"Ugh, ugh, I'm vomiting..."
Lin Xiaofang is going crazy.
The smell of the stinky socks made her want to vomit, and she rolled her eyes repeatedly.
Yu Shaoheng stopped worrying about Xiao Fan making him take off his shoes and socks in public. He put his shoes back on and felt a sense of satisfaction looking at Lin Xiaofang's disheveled appearance, chuckling to himself.
"Brother Fan, if I had known socks were useful, I shouldn't have washed my feet and changed my socks yesterday."
Xiao Fan remained expressionless. "Now is just right."
If someone doesn't wash their feet and change their socks, they might just be sent away.
Lu Yuan's lips twitched. When did these two become so mean?
The police conducted another inspection at the scene, took statements, and then took the suspect away.
It was still Sun Maodou who drove the tractor to take people back to the commune.
After the police left, Lu Guoan and Zhang Yongan began to make arrangements for the old man's funeral.
Everyone prepares a straw mat, wraps the item in it, drags it to the back of the mountain, buries it, and that's it.
However, Lu Yuan did not agree.
"Uncle, I remember you have a coffin prepared at home. Could I borrow it for now? I'll get you a better one later."
Lu Guoan's family did indeed prepare a coffin for the elderly. Many families prepare a coffin in advance and keep it at home when the elderly are old.
However, the harvest is bad now, and many people can't even get enough to eat, so they're not making any preparations. After all, a coffin would cost dozens of kilograms of grain to buy.
If good wood and good lacquer were used, it would probably cost hundreds of kilograms of grain to exchange for it.
Therefore, unless a family has plenty of food or money, they will not prepare a coffin for the elderly.
Lu Guoan's family has made a lot of money with Lu Yuan in the past two years, and the coffin was just prepared last year, made of good materials.
If it were someone else asking to borrow a coffin, he might not have agreed, but since it was Lu Yuan, Lu Guoan agreed without hesitation.
With a wave of his hand, he beckoned a group of men to his house to carry the coffin.
Lu Yuan asked Xu Dong to help him fetch and boil water, as he planned to clean up the old man's cowshed.
He even spent money to exchange his new cloth shoes and a new set of clothes with the people in the brigade.
After cleaning and dressing the body in old clothes and cloth shoes, the body was placed in a coffin and carried to the back mountain.
There's no way to wait for the old man's family to come. Even if they could come, it would probably take ten days to half a month, and the body can't be kept for that long.
With the help of a large group of men, the burial was completed quickly.
However, even at his fastest speed, Lu Yuan didn't get home until midnight.
After taking a shower and changing into clean clothes, the couple lay on the kang (a heated brick bed) embracing and talking.
"Lin Xiaofang is truly despicable; she's so vicious that she dares to kill someone," Wen Muxue exclaimed.
Speaking of this, Lu Yuan felt very heavy-hearted. He turned around and hugged his wife tightly, burying his head in the crook of her neck. He took several deep breaths before murmuring something.
"I secretly found out before that this old man's situation was due to his class background. His family used to be quite well-off, and I thought that things would improve in a few years and he would be exonerated. What a pity!"
There's nothing seriously wrong. In the future, such cases can be overturned, the family property will be returned, and life won't be as good as before, but it won't be bad either.
Starting two years ago, he would often secretly bring the old man some food and supplies to make his life in the cowshed a little easier, hoping that he could hold on until he was exonerated. He never expected that something like this would happen.
Ah, life is truly unpredictable!
Wen Moxue hugged him back tightly, "This is not something we can control, things will get better in the future."
"I know things will get better in the future."
He felt incredibly heavy-hearted and saddened just thinking about how many people like the old man in the cowshed had left before dawn.
But given the current circumstances, there's nothing he can do to change anything.
The only thing he could do was to try his best to improve the lives of his family and the people in his village. He had done his bit, and that made his journey worthwhile.
The next morning, Lu Guoan convened a meeting of the commune members to explain the cause of death of the old man in the cowshed.
One night, Lin Xiaofang couldn't withstand the interrogation, and the truth of the case came to light.
Lu Yuan's suspicions were correct; the old man's death was indeed her doing.
According to her account, life in the cowshed was very difficult; she was often hungry and sleepy, and had to do the dirtiest and most tiring work in the production brigade.
Everything else is tolerable, but not having enough to eat is really unbearable.
She was penalized with work points, and there wasn't enough food for her. She couldn't borrow any more, so sometimes she could only eat one meal a day.
Seeing that the food was running out, she set her sights on the old man's food in the cowshed.
While the old man was away, they sneaked into his thatched hut and stole his grain.
As soon as they stepped out of the thatched hut, they ran into the old man who had returned. The two got into an argument and started fighting over the grain.
Without warning, Lin Xiaofang pushed the old man off the steps of the roof, and his head hit a sharp stone by the roadside.
His head was broken and bleeding; he was barely clinging to life.
Lin Xiaofang panicked for a moment and wanted to ask someone to help send the person to Lu Yuan's house so that Gao Weishan could treat him. But then she hesitated. If the matter of stealing grain was exposed, she would definitely be in jail.
If the old man slipped and fell by accident, then it's none of her business.
So she ran out to work in the fields where there were many people, and didn't return to the cowshed until after work.
By this time, the old man had already bled to death.
"That beast! That Lin educated youth is too wicked. If he had been sent to Doctor Gao earlier, maybe he could have been saved."
"Yes, Grandpa Liu was saved even though he had such a big hole in his head. If this old man can be treated in time, he can definitely be saved too."
"Oh, what a tragedy!"
Although the old man was a person who had been sent down to the cowshed, Lin Xiaofang did indeed accidentally kill someone.
He was eventually sentenced to ten years and sent to a farm for reformatory work.
"Good, good verdict. This menace has been sent away, and our brigade will be peaceful from now on."
Everyone looked at the person who said that and burst out laughing!
"You little rascal, with you around, our brigade won't have peace and quiet anymore," someone joked.
The scoundrel retorted, "What's wrong with me? I never cause trouble!"
"Hahahaha..."
This remark caused everyone to burst into laughter.
"You don't cause trouble? Then who was it that went to the rabbit farm to cause trouble last year?"
The scoundrel snorted through his nose, "I was fooled by that poisonous old woman Lin Xiaofang. She said that Director He and his wife embezzled everyone's rabbit money, and I believed her lies, which is why I caused trouble."
Someone exposed him, "You didn't go and cause trouble because you wanted to touch her breasts, did you?"
"Hahahahahahahaha..."
Everyone burst into laughter again.
The little rascal wasn't embarrassed at all; he even laughed along.
"That's all in the past, let's not talk about it."
We can't bring up past grievances, or he'll be punished.
"Anyway, I've changed for the better now, so you can't call me a little rascal anymore."
"If I don't call you a little rascal, should I call you an old rascal? Hahahaha!"
He's gotten so used to that nickname that many people don't even remember his original name.
"You have to call me by my name, Sun Gou Dan!"
"puff--"
Lu Yuan burst out laughing.
He'd be better off being called a little rascal!
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