Chapter 11: Greed
Sanwei Town, at the mouth of the tributaries of the Wei River, is divided into three villages: Weidong, Weixi and Weinan. There are floods here every year, although the land is fertile but the population is small, and it is 6,000 miles away from Ping'an Town.
Qingqing came to the courtyard of Du's house in Weidong Village, attached to the jujube tree in the courtyard and looked at familiar people.
"Come, it's time to eat, let's dip Miss Qingqing's light today, and each person will have a bowl of white noodles. I wish Miss Qingqing good health and a long life. Mama Du's family of four in the low stove room, all smiled and said wishing Miss Qingqing good health and a long life, after a hundred years old, she picked up a bowl of noodles in front of her and stood by the stove to eat, a bowl of black pickles on the stove, and from time to time to clip a chopstick.
Today is Qingqing's birthday, and it is also the day when Mama Du picked up Qingqing eight years ago, in the past, Du Niangzi would make a bowl of longevity noodles on Qingqing's birthday, and Du Niangzi didn't mention it yesterday, Qingqing was a little sad when she thought of this.
The four of them were all wearing patched clothes, Grandpa Du's left leg was slightly bent, and Uncle Du and Second Uncle were injured on one arm and one on the back. Every windy and rainy day, the injuries of the three of them are very painful, and the work in the field has to be done by Mama Du alone.
When Qingqing took away all the things in Du Mansion in a fit of anger, causing Du Mansion to be taboo and unable to sell, Du Mama took her husband and son to this village after selling the house and land in the village, and she returned the deed of Du Mansion to Du Niangzi before leaving.
The guilty Qingqing secretly stuffed some applicable medicinal herbs into Mama Du's baggage, as well as a set of silver collars, silver locks, and silver anklets. The three of them are now back like this, which is much better than the doctor's diagnosis.
In the past few years, Qingqing has also visited Mama Du like this, and every time she sees their family living in poverty and happiness.
Well, it is fate to gather and disperse, and you have to go through seven lifetimes of cultivation, so it is important to cultivate as soon as possible. Qingqing was about to retreat, when he suddenly saw a group of people in the distance clamoring with sticks and hoes.
There were more than 20 men, women and children, and as soon as they came in, they pushed the Du family to a corner of the courtyard without saying a word, leaving five people to watch it firmly, and the others began to smash it, and after smashing the house, they went to the stove room and the small warehouse room. The four members of the Du family were gagged and pressed to the ground, Du Lao Du was kicked and beaten by three people, and suddenly a woman's scream sounded, only to see a woman being kicked out of the stove room, and then four or five men were thrown directly from the stove room to the outside yard, and the sudden change made everyone stunned.
Qingqing came out of the stove room, glanced at Mama Du and the others who were completely beaten down, and "let people go" Qingqing pointed to an old woman and said.
The old woman was silent, but the arresters had already retreated to the gate of the courtyard. Qingqing ignored them, picked up Mama Du, and took down the cloth ball stuffed in her mouth.
"Demon" The old woman pointed to Qingqingdao.
"Ignorant, haven't you heard of someone who knows kung fu?" Qingqing raised the knife, and the thick hoe and wooden handle of a baby's arm were broken, and the Wang family collectively took a few steps back towards the courtyard gate.
Mama Du looked at Qingqing and cried, Qingqing picked up a kicked bamboo basket and turned it over, and helped Mama Du and his wife to sit in the bamboo basket.
"Miss Qingqing, you shouldn't have come out. What can I do about this? You can't come out," Grandpa Du choked. Uncle Du and Second Uncle Du supported each other and came over to kowtow to Qingqing and protect him.
"Grandpa Du, these people are really hateful, if I don't make a move, they will kill you. "Qingqing was kowtowed to by the two uncles, so let them just protect the two old men.
"Wang Qianzi, what are you messing around again? Isn't the matter of your family Qiao'er all settled, and you are still coming to trouble the Du family. A middle-aged man walked into the courtyard with a blanket on his shoulders.
"Look, I smashed the Du family again. You will bully honest people, I tell you, it is not okay to bully honest people and foreigners to the bottom of my nose, if I see you bullying Uncle Du again, I will ask the village chief and Li Zheng to come and tell you about the rules. The middle-aged strong man looked around the courtyard
"Dog leftover, who the hell wants your dog to meddle with a mouse! You have itchy skin" The person known as Wang Lizi stood up and scolded, and was pulled back by the people around him, and gestured in the direction of Qingqing fearfully.
"Okay, I'll go to the village chief and see if you're afraid. The man named Gou Yu said as he walked out.
"Ding Gouyu, on the ninth night of the first month, you went directly to Wang's house from the town, passing by Ding Jiu's door, you beat the big yellow dog in Ding Jiu's house, before you often bullied Ding Jiu behind people, Ding Jiu never resisted. This time I didn't expect Ding Jiu to work hard for your dog and you, you were about to be ruthless when you had evil thoughts in your heart, and at this time, Aunt Qiao'er heard the voice and came out to stop you, so you chopped off the dog's left front toe to scare them. Ding Jiu was a dumb person and couldn't speak, Aunt Qiao'er scolded you after watching the whole process, you pretended to go home and then followed Aunt Qiao'er into Wang's house while people were unprepared, and when you saw no one in the courtyard, you knocked her unconscious, dragged her behind the firewood stack and raped her.
Granny Wang came to the Du family that day to withdraw from the family, the Du family was poor and the patient dragged down the Wang family, several people in charge of the Wang family have long regretted this family business, the young owner of the sesame oil shop in the town let people send a message to the door to propose marriage, the Wang family does not want to bear the reputation of being poor and loving the rich, after discussion, they will come to the door on the grounds that Uncle Du concealed his illness and cheated on marriage, and he came to the Du family to make trouble without Aunt Qiao'er, and then someone in the village coordinated until you went home. Qingqing looked at the preserved image from the old locust tree and narrated softly.
Ding Gou, you wanted to tell Aunt Qiao'er to your unscrupulous brother-in-law three years ago, but you were rejected by Granny Wang because she was too far away from home, and you were resentful. This time, you heard in the town that the Wang family wanted to repent of their marriage, and you wanted to come to the Wang family to blackmail, but you ended up raping people with evil intentions. Qingqing's words made everyone present stupid. Ding Jiu's dog was lame, and they also found out that they didn't care, not many people knew about the matter of their relatives three years ago, and only a few people in the Wang family knew about it.
"Mother, when we went home that day, my little sister did go to bed early. The eldest daughter-in-law whispered in her mother-in-law's ear. Granny Wang pursed her lips, but her trembling hands still showed that her heart was not at peace. The rest of the Wang family stared at Ding Gouyu angrily.
"You are talking nonsense and squirting feces all over your mouth, and you want to frame me if you find a dumb person and a dog, and you are looking for death. Ding Gou ran over to beat Qingqing, but was restrained by the Wang family, and many people from the village outside the courtyard didn't know what was going on, and there were more and more onlookers.
"Poor Aunt Qiao'er was frightened and frightened when she lost her body, and she was afraid for a night, and she came to Uncle Du at dawn the next day to prepare to tell the whole story. Thinking about it, after encountering this kind of thing, Aunt Qiao'er did not look for her family but came to find Second Uncle Du, Granny Wang really didn't know her daughter at all. Halfway to meet Ding Gouyu learned that his father and grandmother had withdrawn from the marriage yesterday, the desperate Aunt Qiao'er was deceived by Ding Gouyu to his house, his daughter-in-law took the child to a relative's house a few days ago and did not return, Aunt Qiao'er wanted to go home Ding Gou's heart rose again, Aunt Qiao'er was strangled to death by Ding Gouyu and hid in the cellar when she struggled to resist. During the day, everyone in the village was looking for Aunt Qiao'er, and at night, Ding Gou was left to throw the corpse in Weihe. Aunt Qiao'er's soul was not dispersed, so that the body was not washed away, and it was found after dawn. If you don't look for a check-up, you arbitrarily say that Aunt Qiao'er committed suicide by throwing herself into the river because she was dissatisfied with the cheating marriage. Now you people have let go of the real murderer and come to Du's house to make trouble. If it weren't for the fact that you wanted to gain both profit and fame and regretted your marriage and made trouble, you wouldn't have let Aunt Qiao'er die like this. Qingqing said.