The cooking color is delicious, general, don't bite me

Chapter 85
"I don't know, I don't know, my uncle sent the old king who guarded the lotus field to report." Lan Xiang shook her head.

"Aunt Qiao, get up! If you don't report the situation in the future, pack up your things and move out!" Meng Fuling glared at Mrs. Qiao, ignored Xue Shi, and walked out of the kitchen.

It's not that she's unkind, it's nothing more than the little chicken wings stealing meat in the past, but Mrs. Qiao didn't report it this time, what if she missed something or caused serious consequences because she knew about it?

When Meng Fuling came to the lotus field, Hulu was squatting by the field, not knowing what she was thinking, but seeing her coming, she didn't stand up.

"Hulu, what did you ask me to do?" Meng Fuling walked over and pushed Hulu's shoulder.

"Dead!" Calabash looked not far away, his expression not fluctuating at all.

"What's dead?" Meng Fuling was baffled by the nonsensical words. She followed his gaze and was shocked. There was a person lying there, which was old man Xue.

"He, why did he die? Didn't he run away?" Meng Fuling couldn't figure out why old man Xue came to Outian.

"I happened to pass by the lotus field, and I happened to see the old man arguing with the old man, so I punched him, and he fell to the ground and died."

Hulu's tone was somewhat understated, but annoyance clearly appeared in his eyes.

"You can kill someone with one punch? However, death is unjustifiable in Outian." Meng Fuling didn't have much feeling for Old Man Xue's death, but it was troublesome.

"I didn't use much force!" Calabash emphasized.

It is impossible for his punch to kill old man Xue, unless old man Xue was injured before he came.

Meng Fuling thought for a while, and called Lao Wang over, "Tell me exactly what happened."

"For Miss Hui, the servant will see him..." Old Wang stepped forward and confessed truthfully.

Seeing old man Xue sneaking around outside, he opened the wooden door, wanting to go out and ask old man Xue what he wanted to do.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the wooden door was opened, old man Xue barged in, trying to destroy the lotus field.Lao Wang went up to stop them, and the two started arguing.

At the end, the old Wang said: "Except for quarreling, the servant never beat him."

Meng Fuling was silent for a while. She believed Lao Wang's words. Lao Wang signed a contract of prostitution. After some observation, she confirmed that he was of excellent character, so she let him take care of Outian.

"Hulu, let's go and have a look," Meng Fuling said.

Calabash reluctantly stood up, thinking that he hadn't had dinner yet, "I'm hungry."

Meng Fuling really took the gourd, "You have been facing a dead person for so long, and you can still eat it? Won't you feel sick?"

"Why can't I eat it?" Calabash asked, paused, and added: "If you cook the dishes yourself, I can eat five big bowls of rice."

"Okay, I know you're a pig." Meng Fuling laughed.

While the two were talking, they had already come to Old Man Xue. He seemed to be asleep and looked normal.

"Did he really die? I don't know if he had a heart attack, or another disease, and it suddenly broke out?" Meng Fuling asked strangely.

Hulu listened very carefully to everything she said, and certainly did not miss any sentence. Hearing heart disease, he was puzzled and asked: "What is heart disease?"

Uh, only then did Meng Fuling realize that there was no such thing as heart disease in ancient times, "I was wrong, it was heart palpitations."

Calabash responded lightly, then squatted down to look at the corpse, but couldn't see why, "Let's find a forensic autopsy!"

"It's okay, open the belly, and the cause of death will be known after one inspection." Meng Fuling didn't intend to dispose of the corpse secretly.

It's just that when she said this, her eyes inadvertently glanced at Old Man Xue's hand, as if she saw his hand tremble slightly.

Meng Fuling frowned, and laughed silently, "Old Wang, go and get a kitchen knife and a rope by the way."

After getting the order, Lao Wang immediately turned around and went to the cabin next to the lotus root field to get it.

Hulu Meifeng frowned slightly, "What are you going to do?"

"It costs money to hire someone to do the job. Why don't you let me disembowel myself." Meng Fuling smiled, keeping her eyes on Old Man Xue's 'corpse'.

"You will?" Hulu didn't believe that Meng Fuling would really do an autopsy.

"I'm good at killing fish and chickens and ducks. It should be easier to kill people." Meng Fuling said, and found a sharp stone and cut off Old Man Xue.

Seeing old man Xue's lips twitch slightly, Meng Fuling said intentionally, "It's best to slaughter the old man's meat floss."

The gourd was not stupid, how could it be that Meng Fuling didn't see what Meng Fuling was up to, and added with a chuckle, "The bones can be stewed for soup, and the meat can be braised in soy sauce."

Meng Fuling cast a childish look at the gourd, turned her head, and saw water flowing from a certain part of the 'corpse', which wetted the trousers, and made her smile even bigger.

Old Wang also came over with something at the right time, and Meng Fuling said, "Tie up the hands and feet of the corpse!"

"Okay!" Old Wang immediately tied old man Xue's hands and feet with a rope.

Meng Fuling gestured at the old man Xue with a kitchen knife, "I prefer to cut through the clothes. If I cut like this, the cloth will stick to the flesh and blood. When the blood dries, I will tear off the cloth."

As the knife moved, Meng Fuling's words fell, and the 'corpse' trembled even more.

Gourd got impatient with waiting, and directly grabbed the knife from Meng Fuling's hand, "You're too slow!"

After finishing speaking, he slashed open the arm of the 'corpse', and the so-called 'corpse' came back to life with a cry, "Ah! It hurts me to death, it hurts to death!"

Meng Fuling yelled on purpose, "The corpse is a scam!"

"Don't, don't kill me! Woooo..." Old man Xue burst into tears, crying exaggeratedly.

He was punched by the gourd, and the pain was so painful that he was afraid that the gourd would beat him again, so he had to pretend to be dead.

"Hahaha..." Meng Fuling finally couldn't help laughing out loud. She knew that people who are greedy for life and fear of death should be frightened, but she didn't expect old man Xue to cry like this after being frightened.

"Meng Fuling, please, let me go!" Old man Xue begged for mercy.

Now he is so regretful that his intestines are green, his daughter has let him go, why is he still angry, and came to destroy Meng Fuling's lotus root field?

"Let you go? So that you can destroy my lotus root next time?" Meng Fuling's smile turned cold.

"No, nothing, how dare I? I just looked at that brother, who looks like the old Wang next door to our house, and just wanted to come over to say hello. It really has no other meaning!" Old man Xue shook his head. more powerful.

Meng Fuling wanted to laugh when she heard "Old Wang next door" for no reason, but Lao Wang was puzzled and asked old man Xue, "How do you know my name is Lao Wang?"

"Why don't you know? I think you just—" When old man Xue heard Lao Wang's question, his mind suddenly became active.

It's a pity that Meng Fuling didn't give him a chance to talk nonsense, and said to Lao Wang: "He will be under your care for the time being."

"Meng Fuling, no matter what I say, it's your grandfather, how can you treat me like this?" Old man Xue howled.

Meng Fuling ignored him, walked out of the lotus field with Hulu, went to Zhao Cheng, and said, "Go to Baoji Village and inform Xue's family to come and pay back the money, and tell them that if they refuse to come, the interest will be increased by ten taels a day."

Twelve interest per day?Zhao Cheng secretly slapped his tongue when he heard this, but he didn't dare to ask more questions.

After explaining it, I naturally have to go back to feed the little wax gourd and have dinner.

As soon as he entered the door, Mrs. Xue greeted him with a look of hesitation.

Meng Fuling's face turned cold, and she staggered away from Xue Shi on one side of her body, causing Xue Shi to be embarrassed for a while.

"What's going on?" Calabash asked Mrs. Qiao who also greeted the door but bowed her head.

Mrs. Qiao's eyes were red, it was obvious that she had just cried, when Hulu asked her, it was hard for Mrs. Xue to speak out because of Mrs. Xue's presence.

And Luo Yunhao entered the door first, seeing that the atmosphere was not right, he had already figured out the matter, and was also very dissatisfied with Xue's actions.

Now, when Calabash asked, he didn't have so many worries, and revealed everything in detail.

The more Hulu heard it, the worse his expression became. Just now he wondered how old man Xue ran out of the cellar. He thought that Meng Fuling didn't know, so he didn't ask her.

He really felt wronged for Meng Fuling, but he couldn't scold or beat Mrs. Xue, so he was hesitant, so he said to Mrs. Xue, "Mother, your father is dead!"

Sure enough, after hearing this, Mrs. Xue's face paled instantly, and her body was on the verge of falling, "Gourd, gourd, what are you talking about? My father is gone, gone?"

"Yeah!" Calabash responded coldly, since he can't be beaten or scolded, why not scare the head office?
"He is, why is he gone?" Xue Shi asked after a long time with trembling lips.

A smile flashed across Gourd's eyes, and he made up a nonsense, "Intent to steal, and was beaten to death by the villagers."

When Xue heard the cause of death, she yelled "Father", but couldn't bear it any longer, and passed out.

"Madam, Madam!" Mrs. Qiao and the others panicked, hurriedly supported Xue Shi, and helped her back to the room.

Mrs. Xue believed what the gourd said, but when Steward Lu and Luo Yunhao heard it, they knew that he was deceiving Mrs. Xue.

"How can you scare her? What if something bad happens?" Luo Yunhao disagreed.

Before the gourd could speak, Steward Lu spoke up for his master, "My lord has his own reasons for doing things!"

"Who doesn't know that you are all the way?" Luo Yunhao snorted, and went straight to the kang table full of dishes, grabbed a piece of Baogu Roast, and took a big bite.

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Meng Fuling fed the little wax gourd, and when she came out, she knew that the gourd had done a 'good thing', and she couldn't laugh or cry.

But she didn't say anything, she acquiesced to Hulu's actions, her lungs hurt from Xue Shi's anger, but she couldn't teach Xue Shi a lesson.

Therefore, I didn't bother to explain to Xueshi that Xueshi had an awkward relationship with her a few days ago, and now she is letting Xueshi out.

She just took over the original owner's body and treated Xue Shi as her own mother, but Xue Shi was too disappointing.

After ordering some food, Mrs. Qiao sent it to Mrs. Xue's room, but she didn't go to see Mrs. Xue either.

After eating, the sky gradually darkened, and Zhao Cheng hadn't come back yet.

Meng Fuling had a bad premonition, thinking that Zhao Cheng must have had an accident, right?Or the Xue family detained him?

"Hulu, Luo Yunhao, you guys go—" Meng Fuling wanted Hulu and the others to go to Baoji Village when there was an ear-splitting noise outside.

"Meng Fuling, get out!"

"Hand over my parents!"

"…………"

Meng Fuling could tell that the loudest shouts outside were from Xue's family members, with other people's voices also mixed in.

"Tsk tsk! There are at least 30 people listening to this voice." Just by listening to the voice, Luo Yunhao knew roughly how many people had come outside.

Luo Yunhao was gearing up, excited, he hadn't exercised for a long time.

"The scum of the Xue family can gather so many people? It's really strange, strange!" Meng Fuling was surprised, knowing that she had driven the Xue family into a panic.

"Go! Go! Go out and meet them!" Luo Yunhao ran out first.

Meng Fuling wanted to go out, but Hulu stopped her, "Don't go!"

"I informed them to come, so naturally they have to show up. It's just a group of mountain peasants who don't know martial arts, and you can't protect me?" Meng Fuling said deliberately, and her last sentence successfully changed Gourd's face and stopped blocking him she.

Meng Fuling went out of the gate, and sure enough, as Luo Yunhao said, there were about 30 people who came, some of them were holding high torches, or holding kitchen knives, or poles...all of them tried their best to pretend to be menacing.

The ones standing in front were of course the Xue family. When they saw Meng Fuling coming out, they pushed Zhao Cheng out of the crowd who had been tied up.

When Meng Fuling saw Zhao Cheng being beaten with a bruised nose and swollen face, she became angry and cast her cold eyes straight at the Xue family.

"Meng Fuling, you are too deceitful! Detaining my parents and forcing my family to sign a 500 tael IOU, are you pretending that there is no one in Baoji Village?" Xue Qingsong shouted.

Zhao Cheng went to their house and conveyed Meng Fuling's intentions, and they were all furious. 500 taels of silver was enough to make their family worry, not to mention the daily interest of ten taels of silver.In short, even if they sell their whole family, they still can't afford it.

They yelled and attracted the villagers, slandered Zhao Cheng as a door-to-door bully, and insulted the whole village, which provoked the honest villagers to beat Zhao Cheng violently.

Xue Qingsong felt that the villagers were stupid, easy to deceive and easy to use, so he continued to smear Meng Fuling, not forgetting that Meng Fuling insulted the villagers of Baoji Village.

"You are Meng Fuling? What is your purpose in detaining the two elders of the Xue family? Is 500 taels not enough, and you want to continue to blackmail?" A young man in gray stood up and stared at Meng Fuling.

As soon as Xue Qingsong came out, he got involved in Baoji Village, and Meng Fuling knew why the Xue family, who had always had a bad reputation and disgusted by the villagers, could gather the villagers to come.

"Here are the words in black and white, how can I become a blackmailer? As for the detainment, it is even more nonsense! Could it be that grandpa and grandma want to stay with their granddaughter for a few days?" Meng Fuling took out the deed and said loudly .

She didn't want the villagers of Baoji Village to serve as gunmen for the Xue family in vain, so that the Xue family would be proud.

They made the idea of ​​canceling the debt and teaching her a lesson, and Hulu and the others could see this.

"Who knows if you threatened Uncle Xue and the others." Someone in the crowd shouted.

"Threats? I don't have the time to threaten them." Meng Fuling laughed sarcastically, as if hearing a big joke.

The villagers of this village all came after hearing the news, and they all had various 'weapons' in their hands, and some even took a big spoon for cooking.

Meng Fuling knew that the ancients paid the most attention to reputation. No matter how poor their friendship is, once there is something that involves the village's face, they will definitely let go of personal festivals first, let alone people from outside the village broke in now.

That's why the villagers of Lingyun Village rushed over with 'weapons' to confront the villagers of Baoji Village, which is not surprising to Meng Fuling.

"Meng Fuling, regardless of whether you threatened Uncle Xue or the others, you will let them go!" It was the young man just now who spoke.

(End of this chapter)