Chapter 153 Sending Something to Xu Hexiao
After a while, a large group of people gathered in front of the captain's house. Everyone tacitly kept silent. They looked at Luo Laizi who was kicked to the ground by Lin Qi, and then looked at Lin Qi who was drunk and cold.
Normally, Lin Qi didn't like to talk, but she gave people the impression of being peaceful and easy to get along with. But at this moment, Lin Qi made people feel fearful and wanted to stay away from her.
They felt an unprecedented sense of oppression from Lin Qi.
"What happened?" The captain came late.
"He tried to pry open the door and steal things." Lin Qi said coldly, and threw a metal bar at Luo Laizi's feet.
"No, I didn't have time, she came." Luo Laizi made a bitter face, feeling that he was extremely unlucky.
Lin Qi was too lazy to argue with Luo Laizi, and instead looked directly into the captain's eyes, "If the theft fails, it doesn't count as theft?"
"Of course not." The captain retorted subconsciously. He frowned and walked towards Luo Laizi. "A few days ago, I heard that someone in town stole a chicken and was sentenced to three years in prison. What did you want to steal when you went in? Do you also want to go to jail?"
"What! You'll go to jail for three years for stealing a chicken!" Luo Laizi was so scared that his voice got louder.
"Now the crackdown is severe everywhere. Not only will theft be punished by jail, but rape will be shot. Don't you believe it? If you don't believe it, come with me to the town and the police station tomorrow. I will ask for you and you just need to listen." The captain's tone was calm, neither fast nor slow, and no one doubted the truthfulness of his words.
Luo Laizi was so frightened that he trembled and quickly hugged the captain's legs, tears streaming down his face. "Uncle, I know I was wrong. I was just bewildered for a moment. I will change. I will change now and never steal again—"
The captain was indifferent to Luo Laizi's confession. He looked at Lin Qi and asked, "How do you want to deal with him?"
"From now on, let him be the one to herd cattle in winter and spring." Lin Qi said. She remembered that Luo Laizi once mocked Xu Hexiao as a cowherd. In that case, then let him herd cattle.
"Okay, let's do it."
Except for Luo Laizi, everyone had no objection to this punishment.
After Lin Qi left, everyone went back to their homes.
"Luo Laizi is also stupid. He dared to pry open Xu Hexiao's door right after he left. Now he was caught by Lin Qi."
"I think Lin Qi is in a bad mood tonight."
"Xu Hexiao has gone to clean up the river, it would be strange if Lin Qi is in a good mood."
"That's true. They have such a good relationship, they definitely can't bear to see Xu Hexiao suffer."
“........”
The wind blew all night long in the mountains, but Xu Hexiao and his three companions didn't feel that cold. Originally, Xu Hexiao only planned to bring his own bedding, but Lin Qi added two wolf skins, and even Lao Yi and his three companions each brought a wolf skin. So even though the wind was howling outside, their small straw hut was warm.
When he got up in the morning, Xu Hexiao cooked a big pot of mixed grain rice and baked four rice cakes.
"This is mushroom meat sauce. Add two spoonfuls to the rice and eat it with the rice." Xu Hexiao said.
Lao Yi and his two friends fell in love with this mushroom meat sauce as soon as they took a bite.
"There's a lot of meat, mushrooms, oil and soy sauce. Was this made by Qiqi or you? You really used a lot of ingredients." Old Yi exclaimed.
"We made it together." Xu Hexiao replied and took a bite of the rice cake. The rice cake was baked fragrantly, crispy and very chewy.
"This rice cake is also delicious, with a strong glutinous rice aroma." Lao Bi said.
Xu Hexiao hummed, "This was done by Qiqi."
In addition to multi-grain rice and rice cakes, Xu Hexiao also boiled a clay pot of water, poured the boiling water into the thermos, and added more water to the clay pot. This time he planned to boil a clay pot of sugar water.
"If you feel dizzy later, come here and drink a bowl of sugar water." Xu Hexiao instructed Lao Yi and the other two.
Lao Yi and the other two agreed one after another. They felt that they were so full that they would not be able to make it. However, since it was Xu Hexiao's good intention, they appreciated it.
Besides, the sugary drink tastes good and doesn’t make you dizzy, so they want to drink it.
Xu Hexiao and his friends were halfway through their breakfast when two commune officials arrived on bicycles. The first thing they did when they arrived was to count the number of people. After confirming that there was no problem with the number of people, they began to urge Xu Hexiao and his friends to eat faster because they were going to start working.
The river channel was filled with mud and weeds. Xu Hexiao wore plastic water shoes and shoveled mud and weeds in the mud. Lao Yi and the other two held dustpans filled with mud and sand and transported the mud to the foot of the nearby mountain or to the wasteland.
The two officers supervised everyone diligently and conscientiously, and their loud cursing could be heard from time to time.
When they passed by Xu Hexiao, they saw the plastic water shoes on Xu Hexiao's feet, and a hint of surprise flashed in their eyes.
"Where did the shoes come from?" asked the clerk.
"Someone gave it to me." Xu Hexiao answered briefly, but his working speed was not slow at all.
"Are you sure you borrowed it and didn't steal it?" the clerk insisted.
"The entire Anliang Brigade knows that I have water shoes. If you don't believe it, just go and ask." Xu Hexiao said.
The entire Anliang Brigade knew that he had water shoes. If these two people stole his shoes, or asked him to hand over the water shoes under some pretext, others would inevitably doubt the intentions of these two people and wonder if they wanted to take the water shoes for themselves.
"Hmph, it's just a pair of waders. What's the big deal? The whole team knows about it." The clerk sneered and walked away.
After working for a whole morning, everyone felt a little exhausted.
There was only one hour for lunch and rest. Xu Hexiao cooked a lot of rice in the morning, so he just needed to add a little water to heat it up. In addition to the rice, he also cooked a pot of soup, adding dried mushrooms and bacon to the soup. He only put a handful of mushrooms, but a lot of bacon. Xu Hexiao cut two strips into it, which weighed about three or four pounds.
The three old Yis watched his heroic actions, swallowing their saliva and saying, "Put so much in there, there will be nothing left after we finish eating."
"It won't be absent." Xu Hexiao said.
"Why? I see there are only a dozen pieces of meat in the basket. The way you eat them, they will only last you three or four days at most." Lao Bi said.
Xu Hexiao did not explain, "Use the bowl to put the rice into the earthenware pot. I will use this pot to boil some sugar water."
This pot is bigger and can hold two buckets of water.
"Are you still making sugar water? You only brought one can of jujube honey, and it will be gone after you use it up." Old Fu said with concern. Such delicious jujube honey should not be used like this!
"Except for us, almost everyone else can't get enough to eat. And the work we do is heavy. When they can't hold on any longer, we will have to work harder." Xu Hexiao said calmly. Not only will they have to work harder, but they will also have to work longer.
The last time he and his grandfather came, most of the people cleaning the river were members of various brigades, and five or six of them fainted at that time. Not to mention that these people are of bad background now, and the food is pitifully small. It is good to eat 80% full, and most people only eat 50% or 60% full. There is also a lack of oil and salt. It is difficult to hold on to the end!
"Forget it, let's not cook sugar water, cook sugar porridge and put some rice in it." Xu Hexiao said. The rice he brought was the rice distributed by the brigade. Not only did Lin Qi dislike eating this rice, he also didn't eat it on weekdays. Now he didn't feel bad about using it to cook porridge.
However, Lao Yi and the other two were frightened by him again, "Are you crazy? Are we not going to eat?"
"Qiqi will give it to me." Xu Hexiao said firmly.
Lao Yi and the other two: “…”
Xu Hexiao cooked some sweet porridge. He first filled half a clay pot and sent it to the two officials, and then invited everyone to come and drink.
The amount of porridge was limited, so Xu Hexiao only gave them half a bowl. However, he was willing to put sugar in it. Even though it was only half a bowl, everyone felt much more comfortable when the sweet hot porridge entered their stomachs.
The two secretaries made a fire themselves and drank porridge by the fire. In addition to the porridge, they also brought lunch boxes with them, which they just needed to heat up.
"This porridge is quite delicious." said one of the staff members.
"How can it not taste good if it has sugar in it?" another staff member answered, and asked curiously, "Who is this Xu Hexiao? Why is he so generous?"
"I don't know. Let's go back and check. But she won't be so generous for a few days. If he keeps eating like this and treating others, his food will be gone in four days at most. I wonder if those who ate his food will give him a mouthful of soup when he's hungry."
There was a hint of schadenfreude in the clerk's tone.
However, their idea of watching the show was doomed to fail, because Lin Qi appeared in the evening, carrying two baskets and walking straight towards the team that was cleaning the river.
"Hey, who are you? Don't come over here and don't disturb everyone's work." The clerk stepped forward to stop them.
Lin Qi put down the basket and pulled down the scarf that was wrapped around her face and ears, revealing her beautiful little face. "My name is Lin Qi, and I'm here to deliver something to the people in our Anliang Brigade. It looks like everyone hasn't finished work yet, so I'll just go and wait on the side."
After saying that, Lin Qi picked up the basket again and walked towards the row of straw huts not far away.
It was not until Lin Qi walked more than ten meters away that the official murmured, "She is Lin Qi?"
Lin Qi's name is well-known in their commune. It is said that she knocked down two of their colleagues, it is said that she hit every sparrow with a stone, it is said that she killed fifteen wolves by herself... A few days ago, she also defeated a group of wild beasts and rescued twelve students!
"Don't judge a book by its cover!"
"They only said she was pretty, but they didn't expect her to be this beautiful!"
"Is she really that amazing?"
The two officers looked at each other.
With curiosity, they walked towards Lin Qi.
Lin Qi put down the basket, but had no intention of chatting with them. She said calmly, "I came from the mountains and encountered a wild boar on the way. Can you two help me keep an eye on my things while I carry the wild boar here."
After saying this, without waiting for the two officials to refuse, Lin Qi ran towards the mountain like a gust of wind and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
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