Chapter 20 Caught in the act
Su Yuhe refilled his pipe with tobacco, borrowed a puff of light from the old man next to him, took a deep puff, and then slowly spoke again: "Brothers, let me be frank with you. I'll negotiate a higher price! But when it comes time to harvest the sorghum, you have to help me control those mischievous people. Whatever standard I say, it must be followed. You must not pass inferior goods off as good ones!"
"What are you talking about? You know us guys, we will definitely listen to you!"
"Yes, don't let our village have a bad reputation!"
"That's right, that's right, don't worry!"
The old men responded one after another.
Gu Feihan slept until the sun was setting.
He sat up and shook his head, but he didn't feel dizzy at all. Only the lingering smell of alcohol in his mouth and nose reminded him that he had just been drunk.
This is certainly because he is young and in good physical condition.
Of course, the pure grain wine brewed by Aunt Wu herself is less harmful to the body and helps people sober up faster.
The old men who had been drinking at noon all left, and Su Yuhe went to the welfare home to continue digging the land. Only Su Xiaoli was left in the yard helping Aunt Wu peel corn.
Gu Feihan walked out of the house, the blush on his face had not completely faded, and his eyebrows were bright, eyes were handsome, lips were red, and teeth were white, as if he had put on makeup, which stunned Aunt Wu.
"You're awake now. Auntie made some rice soup for you. Drink it to sober you up."
Su Xiaoli brought a bowl of millet porridge, which was neither cold nor hot, with a layer of crystal clear rice oil floating on it. It was obvious that it had been prepared long ago.
Gu Feihan picked up the bowl and drank it all in one gulp. After finishing, he smacked his lips, feeling unsatisfied.
"Xiao Gu, there's still some in the pot. It's enough for a few more bowls." Aunt Wu said with a smile.
Gu Feihan walked into the kitchen with a smile.
For those who drink heavily, drinking more millet porridge can nourish the stomach and sober you up. This was taught to Gu Feihan by his old father.
"Auntie, please help me pack some sorghum and the remaining sorghum wine. I will take it back for testing."
Aunt Wu smiled and nodded.
"Auntie, there is one thing I don't understand. Why do I feel that our wine is more fragrant than other wines?
It’s a strange fragrance, not quite the scent of sorghum, but I can’t really tell what it is…”
Gu Feihan hesitated for a moment and asked his doubts.
He felt the difference from the first bite.
There is a lot of sorghum wine in the family. The old man likes to drink a few sips during the holidays, tasting the wine while drinking, and even the brothers have become picky about the taste buds.
The base wine of Aunt Wu's wine is definitely made from pure sorghum, but no one knows what is mixed in it.
It exudes a faint exotic fragrance, which seems to be there and not there, looming and very tempting.
Aunt Wu smiled mysteriously.
"You are not an outsider, so I will tell you that after I make this sorghum wine, I add a little bit of soaked peppercorns into it. This wine is the most fragrant in our village!"
Gu Feihan suddenly realized.
He thought about it, then took out five big unity notes from his pocket and handed them to Aunt Wu.
"Auntie, I can't listen to the secret recipe of this wine for nothing. Please accept it. This is the money for the secret recipe. If I open a factory in the future, I will have to ask you for guidance."
What? This wave of operations directly confused Aunt Wu.
She just said that sorghum liquor tastes better when soaked in peppercorns, and it’s only worth 50 yuan? ! “No, no, what are you doing?! If I accept it, my old man will scold me to death!”
Aunt Wu quickly pushed the money away.
Su Xiaoli laughed at the side.
"Auntie, just accept it. This is called patent fee. If Grandpa Su dares to scold you, I will go and tell him."
“Can it really be collected?”
"It can be collected. It must be collected." Su Xiaoli said in a firm tone.
Aunt Wu took the 50 yuan with some doubt, and waited for her old man to come back and ask him about it. If he could not accept it, she would return it.
Also, what is patent fee?
Gu Feihan's payment was rewarded by Aunt Wu with several times more enthusiasm.
She ran to the cellar and brought out three more jars of wine, emptied out all the stock in the house, and filled a sack of sorghum into the trunk of the jeep before letting the two of them go back.
Gu Feihan had been drinking and his legs were not fully healed, so Su Xiaoli had to drive.
As the jeep drove to the roadside where Nanzhule Village and Beizhule Village meet, the two men saw from afar two men in big hats restraining a man.
Why...it looks a little familiar.
Zhang Hongbing? An old woman wailed, tearing at Zhang Hongbing’s trouser legs.
A young woman with disheveled hair was lying on the ground crying. Her clothes were torn and her hair and body were covered with dirt and leaves.
Su Xiaoli slammed on the brakes and looked at Gu Feihan.
Gu Feihan understood, and the two of them parked the car to the side and walked over together.
The old woman was still wailing and didn't notice the two men coming at all.
"You can't take my son away. It was that bitch who seduced him..."
The old woman pointed at the woman with a red and swollen face with one trembling hand, and tightly grasped Zhang Hongbing's trouser leg with the other hand.
She was also afraid of the gun in the man in the peaked cap, so she didn't dare to tear it too hard.
The old woman is Zhang Hongbing’s mother - Lai Chunhua.
She has always been used to acting like a spoiled brat in Beizhule Village, relying on the fact that her husband is the village chief.
She usually thinks that her son is perfect and she doesn't like any girl as her daughter-in-law. Until now, Zhang Hongbing has not yet married.
Although Zhang Hongbing is not married, he is still a young man full of vigor and vitality...
Lai Chunhua didn't stop her son from messing around, because it wasn't her son who suffered anyway.
If a woman really gets pregnant, it's her own child from the Zhang family, so they can just take her home and raise her.
It was this kind of mother who spoiled Zhang Hongbing to become lawless.
Even Zhang Hongbing's biological father, the village chief Zhang Fugui, sometimes didn't dare to force Zhang Hongbing to come.
When the police came to her house to arrest someone today, Lai Chunhua fought back neither harshly nor softly.
It was clearly her who spent 800 yuan to arrange the marriage, so how could that little girl Su Xiaoli just say it was invalid!
She even chopped her son and injured him. When she got home, she would be skinned alive by her mother-in-law! Lin Yuan and Lai Chunhua couldn't explain it clearly, and Zhang Fugui, the father, was not at home, so he went to search other places in the village.
When Lai Chunhua saw that the police had left and she couldn't find her son or her husband, she had nothing to do so she went to wander around the fields with a basket.
He originally wanted to steal some corn cobs from someone's cornfield and bring them back, but he happened to see the police catching Zhang Hongbing.
She stood there in a daze for a long time, then rushed forward crying and shouting, pointing at the Sun family's daughter-in-law and cursing her.
"... Woo... Police comrade, I didn't seduce him... Woo... He stopped me before and I scolded him, but who would have thought that today... Woo..."
Sun family's daughter-in-law Xu Xiaozhen said while sobbing.
How could she live her life after such a thing happened? Her father-in-law was paralyzed in bed, and her mother-in-law passed away before she got married. She and her husband Sun Fu were the only two laborers in the family.
Today Sun Fu went to the county to buy pesticides. After she finished cleaning the house, she thought that the cornfield had not been cleaned up yet, so she rushed over to pick the corn cobs while the sun was not too strong.
Who would have thought...
At this moment, she was angry, hateful and scared, and her whole body was trembling.
Thanks for the monthly ticket~ Tomorrow is Double Ninth Festival: I will drink wine by the eastern fence after dusk, and get drunk to celebrate the festival.
I wish you and your family good health~ (End of this chapter)
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