Chapter 357: Chapter 356: Troubles
"Lin, you’re way off base saying that. It’s just a kid eating an apple, why are you saying we’re breaking up?" Wang Guilan’s face didn’t look too good, thinking Lin Wan had gone too far. "I don’t think I’ve been unreasonable. I just don’t want to be bullied."
"Who... who bullied who?" Wang Guilan said with a flushed face, feeling Lin Wan wasn’t giving her any face. She originally thought Lin Wan was easy-going, but turns out she’s tough.
If they had a falling out with Captain Han’s family, Old Feng would definitely beat her when she returned home.
Lin Wan kept her face cold and didn’t look at her, turning to the two sister-in-laws beside her, "Sister-in-laws, let’s go. It looks like it’s going to rain."
Jiang Ailian nodded, saying to Wang Guihua, "Little Sister Wang, stop being angry, hold the child and soothe them. Don’t 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 couldn’t 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, there’s 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 didn’t forget to look at Lin Wan and say, "Sister-in-law Lin, isn’t it just visiting relatives? One more or less doesn’t matter. We can’t let Sister-in-law Wang lose face because of the kids."
Lin Wan smirked slightly, "I really admire how generous Sun is."
Sun Yu’s 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 weren’t unwilling to give, they just didn’t want it to become a habit of entitlement like with Lin Wan. And if one day they didn’t give, it would become their problem.
Seeing Miao Miao like that, Sun Yu felt tricked. Wasn’t 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 child’s 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 aren’t all cultured.
Lin Wan asked Old Feng to unload the coal at Jiang Ailian’s house first. Sister-in-law Zhang shouted twice for Pidan in the yard and went home. "Xiao Wan, Wang Guihua is just like that. You’ll see, today she’s causing trouble with you, but tomorrow she’ll 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, she’d 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 couldn’t stand it anymore and applied to have the yard fenced."
"So that’s what happened, huh. It’s not that Director Zhang’s wife wasn’t sociable, it’s because of Wang Guihua."
Lin Wan suddenly felt a headache. She really didn’t want to be quarreling with a neighbor every two or three days.
Old Feng put Lin Wan’s 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.