Pastoral little master

Chapter 63
Arrived at the second watch, a little late, I wish my sisters a happy Laba Festival! ! !

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Approaching the door, Qiduo faintly heard voices in the yard.

Listening to the voice, it seems that there are quite a few people.

Not knowing what happened, Qiduo felt uneasy and hurriedly looked around.

She pulled a plump girl closest to her and asked, "Sister Xiaolian, what's wrong?"

This plump and fat red-faced girl is called Tan Xiaolian, and she is Tan Guihua's boudoir friend.

Tan Guihua holds an embroidery frame every day, and she often goes to Tan Xiaolian's house.

At this moment, Tan Xiaolian was also holding a flower stretcher in her hand, it was a yellow lump on it, and she didn't know what she was embroidering. The embroidery technique and Tan Guihua's embroidery skills were exactly the same.

Tan Xiaolian turned her head and saw Qiduo, as if looking at something rare, looked her up and down several times, but didn't speak.

"Miss Xiaolian, are you watching?" Qiduo was stared at with fear.

Tan Xiaolian then grinned and said, "Qiduo, you can really talk. I thought Osmanthus fragrans was joking. I didn't expect that you can still talk. It's really unexpected."

Qiduo's face sank, is this human?
I regret that I asked the wrong person.

However, she was not angry, she just smiled and pointed to Tan Xiaolian's flower bed, and said, "Sister Xiaolian, your embroidered poop looks really good, beware of attracting flies."

Then Qiduo walked towards the side door with a smile on her face.

Tan Xiaolian looked at the flower, her face twisted, it was clearly embroidered like mandarin ducks!

"Tan Qiduo, you are going to strangle you to death!" Tan Xiaolian cursed in her heart with a ferocious face.

But I'm sorry to swear.

Qiduo went to push the side door, and found that the door was bolted from the inside, knocked hard a few times, and the door opened, it was Tan Dejin.

He was holding a whip and a basket in his hand, as if he was about to go out.

"Father, what happened?" Qiduo asked in a low voice.

Tan Dejin looked at the villagers and frowned, "It's nothing, you go back quickly, your mother and the others are in the kitchen, lock the door."

Then he strode out.

Qiduo turned around, entered the courtyard, obediently locked the side door, and when she turned around, she realized that the atmosphere was not right.

There were a lot of men in the yard, all of whom were unfamiliar faces, standing, squatting or leaning, all of them with unfriendly expressions.

Judging from their appearance, it doesn't look like they came to Tan Dejin for fortune-telling.

She hurriedly ran to the kitchen, Xu's Erxia and Liuju were inside, two iron pans were steaming, several large pots of prepared vegetables were placed on the chopping board, Erxia was lighting a fire under the stove.

"Duo is back." Mrs. Xu and Liuju asked at the same time.

"Yeah, why are you cooking dinner now?" Qiduo asked inexplicably after responding.

Mrs. Xu shook her head sullenly, "Where is dinner, Duo, and your father didn't have lunch?"

Qiduo closed the kitchen door, leaned close to Xu's ear and whispered, "I'm treating you, I've had a good meal."

"That's good, relieve your greed." Xu touched Qiduo's round little face, and said with a soft smile, she was also relieved, and had been worried that the father and daughter would starve.

"Second sister, what happened at home, there are many people outside the door pointing at our house, as if watching a play, and who are these people in the yard?" Qiduo asked curiously.

I was worried that something was wrong with Mrs. Xu and the others, but seeing that they were all right now, their hearts returned to their original positions, and they were only curious but not worried.

It's not that she's cold-blooded, but that other than Dafang's family, the rest of the family didn't make her feel warm.

"Isn't it just watching a play?" Liuju sneered, poking her rosy mouth.

"Say it quickly." Qiduo urged.

Liuju glared at her lightly, "Idiot, I don't know what's going on looking at the situation like that, who offended grandma yesterday."

"San Niang! What's wrong with her? Those who are facing the stranger are from the Wu family?" Qi Duo finally remembered about the Wu family.

All day long today, I was thinking about doing business with Yue Ke, and my reaction was a bit slow for a while, and I should have remembered it long ago.

According to Mr. Zhao's character, how could he spare Mrs. Wu lightly, but he did not expect such a big situation to arise.

Liuju took Qiduo to sit down on a small stool by the stove, and told what had happened.

In the morning, Mrs. Zhao asked Tan Decai to take Erlang and Sanlang to the Wu family, and told the Wu family what Wu had done, and asked the Wu family to send someone to take Wu back.

Wu's father has passed away, and there are only the widow mother and two older brothers in the family.

When the widow heard what Wu had done, she was ashamed and angry, and apologized to Tan Decai, telling the Tan family not to drive Wu out of the house, so as not to be ashamed.

Wu's younger brother was quick-witted, and immediately ran to tell Uncle Wu's about it.

Wu's uncle and Wu's father are brothers, they are powerful characters, they are very protective of the family, they have six sons, all of them are fierce.

After the uncle heard about this, he immediately slapped the table and got angry, saying that the Tan family was too deceitful, that the Wu family had done something wrong, but the Zhao family had also done too much, so he summoned all the male members of the Wu family stand up.

Wu's father also had five brothers in his generation, and each family had sons and grandsons. Together, the five families had more than 20 men, plus three slick women, who went to Tan's house together to support Wu.

No wonder there are those strangers in the yard, they are all Wu's cousins ​​and nephews, Qiduo suddenly realized.

"When did they come, didn't they fight?" Qiduo asked.

"I've been here for more than half an hour. Your father said that they are all relatives. If you have something to say, let's eat first. There is no food at home. Your father just came back and went to the neighboring village to buy stewed vegetables." Xu answered.

"After the Wu family came, did they do anything excessive?" Qi Duo asked again.

Liuju pouted bitterly, "Then Uncle Wu is really ruthless. When he came to our house and talked to Sanniang, he turned his back on grandpa and grandma, saying they were not kind and Sanniang It was also for the Tan family's face that they had a dispute with grandma.

He also said that the grandson's marriage is so shabby and he is not afraid of embarrassment. If he didn't want to marry a daughter-in-law, then don't marry him.At that time, Grandpa's face turned pale with anger, but he was afraid of losing money if he made a fuss, so he just said a few words and endured it. "

"The Wu family went too far this time. It was Sanniang's fault for beating grandma. The Wu family should reason first, instead of insulting others by taking advantage of their power. Once the news of this time gets out, our old Tan family will lose face." It's clean." Xu shook her head and sighed.

Qiduo snorted coldly, narrowing her eyes slightly, "This is our Tan family, could it be that we have been bullied by others? I don't believe in this evil."

In fact, it is no wonder that grandpa has stage fright and fears the Wu family. There are not many men in the Tan family who can come in handy.

Dad and Fourth Uncle are not at home, Second Uncle and San Lang look like ostentatious, unable to withstand a few punches, Third Uncle, Er Lang, and Shi Lang face the Wu family, and it is difficult to strike, and the rest are weak and disabled, who cannot be sent use.

"Duo, you go back to the house and stay with Liulang. He is still sleeping. I'm worried that he won't see us come out to look for him when he wakes up. Don't offend people like the Wu family." Xu said to Qiduo.

Qiduo nodded and snorted, but did not leave immediately, but continued to ask, "Mother, didn't Grandpa ask the patriarch to mediate this matter?"

Mrs. Xu shook her head, "As soon as the Wu family came, your master hurriedly greeted them, saying that this is a family matter and you can handle it yourself, so don't disturb the patriarch."

"The patriarch probably already knew about such a big commotion. It's just that grandpa didn't come out to invite him. It's not easy for him to come over. By the way, how did grandma react?" Qiduo said.

Liu Ju answered, "When the grandpa of the Wu family scolded grandma, grandma argued with him a few words, you don't know, those three aunts of the Wu family are very talkative.

On weekdays, grandma can scold people, but they are several times better than grandma.Grandma couldn't scold them, so she jumped her feet in anger. "

Qiduo pursed her lips, stood up, and said to Mrs. Xu, "Mother, I'll go back and see Liulang first."

Mrs. Xu nodded, Qiduo opened the door and went out, walking towards the Moon Gate.

The unfamiliar Wu family members were not in the courtyard at the moment, and there were voices in the upper room. She glanced inside, and saw that it was full of people.

When she walked to the door of the moon gate, she found that the door was wide open, and she frowned.

On weekdays, when Mrs. Xu and the others come out, when there is no one in the backyard, they will close the door. If there are outsiders present, the door will be locked.

In a situation like today, the door is more likely to be locked than it is to be left wide open.

Qiduo was more thoughtful, so she picked up a pole leaning against the door and walked towards the backyard.

The courtyard was quiet, there was no sound, and there was no one in sight.

She pushed open the door of her own room, and there was some chaos in the room. Her heart began to sink, and she hurriedly called out to the inner room, "Liulang."

"Third sister." The curtain of the inner room was lifted, and the thin Liulang rushed out from inside, hugged Qiduo tightly, and choked up his voice.

Hearing that his voice was not right, Qi Duo hurriedly pushed him away, looked him over carefully, and asked, "Liulang, is someone bullying you?"

Liu Lang's big black eyes glistened with tears, and he nodded and shook his head with his small mouth flattened, both aggrieved and sad, but also a little scared.

"Quickly tell who bullied you, Third Sister will settle the score for you." Qiduo gritted her teeth tightly, with anger burning in her eyes.

Liu Lang wiped away his tears with his sleeve, and then said, "San Jie, just now when I woke up and got dressed and was about to come out, I heard the door being pushed open. , but heard the voices of two men talking.

I quietly lifted the curtain to peek. It was two men I didn't know. As soon as they came in, they looked around.I... I was terrified, afraid that they would find me, so I had no choice but to pretend to be my parents' voices and scare them away.

I was afraid they would come back again, so I hid here and didn't dare to go out. Third sister, I'm so scared. "

Qiduo hugged Liulang tightly, comforting softly, "Don't be afraid Liulang, Third Sister will protect you."

Liu Lang is in poor health and can't do anything. When he is bored, he imitates his parents' voices, which is really vivid.

Qi Duo didn't dare to look alike, if Liu Lang hadn't used this method to scare the two thieves away, would they have killed Liu Lang after they discovered him?

This is not impossible, and examples of burglaries that eventually turned into murders are not uncommon in modern times.

"Liulang, what do those two look like? If you see them again, will you recognize them?" Qi Duo asked.

After talking with Qiduo for a few words, Liu Lang's complexion gradually returned to normal, and there was less fear in his black eyes, and more anger.

He pursed his lips and nodded earnestly, "Third sister, I can recognize that there is a person with a big mole on his face. I saw with my own eyes that he took something and hid it in his arms, which looked a bit like Dad's cow statue. "

"It's good if we can get to know each other." Qiduo squinted her eyes, and she felt that the two men were more likely to be from the Wu family.

Damn it, it's nothing more than insulting the Tan family, but they took the opportunity to do this dirty trick, really think our Tan family is easy to bully!

I was worrying about how to embarrass the Wu family, but I didn't expect someone to pave the way for me.

The corners of Qiduo's lips curled up slightly, seriously thinking about what to do next, so that the Tan family can save face, and in turn, the Wu family's prestige will be swept away!
(End of this chapter)