Qiao Baocai faced the Qiao ancestral hall in the sea of fire, he had to sigh helplessly, a lot of resentment and anger gathered in his heart, and when he had nowhere to vent, he thought of the mud baby, so he ordered the mud baby to be thrown into the fire without thinking.

"Slow!" Qiao Xiaojing, who was hiding in the cellar, saw it clearly, and heard it really closely, she didn't expect Qiao Baocai to have no mercy, so she would make such a ruthless move, and stood up hard, and scolded in public, "When the ancestral hall was on fire, the mud baby was being detained and marched, what does he have to do with the fire in the ancestral hall, why burn him to death?"

"You, do you have a part in talking here?" Qiao Baocai asked rhetorically.

"Since I don't have a share," Qiao Xiaojing didn't show weakness, "Then why let the villagers escort me back from the county seat? Qiaojia Village and Qiao's ancestral hall are not a certain person, nor are they a certain family, so they can't always be a word hall, they can't always be patriarchal, as a villager of Qiaojia Village and a descendant of Qiao's family, everyone has the right and responsibility to participate in it." ”

"You, what the hell do you want to say?" Qiao Baocai was so angry that his body trembled, and he spoke in a trembling voice.

"What can I do," Qiao Xiaojing took a deep breath and said, "As one of the descendants of the Qiao family, I just want to say a few fair words. That mud baby killed his mother and annihilated human nature, which is indeed a great crime, but I want to ask, he is a child, he has never had such signs before, why would he do such a rebellious thing this time? Also, Qiao's ancestral hall is in disrepair, and most of them are wooden, and they have long dried out over the years, and they may have given birth to insects, and a little spark may lead to a fire, so what should be paid attention to, fire prevention! As we all know, there has been no rain recently, the weather is dry and dry, and the incense in the ancestral hall is continuous, the wind passes through the doors and windows, lifts the curtains, and blows the lights, which is very likely to be the cause of this fire, and how can this fire be imposed on the mud baby? When the big guy heard that the ancestral hall was on fire, did the mud baby ever leave everyone's sight?

None of the people present thought that Qiao Xiaojing would say such reasonable and well-founded words, with clear thinking, rigorous logic, plain and powerful language, and complex expressions, all of them focused on Qiao Xiaojing.

"What a sharp tooth," that Qiao Baocai naturally didn't want to fall behind in front of everyone, but why did the mud baby kill his own mother Hongxing, except for the mud baby himself, he knew the reason better than anyone else, so the words changed greatly, and the previous aggressive momentum was reduced a lot, replaced by a cold tone, he said, "In my opinion, you should be the master of the village and the patriarch." ”

"Village chief," Qiao Xiaojing said, "I know that I have no talent and no virtue, and I have no intention of this, you can rest assured that as long as the people in the village support you as the village chief, then you can be as long as you want, I can't control it, and I don't want to care." However, as the head of the village, the parents and officials of our village should measure everything in their hearts, and reward the virtuous and punish the violent out of public intentions. ”

"Presumptuous!" Qiao Baocai was angry, gritted his teeth and said, "I see that you are a junior, I don't want to be like you, many times I turn a blind eye, I didn't expect you to be so ignorant, what should this village chief do with you to teach me? I don't want to think about it, the shit behind my ass has not been wiped clean, what face do you have to say in front of everyone?"

"What's the matter," Qiao Xiaojing had already seen through Qiao Baocai's tricks, he just wanted to uncover her scars, and wanted to confuse everyone and draw everyone's attention to her, so as to ignore the fate of the mud baby, and even life and death. How could she be confused at this time and fall for his evil? She said calmly, "Why are you angry, angry? As the saying goes, you don't hit people in the face, and you don't expose your shortcomings when you scold people, not to mention that you just said that you are my elder, how can you expose my shortcomings?"

Everyone didn't make a fuss this time, to be precise, there was no reaction, and they still looked at Qiao Xiaojing and Qiao Baocai silently.

"Besides," Qiao Xiaojing continued, "You just uncovered my scars, so what can you do? What does this have to do with the mud baby's sudden change of heart and angry killing of her own mother? Or is it the same sentence, before this mud baby killed Aunt Hongxing, except for being withdrawn and introverted, she had no bad habits, but she suddenly had a murderous intention towards her mother and killed her cruelly, there must be a reason. ”

"You," Qiao Xiaojing didn't leak, she had successfully put aside the topic on her, Qiao Baocai knew that he couldn't let everyone listen to Qiao Xiaojing's words alone, so it was easy for the villagers and clansmen to follow Qiao Xiaojing's thoughts, thus putting him in an increasingly passive situation, but he didn't have any more powerful counterattack, so he had to say angrily, "Do you know the reason why this mud baby killed his mother? Forget it, we don't have time to listen to your self-righteous nonsense here." ”

"I don't dare to say that I know," Qiao Xiaojing replied, "but that mud baby is here, no matter how clear others are, he doesn't know it himself, Uncle Baocai, instead of us guessing here, it's better to let him say it himself, in front of everyone, wouldn't it be better?"

"This ......" Qiao Baocai hesitated for a moment, and said far-fetchedly, "That mud baby has experienced such a major change, his mind and emotions are not normal, let him talk about this matter at this time, can he explain it clearly?

"Uncle Baocai," Qiao Xiaojing said, "I don't understand this, when Aunt Hongxing was just buried, and her bones were not cold and the earth was not safe, it was you who ordered the baby to be arrested, and it was you who wanted to find out why the mud baby was so mad that she killed his mother with her own hands, and it was you who ordered the parade along the mud baby avenue with the purpose of educating the villagers and winning people's hearts." But now, you treat the mud baby like this, and you don't care about it, and you want to throw it into the fire and burn it to death, what the hell is this asking?"

"Don't say anything else," Qiao Baocai said, "Just killing his own mother is light, even if he is cut by a thousand knives, it can't calm the hatred in the hearts of the villagers when he goes up the knife mountain and down the sea of fire, what's wrong with me throwing him into the sea of fire, can't it?"

"Hmph," Qiao Xiaojing reprimanded, "What kind of theory do you have, what kind of royal law do you have? He might as well kill his own mother, and you are highly respected, as the head of a village in Qiaojia Village and the patriarch of the Qiao clan, but you want to return a tooth for a tooth, use the same means as him, and even kill him with even more cruel means than him, who is more cruel between you and him?"

"You ......" Qiao Baocai was so angry that he couldn't stand a little unsteadily, he swayed, pointed at Qiao Xiaojing fiercely with his cane, and roared angrily, "I kind of understand, you are because you were arrested a few days ago, you followed the clan rules, and you are angry, so you have tonight's vicious words and aggressiveness." Come, take down this disrespectful and rebellious man. ”

Hearing Qiao Baocai's order, only a few villagers took two steps forward, and when they saw that the others were still standing in place, they also stopped, and looked at the other villagers, Qiao Baocai and Qiao Xiaojing, and didn't know what to do for a while.

"You want to arrest me?" Qiao Xiaojing said, "Now that the ancestral hall that weighed on us has been turned into ashes, and the tool you used to suppress everyone in the name of your ancestors has become a handful of dust, I don't know where Patriarch Qiao plans to arrest me, does he also want to throw me into the fire and burn me to death? I really don't understand, why can't the villagers say a word from their hearts in this Qiaojia Village?" That mud baby was obviously stimulated by some kind and lost control of his emotions, so he killed his own mother by mistake, we should give him a chance to mend his ways, after all, he is still an ignorant child. My biological father died prematurely, and as a descendant of the Qiao family, I was adrift and humiliated, and I should have been loved and cared for by my uncle and brother, but now I am going to die because I told a few truths......"

When Qiao Xiaojing said this, her feelings were sincere and sad, and she actually shed tears.

When everyone saw Qiao Xiaojing's scene, they all felt heavy, and they sighed one after another.

"Could it be," Qiao Baocai has clearly realized that people's hearts are scattered, at least at this moment, in the face of this situation, he is exhausted, and he can no longer control the whole situation, and said lightly, "In your opinion, that mud baby killed his own mother, and the village should treat it as if nothing happened, and let it go unpunished?"

"Uncle Baocai," Qiao Xiaojing said, "that's what you mean. My meaning is simple, either ask him why he was murderous at that time, and brutally kill his mother, and demarcate the punishment scale according to the facts; or let him live in the worst environment, it is easy to die, but it is even more difficult to live with guilt and self-blame, as for why he is murderous, don't pay attention to it, as long as he can reflect and reflect, reform himself, and finally make meritorious contributions to benefit Sangzi, why don't we give our children this opportunity?"

"Okay," someone suddenly shouted, everyone looked at the voice, and surprisingly, this person turned out to be Qiao Shuangxi, the son of the village chief, he stepped forward and said unhurriedly, "Xiaojing said well, Aunt Hongxing is dead, people can't be resurrected after death, the mud baby just killed people by mistake, the crime is extremely evil, but the crime is not to death, not to mention that he is still a child." We should give him a chance to be reborn, that is, the person who was killed, Aunt Hongxing, she knows everything, and she definitely doesn't want the mud baby to be lost. ”

Qiao Baocai saw that his son was on the opposite side, he was angry and angry, gritted his teeth and reprimanded: "Get back for me!"

"I'm not leaving. Qiao Shuangxi glanced at Qiao Baocai, and then said, "Any punishment is not to put the wrongdoer to death, but to make them confess their sins and repent, and finally become good people." Some of the people present have children, and some will soon have children, if this mud baby is your child, I ask you, who can bear to put to death the child who has committed his mistakes?"

The crowd was dumbfounded, and Qiao Xiaojing looked at Qiao Shuangxi and nodded sincerely.

"I, I can't control you, you guys, go, go, go, leave Qiaojia Village, don't come back......" Qiao Baocai roared angrily, and there was no lack of desolation in his roar.