Chapter 412 413: Hand over the key
Xiong Dahai smiled and nodded, "Yes, he and Li Guanghui found a hunting rifle and went up the mountain to hunt rabbits. Luckily, they encountered a wild boar, and the brave young men brought it back."
"Old Bear, you're talking nonsense. We saw your youngest son holding a rifle!" Someone shouted.
Xiong Dahai looked at the crowd and his face suddenly darkened. "Bullshit! The hunting rifle that the youngest borrowed is still hanging on the wall! If you don't believe me, go in and take a look."
Xu Hongbing stood behind Zhou Huaijin and shouted, "It's been so long since Xiong Laoyao came back. Even if he stole the rifle, he would have returned it long ago."
Secretary Xu and his men entered the yard, "Old Xiong, call out your youngest son and explain the situation to everyone."
Xiong Dahai nodded and said, "Before you came, the youngest one said he had a stomachache and went to the toilet, so I went to call him."
"Okay!" Secretary Xu agreed and went to watch a few young men hunting wild boars.
A villager in the crowd quietly retreated, and Li Qiuyue followed him, "Huaimin, where are you going?"
Zhou Huaimin said, "That bastard of Xiong Laoyao must have gone to return the gun. I'll go to his backyard and take a look."
Li Qiuyue nodded, "Oh! Go ahead and I'll help you watch over the people."
Xiong Dahai walked to the backyard door and saw that it was still open. He waited anxiously for more than ten minutes before Xiong Laoya ran in breathlessly.
He hurried forward and said, "Secretary Xu wanted to ask you a question. I said you had a stomachache and were squatting in the toilet."
The youngest bear nodded, took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and strode towards the front yard.
Xiong Dahai closed the back door and chased after him. Zhou Huaimin and Xu Hongbing, who were hiding outside the courtyard wall, also turned back quietly.
The youngest Xiong went to the front yard and pretended to be angry and said to Secretary Xu: "Secretary Xu, my husband told me... If you don't believe me, you can ask Li Guanghui and the others."
Li Guanghui said, "Captain Xiong, we have just told Secretary Xu that there are some people in the village who are jealous of us and are deliberately slandering you after seeing us kill a wild boar."
At this time, Xiong Dahai came out from the main room holding a hunting rifle, "Secretary Xu, look, the hunting rifle is still here! My youngest son served in the army for several years, and his marksmanship is no problem for hunting wild boars."
Secretary Xu nodded, "That's true, your youngest is really good at shooting."
Zhou Huaiming hid in the back and shouted, "Secretary Xu, their words don't count. Unless you hand over the key to the storage room, we will believe that Xiong Laoyao didn't take the militia's gun."
Xu Hongbing took the opportunity to stir up trouble, "Yes, give the key to the safekeeping room to Secretary Xu, and we will believe that you didn't take the gun."
Xiong Dahai looked at him gloomily, "Xu Hongbing, do you think everyone is like you, wanting to move everything to their own home?"
Xu Hongbing was not afraid at all, he glared at him and said, "What did I do to move your house? Show me the evidence, if you don't have it you are slandering me!" You bastard, you haven't even wiped the shit off your ass, yet you still dare to look down on me.
Zhou Huaimin: "Yeah, there's no war going on now, so what's wrong with handing the key to Secretary Xu? You're not reluctant to part with it, are you?"
Everyone shouted, "That's right, we don't trust him, we only trust Secretary Xu."
The youngest Xiong was so angry that he clenched his back teeth. He had already seen the person who had just shouted. It was Zhou Huaimin, the captain of Zhou's family. He was too careless. How could he have forgotten that this guy was also a militiaman!
Secretary Xu glanced at the furious Xiong family father and son, then turned to look at Captain Zhou and Accountant Ye, "What do you think about this?"
Captain Zhou said, "Since everyone has requested this, it's fine if I give you the key to the storage room first."
Accountant Ye nodded and said, "I agree too!"
Secretary Xu said to Xiong Laoyao: "Comrade Xiong Jianbin, please give me the key to the storage room for a while. I will return it to you after the village committee finds out the truth and explains it clearly to the villagers."
After hearing this, Xiong Laoyao had no choice but to take the key out of his pocket and handed it to Secretary Xu, "Please ask the village committee to investigate as soon as possible and find the person who spread the rumor and clear my name."
Secretary Xu nodded and said, "Don't worry, we will never let go of anyone who spreads rumors and causes trouble and affects unity."
Xiong Dahai said with a strong smile: "Secretary Xu, since you are all here, why don't you have a couple of drinks at my house tonight before leaving?"
Secretary Xu said cheerfully: "Thank you very much. We will definitely come when your family holds the grand opening banquet."
Xiong Dahai and Xiong Laoyaoqiang smiled as they saw Secretary Xu and his party out the door. As soon as they turned around, Zhou Sufang spat with a sullen face, "They are all red-eyed. They came to mess things up when they saw my youngest killing a wild boar."
The guys who were collecting wild boars in the yard saw the youngest bear hand over the key to the storage room and began to worry that their new way of making money was gone.
When Xiong Dahai and his son came back, they saw Zhou Sufang standing on the steps with a sullen face, and several guys who were cleaning up wild boars were listlessly raking up the pigs' hair.
He glanced at Zhou Sufang and said, "What are you doing standing there? Go and boil some water."
"You are very tough to your family members, but like a rabbit to outsiders." Zhou Sufang glared at him and walked away muttering.
Li Guanghui looked at the youngest Xiong and said, "Youngest brother, are we going up the mountain the day after tomorrow?" The other guys also looked at him.
The youngest bear looked at the others and said, "Go ahead. Those hunters just go with a hunting rifle."
"Yes, the youngest brother is an accurate shooter. He can still shoot wild animals with a hunting rifle."
"That's right. Even Zhou Laoyao's two poles can catch wild animals, not to mention the youngest brother."
Xiong Dahai went to the main hall with him, "Will they find out?"
The youngest Xiong said in frustration: "If we really wanted to check, how could we not find out?"
Xiong Dahai sighed, "I'll go to the old fox's house when it gets dark."
"This is the only way." The youngest bear said angrily, "It was that bastard Zhou Huaimin who spread the news that I had a gun."
"Zhou Datian is so insidious..." Seeing his depressed look, Xiong Dahai couldn't bear to say anything more about him, so he comforted him:
"Your second brother got into trouble, so it's hard for you to be elected as the brigade secretary. Besides, now that we have implemented the household contract responsibility system, being a brigade cadre doesn't bring much benefits. Otherwise, why would Xu Huli step down?"
"That's right. What good is there for a brigade secretary to do? It's not even worthwhile to go up the mountain." Zhou Sufang walked in and said.
"You know nothing!" Xiong Dahai said angrily, "If the money in the mountains is so easy to make, why are those people in the village still guarding their one-third acre of land?"
Zhou Sufang glared, "Even Zhou Laoyao can catch wild animals, but my youngest..."
"Cai Ermei, have you forgotten?" Xiong Dahai interrupted her, "They went into the mountains to hunt and ended up like that, youngest..."
"Okay, stop arguing!" The youngest bear interrupted him. "I'll go help deal with the wild boar." Then he turned and left.
Xiong Dahai looked at Zhou Sufang with disgust, "You brainless woman, do you really think that the youngest brother can go up the mountain with a hunting rifle and hunt wild boars and bears?
Do you think the wild boars in the mountains are the same as the pigs we raise in the pen? Wild animals have wild natures, and something bad might happen. Think carefully with your pig brain!"
Zhou Sufang watched him walk away angrily, and after a while she said, "Of course I know, I..."
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Li Qiuyue arrived home excitedly and saw Yang Chunyan and others washing angelica sinensis by the ditch. She walked over and told them what had happened using gestures.
He sighed again, "That bastard Xiong Dahai is much more treacherous than us old men. He even handed over the key to the storage room and even smiled and invited Secretary Xu and the others to dinner."
After Yang Chunyan and the other two heard what she said, they said, "Third sister-in-law, your nephew is here too."
Li Qiuyue stared at the three people, "Ah! Are they really here? Who is coming?"
Zhao Huifang said: "It is said that he is the second child of your second brother's family!"
"Li Laoer, that plague-like brother-in-law!" Li Qiuyue cursed and turned around and walked back. When she entered the yard, she saw a young man with a messy hair, slumped in a bamboo chair, "Li Hongxing, who called you in?"
Li Hongxing opened his eyes and saw Li Qiuyue. He scratched his chicken coop hair, licked his face and smiled apologetically: "Fourth Miss, my mother asked me to come and learn the skills of making money from you."
"I'm asking you who called you in?" Li Qiuyue pointed at the door with a dark face, "Go! I have severed my relationship with your mother and your husband a long time ago, so get out of here right now."
Li Hongxing pointed to the sky with a bitter face and said, "Miss Si, it's almost dark, how can I go back?" His mother was smart. She asked him to come in the afternoon so that he could stay.
Li Qiuyue couldn't stand his cunning look the most. "I don't care how you go back." Then she went forward to pull him, "Go, leave quickly!"
Li Hongxing curled up in his chair and refused to move. "Fourth Miss, my mother told me to come and learn from you and uncle. I promise to work hard and not be lazy!"
His mother said that Si Niang's family eats meat every meal and has a tractor, so he doesn't want to go back and eat potatoes and sweet potatoes every meal.
Li Qiuyue pulled him twice but he didn't move. She didn't dare to use too much force. Thinking of what Yang Chunyan said that day and her current situation, she pointed at him and said, "You're not leaving, right?"
Li Hongxing shook his head, "I won't leave. I'm here to learn a skill that can make money, so I can go back and build a brick house and get married!"
"Let me make it clear to you. My family doesn't have any skills that can make money, but we have leased over a hundred acres of barren hills. If you want to stay, you can follow your uncle to open up wasteland, cut trees, and harvest grass for pigs."
Li Qiuyue said coldly, "Think it over. If you can do it, stay here. If you can't do it, get out as soon as possible!"
Li Hongxing asked with a shameless face: "Fourth Miss, is there any meat to eat?"
"Meat?" Li Qiuyue sneered, "I don't have any meat to eat yet!"
"You're kidding me." Li Hongxing pointed in the direction of the kitchen, "I saw a big piece of meat hanging from the mouth of your stove!"
"You..." Li Qiuyue glared at him, "Are you really not leaving?"
Li Hongxing shook his head, "No, I want to eat meat at your house!"
"You want to eat meat, right?" Li Qiuyue looked around, walked to the steps and picked up the backpack, "Go cut grass for the pigs for me." Then she warned him, "If you dare to go to other people's fields to cut grass, I will chase you away tonight."
Seeing that she wanted to keep him, Li Hongxing happily took the backpack and said, "Okay, I'll go right away."
Yang Chunyan and others were standing by the ditch, watching Li Hongxing come out with a basket and a sickle, "Are you going to work right now?"
Zhang Xiuxiang said, "Since he's here, we have to keep him for two days. He didn't even bring a change of clothes. It's obvious that he's here to take advantage of us."
"Yeah, Qiuyue is unlucky to have such a brother and sister-in-law!" Zhao Huifang said as she remembered something and looked at the two of them and said, "I think Qiuyue has been a little strange lately. Could she be that person?"
(End of this chapter)
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