Chapter 176: She promotes feudal superstition?
Lin Qi suspected that she had heard it wrongly. She asked in surprise, "What did you say? Say it again?"
"You are spreading feudal superstition!" Director Qiu shouted.
Lin Qi was confused. "How did I promote feudal superstition? What feudal superstition did I say?"
"Oh!" Director Qiu sneered, "You are stubborn and stubborn. You buried sweet potatoes in the ground, but deceived the people of Yao County by saying that the sweet potatoes grew from the ground. You made those who benefited from you think that you have the ability to make sweet potatoes grow in the ground overnight and worship you as a god. If this is not promoting feudal superstition, what is it?"
Lin Qi looked at Director Qiu with an indescribable look in her eyes. For more than four months, she had been burying sweet potatoes in the ground every day and letting people dig them up?
What is her purpose?
"How can you prove that I was the one who planted those sweet potatoes? Even if I did plant them, what law have I broken? I provided so many sweet potatoes and helped countless people get through difficult times. What did I do wrong? Did I tell anyone that those sweet potatoes grew naturally?" Lin Qi asked back.
Director Qiu frowned and asked a question he was very curious about, "Where did those sweet potatoes come from?"
Are there really that many sweet potatoes?
Those people must have exaggerated the facts. It must be Lin Qi who was spreading false information. Or, it must be that the news was spread from person to person and became more and more exaggerated.
Anyway, he didn't believe that one person alone could help most of the farmers in Yao County survive last year's famine by relying on sweet potatoes.
"I don't know. It grows in the field itself." Lin Qi gave up.
"You don't know, but you know your land!" Director Qiu glanced at Lin Qi, "There are so many sweet potatoes from unknown sources, and you still say you are not speculating!"
It's speculation again!
Lin Qi sneered, "You must accuse me of speculation. I suspect you have bad intentions."
"You are talking nonsense!" Director Qiu said angrily.
"You are the one who is talking nonsense!" Lin Qi walked towards Director Qiu step by step. "Just because I have sweet potatoes growing in my field, you judge me as promoting feudal superstition. If you tell others about it, people will laugh at you!"
"Your sweet potatoes are in endless supply. It is said that there were two to three thousand people who came to you every day, each with a sweet potato. With such a large amount, where else could you get so many sweet potatoes except for speculation?" This crime of speculation must be pinned on her. Director Qiu's eyes flashed with viciousness. If it didn't work, he would torture her into confessing!
Lin Qi did not miss the look in Director Qiu's eyes. She could not help but sneer in her heart, but her face was calm. "I still say the same thing. If you don't have evidence, you are making a false accusation."
Director Qiu naturally had no evidence, and Lin Qi would not admit it. Finally, Director Qiu said, "I have plenty of time to waste with you."
The door closed again, and before leaving, Brother Tao gave Lin Qi a look that said "May the best come to you".
Guan Linqi's room was less than six square meters, and there was nothing else except a table and a chair. There was a small window in the room, which was very high, more than two meters from the ground.
Lin Qi stood on the table to see the window from inside the house, but there was nothing outside the window except the blue sky. She looked down at her watch again. It was already 4:35 in the afternoon. Six hours had passed since she left home.
How are the children?
Does Director Qiu intend to lock her up for one night?
On the other hand, after Lin Qi was taken away by the Revolutionary Committee, the people of Anliang Brigade were worried and wanted to go and check on her home. They thought that if those people from the Revolutionary Committee demolished Lin Qi's house, they would help Lin Qi repair the house. They didn't want Lin Qi to come back without a place to live.
However, when they came in a grand manner, they found that Lin Qi's house was fine, but soon they found something unusual: there was a pile of baby supplies and four babies lying in cradles in the yard, as well as two deer.
Where is this child from?
Xu Hexiao said inwardly that something was wrong, and a look of helplessness flashed across his face.
The children had been crying for less than ten minutes in his house. He guessed that they were in a strange place without their mother and were scared, so they were crying. He had no choice but to take the children to Lin Qi's house.
But as soon as he and his children got home, a large group of people arrived.
"What's going on?" The captain was still calm. He turned around and asked Luo Qingbai who was holding a pile of baby clothes.
In addition to Luo Qingbai, there were also Lao Yi and the other two. They also helped to carry things. The shock on their faces had not completely dissipated, and they were still immersed in the fact that Xu Hexiao had four more children.
Luo Qingbai was in a complicated mood. He was going to get married at the end of this year, but when he looked at Lin Qi's child, he couldn't help feeling a little lost.
She already has a child, so it's time for him to give up.
Ten minutes later.
The captain and his team members came back to their senses from their shock.
"So you haven't shown up for half a year because you're having a baby?"
"How did you manage to give birth to four children at once?"
"Have you been to the hospital? Have you hired a midwife? Doctor Ma probably doesn't know about this, right?"
"I didn't tell anyone." Xu Hexiao said lightly. He lowered his head to look at the children. The children stopped crying and were now in the cradle, opening their round eyes and looking at these strangers curiously.
"They are so cute!" someone couldn't help but exclaim.
"She's white and tender, plump, and has big, bright eyes. This is the first time I've seen such a beautiful child in all my life."
"That little mouth and nose are so delicate, even a drawn doll can't be this pretty!"
"They are looking at us. They are not shy at all."
"Four children, how many boys and how many girls?"
"Yeah, how many boys and girls?"
Everyone fell silent and cast curious glances at Xu Hexiao.
"Three boys and one girl. The girl is the older sister, followed by three younger brothers." Xu Hexiao said.
Three men and one woman!!!
In the Anliang Brigade, where boys are favored over girls, this combination is almost the best.
"Three boys, each of them will get full work points in the future!"
"As a girl, there will be someone to help with housework at home, and they will also be considerate of their parents."
"A girl is good. Even if a family doesn't like girls, they won't dislike a girl after having three boys. Otherwise, who will do the housework and wash the clothes?"
"What are you talking about? This is Lin Qi's child. Lin Qi will not favor boys over girls."
"That's right. Lin Qi treats the boys and girls in the team the same. Look at those four children. They are fair and clean. It's obvious that they are taken care of very well. Can you tell which one is a boy and which one is a girl?"
“I can’t tell!” Everyone shook their heads.
"So, Lin Qi won't treat these children differently. She doesn't lack people to work."
"That's true. Girls are fine too. If a girl is as pretty as Lin Qi, she'd be so rare and so popular!"
“…”
Everyone loved these four children so much that they were reluctant to leave once they arrived.
Then, they saw Xu Hexiao skillfully feeding the children, changing diapers, washing diapers, and coaxing the children to sleep... These were things that women were supposed to do in the eyes of everyone in the Anliang Brigade, but Xu Hexiao did them even more meticulously than most women.
Those women looked at Xu Hexiao with shining eyes. What a good man!
If they (their daughters) could meet such a good man, they would wake up laughing in their dreams.
Men's perspective is different.
"Are the bottles filled with milk powder?" The team leader looked at the four bottles and thought that the supply and marketing cooperative in town didn't have this stuff for sale, so they must have bought it from the county, right?
"It's not milk powder, it's deer milk." Xu Hexiao replied.
"The milk of those two deer?" Everyone looked at the two deer in the corner of the yard.
"Yeah." Xu Hexiao did not hide anything and did not satisfy their curiosity. He was worried that more outrageous things would be reported.
"Is it because of drinking deer milk that you grow so well?"
"Even if you grow well by drinking deer milk, can you still catch a deer?"
"You can't just think about it. Seeing your own child so skinny, not even as thin as a monkey, wouldn't you be tempted?"
After hearing this, everyone fell silent. How could they not be moved?
"We initially fed the child goat's milk, and it worked well. Later we tried deer milk. You can try raising some sheep. As for what breed of sheep to raise and how to deal with the milk, you can ask Doctor Ma or ask at the health center," said Xu Hexiao.
The people present kept Xu Hexiao's words in mind and were all tempted. Although raising sheep was troublesome, when they looked at the four plump and white children of Xu Hexiao and Lin Qi, and then thought of their own children, that little trouble was nothing.
The team members stayed at Xu Hexiao's house for a long time, and they left reluctantly only when the children fell asleep.
In the end, only the two captains and Lao Yi were left.
"Aren't you going to register these four children?" the captain asked. It's no wonder he asked this, because Lin Qi and Xu Hexiao hid the children so well. If it weren't for what happened today, they wouldn't even know the existence of these four children.
"There's no rush for this matter. You know my identity, and it's not appropriate to register my household registration now." Xu Hexiao said, and changed the subject, "What plans does the captain have for Qiqi's matter?"
The captain's face darkened. "We just discussed it. Tomorrow, the two captains will call a dozen team members and go to the Revolutionary Committee to ask for the person."
Hearing that the captain did not let it go, Xu Hexiao's expression looked a little better. But that was not enough. In the evening, he planned to find Brother Tan and hear what he had to say.
After the two captains left, Lao Yi and the other two finally had the chance to speak.
"Do the people from the Revolutionary Committee have any evidence? Why do they accuse Lin Qi of profiteering right away?" asked Lao Yi.
Xu Hexiao shook his head. "I don't know the current situation yet. I'm going to ask my friends tonight. I'll trouble you to look after the child for me then."
Take care of the children!
Lao Yi, Lao Fu and Lao Bi's faces all changed. How were they supposed to take care of such a soft child, even though they didn't dare to touch him?
Xu Hexiao did not give them a chance to refuse, and taught them on the spot how to feed the baby, how to judge whether the baby had urinated, how to change diapers...
Lao Yi and the other two were overwhelmed by what they heard. Even the most difficult academic problems were not so difficult for them.
The sky gradually darkened.
Xu Hexiao bathed the children and fed them milk. Old Yi and the other two watched the whole process, staring at them intently. They felt curious but also a little scared, fearing that they would accidentally break these soft and tender children.
Looking at the three people, Old Yi, who were hesitant and clumsy in their movements, Xu Hexiao was worried.
Both sides stared at each other in silence.
At this time, the children cried.
At first, only the fourth child was crying, but as soon as the fourth child started crying, the other three also started crying.
The four children burst into tears at the same time, and Lao Yi and the other two were suddenly panicked.
Xu Hexiao picked up the fourth child first and patted the child's buttocks skillfully. Seeing this, the three old Yis also followed Xu Hexiao's actions, picked up the child and coaxed him gently.
However, the child who was usually easily soothed could not be calmed tonight. He kept crying loudly, his little face red.
The three old Yis were heartbroken, "Are they missing their mom?"
Xu Hexiao naturally knew that the children missed their mother, especially the fourth child who was held the most by their mother. After not seeing their mother for such a long time, the fourth child started crying first.
The children pouted their lips, and looked so pitiful.
Xu Hexiao's heart ached, and Lao Yi and the other two also looked distressed, and they were almost crying with the children.
"What should we do? Will she get hurt by crying?" Lao Bi was very worried. He had no children and had no experience with the current situation.
“If you can’t keep coaxing them, you can only wait until they are tired of crying, and no longer have the strength to cry, and then they stop crying when they fall asleep.” said Old Fu. He had encountered such a situation before.
But now that I’m old, I can’t stand seeing a child cry, especially such a beautiful baby!
Xu Hexiao frowned. Crying himself to sleep? Would his voice become hoarse?
Just when Xu Hexiao, Lao Yi and the other two were at a loss, a strong wind blew in from outside, and the next second, Xu Hexiao's arms were empty and the child was gone.
"Qiqi!" Xu Hexiao exclaimed in surprise.
Lin Qi hummed, held the fourth child in one hand, and touched the eldest daughter with her hand.
Lao Yi and the other two saw Lin Qi touch the child, and in less than three seconds, the crying child quieted down.
So magical!
Lin Qi injected supernatural powers into the four children and comforted them. The four children looked at their mother's familiar face, grinned and giggled, revealing their empty gums.
"Four little fools, their eyes are red from crying." Lin Qi tapped the children's little faces, feeling so distressed.
Fortunately, she came back.
"Have you eaten?" Xu Hexiao asked.
Lin Qi shook her head, "I ran back secretly and didn't eat it."
"I'll cook something for you." Xu Hexiao went to the kitchen.
"The three of us will go out first. You put the children to sleep first." said Lao Yi.
Lin Qi accompanied the children to sleep and input some supernatural powers into them. The supernatural powers she input had a familiar smell, and the four children fell asleep soon.
She stayed with the children for a while before she reluctantly got up and went to the kitchen.
"What's going on? Who reported it?" Xu Hexiao asked impatiently.
Lin Qi shook her head. "No one reported it. The director of the Revolutionary Committee was replaced."
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