Chapter 113 114 Melee

Li Yu invited Chen Yaohui into the room. Chen Yaohui asked Li Yu with a smile, "Xiaoyu, how did Mr. Zhou do in the exam?"

Li Yu smiled and said, "We won't know until the results are released at the beginning of next month. Uncle Yaohui, how is your family's harvest this year?"

Chen Yaohui shook his head, "No matter how good the harvest is, I can't catch up with your family. If I had known, I would have listened to your aunt and come to you to learn some experience. I heard that you set up a breeding field and got some wild rice for breeding. I was still I thought you were wasting the fields, so I went to see them before harvesting and found that the rice grains were plumper and a little longer than ours." Chen Yaohui folded his hands and looked at Li Yu, "Xiaoyu, can you give it to me next year? Get some of that rice seed of yours.”

Li Yu shook his head, "Uncle, it won't happen next year because I don't know if the improvement has been successful. I will wait until I try to plant it next year and then I can plant it for you next year."

"Okay, then uncle will be waiting for you."

"Uncle, you came to me about the cattle thieves, right?"

"Yes! Your uncle came to me early in the morning and said that you caught a few cattle thieves from Hujia Village. It seems to me that they were the ones who came to steal things in the village a few days ago. I want to ask you what you plan to do with them. them?"

"Uncle, how were those who were caught after such attempted thefts were dealt with in the village?"

"Those who are petty thieves are caught and given a beating. If we report a cattle thief like this to the official, they will be sentenced to caning for attempted theft. And the most severe case is cattle stealing. It seems that the minimum is 100 lashes. But there is one more thing. They haven't stolen it yet. If they refuse to admit it and find someone to smooth the relationship, the superiors have the final say on how to judge. Besides, our two villages are not far apart. I don't think there is any need to report it to the official and let the two villages tie up. Let them have a grudge and let them know that our Fengming Village is not someone to be trifled with, what do you think?"

After hearing this, Li Yu thought about the thief who had denied it last night. The two villages were not far apart. He was not afraid of the revenge of the people in Hujia Village, but the other villagers may not be afraid, so he had better go and deal with them and teach him a lesson. Let them never dare to provoke you again.

"Okay, as you said, as long as they are willing to admit their mistakes, teach them a lesson. If they still speak cruelly and unreasonably, send them to the Yamen."

"Okay, uncle, go get some more help."

Just as the two were about to go out, Agou ran in and shouted to Li Yu in panic, "Girl, go and have a look. Many people have come to Hujiacun and are surrounding the cowshed, asking us to let him go and pay compensation." Soup and medicine are worth money.”

After hearing this, Chen Yaohui said angrily: "Xiaoyu, go quickly, I'll call all the men in the village."

Li Yu nodded and ran towards the cowshed with Agou.

When they arrived at the cowshed, they saw those few people still hanging on the cowshed. Twenty or thirty men from Hujia Village, as well as women and old men, Ruyi, Uncle Zhao and the servants of the family stopped in front of them. , not allowing them to release him.

Agou got in and said to Ruyi: "Brother Ruyi, the girl is here."

Li Yu separated from the crowd and looked at Erya, Agou and a few children. "You go and watch the drying field. The long-term workers are going back to take the millet back."

"Oh! Let's go." Erya left with a few children.

When the people in Hujia Village saw Li Yu coming, everyone else bowed and saluted. Knowing that the master's family was coming, the gray-haired old man saw that Li Yu was just a girl and not very old, so he made a gesture towards a daughter-in-law in the crowd. With a wink,

A thief's wife walked out from the crowd in Hujia Village, threw herself in front of Li Yu, and cried sadly, "Girl, sister-in-law, please, please be kind and let me go! We really can't live any longer." , the family is so poor that they can’t even open the pot.”

Li Yu saw that she was wearing blue fine cloth clothes, and there were two flowers embroidered on the uppers of her shoes. He looked at her condescendingly and said, "I see that you don't dress like a poor person who can't open the pot. You are wearing a uniform." The clothes made of fine cloth cost twenty cents a foot, and the embroidered shoes on my feet cannot be removed. How can I still afford the fine cloth which costs more than ten cents a foot?"

The thief's wife looked up at Li Yu, unable to reply, so she had to lower her head and beg for mercy.

Li Yu looked at them and said coldly: "You dare to steal cattle, we must report it to the official."

An old man with gray hair came out and looked at Li Yu with a stern face, "Girl, I am the patriarch of the Hu family. Please listen to my advice and be merciful to others. You have shot and wounded everyone, but you still shoot them." They are hanging there, you are young and you are a girl, you should leave some room for others to avoid being shady."

Li Yu took a step forward and looked at him coldly, "According to your wishes, if they come to steal things, I should let them steal. If I steal, I should entertain them with good wine and food. Please return the things to me. Don't do it again." Do you think I'm a fool for coming here to steal? Don't you just think we're here to escape, and you think we're easy to bully, so you want to step on us!"

The old man was choked so much that he pointed at Li Yu, "Since you can't get in the oil and salt, then I will tell you that they told me last night that they were going to go hunting in the mountains. The Yamen gave you this land, Fengming Mountain." I still haven’t given it to you! But when I pass by you, you shoot and injure people and hang them up. I’m going to the Yamen to sue you for being tyrannical.”

A man came out of the crowd and shouted: "Second uncle, don't talk nonsense to her. Release this damn girl quickly. You have been waiting there for a long time, just waiting for them to catch them when they pass by. This is all a trap set by you." "

Li Yu looked at him, "In the middle of the night, you take incense and put smoke under the watchman's window in my house. Each of them holds a sharp knife, a bunch of keys, and ropes in his hand, and you pass by my cowshed? Are you trying to trick a ghost! And , it takes at least more than two hours to get here from Hujiacun. It is only the middle of the hour. Do you have clairvoyance and ears? You will know that we have caught them before dawn. "

"When did we know that we had nothing to do with you?" A tall man walked up to Li Yu, pointed at Li Yu and shouted, "Damn girl, let her go, or I will kill you."

"Kill me, it depends on whether you have the ability." Before he finished speaking, Li Yu took a step forward, stretched out his hand like lightning, grabbed his pulse, slapped his chest with a palm, and then He grabbed his belt and lifted him up. Everyone in Hujia Village opened their mouths and looked at Li Yu blankly.

The servants of the Li Yu family took a breath, and then cheered, "The girl is magical! The girl is mighty!"

The people in Hujia Village looked at Li Yu helplessly, and threw the man with a "bang" in front of the most fierce men in Hujia Village who were shouting. They were all dumbfounded.

Li Yu looked at them and clapped his hands, "Whoever wants to kill me, just come up."

The men in Hujiacun collectively stopped talking, and several women started to come on stage again, rushing to Li Yu's feet one after another.