The onlookers looked at Zhao Meina, who spoke and acted in an orderly manner at a young age, and felt that this child was extraordinary and that she would become a very capable person in the future.

Thinking about how she managed to raise her younger siblings after her parents abandoned them and ran away, a situation that even an adult would have found too much of a burden, but she relied on the help of kind-hearted people and slowly managed to make a good living.

As the old saying goes, "Enjoy the blessings of childhood, but you will have to bear them when you are old." The siblings have suffered so much at such a young age. When they grow up, they will be able to build a family with the skills they have learned since childhood.

Xu Hongbing sneered, "A toad wants to eat swan meat!"

Su Tianfen also risked her life, "Secretary Zou, Mina's teacher said that with her grades, she can be recommended to study at a high school in Huashi. This child will be able to enter university and become the top scorer. Our brigade has never had a college student!"

Zhou Datian looked at Secretary Zou with envy, "Old Zou, the Guanyin Brigade is about to produce a golden phoenix! You may not be interested, but the Funiu Brigade is very interested. How about transferring the siblings' household registration to our village? The village can also sponsor their studies?"

Secretary Zou laughed awkwardly and said, "Old Zhou, the village has always taken care of them."

Zhou Datian smiled and said, "Old Zou, since you are unwilling to release the sisters and brothers to my village, I have to remind you. You know the current situation. Those hooligans who act like hooligans and violate the wishes of women and children should be controlled early."

"You're right!" Secretary Zou turned to Zhao Meina and said, "Don't worry, this is a new society. If he dares to do something shady, we'll first cripple him and then send him to the police!"

Then he said to Zou Xin, "I'm telling you, this is a new society. The old ways are no longer accepted. Being a hooligan will result in a minimum of ten years of imprisonment. Violating the will of women and children and forcing them to marry will result in a prison sentence!"

Zou Xin said with a bitter face, "I didn't force her, I just wanted to help her, but she didn't want to, and she always ignored me."

"How old are you? How old is Mina? Why should they care about you?" Secretary Zou said to the villagers who were watching. "Next time you see Zou Xin wandering around the Zhao family's house, tie him up and send him to the police immediately!"

"Okay!" I don't know who in the crowd responded loudly.

Seeing the contemptuous looks of the onlookers, the Zou family became dispirited.

"Thank you, Secretary Zou." Zhao Meina said gratefully, "There is one more thing. The Zou family has not yet compensated for the damage to my bamboo forest."

"That's outrageous!" Secretary Zou looked at Zou Xin's parents with a dark face and said in a deep voice, "Why don't you pay the money I asked you to pay to Mina and her brother?"

"Why are you asking us to pay? These things in my house were broken for nothing?" When Mrs. Zou saw that she was asked to pay compensation, she jumped up and shouted.

"Tsk tsk!" Zhou Huaian said sarcastically, "After all this time, the rule of the Guanyin Team is that whoever has the loudest voice is right?"

"Zou Gui, bring the money to compensate Mina's family!" Secretary Zou shouted angrily at old man Zou Xin.

"Secretary Zou, it's not that we don't want to compensate, but we just don't have the money. How about giving them the chickens and ducks as collateral?"

Zou Gui had a good calculation. Half of these chickens and ducks were half-grown. If the Zhao family caught them, unless he kept them in captivity, once they were released, they would only run back to his home when it was time to roost.

Secretary Zou didn't expect that he would dare to ignore him in public. His face turned purple and he said, "You..." I think we are from the same family and I am protecting you and speaking for you, so don't blame me for not giving you face!

Yang Chunyan looked at the chickens and ducks, squeezed Zhao Meina's hand, and said, "Go ahead!"

"Hmm!" Zhao Meina turned her head and asked, "Secretary Zou, are those chickens and ducks compensated to us?"

The compensation for two acres of bamboo and bamboo shoots is only eighty yuan in total. If all the chickens and ducks are compensated to them, the big ones can be given to Uncle Zhou to send to Ning An to sell, and the small ones can be raised by his family. In the end, there will be a profit!

Secretary Zou saw that there were at least 20 to 30 chickens and ducks crowded in the corner of the vegetable field. He glanced at Zou Gui and said, "He just said that he would give you all those chickens and ducks. You should take them back."

"Okay!" Zhao Meina agreed readily, turned around and said to Xu Hongbing and Zhou Huaishan, "Uncle Xu, Uncle Zhou, please help me catch it."

"Okay!" Little Xu Hongbing waved his hands, "Everyone come and catch them, one for each of us and we'll be done."

"Come on!" Zhou Huaiqing said with a smile, "I'm the best at catching chickens and ducks. I was the one who released all the chickens and ducks at home when I was a child."

Old Mrs. Zou was anxious, "Don't catch her! Don't catch her! Boss, you fool, give her the money quickly!"

Zou Gui had his own plan and was unwilling to listen to her. "Mom, there is no money at home. How about you lend me some money to compensate Mina's family?"

"Where did I get the money to give you!"

When Mrs. Zou saw a group of men walking towards the vegetable field, she hurried forward to stop them, cursing, "Zou Ming, I gave you my milk to drink, what kind of secretary are you? If you can't be a secretary, call your husband over. Two acres of rotten bamboo and a few rotten vegetable leaves..."

"You old hag! I gave you face, and you will remember a mouthful of milk for the rest of your life. I will buy you a bag of milk powder tomorrow and give it back to you!"

Secretary Zou cursed inwardly and pointed at the Zou brothers with a gloomy face, "Zou Quan, Zou Lin, take your mother back and lock her up. Don't let her out! If she makes trouble again, send her to the police station!"

The two brothers of the Zou family hurriedly tried to pull the old lady back, "Mom, stop making a fuss. My eldest brother said he would pay off the debt with chickens and ducks!"

“Get lost!” Old Mrs. Zou angrily slapped him. “Your eldest brother knows nothing. A few hens have just started laying eggs, and a few ducks will be able to lay eggs next year…”

Zou Quan also got angry, "My eldest brother doesn't feel sorry for them, so what's the point of you feeling sorry for them? You don't even look at the chickens in my family, but you know my eldest brother's chickens very well. Then why did you live with us when we split up? Just go and leave them!"

"How dare you yell at me~" Old Lady Zou grabbed him and started beating him, "If I had known you were such a loser, I would have thrown you into a dung bucket..."

The Zou Quan brothers didn't say a word. They each held her up with one arm and walked out with her in their arms, regardless of her struggles and shouting.

Respecting the elderly and loving the young is a traditional virtue, but the premise is that the elderly are worthy of respect. If the elderly are disrespectful, and the son beats and scolds them, relatives and neighbors will not only not persuade them, but will applaud.

Without Old Lady Zou to stop them, the group entered the vegetable garden and saw chickens and ducks crowded together. More than twenty strong men divided into two groups and surrounded them to catch them.

It didn't take any effort to catch them all. Zhao Meina asked Xiu Na to take them home and lock them up, waiting for the Zhou family to return and take them away.

Seeing that everyone had left, Zhou Huaian looked at Secretary Zou, "Now that the matter of the Zhao siblings is over, it's time to talk about my family, right?"

Secretary Zou nodded and said, "If you have any requests, please raise them and we can negotiate."

Zhou Huaian said: "Zou Xin hit my nephew first, and the child was frightened and his bicycle fell into the ditch and broke into pieces. My nephew fainted when he got home, which scared my grandfather and my mother.

Secretary Zou, my grandfather is in poor health and cannot stand being bullied. The pills I gave him when he came here were bought by Dr. Wang from Deshengtang. They cost about 70 yuan a pill. If you don’t believe me, you can ask them to verify it!”

The old man then realized what happened to Zhou Huaixing last time. The pills he took were so valuable. Two pills cost more than a hundred yuan, but Chunyan and her husband took them without even blinking an eye.

He spent dozens of yuan per pound of Ganoderma lucidum to make wine without any regret. With such filial children and grandchildren, his life is worth it!

The onlookers began to discuss quietly, "What kind of pill costs 60 or 70 yuan each? Are you just bragging?"

Yang Chunyan said: "Angong Niuhuang Pills! You can go and ask, how much is one pill now?"

The two boxes of Angong Niuhuang Pills at home were bought last year. The price may have increased now. She remembered that Wang Zhen once said that since the ban on the use of rhinoceros horns, rhinoceros horn ingredients were no longer present in the pills.

The prices of Angong Niuhuang Pills containing rhinoceros horn ingredients and the "double natural" Niuhuang Pills made from natural musk and natural bezoar have increased by more than a hundred times.

Secretary Zou looked at the old man and thought that the situation might not be as serious as Zhou Huaian said. Thinking of how Zou Gui had just given him no face, he said, "Zou Xin was the one who caused the trouble first, so he should pay the compensation!"

Zou Gui was anxious. "Secretary Zou, they tore down the gate of my house, trampled the vegetable garden to pieces, and beat my husband and I and my eldest brother like this. They have to compensate us for our losses."

Zhou Huaian glared at him, "Don't even think about it! Your little bastard, you're already twenty years old, and you beat up my thirteen or fourteen year old child.

He was the one who caused the trouble first. I didn't ask you to compensate the elderly people in my family and the shock fee for my elder brother and sister-in-law. I have already been reasonable with you."

Zou Xin's mother stood up in anger, "You still want to be reasonable? If you were reasonable, you wouldn't have ruined my family like this..."

Zhou Huaian ignored her and pointed at the bicycle parked behind him, "Secretary Zou, mine is the latest model of women's bicycle. I bought it from an acquaintance for 198 yuan, and each pill costs 70 yuan.

I have to take my grandfather and nephew to Ning'an for a check-up tomorrow morning. I will be at a loss if the cost of medicine and examination is added together, let's say 50 yuan, a total of 318 yuan!

We are very reasonable. We will pay you back once and for all. Even if we suffer losses in the future, we will not come to you to cause trouble!"

Zou Gui roared: "Three hundred and eighteen? Why don't you go and rob it?"

Zhou Huaian dug his ears and shook his head, "Tsk tsk! I'm timid, don't accuse me of anything. If I get scared, you'll have to pay for the shock, which is not worth it!"

"You..." Zou Gui was so angry that he couldn't even speak.

"Oh, right!" Zhou Huaian looked at him and slapped his head, "I forgot that the money you just paid to Mina's family was paid with chickens and ducks. Are you trying to say that you don't have money?

It doesn't matter. The chickens and ducks have been given to Mina's family. You still have the pigs! I'll just have to go to the pigpen and get some! A pig can't be sold for more than 300 yuan, so I need to get at least two!"

Zhou Jiaming looked at him with admiration, thinking that his father was really amazing and he must learn from him in the future.

The onlookers all looked gloating, thinking that Zou Gui's family had finally met someone more difficult to deal with than their own family.

"Hehe! That's how we have to deal with them!"

"He deserves it! Last time my dog ​​bit his chicken to death, and I compensated him with a half-grown one!" (End of this chapter)