"Lin, youâre way off base saying that. Itâs just a kid eating an apple, why are you saying weâre breaking up?" Wang Guilanâs face didnât look too good, thinking Lin Wan had gone too far. "I donât think Iâve been unreasonable. I just donât want to be bullied."
"Who... who bullied who?" Wang Guilan said with a flushed face, feeling Lin Wan wasnât giving her any face. She originally thought Lin Wan was easy-going, but turns out sheâs tough.
If they had a falling out with Captain Hanâs family, Old Feng would definitely beat her when she returned home.
Lin Wan kept her face cold and didnât look at her, turning to the two sister-in-laws beside her, "Sister-in-laws, letâs go. It looks like itâs going to rain."
Jiang Ailian nodded, saying to Wang Guihua, "Little Sister Wang, stop being angry, hold the child and soothe them. Donât let others laugh at us."
Wang Guilan nodded, turned to look at her still-crying daughter, and angrily gave her two punches, "What are you crying for, troublesome brat."
Those harsh punches made the people present feel sorry. A child only four or five years old couldnât endure that, and instead of soothing, the child cried even louder.
Wang Guilan was annoyed by the crying and was about to step forward to hit again, but was stopped by Sun Yu.
"The child is still young, just wants to eat an apple, thereâs nothing wrong with that." Then Sun Yu took out a slightly smaller apple from the basket and gave it to Miao Miao. "Here, eat up, Aunt Sun is giving it to you." While saying this, she didnât forget to look at Lin Wan and say, "Sister-in-law Lin, isnât it just visiting relatives? One more or less doesnât matter. We canât let Sister-in-law Wang lose face because of the kids."
Lin Wan smirked slightly, "I really admire how generous Sun is."
Sun Yuâs face froze at the comment.
No one expected the child who had been screaming and crying to suddenly quiet down upon seeing the apple. Wiping tears and snot with her sleeve, she started eating in big bites.
The others werenât unwilling to give, they just didnât want it to become a habit of entitlement like with Lin Wan. And if one day they didnât give, it would become their problem.
Seeing Miao Miao like that, Sun Yu felt tricked. Wasnât the crying supposed to be uncontrollable? How did it stop so quickly?
Wang Guihua quickly piled on a smile and thanked Sun Yu, and hurriedly wiped the childâs nose.
Clearly, it was deliberate, waiting for someone to intervene and soothe, waiting for them to take out an apple to calm.
Finally, peace settled among them. Nearby, Old Feng, witnessing all this today, realized that this army compound had someone with thicker skin than anyone in his village. It seems the people here arenât all cultured.
Lin Wan asked Old Feng to unload the coal at Jiang Ailianâs house first. Sister-in-law Zhang shouted twice for Pidan in the yard and went home. "Xiao Wan, Wang Guihua is just like that. Youâll see, today sheâs causing trouble with you, but tomorrow sheâll act as if nothing happened, still cracking jokes with you." Jiang Ailian said with a laugh during a break from unloading coal.
Lin Wan looked at her incredulously, "Even after what I made clear today, sheâd still talk to me?"
To be honest, she had already planned not to see Wang Guihua up or down anymore. "She has thick skin. Previously, Director Zhang lived in your yard. His wife always fought because of Wang Guilan. Later, they couldnât stand it anymore and applied to have the yard fenced."
"So thatâs what happened, huh. Itâs not that Director Zhangâs wife wasnât sociable, itâs because of Wang Guihua."
Lin Wan suddenly felt a headache. She really didnât want to be quarreling with a neighbor every two or three days.
Old Feng put Lin Wanâs coal bricks behind the shed in the yard. He just left after half an hour.
Then it started to rain, gradually turning into snow by afternoon.