Chapter 17 It's Your Own Fault
Rutang took down the garlic hanging on the window and went to pick small red peppers from the field in the backyard. She's going to make chili garlic sauce.
One of the secrets to why her family's hot sauce is so delicious is that the peppers they use are different from the green and red peppers on the market. These are the peppers her uncle brought back from the south a few years ago. The careful Hao Mei saves the seeds and grows them herself every year.
Some of them are similar to the chili pepper that appeared in later generations, but they are less spicy and are perfect for making chili sauce.
Ru Tang chopped the garlic and rinsed it repeatedly, so that the fried garlic would not be bitter.
She was frying the sauce when the police came and they smelled a tangy aroma as soon as they entered the house.
"What delicious food can you make?" The policeman was the one who had taken her statement before. He came to arrest Jing Quan. Rutang left him her home address.
"Fry some chili sauce, it's ready." Rutang added a little homemade oyster sauce to the frying pan. This is the ultimate secret to deliciousness.
The policeman swallowed his saliva. Although he didn't taste it, he found the smell very fragrant. This thing would taste good even if mixed with shoe soles, right?
"Wait a moment, it will be ready soon." Rutang poured the chili sauce into a clean jar while it was still hot. After it cooled down completely, she would find containers to package it and then she could sell it.
Rutang led the police out of the door and went straight to Jing's family.
When she and Yu Yaoyang returned to the village, they told the village cadres that Jing Quan was suspected of trafficking, but the village cadres refused to tip off the matter because it was too big a matter.
Jing Quan was still kept in the dark at this time and was lying on the kang at home, groaning.
While his mother was pushing medicinal wine to him, Jing Quan was swearing at him.
"Chen Rutang, that little bitch, actually colluded with Yu Yaoyang to harm me! Ouch, mother, be gentle~"
"Why do you want to mess with those street urchins? The whole Yu family is grudging. We all call them mother, but they insist on calling them mom. Do they think they are city people by learning to address people in the city? It's because they were dumped by their father! And that Chen Rutang, she has a vixen face, just like her mother. She will be beaten every day after she gets married." Although Jing's mother knew the reason why her son was beaten by the villagers, she didn't think she had done anything wrong.
Wang Ying voluntarily went into the woods with her son, so if anyone should be punished, it should be that unfaithful woman, Wang Ying.
"She looks like a vixen, and she looks down on my brother. She didn't agree when my brother wanted to date her. She deserved to be sold..." Jing Quan choked back his words halfway. His family didn't know that he had colluded with human traffickers to sell Rutang.
Jing's mother was busy pushing medicinal wine to her son and didn't pay attention to what he said. She kept muttering and cursing Ru Tang, and even Ru Tang's mother.
Although it was the village chief and Yu Yaoyang who beat her son, Jing's mother did not dare to scold them. She picked on the weak and thought that Rutang and her daughter were easy to bully.
Jing Quan also started to curse, and after a while, he shouted out his true thoughts.
"Chen Rutang, that little bitch, should be sold to the mountains to be the wife of a fool!"
"Comrade, you heard it! He admitted it himself!" Rutang led the police into the room and pointed at Jing Quan lying on the kang.
Jing Quan and his mother were both stunned. What was going on?
Without giving them time to think, the handcuffs were put on.
When Jing's mother saw her son being arrested, she came forward and tried to push and shove them, but was scratched by the investigators who came to take the men away, and was taken away with them.
Rutang followed the whole process and witnessed the bad guys getting what they deserved.
"Chen Rutang! Just wait for me! I will kill you first when I get out!" Jing Quan threatened cruelly.
“Get out of the way!”
Along with a pleasant male voice, a basin of unknown liquid fell from the sky, accompanied by an alarming stench.
Jing Quan was drenched in it, and it turned out to be slop!
Yu Yaoyang stood behind him with a grin on his face, holding an empty bucket in his hand.
"Oops, I slipped, so sorry. Hey, isn't this Jingquan? I haven't seen you for a few days. You're wearing the 'big bracelet'?"
Jing Quan almost fainted from the smell and raised his handcuffed hands to accuse Yu Yaoyang.
"Comrade, this guy is the village bully, arrest him!"
There were many villagers watching around. When Rutang heard Jingquan call him village tyrant, he knew that his chance had come and raised his voice.
"Jingquan, what nonsense are you talking about? Yu Yaoyang is a good young man. He assisted the police in solving a major case. The higher-ups are going to give him a certificate of commendation, right, comrade?" Rutang asked the police, seizing the opportunity to clear Yu Yaoyang's name.
The policeman nodded, took out a certificate from his pocket and handed it to Yu Yaoyang with both hands.
Yu Yaoyang wanted to take it, but Rutang rushed out and pushed him aside with her body: "Your hands are full of slop, don't stinky up our certificate!"
The crowd laughed, and the police laughed too.
This young couple is quite interesting.
Jing Quan failed to accuse Yu Yaoyang of being a village bully and was even used by Rutang as a tool to promote Yu Yaoyang as a good young man. He was flushed with water by the police and taken to the car. There's nothing I can do about it, it smells too bad.
Rutang pinched his nose and asked Yu Yaoyang: "Where did you get such stinky swill?"
"My mother fermented the fertilizer, and I was afraid it wasn't warm enough, so I peed on some fresh nectar."
“… Before you wash your hands, please stay away from me and the certificate.” Ru Tang silently took two steps back, away from the bucket in his hand.
I'm sorry, Brother Yaoyang, husband and wife are birds of the same forest, but when the dung bucket comes, they fly away separately.
"By the way, little girl." The policeman came back and asked, "What was that group gambling you asked about at the police station?"
"It's just in front, the second house at the entrance of the village. The front door is closed. You can go in through the back door." Rutang spoke without hesitation, but her voice was not loud and outsiders could not hear what she said.
Yu Yaoyang raised his eyebrows and wanted to get closer with the bucket to listen. Rutang and the policeman took a step back at the same time and said, "Don't come over here."
The police nodded and went to look for the place as she asked.
It just so happened that this month the higher authorities issued an order to curb unhealthy practices in villages and towns. Isn’t this a ready-made example?
"Hurry up and throw away the bucket, wash your hands, and let's watch the show in the front row." Rutang said to Yaoyang excitedly.
"What show are you watching?"
"Catch the gambler."
“…You reported your own father?!”
"I didn't report him. I asked him to go to my grandmother's house to pick up my mother. If he had done that, who could have caught him?" The gambler is useless, so who can he blame?
Usually when there is excitement in the village, Yu Yaoyang will definitely be watching in the front row, and this time is no exception.
Seeing the police arresting people, the villagers swarmed over, forming three layers inside and three layers outside. Yu Yaoyang came over and shouted, "Everyone get out of the way!" The crowd immediately parted - after all, no one dared to mess with him.
Yu Yaoyang led Rutang to the front to watch the fun. Soon, the gamblers were forced out one by one. Chen Fu was the last one to come out. When he saw Rutang, he didn't know what was going on. He cried to Rutang, "Hurry up and ask your uncle to find someone! They said they would lock me up for a few days to criticize and educate me. You are getting married, and I can't not attend!"
Rutang's uncle knew a lot of people, so Chen Fu thought he should be able to find some connections.
"Dad, reform yourself and be a new man!" Rutang waved her hands, unable to suppress a smile on her face. She was the one who reported the gambling. She must be crazy to find someone to rescue the gambler.
A few days of criticism and education is also a lenient treatment given to the old scum by the Party and the people. Without the old man jumping around and making trouble, she can get the certificate and make money in peace.
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