Liu An Hua Ming You Yi Village

Chapter 72

This year is the new county magistrate's appointment, and next year's county examination results are particularly important.

Although he is not appointed as a scholar, he will also pay attention to the examination of next year's scholar.Sending more people up is good for everyone.

Dean Chu knows the twists and turns, teaching is not just educating people blindly, interpersonal relationship is also very important.

"I'll take Yu'er back home. The third and fourth younger siblings in the family are all pregnant. It's the time of the autumn harvest. It's really outrageous to let my mother work at home alone." Hu and Du Youzhong discussed it. It's the autumn harvest season again. Although their family hired part-time workers, they still take care of people's meals. The two pregnant women can't take care of them like before. At this time, as the eldest daughter-in-law, she is still living here every day. It's the same, it really shouldn't be.

The academies here are not like those private schools in the town. When the farming season is busy, they will have a busy farming holiday, so Du Youzhong and the others don't have time at all.I can't go back either.

Du Youzhong said: "It's okay, the food for the few of us is also easy to solve, and it's not that we can't cook."

After all, they all came from the countryside, so it's not a big deal to fill their stomachs.

"When August [-]th is the holiday, we will all rush back. You don't have to be too busy when you go back. I would rather invite more people than tire myself out." Du Youzhong said.

So Du Yu and Hu rushed back to Yangliu Village. The fields in Yangliu Village were already golden, and when the breeze blew, there were golden waves.

Mrs. Qi did not expect Mrs. Hu to come back suddenly, so she said: "You are back, what are the boss and Dalang going to do? We can take care of the things in the fields here, so you should go back quickly, don't delay things."

Hu said: "Mother, Youzhong also agreed with us to come back. The left and right have finished their work during this time, so we can have a good Mid-Autumn Festival."

Mrs. Qi finally said: "Well, I don't know if there are men who are loyal to them, can they cook the food well." After all, it was worry.

But when the farming season is busy, they get busy when they say they are busy. The two daughter-in-laws have big bellies, so they can't let them go to work in the fields with big bellies now.

In fact, many people in the village are still working in the fields when they are about to give birth, but the Qi family also knows that the eldest son has become a scholar. Enjoy the blessings outside, let the remaining son and daughter-in-law work and suffer every day.

It doesn't matter if the eldest daughter-in-law is back, let others see that their eldest is a good guy.

Mrs. Gao's and Mrs. Zhao's months are about the same. When they saw their sister-in-law coming back, they also said, "Sister-in-law, we are here, and mother usually only lets us cook."

Hu said with a smile: "The family must have hired a lot of short-term workers. Why do you two do so many? I will help at least when I come back."

In order to prevent heavy rain in the future, the short-term workers hired here will work from the dawn of the sky until it is completely dark. There is also a lot of rice planted this year, so I directly hired ten people and paid twenty yuan a day. At this time, That is to say, only people with less land would come to do part-time jobs. Twenty Wen is already a lot, and everyone is very happy, and the Du family has a meal at noon, which is better than others.

Except for these ten short-term laborers, all the men in the family also went to the field, except for Mr. Du. According to Mr. Du, Mr. Du is now an old man.

However, Mr. Du will also lift water from the well when the time comes, and he can still do this.

Mrs. Hu took Mrs. Gao and Mrs. Zhao to cook, Du Yu helped, Mrs. Qi dispatched them, went to the butcher's house to buy several catties of meat every day, and then greeted these laborers with big meat slices.

Du Yu is mainly in charge of picking and washing vegetables, while Gao and Zhao are in charge of cutting vegetables and lighting the fire. These two jobs are relatively easy, and the fire is also taking turns, after all, the weather is hot.

At noon, Du Yu's third or fourth uncle will come back, pick the prepared meals to the field, and put them in a cool place for everyone to eat.

It's all rushing to harvest, time is food, how can it be used for such a waste?Everyone hires short-term workers like this.

In fact, apart from the meat and vegetables, the rest are some home-cooked vegetables. Everyone is very busy. The happiest thing about Du Yu is that he takes a bath and goes to bed at night. He really sleeps until dawn.I have never slept so sweetly.

Watching the rice enter the warehouse, the joy of harvest is particularly exciting.Because their family has more land, they piled up more grain, and the Qi family was so happy that they could not close their mouths from ear to ear.

Even if she hired a short-time worker, she would have to pay someone [-] Wen every day. She was so distressed, and now she didn't say such distressing words when she saw the food.

However, there are also some bad things in the middle, that is, when they cut the rice in the field on the first day, when they went to bind it the next day, they found that some places were missing.This means that someone steals rice in the field at night.

"You really see it clearly?" Qi Shi asked Du Youquan, the fifth son.

Du Youquan could not wait to pat his chest, "Mother, I can still see wrong with my eyes, but it's missing, and someone stole the grain from our field!"

This thief, be careful not to fall into my hands, or you will be chopped off directly!
After hearing this, Mrs. Qi wished to scold the thief thousands of times, and wished to find Qin Decai directly, file a complaint and let him arrest him, but now he can only say that his family knows what he knows and there is no evidence. At that time, the villagers said that they were bullying others.

After Du Youzhong was selected as a scholar, the Qi family also paid attention to this aspect, and he had to be reasonable in everything.

So the Qi family decided to catch the thief who stole the rice, and then seek an explanation.

"Don't make a fuss, this person will definitely want to steal it a second time after stealing it once, I don't believe it, I can't catch him!" If you dare to steal from them, you are really impatient!
At first, he thought he would have to guard for at least a few days before he could catch him, but he was caught the next night, and the Qi family was not ambiguous, so they went straight to Qin Decai's side in the middle of the night.

Qin Decai also hated the thief who stole the rice. He thought it was someone from another village, but when he saw it, it turned out to be Grandma Hehua. Blocked.

When someone took the rag off her mouth, the lotus grandma started howling, "The Du family is bullying people, I am a five or sixty-year-old old woman, and I am going to beat me to death, I am dead!" , Decai, you have to be the master for your aunt. I went to see the rice in my field tonight, but the Du family didn’t like me, so they tied me up. Even if she has a son who is a scholar, You can't bully people like this!"

"Damn!" Mrs. Qi directly spit on Grandma He Hua's face, "I've seen shameless people, but I've never seen such shameless people, old lady bullying others?

Why don't you say, you went to my field in the middle of the night to steal rice, and we caught you, how dare you talk nonsense!

Decai, there has never been such a scandal in our Yangliu Village. If you don't deal with it, then I will not be convinced. You are the leader of our village, old lady, I believe you can handle this matter fairly.

Maybe this old lady didn't just steal my rice, let's see if anyone else was stolen too.She was directly caught by my family, and she dared to talk nonsense, such a person can't spare her! "

"You said I stole it, so I stole it? Decai, don't believe her, she had a grudge against me before, that's why she wanted to frame me!" Grandma He Hua refused to admit it.

The Qi family wanted to pooh, Qin Decai said: "Auntie Fu, you said they wronged you, so why did you end up at someone else's place in the middle of the night?"

"I didn't go to other people's land. I went to my family's land to have a look. I was also afraid that someone would steal our food."

"You mean to say that people from the Du family tied you up in your field?" Qin Decai asked.

"That's it, they have a grudge against me!"

"Fart! You said it's your land, and only ghosts would value such small things in your house! Madam, I have food in my house, so you can lie to ghosts." Qi scolded.

"It's what you say it is? Anyway, this is your family. If you don't tell it to you, who will you tell it to?"

Qi sneered and said: "I know that people like you will never admit it. I'm not the only one from my family. I also called other people in the village to join me. Otherwise, I'm not that stupid to say that I wronged you!" She was afraid that if the thief ran away, it would be difficult for her family to catch him, so she also invited some males from the neighbors' families, and they happened to come with him.

Naturally, these people could hear Grandma Hehua's voice, and what she said, they couldn't help feeling that Grandma Hehua was really shameless. It's just too disgusting for her to refuse to admit it at this time.

So they testified one after another. At this time, Grandma He Hua also said that because the Du family had a scholar, that's why they protected the members of the Du family.

Qin Decai was so angry that he didn't want to reason with the lotus grandma, he patted the table directly, "Okay, since Aunt Fu said that we have wronged you, then tomorrow I will invite people from the yamen to take a look and decide the case Let's find out who stole who, don't say I'm biased, let's look at the facts, people in other people's yamen have more ways to solve the case, and it's very clear who has produced how much food, when the time comes Weigh the food of each family, and you will know who has more and who has less."

After this incident broke out, someone reported to Grandma Hehua's son. When he heard this, he rushed in immediately in fright, "Li Zheng, my mother is confused. I dare not."

This is an admission that Grandma Hehua did it.

Grandma He Hua was about to slap her son, "You were struck by lightning, my mother didn't do that, you want to kill me."

"Mom, do you really want to go to the cell? Why do you have to do this?" If he asked him to admit it directly, and then refunded the food, the matter would be over, but my mother insisted on not admitting it, and put all these people away. Offended, Li Zheng is obviously impatient, and the Du family, they are a scholar's family, how many people came from the town last time, they are all rich families, my mother still refuses to admit it, really want to force them Use relationships to fold the whole family into it?
(End of this chapter)