If Erniu had not read books and had her own thoughts, and had not found Shi Fengshou for help in time, she would have ended up like the little girl in front of her.
It was a pitfall that any discerning person could see, but she was persuaded by her mother's illogical words.
Erniu's brother Niu Shaoqiang stood in the front holding a hoe, staring at Qin Zhiya like a hungry wolf.
"Open the door!"
"Erniu is a member of our family. We have the final say on where she goes. Why do you people from the upper ditch have the right to interfere in our affairs in the lower ditch?!"
As he spoke, he kept hitting the school gate with the hoe in his hand, making a harsh sound in the early morning.
Shi Fengshou and several other young men from the village also took up farm tools to demonstrate without showing any weakness.
"You are destroying the baby and it is against the law of nature. No one can stop you!"
"Stop your bullshit, I'm letting her get married for her own good. What's the point of reading so many books? If she marries into the Liu family, she'll have meat for every meal."
"Fourteen years old, still a child, why would you marry someone?!"
"Which girl in the village doesn't want to get married? How can fourteen be young? Could it be that she will be like your son and never get married? The old Shi family will be extinct!"
"Damn it! You haven't even grown all the hair on your mouth yet and you dare to curse our village chief? I'll kill you!"
The villagers on both sides have been deadlocked for a day and a night, like firecrackers that can be ignited at any time.
The war had already spread before Qin Zhiya could react.
Niu Shaoqiang shouted, "Smash the school gate!"
"Teach them a lesson! They think we in Shanggou are easy to bully!"
Behind an iron gate, the two sides were entangled in the sound of "clang clang" of shovels and hoes.
Qin Zhiya was anxious and was about to step forward, but was grabbed by Xi Feng.
"Why don't you stop them?"
"Fighting between two villages is so common that even if we two outsiders got involved, we wouldn't be able to find anyone if we got injured or killed."
Xi Feng is a policeman. These individuals fighting in front of him is an insult to his profession.
But he also knew the ins and outs of the mountains. He was outnumbered and if he rushed forward rashly, he would not be able to control the situation even if he proved that he was a policeman.
"Wait a little longer, it will be here soon."
As soon as Xi Feng finished speaking, the sound of sirens pierced the sky.
"Everyone stop and drop your tools!"
A sharp shout came from the police car's horn, drowning out the villagers' shouting and cursing.
For a moment, everyone was stunned and looked in the direction of the siren.
Two police cars came roaring over, with mud spots all over the sides of the cars, obviously they were driving at a fast speed.
The village chief of Xiagou Village was also asked to get off the police car and followed Director Zhu to the door.
Director Zhu, dressed in police uniform, looked like a demon. Wherever he went, the villagers would unconsciously make way for him.
He walked all the way to Niu Shaoqiang without any obstruction.
"What do you want to do? Tear down the school?!"
"Throw away the hoe!"
Niu Shaoqiang wanted to argue at first, but when he saw the village chief and seven or eight young policemen behind Chief Zhu, he reluctantly dropped the hoe.
clang.
As the first person dropped his tools, the others followed suit.
"You two village chiefs are fighting in front of the school. What do you do for a living?!"
Director Zhu gave them a lecture and waved his hand to take everyone to the police station.
The village chief of Xiagou Village was anxious.
"Captain Zhu, that's not what you said on the way here. What kind of fight is this? It hasn't even started yet. Why are you arresting people from our village?"
The villagers in the school also moved closer to Shi Fengshou.
They are not actively provoking, they are just protecting themselves and certainly don't want to go to the police station.
Director Zhu glanced at him indifferently, knowing that he was going to shield the villagers, but deliberately kept silent.
He walked up to Xi Feng and looked him up and down for a long time.
"Are you Xi Jun's son?"
"Uncle Zhu, it's me, and this is my wife, Qin Zhiya." Xi Feng briefly introduced himself and explained the situation: "Most of the children in this school have their education funded by the Wuyou Foundation, where my wife works."
Director Zhu is an old friend of Xi Jun.
However, because of sports, the life trajectories of the two changed.
Xi Jun worked hard in Beijing, while Director Zhu has been rooted in the countryside.
Laoshangou is his jurisdiction.
Xi Feng also heard of such a person from Xi Jun, so he contacted him urgently on the way here.
Otherwise, he really wouldn't be able to control the situation.
Director Zhu frowned.
"You know the situation in the village is not as good as in the city. The child is a member of their family. It would be difficult for you to stop them from taking him away."
People in mountain villages are often surprisingly united, especially when dealing with outsiders.
Niu Shaoqiang wanted to take his sister away, but outsiders came to stop him. This was undoubtedly a slap in the face for the people of Xiagou Village.
Even the police were not afraid of them during the most brutal times.
Qin Zhiya said firmly: "No matter how difficult it is, I will not let them take her away. Uncle Zhu, that girl is only fourteen years old, as young as a flower. Why would she marry someone like that? Do you think there is an emperor now?"
"You girl, you didn't say you didn't care. You can't remember this."
Director Zhu has his own ways of staying in the township.
He first intimidated everyone with his intimidating power. After understanding the demands of Xi Feng and others, he called the village chief of Xiagou Village.
"I've taken your people with me."
The village chief hurriedly said, "No, Chief, you are so magnanimous. They are just anxious. Even if we don't come, they won't really hurt anyone. Please let them go."
"You're a police officer and a hawker, and you can bargain?!"
Director Zhu refused to give in, which made the village chief of Xiagou Village very anxious.
For a moment, the people in Xiagou Village were also panicked. Some of those standing on the periphery did not even bother to pick up their farm tools and quietly slipped back.
Xi Feng naturally noticed it, but didn't care.
Before daybreak, more than half of the people from Xiagou Village had already left amidst the dispute between the village chief and Chief Zhu.
The only ones left were the emotionally agitated Niu Shaoqiang and a small number of people who couldn't leave.
In this way, the people in Shi Fengshou Village were evenly matched with them.
Director Zhu saw that the time was ripe and changed the subject:
"I've heard about it, too. Regardless of whether I take the person with me or not, since I'm here, I'll see him off to the west."
"Go call Niu Shaoqiang and his family over, and negotiate face-to-face with the people from the charity foundation to resolve the issue peacefully."
"If anyone dares to rob, beat up, or even destroy the school under my nose, don't blame me for arresting them all!"
The village chief of Xiagou Village was originally worried about how to smooth things over, but suddenly he had a way out, so he was naturally overjoyed.
"Zhong Zhong Zhong, I'll go call them over right away."
Shi Fengshou also waved his hand and asked Zhuzi to take the other villagers out of the school and hand over the control of the site to Director Zhu.
Soon the Niu family came hurriedly, and before anyone could say anything, they started cursing:
"I might as well have drowned her. She refused to go home even when I asked her to. She's so arrogant after just knowing a few words."
"When she comes out, I'll beat her to death!"
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