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281: The Refugees Come to Ask for the Holy Beast

Starting from tomorrow, I will update once a day at around 9am. Because I don't have enough manuscripts, I will stop updating on the 25th. I will update more on the 26th. It was originally 11 days, but I still don't have enough manuscripts after shortening the time. I have to stay up all night today. So, those who complain about the lack of updates, please forgive me, I want to stop updating, I am a tragedy.

In the darkness of night, in a secluded place behind Hebian Village, several people stood together, whispering something. After a while, one of them ran away quickly, and the remaining two also turned around and left together.

The two people walking together were Zhao Dazhu and his wife. Zhao Dazhu was holding his son Tiedan in his arms, and his wife was following beside him. The two of them were walking forward in a hurry.

It was already past the 11:00 p.m. at this time, and the country people did not have any entertainment activities at night. They were reluctant to waste too much lamp oil once it got dark, as they had to get up early the next day to appear diligent. Therefore, most of them were already asleep by this time. Even if they were not asleep, they were resting inside the house. Those who were resting outside had already gone home.

There was a creaking sound in the darkness, and a door opened. Some light came out from inside, and a person walked out.

"Oh my! Oh my god!"

Dazhu's wife was startled when she suddenly saw someone appearing and she screamed. She had just been scared by the fake ghost, and then she found out it was not a ghost and was tormented again. Now she was very excited, and suddenly someone appeared in the silent night. She was easily frightened and screamed like a ghost.

The man who came out of the yard was frightened by Dazhu's wife's sudden shout, and the thing in his hand fell down. He heard a cracking sound, and it could be heard that it was a pottery basin or something. This time it was broken.

"It's the middle of the night! What the hell are you yelling about?! Look how scared I am! Oh my god!"

Sister Li yelled in anger. She also recognized that the voice just now was from Dazhu's wife, so she was no longer afraid. She looked at the broken basin on the ground and was furious. She thought that Dazhu's wife was really hateful. Seeing her was no better than seeing a ghost. She came out to pour water, but she was frightened by her and broke a basin. It was really unfair!

"Dazhu's wife, why are you screaming? I just came out of the house to get some water. Is it necessary to scare you like this?"

"Isn't this too sudden?"

Dazhu's wife patted her chest. She thought, this is Sister Li, why should she be afraid of her? At this time, a dog barked in the yard, which frightened her again.

Sister Li glared at her and said, "We, the people in this village, always walk at night. If every household opened their doors, wouldn't you be scared to death many times?! People say that if you don't do anything shameful, you won't be afraid of walking at night. Have you done anything shameful? That's why you are so afraid of walking at night?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? You are the one who has done something wrong! Why are you carrying a basin out in the middle of the night? Aren't you trying to scare people? Even an adult like me has been scared by you, not to mention my little boy Tiedan! If he is scared by you, I will make you pay for it!"

Dazhu's wife yelled, and when Li Saozi said that she had done something wrong, she, who had just done something wrong, felt a little flustered. She immediately started to fight back. When it came to quarreling, she had never been afraid of anyone.

"Hey! Are you trying to use the iron egg to cheat me out of my money again? At first, you wanted to trick Zi'an and his wife into raising your son and you at the same time, but it didn't work out. Now you want to trick me? Don't you see that I'm so easy to bully? Do you believe that I will sit at the door of your house every day in the future? When your family members come out, I will lie on the ground and let you support me for the rest of my life? This is a trick. Do you think I can't do it?"

Sister Li was not to be outdone. She stretched out her foot and kicked the broken basin on the ground forward. She watched Dazhu and his wife jump to the side and started laughing.

"Mom, I'll help you kick!"

Hu Zi also ran out at this time. Seeing his mother kicking the broken pottery pieces out, he also went forward to kick them, but was stopped by Li Qing who was following behind.

"Go, go back to the house and play."

Li Qing patted his son's head. Hu Zi stuck out his tongue and didn't leave. He just stood behind and watched. Because his father took out the oil lamp, he could see the situation outside clearly. He happened to see Tiedan being held by Zhao Dazhu. Seeing Tiedan also looking at him, he immediately embarrassed Tiedan. He didn't like Tiedan because Tiedan liked Yueyue and he also liked Yueyue. They had quarreled a lot.

Tiedan saw Huzi making faces at him and was about to jump down, but Zhao Dazhu held him tightly and patted him twice, so he stopped moving, but also made faces at Huzi.

The adults don't have time to care about the fights between the kids; they have their own say.

Li Qing looked at the broken pottery basin on the ground, frowned slightly, and asked his wife what was going on. After hearing Mrs. Li's reply, his brows frowned even more tightly. He thought that Dazhu and his wife were really unreasonable. They were afraid of being scared by someone opening the door when walking at night, and they even used the baby to scare them. Did they think they were soft persimmons?

As soon as Li Qing came out, Dazhu's wife's momentum weakened. Zhao Dazhu was silent. He couldn't interrupt the woman just now, and now that Li Qing came out, he dared not speak. Li Qing was also very powerful, so it was better for him to stay aside. However, Li Qing didn't care about the woman. He only said a few words to Dazhu's wife and went to Zhao Dazhu. Zhao Dazhu could only come forward and say that it was just a misunderstanding, and then he talked about Tiedan, saying that Tiedan was sleepy, and then he was about to leave.

Li Qing didn't bother them and just let them go.

Mrs. Li watched the family of three leave and looked at the broken pottery basin on the ground. She felt sad. This pottery basin was newly bought and cost her twenty cents!

"They should really pay for my basin! Really, I was pouring water in front of my house, and they scared me so much that I dropped the basin. They even said they were scared. How wicked! I think they must have done something wrong, otherwise why are they so cowardly?"

Sister Li was muttering to herself. She just couldn't stand Dazhu and his wife. The basin was just a small matter, but the whole thing was so infuriating.

Li Qing smiled and said, "Isn't it just a basin? Just buy another one."

Mrs. Li looked at him and said, "It will cost another twenty cents to buy another one! And this one is sprinkled with a basin of water. Water is so scarce nowadays. The trees in front of our house are counting on me to water them more. Otherwise, they will die. You, a man, just don't know how to live!"

"Okay, okay, I don't know how to live, but you do. I don't want to make you angry, do I? Don't you know what kind of person Dazhu's wife is? If you provoke her, you won't have a peaceful life in the future."

Li Qing said helplessly that he was a man and did not like to argue over trivial matters, especially with women, especially with women like Dazhu's wife.

When Mrs. Li heard what the head of the family said, she felt that he was thinking about her own interests, and her anger subsided a little. She went over and pushed the pottery pieces on the ground to the side to prevent people from accidentally stepping on them. She kicked them while muttering to herself.

"If you don't want to bother with them, then don't bother with them. But they really did a lot of things that made me feel bad. I was so scared when I opened the door. It was like I saw a ghost."

"Mom, I just saw sweet potato leaves on Uncle Zhao's clothes. Do you think they went to steal the sweet potatoes?"

Hu Zi said that Zhao Dazhu had just left. Tie Dan leaned over his father's shoulder and made faces at him, and he saw sweet potato leaves on the back of Zhao Dazhu's pants.

Hu Zi guessed this because Zhao Dazhu's family had a history of this. Their family always grows more food than other families because they grow crops. It's not because they grow crops well, but because they bring crops from other people's fields to their home. Although no one else has caught them, many people in the village know that it was their family who did it. This matter was once called out by the family who threw away the corn. Although Dazhu's wife finally called them back, the people in the village also paid attention to them. Even the children knew about it.

"Sweet potato leaves?" Mrs. Li was stunned and said, "They didn't have anything on them. It doesn't look like they went to steal sweet potatoes."

Li Qing said, "Maybe he got it while working in the fields during the day. Don't talk about it anymore. Don't talk nonsense without evidence. Our family is not like them, gossiping. If this gets out, Dazhu's wife will definitely come to our house and beat us up. We won't bother with people like that."

"Okay, got it."

Sister Li pushed Li Qing and pushed him in, then pulled her son into the yard, closed the gate, and told her son not to talk nonsense.

Zhao Dazhu and his wife hurried home and told their son not to tell anyone what happened that night. Tiedan agreed. Then he went to sleep. But the couple couldn't fall asleep. They whispered to each other and laughed from time to time, with a very proud and gloating sound.

The night passed quickly.

The next morning, the roosters crowed at dawn and people in the countryside got up early. They all got up at daybreak. No matter whether there was work or not, they had to get up early and look for work. However, most people had work, and even though there was a severe drought this year, it did not affect how much they worked.

Liu Laoshi, who lived in the west of the village, got up and ran to the main road to pick up feces. When he came back, he saw a large group of people coming from the opposite direction. He recognized them at a glance. They were the refugees who left yesterday. He was shocked. He thought, how could they come back if they left? He quickly quickened his pace and returned to the village. He told the villagers the news and asked them to invite the village head.

When the villagers heard that those people had come back yesterday, they all became alert again. They thought that they had given them food yesterday, so why did they come back again? They didn't really think that they were easy to talk to, so they wanted to come again to ask for food. Many people thought so and became angry.

The village head came over quickly. As soon as he arrived at the village entrance, he found that it was indeed those people. There were still the same number of people, as if there were no fewer people. He frowned slightly, wondering why these people came back again? Could it be that they really wanted to ask for food again as the villagers said? In that case, not only would the villagers not give it, but he would not give it either. There were also many hungry people in his village. How could he have so much food to help others?

"Excuse me, what brings you back?"

The head of the village no longer had the smile he had yesterday, but he was still polite when he spoke. He was still talking to the two people who led the group yesterday. His eyes fell on the short young man. He saw that this man was the leader, and he was also cunning. If he got rid of him, all these people would be gone.

The short young man's name was Chen Er. When he heard the village chief's question, he said, "Uncle village chief, we left because you told us to, but we think your place is better, so we are back now and plan to stay here for a while."

As soon as this was said, the people in Hebian Village were all furious, wondering why this person said this so naturally. Why does it sound a bit shameless? ! Why did he plan to stay here for a while? They in Hebian Village said they were not welcome and took their things away yesterday. He came back just one night. Was he playing a trick on them? !

The people in Hebian Village began to shout, and some of them spoke in a less polite manner.

The village head raised his hand and pressed it down, signaling the villagers behind him to stop making noise. He still had some dignity, and after a gesture, the noise died down. Although some people were still talking, their voices were very low.

The village head's face also turned ugly. He also felt that Liu Er's words just now did not seem to be a request. It did not seem like a negotiation, but rather a declaration. It seemed that he did not intend to ask for his consent at all. It seemed that he would stay here no matter what. This made him very angry. In this village, he was the person with the highest status. When had he been treated so badly?

"Brother Chen, you can see that the people in our village feel very embarrassed about your return. Yesterday, the people in our village gave you as much food as possible from our homes and let you take away so much food. This is already the most we can do. You also agreed to leave. Now, only one night has passed, and you have come back again, and you are so rude to say that you want to stay. What do you mean by this? Do you think the people in our village are easy to bully? Are you treating us like fools?"

The head of the village was very unhappy because of Chen Er's tone, so he became blunt in his words and directly refused to let them stay, and also condemned them for going there and coming back again.

Chen Er didn't feel embarrassed at all because of the noise of the villagers and the reprimand of the village head. Instead, he smiled and said, "Village head, how dare we treat you as fools and bully you? We just think this is the most suitable place for us to stay, so we came back. We just want to stay."

When the people of Hebian Village heard this, they started to clamor again. Some wanted them to leave, while others told the village head to chase them away. The people of Hebian Village were not unkind, but they also had to think about themselves. They did not want their lives to be threatened. They were afraid of the tragedy that had happened before. Moreover, they were disgusted by the rogue behavior of these people. They felt that these refugees did not keep their promises at all. If they stayed, they would definitely harm their village.

The head of the village frowned and said, "I am the head of the village. I don't agree with you staying. You should go. Going to the government to seek relief is what you should do, instead of staying in our small village and waiting to starve to death!"

When the refugees heard what the village head said and what the villagers of Hebian Village said, they also became excited. They all wanted to find a place to eat and didn't want to wander around all the time. Now the people of Hebian Village wanted to drive them away, of course they didn't want to leave. They hadn't had enough to eat these days and were almost going crazy with hunger.

"We won't leave! You people in Hebian Village are too cruel! We want to stay!"

"We want to stay! We heard that there is water in your village! Other villages come to your village to get water! You grow a lot of sweet potatoes in your village!"

"Your village is the least affected place here. Other towns are better. We are right here!"

"Your village has a holy beast, and the holy beast brings you blessings! That blessing should have belonged to us!"

"Yes, that blessing should be ours! If you want the Holy Beast, you have to let us stay!"

"Yes - yes - if you want the Holy Beast, you have to let us stay!"

Those people were shouting non-stop, with their voices rising and falling, even louder than the shouts of the people from the riverside village just now. They didn't seem like refugees at all; it was obvious that they were all very excited.

The people of Hebian Village were angry, thinking that they had eaten the food they gave them and were now energetic, so they came to fight and quarrel with them. They really thought that the people of Hebian Village were easy to bully! However, some of them became more and more dissatisfied as they listened, thinking how could these people know so much? It’s fine if they know that they have a water source and a holy beast, but why do they also say that the holy beast is theirs? Isn’t this nonsense?

Ever since people from other villages started coming to Fuyuan to fetch water, the people of Hebian Village no longer kept the matter of the holy beast a secret. The dried-up water well and the holy beast became the pride of the people of Hebian Village. Now someone comes and tells them that this pride does not belong to them. How can they be happy? In their eyes, these refugees are just a group of robbers who are here to steal their treasures and are thinking of using the holy beast to threaten them. They want to eat and drink for free in their village!

Many men who had nothing to use started looking for things to hit people with.

There were also people from the Shen family in the crowd. When they heard those people talking about the Holy Beast, they frowned. The Holy Beast belonged to Shen Zian and his wife. Shen Zian was from their Shen family, so the Holy Beast was naturally closely related to their Shen family. Now, hearing the tone of these people, they also became anxious. Erlang immediately turned around and ran away. He wanted to call his fourth uncle and fourth aunt.

Chen Er also waved his hand to stop the refugees from quarreling. Then he smiled and looked at the head of the village and said, "Head, you heard what everyone said just now. The reason why we left and came back was because of the holy beast. This all started after we left yesterday. One of my brothers heard about your village from somewhere else. It turned out that a dog was lost from his family. It was exactly the same as the black dog next to your holy beast. So, do you think that the holy beast should belong to us?"