Chapter XXXVII
Today is the day of the school rotation, so Wen Qing'an, Wen Anze, and Wen Anhao are all staying at home. After breakfast, the family went about what they were doing.
When the bell rang "Knock Knock", the whole family was shocked. This is no ordinary bell, and its ringing means that something big is going to happen in the village. After hearing the bell, the whole village, whether it was a toddler old man or a child who had just learned to walk, as long as they could walk, had to go to the village assembly.
The Wen family put down the things in their hands and hurriedly followed everyone to the meeting place in the village.
By the time they called, there had already been a lot of people gathered here. But everyone was standing there, muttering about what was going on.
Seeing that most of the people didn't know what was going on, Wen had to stand on tiptoe and look around the crowd for a while, and after seeing the Cheng family, he immediately pulled Wen Qing'an and his two sons in their direction.
When she came to Cheng's side, Wen took her arm and asked eagerly, "Sister-in-law, what's going on in the village?"
Cheng was talking to the person next to him at the moment, and he was suddenly pulled by someone, and he almost jumped up in shock. When he turned his head and saw that it was Wen, he patted his chest and said, "Scared me, I thought something had happened again."
Wen was afraid that she hadn't heard her question, so she asked again.
Contrary to Wen's expectations, this time, Cheng shook his head rarely: "I don't know what happened to Lu Dao." Aren't you waiting for the village chief to come out and explain?"
It is estimated that the people in the village are almost here, and the village chief Lin Shaoyu came out of the crowd in front of him, stood on a high place and gestured to the villagers to calm everyone down.
When the noise on the venue gradually disappeared, Lin Shaoyu shouted loudly to everyone: "I called everyone here today because of several murders that have occurred in our town and several surrounding villages recently."
When Lin Shaoyu just said the word 'murder', the crowd below burst into exclamations as if they had exploded.
Lin Shaoyu motioned for everyone to be quiet and let him finish his words, but no matter how much he shouted, it would be useless. Looking at the increasingly uncontrollable scene, Lin Shaoyu pinched the noisy and throbbing temples with his hands, and he couldn't slow down for a long time. There have been too many things happening recently, and there is a lot of things to be pushed at home, and he has not closed his eyes for several nights in a row. Now that it's ...... again, the more I think about it, the more my head hurts, and then I simply squatted down.
The villagers looked at Lin Shaoyu like this, and their voices gradually disappeared. Lin Zixiang saw that everyone stopped, walked to his father's side from the side, pulled the hem of his clothes, and whispered: "Dad, everyone is waiting for you."
Lin Shaoyu stood up with his son's shoulders and said to everyone: "Things are not as bad as everyone thinks. The dead people are all hooligans in our area, so there is not much danger for ordinary people like us."
After listening to the village chief's words, everyone's hearts just now relaxed a little, but their expressions were still a little uneasy.
Seeing everyone's appearance like this, Lin Shaoyu had no choice but to continue to be relieved: "That's why I specially gathered everyone today. Although this murder is theoretically not much of a threat to us. But just in case, I thought that we would have to form a patrol of the men in our village, and take turns patrolling the village every night until the criminals were caught."
If the previous words were just to appease everyone, but Lin Shaoyu's later actions gave everyone a reassurance.
Lin Shaoyu nodded with satisfaction when he saw that the villagers were all satisfied, so he let the prime of life in the village stay. Then there was the men's business, and even if the women wanted to know what was going on, they had to go home in a daze.
By the time Wen Qing'an went home, it was already evening. As soon as he entered the house, Wen greeted him and said, "Why did you come back so late?" ", said and slapped Wen Qing'an's robe with a sweep.
"It took several hours just to discuss this and that, and then the order of everyone's patrol was arranged" Wen Qing'an walked to the copper basin and washed his hands, and immediately gobbled it up at the dinner table.
Wen sat next to him, poured a glass of water for his father-in-law, and said softly: "Slow down, don't choke, but I'll starve you." Even if we discussed it for so long, we couldn't come back so late."
Wen Qing'an took the water cup handed over by the lady, and after drinking it in a big gulp, he gasped and said, "I was originally going to come back, but I was left by Brother Lin."
Seeing that he was about to speak again, Wen took the chopsticks and said, "Don't say anything, let's finish the meal first."
Originally, Wen Qing'an had to continue, after all, this time the matter was not trivial. But seeing his own lady say this, he had to finish the meal first.
After eating, the couple put away the dishes and chopsticks together, and when everything was ready, it was already late, so the two washed up and went to bed.
During this period, the couple did not talk about this topic again. It wasn't until the two of them were lying on the bed that Wen Qing'an's voice sounded faintly: "For the sake of calming the hearts of the villagers, Brother Lin only said half of today's matter."
After waiting for a while, seeing that there was no movement on the Wen family's side, Wen Qingan continued: "Because of this murder, Mayor Xiao gathered the village chiefs of several surrounding villages."
Hearing that the matter was so serious, Wen was also shocked: "Is the matter so serious that you want to gather the village chiefs?" ”
Wen Qing'an lay outside and sighed, "You also know that the security in our area has always been very safe, and several people suddenly died at this time, and the top must have attached great importance to it."
"What Brother Lin said today is that the dead people are all gangsters, is it true?"
Wen's words made Wen Qing'an silent for a long time, and when Wen thought that this matter was just Lin Shaoyu comforting everyone, he suddenly heard Wen Qing'an's voice floating from the air: "No, the dead are indeed the gangsters in the town." And ......"
Wen Qing'an didn't say anything for a long time, but it made Wen anxious, so he touched his arm and said hurriedly: "Say, you look like you are talking half a sentence and leaving half a sentence, but you are going to kill people urgently."
"Moreover, I heard that among the dead, there are ...... Tang San"
As soon as the word 'Tang San' came out, Wen Shi was so shocked that a carp shook him and sat up from the bed, and said incoherently: "How is it possible, how is it possible, although Tang San is a chaotic person, but with his kind of timid and afraid of things, it is absolutely impossible to do something hurtful to the heavens and reason, how is it possible, it must be a mistake."
Wen Qing'an stretched out his hand and patted his mother-in-law, and said slowly: "It is estimated that the people of the Tang family still don't know about this matter, Brother Lin told me that I also hope that you and the sister-in-law of the Lin family can tell Miss Tang about this matter, you are all women, and some things are easy to say to each other."
Listening to Wen Qing'an's hoarse voice gently spread in the darkness, Wen slowly lay back on the bed. After a while, he turned his head and asked Wen Qing'an: "My mother is crazy, and now I can't even ...... my own father, how can you let us open this mouth?"
However, the only thing that answered Wen was the silence of darkness.
When they got up the next morning, when Wen Qing'an and Wen walked out of the house with a pair of dark circles under their eyes, Wen Anze and Wen Anhao looked at them in confusion.
In addition to Wen Qing'an and his wife, the Lin family and the Cheng family, who came to visit, also appeared in front of everyone with a pair of dark circles under their eyes. Although they are all dark circles, the causes are completely opposite. The Lin family became like this because she knew that the Tang family's affairs were like this, and the Cheng family tossed and turned insomnia all night because no one told her what happened.
The two of them before Cheng met looked at each other, and their hearts were tormented to death by curiosity. Seeing Wen and Lin sitting there in a daze, he stretched out his hand and slapped it on the table, and said anxiously: "Since I came here, you have been sitting there without saying a word, this is to suffocate me." Tell me what's going on."
The sound of banging on the table shook the Wen family back from their fugue, and when they heard Cheng's words, the two glanced at each other, and the Lin family gave a general description of what had happened.
As soon as the words fell, the two of them sat in a daze, and the three of them were stunned together. After about a cup of tea, Cheng took a deep breath and said resolutely: "Or just say it." We didn't kill people, so we have nothing to say. If you want to blame, you can only blame this girl for her miserable life, and she got involved in such things."
"What do you say, oh, just a few of us go up and knock on someone's door, and after someone opens the door, come forward and tell her, 'Your father is dead', is this like a word" Lin listened to Cheng's words, frowned and retorted.
"Who told you to be so direct, why don't you have to talk about something else first, or comfort that girl?"
Seeing that the two of them didn't say a word, Wen Shi looked a little cold, and hurriedly persuaded: "Two sisters-in-law, I know that you are in a hurry, but no matter what, you can't quarrel with your own people, and you will hurt the harmony."
Due to Wen's persuasion, the two of them were a little more sober and no longer choked to speak, but both of them lowered their heads and became silent.
Seeing that neither of them spoke, Wen Shi had to say softly: "If you want me to say, long pain is better than short pain, rather than such a blunt knife to cut meat, it is better to say it directly." And this matter can't be hidden for too long, if it gets to the back, but it is Miss Tang's last knowledge, then she will definitely feel even more uncomfortable"
The three of them discussed for a long time, and after the last moment, Lin slapped his thigh and stood up: "Just today, as you said, long pain is better than short pain." Let's tell the Tang girl now. Those dead men, none of them used it at the critical moment, they all handed over this offending thing to us"
Seeing that the other two nodded in agreement, the last few people went out together and walked in the direction of Tang's house.