Chapter 95: , Success and Fame, Washing Away Past Shame (Please subscribe!)

Mother was scolded for an afternoon?

And it was several sisters-in-law of the Chen family attacking together?

That night, Li Heng tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep. Honestly, his mother in his previous life hadn't mentioned this to him, and he had been kept in the dark.

If he hadn't had the chance to get ahead in this life, would he still be like in his previous life, knowing nothing?

This made him very uncomfortable.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

Just as he was tossing and turning, there was a knock on the door outside, followed by a voice: "Youngest, are you asleep?"

"No, the door isn't locked, Mom, come in."

Li Heng sat up halfway, leaning against the wooden wall and looking toward the door.

With a "creak," the wooden door opened, and Tian Rune appeared in the room.

As soon as she entered, she glanced at the kerosene lamp that was still lit and said gently: "Just came back from checking the water in the field with your dad. Seeing the light still on upstairs, I was afraid you'd forgotten to blow it out, so Mom came up to check."

In these years, houses were all wooden, and if things like kerosene lamps weren't blown out in time, it was easy to cause a fire. Lightly, the house would be burned; heavily, the family would be destroyed.

Such fire accidents caused by carelessness were not uncommon in the countryside, occurring almost several times every year.

Especially on the New Year's Day of 1985, someone in the 18th production team accidentally set off firecrackers, and the firecrackers bounced into a pile of firewood. That night, the fire burned down 13 wooden houses, killing two old people and a child, and countless pigs, cattle, sheep, and grain. At that time, all the people in the village and the next village carried buckets and basins to fight the fire.

Regrettably, the fire was too big, and the trees 20 meters away were burning across the air. People couldn't get close at all and could only watch helplessly as the fire swallowed everything.

Many people watched with tears in their eyes and cried.

Although later, some old people superstitiously said that the Fire Virtue Star Lord was making trouble and sent heavenly fire from the sky to punish those who didn't respect him.

But this painful lesson had only passed for two years, and now everyone was very sensitive to the word "fire," which was also the reason why Tian Rune came up to check regardless of whether her son was asleep or not.

Li Heng asked: "Didn't you check the water before? Checking it in the middle of the night, are you afraid it will be snatched away?"

Tian Rune nodded: "It's a good thing your dad and I went to check. The field wasn't even moistened yet, and the water had been dug away by people from the village below. This season is the period when rice is pregnant, and it can't lack water."

Although Li Heng settled in a big city in his previous life, he had lived in the countryside for so many years after all, and he understood this logic.

He sighed that it was not easy to be a farmer. Damn it, even the field water had to be fought over, getting up early and working late, but in the end, it couldn't be exchanged for much money. After deducting the basic food rations, most of it was paid as agricultural tax.

After observing her son for a while, Tian Rune sat on the edge of the bed and asked with concern, "Something on your mind, can't sleep?"

Li Heng shook his head with a forced smile, "No, it's just that I haven't been home for a long time and I'm too happy, so I'm a bit excited for a moment."

Tian Rune wasn't born as a real rural woman, so how could such an excuse hide from her? After pondering for a moment, she asked: "Is it because of Chen Zijin?"

She guessed it right away, and Li Heng didn't hide it anymore, nodding.

Tian Rune asked: "Tell Mom, do you still like Chen Zijin?"

How could he not like her?

In his previous life, Chen Zijin wasn't bad to him, always following him intimately.

Li Heng followed his heart: "I like her."

Tian Rune was silent for a long time before saying what was in her heart, "Actually, Mom also likes that girl a bit. She's beautiful, tall, well-behaved, and sensible, and her mouth is sweet.

It's a pity that the whole Chen family looks down on us, and your dad and I aren't competitive enough to help you."

After speaking, she added: "Except for Gaoyuan, he is a good person, it's hard for him in the middle."

Li Heng comforted: "Mom, don't say that. I will solve the matter between Chen Zijin and me myself, you don't have to worry too much."

Thinking of the shock his son brought to her and Jianguo before, infinite pride surged in Tian Rune's heart, and she said later:

"If you meet Zijin when you go to the capital during the summer vacation, give my and your dad's regards. Although I don't get along with Zhong Lan and her sisters-in-law, and it will probably be difficult to sit at the same table for a meal in the future.

But we still have to treat things as they are and distinguish people. Our Li family still owes this girl an apology, she has been wronged."

Li Heng said gloomily: "Hmm, okay, I know."

Afraid that her son would have a psychological burden that would affect his subsequent studies, Tian Rune stopped at the right time and changed the subject: "How is it at school?"

Li Heng said: "It's quite good, the relationship with teachers and classmates has always been relatively harmonious. Didn't I gain two pounds? This is the proof."

Tian Rune looked him over and said with satisfaction: "Still thin, you can gain more. It will be fine if you can't see your ribs when you lift your clothes."

Li Heng blinked and corrected: "Ribs, ribs."

Tian Rune smiled gently and said: "Okay, ribs."

Then she changed the subject and asked: "Did you secretly give your second sister money?"

Li Heng denied it flatly, "No."

Tian Rune looked into his eyes for a while before getting up, "It's getting late, you sleep.

Get up tomorrow morning and go see your Second Uncle. Since the prototype of the book is based on him, you should bring him some candy and wine, he loves these two things."

"Eh, I know, I just happen to have this plan." Li Heng's words weren't perfunctory, but sincere.

When she was about to reach the door, she stopped again, turned to her son and said:

"A while ago, Mom had a dream, dreaming that your Second Uncle had passed away, and the lineage of your Great Uncle had come back to send him off."

Li Heng's grandfather had three cousins, and his Great Uncle fled to Xiangjiang before the founding of New China.

His Second Uncle had always been in his hometown.

His Third Uncle, who was Li Heng's grandfather, had once been a soldier and joined the Eighth Route Army with the old Master Chen, but his life wasn't as tough as Master Chen's, and he died during the War of Liberation.

Of course, there were actually 16 people from the village who went together at the beginning, and only Master Chen and another Grandpa Sun survived.

Moreover, Grandpa Sun left the army and returned to the village early in the first year of the war in Korea because he broke his left hand and was blinded in one eye.

Li Heng asked curiously: "Is there any news from Great Uncle's lineage?"

Tian Rune had never met the people from Great Uncle's branch, so she shook her head, "Maybe I heard your grandma talk too much, so I had a dream."

Mentioning grandma, Li Heng asked one more question: "When will grandma come back from Second Aunt's?"

He had two aunts. The eldest aunt was married in Weijiaduan, which was also a village below the front town, about 20 miles away.

The second aunt was married a bit far away, in Lengshuijiang, Lou City, next door. It took three transfers to get there, and it took a whole day from Shangwan Village.

Tian Rune said: "I received a letter from your second aunt, saying she would be back before the Mid-Yuan Festival to worship the ancestors.

In addition, she is also thinking about your college entrance examination results, so she should be early."

"Okay, after the exam, I'll go pick up grandma."

"No need, your second aunt said she would send her over personally."

After chatting for a while, Tian Rune left.

But just after the old lady left, the second sister Li Lan, who was hiding behind the black coffin, pushed the door and came in again.

Li Heng was startled and said angrily: "What are you doing hiding behind the coffin in the middle of the night? I didn't sell you out."

This "sell out" referred to the 200 yuan he gave her.

Li Lan leaned against the door frame and squinted at him, "What's there to be afraid of a coffin? Living people are afraid of dead things, only you are so useless.

If you give me another 50, I'll sleep on the coffin tonight."

He believed this.

Based on his understanding of this sister, as long as the money was in place, let alone sleeping on the family's coffin, even if she went to the graveyard behind the mountain to stay for a night, it wouldn't be a big deal.

He looked up and asked: "Are you short of money again?"

Li Lan looked at her nails, "I just spent 20 yuan on clothes, I'm not short."

Li Heng was confused, "Since you're not short of money, and I didn't sell you out, then why are you here? It's this late, why aren't you sleeping?"

Unexpectedly, Li Lan said something shocking, "Your English teacher is quite plump, and her voice is sexy. You two are so intimate, did you sleep with her?"

Heaven-defying!

Li Heng was dumbfounded by her, "Are you not having a fever? If you don't have a fever, shut up! Go to sleep."

Li Lan habitually raised her fist, "You dare to roar at me?"

Li Heng sat still, "What? Still want to hit someone? Come on, try hitting me."

After her gaze flowed over him, Li Lan slowly retracted her fist and threw out another question:

"Who is Song Yu? Is it the one on the glory wall of your school? It shouldn't be the same name, right?"

Li Heng raised his eyelids and didn't make a sound, wanting to see what medicine she was selling in her gourd?

Seeing him like this, a smile that only a vixen would have appeared on Li Lan's face, "When you were at home in the first month, you talked in your sleep for three consecutive nights, calling her name in your dreams."

Li Heng was a bit confused. The first month? Wasn't that the few days when he had just been reborn?

After waiting for a while, without waiting for her to show her fox tail, he pulled the quilt, "If there's nothing else, I'm going to sleep, you should rest early too."

Li Lan said: "I plan to go chat with Yang Yingwen and Que Xinyan tomorrow."

Li Heng said, "Speak directly if you have something to say."

Li Lan said: "Then I'll say it. I especially hate the Chen family. I wish I could tear that bitch Zhong Lan into pieces and feed her to the dogs. Why don't you try pursuing Song Yu? Although I don't think you can catch up, what if you step on dog shit luck? I won't recognize Zijin as my younger sister-in-law."

Li Heng was unconvinced: "Even if Song Yu beats you in every aspect and is the ceiling of women, I am a writer after all."

Li Lan, who had always been heaven-first and she-second, rarely didn't refute that Song Yu was prettier than her, "That's because she doesn't know you and Chen Zijin have slept together yet. Why don't I tell her in advance and try?"

Li Heng glanced at her, fell asleep, and blew out the kerosene lamp by the way.

Li Lan's voice came in the dark: "Listening to your English teacher, Chen Xiaomi looked for you, wanting to be your editor. You should have given the novel to her at the beginning.

Imagine, if you invisibly tame an enemy into a lovesick girl, eh, and let her love but not get it, eh, and let her not dare to express her thoughts, eh, and let her crave it for a lifetime, it should be quite fulfilling."

Li Heng was speechless and laughed.

He didn't doubt this second sister's desire for revenge at all. If she were a man, with her appearance and evil nature, Chen Xiaomi would be really dangerous.

No, not just Chen Xiaomi was dangerous, girls who offended her were dangerous.

Li Heng said: "Alright, stop saying some nonsense, it's all waste words. If there's nothing else, close the door, I'm really going to sleep."

Li Lan stopped teasing him, "Sleep, if you meet Chen Xiaomi in the capital during the summer vacation, if you have a chance, help me pass a message. I'm going to beat her up another day."

Li Heng asked with a smile: "How do I pass this message? Should I say when we meet: My second sister said she's going to beat you up, be careful?"

Li Lan closed the door, and a voice came from outside: "The word 'beat' is used well, worthy of someone who eats with a pen, not bad!"

Before the sound of the word "not bad" disappeared, he heard the sound of hands rubbing against the coffin lid outside, and he was instantly horrified. This sister was playing a prank again.

This wasn't the first time. In the past, whenever the two of them quarreled, they would definitely hear the sound of hands rubbing against the coffin lid at night.

Swoosh. Swoosh. Swoosh.

The sound was soft, gloomy, and cool, which was strange and creepy to hear.

Li Heng helplessly opened the door and shouted at her: "You're so old, can you stop?"

Li Lan just laughed, and then went to the compartment opposite in a dashing manner.

Downstairs bedroom.

After coming back from checking the water in the field, the couple couldn't sleep.

Li Jianguo leaned close to the kerosene lamp, reading the "Harvest" magazine his son bought, reading "To Live."

The more he read, the more he felt, the more shocked he was, and the more he felt his son was gifted.

Tian Rune flipped through the newspapers again on the side and suddenly asked: "Is there really the shadow of Second Uncle in the book?"

Li Jianguo didn't speak for a long while, then opened his mouth: "Yes, I have experienced many places with my own eyes."

Hearing this, Tian Rune's tense mood eased, and then she said:

"Youngest's English teacher's surname is Wang. Although I haven't met her, her voice on the phone is quite nice. I have her number and want to go to town tomorrow morning to make a call and ask."

Li Jianguo looked up, "Still don't trust it?"

Tian Rune stood up, walked around the room and said, "It's not that I don't trust it, but this surprise is too big. If I don't confirm it, my heart won't be able to hang down."

Li Jianguo was silent for a long time, and said: "It should be asked, I will accompany you tomorrow."

They all say that a golden nest or a silver nest is not as good as one's own dog nest. I don't know why, but after Li Heng finished talking with his mother, he seemed to have narcolepsy in the second half of the night.

When he woke up again, it was already past 8 o'clock in the morning.

However, before he could fully open his eyes, he heard a noisy argument downstairs, and it seemed that many people had come to the house.

"Eh, Li Lan, your eldest sister said your younger brother became a great writer and earned 3,800 yuan for a book, is it true?"

"Li Lan, where are your parents? Such a big happy event, they wouldn't hide, would they?"

"Lanzi, is your younger brother at home? Call him out to chat, I really want to know how his brain grew, how can he earn so much money by writing books?"

"Li Lan, your family has 4 pigs, such a big happy event, why don't you kill one to celebrate?"

"It's incredible, our front town has produced generals, hall officials, county magistrates, and people like Wei Yuan, but it's the first time for a great writer. It should be a good time to kill a pig to celebrate, hey! Li Jianguo, come out! Hey! Tian Rune, come out!"

"Li Heng! Li Heng! Are you still sleeping? Come down, the sun is shining on your butt!"

"..."

Early in the morning, the 30-odd households at the crossroads who got the news didn't even bother to cook breakfast, and rushed to the Li family to listen to the news and confirm the message.

Among these people, some felt uncomfortable in their hearts and couldn't accept this gap for a while, slandering that this Li family had clearly fallen, the phoenix had clearly turned into a chicken, and they had become ordinary people like them, why did they rise again?

Where is the reason for this?

Why does God only protect the Li family?

Some even hoped that Li Lan would stand up and say "no" because of jealousy.

Of course, although most people felt sour in their hearts, most of them were purely watching the excitement and the rumors.

With such a shout and such a call from the crowd, it didn't take long for the people in the nearby production team to be alarmed, and they all came.

After a while, half of the village came.

Some people were originally going to cut grass for the cows and work in the fields, but hearing that a great writer had appeared in Shangwan Village, oh! The cow grass wasn't cut, and the hoe was thrown aside. This is a rare thing, this is a Western scene, must go see it.

Must see how big the great writer is?

Why can one book earn 3,800 yuan?

According to the wage level of 1.5 yuan per day for ordinary workers in these years, it would take 7 years to work day and night, and many people wouldn't earn this money in their lifetime.

Some were red-eyed, some were envious, some were jealous, and with various complex moods, the number of people at the door of the Li family grew more and more.

In a moment, the crossroads were full of black heads.

There was no entertainment in this era, and anyone wearing new clothes could be discussed for a long time. Combined with a major event like writing, could that be okay?

That's not okay!

Any wind and grass movement would bring them all.

Must go see, must go join the fun, must go listen to the first-hand news to gossip outside.

Even if this matter had nothing to do with them, if they went to brag in the surrounding ten miles and were paid attention to by so many people, it would be majestic!

Many people wouldn't walk out of the front town in their lifetime, and they just relied on this highlight moment of bragging to be glorious, to satisfy themselves, and to highlight their sense of existence.

Fatty Aunt, the culprit who spread the rumor that Li Heng and Chen Zijin slept together, also hid in the crowd, holding a rice bowl in her hand, listening with her ears pricked up while eating.

But this goods didn't dare to get too close to the Li family's gate. She was beaten by Li Lan in the first month, and now she was a bit scared when she saw Li Lan, instinctively not daring to show her face.

But it was useless for her to hide. Nowadays, who in Shangwan Village didn't know about the feud between Fatty Aunt and the Li family's second daughter?

Who didn't know that she was constantly bad-mouthing the Li family behind their backs?

Many people gave Fatty Aunt a nickname, called "Rotten Loach."

Fifth Grandpa was a famous fun-maker in the village. After discovering Fatty Aunt, he immediately shouted at her: "Fatty Aunt, why are you here?

The poor boy from the Li family you used to sing down has now flown and developed! He has become a great writer! How do you see this matter? Can you still stop it with your three-inch tongue?"

"Hahaha!"

The crowd burst into laughter. They loved this kind of off-beat comedic sense of Fifth Grandpa, it was too happy.

Fatty Aunt really wanted to be stubborn and say "Who doesn't know Li Yan's brain is not smart, maybe it's fake news," but when she came into contact with the gaze cast by Li Lan, she trembled immediately and lowered her head without making a sound.

Li Lan was not a good person. Catching such a good opportunity, how could she miss it? She immediately said sarcastically: "Tsk tsk, isn't that Fatty Aunt? Thank you for caring so much about our Li family's affairs!

Trouble you to pass it on outside, the Li family's youngest son Li Heng has now become a writer, 'To Live' was written by him. Let those families who haven't married off their daughters hide them well, just say my younger brother's charm has become greater and his destructive power is stronger!"

"Hahaha!"

"Hahaha!"

Li Lan's face-slapping was painful, the key was that she didn't avoid those scandals at all, but instead used the scandals to slap back.

The crowd burst into laughter again, following suit and making a scene.

"Li Lan, where is your younger brother? Call your younger brother out, I have a niece who is studying in a technical secondary school. She can enter the National Tax Bureau when she graduates this year. The family relationship has been handled. Ask your younger brother if he has any ideas?"

"Ya! Teacher Youwen, you have a good plan, you came to be a matchmaker, aren't you afraid of the rumors about Li Heng and the Chen family girl?"

Teacher Youwen smiled and said: "Hey! That's all old stuff, who doesn't have a favorite in their youth, we are all people who have come over, we must understand, I just feel that Li Heng and my niece are quite a match."

Someone shouted: "Your niece is from Jinshi Town next door, right? The fat water doesn't flow to outsiders' fields. Why do you introduce such a capable person as Li Heng to the outside? If you want to find one, you should prioritize the local village first."

Youwen raised his head, "The problem is that our village doesn't have a suitable one, right?"

At this time, someone found Fatty Aunt, whose face was blue and red, about to slip away, and shouted loudly:

"Fatty Aunt, don't go, Li Lan took out melon seeds and peanuts, eat a handful before going."

"Fatty Aunt, such a big event would be less flavorful without you, don't go, don't go, I'll go back and move two low stools to chat."

"..."

In the past, she was the one who ridiculed others, but now she had become the object of ridicule. Who could bear this?

How could she bear this?

Fatty Aunt couldn't bear it!

With a bang, the bowl in her hand shattered. Fatty Aunt, who was furious, lost her balance and fell to the ground, almost fainting.

But she still gritted her teeth and climbed up, ignoring everything, turned around and ran home in a hurry, and closed the main door with two bangs.

Then she leaned against the door, her chest heaving violently, gasping for breath. She had lived her whole life and had never been so cowardly.

This feeling of being poked in the spine, woo, was more painful than being beaten by Li Lan, and more uncomfortable than her husband and daughter-in-law getting together.

People live with a face, trees live with a bark, the face was slapped away, gone, gone...

Coincidentally, her son just came out of the inner room. He drank too much wine last night and was still sleepy. Seeing his mother like this, he asked:

"What happened outside? Why is it so noisy? Mom, what's wrong with you again? Why are you so angry?"

"Angry! Can I not be angry? You only know how to drink all day, drink, drink, drink! Your wife was hugged by your dad and slept, and you are still drinking there!

Why don't you go die! Why don't you drink yourself to death! Why did I give birth to such a useless waste like you!"

Seeing her unpromising son, and then thinking of the promising Li Heng, Fatty Aunt exploded at this moment.

All the grievances she suffered poured out on her son like a mountain torrent and tsunami. She picked up a broom in the corner of the door with her right hand, crying while greeting her son hard.

Before he figured out the reason, he was beaten all over his head and face. The son didn't get used to her either, snatched the broom, pushed her to the ground, and roared:

"Are you crazy? You can't control my dad, why are you hitting me? That bitch was also the one you wanted me to marry into the house. I'm not interested, whoever wants to sleep with her can sleep with her, anyway, I won't."

"You god-killing thing! You god-killing thing! You dare to hit me, you won't die well!" Fatty Aunt sat on the ground, even more aggrieved, aggrieved to the extreme, and cried while holding her head.

Listening to the shouting downstairs, Li Heng was speechless.

But he also understood.

With the eldest sister there last night, he should have expected such a big scene today.

If the second sister was the representative of being tight-lipped.

Then the eldest sister was definitely the ultimate counter-example, shallow-minded, unable to hide things, and no matter what news reached her ears, it would never pass the night.

If he wasn't wrong, the eldest sister must have shown off to the people in the courtyard last night, which led to today's explosion.

They all say that no one knows a daughter better than a mother, but Tian Rune didn't seal her mouth in advance, but let her eldest daughter spread the news.

Li Jianguo probably guessed his wife's intention, and finally sighed, choosing to acquiesce.

Because the negative news that the old Li family had carried over the past year was really too much, so much that his son's reputation had been completely ruined.

Now he needed such a major event that could shock the surrounding ten miles to help Li Heng restore his reputation.

As for Li Lan, hehe!

She, who had always protected her calf, not only wouldn't stop it, but had already instigated the eldest sister on how to do it and how to spread it last night.

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