Chapter 41: Man and Jackal

At this moment, a shout came from behind the crowd:

"Luofu Mountain, you still have to be shameless!"

Everyone looked back, and it turned out to be the granddaughter of the witch mother, that is, Luo Xiuxiu. hurriedly got out of the way, only to hear Luo Xiuxiu scolding: "Luofu Mountain! You wanted to get drunk Xu Qing that day, but you were drunk. Mistook your own business, but put the blame on him, are you still not a man? ”

"Xiuxiu, I'm ......" Luo Fushan hurriedly explained, but Luo Xiuxiu shook his head and ignored it.

The witch mother beckoned: "Xiuxiu is here, come to me."

Xiuxiu jumped over like a deer, punched Xu Qing, and then hugged the witch mother and said: "(Witch mother), you know, Luofu Mountain likes to bully guests, and it's no wonder that others are drinking and making mistakes."

That punch was seen by Luo Fushan, which made him feel aggrieved again.

At this moment, everyone also remembered Luo Fushan's temperament, and suddenly said: "Fushan Guy, you talk about it, you tell me, what is this called!"

The old man before snorted and said, "Xiuxiu, why are you turning your elbow out?"

Who knew that Xiuxiu raised her eyebrows upside down, and said, "Who is your family!"

The old man snorted coldly again and smiled: "Not now, sooner or later it will be ......"

Xiuxiu was so angry that she couldn't do it: "You!"

The aunt witch mother came out and stopped the two of them: "Okay, okay, now is not the time to talk about this!"

In this way, the two people quarreled in vain, and the surrounding villagers were also divided into two factions, on the one hand, they wanted to cure Xu Qing's demagogic crime, because he would not be guilty if he did not come to Luofu Mountain. On the one hand, they think that Luofu Mountain should be punished, and Xu Qing is innocent.

Someone pointed to the gang of people who wanted to punish Luofu Mountain: "Hmph, you people, aren't you also bewitched by this kid!"

The gang retorted: "The sky is above, the witch mother is here, bewitched or not, don't you say it!"

"Okay...... the witch mother knocked on her crutches and asked Xu Qingdao, "They said you stole chickens last night, what evidence do you have to prove that you are not?"

"I still say the same thing, there is no physical evidence, and no one has seen it, so I can be convicted of stealing based on speculation." Xu Qingdao: "Besides, I slept in the house last night, can I still be separated!"

"Ho, who can prove that you were in the house last night?"

"This," Xu Qing was speechless for a while, who can prove this, only his wife can prove it at night, but what's the use? No one believes me.

"Look......" The old man caught Xu Qing's expression treacherously, and immediately said: "It's true that Fushan is drunk, and he should be punished, but this drunkenness was planned by someone else, and Fushan is forgiven for not being deeply involved in the world." And this chicken thief, the one who plots, is right in front of him! ”

Again, the crowd targeted Xu Qing, but there were still people who spoke for Xu Qing: "He gave all the money, and it didn't matter, the chicken was sold in the market, and it may not be able to sell at a good price!" ”

Someone immediately ridiculed: "You old man, the size of a grain of rice, you don't know how big a group of chickens will be in a few years!"

Xu Qingxin said, it's over, it's time to use violent means today, otherwise according to his theory of chicken and egg, the general will become a slave in this small mountain village today.

When Xu Qing was at a loss. Xiuxiu suddenly said: "I can testify!" ”

"Oh?"

Everyone looked at her with puzzled eyes.

Xiuxiu rubbed her hands and said, "I couldn't sleep for a long time last night, so I came out to watch the snow, and I didn't sleep until the fourth watch." I was standing there and could hear him snoring, so I could prove he didn't come out at night. ”

In fact, she not only listened to the snoring last night, but also walked into Xu Qing's room to see him and the three girls sleeping together. It's just that Xu Qing slept to death and didn't find out, but she didn't know that Huang Shimei noticed her move.

Everyone understood it, and I obviously believed Xiuxiu's words. But Xu Qing didn't steal chickens, and what he said was reasonable if there were no chicken feathers, so he fell into doubt.

Xu Qing saw that Luo Xiuxiu's words convinced everyone, and couldn't help but glance at her gratefully, and sure enough, she was returned with a white eye.

Just when everyone sighed, a person ran over and said, "Witch Mother, it's terrible, it's terrible, Daddy Luobu saw someone selling chickens at the mouth of the market, and all the chickens sold were killed with a knife!" ”

The man spoke hoarsely, and when the people heard this, they were furious and asked, "Who is it?" ”

The man took a breath and said, "Daddy Luobu said that they are snails......"

"Snail talk!" When everyone heard this, they were even more furious, and scolded for a while with some words that Xu Qing didn't understand. Then the witch mother looked at Xu Qing seriously and asked Xiuxiu to take him away, and then how to deal with the case of stealing chickens, he had no chance to know. But it's certain that it doesn't seem to have anything to do with him, and the thirty dollars won't be returned.

"Miss Xiu, why do you want us to go away?"

"Alas, you don't know, our snail clan is not peaceful."

"What do you mean by that," Xu Qing asked, and Xiuxiu came one by one.

It turned out that there were more than 10,000 people in the Luo tribe, living in a lower county called Luo. Because the county governor is a Han Chinese, he will not let these more than 10,000 Luo people unite, plus for various other reasons, the Luo people are amiable on the surface, but they are still fighting openly and secretly in private.

This Luo County is a small place, which leads to the competition between villages and villages for water and land, and in order to avoid bloodshed, each village has a top organization.

Each village has a witch mother and the village elder, the witch mother is inherited from above, the inheritance system, the village elder is selected by the most populous group in the village to serve as an outstanding man. Xiuxiu is the next witch mother, and the next village elder, if nothing else, should be Luofu Mountain. Therefore, someone just said that Xiuxiu is his family.

The witch mother presides over the daily affairs of the village, and is both the village chief and the village clinic, as well as the faith of the village.

The village elders are away all the year round, and they form a council with other village elders and the like to coordinate the contradictions in each village. But in the parliament, they also speak by strength, and some of the people in the village have a lot of strength, and what they say has weight.

There are few people in Luoxiuxiu, and it is only the last class. Therefore, after learning that it was the same clan that stole chickens just now, the witch mother broke Xu Qing and went to do everyone's work. It's nothing more than asking everyone to bear with it first and find out who the other party is. If it is not Dazhai, Luotou Village can also unite a few relatives to make a fuss, if it is Dazhai, if there is no death certificate, it may be over.

Such a layer-by-layer relationship here, Xu Qing was dizzy when he heard it, and he only came to one conclusion, it seems that the council formed by the village elder has the power to seize life and death, and the corner of "Zhixian" that appeared at the beginning of Xiuxiu's words seems to have no effect.

So Xu Qing asked: "Miss Xiu, they used lynching, don't the county government care?" ”

Luo Xiuxiu looked at Xu Qing like a fool: "Have you ever seen the county master who is in charge of these things?" ”

Xu Qing snorted for a moment and returned: "See, I've seen ......"

Luo Xiuxiu glanced at Xu Qingdao suspiciously: "That's weird, in addition to collecting grain and paying taxes, our county lord only sent errands out when Latin was in service, and I can't see it on weekdays." ”

Xu Qing scratched his head and thought of one word - Tuguan, the older fraternal nations will have similar self. Govern. The district exists and is in charge of taxation and criminal law, but there is not necessarily a small clan like the Luo tribe.

Xiuxiu suddenly proposed: "Okay, okay, let's not talk about that, let's go and play with Luobu's father, shall we?" ”

Xu Qing asked, "Daddy Luobu?" ”

Xiuxiu snorted lightly: "Yes, you were on the boat with me that day, don't tell me you don't remember?" ”

Xu Qing suddenly said: "Oh, I remember remembering." After saying that, I looked around, and the snow was still falling, much smaller, but I still couldn't go without a carriage.

If you walk in a white curtain and you peel back a row of white curtains, you will see a house standing in the wilderness. The thatched hut is not broken, fireworks are raised, and in this snow, there is undoubtedly more warmth.

"(Snail) Luobu Daddy?" Miss Xiu knocked on the door and called, "Daddy Luobu, open the door?" ”

"(Luo) Xiuxiu is here, what do you want to eat today......" Luobu's father opened the door and saw Xu Qing, and his speech was immediately sluggish.

"Daddy Luobu is a fisherman, and there are often wooden drums and small fish like green leather strips at home, and he often skewers them and roasts them for me to eat." Xiuxiu smiled so much that the crescent moon bent to explain to Xu Qing, and then said to Luobu Daddy: "(Luo) Luobu Daddy, this Han man is not bad, he knows that last night's chicken was stolen by someone." ”

When Daddy Luobu heard this, he let Xu Qing in, silently added firewood to the stove, and then set up the fish to roast. Today's grilled crucian carp is long, palm-wide, with only some salt, and it is golden but not a little burnt.

The first one was naturally eaten by Xiuxiu, and Daddy Luobu picked up another one to roast.

Father Luobu asked, "(Luo) Xiuxiu, what happened to stealing chickens last night?" ”

Luo Xiuxiu smiled and said, "Thanks to the news from Daddy Luobu, otherwise this Han man would have been killed......

Father Luobu shook his head and said, "I also saw it in the morning when I was selling fish, but I didn't dare to catch it." ”

Xu Qing could only understand Xiuxiu's words, and was in a state of semi-confusion.

Father Luobu sighed, turned the fish over and said, "It's a trivial matter that the (snail) chicken is lost, but I see that many houses have fallen in the village, and this is a big thing." ”

Xu Qing didn't want to be dumb, whether he understood it or not, he nodded and said, "Well......"

Xiuxiu asked strangely, "What are you doing?" Got it? ”

Xu Qing said truthfully: "I didn't understand ......"

"Hehe......" Luo Xiuxiu smiled and said, "Xu Qing, your name is Xu Qing, right?" Just now, Luobu's father said that the collapse of the house in the village is a big deal, didn't your little sister say that you know astronomy and geography, come up with an idea! ”

Xu Qing groaned for a moment, remembered his experience in Luonan, and said: "The house collapsed because there was no repair. There is no maintenance either because I am busy or because I am lazy, because I am lazy and I don't know what to do. Because they are busy, there is only one way to reduce taxes and reduce labor. ”

Xiuxiu looked at Xu Qingdao like a fool again: "Tax reduction and less service? How is that possible? This tax is getting heavier and heavier every year, and some Luo people have fled to the mountains to hide the tax. ”

Xu Qing was greatly surprised when he heard this, in order to appease the people's hearts and stabilize the place, the ancient imperial court had two strategies for fraternal nations, one was to divide and assimilate, and the other was to reduce and exempt servitude. He is still like this, not to mention the lake is wide.

How many years has it been since Huguang was reunified?

It stands to reason that the newly annexed land will reduce taxes for three years to win the hearts of the people, why is this Luo County a tax increase?

Xu Qing asked: "What about the other villages, such as the big villages you mentioned, there are many of them, isn't it more sad?" ”

Xiuxiu was stunned for a moment before saying, "It's strange to say, somehow, they look much better." ”

Father Luobu coughed twice and handed the fish to Xu Qing.