Chapter 473

Seeing his mother's appearance, Wang An felt deeply sinful; the main thing was that it was fine for him to pretend to be a cripple, but he truly shouldn't have "moved" while walking.

You say this scared his mother so much that her voice changed, and looking at it, the tears also had a tendency to be unstoppable.

This thing is a mess... just messing around!

Fortunately, Wang An reacted fast enough and hurriedly said loudly with self-reproach:

"Nothing happened, I just sprained my ankle; just now when I got off the sled, I bumped it again, and it hurt me so much."

Hearing Wang An say this, Liu Guilan clearly breathed a sigh of relief, and while stepping forward to support Wang An, she said with heartache: "You're such a big person, how could you still sprain your ankle? You never sprained your ankle when mountain trekking, but you sprained your ankle when going to the market..."

Wang An listened to his mother's nagging words, and not only did he not feel annoyed at all, but he felt truly quite happy.

Just when Liu Guilan was nagging, Wang Dazhu and the others also gathered around; once they heard that Wang An had only sprained his ankle, everyone immediately didn't take it to heart.

In this era, perhaps because of malnutrition, spraining an ankle is practically a common occurrence, and there is indeed no need to be concerned.

Wang Dazhu saw the blue horse tied behind Wang An's sled and frowned deeply, but didn't ask anything.

The main thing is that none of the horses and mules in Wang An's house were bought normally.

And now, including mules, horses, and donkeys, there are already 5 big livestock in the house; if the donkey gives birth to a foal, there will be six.

Therefore, Wang Dazhu felt that this blue horse definitely wasn't bought by Wang An; if he asked now, with so many people present, it definitely wouldn't work.

Wang An saw everyone coming over and immediately said to Wang Li:

"Fifth brother, come over, distribute a bottle of soda to everyone, and then take these cigarettes for everyone to smoke; tell everyone not to be polite."

Wang Li took the soda but didn't take the cigarettes, and said with a smile:

"Fourth brother, my family has already prepared cigarettes, you should take them back."

Wang An said loudly without caring:

"Then give them to those who are helping; we're all from the same village, there's no such thing as working for nothing."

In fact, Wang An said this deliberately for the people helping to hear.

You have to know that the cigarettes Wang An handed to Wang Li were Mount Zhangbai!

In this era, as long as they are boxed cigarettes, they are actually good cigarettes in the countryside.

Because the cigarettes people smoke at this time are generally raw tobacco leaves grown by themselves.

Because they haven't been processed, raw tobacco leaves are truly spicy and choking when smoked; people who aren't used to smoking them can be directly stunned by one puff.

Even if they resist it, they feel their heads "buzzing", and their foreheads have a feeling of being pushed.

Not lying at all, everyone can't even afford to smoke flue-cured tobacco.

Flue-cured tobacco is the kind of tobacco leaf Wang An exchanged for roe deer meat when he was reborn; it's tobacco leaf processed by a flue-curing room.

Although flue-cured tobacco is also fierce when smoked, it is indeed much better to smoke than raw tobacco leaves.

And the Mount Zhangbai in Wang An's hands had truly exceeded the highest smoking standard for ordinary people at this time.

This is also the reason why Mu Xueli was so proud when he told Wang An that he only smoked Mount Zhangbai.

In fact, Mu Xueli's behavior back then couldn't be called showing off, because even if it were showing off, Mu Xueli wouldn't dare to show off to Wang An.

To be precise, Mu Xueli's behavior back then counted as sharing, sharing the excited little feeling of being able to afford Mount Zhangbai. And the reason Wang An took cigarettes and soda was just because he happened to run into it; there was absolutely no intentionality, and besides, these things didn't count for much to Wang An anymore.

Wang Li heard Wang An say this and smiled as he took the cigarettes.

Whether it was when Wang An's family was unloading bricks or when his father-in-law's family was unloading bricks, as long as the villagers who happened to be nearby would always lend a hand more or less.

Although they wouldn't help from beginning to end, even if they helped unload 3 or 5 carts, it was still a favor.

Therefore, good cigarettes, that is, boxed cigarettes, naturally had to be in place; you couldn't help work and not even get a cigarette.

Wang An looked at the people unloading bricks and found that one bundle of soda wasn't enough to distribute, so he said to Wang Li again: "This bundle of soda doesn't seem enough; go to my sled and take another bundle down. It's hard to drink soda once, so there shouldn't be anyone who doesn't get to drink."

Wang Li also scanned the crowd; even though he felt a bit embarrassed to take Wang An's things, he couldn't do something that favored one over the other, so Wang Li agreed:

"Mm, fourth brother, after they finish drinking, I'll send the bottles over to you."

After everyone finished drinking the soda, they all lit cigarettes and continued to unload bricks, and Wang An should also go home, so he said to Wang Li: "My ankle is uncomfortable, so I'll go home first."

Wang An said this and turned to get on the sled; behind him came Wang Li's shout: "Then take it slow, fourth brother; tell my sister-in-law not to light the fire later, and then you all come over for lunch."

Wang An waved his hand and said: "We'll eat at home, don't make our share, okay."

After Wang An finished speaking, he drove the sled home.

It's just that Wang An didn't notice that not far behind Wang An, Niu Great Ming was looking at Wang An's back with a ferocious face.

It could be seen that Niu Great Ming had basically recovered well, but he had completely formed a feud with Wang An.

Thinking about it, it's normal; that day he was beaten into that bear-like appearance by Wang An; although the fault was indeed on him, no matter who was beaten, he wouldn't be reconciled!

And beside Niu Great Ming, there was another person with the surname Niu and a person from another village.

Only to hear this person from another village frown and say in a low voice:

"Why do I find that blue horse tied behind the big madman's sled so familiar?"

It must be said that Wang An was indeed cunning enough, because when Wang An was waiting for the clothes to burn out, he untied all the red cloth strips on the blue horse and threw them into the fire.

And Wang An also used a knife to cut all the long mane on the blue horse's neck short.

So even if the blue horse's owner were to come back to life, if he saw this big blue horse again, he would have to identify it carefully.

The one surnamed Niu heard this and said: "You're in the county town every day; aren't most of the horses at the market like this?"

This person from another village didn't answer what the one surnamed Niu said, but still frowned and said:

"No, I should have seen this horse."

After this person finished speaking, Niu Great Ming rolled his eyes at him and said unpleasantly:

"The horses here, five out of ten are like this; I don't know about other places, but just from the beginning of spring until now, there have been more than twenty blue horses added to this village; I think they all look about the same; what's so strange about one horse?"

This person from another village didn't refute, but nodded and said:

"That's true; if you don't buy a horse, you have to buy a cow or a mule; otherwise, the land is all in individual hands, and it's not a solution to always borrow livestock to use."

Niu Great Ming and the other one surnamed Niu nodded almost simultaneously.

(End of chapter)