Chapter 400 Solving Mu Qiu's Problem
"No, Village Chief!" Hou Fen cried with snot and tears: "We raised her to this age, why should we return the house and land? They are all ours!"
"Speaking of this, village chief, there is something you may not know yet."
As soon as Chen Tang opened his mouth, he attracted everyone's attention.
Hou Fen and Mu Di suddenly had a bad feeling in their hearts.
"We have investigated. Mu Qiu's father died on duty, and the factory compensated Mu Qiu with a sum of money. Together with the savings of Mu Qiu's parents over the years, the total amount was almost one thousand yuan. But all the money was taken away by the couple, leaving the only daughter of the Mu family to the point where she can only eat raw kudzu root and sweet potatoes."
Everyone was in uproar: "How much, one thousand?"
"Oh my god, I've never even seen a hundred yuan, and the Mu family actually has so much money!"
"Bah! These two are so shameless. They complain about being poor every day. They are the richest people in our village! They even said they would raise Mu Qiu for a thousand yuan. I would be willing to adopt him if I were him. But that scumbag woman hangs around us every day and picks up eggs laid by our chickens. I didn't say anything because of her big belly. If I had known they were so rich, I would have thrown them to the dogs instead of letting them eat them!"
They could accept being poor, since they would all be poor together. But the couple whom they looked down upon were secretly very rich, which instantly made the villagers jealous.
Someone immediately said, "Village chief, we don't have many children. Why don't I adopt Mu Qiu? After all, Mu Qiu's great-aunt married someone from my mother's village, so we are still somewhat related."
"Bah, we have nothing to do with each other. Chuntao, you are so shameless to say that. Why don't you just adopt him? We have a bigger house!"
"Oh, your family has 18 people crammed into your tiny plot of land. Is Mu Qiu going to sleep in the pig shed? Village chief, I am your niece. You know me. We will adopt Mu Qiu."
Hou Fen was so anxious that she yelled angrily, "What do you mean one thousand yuan? Her parents clearly only left six hundred and twenty yuan. That's our Mu family's. What does it have to do with you?"
Everyone suddenly became quiet, and the competition became even more intense the next second.
One thousand yuan was too far away for them, but Hou Fen admitted that the Mu family had more than 600 yuan, so what were they waiting for? Hurry up and get Mu Qiu over!
As soon as Mudi heard what Hou Fen blurted out, he knew something was wrong.
He burst into tears immediately and cried to Mu Qiu, "Qiu, I really didn't know your aunt took so much money from your family. I really thought your parents didn't leave anything behind. I was afraid that she would kick you out, so I let her beat and scold you. I just wanted you to grow up well, and I didn't think so much. I am sorry for you!"
Hou Fen was about to say something, but her daughter next to her pulled her tightly and shook her head at her.
Although Mu Chunhua is young, he has inherited Mu Di's wisdom and knows that his father is trying to persuade Mu Qiu emotionally.
Mu Qiu was also smart. His eyes immediately turned red and he said timidly, "Uncle, if you feel sorry for me, just return the house, the land and my father's compensation to me."
Mu Di choked. The money was indeed in his hands. He was reluctant to spend it, and also reluctant to let Hou Fen take it. Whenever he thought of it, he would count it, and his mood would improve for the whole day.
Return it to Mu Qiu?
That would be like cutting flesh from his heart!
Chen Tang saw that he was hesitant and knew that he was reluctant to let her go: "Village Chief, you have also seen that Mu Qiu's two uncles and aunts have occupied the property left by her parents. Since Mu Qiu's family has long been separated from theirs, Mu Qiu can decide for herself whether to live alone or let someone else adopt her, right?"
"That's true." said the village chief while smoking.
Chen Tang pushed the middle-aged man next to him to the front of the crowd: "Let me introduce you, this is the financial director of the steel plant. This time he came mainly to ask for compensation for Mu Qiu's father."
The village chief quickly perked up and stretched out his dark hand: "Hello, hello."
The financial director had some disdain in his eyes, but still shook hands with him out of courtesy.
"We came here to see how Mulian's family is doing. After all, they are our factory workers, so we can't just ignore them. But we didn't expect that Mulian's only remaining daughter would be abused by you like this!"
The village chief quickly explained: "It was indeed our oversight. We didn't expect Uncle and Aunt Mu Qiu to be such rogues."
The financial director had a calm expression, his eyes were filled with arrogance and disdain: "It was indeed an oversight. If Mu Qiu hadn't come to our factory to seek help, we would never have thought that someone would dare to monopolize the compensation!
Village chief, I am here for no other reason than that our factory leaders have agreed with Mu Qiu herself that we will take back the compensation money and pay it out on a monthly basis to help this child go back to school until she finishes high school.
We have prepared the documents and brought them here for you to review, so that no one can accuse us of embezzling the compensation money."
The village chief's own children all work in the factory, and he has a sense of humility towards the people in the factory as a lower class.
Chen Tang and the village chief had read the document in duplicate, and the content was correct and in line with current legal provisions, so Mu Qiu and the village chief agreed.
But Hou Fen and Mudi disagreed, and they offered money to stop them.
"I can't sign it, I can't sign it. The money is ours. We raised this girl. She has already used up all the money. I don't care. I don't have the money to pay her back anyway!"
The financial director ignored her and said, "Either pay me back or go to the police station and tell them about it. I don't care if you use the money or not, but you have to pay it back in full!"
Hou Fen and Mudi refused to pay the money back, so they ran home and planned to close the door to prevent them from coming in.
Shen Tang immediately asked Yan Li to report the case.
About half an hour later, the police arrived at the village, learned the whole story, and immediately arrested the two rogue couples who had occupied other people's houses.
They were given one day to vacate the house, otherwise they would be kept in prison for ideological reform.
Mu Qiu took advantage of this time to search all the places where her uncle hid his money, and the compensation deposit was also found.
There were also various valuable things such as her mother's jewelry, clothes left by her parents, etc., which were all turned out from the rooms of the two rogues.
Several people accompanied Mu Qiu to the bank to complete the formalities.
Hou Fen was crying her heart out, and finally the village chief and the team leader worked together to pack up all their things and throw them into the shabby thatched house on the edge of the village.
When the Mu family split up, Mu Di asked for money, but he was reluctant to build a house for himself, so he built a shabby thatched hut. That's why he took over his brother and sister-in-law's house after they died.
Mu Qiu’s house is actually not very big, nor is it a blue brick and tile house, but just an ordinary loess and stone house.
However, it was built a little bigger, with four bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, and a yard for raising pigs, chickens and ducks.
Because Mu Qiu's grandfather is a carpenter, there is no shortage of stools and beds at home.
Although it is not as big as those blue brick houses and red brick houses, it is still considered large in the village.
Although the compensation was recovered, the little money left by her family had been almost used up, with only about fifty yuan left.
Mu Qiu lives alone at home and it is impossible for him to work and go to school at the same time.
The village chief has not been able to find someone to adopt her yet. It’s not that no one is willing to adopt her. On the contrary, there are many people willing to adopt her, but Mu Qiu herself is unwilling to do so.
Finally, the captain spoke up and asked his second daughter-in-law to adopt Mu Qiu.
The captain's family was large, with three sons and daughters-in-law, and there was no room for them at home, so he asked his second son, who was honest and had only one son, to adopt Mu Qiu.
His second daughter-in-law liked Mu Qiu very much and often brought food to Mu Qiu. She also gossiped about Hou Fen's family behind his back.
The two families also signed a contract that they would not touch the money the factory gave to Mu Qiu every month, and as compensation for living in Mu Qiu's home, they would raise her until she grew up.
Yan Li felt relieved when she saw that Aunt Chun was really good to Mu Qiu.
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