allonlinenovel Chapter 199 Catch Them
Chapter 199 Catch Them
The Chinese New Year has just passed, so the delivery point is not very busy for the time being. Mr. Li will not start work until February, so only my uncle and Qi Damai can handle it.
Shen Lingzhu wanted to take several other brothers to the East Market to sell freshly picked vegetables.
Her uncle Huang Zongqi held her back and said, "No, no, just ask Xiao Shiwu to go to the street corner and shout, and the shops they want will come and buy it themselves."
The "Little Fifteen" he mentioned was a cousin of the Huang family. He and Xia Wang, who traded bellows back and forth, were mainly responsible for delivering vegetables from Beigou to the county town. "We also send some to West Street. There are many wealthy families over there, but they don't grow their own greenhouse vegetables like the owners of the old restaurants.
But the residents there never allow any noise, so if we bring a few baskets of vegetables and shake this drum, they'll open the door and buy if they need it."
"A big rattle?" Shen Lingzhu shook it a few times and said, "Don't peddlers use it to attract customers?
Hey, I'll be playing the role of a peddler today."
As she said that, she ran to the backyard and called a few brothers.
The yard they rented was a large one. Part of the back of the house was used as a barn for livestock, and the other part was used by the senior sister to build an oilcloth straw mat about ten square meters to press onions and ginger.
I also planted some coriander, and it grew quite well because it was kept warm.
In the past half month, except for the eighth day of the first lunar month when my seventh uncle went into the city to clean up, nothing has been done for several days. Several brothers from the Chang and Shen families are cleaning up the frozen ones.
She planned to discuss with her aunt after she made more money to see if she could buy the house.
"Xiao Zhuzi, when do we start our carpentry work?
I think the bellows at home are almost sold out." A brother pulled out a donkey and asked her.
Shen Lingzhu thought for a moment and said, "Maybe after the county exam in February. By then I'll be able to stretch out my hands and work."
"I think we can't just make bellows, we can also make some charity kang cabinets and the like." Another cousin also put forward his own idea.
He said: "Lu Ji's products are good, but they are expensive, and most villagers are reluctant to buy them.
We have wood, and the things we make are cheaper than his. When Erwang goes to various villages to sell bellows, he also sells kang cabinets."
"That's a good idea. Brothers, please share any ideas you have and pool our wisdom." Shen Lingzhu never underestimates the wisdom of others.
Before and after the New Year, she participated in collective activities of the clan with her brothers, and she found that the Shen family was quite humane.
The elders of the tribe actually use the income for sacrifices and caring for the orphans and widows, and the accounts are kept open for inspection.
They would distribute the remaining grain from the clan fields, steam New Year offerings and food together, and worship their ancestors together. The Shen family would not exclude girls from the ancestral hall.
This won praise from Shen Lingzhu and her senior sister. The younger generations were assigned to work together, which made it easier for them to get along with their brothers and sisters in the clan.
As soon as she said this, several brothers expressed their thoughts one after another.
By the time they divided the work and started working, Shen Lingzhu had already gathered more than ten ideas.
However, she was going to deliver food with two of her brothers and had no time to write it down.
When they arrived at East Street to sell some vegetables, they unexpectedly ran into Miao Sili and several yamen runners running towards them.
Moreover, they did not walk on such a wide road, but squeezed to the vegetable basket, knocking over the basket and a lot of vegetables were scattered on the ground.
Shen Lingzhu was furious. When she was about to catch up to him and ask for an explanation, two families buying groceries stopped her. One of them said, "The people should not fight against the officials."
That one said, "Yes, they are here on official business."
"What official business? Is the chief of the labor and prison department coming here?" Shen Lingzhu and his two cousins were curious.
The two women who were buying vegetables looked at each other, and seeing that no one was around, they whispered, "Go to the house ahead and you'll find the Zhao family, who sells funeral supplies outside the city.
When his father died, the two brothers felt that the division of the property was unfair and went to the government office to make a scene.
Every year thereafter, there were quarrels and shouting matches, which always caused the yamen runners to come and mediate.”
"Instead of asking the government to help, the clan members came to persuade us?" A clan member found it unbelievable.
The two women laughed and said, "They're afraid that their clansmen will take advantage of them. If they quarrel or fight, their clansmen will report them to the authorities."
"This..." The younger members of the Shen family were taught that family disgrace should not be made public.
Moreover, once the matter is reported to the government, both parties will have to spend some money, and that family is really bad.
As they collected the money and continued walking inside, Shen Lingzhu was thinking, "It seems the only funeral shop outside the city is the one where Uncle Qi works."
The cousin nodded and said, "Yes, it's the one where Uncle Da Mai used to work.
Little Bamboo, you don't want to go and watch the fun, do you? "
“The houses on this street are so tightly built that I can’t see anything even if I want to.
Besides, we don't even know who the Zhao family is." Shen Lingzhu wanted to see how Miao Sili would mediate and how much money he would charge.
However, even if he saw it, it probably wouldn't be considered evidence of a crime, and it didn't matter when County Magistrate Wang would start the trial.
But she never expected that today, under the "persuasion" of Miao Sili, the Zhao brothers quarreled and fought particularly fiercely. The eldest son was so angry that he took a knife and chopped his uncle.
As luck would have it, his uncle had nowhere to hide and ran out of the door to ask for help. The knife in the boy's hand flew out and whizzed towards him.
But the direction was the place where Shen Lingzhu and the other two passed by.
"Little Bamboo!" The two clan brothers were pushed away by Shen Lingzhu who reacted quickly.
As she rolled on the ground, the knife hit Ermao's butt.
The little donkey jumped up in pain and tried to run away to shake off the knife.
Then he accidentally knocked over Miao Sili and others who were chasing him, and stepped on his leg.
"Ah!" As screams and donkey brays echoed through the streets, many neighbors nearby opened their doors to look.
At this time, Shen Lingzhu had already climbed up from the ground and chased the donkey, and shouted a warning: "The donkey is frightened, everyone stay put."
"Xiao Zhuzi, don't chase him." The two brothers didn't care about the vegetables that were thrown off the donkey, they ran after it.
The Zhao family members were all terrified, and Miao Sili hugged his legs and shouted, "Send me to the clinic, and the rest of you go catch those people."
"Yes." The yamen runner who was not hit finally reacted and chased after him.
On this side, Shen Lingzhu finally caught the little donkey when a family in front extended a thick bamboo pole to block the road.
The man from that house was afraid that she would get hurt, so he ran over and quickly punched the donkey, knocking him unconscious. "Quickly draw your knife and stop the bleeding."
"Thank you." Shen Lingzhu moved quickly. Fortunately, she always had some medicine on her, so she quickly sprinkled it on Ermao.
When the two tribesmen came chasing after her, she said, "We have to find my uncle to come and take it home."
"Brother Lin Zhu, you keep an eye on it. I'll go home and call someone." But before the cousin could finish his words, the yamen runners who were chasing them surrounded them.
One of them said, "Follow us."
"Where are you going?" Shen Lingzhu felt that next time he went out, he shouldn't bring a donkey with him. He should get a Tibetan mastiff, if he had one.
The yamen runner said, "Stop talking nonsense, you'll know when you get there."
"No, my donkey is injured. Where is the person who just chopped it?" Shen Lingzhu has not seen anyone who might be from the Zhao family until now.