Reborn in a small village in the 1990s

Chapter 243

Later generations did not take this matter seriously.

Because there are relatively few children in later generations, and most of them are quite spoiled and pampered, parents always step in whenever there's a conflict between the children. And many people even applaud this, saying that protecting their own children is the right thing to do.

But other people's children are still children.

In this era, most families have many children. It's not that they don't care about their children, but rather that they don't have much time to manage them. In most rural areas, children are simply raised freely.

Zhao Dage was free-range, and Zhao Yongbo was also free-range.

Go out and have fun as you please, just remember to come home at night. Besides, in this day and age, in special villages like Dongtaizi Village, the vast majority of people are surnamed Zhao, and even those who aren't are all related by blood or marriage.

It's okay if the kids get into fights while playing outside.

But parents like Xiaobaozi's are really shameful.

Zhao Tingxu simply put on his cotton-padded coat, dragged his shoes, and was about to go out.

But Wang Guixiang stopped him: "Where are you going? This might be Zhao Dage's fault again. You believe her only side of the story?"

No matter what, Wang Guixiang was still angry with Zhao Da'e, and she looked at him with utter contempt.

Zhao Tingxu glared at Wang Guixiang: "Your grandson got beaten up too. I'm not going, but you are?"

Wang Guixiang was stunned for a moment, and Zhao Tingxu immediately pushed her aside and hurriedly left.

Wang Guixiang wanted to say something, but Zhao Da'e curled his lip and said, "Save your breath. Your grandson's slap is all swollen, what are you still babbling about?"

Wang Guixiang glared at Zhao Da'e, who glared back.

Zhao Da'e: Tch...

Then Zhao Da'e also ran out.

When they arrived, they found that Zhao Tingxu had already arrived. After all, Zhao Tingxu wasn't too old, and when he ran, Zhao Da'e couldn't catch up with him at his current speed.

Zhao Tingxu grabbed Zhao Yongyuan with one hand and dragged him to Zhao Yongyuan's father Zhao Tiecheng's house. Then, with a shout, he pulled Zhao Yongyuan's father out.

"You worthless brat, the thing you raised, he even helps his kids when they fight."

Zhao Da'e saw that Zhao Yongbo was still crying, so he helped him up.

Little Baozi stood there, covering his head, completely bewildered. His father had been kidnapped...

Zhao Da'e grabbed Xiao Baozi by the hair and slapped him twice across the face: "Xiao Baozi, if you cause trouble again, I'll beat you to death later."

Xiao Baozi wanted to shout again, but Zhao Da'e scared him off: "Try shouting. Let me tell you, Xiao Baozi, you can have the candied hawthorn, but you can't take it. If you hit my little brother again, you watch out, I'll go and call my older brother to deal with you."

Zhao Yongbo was young, but Zhao Yongze, the son of Zhao Tiebao, the great-uncle of Zhao Da'e, was the king of the village kids. He was fifteen or sixteen years old and made a living by fighting all day long.

While others at least do something decent, Zhao Yongze only fights. He even got into fights in junior high school.

They went back to the village to fight during their holiday.

I feel uncomfortable if I don't fight for a day.

Because of this, Zhao Yongze got beaten up quite a bit... but one reason was that Ji Ruxue wouldn't let Zhao Tiebao discipline her son, and the other was that Zhao Yongze didn't learn his lesson...

When Zhao Da'e said to call him "Big Brother" from now on, Xiao Baozi immediately cowered and said, "I was wrong."

"So what if you're wrong?" Zhao Da'e cursed. "I don't care, your dad just hit me. It's all because of you, right? Slap yourself ten times. Otherwise, I'll have someone else hit you."

This time, Xiao Baozi was genuinely scared, and he started hitting himself repeatedly. Although it didn't hurt, and he didn't use much force, he was still afraid.

Then, seeing that people were coming, Zhao Da'e grabbed Zhao Yongbo and ran away.

When Zhao Da'e got home, he first gave Zhao Yongbo a lesson on the hot topic of "fighting": "Pah, when it comes to calling the parents, my family has never lost. We may not be good at anything else, but we're all great at fighting."

Zhao Da'e is right about that. Although the Zhao family is poor, Zhao Tingxu has a temper that's easily ignited and he's incredibly arrogant and domineering. Moreover, he's the youngest among the oldest members of the family.

As mentioned earlier, Zhao Tingxu was the seventh child in his family, with all his other brothers being older than him. Within his generation, he was also the youngest in his clan.

Once someone of that generation leaves, everyone else is already old. For example, in Zhao Da'e's family, only Zhao Tingxu and Zhao Tingming are still healthy; the others have long since passed away. The second son went to Northeast China, the third son died, the fourth son is partially paralyzed, the fifth son is missing, and the sixth son has long been hunched over and unable to move easily.

This rural man has never been in good health.

Engaging in strenuous physical labor every day is not the same as exercising. It's like the human body is an engine; if you constantly do high-intensity physical labor, it becomes like a small horse pulling a heavy cart, and once you reach your fifties, you start to lose your strength.

This is directly related to the fact that people in ancient times did not have very long lifespans.

Later generations, due to improved living conditions and mechanization replacing heavy physical labor, generally improved their views on rural people, thinking that life in the countryside was quite good, with some land and vegetables that were comfortable and healthy to eat.

But this era is not yet suitable; we still have to work.

That's why Zhao Tingxu, who loved playing cards and drinking and didn't do much work, is in good health now. Zhao Tingming, on the other hand, went to school when he was young and became the village head when he came back, so he basically didn't do any work and is also in good health.

Zhao Tingming was even healthier.

Zhao Da'e wasn't worried about Zhao Tingxu getting beaten up.

After all, although Xiao Baozi dared to beat up Zhao Yongbo despite being from a different generation, his father and grandfather would never dare to touch Zhao Tingxu, not even to raise their voices.

Although times have changed, Zhao Tingxu is still a true elder. Usually, only Zhao Da'e dares to secretly tease Zhao Tingxu a few times, and even then, it's very rare.

Zhao Da'e dares to confront Wang Guixiang, but he generally avoids provoking Zhao Tingxu.

Of course, Zhao Tingxu wasn't particularly bad at doing things; he was alright.

After a while, Zhao Tingxu returned, cursing and swearing.

Zhao Da'e glanced over furtively: nothing should have happened, they hadn't suffered any losses, and Xiao Baozi's father and the others hadn't dared to say anything.

Otherwise, Zhao Tingxu wouldn't just be cursing and swearing; he would have directly called out to his sons.

Seeing that there was nothing else to do, Zhao Da'e decided to go to her aunt's house. It seemed like she hadn't accomplished anything today…

Aside from beating up Xiaobaozi to vent his anger, it seems he didn't do anything else.

Zhao Da'e glared at Zhao Yongbo and said, "When your father wakes up later, tell him to make sure to go to your aunt's house tomorrow morning, so as not to delay important matters."

Zhao Yongbo nodded as if he understood, "I understand, elder sister."

Then Zhao Da'e strolled back to his cane.

As soon as I arrived at the gate, I saw Zhou Yuren hopping into the yard on one leg.

Zhao Da'e was stunned. He quickly went over to help Zhou Yuren and asked, "Uncle, what's wrong with you?"

"I stepped on a nail when I went out. I didn't see it clearly and stepped on it," Zhou Yuren said.

"Ugh, can't you watch where you're going? Honestly!" Zhao Da'e complained, then shouted.

Cheng Jinxi came out of the house, and seeing Zhou Yuren's state, she was furious: "Look at you, you're useless at everything. You just went out to get some firewood, and you managed to prick your foot? Are you blind?!"

Zhou Yuren was speechless: …

Zhao Da'e looked completely bewildered: !!

Sure enough, this matched Zhao Da'e's basic understanding of his aunt's recent menopause.

When Cheng Jinxi was young, his personality was very different from Zhao Da'e's mother; both of them were timid and submissive.

However, in the past two years, Cheng Jinxi has not only become more assertive, but has also become extremely eccentric.

how to say……

Zhao Da'e certainly wouldn't dare say that his aunt has a mental illness, but she's definitely showing signs of it.

Anyway, she has a really bad temper.

Moreover, it's sometimes good and sometimes bad.

Of course, most of Cheng Jinxi's bad temper was directed at Zhou Yuren...

Cheng Jinxi is quite good-tempered with other people.

The reasons for this are somewhat complicated. As mentioned earlier, Zhou Yuren was a notorious gambler in his youth, and when he lost badly, he even gambled away his own son's money…

Many people in later generations think this is unreliable, but it is a true story from that era.

Zhou Yuren gambled, but he didn't have much money. He only had a tiny bit.

Moreover, people who were wealthy in that era, especially when Zhou Yuren was young, during the 1950s and 60s, didn't have much money.

Back then, when they were gambling and got desperate, they started betting on houses and land.

Later, things didn't work out, and the houses and land were taken over by the production team.

Then I'll seduce my wife...

Later that didn't work either; they demanded monogamy and marriage certificates.

Then crush the child...

This "pressure" refers to collateral. If you lose all your money, you have to put your fingerprint on a document and borrow money to continue gambling.

Then they'll give their son away to someone else, planning to pay back the money when they have it. If they run out of money, the son might truly no longer be theirs.

Zhou Tianfu was taken away once, and Zhou Yuren had no money to repay him. Later, they actually came and took the child away...

Afterwards, Cheng Jinxi called the police.

The child is back, and those gamblers have all been arrested. Luckily, Cheng Jinxi said that Zhou Yuren was tricked into betting on his son, which saved him from arrest; otherwise, he would have been arrested too.

After that, Zhou Yuren frequently beat Cheng Jinxi.

If you lose at gambling, you get beaten up.

There wasn't any particular reason, we just fought.

Just because Zhao Da'e is currently living well at Zhou Yuren's house doesn't mean Zhou Yuren is truly a good person. Zhou Yuren is kind to Zhao Da'e, but the young Zhou Yuren was a scoundrel.

Now that his son is older, Zhou Yuren has no other choice.

It's often said that sons are the debt collectors from past lives, and that's certainly true.

Even if Zhou Yuren had reformed and started working properly, it would still be enough for him to handle the challenges of his son getting married and starting a family.

He still gambles, but he doesn't dare to gamble big anymore. He only bets one or two cents at a time, and he doesn't dare to lose too much anymore.

He could gamble away his entire fortune, but the consequence would be that his son would remain a bachelor.

Zhou Yuren dared not go that far.

As for Cheng Jinxi, now that her son is grown up and she has help, she is no longer afraid of Zhou Yuren.

Now, they won't give Zhou Yuren a friendly look at the slightest disagreement.

"What are you looking at?" Cheng Jinxi was annoyed by Zhou Yuren's bewildered expression. "You're useless at everything but always hungry. The corn stalks have been sitting there for years. You could have gotten some kindling and gone over there every day. How could you be so blind as to get pricked by a nail?!"

"I didn't see it! But I can't just step on a nail even if I saw it!" Zhou Yuren complained, feeling extremely aggrieved. He genuinely didn't see it.

Zhou Yuren didn't know there was a nail there; who would have thought of that, so he stepped on it.

Cheng Jinxi kept grumbling on and on, and Zhao Da'e couldn't stand it anymore: "Alright, Auntie, then my uncle is blind and didn't see it, okay?"

Cheng Jinxi then stopped grumbling.

Zhou Yuren felt something was off: "I just..."

Zhou Yuren felt that something was not quite right, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what it was.

It's just... it feels like the goose and his wife are saying the same thing.

Zhou Yuren skipped into the house, and Cheng Jinxi ignored him and went back to her work.

Zhao Da'e glanced at it and went back to the west room.

Zhou Chunwen was blowing on his feet by the kang (heated brick bed)...

Zhou Chunwen's foot was also pierced by a nail, but she was lucky. When the nail pierced her foot, it didn't bear much weight. There was just a red spot and a little blood. The injury was very minor.

Zhao Da'e was stunned: "Wait, big sister, how come you stepped on a nail too?"

Zhou Chunwen was also stunned: "Huh, what happened? I didn't see the nail, so I went to get firewood and accidentally stepped on it. What happened, you stepped on a nail too?"

Zhao Da'e shook his head: "No. I'm fine. Your dad stepped on it, and it seems pretty serious; he's bleeding."

Zhou Chunwen clicked his tongue: "Tch, I bled too. My bleeding was serious too."

Zhao Da'e: "Um... well, you seem to be fine. You were just bluffing."

As soon as Zhao Da'e finished speaking, he realized something was wrong: "Hey, wait a minute. Sister, why are you putting nails on the ground of your woodpile?"

Zhou Chunwen was stunned for a moment: "I don't know, how would I know? Maybe my dad was just chopping firewood haphazardly, and there were nails on the firewood, so he didn't look and just threw it over there."

Zhao Da'e was skeptical.

Zhou Yuren is not usually so careless in his work. If Zhao Tiesheng was the one who did it, Zhao Da'e would believe it. But if it was Zhou Yuren, Zhao Da'e really doesn't believe it.

Zhou Yuren was a very meticulous worker. How could he possibly leave something with nails in it in a place he frequently walked?

Isn't that just making trouble out of nothing?!

Zhao Da'e then went to the east room. Zhou Yuren took off his socks. The nail had gone in quite deep. Although it hadn't hurt any bones or tendons, it had pierced his heel directly, and he came out at an angle.

Zhao Da'e looked at the blood gushing out and couldn't help but feel a little pain.

Zhou Yuren used toilet paper to plug the hole, and the toilet paper turned red.

Zhao Da'e asked first, "Do you have iodine at home?"

Zhou Yuren thought for a moment: "No. I didn't prepare that thing."

Zhao Da'e sighed and said, "Then you wash it with clean water, and I'll go get a bottle of iodine from Little Cripple."

After saying that, Zhao Da'e ran off quickly. When he arrived at the Dongtaizi Village Health Clinic, he asked Chen Shuyi for two small bottles of iodine, some sterilized cotton, some gauze, and finally some penicillin before running back.

Sometimes, for these kinds of wounds, iodine solution is actually the best treatment. Otherwise, using other hemostatic agents might be less effective. Since they're mostly capillaries, a little bleeding is fine.

It will heal on its own. Just apply iodine to disinfect and prevent infection. Plus, there's anti-inflammatory medication, so it shouldn't be a big problem.