A purple dawn appeared in the sky, and a green-curled donkey cart drove into the smoke-filled Qinglu Village.

The donkey cart stopped, Ji Wan and the Xie family got out of the donkey cart together, thanked the Qian family who sent them back, and walked towards home.

Xie Xianhua, who was lying on Xie Da's back, looked at Ji Xian, who was frowning, worriedly.

Along the way, he had already asked what Ji Wan needed chili peppers for.

"Ji Wan, do you have to find that red pepper? Can it be replaced with dogwood? Dogwood is also spicy. ”

Ji Wan glanced up at Xie Xianhua listlessly, and drooped her eyebrows.

"Well, it has to be." The cows are blown out, there are no chili peppers, and you can't make flavored fish, how can it end?

She sighed, the recipe for making flavored dried fish is a perfect recipe that the older generation has produced after thousands of trials and countless adjustments to the recipe.

Without red peppers, the taste will be greatly reduced.

"What does a red pepper look like? I'll help you find it. Xie Xianhua couldn't see Ji Xuan's sad face.

"Hey......"

Ji Wan frowned.

"The average pepper plant is about two feet long, with two branches, oval leaves, small white flowers, and fruits less than the thickness of the little finger. 、”

She saw that Xie Xianhua was really listening carefully, so she said in detail,

"The pepper green turns red and enters the ripening stage, the tip of the head is like a pen nib, the top is a flower pedicle, the inside is hollow, the thick beige flat seeds are stored, and the taste is spicy and ......"

Half-ringing, Xie Xianhua hesitated: "I seem to have seen it." ”

"Huh?" Ji Wan's drooping eyebrows and eyes instantly flew, full of energy: "Where is it?" ”

Xie Xianhua twisted his eyebrows and tried to recall......

Suddenly, "Whew-"

In the fence yard next to the path, a pottery bowl flew out and went straight to Ji Wanmian's door.

"Be careful!"

Xie Xianhua's heart was raised, his pupils shrank, and he shouted.

Ji Wan made a big jump and narrowly avoided it.

The clay bowl with a missing mouth slid against Ji Wan's cheek and fell to the ground and fell to pieces.

Ji Wan and the Xie family twisted their eyebrows together, stopped, and looked into the fence courtyard.

In the courtyard of the fence, a young man with a treacherous appearance and a pockmarked face on his face.

He had a basket of eggs in his left hand and an old hen in his right hand, and he was trying to break away, clinging to the old woman with his calf, and a little baby of four or five years old.

The old woman's clothes were patched on top of each other, and her face was sallow.

The little baby has thin yellow hair, a big head, a thin body, and looks malnourished.

Seeing that he couldn't hold back the pockmarked young man, his grandson suddenly choked up and cried.

"Kill a thousand knives! O robbers! Grab something—"

When the little baby saw that her grandmother was crying, her face suddenly turned white, and she opened her mouth to bite the leg of the pock-faced young man.

"If you are distracted by the plague, Lao Tzu will kill you! Dog-in-the-go, a pair of dog teeth, right? ”

Mazi's face was furious: "You can't pay the money in the first place, anyway, these things will be Lao Tzu in a few days." ”

Speaking of this, he raised his chin and said highly: "Lao Tzu takes his own things, why can't you?" Phew! Get out—"

After scolding, Mazi spat thick phlegm on the ground, raised his foot and kicked the little baby's head.

With that strength and ruthlessness, there is a great intention to kick people to death.

Ji Wan's little face sank, she knew her grandchildren.

They are the mothers and children of the strong son.

Qiangzi is righteous, Qiangzi has helped her a lot during this time, how can she watch Qiangzi's mother and children being bullied?

Ji Wan quickly bent down to pick up a small pebble and threw it hard at the back of Mazi's head.

"Smack!" The accuracy is excellent!

"Ouch!"

The pock-faced young man screamed, touched the back of his head, hissed and gasped, and roared angrily: "Who the hell dares to smash Lao Tzu!" ”

"Your aunt and me."

Ji Wan crossed her hands on her waist and raised her eyebrows.

Recently, everyone in the Xie family has gradually become accustomed to Ji Wan's resolute and resolute style.

The old and young of the family, seeing Mazi's fierce face, immediately walked a few steps quickly, stood beside Ji Wan, and blocked her behind.

After Ji Wan saw the Xie family's actions, the corners of her mouth were slightly hooked, and her heart was warm.

It's a good feeling to have someone with you!

"Yo, isn't this the Xie family who went to dig up the dead body?" The pock-faced youth whistled loudly.

Ji Wan took a step forward and stared coldly at the pockmarked-faced youth.

In his memory, this person is a second-rate son in Wangshui Village, and Hu Qing, the head of Wangshui Village, is his cousin, who does all kinds of bastard things on weekdays.

Because of his appearance, he was nicknamed Hu Mazi.

"Huh? Why isn't Xie San dead yet? Lao Tzu thought he could go to your Xie family for a funeral. ”

The pock-faced young man smashed his mouth, revealing a look of pity.

The Xie family all had black faces.

"You, keep your mouth clean." Xie Er's chest rose and fell violently in anger.

"Tut-tut, I'm so scared, hahahaha."

The pock-faced young man smiled cheaply, and swept the faces of everyone in the Xie family with contempt, and was sure that the Xie family was full of soft persimmons.

He slammed another mouthful of thick phlegm in the direction of the Xie family.

"I, a family of old, weak, sick and disabled, and still want to stand up for others? Take care of yourselves. ”

"Huh."

Ji Wan sneered, the Xie family is a bun character, but her temperament is not!

She took three steps and two steps, and unexpectedly jumped behind Hu Mazi, and her fingers slammed into the acupuncture points on Hu Mazi's wrist carrying the egg basket.

A burst of unbearable soreness hit, Hu Mazi screamed miserably, his hands were weak, and his arms hung down in vain. Suddenly release the egg basket.

Ji Wan snorted coldly, her eyes and hands were about to snatch it over, and she used her toes to kick into the back socket of Hu Mazi's knees.

"Bang!"

Hu Mazi immediately knelt in front of Qiangzi Niang.

"You're looking for death!"

Hu Mazi's face is distorted and red, and the pockmarks on his face are squeezed together, uneven, particularly eye-catching, so ugly that people don't want to look at it directly.

Ji Wan crushed the flax with her foot in disgust and didn't let him get up.

Hu Mazi clenched his fists angrily and struggled to get up, trying to get back on the field.

Suddenly, a square paper bag fell out of Hu Mazi's sleeve pocket.

Hu Mazi's face changed slightly, and he reached out to grab the paper bag, but the paper bag fell through the gap between his fingers and landed next to his knee on the ground.

Xie Xianhua has been paying attention to Hu Mazi.

When he saw the paper bag that suddenly appeared, falling in the blind corner of Ji Wan's line of sight, and then looking at the small movements that Hu Mazi tried to hide, his heart suddenly jumped.

"Ji Wan - quick, there is something under his feet!"

Ji Wan turned her eyes, and when she saw the paper bag, she immediately stretched out her legs, and her toes hooked flexibly.

The paper bag was suddenly drawn to Ji Wan's feet.

She bent down to pick up the paper bag, looked at Hu Mazi, whose eyes had become ugly, and slowly opened the paper bag.

The white powder was presented to everyone.

Ji Wan rubbed it lightly with her fingers, and a bitter apricot smell came.

"What is this?" Ji Wan's voice stretched into a cold line.

Hu Mazi, who didn't grab the paper bag, showed annoyance, his eyes flashed, and he said sullenly.

"It's nothing, it's flour, yes, it's flour, you give it back to me!"

"Oh?" Ji Wan hooked her lips and sneered: "Pay you back?" Okay, I should be fine if I feed you something, right? ”

Hu Mazi's face turned white.

"No, no, no, I'm mistaken, it's not flour, it's something else."

Ji Wan suppressed the anger in her heart, and between her fingers under her sleeve, a golden needle suddenly appeared, taking advantage of her unpreparedness and stabbing it.

Hu Mazi stared at the enlarged needle, startled, stared, and asked in a panic: "......What are you doing?"

Before he finished speaking, the golden needle pierced ......

Hu Mazi's expression became in a trance in vain.

Ji Wan took out a copper plate, tied it to a thin rope, pinched one end of the thin rope in her hand, and hung the copper plate in front of Hu Mazi's eyes, her wrist shook lightly.

Once, again, and again......

The copper plate, which is suspended under the string, begins to swing regularly.

Hu Mazi's eyes became even more sluggish......

"Who gave you arsenic powder?"

"Uncle Cousin."

"What did he give you arsenic powder?"

"Poison the fish in Qinglu Village, so that the fish in Qinglu Village will not be able to sell."

"How many did you poison? What is the purpose? ”

"For the time being, there is only the Qiangzi family, and the next Xie family is ...... Uncle Cousin said: It is necessary to make the people of Qinglu Village desperate, so as to force the people of Qinglu Village to hand over the magic recipe for luring fish. ”

"Your mother's despair! I'll beat you to death! ”

I don't know when I came back, and I listened to it.

He couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, and rushed over with a bang, clenched his fist the size of a sandbag, and smashed it into the face of the trance-stricken Hu Mazi.

"Bang bang bang-"

Hu Mazi was knocked down, his scattered eyes gradually focused, and his mind suddenly sobered up.

He suddenly thought that he had just said a lot of things that he shouldn't have said, and his face was suddenly shocked.

looked at the strong son who was staring at him with murderous eyes in front of him, and he was suddenly frightened, and immediately used his hands and feet together, and fled with a crawl.

Ji Wan saw that Hu Mazi did not flee to Wangshui Village, but rushed in the direction of Fentong County, and had a flash of inspiration in vain.

"Brother Qiangzi, stop chasing, let him go."

Ji Wan and Xie Xianhua spoke almost in unison.

After the two shouted, they both looked at each other in surprise, and the other party actually thought of it with themselves......

Ji Wan and Xie Xianhua smiled tacitly, and each turned their heads to look at Qiangzi.

Qiangzi spat at Hu Mazi's figure fiercely, angry: "Run faster than a rabbit." ”

He walked to the old lady and the child, and after making sure that the two were okay, he came to Xie Er, who was carrying Xie Xianhua, and reached out to pat Xie Xianhua's back.

Qiangzi's voice was loud: "Hahahaha, your kid has a big life, and he will definitely be a blessing in the future." ”

Speaking of this, Qiangzi suddenly came back to his senses and asked, "By the way, why didn't you let me chase that grandson?" I haven't had enough! ”

"Brother Qiangzi, I didn't let you chase after me, because I was worried that things would get bigger."

Qiangzi snorted, and his face was angry: "If it's big, it's big, I'm afraid he's a ghost!" ”

Xie Xianhua groaned.

"The pockmarked face ran away, Hu Qing didn't get the news, he won't be able to make another plan, and we don't have to be on guard from time to time."

"You're saying that the fish is sold first, and then the accounts are settled?" Hadron asked hesitantly.

Ji Wan agreed: "Yes, as for settling accounts." She slowly narrowed her eyes: "There will be opportunities in the future!" ”

"Wow, Dad, the fish are dead."

When the little baby saw several large tanks of fish, all of them turned white, and she immediately cried out of breath.

The old lady turned her back and silently wiped her tears with her sleeve.

Qiangzi looked at the old lady and the child so sad, thinking that the house was almost cut off, and his heart seemed to be clenched by a hand, and he couldn't breathe.

He rubbed his face back and forth with both hands, cheering up his spirits.

"It's okay, I'll borrow some food, and then I'll go outside to find some odd jobs in the next two days."

Ji Wan felt sullen and uncomfortable in her heart, if there were chili peppers, it would be fine.

There is a lot of work to make flavored dried fish, and Hadron can also do it, and when he sells dried fish, he can have a better life.

"Ji Xuan."

Ji Wan raised her eyes and looked at Xie Xianhua suspiciously: ?

Xie Xianhua looked at her, with a pair of dark eyes, and slowly smiled: "I remember, where is the chili pepper." ”