"If you have nothing to do, please go back. I'm getting older and I'm a little tired after sitting here for so long, so I won't keep you here." The eldest master issued an eviction order.
Seeing this, several people had no choice but to stand up from their seats.
The patriarch said respectfully to the eldest grandfather: "Master, please pay more attention to your health. We will go back first."
"Go back!" The elder waved his hand.
The patriarch took the third master and the fifth master and quickly left the eldest master's home.
The housekeeper of the great-grandfather's house personally sent several people away and then returned to the great-grandfather.
"Master, the patriarch and the others did this behind your back. You don't care what they do. Whether they live or die is their own fault." The housekeeper helped the eldest uncle take off his shoes and put his feet on the bed. He pulled the quilt and covered the elder.
The old man lying on the pillow said: "Who said I have to care about their affairs?"
"Ah!" The housekeeper was stunned for a moment, then said immediately, "You were comforting the clan leader earlier, telling him that the fake thieves coming to Xin'an County had nothing to do with Zhengjia Village."
The elder said: "How many families in Zhengjia Village think that just by setting up a peasant association and a few peasant soldiers, they can stop thousands of mouths in Zhengjia Village? Do you think this is possible?"
"Sir, what do you mean, sir, that the fake thieves came to our Xin'an County from Luoyang City specifically to see what the patriarch and others did in Zhengjia Village?" The housekeeper looked shocked.
The eldest man glanced sideways at the housekeeper beside the bed and asked, "You didn't get involved in their affairs, did you?"
"No, no." The housekeeper shook his head repeatedly.
He really wanted to get involved, but people didn't look down on him as a housekeeper.
The eldest man withdrew his gaze and said, "It's okay if you don't. Don't get involved in their affairs. They can do whatever they want. Don't worry about anything. Just watch from the sidelines."
"But," the housekeeper said hesitantly, "the fake thieves from Luoyang City are really here to deal with our Zhengjia Village. Will something happen to the clan leader and the two clan elders?"
The eldest uncle who heard this snorted coldly and said: "People have long looked down upon me, the eldest uncle, so why bother to humble myself and try to get ahead? If they want to die themselves, then let them go! It's going to rain." Mom wants to get married, so let’s take care of ourselves!”
"But if something happens to the patriarch and the others, can our family escape? Will the fake thieves take care of our family as well?" the housekeeper said worriedly.
I am always wary of thieves like Hu Ziqi.
Hearing this, the eldest uncle frowned and said, "Your worries are not unreasonable."
"I'm also afraid that Master, you didn't do anything, but in the end you were implicated by the clan leader and the others. That would be too unfair," the housekeeper said.
The eldest uncle sighed and said: "We can only resign ourselves to fate! I hope that the man from Luoyang City is a sensible person and will not implicate innocent people."
He was also afraid.
I am worried that the man who came to Xin'an County from Luoyang City will cause chaos in Xin'an County. After all, he is a traitor and it is not unusual for him to do anything.
But he was also unwilling to ask him to help the Zhengjia Village clan leader and the others.
These people did this kind of thing without telling him, and they obviously didn't take him as an elder in the eyes anymore. If these people really succeeded, there would be no place for him as an elder in Zhengjia Village in the future.
After the Zhengjia Village patriarch, the third master and the fifth master separated, they returned to their homes.
The uncle's words did not reassure him.
Sitting on the couch at home, he felt uneasy no matter what he thought, so he called the steward at home and told him: "Take a hundred taels of silver and go to the county seat to see your husband."
"What did you say when you saw me?" the steward asked.
The patriarch twirled his beard and thought for a while, then said: "After meeting Mr., you and Mr. tell him that if the man from Luoyang City wants to come to Zhengjia Village, Mr. Trouble must stop him and not let him come to Zhengjia Village."
"Go back quickly." The clan leader waved his hand.
"I remember it, little one."
The steward accepted the errand, turned and left the room.
Seeing that the people were gone, the patriarch felt a little more at ease. He faced the door and shouted: "Where are all the servants dead? I didn't see that the master has taken off his shoes. Why don't you bring me the foot washing water for the master?" "
"The Point Guard Is Here"
The night passed.
When the rooster crows in the early morning, the people in Zhengjia Village come out of their homes one after another and start their busy day's work.
clatter! clatter! clatter!
The clapper was struck one after another, and the middle-aged man holding the clapper shouted in his mouth: "Each household sends a person to the wooden platform in the middle of the village. In a quarter of an hour, the third master will ask questions. Who dares?" If you don’t go, this year’s rent will be increased by 10%.”
The middle-aged man banging the clapper shouted in his mouth as he walked.
Walking from the east end of the village to the west end of the village, traveling through alleys in the village, we ensure that all the villagers in the village can hear it.
"What is this third child going to do? He is causing trouble so early in the morning." The fifth master complained with an unhappy look on his face.
The people in the village did not dare to offend the third master, the clan leader. Even if they were reluctant, they still rushed to the wooden platform in the village in groups.
This wooden platform was originally built to establish the farmers' association. Later, when the farmers' association was established, the wooden platform remained. All matters in the village, big or small, were communicated through the wooden platform.
Villagers in twos and threes came under the wooden platform.
Only the clan leader and several clan elders are qualified to stay on the wooden platform, so every time the villagers are called to a meeting, several seats will be placed on the wooden platform.
Now almost all the villagers have arrived, but there are only a few seats on the wooden platform, but the clan leader and clan elders have not arrived.
The villagers under the wooden platform didn't know what was going on, and they all asked the people in the same village around them to find out what the third master had called them to do.
After asking around, no one knew what was going on.
More than a quarter of an hour passed, and the third master arrived belatedly.
"Is everyone here?" After sitting down, the third master asked the middle-aged man who was banging the clapper to summon the villagers.
The middle-aged man who was asked bowed his waist and said with a flattering smile: "They are all here, they are all here, the villains are being counted one by one, and everyone has sent people over."
"Okay, if you don't have anything else to do, go ahead!" The third master waved his hand to him.
The middle-aged man bowed and stepped back from the wooden platform.
"Quiet, quiet, the Third Master wants to speak." A strong man standing behind the Third Master's chair shouted towards the bottom of the wooden platform in a rough voice.
This person is a peasant soldier of the peasant association.
Before he became a peasant soldier, he was a thug in the third master's family. He often did things for the third master to bully the villagers.
The villagers under the wooden platform quickly became quiet.
The third master crossed his legs, looked at the villagers under the wooden platform, and said with a smile: "I have brought you all here today because I have a good thing to tell you."
The villagers just looked at the third master on the wooden platform and no one said anything.
