Chapter 41 Fainting
The wheels rolled over mud and stones, the body of the car was jolted, and pedestrians walked with one foot in mud and the other in water.
The road after the rain was muddy and difficult to walk on, which made the faces of the travelers more miserable than ever.
The fine rain, like the hair of an ox, fell down. In the blink of an eye, it soaked the windshield, and the wipers kept swinging to wipe away the rain.
Lin Zisu looked at the endless rain outside. The people at the bottom of society were really suffering. On sunny days, they were covered in dust and their feet were soaked. On rainy days, they were covered in water and their feet were soaked.
There were not many ox carts and mule carts. Of the 300-plus people in the group, only 60 or 70 had carts, and most had to walk. Most of the people wore straw sandals, and those who had cloth shoes were reluctant to wear them, so they all wore straw sandals to travel, except for a few people who had carts.
It was the same at Old Man Lin's house, where everyone wore straw sandals. In summer, straw sandals were cool, convenient for work, and not too sad when they broke.
It's raining, so I won't wear cloth shoes. The road is full of mud and water, and I can't wear them in this weather.
The family of the fourth son of Old Man Lin was an exception, but Lin Zisu drove on sunny days and rarely went out. It started raining yesterday, so she and Shen Xianglan changed their shoes into plastic slippers, which they could just rinse in the water when they got dirty.
Lin Youcai was wearing his only pair of tube shoes. Luckily, Lin Zisu had bought him a grey pair... She had wanted to buy a pink pair at the time.
It fit Lin Youcai perfectly when he put it on, making it convenient for him to do his work outside.
He now has to walk in muddy water from time to time. It’s fine on sunny days, but on rainy days, the second and third brothers of Old Man Lin, that is, Lin Youcai’s second and third uncles, don’t have cars. On rainy days, they have to let the elderly and children get on the car. The young and middle-aged occasionally sit down, but most of them have to walk.
"Zi Su, what are those? They're swaying around. Can you see the road clearly?" Old Mrs. Wang pointed at two black sticks that were waving in front of Lin Zi Su's eyes. She couldn't help but remind her not to drive the car into the ditch on a rainy day.
"Grandma, it's for scraping away the rain. The rain is falling and I can't see the road."
"This immortal's car is different. It has that invisible, only tangible thing called... a board with a plum, which can block wind and rain. When it rains, there is also a black stick to scrape the water!" Feng stretched her head to look at the driver's seat, turned around and said to Old Lady Wang.
"Needless to say! The things in the Immortal Gate are all top-notch! Only my grandchildren are so lucky, and you will also benefit from it. You won't be blown by the wind, rained on, or exposed to the sun along the way. It's cool in the car, and you don't have to walk!" Old Mrs. Wang said proudly to her daughter-in-law and granddaughters.
Feng smiled and said, "Yes! Yes! Mother is right, we are all blessed! This trip is all thanks to this car! Zi Su and Xian Wen are both very lucky people!" Feng's words were 7% sincere and 3% flattering to her mother-in-law. Indeed, compared with the villagers, this trip was really a blessing! The daughters-in-law in the same village looked at her with envy and jealousy.
Mrs. Lu then said, "That's all thanks to these two siblings! As their aunt, I haven't enjoyed the blessing of my own children yet, but I have enjoyed the blessing of Xianwen and Zisu first!"
Yang also smiled and nodded, "Mother is right. This time we were able to escape thanks to Fourth Brother's family. We all benefited from it."
Old Lady Ye, who was sitting in the passenger seat, listened to the voices behind her and said with a smile, "My in-laws are right. Even my grandmother is enjoying the good life! This RV is much more comfortable than an ox cart or a mule cart. When it's hot, there's a cool breeze. It couldn't be better."
Old Mrs. Wang was just about to say a few polite words to save her face when she heard a quarrel outside. The team stopped with the sound of "clang clang clang clang" of gongs.
"What are you doing! What's the matter?!" Lin Benshu's loud voice came from the back of the team.
Lin Youcai and his second brother Lin Yougui turned around and walked to the back to see what was going on.
The thin, half-grown child fell in the mud, his hair disheveled and his body soaked.
Mrs. Zhang rolled her eyes, her eyes not eyes and her nose not nose standing aside.
The short and thin man squatted down and felt the child's breath. The child was still breathing. He picked up the half-grown child on the ground, looked around, and didn't know where to put the child.
The road was wet and there was no car at home.
Lin Benshu couldn't bear to watch it any longer, and said with anger: "Li Tiedan, the child fainted on the ground, and you didn't pick her up. What's the point of dragging her clothes on the ground? Are you her father?!"
"Why am I not her father!!" The short and thin man Li Tiedan said with his neck stiff, "It's wet everywhere and I don't have a car, how would I know where to put her?!"
"What a lowly bitch, just let her die! And we can save food!" Mrs. Zhang glanced at the child on the ground and said coldly.
"Mrs. Zhang, Daya is your granddaughter! She's a human life! How can you destroy it like this?" Lin Benshu raised his voice and shouted.
Mrs. Zhang was not willing to be outdone and yelled, "We are mistreating her. Your family has money, so you can use it to support her! You have a car, so you can put it on the bus!"
Wei Qinnan, who was walking behind the Li family, looked at the child still lying in the mud. She asked her daughter to stand up, walked over and picked up the child on the ground. Her clothes and pants, which were already wet, were instantly soaked by the child's clothes.
"You bitch, why are you holding my child!!!" Li Tiedan grabbed his daughter's clothes tightly and tried to pull the child down.
Lin Yougui quickly went up to grab Li Tiedan and said, "I'm helping you pick up the child, why are you pulling him?"
Seeing her son was about to suffer, Mrs. Zhang howled, "He's beating me! He's beating me! He's beating me to death!"
Butcher Zhao winked at his wife, and Li Juhua "accidentally" bumped into Mrs. Zhang. Mrs. Zhang was so busy howling that she was knocked to the side, tripped by something, and fell flat on her face, covered in mud.
Li Tiedan let go of his daughter's clothes and rushed over to help Mrs. Zhang. "Mom, why did you fall?"
Mrs. Zhang wiped the mud off her face and was about to start cursing at the top of her voice.
Lin Lizheng walked over, looked at Mrs. Zhang on the ground, looked at the unconscious child who didn't know whether he was dead or alive, and then looked at the other refugees who stopped in groups of three or four on the official road to watch the show, and the refugees who took the opportunity to look at the team's vehicles. His face, which was already dark, became even darker.
If the fire in his stomach could materialize, it would have been three feet high by now.
"You have never been quiet all the way. If we weren't from the same village, we would have kicked you out of the team long ago! Old man Li! Old man Li!!" Lin Li was looking for the head of the family with his head tilted. When he got into trouble, Old Man Li hid aside.
When Old Man Li heard the head of the village calling him, he quickly stepped out of the crowd and said, "Head of the village, what's the matter?"
Old Man Li and Lin Benshu are of the same generation, so it is not wrong to call him Grandpa. However, the head of the village snorted coldly and did not respond to him. He just looked at him and said, "You just let your old woman make trouble? You are the head of the family, and you don't care about things?"
Old man Li's cloudy eyes rolled around, and he spread out his hands and said to the head of the village: "Here... Head of the village, here, here is no doctor on the road! It's not that I don't want to save him! My family is so poor that we can't even afford to eat, and we don't have money to see a doctor! What should I do?!"