Chapter 194
Seventh Uncle patted his big head and said, "Why did you suddenly run in? What if you hurt someone?"
Ersha immediately showed an aggrieved expression. Su Miao stepped forward and said, "Seventh Uncle, I asked Brother Xiang to come."
"Miaomiao?"
Su Miao said, "Seventh Uncle, this water-to-oil thing is a scam. That so-called scientist must have used a fake certificate to commit fraud. Moreover, I now suspect that Wei San is an insider and wants to unite with those who want to get rich to force you to be a guarantor.
As long as you sign today, they will collect the money from the village tomorrow and run away immediately. When the people who paid the money cannot find them, they will come to you as the guarantor.
They'll just force you to pay back the money. Even if you call the police and confirm they're a scammer, they won't let you go because the guarantee is written in black and white with your signature and fingerprint. If you can't pay, they'll come to your house and seize chickens and cattle, and even your uncles and your families won't be spared."
Seventh Uncle sighed: "Human hearts! They are corrupted!"
Su Yuanzheng thought of the person who had asked him to invest some time ago and said, "Why are there so many people asking for investment recently? Maybe they are all from the same group."
Su Miao said, "In recent years, more and more people have started businesses, and more and more people have made money. Scammers have caught wind of this and are taking advantage of people's desire to get something for nothing. They are illegally raising funds and defrauding people to make money. There will be more and more such incidents in the future, and we all need to be vigilant."
Seventh Uncle made a decision and said, "Call the police and let them investigate. Even if they were bewitched and did it voluntarily, I can't bear to see them lose their lives and property."
Su Miao curled her lips and said, "Just now, on my way to find Brother Xiang, I wanted to call the police at the village entrance, but they wouldn't let me and simply cut off the phone line."
"Oh no! That convenience store belongs to the village chief! He did it on purpose!" Uncle Wu said, slapping his thigh.
In the end, my second uncle and fifth uncle rode their tricycles to the county town and called the police.
Su Yu sent Ersha home, and Su Miao followed. They were about to leave as soon as they got to the yard, but Ersha insisted on inviting them into the house to sit for a while.
Su Miao had arrived in a hurry just now, so he called someone and left. Only then could he observe this small courtyard carefully.
Ersha lives alone, but he keeps the house very clean. He raises a few chickens and ducks, grows some mint and coriander, and even polishes the wooden tables and benches in the yard, making it look very lively.
Ersha brought a small basket of glutinous rice cakes from the kitchen and placed them on the wooden table in front of them. He smiled and said, "Eat! Brothers and sisters, eat!"
Under his expectant gaze, Su Yu and Su Miao each took one, peeled off the leaves and took a bite. Hmm! It's quite delicious!
Su Miao smiled with eyes curved, and said to Ersha: "Thank you, Brother Xiang, I ate the one with sesame candy filling, it was delicious!"
Su Yu also imitated Su Miao and said, "Thank you, Er...Brother Xiang, I ate the vegetable stuffing, it was delicious too!"
"Hehehe! Then take a few of them back with you."
Su Yu shook his head and said, "No, my mom is going to make some today too. Miaomiao and Uncle Shi are going back to Ning County this afternoon, so my mom will make some more for them."
Ersha turned around and looked at Su Miao and smiled. He liked his younger brothers and sisters very much, but except for his seventh uncle's family, few people would come to talk to him.
Su Miao took out a piece of fruit candy from his pocket and handed it to him. Ersha just smiled and refused to accept it. Su Miao said, "Brother Xiang, have some candy."
Then Ersha opened his mouth wide: "Ah~"
Su Miao opened the candy wrapper, put the candy into his mouth, and watched him smile as happily as a child.
When going back, Su Miao still picked up the glutinous rice cakes that Ersha had stuffed into her. She had just said that the ones with sesame candy were delicious, so Ersha filled them with sesame candy filling and wrapped them carefully with oil paper.
On the way home, Su Miao and Su Yu also talked about Ersha's life experience.
He is the grandson of Su Miao's great uncle, and the grandson of Su Miao's grandfather's eldest cousin.
When he was 5 years old, he fell seriously ill. It was a special period with social unrest and limited medical conditions.
He was sent to the county for treatment for more than a month. He survived, but he felt like he had lost two of his souls and his mind was not very clear.
Hemp ropes tend to break at the thinnest part. It rained heavily on the day his parents brought him back from Ning County. The road was difficult to travel on, and the car overturned when it reached a low bridge.
Five people died on the spot, including his parents. The little boy survived because he was protected by his parents.
From then on, he had to rely on the protection of his family to survive. He was originally adopted by his two uncles.
But it was difficult at that time. Having one more mouth to feed was like a death sentence. My uncle and aunt quarreled with him every day, and every time he would run to the fields to hide.
One day, his seventh uncle fished him out of the canal when he was almost drowned. He wanted to catch some frogs to take back to his uncle, so he ran into the water himself.
The eldest uncle and the seventh uncle are brothers. The seventh uncle couldn't bear to see his eldest brother's grandson live such a miserable life, so he took him back to his own home.
My seventh uncle's two sons and daughters-in-law were both good at work. At that time, the family had not yet split up, so it was no problem for them to raise a child together. They treated him like their own child and had a good relationship with him.
Later, the seventh uncle became the head of the clan. When dividing the land, he made it clear that no one could touch the land that Ersha’s parents had previously opened up, and it all had to be left to Ersha.
Then he taught him farming and housework, and after he turned eighteen, he helped him renovate the old yard and let him come back to live there. Therefore, no one could compare to Ersha's deep affection for his seventh uncle.
"Brother Yu, Brother Xiang seems really capable. He's managed the yard so well and raised the chickens so well."
"Yes, even if you look at Brother Xiang as not smart, he is definitely the best worker in our generation. Even I can't compare to him. Seventh Uncle's family are good at work and they passed on all their experience to him. Fifth Uncle is good at farming, Sixth Uncle is good at growing vegetables, Fifth Aunt is good at raising livestock, and Sixth Aunt is a good cook. The glutinous rice cake we just ate tasted just like Sixth Aunt's."
"No, I don't think Brother Xiang is unintelligent. On the contrary, he is a very smart man. He lives a good life with his own ability. It is better than those gamblers who are blinded by their own abilities and want to turn water into oil and stone into gold!"
Su Miao played with other children in the village for another night, and was going back to Ning County with his father the next day.
But the next day, while they were still having lunch, the village was in an uproar and they could not contact the expert.
Originally, they planned to have Seventh Uncle sign before paying the money together, but they didn't expect something went wrong yesterday and the signature was not completed.
However, several of the village chiefs' relatives were afraid that they would be left behind in the investment, so they gave the money to Wei San in advance.
Wei San said that he would go to the city overnight to give the money to the experts and bring back the contract tomorrow for them to sign, but it was already noon and no one was there.
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