After class, the students dispersed and went home. Zhang Kuanren put the little gazi in a solitary room and asked him to face the wall and think about his mistakes. He also ordered someone to notify his parents to bring him food.
At dinner time, Little Gazi's mother, Lian Xin, came, but she was empty-handed and did not bring any food to Little Gazi.
As soon as she entered the door, Lian Xin was all smiles and said, "Brother Kuan, did Gazi make you angry again?"
This title of Brother Kuan was very novel. Zhang Kuanren was startled for a moment, and then responded: "Yes, he fought with someone and injured him. I asked him to face the wall and think about it for three days."
"Ouch, what can we do?" Lian Xin pinched her chest with her hands, frowning and stamping her feet, "Brother Kuan, you know, it's not easy for us orphans and widowed mothers. If Gazi is imprisoned here, then Who will accompany me at night? This long night, if it is windy or rainy, I will be very scared to be alone!"
Zhang Kuanren looked at her coldly and said: "Brothers and sisters, what you said is wrong. The Sun brothers are living well. Where did the orphans and widows come from? You are here facing the wall at night, and you still have the Sun brothers with you, aren't you?"
"Oh, Brother Kuan, how do you know my suffering!" Lian Xin continued to be miserable, "That man named Sun is a man in name only, but he can't do anything like a man, which makes me feel miserable all night long. Tears washed down my face. Brother Kuan, tell me, which woman is willing to be a widow like this? Fortunately, I have Gazi watching over me, so I can barely live with him. Otherwise, even if I didn’t die, I would have left with someone long ago!"
While being miserable, he secretly glanced at Zhang Kuanren, deliberately making a show of coquettishness.
Seeing that this was wrong, Zhang Kuanren was afraid that he would be embarrassed, so he pondered for a moment and said helplessly: "Okay, then you take the little gazi back first, and you won't put him in confinement at night."
After that, open the door of the confinement room and let the little gazi out.
The little gazi followed Lian Xin obediently. Lian Xin walked to the door, turned around and winked at Zhang Kuanren, and said with a smile: "Brother Kuan, I am a womanly family and I know how to repay kindness. I will definitely remember it." For your good!"
Zhang Kuanren returned home from school and told his mother-in-law about the incident. The couple laughed a lot.
When Xiao Mizi returned home, his mother, Xiao, saw his bruised nose and swollen face and asked him what happened, but he refused to tell her. The next morning, when he was still sleeping soundly on the kang after school hours, Mrs. Xiao twisted his ears and pulled him up. He said with a tigerish face: "Little devil, you don't go to school hard, but you are lazy at home. See if I don't do it." Skin you!"
Xiao Dizi covered his ears and muttered: "It's not that I don't want to go to school, it's that my husband doesn't let me go, but he lets me dig soil in Xiling!"
Mrs. Xiao thought for a while and said, "Sir, he asked you to dig soil because you caused trouble in the school! Tell the truth, how much trouble did you cause?"
Xiao Gazi was forcefully forced by the Xiao family and did not dare to hide anything, so he had to tell everything about the fight with Xiao Gazi.
Mrs. Xiao said: "Mr. asked you to dig the soil. There is a reason why he asked you to dig the soil. Why are you still dawdling at home? Hurry up and eat some pancakes, take the shovel and go up the mountain. I will ask your sister Xiaohua to go with you!"
Xiao Jizi frowned and said, "You let my sister go, why don't you let her supervise me? I don't need her to supervise me, I can just go by myself!"
After that, he jumped down from the kang, ate a few pancakes randomly, picked up the shovel and walked out, muttering all the way without knowing what to say.
Not far away, he met Zhang Xiaohai, Zhang Kuanren's nephew.
"Brother Xiaohai!"
Xiao Mizi stopped and greeted respectfully.
Zhang Xiaohai turned around and looked at Xiao Lizi, stroked his shoulder and said with a smile: "Brother, have you been punished by my uncle again?"
Xiao Dizi nodded and said, "Well, sir, I was asked to dig soil in Xiling."
"If you are asked to dig in the soil, dig well. If you don't, be careful and get beaten!"
As Zhang Xiaohai spoke, he shook his big fist and left immediately.
"Humph, I just went to dig some dirt, and I still have to be frightened by this damn thing from you!"
Xiao Mizi muttered again before continuing to walk up the west ridge.
The so-called digging is actually digging around on the ridge with a shovel aimlessly. In Zhang Kuanren's words, it means hard work and hard work on the students who have made mistakes, rather than real work. The soil is dug out of the ground for use. Any naughty student will become much more honest as long as he endures the hard work of digging.
This time, Xiao Mizi had to dig soil for three days in a row. This was extremely heavy physical labor, and it was a punishment that Xiao Mizi, who had always been naughty, was very reluctant to accept.
However, there was the cold scolding from Xiaoshi before, and the intimidation from Zhang Xiaohai's iron fist later. No matter how unwilling he was to accept it, he had to put on a show. He had experienced Zhang Xiaohai's heavy punch before, and it would be better to receive a fat beating. Digging is much more uncomfortable.
When they came to the ridge, Xiao Dizi swung his shovel and dug around and broke out in a stinking sweat. He felt that his whole body was uncomfortable under the blazing sun hanging high in the sky, so he started to walk around, trying to find a shady place. Rest, rest, rest.
But there isn't even a shady sapling on this bare ridge. Where is there any cool place? In desperation, he had no choice but to walk around with a shovel to see if there were any caves that the sun could not reach.
After about two meals, he saw that there was indeed a cave under a steep cliff, so he felt happy, ran over in a hurry, and got in without thinking.
After entering the cave, he first lifted up his clothes and wiped the sweat from his face, then looked around and saw that there were no poisonous snakes, scorpions or other harmful poisons in the cave, so he dropped the shovel and sat down on the ground. Resting against the cave wall, he fell asleep without realizing it and had strange dreams.
In his sleep, he somehow came to a spacious and magnificent temple. The gods who came and went were all tall and dignified. They all looked down upon a short child like him and occasionally glanced at him. Yes, there was also full disdain in his eyes.
Looking at those mighty gods and men, and then looking at himself, he felt ashamed of himself. He looked down on himself from the inside out, and wished he could embed his soul into the mind of some god and man, and look down on him. Be a god for once.
While he was thinking wildly, he suddenly saw the god sitting in the center of the hall, wearing a golden futou, waving to him.
He suspected that the person was not waving at him, so he looked around and found that there was no one else around him.
In order to further confirm that the person was really waving to him and not to someone else, he first pointed to the god wearing a futou, then pointed to his own nose, and made a questioning expression.
Seeing this, the god wearing a turban frowned, then stretched his normal arm like a rubber band, stretched it directly towards him, grabbed his neck and lifted him over.
"Little guy, I asked you to come here, but you stood there and pointed around furtively. What do you mean?"
The man wearing a futou asked in a voice like a bell, which made his ears buzz.
"Well, great master, please listen to my explanation." Xiao Mizi was pinched by the neck, feeling very cramped and trembling all over, eager to explain himself so that others could spare his life.
"Oh? Explanation?" The man of God didn't seem to want to hear his explanation, and his expression was full of joking, "In front of us, the man of God, you can't hide all your evil thoughts, so what's there to explain?"
