Chapter 89: Rural Absurd Tales Chapter 89

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Zhong Jianguo gave Li Xiulan one IV drip of glucose and one IV drip of antibiotics; the glucose was to relieve her low blood sugar, and the antibiotics were to relieve her waist pain.

After the two IV drips, Li Xiulan felt much better.

Zhong Jianguo prescribed some medicine for her, told her to go home and take her medicine and rest properly, and instructed her that she must rest for two months, during which she must not do heavy work again.

She agreed readily.

Li Xiulan took Wang Xiaohua's little hand and returned home.

She sat blankly in the living room.

She sat for an entire noon.

Now she must face a choice.

Should she continue doing masonry work, or listen to Zhong Jianguo's opinion and rest and recuperate for two months?

If she continued doing masonry, would her waist injury really get worse and worse?

If she rested for two months, after her injury healed, would Lin Dajun still want her as a Small Worker?

If she, Li Xiulan, were in Lin Dajun's position, she definitely wouldn't want her again; she had only worked a few days and now wanted to rest for so long—how much would that delay the project's progress!

Li Xiulan didn't know how to choose for a while.

In the blink of an eye it was noon, and Wang Dashan and Wang Erhai came home from school.

She had to make lunch.

Forget it, don't think so much anymore.

If she felt better in five days, she would continue doing it; if she really couldn't get better, she wouldn't do it anymore, and wouldn't force herself.

Lunch was ready.

A plate of lettuce, a plate of scrambled eggs, and a whole pressure cooker of white rice—that was her and her three sons' lunch.

"Mom, the teacher said to have you go to the school this afternoon..."

While eating lunch, Wang Dashan suddenly lowered his head and said this quietly.

Li Xiulan's expression stiffened, and she immediately put on a stern face:

"What did you do at school? Confess honestly!"

These days, when teachers call parents to school, it's never a good thing.

It must be that her own son did something bad!

That was why Li Xiulan's face darkened all at once.

"I didn't do anything..."

Wang Dashan kept his head down, looking guilty.

Li Xiulan was furious.

Her eldest son was actually fairly well-behaved, but he was too mischievous and didn't put any thought into his studies at all!

"You hurry up and confess honestly!"

Li Xiulan raised her chopsticks, "If you don't confess honestly, I'll hit you!"

She had already worked so hard for this family, and her eldest son was still so careless—it really made her furious!

Seeing his mother was going to hit him, Wang Dashan was immediately afraid.

He quickly put down his bowl and chopsticks, ran to the door in a flash, and then said:

"I just didn't do well on the exam, I didn't do anything wrong, what right do you have to hit me!"

Li Xiulan was furious and chased after him:

"You dare to talk back, do you!"

"Mom, I was wrong, don't chase me! Be careful not to fall!" Wang Dashan quickly ran away.

Li Xiulan chased to the door, huffing and puffing, but couldn't catch up.

Her own eldest son was thin as a bamboo pole, but he ran incredibly fast!

Wang Dashan had already run far away, and still didn't forget to look back and shout:

"Second Brother, take my schoolbag to school for me!"

He planned not to go home at noon today; he would go play with his friends in the village, and when he'd played enough, he'd go straight to school.

Because he knew that as soon as he went home, he would definitely get a beating from his mother.

Wang Erhai smiled gleefully, gloating:

"Alright! Big Brother, go ahead!"

At two-thirty in the afternoon, Li Xiulan came to the school with a heavy heart.

Originally Wang Erhai had promised to help Wang Dashan carry his schoolbag, but now Wang Dashan's schoolbag was in Li Xiulan's hands.

Wang Dashan hadn't expected this at all.

He saw his mother carrying his schoolbag in her left hand and a bamboo stick in her right, coming angrily; he was immediately terrified, his face full of fright.

"Wang Dashan, look quickly, your mom is here to beat you!"

Some classmates laughed loudly, gloating.

Wang Dashan felt extremely ashamed.

But he had nowhere to escape.

He hurried out of the classroom, to apologize to Li Xiulan:

"Mom, I was wrong, give me the schoolbag okay? From now on I'll definitely study hard..."

Because he knew, if he didn't get the schoolbag in hand, the next two afternoon classes would have no textbooks, then he wouldn't only be beaten by Li Xiulan, but also beaten by the teacher.

Back then teachers beating disobedient children who didn't study hard, that was a perfectly justified matter, children weren't as precious as now, parents weren't as sensitive as now, and they wouldn't harbor hostility toward teachers even more.

Beating palms, punishment standing, detention, for naughty children those were common occurrences!

"I told you to run!"

Li Xiulan without a second word, one hand seized Wang Dashan, one hand fiercely swung down the bamboo switch.

Wang Dashan immediately was beaten until he bounced up and down in place.

Emitting wretched wails.

Bamboo switch beating people, doesn't damage tendons and bones, but it's truly painful ah, one switch whips down, crack sound, skin and flesh both turn red, so this method of beating children, was also jokingly called "glass noodles stewed with pork".

"Mom, I was wrong, Mom, I really was wrong, Mom stop beating..."

Li Xiulan whip after whip waved the bamboo switch, Wang Dashan was beaten while begging for mercy, while crying out, while struggling.

The students in the classroom, through the window watching, all watched with schadenfreude.

In the future Wang Dashan was destined to have yet another thing to be mocked by classmates about.

"Child's mother, stop beating!"

Just then, Wang Dashan's homeroom teacher came running over.

Wang Dashan's homeroom teacher was named Lin Xiaoyue, she was not only the homeroom teacher, but also Wang Dashan's math teacher and Chinese teacher.

Previously Li Xiulan came to handle Wang Dashan's enrollment registration and met once.

"Teacher, my son he doesn't study hard, he deserves to be beaten!"

Li Xiulan had no knowledge no culture, but she could distinguish right from wrong.

Not studying hard in school deserves beating, this seems to be a universal truth followed by rural parents.

So not few rural children, from childhood didn't lack beatings from parents and teachers.

However their skin and flesh are thick and solid, they won't be as sensitive and fragile as city children, even less would they become depressed and commit suicide at the drop of a hat.

"Child's mother, you beat the child don't beat in front of students, this will hurt his self-esteem greatly!"

Lin Xiaoyue spoke thus.

Li Xiulan however didn't understand these words, in her view, a small child understands nothing, what self-esteem could he have?

"You come with me to the office!"

Lin Xiaoyue said this one sentence to Li Xiulan, then also said to Wang Dashan:

"Wang Dashan, you also come to the office for a trip!"

Mother and son both followed Lin Xiaoyue to the office.

Wang Dashan head lowered, trembling with fear.

Corner of eye still retained traces of tears from just now being beaten crying by Li Xiulan.

Li Xiulan instead was full of apology, hurriedly apologized:

"Teacher, my family's child is too naughty, gave you trouble!"

In her view, her own child giving teacher trouble, indeed shouldn't happen.

"Child's mother, I this time called you over, want to ask you one matter."

"You ask, I'll definitely answer honestly!" Li Xiulan full face honest, like a child who made a mistake, humbly accepting criticism.

Instead it was Wang Dashan, although still lowering head, but already spaced out, absent-minded, secretly playing with fingernails.

"Usually Wang Dashan's homework, is it you helping her do it?"

Lin Xiaoyue asked this one question.

Left Li Xiulan somewhat dumbfounded.

"No! I never helped him do homework!"

Li Xiulan hurriedly denied.

She now every day exhausted to death, where still have free time to help him do homework?

Lin Xiaoyue brows slightly furrowed, carrying a trace of puzzlement:

"Then that's strange, usual homework, whether Chinese or math, he can all do correctly, even very difficult problems, whole class no one person can do correctly, he also can all do correctly, result this monthly test, you guess what?"

"What happened this monthly test?"

Lin Xiaoyue sighed:

"He Chinese scored 38 points, math even worse, only scored 19 points."