Chapter 193 Beating Someone to Death

Hearing Cao Zheng's voice, the person on the bed opened his eyes dazedly.

"How do you feel now?" Cao Zheng asked.

"You shouldn't have come. You've already lost your job. If you continue to have contact with me, they will prevent you from even getting odd jobs." The woman looked at Cao Zheng with red eyes. It was all her fault. She was the one who harmed him.

"Don't say such stupid things. The situation won't be worse than it is now." Cao Zheng opened the lunch box, and the aroma of egg pancakes wafted out. He swallowed and took a pancake, but not for himself, but handed it to the woman on the bed.

A full box of egg pancakes was pressed tightly. He Xiao and his sister-in-law were so kind.

Cao Zheng gave one to the woman, took one for himself, and started to bite. He hadn't eaten for more than two days, and the little rice left at home was left to his grandmother. He was so hungry that he felt dizzy and dizzy. If he didn't eat something, he would probably collapse when he walked out of this door.

"This pancake is so delicious." The woman praised. As a former capitalist daughter, she had eaten countless delicacies from land and sea, but at this moment, she felt that this simple egg pancake was the most delicious food she had ever eaten.

Cao Zheng also thought the egg pancake was delicious, but he thought he was just hungry and everything tasted good, so he said to the woman, "I'll make you some when I buy some noodles and eggs."

Xu Hexiao and Lin Qi did not go to the cold oil shop to buy food. They grew their own rice and wheat flour. Now that they came here, the couple was troubled by one thing.

There was no stone mortar here to pound the rice, and there was not much rice left from the rice they brought from Yao County.

She can produce thousands of kilograms of rice in less than half an hour, but where can she find a mortar?

"Stones such as marble, bluestone and granite can all be made into mortars. I saw some roads here were paved with bluestone, which shows that there should be no shortage of bluestone in the city. I'll go outside to look for it later." Lin Qi said.

Xu Hexiao nodded, "Don't rush to get it back if you find it. Wait until the evening to get it."

I was afraid that every stone outside was collectively owned and would not be allowed to be taken. And Qiqi, a slender girl, carrying a large piece of bluestone on her back, would be too eye-catching.

"Okay." Lin Qi agreed.

Lin Qi went out after breakfast, while Xu Hexiao stayed at home, looking after the children and doing carpentry work. The wood was the nanmu trees that Lin Qi had just grown last night. There were five nanmu trees in total, and each one was thicker than a bucket.

Because of deliberate control, the nanmu is just ordinary nanmu and has not become golden nanmu. However, even if it is ordinary nanmu, it is still a relatively precious species among woods.

Xu Hexiao planned to make a set of dining tables and chairs first, as it was too cold to eat at the stone table every day.

On the other side, Lin Qi was wearing a military coat and a military cap. She also had a scarf around her neck, wrapping herself tightly, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.

She walked hurriedly, moving quickly through the crowd.

Lin Qi saw the grandmother's high school granddaughter again. The girl was still dressed the same way, in a green military uniform with a red armband on her arm, looking very proud. She and a few of her peers were throwing pebbles at an old man who was carrying manure.

They threw stones and ridiculed the old man carrying manure.

Lin Qi heard them calling the old man "Teacher Sun", which showed that they knew this teacher.

What did this teacher do? Why was he treated like this?

Lin Qi stopped and looked for a few seconds before walking away.

No matter what the reason is, this is the capital, not the Anliang Brigade. She has a child and Xu Hexiao, so it's better not to meddle in other people's business.

However, Lin Qi thought so the second before, and the next second she heard an old lady shouting anxiously, "Robbery, robbery!"

The robber was holding a shining knife in his hand. Many people wanted to step forward to stop him, but when they saw the knife in the robber's hand, they became frightened and stopped.

Seeing that the robber was about to escape, Lin Qi sighed inwardly, picked up a stone on the ground and threw it at the robber.

The stone hit the robber's shoulder with such force that there was a sound of bone breaking.

The robber fell to the ground suddenly, and the knife in his hand fell to the side.

Lin Qi saw the girl with the shaggy hair rushed forward to pick up the knife, and then directed the people around her, "Go up and hold the man down quickly."

So everyone rushed forward and pinned the robber down tightly, leaving only a pair of feet exposed.

Everyone was filled with righteous indignation and punched and kicked the robber.

"Beat the robber!"

"How dare you rob in the capital in broad daylight? You're courting death!"

"Having hands and feet but not working, it's a vain hope to gain something without working. Bah!"

“.......”

Everyone cursed and beat each other, venting the anger that had been pent up in their hearts for a long time.

After catching the man, Lin Qi, who was supposed to move forward, paused. She frowned, hesitated for a few seconds, and finally walked back.

"You are going to beat him to death!"

The clear and cold voice penetrated the noisy crowd and clearly entered the ears of everyone present.

The angry crowd was inexplicably stunned and the scene suddenly became quiet.

At this time, the voice said again, "He is a robber. He should be sent to the police station instead of being beaten to death in the street."

At this moment, some people came to their senses and looked at the motionless robber on the ground. They felt a little scared. They almost became murderers!

However, there were also some who refused to listen and kicked those who fell to the ground.

"He's just pretending!"

"That's right, the bad guys are the most cunning!"

"They are bad at heart!"

“It’s not a pity to die!”

“........”

Every time someone cursed, they would kick him. The young men and women kicked him without restraint. After a few minutes of beating, the person on the ground was silent.

Lin Qi frowned, scanned the faces of those young men and women, memorized their appearance, then turned and left.

The voice behind her continued to reach her ears.

"Hey, it seems like he's really dead."

"I went to feel his breath.....no, dead."

"You deserve to die!"

Lin Qi found a lot of bluestone slabs by a lake. Some were thin, some were thick. She took a fancy to a few of them and planned to make a mortar with one and a graphite with the other two.

She silently noted the location and returned the same way.

When she passed by the place where the robbery happened again, the robber lying on the ground was gone, and the young men and women were gone too, leaving only a pool of blood on the ground.

Pedestrians come and go, seemingly unaware that a murder had occurred here not long ago.

Lin Qi ran into the old man carrying dung again. The dung bucket he was carrying had been cleaned, but when he passed by Lin Qi, Lin Qi still smelled a strong odor.

A former teacher, now a dung collector?

Lin Qi glanced at this "Teacher Sun" and then looked away, continuing to walk back the way she came.

When Lin Qi returned home, it was eleven o'clock in the morning and Xu Hexiao was heating deer milk for the children.

"Did you find it?" he asked.

Lin Qi hummed, "I found it. I'll get it back tonight."

Lin Qi hesitated for a moment, but still told what happened on the road. Xu Hexiao was silent for a moment, then came over to touch her head and comforted her, "It's not your fault, you don't need to blame yourself."

"I don't blame myself, I just feel a little surprised. Here, human life doesn't seem to be that important." When she was on the street, there was a moment when she almost thought she had returned to the end of the world.

Xu Hexiao held her in his arms and said, "It's too chaotic outside. We need to be more careful."

The two of them had lunch, and Lin Qi let the vine rock the cradle while the couple worked together to make furniture. Xu Hexiao was making tables and chairs, while Lin Qi was thinking about making a bed.

After sleeping on the hammock for a few nights, when the novelty wore off, I realized that a solid wooden bed was more comfortable.

"Is a bed three meters long and wide enough?" Lin Qi asked. The reason why it had to be made so high was, on the one hand, because they had a tall son named Xu Hexiao in their family, and on the other hand, because they had a large family.

I have four children and I don’t want to make a bigger bed for fear that they will fall to the ground.

"That's almost enough. When the children grow up, let them sleep on their own." Xu Hexiao said.

Lin Qi nodded. "With a three-meter bed in the room and a long wardrobe, there won't be much space left."

The space she mentioned was not much, but it was actually quite a lot, about six or seven square meters. In other people's homes, six or seven square meters would be considered a large room.

However, Xu Hexiao discovered that Lin Qi didn't like narrow spaces, and she didn't seem to be very interested in anything small and exquisite. Thinking of this, Xu Hexiao couldn't help but feel fortunate that he was big enough, whether in height or in some dimensions.

In the evening, after dinner, Lin Qi stayed with the children to sleep for a while. She didn't get up from bed until ten o'clock in the evening.

Xu Hexiao handed her clothes and asked, "How long will it take?"

"Twenty minutes at the fastest." Lin Qi said. This is the time required if there is no emergency.

In the darkness, Xu Hexiao's eyes deepened, "The child and I will be waiting for you at home."

Lin Qi smiled for no reason, "Are you trying to tell me to stop interfering?"

Xu Hexiao admitted it and said, "I told you to ignore it, and you just ignored it?"

"Of course." Lin Qi agreed quickly. She put on her clothes and kissed Xu Hexiao on the lips. "See you later."

It was a cold night with a howling north wind. Lin Qi couldn't help but shiver as soon as she stepped out of the door. She wrapped the scarf around her neck several times, covering her mouth and nose, and then hurried into the darkness.

In less than ten minutes, Lin Qi arrived at the lake.

She had just wrapped her vines around the bluestones when she suddenly heard a noise not far away, and it seemed to be coming towards her.

"It seems unlikely that I can get home within 20 minutes." Lin Qi murmured, and with a light leap, she jumped onto the paulownia tree beside her.

Two seconds later, a dark shadow came into Lin Qi's sight. It turned out to be someone she knew - Cao Zheng.

Why is it him?

Lin Qi didn't think too much and jumped down from the tree, grabbed Cao Zheng's clothes, and quickly climbed up the tree with him.

"Where are the people?"

"I just saw him coming in this direction."

"Look around here."

There were four people who caught up with us, and they searched around the row of tall sycamore trees.

"Could it have run up a tree?"

"Take the flashlight and shine it into the tree."

"You bastard, you dare to speculate and profiteer. If I catch you, I will shoot you!"