sbdcsierra Chapter 1399: Searching for Dirty Objects and Questioning the Bronze Knife
Chapter 1399: Searching for Dirty Objects and Questioning the Bronze Knife
Chapter 1399: Recovering the Dirt and Questioning the Bronze Knife
In Zhao Jun's impression, whenever Wang Meilan mentioned that her family was rich, she would talk about a brass machete.
Wang Meilan's original words were: "The knives we use to cut watermelons are all made of copper."
Then, she even used gestures and colloquial language to describe what the machete in her house looked like.
Copper is valuable, but why isn’t it as valuable as gold and silver?
In the past, Wang Meilan never even mentioned her own golden grapes and golden watermelons, but she mentioned the watermelon knife again and again.
Zhao Jun had never seen that knife, but now he seemed to have seen it.
"Qiangzi." At this time, someone in the crowd asked Wang Qiang, "Isn't that copper knife yours?"
"Ah, that's not a big deal." Wang Qiang came to his senses and went over to pick up the machete.
"That's my knife!" Seeing this, Chen Yongqiang, the eldest son of Chen Jinmin, struggled to get up and snatch the knife from Wang Qiang, but was stopped by his mother.
"How can your family have such a knife?" Without Wang Qiang saying anything, someone beside him said, "If your family has such a knife, you are not a gangster anymore."
Someone else took the machete from Wang Qiang, turned it over, and then pushed it toward Wang Qiang, saying firmly, "Qiangzi, this is your knife. That year, my father and I went to your house to exchange for grain, and your aunt Wang used this knife to cut watermelons for us."
"This family is really a bunch of thieves!" There was a discussion behind him. Chen Yongqiang, with a red face, shouted with tears in his eyes: "We are not thieves. The knife was picked up by my father in the mountains."
"Fuck!" Li Ruhai raised his hand and pointed to the distant mountain, saying, "Go pick up another one, let me see!"
"We really picked it up..." This was said by Chen Jinmin's wife Lu Gaoping, but she was interrupted by Zhao Youcai before she could finish her words.
"Don't cry to me here." Zhao Youcai pointed at Lu Gaoping and said, "Your husband went to my house to sleep and stole the hides and air guns from my warehouse. I can't beat him."
Hearing this, Lu Gaoping subconsciously looked at Chen Jinmin. Hearing Chen Jinmin's denial, Lu Gaoping shouted, "We didn't steal it, you are wrongly accusing us!"
"You're so pretty!" Li Dayong grabbed Chen Jinmin by the collar and slapped him several times.
"Don't hit us!" Lu Gaoping jumped up, but was stopped by Li Baoyu and pushed aside.
Li Baoyu didn't want to fight with the woman, but if he didn't, Lu Gaoping would definitely scratch Li Dayong's face.
Men have to show their faces when they go out. How can Li Dayong go to work with a face full of spots?
"Qiaoliwa, don't hit my mother!" Chen Yongqiang pounced on Li Baoyu, but was kicked to the ground by Li Ruhai.
After knocking down Chen Yongqiang, who was four or five years younger than him, twice, Li Ruhai, who was always beaten in the village, gained confidence and kicked Chen Yongqiang twice more.
"Don't hit my son!" Lu Gaoping rushed over again to protect her son. When she left, Zhao Youcai raised his hand and called out "Shun Zi".
Lin Xiangshun hesitated for a moment, took off the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle from his shoulder and handed it to Zhao Youcai.
Zhao Youcai held the gun with both hands, put his left arm around it, and hit Chen Jinmin hard in the face with the butt of the gun, knocking him to the ground.
Blood flowed out of Chen Jinmin's mouth and two teeth fell out of his mouth.
"Break one of his legs for me!" Zhao Youcai pointed at Chen Jinmin and said, "It's mine!"
"No! No!" Hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Lu Gaoping didn't even want to protect her son. She rushed to Chen Jinmin, knelt down facing Zhao Youcai, and cried, "Brother, I'm kneeling down for you! Please don't hit my Chen anymore. We didn't steal anything from your family."
Seeing Lu Gaoping like this, no one can help her.
Zhao Youcai curled his lips helplessly, bent down slightly and said to Lu Gaoping: "Come on, stand up and talk."
"I can't get up, big brother!" Lu Gaoping cried, "My family is in a difficult situation, please don't bully us."
"Who bullied your family?" Zhao Youcai was also angry. He pointed at Chen Jinmin behind Lu Gaoping and said, "It's the middle of the night. If he didn't steal my things, why would I have nothing to do? I'll go to your house and beat you up."
"I really didn't steal anything from your house!" Lu Gaoping also refused to admit it. In fact, this woman knew that her husband had done something wrong. Otherwise, why didn't Chen Jinmin sleep in the house at night?
But Chen Jinmin refused to admit it, and Lu Gaoping also refused to admit it.
Zhao Youcai was speechless. He could kill Chen Jinmin, but he really couldn't do it to women and children.
Just when the situation was at a stalemate, Li Ruhai stepped forward and said to Zhao Youcai, "Master, let's try them separately!"
Zhao Youcai's eyes lit up when he heard that. He raised his hand and gestured, saying, "Come on, everyone, help me get them in the car and take them back to our village. I'll put them in a dog cage, you bastards."
When Lu Gaoping heard what Zhao Youcai said, she cried and refused to agree again.
"If you keep yelling, I'll light a fire for your family." Zhao Youcai's words made Lu Gaoping's voice much quieter. She had just given up her son to protect Chen Jinmin because Chen Jinmin was the only pillar of the family.
If Chen Jinmin were to be disabled, their family would be finished.
But Lu Gaoping couldn't let anyone take Chen Jinmin away, so she could only kneel down in front of Zhao Youcai and kowtow.
It is said that killing is not a crime, but it is impossible for Chen Jinmin and Hu Zhonghou to just steal things from the Zhao family.
At this time, Hu Zhonghou had been dragged away by Wang Qiang, Ma Dafu, Wei Tie and others. Hearing bursts of beating and scolding coming from the corner, Lu Gaoping pleaded with Zhao Youcai again.
"Big sister." Zhao Youcai said, "I can't leave unless your husband takes out my things!"
"Brother, we really didn't take it, we really didn't take it." Lu Gaoping kept crying. At this time, she was not only crying, but there was also a little girl next to her.
The little girl should be about five or six years old, but she was so thin and small, with only skin and bones. She knelt there and kowtowed to Zhao Youcai.
Chen Yongqiang did not kneel. The child looked at Zhao Youcai and others with resentment.
Zhao Youcai ignored the boy, but he couldn't stand the girl kowtowing to him.
Zhao Youcai took a step forward, pointed at Chen Jinmin who was blocked behind the mother and daughter, and said, "Chen rascal, if you were a man, just say something, do you admit that you stole things from my house?"
"I didn't, big brother!" Chen Jinmin refused to admit it and said, "I really didn't steal it!"
"Drag him away!" Zhao Youcai was really anxious. At his command, Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu and others took action one after another.
Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu pulled Lu Gaoping and the little girl apart with force but caution, while Lin Xiangshun and Jie Chen pulled Chen Jinmin up from the left and right.
Chen Yongqiang picked up a stick and rushed towards Zhao Jun, but was slapped to the ground by Zhao Youcai.
"Little bastard, if you keep on being so stubborn, I'll kill you." Zhao Youcai pointed at Chen Yongqiang and said angrily. He didn't want to attack a child, but he didn't know how to use his strength on a child this big. And he was holding a stick, which was not acceptable.
"Master! Master!" Amid the cries of Lu Gaoping and her daughter, Li Ruhai came running over and reported: "Then force the adopted son to confess!"
Hearing Li Ruhai's shout, everyone stopped.
"What did he say?" Zhao Youcai asked. Li Ruhai pointed at Chen Jinmin and said, "That bastard adopted son said that he was the one who did it. Then the two of them came to our house to steal things. They stole skins and other things and threw them into the elm forest outside the village."
"Oh, I'm so pretty!" Lin Xiangshun swung his arms and slapped Chen Jinmin twice.
"Shunzi, stop hitting him!" Zhao Youcai tried to stop him, saying, "Tie him up and send him to the government office! You bastard, you don't admit it, right? This time I'll put you behind bars!"
At Zhao Youcai's command, Lin Xiangshun and Jie Chen held up Chen Jinmin, one on each side. Chen Jinmin kicked the ground with his feet, resisting while crying, "Brother! It wasn't me who made him go. It was Hu Zhonghou who made me go!"
"Fuck you! Why didn't you say that earlier?" Zhao Youcai cursed, then waved his hand and said, "Bring him a whole car."
At this time, Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu stopped Lu Gaoping and her son. After hearing Chen Jinmin's confession, Chen Yongqiang stopped pretending and begged along with him.
"Hahaha..." Suddenly a laugh sounded beside Zhao Youcai. The laugh was hoarse and muffled. In the dead of night, it startled Zhao Youcai.
The noise was heard by Li Ruhai who was in the voice change period.
"What are you doing?" Zhao Youcai lightly hit Li Ruhai with a stick. Li Ruhai grinned and pointed at Chen Jinmin and said, "You fell into my trap!"
"Huh?" Everyone looked at Li Ruhai in a daze. As the two sides of the quarrel quieted down, they could still hear bursts of beating and scolding coming from not far away.
“Hahahaha!” Li Ruhai looked up to the sky and laughed, “These two old guys are quite stubborn and have a tough mouth. I have no choice but to resort to this last resort.”
Zhao Youcai's eyes rolled and he instantly understood what Li Ruhai meant, but most people didn't know what was going on.
"Son!" Zhao Youcai called out to Zhao Jun, "Go, get that old guy!"
Within two minutes, Hu Zhonghou was brought over and Wang Qiang kicked him to the ground.
Zhao Youcai came closer, bent over and grabbed Hu Zhonghou by the collar. At this time, Hu Zhonghou's face was swollen like a pig's head, and both of his eyes were swollen into slits.
Zhao Youcai pointed his empty hand at Chen Jinmin and said, "Chen the rogue has confessed, why don't you confess?"
"Ah?" Chen Jinmin was still confused. He was very puzzled. Didn't they say that Hu Zhonghou was the one who confessed first?
Upon hearing this, Hu Zhonghou turned his head with difficulty to look at Chen Jinmin, cursing incoherently.
"Ruhai!" Li Baoyu, who was standing by, asked Li Ruhai in a low voice, "How did you know they threw the hides into the elm forest?"
Li Ruhai smiled and said, "Where can you hide such a big bag of leather?"
When Hu Zhonghou ran away just now, he threw the air gun away. But the air gun is easy to hide, but where can he hide the sack of fox skin?
Li Baoyu still had some questions in his mind, but before he could open his mouth, he heard Li Ruhai whisper, "In the past, my father and my grandfather would sneak up the mountain to get meat and other things, and hide them in the poplar forest at the south end of our village, and then sell them for money."
Although Li Ruhai's voice was low, as soon as he said this, Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong turned to look at him.
Li Ruhai shrank his neck and quickly stepped back to hide behind Li Baoyu.
"Okay." Zhao Guofeng suppressed his laughter, nudged Zhao Youcai, and said, "The whole village knows about this."
Zhao Youcai was stunned, secretly resentful. He pointed at Chen Jinmin and Hu Zhonghou and said, "Tie them up in the car and send them to the government office tomorrow morning!"
As soon as Zhao Youcai said this, Lu Gaoping and the two children burst into tears.
"Brother! Brother!" Chen Jinmin and Hu Zhonghou both knelt on the ground, crying and begging for mercy.
Zhao Jun secretly helped Zhao Youcai, who pointed at Hu Zhonghou and asked, "Where's my gun?"
"The gun was thrown into Old Liu's yard!" Hu Zhonghou explained hurriedly, and Zhao Youcai turned to look at Zhang Lifeu.
Zhang Lifu raised his hand and pointed to the west, saying, "Just around the corner!"
As he spoke, Zhang Lifeu walked over there.
When Hu Zhonghou was running away just now, he took off his gun and threw it into the yard when he turned a corner. When Li Baoyu caught up with him, he couldn't find the air gun.
"Where are our hides?" Zhao Youcai pointed at Chen Jinmin again, and Chen Jinmin quickly said, "Let us bury them in the elm forest."
"Let's go! Go find them!" Zhao Youcai waved his hand and everyone rushed forward. Lu Gaoping wanted to stop them but couldn't. She watched helplessly as everyone took Chen Jinmin and Hu Zhonghou into the car.
The Liberation vehicle drove out from the west of the village and entered the elm forest. Chen Jinmin and Hu Zhonghou walked all the way inside.
When they arrived at an old elm tree, Chen Jinmin and Hu Zhonghou looked at the mark carved on the trunk. They pointed ahead and said, "It's in the snow pack ahead."
"Get the two of you out here!" Zhao Youcai kicked Chen Jinmin on the leg. Chen Jinmin staggered and fell to his knees in the snow.
He struggled to get up and, together with Hu Zhonghou, dug through the snow and carried out the large sack.
After leaving the elm forest and reaching the edge of the woods, Zhao Youcai opened the sack with his own hands and took out the roll wrapped in fox skin on the top. He opened it and saw the bear gall before he stopped.
Among the things these two men stole from the Zhao family today, the bear gall was the most expensive one, even the air rifle could not compare to it.
Seeing the bear gallbladder, Zhao Youcai breathed a sigh of relief and then asked, "Is that all?"
"That's all, that's all." Hu Zhonghou said, "I just carried a sack."
"What about you?" Zhao Youcai asked Chen Jinmin again. Chen Jinmin shook his head and said, "Brother, I haven't even entered your yard."
Zhao Youcai stared at the two of them and saw that they didn't seem to be lying. Anyway, he would fill the gaps in the wall with as many fox skins as possible, and if there was one missing, he would kill them.
Thinking of this, Zhao Youcai waved his hand upwards and said, "Let's go! Get them in the car!"
After hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Li Dayong and others pulled up Chen Jinmin and Hu Zhonghou.
"Brother, I've returned all your things to you." Chen Jinmin grinned and howled, "Why are you still pulling me?"
Zhao Youcai ignored him and got into the car with the air gun in hand.
Li Baoyu carried the sack and got into the back of the car with the people who were escorting Chen Jinmin and Hu Zhonghou.
Zhao Jun was driving, with Zhao Guofeng and Zhao Youcai sitting in the passenger seat.
"Youcai." Zhao Guofeng asked Zhao Youcai, "Are you really going to give them a fence?"
"What are you sending?" Zhao Youcai sighed and said, "I'm sending fences to that scoundrel Chen. Won't his mother and three children starve to death? How will Lao Liu live in that village in the future?"
Hearing Zhao Youcai's consideration for Zhang Lifu, Zhao Guofeng nodded, but then asked, "If you don't send the fence, why did you bring it back for them?"
"What are you doing?" Zhao Youcai sneered, "They've been torturing me all night, how can I let them go? Stupid, I'll drag them to the village, and then let them walk back on their own."
Zhao Guofeng smiled when he heard this. This style of doing things was indeed in line with Zhao Youcai's character.
The car entered Yong'antun and sent everyone home. Before each person got off the car, Zhao Youcai got off the car to thank them in person and gave them a Shilin cigarette.
When only their own people were left in the car, Zhao Youcai asked Li Ruhai to go home first to report the news, and then asked Zhao Jun to drive the car directly out of the village.
Chen Jinmin and Hu Zhonghou, who were in the trunk of the car, thought that Zhao Youcai was going to send them to the yamen, and they were so scared that they cried and snotted.
When the Jiefang truck stopped at the north side of the village, Zhao Youcai pushed the door and got out, waving his hand and saying, "Pull them down!"
"Brother! Brother!" Chen Jinmin and Hu Zhonghou clasped their fists and bowed to Zhao Youcai, saying, "We have returned your things, so please spare our lives."
Zhao Youcai nodded at Hu Zhonghou and asked, "You were the one who started this incident today, right?"
After Zhao Youcai finished asking, without waiting for Hu Zhonghou to reply, he said to Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang, "Qiangzi, you and your eldest nephew should be dragged over to Chen Mangliuzi's side. We will interrogate this kid alone."
"Brother." Li Dayong asked Zhao Youcai in confusion, "What are we still trying for?"
"Ask him, our dog doesn't bark." After Zhao Youcai said this, Li Dayong nodded repeatedly. This matter really needed to be investigated.
Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang looked at each other, and the uncle and nephew pulled Chen Jinmin aside. Then Wang Qiang asked directly: "How did you get my machete?"
I haven't finished writing today's extra chapter, I'm still half a chapter short. I'll post this chapter first, and if I'm done I'll get up early tomorrow and be able to post it around 8 or 9 o'clock.
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