Chapter 393 Refusal to Adopt
"Oh, do you really think you can scare us just because you're from your own capital?"
Aunt Mu Qiu's pretense was full of flaws. When she heard Chen Tang's words, she was pretending to be weak just now, but now she wanted to strangle him.
"What kind of soldiers are you? Soldiers don't have to pay compensation if they beat up civilians? I'm telling you, I'm a pregnant woman, my body wasn't good to begin with, and after you pushed me, I'm in great pain now!"
When Qin Mei heard the woman's nonsense, the veins on her forehead throbbed: "Don't go too far!"
Aunt Mu Qiu rolled her eyes and said, "Ouch, ouch, Lao Mu, my stomach hurts, my butt hurts, my shoulders hurt, everything hurts. A stranger beat me up and doesn't want to compensate me. Go to the commune and tell the leaders."
At this time, the village chief and the brigade cadres finally squeezed in from the crowd.
Hearing her words, the village chief shouted angrily: "Shut up!"
Aunt Mu Qiu is still a little afraid of the village cadres. After all, they have lived here for generations. If she offends them completely, what if they secretly deduct their points at work in the future?
The two scoundrels looked at each other, and two tears squeezed out of Mu Qiu's uncle's eyes: "Village head, team leader, you have to do justice for us. My wife just gave birth to a baby, and her body hasn't recovered yet, and this group of people broke into our house and pushed my wife. Woo woo, we can't live anymore!"
The village chief was so annoyed that he wanted to slap him twice: "You have to have some shame. We are guests who have come from afar. You should know your limits when extorting people. If you continue to make trouble like this, I think you will be sent to work on the other side of the mountain!"
The other side of the mountain is all rocky, and it's tiring to grow anything. His family is incredibly lazy to begin with, and the total income from their usual work is only seven centimeters. If they go over there, they might not even get five centimeters. Wouldn't they starve to death?
"Village chief, you are biased towards outsiders. Hou Fen is the daughter of your third uncle's relative, and you don't even care about them bullying you like this!"
The village chief thought that his third uncle was all dead, let alone Hou Fen, a distant relative who had only been found with great difficulty.
"Shut up, everyone in our village knows who your family is. With your wife's body, can the girl push you? Even if she can, with your tons of flesh, can you get hurt? Let me tell you, they are filming a movie, and they have consulted the town leaders. If you do anything wrong, I can't protect you!"
Aunt Mu Qiu was unhappy: "Then I was pushed for nothing?"
Village chief: "Oh, I haven't settled the matter with you for abusing the child yet!"
Aunt Mu Qiu's eyes flashed with guilt, but she quickly became confident and said, "Mu Qiu was raised by our family. We are her uncle and aunt. We raised her to this age, provided her with shelter, food and clothing. How can beating her twice be considered abuse? Have you never beaten your child? You sound so nice. Why don't you take the child home and raise him yourself!"
The village chief's family is large, with many children and grandchildren. They usually eat frugally. One more person means one more mouth to feed, and his family does not have that much food.
Mu Qiu's eyes were a little disappointed. Before she could say anything, her aunt patted her butt and stood up, pinched her arm tightly and pushed her in front of the crowd: "Village chief, you came at the right time. This dead girl was pushed into the water. Tell me how to compensate. This is killing someone. If you don't pay a hundred or eighty yuan, I will go to your house every day to make trouble!"
Obviously, she also knew that she couldn't blackmail anyone after falling down, so she could only push the child to the front.
She hasn't even had her meal yet. If she fails to extort money from anyone today, she will be laughed at by the old women in the village when she goes out!
Everyone in the crew looked towards Mu Qiu.
They saved the little girl, so there's no way she wouldn't tell the truth, right?
The village chief also asked Mu Qiu: "Did they push you?"
"Yes, he was rescued!" Uncle Liu, who was driving the car, squeezed in and wanted to prove the innocence of the crew.
"Bah! They pushed him. If they didn't push him, why would they save him? They pushed him!" Aunt Mu Qiu was arrogant and unreasonable: "Old Liu, how much benefit did he give you? Why did you lie to them?"
In fact, no one in the village believed that it was the crew who pushed it. Everyone knew that the Mu couple were just making trouble and trying to extort money.
The village chief hated the couple so much that they had completely destroyed the atmosphere of harmony and unity in their village!
"Mu Qiu, come and tell your aunt and uncle if it was someone from the crew who recommended you."
Mu Qiu's aunt pinched her arm hard, causing Mu Qiu to turn pale from the pain. Qin Mei couldn't bear to watch it and pulled her over.
"Comrade, please don't go too far. Do you still want to force a confession?"
"I didn't suffer any humiliation or beating." Aunt Mu Qiu said guiltily.
Mu Qiu lowered his long eyelashes, and there was fear, terror, and even resentment in his childish eyes.
"They didn't push me, they saved me. My aunt wanted me to go to the pond to catch fish, and my feet were cramped from the cold."
Aunt Mu Qiu yelled angrily: "Who told you to go fishing? How dare you slander me, you damned girl?"
She gave birth to a son who was well-nourished and didn't even need to eat fish to produce milk!
Mu Qiu shrank his shoulders, obviously very scared.
Qin Mei protected the person behind her: "Village Chief, you saw that Mu Qiu was either beaten or scolded, or ordered around by a scoundrel. Letting a six or seven-year-old child go fishing in the cold spring pond, how is this different from murder?"
"What are you talking about? I didn't ask her to go to the pond to catch fish, and I don't need that little food. This little girl wanted to eat the fish and fell into the water, but she dared to blame me. Are you looking for death, you stupid girl?"
Mu Qiu hunched his shoulders and wiped his tears: "I didn't, I really didn't."
Aunt Mu Qiu was so angry. She had been hunting eagles all day long, and now her eye was pecked by an eagle!
The damn girl looks as soft as a dough, but actually she is full of bad intentions. Just wait, once these people leave, she will beat her to death!
The village chief really didn't want to face this shameless family, so he tried to smooth things over: "Alright, Mu Qiu was raised by all of us. You're forcing the child to blackmail his benefactor. Aren't you afraid that your dead brother and sister-in-law will come looking for you?"
"village head……"
"If you make trouble again, your work points will be deducted!"
The couple shut up immediately.
But he did not forget to glare at Mu Qiu fiercely.
Yan Li saw this and felt even more sorry for the child: "This little girl has been abused by them like this. If we leave her here, won't she be bullied to death by these two people when we leave?"
The village chief frowned: "After all, they are her uncle and aunt, they will not kill her."
Aunt Mu Qiu's eyes were filled with hatred, but she smiled ostentatiously: "That's right, as her uncle and aunt, how could we possibly harm her?"
Yan Li: “But they will beat this girl half to death!”
Mu Qiu seemed to be frightened. He ran to hide behind Yan Li, his big eyes full of tears: "Please save me, I don't want to go back, my uncle and aunt will beat me to death!"
Tan Mei comforted her: "Don't be afraid, we won't let them beat you."
Qin Liaoli looked at the little girl with a frown on her face, and always felt that this girl was not simple.
It was probably because this girl was in a similar situation to her back then, had a lot of experience, and could relate to others more.
Seeing her staring at Mu Qiu, Chen Tang secretly poked her arm and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
Qin Liaoli shook her head: "Nothing."
Qin Mei was still discussing with the village chief. She planned to bring the little girl back to live with her for two days to see if she could think of a good way to resolve the issue.
The village chief didn't want to see Mu Qiu being beaten half to death, so he agreed to this.
Aunt Mu Qiu disagreed: "If you take her away, who will do the housework? Who will cook? I tell you, Mu Qiu, if you leave, don't ever come back!"
Mu Qiu tightly grasped Yan Li's clothes. Yan Li couldn't bear it any longer: "The village chief has agreed. Why are you wasting your words? Mu Qiu, let's go. Sister will definitely seek justice for you!"
Having said that, Yan Li took the child's hand and walked out.
When the crew saw this, they followed suit.
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