Chapter 36: Trouble
"Are you sure you want to pay it back?" The old village chief asked in a deep voice, looking at the crowd in the yard.
The noisy crowd was quiet for a moment, and then became more noisy: "What do you mean? Of course he has to give us back what he took from us!"
"It's easy for me to peel off a few pounds! Why should I give it to him for free?"
"Yes, they are so dark-hearted that they can harm people in the same village. They are so heartless!"
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Li Changlin could see from the sidelines that the people who said cruel and disgusting words were all from that family.
The Fan Damu family in the village is extremely shrewd, but this man and his second uncle Fan are still members of the same family who have not yet entered the fifth server.
Zhang Tuzi's family and Aunt Zhang's husband are brothers. However, although Aunt Zhang is the poorest in Shanshui Village, it is because Uncle Zhang likes to gamble, which drags them down, while this Zhang Baldy is purely lazy, lazy to eat and work, and his two acres of land is not as good as other people's. An acre of harvest.
The other one is Wang Mazi’s family, one of the top three poorest in the village! And he is also his mother's fourth uncle.
He is a traitor, lazy and greedy, and is a notoriously difficult household in the village.
At this moment, he pointed at the old village chief and shouted: "Hey, my niece is marrying into your family as your daughter-in-law, Chang Lin, I am still your fourth grandfather!"
You can't help outsiders bully a lonely old man like me. If you don't help me make the decision today, the old Wang family will never recognize your mother in the future! "
Li Changlin rolled his eyes in his heart and almost rolled his eyes to the sky.
They relied on their elders and betrayed them, and used the Wang family to oppress them at every turn!
"Fourth uncle, what are you talking about?" Wang Guifen was disgusted with her fourth uncle who often used her name, and asked with a deep frown.
"What are you talking about? Of course it's the truth! Niece Guifen, you have to ask your father-in-law to help our old Wang family!" Wang Mazi didn't care and pointed at his niece to make a request.
Wang Guifen really regretted it in her heart. She regretted that she went to his house yesterday and mentioned so much about exchanging rice.
Yesterday I heard Fan Jin and Shui Qing talk about it, and I also heard that the more the merrier, I thought of course I had to tell my parents about such a good thing, but I didn’t expect...
She took a deep breath and asked her parents in the crowd: "Mom and dad, what do you mean?"
When the two old men came into contact with their daughter's unkind gaze, they shrank their necks, looked at the fourth child again, and finally stood beside their daughter and whispered: "We still listen to Guifen.
If her family retreats, we will retreat with her; if her family does not retreat, we will not retreat either. "
Wang Mazi was unhappy, pointed at his eldest brother and sister-in-law and yelled angrily: "Hey, I made a good promise before I came here, how could you two go back on your word?
We will retreat later, but you don’t have to retreat, so don’t complain. "
The old couple lowered their heads like quails and remained silent.
The old village chief glanced around deeply and said to his grandson beside him: "Chang Lin, go and get a pen and paper. Write down the name of the person who wants to withdraw and the amount of chicken heads and rice. Later, your uncle Fan and his family will be asked to withdraw." Just get the chicken head rice.”
"Hey, isn't it rice? Why is chicken head rice returned?" Fan Damu commented dissatisfied.
The old village chief glanced over with sharp eyes and sneered: "You gave me chicken head rice, and you don't believe that others will give you rice in exchange. Wouldn't it be most appropriate to give you chicken head rice back?"
The people in his group below whispered: "Yes, as long as you can have chicken head rice, Damu, don't ask for it."
"Didn't we agree before we came here that we can refund the chicken head rice, or we can increase the price!"
When the old village chief under the eaves heard this, he sneered inaudibly.
Price increase?
Based on the decisive performance of Fan's second daughter-in-law in recent days, I am afraid these people will never cooperate in the future.
Before the items were sold, they decided to increase the price. No wonder these families were living in poverty in the village.
If your mind is not right, it is rotten at the root and not worth helping...
When Wang Mazi saw his second brother and eldest brother standing together, he was unwilling to retreat and was extremely disdainful.
It's so hard not to shed tears without seeing the coffin. Even Fan Jin's biological mother and eldest brother said that Fan Jin was so poor. If he really had such powerful and wealthy classmates, how could he be so poor at the age of twenty-eight?
I'm afraid I won't get rich early.
That is to say, to coax the fools in the village.
And if it’s true, you can just change it later, so why take the risk!
Fan Damu stared at the people queuing up to register, with a smile on his lips.
He had already agreed with Fan Qian, Fan Jin's eldest brother, that he would go to Fucheng to inquire in the next two days, and it would be best to use Fan Jin's name to strike up a conversation.
Then they quoted a price of one and a half kilograms of rice for one kilogram of chicken head rice, which was a kilogram less than Fan Jin. How can a businessman not be tempted by high profits?
Even a fool knows how to choose!
When the time comes, they will exchange coarse grain brown rice with the villagers for chicken head rice. Wherever they need to make money from Fan Jin, they can make the money themselves...
Li Changlin registered one by one on the tables and chairs.
Zhang Tuzi has a small family, and his children are not big, weighing only four pounds;
Fan Damu handed over a lot at noon yesterday, a full five kilograms, but left one hand in the afternoon and handed over only one kilogram, so the total was six kilograms;
Wang Mazi's family has more, mainly because he is older and has several sons, and each family has some, but now he is suppressing them to register and return them;
The eldest brother Wang and the second child suddenly changed their minds and refused to retreat, but the third child was convinced by Wang Mazi and insisted on retreating.
Wang Laosan did not have the authority of Wang Mazi at home. Mainly because his family was divided into separate families. Only the children who lived with him obeyed his instructions and had to leave. The remaining sons and daughters-in-law who lived in separate houses did not listen at all.
Finally, Li Changlin stood up and handed the written paper to his grandfather.
The old village chief glanced over, looking at the people on the paper with his wise eyes and said: "This time we have returned it, and we will not make a fuss about it anymore."
"Don't worry, we will definitely not make a fuss!"
"As long as we return it, it's fine. We are not unreasonable people, how can we make a fuss?"
"Don't worry, old village chief, as long as you can get them to return the things to me, not only will I not make a fuss, but I will scold anyone who makes a fuss!"
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The old village chief nodded, turned around and whispered to Changlin: "Let your mother take the chicken head rice that we peeled today and follow."
The second Fan family may use it later.
Li Changlin instantly understood what grandpa meant.
Grandpa was worried that Uncle Fan had not come back yet, and these people were robbing Uncle Fan's rice, so he decided to return the chicken head rice;
Considering that Uncle Fan's family had no chicken head rice to return, but his family had some, he took his own.
He raised his eyes and replied in a low voice: "I know."
The grandfather and grandson smiled at each other.
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The old village chief led the crowd to the Fan family on the high ground at the edge of the village.
The houses in Shanshui Village are next to each other, connected front and back, and quite compact. Fan Jin's family did not build a small house next to Fan Qian's brick house, but chose another place to build a house.
The place is a bit big, but it is inconvenient to travel.
There are not many families who really want to return their things, but there are many people following the old village chief - during the slack season, everyone has nothing to do, so they want to join in the fun.
When everyone climbed up the slope, they saw that there were only a few scattered dots in the distance on the wide open space.
Fan Damu ran to the thatched house first, saw the locked wooden door, and shouted to the crowd: "No one!
The house is locked!"
Wang Mazi immediately became excited, shouting that it was fortunate that he had foresight.
Pointing at his sons and wives, he taught them a lesson: "Your father has eaten more salt than you have eaten rice. You must listen to me!"
He then looked at his eldest and second brothers with a smug look, sneering: "You don't listen to me, can your own brothers harm you?
Now it's all right. No one is here, and I don't know when I can get my things back. It's no use regretting. Anyway, I can't blame you."
Other onlookers pouted. Although they were also worried that their things would be lost, they looked down on Wang Mazi's behavior.
Those who knew knew that it was a few kilograms of grain, and those who didn't thought it was gold, silver, and pearls
The eldest daughter of Zhang Tuzi's family ran to the vegetable field, pointing at Yan Qiuxing and yelling: "Where are your parents?
Let them come out and return the things they took from my family to us!"
It was all her cousin Zhang Xiaocao's fault. Her family was foolish enough to be fooled, and they also suffered losses.
That was several kilograms of chicken head rice. If it was dried and ground into powder and made into vegetable paste, it could be eaten for several meals.
Yan Qiu stood up slowly and said to the crowd that followed him in a clear and bright voice: "My parents will be back soon. Please wait for a moment, grandpas, grandmas, uncles, aunts and aunts."