Liu Xia Lian quickly stopped him: "No, no, don't go. According to our rules, unmarried daughters cannot visit the graves. There is no need to cause this unpleasantness."

After hearing what Liu Xia Lian said, Zhao Hua gave up the idea and the group slowly returned to the village as it was getting late.

When they arrived at the entrance of the village, Liu Xia Lian gave all three chickens to Lian Jun: "Take them back and stew them. Your uncle doesn't have any meat to buy, so you can't eat this."

"Okay then, sister, come to my house and play for a while and take a look at my homework."

Zhao Hua and Zhao Yong went back to their uncle's house, and the men were preparing dinner and playing cards.

Liu Xia Lian and Liu Dongxue followed Lian Jun to their sixth uncle's house. The yard was really speechless. The wall was only one meter high and was made of stone eggs the size of small watermelons. There were five stone houses with thatched roofs.

When Uncle Six was young, he rode a 28-inch bicycle to sell ammonia. He fell and injured his foot, and he couldn’t work very well.

When Liu Xia Lian came in, Uncle Six was making wine and stuffing the ginseng Liu Xia Lian brought into a large wine bottle.

"Uncle Six, what are you researching?"

"I'm making wine. Ginseng and sorghum wine. It tastes really good."

Although he is only in his thirties, his face is full of the vicissitudes of life.

"I don't remember your family raising a lot of sheep, how come they are gone?"

"Oh, don't mention it. Weasels only bite skinny ducks. Last winter, thieves broke open the wall of our yard and stole all the sheep, two adults and four children."

"We still have to live our lives, and we can't move forward just because of a small matter."

"Who said it wasn't true? But a penny can make a hero fall. If you hadn't donated money to the village for the water pump, my family wouldn't have even received the 25 yuan fundraising. If I had money, I would rebuild the wall with red bricks and cement, so that thieves can't dig it up. I would buy a cow that can plow the land and give birth to calves. I would also buy a few sheep, and in less than three years, the business would be back on track. Now that my children have grown up, I'm thinking of finding a factory nearby to work and earn thirty or forty a month."

"How much does a cow cost here?"

"There are many kinds of cattle. There are foreign big cattle that are expensive, costing several thousand yuan each. Our local clawed tiger cattle are cheap, costing more than a thousand yuan each, but they are small and weigh only 600 to 700 kilograms. They can only plow hillsides. If you want to plow the loess land, you need to cooperate with other people's cattle."

Liu Xialian calculated that she could buy red bricks and cement for the fence and hire her family to do the labor, and a thousand yuan would be enough. A yellow cattle cost a thousand yuan, and four or five big sheep would cost five or six hundred yuan.

"Well, uncle, I'll give you three thousand. We have to get on with our lives as soon as possible. We can't waste any more time."

Liu Xia Lian signaled Liu Dongxue to go out of the car and get the big bag.

Uncle Six heard the news so suddenly that he was at a loss for a moment.

"No, no, how can I ask you for money? You are the junior and I am the elder. This is absolutely unreasonable."

"If you have this money, your family will be able to turn things around in three or two years. If you don't have this money, it may take five or six years."

"That won't work. I'm not a child anymore. If I take the child's money, the villagers will laugh at me."

"If you don't tell me and I don't tell you, no one will know."

Not long after, Liu Dongxue brought in three thousand yuan, all of which were brand new big unity notes, neatly stacked.

Uncle Six thought for a while and finally made up his mind: "I'll write you an IOU and return it in three years, otherwise I'm afraid I won't have the motivation."

"Okay, since uncle said so, I have no objection, but don't feel pressured. I won't ask you for it even if you don't pay it back."

Sixth Uncle graduated from junior high school, and his handwriting with a ballpoint pen was very neat. Liu Xia Lian took it and looked at it. It showed that she was borrowing three thousand yuan with an interest of six percent, so she tore it up.

"Uncle, if you write interest again, don't lend me this money. I was originally intended to be given to you, but you still write interest. Are you treating me as an outsider?"

"Okay, okay, I'll rewrite it."

Sixth Uncle wrote an IOU and Liu Xia Lian kept it, and the matter came to an end.

"Uncle, before you buy sheep or cows, you have to do one thing, otherwise you won't be able to raise them with peace of mind."

"whats the matter?"

"I'm not afraid of thieves stealing, but I'm afraid of thieves thinking about it. This sheep thief must be from this village or a neighboring village. We must help him, otherwise there will be a next time."

“Isn’t this hard to catch?”

"That's easy. Just do as I say."

Liu Xia Lian quietly told her sixth uncle about the plan, and her sixth uncle nodded repeatedly. Such villains must be eliminated, otherwise he would not be able to sleep or eat in peace.

The next morning, the brothers brought offerings to worship their ancestors, and Uncle Six found a large horse-drawn carriage in the village and went to the nearby Huangpo market. This market has sheep, and people from nearby villages go here to trade.

I bought six large, high-quality sheep at once. When I arrived at the village entrance, many people were chatting there.

Someone asked: "Lao Liu, why did you buy another sheep? I don't remember how much you cried when you lost your sheep last year."

"I'll close the door this time, so it's okay. I'm just afraid he won't come. If he does, I'll definitely catch him and send him to the police station."

"Okay, if you catch him, all the brothers will come to help. This thief is so abominable."

Uncle Liu deliberately gave a loud scolding at the entrance of the village, and it was only after a while that he took the sheep back home.

In the evening, the night is quiet, only insects are chirping, it is the beginning of autumn.

It was late at night, when even the dogs were not barking, around two o'clock, two men pulled a cart and slowly came to the outside of Uncle Liu's fence. One of them was waiting outside, while the other went inside the wall with a pair of pliers.

At this moment, a strong flashlight suddenly illuminated, and several shotguns were pointed at them.

"Don't move, put down your weapons, or I'll shoot."

The man with the big scissors was very agile and flipped over the wall in a flash, but what greeted him was a heavy gun butt.

The one swinging the gun butt was Zhao Yong, who beat the guy into submission.

Another person was caught by Zhao Hua, followed by the eldest uncle, the second uncle and six other old brothers, each holding a carrying pole.

He went up and beat them up, making the two men scream.

"Ah, stop it, stop it."

The rural people were ruthless and might really beat them to death. Liu Jun was the director after all, so he stopped them: "Contact the director of the township, arrest them and let them spend ten or eight years in prison."

When they shone their lanterns, they recognized that the one holding the big scissors was Zheng the butcher who ran a mutton soup restaurant on the street, and the other one was Liu Wu, a lazy and gluttonous man in the village.

The two men kowtowed like pounding garlic. The eldest uncle was the village chief. He went up and slapped Liu Wu in the face, and then slapped Zheng Tu again.

"Public or private?"

"Privately, privately, it must be privately settled. I beg you."

I can get a lot of compensation if I settle the matter privately, but there are also hidden dangers. Now that they have been let go, revenge in the future is inevitable.

Uncle Six asked Liu Jun: "Fourth brother, you are the director, please tell me."

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