Chapter 35 Chapter 35 Come with us
Yang Dai paused on her way to the educated youth site and glanced in the direction of Aunt Huang's house.
Han Lin took action, which was more direct than she had imagined. He did not use a mouse, but a snake directly.
Snakes are actually very troublesome creatures in Huangzhuang Brigade.
Although we are now destroying the Four Olds and feudal superstitions everywhere, people's ideas cannot be changed overnight.
According to the customs of Huangzhuang Brigade, snakes are spiritual creatures. Therefore, even if a snake is found at home, it cannot be killed. Instead, the snake should be driven out of the house and watched as it slowly leaves. No harm should be done to it.
Yang Dai changed her steps, followed the chaotic crowd, and prepared to go and take a look.
After all, if nothing unexpected happens, there should be a good show at Aunt Huang's house today, and she should go and see it.
Yang Dai walked slowly, and when she arrived at Aunt Huang's house, there was already a crowd of people surrounding her.
Although most people were holding farm tools in their hands, they were basically standing in the yard, leaving a small path in the yard, which should be a passage specifically left for snakes to escape.
"Your mother-in-law said that you locked the door all day long, so how come snakes still got in?" No one knew who was talking in the yard, but it was still clearly audible.
"Open the door first, and have two people go in with sticks to check and drive the snake out first."
Along with the sound, Yang Dai also walked forward little by little.
Zhao Xiaocai stood at the door of her room, her back to the closed door, and tremblingly explained, "Do I really have to rely on this snake to crawl out on its own? Otherwise, give me a shovel and let me beat it to death."
"What if this snake is poisonous? It will be dangerous for everyone." Zhao Xiaocai's voice was a little weak, but she still blocked the door of her room and was unwilling to let anyone in.
She is not a native of Huangzhuang. When she was young and not yet married, her family stewed snake meat for food. Although she did not dare to catch snakes, she did not have any fear of snakes.
"The snakes here are basically non-venomous. Just open the door and let everyone use sticks to chase the snakes away." The middle-aged woman spoke with a hint of disapproval.
"Besides, two mice appeared in your yard just now. Although there seems to be only one in your room now, what if there are more hiding somewhere else?" Everyone surrounded Zhao Xiaocai and persuaded him one by one.
On the other side, Aunt Huang finally came back to her senses from the shock of seeing the snake. Seeing that Zhao Xiaocai was still blocking the door, she felt furious. Her body, which had been weak from fear, suddenly regained its strength and she wanted to pounce on Zhao Xiaocai and beat him.
"It's a misfortune for our family that my son married someone as unlucky as you!"
"You've locked the door all day, guarding me like a thief! Tell me, are you trying to steal a man in this room?" Aunt Huang said angrily, "Open the door now and chase the snake out!"
As if worried that Zhao Xiaocai would not move, Aunt Huang took a few steps forward, stretched out her hand and tried to push Zhao Xiaocai aside, then signaled the aunt standing next to her to open the door and go in with a stick.
Zhao Xiaocai glanced at Aunt Huang and knew that she couldn't be stubborn anymore.
She glanced at the people standing in the yard, old and young, men and women, standing together in a bustling crowd, but the person she wanted to see was not there, so she thought there was no connection.
Zhao Xiaocai opened the door and walked in.
The snake was coiled under the bed, slithering slowly.
Several people who came in banged sticks, trying to drive away the long snake with the sound.
According to the plan of several people, they first used the sound of hitting sticks to drive the snake out from under the bed, and then picked up the snake with a stick and threw it onto the mountain, making sure that the snake would crawl up the mountain and would not come back.
The people in the yard were divided into two groups. One group was driving away the snake that crawled out of Aunt Huang's room, and the other group was knocking and hammering in Zhao Xiaocai's room.
Yang Dai had nothing in her hands and was just a spectator, but after thinking about it, she still walked towards Zhao Xiaocai's room.
Zhao Xiaocai's room was full of people standing inside and outside at this time. Most of them were holding sticks and knocking things around. The room was extremely lively.
Occasionally, there were voices saying, "Do you have something that attracts snakes at home? Why are there so many snakes?"
"Could it be that snakes made a nest in your house last winter? They just woke up?" Otherwise, there was no explanation why there were suddenly so many of them.
There was a snake at the base of the yard wall earlier, but Aunt Huang didn't pay much attention to it. After all, the snake seemed to be quite close to the gate. As long as the snake was willing to crawl out of the gate, today could be treated as if nothing had happened.
Aunt Huang watched the snake crawl out of the house and breathed a sigh of relief. However, when she entered the house, she found that there was still a snake in the house. When Aunt Huang was trying to find a way to drive away the snake, a cry of surprise broke out from Zhao Xiaocai's room, saying that she had seen a snake.
Aunt Huang is a family member of a martyr and is usually the focus of the women's director of the brigade. The big commotion naturally attracted a lot of people to come and pay attention, and everyone was ready to do their part.
Yang Dai stood outside the door and first looked at Zhao Xiaocai's windowsill.
The young wife next to her saw Yang Dai's actions and took the initiative to talk to her, "Could it be that it came in through the window when it was opened?"
"Snakes are not likely to come out from anywhere, so we have to look everywhere." Yang Dai smiled, her eyes gradually moved up from the windowsill, looked at the beams, and quickly dropped to look at the door frame, as if she was really looking for a loophole in the room to see how the snake got in.
The man who was talking to Yang Dai was also knocking around with a wooden stick in his hand. His eyes also fell on the beams. He looked at them for a few more times and then whispered to another person next to him.
Soon the wooden stick hit the beam.
Zhao Xiaocai gritted his teeth when he saw the two men knocking on the beams, but he couldn't show it.
The more panicked you appear at this time, the more likely you are to arouse suspicion.
"Don't bother, sisters-in-law. Can this snake possibly get onto the roof?" Zhao Xiaocai said as he walked over, as if to take the wooden sticks from the two women.
"We have to knock and bang, check every corner, then we can feel at ease." The two sisters-in-law smiled, without stopping the movements of their hands, and looked at Aunt Huang who had just walked to the door.
"Yes, yes, you are so thoughtful!" Aunt Huang said, and walked in with a wooden stick, stretching out her arms to knock on the beams.
Zhao Xiaocai froze as she watched Aunt Huang's actions, but she couldn't say anything. She had to pretend to be nonchalant and thank them. "Thanks to everyone for being so thoughtful. If it were me, I would have just driven the snake out and then fallen asleep in bed."
Aunt Huang glanced at Zhao Xiaocai. She had long felt that something was wrong with her daughter-in-law, but she couldn't tell what exactly was wrong.
Earlier, Zhao Xiaocai guarded his room very strictly, and Aunt Huang thought that Zhao Xiaocai had hidden some private money without her knowledge. However, she went in and searched twice but did not see any private money. Then she looked at her own money box and found that not a penny was missing.
After her son died, she was always worried that Zhao Xiaocai would run away and no one would take care of her grandson, so she kept all the pension for herself and not a penny went to Zhao Xiaocai.
Aunt Huang also knew how much savings Zhao Xiaocai had. She often asked Zhao Xiaocai to buy things without paying, so there was not much left now.
After ruling out the option of Zhao Xiaocai secretly hiding the money, Aunt Huang also thought about whether Zhao Xiaocai had found a strange man behind her back, but after observing several times, she didn't think it was possible.
Recently, if there really was a strange man, Zhao Xiaocai would not be lying in her room every day.
This matter has always been a puzzle in Aunt Huang's heart, but she couldn't tell anyone about it. Today she finally knew why Zhao Xiaocai was so weird.
I'm afraid the reason lies in this beam.
Thinking of this, Aunt Huang knocked on the beam even harder.
Zhao Xiaocai hurried over to stop her, "Mom, let me handle this. You were scared just now. Go to the side and rest first."
Aunt Huang was unmoved and even knocked on the beams even harder. Seeing Aunt Huang doing this, the people in the house naturally increased their strength as well.
"Is there also a snake on the beam?" Everyone looked in the direction of the person's finger, and their force increased.
In a moment of carelessness, something fell from the beam.
Zhao Xiaocai subconsciously wanted to go over, but was stopped by Aunt Huang again.
Aunt Huang had no idea what that thing was, but she knew it was something that could make Zhao Xiaocai so anxious, so she had to find out. Now that her son was gone, she was old and had grandchildren to raise, so she couldn't be deceived by Zhao Xiaocai.
"Account book?" Zhao Xiaocai suddenly heard someone talking while struggling.
Huang Ping told her that this account book must not be seen by anyone else, otherwise both of them would be doomed.
Zhao Xiaocai didn't care about anything else. He pushed Aunt Huang hard and reached out to grab the account book.
Yang Dai originally tried to keep a low profile. No matter what the final result was today, Yang Dai positioned herself as an invisible person.
But at this moment, seeing that Zhao Xiaocai's hand was about to reach the account book, Yang Dai moved her feet, reached out to help Aunt Huang who was not far away, and also blocked Zhao Xiaocai.
"Is this the account book of our brigade?" The person holding the account book couldn't help but raise his voice when he saw the first page.
The room suddenly became noisy.
"That's impossible! Don't talk nonsense! How could our brigade's account book be in Second Aunt's house?"
"I'm not blind. I've attended the brigade's literacy class. Otherwise, look at me. How could I possibly lie to you?"
For a moment, several people started arguing with each other over the account book.
Yang Dai helped Aunt Huang sit on a chair beside her. She glanced and found that Huang Ping still hadn't come, then looked at Zhao Xiaocai.
At this moment, Zhao Xiaocai felt a sense of despair and stood there in a daze, not knowing what to think.
"Who is Zhao Xiaocai?" Suddenly, a strange voice was heard in the yard again. The people in the house looked over and found that they were two people in police uniforms.
"Who is Zhao Xiaocai? Come with us." The police reiterated. Although no one answered in the room, their eyes quickly locked on Zhao Xiaocai.
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