The village chief sat on the top with a calm face, and the second uncle sat on the left hand, and there were three or four older people in the room, all of whom bowed their heads and smoked dry tobacco, and the room was full of smoke, but no one spoke.

"Hey, what do you think is going on?" After a while, one of the old men knocked on the empty cigarette gun and spoke.

The village chief raised his eyelids and went down again, took a deep breath of dry smoke, and exhaled: "What's the trouble?" It's not like you're letting things go. If you didn't stop it at the beginning, you let those people go too far. They really think that Jiang Xun is not in the village, and his daughter should be practiced by you like this? ”

The old man raised his head a little unwillingly, and opened his mouth to refute, but he lowered his head again under the gaze of the village chief, and his lips squirmed but he didn't make a sound.

"I know you are unwilling, I think this thing was done by Uncle Seven, what does it have to do with you?" The village chief laughed: "It really has nothing to do with you?" Uncle Seven's thoughts, do you dare to say that you have never moved? Do you really think you can grab the credit of Jiang Quinoa? ”

"Didn't you rob it in the end, why did you keep not giving up. Besides, Kochi Prefecture has ruined Aquinoa's reputation outside, and I don't know if he will repay this credit. The other old man spoke impatiently.

"I must not have reported it, but when the report was reported, did anyone come to our village to see if anyone came to the imperial court? The Qin messenger sent by the imperial court had already left the county two days ago, and the county was also imprisoned for selling grain without permission, and Kochi Prefecture was fined Yulu, and the merits were compensated. Some of the people who donated food and money in the city have seen it, and then the merit will definitely be rewarded for their merits. But that's not necessarily the case with quinoa. The hundreds of refugees she had resettled outside the city were said to have made it through the city gates, but they didn't succeed, or they would have caused riots. The court can't say that it will be blamed. Hey. The person who spoke heaved twice, thinking about the occasion and the atmosphere was wrong, and explained: "I just think it, our village is full of people who will reason, although they were a little moved at the beginning, but in the end they still didn't do the thing that robbed the credit, and this character is still noble." ”

"You didn't rob it, do you want people to thank you?" The second uncle put down the teacup. said: "Our Jiang family ancestor has never taught us to do things like this, and we should be ashamed of ourselves when we started that thought." If people don't blame us, we should be grateful to Dade, otherwise we won't go out with this shame. If you don't reflect on it, just do it. also indulged in the seventh child and made mistakes. Now that the little girl is forced to leave Jiangli Village and go all the way to the capital, you still have to be shameless. ”

The second uncle is the eldest brother-in-law. No matter what happened in the village or the clan, he would be invited to come and discuss. Although he doesn't usually talk much, every time he speaks, he must hit the nail on the head. At this moment he spoke, and several people in the room moved their butts a little uneasily, and they wanted to defend themselves, but they didn't know what to say.

"It is the patriarch's idea to shield Xia Jiang Youcai and Wang Zongshui, and it is not good for us to sweep his prestige in front of the big guys." The old man who spoke first said that his family was closer to the patriarch's family in terms of blood.

"That's it, the patriarch has spoken. How can we disagree? Besides, Ah Quinoa looked at the weak little girl. It's also very powerful to fight people, I heard that the two of them can't get out of bed now, and the talented leg has been discounted, and the doctor said that it can only be raised, and I don't know if I can walk in the future. The speaker said with a frightened look on his face.

"Rabbits bite when they are in a hurry, let alone living people." The second uncle snorted: "Persecuting a little girl like this, and using such a method, didn't I say, it's still light to discount a leg, if it is according to our clan rules, how to deal with it?" ”

According to the clan rules, such a person is to be beaten to death with a wheeled stick.

Several people in the room were extremely familiar with the clan rules, and soon thought of this departure, and their hearts suddenly tightened.

There was silence again.

After a while, the village chief spoke again: "Okay, I don't want to ask you to come here today to hold you accountable for your laissez-faire before, but to think about it together, should you let Ah Quinoa go to the capital like this?" ”

"Then, why don't we come forward to apologize to her and keep her?" The old man who spoke first said, and when he saw everyone looking at it, his old face turned red, and he still said: "Actually, I won't tell you that this person is old, he just likes to think about things, how many times I think of the wrong things I did when I was young, I regret that I didn't have a chance to change again." I can't sleep most of the night these days, and I always think of Quinoa's cry of pain. If they hadn't been alert and had set up the trap in advance and arranged for someone to be on duty at night, would Jiang Youcai and Wang Zongshui be successful at that time? If they do succeed, what are we going to do? Dispose of them? After dealing with it, what should Ah Quinoa do, she was already Wang Zongshui's bastard at that time. When Jiang Xun asked, what do we say? Just messy and let them make up a pair? Then the rest of the village will follow suit, won't this be a mess? ”

The old man said and sighed: "I still have two granddaughters at home, and I close my eyes and wonder if there are people with such dirty thoughts, and I am afraid that I can't do it." Several times when I went down to the field, I passed by the door of Ah Quinoa's house, and I wanted to turn around and go in and say sorry to her, and ask her to forgive me. But I didn't dare, I was afraid that she would make me look bad, and I was afraid at the thought of her calling me uncle. Why do we old things enjoy the worship of the people in the village and the respect of the clansmen, it is because our elders are elders, and we will set an example and be an example for the younger generations in the clan, instead of not distinguishing between right and wrong and judging relatives and relatives by personal preferences. I think we are unfair in this matter, if you say you want to apologize, I will show this old face, I will go! ”

A few other old men, you look at me, I look at you, one of them gritted his teeth and said, "I'll go too, I'll lose my heart too." ”

"Let's go, let's apologize, it's really not okay, we will write a letter of accusation to Brother Xun, and let the juniors in the family watch it, let them know that people don't make mistakes, and the most important thing for them to make mistakes is to know that they can change their mistakes."

The other people in the room also agreed, and their faces were relaxed, as if this had lifted the heavy shackles on their backs, and the people were in good spirits.

After the discussion, I will apologize at the next day. They began to discuss whether to bring some things to Jiang Quinoa for the next day, but when they thought that their family was now poor and white, they began to feel distressed.

Walked to the front of the Jiang family. The second uncle thought for a while and said: "We are mainly here today to express our apologies, this is the most important, as for the matter of keeping Quinoa, we expressed our wishes, but we can't force it to stay, you know?" ”

"Second brother, you are stupid to us. We all know that we can't say the wrong thing. One of them joked lightly.

The second uncle thought about it, and these are indeed more honest. So he said no more.

Seeing the village chief and a few uncles coming to the door, Qing Bo was stunned and hurriedly greeted him, very worried, did he come to trouble again? I looked left and right, and the iron pillar and lotus were not in the front yard. I can't do it in a hurry. Who is going to the backyard to say to the eldest lady. Wake up?

"I don't know how many old ladies are here?" After serving tea, Qing Bo asked worriedly.

Although the village chief has a very high status in the village, it is still higher for the second uncle to be higher according to generation, and the second uncle is also the fairest, and the relationship with the Jiang family is also better, so he spoke first.

"Ah Qing, we are here to find Ah Quinoa today, you call her out. We have something to say to her. "The second uncle is fair.

Qing Bo chuckled in his heart, he was really afraid of something. Yesterday, Jiang Chun's mother pulled Jiang Chun over. Without saying a word, she knelt in front of Jiang Quinoa, saying that no matter where Jiang Quinoa went, Jiang Chun would follow her, and Jiang Chun was her maid. At that time, they were all shocked, and the eldest lady was actually leaving.

There are so many things in the village, some people still have bad intentions to pour dirty water on the eldest lady, even the mud figure also has three points, the eldest lady was wronged and wanted to go to the capital to find her father and mother to find support and comfort, it is natural.

But the situation of the Jiang family is different from that of other people's families.

Others don't know, but he Jiang Qing doesn't know, if the master wants to take the eldest lady to the capital, will he wait until now? At the beginning, he sent a letter to the capital when there was a drought at home, and the master's reply was to ask him to take care of the family, and gave him another hundred taels of silver tickets for them to spend. This 100 taels of silver can usually be eaten by a family for several years, but in times of great drought, the price of grain is the same every day, and this may not be able to be bought.

He understands the master's attitude, will the eldest lady not know? What is she doing in the capital, scolding the lord or humiliating herself?

It was the eldest lady he had held in the palm of his hand since he was a child, no matter what it was, he was reluctant to go to the capital. Don't talk about the danger of this road, just say that the lord didn't let the eldest lady go to the capital and she ran away by herself, the lord won't give her a good look, and she will face the truth that her father doesn't love her mother, I'm afraid that she will be even more sad.

Aunt Rong has been persuading the eldest lady since yesterday, and they all want her to stay. But this time, the obedient lady said that she had to go to the capital, and she couldn't persuade her. He was in a hurry, and these uncles came to make trouble.

"The eldest lady is in class, and it won't be half an hour before class ends. I'll go to the study now and ask the eldest lady to come over. Qingbo looked at the missing moment and said.

The second uncle waved his hand indifferently, "Reading is a big deal, let her finish the morning class with peace of mind, and let her come when she gets out of school." None of us are busy. The other uncles and the village chief also nodded yes.

Qing Bo saw their attitude, and knew that they were not here to make things difficult for the eldest lady, so he guessed that there was something to discuss, so he served tea, and several people began to gossip.

"Hey, this tea is refreshing." The village chief took a sip and felt that his thirsty mouth suddenly felt like a pool of spring water flowed into his mouth, and his whole body was refreshed.

Qing Bo said: "This is mint tea, it is a mint plant that the eldest lady found in the backyard a few days ago, Liao Xiucai said that this tea was good to drink, so they tried to brew it." The tea at home just ran out, so I brought this tea, and I hope you don't dislike it. ”

An uncle drank the tea in the teacup in three or two sips, and said: "What do you dislike, this tea is much more fragrant than the tea at home, but it is a little cold, and it is estimated that it is better to eat in summer." Come, pour me another bowl. ”

Qing Bo hurriedly stepped forward with the teapot.

The people in the countryside are not rich, and the tea they buy is only drunk when they are entertained at home during the New Year's holidays, and they usually drink the willow leaves picked in spring, or a big bag of broken tea cakes for two pennies, and they float on the water black after soaking in water. A refreshing tea like mint is a novelty, but there are also some that you are not used to.

Uncle Qing was talking to these uncles on the side, and he wanted to know the purpose of their visit today, but the second uncle bypassed the words several times, and he accompanied them to talk about farming and sacrifices, and finally stayed up for half an hour, but he didn't hear anything.

Qing Bo looked up and saw Jiang Tiezhu walking past the door with a pickaxe, and hurriedly told him to go to the backyard to see if Jiang Qu Primary School was there and let her come over.

When Jiang Tiezhu found the backyard, Jiang Quinoa and the others had just gotten out of school.

Hearing that the second uncle was coming, Jiang Qu wondered: "The uncles and the village chief are here?" Did you say anything? ”

Jiang Tiezhu shook his head: "My father didn't say it, he just said that you will go to the front yard after school." I've been watching them wait for a while. ”

Jiang Quinoa gave the things to Jiang Chun and asked her to carry them back, and followed Jiang Tiezhu to the front yard.

Jiang Chun thought about it and didn't feel at ease, he quickly ran back to the room to put down his things, and rushed to the front yard again.

The second uncle and a few of them bowed deeply and bent down to apologize to Jiang Quino, Jiang Quinoa hurriedly avoided it, and said that he didn't dare to say in his mouth, and asked Uncle Qing to help the uncles up, and while they were entangled here, someone rushed in in a hurry.

"Miss." Jiang Chun shouted, stood beside Jiang Quinoa, and looked at the second uncle and them vigilantly. The scene was a little tense for a while.

Jiang Qu looked at Jiang Chun, then at the second uncle, stretched out his hand to pat Jiang Chun, and said in a low voice: "Second uncle, they are here to explain what happened last time." Get out of the way. ”

Jiang Chun still believed in Jiang Quinoa's words, and saw that the atmosphere in the room should not be bad just now, so he apologized and stood beside Jiang Quinoa.

The second uncle glanced at Jiang Chun in surprise, then looked back at him with a wry smile: "We old things are not as transparent as a little girl, good, good, a good girl." ”

Several uncles also looked at Jiang Chun appreciatively, and she was confused, but she still understood the praise of others, and immediately blushed.

Jiang Quinoa laughed when he saw it, and after inviting his uncles to sit down, he said seriously: "I don't blame everyone, our village has always had such rules, and I also know it." Besides, I have been blessed by everyone all these years, and it is too late to be grateful, how can I indiscriminately resent everyone. I'm leaving because I want to leave, and when it's time to leave, so I want to go. ”

Jiang Quinoa said in a low voice: "Originally, I wanted to go to the capital last year, but then a series of things happened, I couldn't rest assured, now my family and village are fine, and I can go more steadily." ”

The village chief opened his mouth and wanted to persuade him again, but the second uncle stopped him and said to Jiang Qu: "If you really want to leave, we won't stop you." But now the outside world is not safe, it is not convenient for you to take this big family with a little girl, there is an uncle in our village who works in the dart bureau, I asked me to write a letter to the city at night, and let them arrange someone to send you to the capital, so that we can rest assured. ”

Jiang Quinoa's eyes lit up, thanked him again and again, and finally told the second uncle that she had set a date for departure and asked people to contact the dart bureau, and left the second uncle and they had lunch, and then sent the person away. (To be continued......)