Chapter 84: Rebirth. Evil will be punished.
Such big news made Qiu Xuan stunned on the spot.
Hu Zi actually wanted to kill Qiu Shitou, the son wanted to kill his own father!
It is said that even a tiger will not eat its own cubs, but now my cub wants to kill me.
It turns out that human hearts are evil, and killing for one's own benefit is just a matter of a blink of an eye.
Qiu Xuan hid in the dark without moving, and only came out from behind the bushes after Hu Zi and the others had completely left the bamboo forest.
Qiu Xuan adjusted her skirt and asked, "What do you think would happen if Qiu Shitou found out about this?"
Qiu Xuan actually wanted the bad guys to get what they deserved. She wanted Qiu Shitou and Lin Cuihua to have a bad ending.
But she also didn't want to let Hu Zi, the evildoer, go.
Now that he is so young he wants to kill his own father. Who can guarantee that he won’t kill others in the future?
Zong Xiao frowned, this was the first time he encountered such a thing.
He thought for a moment and said, "Why not tell Qiu Shitou?"
"Would a father believe that his son wanted to kill him?"
If Qiu Xuan hadn't heard it with her own ears, she wouldn't have believed it.
"No need to say that, just say Hu Zi owes a debt."
"That's all you're saying?"
"For Qiu Shitou, this is enough to make the world fall."
How much money can the villagers earn in a year? What does it mean if they owe gambling debts? It means at least several taels of silver, or even more.
When Qiu Shitou heard the news, he was determined to beat Hu Zi to death or half-cripple him.
As for who wins and who loses in the end, that is the Qiu family’s own business.
This is indeed a good idea, Qiu Xuan thinks it is feasible.
After cutting the bamboo, the two men went down the mountain and stopped by Datun Village.
I wanted Sandan to spread the news, but unexpectedly I met an acquaintance.
The Fushun brothers had just come down the mountain, and when they saw the two of them they couldn't help but chat about family matters.
Zong Xiao didn't directly mention Hu Zi's matter, but instead asked indirectly, "I heard something happened to the Qiu family?"
Fushun nodded. "That's right. I don't know what Qiu Shitou did to me. He broke his wife's leg. I heard he refused to treat her, and now she's almost dying."
Zong Xiao: "That's not it. Why did I hear people say Hu Zi is in debt from gambling?"
"There is such a thing?" Fushun widened his eyes.
That's a gambling debt, who dares to touch it?
"This is what I heard from others, it may not be true."
"How can this kind of news be false? You two should be careful. The Qiu family has no money, so don't let them turn their attention to your family."
Qiu Xuan: "That's what we're afraid of, so we came to inquire about it."
Fu Shun replied, "Okay, I'll ask around and get back to you tomorrow."
Zong Xiao thanked him for his kindness and gave him a pheasant he had just shot in the mountains.
Although it is not big, it is at least meaty.
Fushun didn't bother to be polite with him. He went back home with the chicken in his hand without even leaving the mountain.
He was a bit of a name in the village, and he was able to find out about Hu Zi after a little inquiry.
It turned out that Hu Zi didn't owe money to the gambling house in town, but to the gangsters in the village, just four taels.
But for a farmer, four taels is enough for more than a year's food and drink.
"Spread this news and let Qiu Shitou know." Fushun said to the person who reported the news.
The village was not big, and the news spread before noon.
Qiu Shitou was happily walking home with the meat he had bought, but someone told him about this on the way.
He didn't believe it at first, but those people's stories were so convincing that he couldn't help but believe it.
He hurried home, grabbed Hu Zi's ear and asked.
Hu Zi never thought that his debt would be told to others.
Faced with questioning, he stopped pretending and told his father the truth.
"Four taels of silver, would you mind giving me some?" Hu Zi confidently stretched out his hand to ask for the money.
"Give me back the four taels of silver. I think you deserve a beating. You stole money when you were young and gambled when you grew up." Qiu Shitou was furious and hit Hu Zi at everything he saw.
Things in the house were broken and rotten, and the noise attracted everyone else in the house.
Qiu Shitou's parents were the first to object. He was their own grandson, so why were they beating the child?
But when they heard that he owed gambling debts, the old couple was at a loss.
They had no money, and the coffin had already been used to marry him off.
"Just follow your mother's lead. I'd rather break both of your legs so you can't leave the house."
"Hit me, hit me. If you can't stop beating me, you are not my father."
Both of them were angry and did not care how hard they hit each other.
Hu Zi hit Qiu Shitou with his crutch, and Qiu Shitou hit Hu Zi's legs with a chair.
Until something hit Hu Zi's wife during the argument.
After hearing a cry of "ouch", everyone stopped.
"I...my stomach hurts." The woman curled up on the ground, holding her stomach. The club just hit her right on the body.
She felt like she was dying and was in so much pain.
The village doctor came quickly, but no matter how fast he came, he couldn't save the child.
"The fetus was already unstable, and now the baby is gone. You should take good care of it." The doctor shook his head and prescribed two prescriptions for her.
That is Hu Zi’s child, the great-grandson of the old couple of the Qiu family!
Now it's all gone.
Lin Cuihua, who was lying on the kang next door and was dying, was so exhausted when she heard the news.
By the time the Qiu family found her, she was already dead.
Qiu Shitou got angry when he saw her. Not to mention preparing a banquet, he couldn't even bear to buy a coffin.
He simply wrapped the person in a straw mat and buried him.
It was five days later that Qiu Xuan heard the news.
They have been so busy with business in the shop these days that they forgot to inquire.
If Fu Shun hadn't come, they wouldn't have known.
Qiu Xuan served him a handful of grilled skewers and continued listening to him.
"I heard from the doctor that everyone in the Qiu family is sick. They've been taking medicine every day these past few days, but I don't know who took it."
It doesn't matter who eats it, as long as it's a member of the Qiu family.
"It's a good thing you broke off your relationship a long time ago. If you get involved with a family like that, you'll never be able to get rid of them." After saying this, Fushun realized that he had said the wrong thing.
Fortunately, Qiu Xuan didn't take it to heart. After all, the Qiu family was just an enemy to her.
However, this retribution is still a little small, but who can say for sure?
This is just the beginning.
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At the end of June, the weather gradually became warmer.
The streets were no longer crowded at noon, and people began to go out in the evening when it was cooler.
Qiu Xuan's restaurant business also declined a bit, but the kebab business became more and more prosperous.
To make it more affordable for everyone, Qiu Xuan also introduced grilled dishes, such as grilled leeks, grilled eggplant, and grilled snake gourd.
As long as there is something, she can make it in different ways.
She started serving lamb skewers these days.
A whole sheep, her small stall simply couldn't use that much meat.
Qiu Yu then entrusted the remaining skewers to Liu Zhong to sell. He could sell them to anyone, even to a vendor selling the same skewers.
Anyway, the meat has to be sold out within a day, otherwise it will be bad if it is left overnight.
"Boss, give me twenty skewers of mutton. I want it spicy to take away." A servant stood in front of the stall and watched. He put the copper coins into the jar one by one in front of Huaixue.
Huaixue can count, and if she is given too few coins, she will tell you.
"Okay, your skewers."
Qiu Xuan was not afraid to give away food when she sold it. For example, for this mutton kebab that cost eight cents a kebab, she would give the servant two extra kebabs of pork.
The errand boy who delivers the pork can eat it by himself.
Word spread quickly, and the servants of the wealthy families in the area all loved to come to her stall to buy.
Qiu Xuan could almost sell out all the skewers every day, so she made a lot of money.
It’s a pity that no matter how good the business is, it cannot withstand the changes of seasons.
Business is not as good as before when the weather gets cold.
By the end of September, people gradually stopped eating skewers.
Seeing this, Qiu Xuan closed her stall and kept the grill for use next year.
Although the kebab business is over, the family still has other ways to make a living, so they are not too worried.
The days passed slowly until the beginning of autumn, when something big happened in the town.
A girl from another county who came to visit relatives disappeared among them.
Most people guessed what was going on, but no one dared to speak out. After all, the brothel had been doing evil for a long time.
People have reported the matter to the authorities, but the business is still operating normally.
When Qiu Xuan heard the news, she immediately returned home.
She put the cotton she bought on the kang, rubbed her hands and chatted with Zong Xiao.
"Do you think that girl can still come out?"
Everyone assumed that the girl had been abducted by a brothel.
"Whether they can or cannot depends on the government. If they are willing, they can rescue her." Zong Xiao was afraid that she would have wild thoughts, so he comforted her, "I'll go ask around tomorrow and see if I can find out anything."
Unexpectedly, before they could find out, the brothel was sealed off that night.
A large group of soldiers surrounded the brothel at night and took out all the people inside.
Sanshui told them the news early the next morning.
Sanshui lived behind the shop and could hear every noise on the street.
"Shopkeeper, you don't know. Yesterday, the soldiers held torches and lit up the streets like daybreak."
The government actually took action. What does this mean?
This shows that there is a powerful force behind the missing girl, otherwise the brothel would not be uprooted.
"But they said they didn't find the girl. What a pity." Sanshui said regretfully, "I don't know where the girl went. There's no news for so many days. Shopkeepers, do you think she's gone?"
People will definitely not die.
And the person must have been found.
However, due to the claim of innocence, people are unwilling to publicize this matter.
Because of the brothel incident, people in the town had happy expressions on their faces during those days.
Especially families with daughters, they don’t have to be on guard every day.
The same went for Qiu Xuan. She really didn't expect the brothel to close so quickly.
She thought that the people over there would definitely come to cause trouble again...
"I asked someone to inquire about it. I heard that Madam Lian was fine when she went in, thinking she would be out soon. Who knew she would die that night?"
"Gone?" Qiu Yu was surprised.
"If someone doesn't want her to live, then she naturally can't live."
The person whom the common people dare not offend may be just a small ant to the powerful.
Crushing to death is a simple matter.
"I didn't expect that the matter would be resolved like this. I thought we..." Qiu Xuan breathed a sigh of relief. The anxiety of these days was finally over.
“Now everyone can live a down-to-earth life.”
There was more than just Madam Lian behind the brothel. People from higher up investigated very quickly, and within a month their original county magistrate was replaced.
Qiu Xuan and the others were both relieved and moved.
The common people really cannot fight against the bad guys, and the only real way out is to become an official.
"Good boy, if you were born a boy, your father would support your education even if he had to beg for food in the future." Zong Anji whispered to Yueyang's belly.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Why do you want food? Pah, pah, pah." Zong's mother slapped Zong Anji hard.
Such unlucky words can't be said!
Yueyang is now eight months old, and the whole family is very cautious, fearing that anything might go wrong.
It seems that Zong Anji hasn't been going to the restaurant these days, as Qiu Xuan is taking care of everything there.
Until that morning in early winter, Yueyang was finally born.
With a cry, the Zong family welcomed its second grandchild.
He is a big fat boy, weighing 6.6 jin.
Named Zong Shuyun.
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