"What do you mean? Why don't you ask your son what he has done? He bullies people, arranges people, and even accuses the evil ones first. Is it still reasonable?"
Although Zheng Quchi was a highly educated man, a woman's nature was to protect others. If she dared to bully her family, she would fall out with them.
The village woman glared angrily and shouted to both sides: "Who said my baby bullied others? It's clearly you, bullying the younger ones. Today we must let her give an explanation, otherwise this matter will not be solved!"
A group of big-bodied and thick-waisted women gathered around. They despised Zheng Quchi for being short and thin, and did not take her seriously at all.
Zheng Quchi did not retreat but advanced, a sharp light flashed in his eyes: "Don't think that you can bully others because of the large number of you. If you dare to touch me, try it. I will turn around and report to the official. Daye has laws. Anyone who provokes Those who cause trouble and intentionally cause harm will have their faces carved with a knife and then smeared on the wounds with ink so that they will never fade. At the same time, they will be punished with hard work such as building cities and digging trenches under close supervision."
Her words were sonorous and powerful, and she took another sudden step, which made all the women tremble and shrink their necks unconsciously.
"Come on, do it."
Seeing her fearless look, the village women hesitated now.
The villagers in the village usually have some quarrels and fights, but no one will take the initiative to report it to the official. After all, people have always been afraid of official authority since ancient times.
Secondly, they are all from the village. As the saying goes, if you don't look up and don't look down, you will be criticized by others and cause trouble if you do things too far.
So this was the first time they knew that beating someone and causing trouble could lead to such a serious crime, and they were all a little frightened.
"Who are you lying to?"
From the corner of her eye, the daughter-in-law of the old Wu family in the village caught a glimpse of the backpack placed behind her and a lot of loess on the ground. She rolled her eyes and gloated and laughed: "Oh, you are the only one who wants to find someone in the village with a poor family background." Come and help repair the house, don’t even think about bullying my baby, I’ll see which man in the village dares to help your Sang family!”
Recently, the Sang family was destroyed by a fire. Behind the scenes, everyone was maliciously speculating that the Sang family must have done something dirty and sinister and offended someone.
Because the Sang family is a recent immigrant who moved to Hegou Village, and their family is either lame or stupid, and there is a weirdo second son who is as black as a coal ball, so since they moved here, this family has been There are a lot of rumors in the village.
They even made trouble with Li Zheng many times in an attempt to drive them away.
However, the Sang family has always lived in seclusion and seldom interacted with the villagers. Li Zheng was not a stupid official, so he just brushed off the matter.
At this time, Brother Sang was looked down upon in the village and returned without success. When he came back dejected, he saw a large number of people surrounding Zheng Quchi. He was startled and limped over quickly.
"What are you doing?"
When the woman saw Brother Sang, her expression became even more arrogant: "Sang, you begged a lot to see who will listen to you. Don't waste your efforts. No one will come to help you repair your house. If you know what's going on, Just get out of our Hegou Village immediately."
Brother Sang clenched his fists. His arrogant self-esteem was hurt by the word cripple, and his face was gloomy because he was incompetent and couldn't help Brother Qing.
No wonder the people in the village used excuses to evade the incident. It turned out that they were the ones responsible.
"Sister-in-law Wu, it's just a play between children, so why are you so aggressive? I...I can apologize to you."
"Are you apologizing?" Ha, the old Wu family's daughter-in-law seemed to stand up in front of Brother Sang. She turned her tongue and pointed in the direction of Zheng Quchi: "You are not the one who bullies the child. Why don't you do this?" What, whoever did it will admit it to our doll right here.”
"Yeah, maybe then we won't care about it anymore because you have to sleep in a pig pen."
"Brother Qing is still young and I was unable to teach her well. If she makes a mistake, it's up to me..."
Zheng Quchi interrupted angrily: "Brother, they clearly agreed to make trouble. It's useless for you to compromise."
"That's enough, I'm sensible, don't interrupt." He scolded her sternly.
Seeing more and more people in the village joining in the fun and crowding around, Brother Sang just wanted to put an end to the matter quickly. He knew that the people in the village had never wanted to see them, so he couldn't let them find excuses to drive his family out of Hegou Village.
"I apologize to you on behalf of Brother Qing. We are willing to pay and ask you to help our family. If you are still not satisfied..." He was at his wits' end and lowered his head. His whole body was trembling and he gritted his teeth and said, "I can kneel down and beg - —”
It’s so deceiving!
At this time, Zheng Quchi couldn't bear it anymore.
She pulled Brother Sang up and said loudly in a confident and arrogant tone: "It's impossible to apologize. If you don't want to help, you won't help. I, Sang Xuanqing, really don't lack you crooks and bad dates. I I have someone to help me!”
Brother Sang was startled. After hearing this, the others were stunned for a while and burst into laughter.
"Hahahaha... A man with a broken household and a foreigner. I want to see who you, Sang Xuanqing, can ask for. I'm afraid if you go to beg your father to sue your grandma, the blind and lame people in the village won't come."
"What if someone comes?" Her light brown eyes seemed to be evil.
The ridicule on the faces of the village women deepened, and they did not believe that she had such ability.
"Okay, if someone really comes to help you build a house, we, the five major families in Hegou Village, will stay away from your Sang family when they see you. As long as you say something, we will respond respectfully. How about that?" ?”
Zheng Quchi said in a deep voice: "Okay, but in addition, you have to solemnly apologize to my eldest brother and Yaomei."
The village women were simply amused by her wishful thinking.
"Okay, if someone comes to help you tomorrow, it's up to you. But if no one comes, your Sang family must get out of our Hegou Village."
The five surnames in Hegou Village are all prestigious in the surrounding villages and have wide connections. As long as their men say hello in advance, we can see who will come to help the Sang family repair their house.
Brother Sang saw that the situation was out of control and his heart was burning. However, when he saw Brother Qing's back straight in the face of the malicious intentions around him, he was neither humble nor arrogant, and his heart felt like a ball of wet cotton.
well!
He sighed heavily.
Let her, let her.
His bones had long been broken by the hardships of life, but his young brother refused to give in. She even tried to protect them with a pair of immature wings. This sincere and beautiful heart should not be let down.
But in the future, their situation will probably be even more difficult.
——
Brother Sang always thought that Zheng Quchi's bold words in front of everyone were just lies.
He knew that they had offended these five surnames and had no place in Hegou Village, but he was confused and uneasy about what to do in the future.
What made him even more uneasy was that Zheng Quchi said he had to go out for something, and then he mysteriously disappeared for a day, only to return tired after nightfall.
