Xiao Qiao enters the farm gate

Seeing this, Ma He didn't make a sound, and moved out quietly.

"Lin Fu, you just let him go?" Lin Hui asked with a frown. To be honest, he didn't know how to deal with this situation, but he always felt that it was inappropriate to collect money and let him go.

However, Lin Fu changed his previous attitude and waved his hands indifferently: "My wife has to give some compensation for sleeping. I deserve the money. Besides, I can't beat people to death. If I don't let him go, I will pay you back." Keep him. What's more, he's from the city, we don't know the place where we live, what if someone has the ability at home, what should we do instead?"

Lin Hui did have this concern. Can a person who can spend so much money be an ordinary person?

Ma He successfully got out of the small courtyard, tidied up his embarrassment a little bit, looked back with a stern look, and swore he wouldn't just let it go.

After Ma He left Lihua Lane, a figure turned out from the hiding place, it was Lin Zheng.When the matter developed to this point, it was not far from the expectation, so he didn't stay any longer, quietly left, and went straight out of the city.

When Lin Zheng came out, he said he was going to see Zhushan to catch bamboo rats, so naturally he couldn't return empty-handed.

It was dusk when we left the city, and it was already dark when we rushed back to the village, so we took a detour into the mountain under the cover of night.Although it was summer, the night in the deep mountains was still very cold. Lin Zheng found a leeward place, lit a fire, and roasted the rabbits he had brought for dinner.The next day, as soon as the sun was shining, we buried the fire, caught a few fat and tender bamboo rats and put them in the newly woven bamboo cages, and put two rabbits in them. We were lucky enough to shoot a roe deer halfway through.

It was almost noon when I arrived home, and every family was cooking.

Their house is facing the mountain in the west, so no one saw Lin Zheng when he came back.

"Ah Zheng is back." Uncle Li was coming from the west courtyard with a bag of picked peanuts, and he saw Lin Zheng at a glance.

Originally, I could take care of the house by inviting Auntie Li to come over, but considering Auntie Lin's situation, it was inevitable that some people in the village would gossip if I only invited Auntie Li, so I invited Uncle Li to come with me.Anyway, the two are close, so it is convenient to go back if there is something to do.

Qiao Mo, who was helping Grandma Li in the kitchen, heard the voice and saw Lin Zheng holding a bamboo cage in one hand, two rabbits in the other, and a roe deer. With so many things back, it’s just right to burn the rabbit meat in a while.”

"I'll clean it up, you stay away, the smell of blood is strong." Lin Zheng saw that he couldn't smell the smell, so he put down the bamboo cage, and took the two live rabbits and the dead roe deer to the well in the west courtyard. clean up.

Qiao Mo wanted to ask him about his trip, but Grandma Li and Uncle Li were still there, so he could only endure it.

Since Lin Zheng came back, a dish of braised rabbit meat was added to the lunch, together with cold water spinach, scrambled eggs with leeks, and radish fried meat, it was also very rich.Father Lin still delivered the meals to the room. The braised rabbit meat was not suitable for the wounded, but a bowl of fragrant chicken soup.

After the meal, Grandma Li and Uncle Li were about to go home, Lin Zheng ignored their excuses and gave them the roe deer.One is to thank them for their care, and two is that although the roe deer is good, it is not suitable for Qiao Mo to eat when she is pregnant, and it is not suitable for Aunt Lin to recuperate.What's more, the roe deer is so big, it's better to give it to them. There are four people in their family.

After waiting for the kitchen to be tidied up and looking at Father Lin, the two went back to their room for an afternoon nap.

Qiao Mo couldn't sleep if he had something on his mind, so he asked him when he entered the door: "How is it?"

Lin Zheng then told him what happened in the county.

Qiao Mo didn't expect things to be so coincidental and smooth, and he had a new understanding of Li Shuilian's courage, but Li Shuilian's experience did not make him feel happy and relieved, but a very complicated and inexplicable feeling. Feel.Thinking of Li Shuilian's behavior and everything she did, Qiao Mo didn't want to think too much about such a person, so she said something else.

"Where were you hiding at the time? How did you get hit?" Qiao Mo was curious when he heard it just now, Ma He was hiding under the bed, how could he get hit with scissors?

Lin Zheng didn't say where he got stabbed. After all, that part is sensitive and hard to talk about. Seeing him ask, he said: "At first I hid on the beam of the house. Although Ma He hid under the bed, when there was a commotion in the yard, he would I couldn’t help crawling out to watch, I wanted him to make a sound, and there was only a pair of scissors in the room. When he yelled, Lin Fu came in from the outside, and I went out through the window.”

Qiao Mo stared at him intently for a while, only to feel uneasy, and then said with emotion: "I know you are so powerful."

Don't think it's just raising the beams and turning over the windows. It's really not easy to do this when there are people inside the house and people outside the house break in at any time.

"I've been studying outside for a few years. I just wanted to learn how to hunt." Lin Zheng's initial goal was indeed simple. After learning a lot, he didn't feel that he was very good. After all, he was generally useless. , not as useful as hunting skills.

After Qiao Mo heard this, he understood where he learned it. Such a family must have powerful guards, and he is capable of learning from those people.

After Lin Zheng finished speaking, he frowned and asked, "You asked me this, don't they come back?"

Qiao Mo shook his head, guessing uncertainly: "Maybe it's been delayed for a long time, the city gate is closed. Maybe I can come back today."

Lin Zheng thought about it and did everything he could do. The only thing he can do now is to wait for the result.

After a lunch break for half an hour, when Qiao Mo woke up, Lin Zheng was no longer in the room. When he went out to look for him, he was indeed picking peanuts in the west courtyard.Although Uncle Li has helped pick a lot in the past two days, it is only a drop in the bucket for the harvest of six acres, and it is still too early to finish all the work.

Qiao Mo brought tea over, and sat with him in the shade by the yard to talk.

"The watermelons in the field are almost ripe, and I will pick them again in two days, and I will be able to let go of the seedlings. I plan to plant white radishes in the eight acres of sandy land, but there are too many radishes. Do you think you can plant more? What's good?" Qiao Mo said as he took out the peach-pink bamboo strips that had been dipped earlier, planning to weave a small flower cup with a big belly and an open mouth, and then make a cart, put the flower cup on it, and insert it A few flowers on it, chic and cute.

Lin Zheng picked the peanuts quickly and quickly, and filled half the bag in a short time. After hearing his question, he thought for a while and said, "Grow some peppers, even if you can't sell them, you can dry them and store them." .”

"Well. Grandma Li's peanuts are about to be harvested, and there are still a few acres of corn. Our family has finished the melon field, and there is only rice in autumn. I will also help out when the time comes."

"Hmm. How's the situation in the store?" Lin Zheng asked.

"Li Xue and the others have been doing very well, and their shipments are very stable. I plan to open two days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, so I can make it in time." Qiao Mo thought that people would buy mooncakes and pastries during the Mid-Autumn Festival, so their shop only sold pastries and pastries. Candy, and the new store opens with promotional activities, so it shouldn't be very difficult to get off to a good start.

During the conversation, several people from Li Xue had already come over, so Qiao Mo went to say hello.

In the past two days, Li Xue and others came early and returned late, so they seized all the time to catch up with work, because the autumn harvest was coming soon.They are all farmers in the countryside, and every family has fields. Even if the family has enough labor, they still have to help with housework, cooking and water delivery during busy seasons. I am afraid that they will not be free during the busiest days.

Qiao Mo naturally understood that wages were calculated on a piece basis anyway, so they might as well stop working when the farming season was busy.

At dusk, Li Xue went home and it was time to make dinner.Now that Qiao Mo has adapted to the changes in his body, he also does some light housework, such as cooking, and Lin Zheng helps out as usual.Halfway through the meal, Li Liang came over and brought the news they had been waiting for——

Lin Fu and the others are back!

"How did you come back?" Qiao Mo almost asked Cheng why he came back.

Li Liang said: "How can we come back? Lin Hui and the others drove a car when they went to the county to find someone. Naturally, they came back by car. Just now, I was chatting in the village. I just saw Lin Hui and his car coming back. Lin Fu was also there. But I didn't see his wife."

"Li Shuilian isn't there?" Qiao Mo and Lin Zheng were both taken aback, wondering what happened.

"Well, I didn't see it, and someone asked, but Lin Hui didn't say anything. Their car went directly to the patriarch's house." When Li Liang got the news, he quickly came to inform them so that they could make preparations, and then left .

Qiao Mo guessed in his heart, and asked, "Will Third Uncle ask you to go?"

Lin Zheng thought for a while, then shook his head: "Probably not. The less people know about stealing such a shameful thing, the better. The third uncle will definitely not allow Lin Hui and the others to spread it. If this is the case, what can I say? So The clan will deal with it secretly, so we should go to find Li Shuilian again. Lin Fu is too open-mouthed, and he can't stand it, so in order to prevent him from leaking out, the third uncle must also lock him up."

"It's not a bad thing."

The facts were exactly as Lin Zheng guessed.

After Lin Hui came back, he immediately told his grandfather everything about the city.The third uncle's expression changed frequently, and finally his face was livid, and his body trembled in anger.He has been the patriarch for so many years, and such a thing has never happened in the clan. If it gets out, it will be fine!

The third uncle made a decisive decision, first asked Lin Hui to call some strong boys, and tricked Lin Fu into a room and locked him up.They also invited two elders of the clan to discuss together, and the main object of the discussion was Li Shuilian.If the person gets it back, everything is easy to talk about, find an excuse, and lock him up in the ancestral hall for a lifetime, but now that the person has run away, who knows where he is hiding?

"I probably went to find that adulterer!" said a clan elder.

"I heard from Ah Hui that that person carried more than 200 taels of silver with him. He is no ordinary person. If he went to find that person..." The meaning of what the third uncle didn't finish was very clear. Li Shuilian really hid in the adulterer's house. Can't find it.

Because Lin Hui was an experienced person, and he was there when he had something to ask from time to time, he suddenly interjected and said, "Grandpa, I remember Brother Lian calling that person 'Master Ma' at that time."

The third uncle was taken aback.

It was a clan elder who answered in surprise: "Ma? There are not many families with the surname Ma in the county, right?"

"There are not many, just one family." The other person frowned fiercely, feeling that things had become more difficult.

"If it's really that Ma family..." Third Uncle sighed heavily and stopped talking.

What can I say?If it's really that rich Ma's family, what they say is useless, and they can't afford to provoke them at all.

After one night, everything in the village was peaceful, and there was no sign of Lin Fu at all.Someone in the village asked Lin Hui, and Lin Hui followed his third uncle's advice and told the outside world that Lin Fu was locked up in the ancestral hall because Lin Fu gambled in the city and would go to gamble once he was released.

The villagers believed it, after all Lin Fu was such a person.The village guessed that the reason why the clan was only disciplining Lin Fu now was because they owed a lot of gambling debts in the city this time, and also implicated Li Shuilian. Otherwise, why didn't Li Shuilian come back?Some even guessed that Lin Fu sold Li Shuilian and used the money to gamble, that's why the Lin family locked her up.In short, all kinds of speculations abounded, and the Lin family didn't stop it, and it was generally acquiescing.

As far as the clan is helpless, no matter how the outside world spreads it, it is better than the news that the Lin family's daughter-in-law stole people and stole money and hid in the adulterer's house.

Others were just talking about it and didn't really care about it, but one person was very frightened and angry.

Grandma Jin was running around the village that day, showing off a new silver bracelet on her wrist, but she heard about this incident.Thinking of Lin Fu's deeds and the Lin family's different attitude towards him, I immediately believed it was true. I really thought that my brother was sold by Lin Fu, and immediately went to the third uncle's house crying and howling. .

Even if Grandma Jin is greedy for money, she will only have this one brother in her life, and she still loves her in her heart.Originally, he was reluctant to marry his elder brother to Lin Fu, but now he may be sold to some place to endure hardship, where can he bear it.

"Lin Fu, come out! My good brother came to your house, not to mention coaxing and confessing, but also bullying and beating every day, and now he sold everyone, why did my brother Lian die like this? Bitter." Grandma Jin didn't go to the ancestral hall at all, but went directly to the third uncle's house, and sat in the courtyard, crying and crying.

Within a short while, the third uncle's house was surrounded by villagers, including members of the Li family.No matter how unpleasant Grandma Jin was, Li Shuilian was married, and after all she came out of her own family. If something like that happened to Lin Fu, their family couldn't ignore it.

The third uncle heard the movement and came out, he understood it at a glance, secretly blamed himself for being old, and forgot to communicate with the Li family.

Grandma Jin has already seen the patriarch of the Li clan, and hurriedly rushed over: "Patriarch, you have to make decisions for our brother Lian. I am just such a brother, and I still count on him to die in retirement, but now I am being punished by others. It was sold, wouldn't it kill me? My poor brother Lian, I don't know where I am now, if you die, I won't live anymore. "

Before the head of the Li family opened his mouth, Lin Hui came over, whispered a few words in his ear, the head of the Li family comforted Grandma Jin, and followed Lin Hui into the house.

The villagers all watched and talked more vigorously.

It was about half an hour before the head of the Li family came out, and when he came out, his face was very ugly, especially when he looked at the crying Grandma Jin, he was almost disgusted.Someone asked him what to do with this matter, but he didn't answer, and left sullenly.

Grandma Jin was stunned for a moment, thinking that the clan didn't want to care about it, and just about to yell, two grandmas from the Li family came up together, helped him up without saying a word, one left and one right, and took him away forcefully.

The villagers didn't understand what was going on, until they couldn't see anyone, and they still remembered Grandma Jin's yelling in their ears.