"Yes, yes, you're right," the village chief welcomed Lao Liu into the house with a smile and beckoned Aunt Sun to hurry up and serve tea, "It's because I know that there are many good people in your village, so there have always been so many intermarriages in our two villages." ”

Lao Liu sat down and took the tea bowl handed to him by the village chief, "Since you understand, then let me ask you, a few years ago, your village knew that there was so much grain in the mountains, and you brought people to carry it back, why didn't you tell us?" Do you know how many of them starved to death in our village last winter? You, don't you feel that your heart is too hard? ”

His eyes dimmed, and he remembered that the few people who had starved to death were all widows and loneliness in the village, and his heart suddenly felt a sense of decadence.

It's all my own inability to be the village head, and I can't be as methodical as the village chief of Kanghe Village, alas.

There have been years of drought, and the surrounding villages have not had a good year.

Every winter, there are people who freeze to death and starve to death in various villages, but this year there are none in Kanghe Village.

Originally, he was muttering about this in his heart, but yesterday several families in the village who had in-laws in Kanghe Village received meat from their in-laws.

Chen Meng's father-in-law, Liu Dashan, is from Kanghe Village, and when Chen Meng came to deliver meat, he was left by his uncles to drink.

As soon as he drank too much, he began to curse people.

first scolded the village chief for doing things unfairly, and then scolded who gave his land to Huo Huo, the more he talked, the worse he became, and he couldn't help but tell the matter of distributing grain in the village last year.

He hadn't told his father-in-law before, not because he listened to the village chief, but because he was worried that after telling his father-in-law, his uncles would come to borrow food.

As a result, when I drank too much wine, I forgot what to say and what I shouldn't say, and I said everything.

The next day, Liu Dashan found Lao Liu and told him about these things in Kanghe Village.

When Lao Liu heard this, the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt in his heart, so he immediately stood up and went to Kanghe Village to find the village chief.

The village chief was a little embarrassed by Lao Liu's finding, but he couldn't tell Lao Liu the truth.

Garboer is like his own granddaughter, he has to protect well.

"Well, it's not that I won't tell you. But when I first heard from the monk of Youfang, I was also skeptical, and I took the people from the village into the mountain and thought that if there was no food, I would bring everyone back with some prey."

"I didn't expect the mountain road to be difficult to walk, and everyone almost lost their lives outside. After the grain was brought back, I was no longer qualified to distribute the things that everyone had risked their lives to get back, so I had to divide them in the village."

"Even those who did not go with them to the mountains were given food. The purpose of this is not so that they can give some food to their in-laws. Anyway, most of the in-laws in our village are in your village, and I am also helping your village in a different way,"

"You are also the village chief, and you don't know the difficulties of being the village chief, if I dare to do favors with the big guy's things, the villagers will not take me off? If I say something later, who will listen? Alas. ”

With a long sigh, the village chief ended his complaint.

Except for not saying anything about Garboer, what he said about everything else was the truth.

Obviously, Lao Liu also understands this.

Then the village chief sighed and nodded, "I understand what you said, and I was also blocked in my heart, so I came to talk to you." When do you think we're going to be the end of the day? ”

The people of Kangshan Village also fled the war and moved here, so they came early and chose a relatively good piece of land.

However, it is only enough to maintain food and clothing, and if there is a slight drought or flood, some people in the village will starve to death.

Speaking of which, the three or four surrounding villages were notoriously poor, which is why they intermarried with each other, because people in other places simply did not want to marry.

The two village chiefs were silent, who could tell them when the poor days would be the end?

At noon, the village chief left Lao Liu to drink, and while drinking, Lao Liu opened the conversation.

Only then did everyone know that the matter of grain was leaked by Chen Meng.

When Lao Liu went back, the village chief asked Luo Yi to find a wheelbarrow, put the drunk Lao Liu on it, and put the bacon and cured chicken on the other side, as well as a few catties of brown rice, and sent him back to the village.

As soon as he was sent away, the village chief took people to Chen Meng's house.

When the grain was distributed, he said that if anyone dared to leak it, everyone would not be able to spare him.

Fortunately, the village chief of Kangshan Village is not a person with a bad heart, if he is, he will say that the grain is hidden there in their village, and this matter will not be so easy to pass today.

For people like Chen Meng, who invite disasters to the village at every turn, they can't relieve their hatred if they don't clean up.

If he is not convinced, he will get out of this village as soon as possible.

The knocking on the door and the sound of the village chief greeting people along the way made the front of Chen Meng's house full of angry villagers.

Seeing that the door of Chen Meng's house was closed, someone stepped forward to kick the door.

When Mrs. Chen in the house heard this, she screamed and woke up Chen Meng, who was sleeping in another room.

He drank too much last night, and he is still a little confused.

After shouting Liu's twice, Liu went to the river to wash clothes.

Since the separation, these jobs are no longer Cui's, they have to do it themselves.

Finally got up and opened the door, Chen Meng was awakened by the person in front of him who was scared of the wine.

"Village chief? You, what are you doing here? ”

"Chen Meng, did you tell us about the distribution of grain in our village?" The village chief stared at him and asked solemnly.

"I, I ......" Chen Meng didn't know how to answer for a while, "I just said it casually......"

"your casual talk." Behind the village chief, a young descendant named Sun Yi was so angry that he was about to come over and beat him.

At that time, every family received food, and so did Sun Yi's family.

Sun Yi's elder brother Sun Ren has already married, and Sun Ren's father-in-law wants to borrow grain, but Sun Renniang only gives a little. It's not that they don't help, but the people in Sun Renzhang's family are too lazy, and they can't help enough.

For this, Sun Yiniang repeatedly warned his sister-in-law not to go back to her parents' house, saying that if she didn't listen, she would divorce her.

Unexpectedly, it was leaked by Chen Meng.

Now my sister-in-law's family is going to make trouble again.

Sun Yi's head was big, and when he saw Chen Meng, he was angry and didn't fight anywhere, so he went up and beat him.

Chen Meng didn't dare to fight back, so he had to cover his head and ask for mercy again and again.

"At that time, we said that if anyone dared to leak out, they would be kicked out of the village, do you remember?" The village chief asked Sun Yi to stop him and ask Chen Meng.

Chen Meng was anxious when he heard this.

He didn't want to go.

Don't look at him scolding and complaining all day long, he knows better than anyone else that no matter how poor Kanghe Village is, he can occasionally get food and meat.

And the surrounding villages are even poorer.

If he left here, he would have to go to Kangshan Village.

At that time, he will only have the share of working for his uncles to see people's faces, and there will be no part of him being the master of the house here.

"I'm not leaving, village chief, I'm not leaving, I didn't mean to, I was drunk and forgot what I said, I really didn't mean to."

Chen Meng hugged the village chief's leg and refused to let go of anything.

The two children behind him came out of the house, and when they saw this scene, they were scared and cried.

Mrs. Chen was screaming in the house, and no one could understand what she said.

For a while, the courtyard was full of cries and cries begging for mercy.