The night grew darker, with faint starlight shining in the yard. In the distance, various insects could be heard chirping contentedly.
Everything was as warm as a dream. In the dream, there was a boy gazing at the little girl tenderly, and the little girl looked back at him with a smile.
It was not until a quick and low knock on the door broke the warmth that the two people who were hanging clothes looked towards the gate together.
"I'll go and take a look." Yan Mingli shook off the water droplets on his hands and walked towards the courtyard gate.
I don't know what's going on these days, it's always restless.
"Yeah!" Mo Yutong shook the last piece of clothing she took from him and hung it on the clothesline.
After unbolting the gate, Yan Mingli stared at Yang Feng, who was standing outside with an anxious look on his face. Before he could ask, he heard Yang Feng say, "You guys didn't do anything!"
He still feels psychologically traumatized because he disturbed them twice in the afternoon.
"Hanging out clothes, is there something wrong?" Seeing his frown, Yan Mingli knew that something had come up again.
"Yang Goudan has woken up. Aunt Yang took him to the captain's house and made him go crazy! My father asked me to come here first to tell you."
"He's crazy, I can take care of it." This is probably another attempt to put the blame on him!
"From what Aunt Yang said, the precious boy from Yang Lao San's family was knocked unconscious by you."
Yang Feng had already put it very tactfully. His father said that Aunt Yang was howling because the eldest son of the Yan family was going to kill their Goudan.
"I don't have the time." Seeing Yang Goudan's cowardly look, he still needed to take action. A rotten branch was poked in front of his eyes, and he ran faster than a rabbit.
"I believe you, but others don't!" They grew up together, so of course he believed in him, but it was useless for him to believe in him alone, at least most of the people in the team had to believe in him.
What he was most worried about was that Nie Hongshan would use this as an excuse to put a bunch of unnecessary things on him.
It's so hard to get a beautiful and rich wife, don't let these people ruin it.
"I understand." Yan Mingli turned around and tried to go inside, but was stopped by Yang Feng. "Don't worry, I haven't finished what I want to say yet."
Isn't this him being anxious? Could it be that he is no longer anxious now?
"My dad said Accountant Zeng let him know something, and asked me to ask you if you went to Uncle Zeng's house to buy a bucket that day?"
"I went." Yan Mingli did not deny it.
Although a portion of this money must be handed over to the team at the beginning of each month, Accountant Zeng's revelation now was obviously not based on what was seen on the books, but rather something he heard from his father Zeng Tieshan.
"You bought so many things that day, how did you get the money?" Yang Feng was really anxious. He didn't ask himself, and he probably wouldn't ask anyone else. So where did he get the money from?
Nowadays, every family has a fixed amount of money. If you calculate what each person eats and spends, you can find out if there are other ways to get the money.
Therefore, in the village, he publicly claimed that he was working as a temporary worker in the county town. As for what others thought of him in private, he had no control over it.
Yan Mingli didn't say anything. He couldn't talk about the money he earned from selling blood.
Seeing that he was unwilling to say, Yang Feng sighed helplessly and did not force him.
"You know Aunt Yang. She's always throwing tantrums. She'll always try to make herself right even when she's not right, and she'll be even more ruthless when she's right."
"I did have an argument with Yang Goudan a couple of days ago." Someone might take advantage of this to make trouble tonight. He is not afraid of those unreasonable people, but he does not want to implicate his younger brothers and sisters and the little girl.
"Did you go to the mountains? Did you hunt something?" The day before yesterday was the sixth of the lunar calendar, and there was a small market. Could it be that he took wild animals to the market to sell for money and was caught by Yang Goudan?
"It was a pheasant. He wanted to steal it but I didn't give it to him, so I stewed it at noon that day." Yan Mingli said it calmly. The worst outcome would be that he would get dirty.
"What happened this afternoon, I'm afraid Nie Hongshan will take revenge on me personally." Yang Feng reminded.
Nie Hongshan had been the production team leader for too long, and because he had connections with some cadres in the brigade and even the commune, he became increasingly arrogant towards ordinary members.
"Personal revenge?" Yan Mingli's eyes darkened, as if he had thought of something, and his hands hanging at his sides clenched into fists unconsciously.
"Hurry up and say hello to your sister-in-law." Yang Feng waved at him. At this time, he naturally had to bring Mo Zhiqing with him to intimidate Nie Hongshan and make him restrain himself.
"Okay!" Yan Mingli turned back to the yard and immediately saw the little girl standing by the clothesline waiting for him.
"I seemed to hear Yang Feng's voice. Did something happen again?" Mo Yutong hurried forward and asked with concern.
"Something happened and I have to go out." Yan Mingli didn't know what the situation would be like, so he couldn't make any promises to the girl casually.
"Is it serious?" Seeing him walking quickly towards the bedroom, Mo Yutong hurriedly followed him in.
Yan Mingli stood in front of the wooden cabinet for a moment, then said softly, "It's not serious, don't worry!"
Then he quickly found the torn clothes that had been sewn.
If he had to, he wasn't afraid of ruining his new clothes.
What was he doing with the clothes? Mo Yutong stepped forward, hugged the clothes in her arms, and asked angrily, "What's going on?"
"Yang Goudan has woken up, and they asked me to go over." The little girl's sudden and forceful action made it impossible for Yan Mingli to hide anything anymore.
"He woke up and asked you to go?" This logic doesn't make sense!
"Be good, Brother Yang is still waiting for me outside." He wanted to take his clothes back, but she put them back into the wooden cabinet and blocked the cabinet door with a stern face. She said, "Explain everything clearly."
Seeing the determination in the little girl's eyes, Yan Mingli had no choice but to tell the story in short.
"Where did you get the money to buy the bucket?" Similar questions were met with the same silence, and Yan Mingli did not speak.
Mo Yutong couldn't help but frown slightly. Not saying anything meant that there was something wrong with the source of the money.
Is it the black market? She thought of Yang Feng.
As for stealing or robbing, she didn't even think about it. She knew her man well and he would not do such a thing.
"I understand." If it really is a black market, then we must not let people dwell on the source of the money.
This involves speculation and profiteering, and it is very likely that Yang Feng will be involved.
So she had to get the members to focus their attention elsewhere, such as who beat Yang Goudan unconscious, who left him in the woods, and why he was beaten.
Mo Yutong's mind was working rapidly, thinking about what she could do to benefit the young man as much as possible.
Is the little girl angry? Yan Mingli has never seen her frown so tightly.
"Who usually attends the production team's affairs?" Mo Yutong wanted to know whether people from the brigade headquarters would get involved and what she could do.
"Production team leader, scorer, and members." Their production team was not big and did not have a deputy team leader or a dedicated accountant.
Normally, every production team leader is a part-time cadre and should work in the fields, but Nie Hongshan took on both the captain and deputy captain roles, thus avoiding the hard work of working in the fields.
Nie Xiaoyu was also responsible for summarizing the work points, which resulted in Nie Hongshan being the only one who had the final say in the third production team.
But fortunately, he is not of high generation in the village, and there are people who can use their generation to suppress him, otherwise these more than one hundred people would probably be controlled by the Nie family.
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