Chapter 86: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 86

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

This night Li Xiulan couldn't sleep; her waist ached dully, her feet secretly ached and turned sour.

She felt very uncomfortable.

She got up and took a few Anaine; only then did she feel slightly better.

She muddled through in a daze until dawn; it was barely past five in the morning when she had to get up again.

Feed the chickens, feed the pigs, make breakfast, wash clothes, water the vegetable garden — these fixed daily chores, she must do every morning.

After these were done, Wang Dashan and Wang Erhai also went to school; only then did she go find Pork Rong, ride Pork Rong's vehicle to the town construction site.

"Mom, I want to go too!"

When Li Xiulan was leaving, Wang Xiaohua grabbed her hand, begging with longing eyes.

He is only five years old; yesterday he stayed home alone all day, he felt very lonely, very bored, also very scared, so today he wants to follow Mother to town together.

"Be good, you stay home and read books, or go find other village children to play with; Mom has to go work to earn money!"

Li Xiulan absolutely cannot bring Wang Xiaohua to the town construction site; not to mention bringing him along would be troublesome and get in the way, if she encounters a situation like yesterday and can't catch a ride back, has to walk back, at Wang Xiaohua's such young age, how could he walk this stretch of road?

"Mom, just let me go with you, I won't cry or make a fuss, don't leave me alone at home okay, I'm scared!"

Wang Xiaohua insisted noisily on going.

Li Xiulan was extremely annoyed by this.

Hardening her heart, she locked Wang Xiaohua inside the house.

Wang Xiaohua locked inside the house, cried while banging on the door, shouting loudly for Mommy.

Li Xiulan's heart was cut like by a knife, but she still endured the heartache and left.

She could only do this; there was no choice.

By noon when Wang Dashan and Wang Erhai finish school and return, they will naturally open the door for Wang Xiaohua.

Li Xiulan walked quickly toward Pork Rong's home; behind her Wang Xiaohua's crying shouts gradually blurred.

Li Xiulan wiped away the tears at the corners of her eyes.

Humble, she smiled and greeted Pork Rong:

"Brother Rong, today I have to trouble you again."

Pork Rong laughed heartily:

"No trouble, don't be polite, get on, it's not early, we'll head to town right now!"

"Okay okay!"

Li Xiulan hurriedly got on the motorcycle.

Pork Rong kicked the starter with his foot; the motorcycle made a putt-putt-putt sound.

He released the clutch; the motorcycle started driving out of the village.

"Xiulan, how come your face looks a bit pale?"

On the road, Pork Rong glanced at Li Xiulan's face through the rearview mirror, and detected a trace of something wrong.

"Nothing nothing, I'm fine."

Li Xiulan not only had a pale complexion, her expression was also very fatigued, both eyes carried dark circles.

But she must force herself to hold on.

Life does not allow her the slightest slack.

"How did you get back from town yesterday?"

Pork Rong at this time asked this one sentence again.

"Got off work too late, couldn't catch a ride, walked back."

Li Xiulan answered truthfully.

"You actually walked back from town to Shangou Village, such a far road, how many hours did you have to walk!"

Pork Rong immediately showed a face full of surprise.

At the same time, he couldn't help but feel sympathy.

"Actually it doesn't take that long to walk, just over three hours."

The actual situation was she walked over four hours.

Li Xiulan deliberately said a little less time, to make the matter seem lighter.

Pork Rong glanced at Li Xiulan through the rearview mirror again; his eyes were full of sympathy and pity for Li Xiulan.

"Xiulan, not that I'm saying this, but actually you don't need to go to town to work; your husband works in the city, let him send money back, you stay home plow some fields, plant some vegetables, take good care of the children, that's already enough; let Wang Zhanggen do the earning!"

Pork Rong meddled with one more sentence.

Li Xiulan smiled bitterly:

"If only he could send money back; I've already been unable to contact him for more than half a year."

"How could this be? Is Wang Zhanggen that heartless?" Pork Rong felt indignant on Li Xiulan's behalf.

Li Xiulan could only mock herself:

"Hehe, who knows; maybe I'm old and he despises me now."

Pork Rong stopped speaking.

Li Xiulan has indeed aged a lot compared to before.

But her bone structure was still very good-looking.

It was just that her skin was a bit rougher, and she had a few more wrinkles, that was all.

Very quickly, the motorcycle arrived at the town street entrance.

Li Xiulan got off here, but Zhu Rou Rong had to deliver pork to the restaurant, which was not on the way with Li Xiulan.

"Xiulan, if you can't catch a ride when you come back in the afternoon, you can call Li Yunxia's convenience store and have Li Yunxia tell me, and I can come pick you up!"

Zhu Rou Rong said this.

Seeing Li Xiulan suffering so much, he truly couldn't bear it in his heart.

That was why he took the initiative to make this suggestion.

Li Xiulan hurriedly nodded in thanks:

"Okay okay, thank you Rong Ge, you really are a good person!"

Although Li Xiulan agreed verbally, in her heart she had never thought of going to the trouble of Zhu Rou Rong.

Having Zhu Rou Rong make a special trip into town to pick her up and take her home, how troublesome would that be, the gas money alone would be not a small amount.

Even if Zhu Rou Rong was happy to help others, she was too embarrassed to trouble Zhu Rou Rong again.

Arriving at the construction site, Lin Dajun and Zhou Hongwei had already come.

They were eating breakfast.

Li Xiulan greeted them, then went to mix mortar.

But Lin Dajun told her, don't mix mortar first, today we have to tie the rebar properly first, only after the column formwork is done can we pour cement and gravel inside.

Li Xiulan said she didn't know how to tie rebar, so Lin Dajun had Zhou Hongwei teach her.

Li Xiulan was actually quite clever, she learned it in one go.

In a blink it was noon, Lin Dajun and Zhou Hongwei said they wanted to find a restaurant to eat stir-fried dishes, and asked Li Xiulan if she wanted to go together.

This household didn't include the noon meal, lunch they had to solve themselves.

Li Xiulan shook her head, said you guys go, she wouldn't go, she gets heatiness easily from eating stir-fried dishes.

Actually these were all excuses, the real reason was she wanted to save money.

After Lin Dajun and Zhou Hongwei left, Li Xiulan ran to buy a few steamed buns, then squatted in a deserted corner, and just like that gnawed on the steamed buns dryly.

The steamed buns were very dry and choked the throat.

But not even a bottle of mineral water or a bowl of congee was she willing to buy.

Just like that she gnawed on them hard.

Yesterday noon she also solved lunch like this.

For every noon in the future, if no accident, it would probably be like this.

In a blink it was afternoon off-duty time again.

Today off-duty was comparatively late.

Because the foundation and column body needed to be completely poured.

After the foundation was poured, they had to wait a period of time, wait for the cement to harden, then come back to start the next step of the project.

Lin Dajun said, next we rest five days, five days later we start work again.

Li Xiulan nodded in agreement, in her heart secretly letting out a breath of relief.

Today her waist injury hurt more severely than yesterday, she even felt a bit like she couldn't hold on much longer.

If they rest five days before starting work again, it would definitely be able to get some relief.

Li Xiulan walked alone towards the street entrance.

She felt, today would probably have to walk home again.

Because it was already dark now.

However, what Li Xiulan didn't expect was.

When she arrived at the street entrance, she instead saw a familiar figure.

"Rong Ge, why are you here?"