Year 1979: Eating meat with my wife and children

"Fuck!"

Mr. Li felt a blow to his abdomen and looked down to find a grenade in his arms.

His legs went weak and he almost knelt on the ground. Instinctively, he grabbed the grenade and threw it away.

"Get down quickly!"

Before Li Xiaojiang, who was standing next to his father, could react, he was pinned down by his grandfather.

"Ouch~ Grandpa, you're crushing me!"

Brother Li and Brother Li Er also saw the grenade, and they immediately covered their heads with their hands and lay face down on the ground.

Brother Li turned his head to look at his father and asked, "Dad, where did you throw the grenade? Why didn't it go off?"

Li Erge replied tremblingly, "It seems that Father threw him into the alley from across the back house."

It was lunchtime, and Huai Zi, who had been busy all morning, was starving. He was hurrying home when suddenly a grenade fell from the sky.

"Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy crap!"

Huai Zi looked at the grenade that rolled to his feet. He had seen grenades before and knew what they were. Suddenly, the hairs on his body stood on end.

His legs gave way and he collapsed to the ground. Memories flashed through his mind like a slideshow. He thought of his deceased father. His father was right: you can't do bad things, or you'll be punished sooner or later.

But he hadn't done anything wrong. At most, he liked to gossip and spread rumors. He never expected that instead of divine retribution, a grenade would come. He was filled with regret!

Terrified, Huai Zi suddenly remembered the military training organized by his former workplace. He turned around, lay prone on the ground, and crawled away from the grenade that had fallen from the sky. His legs were trembling uncontrollably.

At this moment, there was more than just one locust tree coming and going in the alley. Near the outer wall of Old Li's house, there was a burst of crying and shouting, followed by a sudden silence as everyone covered their heads with their hands and lay on the ground.

Li Xiaotao, who was in the courtyard, scratched his head and looked at his grandfather lying on the ground, asking in confusion, "Grandpa, what's wrong with you?"

The incident happened too fast and too suddenly. Li's mother and two daughters-in-law, who were cooking, turned around and saw Li's father and the other two lying on the ground, with Li Xiaojiang being pressed under them and screaming in agony.

They then realized that the father and his two sons had been frightened by the fake grenade.

Li's mother laughed and said, "Dongzi's father, that grenade was fake. Hurry up and get up, or you might have crushed my grandson!"

"Fake~?"

When Li's father heard that the grenade was fake, he shakily got up, not caring whether his eldest grandson had been crushed by him. He glared at Li Xiaotao with an extremely ugly expression.

"You bastard, do you think you can just throw grenades around like that?"

The grenade that suddenly landed in Li's arms terrified and enraged Li's father. He ran over, grabbed Li Xiaotao, and kicked him.

Li Xiangdong, who was resting on the kang (a heated brick bed) in the west wing, was playing with his daughter when he heard his father's angry curses and Li Xiaotao's cries and pleas for mercy from the courtyard.

He handed his daughter to Zhou Yuqin, put on his shoes, got off the kang (a heated brick bed), walked to the door, and leaned against the door frame to watch the commotion.

Zhou Yuqin carried Li Xiaozhu out of the house and stood at the door. She wanted to go over and persuade her, but her husband stopped her.

What's there to advise?

If neither Li's mother nor his two sisters-in-law made a move, then Li Xiaotao must have gotten himself into serious trouble this time.

Li Xiaozhu patted Zhou Yuqin on the shoulder and pointed at Li Xiaotao, who was being beaten, "Look..."

Li Xiangdong chuckled, "Can't we see it from here? Why do you insist on being on the front lines in person?"

"Beat... de de..."

Li Xiaozhu was overjoyed, waving her arms and legs in her mother's arms, wishing she could do it herself.

"Uncle Three."

Li Xiaojiang walked over, rubbing his forehead. Li Xiaobo and Li Xiaohai, who had narrowly escaped, also ran over.

Li Xiangdong asked with a smile, "What's going on?"

Li Xiaojiang shook his head and said, "I don't know either. We were playing 'bombing the Japanese' and I didn't even realize what was happening before Grandpa pushed me to the ground. I even hit my forehead."

Li Xiaobo added, "Brother Xiaotao threw the grenade into Grandpa's arms."

"You threw it into your arms?"

Li Xiangdong couldn't help but laugh out loud. He had a good son, and his father had a good grandson!

Li Xiaohai tugged at Li Xiangdong's clothes, "Dad, I've lost my hand grenade."

Li Xiangdong snorted, "That's all? Good thing! If you keep playing around like this, who knows what kind of trouble you'll cause."

Li Xiaobo shook his head and said, "Third Uncle, the grenade wasn't gone, Grandpa threw it away."

Li Xiangdong said nonchalantly, "So what if he threw it? Where did your grandpa throw the grenade?"

"He threw it into the alley. Grandpa was so scared by Xiaotao that he just grabbed the grenade and threw it away without thinking."

What the hell!

Li Xiangdong's expression tightened, and he quickly walked to the door of the main room. "Dad, please stop hitting him."

Mr. Li turned around and saw his youngest son. He said angrily, "You've come at the right time. Did you bring the grenade back?"

Li Xiangdong said speechlessly, "Don't ask that yet. Did you throw the grenade into the alley?"

Did I throw it in the alley?

Mr. Li was stunned for a moment, then shouted, "Oh no!"

The family hurried towards the door, but just as they reached the screen wall, the door was pounded on with a deafening roar.

'Bang bang bang! '

"Old Li's family, did they throw the grenade from your house?!"

"Come out quickly and tell everyone what happened!"

Hearing the commotion outside the gate, Mr. Li knew that the neighbors had come looking for him. His expression changed a few times, and he turned around and walked straight back, helping Mr. Li and Mrs. Li who had just walked over.

"Father, Mother, why did you come out?"

Old Li said angrily, "They've come to our door, how can we old folks sit down? Let me go right now."

"What are you two meddling in for? Come back to the house with me."

Mr. Li ignored him completely and helped the elderly couple walk away.

Old Mrs. Li tapped her son a few times with her cane, "You're a good-for-nothing too, why are you hiding? Just go out and explain yourself, won't that solve everything?"

Mr. Li blushed and said, "I can't afford to lose face like this. Your grandson brought the grenade back; let him explain."

Old Mrs. Li said angrily, "Didn't you throw that out? Why don't you go out and explain it to the neighbors? Why are you blaming Dongzi?"

Mr. Li blushed with embarrassment. "Mother, are you trying to make me look bad?"

Old Li, furious at his son's lack of integrity, said, "You act like a human being, but Dongzi doesn't?"

"It's okay, he's shameless. He's done similar things before."

After finishing his sentence, Li's father didn't dare to look at his parents. He lowered his head and pulled the elderly couple back inside.

Li's mother glared at Li Xiangdong from in front of the screen wall. "What are you still standing there for? Didn't you hear what your father said? Hurry up and open the door."

Damn!

Li Xiangdong now feels more wronged than Dou E!

The grenade was secretly taken back by his son, then taken from him by his grandfather, and finally thrown into the alley by his father!

Holy crap, the more I think about it, the more something seems off!

This is truly a case of being lying on the kang (a heated brick bed) when disaster strikes from the sky; a fart hits your heel—utterly unlucky!