This time, Li Chunjiao's return home wasn't for a short stay, but for the long haul. And she was bringing her two children with her. In those days, no one was well off, and with three more mouths to feed, Li Chunjiao's sisters-in-law said they had no objections, but her brothers themselves didn't believe it.
However, it was different when Li Chunjiao moved back with food. Her sisters-in-law would not say anything unpleasant even for the sake of food.
So, as soon as Li Chunjiao ordered to move the grain, her brother and cousins immediately took action. Some moved the grain, some moved things, and the Zhou family suddenly became very lively.
Zhou Chunping stood in the yard, his nose almost crooked with anger at his wife who was as stupid as a pig.
In her entire life, the old woman had done few things reliably. She had no sense at all. Didn't she see that Li Chunjiao had forced the three of them, father and son, to let them go back to their parents' home? And she even went out of her way to mention the things? Now, a sack of grain weighs at least 200 kilograms, and 400 kilograms of it had disappeared in an instant. Zhou Chunping was heartbroken.
Wu Jinfeng was also dumbfounded. She had always been so strong-willed in front of her daughters-in-law that she would curse them whenever she saw something that didn't go her way. It had become a habit. And today, just because she cursed, she would lose so much? No! She wouldn't allow it!
"Li Chunjiao, you bastard, you tried to take my things. I will tear you apart." Wu Jinfeng's eyes turned red with anger. She rushed towards Li Chunjiao aggressively and stretched out her hand to grab Li Chunjiao's face.
Wu Jinfeng's nails were sharp and pointed, and there was some soot in her nails from somewhere when she had just had a fight with someone in the kitchen. They looked black. If Li Chunjiao's face was scratched by her hand, she would definitely be disfigured.
Although Li Chunjiao was not good-looking, she did not want to be disfigured by Wu Jinfeng. Seeing Wu Jinfeng rushing towards her aggressively, Li Chunjiao dodged and avoided her.
Wu Jinfeng's hand just happened to grab the stick-like object in Li Chunjiao's hand, and with a force, she snatched the thing from Li Chunjiao's hand.
Wu Jinfeng had just seen it. A whole sheet! Li Chunjiao, that prodigal wife, had used it to wrap something she didn't know what it was. A single sheet cost seven or eight yuan!
Li Chunjiao was so busy dodging Wu Jinfeng's nails that she accidentally had the thing in her hand pulled away by Wu Jinfeng.
Li Chunjiao was stunned. She had brought that thing with her only because she was afraid that Zhou Chunping and his men would destroy the bridge after crossing the river. Now that Wu Jinfeng had taken it away, should she go and get it back?
While Li Chunjiao was stunned, Wu Jinfeng had quickly unwrapped the bed sheet, revealing a bloodstained stick inside.
"Oh my God!" Wu Jinfeng was shocked. Her hand shook and she threw the bed sheet and the stick out, right in front of Zhao Qingshan.
Zhao Qingshan bent down and picked up the stick on the ground.
If he guessed correctly, this stick was the same one Zhou Chunping and his men had used to hit Zhou Zhixin twice on the head after drugging him that night. Zhao Qingshan saw the blood on the stick and felt sorry for Zhou Zhixin. A beating on the head with such a thick stick must have been unpleasant.
"My dear relative Zhao, can you give me this thing?" Zhou Chunping came over with a wry smile and said to Zhao Qingshan.
Zhou Chunping saw the stick clearly before it was thrown from Wu Jinfeng's hand. He tried to catch it, but was a step too slow.
When Zhao Qingshan was looking at the wooden stick, Zhou Chunping's heart was beating like a drum. After enduring for a while, Zhou Chunping still couldn't resist the desire to take the stick back.
"Give it to you? Why?" Zhao Qingshan slowly raised his eyelids and glanced at Zhou Chunping. The words he said made Zhou Chunping so angry that he almost wanted to curse.
"This thing belongs to my Zhou family. Besides, it's useless for you to hold it, right?" Zhou Chunping smiled and wanted Zhao Qingshan to give up the stick in his hand voluntarily.
"It's good that you recognize it as yours." Zhao Qingshan looked at Zhou Chunping and said something meaningful. However, he still held the stick tightly in his hand and did not pass it to Zhou Chunping.
Zhou Chunping racked his brains, trying to think of a way to get the stick back from Zhao Qingshan, when Zhou Hongming's loud voice came from outside the Zhou family's door: "What's going on? What's going on? There are so many people blocking the door. Is there something wrong with Uncle Chunping's family?"
Zhou Chunping was so angry that he fell backwards. Pah! You're the one in trouble! It's New Year's Day, how dare you, Zhou Hongming, curse others like that?
When the villagers at the door saw the village chief coming, they quickly made way for Zhou Hongming to enter the Zhou family.
When Zhou Hongming walked in, he saw Zhou Chunping's face, which was as black as if soaked in ink. In addition, there was a hint of coldness in Zhou Chunping's eyes when he looked at Zhou Hongming.
"Hey~! What's wrong with Uncle Chunping? Why do you look unhappy when you see me? Are you annoyed that I come to disturb you?" Zhou Hongming was frightened by the coldness in Zhou Chunping's eyes and took a step back. Then he felt embarrassed and his words were not so nice.
Zhou Hongming had actually received a tip from the villagers half an hour earlier: seven or eight men from Li Chunjiao's family had come to Zhou Chunping's house to cause trouble. But out of respect for his wife, Li Cuilian, Zhou Hongming deliberately delayed his arrival for half an hour to see what was going on.
However, although he was a little late, he was still the village chief after all, right? Seeing his disgusted look, Zhou Chunping really didn't treat the village chief as a cadre, right?
"Hmph!" Zhou Chunping snorted and said nothing.
To be honest, Zhou Chunping had a problem with both Zhou Hongming and the old village chief, Zhou Dazhu. Zhou Hongming had been caught red-handed with Liu Moli by Zhou Daniu the previous time, and this guy, feeling threatened by Zhou Daniu, was trying to drag his son Zhigang into the affair. If Zhou Dazhu hadn't forced him, he wouldn't have agreed to help him out so readily. Honestly, Zhou Hongming was the culprit behind the chaos in his Zhou family.
Thinking of this, Zhou Chunping's gaze turned even colder as he looked at Zhou Hongming. Li Chunjiao had been introduced to the Zhou family by Zhou Hongming's wife, Li Cuilian. Now that Li Dafu had dared to bring people to the Zhou family to cause such a big commotion, wasn't it because he was relying on Zhou Hongming's power? If Zhou Hongming had been fair, he would have brought the village militia to stop it long ago. Now that Li Dafu had smashed his pots and dismantled the stove, Zhou Hongming had only just appeared here. Wasn't it obvious that he was biased towards the Li family?
And there was that old man, Zhou Dazhu, who had taken a lot of money from Zhou Chunping, but at the critical moment, he couldn't help at all. Zhou Chunping was full of complaints.
"Well, I, Zhou Hongming, am being nosy. It seems that you, Zhou Chunping, don't need my help at all with your family affairs." Seeing Zhou Chunping like this, Zhou Hongming's enthusiasm seemed to be doused with water, and not a bit was left.
Zhou Hongming and Zhou Zhigang have been brothers-in-law for so many years, and Zhou Zhigang will never miss out on any benefits in the village. Zhou Hongming believes that he is sincere to the Zhou family, but unfortunately some people only remember the bad and not the good, just like Zhou Chunping.
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