Chapter 28 Reporting a Major Case
The clerk named Zhong standing next to him was dumbfounded. What was going on? He was the one who beat the man up, so how could he blame Brother Song for it?
Seeing his mother being beaten, Song Lao Er was so angry that his eyes turned red, and he didn't care about anything else: "You are all in the same group, I will go to the county to report it to the police.
My house was robbed by those people in the village who were doing forced labor.
They also took my niece away, and I knew it was them.
I told you to chase him on the road, but you're still pretending to look for him in the village."
At first he was thinking about finding the thief as soon as possible, but after all the trouble, Song Laoer knew there was no hope.
It doesn’t matter if things are lost, the most important thing is that Song Liyun is also missing.
He accepted the money from Mr. Xue and promised to send a young girl there.
Now the person is gone, and the money is gone too. If Mr. Xue asks for it back, how can I pay him back?
The situation was irreversible, so Song Defu decided to drag everyone into it and say that it was the villagers who stole things and took Song Liyun away. This way, he would have an excuse to talk to Mr. Xue.
There was dead silence at the scene, and everyone was stunned.
Song Lizheng and Song Dequan looked at each other with surprise in their eyes: Song Laoer knew that Song Liyun ran away from her marriage to the county town?
What the other people in the village thought was: they had been busy all morning helping to find the thief, but the other party had already determined that their family members were the thieves. They were so angry that they cursed.
Aunt Zhang, the neighbor, jumped out and started scolding Song Lao Er: "Song Lao Er, you are blind. So many people were waiting at the village entrance to watch the excitement this morning. Who saw you bringing extra things?
You said it was stolen. I think you sold Yun girl and are too embarrassed to say it, so you are making this fuss about a thief stealing things."
Others thought this made sense, so they kept the door closed for the past two days and didn't let anyone in. Even the Song Zhenping brothers had to stay at the headman's house.
Everyone saw that.
Who knows what this family is doing inside after closing the door? Maybe Yun girl has already been sent to the Xue family, and Song Lao Er is trying to extort money from her.
Thinking that their family had been labeled as thieves for no reason, everyone who was sent to perform labor service was furious. In addition, Mrs. Gu was slapped in public as punishment, and her former prestige was gone.
For a moment, Song Lao Er was almost drowned in saliva.
An anxious mother-in-law and daughter-in-law took off their shoes and rushed out to beat him, beating Song Lao Er so hard that he ran away in panic with his head in his hands.
Without Mrs. Gu to lead the charge, little Mrs. Gu and Song Shuirong were like toothless tigers. They were pushed, beaten and scolded by angry people until they could not raise their heads and could only huddle together and cry.
They didn't expect that instead of receiving sympathy, they would be scolded when their house was robbed.
Mrs. Gu sat on the ground, covering her swollen cheeks, looking dumbfounded.
She wanted to open her mouth to curse back, but the ten slaps had loosened her teeth and made it difficult for her to even speak.
What made her even more confused was being slapped.
From childhood to adulthood, Mrs. Gu has never been afraid of anyone.
When she was still a young girl, she was so stubborn that her brothers and sisters dared not talk back to her.
After marrying into the Song family, the widower Song Laohan rarely spoke to her and would always give in when they had arguments.
As for the "unfaithful man" Song Lizheng, she could scold him whenever she wanted.
Over the past few decades, Mrs. Gu has been raised to be arrogant and fearless. She only suffered losses at the hands of Song Liyun in the past two days.
I didn't expect to be beaten today, and it was in front of the villagers, at the order of a young boy.
It turns out that public servants are so terrible!
The ten slaps in the face made Mrs. Gu feel afraid, but more of it was anger.
Now she knew that she should not offend the people in the town's public housing, but she could offend those bitches who beat and scolded her son and vent her anger.
I have courage in my heart and my face doesn’t hurt anymore.
Mrs. Gu gritted her teeth, stood up, took off her shoes and rushed towards the cursing mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
Xiao Gu also came forward, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law joined forces again and started a melee with the women in the village.
Suddenly, the courtyard of Song Laoer was filled with curse words and smelly shoes flying everywhere, making the crowd quack and plop like a flock of ducks.
Song Dequan, Zhong Xiaoli, and the two town warriors had never seen such a scene before and were stunned.
Lieutenant Zhong held his torn file and murmured, "I never thought Xiaoshi Village was a place where hidden talents and crouching tigers could be found!"
Seeing a group of women pulling hair and hitting smelly shoes in a fight, Song Lizheng felt so ashamed that he went forward with seven or eight men and separated the two fighting parties.
The farce ended with Song Dequan and others leaving in disappointment.
However, the matter was resolved: the town public housing agency immediately sent someone to the county government office to report the theft and at the same time recover the people who were serving labor service in Xiaoshi Village.
Because now everyone is a suspect.
Song Laoer shouted, demanding that the town government immediately arrest the criminals and recover the losses.
It is unprecedented that a family's property has been lost so completely and the entire village has become a suspect. Song Dequan and Song Lizheng did not dare to delay any longer.
This kind of major case needs to be reported as soon as possible.
Therefore, the town public office sent people on horseback to the county government office as quickly as possible to notify them to arrest the person.
The incident in Xiaoshi Village caused a lot of uproar, but the corvées who had become suspects were still unaware of it and were still heading towards the county town.
At this time, the sun was at its zenith, and the official road from Qingping Town to the county town was filled with people like beans being scattered.
From morning till now, hundreds of people who had walked forty miles carrying their bedding were tired and hungry.
Everyone's marching speed was different, and the front and rear ends of the team were several miles apart.
The town public housing clerk who led the team was very experienced and did not rush them. He just asked them to rest on the spot and wait for an hour before leaving. Anyway, as long as they could reach the construction site outside the county town before dark, it would be fine.
So everyone sat down on the official road to rest and eat some dry food and water they brought with them.
Brothers Song Liyun and Song Zhenping sat on the bedding to rest.
Song Dekui couldn't sit still, so he ran to find someone he knew.
Xiao An bit her lip and watched the people around her eat the cakes, and could only silently drink a sip of water from the gourd.
When they left, they almost didn't even have bedding, so naturally they didn't prepare any dry food.
Song Liyun was also scratching her head. There was cooked chicken in her space, but it was not easy to take it out in broad daylight in front of everyone.
As for the energy bars and compressed dry food in the space, they were even more foreign objects, so she didn't dare show them in front of others.
Song Dekui walked around, raised his brows, and came back with a confused look on his face.
"What should I do? They all ran away! I can't find them!"
Song Liyun and a few others wanted to take Xiao An with them, but Song Zhenping's legs were not good enough for him to walk quickly, so he got separated from the people in Xiaoshi Village after leaving Qingping Town. He didn't know anyone around him.
"Uncle Kui, everyone is going to the construction site in the county town anyway. It won't be too late for us to follow them and look for people later." Song Liyun fumbled in the bedding under her body and said absentmindedly.
She was thinking about what to eat.
"That's all we can do. You didn't bring any food, did you? Come, I have some extra bread. Take one each and we'll have a good meal in the county. Oh, by the way, Yun'er used to work in the county restaurant. Do you know what dishes are good at your boss's restaurant?"
Song Dekui was a talkative person. As he spoke, he took off the sack from his shoulder and took out four cakes from it.
(End of this chapter)
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