Li Yun tied up Chen Dagou and Chen Hai, then walked up to Widow Tang.
"Do you want to tie it yourself, or should I help you?" Li Yun said to Widow Tang.
"I'll tie it myself." Widow Tang didn't dare to ask Li Yun to tie it up, so she said quickly.
Li Yun threw down the rope and asked Widow Tang to tie it herself.
Widow Tang picked up the rope and tied herself up.
After tying them up, Li Yun tied the three people together with a big rope, and then returned to the village to find the village chief.
When he arrived at the village chief's house, Li Yun knocked on the door and woke the village chief up.
"Who is it? It's the middle of the night and you can't let us sleep?" said Chen Yaoguang, the eldest son of the village chief.
"Brother Chen, it's me, from Chen Ye's family." Li Yun replied.
"Chen Ye's family, it's the middle of the night, what's going on?" Chen Yaoguang said.
"I need help from the village chief. Could you please open the door?" Li Yun said.
There was a flicker of fire in the village chief's house, followed by the sound of footsteps.
Soon Chen Yaoguang opened the door and let Li Yun in.
"Mr. Chen Ye, please sit down for a moment. I'll go call my dad over." Chen Yaoguang said to Li Yun.
"Okay, Brother Chen, go quickly." Li Yun said anxiously.
Soon the village chief came over, his clothes worn crookedly.
"Girl, what happened? Why do you come to see me so late at night?" said the village chief.
"Uncle Village Chief, this is what happened. I went to see how the sweet potatoes were growing tonight, and unexpectedly I ran into Chen Hai, Chen Dagou, and Widow Tang destroying the sweet potato seedlings.
You know, sweet potatoes are a high-yield crop. The county magistrate even came here to plant them himself. How dare they destroy them? Li Yun said to the village chief.
"What? Destroying the sweet potato seedlings?
Where are they?" The village chief was so frightened that he drove the dream bug away, breaking out in a cold sweat.
It would be a disastrous thing to destroy the sweet potato seedlings. These are planted by the county magistrate himself and are very precious.
"Girl, let's go now." After saying this, the village chief instructed his eldest son to wake up the whole family, take the gong, and beat it to wake up the sleeping villagers to go to the sweet potato field.
The villagers were awakened by the sound of gongs and were still confused, not knowing what was going on. The village chief asked them to go out in the middle of the night.
When the villagers arrived at the sweet potato field, looking at the three tied-up people and the sweet potato seedlings trampled on the ground, what else could they not understand?
When the village chief saw a small pile of trampled sweet potato seedlings on the ground, he took a step back in anger. Chen Yaoguang hurried forward to support him and waited for the village chief to recover.
"Chen Dagou, Chen Hai, and Widow Tang, how dare you?
These are high-yield crops. If we plant them and grow sweet potatoes, we can have enough to eat and not go hungry. You will be struck by lightning." The village chief angrily stepped forward, woke up Chen Dagou and Chen Hai, pointed at the three of them and cursed.
When the villagers heard that it was a high-yield crop that could feed people and prevent them from going hungry, they glared at Chen Dagou and the other two angrily.
The older generation was even more excited, as they had experienced famine.
At that time, all the villagers fled famine, but only two-thirds returned alive, and one-third starved to death on the way.
If it was true as the village chief said, that they could have enough to eat, they would not have to flee from famine, and they would be even more dissatisfied with Chen Dagou and the other two.
Chen Dagou and Chen Hai were awakened by the village chief. Before they could say anything, they saw all the villagers coming over and staring at them. They knew that this time it was over.
"Village chief, I was wrong. I shouldn't have been so obsessed as to pull up the sweet potato seedlings. Please forgive me." Chen Dagou admitted his mistake.
"Village chief, please forgive me." Seeing Chen Dagou admit his mistake, Chen Hai also quickly admitted his mistake.
"Captain Chuan, please forgive me." Widow Tang said in a casual manner.
The villagers then lit torches and looked at Widow Tang seriously.
You don’t know until you see it. It’s shocking. Widow Tang was beaten into a pig’s head.
"Widow Tang, why would you and Chen Hai and Chen Dagou come here in the middle of the night to destroy the sweet potato seedlings? Do you have something shameful to do?" A village woman suddenly remembered something and asked Widow Tang.
The truth about this village woman!
The villagers looked back and forth at the three of them with ill intentions, which made Chen Dagou and the other two feel guilty and dared not look up, with their eyes flickering slightly.
What else do the villagers not understand? This is simply an attempt to cover up one's own faults.
When the wives of Chen Hai and Chen Dagou saw how guilty they looked, they were so angry that they rushed forward and beat up Widow Tang.
Widow Tang was beaten up by the two of them and screamed in pain. In the end, Jinhua and Jinying pulled them apart.
Looking at the widow Tang who was beaten to death, no one in the village felt sorry for her. After all, there must be something hateful about a pitiful person.
Seeing that the villagers had quieted down, the village chief said, "Sweet potatoes are a high-yield crop. The county magistrate came here personally to plant them. I believe everyone has seen this. The one in Chen Mo's house is the county magistrate of Qingshan County.
He told me that anyone who destroys the grain will be severely punished.
I dare not say how the county magistrate will punish them, but I can decide to expel them and their families from Qingshan Village."
The village chief's words caused an uproar among the villagers, and they were talking about it. Some villagers thought it should be done, while others thought it was a bit too harsh.
Those villagers who sympathized with Chen Dagou were eventually scolded by other villagers, and they dared not speak out anymore.
"Village chief, lock them up in the ancestral hall. We will send them to the county government office at dawn tomorrow," suggested a villager.
"Just do it this way. I'm telling you straight up, if anyone dares to let them out, don't blame me for driving him out of the village as well.
These high-yield sweet potatoes will keep us well fed and we won't go hungry. The county magistrate treasures them very much. If anyone destroys them again, don't blame me for being ruthless. I'll send them directly to the county government office." The village chief took this opportunity to reprimand the villagers.
"Why, just based on what Chen Ye's family said, do you conclude that it was my son Da Gou and his family who did it? That's so unfair.
I even said it was my niece's wife who ruined it, trying to wrongly accuse my son." Jinhua said loudly, just to mislead everyone.
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