"Brother Belly, something happened at my house. My father asked you to come over." Niu Shanbao's face was very bad, and he forced a smile. '
Niu Dadu nodded without saying anything, put on his clothes, closed the door, and followed him to Li Zheng's house.
At this time, the door of Li Zheng's house was already surrounded by people. Almost everyone in Niujia Village came over.
In the yard, two tightly tied people were lying on the ground, screaming in pain from time to time.
Grandma Chen stood in the yard like a crazy woman, yelling curses at the two people on the ground without stopping at all. When she got so angry, she couldn't help but kick them a few times.
Everyone in the Li Zheng family was in the yard, big and small. Even Niu Sanya, who couldn't walk yet, was drowsy in Qin's arms.
Li Zheng's face was also terribly dark, and his eyes wanted to eat the two people on the ground.
"Boss, second brother, get ready and send them to see the officials."
There is no need to think about it, these two brothers must be here to steal something.
They never go back to the village. As soon as the village got a sum of money, the two of them followed him and climbed over the wall.
What else can you do besides being a thief?
"Uncle Li Zheng, you misunderstood. We are not thieves. We just want to go home and see you." Niu Chang was not calm in his heart. He kept yelling at the bastard who threw stones at them. He planned to bite him to death but refused to let go. When I heard that they were going to be sent to see an official, I was instantly frightened.
"Yes, uncle, we brothers just came back to see everyone. When we were passing by, we were hit with stones and accidentally fell into the yard. We really didn't come here to steal anything. If you don't believe it, take a look at my forehead. How big a bag it is." Niu Sheng said that he believed it.
"Yes, uncle, aunt, look, who would throw stones in the middle of the night? Maybe someone is here to take revenge on you. We happened to bump into him while we were passing by."
The two brothers sang in harmony and spoke seriously. If the onlookers outside didn't understand their temperament, they might actually believe it.
"Bah, you two are murderers with thousands of swords, and your mouths are full of excrement." Grandma Chen spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm, which was all over the faces of the two brothers on the ground: "Our family is fine, you don't need to worry about it. Come back and see, you Look at it, I think you come back and steal it. See for yourselves, how have we treated you since you were young, but you are not nice. This is how you treat us in return. There is no house in the village that has not been stolen by you. Even the cow belly You stole from such a poor family and stole all the firewood they had for the winter, so cold that the big newborn baby almost died."
The people outside also pointed at the two brothers, with a hint of resentment in their words.
Yes, no one's house has been stolen, and they won't let go of even the little snacks in the children's mouths.
"Hmph, they must have known that we got the money, so they came back to steal it. Send them to the police."
"Yes, send the officials. With them around all day, I can't sleep well at night, for fear that my house will be emptied when I wake up."
"Who isn't?"
"Send off to the official."
Seeing that things were developing more and more unfavorably for them, the two brothers Niu Chang and Niu Sheng didn't care much and threatened: "Bah, you poor devils, you don't have a lot of money on your body. If you steal from us, we will hate you." Poor. Old man Niu, I advise you to hand over your money, otherwise our brothers outside will not let you go."
"That's right, more than a dozen taels of silver is not enough for our brother's day's expenses. If money hadn't been tight recently, who would have thought of your little money? Someone who knows how to untie our brother and let us go, otherwise we will wait for death. Our group of brothers are not quick-sighted in killing people."
The two brothers were shouting and their attitude was extremely arrogant.
These words also frightened the surrounding villagers, who all looked at Li Zheng eagerly.
This is when the beef tripe comes.
"Others may be afraid of you, but I'm not afraid of you, old man. You're here just in time, Dadu. Let's see how to deal with these two beasts." As soon as he saw Niu Dadu, Li Zheng's expression suddenly improved a lot, and he pulled Niu Dadu over. Go to the yard.
What do you think of beef tripe?
He was also confused, what's going on?
"Do you know these two people?" Li Zheng asked, pointing to the two brothers on the ground.
Cow Potbelly: Nods hard.
He knew both of these two people who turned into ashes.
When Niu Dadu saw them, anger emerged unconsciously in his eyes.
"Oh, you are getting more and more useless, and you actually asked this fool, if his mother-in-law was not ugly, she would have been sold by us long ago." Niu Sheng's tone was full of ridicule, and he also had contempt for the cow belly.
"Selling people! Have you sold my little grandson?" As soon as he finished speaking, a woman with white hair rushed in, as if she was crazy.
It's Aunt Chun, an old widow in the village.
This Aunt Chun is really a pitiful person.
After giving birth to two sons, the man offended a nobleman while working outside and was beaten to death.
In this era, if you are beaten to death, your death is really in vain. There is no compensation, and it is useless to sue the officials. You will also be beaten with a board and thrown out. Aunt Chun's parents-in-law couldn't bear the idea of a white-haired person sending a black-haired person to her. They fell ill and died soon after.
Aunt Chun was left to work hard to help her two sons grow up.
When the eldest son got old, he went out to do business with others. In the first few years, he came back often and made a lot of money. He became the richest family in Niujia Village. During that time, Aunt Chun walked with wind.
The eldest son also married a daughter-in-law and gave birth to a son.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. One autumn, Aunt Chun received the news that her eldest son was missing. They said that he had encountered a thief while running a business, and he was chased and fled in all directions. He did not know whether he was alive or dead.
Aunt Chun originally had black hair. When she heard the news, she was shocked and half of her hair turned white overnight.
What made her even more unbearable was that her daughter-in-law had stolen the family's money and ran away with them, leaving behind a grandson who was waiting to be fed.
Finally, my younger son has grown up and can make money, and my eldest grandson is now five years old, and life is starting to get better.
The eldest grandson suddenly disappeared.
She searched and searched, searching the whole village, the next door village, and even the dangerous mountains, but found nothing.
My hair is also all white. He is obviously only a little over forty years old, and he looks like an old man in his twilight years.
Aunt Chun was pulling at the clothes of Niu Sheng and Niu Chang like crazy, her voice was hoarse and she was crying.
"I don't treat you lightly, why do you treat me like this!"
Aunt Chun's youngest son Niu Manyuan also rushed over and looked at the two people on the ground resentfully, but still pulled his mother back: "Mom, don't be excited, as long as you send them to see the official, everything will be known. .”
The people around him were also in mourning.
At that time, Aunt Chun's grandson was lost, and they all helped to find it, but unfortunately they could not find it. If it was really sold by the two brothers Niu Chang Niu Sheng, then they are so inhuman.
Aunt Chun used to treat them no differently than her own sons, and she would not forget them even with every bite she ate. Aunt Chun also washed the clothes, and if they were torn, Aunt Chun would mend them.
The two brothers, Niu Zhang and Niu Sheng, suddenly stopped shouting after Aunt Chun came out. They didn't say a word and looked away. They felt very guilty at first sight.
"Send him off." Li Zheng originally wanted to say something, but when he saw the scene in front of him, his figure froze, as if he had aged several years, and his voice was full of exhaustion.
Stealing money from the village and selling people are not the same thing.
It's also his fault that he didn't do a good job here. He didn't see that these two brothers were so unconscionable for so many years that he actually let them sell out the people in the village.
Aunt Chun is such a good person.
That's how I met them.
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