipe, and slowly filled it with tobacco.

Yu Qiutang looked at the wound on the back of his father's hand caused by sawdust, which had some mud stains on it, and sighed slightly.

After all, carpentry work involves dealing with various types of wood and tools, and even the most skilled carpenter may break his hands while working.

The countless scratches on the back of Yu Dejin's hands prove this point.

After the wound was broken, given his personality, he would not apply medicine or rest. He just picked up some dry loess powder from the ground, sprinkled it on his body to stop the bleeding, and then continued to work.

The loess on the Loess Plateau has a good hemostatic function and is said to be anti-inflammatory, so people basically use it that way.

Yu Qiutang saw his father's wrists again, which were dry and slender under his worn and tattered sleeves.

On weekdays, my father was always wearing clothes, so it was not very clear to see.

Now, after taking a closer look, I realized that my father only looked thin because of his big face, but his real body was very thin.

However, because of years of working, the hand holding the pipe was a little shaky. After lighting the match, he shook it a few times before he could barely light the pipe.

I sighed quietly in my heart.

Sure enough, the relationship between every son and father is extremely complicated, no less than the most difficult math problem.

It is a special existence where they dislike each other but care about each other.

It doesn't look like a father-daughter relationship at all.

Except for really bad fathers, most fathers love their daughters more and get more real feedback from their daughters.

A daughter can act like a spoiled child around her father.

If a son wants to act like a spoiled child around his father, he still needs a very good opportunity.

"What's going on?"

Yu Dejin took a puff of cigarette and exhaled comfortably into the air.

Yu Qiutang said with a smile: "A few kids got into some minor trouble at school and are now very scared."

"Ok?"

When Yu Dejin heard that it was a school, he felt a little uncomfortable.

Even he was somewhat afraid of the school.

"That's right..."

Yu Qiutang slowly told Yu Dejin the whole story.

While speaking, he kept observing his father's expression and saw that he almost lost his temper several times, but for some reason he slowly suppressed himself and endured until the end.

"…Now things are getting a bit troublesome. The school said that not only did they fight openly, but they also damaged some school desks and chairs. The nature of their behavior is quite bad, so…"

After a slight pause, he said the last and most serious thing.

“…The school said they were going to expel them.”

After Yu Qiutang finished speaking, the atmosphere in the entire troglodyte courtyard became noticeably tense. Chen Meidi leaned against the door frame and just happened to rub off a small piece of soil next to her, which fell to the ground with a "pop". The sound was not loud, but in the silent environment, it still attracted everyone's attention.

Everyone looked at Chen Meidi.

Chen Meidi immediately felt uneasy.

Fortunately, Yu Dejin quickly retracted his gaze, took another puff of his cigarette, and then said calmly: "Just expel him. If you cause trouble at school, people won't want you anymore. What can we do? Every place has its own rules."

"Boss, how can you say that? How can a child not study? You want him to be like us, uneducated and unable to do anything well in the future?"

Chen Meidi didn't care about the taboo and came to Yu Dejin, "We must find a way to deal with this matter. We can't just give up like this."

"Think of it!"

Yu Dejin was not angry just now, but now he suddenly became furious. He knocked his pipe on the ground several times and said angrily: "Think of a way, think of a way. That school is owned by our family. Can we think of a way just because we say so?"

"But……"

"Anyway, I have no idea. Whoever can come up with a solution can do so."

Yu Dejin knocked out the ashes in his pipe, put the pipe back on his waist, and said in a muffled voice, "I can't do anything about it. I'm tired. Bring me some water to wash my feet."

After saying that, he turned and went into the kiln.

Throw everyone outside.

Yu Qiutang watched his father go in, and the door curtain fell down again.

“It’s from the shopkeeper!!”

Chen Meidi didn't know what to do. She looked at Yu Qiutang, then at Yu Xiaoyun and Yu Xiaowei in the distance, and hurriedly followed them into the cave.

Yu Qiutang looked at their door and smiled slightly.

Ok.

He was the first to stand up and oppose anyone who said his father was an honest man.

He was even prepared to pull them along.

He didn't expect his father to just leave the blame to him alone to deal with.

What can I do?

Then you can only think about it yourself.

Whatever.

Just deal with it, and just get in touch with the teachers at the local school. He turned back to the door of the old kitchen and told the two children not to worry and just do what they had to do.

Since they didn't do anything wrong.

If there is any trouble, it is natural for him as an adult to help solve it.

In the cave, Chen Meidi was pacing anxiously, while Yu Dejin was slowly changing his dirty clothes.

"I asked you to bring some water, didn't you hear me?"

"Wait, now is not the time to wash feet," Chen Meidi waited for Yu Dejin to sit back on the kang, and quickly jumped up to sit next to her husband, "What about the child? Are you really not going to care?"

"How can I manage it?"

Chen Meidi was startled and said helplessly, "We have to find a way. I know you are angry. This child is troublesome, but this time he is also special. He is for those two. Speaking of it...

This can be considered as seeing injustice. Even if you don't praise me, at least I shouldn't have to endure such punishment, right?"

"There shouldn't be any punishment, so what's wrong with the school?"

Yu Dejin said dully, "It's not up to us to say what the nature is. In the end, it still depends on the school."

"Yeah, I want to see the school, right?"

Chen Meidi didn't react. "If that's the case, we have to go to school to think of a solution. Can the problem be solved by sitting at home?"

Yu Dejin glanced at Chen Meidi and remained silent.

"Are you talking?"

"Say what?"

"What should we do?"

"Just worry about your own affairs. There's no point in worrying about this matter."

"We are not in a hurry for our children..."

"Only our children?" Yu Dejin asked meaningfully.

"Then there is...ah, what do you mean?" Chen Meidi suddenly understood.

Yu Dejin remained silent again.

"But can he really do it? He did say he could, but he is just a boy after all. Will the teachers at school give him this face?"

"You know shit."

It was hard to tell whether Yu Dejin was praising or mocking him, with a hint of ridicule on his face, "Just think about it, if he didn't have connections in school, how did those two kids get into school?
One of them was already a teenager and was placed directly in the third grade.

One is almost ten years old and is in first grade with other kids who are six or seven years old.

If you were Chen Meidi, could you do it?"

"This..." Chen Meidi had never thought about this question carefully before, but now that her husband brought it up, she realized that it was indeed the case. "So, he seems to have some skills."

"That's it."

Yu Dejin looked like he had everything under control, "Why don't you go get some water for washing feet? It's not your turn to worry about such a small matter. You only have one child, but he has two.

If I really can't go to school, wouldn't the loss be even greater?"

"correct."

Chen Meidi suddenly realized and thought about it carefully. This was indeed the case. After her husband's analysis, she found that Yu Qiutang had both the ability and the motivation. On one hand, he was her nephew, and on the other hand, he was her own brother. How could he not be anxious?

It’s all because I started thinking too complicatedly.

He was only thinking about his own worries. His son was his, and he completely forgot that he and the other party were brothers.

"You're still thoughtful."

She poked Yu Dejin and her expression relaxed.

Yu Dejin didn't say anything else. If it were before, he would have to do this kind of thing personally. After all, he was the best carpenter around and had built things for the school.

It is still possible if you know each other a little and give some face.

If it really doesn't work, you can also go and talk to the other parent. As long as the parents agree and stop pestering you to talk, then the school will be relatively easier to deal with.

But now.

He had full confidence in Yu Qiutang, and subconsciously felt that if he handed the matter over to his son, he would definitely be able to handle it, and there was no need for him to do anything himself.

Each generation has its own mission.

Now that he is getting old and useless, he no longer needs to be at the forefront of everything. It is time for his son to take the lead.

Moreover, through his son's performance in recent times, his confidence has been continuously strengthened, and he has the confidence that as long as his son takes action, nothing will be a problem.

(End of this chapter)