Free Days in Siheyuan

Chapter 1266 Threats (Edited)
But at least the family of the two children that Widow Xu's husband saved with his life still had a conscience. They did not sit idly by and have always helped Widow Xu and her two children.

But Widow Xu's husband's brothers had long been blinded by money, so how could they be willing to give up the house and land that were within their reach?

But as long as Widow Xu was still around, those things would not be in their hands, so the brothers came up with a bad idea.

They urged their parents to marry Widow Xu off. As for the two children, they were their bloodline, so naturally it was impossible for them to go with Widow Xu.

They raised the two children, so naturally the house and the land had to be temporarily taken care of by them.

As for the duration of temporary custody, it has nothing to do with outsiders.

Widow Xu had a good relationship with her late husband. Besides, she knew very well that if her children were left behind, given the family's character, the two children would be thrown into a wolf's den, and it would be questionable whether they could survive and grow up.

So she couldn't bear to do it!
They tried many methods, but seeing that Widow Xu didn't take the bait, they seemed to give up after a while.

However, since then, there have been many rumors about Widow Xu in the team.

Those who knew Widow Xu naturally didn't believe it, but when some things were spread too much, they would always make people wonder.

For the sake of her two children, Widow Xu has been holding on.

Until one day, no one knew what happened, and Widow Xu hanged herself at the doorstep of her husband's parents' home.

Later, someone in the village spread the rumor that Widow Xu was bullied by her husband's brothers.

Some people believe this and some don't, but it is true that Widow Xu was injured at the time. This was spread by the two women who changed Widow Xu's clothes.

But no matter what, there was no evidence, and Widow Xu was already dead, so in the end the matter just passed by in a muddle.

Although his family had already begun to take root in his hometown at that time, the news coming from Beijing from time to time made him sure that the gang had not let the Xie family go.

During that time, he and his sons wished their attention spans were weaker and no one would pay attention to them.

The women in the family rarely go out.

They are busy with their own affairs, so how can they have the energy to meddle in other people's affairs?

Xie Zhiying shook his head: "What I mean is that Widow Xu might not have been hanged to death. She was probably strangled to death first, and then hanged.

The day before Widow Xu got into trouble, I saw her talking to Boss Feng in the woods. They seemed to be arguing. I didn’t hear clearly what they were arguing about, but it was quite intense.

Speaking of this, Xie Zhiying couldn't help but frowned: "I don't know if I saw it wrong, I always feel that Widow Xu's attitude towards Boss Feng is a bit strange. Although the two are arguing, their actions seem to be somewhat intimate, as if they have known each other for a long time.

But at that time, the Feng family had just fled here for two days and didn't know anyone here. I later asked someone and found out that the Feng family had no relatives here and had no other relationship with Widow Xu's family.

And from the way the other members of the Feng family behave, they don’t seem to know Widow Xu.”

Xie Zhiyuan frowned, as if he had thought of something.

After a while, he slowly said, “Your sister-in-law seems to have mentioned this to me.

Speaking of which, Widow Xu was not her parents' biological daughter. She also fled here with her family. It was just that she was unlucky. After she finally escaped here, her mother caught a cold and died within two days of arriving here.

Widow Xu was only seven or eight years old at the time, and those who escaped with her had no blood relationship with her. In addition, under the circumstances at the time, they couldn't even afford to raise their own children, let alone the burden of other people's families.

No one was willing to raise a baby. The seven or eight-year-old was so hungry that he couldn’t even crawl.

When Widow Xu's adoptive parents passed by that area, they saw her lying on the ground. They couldn't bear it and took her home.

At first, he wanted to bring her back to his son as a child bride, but he just couldn't get used to the two children.

Plus, after raising her for such a long time, they had some feelings for her, so they just adopted her as their daughter and gave her a dowry before marrying her off.”

Xie Zhiying was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized: "You mean, Widow Xu might have known Boss Feng before she fled?"

"It's just a possibility." If his brother hadn't said it, Xie Zhiyuan would have no idea that Widow Xu and Boss Feng, two completely unrelated people, would get together.

Xie Zhiying stroked his chin and said with a lost look: "Brother, if you say so, I have figured out one thing."

"Brother, I am very sure that Boss Feng is definitely related to Widow Xu's death."

The three of them looked at Xie Zhiying in unison.

Xie Zhiying glanced at the door, lowered his voice, and whispered: "I was far away at the time, and I didn't hear clearly what the two were arguing about. I just vaguely heard words like let go... Dad... Japan... Contact... etc. The most important thing is that Boss Feng's face was very bad at the time, as if he was going to kill Widow Xu.

It was two days or three days after Widow Xu died. I thought it was too hot, so I went to the river to take a bath. When I passed by, I happened to see Boss Feng taking a bath there. I accidentally saw that someone had bitten Boss Feng on the arm. The bite was very deep. If someone had bitten him harder, the piece of flesh would have been bitten off. "

After these words were spoken, the three of them couldn't help but let their imagination run wild.

Zhang Yu and Xie Zhiying looked at each other and made some guesses about some things, but they didn't know whether the result would be what they guessed.

In the end, it was Grandpa Xie who interrupted everyone's speculation. He tapped the table lightly with one finger. After a moment, he said, "Second Brother, Xiaoyu, don't get involved in this matter."

Then he looked up at Xie Zhiyuan and said, "Boss, after you finish your meal, see if you can go find the captain and tell him about this matter. Ask her to pay more attention to it recently."

Xie Zhiyuan nodded: "Dad, don't worry, just leave this matter to me. I will go to the commune tomorrow and contact a friend to ask him to check the details of the Feng family."

Grandpa Xie didn't say much, just asked: "Is the person reliable?"

Xie Zhiyuan nodded: "I have a life-and-death friendship with her, and most importantly, she is my brother-in-law's comrade-in-arms and also came down from the battlefield."

Grandpa Xie nodded and said nothing.

Just when Xie Zhiying was about to volunteer, Zhou Huizhen walked in with a large plate of dumplings.

"dinner time!"

Seeing his sister-in-law coming in, Xie Zhiying took back what he was about to say.

"They smell so good! I haven't eaten dumplings in a long time. I'm so craving for them. No, no, I have to have a bite!"

Zhou Huizhen smiled and said, "We have packed a lot today, so you can have as much as you want."

After saying this, he urged everyone to eat quickly.

"Eat it quickly, it will get cold soon."

As they were talking, Grandma Xie and her family came in carrying dumplings.

Zhang Yu hurriedly got down from the kang and reached out to take the plate from Grandma Xie.

"Grandma, let me serve it!"

Grandma Xie moved her arm to avoid the hand extended by her eldest grandson.

"I'll do it. The plate is hot and it might burn you later."

Zhang Yu was not disappointed when he didn't receive the plate. He turned around and asked directly, "Is there any more in the kitchen? I'll go get it."

However, Zhou Huizhen refused again this time. "Xiaoyu, stop struggling, hurry up and eat dumplings on the kang. Come and eat!"

After the dumplings were served on the table, just as everyone was preparing to eat, Grandma Xie suddenly slapped her thigh and said, "Oh, I forgot something!"

Zhou Huizhen put down her chopsticks and quickly asked, "What's wrong, mother?"

Grandma Xie sighed, "I'm not good at it anymore because I'm old. Look at my memory now. It was the big-leaf celery that someone gave me. When I was picking the vegetables just now, I told Xiaoyu to wait until the dumplings were ready and then bring him a plate of dumplings. I forgot about it in a short while. Now, what do you think..."

"Mom, don't worry, there's still a curtain in the kitchen that hasn't been lowered.

We have an early dinner today, so we can cook the dumplings after dinner, and it won’t be too late to send them over later.”

"Okay, that's all we can do." Grandma Xie sighed. Her memory is getting worse and worse.

Because we were preoccupied with things, even though the dumplings smelled delicious, we had little appetite.

Xie Zhiyuan thought more about it. He filled his stomach hastily and put down his chopsticks: "Mom, I have something to go out for. I will be back soon."

After saying that, without waiting for his family to ask what was going on, he trotted away.

Grandma Xie looked at her eldest son with some concern, but did not say anything.

It is said that no one knows a child better than his mother. She raised the eldest and second child by herself, and she knows the characters of the two children very well.

Not to mention the old man. We have lived together for so many years. If we can't say that he has worms in his stomach, it's not much different.

She could guess what the old man was up to as soon as he blinked.

After Xiaoyu came back today, the old man's condition seemed a little strange.

But since the guys wanted to hide it from her, she didn't ask any further questions.

She knew that these guys didn't want to make her worry, but they were all family, so there was nothing worth hiding.

Although she is old, she is not the kind of person who is inexperienced.

If something really happens, they may not be able to compare with her.

Grandma Xie snorted in her heart, thinking that after this matter was over, she would let her two sons know that their mother was not made of clay. If they dared to hide things from her again, humph...

Xie Zhiyuan, who was almost at the captain's doorstep, had no idea that his mother had already guessed that they were hiding something from the family.

And I'm already thinking about how to deal with them after this is over?
But all this happened later.

Xie Zhiyuan walked to the captain's house and knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" The captain's wife was eating in the house when she suddenly heard a knock on the door.

He opened the door and grinned as soon as he saw Xie Zhiyuan: "It's Zhiyuan, have you eaten yet? How about eating together?"

Xie Zhiyuan hurriedly shook his head: "No, no, sister-in-law, I've eaten. Is the captain home? I have something urgent to talk to him about."

"Home, home, come in!"

The captain's wife invited Xie Zhiyuan in and shouted towards the toilet, "Old man, are you done? You took so long to use the toilet."

"Here it comes, here it comes! Hurry up, hurry up, you just keep urging me. Really, you urge me even when I'm going to the toilet." The captain fastened his pants while walking out of the toilet, and couldn't help muttering.

Just as he fastened his belt and looked up, he saw Xie Zhiyuan at the door. He was stunned for a moment and his face turned red.

He looked at his wife with some complaints: "Thank you, brother, you are here, why didn't you remind me?"

The captain's wife rolled her eyes and said, "Why don't you say that there's something wrong with your ears? It was so loud just now, how come you didn't hear it?"

After that, she had no intention of continuing to pay attention to her man, and turned around to warmly entertain Xie Zhiyuan: "Brother Zhiyuan, don't pay attention to him, go inside and have a drink of water."

The captain casually put down the trouser waist he was holding, as if nothing had happened, and invited Xie Zhiyuan into the house for tea.

"Come on, Brother Zhiyuan, go inside and have some tea."

After entering the house, Xie Zhiyuan looked around and said, "Captain, I came to see you today because I have something very important to tell you."

Seeing him so alert, the captain's wife knew that something big must have happened, and it would be inconvenient for her to stay here and tell the other party.

He lifted the kettle in his hand and said very considerately: "Brother Zhiyuan, you two can chat. The kettle is out of water. I'll go to the kitchen to fill it up."

Having said that, he walked out of the room carrying the kettle.

Seeing Xie Zhiyuan's reaction, the captain no longer cared about the face he had just lost.

He said seriously, "Brother Zhiyuan, what happened?"

Xie Zhiyuan told the story about Boss Feng. Of course, he was very clear about what he could say and what he could not say.

He didn't say a word about his nephew finding treasure.

After hearing what Xie Zhiyuan said, the captain grinned for a long time.

He gritted his teeth and felt the pain in his teeth.

"What about Boss Feng?"

It's not that the captain didn't believe in Xie Zhiyuan's work, but based on Boss Feng's usual performance, he didn't think he was capable of doing such a thing.

Xie Zhiwu understood the captain's thoughts.

If his eldest nephew had not seen it with his own eyes, he would not have believed that such an honest, hardworking man could be a spy.

"It's confirmed."

"Hiss!" The captain felt a toothache. He rubbed his wrinkled forehead and said, "Let me think about it. Let me think about it again!"

After a long time, the captain finally accepted the matter.

He looked at Xie Zhiyuan, his face extremely serious: "How do you want me to cooperate?"

Xie Zhiyuan didn't say much, and just told the purpose of his visit.

"I came here today because I want you, the captain, to be mentally prepared. I also want you to control the villagers recently. It's best not to go up the mountain. If you go up the mountain, don't wander around."

Thinking of the cave full of explosives, Xie Zhiyuan reminded again: "The most important thing is to hold Boss Feng back and don't let him go up the mountain. As for the rest, it depends on what the higher-ups are going to do."

"Okay, leave this to me. There are still a lot of fields in the village that have not been watered. I will organize all the men in the village to water the fields tomorrow."

As he spoke, he seemed to have made up his mind: "I'll let the elders in the village watch over us. Let's see who dares to be lazy."