Twenty-six little hooligans Luo Jianhua

  Li Wei insisted on going to Wu Grandfather's place every evening to practice the piano for more than an hour, and after three or four days, she had a little feeling. At least the C major scale could be played completely, and she planned to practice a simple small piece when she was familiar with it, especially for Li Lin.

  However, before that, we need to deal with Wu Feng, Li Lianhui, Er Huan and Luo Er first. Otherwise, Li Lin is having so much fun, where would she spare the time to study?

  That evening, after dinner, Li Wei helped her mother wash the bowls and chopsticks, took a small willow basket she had made for hair flowers, sat down beside her grandfather, and chatted with him while sewing hair flowers: "Grandpa, I told you that our group went to the mountain to play and encountered a robbery?"

  The old man adjusted the radio while saying, "I've told you before, if anyone dares to bully you, tell Grandpa next time and I'll deal with that rascal. Did you hear me, girl?"

  Li Wei was so moved, Grandpa, you are really my own grandfather!

  One thrill, the needle pierced into the hand, ouch! It really hurts.

  "Actually, Grandpa, when we're outside, we often meet bad people, just like you used to meet those uncles. If you weren't tough back then, wouldn't you have been bullied by them? I'm fine, but Li Lianhui is a boy, and he's more likely to get into conflicts with others. Grandpa, why don't you teach him some martial arts? It'll be good exercise for him too." Li Wei said as she worked on her needlepoint, chatting with her grandfather like a little old lady sitting by the stove.

  The old man finally adjusted the TV and turned around to look at his granddaughter, or else he would have thought it was his wife sitting there: "That thing can be practiced, but it takes a long time to persist. Grandpa doesn't have that kind of energy to tease kids, just like Xiaohui and others who can bear that hardship? No way, girl, if you want to learn, it's okay."

  "No, Grandfather, I'm too young to bear that hardship. You're overestimating me." I want to grow taller and have beautiful legs.

  Li Wei thought for a moment, her grandfather was indeed quite busy every day and didn't have much time to teach children. However, it's possible to imitate the special class more than ten years later, having several classes per week, each lasting over an hour. If not, she could be an assistant teacher herself.

  "Or, Grandpa, you see if this is okay. If you have time, just give them some guidance. I can watch them practice and it won't delay your work. You don't need to take care of anything, I'll arrange everything. Just come and teach at the right time, and it won't interfere with your business." Li Wei stopped doing her homework and shook her grandfather's arm coquettishly.

  The old man looked at Li Wei and thought for a moment. It's not bad for his grandson to learn some martial arts for self-defense. Moreover, his granddaughter had promised to take care of him. He didn't have to worry about it all day. As for Li Wei, the old man still held her in high regard. The child was clever and sensible, and most importantly, she understood things clearly.

  So. The old man agreed to let Li Wei call Li Lianhui and the others to practice their kung fu. Li Wei took the opportunity to ask her grandfather in detail what kind of kung fu he was practicing. As a result, after listening to her grandfather's explanation, Li Wei was confused. She couldn't understand it at all!

  The old man spoke for half a day and then took a sip of warm water from a large teapot. He asked, "Did you understand?"

  Li Wei shook her head in a daze: "Grandpa, just tell me. What's the name of that fist you're practicing?"

  The old man was speechless for a moment.

  Finally, Li Wei realized that her grandfather was practicing foot rubbing. Not fist. How did he end up rubbing his feet? If he had to rub something, it should be his hands! In Li Wei's impression, there were Shaolin Kung Fu, Wudang Sword, Tai Chi Bagua and various animal fists. As for her grandfather's foot rubbing, she had never even heard of it.

  Never mind if you haven't heard of it, anyway it's Li Lianhui and his team practicing, as long as there is a name for it.

  Li Wei communicated with her parents again, and of course, they had no opinion. The old man was willing to teach the children who were willing to learn, anyway, it wasn't a bad thing, and spiritual support would not be stingy.

  Of course Li Wei's main intention is that she can't bear to see Li Lianhui suffer.

  Her father is quite understanding, letting the old man discipline him, for it's a blessing in disguise to suffer and become a better person. However, he suspects that the old man can't bear to let his child suffer. Every time they try to educate their child, isn't it always the old man who intervenes?

  As for Li Lianhui, there's no need to go to such great lengths to lure him in like Li Lin did. Nowadays, boys can't wait to learn martial arts and fly around like heroes. The older they get, the more eager they become. As for precocious ones like Luo Da, even her grandfather's eyes gleam with greedy green light.

  So, Li Wei told her brother Er Baozi and Luo Er that several little boys were very excited, and they couldn't wait to become great heroes. As for Luo Da, who knows where he ran off to play?

  The next day, her grandfather taught a few little boys a simple move in the evening. Originally, according to the old man's intention, they should start with basic skills such as pressing legs and squatting horse steps, but Li Wei was afraid that the little monkeys would lose their interest in learning, so she let her grandfather teach some simple moves while letting them practice basic skills at the same time.

  If some classes practice basic skills every day, people will be exhausted soon.

  So, basically, Li Wei led the kids to do some warm-up exercises first, then invited Old Man Li to come out and give a lesson. When he saw that the kids had grasped it pretty well, Li Wei supervised them as they practiced. And Li Lin, that lazybones, just watched from the side. Look at Wu Feng and her little brother Wu Ming, following along with such seriousness! Li Wei didn't even bother to pay attention to Li Lin; after a few days, she would get bored and find nothing interesting to watch, and also no one would play with her.

  What's strange is that Luo Da, who always sticks to her grandfather as soon as he sees him, hasn't been seen for days. It's really strange, Li Wei was thinking of making things difficult for the kid if he came to learn. This kid is particularly sinister, don't think Li Wei didn't notice, when she beat him in the driveway that day, Luo Da's direction was facing her grandfather's approaching direction, his thieving eyes didn't see it, that's really weird!

  He's not the kind of kid who wouldn't fight back when punched.

  On the third day, Li Wei couldn't help but ask Luo Erjia in a whisper when he was resting from his practice: "Luo Jianzhong, where did your brother go?" Li Wei also felt that she was simply bored out of her mind.

  Luo Er: "I don't know, he disappeared after school, what do you want to find him for?" Won't be wanting to beat up his brother again, right? That day when Li Wei was beating up his brother, he saw it from afar but didn't dare go over.

  Li Wei: "What's wrong with that? Practice, practice, come on over!" Li Wei held the small whip she used to teach the twins in her hand, walking back and forth to inspect their horse stance. Wherever there was a problem, she would use the whip to tap it, just like an instructor. This made Li Lin, who was watching from the side, feel envious.

  In the evening, Li's mother was wrapping dumplings and found that there was no soy sauce when she was pounding garlic. She called Li Lin to buy some, but Li Lin wasn't around. This kind of errand that could be used to buy some snacks with public funds was one of Li Lin's favorites. Now that she was out, Li Wei had to run an errand instead.

  There was a small grocery store in front of the village entrance, and Li Wei took a bottle of soy sauce and went there. Originally wanted to ride a bicycle, but looking at the cool and comfortable weather, it was just like going for a walk.

  Li Wei carried the bottle of good soy sauce out of the small grocery store and walked less than fifty meters before turning a corner into a small forest. She had felt a bit uneasy when she passed by earlier, but it wasn't noticeable during the day; now that it was getting dark, the feeling became more pronounced.

  That big well in the center of the small forest is where Li Wei crossed over from. Normally, Li Wei would take a detour if possible, but seeing that it was getting dark and no one was going to fetch water, Li Wei felt a bit scared, and taking a detour would be too far.

  So, Li Wei planned to run over when she passed by the road later, otherwise it would be too torturous. Li Wei built up her strength and started running as soon as she turned the corner. But after just a few steps, she felt something was off, there were faint shouts, plucking up her courage, she turned her head to look towards the small woods, and got a fright.

  Only a short distance away, in the woods, there were five or six half-grown children fighting. To be exact, four of them were beating up one. They watched as that one was kicked to the ground and then punched and kicked by the others. Li Wei looked around but didn't see any adults nearby. This place was close to school but a bit far from home. But she couldn't just let them keep fighting like this, so she hastily shouted at the top of her lungs: "Someone's fighting! Come quick!" hoping to startle someone in the nearest house into coming over to take a look.

  Before others were alarmed, the fighters were startled first. They glared at each other for a while, and before leaving, they kicked the ground with one foot, then dispersed in an instant.

  Li Wei didn't want to go at all, that wasn't a good place, but after waiting for a while, no one came out, and she regretted it. She shouldn't have shouted that someone was fighting, she should have shouted that there was a fire, I guess more people would have come out.

  In the end, having no other choice, I gritted my teeth and stomped my foot, then picked up the soy sauce bottle and made a run for it.

  She's just a pretty face.

  It's okay, the scene of the accident is still more than ten meters away from the big well. Li Wei walked to within a meter or so of the people on the ground and was about to ask how they were doing, thinking that the problem shouldn't be too big, and those people didn't have any weapons either. But when she got a clear look at the person's appearance, Li Wei was stunned - damn it, isn't that Luo Da?!

  Rushed to the front, put down the soy sauce bottle, looked at the little kid who had already sat up with a very pitiful face and body: "How's it going? Can you still walk or should we go to the bathroom to take a look?"

  Lu Da glanced at Li Wei, patted the dust off his body, stood up, and ignored Li Wei as he walked away. The way he looked from behind seemed to exude a hint of being a young rascal. Wouldn't this guy end up in the underworld when he grew up? Suddenly remembering the big well behind him, he hastily grabbed the soy sauce bottle and followed, thinking it's not good to linger in a place where right and wrong are unclear.

  Li Wei and Luo Da'er walked back and forth: "I think you should clean up before going home, or else Old Lady Luo will be very angry when she sees you in this state." It's not easy for Old Lady Luo to take care of these three wild kids on her own, who knows where Eldest Uncle Luo and Eldest Aunt Luo have gone, and they haven't even seen how much money they've made, yet they're so busy, abandoning the children and the elderly, it's really heartless.

  Li Wei's words seemed to have an effect, and Luo Da stopped in his tracks, thought for a moment, and then ran off towards the other road leading out of the village. As it was getting dark, Li Wei hastily shouted: "Hey, where are you going now? If you don't go back soon, your grandma will get worried!" This child is so careless!

  Suddenly thought of the small river not far ahead, wouldn't go wash up, Li Wei hurried to catch up, good people do it all the way.

  As expected, Luo Da walked a few steps to the riverbank, squatted down and started washing his face and hands. He even took off the vest on his body, swished it in the water twice, wrung it out, and then put it back on. Li Wei was left with goosebumps all over her body... Uh, although it's summer now, wearing that wet clothes just taken out of the water must be so uncomfortable. But Luo Da, like he was wearing dry clothes, incredibly managed to put it on smoothly, amazing!

  Two people didn't say a word, until they reached the gate of Luo's house. Li Wei couldn't help but speak up: "That Luo Jianhua, your younger brother has been learning martial arts from my grandfather for the past two days... why don't you come too tomorrow after school?"

  Alas, nowadays kids are not being taken care of. Adults are busy making a living and don't have time to discipline their children. Especially boys, they grow up like wild grass. When they're young, it's nothing much, but as they get older, they start skipping school, fighting, learning how to smoke, and even stealing. By the time they reach middle school, some of them are secretly dating and getting into romantic relationships. They'll likely spend their lives struggling at the bottom of society.

  Boys enter society early, girls get married early, and they rush about in a state of exhaustion for the sake of making a living.

  Li Wei now looks at Luo Da with a hint of wanting to surpass these people ahead of time.

  The neighbors next door, although Lao San's aunt was a bit of a gossip, but Lao Nai Nai was such a kind person. Whenever someone forgot to collect their clothes or bedding and it started raining with no one at home, she would help pick them up. Li Wei still remembered when she was little and often forgot to bring her house key, Lao Nai Nai would invite them into her home to wait for their parents, and sometimes even invited them to have dinner with her...

  Even if I couldn't help with anything else, it would be good if Luo Da really liked to follow and practice martial arts, which could occupy some of his time running wild and causing trouble. After all, a child like that is impossible for anyone to manage.

  Yu the Great controlled the floodwaters; blocking is not as good as channeling.

  When Li Wei entered the house, the dumplings were already on the table. Li Lin and Li Lianhui were eating with bowls in their hands. Grandfather and Father were having dishes and drinking wine. Mother stared at Li Wei who just came in: "Why did you take so long to come back? If Li Lin went, she could have gone back and forth twice. Hurry up and bring it to me."

  Li Lin is now trending towards becoming a model child.

  Li Wei didn't say anything and handed the soy sauce bottle to her mother. Now she just wants to sing a song:

  I'm always too kind-hearted, all problems... I'll bear them myself.