The fallen leaves on the trees on both sides of the road have been paved with the path, I like this road into the village the most, the trees on both sides are tall and lush, Cheng Shaojie said that in his impression when he was very young, these trees are very thick, I think these trees are now fifty or sixty years old, some of the tree poles are thick and one person can not hold it, the branches and leaves on the canopy on both sides of the road have converged, and the summer shade is a shade, and now it is yellow, yellow, green and green.

When Cheng Shaojie and I drove past Mei Duo's house, we saw a lot of people gathered in front of Mei Duo's house, and I don't know what happened? Cheng Shaojie and I stopped the car and walked into the yard, and saw that in addition to the people in the village, there were three outsiders in the courtyard, and the accent was the same place as Mei Duo's house.

I asked what was going on, and Meadow's father didn't understand it, and Meadow's mother wiped her tears on the side, but Meadow didn't show up. I saw that Meadow's father didn't understand but didn't want to explain, so he set his sights on the three outsiders. After we entered the courtyard, the villagers who came to see the excitement in the village all looked at us, and the three of them probably felt that we were in charge, and one of them, a black and thin man about thirty years old, pointed to Mei Duo's father and said, "He married his daughter to me and ran away with her, I came to find my wife, and I want to take her back."

I looked at the old couple of the Mei family in surprise: "Mei Duo is already married?" ”

Meadow's parents bowed their heads in shame, perhaps because they saw us enter the yard, when Meadow came out of the house, walked up to me and said, "I didn't marry him."

I stared at Mei Duo, she suddenly blushed and lowered her head, but quickly raised her head and said in a firm voice: "I didn't marry him, I'm not his wife, and I won't marry him if I die."

The black and thin man was a little excited when he saw Mei Duo, pointed to Mei Duo's father and said loudly: "You have accepted our family's bride price, the date has been set, and she is our family's daughter-in-law." Seeing this, Meadow's father and mother hurried to block it, and the other two people who came with the black and thin man also rushed over to push Medo's parents. At this time, although there were many people watching the excitement, when they saw that both sides were moving, the crowd suddenly dodged away. Seeing that Mei Duo's father was pulled away from Mei Duo by two men, Mei Duo was grabbed by the arm of the black and thin man, Mei Duo was trying to break free but couldn't break free. Seeing this scene, I was just about to step forward to stop it, Cheng Shaojie reached out and pulled me aside, and he stepped over and grabbed the arm of the man who pulled Mei Duo and twisted it hard, the man immediately let go of the arm that grabbed Mei Duo, Cheng Shaojie turned his wrist and twisted his arm behind his back, the man immediately screamed in pain, and the other two men saw that someone was helping, and immediately let go of Mei Duo's father and walked towards Cheng Shaojie, I was worried that Cheng Shaojie would cause trouble with them again, so I immediately took out the police officer ID card from the bag, pointed at the three people and said: "Police, stop, Don't mess around", and then said to Cheng Shaojie: "Let him go."

Cheng Shaojie let go, I took back my police ID card, and said to the person who claimed to be Mei Duo's husband: "If you have anything to say, you are not allowed to do anything here."

Although the three of them were young and strong, they were not on their territory after all, and they all stood there obediently and stopped moving, but there was no look of fear on their faces, and they obviously felt that they were right.

Meadow's father and mother may have stood aside and not spoken because they felt wrong, but the man who claimed to be Meadow's husband rushed to tell what had happened to him, and Meadow defended himself from time to time, while her father kept his head down and rarely spoke. After listening to them for a long time, we understood that Mei Duo had an elder brother before, in order to get a daughter-in-law for his brother, his parents promised Mei Duo to the black and thin man, and received a bride price of 180,000 yuan from his family, but he didn't expect his brother to fall into a ditch on a motorcycle less than two months after marriage, and the new daughter-in-law went back to her parents' house, and this time the Mei family was empty. And Mei Duo is very cautious, in her hometown girls go to elementary school to know their own name and no longer go to school, and she says everything to go to school, after junior high school and admitted to high school, but because the family is poor and can't afford to go to school, and the brother has also reached the age of marrying a daughter-in-law, in their hometown, the sense of patriarchal inheritance is very strong, for the sake of her brother, Mei Duo had to give up school and hire herself to this man who claimed to be her husband, and then her brother had no sister-in-law and left, she was unwilling to marry this family. Her parents were the only one of her daughters, and seeing that she was unwilling to marry, they threw away everything in the family and fled to us with their daughter.

I heard them explain everything, and knew that Meadow would definitely not go back to marry that man. So he discussed with the man to let the Mei family return the bride price money and dissolve the marriage. But the man looked at Mei Duo and resolutely refused to take back the bride price money but asked for someone, and I knew that he had taken a fancy to Mei Duo. I looked at the three men very reasonable, and thought that they might not know much about the customs of our countryside here, and thought that this kind of buying and selling marriage was as prevalent in our countryside as they were there, and that the people around them would support them, and it was obvious that they were not very aware of their situation. So I said to him sternly: "Although the Mei family has accepted your bride price and has a marriage contract with you, the marriage law does not protect the sale of marriage, and marriage cannot go against the will of a woman, and if Mei Duo is unwilling to marry you, you have no right to force her, and if you want to forcibly take her away, it is impossible, and your actions are illegal and you will be imprisoned." Ask the villagers around you, do we have this custom of buying and selling marriages here? Here, as long as Meadow is unwilling, you can't take Meadow."

When the surrounding villagers heard me say this, they immediately talked about it, saying what age it was, and this kind of thing of selling my sister to my brother to marry.

Seeing that the three of them were silent listening to the discussions of the people around them, I softened my tone and said to the man who claimed to be Mei Duo's husband: "You married a daughter-in-law just to live a good life, no matter how good Mei Duo is, she doesn't want to follow you, why don't you marry her back?" You don't see those daughters-in-law who spent money to buy, and the children are all a few and run away, leaving a man and a few children to live, in fact, you are all understanding people, why bother with yourself? ”

After talking for a long time, the two men who were traveling with him obviously changed their attitudes, but the man who claimed to be the husband of the last Mei Duo never let go, and it was said that he would take Mei Duo away when he encountered this incident, and it would be over if he sent the three men away, but I didn't want to end this matter so hastily and leave any sequelae. He patiently worked with this man for a long time, and when he saw that no one here approved of their marriage, and this was not their territory, his two companions persuaded him to return the bride price. This man ate for a long time, seeing that he was weak here after all, and finally agreed to take back the bride price and dissolve the marriage contract.

When the Mei family discussed with them about returning the money, Mei Duo's father blushed and stammered for a long time before he explained, now he doesn't have so much money in his hand, and when he married his son's daughter-in-law, he bought things for the bride price and spent all the money in the family, and he only praised 50,000 or 60,000 yuan after working for two years. Mei Duo's father said that the family ran out not to repay the debt, but to work to pay off the bride price. But when the other party heard this, he was reluctant to do so, saying that he had been looking for them for two years, and finally found their family, and he was waiting to take the money back to marry his daughter-in-law.

Seeing that the two sides were deadlocked, Cheng Shaojie took over and said that he was willing to put the insufficient money on the front first, and let the three people take the money and leave quickly. Mei Duo's family looked at Cheng Shaojie with gratitude and kept saying thank you, Cheng Shaojie waved his hand to say hello to me and led them out.

I had been paying close attention to the expressions of the three young and strong men, and although there was no particular dissatisfaction, the black and thin man was obviously not very happy.

I called Cheng Shaojie aside and said: "In addition to scraping together the 180,000 yuan bride price, and also giving them the round-trip travel expenses and meal money, in addition, after you take them to the county to withdraw the money, let them beat the receipt, and arrange for them to have a simple meal in a friendly manner, and let Mei Duo's father apologize to them, ease the relationship, can you still be friends if you can't be in-laws!" It's better to buy tickets and watch them get on the bus."

Cheng Shaojie said with disdain: "What are you worried about? What do these three people want to do? What can they do? ”

I smiled faintly and said: "Be careful to sail the 10,000-year-old ship, people's hearts are the most difficult to fathom, Mei Duo's family is weak, and here it is an outsider, if that man is dissatisfied and secretly comes back to find trouble, it is not Mei Duo's family who suffers." Besides, Mei Duo's family has secretly escaped now, can it be said that they will never go back? After all, there is a time to say goodbye, and it is easy to resolve the grievances and not easy to settle, so let's leave less troubles."

Cheng Shaojie saw that I was serious, so he smiled and nodded, "Okay", and led Mei Duo's father and the three outsiders to the county.

The people in the village who were watching the excitement also dispersed, and I saw Mei Duo crying and standing beside her mother with red eyes, and after thinking about it, I beckoned them and told them not to stay at home alone these days, and to close the doors and windows when they sleep at night.

When I got home alone, I saw my eldest sister's son Sun Linbing talking to my father-in-law and mother-in-law in the yard, and I didn't see his girlfriend with him, so I asked him: "Why did you come back by yourself, what about your girlfriend, why didn't you come with you?" ”。

He said with a smile: "She went to Northwest City to play, and she will stay for a few days before coming back." I came back to help the family with some grass, and I heard my mother say that my uncle and grandfather stopped beating grass this year, and the grass mower was idle, so I came to borrow it. This year, my parents are feeding more cattle and sheep, I want to fight more, and I can sell some more for myself, so I came to start the machine."

Sun Linbing did a good job of farm work when he was at home, and he really worked hard, although he has been mixing in the city for the past two years, he is still a very diligent young man.

I smiled and said to him, "Don't be busy pulling the machine yet, you can go to Mei Duo's house now to measure the windows of her house, and go to the blacksmith's shop to make some protective fences for her house."

He asked me, "What's wrong with the Meadow family?" ”

I told me what happened just now, and Sun Linbing didn't hesitate to drive Cheng Shaojie's pickup truck to do the fence when he heard it.