Age: My Small World

Chapter 14 Watching the Fun

The threshing ground was already bustling with activity. Almost everyone came over to watch the fun.

"Brother Xiaoshan, here." Cheng Xiaoyu saw Yang Jun and waved to greet him.

The little girl was still wearing the same old blue dress, with two braids falling on her chest and a row of neat teeth as white as snow.

The old lady looked over and looked at him, then said:
"Baby, I'm calling you, go ahead."

"Mom, let me go ask Xiaoyu what happened."

Yang Jun didn't think much about it and walked to Cheng Xiaoyu's side.

Then he saw that there was another child next to the little girl, her younger brother Cheng Aimin.

"Brother Xiaoshan." Cheng Aimin looked a little timid and hid behind Cheng Xiaoyu.

"Yeah, Ai Min is here too."

Yang Jun smiled at him, looked at Cheng Xiaoyu and asked, "Do you know what happened tonight?"

Cheng Xiaoyu waved at him and said, "Stand down a little and I'll tell you."

Yang Jun saw that she was only about 1.5 meters tall, so he quickly squatted down and stretched his calves.

Then the little girl came over and whispered:
"I just heard a little bit. It seems that the two brothers of Wang Yilong's family beat Fan Yuanlong. They thought it was dark and the other party couldn't see them, so they wanted to run away after beating him, but they were caught."

"Tsk tsk, why mobilize so many troops for such a small matter?" Yang Jun was a little confused.

There are only dozens of households in the village. Usually, when there are conflicts, they are resolved through negotiation. It has never escalated to this extent.

"Then I don't know." Cheng Xiaoyu shook her head. She really didn't know much.

But someone immediately answered their questions.

I saw Fan Yuanhu and Fan Yuanjie each carrying a person and walking over, then stopped in the middle of the threshing ground.

Looking closely, who else could it be but Fan Yuanlong?
No wonder I didn’t see the three of them just now.

At this moment, Fan Yuanlong looked completely different from the high-spirited look he had during the day. Not only was his face pale, but one of his legs was bandaged with gauze, sweat was still dripping from his face, and his teeth were clenched tightly.

The fact that he appears here means that his bones are probably not broken, otherwise he would have been sent to the county clinic long ago.

Yang Jun and Cheng Xiaoyu looked at each other and understood why this conference was held.

Fan Xinhe, the captain of the mutual aid group, also came over.

"Everyone has seen it. The reason we called everyone here tonight is because of Yuan Long. He was beaten today and his injuries are not light. Fortunately, the attacker has been caught."

"Yuan Chang, bring Wang Yilong and Wang Yicheng here."

Fan Yuanchang is the eldest brother of the Fan family's Yuan generation. He is almost fifty years old and looks like a dark-skinned old man, but he works very efficiently.

After hearing Fan Xinhe's words, he went behind the crowd and then pulled out two people from the granary in the grain field. They were the two brothers Wang Yilong.

Both of them had bruises on their faces, obviously they hadn't gotten away with it during the arrest.

"Fan Xinhe, what do you want?"

Naturally, people from the Wang family also came. As the father of the two brothers, Wang Zhongyou couldn't help but speak.

His face was ashen and he was furious as he looked at his two tied-up sons.

"I'm not a big deal, but something like this happened in our Fanjiazhuang, so I have to ask about the situation and remind everyone that now is not the same as before. If there is any problem, we should find the comrades from the police station and not fight privately. If something goes wrong, you will go to jail." Fan Xinhe had gray hair, but he spoke with great dignity at this time.

He'd heard about the recent changes from above that were about to be implemented in every village. By then, things would definitely be drastically different, and stabilization efforts needed to be done in advance. Now was a perfect excuse. Hearing Fan Xinhe's serious words, Wang Zhongyou's face turned from green to green, and he glared at the village leader.

"Let me say this, it's just a fight between kids, it's no big deal, just let it go, there's no need to get everyone here."

Wang Chongxi, the eldest son of the Wang family, spoke up.

"Uncle, put these two bastards in jail. They ambushed me, attacked me and broke my legs." Fan Yuanlong said while enduring the pain.

If I had told him in advance that there was going to be a fight, he would have definitely fought to the end, but using such a shady idea was too much.

"Brother Yuanlong, it's my fault. I asked my brothers to help me beat you. If you want to blame someone, blame me. It has nothing to do with me." Wang Yicheng said in a hoarse voice.

"Don't talk for now, I want to ask for everyone's opinion." Fan Xinhe ignored the relevant personnel and looked at all the villagers.

"Everyone, you heard what I just said, right? Tell me what you think."

Yang Jun just watched the excitement from the side and had no intention of saying anything.

He could see that Uncle Xinhe was popularizing legal knowledge to everyone. Although his methods were a bit crude, it was already quite rare.

Even though it is 1958 now, many rural issues, big and small, are still solved with fists. The main reason is that there are too many illiterate people. There are people everywhere who cannot read a single word, so the work of eliminating illiteracy is also a top priority.

"Brother Xiaoshan, you are usually the smartest one, say a few words." Cheng Xiaoyu pulled his clothes and looked at him with shining eyes.

Yang Jun looked back speechlessly. He had no intention of showing off.

Then he deliberately twisted his mouth and shook his hands:
"Sister Xiaoyuer, I... I'm so stupid, what should I say?"

"Puchi~" Seeing him acting weird, Cheng Xiaoyu covered her mouth in time.

"Brother Xiaoshan, there is no one like you." The little girl rolled her eyes at him.

"Hehehe, Brother Xiaoshan, you are so funny." Cheng Aimin also laughed with his toothless mouth.

Although his character was weaker than the original Yang Jun, the two knew each other and he had been to Yang Jun's house several times.

Everyone was talking at once, and no one paid attention to these half-grown children.

"It's just a joke. Let's not affect Uncle Xinhe's business."

Yang Jun simply withdrew from the crowd.

"Brother Xiaoshan, it's not fun here. How about we play hide-and-seek? You hide and I'll find you." Cheng Aimin didn't have many people to play with. He was basically at home on weekdays, or he would only follow Cheng Xiaoyu when she went out. Now that there were two closer people around him, he naturally wanted to play.

Looking at the child's hesitant look, Yang Jun felt a little reluctant.

So he nodded and said:
"Okay, let's move away a bit."

The threshing ground is quite large. It is a place specially used for drying and threshing grain. Straw is everywhere, and some of it is piled into large haystacks. It is really difficult to find them when playing hide-and-seek.

"You're such a grown-up, why are you still playing hide-and-seek?" Cheng Xiaoyu glared at his brother but just muttered softly.

However, when he looked at Yang Jun, his eyes were a little surprised. Brother Xiaoshan would never play with Ai Min before.

"It's not just you who's looking for me, Xiaoyu'er. You and Aimin hide, and I'll look for them first. Whoever is found first will take over."

"Okay, Brother Xiaoshan, I'll go then." Cheng Aimin looked a little excited, with his toothless mouth raised, and he couldn't wait to find a place to hide.

"Why are you looking at me? Why don't you go too?" In the moonlight, Yang Jun found that Cheng Xiaoyu was still looking at him. After he looked over, her little face became a little fierce again.

"Well, you're not allowed to peek then."

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