nashuaworldcup Chapter 207: Stealing Food is Not That Easy
Chapter 207: Stealing Food is Not That Easy
Mu Yuyu's words immediately attracted the attention of the villagers present.
Qin took the rice from Mu Yuyu's hand and looked at it carefully. "It's this year's new rice!"
"From the looks of it, this is still the new rice that hasn't been dried yet."
She stared at the woman and said, "You are not from our village or a nearby village. Where are you going to carry this new rice that has not been dried in the sun?"
No matter where you are, no one will carry around undried new rice, and even grain stores will not buy undried new rice.
The villagers surrounded the woman and stared at her fiercely.
"Tell me the truth, where did this new rice come from?"
"I think she might have stolen it. Otherwise, why would she do it so secretly and carry the new rice that hasn't been dried yet?"
The middle-aged woman swallowed, her face pale. "I, I'm carrying this new rice from my home, ready to send it to my mother's house."
Damn it, she was almost out of Xingzi Village, how could she be discovered?
No one present believed such a statement.
"Your in-laws are really kind-hearted. There are at least hundreds of kilograms of new rice here. Your in-laws ignored their own family and asked you to carry it back to your parents' home."
"Tell us which village your husband's family is from, and which village your parents' family is from. Once you tell us, we will know."
How could a middle-aged woman dare to mention the name of her husband's family's village?
If she said that, something would definitely happen.
"You, you..."
She suddenly burst into tears, crying miserably, "My in-laws have all agreed to this, why do you outsiders have to interfere?"
Even though she cried, no one present let down their guard, but instead became even more suspicious.
"Take her and the backpack down, and let's find the village chief!" Qin said.
Immediately, a young man snatched the middle-aged woman's backpack and pushed her to the ground.
Someone else went to invite the village chief.
The middle-aged woman tried to struggle, but to no avail.
How to do?
How to do?
What to do now?
If it was discovered that she had stolen food, the people in Xingzi Village would beat her to death.
She doesn't want to die.
"Cry, cry, I want to see how long you can cry." Qin snorted heavily from her nose, "It's obvious that there is something wrong with you."
"If it were really as you said, you would have told me the village where your husband's family and your parents' family live."
Everyone present agreed.
"I think she doesn't dare to say it, which is enough to prove that there is something wrong with the food in the basket."
"Do you think she stole this basket of grain? Every village has been drying their grain lately, so it could easily be stolen if you're not careful."
"She must have stolen it. Let's investigate carefully to see if any of our village's grain was stolen."
The village chief arrived quickly.
He didn't come alone, he brought more than a dozen young and strong people from the village with him.
"Where is the grain thief?"
He walked over angrily and said, "I want to see which beast dares to come to our village to steal food."
"Village Chief, it's her!" Qin pointed at the middle-aged woman and said angrily, "If Yuyu and Yueyue hadn't seen it today, this woman would definitely have succeeded."
The village chief first praised Mu Yuyu and Mu Yueyue, then called out to the young man behind him, "Fight for me!"
"Beat her to death, I'll see if she'll confess."
Several young men took sticks and beat the middle-aged woman violently.
Each one is heavier than the last.
After a few hits, the middle-aged woman vomited blood.
She screamed, "Ah! No, no!"
"I didn't steal the grain. This is the grain I took from my husband's family and sent to my mother's family."
The village chief smoked his pipe, his face gloomy. "Then tell me, which village is your husband's family from?"
"Whether it's a nearby village or a faraway one, there's nothing I don't know."
The middle-aged woman was about to make up two villages, but after hearing the village chief's next words, she didn't dare to make it up.
"You said it, I immediately sent people to these two villages to ask."
The village chief looked down at her with sharp eyes, obviously seeing through her little thoughts at a glance.
How could the middle-aged woman dare to make up two villages at random? She knew that this man would really investigate.
"You can't hit me, you can't hit me..."
Seeing this, the village chief ordered several young men to do more and beat the beast to death, then throw it into the back hills to feed the wolves.
"It's just right. The wild beasts in the mountains have nothing to eat in the middle of winter, so they won't come down the mountain to look for food."
Several young men were even more violent.
The middle-aged woman couldn't hold on any longer and begged for mercy again and again, "I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything, please don't hit me."
"I'm about to be beaten to death."
The village chief waved his hand and asked several young men to step aside.
He stared at the middle-aged woman with sinister eyes and warned, "You only have this one chance."
"If you dare to tell even one lie, I will beat you to death and throw your body into the mountains to feed the wild beasts."
The middle-aged woman lay on the ground in a mess, blood flowing from the corner of her mouth. "My family is from Straw Village..."
As soon as she mentioned Straw Village, the village chief and others understood what was going on.
The middle-aged woman continued, "I don't know what's going on in our village this year."
"The crops were growing well, but when it came time to harvest, the yield was drastically reduced. Some families even had almost no harvest."
"This means we can't even pay our taxes, let alone eat."
Qin chuckled twice, "You guys in Straw Village can't afford to eat, so you steal food from other villages, right?"
"You guys are really shameless. You usually act so high and mighty."
The middle-aged woman has always felt that she is superior to others since she was a child, just because she is the daughter of Straw Village.
The food in Straw Village has always been much more than that in other villages.
For farmers, food represents a good life.
But this year, things have changed.
Ever since the village's harvest failed, her husband's family has been treating her badly. They don't allow her to send anything back to her parents' home and even threaten to divorce her.
"Who told you to steal the grain?" the village chief asked, seizing the crucial point. "Which village's grain did you steal? Was it from our village?"
The middle-aged woman said, "Yes, some of them are, and the rest are from other villages."
"I, I have no choice. The head of our village said that if we don't send food back, he will expel our family from the village."
The village chief had no sympathy for her at all.
He said to Qin, "Take a few people and go door to door to ask whose food has been stolen."
"You should be more careful and don't let the villagers cause trouble."
He glanced around fiercely and said, "Whoever dares to cause trouble at this time and take away food will be kicked out of the village."
There are some people in the village who do not dry the rice here, but in other places in the village.
Some people think that if they dry rice together, their own rice will be stolen.
Qin responded and took a few young men to ask from house to house.