Chapter 399 Return of the House and the Land
The factory was willing to help, and several people were very grateful, so they gave the factory director the fine cigarettes and alcohol they bought.
The factory director smiled and stayed. They were in a remote area, and he would try not to offend people from the capital. He didn't think they could bring him any benefits, but he felt relieved to see that they were so polite.
It was already 12:30 in the afternoon when they returned to the village. As soon as they entered the village, they saw Yan Li running over in a hurry: "Oh no, Uncle and Aunt Mu Qiu went to the village chief's house to cause trouble."
Mu Qiu has been staying in the crew. Although she has saved on food, how can that little food compare to what she does every day?
You know, although the Mu Qiu people are small, they can hoe the fields, feed chickens and pigs, cook and wash clothes every day. They can also dig wild vegetables such as kudzu root from the mountains and bring them home.
Now that she had been gone for only one day, all the housework fell on Hou Fen alone. She was reluctant to order her own daughter around, but she was too tired to do it herself. Naturally, the two of them were reluctant to give up this free labor.
After finishing work, she and her man planned to look for Mu Qiu. When she learned that Mu Qiu was not in the crew, she became dissatisfied and wanted to break into their dormitory to check.
How could the crew let these two scoundrels in? Letting them in would be like letting a wolf into the sheepfold. They would take away all the good things.
Hou Fen and Mudi couldn't get in, so they went to the village chief's house in anger.
Mu Qiu was worried that the village chief would be persuaded by his aunt, so he hurried to the village chief's house.
Halfway through the run, she met her sister Mu Chunhua. She pursed her lips and walked around her and was about to leave.
Mu Chunhua was about the same age as her, and her features resembled her mother's very much. When she saw Mu Qiu was about to leave, she immediately stopped him.
Her little face was full of disdain and ridicule: "Mu Qiu, I advise you to go home quickly. You don't really think these outsiders will take you to the city, do you?"
"Whether I can go or not is none of your business, get out of the way!" Mu Qiu said angrily.
Mu Chunhua turned around and said to Yan Li and Shen Tang who were following behind her: "Sisters, don't be fooled by her. What's the point of having a cramp in the water? She can go into the water in the middle of winter. She is a good swimmer. She did it on purpose. She wants you to take her to the city to be a lady!"
Mu Qiu was furious: "Shut up!"
Mu Chunhua's eyes were full of malice: "I won't shut up. You lied to them and you don't want me to tell them? Haha, I just want to tell them that you have done this before!
Dear sisters, you may not know this, but there was a couple in our village who only wanted to adopt a child. My cousin deliberately provoked my mother in front of them and made my mother beat her. Unfortunately, the uncle and aunt only wanted to adopt boys and were not interested in girls.
The story of her drowning in the pond is totally false. She just wants you to sympathize with her. She wants to go to the city and become a lady, so she approaches you!"
Yan Li didn't believe it at all: "You look quite smart, how can you speak so viciously? Your parents have taken over everything in Xiaoqiu's house and don't even give her a meal to eat. How dare you blame Xiaoqiu?"
Mu Chunhua said sharply, "My mother didn't occupy her things. Those things originally belonged to us. The house belonged to my grandfather. Now that her father is dead, the house and the land belong to us. She's just a girl, and it's a blessing for our family to raise her to this age!"
He said this very fluently, probably because he was used to hearing his family talk about it this way.
"You are so vicious at such a young age. Those things were left to Mu Qiu's family by your grandfather. Now that Mu Qiu's parents are dead, those things should belong to Mu Qiu. Your parents are really ruining you."
Yan Li's chest heaved with anger. How could this family be so shameless!
Chen Tang glanced at her condescendingly and said calmly, "Ignore her and go to the village chief's house first."
It was a good opportunity to take advantage of their commotion and make a quick decision by asking the village chief to move Mu Qiu's household registration out.
There were quite a few people outside the village chief's house.
The uncle and aunt of the Mu family could be heard crying from afar. The village chief was holding a bowl of rice, but he ate only half of it when the bowl was empty because the sweet potato in the bowl was taken away by Hou Fen, and half of the bowl of porridge was also snatched by her to give to her own husband.
The two men wanted to enter the house, but were slapped back by the village chief's wife.
After Hou Fen had eaten her fill, she did not leave but sat in the yard crying. She cried about how her father-in-law had passed away and before he died he had given the house and land to the eldest son's family. She said that her mother-in-law was a bad person and had tortured her when she was young.
The crying village chief always suppressed his anger and felt overwhelmed.
When the people outside saw the crew coming, they made way for them to enter.
Hou Fen's daughter Mu Chunhua followed her in and immediately ran to her parents to complain: "Mom, they are mean to me!"
"Whoever dares to harm my daughter is looking for death!"
"That's her!"
Mu Chunhua pointed at Chen Tang. She felt uncomfortable seeing the look in his eyes just now.
Hou Fen was furious and stood up to hit him. Chen Tang glanced at him coldly and said, "Just try to touch me!"
Chen Tang had the aura of a person in a high position. Hou Fen, who had never seen the world, was really intimidated by her. She always felt that facing the woman in front of her was like facing the leaders of the commune.
She felt a little guilty, but she still put her hands on her hips and pretended to be arrogant: "What if I touch you? If you have the guts, hit me!"
The village chief was so annoyed by the Mu family's affairs that his gums were about to break: "Enough, stop arguing!"
Hou Fen snorted and said in dissatisfaction: "Village Chief, I don't want to bother you, but who let Mu Qiu be taken away by them? It's been a day, and they haven't sent her back yet. What's the matter? Do you really want to adopt this little girl?"
"Adoption is fine, one thousand dollars, or no deal!"
"One thousand?" Chen Tang sneered, "Does this count as child trafficking? You become a human trafficker, but we don't want to become a trafficker."
She turned to the village chief and said, "Village chief, we are outsiders, and we shouldn't be involved in the affairs of the village. But we saved Mu Qiu's life, so we should be good people and make sure she goes somewhere right."
The village chief smoked a pipe, his dark face full of worry: "What do you want?"
"We don't want to do anything. The main reason is that Miss Mu Qiu doesn't want to live with them anymore. We came here to accompany her and tell you our thoughts.
"Village chief, you and the team leader are the cadres of Baiyun Village. Mu Qiu is a helpless child. If you don't make a decision for her, won't her life be ruined by this unscrupulous couple?"
The village chief listened to Chen Tang's compliments, and the anger in his heart slowly dissipated.
Yan Li had discussed this with him before, and also brought a bag of brown sugar and cigarettes. He had never smoked those cigarettes in his life, and he accepted them on a whim, so it was not easy for him to refuse them now.
Thinking about the cigarette in the room, he made up his mind: "Mudi, you have had a good relationship with your brother since you were a child. If he sees you abusing his only daughter like this, how will you explain to him when you go to hell?"
Mudi pretends to be honest, but in fact he is as cunning as a lotus root.
But he was not in a position to say it. After all, Hou Fen was the one who caused trouble in the village, and he was dominated by his wife, so he could not stop her at all. Occasionally, when he was foolish enough to help his wife, everyone said that Hou Fen had led him astray.
The purpose of doing this is that if something happens to Hou Fen in the future, he can just express his repentance and everyone will definitely be willing to forgive him.
He gave Hou Fen a look, and the latter was indeed very capable: "Village Chief, what are you talking about? How could we abuse Mu Qiu? Aren't all the children in the village raised with beatings?"
The village chief twitched his lips and said, "That didn't mean they beat him to death."
Hou Fen was about to say something when the village chief interrupted her: "Shut up, I'm the one who made the decision. When Lao Mu passed away, he divided the family property among you. You took away all the money and food in the house, leaving only this broken house for Mu Lian.
Now he is gone, but he has a daughter, and the roots are still there. You have three days to vacate the house and return it to Mu Qiu. Mu Qiu's parents left two plots of land, and the vegetables on the land were all grown by her, so they should be hers!"
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