After dinner, the maiden sat under the eaves for a while as usual and went to rest.

I don't know how long it took, Mu Jiu was woken up by Xiao Mao's whining voice.

After getting along with Xiao Mao for a while, although I couldn't understand what its wolf howl meant, I could hear its general emotions.

What is Xiao Mao warning about, or is it a person?

Mu Jiu listened carefully, it was the footsteps of human beings, approaching in the direction of their house.

Quietly got up, felt for the door, and picked up the stick she had placed in the doorway.

Fortunately, when I moved in, I was worried about being unsafe, so I put three arm-thick sticks at the door and never moved.

Mu Jiu held his breath and made up his mind that no matter who it was, as long as he came in, he would give the other party a stick first.

Those who came to their house in the middle of the night were definitely not good people!

Sure enough, there was movement at the door.

The steps are very light, but not the kind of flexible lightness, more like the lack of strength caused by physical weakness.

A person immediately came to Mu Jiu's mind.

Mu Qiaoyong?

What is he doing here at this time?

Even if it's him, he dares to break in and take care of it.

There was a waning moon hanging in the sky, and the faint moonlight shone through the leaks in the thatched roof.

A blunt knife reached in, flicking the deadbolt bit by bit.

Mu Jiu gritted his teeth, he really wanted to pry Mu Qiaoyong's head open and see what was inside!

What's the deal, he actually hurt his wife and children like this!

Mu Qiaoyong was reminded by Zhang Cuihua to calculate the time, everyone was asleep at this time, in case something happened, no one could come as soon as possible, if he could have something happen to Li Xiaotao, maybe Li Xiaotao would change his mind and return to him again.

Mu Qiaoyong's movements were very soft, and he finally opened the deadbolt a little bit, and Mu Jiu gently pushed it back.

Every time she pushed the deadbolt, she chose to do it when Xiao Mao whined, and her movements were very light, and after repeating it several times, Mu Qiaoyong didn't find anyone behind the door.

After going back and forth, it took half an hour, but he couldn't successfully open Mu Jiu's door, Mu Qiaoyong's temper exploded, he raised his foot, and he didn't know where he got the strength, or the door of Aunt Jiu's house was too fragile, so he only took one foot to replace it, and the thin door panel fell in response and fell to the ground.

Mu Jiu was glad that she hid quickly, otherwise the door panel would have smashed on her, and after standing still, he raised the stick with all his strength and slammed it towards Mu Qiaoyong, and shouted at the same time, "Someone! Thieves are coming! ”

With such a big movement, Li Xiaotao and Mu Hongli were also woken up, and hurriedly groped for their coats and put them on.

Although the people of Mujia Village are a little indifferent and do not contribute to the affairs of other people's families, when it comes to thieves, they will definitely actively unite.

If there is a thief in the village, the tax will be raised, and this harsh system makes no one dare to report even if there is a thief in the village.

Therefore, if the thief is caught, he will deal with it by himself, and if he is tied up in the sinking pond, it cannot be expanded outside the village, so as not to retaliate and report to people from other villages, be found out, and increase taxes even more.

Therefore, the villagers' hatred for thieves is no less than the hatred of killing relatives.

I heard that there was a thief, so why not?

The man in the neighborhood casually pulled on a coat and went out.

"Where is the thief? Call me! ”

"We must not let him run away! Outrageous! ”

didn't give Mu Qiaoyong a chance to explain, and the stick smashed down on his head and face.

Mu Qiaoyong's painful face was distorted, and he didn't know how long he had been beaten, the smell of blood was in the air, and everyone had no intention of stopping.

Mu Jiu just wanted to teach Mu Qiaoyong a lesson, and didn't want to cause trouble, so he shouted, "Let's see who it is first, and then send people to Lizheng!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes! If it is from another village, send it to the officials and let them pay attention to our village, and if it is from this village, send it to Lizheng and drive him out of our Mujia Village! ”

"We have never had thieves in Mujia Village, if there is really such a person, don't drive out of the village and be embarrassed, just sink into the pond!"

"Support, if you do something that harms a villager, you have to pay the price!"

"Kill the chickens and make an example of the monkeys!"

Everyone stopped beating excitedly, and Mu Jiu took out a rosin and lit it, shining close to Mu Qiaoyong's face, and then exclaimed, almost throwing out the rosin in his hand, "Oh my God! How are you! Tell me what you're trying to do to us! ”

Mu Qiaoyong finally took a deep breath, "I'm your father, I should be here." ”

Mu Jiuxin's words are strange!

Three watches in the middle of the night? In the past, when they were so poor that they didn't have a grain of rice, where was your so-called cheap father, and I didn't see you "should" appear!

Mu Jiu tried to calm down his emotions, and his tone was as calm as possible, "We have severed the relationship, you have divorced my mother, and now you are not qualified to appear here." ”

Mu Hongli blocked in front of Mu Jiu with a serious face, and then his dark eyes cooled down, and he faced Mu Qiaoyong, "You are really ruthless!" ”

"You ruthlessly abandoned me first!" Mu Qiaoyong yelled with all his strength, "You mothers don't want me!" ”

Mu Jiu smiled angrily, this unreasonable appearance was carved out of the same mold as Mrs. Mu.

"Mu Qiaoyong, you said we don't want you, but when are you going to have our mother? When did grandma get angry, didn't you hit us indiscriminately, and when did you ask me why? When have you ever believed me?

It's understandable that I'm a daughter, but what about Manulife? Have you thought about the future for him? Have you ever treated him as a son? Have you ever protected him? Have you ever thought that our hearts are also made of flesh, and they will be hurt! ”

Mu Jiu knew that the relationship had been broken, so there was no need to say so much to such a scumbag, let alone grievances and accusations.

But he couldn't help but shout out the original owner's grievances for many years, the whole person was relaxed, and when he saw him in the future, he could really be a stranger.

Mu Jiu waved his hand, "Let's go, don't come back in the future, Mu Xiucai loves face so much, you smear him like this, be careful to go back and beat you." ”

Mu Jiu didn't pursue it, and the others wouldn't be stupid enough to give Mu Qiaoyong an a charge of stealing, and they yawned and dispersed.

Mu Jiu glanced at the person who came, "Fourth Uncle Lin, can you please help me send him back?" ”

Lin Laosi ordered another man from the Lin family, and the two of them helped Mu Qiaoyong and threw him in front of Mu Rongguang's door.

It was late autumn, and the temperature difference between day and night was very large, so it was so hot during the day that it was too hot to wear only one piece of clothing, and it was so cold at night that it was cold when wearing a thick coat.

Mu Qiaoyong was beaten and his face was swollen, and he returned home crying and sad, not daring to alarm others, so he went back to the thatched hut in his backyard and fell asleep.

I slept in a daze, and the next morning I had a fever and couldn't get out of bed.

But no one noticed him, and even, until the evening, Mu Rongguang didn't see Mu Qiaoyong, and then he realized that he hadn't seen Mu Qiaoyong all day.

When I found him in the room after searching for a long time, he still had a low-grade fever, was covered in wounds, and had blood all over his face.

"Second child, why are you injured?" Mu Rongguang was shocked, it couldn't be that last night's incident was revealed, he was beaten!

Mu Qiaoyong was weak, he looked like he was more than ten years old, his mouth was dry to cracking, and his blood beads had coagulated, like the land that had been dry for many years, and he had been sunburned to the ground.

Mu Qiaoyong licked his dry lips, "Dad, I couldn't help you complete the task." ”

Mu Rongguang was about to scold useless things, but after thinking about it, it was better to coax it first, and slapped his big 1 leg, "Silly second, you take care of your injuries first, no one can hire someone to harvest rice, your health is the most important thing!" ”

Mu Rongguang said this, but he had already begun to think in his heart, whether to give Mu Qiaoyong treatment, give it, it will cost a lot of silver, if you don't give it, Mu Qiaoyong is estimated to die.

If he dies, he dies, and it's not his son anyway, but after he dies, no one does the work at home, and he asks for money!

Give Mu Qiao Yongzhi, can the work he does in the future be worth these treatment fees?

If not, don't waste money on him.

Mu Rongguang thought so, "I'll help you get a doctor, and you can lie down for a while." ”

Out of the backyard, Mu Rongguang did not go in the direction of Lin Langzhong, but went to Mrs. Mu and told the old woman about the matter.

Mrs. Mu deliberately took Qiao, "What, now that I know that I came to ask me, why did I go earlier." ”

"If you don't say it, get out of my house if you don't say it!" The more Mu Rongguang looked at Mrs. Mu, the more he hated it, and he didn't have a good voice.

Mrs. Mu was stunned, "According to me, first ask a doctor to show him, if the medical expenses are not high, we will treat it, if it is very high and difficult to treat, we will return him to Mu Jiu, how to cut off that she is also your daughter, dare not be filial piety at the bedside, we will go everywhere to talk about her!" ”

Mu Rongguang agreed with Mrs. Mu's idea, "It's late today, and I'll go tomorrow?" ”

As for whether Mu Qiaoyong will die in the backyard, that is his fate.

I have to say that Mu Qiaoyong's life is really big, he didn't burn him to death for two nights, he didn't burn stupidly, and on the third day, he could follow Mu Rongguang obediently and go to the town.

It was Dr. Chen who treated him, and the cost of medicine was not less, it was all some skin trauma, which could be cured, but it cost twenty taels of silver.

Twenty taels of silver, Mu Qiaoyong worked for a year, planted the fields well, and the extra grain was worth it back when he sold it.

When he went back, Mu Rongguang coaxed a lot of words.

"Second child, you can't be so stupid in the future, if you are sick, go tell your father, and your father will send you early."

"Doctor Chen said that you have a lot of injuries on your body, why did you say that Mu Jiu's dead girl's heart is so hard, you are her father anyway, and you will break off the relationship.

No matter how much she is broken, she is still your daughter, and you can't call someone to beat you, you are also an honest person, why didn't you run away at that time!

Hey, how could there be such a ruthless daughter, if I had known that she would be like this when she grew up, I would have strangled her first! lest she come against you. ”

All Mu Qiaoyong's grievances after being injured were stimulated by Mu Rongguang's scourge one sentence after another.

I had a vague thought in my heart.

……

After that night, the Mu family stopped.

was reluctant to hire someone to work, so he let Zhang Cuihua and Zhang Xiuxiu go on top.

After a few days, Zhang Cuihua was sunburned and shed a layer of skin, especially Zhang Xiuxiu, who was still pregnant with a small one.