"Village Chief!" Aunt Wang suddenly shouted.

Wen Qing looked at the village chief, who was a big and tall man, hunched over, concentrating on directing the firefighting in front of the wheat straw stack, and only then did he look at Aunt Wang when he heard the shout: "Wang, what's wrong?" ”

"Village chief, I've found the person who set the fire." Aunt Wang hurriedly roared towards the village chief.

The village chief asked, "Who?" ”

Aunt Wang wiped a handful of tears, pointed at Wen Peng, and said energetically: "It's the youngest son of the Wen family, Wen Peng!" ”

"Village chief, I didn't set the fire!" Wen Peng said.

Although the village chief is the village head, he has no real power, that is, there are things in the whole village such as collecting public grain, droughts, floods, etc., he plays a commanding and regulating role, and in normal times, he is also as miserable and poor as everyone in the village.

Now that Aunt Wang has found the village chief, she just wants the Wen Qing family to lose money and food.

"The kids said no." The village chief said helplessly.

"He said you would believe it, and I said why don't you believe it!" Aunt Wang immediately changed her face, pointed at Yao Shiling and said, "Yao Shiling, I sue you, the village chief is here, you must explain this matter to me today, how much should be compensated, everyone testify, you have to compensate me!" ”

"Village chief, be fair in everything, and you can't wronged people in vain." Wen Qing said.

"Who has wronged you, who has wronged you!" Aunt Wang shouted.

The village chief looked at Wang Da with a headache.

Wang Da was silent, his family suffered the heaviest loss, even if the year's grain was not burned up, and the rest was roasted, he couldn't eat it at the end of the year, he couldn't do anything.

The village chief looked at Yao Shiling again, and Yao Shiling said: "Village chief, my family has heard that he and Dadao are not in the village at noon......

"We don't know anything." Dadao's mother suddenly interjected: "Dadao has been sleeping with his father in the hall at noon. ”

Yao Shiling was stunned when she heard this.

"Did you hear that? Do you hear that? The big knife was not with Wen Peng at all, so he knew that Wen Peng was a liar! Aunt Wang said proudly.

Dadao's mother lowered her head, took Dadao's hand in a panic and said, "Dadao's father, our pigs haven't been fed yet, hurry home and feed the pigs." Walk. ”

"Oh good, village chief, there's nothing for us here, let's go back first."

As the couple spoke, they dragged the big knife home.

Wen Peng lowered his head.

Yao Shiling did not speak.

Aunt Wang sold miserably, and cried out one by one about how to cut wheat, how to pull wheat, how to raise the field, etc. The rules and regulations directly pointed out that Wen Peng had harmed her family.

Wen Liangqi's face flushed.

Wen Qing let her cry, then took out a dollar from her pocket and stuffed it to Wen Liang, Wen Liang asked, "What are you doing?" ”

Wen Qing whispered, "Go find Erhuzi." ”

Wen Liang was stunned and raised his eyes to look at Wen Qing.

Wen Qing nodded at him.

Wen Liang instantly understood, took the money, looked around, and sneaked away while people were not paying attention.

As soon as Wen Liang slipped out of his backyard, he walked to the main road, looked around and didn't see Erhuzi, and then he ran towards the thorn bushes, but there was still no one.

In the end, Wen Liang saw a few half-old children by the river, about the same age as Wen Peng, wearing shabby short sleeves, half-cut pants, and pants with several patches, and they were catching shrimp and fishing in the river barefoot.

Wen Liang took a look, did not step forward, but ran to the small consignment store in Shuiwan Village.

"Uncle Zhang, I want chili sugar, Jiang rice balls, sour plum powder, Tang monk meat, and glass balls." Wen Liang gasped.

Uncle Zhang smiled and said, "Did you pick up the shell and sell it for money?" ”

"No, my sister gave it to me."

"Your sister? Will she give you money? Zhang Bo didn't believe it.

"Uncle Zhang, hurry up, I'm in a hurry." Smell the light urging.

Uncle Zhang asked this time: "How much?" ”

"It costs five bags of food and ten glass balls."

"Okay, I'll get it for you."

Chili sugar for two cents a piece.

Jiang rice ball a two-cent.

A bag of sour plum powder is three cents.

Tang monk meat is a bag of three cents.

Glass balls for a penny.

It cost a total of six cents, Wen Liang took the change and put it in his jacket pocket, fortunately, he had more pockets on his clothes, four pockets on his pants, and two pockets on his short sleeves, all of which were full.

He saw that he had bought too much, Tang monk meat and sour plum powder were so expensive, and his friends had never eaten them, so he took down two bags, buried them deep in the grass, and brought them back to Wen Peng to eat later.

As soon as he was ready, he returned the same way, ran to the river, and shouted, "Erhuzi!" ”

At the same time, Aunt Wang was already crying and shouting.

Wen Qing didn't let Yao Shiling speak, and she only said one sentence: "Wen Peng didn't set the fire." ”

Aunt Wang almost pointed at Wen Qing's forehead, gritting her teeth: "That's what he put it, that's what he put it!" Don't try to deny it, I sue you, my hundreds of catties of wheat, corn seeds, and sweet potato seeds have not been put into the ground, and you all have to compensate me! ”

"Why? We don't pay, Wen Peng didn't set the fire. Wen Qing is not in a hurry, no matter what Aunt Wang says, she is neither yin nor yang.

The angry Aunt Wang pounced on Wen Qing.

The onlookers couldn't stand it, so they hugged Aunt Wang, and several people worked together to hug Aunt Wang away.

Aunt Wang's mouth began to be unclean, scolding and kicking.

Wen Qing still didn't let go, and she wasn't impatient.

"Wen Qing." Yao Shiling shouted worriedly.

Wen Qing hugged Wen Peng's shoulders while pulling Yao Shiling's arm and said, "Mom, it wasn't Wen Peng's fire, we don't recognize this account, I want to ask her to burn our wheat straw!" ”

"You are a shameless Wenqing, look at the entire Shuiwan Village, which girl is like you, she doesn't want any cheekiness, she is like me as a woman, do you want to be cheeky!" Aunt Wang tossed hard.

Wen Qing listened, and there was no superfluous expression on his face.

The neighbor still stopped Aunt Wang, but Aunt Wang couldn't beat Wen Qing, so she suddenly "fluttered", sat on the ground with her buttocks, and cried and grabbed the ground: "God, village chief, Wen Peng set fire to my home, what will our family of five eat in the future, and is there any heavenly reason!" ”

"Erhuzi's mother, don't be like this, you have something to say."

"That's right, the village chief is here, and he will definitely call the shots for you."

"Yes, yes, don't cry."

“……”

Neighbors, you and I persuade you one by one.

"Wangda, Wangda, you also persuade you women." Someone in the neighborhood spoke up.

"Persuade, how can you cry like this."

Wang Da bowed his head and was silent, he also thought that it was Wen Peng's fire, these days, hundreds of catties of wheat are not for fun, this is the life of the family, and the Wen family must be compensated!

Wang Da did not stop Aunt Wang from making trouble.

Aunt Wang became even more energetic, and suddenly shouted: "Yao Shiling, you must compensate me for the wheat!" Before he finished speaking, his voice was stuck, and the whole person fell to the ground.

"Erhuzi's mother is dizzy!" Someone shouted.

Several neighbors stepped forward in a honeycomb and shouted, "Aunt Wang, Aunt Wang." ”

Wen Qing, Yao Shiling, and Wen Peng were stunned.

Passed out?

Originally, the neighbors still believed that Wen Peng did not set the fire, but Aunt Wang was sad and angry, and her sympathy for the weak made everyone's attitude reversed.

The village chief also walked towards Wen Qing's family at this time, looked at Wen Peng and said, "Wen Peng, you tell the village chief the truth, did you set this fire?" ”

When the village chief said this, everyone already had □□ believe that it was Wen Pengfang.

Wen Peng turned his head, wanting to find a big knife to testify, but when he turned his head, he saw that there was no big knife.

"Did you not pay attention when you were playing with fire and set the wheat straw on fire? And then ran to the woods to play? The village chief asked.

"Village chief, I really didn't set the fire, it was already on fire when I came back." Wen Peng replied.

"That ......"

"Village Chief!" Wen Qing interrupted the village chief unhappily and said, "My brother doesn't even have matches, how can he set it on fire?" ”

As soon as Wen Qing said this, everyone looked at Wen Qing.

Wen Qing said: "Village chief, you also know that my family is poor, every stitch and thread are expensive, not to mention matches, usually use one more match, my mother is distressed, when the matches are used up, my mother will receive the matches in the hall, I am afraid that Liangliang and friends will waste matches." Wen Qing looked at Wen Peng and said, "Village chief, you see that my brother's clothes don't even have a pocket, where are the matches?" ”

Everyone looked at Wen Peng again.

Wen Peng is wearing old clothes today, and there are holes and holes, Yao Shiling deliberately removed the trouser pockets on Wen Peng's pants in order to save cloth, and used trouser pocket cloth to patch the holes, so Wen Peng didn't even have a trouser pocket except for patches. Where to put matches?

"Huzi Mom, Tiger Mom!" Suddenly, Wang Da's voice came.

A group of people surrounded Aunt Wang and shouted, served warm water, and pinched people, Aunt Wang only snorted twice, and fainted again, looking very strict.

"Do you want to be sent to the hospital?" A neighbor reminded Wang Da.

Wang Da suddenly became angry, hugged Aunt Wang, turned his head, and stared at Yao Shiling viciously: "Yao Shiling! I sue you, Huzi's mother has a drop, I'm not done with your family! ”

"Uncle Wang, don't say that, we didn't touch a finger of Aunt Wang when she fainted." Wen Qing said sharply with a cold face.

"Wen Qing! You wait! Wang Da said viciously.

"I'm not going here, I'll wait." Wen Qing got into trouble with him.

"Wen Qing, you don't have to say a word." Neighbors persuade.

"Aunt Wang has fainted."

"That's it, your brother set the fire"

Without waiting for the neighbor to finish speaking, Wen Qing asked sharply: "Don't set fire to my brother one by one, which of you saw it?" Who saw it! ”

A group of neighbors were silent.

"I sue you, I Wen family is a man who has no top affairs, not no one! I'm in the middle of the day, don't think about bullying my family! Money? Yes! Bring me the evidence that my brother set the fire! If not, who would dare to make my family lose money and food? I'll stab one to death when I go to my house, and I'll stab one couple to death when I go to my house, don't believe it, let's try! Wen Qing picked up the sickle on the wheat straw stack and held it in his hand.

If someone else takes a sickle, the neighbors will think it is a scare. But Wen Qing is different, her second uncle almost killed someone, she has been a retribution since she was a child, the neighbors have seen this girl's death, there was once a thief, stealing her house in the middle of the night, she found out, in the middle of the night she held a kitchen knife, chased the thief for three miles, and the chasing thief automatically entered the police station.

If it weren't for her and her second uncle being so strong, just because Yao Shiling was so weak and a widow, Wen Liang and Wen Peng were small, and the Wen family didn't know what it was like to be bullied.

So they had no doubt that Wen Qing would dare to stab someone to death.

For a while, there was silence behind the courtyard.

The village chief was stunned.

Wang Da was frightened by Wen Qing.

Everyone else is looking at Wen Qing.

Yao Shiling's eyes were red, her daughter has always been so good.

Wen Peng directly touched his tears, and his dirty little hands clutched the corners of Wen Qing's clothes.

Just then, several children ran back.

"What's going on?" A little thin boy said, "Erhuzi, your mother is lying on the ground." ”

Erhuzi is the fattest of this group of children, the most naughty on weekdays, stealing Aunt Wang's money to buy glass beads, not to mention the artillery battle, often followed his two hens, the hen eggs, he immediately picked up and went to the county to sell, an egg is six cents, enough for him to play artillery battles.

"Dad, what's wrong with Mom?" Erhuzi asked.

Wang Dazheng was angry: "Wen Peng lit our wheat straw stack, and your mother fainted angrily." ”

"Uncle Wang, it's not Wen Peng who ordered it, Wen Peng has been picking up the shell, and it was Erhuzi who ordered it!" The little thin boy said: "It was Erhuzi who threw the cannon on the wheat straw stack, saying that if the wheat straw was burned, his mother would not let him drag the wheat straw to start a fire to cook in the future." ”

As soon as the little thin boy said this, it was like a bomb, and after the "boom" blew up everyone, everyone couldn't help but be surprised.

"It was actually the fire lit by Erhuzi."

"It's not Wen Peng!"

"He set fire to his own house and burned Wen Peng's house."

"Our straw stacks are gone."

“……”

Yao Shiling was also surprised.

Wen Peng was stunned.

Wen Qing turned his head, Wen Liang returned to his original position, and said, "Sister, there are still four cents left, and I will return it to you." ”

Wen Qing This is the first time I have heard Wen Liang call his sister, in his previous life, he always called Wen Qing, or didn't shout, Wen Qing's heart suddenly softened: "Don't do it, you keep the flowers." ”

"I don't want it." Wen Liang stuffed the four gross tickets into the pocket of Wen Qing's clothes.

Wen Qing had no choice but to take it, and when he turned his head to look, Wang Da looked at Erhuzi with a shocked face: "You really set the fire?" ”

Erhuzi looked at a circle of people, and was also frightened, and it was because he was frightened that he told the truth: "I didn't set fire, I just set a cannon on the wheat straw stack in our house, I didn't set fire to them!" ”

Without waiting for Wang Da to react, Aunt Wang, who had been fainting, got up one by one, startling the general neighbor.

"You beheader!" A hard slap was thrown into Erhuzi's face with a snap.

The second tiger stumbled, and the matchbox and broken cannon in his pocket fell to the ground, which is ironclad evidence, and everyone can see it clearly.

Aunt Wang was stunned for a moment, and slapped her again, and Erhuzi suddenly covered her face and cried.

Aunt Wang gritted her teeth and hit her face: "I'll make you cry, I'll make you cry!" ”

"Aunt Wang, don't fight, don't fight, Erhuzi is still a child." The neighbors hurriedly stepped forward to persuade them.

Aunt Wang can only fight hard.

Wen Qing, Yao Shiling, Wen Liang, and Wen Peng were watching from the side.

The village chief couldn't help but feel ashamed when he saw this scene, he wronged Wen Qing's family just now, and looked at Wang Da at this moment and said: "Persuade your daughter-in-law, don't fight, do the math, these wheat straw stacks, you can pay some losses, everyone is counting on wheat straw and corn stalks to repair the house." ”

Wang's face flushed.

When Aunt Wang heard the loss, her eyes rolled white, and she fell to the ground with a "bang", this time she was really faint, and her forehead was about to hit a branch, and immediately blood gushed out.

"Huzi Mom, Tiger Mom!" Wang Da immediately pounced on it to check.

Aunt Wang fainted once before, everyone took it seriously, but I didn't expect her to pretend. This is another faint, and everyone is skeptical.

It wasn't until Wang Da turned her over, her forehead was bloody, her face was pale, and her lips were purple, that everyone believed that she really fainted this time.

Everyone stepped forward one after another, shouting souls and souls, pinching people among people, until Aunt Wang woke up.

Aunt Wang was lying on the ground moaning. Moan: "I'm going to die, I'm going to die......"

"Quick, send her to the village gentleman to have a look, don't let anything really happen." The village chief said.

Wang Da hurriedly picked up Aunt Wang and went straight to the village.

The village chief was afraid of his life and followed.

Erhuzi cried and chased after him.

The courtyard that had been in turmoil just now was quiet again, and the neighbors looked at the burnt wheat straw stacks with sad faces.

"What can I do? Will the Wang family pay for the loss? ”

"You wait to pay for it, it's good if she doesn't lie to you."

"Not necessarily, look at the village chief's attitude this time is very tough, if he doesn't pay compensation, what preferential policies does the state have in the future, the village chief won't give them home, and their family still dares to come hard?"

"Well, that makes sense, let's wait for the village chief to deal with it.

“……”

After exchanging ideas, the neighbors came over to comfort Yao Shiling, they are all neighbors, where there will be no bumps and bumps, Yao Shiling and Wen Qing did not treat each other coldly, just be polite and thorough.

Soon it was dark, and the remaining stacks of wheat straw were gone, and the group sighed, and then dispersed.

"Mom, let's go, go home first." Wen Qing pulled Yao Shiling towards the courtyard.

"But, what about Aunt Wang?"

"Wait for the village chief to deal with it."

"Will the village chief handle it?" Yao Shiling asked.

Wen Qing: "Yes, Mom, after tossing for so long, let's cook and eat first." ”

Wen Qing was in no mood to think about Aunt Wang at the moment, she only ate two small steamed buns dipped in soybean sauce at noon, and she was about to starve to death.

"I'm hungry too." Wen Peng answered.

"Here's for you." Wen Liang took out two bags of sour plum powder and two bags of Tang monk meat from his pocket.

Wen Peng's eyes lit up: "Second brother, did you buy it?" ”

"The money my sister gave."

Yao Shiling raised her eyes and glanced at Wen Liang, it seemed that Wen Liang had no prejudice against Wen Qing, and finally was willing to call her sister.

"Let's eat together!" Wen Peng took the sour plum powder and bit the bag with his mouth, looking greedy and cute.

made Wen Qing and Yao Shiling laugh, and the tense nerves of the family just now relaxed.

After returning home, Yao Shiling lit a kerosene lamp in the kitchen, in order to save fuel, Wen Liang took a book to borrow light in the kitchen to read, and Wen Peng sat in front of the pot to boil water.

Wen Qing and Yao Shiling said that the fire was burned from Aunt Wang's side, and the source was naturally Aunt Wang's.

Something so big happened, half of the children in the village are here, but the second tiger son of Aunt Wang's family is not there, so he must have done something bad and slipped away.

Yao Shiling never thought that her daughter would have such a careful side, listening to the reason, she nodded again and again, and when she washed her hands and was about to cook, she saw Wen Qing take out green onions, fresh meat, etc. from the bag.

"Why are you buying meat again?" Yao Shiling wants to nag again.

Wen Qing said that it was the money to be a consultant for three days, and Yao Shiling thought that the family was frightened today, so she had a good meal and was shocked: "Save some money, you still have to go to school when you go back." ”

Wen Qing smiled: "Got it." ”

Then the mother and daughter washed, cut, and stacked, during which Wen Liang and Wen Peng also helped, and after a while, the dumpling filling of pork and green onions was chopped and mixed.

Yao Shiling rolls the skin and smells the dumplings.

Smell the boiling water.

Wen Peng drooled on the side.

Twenty minutes later, the white and chubby pork and green onion dumplings came out of the pot, and the meat was fragrant.

The family sat around the board, eating dumplings and admiring at the same time.

Wen Peng snorted: "It's delicious!" ”

"Well, it tastes good." Wen Qing said, "Mom, you eat more." ”

Yao Shiling smiled: "Eat less at night." ”

Wen Peng snorted and ate, and did not forget to ask: "Second brother, do you think it is delicious?" Is it tasty? ”

Wen Liang: "It's delicious and can't stop your mouth." ”

Wen Qing and Yao Shiling laughed.

At this moment, a shout came from outside the hospital: "Yao Shiling, Wen Qing, are you at home?" ”

Wen Liang was startled, and immediately stood up and said, "Don't eat it, quickly put away the dumplings!" ”