Chapter 39 Come Again
He Gu was too enthusiastic. Seeing that Lu Xing wanted to refuse, he didn't give her a chance to say no. After he finished speaking, he put down the dishes and left.
In the afternoon, a group of them sat at the entrance of the village and chatted, and most of them were caught by Old Lady Lu to listen to her complaining.
Because Lu Xing and she didn't get along, she luckily escaped this disaster. She didn't have to listen to these outrageous things and ran to the side to bask in the sun.
Halfway through drying the sun, Liu Hehua came over.
I don’t know if Liu Hehua was asked by He Gu to be a lobbyist and came to talk to her about this matter.
"How was the incident with Pingping's mom? She asked me about it, and I immediately introduced you to her."
"You introduced him here?"
"Of course not." This was the first time Liu Hehua had been so excited. "During the crackdown years before, many fortune-tellers I knew quit. I finally met another one, so I have to promote her."
Lu Xing couldn't find any logic in this sentence. Since when did a fortune teller have to advertise himself?
Besides, she is not a fortune teller.
"You are really amazing. I don't even dare to say that I have any abilities, but you have boasted so much." She gave a thumbs up, not knowing what to say.
"I understand. You have to keep a low profile in this line of work, right? I won't say it anymore." Liu Hehua pressed down her fingers with the look of an experienced person, making a low-key gesture.
"It was Pingping's mother who asked me about this. She also heard that the man who stole the vegetables was a burly man with a weapon in his hand. He was quite scary. As a fellow villager, I helped him if I could. So I told her about you."
"It's okay. If you can't do it, I'll go and talk to her." Liu Hehua didn't want to make things difficult for her.
Lu Xing was also hesitant, so she whispered to the system, "System, do you have any records of the people who were robbed from Hegu's vegetable fields before?"
[Yes, host, this man ran into the mountains with a weapon, but after he was out of my scanning range, I lost track of him.]
"Lotus, you know my ability. I can't sense it if it's too far away." Lu Xing pointed in the direction of the mountain and hinted vaguely, "You know."
Liu Hehua immediately understood her hint, "I understand, I understand. People who do this can't say anything more."
"How about we go collect firewood like we did last time?"
"OK."
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"So, your family is short of firewood again?"
Lianhua saw the familiar mountains and forests, the familiar reasons, and the two familiar people, and felt like she was being treated like a fool.
"You two lied to me like this last time, are you going to lie to me again this time?"
"How can that be, Aunt Lianhua? My family has run out of firewood, but I don't dare to go out alone. I wonder if a few aunts can accompany me." He Gu tried to smooth things over.
Lian Hua also knew that her family’s vegetable garden had been stolen, and since she was not seen during the subsequent quarrels, she believed this reason.
"Then you guys pick it up. I twisted my waist recently and can't bend down."
Seeing her holding her waist, Lu Xing didn't think she was pretending. "Then why did you have to come with me? A twisted waist is no small matter. It would be better for you to stay at home and rest."
"Of course not. Judi has been arresting people every day lately to join her in scolding the Wang family. I don't want to be caught by her."
Lianhua looked around and found a big rock to sit on. She also took out the melon seeds she had prepared from her pocket.
"I don't know what's wrong with her these days. She's scolding people every day. Did she lose her mind when she gave birth to her youngest son? Now she thinks someone is willing to marry a girl to her family."
"After her eldest son left home, she treated him like he was gone, never asking for anything except money. But when her youngest son wrote back, she'd be busy running around, almost as if she were taking on all the hardship of working for him."
"What do you think she was thinking? She raised her son to be that rotten, and she still expects him to take care of her in her old age?"
Lu Xing and Liu Hehua were busy looking for clues and had no time to pay attention to her. He Gu, who had nothing to do, took over the conversation.
"Aunt Lian, how do you know her son won't provide for her in her old age?"
Lian Hua slapped her thigh and said, "I'm already old enough to know whether a person has a conscience or not just by looking at him."
"As for her youngest son, he's obviously heartless and can't handle hardship. He's always been fond of tricking young girls into working for him, just like Fang Jian from Lu Yue's family."
"When he came to the countryside, his eyes were always on the little girl, never stopping. It was obvious he had nothing good to say. But then..."
"Cough cough!" Lu Xing, who was pretending to pick up firewood in the back, coughed heavily, hoping to remind Lian Hua not to say too much.
But Lian Hua was so engrossed in her story that she didn't even hear what he was saying. "Didn't he just run away, leaving his wife and kids behind? People with bad intentions like that always try to take shortcuts, just like rats trying to find their way into the granary. They can't help themselves."
After she finished speaking, she patted He Gu's shoulder and said, "We can only blame that kid for being so deceitful. Fortunately, we didn't fall for it."
If it was Lu Yue who was here, Lian Hua would definitely not say this. She always felt that there was a hint of pity in her words.
But He Gu, as Lu Yue's enemy who disliked her, had no sympathy for her past dark history and only thought she was too stupid.
Of course, what is even more hateful is the scumbag who abandons his wife and children.
"Aunt Lian is right. If you ask me, Lu Yue was stubborn at the time. Her husband had already run away, so why was she still staring at him? If it were me, I would have lived my own life first. If I couldn't even live my own life well, how could I have the energy to mess up other people's lives?"
"Aunt, tell me if I'm right."
He Gu, a ruthless person in Xiaoshi Village, caught her husband gambling and owing money in the second year after she married into the village.
She didn't say anything to the debt collector at the time, but when she got home, she broke her husband's hand. She even threatened her parents-in-law who tried to mediate, "Next time he gambles again, I'll break his legs too."
After two fights, her husband was scared and would avoid people with gambling cards.
After so many years, Lian Hua almost forgot her great achievements. She was so frightened by the fierceness on her face that she almost forgot what she was going to say, "Ah? Yes - that's right."
"Pingping's mom, you said you were so brave before. You beat your wife up for gambling so many times. Why are you so timid this time?"
"Auntie, that's neither of those things. Gambling can ruin a family. I'll definitely stop it at all costs. I'm living well this time, why would I go looking for death for no reason?"
"Yeah, do you want some melon seeds?" Lianhua took out a handful of melon seeds from her pocket.
"eat."
"When do you plan to find it?"
"Ah? Cough cough." He Gu was so scared that he kept coughing.
She didn't know that the three people had used this excuse to find Lu Jianjun before, and this time they were just joking with her. She thought there was some unavoidable reason why he had to hide it from Aunt Lian.
Suddenly exposed, she didn't know how to respond for a moment.
Lu Xing, who hadn't found any clues, came back and happened to hear this. He joked, "I can't find it, so I won't look for it today."
"Let's go to another mountain to pick mushrooms tomorrow. Do you want to come?"
Lianhua thought about it and decided that instead of staying at home and getting angry at her silly son, she might as well go up the mountain to chat with them. "Come on! Why don't you come!"
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