Listening to the discussions around him, Chen Dayong's face turned blue and white.
He thought of the rumors in the village, and in order to save face, he said loudly: "It has nothing to do with ginseng! There is something wrong with the girl the Jiang family picked up! She must be responsible for this thunder, she wants to kill my whole family!"
Li Guangzheng arrived at Chen's house at this time and said angrily: "Chen Dayong, what are you talking about? As a cadre of the production team, you actually take the lead in promoting superstition."
"Nephew, you have to help me make the decision on this matter. It's not that I want to promote superstition. There is indeed something wrong with that girl from the Jiang family."
"Don't call me nephew in public!" Li Guangzheng frowned, "If you take the lead in spreading rumors and slandering other people's little babies, I think you, the scorekeeper, should stop doing it!"
After a while, Jiang Qingshan rushed to Chen's house holding Xiao Lingbao.
His wife and several sons also came.
Dadongzi strode forward and said loudly: "Uncle Dayong, have you forgotten our previous bet? Return the ginseng to me quickly! Then apologize to me!"
Chen Dayong lied, "What's the bet? I don't know what you're talking about."
His words made Jiang Qingshan angry and cursed, "Chen Dayong, you really have a thousand layers of soles for your cheeks, you are too shameless, aren't you? You just said it in the morning, now you don't admit it? Many people in the village can help us with this matter."
testify!"
Uncle Chai walked out of the crowd, "I can testify. I was at the door of Jiang's house at that time. I was a witness to this incident. I heard it clearly. They made a bet that if the Chen family was struck by lightning,
It means the ginseng comes from the Jiang family."
Many people echoed his words, "I heard it too."
"Thunder will strike his house, which means his son didn't dig the ginseng!"
"Yes, yes, yes, I didn't expect that there is really ginseng essence. No wonder the old people say that when digging ginseng, you have to tie a red string and kneel down three times and nine times. There are many rules."
Compared with the problem of Lingbao, everyone believes that there is a ginseng essence in the world. After all, Lingbao can be seen by everyone. It looks cute and harmless. However, ginseng essence is invisible and intangible, and it is more like it can
The spirit that brings down thunder.
"Didn't you hear what Captain Li said just now? Stop saying things that promote superstition!" Chen Dayong changed his words, "What's so weird? These are all superstitions. It's just a coincidence that lightning hit my house today."
Dadongzi clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and said angrily: "So you are unwilling to hand over the ginseng, right?"
"Unless you have proof that you dug this ginseng!"
After listening to Chen Dayong's words, everyone started talking again, "How can we prove this? Oops, I think this is going to be difficult to do."
"The Chen family's kitchen was burned down. Chen Dayong is now counting on selling ginseng for money. How can he hand over the ginseng? He must be a rogue."
"Captain Li, you judge," Shen Su'e asked Li Guangzheng for help, "This ginseng was obviously dug up by my eldest son. He took his son to the house and snatched it away, and now he refuses to return it. How can such a thing happen?
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Li Guangzheng was in a bit of a dilemma. He knew his uncle's character very well. He was very troublesome even if he was unreasonable. He was just a messy and unreasonable person.
When there was a famine before, his mother asked his uncle for a few sweet potatoes and saved his life, so his uncle always used this matter to kidnap him, saying that if he hadn't given him a bite to eat, he would have gone to see her.
It’s the Lord of Hell.
In recent years, his uncle has become more and more excessive, and his two cousins have also become arrogant and domineering.
Li Guangzhao wanted to remove Chen Dayong from his position several times, but his mother always said, "This scorekeeper is an important position. You have to find someone you can trust. Who can you trust among the other people in the village? Maybe he will change it."
If you hire someone, the work points will be messier than those of your uncle. Your uncle is at least a relative of ours and will give you face.
Actually, your uncle just likes to brag, and there's nothing serious wrong with him. So doesn't he clearly remember his annual work points book?
Seriously, just listen to your mother, as long as your uncle has not made any unforgivable mistakes, you can just turn a blind eye to his affairs."
After Li Guangzheng's father died of illness three years ago, his mother has not been in good health. In order to prevent her health from being damaged by her anger, he could only tolerate his uncle again and again.
Because of this, every time someone complained to him about his uncle, and he had to wipe his ass for what his uncle and his two cousins did, he felt that he would be angry at his uncle's family.
die.
"Uncle Li, it's really them who stole big brother's ginseng!" Lingbao said, pointing to Chen Jinbiao and Chen Shenghu not far away.
Li Guangzheng frowned and shouted to his two cousins: "Come here and tell me clearly, what is going on? Whose ginseng is it?"
"What else could be going on?" In order to put out the fire, Chen Jinbiao wiped the dust off his face and said loudly, "Of course I dug this ginseng! It will be the same no matter who asks!"
"
Seeing Chen Shenghu lowering his head and saying nothing, Li Guangzheng pulled him to his side and said, "Huzi, let me ask you, did your brother dig the ginseng, or did Dadongzi dig it?"
All eyes were focused on Chen Shenghu.
"Yes..." Chen Shenghu raised his head and glanced at his father. Seeing him staring at him fiercely, he couldn't help but swallowed, "Yes, it's my brother..."
Before he finished speaking, a "rumbling" thunder sounded in the sky, scaring Chen Shenghu into screaming, "Ah, don't hit me, don't hit me..."
Not only him, but others were also panicking at this moment. They couldn't help but look up to the sky and saw a bolt of lightning piercing the dark night, then falling from the sky and hitting the middle house of Chen's house.
With a loud "bang", all the tiles on the house fell to the ground, and at the same time, a raging fire broke out in the house.
The scene was so spectacular that everyone present was dumbfounded, "Mother..."
"Help... put out the fire, put out the fire!" Chen Dayong shouted, "What are you all doing in a daze? Help me put out the fire. These houses are all connected together. It's over, it's over, they're all going to burn down.
It’s all light, oh my!”
No one dared to move. "This is a thunder struck by ginseng essence. I don't dare to put out the fire. Don't let us get hit by accident."
Seeing that the house where he was sleeping was about to be burned down, Chen Shenghu recovered from the panic and cried loudly: "I told you that ginseng could cause lightning to strike people, but you didn't believe it. Is this okay?"
His eldest brother and sister-in-law were also scolding and crying at this moment, but his mother was calmer and said anxiously: "Master, go get the ginseng. Take the ginseng out quickly and return it to the Jiang family's son. Maybe it can stop the fire."
Come down!"
After listening to his wife's words, Chen Dayong rushed into the main room with a glimmer of hope, picked up the ginseng on the table, gasped and returned it to Dadongzi, "Here you go, I'll return the ginseng to you, hurry up, hurry up
Click it and put out the fire quickly."
"I don't know why this thing thunders. How do you put it out?" Dadongzi said helplessly, "Let me see, you'd better hurry up and fill the water..."
In the light of the fire, a soft and waxy voice said: "Uncle, maybe if you apologize to my elder brother, the ginseng essence will forgive you."