Chapter 123: Eavesdropping

"Wang, Brother Wang, Brother Xu, you two are looking for me, what are you looking for me, what are you looking for?"

"Li Gouyu, you are so bold, you took our master's money but didn't do anything, do you know the consequences?"

Shen Shuang saw from a distance that the two of them pushed a tall and thin man with a hunched waist to the ground, and stepped on his heart with their feet, she couldn't help but hear the name Li Gouyu.

A relatively famous second-rate son in Xishan Village is named Li Gouyu.

She had heard her grandmother say that it was some petty theft that Li Gou did all day long, either stealing this family's vegetables or stealing that family's firewood, and even stole other people's dried vegetables to dry at home and take them back to make soup, but he never dared to steal some rare things such as chickens, ducks and even eggs, for fear of being beaten.

Because they are all villagers, he also has a sixty or seventy-year-old mother at home, and the villagers beat him up because they couldn't stand his behavior before, and the village chief came forward to intercede, but then he really didn't see him stealing again.

A few days ago, she also heard her grandmother chattering at home, saying that this Li dog was left to help open up the wasteland at Wang Yuanwai's house in the east village of the next village, and he could earn ten cents a day and take care of food, and even wanted her father to go over, but because it was about to be the spring ploughing season, her father stopped her, and her father did not pass.

Shen Shuang didn't have much interest in these things, but this Li Gouyu's name was really special, and her father was involved, so she also listened to it, but she didn't expect to meet the main owner today.

She didn't want to eavesdrop on others, but at this time, she hid in the grass and could only wait for them to leave.

Li Gou was timid, and he was so scared that he was trampled on the ground, "Brother Wang, I, I'm afraid." ”

The man who was called Brother Wang sneered, and kicked him in the heart again, "Li Gouyu, do you know that you are afraid?" Then how did you run faster than a rabbit when you took our master's ten taels of silver? I heard you have a sick old lady at home? If you don't hurry up with the money, don't blame us for going to your wife. ”

Hearing this, Li Gouyu hurriedly turned over and pulled the legs of the two of them and begged for mercy, "Don't, Brother Wang, my mother is not in good health, you must not go to her, I, I will do it in two days." ”

When she heard this, Shen Shuang found that the two of them deliberately lowered their voices, and the grass where the three of them were hiding was a little far away from them, so she couldn't hear what they were talking about, but she knew at a glance that what they were discussing was not a good thing.

Here, the two of them stared at Li Gouyu on the ground, they had always been cautious, although there was no one nearby at night, they didn't dare to speak loudly, "Two more days?" In two days, the Hu merchant will come to collect the fish, and if the fish that harms our master can't be sold, see if I don't chop off your hand, and we will burn your broken house, do you believe it or not? ”

Li Gou said bitterly, "Recently, Liu Dazhuang was afraid that the fish would be stolen, so he guarded the stream and pool every night, and I really couldn't do it." ”

Another man who had been silent said, "Then go drugged during the day, you second-rate people who wander around, who will take care of you?" ”

"That's not possible, the women in the village are cutting pigweed nearby during the day, in case they see me, what should I do if I am arrested and sent to the official when the time comes?"

"Don't talk nonsense, if you don't do it, we'll chop off your hand tomorrow, you remember it."

The two of them threatened Li Gouyu and turned to leave, and after they walked away, Li Gouyu stood up and spat in the direction they left, Shen Shuang heard him scolding and walked away, and then walked out with the hill and stone that had been obediently waiting, and the little wolf cub on the side screamed aggrievedly in vain, pulling Shen Shuang's shoes and begging for a hug.

Shen Shuang squatted for a long time, and she was a little tired at this time, but when she heard the voice of this little thing, she was suddenly glad that it didn't make a sound obediently, otherwise they would definitely be discovered, so she didn't refuse to be coquettish in vain, bent over to pick it up, and the stone on the side stretched her neck and said in surprise, "Sister Xiaoshuang, the white eyes are green, why are they green?" It still glows, and I heard my eldest brother say that the eyes of wolves will glow. ”

Xiaoshan was also very curious, just now the two of them had been staring at the white eyes and were in a trance.

Shen Shuang slowly led the two of them back, "It's a wolf in vain, didn't I tell you?" ”

Stone was shocked, "Wolf? But Sister Xiaoshuang, didn't you say that you are a puppy in vain? ”

Shen Shuang didn't remember what she said, but she denied it directly, "I didn't say it." ”

The stone scratched his head a little confused, but he was a little scared, "Will it eat people for nothing?" ”

Xiaoshan followed the footsteps of the two of them slowly, thinking that his family would not eat people in vain.

Shen Shuang didn't want to deal with him, she wondered if the three of them wanted to do anything bad just now, but she didn't think much about it, the three of them arrived home a little late, and they ran into Shen Musheng, who had not come back and was about to go out to find them, "Dad, where are you going?" ”

Shen Musheng breathed a sigh of relief, "Xiaoshuang? Where are you guys? It's getting dark, I'm going to look for you, don't go out when it's dark. ”

Just now, Shen Shuang had already told Shi not to say anything about encountering Li Gouyu, the three of them were obviously conspiring to do bad things, if they found out that they were eavesdropped, maybe they would cause some trouble, at this time she smiled, "Let's go around here, Dad, go back." ”

Shen Musheng didn't suspect it, so he led the three of them back, but when he turned his head, he just found white and green glowing eyes, he looked at it in surprise, but Bai Bai had already closed his eyes and slept, so he didn't think much about it.

The whole Xishan Village fell into a deep sleep, and in the dead of night, Li Gouyu sneaked out of the house, walked into a small bush near his home, and when he got in and came out, he carried a sack on his shoulder, which contained rat medicine.

His destination was a large stream pond in the village where fish were raised, or more like a stream lake.

The reason why Li Gouyu didn't act was also timid, if he didn't owe money in the gambling house in the town and needed to pay it back, and he would not have to be chopped off, he didn't dare to take on such a hurtful job, Village Chief Liu was kind to him, but he really couldn't help it.

He also knows why Wang Yuanwai has to do such a thing, Xishan Village Chief Liu Jia's family dug out a big lake for fish farming a few years ago, there are many fish fry in the lake, the Liu family has made a lot of money in the past few years by relying on this big lake, not only built several green brick houses, but also opened a shop in the town to do business, I don't know how many people are red, Wang Yuanwai, who is mainly engaged in fields and livelihoods in Dongbian Village, is one of them.

After hearing about this, he also learned to dig a big pond, but the geographical location of Dongbian Village is not as good as that of Xishan Village, the water in the pond is stagnant, and the fish raised are naturally not as good as the fish in the big lake of the Liu family, which is injected with new stream water every day.

But Village Chief Liu and his father and third uncle are highly respected figures in the village, and in recent years, the villagers have bought lake fish at Liu's house very cheaply, and the villagers have slowly accepted this fact.

Walking towards the lake, Li Gouyu became more and more cautious, the reason why Wang Yuanwai was eyeing him was also because he lacked silver, and his movements were neat, at this time he was hunched over, carrying a sack of rat medicine on his shoulder, approaching the lake like a cat, but this side has a wide field of vision, even if it is quiet in the dead of night, there are also people in the shed specially built by Liu Dazhuang, the son of the head of Liu Village by the lake, in order to guard the fish, he thought about it, in case he was discovered, he would definitely be sent to see the official.

Li Gouyu had always had a lot of ideas, he heard the sound of gurgling water from the lake in the dead of night, and by the faint light of the moon in the sky, he did not approach the big lake again, but slowly walked up a small stream that filled the lake with water.

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The sky is exposed to the white of the fish's belly, and Xishan Village has also woken up from its deep sleep, and the chimneys of every house are rising with curling smoke, looking at a sense of tranquility.

The old Shen family's breakfast was vegetarian dumplings, each person divided eight dumplings, of course, with wowotou, today is sorghum wowotou, Shen Shuang is really not used to the taste of sorghum, so she gave her two wowotou to her father to eat.

After breakfast, the Shen family began to prepare to go to the peach forest to pick peach gum, everyone was carrying a basket, and they were still going out in batches, Shen Shuang felt very boring, she picked a day's peach gum yesterday, and she just wanted to stay at home and make something delicious, but she had to be forced to open for business, and she was in a very bad mood.

When she followed her father and mother out, her expression was also a little sad, but halfway through, she saw many people standing by the big lake not far away, grandma and people in the second room who went out earlier than them were watching something over there, Shen Shuang could still hear crying, Xu and Shen Musheng glanced at each other, and hurriedly took their two children to check the situation.

Shen Shuang knew about this big lake, which she only found out when she followed her father and mother out yesterday by copying this path, and also learned that this lake was not a natural formation, but a lake dug by Village Chief Liu's family to raise fish, and the water in the lake was formed by the water flowing down the mountain stream.

It's just that she never expected that the whole lake would be floating on the surface of the lake today, with dead fish rolling their eyes and stomachs!

It was Village Chief Liu's family who was crying over there, and Xu saw Xiao Wan, who was gossiping and gossiping at this moment, and hurriedly walked over to ask about the situation, "Second brother and sister, what's going on?" Why are all the fish in this lake dead? ”

Xiao Wan's picking peach gum to make money has long been overshadowed by her gossip heart, she is the most advocating gossip and lazy person, at this time she heard Xu's words, seeing the stunned look of this family of four, seized this opportunity to gossip on people, and spitted at them.

"Big brother and sister-in-law, all the fish raised in the lake of Village Chief Liu's house have been poisoned, just now Dr. Sun came to take a look, saying that the fish in this lake have been given a lot of rat drugs, and they are evil, Village Chief Liu's family said a few days ago that her fish can be sold to Hu Shang in a few days, this time I really didn't catch anything, poor yo."

Wretched? Shen Shuang felt speechless when she heard it, this tone sounded like it was full of schadenfreude, she didn't hear the slightest sympathy, and then the next second she heard Xiao Wanshi say, "These fish look so delicious, I don't know if there are any who are not dead, sister-in-law, otherwise let's take them back and cook them?" ”

Doctor Sun on the side must have heard Xiao Wan's sharp voice, and couldn't help but come over with a straight face, "Born locally, this fish is poisoned and can't be eaten." ”

Old man Shen and Wan Shi were also on the side, but when they saw that Xiao Wan was embarrassed again, they hurriedly rushed her to work.