书城外语阿米!走步!
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第59章 核!合!和!(45)

People at present all spoke highly of the poem."Well,not too bad,thanks!" said Qiang in modesty.Cai whispered the poem repeatedly and then spoke up to Qiang,"Would you please have the poem composed for our village?Some other days,we villagers intended to set up a monument memorizing the after-quake rebuilding in order for all the things happened during the phase of rebuilding our homestead be kept well to educate our children and grandchildren,with an encouraging poem being carved from above.We had entrusted Huang with the poem,but he made out nothing after quite a few months.He's stuck and I'm worried.Now it's all settled!Thanks!Thank you,Mr.County head!" "Will you engrave in the monument the result of your contest?" joked the County head."We certainly will!And we will by then have the honor of inviting you to present the completion of the monument!" put the two old guys."No problem.Upon my words!" replied Qiang affirmatively.In a while,they came to the doorway,talking and laughing."Come on!Take some braised pork!" said Huang holding a big bowl of braised pork out form the courtyard."Mrs.Cai was only too generous to cook a large pot of braised pork,enough to feast all the villagers,she's great!Come on!Take some!" when seeing nobody acts,he simply picked up a large cube of braised pork into his mouth and chewed with the pork oil overflowing,saying sarcastically,"Delicious!What delicious food!The pork admitting failure eats so well!" "I didn't lose anyway." said Cai again restively.The words surely drove Huang mad.With the bowl in hands,he leapt on his short leg over the doorsill and stood right there waiting for Mr.Qiang.Just as Qiang strode over the doorsill,Huang pointed his left hand to the first and second floors crying out,"Look!County head!The doors of all the ten rooms remain uninstalled.That's the irrefutable evidence!But I have had all the doors fitted in my new house,and the construction quality is in no way inferior to his!..." nagged Huang unforgivingly.Mr.Qiang gave Cai a nudge,asking,"How did you come by that?" "I didn't lose anyway." argued Cai louder with wider eyes."Do you have any evidence?If not,what's the mere exclamation for?County head is right here,and I dare you to beat me up!" Thereupon,after putting the bowl on the windowsill,Huang stood amidst the courtyard,arms akimbo,ranting seriously at Cai for his wrongdoings.But there was no reaction on the part of Cai after a lengthy lecturing.With his eyes rolling,Huang then hit upon an idea and started to lecture Cai gently in a relatively small voice,"Anyway,you have already cooked the braised pork perfectly,why still you refuse to admit the accomplished fact?I've sent for the gong from villagers committee." Thereupon,from "Wang Wu Sun",Huang grabbed the gong he had used nearly his lifetime and thrust it hard into Cai's hands.Unbearable to look at it,Huang duo de walked up.As he was just about to speak,Cai huode pulled him back by giving him a tug and looked daggers at him as a hint not to interfere.The words,therefore,stopped at Duode's lips unsounded.At that time,Huang and Cai kept pushing against one another,one to thrust the gong,one to keep it off.Accidentally,the big gong dropped on the ground with a bang.Cai wailed bitterly,"I—didn't—lose!" Upon hearing the hysteric sound of her old man,Mrs.Cai jogged out of the kitchen hastily.After having Cai supported well,she stroked him on the chest and said soothingly,"Why take on so?It's senseless to be furious at the cost of your health.Huang's been all the way narrow-minded.You want to follow him?You are not innate for it!" "Who's narrow-minded?To make it clear!Who?Huang turned around and got into it with Cai's partner."You!Nobody else but you!" replied Mrs.Cai angrily in a louder voice,"If my old man is today enraged to be ill,you won't get off so easily." Obviously,Mrs.Cai was not at all a pushover.