Quick Wear: Reversing Life

Chapter 229: Escape from the Mountains (10)

The next morning, Xiaocao sent Xiaohua to school and then went to the village chief's house carrying a bamboo basket.

The village chief's house is just behind the primary school. The yard is very large and the gate is open. The sound of several people talking can be heard from inside.

The woman I saw by the creek yesterday was lying in a rocking chair basking in the sun.

There was a cart with only two wheels parked at the door, and the cow was not there.

Someone in the house saw Xiaocao and shouted as he walked over, "His daughter is here!"

The people inside the house looked outside.

"Nier, you're here just in time!" A short middle-aged man, wearing a loose old man's vest, waved at Xiaocao.

"Your brother Li Yougen stole something again!"

"What was stolen?" Xiaocao asked as he walked into the house, then looked around the house inconspicuously.

The middle-aged man in the old man's vest shouted loudly: "This is not a petty theft! He stole my chicken!"

Chickens are very precious things in rural areas. If a chicken is stolen, the consequences are more than just a few corns and sweet potatoes.

The village chief was sitting nearby. His face was clear and sharp, but he had two frowning eyebrows, and he always looked worried.

"Nier, tell me the truth, did your brother steal someone's chicken?" another person asked.

Xiaocao looked at the people in the room and wondered which room the village chief's aunt lived in.

"I don't know."

The village chief tapped the table with his knuckles. "Alright, Wang Wu, there's no point asking her. You should ask Li Yougen himself."

Everyone knows the situation of Li Yuliang's family. They rely entirely on this eldest daughter to support the whole family.

"But I saw you eating chicken yesterday!" said the middle-aged man.

Xiao Cao said, "That chicken is a wild pheasant I caught in the mountains, and the chef saw me killing it."

"Village Chief! You have to go with us to Lame Li's house!"

"That's right! That kid is getting more and more outrageous! He usually likes to steal some corn and sweet potatoes, but this time he directly stole a chicken!"

The village chief asked, "How do you know he stole it?"

"Then you still have to ask!?"

"He's the one who always takes the lead in all the sneaky things!"

The middle-aged man angrily grabbed the village chief, and a group of people walked out of the house and disappeared outside the yard.

Xiaocao stood inside the house and then began to look around the village chief's house.

The village chief's house is much more spacious than Li Yuliang's. The living room is twice as big as Li Yuliang's, but the layout is the same, with the living room in the middle and bedrooms on both sides.

Xiaocao walked into one of the bedrooms. The sunlight poured into the room through the window, illuminating the bed opposite.

The walls were covered with yellowed old newspapers, one layer on top of another.

The cabinet in the room was locked, and Xiaocao couldn't pry it open. The old woman outside was still basking in the sun on a lounge chair.

Just as I was about to go out, I was suddenly attracted by an old newspaper as I glanced at the wall.

Half of the title was revealed. Xiaocao walked closer and gently peeled off the top layer with his hands, revealing the complete title covered underneath.

"Kidnap of the beloved daughter of well-known entrepreneur Chen Xianhua!"

When I looked at the date, it was a newspaper from 1997.

Xiaocao frowned, gently tore off the newspaper, folded it and put it in her pocket, then glued the outer layer of newspaper back on.

She wanted to see if there was anything else, but she heard the woman getting up outside the house.

Xiaocao hurried out.

I saw the woman walking out of the yard with a cane.

This was a good opportunity. Xiaocao turned around and went back into the room and began searching under the bed and in the table drawers.

But they were all odds and ends, nothing that Xiaocao wanted.

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Afterwards, Xiaocao went to Dr. Wang's home to learn how to prepare medicinal materials. After working until noon, she immediately went to the school to pick up Xiaohua for dinner.

Unexpectedly, when I got home, that group of people were still arguing in Li's yard.

After asking, I found out that Li Yougen had gone somewhere and had not returned for the whole morning.

The villagers whose chickens were stolen became more and more certain that it was Li Yougen who stole them, so they did not dare to go home.

Li Yuliang refused to admit that Li Yougen had stolen the chicken.

When the village chief saw Xiaocao bringing Xiaohua back, his face became even more worried.

Seeing that the man didn't seem to be leaving, Xiaocao frowned. She still had to feed him.

The village chief stood aside and said, "I'm talking about Yuliang. Your son still has the bad habit of stealing chickens and dogs. Today he steals from this house and tomorrow he steals from that house. Do you think this is appropriate?"

"If you don't know how to discipline your child, let us do it for you!"

Li Yuliang immediately got angry: "He stole secretly! You say every day that Yougen stole your things! You say he stole chickens, but can you see the smell of a chicken being slaughtered in my house? Go check if the stove is cold!"

"Damn it, you're bullying me, a foreigner! I've lived here for thirty years! I'm older than some of you!"

The middle-aged man refused to give in: "Fuck you, Lame Li, your kid has been caught so many times before and you still don't admit it, right?"

"Shameless old thing, how many times have you been a deadbeat, you old scoundrel! Damn it, don't think I don't know that you still haven't paid back the money you owed for buying a woman seventeen years ago! You don't acknowledge it now that she's dead!"

Xiaocao grasped the key point.

Seventeen years ago, he owed money for buying a woman? Isn't that referring to the original owner and Xiaohua's mother?

In that newspaper, the daughter of entrepreneur Chen Xianhua was also kidnapped in 97, seventeen years ago.

Could it be such a coincidence?

The newspaper, which she had not yet read carefully, was hidden in her pocket.

Xiaohua saw the noise in her yard and was worried about her hungry mother, so she pulled Xiaocao's clothes.

Xiao Cao said, "My dear uncles, I really don't have anything to return. Why don't you all pull out all the vegetables in the vegetable garden?"

The original owner had planted some cabbage and lettuce in the yard.

The vegetable porridge we eat is also made from vegetables grown in the yard.

Everyone looked at the poor rows of cabbages and remained silent for a while.

Damn, Li Yuliang’s family is too poor!

The middle-aged man glared at Li Yuliang fiercely as if he had swallowed a fly, and pulled out all the cabbages and lettuces and took them away.

Li Yuliang hadn't eaten lunch yet! Seeing that all the vegetables in his garden had been taken away, he was furious and picked up a broom nearby to beat the grass.

"You filthy little girl with your elbows turned outward! You filthy little girl! You filthy little girl!"

"Damn it! I have no food to eat, so I'll beat you to death!"

Xiaocao dodged to the side, and Li Yuliang became even angrier, swearing and spitting out.

The village chief frowned upon seeing this and said, "Alright, Li Yuliang, take care of your kid. If you have another fight, I won't be able to help you mediate."

The village chief left after he finished speaking. Li Yuliang couldn't get any grass to harvest and was starving to death.

"Go cook for me."

It would be best to starve him to death.

"There's no food at home."

Li Yuliang glared at Xiaocao fiercely: "So what did you two have for lunch?"

Xiaocao lied: "We didn't eat it either."

Li Yuliang was so angry that he threw the broom at her, but missed and it fell to the ground.

"You two are so lazy! You don't even work in the fields! You just eat! The whole house is eaten up by you two scumbags!"

"I should have sold you, this cheap girl, long ago!"

Li Yuliang said this and angrily limped out of the yard.

He usually never leaves the hospital. It seems that he is very hungry, so he goes out for a walk to see if anyone can give him a meal.

Xiaocao waited until he left before taking out the noodles cooked at noon from the hidden bamboo basket to feed the woman.

Not knowing when Li Yuliang would come back, Xiaocao was worried, so he brought the woman out to wash her hair. After giving her some water, he leaned against the wall of the dark room and took out the newspaper from his pocket.