124. Stealing vegetables
Liang Xiaomei threw down the bucket on her shoulder and ran into her vegetable garden in a huff, and some women by the river also stepped forward to join in the fun.
The vegetable thief heard Liang Xiaomei's shout and was so frightened that he threw the vegetables in his hand and wanted to run over the fence, but the fence was taller than a person and couldn't climb over at all, and the only way out was the vegetable garden gate.
Covering his head, the vegetable thief tried to escape from the crowd.
Liang Xiaomei finally led the crowd over, how could she let the thief run away, so she tightly pulled the sleeve of the vegetable thief.
More or less people who watched the excitement came to the Li family's vegetable garden to pick vegetables, and at this time, when they saw that the vegetable thief was about to escape, they also helped Liang Xiaomei stop people.
In the pulling, everyone finally saw the true face of the vegetable thief.
"Isn't this a mapo? How did you start stealing vegetables? A woman exclaimed.
The other also saw Ma Pozi's face, and couldn't help but say disdainfully: "That's right, I used to dislike Aunt Li's food that it was not delicious, and I wouldn't come to pick the vegetables from Aunt Li's vegetable garden, why did I steal it in a blink of an eye, it's really shameless." ”
"It's acceptable to have a bigger mouth, but now it's even a thief, it's really speechless!" The other also refers to pointing.
"That's it!" The crowd responded.
Ma Pozi was very embarrassed to be pointed at by everyone, and she didn't dare to raise her head.
Although Liang Xiaomei was very angry at Ma Pozi's behavior, Ma Pozi was her elder after all, and she couldn't scold people directly, so she said: "Ma Pozi, if you want our family's dishes, you can just say it directly, why bother sneaking around, not to mention your own face, let everyone misunderstand." ”
Liang Xiaomei's generous attitude immediately won praise from everyone, but Ma Pozi seemed to be very unproductive.
Liang Xiaomei's words were all about Ma Pozi, who wanted her own vegetables but couldn't pull her face and came to the vegetable garden to pick them as soon as possible, but everyone saw the two dustpans in the vegetable garden and understood that Ma Pozi was not just picking a little.
"Ma Pozi, you better hurry up and tell me what you want so many dishes for, Sister Liang is generous, and she will definitely not say anything if she knows your difficulties." Seeing that Ma Pozi kept her head down and didn't speak, everyone couldn't help but persuade her.
"That's right, fortunately, Aunt Li's family has a lot of vegetables, otherwise how can you afford to pick it like this!" The other woman also spoke bitterly and persuasively.
Fenghe Zhuang people have always pursued a generous attitude towards life, although Ma Pozi usually loves to chew the root of the tongue, but the person is still not bad. Everyone also persuaded Ma Pozi to let Ma Pozi admit her mistake and the matter was over.
Mapobi was still silent, and everyone's expressions were a little embarrassed. Seeing this, a little daughter-in-law standing in the corner said timidly: "When I went to the market before, I saw Aunt Ma selling vegetables. ”
One sentence stirred up a thousand waves, everyone knew that the vegetable garden of Ma Pozi's family was not only small, but the vegetables planted were also sick, and it was impossible for anyone to ask for it, listening to the words of the little daughter-in-law, everyone guessed whether the vegetables sold by Ma Pozi were all stolen from the Li family's vegetable garden.
Liang Xiaomei was also stunned, she hadn't been to the market for a long time, and naturally she didn't know about Ma Pozi selling vegetables, but now I heard that the anger in her stomach was even worse.
"Ma Pozi, since you don't want to say it, then I can only ask the village chief to evaluate it." After finishing speaking, he was going to take Ma Pozi to see Gu Siting.
Hearing that she was going to see the village chief, Ma Pozi finally reacted and shouted: "What do you pull, isn't it just a few broken vegetables?" Can't you give it back? ”
Ma Pozi shook off Liang Xiaomei's hand, poured all the vegetables in the dustpan on the vegetable field, and then quickly packed up his tools, picked up the crowd, and left the Li family's vegetable garden as if fleeing.
"Eh, why is this person like this, he did something wrong and made a face." The crowd was furious.
Liang Xiaomei didn't feel angry anymore, but she just looked at the vegetables scattered on the ground, and her heart hurt so much that she couldn't do it, these are all vegetables she worked so hard to grow!
Ma Pozi is ruthless in picking, and the vegetables on the ground can be eaten by the family for several days.
"Sisters, take some of these dishes back, otherwise they will be wasted." Liang Xiaomei picked up the dishes one by one.
Everyone knew the deliciousness of this dish, and it was not polite to hear Liang Xiaomei say this, everyone took some, and more than a dozen people finished dividing the vegetables on the ground, and then took them to the river to wash them.
Liang Xiaomei put aside the vegetables she needed, and then began to carry water to water the vegetables.
The story of Ma Pozi stealing vegetables was quickly spread, and as soon as Liang Xiaomei returned home, Li Yuedi and others asked about what happened.
"Hey, Ma Pozi doesn't look like a foolish person, why did he do this?" Li Yuedi couldn't figure it out.
"People's hearts will change, you don't care about this matter, I'll talk to the village chief and let the village chief come forward to solve it." Although it is a matter of a few dishes, it is now spread in Zhuang, and the impact on Fenghe Zhuang is not good, Li Bangguo thinks it is better to hand it over to Gu Siting to deal with.
"Okay, do what you say!" Li Yuedi did not object.
Fortunately, Ma Pozi only stole vegetables, and the object of the theft was still the Li family, otherwise it would have been replaced by other families in the village who would have gone to reason with Ma Pozi a long time ago.
Every morning, Gu Siting likes to take a walk around the village and then come back for breakfast.
When passing by the river, Gu Sting heard the words "Ma Pozi" and "stealing vegetables" from a distance, and then looked at the women talking by the river with a look of righteous indignation, Gu Sting couldn't help but wonder if something big had happened that he didn't know.
Gu Stin walked slowly to the river, and the women washing vegetables finally found Gu Sting.
"Village Chief." The crowd exclaimed.
Gu Sting just smiled slightly and asked, "I just heard what you said about Ma Pozi, what did you say about stealing vegetables, did something happen to Ma Pozi?" ”
The women glanced at each other, and in the end, it was Zhang Zicheng's daughter-in-law Li Shu who told the story again.
After listening to Li Shu's words, Gu Siting couldn't help frowning, Ma Pozi's mouth is usually not very clean, why did he make trouble stealing vegetables again.
"Thank you, keep busy, I'll go first." Gu Sting said goodbye to everyone and turned around and walked home.
Everyone looked at Gu Siting's distant figure and couldn't help but sigh: "The village chief is really kind. ”
"Yes, although the village chief is not from our village, if it weren't for the village chief, how would we be able to afford the manufacturing plant now, and we wouldn't be able to earn money by staying at home."
"Yes, yes!" Everyone responded one after another, saying good things about Gu Sting, obviously unconsciously, Gu Sting's tall image has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Gu Sting did not go home directly, but came to Li's house. His youngest son went to Fang Yuping as soon as he was on vacation, and the eldest son hadn't come back yet, so he was left with a big man, and when he was too lazy to cook, he came to Li's house to eat, and Li Yuedi and others were also very welcome.
Li Bangguo, who was sitting in front of the gate, saw Gu Sting coming, and hurriedly put down the rice bowl in his hand, "Village Chief, why are you here?" Have you had breakfast? If you haven't eaten, let's go together. Xiaoyan, go to the kitchen and get an extra pair of dishes and chopsticks. ”
Gu Sting had already regarded the Li family as his own, and when he smelled the aroma of the food on the table, he sat down even more unceremoniously.
Li Weiyan gave Gu Sting a bowl of porridge, and then put the bowl and chopsticks in front of Gu Sting.
Gu Stin thanked him softly and took a big gulp. The rest of the Li family ate rice, but only he and Lin Zichen had porridge in their bowls.
Gu Sting already knew the reason for this, originally Gu Sting's father and son did not have the habit of eating in the morning, but when they came to Fenghezhuang, they did not have steamed buns or anything like breakfast to eat, so the breakfast of the father and son was changed to porridge.
And when Gu Siting came to Li's house for breakfast for the first time, he wondered how the Li family knew that he only ate porridge, and after asking, he learned that the porridge was specially prepared for Lin Zichen, because Lin Zichen was not used to eating dry rice in the morning, so the family specially prepared porridge for Lin Zichen.
Gu Siting asked Li Bangguo and the others while eating breakfast, "Uncle Li, Aunt Li, what are you going to do with stealing vegetables?" ”
The family had a certain number in their hearts, and Li Bangguo told Gu Siting about his plan: "We have thought about it, you can deal with this matter as you think it is appropriate, but you can't destroy our Fenghezhuang atmosphere because of one person, let alone affect the reputation of the manufacturing factory." ”
When Gu Sting heard this, he said yes again and again, "I'll talk to Ma Pozi first to see if I can make her apologize and promise not to do such a thing in the future." ”
"Well, there is also a warning to other people in the village not to do such things in the future, otherwise they will be severely punished." Li Weiye added.
"Okay." Gu Stin solemnly agreed.
After having breakfast at Li's house, Gu Siting decided to go to Mapozi's house first, "Uncle Li, do you want to go to Mapozi's house with me?" ”
Li Bangguo waved his hand, "I don't need to come forward in this matter, otherwise Ma Pozi will say that there are more of us and there are fewer of their families." ”
Gu Sting hesitated for a moment, but still felt that someone from the Li family should follow him to take a look, "Why don't you let Xiao Chen come over with me to take a look, this matter is always related to your family, and there should always be someone who knows the attitude of Ma Pozi." ”
Li Weiye felt that what Gu Siting said made sense, and said to Li Bangguo: "Dad, I think the village chief is right, it's okay to let Xiao Chen go over and take a look, Xiao Chen's child is not a threat to Ma Pozi's family." ”
"Okay, Xiao Chen will follow the village chief to Ma Pozi's house, just listen there, there is no need to say anything." In the final analysis, Li Bangguo still felt that there was no need to make a big deal about the lack of a few dishes.
Lin Zichen responded and followed Gu Siting to Ma Pozi's house.
Before the two arrived at Mapozi's house, they saw a lot of people outside the latter's house.
Lin Zichen and Gu Sting glanced at each other, and they both saw doubts in each other's eyes: What happened to the Ma Pozi family?
The people gathered outside the door of Ma Pozi's house were chattering and whispering, and when they saw Gu Sting coming, they hurriedly closed their mouths and made way for a small lane to let Gu Sting close to the door of Ma Pozi's house.
Before Gu Siting and Lin Zichen entered the house, they heard the sound of ping-pong throwing things from inside the house, and the noise was mixed with the crying and scolding of Ma Pozi.
Everyone outside the house looked at each other when they heard the voice, and looked at Gu Sting with a blank expression, afraid that Gu Sting would suddenly be angry.
Everyone present knew about Ma Pozi's stealing of vegetables, and when they saw Gu Sting coming, they knew in their hearts that Ma Pozi was estimated to be punished this time. R1152