Chapter 19 Bribery of the village chief
Wei Ran's words directly made it impossible to answer a word from the old lady of the Jiang family.
Village Chief Luo shook his head: "Oh, I'll just say, why don't you people who cross the mountains go to an old lady in our village, even if you offend the big guy, don't take it to heart, go back!" β
Joke? Wei Ran came so far away with his son, not to mention pulling the frame car, and even involved the villagers to run so far, how could he return empty-handed?
Thinking that before she came, she heard that the village chief liked the big front door, she took Zhang Qiang's hand and said, "Zhang Qiang, go, this 50 yuan, take it to buy a big front door!" Just go! β
"Mom, what are you doing, where do we have any spare money to buy cigarettes at home, I don't smoke, grandpa smokes dry tobacco."
Zhang Qiang, this child, is good at everything, but there is a lot of nonsense at a critical time, Wei Ran pondered in his heart, after dealing with these trivial matters at home, he must teach him well, so that he can learn to trust his mother!
"Go!" Wei Ran's voice rose a few decibels again, and this time Zhang Qiang ran away, holding the 50 yuan tightly in his hand.
After buying back the cigarettes, Wei Ran muttered two more words in Zhang Qiang's ear, and soon, Zhang Qiang walked towards the village chief's house.
The old woman of the Jiang family knelt down and thanked the village chief, and the village chief shook his head: "Okay, tell me about your family, we have the most affairs for your Jiang family in Shantun, is there a problem with this surname?" β
Wei Ran listened quietly on the side, this Luo Village Chief, who is not good-looking, talks so much, if the Jiang family's people are here, they won't give him a meal?
As soon as the old woman of the Jiang family walked out, Zhang Qiang followed his mother's instructions, those few words, he memorized them by heart, and respectfully gave the big front door to the village chief Luo, when he saw the cigarette in Zhang Qiang's eyes, as if he saw some life-saving straw, he said happily: "Oh, why are you so bothered about this little thing?" β
While politely, he brazenly took the cigarette in Zhang Qiang's hand.
Zhang Qiang couldn't help but curse in his heart: "Sure enough, this village chief doesn't have a good thing, he is polite and benevolent on the surface, but in fact, Wang Bajia is a bastard!" β
At this time, in the slightly remote towns and villages, not only greedy for the welfare of the villagers, but also secretly colluded with the rich businessmen to do something that destroyed the interests of the common people, and the poor people had no way to ask for help, so they could only swallow this bad breath, and if they had money, they could buy something to deal with, and those who had no money could only knock out their front teeth and swallow them in their stomachs.
This Village Chief Luo is like that, Wei Ran has already inquired about Village Chief Luo's hobby, so he came up with such a solution.
If you want to say that the old lady of the Jiang family, the fault is that she neglected that their village chief likes to smoke, at this moment, the old lady is poking at the group of people who are crossing the mountain and humiliating: "What's the matter, do you really think that you can move all our things away by helping that slut?" What good did that slut give you, don't forget, our backer Li Zheng will not harm me to you wolf cubs, haha! β
As he was talking, the village chief who was backing the mountain came over with a few powerful men and stopped the old woman of the Jiang family.
"What's wrong, village chief?"
"I was a little misunderstood just now, but now since Widow Zhang, who is in the mountains, has your IOU in her hand, I have to go to your house to see this!"
The mother-in-law of the Jiang family is not mistaken, this is the village chief Luo who is going to her house to see the situation, Wei Ran and Zhang Qiang naturally don't need to say anything, and follow the cadres from Guoshantun to the Jiang family.
The situation of the Jiang family is indeed not very good, leaning on a mountain col, living in several oblique caves, separated from the left and right, one is a dark kitchen, and the other is a place to live.
As soon as he entered the door, the old man of the Jiang family, who was smoking on the kang in the cave, came out: "What's wrong?" What has blown you all into our house? β
Village Chief Luo really did a good job, and directly threw out the IOU in Wei Ran's hand, which frightened the old man of the Jiang family and took two steps back: "Let me tell me, what do you old Jiang family mean?" Can you be okay and don't toss around, you see, our village counts your family's worst life, this is not enough, your son is in trouble everywhere, your wife is dozens of years old, and she actually went to the mountain to ask for accounts? β
The Zhang family and the Jiang family are in-laws, when Zhang Jiande was still the head of Guoshantun Village in the past, people often saw Zhang Jiande carrying food on a donkey to send to the Jiang family, logically speaking, this Jiang Hongxia should be a good filial piety to her in-laws, I didn't expect her to be like a greedy snake, her appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and the old man of the Jiang family, talking doesn't count, and the old woman in this family has the final say.
No, I heard that the old man of the Zhang family had severed the relationship with Zhang Jiande, Jiang Hongxia cried and cried more than once in front of the old woman and complained in front of the old woman, and the old woman of the Jiang family simply decided to get the 200 yuan borrowed by the Zhang family back.
As everyone knows, before and after, how much food and money Jiang Hongxia secretly took from the Zhang family, some of which the old man of the Jiang family knew, and some of which he didn't know?
"Accounts? I said early in the morning, where did you go, this dead old woman, it turned out that you ran out and embarrassed people, and now, people have come to the door, and our Jiang family's face has been lost by you. β
Village Chief Luo pointed to the note and said: "Lao Jiang, you can see clearly, we are going to move things from your house according to this IOU, it is best to have money, take out the money, if you don't have money, you can't blame us, we are going to move things!" β
Lao Jiang took the IOU and was surprised to find: "500 catties of wheat, two bundles of firewood, two fat chickens, and 200 yuan to buy clothes for my daughter-in-lawΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·
These IOUs were inadvertently discovered by Wei Ran from under her mother-in-law's pillow, probably because she thought that this Jiang family was too good at picking wool from home, which made Jiang Hongxia write the IOU, and it was Jiang Hongxia who signed it, but if Jiang Hongxia sent this thing, the Jiang family would not accept it, and she could give her daughter a good explanation, and things would not have turned out like this.
Lao Jiang never dared to hit this mother-in-law, this time, he threw away his arm and slapped Mrs. Jiang: "On weekdays, your mother and daughter are sneaky, and you don't let me listen to anything, it turned out that you did such a good thing, and now you are being found by others, you see, what other valuable things can you take at home?" β
Mrs. Jiang howled like a crazy lioness: "Speaking of which, you still complain about me, it's all because you don't have the ability, the family lacks this little and that, you say, what can I do as a woman?" Besides, my daughter is married to their Zhang family, what's wrong with letting them give something? β
Wei Ran walked out and politely bent down towards Lao Jiang: "Uncle Jiang, I have no choice but to do this, originally, no matter how poor our old Zhang family is, we will not pursue these things that have been given to you, but my second sister-in-law is too much, my father-in-law drove Zhang Jiande away and people in several villages know that Zhang Jiande actually burned my in-laws' coffin, not only did she not know the man who advised her, but also instigated my daughter-in-law to almost jump into the river and commit suicide, cursing my in-laws and saying that our old Zhang family is of bad breed, you listen?" You all remember the 200 yuan of your Jiang family so clearly, what's the matter, can't our old Zhang family keep accounts? β
These words, crackling like raindrops, smashed everyone dumbfounded, this eloquence, this aura, it is simply that there are twenty mouths that can't say anything about her?