Happy peasant girl

Chapter 50 The Truth Comes Out
Although Concubine Cao passed away early, many people in the Cao family could not get rid of the bad habit of self-esteem. The sense of superiority they once had did not disappear with the passing of Concubine Cao. Disappeared, on the contrary, it became stronger and stronger as the son of Concubine Cao became favored.

Even if the only prince born to the concubine Cao died young, the prestige and momentum of the Cao family were no longer as good as before, but the people in Caojia Village or many other members of the Cao family still had that kind of superiority in their bones. feel,.

Refusing to admit the decline of the clan, the people of Caojia Village used "evil" to cover up their unsteady pride and vanity. , has been often bullied by members of the Cao family in recent decades.

This time, if it wasn't about the life and death of the clan, Lin Renyi would not have acquiesced in the fight between the clan and the people in Caojia Village. The people in Caojia Village are really deceiving people too much. Not only did they send someone to steal the secret recipe for making tofu, but they even bit back. It is said that people from Linjia Village stole their ancestral secret recipe.

Under the agitation of the crowd, the initial quarrel between the two villages turned into a big fight, and it got out of control. Farm tools such as hoes, shovels and sickles were used as weapons, and men, women and children from the two villages joined in the fight "war".

When Lu Zhiming led Mr. Jiang and the yamen servants to the place where Caojia Village and Linjia Village gathered to fight, the men in the two villages did not stop, especially when the people in Linjia Village saw that Cao Agou made people attack the old people in the village , women and children start, the anger is even more intense.

"Stop all of them!" Lu Zhiming looks like a Confucian scholar on the outside, but he had learned internal skills in his early years, so this shout immediately stopped the villagers of the two villages. Separate the fighting crowd.

Lu Zhiming had already changed into official uniforms on the way here, and the villagers of the two separated villages were so frightened that they fell to their knees when they saw the county magistrate coming to them in person.

"The grass people have seen the adults!" Everyone in Caojia Village and Linjia Village knelt down, but Cao Agou glanced at Lu Zhiming with some displeasure.

He had sent money to the county government earlier, but the county magistrate returned them all, and told him that if he committed such bribery again, he would be punished with severe punishment.

At this time, Zhang Xian, Wei Xuan, and Lin Qingxi also came behind, and after seeing that Lin Qinghao and Lin Qinghe were both injured, Lin Qingxi was very distressed, and hurried to them around.

"Fourth brother, fifth brother, why are you injured so badly?" Lin Qingxi squatted in front of the two and asked worriedly.

"Xi girl, kneel down!" At this moment, Linyuan Shan hadn't recovered from the fact that Lu Zhiming is the magistrate of Fu'an County. He never expected that the master Lin Qingxi recognized in the field , It turned out to be a county parent official.

Lin Qingxi had to kneel down, but she quickly scanned the crowd and found that except for Lin Qinghao and Lin Qinghe, the other family members were fine and not injured.

"Cao Jiawang, Lin Renyi, come and tell me what's going on!" Lu Zhiming asked the patriarchs of the Cao clan and the Lin clan with a serious face and anger.

"Reporting to my lord, what happened today is because people from Linjia Village took the lead in instigating troubles. They insisted on slandering our Cao clan for stealing their secret recipe of tofu, and I ask you to make decisions for the common people." As the patriarch of the Cao clan, Cao Jiawang With a deep scheming mind and a ruthless personality, now he only wants to strengthen and prosper the Cao clan, no matter what method he uses.

"Reporting to my lord, this is not the case! It is really Cao Agou from Caojia Village who turned black and white. Not only did he bite back and say that the members of my Lin clan stole their secret tofu recipe, but he also beat up the people of Linjia Village first. My lord has learned a lesson!" Lin Renyi When I first heard that people in Caojia Village made tofu, I knew something was wrong. It must be that the secret recipe was leaked by someone.

This is a big deal, but before he could gather his clansmen to discuss and investigate, Cao Agou brought people to the door.When there was a disagreement, the people of the two villages started fighting.

It may be that the anger and resentment accumulated over the years are too heavy. When many people in Linjia Village heard that the tofu recipe was leaked to Caojia Village, they couldn't control it so much.Someone blocked their way of making a fortune and surviving. At this time, no matter how soft-tempered they were, they became hardened.

Next, Lu Zhiming asked Cao Agou and others, but the people in Caojia Village all said that the people in Linjia Village did it first, and the people in Linjia Village also said that the people in Caojia Village did it first.

At the end of the debate, the public said that the public was right, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was right.Lu Zhiming had no choice but to investigate the case on the spot. At the same time, he also sent a government servant to the town to invite two doctors to treat the injured villagers in the two villages.

Linqingxi didn't care what was going on with this matter. Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that it was definitely the people in Caojia Village who were deliberately playing tricks. I don't know what method they used. It is necessary to preemptively attack and slander the people of Linjia Village.

Lu Zhiming, the county magistrate, was naturally there to investigate the case, so she was not worried about the outcome of the matter. It was just that her two brothers were injured, but she felt very distressed.

"Fourth brother, does it hurt?" Lin Qinghao has always been the most honest and obedient child in the family in Lin Qingxi's eyes, and he is also the one who most resembles Lin Zhongguo's personality. heart of.

"It doesn't hurt! Hiss—" Lin Qinghao wanted to pull the corners of his mouth and smile, but he was injured, and if he moved a little, it would hurt so much.

"Fifth brother, what about you?" Lin Qinghe was not injured as badly as Lin Qinghao, mainly because someone stomped on his body twice.

"Sister, don't worry, I'm fine! The people in Cao's Village only beat the elderly and children, and we won't be lenient. But my fourth brother and I didn't beat the elderly, women or children, but only attacked Cao Agou and those who followed him to do evil. Human hands!" Lin Qinghe said the last sentence in a very low voice.

In fact, most of the people who came to Caojia Village were called by Cao Agou. Among them, the old people, women and children in Caojia Village followed along to join in the fun, but when they saw the people from the two villages making a move, they naturally began to help Caojia Village people.

Although Cao Agou has a bad reputation outside, it is also because of him that the people in Caojia Village have no shortage of water or food during the severe drought. Outsiders can say that the people of Caojia Village have no conscience. Conscience is actually worthless compared to being able to survive.

Lin Qingxi saw that many people in Linjia Village were injured, fortunately, they were all minor injuries, and she also saw Lin Liu'an and Lin Qixi among the crowd who were supposed to open up wasteland at the foot of the mountain.

However, after Zhang Xian and the others appeared, they quickly stood behind Zhang Xian and Wei Xuan, lowered their heads, and became invisible people.

It only took half a day for Lu Zhiming to find out the truth of the whole matter. It turned out that Li Shi, the second daughter-in-law of Lin Renhe, an old clan in Linjia Village, was persuaded by Cao Shi from the same village to trick her husband into making tofu. The general process, and then told Cao.

(End of this chapter)