Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Melon-Stealing Thief Appears (Third Watch)
After Lin Zhu and Fu Dou'er fell asleep, Chang's mother first tidied up the wolfberries drying in the yard, she knew very well the use of wolfberries, and the concubines in the palace often ate them, so she has always maintained a proud beauty, a young body and tender white and elastic skin, and she is also the object of envy and jealousy of many concubines.
Lin Zhu has been very tired recently because of the melon field, and he has to go to the field every day to check the growth of watermelons, and often bask in the field for half a day. Now there is a person who steals melons again, Chang's mother really hates this person to death, and she is becoming more and more disdainful of the people in Linjia Village, originally a few little girls in the village stayed in front of her, she felt that although the village was poor, the people were still good. Since they have been coveting Lin Zhu's method of growing watermelons, they have opened an ancestral hall, although the result is what Lin Zhu wants. But she still felt that Lin Zhu's heart was too soft, and of course she also knew that this was the result of Lin Zhu's helplessness. But I feel uncomfortable, let people bully to the head, and I have been avoiding it, Chang's mother is very distressed about Lin Zhu, if there is no Lord Zhang, then I don't know what the situation of Lu Dao is.
So she decided that she must talk to Lin Zhu later, and she must not let go of the melon thief easily. "I can't let him go." Chang's mother muttered to herself hatefully.
"Mother Chang is saying who she won't let go?" Li Guihua finished picking today's wolfberries and sent them to Lin Zhu, and when she heard Chang's mother talking alone, she asked curiously. Chang's mother saw that it was her, took her back, and the two of them worked together to pour the wolfberries into the empty basket, and then carried them to the side room to dry. Chang's mother also took the opportunity to tell her what happened this morning. "Who is so lacking in virtue? How could you do such a thing? If you catch it, you have to learn a good lesson. Li Guihua was a little indignant, she has been since her husband's death. I have been bullied a lot and have suffered a lot of losses. Now he is willing to do anything for his son, and his temperament is gradually becoming stronger. "People are good and are deceived by others. The little bamboo girl is too kind, so she indulged this gang of thieves, and there are many people in the village who have this idea, as long as they catch the thief, they have to treat him well, and kill the chicken to show the monkey. ”
Chang's mother was very happy when she saw that she and herself wanted to go together, and the two cursed a few words about the melon thief, Li Guihua saw that the time was not early, and she had to go back to cook for her son. Chang's mother also brought her a watermelon, saying that it was confessed by Lin Zhu, and asked her to take it back and eat it with her son.
got such a precious watermelon, Li Guihua was very excited, she could have been able to help Lin Zhu, and she could take some vegetables home every day, she was already grateful to her, and she didn't know how to thank her, and now she gave her such a precious watermelon for nothing. I really don't know what to say. "Mother Chang, look at this, this" Li Guihua stammered a little when she spoke, "It's okay." Take it, girl, I see how hard you worked. Specially reserved for you. also give one to the village chief's family and the Wang family, you can rest assured to take it home and eat. It's just that don't throw away these watermelon seeds. After Chang's mother sent the grateful Li Guihua away. went back to the house and asked Lin Zhu to get up, and slept long enough. It's time for lunch, too.
"Girl, you've lost a lot of weight these days for the watermelon, and your mother will stew you a chicken soup to make up for it later, and skim out all the oil, it's not greasy at all, come and drink it." Lin Zhuzhi said that Chang's mother saw that she was a little depressed, so she did it deliberately, and she was very moved. Chang's mother is not good at other cooking skills, but she has a hand in making soup, and it happens that making soup is Lin Zhu's weakness, so Chang's mother will make some soup for her from time to time. Not to mention, Zicong often drinks soup, her face is much better, although in order to raise the body that has been treated badly since childhood, Lin Zhu has always been open in terms of eating, but it is not as good as drinking soup. I don't know what Chang's mother put in the soup, Lin Zhu felt that not only was his skin getting better and better, smooth and tender, but even his hair was a lot darker, and he had some meat on his body, but it was not the fat kind. Coupled with regular labor, my body is getting stronger and stronger. "Xie Lu, Xie Chang's mother, you also drink with me."
After eating, Lin Zhu went to the yard to turn the dried wolfberries, and suddenly thought that wolfberries can be eaten and can also be used to make wine. For women, it can make the skin soft, delay aging, moisturize the skin, and maintain beauty; For the elderly, it can prolong life. Although Chang's mother often uses wolfberry to make water to drink, the effect is not as good as wolfberry wine.
If you want to get wolfberry wine quickly, it is best to use the soaking method, now Lin Zhu has no wine at home, wait for the opportunity to ask Dr. Zhang, he should have good wine there, in order to do a good job of wolfberry wine, he will share half of the conditions after wolfberry wine, maybe he can come some.
Before Lin Zhu could tell Chang's mother about this idea, a noisy sound suddenly came from outside the gate, mixed with the sound of crying and cursing from time to time. Lin Zhu frowned, she asked Chang's mother to look at Fu Dou'er, and she went to the gate to see what was going on.
"You, you're a stinky girl." As soon as Lin Zhu opened the door and walked out, there was a woman in her thirties, pointing at her and scolding, "It's all a good dog you raised, a person who kills a thousand knives, and we are so miserable in the bite, you pay for it, and if you don't cure our master, I'm not done with you." After speaking, he sat on the ground and sprinkled, crying incessantly, "Let's give a comment, it's all her family's vicious dogs, and the skin and flesh of our family's bite are opened, and the legs are bitten and broken, and the doctor in the town said that it will not be better in the future." It's all made by this stinky girl. Let's judge it. With a broken voice, tears and snot flowing on his crying face, messy hair, and dusty clothes, Lin Zhu was very impatient, and said loudly with a straight face: "Where is Huazi, don't splash at my door, get out!" After saying that, he turned around and was about to close the door.
The woman jumped up from the ground and grabbed Lin Zhu's arm, Lin Zhu was accidentally pulled to the ground by her, and her palm was hurt by the small pebbles on the ground, and she was even more angry. Standing up from the ground, he looked at the woman coldly, "Who are you?" ”
"Who am I? You still have the face to ask who I am, I told you, your dog bit me in charge, pay us fifty taels of silver, and beat the dog to death, otherwise," the woman was interrupted by Lin Zhu before she finished speaking, "or what?" You say my dog bites someone, who bites? Call it out and see, how to bite? What is the bite for? What about people? ”
The woman didn't expect Lin Zhu to dare to ask herself like this at a young age, and she was a little stunned for a while. "You said you were bitten by my dog. Who are you in charge of? Where was he bitten by a dog? My house is so far from the village, it is the master of the house that will bite you. Tell me clearly? Lin Zhu shouted loudly and asked, and his voice was very loud. The frightened woman took a step back, and after retreating, she realized that doing so would make people feel weak, and quickly took a step forward.
There were a lot of people who came with the woman, all of them were women from Linjia Village, and they were all sympathetic to the woman at first, they had already heard her say how miserable her man had been bitten by a dog for a long time, so everyone sympathized with her in their hearts, and they all stood on her side to speak for her, and they all said that they would let Lin Zhu hand over the dog and beat it to death.
Lin Zhu looked at them coldly. He paid no heed to their words, just stared at the woman.
"What is clear?" The woman pushed Lin Zhu, and the pushed Lin Zhu stumbled and almost fell to the ground. "Tell, hurry up and lose the money and hand over the dog. Otherwise, let the government arrest you. The woman said inwardly.
"Reporter? All right! Lin Zhu stood up straight and sneered, "It just so happens that I also want to report to the official, let's go together." When the woman saw Lin Zhu's expression, it didn't look like she was scaring people. Suddenly a little weak-hearted, and those behind were still shouting, "Go and go, she is justified in hurting people, and she can't say anywhere." Walk. "Others don't know what's going on with Lu Dao, doesn't she know Lu Dao herself? It's impossible to say why you were bitten by a dog.
Seeing that the woman's heart was empty, Lin Zhu stepped forward. looked at her disdainfully, "What? Don't dare? The woman was annoyed and embarrassed by Lin Zhu's gaze. Raising his hand, he was about to hit Lin Zhu in the face.
"Stop." The voice of village chief Lin Changqing came from outside the crowd. The people who were around saw the village chief coming. Get out of the way immediately.
Lin Changqing looked at the group of people with a pale face, and there were many people behind him, and when those people saw that their mother-in-law and mother-in-law were inside, they were angry and hit them up. They pulled them over.
"Zi'an's family, who let you come here to sprinkle? What about Lin Zi'an? Where is he? Lin Zi'an's family was still very afraid of the village chief, and when he heard his question, he replied in a low voice, "Our head of the family is not at home." ”
"Not at home? Good. Lin Changqing walked in front of her, and behind him, Aunt Li also walked over, bypassed them directly, hugged Lin Zhu in her arms, and patted her back comfortingly.
"Auntie." Lin Zhu called softly. "Okay, there's nothing to do, the eldest lady is here, don't be afraid, there is the eldest mother, there is your Uncle Lin, no one can bully you." Aunt Li glared at Lin Zi'an's mother-in-law fiercely.
"Then tell me why you're here today? Why was Lin Zi'an bitten by her dog? Where did you bite it? Lin Changqing didn't look at Lin Zhu, for fear that he would be even more angry when he saw her aggrieved appearance.
"What else? It's all her dog's fault, that dog is crazy and bites. The woman said forcefully, "We came back late yesterday, and it was dark and I couldn't see the road clearly, maybe it was closer to her house, so I let the dog bite her, who did not ask her to reason?" Shouldn't she lose money if her dog bites her? The dog must not be killed, what if it is bitten by someone else? ”
The people of Linjia Village, who have been dealing with Lin Zhu for a long time, although they are not very knowledgeable, can still communicate with Yan Yuese, but they did not expect to meet such a superb woman who can reverse black and white and talk nonsense. At the beginning, in the ancestral hall, Lin Zi'an was the one who had the most opinions and the most nonsense, and now I see her like a scoundrel, she is really a nest of snakes and rats.
"Really?" Lin Changqing stared at her eyes, and under his direct gaze, Lin Zi'an's mother-in-law became more and more weak, her body trembled a little, and she shrank back. "Let me ask you again, where is Lin Zi'an?"
"Wow," the woman suddenly sat down on the ground, "God, open your eyes, even the village chief helped an outsider bully me, help, I can't live anymore, is there anyone to judge." It's about to be unjustly killed. ”
"Okay, good, you" Lin Changqing pointed at the woman and said angrily, "Aren't you wronged?" Then let's go to the yamen to evaluate and let the county magistrate call the shots for you, don't you also want to report to the official? Go, go now. ”
The woman was frightened by Lin Changqing's words, and immediately stopped howling. I was stunned and didn't know how to react.
"Come, let Jean, let me pass." Lin Zi'an got out of behind the crowd, limped over to the woman, and slapped her, "Who let you come here, I was injured in the town, it has nothing to do with other people, what are you crazy about here, hurry up and go back to me." After speaking, he said to Lin Changqing, "Village chief, I'm really sorry, it's all a misunderstanding, this mother-in-law saw that I was injured, my brain was not clear, I couldn't help it, I will take her back to teach her a lesson first, and then apologize to Miss Lin Zhu." ”
"You were injured in town? She doesn't have a clear mind? No, she just said very clearly, you let Miss Xiaozhu's dog bite her. Lin Changqing sneered and said to him, on weekdays, relying on the relationship between the clan elder Lin Feng, he showed off his might in the village, and the seven who were dissatisfied with the eight were not angry, and they did not take him as the village chief in their eyes. Although Lin Changqing knew that Lin Feng was supporting him, he didn't hold his mistakes and couldn't move him. In the ancestral hall that day, this Lin Zi'an was also because of Lin Feng's relationship, and he stumbled on him vigorously, and now he finally has a handle in his hand, it is strange to let him go, and he also has to teach Lin Feng behind him a lesson, he always wants his son to take the place of his village head, and now his own nephew made a mistake, I see what face is still in front of me.
Lin Changqing ignored Lin Zi'an and said to the crowd of onlookers, "This morning, the watermelon seedlings that were trampled on in the watermelon field of Miss Xiaozhu's house were found, as well as the watermelons and sacks that were picked and stolen, as well as two blood stains and rags that were bitten by dogs. I've been looking for this melon thief today, and it just so happens that Lin Zi'an's family said that Lin Zi'an was bitten by the dog of the Xiaozhu girl's family, so let's see if it's true? ”
"No, no, village chief, you can't wronged people, I haven't been to her watermelon field. Haven't been. Lin Zi'an had a rogue face, and shook his head with a wave of his hand.
"You said you didn't go, okay, someone put a meatloaf in the melon shed yesterday, let me ask you, what did your family eat last night?"
"His family ate meatloaf last night, and his son showed it off this morning." Someone in the crowd spoke, blocking Lin Zi'an's negation.
"It's okay if you don't admit it, Xiaozhu, call Black Bean'er over and recognize it." Lin Changqing no longer paid attention to his quibbles. (To be continued......)
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