Chapter 045: From now on, you will be the benefactors of Yaoshui Village
Old man Shu made some gestures with his hands and told him in detail where the yam grew.
The village chief was stunned for a long time.
After coming to his senses, he cried and hugged Old Shu, and said with tears in his eyes: "Guangzong, you are a good person, a very good person. I, Shu Pingtai, will call you big brother from now on!"
Old Man Shu felt happy in his heart, but on his face he said, "I am very righteous and very knowledgeable." He patted his shoulder lightly and said:
"Brother, you are serious. We all belong to the same village. Shouldn't we help each other?"
The village chief looked at the man in front of him with tears in his eyes, feeling that his whole person was radiating a sacred light from the inside out.
"Stop saying anything. From now on, your family will be the benefactors of our entire village. If anyone dares to quarrel with you in the future, I will be the first to slap him!"
Old Man Shu said: "It's just a small matter, nothing serious."
In my heart: "Shu Pingtai, you'd better keep your word."
Shu Mingzhi also struck while the iron was hot and talked about his departure in two days, as well as his and his brothers' concerns.
After hearing this, the village chief beat his chest loudly: "Eldest nephew, don't worry, I am the best at managing people. If anyone dares to disobey and act like a monster, I will kick him back to Yaoshui Village to meet his ancestors!
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"I feel relieved with the village chief's words." The huge rock hanging in Shu Mingzhi's heart finally fell to the ground, "Then let's make an agreement. We will leave the day after tomorrow. I will go to the town to talk to the stone tomorrow."
After seeing off the Shu family and his son, the village chief's buttocks seemed to be on fire and he felt uncomfortable sitting no matter how hard he sat. Finally he rolled up his sleeves.
The village chief's wife called him from behind: "It's time to eat, where are you going?"
"I'm going to visit Yaozu's house and tell him something."
Shu Yaozu is the eldest brother of Shu Guangzong.
If you could describe Yaoshui Village in one sentence, it would be like a pot of good soup mixed with rat excrement, and that rat excrement is Mrs. Zhang, Shu Yaozu's daughter-in-law.
After thinking about it, the village chief was still worried about letting this rat excrement bounce around in the pot, so he planned to go over and beat her in advance to make her stop the smell and make a good poop.
No, it’s about being an individual.
Before reaching the door of Shu Yaozu's house, Mrs. Zhang's iconic broken gong voice sounded.
"I'm hungry, I'm hungry every day, why don't you share it with me, one piece for each of you, so that I don't have to suffer!"
Shu Yaozu whispered beside him to smooth things over: "Okay, don't make any noise. Go back to the house and sleep. You won't be hungry when you sleep."
After saying that, he turned around and saw the village chief outside the door. He greeted him with a smile, "Village Chief, why are you here?"
The village chief said nothing and glanced at him meaningfully.
Shu Yaozu was so stunned by his glance that he asked tremblingly: "What's wrong? What happened?"
The village chief glanced at him again and said with a straight face: "Call your wife here, I'll say a few words to you, and then I'll leave."
After a moment, Mrs. Zhang came over with her arms folded. Before she could open her mouth to ask why, the village chief opened his mouth like a machine cannon and started a crazy attack mode:
"There are only a dozen or so families in our Yaoshui Village. How harmonious and harmonious everyone is. You, your eyelids are thinner than paper, and your mind has more holes than a hornet's nest.
Today you pick a pear from the east's house, tomorrow you pick a handful of vegetables from the west's house, and the day after tomorrow you yell that someone else has taken over your field.
Day by day, you are the one causing the most trouble!"
Old Mrs. Zhang was so stunned by the scolding that she was covering her face with her. She opened her mouth and said nothing.
Shu Yaozong tried to intercede for his daughter-in-law: "What happened? Why did you come over suddenly to say this?"
"And you!" The village chief changed his voice and pointed the gun at Shu Yaozong, "Listen to your name, Yaozong, it sounds so nice, but you don't do anything that makes our ancestors happy!"
Shu Yaozong: "What's wrong with me? I didn't do anything?"
"You still have the nerve to say you didn't do anything?"
The village chief sneered and his face became even more ugly, "If your wife is making trouble outside and you don't go out to take care of her, are you still a man?
Can't you learn from Guang Zong and become a promising and capable man?"
Shu Yaozong: "?"
Isn't that right?
"But Shu Guangzong is more afraid of his wife than me!"
The village chief was still confident: "My wife is reasonable, is your wife reasonable?"
Mrs. Zhang was not happy when she heard this. She could scold her, but she couldn't bear scolding her as an old thing like Fang Guizhi!
"Fang Guizhi is reasonable? She is talking nonsense! She is just an old shrew who only knows how to hit people!"
"Okay, stop scolding, I'm not here to hear you scold others!"
The village chief interrupted her with a cold face, "Today I'm here to give you an ultimatum. You guys, who take advantage of you and bite everyone you see, must change your behavior!
If you can't change it, go south alone without us, and if you are robbed or killed by bandits on the way, it will be your own fault!"
The couple finally realized the seriousness of the problem and spoke kindly to the village chief in a soft tone.
The village chief did not accept this trick at all, and categorically said: "I have already said what needs to be said. Next time you want to make trouble, you should first ask yourself if you have lived enough. If you have lived enough, then just make trouble!"
After that, he turned around and left, leaving the couple standing at the door of the house looking at each other.
"What's going on? The village chief has been bribed by Guangzong?" Shu Yaozu asked blankly.
"It must be Fang Guizhi who is speaking ill of us behind our backs. This old woman is not a good person. I will go find her to settle the score tomorrow!"
Mrs. Zhang was so angry that she lay in bed for a long time that night and stayed awake for a long time. The next morning, before she could go to Shu Guangzong's house to cause trouble, the village chief summoned the villagers with gongs and drums.
"I asked you to come here for two things.
First, the departure date has been set. The day after tomorrow, you should pack your things in advance and don’t be too fussy about it.
Second, Guangzong and his family found a piece of yam in the mountains yesterday, and thinking that everyone was short of food, they asked me to lead everyone to dig it back and share it."
Some people who were dozing off suddenly became energetic when they heard this. They rushed to the village chief excitedly and asked where the yam was. They wished they could put on their wings and fly there.
"Everyone, don't be impatient. Listen to what I have to say. Guangzong did this justly, so we can't lose our conscience. We should be polite to others when we see him in the future.
Especially some people, if you take away your little thoughts and they give you food and save your life, are you embarrassed to quarrel with them?"
When he said this, the village chief stared straight at Mrs. Zhang, making her shrink down and almost crawl into the cracks of the ground.
After the village chief finished speaking, other people agreed: "The village chief is right. From now on, Third Uncle and his family will be the benefactors of our Yaoshui Village. When a benefactor appears, the pomp and circumstance must be sufficient."
As soon as he finished speaking, Shu Guangzong drove the donkey cart borrowed from the village chief's house, taking several Ming and two daughters-in-law with him, as well as a bunch of prey and yams, and appeared at the intersection ahead.
"Hey, third uncle is here!"
Someone screamed in alarm, and the others immediately took action, turning their heads, straightening their waists, and facing the direction of the donkey cart with a standard smile on their faces.