Even Qin Suyun, who had only lived in Wanxi Village for less than half a year, knew that the two children in front of her were not from Wanxi Village. Naturally, the other villagers in Wanxi Village also knew it!
There aren't many people in their village, and everyone sees each other every day. If someone loses an embroidery needle, everyone else in the village will definitely know about it in a few days, let alone a living person like a child.
The villagers naturally wouldn't agree if someone from outside their village came to snatch the relief supplies that were being dropped off for their village! With earthquakes hitting so many places across the country, who knows if this plane, having delivered relief supplies once, will send them a second time?
"You two little bastards won't come down, right?! Then I'll do it myself!" The man who spoke was a hot-tempered man. When he saw the two children holding the two supply bags and refusing to let go, he immediately became furious. He walked over and grabbed the two children by the back of their collars, wanting to pick them up and throw them out!
Anyway, this area is full of empty ridges, which were originally used to grow rice. Although there is no water on the ridges now, the soil is relatively soft. In addition, the two children are wearing thick cotton clothes. Even if he throws the two children out, as long as they are not headfirst, they will be fine. At most, their buttocks will hurt for two days.
Although this man has a bad temper, he is not stupid. These days, every family only has one or two children, and it is impossible for him to do anything bad to the children.
However, just as the man lifted the two children up, they began punching and kicking him, cursing, "You old bastard, what are you doing?! Let us down! These relief supplies were distributed from above for us disaster victims, not just for you. We are disaster victims too, why are you not letting us take them?! You lawless old bastard!"
The man's face turned dark. He was only about 40 years old this year. These two little brats kept calling him a bastard and an old fool, which made him very angry.
He didn't want to argue with these two little brats anymore. It was said above that the relief supplies were to be delivered according to the population. Since all the supplies on the plane fell on the territory of their Wanxi Village, these things were naturally for their village!
No one can take things away from them!
The man, carrying a child in each hand, walked towards an abandoned ditch beside the ridge of the field. The ditch was not very deep, just half the height of an adult. There was not much water in it, only a mess of weeds. The man planned to throw the two children in and then lift them out after they finished moving everything here, or wait for the two little brats to climb out on their own.
However, before the man reached the ditch, three people suddenly jumped out from a nearby path and ran towards him, shouting.
"What are you going to do to my grandchildren?! Is there any law left?! How dare you hit my grandchildren?!" The people who spoke were the three people who ran over. The oldest one was an old lady in her sixties or seventies, and behind her followed a man and a woman, who were about 30 years old. Judging from their looks, they were obviously the parents of the two children!
"It's just right that your family is here. Take these two children back with you quickly! Don't disturb our work. We still have to bring the relief supplies back to the village!" Seeing the aggressive tone of the three people, the middle-aged woman who was carrying relief supplies with her wife and son not far away frowned and said.
The villagers had just received this batch of relief supplies and were in a good mood. Therefore, even when they saw the three men speaking in a bad tone, they did not directly insult them. Instead, they persuaded them to take the child away quickly.
"Bah! You Wanxi Village people are nothing but unreasonable mountain dwellers! What relief supplies from your village? My grandchildren clearly got them first, and you adults are so shameless that you come to steal my grandchildren's things! Do you have any sense of law, you rascals? You are all shameless!" The old lady pointed at the middle-aged woman and cursed, with her hands on her hips. She also directed her daughter-in-law, "You little bitch, don't you see that my good grandchildren are being bullied by that rascal? Hurry up and help me! Save my grandchildren? As a mother, are you still waiting here for them to be bullied?!"
The old lady's face was full of wrinkles and most of her hair was gray, but when she scolded people, she was full of energy, as if others owed her millions.
"Hey, how can you talk like that, old lady?! All this land belongs to our Wanxi Village! We're the only village within a dozen miles. The plane that just dropped off relief supplies was for our village, but where on earth did you come from, old lady?! Why are you here to steal our things?! Do you think that just because there are hundreds of people in our village, they're afraid of you and your family?!"
The man immediately let go of the two children and carried them to the edge of the field. He strode towards the old lady and the middle-aged woman, glaring at them and saying, "What?! You, a person from another village, actually dared to come to our Wanxi Village and bully us? If I don't beat you, I will beat your son! Let's see if you dare to talk nonsense again!"
There are more than 400 mouths to feed in their village now, but the relief supplies dropped from the plane are only less than 60 pieces, which means that on average eight or nine people can be allocated one relief supply package. These things contain not only food and water, but also clothes, quilts, tents and other things. It is a bit difficult for the villagers to distribute these relief supplies, let alone distribute them to others.
Neither the strong man nor the middle-aged woman was willing to give the relief supplies sent to their own village to others for no apparent reason. Most importantly, these people were quite unreasonable!
If they had approached the village chief in a friendly manner, he would have given them something. However, the family of five had first had two children throwing tantrums, and now the old lady had joined in. It was extremely annoying. Not to mention that these relief supplies were originally allocated to their village by higher authorities. Even if they weren't, they didn't want to give them away for free to a family of five like this!
The noise here attracted many villagers to watch. Seeing the old lady being so arrogant and unreasonable, and calling them unruly mountain people, many people became angry and glared at the other family of five with ugly faces. Many people didn't even move the supplies, but just stood aside and pointed fingers. Everyone spoke in a bad tone and had an ugly face.
The old lady was shocked. Seeing so many people, she knew that her family of five was no match for them. She immediately fell to the ground, rolling on the ground and crying, "Oh my! Oh my! Someone, come, someone, come and see what's going on! It's bad enough that adults are bullying children, but they're also bullying me, an old woman! Not only are they trying to steal our things, they're also trying to beat us up! Is there any law in this world? Oh my! Oh my! A bunch of people are bullying an old woman like me!"
The sound of the old lady tumbling and wailing on the ground immediately drew the two children over, who also joined the old lady in the tantrum. The young couple who had come with the old lady, the woman knelt on the ground and cried, while the man, with a red face, said in a stammer under everyone's gaze, "Hey, brothers, don't mind me, my mother is just like this... She's been scared because of the earthquake these past few days, and she wanted to get some relief supplies for the two children to eat... So... ah... It's all my fault. I'm a grown man but I don't have the ability... Mom, why don't you get up."
As he was talking, the man walked over to the old lady and persuaded her, "Hey, Mom... Youqin still has a little bit of rice that someone gave her before. We can go to the river to get some water to cook some porridge, and we can still have a meal... I won't eat it and save it for you and the two children... Mom, please get up." As he said this, he pointed to the dry and flat backpack his wife was carrying behind her.
It was only then that everyone realized that the young woman next to them was carrying a pink children's backpack on her back. It was obviously the belongings of the two children before. However, the backpack was flat, and it obviously didn't look like there was much food in it.
However, the man's voice was of no use. After hearing what he said, the old lady even cried even louder. "Oh my! Why am I so unlucky! The earthquake just collapsed our house, and now, I don't even have anything to eat. I was hungry last night, and I didn't eat anything today... Oh my, why is my life so miserable! Wuuuu! The rice that man gave us before didn't even have a pot. How are you going to cook it? Even if you don't eat it, my grandson and granddaughter won't have enough to eat..."
"Oh my god, my life is so miserable! These are all relief supplies sent down from above, so why can only the people of Wanxi Village use them? We are disaster victims too! Don't we have any right to use them?"
The old lady's wailing, coupled with the young daughter-in-law's small schoolbag being flattened by the back, really made many villagers feel embarrassed.
The old lady was right. Although the relief supplies dropped by the three planes were all dropped into the fields of Wanxi Village, they should have been given to the people in their village.
But there was no clear marking on the supplies that they were for them. This family of five was also a disaster victim and should have enjoyed the relief supplies as well.
But the broadcast had said that the people on the plane dropped supplies according to the number of people standing below. The other party had not been standing on their village's side before, and just now they had emerged from the dense bushes nearby. When the plane dropped supplies, those people definitely didn't see their family of five, and they didn't distribute any portion to them...
So everyone was a little embarrassed, but also reluctant to divide the things among these five people, especially since the old lady had scolded them before.
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