"Why do you say that?" Uncle Wei Liu stopped crying and looked at my mother with tearful eyes.
My mother pointed at the cow: "If something is causing trouble, it is usually on a large scale. After all, they are also smart. They will take some measures if they know that a cow has died in the owner's family, but staring at a family like this...
Hey, you must have offended something, and this is obviously revenge on you."
"What?!" Upon hearing the word revenge, Uncle Wei Liu was so frightened that he could no longer stand still.
He held his head and thought hard for a long time. Finally he raised his head and his face wrinkled up: "I really didn't offend anything!"
"Don't be anxious, think about it slowly," said the second uncle.
A few adults were sitting around in the yard.
The cigarettes they smoked stink the air in the yard.
I was so bored, so I sat next to my mother and played with the little white porcelain rabbit on my wrist.
If only Lulu and Xiaopang were here, I wouldn't be so lonely.
Uncle Wei Liu started from squatting on the spot thinking about it, and then ran around the yard with his hands behind his back. After thinking for a long time, he still couldn't think of it.
I was so anxious that I almost jumped up.
"Are you going to get married?" The village chief took a puff of his pipe and blew out a large gray-blue mist. His face was hidden in the mist: "Old Liu, think carefully, have you had a cigarette in the past few days?"
Too much yellow skin or something."
Huangpizi is a weasel.
The second uncle also said: "Maybe he spat and cursed while passing by the cemetery."
Uncle Wei Liu shook his head like a rattle: "No, no, none. I usually take care of my two cows at home. Not to mention the yellow leather and the graveyard, not even a hair can be seen."
"That's strange." The village chief looked at my mother, hesitated for a while, and couldn't help but ask, "Guizhi, are you sure you have offended something?"
"Sure."
"hiss."
At this time, the village chief's wife wiped her hands with her apron and walked out with a smile: "What are you doing? Your food is ready. Let's eat first."
"How can I eat it?" Uncle Wei Liu said with a look on his face, "Who did I offend?"
The village chief's wife was delighted when she heard this: "Didn't you go to Lao Zhang's house yesterday and stand in front of their house and scold them?"
Several people in the courtyard looked at the village chief's wife. Uncle Wei Liu opened his mouth wide and looked at my mother uncertainly and said, "Brother Zhang is a human being, does he count as a human being?"
My mother's eyebrows suddenly enlightened: "Brother Zhang is not normal right now. Can you first tell me what happened to you yesterday?"
"Isn't this the night before yesterday when your eldest brother helped me catch the thief? Sister-in-law Zhang said that eldest brother Zhang asked her to do this. I couldn't hold it in, so I went to his door the next morning to scold him. What's more?
I’m not the only one, everyone lost their chickens and ducks.”
"Right now, it seems that the problem lies with Brother Zhang." The second uncle smoothed the hair on the top of his head, "Now, except for him being weird, there is nothing wrong with anything else."
The second uncle glanced at me, and I knew he was talking about something that I didn't see in the village.
So it can only be related to Uncle Zhang.
"Stop talking, you are the loudest scolder." The village chief suddenly looked at my mother in fear, "Guizhi, there were quite a few people who went to Lao Zhang's house yesterday. Won't all of them be retaliated against?"
My mother paused: "I can't tell."
"Hey, tell me, what's going on with Mr. Zhang?" The village chief took two more puffs of his pipe pot, and he could see how upset he was.
But there is no point in thinking about it this way.
I rubbed my little belly, which was so hungry that it felt like it was beating like a drum.
The village chief invited us into the house to eat.
A large round table was placed on the floor of the house, and the village chief's wife cooked several dishes, which made me greedy.
When we were eating, Aunt Zhang would huddle in the kang with a small bowl and eat in small bites.
During this period, my mother tried to chat with Aunt Zhang, but when she talked about her family's situation, Aunt Zhang stopped eating and just cried.
My dad sighed: "Damn it, let's eat first."
Although the meal was sumptuous, the adults all ate it in a dull and preoccupied way. Even the goose stewed with vermicelli, no one took a few bites of it, which gave me an advantage.
The village chief's wife kept putting vegetables into my bowl: "Girl Yun, you can grow taller if you eat more."
"Thank you, grandma." I said my thanks while holding back my saliva, and then started to make a fuss.
The village chief's wife saw how delicious my food was and was very satisfied that I liked her cooking.
She touched the back of my head, raised her face and said to my mother: "Guizhi, how are girl Yun's eyes? I think she can see things now. Why is the gauze still on? Why don't you take it off?"
As soon as she finished speaking.
My family was immediately on pins and needles, and the joints in my back seemed to be pierced by a long knitting needle.
I was really afraid that she would take off my gauze as she spoke.
By then my snake eyes won’t be discovered by anyone?
I can’t even chew the goose meat in my mouth!
The second uncle hurriedly picked up the wine glass and saluted in the direction of the village chief's wife: "Aunt, I'd like to toast you with this glass of wine. I didn't expect that your craftsmanship is so good. It's better than any restaurant in the town. I'm really in for a treat."
The village chief's wife was so praised that she covered her mouth and blushed with laughter.
My dad raised his chin at me and said, "Get off the table after you finish eating. What's the point of just sitting on the table!"
"Hey, the child can eat whatever she wants, why do you care what she does?" the village chief's wife scolded with dissatisfaction, and then had a drink with her second uncle.
Anyway, I had almost eaten, so I wiped my mouth and went down.
Just avoid the gauze thing.
The village chief took a sip of wine and said sadly: "Gui Zhi, what's going on with the old Zhang family? People are uneasy."
"The main reason now is that we don't know the crux of Brother Zhang's problem." My mother thought for a while and then said, "Tonight, we will go outside his house to secretly check the situation."
"Why do you have to go at night?"
"If it's an ordinary mountain spirit wild monster that wants to come out in the middle of the night to suck the moonlight essence, I will subdue him as soon as the evil thing leaves Brother Zhang."
"What if not?"
"Then we have to find another way."
Uncle Wei Liu's face turned red after drinking, and he patted his chest vigorously: "Take me one! Kill my two cows, and I will never finish this with him! We must find him out!"
Uncle Wei Liu finished speaking.
My back suddenly tightened, and I reflexively looked out the window. Because of the large movement, the stool was knocked down by my legs.
A loud bang startled them.
"Girl, what are you doing?" my dad asked me.
I rubbed my nose and shook my head: "I accidentally knocked him down."
"What a waste, this child." The village chief turned around and called everyone, "Hurry up and eat the vegetables."
They chatted again.
I stood on the edge of the kang and looked out.
It was calm outside, the scorching sun hung in the sky, and the small tree at the door trembled slightly.
Strange, why did I feel like someone was looking at me just now?
But that direction is the treetops. Who can stand on the treetops and look at me?