The police waited for thirty minutes before speaking. During those thirty minutes, Li Xinghua and her son Li Hongqi cried and caused a scene.
Kneeling and begging not to call the police. They offered to pay compensation.
Li Fugui bullied their family for so many years, and Grandpa’s account also needed to be settled thoroughly.
Compensation, their family was currently in no shortage of money. He wasn’t interested in Li Fugui’s family money.
He hated Li Fugui so much right now that he wished he could kill him with a knife.
The police drove a tricycle and took everyone involved back to the station. It took five or six hours to record their statents.
The police asked Liang Hongi if she wanted to settle privately, but Liang Hongi refused. The police then officially detained Li Fugui on charges of hooliganism.
This conviction was set, and he would be in custody for at least five years.
According to Lin Yinghui’s thoughts, it would be best if he never got out for the rest of his life.
By the ti they left the police station, the sky was so dark you couldn’t see your own hand.
Lin Yinghui was concerned about his mom, knowing she was injured, but fortunately, his uncle borrowed a village ox cart when he arrived. Lin Yinghui had his uncle and Liang Zhi take them to the town health clinic. After checking Liang Hongi’s injuries, apart from so bruises, she was thankfully not seriously hurt. They got so dicine and hurried back ho through the night carrying a kerosene lamp.
Originally, they were supposed to return to S City the next day, but Lin Yinghui was worried about his mom’s injuries and decided to leave in a couple of days.
Li Xinghua knew that Li Fugui had been sent to prison by Liang Hongi and cried and cursed in front of their door early in the morning.
She was sent back after being scolded and beaten by Little Grandmother and Cha Zhenfang.
Even though their own family knew Li Fugui had done disgraceful things, after all, he was one of their own; they couldn’t just watch him go to prison without trying to help.
The Li Family invited their elders to the Liang Hongi’s place to persuade her, hoping they could resolve it privately.
They ca two or three tis a day, each ti returning without success.
So of their family felt Liang Hongi wasn’t appreciative, thinking she’d grown arrogant after making so money outside.
In a low-class industry, she acted like petty traders, earning money without conscience.
So families thought Liang Hongi was tough, and everyone in the village knew how much Li Fugui had bullied Liang Hongi. Now, her son had grown up and could handle things, and his misdeeds got him caught in the act.
Li Fugui deserved it. No one else to bla.
"Ah Hui, mom’s injuries aren’t a big deal; let’s just leave. Mom doesn’t want to stay here,"
For the past few days, Lin Yinghui hadn’t been sleeping well at night, worried sothing might happen to mom. As a son, he couldn’t talk to mom about personal things; it would be better if his little sister were around. During the day, he had to deal with people from the Li family. It was stressful.
Hearing his mom say this, he nodded. It was best to leave. He couldn’t be bothered arguing with these people.
So, that night, Liang Hongi took her son to visit the Liang family graves. She feared her parents would worry about what had happened that day.
She bid farewell before leaving, telling them about Li Fugui going to prison, to set their minds at ease.
Once they were gone, it would be at least a year or two before they returned. Apart from her older brother’s family, there wasn’t much to miss here.
After returning from the graves, Liang Hongi went to visit Liang Jian Country’s household to say goodbye.
Liang Jian Country also felt it was good for them to leave. "You should go. Tomorrow, Ah Zhi and Ah Song will take you. Those people from the Li family are wasting their efforts, anyway. We will never agree to a private settlent," they said.
"Just go and don’t worry about ho. Li Fugui did many bad things over the years, and the villagers aren’t blind. There are plenty ready to kick him when he’s down. That coward Li Fugui, it’s about ti he t his couppance. This is a new society now; we’re not afraid of her," Little Grandmother agreed.
The following day, at dawn, Liang Zhi and Liang Song ca with the village ox cart.
Aside from a few clothes and the things Cha Zhenfang prepared for them, they didn’t have much.
Liang Zhi drove the ox cart leisurely toward the county. Since it was still before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, they didn’t buy much food passing through the town. Liang Hongi had prepared food in advance, so the group had so roasted cakes and water from a canteen on the cart, reaching the county around noon. Lin Yinghui went to line up to buy tickets first. The bus tickets for two in the afternoon.
There was still ti, so Liang Zhi took them to their rice noodle shop. It wasn’t far from the station.
A journey of about ten minutes.
The rice noodle shop was small but neatly kept inside.
The stove’s fire was out, as taboos prevented borrowing fire before the fifteenth from other places.
Fortunately, there were two open bun shops nearby, and Liang Hongi bought over a dozen buns, borrowing so water. The group sat down in their own shop and had a satisfying al.
While eating buns, a couple of people ca in, thinking the shop had opened for business, wanting a bowl of rice noodles.
"Ah Zhi, there seems to be a lot of traffic here; business should be good," Liang Hongi said.
"Yes, normally from five in the morning until the afternoon, there’s a steady flow of custors. Two dis a bowl, you can earn thirty or forty yuan a month,"
"The business is good. Do you and your mom manage on your own?"
"We’re managing fine. When my dad’s free, he cos to help,"
"My school isn’t far from here. I can co back to help on weekends even if I spend so travel expenses," Liang Song said, who had enrolled in a university in their province. On Fridays, he carried his backpack to the station, catching trains headed here.
Four to five hours’ journey, he would take the train back at three in the afternoon on Sundays, without losing ti.
"Studying should be the focus; I don’t want him coming back, but he doesn’t listen," he thought sincerely, hoping his younger brother would study well, get assigned a good job after graduation, and beco a formal city worker.
Then their family would have face.
He would stay ho to take care of their dad and mom, while his brother simply carried the family honor, not worrying about other things.
"Coming back to gain experience is also good; he shouldn’t just study blindly. He needs to learn how to deal with people outside. These city units aren’t easy to get into, and more exposure to society can make you more nimble," Lin Yinghui knew from experience, having faced challenges running business with Lin Congnan this past year.
He was set to graduate in a few months, and many classmates had already started sending gifts to school leaders before the vacation, hoping for good assignnts.
Lin Yinghui looked down on this, but for Mu Qing, he also thickened his skin and sent one.
It was just to get a good assignnt, to be seen with higher regard by Mu Qing’s parents in the future.
At two o’clock, Liang Hongi and her son boarded the train to S City.
Liang Hongi calculated that they would need to change transport once along the way.
The journey would take several days; she estimated they would spend this year’s Lantern Festival on the train. That’s not a good on.
....
Since Han Yi got sick so ti ago, every day before leaving, Lin Wan prepared a military canteen of mung bean water for him.
She had wanted to find so chrysanthemum, pangdahai, or sothing similar, but they were really hard to find at this ti.
She could only boil so mung bean water every day, a canteen a day, to prevent him from getting a fever.
This day, their family received two guests, Shen Bojun and Shen Jie ca. It was Lin Wan’s first ti eting Shen Bojun, whom she had only ever seen twice briefly in her last life. She wasn’t familiar with him.
She vaguely heard from others that Shen Bojun held a significant position in the Z City governnt later on.
"Saozi, we just ca back from Grandma’s house. During the New Year, Grandma ntioned you, my cousin’s wife, quite a bit. My brother was curious since he’d never t you, so here we are," Shen Jie, being naturally social, wasn’t shy and chatted with her a lot.
"Saozi, it’s been about two years since you married my brother, right? I haven’t t you, and I haven’t seen Yi Brother for two or three years either. Since you live nearby, I was curious to co and have a look," Shen Bojun resembled Second Uncle, both in appearance and temperant.
"We thought you might stay ho until the fifteenth of the first month, why are you back so early?" It wasn’t even the fifth yet.
"Grandma is staying at Uncle’s house now. Uncle’s house only has two bedrooms; it wasn’t convenient for us to stay, so we ca back after two days,"
"How is Grandma’s health?"
"She’s doing well,"
With guests at ho, Lin Wan quickly busied herself serving them water and then went to the kitchen to prepare food.
Shen Bojun and Shen Jie, knowing she was pregnant, didn’t let her work too much, saying they would leave soon.
But Lin Wan insisted, "How did you co here?"
"We rode our bikes,"
"Your brother will be back soon. Stay for lunch before you go. I don’t have fancy als to treat you, so let’s have hotpot for lunch," Lin Wan smiled.
"Alright, we’ll go with Saozi’s suggestion. My brother doesn’t know we’re here yet, I’ll go tell the security office," Shen Bojun was considerate. Lin Wan didn’t hold them up, knowing Han Yi usually didn’t co ho for lunch.
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