When she returned home, she told her husband Qiu Manfu about Qiu Decai's stubborn attitude of refusing to admit that his scalpers had eaten the ears of rice in her rice field.
Qiu Manfu was cleaning the yard in front of the door, his head lowered and silent.
Tian Guifang took out a sickle and waved it at him and said, "You can go to Qiu Decai to settle the account and ask his family to compensate for 50 kilograms of rice. You can also change the money."
Qiu Manfu, who has always been loyal and honest, looked up at his wife and said, "We can warn Qiu Decai and ask him to keep a close eye on his cattle in the future. If he takes off the rope again and runs into the fields to eat rice, he will have to break it." One leg is not enough? As for asking him to compensate, forget it.
Tian Guifang waved the sickle in her hand again, saying forcefully that she couldn't let it go. I don’t want his family to pay compensation. There is also rice in his farm that is heading and blooming. I will cut down a piece of it so that his family will also suffer losses and we will even out the losses.
Qiu Manfu let go of the broom and reached out to grab the sickle in her hand. He didn't take it away, but caught the hand that stretched out to one side to grab the sickle. He said sternly, "Guifang, you can't do this kind of thing, Niu." He is a beast, are you also a beast? It is understandable that the cows ate a few rice plants. If you deliberately cut off other people's rice ears with a sickle, can you make up for our family's losses? Even if it can be made up, it cannot be done, let alone it cannot be made up. In order to vent your anger and try to cause the same losses to others, you are too narrow-minded.
Tian Guifang seemed to be persuaded. She quietly let go and the sickle fell to the ground.
She was still unconvinced and said, Manfu, Decai is bullying our family, are you going to let it go?
Qiu Manfu said, "Not to mention bullying, I don't believe that Decai wants his own scalpers to go to the fields and eat the rice in our fields." As he spoke, he kicked the sickle away from his feet and continued to lecture her. If you really want to do something excessive, it will be of a bad nature.
Tian Guifang was still dissatisfied. Although she listened to her husband's advice not to do anything outrageous, she still nagged her to be patient and not to give him any advantage.
During dinner, she said to her husband again, Manfu, we don’t want De Cai’s family to compensate for the losses. We have to find De Cai and speak clearly! Lest he still thinks that we are easy to bully, and that our rice ears were not eaten by his cows.
Qiu Manfu hummed, put down his chopsticks, stood up from the table and said, "It's necessary to talk about finding money."
Tian Guifang was cleaning up the dishes, but now she put them away and urged Qiu Manfu to go out before she closed the door.
He sped up from behind Qiu Manfu and rushed to the front. All the houses in the neighborhood along the road were lit with lights. However, when he walked to the door of Qiu Decai's house, he found that the house was completely dark. Could it be that he had not returned from looking for cattle in the mountains?
Tian Guifang thought about it and said to her husband, let's go around to the back of Qiu Decai's house and take a look.
Qiu Manfu walked to the back of the house and looked into the window, but there was still no light.
Tian Guifang, who followed, said that regardless of whether there were lights or not, I wanted to see if there were any cows in the cattle pen in his backyard. If there were cows, it meant that he had come back with wealth.
As he was talking, he heard the sound of cow bells coming from the cattle pen in his backyard.
Tian Guifang said that there was no need to read it, which meant that Decai had found the cow and went out again.
Qiu Manfu turned around and asked, where would he go at night?
Tian Guifang opened her voice and called out to Qiu Decai, but immediately stopped calling. I thought: I went to the farm during the day and talked to him about his cows eating rice ears. He got angry. Now even if I call him in person, he may not pay attention. What's more, Qiu Decai doesn't know where he is. went.
Tian Guifang raised her hand and tugged on her husband's sleeve and said, "You call around the surrounding village houses to see if he agrees."
Qiu Manfu shook his hand and said forget it! If you call him again tomorrow, even if I shout what you want, he may not agree. He knew our family would cause trouble for him, so he hid?
how could be? Gaining wealth is not afraid of people at all. Would he hide for this little thing? He knows our family is not ruthless, so he won't hide. Tian Guifang analyzed this, and Qiu Manfu agreed. He said, even if he is not hiding, if I call him now, if he agrees in someone else's house, and we go over and reprimand him in front of others, he will be even more dissatisfied. Even if it makes sense, I can't argue with it. I think we might as well go home. It's not the right time to talk to him at this time.
Tian Guifang was a little reluctant and said that we should wait in front of Decai's house. He might come back as soon as we left.
Qiu Manfu walked to the front door of Qiu Decai's house and stopped, waiting here as his wife said.
After waiting for about two or three minutes, Tian Guifang became impatient. Her husband was still turning around as if taking a leisurely walk in front of Qiu Decai's house, while waiting calmly; she walked towards a place with lights and looked.
The lights are all transmitted from people's houses, and the light reflected outside becomes faint. If it encounters obstacles such as tree branches and other objects, it will appear mottled and hazy.
It is easy for Tian Guifang to walk in the dark and see people with lights on, but it is not easy for people to see her in the hazy outside from a bright room. Of course, people don't have anything going on in their minds and they won't look out for no reason.
Tian Guifang is different. She wants to find Qiu Decai to see which house he visits.
She quietly glanced at the two or three houses with their doors open or half-opened. She didn't find Qiu Decai, so she continued walking towards the door of the house where there was light.
When she approached the door of Cai Zhongsheng's house, she suddenly stopped because someone was talking inside, like Qiu Decai's voice. She moved closer to the door, which was closed tightly.
She just stood there listening, and while listening, she glanced into the crack of the door. This glance surprised her. Cai Zhongsheng's man Wu Zidan was not seen in the room. She only saw Qiu Decai sitting on a big armchair. Cai Zhongsheng Also sat next to him.
He put one hand around Cai Zhongsheng's waist and put the other hand on her bare knees and said, "Zhongsheng, I helped your family pick manure today and forgot to take care of my cows. I started to tie the cows in the bamboo garden, and it broke its tail." Manfu's mother-in-law wants me to compensate for the loss, but I won't do it, but I will offend her.
Cai Zhongsheng said, why don’t you pay compensation?
Qiu Decai said, I don't admit it. I didn't see my cattle eating the rice ears in his field with my own eyes, and no one testified, so why should I pay compensation?
You are too naughty. Cai Zhongsheng turned sideways and looked at Qiu Decai, and poked him on the forehead with his finger.
Qiu Decai said, "It's not because of you that I forgot about the cow." As he spoke, he lifted Cai Zhongsheng's body and walked straight to the bedroom.
Tian Guifang could see clearly through the crack in the door, and she also understood that the reason why the rice ears in her field were eaten by Qiu Decai's scalpers was because he was distracted and entangled by Cai Zhongsheng.
Tian Guifang thought: When I heard something moving in her room at noon, I thought it was her man Wu Zidan who had come back. Now I see, the problem is complicated.
She really wanted to scream and make this couple look embarrassed, but after thinking about it carefully, it was inappropriate to do so. Right now, there is only a slight conflict with Qiu Decai. If he takes advantage of this to cause trouble, won't Qiu Decai become enemies with himself? Even Cai Zhongsheng would make enemies with himself, and he couldn't do it. But she felt uncomfortable without Qiu Decai.
So Tian Guifang quickly returned to Qiu Decai's house and said to her waiting husband, Manfu, what are you waiting for? Qiu Decai is entangled with Cai Zhongsheng, the man who left the house. If you don't believe it, go and take a look.
I felt that saying this was not enough to express the seriousness of the problem, so I immediately corrected myself and said, "It's not about looking, and you can't look at it. I'll take you there and stand under the window on the outer wall of Cai Zhongsheng's bedroom so you can hear what's going on inside."
Qiu Manfu said, is there such a thing? As he said that, he followed Tian Guifang and approached Cai Zhongsheng's house. As they approached, they slowed down and walked almost on tiptoe, trying not to make any noise.
I went under the wall of Cai Zhongsheng's bedroom and eavesdropped. There was a window two meters away from the wall. The window sash was closed tightly, but I could still hear the faint noises from inside.
Qiu Mancai listened for a moment, then touched Tian Guifang and said with airflow, "Let's go!" Nothing nice to hear.
Tian Guifang refused. Maybe with her husband here, she became bolder and had the idea of embarrassing them both in front of all living beings. Of course, her emotions were not inflated to the extreme and she could barely control them.
