When Xu Zhiguo came out of the guard, he didn't dare to stay around too much, and hurried through Huangyang Village. This time, he believed that the information he got was very accurate, and it was true that Secretary Zhong had been locked up, and he hated Wu Wenwen in his heart for betraying Secretary Zhong Yueshan. The words of the old man of the doorman have been lingering in his ears: "Hurry up, don't be seen by acquaintances, and don't ask the living about Secretary Zhong." ”

On the way home, Xu Zhiguo began to regret why he didn't ask the old man for the exact address of his detention. But on second thought, what's the use of knowing it? A small ordinary person can't do anything on his own. He felt sad and depressed, but his heart was full of indignation. He walked helplessly back home. When his wife asked him, he was not in a good mood to answer, so he only said coldly: "Secretary Zhong, he really had an accident." ”

His wife Xiaoju comforted him and said: "It's good for you to cheer up a little, don't be as ugly as having a serious illness, everyone looks at you, and there will be misunderstandings." ”

Xu Zhiguo said regretfully: "I was also dizzy at the time, and I was sad to inquire about this simple thing, and now I feel sad to think about it." ”

Fang Caili looked for Xu Yunqin and Xu Yuntao at the door to come out and play the game of eagle catching chickens. Xu Zhiguo said impatiently: "You are all the bosses, you only know how to play, play, play?" My family Yunqin and they are going to pull rabbit grass, there is no free time for you, you can go. Fang Caili argued: "I just pulled a lot of rabbit grass with them in the morning, and the rabbits haven't finished eating yet, are you obviously making excuses to not let them come over to play together?" Xu Yunqin came out of it and said, you know every day that you play eagle and catch chickens, can you change other things to play? Zhiguo yelled directly at his son: "You are not allowed to go out to play such boring things in the future, you can stay at home for me." Fang Caili fought for Yun Qin and said: "Yun Qin, don't be afraid of your father, let's go play together, the rabbit grass has been pulled, what else can we do." Xu Zhiguo was about to get angry, but Jin Xiaoju came over to stop him and said: "There's nothing wrong with children liking to play, don't get angry at every turn." As he spoke, he said to Yun Qin: "Go out and play, don't break other people's things." Yun Qin Yuntao drilled through the crack in the door, Fang Caili proudly held her head high in the attitude of a victor, and walked away humming a minor tune.

Fang Caili arranged for Xu Yunqin to be an eagle, she herself to be an old hen, and pulled a group of other little children in the yard to make chickens. Xu Yunqin said to her arrogantly: "I am very good at being an eagle, your chickens are not enough for me to eat, you go and find a few more chickens to come over and I can do it with you." Fang Caili was unconvinced and said: "How can you eat so many chickens, if you have the ability, you can eat a chicken and give it to me?" Yun Qin said: "Who do you say big talk and brag about, when I finish eating the chicken, even you will eat it, and I won't even have the fur and skin left after eating you." Fang Caili said angrily: "Then try to see who is more powerful than whom?" Fang Caili lined up the seven or eight children in the yard according to their height, and told them to grab the corners of the clothes of the people in front of them and follow her and run.

Xu Yunqin quickly changed direction and rotated from left to right, and after a while, he got rid of Fang Caili's outstretched hands to intercept and "eat" the chicken at the back first. Fang Caili tried her best to block Xu Yunqin, dragging and blocking, but she still couldn't stop the rapid offensive of the "Eagle". Xu Yunqin finished eating the last "chicken", so he hugged Fang Caili with a smile and opened his mouth to eat her. Fang Caili quit, and according to Xu Yunqin's face, she was slapped down. Xu Yunqin was annoyed, and he also slapped back. When the children standing in the courtyard saw them fighting, the timid ones ran away, and the bold ones stood in place and clapped their hands to watch the excitement. Yun Tao went to call his mother over, Xiao Ju took Yun Qin away, and Fang Caili stood in the yard crying. Xiao Ju turned around and persuaded Caili: "Caili, don't cry, I'll teach Yunqin a lesson later." ”

Fang Caili said unrelentingly: "What kind of ability does a man have to beat me a woman, I want my brother to beat him back." Xiao Ju rubbed her stomach down carefully, wiped away her tears with her hand and said, "Lili, it seems that you hit Yunqin first, right?" ”

Fang Caili tricked and said: "Yes, what, he is a boy, shouldn't he humble me?" Jin Xiaoju then smiled and said: "Lili, no matter what, it's not right to beat someone, you have to call your brother to come and beat him first, then let me ask you, is it your brother?" Or is it Yunqinda? Fang Caili rubbed her eyes and said, "I don't care, anyway, he beat me, I just want to call my brother back." Jin Xiaoju patiently persuaded and said: "Lili, if you continue like this, your brother will fight Yunqin, can Yunqin also call his father to come and beat your brother?" Fang Caili was dumbfounded by the question, and left angrily.

Zhiguo asked Xiaoju: "Who quarreled with Yunqing's little girl?" Xiaoju said: "It's all over, what are you asking for?" You're an adult, why are you so nosy. Xu Zhiguo said: "Then what are you talking about?" Jin Xiaoju didn't pay attention to her husband anymore and went out to do her own thing.

After a while, He Xianxiang walked into the house and said to Xu Zhiguo: "Brother Zhiguo, your family Yunqin just beat my family's Lili, and you don't educate him?" Zhiguo said: "I saw Yun Qin in the house just now, why did you beat your Lili?" He Xianxiang said: "Brother Zhiguo, my family Lili will not wronged others for no reason, you first ask your son and then say, adults can't take care of their shortcomings, right?" Xu Zhiguo said: "Then you come in with me and ask together, otherwise it will be in vain to ask, right?" ”

The two called Xu Yunqin out together, and Yunqin told him what had happened. Zhiguo said: "Auntie, the matter is clear, you must first clarify the matter in the future and then complain to our parents, so as not to embarrass everyone afterwards." He Xianxiang said with a displeased face: "What you educate is, I will let her go to see and understand." ”

Just when Jin Xiaoju came back from outside, she said to her with a smile: "Aunt He, I have already dealt with this matter, don't go to embarrass Lili anymore, children are noisy and noisy every day, and they forget it after a while, why bother to make a ugly person out and do something?" ”

He Xianxiang was also happy: "I, a debt collector, always don't let me worry, and I really can't do anything about her." ”

Zhiguo saw He Xianxiang go away, so he said to Xiaoju: "I don't like these women in the yard, I haven't figured things out yet, and I come over first at every turn to 'Xingshi to ask for guilt' as if our children are all bad guys, and their children are good people." Xiao Ju glanced at Zhiguo and said: "Don't you look the same, children change adults, you have made the relationship between neighbors bad, and you can't think about the things that will suffer in the future." Zhiguo said: "As far as you have some skills, I don't need others now, why do you have to be so low-voiced?" Xiao Ju saw that her husband understood the neighborhood in this way, so she slammed the door in anger.

Xu Zhiguo didn't know where to find out the address of Zhong Yueshan's house, so he said to his wife: I have the address, I want to go to Secretary Zhong's house. Xiao Ju agreed. Xu Zhiguo asked, "Then what should I bring with me?" The wife hurriedly said: "We don't have any good things at home, and we can't go there empty-handed, so we can only bring some food, now that Secretary Zhong is like this, there must be a shortage of food at home, right?" Xu Zhiguo said: "You can't carry rice and wheat on your back, you can't take these things, I think we can give him the soybean seeds left at home first, right?" Jin Xiaoju also said: "That's what I mean, you can take it all, there won't be much anyway." Zhiguo said with a smile: "The soybean seeds, all of which I selected, are golden and full, and I took them, and I don't have to eat the tofu for the Chinese New Year this year." Xiao Ju said happily: "I didn't plan to grind tofu during the Spring Festival, and the seeds were sown early, so let's think of other ways in the future." Oh! By the way, you have to leave early tomorrow, the road is a bit far, and it is not good not to go too quickly. ”

When Xu Zhiguo knocked on Zhong Yueshan's door with beans on his back, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon. Secretary Zhong's lover, Mr. Ye Ling, is a woman in her forties, with an elegant temperament and a good mental outlook. Teacher Ye Ling brought Xu Zhiguo into the house and asked him where he was from, what was the matter with coming to her? Xu Zhiguo put down the beans on his shoulder, took a cup of cold water handed over by Mr. Ye Ling, drank it in one sip and rubbed his lips before introducing himself and said: "I am Xu Zhiguo, a farmer in Chifeng Township, and Secretary Zhong is the benefactor of my family. ”

Teacher Ye Ling smiled and said, "I haven't heard Lao Zhong talk about your family, and I don't know you, how can I accept your things." You sit down for a while, I'll cook something to fill your stomach, and then you can take it back after you eat. Zhiguo said: "I won't eat, I can't help Secretary Zhong's affairs, this is a little bit of my heart, you can't shirk it no matter what, we farmers only have no shortage of food." ”

Teacher Ye Ling said: "Comrade Xu, since you all know Secretary Zhong's character, it means that you really know Zhong Yueshan's character. If I accept your beans, Secretary Zhong will definitely be angry with me when he finds out, you must listen to my opinion, carry the soybeans back, and I will tell him your mind at the appropriate time. I don't know where he's being held now, but I'm sure Lao Zhong will make it through. He always believed in our Party, and at the same time he was a staunch communist revolutionary himself. Xu Zhiguo couldn't listen to so many things about Teacher Ye Ling's theoretical knowledge education, he only cared about Secretary Zhong himself being safe and sound. Instead, he was disgusted by Teacher Ye Ling's resolute attitude: "You are Secretary Zhong's lover, that is, my benefactor, you can't help but accept such a little bit of my heart, besides, this thing is not worth a few dollars, you let me carry it back, I don't have the strength to do it, you better accept it." "Zhiguo's words are half true and half false.

Teacher Ye Ling still insisted on his principles and did not give an inch: "Comrade Xu, let me tell you, if you want Secretary Zhong to be good, you will carry it home today, you also know that now Secretary Zhong has been wronged in vain, maybe it has something to do with your family, I know he is out of public intentions, but have you ever thought that you will hurt Secretary Zhong if you leave these things, now Lao Zhong has no pigtails to be caught by them, innocent, I hope you don't hesitate anymore, you can leave as soon as you eat, it's not that I don't want to keep you." It was because of the situation. ”

Xu Zhiguo broke out in a cold sweat when he heard this: "Okay, okay, okay, Teacher Ye, I listen to you, I'll leave." Teacher Ye Ling said: "You better go after eating, so that you can have the strength to go back, otherwise how can you walk home?" With that, he went into the kitchen and went to cook.

Xu Zhiguo's stomach was already beating the side drum, so he sat down quietly. Teacher Ye Ling made a bowl of smooth noodles in the kitchen and brought it out, and said with an apologetic smile: "I'm really sorry Comrade Xu, I didn't have any other dishes at home, so I gave you a bowl of smooth noodles, and I don't know if it suits your taste?" Zhiguo took the noodles and said repeatedly, "It's so fragrant!" As soon as I smelled it, I couldn't stand it even if I was full, and I wanted to eat it, and lo and behold, there was a poached egg on the spread, which really bothered you. Teacher Ye Ling smiled and said: "What's the trouble here, just a bowl of light noodles, you eat slowly, don't burn it, eat it and go back." ”