Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 240
time.

There was a strong wind in Luotou village.

The wind pierced through the simple thatched hut, flying sand and rocks, and the wind was rumbling.

The stove in the meeting hall of Luotou Village was burning, lighting up the faces of all the villagers.

The witch mother's eyes swept over, and all the villagers looked down at the floor.The witch mother looked around at the crowd and said, "(Luo) why didn't you talk? You invited me here early in the morning to watch the floor?"

Someone came up and said:
"(Snail) witch mother, all my chickens have been taken away... My family's egg-laying hens are all gone, woo woo..."

"(Snail) witch mother, my family was also taken away. It's all the fault of the Han man. I don't want anything else, as long as the man returns the chicken money to me!"

"(Luo) can't, my house collapsed, and I have to give money!"

In the conference hall, more than 30 men were standing with hoes and shoulder poles, and the witch mother and a few shrews stood aside, listening carefully to everyone's complaints.And Xu Qing, who stood aside and seemed to be thinking, was actually thinking about shit, how could he understand the snail language spoken by the witch mother and everyone else.It's just that based on Luo Xiuxiu's disclosure and everyone's expressions, they probably know that it's not a good thing.

Everyone was chattering, the witch mother was as careful as a hair, and remembered the number of chickens lost. In total, a total of [-] chickens were taken away in the whole village. What a big pack of wolves?Even if some villagers took the opportunity to say more, it would be a bit scary to count him as four hundred.

The witch mother resisted the doubts in her heart, thought for a while, pointed to Xu Qing, and said in Chinese: "This is the Han man."

Xu Qing was startled, cursed secretly, cupped his hands and said: "Everyone, I am indeed the Han Chinese you mentioned, but..."

There are not many people who can speak Chinese, but there are many who can roughly understand Chinese.

As soon as the mother-in-law said these words, the villagers all clenched their fists and held their poles horizontally. If a few shrews didn't stop them, Xu Qing might have been beaten into glutinous rice cakes.

"Witch Mother, what's the matter?" Xu Qing hid behind the witch mother, so that the villagers would be wary, hey hey, it's your villager, don't throw your shoes, the witch mother is here!
The witch mother said casually: "They said you stole the chicken,"

Xu Qing hastily defended: "What, me?"

"Don't worry, they said you broke down their house,"

"Ah? No, no, no..."

"They say you're a monster!"

"Ho! They..."

"So, they asked you to save the laying hen, they asked you to pay to repair the house, and they asked me to burn you down."

"Witch mother, please forgive me..." Xu Qing was frightened by the witch mother's "they said", but she was not really scared. Shotguns are not for show either.But this morning, Xiuxiu told him that if you do something bad, you will have poisonous insects piercing your stomach!This reminded Xu Qing of the great abilities of the brothers' nation, the head drop technique, Gu worms and so on, it's not worthwhile to win.

"Spend money to eliminate disasters," said the witch mother with a hint of helplessness in her old voice.

Xu Qing touched his bosom, handed the thirty Wen money to the witch mother coyly, and went to fumble in the sleeve reluctantly, but the witch mother took the money, and before counting it out, she told everyone Said: "I have seen it, no matter what you said is true or not, the money is here, which shows the sincerity of this guest, isn't it?"

"Yes, yes," there was a sound of approval in slang and Chinese, and Xu Qing stopped groping and looked at the faces of the people.

"Okay, since that's the case, put the money in the old man's hands first," the witch mother said again: "But when investigating the case, I can't listen to your one-sided opinions. It needs to be investigated before the conclusion can be made."

"Yes, yes, we will listen to what the witch mother says," everyone agreed, and it seemed that the witch mother was quite convinced.

"Okay, let me ask you how did you know that the murderer is this Han?"

"Hey, I know it from you, how did you know it, old boy? Could it be..." An old man pointed at another person with a pole.

"Hey, what is this saying, I got it from him at the opposite door, here, here,"

All the villagers pointed at me, and I pointed at him. In the end, they all became speaking, and finally one person shouted: "(Snail) Oh! I remember, it wasn't that guy from Luofu Mountain who said it in the first place!"

The villagers looked at the witch mother and nodded, "Yes, yes, it's him, it's him,"

Xu Qing paused, why did he talk like a snail at a critical moment, who is it?

The witch mother pondered for a moment, then said softly: "Go, find him."

He asked again: "By the way, whose chicken coop is closest to this place, take him there, and we will go there too."

Xu Qing thought, he, he, who the hell is it? What's the matter with the name?Could it be that it's the witch mother's family, hmph, let the young master know who made the rumors, so he must cut off his little jj.

All the villagers moved to a hut, and saw three women, one old, one middle-aged and one young, standing at the door.Seeing so many people coming, the middle-aged one dragged the young one back into the house, and the old one came out to greet them.

Xu Qing took a sweep and saw that the house was dilapidated, and it was not far from collapse. It seemed that he had to leave early, otherwise he would depend on me again.However, a man in this family raises so much three thousand gold, and the chicken is lost this time, making life even more difficult.

"Mother Luo Can, how many chickens have you lost?"

"Oh, old witch mother, it's hard..." The old mother named A Can complained before she spoke. All the males and females disappeared overnight. If I had known this, I would not keep the laying hens, and I would kill them and eat them.” Ah Can’s mother said, and began to wipe tears, those dry eyes , full of despair.

"Mother Ah Can, don't cry, don't cry..." The witch mother comforted her and asked, "Where is the chicken coop?"

Ah Can's mother pointed to a chicken coop made of messy wooden sticks and said, "Where is it? I deliberately blocked the stone, and I don't want to be able to push it away."

Xu Qing swept away the stone, it was as big as an arm's length, even an adult would need two to lift it, right?This jackal can push this stone, so why does it still eat chicken?

Still wondering, someone walked around the chicken coop, shook it, and also asked in doubt: "This chicken coop is solid, is there any other hole, could it be that this stone was really pushed?"

Ah Can's mother sighed and said: "Why not, when we got up, we saw that the stone fell to one side, woo woo woo..."

Someone snorted coldly and said, "Why don't you say it's a jackal?"

The witch mother glanced at it, and the voice disappeared immediately, and she came closer to check again.Xu Qing didn't dare to stay too far away from the witch mother, so she also walked closer to her, and glanced at the ground, Xu Qing suddenly remembered something:

In order to hide and steal the chicken, the jackal will directly bite off the neck of the chicken, and leave the chicken head when it takes the chicken away.

And here, looking everywhere, there is no chicken head at all!Forget it, jackals always leave some chicken feathers when they catch chickens, but there are no chicken feathers here!Raw laying hens, no eggs in the chicken coop!
Xu Qing hummed after thinking about it, and asked Ah Can's mother, "Have any of you ever entered the chicken coop after the incident?"

Ah Can's mother looked at Xu Qing with disgust, hatred, and fear in her eyes.The witch mother said: "Mother Ah Can, just tell me, has anyone entered the chicken coop?"

Ah Can's mother didn't know what Xu Qing asked him to do, so to be cautious, she replied in the words of a snail: "(Snail) No, jackals came inside, it's not auspicious."

"No," Aunt Wu looked at Xu Qing and said, "So what?"

Xu Qing said decisively: "Since no one has come, then this matter must not have been done by wolves, but man-made!"

Without waiting for the witch mother to ask questions, someone asked: "Did you know?"

Before Xu Qing could answer, someone said for him: "How did he know, hmph, I see, he must have done it himself!"

Xu Qing ignored the gossip and exchanged meaningful glances with the witch mother.At this time, there was a lot of noise in the crowd, and someone said: "Look, Luofu Mountain is coming!"

"Oh?" While everyone was looking away, the witch mother patted Xu Qing's shoulder, as if to reassure Xu Qing, and then asked loudly: "Fushan boy, were you guarding the gate last night?"

"Witch, the witch mother is indeed me, but, but..."

"Then why is the gate of the village open?"

"I, I'm drunk, it's him..."

"Shut up! Yazi Fushan, you can't drink alcohol on the day of guarding the village. It's a deadly rule. No matter what others do, you shouldn't drink alcohol. You are responsible for what happened today!"

"Yes, yes, witch mother..." Luo Fushan didn't dare to refute witch mother, but he was thinking of his own old man, so he wasn't afraid that witch mother would really do something to him.

"Mother Wu, Fushan belongs to my family, we will talk about him later," an old man stood up, "The most important thing right now is to ask him—"

The old man pointed at Xu Qing, and said again: "It's man-made to ask him how he found out about this matter, if he can't tell the truth, hum..."

Xu Qing curled her lips, she couldn't explain why, the chicken money has already been returned to you!
Fu Shan looked at the old man, it was one of his uncles.Fushan's family is well established, there are many brothers in the grandparents' generation, and more brothers in the father's generation. In his generation, he can't recognize all the cousins.

"Well, good," the witch mother said with a cold look at Xu Qing, "Just talk about it, how can you tell that it wasn't done by jackals!"

When Xu Qing heard the words, he told about the habits of jackals and the abnormal situation at the crime scene.After finishing speaking, the witch mother nodded, but there were different opinions in the crowd.

After hearing a cold snort, someone said: "It's a bunch of nonsense!"

"Oh?" Xu Qing looked back, he was still the old man just now, he said: "You are a scholar with no strength to restrain a chicken, and you are not an old hunter, how do you know the habits of jackals?"

After speaking, he turned to the crowd and said, "Everyone listen to me, the Han people always like to spread rumors, so don't listen to him lightly."

"That's right, it's impossible for a young man to be so clear about the habits of wolves," someone echoed, "I see, it's clear that he stole the chicken himself last night, so let's say it on purpose to confuse the public!"

"Uh, if I stole the chicken, where is the chicken? Why didn't I leave overnight after stealing it, and still sit here for you to catch?"

"Hmph, you Han people are full of tricks, who knows what you're planning!"

"That's right, you see he's still sophistrying and making unreasonable words, this time it's probably him who did it!"

The villagers were already very angry when they lost the chicken. If it wasn't for the presence of the witch mother, they would definitely have done something to Xu Qing. Now that they heard the judgments of several people, they became angry again.

(End of this chapter)