novelraw Chapter 126 Sorry, Dad, I'm using you as a shield again.
Chapter 126 Sorry, Dad, I'm using you as a shield again.
Linglong remembered that Xiao Wu had signed an agreement before the fight to absolve himself of responsibility. Tong Yuheng thought to himself, "If you want to start a group fight, you'd better see if you're qualified!"
Linglong was enough to handle these people, so she pulled Tan Suyun aside, and gave Yuyao a wink, signaling her to stay out of the fray as well.
"Linglong, don't hit someone in the face, and don't break their legs or arms. We still have to go to work!" Yuyao hurriedly reminded her. Recently, the two of them had improved their kung fu and were a little excited, so she was afraid they would hit too hard.
"Who does this brat think she is! She's gone too far! Brothers, let's get to them, do you think she'll take advantage of us?"
Li Changlin shouted, and the few boys who came over were no good either; they were also thinking of taking advantage of the young girls.
Few actually fought back; most people were just there to watch the spectacle. So many young men bullying a few young girls—they were truly shameless.
Some people even thought that if they were too outrageous, they should at least be separated, as their behavior was severely damaging to the reputation of their village.
However, the reality was that as soon as those boys moved, the two girls were even faster than them. They dodged a few times and, in the time it took to catch their breath, all of them were lying on the ground!
Some clutched their stomachs, some their shoulders, some their buttocks, and some their backs, lying on the ground squealing and groaning in pain!
Linglong darted to her two older sisters and whispered, "She's definitely not hurt, but it must hurt a lot. Hehehe!"
"Sister! They're trying to scam us!" The two girls, as if on the same wavelength, complained at the same time.
Tan Suyun's mouth dropped open. "Are they really that good? How come I didn't see when they kicked? That's absolutely amazing!"
From then on, Tan Suyun gained several more admirers!
When Captain Chen Hongxiang arrived, he didn't say a word. It was obvious at a glance that these brats had tried to take advantage of the situation and kicked a hornet's nest.
Li Ping'an, the brigade leader of Xisan Village, also came over. At first, he wanted to talk to Chen Hongxiang, but when he saw that his good-for-nothing son had been beaten by two girls who looked like they were underage, he was too ashamed to say anything. He pulled a long face and told his son and the other boys to get up and get out of there!
"Sorry, Captain, we've taken up your time. Let's get back to work now!" Tong Yuheng greeted Chen Hongxiang with a smile.
"Okay, everyone get to work quickly and finish the work in the next few days!" After saying that, he walked away with his hands behind his back. He still had to help count the work on the riverbank and supervise the quality of the dam construction!
"Captain, there's something I forgot to tell you." Tong Yuheng left his work to his group, ran up to the captain, and said.
"What's up? You're not asking for leave again, are you?" Chen Hongxiang wondered, "Is this girl here for a vacation?"
"Hehehe, Captain, you're really a prophet..." Tong Yuheng wanted to tell everyone about the tractor incident and also make a trip to Yan City to give Zheng Yunqing some extra security.
"No, I don't agree! You've made three trips in the last six months! Even if the first time doesn't count, this is two trips already!" Chen Hongxiang was afraid that someone would cause trouble, which would be detrimental to his family.
"Oh dear, I can't get out here either, and even with a tractor, I can't get it back!" Tong Yuheng said softly to the back of the brigade leader who had just turned around.
Chen Hongxiang reacted as if he'd been burned, turning around and leaping in front of her with lightning speed, as if he were about to rob her: "What did you say? What tractor? You can get a tractor for our brigade?!"
"Hehe, Uncle Chen, don't be in such a hurry! It's like this, a friend of mine got a tractor, he bought it at the price of buying parts. I wanted to ask if our team wants it? If so, I'll have to make a trip there!"
"What? You can really get your hands on a tractor?" Chen Hongxiang was eager to get one. He rubbed his hands together and asked, "Yuheng, you said it would cost how much per part?"
If it weren't for the fact that each machine costs nearly three thousand yuan, which their team simply couldn't afford, he would have applied to the commune long ago. In fact, even applying doesn't guarantee approval. A commune is lucky to get an allocation of two machines a year, and those are first given to factories and agricultural machinery stations in the county. How could a small village like theirs possibly get a chance?
"It's a thousand yuan, but maintenance and repairs aren't included. Another question is, can we drive a car we assembled ourselves? Won't it get confiscated?"
"It's only a thousand yuan! Take it! Will it work without problems? As for repairs, it doesn't matter, you can fix it yourself, right? Confiscating it is impossible; I'll just talk to the bosses first. Hahaha, how about I approve a week's leave for you? But isn't it safe for you to take so much money out alone?"
"No need to pay upfront. We can pay after the goods arrive and we confirm there are no problems. This was arranged by an old friend of my dad's; he trusts me a lot!"
Tong Yuheng: Sorry, Dad, I'm using you as a shield again!
"That's great! I'll give you a fifty-dollar allowance for this trip, so you don't have to pay for transportation and accommodation."
"Thank you, Uncle Chen. I'll go after I finish these few days of work!" Tong Yuheng got his leave without much trouble and turned back to carrying sand.
"You guys just pack the bags, I'll carry them. Eighty bags this morning to get used to it, one hundred and twenty bags this afternoon. The sooner we finish, the sooner we can go home and rest."
A full bag of sand weighs at least 80 pounds, if not 100. Even a grown man couldn't carry that much, but Tong Yuheng could make a trip every five or six minutes, sometimes even carrying two bags, making it difficult for the four people who were filling sand to keep up.
Tong Yuheng wasn't too tired. She was carrying sandbags at such a high intensity in order to better absorb the medicinal power of the Bone Strengthening Pill and make her muscles and bones stronger.
They worked for an hour, rested for ten minutes or so, and then continued working. It took them almost three hours to finish the morning's plan.
"Oh dear! This work is really tiring!" Linglong also carried more than a dozen bags of sand. If it weren't for the need to strengthen her muscles and bones, she wouldn't want to do it.
"What's so tiring about this? It's much easier than the previous two years! Before, I had to carry the sand myself, and I didn't even have time to rest at noon..."
"You have to think of it this way: isn't this training your strength? If anyone fights with you now, they definitely won't be able to beat you!" Tong Yuheng really doesn't know how to comfort people. Did I get better physical strength so I could fight?
"Did you bring water?" Tong Yuheng asked.
Seeing Tan Suyun pick up the empty IV bottle, he said, "I brought a lot, I'll pour some for you. Don't go back and cook for yourself at noon, come to my house for lunch. My mom will cook a lot, there will definitely be enough for you."
She poured Tan Suyun some water mixed with the spiritual spring water. Tan Suyun took a sip and said, "Auntie must have added sugar to this water, it's so delicious!"
"It's not sugar, it's saccharin, otherwise the water wouldn't be so clear," Tong Yuheng explained casually.
(Saccharin is a sweetener used as a sugar substitute. It is artificially synthesized and 300-500 times sweeter than sucrose, but much cheaper. It has a sweet taste with a slightly bitter aftertaste and can be used as an additive in food processing. There are clear national standards for its dosage.)
"That tastes really good too." Tan Suyun licked her lips, still a little unsatisfied. "Let's go, I'll carry the shovel, you guys take the bags."
The group swaggered away, exuding an air of pride that made everyone else envious.