Sometimes what you think will come true, and many things are just coincidental.
Qin Suyun was just worried about whether something might happen to the village because of the heavy snow?
That very night, coal was stolen from someone's home in the village!
The next day, early in the morning, it was still snowing outside. Qin Suyun had just gotten up and was making breakfast when a sharp shouting and scolding suddenly came from outside the courtyard gate.
"Who is this filthy, heartless bastard? How dare he steal our coal! If there's no firewood, why don't you go up the mountain to chop it?! The mountain is full of trees, and he has to steal the coal we just bought?! Such a black-hearted bastard should have been crushed to death by the collapsed house during the earthquake so that he wouldn't harm other people! Why wouldn't you just steal things if you are so blind? How dare you steal from our house? Do you really think that there is no one at home in my Jiang Hongmei's house?! You filthy, heartless bastard, come out! Come out!" The fierce shouting was followed by a series of violent banging of the door.
The big iron gate outside the yard was banging loudly.
“Woof woof!——”
“Woof woof woof!——”
The door was banging loudly, and the little dogs at home could no longer sit still. They all ran into the yard and barked fiercely at the door, making low threatening sounds in their throats and holding their tails high.
The barking of eight or nine wolfhounds seemed to startle the person outside the door, and for a moment, the curse words that were originally about to be uttered were choked in his throat.
The surroundings were quiet for a moment. Qin Suyun and He Zhennan walked out of the house at this time. When they walked into the yard, Qin Suyun heard a familiar voice outside the gate.
"Aunt Jiang, if you ask me, you should just forget it... Look, other people's families have so many dogs. What if those dogs go crazy and bite you? Uncle Tian will be heartbroken. Now there are only you two old people at home, and your two sons are working in other places and haven't been able to come back. What if something happens to you two? What will you let Dabao and the others do? It's just a few loads of coal. If you ask me, you should just forget it." The familiar voice standing next to her advised earnestly.
"No! I absolutely cannot compromise like this! Stealing is stealing! How can there be such a thief in our village? Wouldn't that ruin the reputation of other people in our village? Who would be willing to marry someone from our village in the future? Such a person, apart from anything else, must be driven out of our Wanxi Village! This is the rule left by the old village chief and others!" Aunt Jiang glared and immediately shook her head to refuse.
As early as several village chiefs ago, their village had set a rule that no one from Wanxi Village was allowed to do any illegal activities such as stealing or doing anything sneaky. Once discovered, the whole family would be expelled from Wanxi Village!
So over the years, some people in Wanxi Village were poor and destitute and couldn't even afford medical treatment, but no one had ever done such sneaky things.
Although their village is poor, everyone lives with dignity!
As Aunt Jiang thought this in her heart, the expression on her face became more serious. The anger in her heart was rising. Looking at the heavy iron door in front of her, Aunt Jiang wanted to go forward and knock on the door again, but this time her hand didn't even touch the iron door.
The heavy iron door creaked and was opened from the inside.
Qin Suyun was wearing a thick down jacket with a cooking bib on the outside, and she appeared in front of everyone.
Qin Suyun was slightly stunned when she opened the door and saw the crowd around her.
She had originally thought that there were only two people outside the house, but when the door was opened, she saw more than a dozen people gathered outside. These people included both men and women, including the village chief Zhao Xingguo.
A group of people, all braving the wind and snow, stood at the gate of her courtyard. Seeing the other group's menacing appearance, Qin Suyun calmed down slightly and asked seriously, "Aunt Jiang, what do you want from me?"
"What's the matter?! Miss Qin, don't you know what's going on?!" Jiang Hongmei frowned and stared at Qin Suyun, her face very unpleasant as she said, "Miss Qin, we call you Miss Qin because we're being polite! But stealing is too unkind, isn't it?! In the middle of the night, you actually stole four or five loads of coal from our house. Isn't this a conscienceless act?"
"Old Tian and I work so hard a year and can only earn 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. This time, we spent all the hard-earned money we saved over the past two or three years to buy coal and make bricks to repair our collapsed courtyard wall. But you actually stole nearly one-fifth of our coal last night. This is really too much!" Jiang Hongmei scowled at Qin Suyun and said coldly: "In all these years, we in Wanxi Village have never encountered any thieves. We don't welcome residents like you! It's so cold, even if your family really needs firewood, you shouldn't come to my house to steal coal! This kind of thing will never be tolerated in our village!"
"Aunt Jiang, I think there must be some misunderstanding between us about this matter." Qin Suyun frowned slightly, and finally understood the purpose of the other group of people.
Qin Suyun had previously thought that conflicts would arise due to a lack of food and vegetables in the village, but she never expected that the first cause of the conflict would be the coal used for heating.
Wanxi Village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the mountains are full of various trees. So in Qin Suyun's mind, Wanxi Village lacks everything, but the only thing it should not lack is firewood for making fire and keeping warm.
However, now, things are contrary to our wishes...
"What's the misunderstanding?" Jiang Hongmei said immediately, "Tell me about it! Last night, someone saw someone carrying a load of things towards your house! If you didn't steal it, why would they come to your house in the middle of the night with a load of things on their shoulders?"
"Aunt Jiang, I don't know who told you this? But you have to let the person who said this come out and confront me! We will know after we confront each other whether I stole your coal last night." Qin Suyun frowned, her face looking a little unhappy.
"It was Zhu Dahai's wife Xiao Cuizhen who told me." Seeing Qin Suyun so calm, Jiang Hongmei frowned with some doubt. Could it be that she really had misjudged the other person?
But Xiao Cuizhen had absolutely no reason to wrongly accuse the person in front of her!
Jiang Hongmei couldn't figure it out, so she just said Xiao Cuizhen's name.
"Sister Xiao, when did you see someone carrying something towards our house last night?" Qin Suyun stared at Xiao Cuizhen with a stern gaze, demanding, "Where did you see it? Why were you there so late at night? Why did you think it was me when you saw that person carrying something towards our house?"
"I saw him around 3 o'clock last night, on the third floor of our house. The reason I was there so late at night was because I got up in the middle of the night to sweep the snow... It's snowing so hard these past few days, and we have to clear the snow every day." Xiao Cuizhen didn't care about Qin Suyun's serious expression at all. She said calmly, "As for why I think that person is from your family, it's because in the entire village, only your family hasn't chopped firewood or bought coal in such cold weather! If he didn't steal from us, what do you burn? Are you just freezing every night?"
As Xiao Cuizhen spoke, she glanced meaningfully at the apron outside Qin Suyun's down jacket. Her expression clearly meant, "Look, you haven't even taken off this apron yet. Aren't you just making a fire and cooking at home?"
"Sister Xiao, don't you know? You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want?" Qin Suyun's face was not very good when she was pointed at and called a thief. She said with a cold face: "Not to mention that before the earthquake, my family asked someone to buy a lot of firewood to smoke bacon. Just during that time in the fall, I stockpiled a lot of coal at home. This coal is enough for me to burn for the whole winter. We have so much coal at home, there is no need to steal from others! The most important thing is that we have solar energy at home. These days, I use all electrical appliances to cook!"
Qin Suyun stared at Xiao Cuizhen, and spoke each word with great emphasis, as if carrying a chilling effect that made people feel terrified.
Xiao Cuizhen subconsciously shrank her neck, her eyes rolling. "You said your family had a lot of coal, but that doesn't mean you didn't steal the coal from Aunt Jiang's house. You mixed the stolen coal with the original coal, and there's no way we could tell. I've seen those rich second-generations in newspapers and magazines before: those who are rich but like to steal. Who knows if you're like that? Rich people have so many quirks these days!"
Xiao Cuizhen wrinkled her nose as she spoke, and looked at Qin Suyun with a look of disdain, as if Qin Suyun was the rich second generation who stole things.
Qin Suyun had a cold face and spoke in a bad tone, "Sister Xiao, there is something you may not know. The coal that my family didn't buy is all high-quality smokeless coal. If you don't believe me, you can come with me to the utility room in the backyard and take a look."
Qin Suyun said this and stepped aside to let the person in.
If she doesn't let anyone in to take a look at what happened today, she's afraid that this matter won't be resolved peacefully, so she can only let this group of people into her house.
"Anthracite?" Jiang Hongmei frowned and did not go in directly.
The price of coal has risen sharply during this period. Except for a few households in the village who bought a few hundred kilograms of anthracite for their own use and kept them at home, the rest of the coal piled outside for building houses and red bricks is the worst kind of coal. This kind of coal produces heavy smoke and is completely different from anthracite.
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