"Uncle An, I'll go back to work first." Liu Yujiang said with one foot on the ground.
An Jingzhi waved at him and said, "Sorry to bother you this time, go back to work."
Liu Yujiang nodded at him and rode his bike back in a hurry.
As soon as An Jingzhi arrived at the village entrance, a group of people surrounded him and talked to him.
"Mr. An, what's going on? How did you get back, police officer?"
"Uncle An, is there something wrong with your family? Did the police come to your house?"
An Jingzhi said loudly with a stern face, "Bullshit! What kind of rumor are you making up? If I really committed a crime, would the police still let me go alone?"
"That's the son of my old brother from the county town. He just happened to send me back."
Rumors stop at the wise, but this sentence generally doesn't work at all.
An Jingzhi explained the problem clearly in a timely manner, and since they saw from afar that the police officer was quite respectful to An Jingzhi, everyone's attention shifted again.
"I haven't heard that Uncle An has such a powerful friend in the county."
"This is incredible. Even the police know him. Doesn't that mean they can arrest anyone they want?"
"What are you talking about? The police have to rely on evidence. How can they just arrest anyone they want? Wouldn't that just lead to chaos?"
After An Jingzhi explained everything clearly, he was too lazy to talk to them, so he pushed through the crowd and walked towards home.
There was a glint in the eyes of the people in the crowd, including Dazhu's mother, who were selling eggs to the An family. They bought eggs yesterday and said they were for their own consumption.
Mr. An went out today and was sent back by the police.
Who did you buy these eggs for? Do you need to guess?
Everyone felt more confident about the deal.
"Dad?! Are you okay?!" An Xianghong and An Xiangjun, who rushed back after getting the news, saw An Jingzhi pushing the door open safely and kept looking behind An Jingzhi.
An Jingzhi took off the backpack and asked, "Why are you sitting at home instead of working in the fields? What are you looking at?"
An Xianghong asked with lingering fear: "Dad, the village said you committed a crime and were brought back by the police."
An Jingzhi was speechless and explained the matter again.
Li Xinfeng glanced at Zhao Yuxiu and felt relieved. Fortunately, her sister-in-law stopped her from scolding her. Otherwise, if she went out and said something, wouldn’t the matter be exposed?
She glanced at Zhao Yuxiu gratefully, but Zhao Yuxiu's attention was obviously not on her. She patted her chest and muttered with lingering fear: "It's good that you're okay, it's good that you're okay."
"Go do what you need to do. Why are you sitting around at home? There are no work points at home to feed you."
"Have you chopped the firewood? The weather is going to get cold soon, so save some."
After An Jingzhi's scolding, the An family was not unhappy at all. Instead, they felt relieved.
Judging from the look on Dad's face, there must be nothing wrong.
An Jingzhi put the backpack in the kitchen and suddenly found that there were two more apples in it.
"This old man Liu is really..."
He didn't know how to describe it and felt a little guilty. He just took two bunches of vegetables, but the other party gave him two apples that he couldn't even buy.
He made friends with someone for a purpose, but the other party sincerely regarded him as a friend.
The thought lasted only a second before he immediately threw it out of his mind. No matter what his intention was in making friends with her, he really did get along with her sincerely!
At his age, he still walked ten miles to get a bicycle to take him to the county. Doesn’t that mean he is sincere?
…
Autumn is the harvest season, and farm work is not that heavy, so people in the countryside usually choose to get married during this time period.
These days, Zhao Yuxiu has been hanging out with matchmakers, hoping to find a good family for her daughter.
After much selection, they finally chose a family with the surname Lin.
The two sides also met and were quite satisfied with each other.
As a father-in-law, An Jingzhi usually doesn't interfere in such matters.
But An Caiyun's marriage partner is really not that good, it can be said that he is really disgusting.
In her previous life, she married into the Lin family. Lin Congwen looked like a kind man on the surface, and her father worked as a kitchen helper in the commune kitchen, which was a stable job with a salary to support the family.
Zhao Yuxiu also felt that it was a good choice for her daughter to marry into this family.
But he didn't expect that although Lin Congwen appeared to be kind on the surface, he was actually a wicked person with a lot of thieves and prostitutes in private.
Relying on his father's position, he had affairs with women in the village.
Not long after marrying An Caiyun, he was caught having an affair by An Caiyun. He beat An Caiyun and threatened her not to tell her family.
He also said that if An Caiyun told the story to others, her family would be embarrassed in the end. If An Caiyun herself was not incompetent, would she go out and mess around?
The girl who grew up in the countryside had never seen the world and had no concept of divorce.
She had no choice but to swallow her anger until she gave birth to her first son, when her life gradually got better. But this so-called improvement meant that her husband went from beating her for no reason to beating her behind their son's back.
At the dinner table, Zhao Yuxiu briefly introduced the family she had found for her daughter An Caiyun, and her words and actions showed that she was very satisfied with the other party's conditions.
"According to what you said, he has good conditions and many people should be interested in him. Why do you have to come to our village to look for him?" An Jingzhi said.
Zhao Yuxiu smiled and said, "Maybe he doesn't like the ones in the village. Dad, I'm not bragging, but I personally raised Caiyun. I'm a good hand at home and outside, so it's normal for him to like Caiyun."
She is indeed a good hand. He chose An Caiyun because he was planning to marry a daughter-in-law who lives far away from home and can serve as a free nanny.
"What I mean is that there is no such thing as pie in the sky. He has such good conditions. I'm not saying that our Caiyun is not good, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that they are not a match."
"There may be some reasons we don't know about."
What else could it be? Perhaps everyone in that village knew the Lin family's character, and no one wanted to push their daughter into that fire.
But I didn't want to offend anyone so I didn't shout.
After An Jingzhi reminded her again and again, Zhao Yuxiu's originally excited mood gradually calmed down.
In her opinion, marriage is a lifelong commitment for a woman, and she doesn't want to make her daughter unhappy for the rest of her life.
"Dad," she asked cautiously, "So you mean there's something wrong with the Lin family?"
Li Xinfeng originally didn't want to attack her sister-in-law. If she took the initiative to say it, her sister-in-law might think she had bad intentions. But since her father-in-law had said it, she didn't want to endure it anymore.
"Sister-in-law, do you even need to ask? We are all ordinary farmers. That Lin has a father who works in the commune. Even if he wants to find a partner, he will find a girl from the commune. At the very least, he will find a girl from a cadre, right? I can see that there is a problem, but you still don't understand it?"
Turning to look at An Caiyun, who had been sitting at the table without saying a word the entire time, Li Xinfeng said, "Caiyun, I'm not saying anything bad about you, I'm just worried that you'll marry the wrong person."
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